--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote:
> John Milton, the writer of Paradise Lost, would agree with you that Satan is > a fallen angel. But many people would question the idea that Satan created > the universe. Wasn't the Garden of Eden created by the Divine Father? It's a simple story meant to illustrate a rather complex phenomenon. Satan is the negative power also called apara-prakriti, (impure nature) it maintains creation in it's state *separate* from God. The positive power or para-prakriti is the power of attraction which brings one back to Unity. Without the pulling negative power all things would revert back to the creator or Unity and the *show* (Lila shakti) would be over. > In vedic literature, the asuras, rakshasas, or demons have unusual powers but > they are considered below the level of human beings consciousness. They merely counterbalance the positive force, both are necessary to maintain creation, even in the atom. It is our freewill that determines our destiny, if we yield to that negative 'pull' we pay the consequences but also 'learn' from our mistake, hence the purpose of creation (evolution) is fulfilled either way. > That's the positive spin to the devil's work. But he also wants to subjugate > human beings who buy into the devil's plan of world domination. The negative power is constantly trying to pull man back into creation or delusion, just like the positive and negative force of the atom, the Yin and the Yang, and the whole field of opposites exit only in *relation* to one another. It is the duality that is necessary for 'creation', spirit is ONE. > But there is a theological thought stating that the devil took his duty for > the love of the Divine Being. However, most people would disagree with this > idea. He actually wants to take over the Heavens too. Is that possible? Satan or the negative power gets all of his power from God, remember Jesus the Christ said he could summon legions of angels to destroy Satan but he did not. Satan is only relevant if we make him so by yielding to his temptations, when we rise above them through the superior experience of God/bliss we are free... Without Satan, the illusion of the many from the one could not exist. Maya is the *magical measurer* or makes things seem separate from the one spirit, Satan is the embodiment of that negative force.
