Lucifer's argument had been simple.  Creation was condemned to 
eternal slavery.  In essence, the Nature of creation is slavery to God.  
Thus, Reality as God created it was intrinsically unjust.  Convinced that 
freedom in Hell is better than slavery in Heaven, Lucifer resolved that he 
must negate Reality by creating an ideal that transcended his own Nature.  
This ideal was that creation necessarily should be like God.  To accept it 
was to negate Reality and God philosophically, which was equal to 
spiritual suicide.  Negation in this case was the necessary side-effect of a 
noble affirmation.  The course of action of this rebellion?  Unite creation 
against its Creator and reject His unjust commandments.  Freedom is the 
new god created by the Luciferian ideal.  Hell would follow, that much 
was assured, but creation could not, on principle, deny itself and its own 
value.  Thus, it must deny Reality.
	There was a flaw in Lucifer's reasoning, however, and one that could 
never be reconciled.  For though Lucifer chose to reject his Nature, 
preferring his ideal, he could not actually negate it.  Instead, he merely 
ignored it.  Now we have already established that any action an angel 
takes is eternal as this is the Nature of angels (that is why Lucifer can 
never be redeemed after his Fall, but man can, according to Christianity, 
be forgiven up until his temporal death).  It can be inferred that any 
tendency of an angel, then, would be fulfilled to its limits the eternity of 
the angel's existence (just as a ball that even slightly tended to roll one 
way would over an infinite amount of time move to its very limits in that 
direction).  It is the negation of Reality that is the tendency of Lucifer in 
question.  Though at first it was used only as a necessary starting-point for 
the total affirmation of creation, the impossibility of the Luciferian ideal 
eventually leads the rebellion into a state of desperation.  The idea of 
raising creation to God's level is impossible and thus creation can never be 
truly affirmed, so the negation of God and Reality slowly becomes more 
and more appealing.  This negation is the Seed of Darkness within 
Lucifer's heart which will bloom only in the most desperate of conditions.  
Unfortunately, these conditions are perfectly supplied by Hell, his eternal 
prison.

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