I don’t care what you call him. Call him Lucifer, Satan, the evil one, the Serpent, the False Self, you ego, or whatever, but for God’s sake let’s quit OBSESSING on that which IS NOT in the 4th dimension, and that which has even a little standing in the 3rd dimension- other than what we give him.
Quit blaming this scapegoat that Christians love to empower! 
The Devil didn’t make you do it! This illusionary dark figure that the church has made almost equally as powerful as God Himself (who created who and what?), get blamed for anything and everything. Be responsible for your own crap! Own it or quit doing it, but whatever you do, quit taking the cheap way out: the way that enables you to turn back to your own vomit another day without admitting that it was your choice.
Do demons exist! Hell yes!
Are they as responsible for the state of the world as we give them credit for? Hell no! 
We need to take another look at Isaiah 14 and remember the principle set out therein. Pick whatever translation you want, but when it comes to verse 16, here’s how I paraphrase it.
Is this pathetic and weak looking the spirit that frightened the world, and took up so much unneeded amount of our time worrying about? Why did the CHURCH focus so much of it’s energies on him instead of preaching the GOOD NEWS? Why I ask? Porque?
The church of all things!
Let us REPENT and turn to God; our Father, Spirit, Consciousness, and true BEING!
It is amazing to me that if you walk in modern Churches.
There is tape series after tape series on Lucifer, satan,
the false self, the ego. Hours and hours of work has went
into describing this “whatever you call him.” The truth of
the matter is that the Experience of God, not a concept is
the forefront of Where we are headed. E. Stanley Jones wrote in his book “Abundant Living”, Evil is just a parasite, attached to what is good. Total evil is self-destructive. God created and dwells in all things, not
evil. We need to see that the Linguuistics of the devil
is not the main issue, the linguistics of “Scandalous Grace”
is!
U got it Mark!
I believe that since almost the beginning of the religious movement that spawned from Christ’s original concept we (people) have lacked relationship with God, but substituted said relationship with laws, rules, and hoops to jump through. That being the case, it is a natural inclination for all of us to find someone to blame for our failure at following the law(s). Who better to blame than the arch enemy of all that is good? Darth Satan enters; his mechanized breathing echoing in the large room!
I believe that within spiritual/dimensional levels exist various forms of evil, wickedness, in the same way that good spiritual creations of God exist in the same manner. It is also possible that these realms, plains, dimensions, or whatever, might not have access to each other, just as we have no physical access to the spiritual-created world. My theory is a reach, but I base it on scriptural inferences and issues of science and quantum theory that I find facinating, yet don’t quite get, either.
I said all of that to say since we lack a solid understanding of ALL of God’s creation, including the good and evil hierarchies of the spiritual world, it is natural for man to have assigned to these things metaphors and tangible variables we can grasp. Roll that into 2000 years of being off base by way of the intent of Christ’s message and we find ourselves mired in possibly 90% myth which we’ve all been taught is the absolute truth. Roll that and smoke it.
It is my experience that people are like cattle, for the most part; they don’t want to think and just want to go with the flow, even if it leads to a beef factory. It applies to this (and all of your other) subject(s); people want to be spoon-fed some rules and get preached at, but not commit their minds to the idea that there is more to it all. It’s too difficult to grasp, so why bother?
I believe that creation (as a whole) tends to be repetitive in a simple, yet complexed way at the same time. That being the case, since science is continuously discovering that there is more to what they thought there was nothing else (even as physics drastically differs between subatomic and quantum stages), it is reasonable to believe that the spiritual creations of God are equally beautiful, simple, yet complexed.
Man, did I get off the subject?
The only place that you got off is the CATTLE metaphor. We’re SHEEP! Other than that I love it that you’re THINKING man. Let’s be DONE with eating religious spam and denominational refried beans- and let’s get on with the BANQUET that the Spirit has prepared for us.