An excerpt from a letter from Screwtape to Wormwood…

“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.” C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

A distinction may need to be made between
(1) the human mind, flesh mind, world mind
VERSUS
(2) the so-called devil, satan, demons
▪The world (flesh, human) mind is a state of hypnosis. Once the hypnotic spell is broken, world (human, flesh) mind disappears forever.
▪The devil is believed to be an actual being flanked by its own entourage of demons. It never entirely dissipates but reappears whenever it has the opportunity to seduce.

THE CURTAIN HAS ALREADY DESCENDED ON HELL, THE ACCUSER (SATAN), THE DEVIL, DEMONS !! . THEY ARE OVERCOME, SURMOUNTED, VANQUISHED, SUBDUED, MASTERED, DEFEATED, SUPPRESSED, STIFLED, CURBED, INHIBITED, STILLED, COOKED, SILENCED, QUELLED, HUSHED, QUIETED, SQUELCHED, CONQUERED, ANNIHILATED, OBLITERATED, ELIMINATED, KAPUT, HOODWINKED, RUINED, DESTROYED !!
Why don’t believers really believe this?