Bi Shumin's work: The Battle of Angels and Demons

One day, I suddenly thought about doing a poll on the number of angels and demons. First ask a little boy, do you say there are many angels or demons? The child thought about it and said, angels are the kind of little flying man with wings, and the devil is the kind of green-faced fangs that want to be fried in the frying pan? I think the impression in his mind may be a combination of East and West, angels are foreign, but devils seem to be domestic. Correctively, angels are good gods, very beautiful. The devil is the devil king, the ugly kind. To put it simply, it is a person with boundless mana, both good and bad. The little boy was solemnly silent for a moment and said, I think there are still many devils.

I asked, how many are there?

The child replied, I think, there will be 100 devils, there will be one angel.

So I knew that in the eyes of a child, the ratio of demons and fairies was one hundred to one.

Ask the adult woman again. They say that when babies are born, they are angels. As people grow up, they walk on the path of the devil. Devil's billets are more abundant in men, and demonic nature is like a beard, which grows stronger with age. In middle-aged men, almost all the elements of the devil can be found. In old age, some people will gradually become kinder and restore a little angelic taste. It's just that it's an old angel, an angel who has grown so old that he has no power.

I asked again, how many devils and angels do you think there are?

The women said that if you count by time, you encounter the devil about 10 times, and then there will be an angel. There will never be too many angels. Where angels gather, it is heaven. Do you see the world around us like heaven?

In the face of this iron logic, I was speechless, only silent. So I asked the man, the kind of prime-aged man whom the woman called the most demonic. They replied cheerfully, Angels, mostly children and women, are all incapable and weak, ethereal and ignorant. Like the transparent soft fat inside the mussel shell, it tastes delicious but is vulnerable. The world can never be made up of angels, too sweet and too cowardly. Devils are generally males, and although they look ugly, they are cloudy and strong. The wind and rain between the palm fingers are called, and the energy is great.

I said, what about quantities? By your estimation, what is the share of the world, each angel and the devil?

The man smiled and said that quantity is actually useless, it depends on the quality. A devil can make a dozen angels cry. I stubbornly asked, quantity plus quality, there is always a composite index, right? Almost everything can now be represented numerically, from the curve of the human body to the equivalent of the atomic bomb.

The man said decisively that there must be many angels in the world, but in the ultimate comprehensive strength, the devil is "1" and the angel is "0". Of course, "0" is also a kind of existence, but when it is isolated from the world, there is nothing, nothing. Does not represent either, does not symbolize the entity. All that remains is bleakness and nothingness. No matter how many zeros are superimposed, it will not help, and the circle will be stacked in vain, and a beautiful black well will be stacked in vain, and the skirt of the angel will no longer flow and the love bow and arrow full of red rust will be nestled. But if there is a "1" commander, the situation is very different. The devil is a horse that moves the whole world forward, and the angel is just a magnificent wheel, it cannot open the way, only to follow it with a rut, covering the horseshoe prints of the trek with clear ruts. Later people, pointing to the fading wheel marks, said, Look! It's history.

From this man's mouth, I heard about the greatest disparity between angels and demons, zero and infinity.

The last thing I asked was an old man. He said kindly that there was no distinction between demons and angels in the world, but the embodiment of good and evil that man imagined. Their home is our hearts. The wise man has already replied that man, man, half angel, half devil.

I say that it means being in someone at some point. What I want to ask is that throughout the ages, looking at the macroscopic view, is there more devils or more angels in the crowd? If all the people are crushed by machines, centrifuged and precipitated, filtered by filter paper, separated by instruments, and molded into angels by the factors of goodness, and the scum of evil is crushed into devils, each variety is pure and well-made. Re-lining them up in a clear line, which one do you think snakes longer?

The old man did not look at me, and with the wisdom of the old man he repeated firmly, half angel, half devil.

In any case, this is the most optimistic estimate of the number of angels in all the answers I have collected—two-one plus five. I went to look up the book again, wanting to see the analysis and judgment of the predecessors on this issue. I was so lonely that I only found foreign sources, perhaps because the word "angel" was originally imported.

The earliest records are found in the 4th century AD. Saint Atanasi, the Christian philosopher, bishop of Alexandria and an opponent of the Arian sect, once said: "There are devils everywhere in the air."

His contemporary, San Macario, called the devil "as many as wasps."

In 1467, Alfonso. morality. Spina believes that the total number of demons at that time was 133316666. (How precise!) The devil's household police are really responsible. )

A hundred years later, in the middle of the 16th century, John F. Kennedy. Veyer believes that the number of devils is not so much, and there are 666 groups of devils, each group of 6666 devils, ruled by 66 devil kings, with a total of 44435622.

With the end of the medieval age of obscurantism, the specific number of devils was lost in the light of science and no longer appeared in books.

What about angels? What was the population of angels in the days of the devil? This is the crux of the matter.

According to relevant records, when the number of demons was at its peak in the 15th century, when it reached 130 million, the number of angels was exactly 400 million!

I sighed in front of this number.

In the history of mankind, due to the obscurity of knowledge and the deified imagination, countless stories of devils and angels have been sketched in legends, in misty imaginations, in barren matter, in the shock of the power of nature, in absurdity and fantasy, angels and devils live and multiply, fight life and death, leaving countless stories to sing and cry. Ancestors were naïve and sincere. Their basic judgment of the world still shocks us today. Even during the period when the devil was at its most prosperous, the number of angels was 3 times that of the devil. That is to say, even in the darkest days, angels still occupy an overwhelming majority of the world.

When I tell others the statistics of the devil and the angels, for some reason, many people appear to be lost, and ask in doubt, angels, have there really been 75% of them?

I asked, "How many angels do you think there should be?"

They replied that they had always thought that there must be many more demons in the world than angels!

Why are we used to bumping into the devil? Why is it widely believed that angels are powerless? Why is it that the more children who know nothing about the world, the more they think of the devil as invincible? Why are women afraid of the devil, and men happy to think of themselves as devils? Why is it that when the old world is approaching, the number of angels will gradually increase in the valuation? Why is it that when science is bright and human beings have never been stronger, they know that there are no devils and angels in the world, but instead make great strides backwards on the issue of good and evil, and lose their yearning for and trust in the beautiful things in the world?