Because of you too, O prince of evil, every wicked pursuit has come into existence. For except that you have given precedence to every evil before every good, working in human beings hatred against love, enmity against peace, defilement against purity, abuse against righteousness and judgment, and all the other impieties against piety, that entire multitude would not be going into destruction.

Oh, blessed are those who understand: “What is grassy and straw matter compared to the fire that will be cast upon them? What are potsherds compared to a stone when they are broken against it?” I'm saying these things against you, unclean spirit: what actually are you and all your sins compared to God's power, which is in the human being who works toward the good?

Don't boast over sleeping people, that you have stripped them or plundered their houses. Come out against those who are awake and keeping watch, O murderer! Why do you come and go around them in the illusions of dreams of many kinds? If you love fighting, don't leave behind anything with which you wage war against the one who truly trusts in God and has renounced your pollutions to fight against you, the apostate, through whom the forms of effeminacy came into existence and who is mad with defilements of all sorts.

The Devil's lack of any true form

It's you through whom the men and women who have exchanged the act of their nature for an act contrary to nature have brought their passions to completion. You are not male, nor are you female. You are not a calf, a horse, a donkey, a camel, or any cattle. You are not a snake or scorpion or any reptile. You are not barbarian or any collection of evil people. You are not a sea or any collection of waters. You are not a pit or any deep place. You are not a mountain or a plain. You are not rich or a beggar. For you assume the likeness of these things, and of more things than these, but you do not belong to any one of them.

Your form is unchanging, and you are always the same, you thing entirely twisted upon itself and from itself! And you do not have a small share of a member of anything – neither you nor your demons.