CHAPTER X.

THE DEVIL-MYTH.

The devil officially recognized by the Church 477 Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism 480 Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon 483 His relation to serpent-worship 489 The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead 493 The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction 501 Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus 515