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12 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: devils

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Devil

He says Augustine repeatedly equates living by one's own standard, instinct, intuition, or imagination with becoming like the devil.

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The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul

2026-01-28, day precision · Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe

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"...parents of Hector, to go insane, okay? They're screaming at this devil. And the Greeks, okay, Odysseus, Agamemnon, are disgusted because for them, Hector..."

Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith

2025-12-11, day precision · Secret History #26: Faith of Evil

Transcript

"with Mephistopheles, the devil, and says, and Mephistopheles says, I will give you eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And..."

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Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History

2024-12-31, day precision · claims

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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...

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