Image: “Balaam and the Angel (Numbers 22-24),” by Gustav Jager, 1836, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Jaeger_Bileam_Engel.jpg … public domain … COMMENTS: As Balaam (right) was adversary to God’s angelic messenger (left), that Balaam’s simple ass saw to bar his erring path, so is Satan the adversary of our own angelic guardians. As Balaam aligned with King Balak in tempting the Israelites to sexual immorality and sacrificing to idols (Revelation 2:14), so do the inner circles of some modern-day societies secretly entice the innocent Christian to err. Some such societies worship Lucifer as ‘bringer of Light’ to humankind; but that Light which Lucifer brings is the False Light I term ‘The Seeming Light’. The safe path for a Christian lies in alignment with the Mind and Heart and Will of God. I pray we, as Christians, may clearly discern the true Light of Christ consciousness from the seeming light of the demon realm. –Alice B. Clagett