ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Felix Culpa
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The answer brings us into the narrative. They want to overthrow god and assume control. You need to have one to know the other. Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill (book 4) Counteract evil rather than retreat from it. The fault of adam and eve is a fortunate thing. Out of good still to find means of evil . Rise of angels is bad but fall of angels is good. Me though just right, and the fixed laws of heav"n . When you got nothin, you got nothing to lose. Satan seek dark destruction for human = fallen angels seek dark destruction from jesus. Satan"s treatment to the angel = james i treatment to church that led to the outbreak of. Heaven and hell are described as mirrored images. Presumed that human wanted to speak for god. Against his puritism if he gives god a character. I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight.
