The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 231
sfather and called him such ; and looking up to him he did whatZeus did. Therefore he could live happily everywhere. In Christianity the struggles of the saviour receivea dualistic interpretation and are spiritualised into a vic- * In the beautiful sarcophagus (see illustration on p. 212) which… … GREECE AND ITALY, 213 tory over the temptations of the flesh and other world!}- passions. * The conception of evil as hell received a philosophi-cal foundation in the dualism of Plato who did not shrinkfrom depicting its minutest details ; and his views of thefuture state of the soul, its rewards…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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