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Throughout history, people have wondered why evil and misfortune are so present in this world, why "it rains on the righteous and the sun shines on the wicked" - an even greater mystery in monotheism, since God is supposed to be the Almighty... With Annick de Souzenelle Author and speaker Les Racines du Ciel, France Culture, Sunday April 24, 2016 https://www.radiofrance.fr/francecult... In her latest work, Le Seigneur et le Satan (Albin Michel, 2016), Annick de Souzenelle dares, beyond all moralism, to question the character of Satan: how is it that the one who is perceived as the Master of Darkness is portrayed, in the book of Job, as an interlocutor of the Lord, even making a pact with Him? Could it be that he has a function in the process of Redemption, and that his appearances as the great Tempter - facing Adam and Eve or Jesus - are so many unavoidable tests on the initiatory path? The serpent that symbolizes him is perhaps the answer to this enigma... With Annick de Souzenelle, who has built up a powerful body of work over the last thirty years where Orthodox Christian faith, reading of the Bible based on the symbolism of Hebrew letters, deciphering symbols from a Jungian perspective meet. She is notably the author at Albin Michel of Symbolism of the Human Body, Speech at the Heart of the Body (with Jean Mouttapa), The Forgotten Alliance (with Frédéric Lenoir), Inner Egypt, The Feminine of Being, and her latest book, Go to You (February 2013).