Satan was created the most beautiful of all the angels. Also the most vain. He deceives with “beauty,” or the traits that we call “glamorous.”
I look at it the other way:
Typically, evil must seem beautiful or true, because it cannot disguise itself as good.
It’s only in time of true depravity that evil can become merely banal.
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