Who is The Satan?

🔹 BLOG VERSION

✧ Opening Prayer — Prayer of Holy Strength

Archangel Michael, Defender of the Soul,
Let Your Sword of Truth reveal the path.
Cut away fear, awaken courage,
And let the Light in us rise victorious.

Amen — and Ascent.

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❖ The Book’s Dangerous Confusion

Aragón claims:

“The soul is satanic; Satan is the true creator of the soul.”
(Herrou Aragón, The Forbidden Religion)

This is the central poison of his theology.

True Gnosis clarifies:

• “Satan” = The Adversary

• A role, not a creator

• A test, not a maker

• A shadow, not the Light

Shadows cannot create souls.

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❖ The Adversary’s Real Function

Across esoteric traditions:

Tradition	Role of the Adversary
Hebrew	ha-Satan = “the tester,” “the accuser,” a prosecutor in God’s court
Christianity	Tempter who refines faith, not creator of being
Islam	Iblis tests the sincerity of worship
Hermeticism	Resistance through which soul reveals restraint and power

The Adversary is:

• not divine origin

• not supreme authority

• not creator of consciousness

But instead:

• the pressure that forms diamonds

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❖ The Soul as the Tested Jewel

Gold is proven in the furnace.
The soul is proven in the world.

Testing = growth
Pressure = refinement
Struggle = transformation

If a force tests you — it does not own you.

If a shadow challenges you — it does not define you.

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❖ Enter the Archangel

Michael — “Who is Like God?”
He is:

• Defender of souls

• Casts down arrogance

• Protects the ascent

Revelation 12:7:

Michael and his angels fought the dragon…
and the dragon was cast down.

If the soul belonged to the Adversary,
Michael would not defend it.

Michael guards what is God’s.

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❖ The Ministry Teaching

Adversary forces are:

• Weights the soul lifts

• Friction the soul overcomes

• Tests the soul rises through

The very presence of resistance proves:

There is a Light that the darkness fears.

Satan exists because the soul is divine —
not the other way around.

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❖ Reader Affirmation

My soul is sovereign.
My Spirit is victorious.
The Adversary refines me,
but God defines me.

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📘 Glossary (Chapter Key Terms)

Term	Meaning
Satan / Adversary	Tester of the soul; reveals strength through challenge
Archangel Michael	Protector of the soul’s divine origin
Dragon	Symbol of egoic will opposing Spirit
Temptation	Test of the soul’s alignment
Victory	Soul standing firm in divine identity

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🌟 ILLUMINATED EDITION

The Soul and the Sword of Michael

✧ Sacred Text

The shadow rises
not to claim the soul
but to measure it.

Only battles worth fighting
are fought.

The soul is the battlefield
because the soul
is the prize of Heaven.

The sword of Michael
cuts away illusion
so the soul remembers
its wings of Light.

The dragon roars
but the flame in the heart
roars louder.

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✧ Symbolic Art Notes

✔ Archangel Michael above with golden sword
✔ Dragon beneath the ascending Soul
✔ Emerald Heart glowing between wings
✔ Rose Cross behind the soul as shield

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✧ Closing Blessing

Rise, Soul of Light —
for the Defender of Heaven calls you His own.

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✧ Footer

Rose Cross Seal • Archangelic Edition
Cook Universal Ministry — To Preserve the Light of Early Truth