"Symbolism and Prophesy: The World of Tarot," at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich through Nov. 26, will feature cards from the Renaissance to the present, bearing allegorical images representing death, the devil, God and the world that are also used for fortunetelling.
There is good, bad, devil, god, whatever.
"He'll fight man, beast, devil or god".
Early Christianity blamed the devil and God's anger for man's suffering, with depression the result of the struggle against worldly temptations and sins of the flesh.
"There exists good and bad in the world, there exists the devil and God," he went on, turning a serpent's fang in his rough fingers.
On "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me," released last year, they came up with dense, layered songs that matched the emotional intricacies of their lyrics.
Barṣīṣā, panic-stricken, again succumbs to the devil, renouncing God in return for safety, only to be mocked by Satan, in the words of the Qurʾān (59 16), "I am free of thee; I fear God, the Lord of the Worlds".
Who wouldn't make a pact with the devil when God can be personified by someone who had a hit with You've Got a Friend?
She effortlessly switches from the quotidian to the mystic; indeed, real-life circumstances – "solitary thinkin' and lonesome drinkin'", as she puts it – seem to necessitate her encounters with the devil and God.
For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever".
As Joseph Campbell put it, "A devil is a god who has not been recognized" (An Open Life).
