The word Satan is composed of three Hebrew consonants, the letter Sin of value 300, the letter Teth of value 9 and the letter Nun of value 50. A final Nun at the end of a word has the value 700 . Hebrew letters were used also as numerals in the post Biblical period. Also Greek letters are also used as numerals, hence the Bible mentions the number of the name of the Beast would be 666.

The letter Sin is the same as the letter Shin, only Shin has a point mark on the right at the top, while Sin as a point on the left. I believe these three letters represent what the word of God wants us to know about Satan. You might ask, is Satan an influence or a person? I believe Satan is both an influence and a person. The Bible, though not expressly talking of Satan directly, talks of the "Prince of the power of the air," the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, that is in the Greek- "kata ton archonta tes exousias tou aeros, tou pneumatos tou nun energountes en tes uiois tes apethias."

Ton archonta tes exousias tou aeros literally means the ruler of the authority of the air and uiois tes apethias is sons of the disobedience. One literal translation of energountes is "operating within." Satan is that which operates within man to distabilize and seperate man from God. The symbol for man (that is, the letter in the word 'Ish), has a point mark on the right. I believe this symbolizes Christ. The Bible says in Ephesians 1: 15-23,

15: Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16: Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19: And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20: Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21: Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23: Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.

Satan is that which opposes the name of God in every individual, the name YHWH, that is, the name revealed to Moses on the mount. Therefore the beginning of his name is letter Sin with a mark on the left, rather letter Shin of the same numerical value. As I said Satan is both an influence and a person. This, I believe again is an attribute of spirits. A spirit can both be a person and an influence. The word for spirit in Hebrew is Ruach which also means "wind." When the sons of YHWH appeared to the LORD, Satan also appeared among them in Job 1:6, Job 2:1. So it appears Satan is also a person there. But the word energountes which can be translated "operating within" has the sense that Satan primarily operates within man, in the cosmos internal to man and deters man from bringing Christ to birth in one, the name YHWH. Jesus calls himself in the gospels many times, the Son of man more than the Son of God.

Satan defeats us achieving the will of God in our lives by detouring us from our "east" and the tree of life. The garden was planted east (Qedem in Hebrew) of Eden. Also when the men were building a tower to reach heaven in Genesis they were moving from the east. So the east is significant in the Bible. The Bible talks of the "east wind." This I think is the power of God to overcome the evil principality in our lives.

The second letter is the letter Teth. This is the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabetic system and also has a numeral nine. Though our present day numeral system has nothing to do with the Hebrew as far as I know, God has permitted it for a purpose. Nine in our present day numeric system is the inverse of six, the figure for man, since man was created the sixth day. It cannot be over said, Satan is all that opposes God in man, hence the basic meaning of Satan is adversary. The symbol for the last letter Nun is a fish. You can just imagine. The word for fish in the Greek is Ikthus. This is mainly formed from the initials of the words Iesous Kristos O Uios tou Theou, Jesus Christ the Son of God. Satan wants to enthrone himself where the Son of God should be in our lives.

The Hebrew name of God revealed to Moses is YHWH, which spartakus Freeman describes in the website www. kaballeenlingne as follows, quoting a passage from him from french, he says;

"Ari (Isaac Louria) tells us of Tselem in in putting this word in parallel with the tree of life and the word Tetragrammaton, YHWH: The image of God is the tree. Traversing the word 'etz one discovers that the name YHWH is found dissimulated inside the tree of life (Y*H +H*Y) + (W*H +H*W) =160, or 'etz = Ayin(70) + Tsadde(90) =160. It is worth nothing that the Torah is equally called a tree and that man is equally an image of a tree in that he is created betselem ( in the image of God), or Tselem (Tsadde, Lamed, Mem) which also equals 160."

Tselem is the Hebrew word for image and 'etz is the Hebrew word for tree..... Let's look at the prodigal soon, or the person usually refered to as the prodigal son in the Bible in Luke 15.

Luke 15,
1: Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2: And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3: And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
4: What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
5: And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6: And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
7: I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
8: Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
9: And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
10: Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
11: And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
13: And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14: And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15: And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16: And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17: And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18: I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19: And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20: And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21: And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22: But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
25: Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
26: And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27: And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
28: And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29: And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31: And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32: It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

The prodigal son son represents someone who moves away from his east represented by the tree of life. This is someone with is own thoughts rather than the thoughts of God. This person believes his own thoughts rather than the thoughts of God, therefore he or she is married to Satan.

When such a person returns to God by having the thoughts of God, the sacrifice of Christ represented by the fatted calf is able to make that "dead" person alive again. Then there is no more condemnation for such a one. Abraham should have been the one condemned in the story in Genesis. Rather, it was Abimelech that was condemned. God did not condemn Abraham for lying or giving the impression Sarah was not his wife. So also those who return to YHWH by having His own thoughts have again a portion in the tree of life.