By Will Parfitt
A pragmatic & experiential consultant to figuring out the Tree of existence, a brand new revised variation of the dwelling Qabalah, advised as a very good creation. 1995, mild creasing to hide
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1495), in his exposition of Peter Lombard’s Book of Sentences bk. 2, dist. 8, q. 2, explained demonic illusions by (i) the manipulation of matter to create illusory objects (ii) interference with the humours of sense, and (iii) by the rearranging of objects in the human memory. See Martin Plantsch, Opusculum de sagis maleficis (Pforzheim, 1507), sigs. c4r–5r. Compare Thomas Aquinas, Scriptum super sententiis, on the same passage as above. 34 See Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007), esp.
Angels in the Reformation The first generation of reformers believed in angels, good and bad. However, they simplified and in some respects modified medieval traditions on this topic. In this area as elsewhere, they purged away many non- or post-Scriptural encrustations of medieval culture. Relatively few reformers actually took the time and trouble to construct a systematic angelology. Luther, typically, scattered remarks on the subject prolifically throughout his oeuvre, but did not form a consistent or coherent picture.
That is to say, they represented the intellective and volitional embodiment of consciousness. Since (as Aquinas argued in the Summa contra gentiles) we knew that intelligences could exist independently of bodies (in the form of human souls) it followed that separated intelligences could exist without ever having been linked to bodies as their form. 31 Such intelligences were understood, in post-Thomist metaphysics, to be entirely incorporeal: they had no bodily substance whatever. Some unexpected consequences followed from the incorporeality of spirits.