Question: Do you agree with the concept of the existence of devil?

Answer: The concept of devil exists in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This word usually denotes either the leader of the hierarchy of evil spirits or just a single evil spirit (one of many). The latter is characteristic to Islam. There are also other names — Satan, Lucifer. These are the names of that “fallen angel” who indulged in pride and became “the adversary of God”.

The legend of the “fallen angel” is not unfounded because there are quite a lot of people who, upon reaching certain spiritual heights, enter on the way of cultivating pride, arrogance, self-admiration. They do not need God anymore, since they developed the feeling of full “self-sufficiency” in relation to God.

But in the pagan Christianity and in some other pagan religious trends there are two opposing beings — God and Satan. Each of them has his own troops. They are constantly at odds with each other, they have waged several battles, in which Satan was defeated and weakened. Another battle is ahead, which is going to be his final defeat...

But the Bible contains a different description of the relationships between God and Satan. The Book of Job in allegoric, fairy-tale form, describes the “Council” where God assigns tasks to each of His servants. Satan too is given a task: to tempt righteous Job. So, Satan is a God’s servant. But since he possesses evil qualities, he is assigned a nasty task.

There is wisdom in this. Although there are a lot of such “fallen angels”, rather than only one as it is described in this myth, it illustrates the general principle of how God employs non-incarnate entities of various qualities, which they cultivated in their incarnations. Some of them are sent with a certain mission: to help the incarnate beings through love, through their professional skills, while others — through temptations, illnesses, and other afflictions.

Demons are non-incarnate entities with evil features of character. They can be animals or humans, according to the last incarnation. While living in the bodies, all of them developed such vices as aggressiveness, malice, violence, the ability to enjoy inflicting pain, and so on. Thus, they are used by God to kill the bodies of people for whom it is time to disincarnate, to make someone think about the true meaning of life through pain, and so forth. God teaches us with their help, as He taught Job. Each of them is needed. Each of them can help us get to reason some day...

So, it is clear, isn’t it?

There remains only the question of “battles” between God and devil and their troops. Roots of these legends are to be sought for in the ancient Greek, Roman, and Indian pagan mythologies, where “gods” would regularly fight with one another, demons, and other entities.

So, if we really believe that God has the form of a flying man, which is typical of paganism, it is easy to fantasize how he gets on his horse, takes a spear, a sword, and a shield and with his white warriors rushes to fight the army of darkness.

But why does not it occur to modern pagans to arm God and Satan with more up-to-date weapons — chemical or even nuclear?... Wouldn’t it be funny?

But to be serious, God is not a man on a cloud or on a horse! God is the Consciousness flooded in the highest dimension through the entire universe! God is the Ocean of the Universal Consciousness! And no matter how deeply fallen is Satan or any other person, they are just tiny particles in this Ocean.