For I can understand people believing in neither God nor Devil, or in God but not the Devil, or believing in both.
But to believe in the Devil but not God is willfully perverse; yea, diabolical.
And thus it is with these people who preach inevitabilities to us, said inevitabilities always being, for some unexamined reason, catastrophes, cataclysms, collapses; plague, famine, war and death—never is the “inevitable” some good thing.
Distrust these people, good reader, distrust them immensely. Yea, even when their warnings are sound and to be heeded: distrust these people, I say.
For Lucifer has his proud lackies in every corner of the world and the imagination.
And it is not for nothing he was named Lucifer.
Lucifer and his bright and shining lies,
that blind the eyes.