Note 409 — Chapter VIII · PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE (B) THE MAGIAN SOUL
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The “devil-worshippers” in Armenia; M. Horten in Der neue Orient (March 1918). The name arose from the fact that they did not recognize Satan as a being, and accordingly derived the Evil, by a very complicated set of ideas, from the Logos itself. Under old Persian influences the Jews also busied themselves with the same problem—observe the difference between 2 Samuel xxiv, 1, and 1 Chron. xxi, 1.