Remember that story about that guy named "Satan" who competed with that guy named "God" for his own kingdom? Well the story had nothing to say politically or morally. It was a valiant attempt to set the metaphysical/psychological record straight before it even got that crooked. Well now it's crooked as hell (pun intended), so here we go again...
- As Joseph Campbell auspiciously noted, the metaphysical realm is reflected from within.
- Therefore, "Satan" is the ego and "God" is consciousness, whereby consciousness exists within only the present moment, and the ego exists in exile from it. The entire Bible is a power-drunk misconstruction of this.
- The "Kingdom of God," furthermore, is where all of existence save for the ego resides, for the present moment and the "Kingdom of God" are one, and "Evil" is the entropic and inconsistent behavior of the ego.
This is where Christian mysticism and eastern mysticism share the same source.
I leave you with a common Christian scare tactic and its proper rebuttal:
- "Satan's greatest victory was convincing man he didn't exist."
- No; Satan's greatest victory was telling paranoid people "Satan's greatest victory was convincing man he didn't exist" because Satan's greatest victory was semantics.
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