الشر والشيطان

الكتاب يتحدث عن تاريخ الشيطان فى معتقدات الإنسان فى جميع الديانات وماقبل الديانات

”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and De Sade. Born in France in 1897, Georges Bataille was a radical philosopher, novelist, and critic whose writings continue to exert a vital influence on today's literature and thought.

If the Devil exists, where is he? Is he really in a place called hell? If so, where is that? This well-researched book may shock you by exposing all the basic facts about the devil. Things—The origins of hell. — Where the Christian Devil was borrowed from. — Why the church needed a "bad guy" to represent evil. — What the words Devil and hell really meant in the Old Testament. — "Endless punishment" and its devastating effects. — The Devils twin brother—God!! Was this true? — Why God was the author of evil according to the Bible. These and other startling facts are found in this work. Don't just accept the reality of the Devil blindly. Read this book and decide for yourself if he exists!

Introduced and edited by J. G. Bennett. The two stories in this book, "The Inventor" and "The Benevolent Devil," were written just before Ouspensky met Gurdjieff and just after he had returned from the East, "in search of the miraculous." They examine the whole question of conscious evil and the view that humanity's chief error is believing that the material world is the only reality.