Thus we may infer that the only characteristic difference between modern Christianity and the old heathen faiths is the belief of the former in a per… - Friedrich Max Müller

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Thus we may infer that the only characteristic difference between modern Christianity and the old heathen faiths is the belief of the former in a personal devil and in hell. "The Aryan nations had no devil," says Max Muller. "Pluto, though of a sombre character, was a very respectable personage; and Loki (the Scandinavian), though a mischievous person, was not a fiend. The German Goddess, Hell, too, like Proserpine, had once seen better days. Thus, when the Germans were indoctrinated with the idea of a real devil, the Semitic Seth, Satan or Diabolus, they treated him in the most good-humored way."

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About Friedrich Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller (or Mueller), was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion.

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Native Name: Max Müller
Alternative Names: Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller F. Max Müller Professor Friedrich Max-Muller F. M. M.
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We shall then learn that the history of mankind is the best philosophy, and that not only in Christianity and Judaism, but that in all religions of the world, God has at divers times spoken through the prophets in divers manners, and still speaks.

1783 में मैं भारत की, जिसका मैं बहुत समय से भ्रमण करने की तीव्र इच्छा रख रहा था, यात्रा पर समुद्र में था, तब दिन भर के अवलोकनों की पड़ताल करने पर एक शाम मैंने पाया, कि भारत तो हमारे सामने है, फारस हमारे बाएँ है, जबकि अरब से आ रहा हवा का झोंका हमारे पीछे आ रहा था। यह स्थिति खुद में इतनी सुखद और मेरे लिए इतनी नई थी कि इसने मेरे मस्तिष्क में यादों की एक ऐसी शृंखला जगा दी,

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मेघ उस वृष्टिदाता की देह बन गया; वह ‘दाता’ कहीं अन्यत्र था, किन्तु हम नहीं जान पाए कि वह कहाँ था या कहाँ है। किन्हीं मंत्रों में ‘पर्जन्य’ ‘द्यौ:’ के पद तक पहुँचा हुआ प्रतीत होता है और पृथ्वी उसकी पत्नी है। अन्य जगह पर्जन्य को द्यौ: का पुत्र बताया गया है, यद्यपि उस प्रारम्भिक स्थिति में यह नहीं सोचा जा सका कि इस प्रकार पर्जन्य अपनी माता का ही पति लग सकता है।

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