The Pedigree of the DevilTrübner & Company, 1883 - 256 pages Traces the history and traditions of ideas related to demonology. |
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... physical difficulties , that their main business has been to sus- tain life , without any attempt to refine existence by culture , a Theology can hardly be said to exist at all ; and the religious sentiment is satisfied by a super ...
... physical difficulties , that their main business has been to sus- tain life , without any attempt to refine existence by culture , a Theology can hardly be said to exist at all ; and the religious sentiment is satisfied by a super ...
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... physical and moral uni- verse was peopled , and by which all phenomena of nature , and the events of life , were regulated and influenced . The Hebrews had already a belief in the existence of angels or spirits , whose business it was ...
... physical and moral uni- verse was peopled , and by which all phenomena of nature , and the events of life , were regulated and influenced . The Hebrews had already a belief in the existence of angels or spirits , whose business it was ...
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... physical evil into the world , when , in the form of a serpent , he successfully tempted Eve : thence- forward he has been at enmity with the seed of the woman , causing all the diseases of mind and body from which man suffers , the ...
... physical evil into the world , when , in the form of a serpent , he successfully tempted Eve : thence- forward he has been at enmity with the seed of the woman , causing all the diseases of mind and body from which man suffers , the ...
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... physical and the ideal , but for certain stepping stones which half suggested the conclusion . The associated ideas of cause and effect , which lie at the foundation of all intelligence , are however sufficient to account for the belief ...
... physical and the ideal , but for certain stepping stones which half suggested the conclusion . The associated ideas of cause and effect , which lie at the foundation of all intelligence , are however sufficient to account for the belief ...
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... physical features with which they were identified : a Greek or Roman would have taken it as a matter of course , if , as he wended his way down a secluded ravine or shady glade , a bevy of beauteous damsels , the nymphs of the valley or ...
... physical features with which they were identified : a Greek or Roman would have taken it as a matter of course , if , as he wended his way down a secluded ravine or shady glade , a bevy of beauteous damsels , the nymphs of the valley or ...
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