Satan A Seducer (paradise Lost
We shall be free … we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell" (Book I, 257-61).
He also tells them that they "Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (Book I, 255). This inspiring speech is directed by Satan to seduce his followers, that at the time seemed to have lost all hope in regaining happiness. Whether his remarks were true or not, he doesn't care, as long as it gives them encouragement and motivation so that they will believe him and have faith that they can gain their joy again by helping Satan go to war against God. He continues this method, trying to rebuild the spirits of his distressed and unhappy followers because he knows ...
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happiness was when he ended his speech with a profound announcement. He informed them of the New World and the new creature that would be created, "There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create … plant A generation … equal to the Sons of Heaven" (Book I, 651-5). This was their chance to retaliate by using this new Creature to fight God. Satan's idea to meddle with God's plan finally made his followers confer their miserable fall as he says,
"Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere:
For this Infernal Pit shall never hold
Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th' Abyss
Long under darkness cover … Peace is despaird,
For who can think Submission? Warr then, Warr
Open and understood must be resolv'd" (Book I, 657-62).
He was reassured of his successful attempt to seduce his followers to go to war when they responded with full of excitement, as though thunder struck on the burning Lake where they lay miserably, and awoke them all. They ...
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on promise made, Of new Subjection" (Book II, 237-9). Those words make them think that maybe they have a chance to achieve victory when at war with God. That cleared some of the doubt left in their minds about fighting another war.
Satan persuades them to go to war in his speech where he argues that his throne is safe and unenvied (Book II, 23), because according to Him, it seems as though the misery of the rebels is complete and who would actually envy the throne of Satan? As the verse continues, it follows that every improvement in Heaven's state must tend to weaken Hell's authority, so since every misery is its basis, then to exhaust the firmness of Satan's union is the very ground ...
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