Who Is Satan?

If you ask a thousand people if they accept the proposition that God is Love, they will mostly all accept it.

And if you asked them what is the opposite of Love, they will mostly all say 'Hate.'

What do you say?

We will get to an answer presently.

Looking around yourself at the world that you are inhabiting, you will see a myriad of things, creatures, people, styles, sounds, noises, communication modes, languages.

The bees make the comb and fill
its pockets with honey,
from flowers which have 
nectar. And some flowers do not
have nectar but the bees use them
to flavor the honey...

You will not, you will never,  see just one thing dominating all other things while life itself is going on.

There are principles which operate through things, but even these are not unitary -, and, they are all moderately different and some are wildly different in essence.

There is a harmonization mode of logic - or, the logic of harmonization - which is the means by which one thing can understand another separate thing, or communicate a thing between separate parties. In other words, either the characteristics of a certain thing are similar to or the same as another thing, or the characteristics being conveyed exist in the memory of another being to whom the idea is attempting to be communicated; and so the principle of 'harmony' is a unitary thing in essence. Yes.

But the substance of meaning - meanings/the meanings of different things - is always based on the myriad things... Not the similarity of everything to everything else because that is just simply not a fact, not true.

Sweet is not the same as hot or sour.

Arguably 'hot' is not even a 'taste' but a sensation about inflammation; heat. So even the conceptual similarity of an idea, of a mode of apprehension regarding 'taste' or sensation is not along the same sense pathways to the brain's appreciation of meaning about those sensations being felt.

Honeycomb places...
We have so many beings
working for us, making 
all that honey...

Our intelligent experience of the world consists of an enormously large content of ideas and memories and psychological and physiological responses to sensations - which we even qualify into both personal idiosyncratic hierarchies, as well as outright absolutes in terms of quality; that is, closeness to perfection of whatever it is we are considering about or assessing.

God is not existentially a 'One' anything.

Moreover things even materialize whether by natural organic formation and life cycle, or human intervention and fabrication (such as complicated music and dance and art and technology innovations, all sorts of things...) from 'not being'/'never having been' in some cases, to actual being.

And then there is even becoming, which is some part of the phases between 'not being/not existing' and meeting the conditions of a certain label of some manifest object or thought.

So 'God' cannot even be 'One/Not One' as in the binary code.

'God' is a complex.

When you look at the civil (human society) devastation apparent in the modern world, and you observe that so much of it was arranged, prearranged, organized, by actual people intent on creating some outcome - then you are left with making judgments about particular people's moral character.

A million and a half people died in the Vietnam War, and, given that Henry Kissinger drove it to long after even the CIA had advised that the war was lost, and given that it was launched once again on a fraud incident with a well-thought out beforehand 'moral' cause and public justification - and that the whole thing was to do with the military industry making money from the US taxpayer at the mortal risk of American human lives at minimum, and at the expense of Vietnamese lives as a certainty - we have to accept that some people are very capable of advanced forms of deceit entailing the death of others without genuine reason.

Nobody hated the North Vietnamese.

The North Vietnamese had done nothing to invoke hatred at the start.

And then there are the 
Swiss Elves
who farm all those
Swiss Brown mushrooms...

The consequences of suffering and death were not on account of 'Hate.' Those manifested consequences were on account of deliberate malice and lies used against the US citizen by those prepared to have them die in order to make money. The malice against the outside people, the Vietnamese, was a pretense. ...The National Guard, was called out against US students on US soil, at American Universities -, who (the Guard) shot and killed them (the students) for having a different political opinion and voicing it publicly.

Technically, a lot of leaflets and two bombs would have wiped out North Vietnam in a day. If you really 'hated' them and conquest was your actual object.

But -, no money would have been made that way.

Money was the object not overpowering the North Vietnamese; that was easily done without having to expense 1.5 million lives if that's what you wanted to do.

You cannot 'harmonize' permanently between two separate things by lying - even in the matter of the medical 'therapeutic lie' it is not that the beneficial outcome is because two things remain always opposed and still different but the intermediary (the person who is sick) doesn't know that, it is because of the desire to create stasis, and then slowly move things into viable harmony over time when it cannot be achieved immediately in practice.

The opposite of 'Love' is not 'Hate.'

The opposite of Love is Harm.

If I intend to harm you, for no reason other than that is what I want to do - then I am evil.

If an ethos intends to cause harm out of an oppositional existential stance against another particular ethos, then it is in antipathy to that other ethos; it is an enemy.

If a Divine Power exists also as an ethos (which it necessarily does), and the character of that Divine Power is Love, and it is called widely by the name 'Love,' and its natural opponent is called 'Satan' and the Devil (Two-Tongued/The Deceiver/'Dia-Bolos'), then the character of that Being is Harm, and harmfulness.

You know what I mean?

Those who are always and everywhere ('ethos') dynamic and active in the pursuit of one aim are called by the Ancient Greeks 'Daemon' and also 'Dewa;' by the Sanskrit writers 'Asura/Deva.'

These are not negative terms, they are explanatory terms.

The Ethos that is forever about the business of harming others for gain and for power by using stealth or conspiracy or deceit, and violence -, is Satanically Demonic.

But whereas such forces, such mindsets, such temporal and spiritual beings are always straining (Titanos) to achieve their ends - straining against natural harmonies, straining against the principles governing the Universe, straining even against Truth itself, straining to the limits of permissible acts - actual 'God' has a complete easy Power.

Humans, being in the mid-state between total ignorance and full knowledge, are apt to be deceived by clever lies, and even not-so-clever ones quite often.

And thus they (can) suffer harm.

Not all Titans are however, Evil. And many are not Evil at all.

But Titans are existentially real.

And that means that Satan is real. And he has his hordes. Not everyone you see masquerading as a simple human being, is human.

How you can tell a human is that you can find a pathway of harmony with a human, you cannot harmonize with a demonic evil creature.

Can the Divine act violently towards the Demonic (as in, Evil Demonic)?

Oh. You will live to see it happen.

But first, you will also see much wickedness transpiring on the stage of human affairs.