Category: Demon Est Deus Inversus

"The origin of the "War in Heaven" and the FALL has, in our mind, to be traced unavoidably to India, and perhaps far earlier than the Puranic accounts thereof.   There are three accounts, each of a distinct war, to be traced in almost every Cosmogony.   In the Esoteric Doctrine, one war takes place [...]

"The Alexandrian Gnostics have sufficiently divulged the secret of initiations, and their records are full of "the sliding down of Aeons" in their double qualification of Angelic Beings and Periods: the one the natural evolution of the other.   Oriental traditions are as full of allegories about the downfall of Pleroma, of that of the [...]

"In human nature, evil denotes only the polarity of matter and spirit, a struggle for life between the two manifested Principles in Space and Time, which principles are one per se, inasmuch they are rooted in the Absolute.   In Kosmos, the equilibrium must be preserved. The operations of the two contraries produce harmony, like [...]

"Everywhere the speculations of the Kabbalists 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 Mayavic sense) without Death, nor regeneration and reconstruction without destruction.   Plants [...]

"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 [...]

"The further back one recedes into the darkness of the prehistoric ages, the more philosophical does the prototype figure of the later Satan appear.   Who the great "Deceiver" really is, one can ascertain by searching for him with open eyes and an unprejudiced mind, in every old cosmogony and scripture.   It is the [...]

"Having to trace the origin of the idea to the very beginning of human mind, it is but just, meanwhile, to give his due even to the proverbial devil. Antiquity knew of no isolated, thoroughly and absolutely bad "god of evil".   Pagan thought represented good and evil as twin brothers, born from the same [...]

"As an "adversary", the opposing Power required by the equilibrium and harmony of things in Nature - like shadow to throw off still brighter the light, like night to bring into greater relief the day, and like cold to make one appreciate the more the comfort of heat - SATAN has ever existed.   Homogeneity [...]