Comparative mythology corpus

Personified Lower Self As Animal Adversary

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Sufi The Mystics of Islam II. NEOPLATONISM / IV. BUDDHISM / CHAPTER I / THE PATH; lines 994-1104 high The nafs is described as the lower appetitive soul, seat of passion and lust, broadly equivalent to 'the flesh'; with the world and devil it obstructs union with God, and the Prophet calls it one’s worst enemy. record