The Daemon, as Shaitan, is literally ‘the Adversary’ – the Reverse One. He is the Image of the First God, manifest in double-form, as both the Black Man standing at the Crossroads of all Existence and as Melek Ta’us – the Peacock Angel, Sovereign of the World’s Djinn. As the ‘Black Man’ he is the anthropomorphic ‘Body’ of Darkness, the Lord of the Sabbat, the Overseer of the Primal Rite of Magick. In this form he embodies Death as the Gateway to the Other. In assuming the god-form of Al-Aswad – the Man-in-Black – the Adept places himself upon the interstitial ‘Point’ of the crossroads and thus within ‘Death’: the singular inbetweenness ‘twixt every Stasis of Being. He thus becomes the embodiment of the Gate at the centre of the cross-roads, the Portal where-by Power has ingress to the World of Manifestation and through which the Seeker must pass in order to transcend the ‘Form’ of the Manifest.