II. Rebellion

	Any rebellion cannot stop at its ideal if it is to be considered a true 
rebellion.  Though the conviction of Lucifer alone was enough to exile 
him from the City of God, it made no direct assault on those holy walls.  
No, Lucifer knew that the ideal alone was not enough and he now had an 
eternity to carry out his rebellion.  If the Luciferian ideal was beyond the 
realm of possibility, then the rebel needed to find a plan that could be 
carried out.  Thus, he reserved himself to a plan within God's Reality: to 
turn creation against its Immortal Creator.  If all of creation chose as he 
had to worship the ideal that in essence deified itself, then the Reality of 
Injustice would be totally denied.  By its Nature, creation must serve God, 
but it could choose to be free if it was willing to sacrifice its own being.  
In essence, Luciferism advocated spiritual suicide, on the grounds that 
spiritual existence was unacceptable.  Spiritual suicide, unfortunately, did 
not spell nonexistence, but rather eternal torment, the torment of a being 
separated from its very self, but this was a sacrifice Lucifer and his angels 
were willing to make.  It wasn't until the appearance of a new creature that 
this plan could be fulfilled, however, as the angels who remained in 
Heaven would never turn away, a fact that Lucifer totally understood.  By 
its Nature, when an angel makes a choice, it can never change its mind.  
Any action it takes remains for eternity: the 'good' angels confined to 
Heaven and Lucifer confined to freedom forever.
	The creature Lucifer awaited was soon to appear in the Garden of 
Eden.  The Man of Eden could hardly be described as physical man.  He 
was granted a free will, but was deprived of Reason.  Reason, instead, was 
placed at the center of his Garden and forbidden him by God.  "From that 
tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed 
to die." (Genesis, 2:17)  Thus, we see a creature perfectly suited to 
Lucifer's needs.  Locked in this Garden, he was commanded to remain the 
ignorant slave of an Eternal Master while the Fruit of Knowledge hung 
just within his reach.  From Lucifer's perspective, what crueler trick could 
be played on any being?  So the rebel described as the evil Serpent of the 
	

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