“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I. The Mirror is a Trap
When you stand before a mirror long enough, something breaks. Not the glass. The illusion. You stop seeing “you” — the curated identity, the mask worn in daylight. Instead, you begin to sense what stares back is older than your name. It doesn’t blink. It doesn’t flinch. It just waits.
That’s not a reflection.
That’s a reminder.
A reminder that all you’ve failed to do wasn’t stolen from you — it was abandoned. By you. That the voice in your head that whispers sabotage? That’s you too. That the dreams you strangled with hesitation and the people you hurt with your indifference — none of it was forced.
The devil is not a figure that creeps in in the night. The devil is the part of you that knows better… and still chooses worse.
II. The Devil is Not Evil — He is Honest
The great mythologies got something wrong — or maybe they told the truth in symbols we never dared interpret literally.
The devil doesn’t lie.
He tells the truth we don’t want to hear.
• That you’re lazy, and you justify it with self-care.
• That you’re jealous, and you disguise it as critique.
• That you’re bitter, and you call it wisdom.
• That you’re scared, and you name it humility.
The devil isn’t in hell. He’s in every excuse.
What if hell isn’t a place you go to — but a place you are, every time you betray the god within?
III. Jung Wasn’t Just Talking About the Shadow. He Was Talking About God.
In Answer to Job, Jung did the unthinkable: he criticized God.
Not out of arrogance — but out of necessity. Because if God creates everything, then He created evil too. And Jung knew what religious men were too scared to admit — that God cannot be pure light. Because what is light without the dark?
Jung’s God is not omnibenevolent.
He is complete. Terrifyingly whole.
God contains wrath. Jealousy. Rage. Vengeance.
Sound familiar?
Because so do you.
So who are you when you are consumed by those emotions? Are you less godlike — or more?
If God has a shadow… then what are you becoming when you embrace your own?
A devil?
Or a god who has not yet reconciled with himself?
IV. Hinduism Got Closer: The Self is the Battlefield
The Bhagavad Gita doesn’t pull punches. Arjuna is commanded to kill his family in the name of dharma. It is the most brutal metaphor in any spiritual text.
And Krishna? He doesn’t coddle him. He says:
“Your duty is action, not the fruits of action.”
Translation: kill your attachments. Burn your cowardice. Annihilate the part of you clinging to comfort. Even if it looks like your brother. Even if it looks like yourself.
Krishna isn’t a god of peace. He’s a god of awakening. And awakening, in its truest form, is war.
The real Gita doesn’t take place on a battlefield. It takes place inside the ribcage.
It is fought between the “you” who knows and the “you” who obeys.
And only one will survive.
V. Christianity Whispered the Same Secret — But Cloaked in Symbol
In the Garden of Eden, the serpent doesn’t kill Adam and Eve. He enlightens them.
He gives them the forbidden knowledge of good and evil. And God punishes them for it. Why?
Because knowledge comes with responsibility. When you know, you can no longer pretend.
So maybe Satan was never a liar.
Maybe he was the truth-teller.
Maybe he was the initiator of human consciousness.
And maybe that’s why he was cast down — because the truth is unbearable.
If God feared humans eating the fruit…
Was He afraid we’d become like Him? Or afraid we’d realize we already were?
VI. Becoming the Devil — or Becoming God
Let’s discard religious dogma for a second. Let’s speak in blunt force existential truth:
You are capable of everything.
Brilliance. Betrayal. Creation. Destruction.
You are the hero. The villain. The martyr. The tyrant.
The question is not, “What will life allow me to do?”
The question is, “What will I allow myself to become?”
Every day you choose. And most days, you don’t choose the best version of you.
You choose the easy one.
The one that scrolls instead of works.
The one that blames instead of owns.
The one that stays asleep when life demands awakening.
And that is the devil. Not a demon with horns.
A decision repeated so often it becomes you.
VII. Unanswerable Questions That Should Keep You Awake at Night
Some truths can’t be swallowed. They have to be wrestled with in the dark. So I won’t end this with answers. Only questions. Questions that bite.
• If the enemy is you, can you ever truly be free?
• If God and the devil are both inside you, who’s really in charge — the one you pray to, or the one you obey?
• If your brother sabotages you, but you sabotage yourself too — who is more dangerous?
• If transcendence means killing your lower self, how much of you will be left?
• And if you finally become your highest self, will you recognize yourself… or mourn the death of who you used to be?
Jimmy
99TH LIVERY. 