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
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CONTENTS |
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List Of Illustrations |
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Good and Evil as Religious Ideas |
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Devil Worship |
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Ancient Egypt |
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Accad and the Early Semites |
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Persian Dualism |
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Israel |
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Brahmanism and Hinduism |
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Buddhism |
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The Dawn of a New Era |
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Early Christianity |
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The Idea of Salvation in Greece and Italy |
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The Demonology of Northern Europe |
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The Devil's Prime |
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The Inquisition |
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The Age of the Reformation |
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The Abolition of Witch-Prosecution |
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In Verse and Fable |
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The Philosophical Problem of Good and Evil |
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, May-September 2002, J.B. Hare, redactor