An excerpt from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, pg 234 - 235
33. “ Satan is the minister of God, Lord of the seven mansions of Hades ” . . . . The seven or Saptaloka of the Earth with the Hindus ; for Hades, or the Limbo of Illusion, of which theology makes a region bordering on Hell, is simply our globe, the Earth, and thus Satan is called— 33 “ . . . . the angel of the manifest Worlds.” It is “ Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god,” and this without any allusive metaphor to its wickedness and depravity. For he is one with the Logos, “ the first son, eldest of the gods,” in the order the shadow of god. 235 of microcosmic (divine) evolution ; Saturn (Satan), astronomically, “ is the seventh and last in the order of macrocosmic emanation, being the circumference of the kingdom of which Phœbus (the light of wisdom, also the Sun) is the centre.” The Gnostics were right, then, in calling the Jewish god “ an angel of matter,” or he who breathed (conscious) life into Adam, and he whose planet was Saturn. 34. “ And God hath put a girdle about his loins (the rings of Saturn), and the name of the girdle is Death.” In anthropogony this “ girdle ” is the human body with its two lower principles, which three die, while the innermost man is immortal. And now we approach the “ Secret of Satan.” 37, 38, 39. “ . . . Upon Satan only is the shame of generation. He hath lost his virginal estate (so hath the Kumâra by incarnating) : uncovering heavenly secrets, he hath entered into bondage. . . . He compasseth with bonds and limits all things. . . .” 42, 43, 44. “ Twain are the armies of God : in heaven the hosts of Michael ; in the abyss (the manifested world) the legions of Satan. These are the unmanifest and the manifest ; the free and the bound (in matter) : the virginal and the fallen. And both are the Ministers of the Father, fulfilling the word Divine. . . .” Therefore— 55. “ Holy is the Sabbath of god : blessed and sanctified is the name of the Angel of Havas ”—Satan. For, “ The glory of Satan is the shadow of the Lord ” : God in the manifested world ; “ the throne of Satan is the footstool of Adonai ”— that footstool being the whole Kosmos. (Vide Part II., “ Is Pleroma Satan’s Lair ? ”)