Dealing with the Devil

Humanity has believed in resident evil for a long time. Now we have the horror game series and the media franchise. What's next?

So, lets pick apart the whole "evil" construct—what it means, where it came from, and what it seems to be conjuring.

Back around 1200 AD, the Old English word yfel meant "anything that causes injury, that harms, especially related to a malady or disease." Morality didn't officially enter into the definition of yfel until the 1600s, when the word began to take on shades of "extreme moral wickedness." Eventually, social shifts in pronunciation and spelling brought us around to the modern version of the word we know today: evil.

At about the same time, "evil" became the defining characteristic of the Devil or Satan in Christian theology.

Nobody probably thought much about it at the time. But once evil and Satan hooked up, "evil" left the realm of being something bad that happened and instead became a universal force to be reckoned with.

Conjuring the devil

Suddenly, the world had a living, breathing, fiery-red, cloven-hoofed PRESENCE that, like God, seemed to be everywhere on Earth at once, whispering diabolical messages into the ears of the unwary, seducing the innocent, and tormenting the afflicted. A nasty, demonic Being focused on destroying humanity, pitchforking all of us into the torturous realms of hell.

As belief in this horned and fork-tailed Devil overtook the Western Christian mind, fear grew into soul-shaking terror and paranoia. Trained in Church to be wary and constantly on the lookout lest this powerful Deceiver sneak in the backdoor and have his way with us, in an effort to save their souls from eternal damnation, millions of Christians ended up on unrelenting Morality Patrol—ever ready to tear other people apart for any perceived lack or transgression.

Wise women (and men) educated in the ways of plant medicine and natural healing—gentle souls whose mission in life was to help others stay healthy in mind and body—were viewed as minions of Satan, condemned and burned at the stake, drowned, and torn to pieces.

Only God had the ability to heal the sick. Any human presuming such a task was obviously filled with hubris and had been given their powers by the Angel of the Bottomless Pit himself.

Peanut butter and chocolate

In The Old Testament, sin was any act or thought that went against God's goodness and Moses' Ten Commandments.

Never mind four out of ten of those Commandments were dedicated to cementing God's place in the scheme of things. IE. Thou shalt have no other gods but ME, make no graven images, do no cursing in MY name, and dedicate Sundays to MY worship.

The other commandments, of course, were no stealing, no lying, no killing, no adultery, and no back talk to one's parents. That was it. Pretty straightforward.

But then the Church got involved.

As the greed and profligate expenditures of the Catholic Church steadily increased, so did its need for tithing and the purchase of more and more Papal indulgences. (Indulgences were payments in coin that sinners could make to wipe their souls clean of sins.)

Unsurprisingly, the number of sins human beings were deemed capable of committing expanded apace with the Church's need for income.

Today we have the sins of pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth. We have the sins of pre-marital sex and birth control, the sin of despair in the face of salvation, the sins of terrorism, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, pornography, homosexuality, masturbation, scandal, and a lot more sins that are basically variations on all the above themes and too numerous and tedious to cite.

Now, The New Testament had long described sin as "ponēros, best translated as "evil." And this wasn't a big deal over the many centuries that "yfel" simply meant "generally harmful." But when the meaning of yfel morphed in the 1600s into "extreme moral wickedness" and became associated with the character of Satan himself, suddenly we had a long line of human beings facing an ever-expanding Sin List and a religious mirror telling them they were not just bad boys and girls, but committing evil deeds in league with the Devil himself.

As a harmful event or substance, yfel itself was originally impersonal in nature. But when it transmogrified into evil and became linked with sin, it became personal.

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Like peanut butter and chocolate, once evil and sin were connected ... evil was inside us.

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Suddenly, priests and fundamentalist/evangelical Christian preachers pounding the pulpit—even mild-mannered Protestant ministers—were doing their best to spread the good news that we were sin-full creatures, filled with evil, mere pawns on Satan's playground.

Word spread and belief increased until the association between humanity, sin and evil was firmly ensconced in the quantum field of collective human consciousness—available to be picked up by anyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.

Truth "sticks"

So, why was it so easy for the concept of an external, evil Intelligence like Satan to grow in people's minds?

Well, certainly, back in the Middle Ages people were ignorant, superstitious and easily frightened into believing all sorts of things. Like solar eclipses being caused by the sky wolves Sköll and Hati swallowing the sun.

But on top of ignorance, I think one of the main reasons the Devil has been so readily accepted as real is because for eons planet Earth has been residence to many other intelligences, both seen and unseen—one of which is the non-physical, interdimensional intelligence the ancient Greeks named The Archons.

Malevolent spiritless "spirits" manipulating our thoughts, feelings and actions, the Archons were also associated with the Erinyes or the Furies, the three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who attacked and psychically tortured people who had committed crimes against the natural order/nature/universal intelligence.

Which is not a bad description of how the Devil is supposed to take action.

As a result, these entities—known by various names around the world, such as wetiko, windingo, e'e'pa, hungry ghosts, etc.—became commonly labeled as evil in people's minds. In fact, when I first started my research into this whole topic back in 2020, trying to make sense of the evil global doings during COVID, I also labeled this interdimensional intelligence as "evil."

