Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
This highest and immovable heaven, enveloping all the others and constituting the boundary between created things and the void, infinite space beyond, is the Empyrean, the heaven of fire, named also by the Platonizing philosophers the world of archetypes. Here "in a light whic...
"But to the preparations for our conjuration! First we are met with the question: Is the hour favorable? Do the aspects oppose? Aspect is the relative position of two planets to...
8. Part 8In the time of Boniface there were many Christian priests in Germany who sacrificed to Thor and baptized in the name of Jesus at the same time. Of especial influence on the rapi...
11. Part 11Terrestrial things, images of the celestial, 6; are composed of the coarsest matter, 6; are all under the control of special angels, 7; are also influenced by stars, planets and...
9. Part 9It might now be asked: How is it possible that God permits sorcery? The "Witch-hammer" answers that God has allowed, without any detriment to his perfections, the fall of angels...
10. Part 10From waking up in the morning to going asleep at night, such maxims were to be observed: putting the wrong foot first out of bed in the morning was as sure to be followed by ann...
1. Part 1This highest and immovable heaven, enveloping all the others and constituting the boundary between created things and the void, infinite space beyond, is the Empyrean, the heave...
5. Part 5We find ourselves in a dismal labyrinth of narrow, winding streets, now and then issuing into some open space before a guild-hall or a church. The objects which meet our gaze in...
3. Part 3The dualistic notion was not modified after entering Christianity, but intensified. The religion of Zoroaster, which presupposes a good first principle,[11] allows the evil whic...
4. Part 4The secular medical art--that relying upon natural means--as either superfluous, or as strongly tainted with heresy, must be despised. Dissection, in order to investigate the st...
2. Part 2But before this relief arrives, iniquity shall have reached its height. It is at work already within the sacred precincts of the Church itself. It is with greater difficulty tha...
6. Part 6"That the universe is a triple harmony, as the Godhead is a Trinity, you are aware. We live in the elemental world; over our head the celestial space, with its various spheres,...
12. Part 12Sunday, dies Solis, is the day of the Sun. Monday, dies Lunæ, is the day of the Moon. Tuesday, dies Martis, is the day of Mars, _i. e._, Tiw. Wednesday, dies Mercurii, is the da...