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As you are here on this forum asking rather than seeking the advice of a local priest, I will assume that you are not a religious christian seeing this in christian terms and that you appreciate it likely has symbolic meaning.
This is a very important, crucial (pardon the subtle pun) dream, and its not uncommon, in case you were wondering.
The devil is the shadow of God. God is a divine form of ego, that creator-conscious self. The ego likes to think it is in control and it delineates the area it does control - the conscious mind - from the areas it does not control - the unconscious mind. When the needs or impulses of the unconscious seek to make themselves known, the ego decides whether to allow them to become manifest.
The overly controlling, suppressing ego can lead to a neurotic nature, while a lax unfiltered ego lets anything through which can lead to a paranoid state. We can say either of these is an unbalanced or unhealthy ego.
The healthy ego is open to creative and a new ideas and experiences but it regulates (from Latin regula ‘rule’) what may come to existence, be given life (like God) and what may not.
Often in dreams, we have a trickster figure that appears. That is because the unconscious (from where dreams emerge) is telling us indirectly that we’re denying some aspect of ourselves or lying to ourselves, we're tricking or fooling ourselves so the trickster’s appearance is a way we unconsciously speak the truth indirectly to the arrogant ‘King’ (ego) aspect of ourselves. If we are not responding to messages of our unconscious, the dreams, the figures in the dreams and the narrative of the dreams then become more dramatic and virulent over time and sequence of dreams.
The most dramatic and virulent trickster figure is the devil. Another one similar is the dragon.
In the west, we often find imagery of the devil having qualities of the dragon, and vice versa.
When we reach a point in our lives that the dream’s theme demands us to fight the dragon or the devil, that is to have reached a point where some important truth about ourselves has been vehemently denied but we're now ready to face it and incorporate that change. We're at a crossroads.
Such dreams rarely end with a clear victor, in the dream that is. Usually, in my experience, people wake up or the dream shifts to another scene. The relevant outcome, showing what has shifted in this person's psychology, is usually revealed in the next few dreams.
What you want to be looking for in those next dreams is a (metaphorical) integration of opposites. So if there has been the necessary shift, the kind of dreams that may follow could be dreams about eating wholesome food, being befriended by a very attractive person, possibly attending a wedding, or even sexual intercourse with the opposite sex (even if you are homosexual) or between two very different creatures (because it's about integrating opposites within oneself, not the person’s real-world sexuality).
The other kind of dreams that follow might jump this step and show the beginnings of new life, baby, pregnant woman, an egg of some sort or a diamond, or even something strongly featuring the form of a circle. Don’t worry if you don;t understand what these things have in common, thats another whole discussion
If the necessary shift has not happened, the following dreams will retain strong elements of conflict, being chased, infiltration, thefts.
This would be a good time to keep the dream journal and write/ sketch all the details in your dreams.
If the resolution sought psychologically is not found, it can return to being dormant and reappear in months or years, but in the meantime, Life will feel disjointed or unsatisfactory in some way.