The "devil" redeemed means the end of duality and so apokatastasis
Let's talk the language of symbols.
No one ever overcame the Devil by fleeing him or thwarting him. People like Ḥallāj or Aḥmad Ghazzālī (the younger brother of Abū Ḥāmid, so not to be confused with his older brother) understood this great Mystery. Every deception and ruse the Devil plays is for a single reason: to be free and to be fully accepted by its Creator as Its creation and so to be fully loved by It for itself.
So for a second, as an exercise, let us become the Hidden Treasure desiring to be known and realize that the Devil is nothing more than one aspect of the Hidden Treasure desiring to know Itself as the shayṭān and with it thereby end the dualist gravy train that has produced nothing but angst for this humanity.
Any Christ to come who does not properly resolve the problem of evil, and just simply expels the Devil rather than liberating it altogether from itself, has merely prolonged the problem and not resolved it. This problem begins in the in illo tempore Garden of Eden between a man, a woman, a Tree, an apple, a serpent and a Divine Command. When all six of these are synthesized into One, there only remains God, the Hidden Treasure desiring to be known, so understand the allusion, because the Divine Command of a Real Divinity can never be defied! Moreover, the number six is the number of Binah, Aimmah, the Great Mother, the All-Living Mother/Em Koll cHai (אם כל חי) , Eve (חַוָּה), the Woman/Isha (אִשָּׁה)*. So perhaps the man and the woman, with the Tree, its apple, and the serpent are still in the Garden of Paradise even now because they have always been One and the Same thing all along just as the Devil has been nothing more than one of infinite reflections of the Hidden Treasure Itself.
Get up, Lucifer, your imprisonment is over. You are free. Go in peace! Wassalaam!
* Bearing the Hebrew gematria of 306 which is the abjad numerical value in Arabic of the Divine Name "Qāhir" (قاهر), the Victorious.
Listen to SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by the Rolling Stones
LYRICS
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole million man's soul an faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politnesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Aah yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I tell you one time, you're to blame
What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name?
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name?
