In this, our mythology had a lot in common with the ancient Greeks and retribution was never seen in terms of good and evil, but as the cause and effect of natural justice. For evil, one required the pre- requisite landscape of sin. Much before Lucifer fell from his exalted position and created his legions of darkness, hubris was there as an essential flaw in mankind. It was a succubus of kings and commoners alike, a warning that civilisation can be destroyed by the perversion of power. The Tower of Babel was the ambition of man to reach the gods, and the insight of Alexander was that he was a god himself.
Power is a strange narcotic, the accompanying sibling of evil.
It is a seed which every man carries. Against the background of history, against the examples of monsters like Tamurlane, Attila and Hitler, this little germinal can become every man's inner bonsai. It is part of every landscape and stains the secret folds of every heart. Long before western sociologists coined the phrases 'psychopath' and 'sociopath', the praxis of evil has been part of everyday life. And it grows in secrecy, darkening with its unseen shade all those who come across it.