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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8007088" data-attributes="member: 21169"><p><strong>Augustine of Hippo</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>On Christian Doctrine 2.35-36 (397)</strong></p><p></p><p>As a result of these delusions and deceptions it has come about that these superstitious and deadly kinds of divination actually do tell us of past and future things, which happen exactly as predicted… The fact that the ghost of the dead Samuel prophesied the truth to King Saul does not make the wickedness of summoning that ghost any less abhorrent. Nor did the fact that (in Acts) a soothsayer bore true testimony to the Lord’s apostles lead Paul to spare that spirit rather than cleanse the woman by rebuking the demon and driving it out.</p><p></p><p>So all the specialists in this kind of futile and harmful superstition, and the contracts, as it were, of an untrustworthy and treacherous partnership established by this disastrous alliance of men and devils, must be totally rejected and avoided by the Christian.</p><p></p><p><strong>City of God 8.19 (426)</strong></p><p></p><p>All the marvels of magicians… happen on the instructions of demons and by their efforts.</p><p></p><p><strong>City of God 10.8</strong></p><p></p><p>The magi of the pharaoh… were suffered to do some wonderful things that they might be vanquished all the more signally! They did these things by the magical arts and incantations to which the evil spirits or demons are addicted.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Caesarius of Arles | Sermon 54 (c. 530) </strong></p><p></p><p>Perhaps someone says: What are we to do for the magicians and seers often announce true omens to us? Concerning this the Scriptures warn and advise us: Even if they tell you the truth, do not believe them, “For the Lord your God trieth you, whether you fear him, or not.” Again you say: Sometimes many would run the risk even of death from the bite of a snake or some infirmity if there were no magicians. It is true, dearly beloved, that god permits this to the Devil, as I already mentioned above, to try Christian people. Thus, when they sometimes are able to recover from sickness by these impious remedies, men see some truth in them and afterwards more readily believe the Devil.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Isidore of Seville</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Etymologies 8.9.9 (c. 600-625) </strong></p><p></p><p>The magi are they who are usually called malefici because of the greatness of their guilt. They throw the elements into commotion, disorder men’s minds, and without any draught of poison they kill by the mere virulence of a charm.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Etymologies 8.9.31</strong></p><p></p><p>In all these the demonic art has arisen from a pestilential association of men and bad angels.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Halitgar of Cambrai | The “Roman” Penitential (c. 830)</strong></p><p></p><p>If anyone is a wizard, that is, if he takes away the mind of a man by the invocation of demons, he shall do penance for five years, one year on bread and water.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Hugh of St Victor | The Didascalion (c. 1120) </strong></p><p></p><p>Sorcerers are those who, with demonic incantations or amulets or any other execrable types of remedies, by the cooperation of devils and by evil instinct, perform wicked things. Performers of illusions are those who with their demonic art make sport of human senses through imaginative illusions about one thing’s being turned into another.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Thomas Aquinas</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Summa Contra Gentiles 3.105 (1259-1265) </strong></p><p></p><p>The magic arts derive their efficacy from another intelligent being, to whom the magician’s words are addressed… the persons by whose assistance such things are done have an evil mind.</p><p></p><p><strong>Summa Theologica, Supplement, Question 58 Article 2 (1265-1274)</strong></p><p></p><p>Some have asserted that witchcraft is nothing in the world but an imagining of men who ascribed to spells those natural effects the causes of which are hidden. But this is contrary to the authority of holy men who state that the demons have power over men's bodies and imaginations, when God allows them… By reason of their subtle nature they are able to do many things which we cannot; and those who induce them to do such things are called wizards.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina | letter (22nd August 1320)</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Sent on behalf of Pope John XXII to the inquisitors of Carcassonne and Toulouse</em></p><p></p><p>Pope John XXII fervently desires that the sorcerers, the infectors of God’s flock, flee from the midst of the House of God. He ordains and commits to you that, by his authority against them who make sacrifice to demons or adore them, or do homage unto them by giving them as a sign a written pact or other token; or who make certain binding pacts with them, or who make or have made for them certain images or other things which bind them to demons, or by invoking the demons plan to perpetrate whatever sorceries they wish… you can investigate and otherwise proceed against them by whatever means available.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Pope Gregory XI | letter (1374)</strong></p><p></p><p><em>To Jacques de Morée, inquisitor in France</em></p><p></p><p>A very large number of people (even on occasion ecclesiastics), unmindful of their salvation, invoke demons to the peril of their souls.