be thine forever; wherefore because that Satan rebelled against me and sought to destroy the agency of man which I the Lord God had given him, and also that I should give unto him mine own power, by the power of mine only begotton: I caused that he should be cast down and he became Satan, yea even the Devil, the Father of all lies to deceive and to blind men and to lead them captive at his will even as many as would not hearken to my voice. And now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which I the Lord God had made and Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, for he had drawn away many after him and he sought also to beguile Eve, for he knew not the mind of God. wherefore he sought to destroy the world; yea and he said unto the woman, yea hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, and he spake by the mouth of the serpent, but of the fruit of the tree which thou beholdest in the midst [p. [44]]