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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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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.