Israel : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 65 ISRAEL. "Azazel, the God of the Desert". THE PRIMITIVE STAGES of the Hebrew civilisation are not sufficiently known to describe the changes and phases which the Israelitic idea of the Godhead had to undergo before it reached the purity...
Buddhism : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 104 BUDDHISM. BUDDHISM is a religious revolution against the evils that are dominant in Brahmanism. Gautama Shakyamuni, who claimed to be the Enlightened One, the Buddha, rejected bloody sacrifices, the authority of the Vedas, trust in rituals...
Title Page : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AND THE IDEA OF EVIL FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY By PAUL CARUS Ich Kann Nicht Bereden Lassen Macht Mir Den Teufel Nur Nicht Klein; Ein Kerl Den Alle Menchen Hassen, Der Muss Was Sein! Goethe Open Court [1900]...
Devil Worship : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 6 DEVIL WORSHIP. FROM A SURVEYAL of the accounts gleaned from Waitz, Lubbock, and Tylor, on the Primitive state of religion, the conviction impresses itself upon the student of demonology that Devil-worship naturally precedes the worship...
List Of Illustrations : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. iv p. v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Frontispiece vi Demonolatrous Ceremonies of the Old Inhabitants of Haiti. After Picart 11 Human Sacrifices Among the Greeks. After an ancient cameo in Berlin 12 A Hind Substituted for Iphigenia. After...
The Inquisition : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 306 THE INQUISITION. "Heretics Outlawed". THE saddest side of the Devil's history appears in the persecution of those who were supposed to be adherents of the Devil; namely, sectarians, heretics, and witches. The most ridiculous accusations were...
The Dawn Of A New Era : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 137 THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA. "Gnostic Societies and Congregations". THE TRANSITION from the Old to the New Testament is an age of unrest. The Jews had become familiar with the civilisation of Assyria and Babylonia, and enjoyed friendly relations...
The Philosophical Problem Of Good And Evil : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 439 THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL. THE question as to the nature of evil is by far the most important problem for philosophical, religious, and moral consideration. The intrinsic presence of suffering is the most obvious feature th...
Early Christianity : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 157 EARLY CHRISTIANITY. "Jesus and the New Testament". THE EVIL ONE played an important part in the imagination of the people in the time of Christ. Satan is mentioned repeatedly by the scribes and the people of Israel in the synoptic gospels, by...
Brahmanism And Hinduism : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 74 BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. INDIA, the primitive home of religion and philosophy, exhibits as strong a tendency for monism as the Persian nation has shown for dualism. But the ancient monism of India is apt to lose itself in pantism,--a theory...
Ancient Egypt : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 15 ANCIENT EGYPT. SET, OR SETH, whom the Greeks called Typhon, the nefarious demon of death and evil in Egyptian mythology, is characterised as "a strong god (a-pahuti), whose anger is to be feared." The inscriptions call him "the powerful one...
Good And Evil As Religious Ideas : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 1 GOOD AND EVIL AS RELIGIOUS IDEAS. THIS WORLD OF OURS is a world of opposites. There is light and shade, there is heat and cold, there is good and evil, there is God and the Devil. The dualistic conception of nature has been a necessary phase...
In Verse And Fable : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 407 IN VERSE AND FABLE. THE DEVIL in folklore is entitled to our ungrudging admiration for his indefatigable energy. There are innumerable devil-stones thrown at churches, there are devil-walls, devil-bridges, cathedrals, monasteries, castles...
Persian Dualism : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 50 PERSIAN DUALISM. HE TRANSITION from Devil-worship to God-worship marks the origin of civilisation; and among the nations of antiquity the Persians seem to have been the first who took this step with conscious deliberation, for they most...
The Age Of The Reformation : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 338 THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION. THE Reformation, although in many respects a great advance did not introduce a sudden change in the belief in the Devil. Nevertheless, the tendency becomes more and more apparent to interpret Satan in psychological...
Accad And The Early Semites : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 29 ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. BOUT THE YEAR 3000 B. C., long before the Arise of the Semitic nations, among whom the Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites, and later the Arabians, were most prominent, there lived in Mesopotamia a nation of gre...
The Idea Of Salvation In Greece And Italy : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 193 THE IDEA OF SALVATION IN GREECE AND ITALY. . Matt. vi. 14. THE first century of our era is a time in which the fear of evil leads to the organisation of religious institutions having in view the atonement of sin and the redemption of the soul...
The Abolition Of Witch Prosecution : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 370 THE ABOLITION OF WITCH-PROSECUTION. "Molitor and Erasmus". THE horrors of Devil worship, of the Inquisition, and of witch-prosecution were the natural consequences of a misconception of the nature of evil. They were the visitations th...
The Devil's Prime : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 262 THE DEVIL'S PRIME. "Miracles and Magic". A LATIN proverb says: "Si duo faciunt idem, non est idem" (if two do the same thing, it is not the Click to view MODERN SNAKE CHARMERS. (Reproduced from Brehm.) same thing); and this is true not only...
The Demonology Of Northern Europe : * "History of the Devil", by Paul Carus, [1900], p. 241 THE DEMONOLOGY OF NORTHERN EUROPE. THE religion of the Teutons was in the main a religion of fighters, and we do not hesitate to say that they, more than any other people on earth, developed the ethics of struggle. War, strife...
