For it is true that evil belongs to the order of created things, though when we speak of it as such we must remember that God did not introduce it into creation this way, but that it resulted from a choice made by a portion of those spirits we know as angels (themselves created beings) who, in primeval time, envied God, and in so doing turned their faces away from the seat of divine sovereignty, and in that instant transformed their beauty into that which we know as supreme ugliness. Tradition has given the highest of these angels the name of Lucifer, who, in his fall from heaven, at the hands of the archangel Michael, became the great deceiver, otherwise known as Satan.