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Pope Eugenius IV | letter (1437)</strong></p><p></p><p><em>To all inquisitors of heretical depravity</em></p><p></p><p>They sacrifice to demons, adore them, seek out and accept responses from them, do homage to them, and make with them a written agreement or another kind of pact through which, by a single word, touch, or sign, they may perform whatever evil deeds or sorcery they wish and be transported to or away from wherever they wish. They cure diseases, provoke bad weather, and make pacts concerning other evil deeds.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Pope Innocent VIII | Summis Desiderantes (1484) </strong></p><p></p><p>Many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the earth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8007088, member: 21169"] [B]Augustine of Hippo On Christian Doctrine 2.35-36 (397)[/B] As a result of these delusions and deceptions it has come about that these superstitious and deadly kinds of divination actually do tell us of past and future things, which happen exactly as predicted… The fact that the ghost of the dead Samuel prophesied the truth to King Saul does not make the wickedness of summoning that ghost any less abhorrent. Nor did the fact that (in Acts) a soothsayer bore true testimony to the Lord’s apostles lead Paul to spare that spirit rather than cleanse the woman by rebuking the demon and driving it out. So all the specialists in this kind of futile and harmful superstition, and the contracts, as it were, of an untrustworthy and treacherous partnership established by this disastrous alliance of men and devils, must be totally rejected and avoided by the Christian. [B]City of God 8.19 (426)[/B] All the marvels of magicians… happen on the instructions of demons and by their efforts. [B]City of God 10.8[/B] The magi of the pharaoh… were suffered to do some wonderful things that they might be vanquished all the more signally! They did these things by the magical arts and incantations to which the evil spirits or demons are addicted. [B]Caesarius of Arles | Sermon 54 (c. 530) [/B] Perhaps someone says: What are we to do for the magicians and seers often announce true omens to us? Concerning this the Scriptures warn and advise us: Even if they tell you the truth, do not believe them, “For the Lord your God trieth you, whether you fear him, or not.” Again you say: Sometimes many would run the risk even of death from the bite of a snake or some infirmity if there were no magicians. It is true, dearly beloved, that god permits this to the Devil, as I already mentioned above, to try Christian people. Thus, when they sometimes are able to recover from sickness by these impious remedies, men see some truth in them and afterwards more readily believe the Devil. [B]Isidore of Seville The Etymologies 8.9.9 (c. 600-625) [/B] The magi are they who are usually called malefici because of the greatness of their guilt. They throw the elements into commotion, disorder men’s minds, and without any draught of poison they kill by the mere virulence of a charm. [B]The Etymologies 8.9.31[/B] In all these the demonic art has arisen from a pestilential association of men and bad angels. [B]Halitgar of Cambrai | The “Roman” Penitential (c. 830)[/B] If anyone is a wizard, that is, if he takes away the mind of a man by the invocation of demons, he shall do penance for five years, one year on bread and water. [B]Hugh of St Victor | The Didascalion (c. 1120) [/B] Sorcerers are those who, with demonic incantations or amulets or any other execrable types of remedies, by the cooperation of devils and by evil instinct, perform wicked things. Performers of illusions are those who with their demonic art make sport of human senses through imaginative illusions about one thing’s being turned into another. [B]Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles 3.105 (1259-1265) [/B] The magic arts derive their efficacy from another intelligent being, to whom the magician’s words are addressed… the persons by whose assistance such things are done have an evil mind. [B]Summa Theologica, Supplement, Question 58 Article 2 (1265-1274)[/B] Some have asserted that witchcraft is nothing in the world but an imagining of men who ascribed to spells those natural effects the causes of which are hidden. But this is contrary to the authority of holy men who state that the demons have power over men's bodies and imaginations, when God allows them… By reason of their subtle nature they are able to do many things which we cannot; and those who induce them to do such things are called wizards. [B]William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina | letter (22nd August 1320)[/B] [I]Sent on behalf of Pope John XXII to the inquisitors of Carcassonne and Toulouse[/I] Pope John XXII fervently desires that the sorcerers, the infectors of God’s flock, flee from the midst of the House of God. He ordains and commits to you that, by his authority against them who make sacrifice to demons or adore them, or do homage unto them by giving them as a sign a written pact or other token; or who make certain binding pacts with them, or who make or have made for them certain images or other things which bind them to demons, or by invoking the demons plan to perpetrate whatever sorceries they wish… you can investigate and otherwise proceed against them by whatever means available. [B]Pope Gregory XI | letter (1374)[/B] [I]To Jacques de Morée, inquisitor in France[/I] A very large number of people (even on occasion ecclesiastics), unmindful of their salvation, invoke demons to the peril of their souls. [B]Pope Eugenius IV | letter (1437)[/B] [I]To all inquisitors of heretical depravity[/I] They sacrifice to demons, adore them, seek out and accept responses from them, do homage to them, and make with them a written agreement or another kind of pact through which, by a single word, touch, or sign, they may perform whatever evil deeds or sorcery they wish and be transported to or away from wherever they wish. They cure diseases, provoke bad weather, and make pacts concerning other evil deeds. [B]Pope Innocent VIII | Summis Desiderantes (1484) [/B] Many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the earth. [/QUOTE]
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