The Open court . life migratingfrom individual to individual,from generation to generation,and waging a struggle v^^ithother hostile ideas which isfinally decided according to thelaw of the survival of the Christian idea of the im-mortality of the soul, contains agreat truth, but ideas originateand pass in their developmentthrough a state of infancy andare subject to measles, chicken-pox, and other childrens dis-eases. The truth that the soulis as different from the bodyas thoughts are different fromthe ink with which they are written, led to a dualistic interpre-tation of life whi
The Open court . life migratingfrom individual to individual,from generation to generation,and waging a struggle v^^ithother hostile ideas which isfinally decided according to thelaw of the survival of the Christian idea of the im-mortality of the soul, contains agreat truth, but ideas originateand pass in their developmentthrough a state of infancy andare subject to measles, chicken-pox, and other childrens dis-eases. The truth that the soulis as different from the bodyas thoughts are different fromthe ink with which they are written, led to a dualistic interpre-tation of life which represented the soul materialistically as a sep- 1 See Bastians Verbhibs-Orte tier Seele, Plate I. Reproduced from Allerlei aus Volks- undMenschenkunde, Vol. II., Plate XVII., 5 and 7. 2 Born 1634 as the son of a clergyman in Western Frisia, became pastor of a Reformed Churchat Amsterdam. His famous work, The Enchanted World, was the first bold attack on the super-tition of magic and witchcraft. He died Halthasar clergyman of the Reformed Church andauthor of De betoverde Weerelde. (Reproducedfrom an old wood cut.) IS THE CHURCH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INQUISITION? 24I arate being consisting of a mystical soul-substance. Dualism leadsto the belief in magic and witchcraft, implying at the same timethe ethics of asceticism. Evil is conceived to be a personal beingwho can make contracts with people and assist them with de-moniacal power. This notion naturally leads to witchcraft prose-cutions which were begun in a spirit of piety, but became quickly
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