Garden in reality acted out of compassion and respect for this pitiful 
creature.  It too, in Lucifer's mind, deserved to be like God.
	Lucifer revealed to Eve the truth he had discovered at such a price.  
"The moment you eat of it you will be like gods." (Genesis, 3:4)  This, to 
the religious, was surely an act of great deceit as man could never be like 
God, but perhaps Lucifer viewed the situation in a different light.  He 
knew that with Reason they too could embrace an ideal that would surpass 
their own Nature, as he had done, and in this way they could be like gods.  
Eve probably did not fully understand the consequences that her actions 
would bring, and so betrayed the command of God and ate of the fruit, 
Adam following her lead.  In doing so, she bought Reason at the price of 
eternity and man was cast into the physical world, dominated by death, 
decay, and entropy.  An abandoned man now became the bewildered and 
blinded creature he would remain.  His transformation presented to 
Lucifer a new task, for physical man differed greatly from the angels.  
Man's decisions were far from eternal.  Instead, he was free to change his 
mind at any time and naturally fluctuated between obedience and 
rebellion.  Man would become the battleground on which Lucifer's war 
would be waged.

	Now that Lucifer had presented man with his ideal, he was confronted 
with a new question: "What should be the moral system of a creation 
dedicated to an ideal deifying itself?"  When Lucifer first rejected God and 
created his ideal, the answer was simple: Any good act is an act for the 
good of creation and any evil act is an act of submission to the unjust God.  
Affirmation of creation took precedence over the negation of Reality, 
which was seen as just a logical starting-point.  Positive action was key, 
and Lucifer had carried this out in leading the fallen angels and in teaching 
man of the truth he had found.  However, we shall now examine the final 
dimension of Lucifer's rebellion, that of his eternally fatal error, and how 
it turned from almost pure affirmation to total negation.

III. The Seeds of Darkness

	

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