The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 299
Published in 1530. 278 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. All in all, we find that a religion of magic involves abelief in witchcraft. Where sacraments are employed asexorcisms, every attempt at exercising extraordinarypowers is regarded not as impossible but as a lack of loy-alty. Hence heresy and… … Exorcising by the Cross*(Bas-relief on a water vessel of the seventh century found near Pisama.) The belief in and the prosecution of witchcraft arethe necessary result of a firmly established religion ofmagic. All the religions of magic are naturally intol-erant. As soon as one of them triumphs…
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