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And so it is, that both the Devil and the Angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
---- Rumi





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"If you have not seen the Devil, look at your own self."
---- Rumi



“In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.” 
― Idries Shah, Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past Thousand Years



“Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man.”
---- Sufi contention



As soon as I'm left alone
The devil wanders into my soul
And I pretend to myself
And I pretend to myself

I go out
To the old milestone
Insanely expecting
You to come there
Knowing that I wait for you there
That I wait for you there

Come!
Come!
Come here at once!

Come!
Come!
On a night with no moon

Because all of my being is now in pining
All of my being is now in pining
What formerly had cheered me
Now seems
Insignificant
Insignificant



 http://mysteriouswritings.com/unsolved-c...the-devil/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...lated.html


New Orleanian singer/songwriter/guitarist Chris Smither's song, "The Devil's Real", informed by his own
hard-earned personal understanding of the essential difference in results between STO and STS experience.
Amazingly, the former tends to feel basically good, and the latter, bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjtv9L8xaU


But then again, for some it feels so good when it feels so bad. . .

 
BTW, this song was half-pint punk soprano Amira Willighagen's (see vid above) first choice for her contest-show debut
(in a lively medley with Peaches' "F**k The Pain Away" and The Pop Group's "We Are All Prostitutes")  but cooler heads prevailed
as her slightly more conservative and opera-loving parents talked her into the Puccini aria.

Point of View.
Saadi of Shiraz, in his Bostan, stated an important truth when he told this miniature tale:
A man met another, who was handsome, intelligent, and elegant. He asked him who he was.
The other said: "I am the Devil."
"But you cannot be," said the first man, for the Devil is evil and ugly."
"My friend," said Satan, "you have been listening to my detractors."

 
Someone I know spending quality time alone, diggin' the tunez, thinkin' up new deviltry!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4 Skip James' haunting "Devil Got My Woman" blues, recorded 1931


JOB SECURITY

On his travels a good man chanced upon a demon sitting disconsolately by the side of the main thoroughfare, tearing his hair and crying piteously.

"Pardon me for intruding on your privacy, Mister Imp of Hell, but I couldn't help noticing your woebegone mien. What is it that has brought you to 
this state of despair?"

"Good sir, I'll tell you. Since it became fashionable for any and all and sundry mortal humans -- no matter how immature, self-centered, and deluded -- 
to set themselves up as much-attended-to and much-followed 'Spiritual Teachers,' no questions asked, why, my professional expertise in beclouding 
the True and championing the False in the inner mind of Man has become wholly superfluous -- and alas! I never bothered to learn any other paying 
trade. And here I thought I had job-security for all eternity at Hell, Inc.! Now I and my demon-wife and our implings shall surely starve..." And he sobbed anew.

   This just in: 
https://sputniknews.com/environment/2018...Australia/