(1899.)
I. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?--How was the Idea
of a Devil Produced--Other Devils than Ours--Natural Origin of these
Monsters--II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil--The Devil of the
Old Testament--The Serpent in Eden--"Personifications" of Evil--Satan
and Job--Satan and David--III. Take the Devil from the Drama
of Christianity and the Plot is Gone--Jesus Tempted by the Evil
One--Demoniac Possession--Mary Magdalene--Satan and Judas--Incubi
and Succubi--The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic--The Pool of
Bethesda--IV. The Evidence of the Church--The Devil was forced to
Father the Failures of God--Belief of the Fathers of the Church
in Devils--Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth
Century--Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by
an Insane God--V. Personifications of the Devil--The Orthodox Ostrich
Thrusts his Head into the Sand--If Devils are Personifications so are
all the Other Characters of the Bible--VI. Some Queries about the
Devil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in
Life--Interrogatories to the Clergy--VII. The Man of Straw the Master
of the Orthodox Ministers--His recent Accomplishments--VIII. Keep the
Devils out of Children--IX. Conclusion.--Declaration of the Free.