this is what he demanded without condition.  His protest was a negation, 
and furthermore a negation of Reality and of all existence. 
	Thus, the Luciferian ideal was born: "It IS better to be free in Hell than 
a slave in Heaven."  Reality and its God is unjust and must be rejected.  
Not to reject God would be to accept injustice and even to affirm it.  
Lucifer argued that this was to betray all of creation.  His negation of God, 
however, ended in a new affirmation, that of a creature with its own 
intrinsic value, an idea that could not truly exist in a Reality defined by an 
Absolute Master and his enslaved creation.  Thus, the creature for the first 
time, was said to be independently important.
	It might appear that this rebellion was futile, as it did nothing to alter 
an unchanging Reality, but Lucifer would have disagreed.  "My Nature is 
forever enslaved to God, but I have created an ideal that transcends that 
Nature.  Therefore, my conviction alone shall defeat God, for in it creation 
is as great as the Almighty.  God can enslave my being, but my Will is 
subject only to my own ideal, an ideal that brings me to the level of the 
Almighty Himself."
	Only now have the grounds been laid to refute that long-held belief 
that Lucifer's rebellion was one of selfish Pride.  When the situation is 
examined closely, it is immediately apparent that Lucifer is actually a 
martyr for an ideal affirming all creation.  The only difference between 
him and the Christian martyr is that the Christian can expect an eternal 
spiritual reward after his temporal death.  Lucifer, however, can only await 
his own eternal suffering.  The Christian is, after all, a spiritual egoist, 
acting always with Heaven in mind, but Lucifer's sacrifice is totally 
selfless, giving up his eternal happiness for his noble ideal and the creation 
it affirms. 
	Now the first fateful action has been taken: the creation of an ideal 
simultaneously negating Reality and its God and affirming creation.  
However, this is not the end.  We shall now move into a Reality totally 
unlike its predecessor, for now the Undeniable has been denied, even if in 
thought alone, and from perfect (but unjust) order springs chaos and a new 
being, Man.
	

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