...and pride. "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven . . . here we may reign secure, and in my choice to reign...though in hell: better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven," (1.254-5, 261-263). Somehow, he has set himself irrevocably on the path to eternal rebellion...

...underworld kingdom after the Almighty expelled them from heaven, we hear the Prince of Darkness announce: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. When we surrender to vanity, or to its related personal demons, we are, like the legendary...

...the beginning, perhaps because he lusts for it so himself. Milton wrote of Lucifer in Paradise Lost, "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."7 In the process of announcing the Kingdom and offering redemption from the Fall, Jesus...