What’s with the Trident, the Devil Has it, Neptune has it, Shiva has it…? - (295)

Trident

The trident is something curious and if it were not for the Greek God Poseidon and the Roman God Neptune (God of the seas) and the Indian God Shiva we would think that the trident is something entirely of the Devil and therefore evil.

Then you start to think rationally, well it is only a spear with three prongs or heads and some farmers use pitch forks with three prongs. Three is a good number, it can’t be that bad and then the natural next question to ask ourselves is, so then why does the Devil have a trident or why is the devil depicted having a trident?

Master Samael Clarifies

Thankfully as always, Master Samael sets things clear, he certainly clears up this mini confusion of ours related to the trident.

The Three Points

Master Samael says that the trident’s three points present the three primary forces of nature, the three Logoi, the Holy Affirming (The Father of Christianity), the Holy Negating (the Son of Christianity) and the Holy Conciliating (The Holy Spirit of Christianity).

The Devil is Inside

He also says that the Devil is really something that each one of us carries inside of ourselves and is a reflection of our interior Divinity, or the shadow of our interior Divinity, where the Devil that we have inside of us is there polarised in the ego or darkness so as to train us, tempt us and help us to ascend spiritually. In people who are not working to cultivate their virtues etc. and ascend spiritually the Devil inside of them is black and works, if they want to become degenerated that is, to become more degenerated etc. 

Why the Devil is Depicted with the Trident

So then after this explanation the reason why the Devil is depicted as having the trident is because originally when the Devil was described and given an image or form, it was known by those initiates of the time that the Devil was inside of us and was a reflection of our own interior Divinity. And as we have the ego the Devil inside of us is polarised with darkness so as to help those who want to work to lift their level of Being. As we eliminate the ego we whiten the Devil inside and make him whiter and whiter until he is free and becomes an Archangel. So then the Devil has the trident because the trident tells us that the devil is inside and typically he, is a reflection of our Being the inner Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit inside of is.

Conclusion

The trident is an expression of the power of the three primary forces of the Cosmos, of nature and of the Divinity within us. The Devil has the trident to tell us that really the Devil is inside of us and his role is to help us to raise spiritually through his training which mostly comes in the way of temptations of all kinds. The trident signifies that he is the reflection of the inner Divinity (inner Trinity, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit).

Shiva has the trident to represent the three aspects of Divinity and in Taoism the Trident represents the three pure ones or the Taosist Trinity. Poseidon has the trident to represent the Law of Three, the creative power that is in the waters of life, as Poseidon is the God of the Earth’s waters, a primordial God that witnessed the creation of the Earth and therefore also much else of creation.

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