At His feet
They all fell down at His feet. Men and devils all bowed down at Jesus' feet. All turned in the direction of Jesus. The people tried to grasp a bit of healing power from Him while the devils were compelled to carry out a paradoxical act of worship and adoration announcing to the world the name and the presence of Jesus, the Son of God. All were driven to throw themselves towards Jesus. The man who was seeking salvation threw himself towards Jesus, the devil, who could not but recognize and worship His divinity, threw himself at Jesus' feet. The man threw himself toward Jesus because he wanted to join Jesus and His love, the devil threw himself at Jesus' feet because he wanted to join Jesus with all his heart but it was no longer possible. The man, who threw himself towards Jesus out of love, loosened the chains of pride and found peace; when he threw himself at Jesus' feet the devil was obliged to bend his pride and found only despair, hatred, total anger.
The devil hates the man who prostrates himself at Jesus' feet out of love. He hates him with supreme hatred, beyond any human understanding, because he knows that he has lost the son of God and that he will never be able to attract anyone to himself out of love. When a man throws himself at the feet of Satan, it is only and exclusively out of interest, personal benefit, to dominate, and to possess; he never does it out of love, it is ontologically impossible, because Satan, by denying God, has denied love forever, and love no longer belongs in any way to his world. The devil hates man because, on the one hand, he cannot help but draw him towards himself in order to possess him, on the other he cannot stand possessing man because he knows he can only capture him by deception, to quench his insatiable thirst for possession and dominion, without ever being able to get a response of free and unconditional love from him.
In practice the devil hates man because he can only exploit him and he hates him all the more because he can only be manipulated by him.
By a mysterious, paradoxical intersection of dimensions and divine dominant laws, the devil hates man more when man bows down before him, forced by deception and self-interest, than when, out of love and freely, he prostrates himself before Jesus.
It is a choice. The choice of life. Either we prostrate ourselves at Jesus' feet out of love so we can be healed, or we fall down at the feet of Satan to serve our own interests and thirst for power. Either we prostrate ourselves at Jesus' feet out of love, in forgiveness, sharing, understanding, compassion, or we fall down at the feet of Satan out of vengeance, anger, resentment, judgment against others, abuse of power, injustice. It is a choice, our choice. If we choose Jesus, we choose our happiness and God's happiness. If we choose Satan, we choose our unhappiness, and, unbelievably, we attract Satan's hatred even more.