Church the, prepared for by election of the Jews, and founded by Christ,
14;
is one body; accumulates a wealth of supererogatory works, and grants
remission of guilt also to dead, 15;
a mole against the tide of sin, 16;
the kingdom of God on earth; her destiny universal extension, 18;
can not check the growth of sin; her emblem an ark, 22;
the only legitimate bodily physician, 68;
forbids at several councils the secular practice of medicine, 72.
Church bells, their power against the demons, 74.
Clemens of Alexandria, fights for the union of belief and thought, 41;
quoted on the mission of philosophy, 42;
rejects the doctrine of eternal punishment, 43.
Colquhoun quoted, 200.
Conception-billets described, 64-66.
"Conjurer of Hell," 148.
Contrast between state of Society in Middle Ages and Hellenic and later
European civilizations due to different theories of the universe,
29.
Cosmic Philosophy of Middle Ages, 1-28.
Cyprianus and others enter into league with Satan, 165.
Delrio, ascribes the origin of witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.
Demonianism, cured by the Church, 70.
Demons, fallen intelligences of the middle hierarchy, 11;
war against the good angels; cause storms and drouth; pervade the
elements, 12;
entice man, 13;
able to take full possession of men, 25.
Deutsche Theologie, quoted on the nature of evil, 26.
Differences between the dualism of Zoroaster and the Christian, 46-48.
Dissection prohibited, 71.
Dominion, order of angels, receives the commands of God, 5.
Dualism, of the Middle Ages affirmed to have been derived from Persia,
34;
its conflict with the unitarian notions of Greece the sum of history
between Cyrus and Constantine; wins a flank-position on the
Mediterranean upon the return of the Jews from captivity; its
demon-belief testified to by the many demoniacs in the time of
Christ, 35;
magic and belief upon authority its necessary consequences, 36;
derived from Zoroaster, 38;
spreads over the Roman provinces, 39;
advances against Europe, as Manicheism, 43;
is finally absolute and brings on the Dark Ages, 44;
is intensified after entering Christianity, 46,
and undergoes changes, 47, 48;
attacks the inner authority, 92.
Earth, encompassed by ten heavens, 1;
made a paradise for man; explains symbolically man's destiny, 8.
Egidius, opposes fire-worship, 171.
_Electrum magicum_, 138.
Elements, four prime in the constitution of all things, 3.
Eleusinian mysteries, fragments of, preserved in magic of the learned,
117.
Empire, third order of angels, ward off all hindrances, 5.
Empyrean, the heaven of fire; world of archetypes, 1;
remains after the final conflagration, 26.
Europe, belief, of in Middle Ages, 1;
defeats dualism, 36;
goes into the enemy's country, 37.
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