“In a strange way, Marcion understood the situation better 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.”

—  Howard Bloom

Who is Lucifer?
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)

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