"You have asked why it was necessary for the soul that was from God to make this journey back to God? ...The reality underlying this question is that the evil spirit, Satan or whatever is interpreted as evil, refers to the lower nature in man. 295 This baser nature is symbolized in various ways. In man there are two expressions: One is the expression of nature; the other, the expression of the spiritual realm.
The world of nature is defective. Look at it clearly, casting aside all superstition and imagination. If you should leave a man uneducated and barbarous in the wilds of Africa, would there be any doubt about his remaining ignorant?
God has never created an evil spirit; all such ideas and nomenclature are symbols expressing the mere human or earthly nature of man. It is an essential condition of the soil of earth that thorns, weeds and fruitless trees may grow from it. Relatively speaking, this is evil; it is simply the lower state and baser product of nature."
`Abdu'l-Bahá: The Promulgation of Universal Peace, P.295
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