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Date Posted: 05:45:21 08/08/00 Tue
Author: Eris23
Subject: Re: Lucifer
In reply to: eno*on 's message, "Lucifer" on 13:44:41 07/30/00 Sun

interesting.....good point

> What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute
> the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to
> personified evil, The intellectual Lucifer is the
> spirit of intelligence and love; it is the Paraclete,
> it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is
> the great agent of universal magnetism.


>
> To personify evil and exalt it into an intelligence
> which is the rival of God, into a being which can
> understand but love no more-this is a monstrous
> fiction. To believe that God permits this evil
> intelligence to deceive and destroy his feeble
> creatures is to make God more wicked than the devil.
> By depriving the devil of the possibility of love and
> repentance, God forces him to do evil. Moreover a
> spirit of error and falsehood can only be a folly
> which thinks, nor does it deserve indeed the name of
> spirit. The devil is God’s antithesis, and if we
> define God as He who is we must define His opposite as
> he who is not.



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