The apostle James warned us in chapter one (verses 14 and 15) that we are tempted by
our own desire and that 'desire having conceived, bears sin and sin having been
completed, brings forth death.'
Obviously he was talking about the Fall of humankind. But with equal justice
we can apply this text to the fall of satan! He desired to rival God. He fell by being puffed
up because of his own glory as being the highest sum of perfection in celestial creation. How the
covering cherub disannointed himself by re-inventing himself as the liar and murderer from the beginning (John 8)!
God caused a fire to spring up from within himself (Ezech. 28.18) and that fire of
sin, this fiendish feever of hell (created in the first place for the devil and his angels)
will eventually reduce Lucifer to ashes.
Did the Creator make a mistake then? Did He leave a defect in this supreme
being and in Adam? Why does the bible talk of elected angels? Obviously satan and the third
of the stars he tempted away, were not elected. Who are we to find fault with the Uppermost, in Whom
there is no darkness? It was not a defect. The son of morning was the sum of perfection, the true
topstone of God's pyramid. There was no inkling of bad design in him who became the prince of
darkness, the god of this age, the dragon and old serpent. His spiritual instruments and jewels,
that comprise him, were worthy of the Creator.
'Desire having conceived' bore the second impersonal force of the evil
trinity: SIN. Sin having been completed, brought forth the third impersonal force of the evil
trinity: DEATH. Now death is the last enemy that Christ will bring down and together with hades
will be thrown into the lake of fire.
This then is the true procession of evil, which has been babelized and applied
to the Holy Trinity. But in the Godhead there are no such logical moments. God is truly ONE and
not 'oneized'. When Christ said that the Father is greater than Me, He was talking as the Son of
man. Christ is not one so-called 'logical moment' smaller than the Father, nor the Holy Spirit two
logical moments away from the Father. There are no logical moments in the trinity at all, but like
the spacial dimensions of length, height and breadth, they form an unbreakable unity. God is indeed
one.
The Holy Spirit according to some is just an impersonal force. This is but
true of the evil trinity, of which 'thanatos' wreacks havoc. 'All who hate me, love death!' sayeth
true Wisdom. The Holy Spirit can be 'grieved'(Ephesians 4.30); this is clearly spoken of acts against His
Person.
"He that extolls himself will be abased and he that abases himself will
be extolled." Satan extolled himself the most, therefore he will be abased the most.
It is apparent, though, from the bible that there is a ranking in the divine Personalities that together
form the One Godhead. The Son at different occasions makes clear that He follows the Father and in fact
can do nothing without first having seen the Father do it. However the Father fully honors the Son
in making Him the focus point of our attention: 'This is my beloved Son, in Whom I have found my delight;
hear Him'. Such even as the Son of man. And the Holy Spirit might indeed be ranked third as He always
points the attention to both the Father and the Son. Through the Holy Spirit we cry out as adopted sons and daughters:
'Abba, Father (or 'Daddy' as this Aramaic word is to be interpreted [so not the pope is our papa, but
the Father Himself wants to be our Holy Papa]). Therefore, also because it is nowhere encouraged in the
bible, it is improper and even dangerous to address the Holy Spirit directly. He wants to direct us
in adoration to the Father and the Son, not to Himself. Fallen angels stand ready here to spring
into the gap. You be warned.
The early church was way too much influenced, as it grew lax, rich and popular, by prechristian philosophers;
who argued about the One and the Good. From this the other divine Personalities, supposedly, came and so
they forced ideas foreign to the bible onto the Godhead. Later they would take on the habit of christianizing
fully heathen ideas, such as christmas [Christ was not at all born then] and the ancient mother goddess, queen of heaven, which they forced
upon Mary, blessed her name otherwise is in accordance with the bible. It should be clear that the idea of
the procession of the Trinity is inconsistent with the clear enough coequality of the three
divine Persons that the bible teaches. It would be just as non-sensical to argue that breadth comes out of length and height either out of breadth alone, or out of both! And so
the heretical Latin West and the confused Greek East, have been fooled into hundreds of years of bickering about something that both were wrong on; each
thinking that the other side was wrong and from the devil. Do you hear laughter? How many souls were lost through this division and how
much spiritual energy was wasted! (By the way, the Greek East and the Latin West are the two iron legs of the Roman empire continuing in history not in a political but in a religious way. That religious entity still has to end to be revived later [more about that later]).
Personally I wonder in how far philosophers as Plato and Aristotle were influenced by the widely spread
influence of pious Jews at the time. At any rate Socrates, their supposed teacher, was a confused and
filthy pedophile, even at 70. So-called scholars, with their overrated love of reason, want to distinguish and
nuanciate between morality and reason. But reason not elevated by true morality is not rationalism but
rationalisticism. Intelligence without wisdom is a shrewd whore.