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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1768. Excerpt: ... where there is nothing but pure Good, and unmixed Happiness. 3dly, That of some Moderns, which teaches, that Matter and Evil are inseparable, or that where Matter is concerned, there must be Evil. And lastly, the Opinion that natural Evil is an Effect of moral Evil, the impure Production of Error, and peculiar only to a wicked and corrupted World. Now if we can make it appear that the three first Opinions concerning cerning the Origin of Physical Evil are Groundless, it will follow that the last is the only true Opinion, that moral Evil is the Source from whence it proceeds. As to the Manichean Notion of the Rise of Evil, there perhaps, was. never any Thing conceived in all the World so monstrous and inconsistent. But previous to our Refutation of it, we beg Leave to give a short Account of the first Establishment and future Progrese of this ridiculous Doctrine. The Notion of two first PrinC 4 ciples ciples of all Things was the Religion of the antient Magians, professed in the Eastern Countries amongst the Medes and Persians, before the Reign of Darius. Doctor Prideaux gives us in his Connexions this brief Description of it. « They, the Magians (says he) held the Being of two first Causes, the one Light, or the good God, who was the Author of all Good; the other Darkness, or the evil God, who was the Author of all Evil; and that of the Mixture of these two, as they were in a continual Struggle with each other, all Things were made." Zoroastres Zoroastres afterwards reformed this Religion by bringing in a higher Principle, one supreme God, who created both Light and Darkness. The Persians gave the Name of Oromasdes to the good, and that of Arimanius to the evil Principle. This Opinion of the Magians concerning the good and evil Principles, was in th... Paperback, Label: General Books LLC, General Books LLC, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-02-02, Studio: General Books LLC.

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