Excerpt from The Rod and the Staff

Whenever one thinks or speaks Of the darker side of human things, he should carefully guard against the error which has generally connected itself with this order of views. In contrast with the Persian conception Of the two great princi ples regarded ethically and naturally as good and evil, symbolically as light and darkness, the Hebrew prophet introduces the one absolute Being claiming to himself the origin Of both.

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