When was evil created?

[Neo-Scholastic]

In Hebrew, the very first letter of Genesis is 'Bet', the second letter, as opposed to 'Aleph', the first letter. This has been interpreted to allude to a back-story. What the back-story actual tells can only be guessed at from later events recorded in the canonical Scriptures. I cannot remember exactly, but I think the creation of angels might be found in the Book of Enoch. That said, New Church doctrine states that angels come from the human race. My favorite Swedenborg quote is, "Anyone can see that God did not talk to a snake." The idea is that God literally talking to a snake is so ridiculous that it should prompt us to get below the surface of the text. For atheists, of course, that's a non-starter.