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 It is the anthropomorphised ''Demiurge'', the Creator of Heaven and Earth, when separated from the collective Hosts of his fellow-Creators, whom, so to speak, he represents and synthesizes. It is ''now ''the God of ''theologies. ''“&nbsp;The thought is father to the wish.” Once upon a time, a philosophical symbol left to perverse human fancy&nbsp;; afterwards fashioned into a fiendish, deceiving, cunning, and jealous God.
-Dragons and other fallen angels being described in other parts of this work, a few words upon the much-slandered Satan will be sufficient. That which the student will do well to remember is that, with every people except the Christian nations, the Devil is to this day no worse an entity than the opposite aspect in the dual nature of the so-called Creator. This is only natural. One cannot claim God as the synthesis of the whole Universe, as Omnipresent and Omniscient and Infinite, and then divorce him from evil. As there is far more evil than good in the world, it follows on logical grounds that either God must include evil, or stand as the direct cause of it, or else surrender his claims to absoluteness. The ancients understood this so well that their philosophers&nbsp;—&nbsp;now followed by the Kabalists&nbsp;—&nbsp;defined evil as the lining of God or Good&nbsp;: ''Demon est Deus inversus'', being a very old adage. Indeed, evil is but an antagonizing blind force in nature&nbsp;; it is ''reaction'', ''opposition'', and ''contrast'',&nbsp;—&nbsp;evil for some, good for others. There is no ''malum in se&nbsp;: ''only the shadow of light, without which light could have no existence, even in our perceptions. If evil disappeared, good would disappear along with it from Earth. The “&nbsp;Old Dragon&nbsp;” was pure spirit before he became matter, ''passive ''before he became ''active. ''In the Syro-Chaldean magic both Ophis and Ophiomorphos are joined in the Zodiac, at the sign of the Androgyne ''Virgo-Scorpio. ''Before its fall on earth the “&nbsp;Serpent&nbsp;” was ''Ophis-Christos'', and after its fall it became Ophiomorphos-Chrestos. Everywhere the speculations of the Kabalists treat of Evil as a force, which is antagonistic, but at the same time essential, to Good, as giving it vitality and existence, which it could never have otherwise. There would be no ''life ''possible (in the ''Mayavic ''sense) without ''Death'', nor regeneration and reconstruction without destruction. Plants would perish in eternal sunlight, and so would man, who would become an automaton without the exercise of his free will and aspirations
+Dragons and other fallen angels being described in other parts of this work, a few words upon the much-slandered Satan will be sufficient. That which the student will do well to remember is that, with every people except the Christian nations, the Devil is to this day no worse an entity than the opposite aspect in the dual nature of the so-called Creator. This is only natural. One cannot claim God as the synthesis of the whole Universe, as Omnipresent and Omniscient and Infinite, and then divorce him from evil. As there is far more evil than good in the world, it follows on logical grounds that either God must include evil, or stand as the direct cause of it, or else surrender his claims to absoluteness. The ancients understood this so well that their philosophers&nbsp;—&nbsp;now followed by the Kabalists&nbsp;—&nbsp;defined evil as the lining of God or Good&nbsp;: ''Demon est Deus inversus'', being a very old adage. Indeed, evil is but an antagonizing blind force in nature&nbsp;; it is ''reaction'', ''opposition'', and ''contrast'',&nbsp;—&nbsp;evil for some, good for others. There is no ''malum in se&nbsp;: ''only the shadow of light, without which light could have no existence, even in our perceptions. If evil disappeared, good would disappear along with it from Earth. The “&nbsp;Old Dragon&nbsp;” was pure spirit before he became matter, ''passive ''before he became ''active. ''In the Syro-Chaldean magic both Ophis and Ophiomorphos are joined in the Zodiac, at the sign of the Androgyne ''Virgo-Scorpio. ''Before its fall on earth the “&nbsp;Serpent&nbsp;” was ''Ophis-Christos'', and after its fall it became Ophiomorphos-{{Style S-Small capitals|Chrestos}}. Everywhere the speculations of the Kabalists treat of Evil as a force, which is antagonistic, but at the same time essential, to Good, as giving it vitality and existence, which it could never have otherwise. There would be no ''life ''possible (in the ''Mayavic ''sense) without ''Death'', nor regeneration and reconstruction without destruction. Plants would perish in eternal sunlight, and so would man, who would become an automaton without the exercise of his free will and aspirations
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 {{Style P-No indent|after that sunlight, which would lose its being and value for him had he nothing but light. Good is infinite and eternal only in the eternally concealed from us, and this is why we imagine it eternal. On the manifested planes, one equilibrates the other. Few are those theists and believers in a personal God, who do not make of Satan the shadow of God&nbsp;; or who, confounding both, do not believe they have a right to pray to that idol asking its help and protection for the exercise and impunity of their evil and cruel deeds. “&nbsp;Lead us not into Temptation&nbsp;” is addressed daily to “&nbsp;our Father, which art in Heaven,” and not to the Devil, by millions of human Christian hearts. They do so, repeating the very words put in the mouth of their Saviour, and do not give one thought to the fact that their meaning is contradicted point blank by James “&nbsp;the brother of the Lord.” “&nbsp;Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God&nbsp;: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.”&nbsp;—&nbsp;(The Gen. Ep. of James, i, 13). Why, then, say that it is the Devil who tempts us, when the Church teaches us ''on the authority of Christ ''that it is God who does so&nbsp;? Open any pious volume in which the word “&nbsp;temptation&nbsp;” is defined in its theological sense, and forthwith you find two definitions&nbsp;: (1) “&nbsp;Those afflictions and troubles ''whereby God tries his people&nbsp;;''” (2) Those means and enticements which the Devil makes use of to ''ensnare ''and allure mankind. (St. James i., 2, 12, and Mat. vi., 13.) If accepted literally, the two teachings of Christ and James contradict each other, and what dogma can reconcile the two if the occult meaning is rejected&nbsp;?}}
-Between the alternative allurements, wise will be that philosopher who will be able to decide where God disappears to make room for the Devil&nbsp;! Therefore when we read that “&nbsp;the Devil is a liar and the father of it,” ''i.e.'', {{Style S-Small capitals|incarnate lie}}, and are told in the same breath that Satan&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Devil&nbsp;—&nbsp;was a son of God and the most beautiful of his archangels, rather than believe that Father and Son are a gigantic, personified and eternal lie, we prefer to turn to Pantheism and to Pagan philosophy for information.
+Between the alternative allurements, wise will be that philosopher who will be able to decide where God disappears to make room for the Devil&nbsp;! Therefore when we read that “&nbsp;the Devil is a liar and the father of it,” ''i.e.'', {{Style S-Small capitals|incarnate lie}}, and are told in the same breath that Satan&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Devil&nbsp;—&nbsp;was a son of God and the most beautiful of his archangels, rather than believe that Father and Son are a gigantic, personified and eternal {{Style S-Small capitals|lie}}, we prefer to turn to Pantheism and to Pagan philosophy for information.
 Once that the key to Genesis is in our hands, it is the scientific and symbolical Kabala which unveils the secret. The great Serpent of the Garden of Eden and the “&nbsp;Lord God&nbsp;” are identical, and so are Jehovah and Cain {{Style S-Small capitals|one}}&nbsp;—&nbsp;that Cain who is referred to in theology as the “&nbsp;murderer&nbsp;” and the {{Style S-Small capitals|liar}} to God&nbsp;! Jehovah tempts the King of Israel to number the people, and Satan tempts him to do the same in another place. Jehovah turns into the fiery serpents to bite those he is displeased with&nbsp;; and Jehovah informs the brazen serpent that heals them.