essence a means without an end regarding Lucifer's rebellion.  The ideal 
has forgotten affirmation in the presence of total justification, but such is 
the nature of ideals and rebellion, ideals turned into action.  The problem 
rests in the notion that believing in an ideal that surpasses one's Nature, 
one transcends his own Nature.  Of course, that Nature remains in reality 
and it is the ideal that is forgotten.  Acting according to his Nature (as 
beings must), the rebel believes falsely that he is acting for the ideal.  The 
futility of such a struggle leads to desperate measures, to total justification 
in the name of a forgotten ideal.  And so we leave Lucifer in chains in his 
eternal Hell, having forgotten the reasons for his tortured existence.  The 
question remains unanswered, though, as to whether he is villain or hero.  
In ideal he was truly more noble than any creature and he had made the 
ultimate sacrifice for that ideal.  However, his error was to attempt to 
transcend his own Nature, and the consequence is that he has become 
Hatred, the darkest of angels and the greatest destroyer in all creation.


"How have you fallen from the heavens,
O Morning Star, son of the dawn!"
(Isaiah, 14:12)

 

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