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Men and animals do not merely struggle to maintain their individual existence; they are members of larger social groups. And, all too often, it is the social unit, not the individual, whose survival comes first.
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)
In a strange way, Marcion understood the situation better than the more conventional followers of the church, for Lucifer is merely one of the faces of a larger force. Evil is a by-product, a component, of creation.
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)
In our preoccupations with sex, our submission to gods and leaders, our sometimes suicidal commitment to ideas, religions, and trivial details of cultural style, we become the unconscious creators of the social organism's exploits.
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)