e free, not overruled by fateInextricable, or strict necessity;Our voluntary service he requires,Not our necessitated, such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find, for howCan hearts, not free, be tried whether they serveWilling or no, who will but what they mustBy destiny, and can no other choose?After sharing the reason for his free will he told Adam the story of Satins fall. It appears that he told him what had happened to the angels who had been disobedient to God to encourage his obedience.In book VII Raphael discusses the creation with Adam. In this book Milton follows the book of Genesis very closely. He added very little embellishment and did not change any of the facts from the way that they were presented in the bible.Next Adam questioned Raphael about the solar system and how the stars move. It is believed that Milton’s reasoning for bringing up the subject was that it was a rather hot topic at the time. Some people believed that the Earth moved around the sun and others believed that the solar system moved around the Earth. It is interesting that Raphael avoided directly answering the question and simply says that it may appear that the planets are moving around the earth because of the earths rotation on it’s axis. He also brings up the fact that the axis was not tilted until after the fall of man in a later book. Milton and others of his time believed that the universe was directly connected to spiritual occurrences so the arrangement of the solar system was very much a religious topic. At the end of book VIII Raphael warns Adam one last time of the evil lurking in the garden and of his own ability to resist the temptation that it might present and leaves the garden.In book IX the tragedy began. During the night Satin had snuck into the garden once more. There he found a sleeping serpent and took over his body. Milton did not present the serpent himself as evil, but possessed by evil. The next m...
