The worship of the self is the most self-satisfying religion, while it lasts.
Satan is simply the epitome of making my self the center of all things.
We all walk down that road to some extent. Most of us are not sociopathic enough to maintain the complete delusion that making myself the center of all things entails. Our wills are warped, but not that warped. Not yet anyway.
To walk the path of Lucifer is to knowingly embrace a lie, simply because it gives you more immediate satisfaction. With such a mindset, we will never experience true joy. The "wicked" can be temporarily triumphant, but never truly happy.
If I place myself first and pursue my agenda unrelentingly, I will achieve more temporal power than if I choose the way of altruism and self-sacrifice.
But at what cost?
Ask yourself a question: "Where is this road taking me and do I really want to go there?
<< Up till that moment, whenever he thought of Hell, he had pictured the lost souls as still being human; now, as the frightful abyss that parts ghosthood from manhood yawned before him, pity was almost swallowed up in horror- in the unconquerable revulsion of the life within him from positive and self-consuming death . . . Weston [a character in the story] was now not a man at all . . . The forces which had begun, perhaps years ago, to eat at his humanity had now completed their work. The intoxicated will which had slowly been poisoning the intelligence and the affections had now at last posioned itself and the whole psychic organism had fallen to pieces. Only a ghost was left- an everlasting unrest, a crumbling, a ruin, an odour of decay. "And this," thought Ransom, might be my destination . . ." >>
(C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
To worship power is to worship the Adversary. What will that one be who, having embraced the Adversary, eventually becomes his own eternal Adversary?