All about devils E-Book

Moses Hull

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

An Inquiry as to Whether Modern Spiritualism and other great reforms come from his Satanic Majesty and His Subordinates in the Kingdom of Darkness.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. – THE CASE STATED

CHAPTER II. - DEMONS WHAT ARE THEY?

CHAPTER III. - ORIGIN OF DEVILS

CHAPTER IV. - A FEW MYTHOLOGICAL DEVILS AND HELLS

CHAPTER V. – THE DEVIL AS A REFORMER

CHAPTER VI. – DEVILS IN THE BIBLE

CHAPTER VII. - WHY DOES THE DEVIL EXIST?

Moses Hull

ALL ABOUT DEVILS

or

An inquiry as to whether modern spiritualism and other great reforms come from his satanic majesty and his subordinates in the kingdom of darkness

First digital edition 2018 by Anna Ruggieri

PREFACE

As a general thing I do not intend to write anything that needs an apology. As for the matter of this book, I am sure no apology is needed. The world needs it. Devils and hob- goblins have long kept the world back from progress. In some passages the manner of presenting the truths here given may seem to border somewhat on the sarcastic; possibly on the blasphemous. Should any apology be needed for that, let it be found in the fact that the whole question, if it were not so ridiculous, would be a sublime sarcasm. The clergy have been misrepresenting the devil; slandering the devil; libeling the devil and firing their heavy guns at the devil for over a thousand years; but they are very careful, in all they do, never to hit him, for they know that one effective blow dealt the devil in the right spot would stop all their business, and dry up the fountains of their support. The devil is truly the drive-wheel of theology. Ministers preach and pray and fast, and beg money, and take immense salaries, as God's especial agents to fight the devil. When they kill the devil there will be no one to tempt Christians no one to lead astray no one to sow Infidel or Spiritualistic doubts; in fact, there will be no further. use for the church or its clergy. Rest assured, the clergy have seen the point, and hence they, in all their shots at the devil, have aimed to just miss him. This farce of the church and its ministry has, perhaps, caused me to, in places, seem unnecessarily sarcastic. This pamphlet has been hastily written with the design of starting the reader to thinking in a rational manner on the questions introduced. If the devil, in these pages, has had his due, no one will be better satisfied than

The Author. Chicago, Jan. 16, 1890.