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{{Style P-Title|BY “BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE”}} | {{Style P-Title|BY “BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE”}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|Leaves from the Notebook of a Missionary Priest.}} | {{Style P-Subtitle|Leaves from the Notebook of a Missionary Priest.}} | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|[The article in question is a very long account of a case of diabolical possession. Only the paragraphs on which H. P. B. comments are reprinted here.]}}}} | {{Style P-Quote|{{HPB-CW-comment|[The article in question is a very long account of a case of diabolical possession. Only the paragraphs on which H. P. B. comments are reprinted here.]}}}} | ||
Many persons hardly believe in the devil at all, from believing so little in God. Although the reality of diabolical possessions is a truth which the Holy Scripture abundantly establishes, there are many who scout the idea of devils being permitted to be on this earth of ours. | {{Style P-Quote|Many persons hardly believe in the devil at all, from believing so little in God. Although the reality of diabolical possessions is a truth which the Holy Scripture abundantly establishes, there are many who scout the idea of devils being permitted to be on this earth of ours.}} | ||
We think it due to quite another reason. Those capable of sincerely believing in a just and ''omnipotent'' deity are unable to believe in a Devil. If anything has been calculated to make the Western world lose all faith in Religion, it is this absurd and cruel dogma which enforces upon all Christians belief in the Devil. | We think it due to quite another reason. Those capable of sincerely believing in a just and ''omnipotent'' deity are unable to believe in a Devil. If anything has been calculated to make the Western world lose all faith in Religion, it is this absurd and cruel dogma which enforces upon all Christians belief in the Devil. | ||