My Dixie Wrecked
Never Trust A Friend
"Evil personified appears at first sight repulsive. But
the more we study the personality of the Devil, the
more fascinating it becomes. In the beginning of
existence the Evil One is the embodiment of everything
unpleasant, then of everything bad, evil and immoral.
He is hatred, destruction, and the annihilation incarnate,
and as such he is the adversary of existence, of the
Creator, of God. The Devil is the rebel of the cosmos,
the independent in the empire of the tyrant, the
opposition to uniformity, the dissonance in universal
harmony, the exception to the rule, the particular in
the universal, the craving for originality, which bodily
upsets the ordinance of God that enforce a definite kind
of conduct; he overturns the monotony that would permeate
the cosmic spheres if every atom in unconscious
righteousness and with pious obedience slavishly followed
a generally prescribed course." -Paul Carus
