Identifier: demonologydevill00conw2 (find matches)
Title: Demonology and devil-lore
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907
Subjects: Demonology Mythology Occultism
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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d endowed by Christ, the Paulinetheory further presupposes that the natural man, havingdied, is buried with Christ in baptism, rises with him,and is then sealed to him by the Holy Ghost. For alittle time such must still bear about them their fleshybodies, but soon Christ shall come, and these vilebodies shall be changed into his likeness; meanwhilethey must keep their bodies in subjection, even asPaul did, by beating it black and blue (vTTcoTnd^co),and await their deliverance from the body of the deadworld they have left, but which so far is permitted toadhere to them. This conception had to work itself outin myths and dogmas of which Paul knew nothing. If any man come after me and hate not his fatherand mother, and his own (natural) life also, he can-not be my disciple. The new race with which the newcreation was in travail was logically discovered to need a 214 THE NE W MOTHER. new Mother as well as a new Father. Every naturalmother was subjected to a stain that it might be affirmed
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Pig 7.—Adam Signing Contract for his Posterity to Satan. that only one mother was immaculate—she whose con- SATANS OWNERSHIP OF MAN. 215 ception was supernatural, not of the flesh. Marriagebecame an indulgence to sin (whose purchase-money sur-vives still in the marriage-fee). The monastery and thenunnery represented this new ascetic kingdom; thatperilous word worldliness was transmitted to be thesource of insanity and hypocrisy. Happily, the common sense and sentiment of mankindhave so steadily and successfully won back the outlawedinterests of life and the world, that it requires some re-search into ecclesiastical archaeology to comprehend theoriginal significance of the symbols in which it survives.The ancient rabbins limited the number of souls whichhang on Adam to 600,000, but the christian theolo-gians extended the figures to include the human race.Probably even some orthodox people may be scandalisedat the idea of the fathers (Irenaeus, for example), that, atthe Fall, the hu

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