isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

“True to the exclamation of David, paraphrased in King James' Version as “all the gods of the nations are idols”, i.e., devils, Bacchus or the “first-born” or the Orphic theogony, the Monogenes, or “only-begotten” of Father Zeus and Kore, was transformed, with the rest of the ancient myths, into a devil. By such a degradation, [...]