When the dark ages start is when we created Satan, really. If you actually look at the biblical texts and I recently learned this, Satan shows up as Hasatan,. Like 13 times as a verb or something like that. And it just means in opposition to. But then the church made all of this meaning about it. The Buddhists have a long tradition of actually doing that. This is the Tonka meditation practice that my teacher, John Churchill, has talked to me about. They worship themselves as also participating in the demon as well as participating in the divine.

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