Demonology and Devil-Lore
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ISBN13: 9780217830348
Paperback|9780217830348
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I, 1 l If A If V Un i Vkijs rr v Ok t'ALII-'Ol.'MA. CHAPTER II. THE SECOND BEST. Respect for the Devil?Primitive atheism?Idealisation?Birth of new gods?New gods diabolised?Compromise between new gods and old?Foreign deities degraded?Their utilisation. A LADY residing in Hampshire, England, recently said to a friend of the present writer, both being mothers, ' Do you make your children bow their heads whenever they mention the Devil's name ? I do, ' she added solemnly, ?' I think it's safer.' / This instance of reverence for the Devil's name, occur-' ring in a respectable English family, may excite a smile; but if my reader has perused the third and fourth chapters (Part I.) of this work, in which it was necessary to state certain facts and principles which underlie the phenomena of degradation in both Demonology and Devil-lore, he will already know the high significance of nearly all the names which have invested the personifications of evil; and he will not be surprised to find their original sanctity, though lowered, sometimes, surviving in such imaginary forms after the battles in which they were vanquished have passed out of all contemporary interest. If, for example, instead of the Devil, whose name is uttered with respect in the Hampshire household, any theological bogey of our own time were there mentioned, such as 'Atheist, ' it might hardly receive such considerate treatment. The two chapters just referred to anticipate much that i4 PRIMITIVE ATHEISM. should be considered at this point of our inquiry. It is only necessary here to supplement them with a brief statement, and to some extent a recapitulation, of the processes by which degraded deities are preserved to continue through a structural development and fulfil a necessary part in every th.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217830348 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021783034X |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 370 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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