Who is the creator of evil?

Is the original cause of evil to be traced to the being called Satan?

Where do you get information about such a being? 

You will hardly find it in the Hebrew records—if there, the writers must have borrowed the idea from the Persians and Chaldeans. 

At one time, when on Earth, I believed firmly in the existence of such a being, but I discarded the doctrine. 

In the Persian—or Zoroastrian system, there was a God of Evil, not unlike the one spoken of by Jewish writers. 

We now know that there is no such a potentate. 

You alone are the originator of evil. 

You fell away from your happy, innocent state by pride, and became what you are now, and ever will be until the race become what it was before—childlike, and open to higher and holier influences.