demon est deus inversus

“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 he 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 – now followed by the Kabbalists – defined evil as the lining of God or Good: Demon est Deus inversus [“the Devil is God reversed”], being a very old adage.

 
Indeed, evil is but an antagonizing blind force in nature; it is reaction, opposition, and contrast – evil for some, good for others.

 
There is no malum in se [“evil in itself”]; 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.”

 

H. P. Blavatsky