Satan

"The Devil in Bedazzled (1967)"

"Harry O. Tophet in Oh, God! You Devil (1984)"

"The Lord of Darkness in Legend (1986)"

"Louis Cyphre in Angel Heart (1987)"

"Lucifer in The San∂man (1988–1996)"

"Satan in Touched By An Angel (1994–2003)"

"John Milton in The Devil's Advocate (1997)"

"Lucifer in The Prophecy (1995)"

"Satan in South Park (1997–present)"

"The Devil in Brimstone (1998–1999)"

"Satan in End of Days (1999)"

"Satan and Grandpa Lucifer in Little Nicky (2000)"

"The narrator in I, Lucifer (2003)"

"Satan in The Passion of the Christ (2004)"

"Lucifer in Constantine (2005)"

"The Devil in Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil (2005–2007)"

"Lucifer in season five (2009–2010) of Supernatural (2005–present)"

"Satan in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)"

"Signa te, signa; témere me tangis et agnis / roma tibi subito montibus ibit amor"

"SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. "There is one favor that I should like to ask," said he. "Name it." "Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws." "What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul -- you ask for the right to make his laws?" "Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself." It was so ordered."

"This is not the end. Villains will try, again and again and again, to enslave you, until the end of time. It is in your hands to defeat them and to destroy them, whenever or however they appear. “If you do not, then may God have mercy on your souls!”"

"Do you renounce Satan?"

"Adam has life on earth, and I created a garden in Eden in the east, that he should observe the testament and keep the command. I made the heavens open to him, that he should see the angels singing the song of victory, and the gloomless light. And he was continuously in paradise, and the devil understood that I wanted to create another world, because Adam was lord on earth, to rule and control it. The devil is the evil spirit of the lower places, as a fugitive he made Sotona from the heavens as his name was Satanail (Satan), thus he became different from the angels, (but his nature) did not change (his) intelligence as far as (his) understanding of righteous and sinful (things). And he understood his condemnation and the sin which he had sinned before, therefore he conceived thought against Adam,"

"Encountering Eblis on the slopes of Sinai, Moses hailed him and asked, “O Eblis, why did you not prostrate before Adam?” Eblis replied, “Heaven forbid that anyone worship anything but the One. […] This command was a test."

"Because Satan knows that he seduced the first man through a woman and led all human beings away from the bliss of paradise thanks to the credulity of women, he continues to pursue your sex with even greater cunning."

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”"

"The clergy fear above all to be forced to relinquish this hold on humanity. They are not willing to let us judge of the tree by its fruits, for that might sometimes force them into dangerous dilemmas. They refuse, likewise, to admit, with unprejudiced people, that the phenomena of Spiritualism has unquestionably spiritualized and reclaimed from evil courses many an indomitable atheist and skeptic. But, as they confess themselves, what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil ?"

"We have already noticed the confession of an eminent prelate that the elimination of Satan from theology would be fatal to the perpetuity of the Church. But this is only partially true. The Prince of Sin would be gone, but sin itself would survive. If the Devil were annihilated, the Articles of Faith and the Bible would remain. In short there would still be a pretended divine revelation, and the necessity for self-assumed inspired interpreters. p. 67"

"The “bull’s eye” in the target of Modern Christianity is in the simple phrase to fear the Devil. The Catholic clergy and some of the lay champions of the Roman Church fight still more for the existence of Satan and his imps. p.476"

"Several years ago an acquaintance of the author wrote a newspaper article to demonstrate, that the diabolos or Satan of the New Testament denoted the personification of an abstract idea, and not a personal being. He was answered by a clergyman, who concluded the reply with the deprecatory expression, “I fear that he has denied his Saviour.” In his rejoinder he pleaded, “Oh, no we only denied the Devil.” p. 478"

"It is a late day for us to expect the Christian clergy to undo and amend their work. They have too much at stake. If the Christian Church should abandon or even modify the dogma of an anthropomorphic devil, it would be like pulling the bottom card from under a castle of cards. The structure would fall, The clergymen to whom we have alluded perceived that upon the relinquishing of Satan as a personal devil, the dogma of Jesus Christ as the second deity in their trinity must go over in the same catastrophe. Incredible, or even horrifying, as it may seem, the Roman Church bases its doctrine of the godhood of Christ entirely upon the satanism of the fallen archangel. p. 478"

"Max Muller kindly adds: "It was a mistake of the early Fathers to treat the heathen gods as demons or evil spirits, and we must take care not to commit the same error with regard to the Hindu gods.” But we have Satan presented to us as the prop and mainstay of sacerdotism— an Atlas, holding the Christian heaven and cosmos upon his shoulders. If he falls, then, in their conception, all is lost, and chaos must come again. p. 480"

"If God had questioned him, the serpent would have answered: "Thou didst give them a command, and I did contradict it. Why did they obey me, and not Thee?""

"...And the Lord said unto Satan, "What hast thou to say concerning all the children of the earth?" and Satan answered the Lord, and said: "I have seen all the children of the earth serving Thee and remembering Thee, when they require aught from Thee. And when Thou givest them what they require from Thee, then they forsake Thee, and they remember Thee no more..."

"He (Satan) appears before God, and says: "Is it not enough that the future world is set apart for the pious? What right have they to enjoy this world, besides?""

"The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church. And once that she had established it, she had to struggle for over 1,700 years for the repression of a mysterious force which it was her policy to make appear of diabolical origin. Unfortunately, in manifesting itself, this force invariably tends to upset such a belief by the ridiculous discrepancy it presents between the alleged cause and the effects. If the clergy have not over-estimated the real power of the “ Arch-Enemy of God,” it must be confessed that he takes mighty precautions against being recognized as the “ Prince of Darkness ” who aims at our souls. If modern “ spirits ” are devils at all, as preached by the clergy, then they can only be those “poor” or “stupid devils” whom Max Muller describes as appearing so often in the German and Norwegian tales. p.13"