Angels and demons were identical — interchangeable archetypes — all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

Her guardian angel had given up his garrison

They had the faces of angels and the determination of demons.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

And whom do I call my enemy? An enemy must be worthy of engagement. I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking. It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind. The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun. It sees and knows everything. It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing. The door to the mind should open only from the heart. An enemy who gets in risks the danger of becoming a friend.

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.

What a crafty enemy we have. Can you see it? The enemy knows that if he can cause us to hide ourselves — who God made us to be — that it also causes us to lose sight of our identity in God as his image-bearers. Then, because our view of ourselves has been diminished, we shrink from stepping into the destiny God created for us. That’s a very effective strategy.

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy