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    Then Lucifer set forth to conquer the earth, using as his pawn a

    fresh godly invention, an innocent pair Jehovah had planted in a

    garden--Adam and Eve.  The Great Seducer tempted Eve with the apple

    of knowledge.  She could not resist the Luciferian fruit.  Eve's sin against

    God corrupted all mankind.  Ever since that time, man has aspired to the

    Lord, but found himself a victim of the devil.

    Marcion the heretic said God was responsible for evil.  Mainstream

    Christians absolved the Almighty of responsibility by blaming all that's

    wrong on the Prince of Darkness and on man.  But, in a strange way,

    Marcion had a better handle on the situation than the more conventional

    followers of the church, for Lucifer is merely one of the faces of a larger

    force.  "Evil" is a by-product, a component of creation.  In a world

    evolving into ever higher forms, hatred, violence, aggression and war

    are a part of the evolutionary plan.  But where do they fit?  Why do they

    exist?  What possible positive purpose could they serve?  These are some

    of the questions behind The Lucifer Principle.

    The Lucifer Principle is a complex of natural rules each working

    together to weave a fabric that sometimes frightens and appalls us.

    Every one of the threads in that tapestry is fascinating.  But the big

    picture is more astonishing still.

    At its heart, The Lucifer Principle looks something like this.   The

    nature scientists uncover has crafted our viler impulses into us--in fact,

    they are a part of the process she uses to create.  Lucifer is the dark side

    of cosmic fecundity, the cutting blade of the sculptor's knife.  Nature

    does not abhor evil; she embraces it.  She uses it to build.  With it she

    moves the human world to greater heights of organization, intricacy and

    power.

    Death, destruction and fury do not disturb the mother of our

    world.  They are merely parts of her plan.  Only we are outraged by the

    Lucifer Principle's consequences.  And we have every right to be.  For

    we are casualties of nature's callous indifference to life, pawns who

    suffer and die to live out her schemes.

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