Overstepping Boundaries

Abstract

Sometimes evil is simply the good that oversteps boundaries and has gone too far. It is this sort of evil that is hardest to perceive and is the most pernicious in its power to harm. In Western mythology the image of Lucifer, the “Being of light” who becomes Satan, “the fallen angel,” applies here. In that story Lucifer, once the most favored, is so convinced of his goodness he thinks he is the Supreme Being himself. He oversteps his created limits.