He also says that the reason magic practitioners are successful in summoning demons with their elaborate rituals is not because the elaborate rituals actually do anything. Its just that it suits the demons to play along because these elaborate rituals pull the magic practitioner further away from god by convincing them that the stars have power (and so they begin to worship the stars.)
curious what he is pulling from (apparently Aquinas) but apparently gold is created by the sun hitting a place where "the mineral virtue is strong"
think he basically argues they should be removed from their positions unless they fall in line with this belief.
He also says that the reason magic practitioners are successful in summoning demons with their elaborate rituals is not because the elaborate rituals actually do anything. Its just that it suits the demons to play along because these elaborate rituals pull the magic practitioner further away from god by convincing them that the stars have power (and so they begin to worship the stars.)
Author has declared that clergy that disagree with his assessment on witches (either those that believe they don't exist, or those that teach they are harmless) are heretics.
But apparently there are three levels of suspicion in regards to heresy: light, heavy, and violent. and he seems reluctant to apply "violent" suspicion to clergy and is trying to logic out how much of a heretic these people are basically.
think he basically argues they should be removed from their positions unless they fall in line with this belief.
The author is responding to a passage of Canon Law known as "Canon Episcopi" and that too sounds lowkey fascinating.
Short version is this text is dealing with a supposed phenomena happening to witches in which they are led by the goddess Diana on horseback to some meeting place.
author has to deal with this text because it argues that witches don't actually do anything per se but that they merely get visions that they are doing things. and being an inquisitor that wants to persecute witches that view doesn't suit him obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Episcopi
Author has declared that clergy that disagree with his assessment on witches (either those that believe they don't exist, or those that teach they are harmless) are heretics.
But apparently there are three levels of suspicion in regards to heresy: light, heavy, and violent. and he seems reluctant to apply "violent" suspicion to clergy and is trying to logic out how much of a heretic these people are basically.
re: cw: torture
me, about to be burned at the stake: ah yes, this is very gender isn't it.
The author is responding to a passage of Canon Law known as "Canon Episcopi" and that too sounds lowkey fascinating.
Short version is this text is dealing with a supposed phenomena happening to witches in which they are led by the goddess Diana on horseback to some meeting place.
author has to deal with this text because it argues that witches don't actually do anything per se but that they merely get visions that they are doing things. and being an inquisitor that wants to persecute witches that view doesn't suit him obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Episcopi
cw: torture
Note that in the past such people were punished with two sorts of execution, either the application of claws to tear their bodies apart or exposure to the beasts so that they would be eaten alive. Now, however, they are burned alive, perhaps because of their being female.'
trying to figure out what being burned alive has to do with being female.
re: cw: torture
me, about to be burned at the stake: ah yes, this is very gender isn't it.
There are also others who prey on the lives of the innocent through the magical art and turn the minds of women to lust
me irl 
cw: torture
Note that in the past such people were punished with two sorts of execution, either the application of claws to tear their bodies apart or exposure to the beasts so that they would be eaten alive. Now, however, they are burned alive, perhaps because of their being female.'
trying to figure out what being burned alive has to do with being female.
Though the latter happens very rarely in the Church since it has the meritorious Sacrament of Matrimony, they say that this happens among the infidels, since the demon perceives that he has a just title to them. For instance, in his Commentary on Pronouncements, Bk. 4, Peter de Palude tells a story about a man who betrothed himself to an idol and nonetheless contracted a marriage with a certain young woman. He was unable to know her because of the Devil, who always interposed himself in an assumed body.
Husband: I consent
Wife: I consent
Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Devil: I don't
There are also others who prey on the lives of the innocent through the magical art and turn the minds of women to lust
me irl
Apparently if a witch does a witchcraft to your marriage prior to you consummating it there is no way to undo the spell.
Though the latter happens very rarely in the Church since it has the meritorious Sacrament of Matrimony, they say that this happens among the infidels, since the demon perceives that he has a just title to them. For instance, in his Commentary on Pronouncements, Bk. 4, Peter de Palude tells a story about a man who betrothed himself to an idol and nonetheless contracted a marriage with a certain young woman. He was unable to know her because of the Devil, who always interposed himself in an assumed body.
Husband: I consent
Wife: I consent
Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Devil: I don't
re: lewd, kink
Chapter Four is about the method by which they subordinate themselves to incubus demons. In this chapter, there is also a treatment of how their numbers are increased as a result of them and whether it is always with an emission of seed that the incubus accosts the sorceress, and whether at one time rather than another, and like- wise about the location, and whether they visibly carry out these filthy acts, with greater or lesser sexual enjoyment, and whether incubi accost only women begotten of the filthy acts of sorceresses.
Apparently if a witch does a witchcraft to your marriage prior to you consummating it there is no way to undo the spell.
Aster