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Paradise Lost
Satan rouses the panic-stricken host of fallen angels to tell
them about a rumour current in Heaven of a new world about to be
created. He calls a council to deliberate what should be done, and they
agree to send Satan to search out for the new world. Satan, passing the
gulf between Hell and Heaven and the limbo of Vanity, enters the orb of
the Sun (in the guise of an angel) to make inquiries as to the new
planet's whereabouts; and, having obtained the necessary information,
alights on Mount Niphates, and goes to Paradise in the form of a
cormorant. Seating himself on the Tree of Life, he overhears Adam and
Eve talking about the prohibition made by God, and at once resolves
upon the nature of his attack. Gabriel sends two angels to watch over
the bower of Paradise, and Satan flees. Raphael is sent to warn Adam of
his danger, and
tells him the story of Satan's revolt and expulsion out of Heaven,
and why and how this world was made. After a time Satan returns to
Paradise in the form of a mist, and, entering the serpent, induces Eve
to eat of the forbidden fruit. Adam eats “that he may perish with the
woman whom he loved.” Satan returns to Hell to tell his triumph, and
Michael is sent to lead the guilty pair out of the garden. (Milton.)
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