Demonology and devil-lore . Fig. 9.—Procession of the Serpent ofSins. 254 SERPENT OF roth or ^ons of the Gnostic theology. Each is armedwith a hook whereby the souls weighed and found wanting may be sins which these devilsrepresent are labelled, gene-rally on rings around the ser-pent, and increase in heinous-ness towards the head. It isa curious fact that the Sinnearest the head is marked Unmercifulness. Strangeand unconscious sarcasm onan Omnipotent Deity underwhose sway exists this elabo-boration of a scheme of sinsand tortures precisely corre-sponding to the scheme ofvir
Demonology and devil-lore . Fig. 9.—Procession of the Serpent ofSins. 254 SERPENT OF roth or ^ons of the Gnostic theology. Each is armedwith a hook whereby the souls weighed and found wanting may be sins which these devilsrepresent are labelled, gene-rally on rings around the ser-pent, and increase in heinous-ness towards the head. It isa curious fact that the Sinnearest the head is marked Unmercifulness. Strangeand unconscious sarcasm onan Omnipotent Deity underwhose sway exists this elabo-boration of a scheme of sinsand tortures precisely corre-sponding to the scheme ofvirtues and joys!Truly said the Epistle of John, there be many Anti-christs. If this was true before the word Christianity hadbeen formed, or the system it names, what was the caseafterwards } For centuries we find vast systems denounc-ing each other as Antichrist. And ultimately, as a subtlehardly-conscious heresy spread abroad, the great excom-municator of antichrists itself, Rome, acquired that title,which it has never shaken off since. The See of Romedid not first receive that appellat
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