Natural or legitimate magic was, together with all other knowledge, a gift from God to Adam, who by peopling the world handed it down to posterity. This, as Psellus (De Daemonibus) and Proclus (De Magia) have noted, is no more than a more exact knowledge of the secrets of Nature, which by observing the courses and influence of the stars in the heavens, and the sympathies and antipathies subsisting between separate things, compares one thing with another and so effects marvels which to the ignorant seem to be miracles or illusions...Now thaumaturgy and natural magic are in themselves good and lawful, as any art is of itself good. But it may happen to become unlawful: first, when it is done for an evil purpose; second, when it gives rise to scandal, being thought to be done with the help of demons; third, when it involves any spiritual or bodily danger to the conjurer or the spectators. And it must be noted that, for every ten tricks of prestidigital illusion, these men perform one of pure sleight of hand, so as to foster the belief that there is no illusion or sorcery in anything that they do, but that all is done by pure skill and dexterity. Ulricus Molitor states that the devil is able to make one thing seem as if it were another; and Nider tells us that many other tricks are practised by conjurers. For this prestidigital art was thought by the giant demons before the Flood, and from them Ham learned it, and from him the Egyptians, then the Chaldeans and Persians, and so in succession.— Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium MaleficarumJoin our discord server, main topics are philosophy, theology and traditional sciences. https://discord.gg/Vvj62DxG
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>>23980698>For this prestidigital art was thought by the giant demons before the Flood, and from them Ham learned it, and from him the Egyptians, then the Chaldeans and Persians, and so in succession.so witchcraft comes from niggers?
>>23980890>t. filtered by geography
