Satan's Role in God's Plan for Human Salvation: Evil and the Ego Principle in Homo Sapiens

This mini-book is a chapter from my forthcoming book Enlightenment 101: A Guide to God-Realization and Higher Human Culture. Its subtitle is "Practical Spirituality and Applied Wisdom for Everyday Life." The book looks at the experience of enlightenment for the individual and the race. This chapter begins: What I want to share with you today grows out of my own deeply felt experience and realization about the nature of reality and the Christian tradition in which I was raised. Satan is a central figure in the Judeo-Christian tradition. So to begin, I ask: What does Satan mean to you? Who or what is Satan?