Satan
Worked with as the principle of opposition and the honest question: what is testing this, and what is true about it. The practice is banishing and uncrossing, not alliance.
Satan and Lucifer are distinct in the record and are kept distinct here. Ha-satan in the Hebrew Bible is a role - the accuser in the divine court - not a proper name; the New Testament tempter and the medieval prince of hell are later developments. The conflation with Lucifer (Isaiah 14) is a reading of the Latin Fathers, not the Hebrew text. The planetary and elemental values are modern overlays.
Correspondences
Sacred timing
- Day
- Saturday
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Ha-SatanThe AdversaryThe AccuserThe Tempter
- Symbols
- ScalesAccusers robeSerpent
- Appearance
- A prosecutor in the court of heaven, or the tempter in the wilderness; the horned and bestial form is medieval and later.
Practice
- Properties
- OppositionTestingAccusationRemoval of the mask
- Magical Uses
- BanishingUncrossingFacing oppositionThe hard question
- Invocation Warnings
- Not a figure to invoke for favours. In the tradition he is met as an opponent, an accuser, or a test to be passed.
- Invocation
Confrontation, not petition: name what opposes you, name what is true, and close.
- Traditional Uses
- Job 1-2 (the heavenly accuser)Zechariah 3 (the accuser of Joshua)the wilderness temptation
- Modern Practice
Worked with as the principle of opposition and the honest question: what is testing this, and what is true about it. The practice is banishing and uncrossing, not alliance.
Nature and meaning
- Meaning
- The adversary
- Domain
- AccusationTestingOppositionTemptationThe court of heaven
- Office
- The adversary who tests, accuses and opposes; in Job he is a member of the heavenly court rather than its enemy.
Details
- Keywords
- AdversaryAccuserTesterOpposer
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