Satan
QUOTE  = MYSTERY, BABYLON had long taught that Satan was, in the beginning, a  high and beautiful archangel in heaven. The theologians and preachers  recite over and over how Satan was originally "the anointed cherub that  covers ... the most beautiful and wise of all God's creation!" This  being was, so they say, the ruler and leader of the angelic beings and  apparently led them in their praise of God and shouts of joy ...the  greatest being God ever created, one who had unequaled strength, wisdom,  beauty, privilege, and authority, and was next to God Himself. This  blameless, perfect one, named Lucifer, was created without any form of  evil and with the greatest intelligence of any created being. Then, we  are told, this Lucifer, suddenly realizing how beautiful and intelligent  he was, became inflated with power and pride and his heart was lifted  up in rebellion against God. According to the story, Lucifer gathered  one-third of the heavenly angels to his cause, mus...