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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.divination,alt.tarot,alt.satanism,al.christnet.demonology From: Joseph LittleshoesSubject: Re: Devilish History (Key Scale 26 Capricorn) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 05:05:54 GMT SOD of the CoE wrote: > Orig-To: TarotL@yahoogroups.com > > 50031013 viii om > > # [mind you, I am not saying the Jews invented the Devil]. > > this is some anthropologists' conclusion, based on the fact > that some Jews' inability to attribute the most heinous > acts to the omnipotent divine required a Fall Guy. this > seems to have blossomed very rapidly within the Jezoid > sects of Judaism as it emerged into Christianity. Some would argue that satan, demons, evil spirits are mere idealizations of the human experience and/or nature. The following quotes are from Emile Durkheim' "The elementary forms of the religious life." pp. 468-469 "there are gods of theft and trickery of lust and war of sickness and of death, Christianity itself, howsoever high the idea which it has made of the divinity may be, has been obliged to give the spirit of evil a place in its mythology. Satan is an essential piece of the Christian system; even if he is an impure being he is not a profane one. The anti-god is a god, inferior & subordinate it is true, but nevertheless endowed with extended powers; he is even the object of rites, at least of negative ones. Thus religion far from ignoring the real society and making abstractions of it, is in its image; it reflects all its aspects, even the most vulgar and the most repulsive. All is to be found there, if in the majority cases we see the good victorious over evil, life over death, the powers of light over the powers of darkness, it is because reality is not otherwise. If the relation between these two contrary forces were reversed, life would be impossible; but, as a matter of fact, it maintains itself end even tends to develop." > > > # I'm just pointing out that the > # concept of the Devil [whatever name] predated Christianity > > Angra Mainyu or Ahriman if nothing else. cosmic baddies are > apparently a big hit in religions from the Middle East. the > most dualistic of them all appears to be Mazdaism. some > others rival 'em, but I don't think they are as adamant. > have a gander at Ravana, for example, or the Great Dragons > like Tiamat, Our Lady of Chaos. "...the Arunts place at the beginning of time a mythical society whose organization exactly reproduces that which still exists to day, it includes the same clans and phratries, it is under the same matrimonial rules and it practice the same rites. But the personages who compose it are ideal beings, gifted with powers and virtues to which common mortals cannot pretend. Their nature is not only higher, but it is different. The evil powers there undergo a similar metamorphosis; evil itself is, as it were, made sublime and idealized. The question now raises itself of whence this idealization comes." JL
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