X - Satan

In the context of what you have read up to this point, do you think it is coincidental that the Devil, his servants, demons, and gargoyles are always depicted as a hybrid of man and Animal? "To see the devil, look in a mirror." Satan is the awful force of death and destruction unleashed on Earth by mankind's submission to the lowest impulses of his Animal nature.

    It has been observed that the most horrifying aspect of Hitler's Germany was its utter banality. Ordinary men and women contributed to the creation of the most diabolical phenomenon in human history, and they did so by surrendering to the imbalanced forces already operating within them. Hitler's hatreds and fears mirrored those of the German citizenry and he skillfully manipulated those impulses and emotions, creating one mammoth organism motivated by common national historic obsessions.

    In all of the universe, evil, as well as we know it, is the unique creation of human-kind. We seek the explanation for monstrous occurrences in the exertion of some other-worldly malevolent force. But, in truth, we as a species are the only demons existent. Instead of fulfilling our obligation to use the human organism as a medium for the manifestation of divinity on Earth, we have become a mutant species who use our advanced intelligence to perfect the methods of murder and domination.

    The devil is the collective, negative energy let loose in the world by the existence of billions of tainted human spirits, one of whom is you. And your acquiescence to your own basest prejudices, hatreds, fears, and hungers, gives the devil his only source of power.

    Satan thrives because the Animal is not as it should be. It is slothful and degenerate. It lacks the will to resist submission to, and identification with, its own transitory impulses, and you have resigned yourself to the inevitability of this disastrous situation. You call the Animal "I." You submerge yourself in its every ache and pain, its disconnected thoughts, its useless misery, its gluttonous appetites. Most tragically, you confuse the poignant longings of the essential self with the emotional emptiness of the organism entrusted to your care, and waste your life attempting to fill that void with distraction and momentary pleasure.

    The Entity that you really are aches to be fulfilled. It is "the voice crying in the wilderness" of your worldly obsessions. Your real self does not want to die upon the expiration of your organism; its potential is infinitely greater than that. But unless you act to balance your earthly life and nurture the "I" within, everything that you are will die together. The collective force of wrong Animal consciousness, Satan, will indeed have won your soul.