The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 128
as a personification. The allegorical nature of the EvilOne is plainly felt in every passage in which Marasname occurs. We read, for instance: He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncon- BUDDHISM. 107 trolled, immoderate in his food, idle and weak, him Mara will cer-tainly overthrow… … The Demon of Thunder. A Japanese temple statue. mythology from the ancient Jatakas down to the mostmodern folklore of China and Japan has peopled the uni-verse with evil spirits of all kinds, such as the demons ofthunder and lightning, to personify the various ills oflife and the dangers that lurk…
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