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Common religious concepts- evil and evil beings
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| As we have discussed, a common negative instrument of power for all religions is the system of beliefs associated with evil beings, capable of injuring religious supporters and threatening their future after death. | ||
| In Christianity, we have the concept of the Devil- the supreme evil being who after being cursed by God, exists on Earth and is single minded in his quest to turn as many people as possible away from God and into the fires of Hell. In other religions it is a small army of demons that work against the future and benefit of society. | ||
| Whatever we may feel and believe about religious documentation on evil beings and demons, the words we use and the names we use have changed and developed over history. Whatever we believe is the uniqueness of a particular religion in describing "hell", most religions share common features and themes. The purpose of this section then is to outline the history of understandings about evil beings and demons and seek to make sense between the different words and themes used. | ||
| The understandings from Chapter 17 of UCA | ||
| In Chapter 17 of UCA we discussed the various names for evil and discovered that the nature of evil beings has existed in human language since the earliest of religions. | ||
| To the Egyptians, it was the primal evil being, the Seth. To the Sumerians, it was Kingu. The leader of the rebels, who gave his life up- the Kingu in the Enuma Elish- the rebel leader. In jewish tradition it was Azazel, in Christian Greek it was Archangel Michael, in Roman Greek it was Lucifer, the morning star- Venus. | ||
| Yet beyond this first of beings that roams the Earth, within us and around us, many other names have been mentioned and a brief history. | ||
| Arguably the strongest history is that of the jewish and Christian mystical traditions that appear to be the only remnants of the once vast and fabulous treasure of Egyptian mysticism. | ||
| In recent times, the archeology development of the tunnels underneath the Great Pyramids offers hope of verifying more detail and factual account of the Egyptian beliefs in spirits. | ||
| In the Christian esoteric traditions, we see the existence of evil spirits from the putting down of the rebel gods at the destruction of Sodom , Gemorah and the battle against Babylon. | ||
| This great battle, the spirits of the dead gods roam the earth in various forms, against the benefit of the humans. It was wise King Solomon who was supposed to have harnessed the power of these dead alien spirits in the building of the Sacred temple. | ||
| The gnostic texts recall the keys of Solomon as sacred incantations to try and summons these powerful spirits for service to magicians. The texts go on to say that the Romans disturbed the vessels in AD 70 in which Solomon craftily trapped these spirits after the building of the temple and that the unleashing of evil on the world has been directly and indirectly caused by these spirits ever since. | ||
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