Satan, the representation of the fallen angel, the one that instead of soaring to the wisdom of the etheric, descends into the stupidity of the material. |
Satan: a symbol of lies & ignorance
The book of Job is nothing else than an allegory that has the purpose to show that evil on earth is a trial of virtue. All persons in this work are symbolic and especially their names point this out. Job is the appointed, Satan is the trial in general and harassment in particular. The story facts are just as improbable as in fabels, but the philosophy of it is very beautiful. From all of this nothing reasonable is to be concluded about the reality of a figure named Stan. In the Gospels Jesus speaks the following profound riddle words filled with eternal wisdom: 'The devil is as much a liar as his father.' The devil, whoever it may be, could thus not be a creature of God, at least not in his uality of the devil. Who or what then can be the father of the devil? The father of the devil is the lie. He is himself the lie and the father of the lie. He is the one all including madness. But it is a terrible, conniving, shrude power, that assumes a thousand formes, that penetrates all, sometimes threatening sometimes flattering, always destined, a power that God wanted when he wanted freedom, however destined this power brings forth slavery; a power that personifies itself in the large group of the purposefully erring. One can read in the Gospels that the Messiah asks him how he calls himself, and he answers: 'I call myself Legion, cause we form a large multitude.' The devil is the beast, or rather the working inspiration for the multitude's working stupidity: it is the attraction of evil. Excerpt from Eliphas Levi: Elements of Kabbala |