BEELZEBUB, a fallen angel in Milton's Paradise Lost, is a devil ranking next to Satan. He is a symbol of reason and of pure intellectual appraisal of things. C.G. Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, described the following four functions of a well-integrated, whole, healthy personality: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuition. God and devil are the symbols of two personality disorders opposing each other; god is feeling, love and passion, but lacking the power of reasoning objectively, and devil represents a psychopath who thinks, calculates things in cold blood, sees objects as they exist, sees around the corners and intuits the possibilities in the future. However, he is devoid of feelings. This is why in biblical mythology he was able to throw the monkey wrench into god's plans. This book of poems describes the human situation as perceived through the eyes of the reasoning and calculating Beelzebub. The views of both protagonists, the god of goodness and the god of evil, are skewed, distorted, biased and therefore incomplete. Salvation resides in the process of individuation in which a person (and his god) becomes one whole integrated Self in whom all the four functions of personality are equally represented.

BEELZEBUB, a fallen angel in Milton's Paradise Lost, is a devil ranking next to Satan. He is a symbol of reason and of pure intellectual appraisal of things. C.G. Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, described the following four functions of a well-integrated, whole, healthy personality: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuition. God and devil are the symbols of two personality disorders opposing each other; god is feeling, love and passion, but lacking the power of reasoning objectively, and devil represents a psychopath who thinks, calculates things in cold blood, sees objects as they exist, sees around the corners and intuits the possibilities in the future. However, he is devoid of feelings. This is why in biblical mythology he was able to throw the monkey wrench into god's plans. This book of poems describes the human situation as perceived through the eyes of the reasoning and calculating Beelzebub. The views of both protagonists, the god of goodness and the god of evil, are skewed, distorted, biased and therefore incomplete. Salvation resides in the process of individuation in which a person (and his god) becomes one whole integrated Self in whom all the four functions of personality are equally represented.

Psychiatrist by profession, Walter Prytulak views the world's social upheavals (global poverty, religious extremisms, and preemptive wars) in the light of mental disorders in psychiatry. He takes the proverbial statement of a "healthy mind in a healthy body" and uses it to describe a "sick society as residing in the sick profit-making body politic." In his view, capitalism is a state religion purged of theological vernacular, the practice of which is imposed on its subjects on pain of starvation. Its anonymous god, referred to on every dollar bills and coin, commands strict adherence to the ethics of "working for living" and 'no free lunches." It can thrive only on the backs of slaves, still in existence today, albeit so richly rewarded that the glitter of wealth obscures this fact. Slavery restricts freedom of other religions, which is at the bottom of all social ills. The rhetoric of 'working for living' instead of food, and feeding the hungry by lessening their poverty muddies the waters and prevents getting the right answer to the problem, which is: If your neighbor is hungry give him food instead of sending him on a wild-goose chase of a job.