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 25
and tragic. And if we have todeclare that the idea of God is a symbol signif3ang anactual presence in the world of facts, should we not ex-pect that the idea of the Devil also represents a reality? It is almost impossible to exhaust the subject, for itwould take volumes to write an approximately… … DEVIL WORSHIP. FROM A SURVEYAL of the accounts gleaned fromWaitz, Lubbock, and Tylor, on the primitive stateof religion, the conviction impresses itself upon the stu-dent of demonology that Devil-worship naturally precedesthe worship of a benign and morally good Deity. Thereare at least many…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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