Lucifer by Maurice Magre

Author:Maurice Magre [Magre, Maurice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Coat Press
Published: 2018-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

“I have to talk to you,” he said.

And I replied: “Me too.”

I sensed when he had come in that we were both prey to an extraordinary excitement.

“If I’ve offended you in any way,” I said, “I’m ready to give you an honest explanation.”

He contented himself with sniggering.

“It’s you who first reminded me of the pact we once signed, and enabled me to glimpse its scope. At first I didn’t take what you said seriously. I refused to believe in the gravity of what had only been childishness. But I’ve thought about it. Events have brought me proofs. Perhaps I’m only afflicted by a sickness of the imagination, I’m sure that you’re afflicted by the same sickness as me. In any case, you know something. You’ve studied the questions that are preoccupying me. You know what forces we were once able, unknown to ourselves, to put into action. You can deliver me from an obsession...”

I perceived that I was addressing him as tu for the first time in fifteen years, so haunted was I by the idea of our equality in the pact.

Kotzebue was not thinking of picking up that change of tone. He had not ceased sniggering while I was speaking. At the same time, he was considering my pajamas, my unkempt hair, and my distraught features. As the bedroom door was still open, he took two or three steps that permitted him to see the disordered bed. He must have found in that sight an answer to the questions that had motivated his visit, and his physiognomy expressed the phrase: Now I know!

He remained silent, his head bowed.

“Well?”

“It’s too late. You’ve taken the left-hand path, from which one cannot turn back, It will be too comfortable, in any case. Haven’t you received what you asked for? Haven’t you seen your desires granted? You’ve been a perfect instrument of Lucifer, without suspecting it. But he knew it, and he guided you. Now you’d like to get away from him. It’s vain to try. He’s the companion that one never quits, who accompanies you not only in the voyage of life but that one makes after death.”

“Come on” I cried, “You’re not being serious. You’re holding a grudge, admit it. You think you have grievances against me, so you want to get your revenge. But you don’t believe in the existence of Lucifer either as a person or as an active will! You don’t believe in the fallen angel!”

“You’re mistaken—I do believe it. There are fallen angels. There was one here just now. And redoubtable, believe me. He will become even more so. Why should there not be a greater one who sent him?”

“But you said it yourself, for a long time the world has been directed by men alone. Above the human there were only forces, only laws. Evil was only the human tendency to egotism.”

“I might have been mistaken. Since I’ve seen you, I’ve learned things that I didn’t know. My ideas on that subject have changed completely.”

I was

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