PARADISE QUIT

“Our’s is not to question why,
Our’s is, but to live and die.”


I don’t exactly recall the source of this couplet, or if it is one, but just reminisce the school days when I first read MILTON. One of his sonnets, on his blindness, beautifully presents the idea of procrastination of authentic thought process. The shock in the octet, where Milton bewails HIS gift being snatched by HIM, thereby, him lodged to uselessness, the allusion to the parable of talent, and questioning HIM, is subdued by the demand of servitude for the one who is nothing but a concoction of beliefs, false and blinded.


Milton says, they serve HIM best who bear HIS mild yoke and who just stand and wait, and I demand justification through the rest of my writing.


Expectation and beliefs, those naïve superstitions, more than often, quieten REASON, which I believe to be the most sophisticated of all human endowments. More than often we fail to reason, and when its otherwise, we feel excluded, or rather I should say ostracised; trying to sound type of rational and sort of ontological, ends up in a tiring prolixity.


What is it, if not PARADISE QUIT? The Gifts of man, cleverly snatched by the giver, what is it, if not PARADISE SNATCHED? The indictment and the ‘retribution’ of pagans by the so called religion, what is it, if not PARADISE DENIED?


LUCIFERISM only! What is Lucifer? Virtual embodiment of reason, or a real cherub, who tried to be inquisitive? Or does it signify that “disobedience means to burn and burn for ever in unimaginable agony for all eternity?” It is said that among all dangers on earth, there is none more dangerous more than a rich reason. It is possible to teach an ass and make it talk, but to blind, delude and destroy reason, next to impossible. Lucifer, being sent to the lake of fire, or in equal probability, he choosing to go there, was the outcome of his desire to be reasonable. Well, well, Lucifer is the refined version of Satan, or may be Satan a crude name for him. Believed to be the prince of lies, Lucifer is said to have once guarded the throne of GOD, the brightest of all angels, the signet of ‘perfection’, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, blameless from the day it was created, until when his wisdom was corrupted by the reason of his brightness. And then, the fall, the things of fire; and Lucifer was poised as the epitome of terror for having personified mutiny, freedom of thought and reason.


I don’t claim to state the philosophical existence of devil himself, or Lucifer, as it is named. I don’t believe in the BIBLE or the Christian God, but with no offence to the theists, the only thing which I feel like truth in Christianity is the existence of Christ. 


Back to Lucifer! The name is bearer of light, and my claim is to falsify the “what’s in a name” thing. Light is often an allusion to reason, knowledge, intellect and power of discernment. If at all I do start to believe in Christianity, I would develop more questions than a convalescent faith. Why did GOD throw out Lucifer when he started to question HIM? Why did GOD not kill him, like he did to them in the GREAT FLOOD? Why is it, that to conquer sin, the inquisition used physical abuse?


Bluntly, my view is, that all the stories are told from the point of view of ‘GODISTS’. GOD is documented as a sadist and the central of all dogmas, if you see it from my window. The answer to Job, the reply to Joshua, in which GOD rebukes for questioning him, and asserts in pointlessly accepting him as faith, and burning those who dare question him to spread the fate of disobedience; all portray him as a sadist. May well have been the reason why Lucifer, the brightest of all, was dissatisfied. God punished ADAM and EVE just for eating the fruit of knowledge and ‘disobeying’ him, in pursuit of their pleasure. Don’t these fables, as told by GODISTS themselves bring out god as the SATAN himself! Why did god let Lucifer live was he evil? Just to assert his presence in curbing evil, or satiate his sadism, or in a flint of hope, that Lucifer might one day return to serve him?


They call Lucifer the prince of lies, and they themselves define lie as anything that contradicts the word of GOD. A lie is then, the questioning of dogmatic beliefs of the BIBLE and GOD’s representative on earth. Thus, praise lies, and adore Lucifer, for in his quest of rationality, he gave up the heavens. How cruelly GOD contrives for his dominion, how shrewdly HE plots for authority! Lucifer was a free thinker and of course free thinkers do not make good slaves! For our part we find it a lot easier to follow than to think for ourselves, to face the horrors of responsibility. Originality seems to be the other world!


We are born sinners, as the GODISTS say, and the SON OF GOD gave his life for our sins. Tell me, how do you account for my deeds? Let me remind you again that these stories are told by people who are blinded by the power of hypocrisy and false servitude; people who claim to be superior in servile beliefs; people who don’t think for themselves.


Lucifer may well have QUIT the PARADISE. Lucifer might well have RESIGNED!


Let’s be LUCIFERS…… Forward into LIGHT!!!!