The narrative of The Morning Line references John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and revisits the original biblical accounts of Genesis and the Fall from the perspectives of Satan, God, Eve and Adam.

Transdimensional unity
Enthalpy
Milton: YWYH
Milton’s ‘god’ is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, which means that He has foreknowledge of further events, but does not predestinate – which would negate the whole idea of free will. He is more of a personification of abstract ideas than a real character. He is ultimately unidentifiable. He is the embodiment of pure reason. He represents the property of inherent information.

Superheated plasma after the big bang
Light/Energy equivalence
Milton: Lucifer/Satan
Satan has been seen as the story’s object of admiration. He struggles to overcome his own doubts and weaknesses, and accomplishes his goal of corrupting mankind. Others claim that Milton personifies in Satan the spirit of the English Revolution; that Milton’s Satan represents the honor and independence of the nation asserted in the face of an incapable government. First known as Lucifer, he assumes many forms during the story, which are reflective of his moral and rational degradation. First, he is a fallen angel of enormous stature; then a humble cherub; a cormorant; a toad; and finally, a snake. He is a picture of incessant intellectual activity without the ability to think morally.

The Quantum Sea (pure energy and matter are separated)
Milton: Lilith
The daughter of Satan, who literally sprung from his head when he first conceived of rebellion while still in Heaven. Described as a beautiful woman to the waist, but below the waist “a serpent armed with mortal sting” and surrounded by hell-hounds, which crawl in and out of her womb, using it as a kennel [ii.650]. Lilth is represented in the film as a green sea, with various accompanying effects.

Stars (time)
Atomic structure of visible universe
Milton: Raphael
The angel God sends to visit Adam and Eve in Eden to warn them about Satan. He is the poem’s narrator of the account of Satan’s rebellion in heaven and the creation of the world, as told to the human couple. He is “sociably mild” in contrast to the stern, military angels, Michael and Gabriel. His counterpart and balance is Chaos.

Limbo
Dark Energy
Milton: Chaos
The personification of anarchy, described along with Night to be “ancestors of Nature” [ii.890], encountered by Satan on his journey to and from Earth.

The Observatory
Free Energy
Milton: Adam
Adam is as perfect as a human being could be. He is flawed however, and at times indulges in rash and irrational attitudes. His pure reason and intellect are lost as a result of the fall, Man never being able again to converse with angels as near-equal (as he did with Raphael) but forever one-sided (as he did with Michael after the fall). His weakness is his love for Eve. He confides to Raphael that his attraction to her is almost overwhelming – something that Adam’s reason is unable to overcome. After Eve eats from the Tree of Knowledge, he decides to do the same, realizing that if she is doomed, he must follow her into doom as to not lose her – even if that means disobeying God.

The Tree of Knowledge
System Energy. Civilization
Milton: Eve
Eve is the mother of all mankind, considered to be closer to God, made for softness and “sweet attractive Grace”. She only surpasses him in beauty, beauty as such she even falls in love with her own image upon seeing her reflection in a body of water. It is her vanity that Satan taps into in order to persuade her to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve is clearly intelligent but she goes out on her own seizing the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. 
Through Eve, Milton explores the role of women in his society and the positive and important role they could offer in the divine union of marriage. At the end of the poem, after exposing their strengths and weaknesses, Adam and Eve emerge as a powerful unit, complementary in each other – not only to the reader, but to themselves. The fall serves a purpose of self-discovery, the Fortunate Fall, or felix culpa.

The Ruined City
Entropy
Milton: Death
From the incestuous match of Lilith and Lucifer came Death. Described as a frightening, shadowy figure [ii.666], which makes even Satan wary in its presence. “Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,” and wearing a crown, it wields a dart, threatens Satan with it, and speaks mockingly to him.