Dr. James Lindsay

Yeah, well, that comes along for the ride.

Okay, so I want to talk about this Lucifer idea. So Lucifer is the morning star and he's the angel of the untrammeled intellect. That's how he's portrayed in Milton, right? And he's allied in some strange way with the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Okay, so I want to talk about this Lucifer idea. So Lucifer is the morning star and he's the angel of the untrammeled intellect. That's how he's portrayed in Milton, right? And he's allied in some strange way with the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Okay, so I want to talk about this Lucifer idea. So Lucifer is the morning star and he's the angel of the untrammeled intellect. That's how he's portrayed in Milton, right? And he's allied in some strange way with the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Right, right.

Right, right.

Right, right.

Right, right, right. The spirit of enlightenment, right?

Right, right, right. The spirit of enlightenment, right?

Right, right, right. The spirit of enlightenment, right?

Yeah, right, absolutely. Well, that's the question. What's the difference between what's genuine and what's false, let's say? So, in the story of Genesis, God tells Adam and Eve that they can pretty much have free reign... except for one thing. They can't, as far as I can tell what it means, is they can't take the right to define the moral order to themselves.

Yeah, right, absolutely. Well, that's the question. What's the difference between what's genuine and what's false, let's say? So, in the story of Genesis, God tells Adam and Eve that they can pretty much have free reign... except for one thing. They can't, as far as I can tell what it means, is they can't take the right to define the moral order to themselves.

Yeah, right, absolutely. Well, that's the question. What's the difference between what's genuine and what's false, let's say? So, in the story of Genesis, God tells Adam and Eve that they can pretty much have free reign... except for one thing. They can't, as far as I can tell what it means, is they can't take the right to define the moral order to themselves.

They have to abide by the moral order, that there's an intrinsic moral order that's grounded below nature, even grounded in the principle of being itself. They have to ally themselves with that. But Eve, interestingly, Eve is tempted by the serpent. Maybe her powers of discrimination are somewhat lacking. Maybe her proclivity to empathy clouds her. And maybe it's a form of feminine pride.

They have to abide by the moral order, that there's an intrinsic moral order that's grounded below nature, even grounded in the principle of being itself. They have to ally themselves with that. But Eve, interestingly, Eve is tempted by the serpent. Maybe her powers of discrimination are somewhat lacking. Maybe her proclivity to empathy clouds her. And maybe it's a form of feminine pride.

They have to abide by the moral order, that there's an intrinsic moral order that's grounded below nature, even grounded in the principle of being itself. They have to ally themselves with that. But Eve, interestingly, Eve is tempted by the serpent. Maybe her powers of discrimination are somewhat lacking. Maybe her proclivity to empathy clouds her. And maybe it's a form of feminine pride.

In any case, the serpent tempts her, telling her that if she ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that she would become like God, which is the one thing God forbade, right? So the idea seems to be something like the more radical the revolutionary precept, the more likely something Luciferian is behind it. So it's a serpent in the garden.

In any case, the serpent tempts her, telling her that if she ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that she would become like God, which is the one thing God forbade, right? So the idea seems to be something like the more radical the revolutionary precept, the more likely something Luciferian is behind it. So it's a serpent in the garden.

In any case, the serpent tempts her, telling her that if she ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that she would become like God, which is the one thing God forbade, right? So the idea seems to be something like the more radical the revolutionary precept, the more likely something Luciferian is behind it. So it's a serpent in the garden.

So it's clearly something poisonous, but then it gets weirdly associated with the idea of Lucifer, right? Which is a very strange leap. The leap is something like, what's the most poisonous of all possible serpents, right? So then it becomes a meta principle. And it looks to me like it's something like the drive to power.