There are often speculations about spiritual power – is God omnipotent, and if so, why is there evil and why God doesn’t just evaporate Satan and his demons and instead allows them to do all kinds of evil, and so on. There are also speculations on whether angels are more powerful than Satan, and so on.

This looks like a very complicated issue, and for a change, it is not. You see, the root of any spiritual power is God, or, more precisely, an edict from God on a certain issue. Those edicts are reality-manifesting truths, and seem to be irrevocable.

In practice, this causes a situation where workable solutions are limited by insurmountable walls of God’s edicts, sometimes forming a labyrinth. How this works is most eloquently elaborated in Hinduism, where God’s edicts cause problems that can only be solved by complex workarounds – and even God can’t just revoke them and make things simple. No, God often has to take a form of man/lion and kill a villain with his claws, on his chest, on house threshold at dusk, in order to satisfy complex terms of a blessing, whereby a villain has previously been granted a boon whereby he can’t be killed by either a man or an animal, indoors or outside, during either day or night, and on neither land or in the air.

This creates an interesting dilemma: God is omnipotent, yet His edicts limit practical applications of His power. He also granted power to other beings, so there is a tree of power of divine/angelic beings, and there are inviolable rules that make even the least powerful of beings impervious to any kind of outside force, even by a much more powerful being, unless their protection is forfeited due to sin. Basically, if you are a holy person, you are inviolable. Not even God could hurt you, regardless of the power differential. Also, if you were given a legitimate boon through a legitimate tree of Divine authority, this can make you invulnerable (or at least very hard to kill), even if you are an evil person and God himself is trying to deal with the problem.

This explains literally everything. You see, the Christian explanation that invokes free will doesn’t really do it – the only beings whose will is truly free and unconditioned are the perfect saints in heaven. If you’re incarnated on Earth, your freedom is very limited, and the reality is that for the most part you are an observer, who is tricked into believing that his choices are actually his own, in order to claim sin and retribution, and for the most part it is all Satan’s trickery. Truly, you made a choice to sign a contract with Satan according to which you were born here, and after that, your rights and freedoms are for the most part forfeited. However, you still have just enough spiritual sovereignty to be a danger to yourself and others, because you feel you’re powerless, and your choices don’t matter, and sometimes you’re not and they do, and you can make things incredibly worse, for instance by selling your soul to Satan for material things, or opening yourself up towards spiritual influences you don’t really believe in, “for fun”. Also, your spiritual sovereignty is reducible to an edict by God, who willed it to be so. Also, there is a superior edict that defines righteousness as both a source of power and a shield therefrom, so you can both gain more power and authority, and you can also lose everything, depending on your spiritual choices.

As for Satan, he was a continuos source of annoyance for me, because he seemed to be untouchable and inviolable – as if the very power of God protected him from my wrath. However, when he would commit an offence against me, I could “scrape” bits off him, but only to a degree that repaid for the offence, and not a bit more. Obviously, he was protected by an edict from God, which defined and limited his rights and jurisdiction. As soon as he committed an overreach, his protections were reduced to allow for punishment, but not a bit more. However, when his sin was conclusively proven, his protections vanished and he was instantly evaporated by the force of karmic retribution. This is an interesting warning – you see, when you hear that sin is deadly for the soul, you probably imagine something less literal and immediate, but it is my experience that souls can indeed die, if they committed sin, this is proved to them by authorities, and karmic retribution is enforced. This basically destroys bonds between kalapas of a spiritual aggregate, and doesn’t necessarily cause destruction of the whole being, only the sinful part, because, yes, the beings are not necessarily of homogenous build and they can have a pure, uncorrupted core, that doesn’t participate in sin in any way, and this core will survive, but the being will be greatly reduced in stature. Also, beings can be stripped of powers if they are deemed unworthy – for instance, if an apostate disciple of a saint was given some blessing in life, of which he was deemed unworthy by the judges after death, this blessing can be stripped off, the apostate can be degraded and blessing returned to the saint.

So, basically, your protections are great, but the law of justice takes precedence. Also, goodness and virtue are power, and sin is deadly. As a result, the good beings are very powerful, and evil ones barely cling on to life. This might be a surprise to fans of heavy metal bands who tend to think that black vicious things are powerful and gently fluffy things are food, but in spiritual terms, vicious things are manure, too weak for spiritual survival, and usually compost away in some dark recess of lower astral worlds, and the light and beautiful things are powerful, sometimes so much that you’d count yourself lucky if you survived taking even a short look at them. The root cause of the difference in power, of course, is the difference in their respective relationship with God. The evil ones, who hate and resent God in their sin, have very weak cohesive forces between spiritual particles that constitute their souls, and the good ones, who love and worship God in their purity, have very strong cohesive forces between constitutive particles, because it’s the love and light of God that binds them together, and promotes growth. The light of God is the source of spiritual life, and its absence is the source of spiritual death.