psychicgoldfish

My favorite part of Demian-for the hell of it

"The point is that this God of both Old and New Testament is certianly an extraordinary figure, but not what he purports to represent. He is all that is good, fatherly, beautiful, elevated, sentimental-true! But the world consists of something else besides. And what is left over is ascribed to the devil, this entire slice of the world, this entire half is supposed to be hushed up. In exactly the same way they parise God as the father of all life but simply refuse to say a word about our sexual life on which it's all based, describing it whenever possible as sinful, the work of the devil. I have no objection to worshiping this God Jehova, far from it. But I mean, we ought to consider everything sacred, the entire world, not merely this artificially seperated half! Thus alongside the divine service, we should also have a service for the devil. I feel that it would be right. Otherwise, you must create for yourself a God that contains the devil too and in front of which you needn't close your eyes when the most natural things in the world take place."

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