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Rh image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and its creations; that which is not the image and likeness of Good, but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus making “gods many and lords many” (1 Corinthians viii. 5); a product of nothing, as the opposite of something; an unreality, as opposed to the great reality of spiritual existence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, substance, and mind are supposed to be the opposite of God, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness of God's opposites, — namely, matter, sin, sickness, and death; the antipodes of Truth, termed error; the counterfeit of Life, which ultimates in death; the opposite of Love, called hate; the antipodes of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter; Immortality's opposite, mortality; that of which Wisdom saith, “Thou shalt surely die.”

This name represents the false supposition that Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the Infinite enters the finite. Intelligence passes into non-intelligence, and Soul dwells in material sense; that immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal mind; that the one God and Creator entered what He created, and then disappeared in the atheism of matter.

This view of Satan is confirmed by the name often conferred upon him in Scripture, the Adversary. An adversary is one who opposes, denies, disputes, not one who constructs and sustains reality and Truth. “The devil was a liar from the beginning, and the father of lies,” said Jesus.

All-power; infinity; omnipotence.