But I have since come to a different understanding.

Parasitic automatons

As best I can figure out, the Archons, although non-physical, are more like the Replicators of Stargate fame. Non-living, parasitic beings that feed on other creatures and creations. Spiritless, non-life forms that feed on living, animate beings.

Yes, I know this sounds weird and impossible. A non-living entity that feeds? Huh? But that's the best I can describe a soulless automaton that by its very nature is utterly destructive to life.

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The Archons are indeed indirectly harm-full. It is their essence. But they are not malevolent.

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They don't do what they do with evil intent. They don't take pleasure in causing harm, pain and suffering. They don't enjoy the torture—which is pretty much the definition of evil. They're incapable of feeling pleasure. They are simply driven to keep their existence going by eating what they eat.

Which just happens to be strong emotional energy.

Unfortunately, as any psychologist knows, it's easier to stimulate negative emotions in people than it is to prod them into creating and experiencing strong positive emotions like love. Which means in doing what they do, the Archons/Furies stimulate fear and conflict in the living beings around them in order for them to produce the strongest and largest possible amounts of emotional energy to feed on.

Deliberate disconnection

So, how does one go about creating maximum fear in eternal spirit beings? (Which is what we really are.)

You disconnect them from knowledge of their eternal spirit nature.

You wage a long-term psyops campaign teaching human beings that they are limited, mortal, physical, and have no connection with the divine.

You psychically create conditions where they come to believe they are stupid, violent, greedy, dangerous, corrupt and filled with sin. You create conditions where they teach themselves to distrust and hate themselves. You stimulate situations that teach them to distrust and hate others. You psychically nudge them to believe that their only salvation lies with complete submission to an external authority.

Sound familiar?

How can beautiful eternal spirit beings (you and me)—once upon a time having a glorious (apparently) physical adventure on planet Earth—possibly feel safe, secure and happy believing all that?

We can't and we don't.

Then—as if all that weren't enough—you deliver the coup de grâce: You insinuate the thought that there is an outside force called EVIL. A powerful demonic Force that can overtake and destroy people from within.

Talk about the ultimate fear-porn cocktail!

And we guzzle this inebriating substance on Sundays in Church and every day/all day via the messaging of every news show, most TV shows, advertisements, books, and social media, and every violent video game like Resident Evil on the market.

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Thusly, being the powerful creative spirits that we are, we concretize the reality of evil and make it so.

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Taking action

One of my favorite TV comedy sketches of all time has to be the segment from the Bob Newhart show where a woman client comes into his psychiatric practice all freaked out by a continuous vision of being locked in a box and buried alive.

Newhart agrees this is a terrifying prospect and tells her he has the solution to her fear. "It's pretty simple," he says. "Ready?"

The woman whips out a pen and paper to take notes, nodding eagerly.

"STOP IT." Newhart says.

"Stop it?" the woman replies, puzzled.

"Yes. S-T-O-P new word I-T. Stop it."

"That's it?"

"Yes. Stop thinking about being locked in a box and buried alive. Stop it."

Now, I'm not saying that evil deeds don't exist. People are driven to do terrible, awful, ghastly things to themselves and to one another. (The key word here being "driven"—which is a whole conversation in itself.)

And these things could and should readily be described as evil.

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But there is no such thing as a ubiquitous, overarching, powerful Force of evil called Satan. And there is no such thing as RESIDENT EVIL within us.

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I’m also not saying the Archons don’t exist. But here’s the deal: They are totally powerless in the physical realm. They don’t have the power to pick up a pencil and wave it. They can only influence. They cannot directly harm.

We’re the ones making them scary. We’re the ones scaring and harming ourselves.

Sin was originally conceived of as being fundamental disobedience to God. And if we expand our definition of "God" and move beyond anthropomorphizing the concept of divinity and start thinking in terms of the Universal Laws Governing Life Itself—in other words, that which supports and nurtures more life/love on this planet—the worst "sin" humanity has ever committed is believing that evil is an actual force within and without.

And we need to stop it.

We’ve got much better things to do … and much better things to create.

Much love and aloha ~

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Check out the book:

Cracking the Matrix: 14 Keys to Individual & Global Freedom

For thousands of years, every culture on Earth has described a hostile, invisible Intelligence bedeviling humanity, dragging us down. The Archons, AshShaytān, wetiko, windingo, e'epa, antimimos, Satan ... the names are legion.

Cracking the Matrix explores the astounding history and nature of what humanity has erroneously labeled "evil" on this planet, helping people finally see the very real, negative, interdimensional influence that exists behind historic and current global events and our social decline.

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About Cate Montana

A professional journalist specializing in alternative medicine and health, Cate is the author of several other books, including Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within [Watkins 2013], and The E Word, Ego Enlightenment & Other Essentials [Atria 2017], and a spiritual novel titled Apollo & Me. She has a master’s degree in psychology, and is a highly informative and compelling speaker and guest on radio and TV shows and podcasts. She is very grateful to be able to say she lives in Hawaii.

For more information www.catemontana.com