The devil has only one power: the whispering in your ears. He is the shadow of your imagination.
Ever wondered why the devil needs our consent to possess us? Ever wondered why he has to tempt us into sin? Ever wondered what he is offering in exchange for the soul and why?
Think again.
Think.
Again.
Thinking.
This is the simple answer to all these questions. God left the devil with only one and only power: the power to induce thoughts, and thoughts we amplify with our imagination. The devil has zero power over us unless we acquiesce to live the illusion, to take the blue pill of imagining reality and forget what is really true and real. The only reality that the devil knows better than us is worthy of anything: your soul.
He’s an old trickster and his only power is presenting you with a reality using your senses to give you illusions in exchange for you losing a part of your soul, the only part of you that is not fake but real. The devil is the mind who murmurs words in your ear, who brings images and fears and illusions to grip you with the laces of your own imagination.
It is that simple: the only thing that separates you from being is your thoughts, and your thoughts have a special feature to keep you in the illusory world. This force—you can call it evil—is self-deception, delusion, the mask of the ego.
He’s the bad deal you take; he’s the wrong decision that you had a feeling was off from the beginning.
God left the devil as he left the cliff, the rock, and the whirlpool, but of the mind. In essence, the devil is just a knife, but you are responsible for what happens when you take it in your hands. God does let the devil roam the earth so man can learn to overcome his illusions and discover his power.
In truth, the man who defeats his own thoughts becomes akin to God. He needs barely sleep, barely food, barely accommodation, but his strength and capacity are unbound, incomparably higher than that of the ordinary novice man.
Overcoming evil is the spiritual fight that the soul has to win in order to be fully born—not only from the divine light, but from the divine fight.
Authenticity, uniqueness… uncreated light, the soul… all these express the same thing: a part of the essential, the ultimate, or the first—the one that the world would not be without. Authenticity is the world and God Himself.
The Devil strives for the destruction of the God-part within yourself—the uniqueness—by giving you inauthenticity or the world exterior to your own being; everything that is not you in exchange for the infinitesimal, authentic part that is you.
The Devil is the antithesis of authenticity, the great leveler, the great smoothening force who turns any truth into an energyless, pale, dead, and hollow copy: a skeleton of the truth that was.
Just being yourself is the most radical act and the real win against evil.