. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . be exceedingly ugly and diabolical, but thesame deities who in one aspect are beneficent powers oflife, are in another respect demons of destruction. Brahm, the highest god of Brahmanism, represents the All, or the abstract idea ofbeing. He is conceived as atrinity which is called Tri-murti, consisting of Brahma,Vishnu, and Siva. Brahma, the first-origi-nated of all beings, the lord ofall creatures, the father of allthe universes, is the divinemind who is the beginning ofall. He is called AJa., thenot
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . be exceedingly ugly and diabolical, but thesame deities who in one aspect are beneficent powers oflife, are in another respect demons of destruction. Brahm, the highest god of Brahmanism, represents the All, or the abstract idea ofbeing. He is conceived as atrinity which is called Tri-murti, consisting of Brahma,Vishnu, and Siva. Brahma, the first-origi-nated of all beings, the lord ofall creatures, the father of allthe universes, is the divinemind who is the beginning ofall. He is called AJa., thenot-born, because he has orig-inated, but Avas not originated from/at, i. e., undifferentiated be-ing, in which he existed frometernit3^ in an embryonic consort, Saras-vati, also called Brahnii orBrahmini, is the goddess of poetry, learning, and is the creator of man. We are told in theYajurveda that the god produced from himself the soul,which is accordingly a part of his own being, and clothedit with a body—a process which is reported in the re-. Brahma.(Fragment of a car. Musee Guimet BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. n
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