Lucifer Resplendent

Lucifer/Walker fails to protect animals or the earth. When Walker's violent actions have the opposite effect—increased destruction—he leaves to start over. He turns to religion to change people. Through his own radical church, he renounces violence and tries to persuade. He outlines a new mythology of the earth in his sermons. In spite of the smallness of his successes, he attracts the attention of traditional churches and law enforcement agencies. Catholic priests try to exorcise him. After a violent confrontation with the law, he flees eastward, crippled and powerless.Walker establishes himself a third time. He learns to be slow and contemplative. Having discovered his identity and its contradiction, he finds reconciliation. He explores the science of light and makes a holographic device for recording movies. He creates wealth. He becomes content to set an example by living well. Through circumstances and friends, though, he is lead to try once more to change people. He seeks a political office to legislate behavior, rather than to force or persuade it.His platform is based on reason; he proposes rational limits to development and new ways of sharing resources. He identifies with a local place and also with the whole planet. He recovers his power to change into animals, but uses it only for enjoyment. His enemies, officers of the church, state, and system, find him however. During his campaign for office, he participates in a shuttle mission, his placed earned by his work in astronomy and holography. Even there, his enemies hound him into a final mythical confrontation that concludes this cycle. This novel is a fantasy, extending the themes of good and evil, dream and reality, death and renewal. It unfolds an archetypal quest—for identity, place, and purpose.

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