"The Devil is the rebel of the Cosmos, the independent in the empire of a tyrant

, the opposition to uniformity, the dissonance in universal harmony, the excepti

on to the rule, the particular in the universal, the unforeseen chance that brea
ks the law; he is the individualizing tendency, the craving for originality, whi
ch bodily upsets the ordinances of God that enforces a definite kind of conduct;
he overturns the monotony that would permeate the cosmic spheres if every atom
in unconscious righteousness and with pious obedience slavishly followed a gener
ally prescribed course"
[Paul Carus]