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The Birth of Sin
A Drama
L UCIFER, the Angel of Power.S IRIOTH, the Angel of Love.G ABRIEL, the Angel of Obedience.M ICHAEL, the Angel of War.R APHAEL, the Angel of Sweetness.T HE ELOHIM.B ELIAL, the Angel of Reason.B AAL, the Angel of Worldly Wisdom.M OLOCH, the Angel of Wrath.S UN.A SHTAR, the Angel of Beauty.M EROTH, the Angel of Youth.
Prologue _____ _____
Act I
L UCIFERMaster of light and glory, lift thy rays Over the troubled flood; lift up thy rays. Obey me. S UNLucifer! who gave thee power Over the gods that rule the ancient world? Or why should I obey thee? Art thou God? Hast thou dethroned the Omnipotent from Heaven And cast Him down into His nether glooms, Revolting? Gave He then His supreme command, Speak as a servant then and minister, Not with the accent that controls the stars.
LUCIFER Who then compelled thee from thy bright repose, Or wherefore hast thou come?
SUN By Him compelled, Before whose mandate tremble all the Gods.
LUCIFER By His or mine? That I will see. Rise, Sun, And from thy luminous majestic orb Cast out into the azure hold of Space Creative Energy and pregnant Fire
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S UNLucifer, Son of Morning, First in Heaven, What madness seizes thee? What awful force Darkly magnificent, brilliantly ominous Looks out from eyes that own no more the calm?
LUCIFER Obey!
SUN I cannot choose. Power leaps from thee Upon me. I am seized with fiery pangs. Spare me, thou dreadful Angel. I obey. Exit. LUCIFER Power, power to make and to unmake the world! Power grows in me. I am omnipotent. Children of immortality whose ranks And brilliant armies people the infinite, Creatures of wonder, creatures of desire, O suns that wheel in everlasting fire, O stars that sow the ethereal spaces thick, O worlds of various life! I am your King. This I have learnt that God and I are one. If one, then equal! Rightly too I deemed That God develops, God increases. I, Younger than He am greater than the Power From which I sprang; the new excels the old.
BELIAL What dost thou, Lucifer, Angel of God? The infinite spaces murmur like a sea, The ethereal realms are rocked as with a wind, All Nature stands amazed. Whence this revolt?
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LUCIFER Watch, Belial, watch with me. A crisis comes In the infinite, mobile and progressive world. For God shall cease and Lucifer be God.
BELIAL Thou speakst a thing that madness only speaks. If God be God, how can He change or cease?
LUCIFER Watch, Belial! I will prove to thee the truth, Thou reasonable Angel.
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