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 248
GREECE AND ITALY. 221 quested his friends to sacrifice a cock to ^sculapius be-cause his soul had recovered from the disease of bodilyexistence. The serpent (the emblem of mystery, of eter-nity, of wisdom, the prophet of the gnosis) walks withoutfeet, and therefore lao is serpent-legged. The God of… … Abraxas Gem.*
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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