"Evil personified appears at first sight repulsive. But the more we study the personality of the Devil, the more facinating He becomes. In the beginning of existence the Evil One is the embodiment of everything unpleasant, then of everything bad, evil, and immoral. He is hatred, destruction, and annihilation incarnate, and as such He is the advesary of existence, of the Creator, of God. The Devil is the rebel of the cosmos, the independent in the empire of the Tyrant, the opposition to unformity, the dissonance in universal harmony, the exeption to the rule, the particular in the universal, the unforseen chance that breaks the law; He is the individualizing tendency, the craving for orginality, which bodily upsets the ordinances of God that inforce a definite kind of conduct; He overturnes the monotony that would permeate the cosmic spheres if every atom in unconcious righteouness and with pious obedience slavishly followed a generally prescribed course..."

Paul Carus