His Divine Shadow
actually, as you both probably know, there have been several classifications of devils, which do differentiate between lucifer, satan, beelzebub etc…the classifications of Types/heirarchies of devils are based on 4th century writings of Paul, following the nine orders of angels(since devils are fallen angels)…at any rate…beelzebub is the prince of the seraphim, an equal or almost equal to lucifer, leviathan is a ‘prince of the same order, and ringleader of the heretics’…and let’s not forget asmodeus, astaroth and so on…anyway, all “evil”beings have a “good being”to oppose them, thus balance in heaven and hell… The Devil is the personification of supreme evil, thus the opposite of God, the greek word for devil (diabolos) being the translation of the hebrew satan, who originally was not evil but became identified with evil by virtue of his functions (assigned by God) to test Job…it gets even more confusing than this due to years of translations, mistranslations and various people adding interpretations (including the new testament)…at any rate, since we have had no inkling of a supreme deity in the lexx universe, i don’t think Prince or HDS qualifies as the supreme evil being, but maybe merely functionaries of some sort…and yes dalek tek, i do agree with one definition of evil as being someone who knows right from wrong, but does wrong anyway, only nowadays we call that a sociopath, or someone with antisocial personality disorder [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] finally, and i am quoting directly here (russel hope robbins), “man makes his divinities, good or evil, in his own image, the result depending on the stage of his personal development and that of the age he lives in” so maybe the beans are synthesizing a whole new religion here!