The Devil goes by many names: Satan, Lucifer, The Great Beast, Beelzebub, The Prince of Darkness. He is the adversary, the accuser, the tempter, the deceiver, and the one who divides from God. The Devil is incredibly wicked and evil, but also intelligent and witty – he is the father of all tricksters – that is what makes him so dangerous. The English word “devil” derives from the Greek diábolos (“the one who divides”). Diabolic is the term in contemporary English. The Greek verb dia-bollein literally means to tear apart. These divisions occur in almost every facet of our lives: race, sex, religion, politics, and economics. The demonic is an inversion of order.

Temptation is the ordinary activity of the devil. It is a real thing for us in each and every day. It begins with deception, buying into the lies of the devil, who promises good, only to deliver evil. The goal of this is to create division or inner conflict in ourselves. In despair, we numb ourselves with pleasure or diversion, which can lead to addiction. Hell is that state of mind which has abandoned itself so completely to a given sin that it cannot act independently of that sin.

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⌛ Timestamps

(0:00) Introduction
(1:18) Daimon
(2:06) Pan: The God of Panic and Pandemonium
(3:24) Scapegoating, Projection, God-Complex
(5:38) The Devil: The One Who Divides
(7:06) The Characteristics of the Diabolic
(9:05) Deals with the Devil
(13:30) Archetypes, Ego-Inflation, and Delusion
(14:35) The Fall from Paradise (Felix Culpa)
(16:52) The Devil and Christ as Lucifer (Morning Star)
(20:09) Satan (The Adversary) and Job
(23:52) The Ultimate Tragic Story
(24:29) The Harrowing of Hell
(25:16) Satanism: Evil Disguised as Good
(27:02) The Psychological Activities of The Demonic
(31:08) Carl Jung on the Devil (Shadow)
(33:23) The Devil in The Major Arcana
(34:13) The One-Sided Western Image of God
(36:50) Summum Bonum: The Highest Good
(37:22) Privatio Boni: The Absence of Good
(37:56) Deus Absconditus: The Hidden Dark Side of God
(39:00) The Apocalypse (Revelation) and Enantiodromia
(43:00) Conclusion