But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
Sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars
Shall Have Their Part In The Lake Which Burns With Fire And Brimstone, which is the second death."
• Revelation 21:8
But
Elymas The Sorcerer withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
• Acts 13:8
But there was
a certain man called Simon, who previously Practiced Sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
• Acts 8:9
• The Death of Simon Magus
From :
Simon Magus - Wikipedia
• Cyril of Jerusalem (346 A.D.)
In the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies:
"Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, And Was Actually Careening Through The Air In A Chariot Drawn By Demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse."
• St. Justin Martyr - The First Apology - Chapter 26. - (100-165 A.D.)
CHURCH FATHERS: The First Apology (St. Justin Martyr)
"And, thirdly, because after Christ's ascension into heaven the devils put forward certain men who said that they themselves were gods; and they were not only not persecuted by you, but even deemed worthy of honours.
There was a Samaritan, Simon, a native of the village called Gitto, who in the reign of Claudius Cæsar, and in your royal city of Rome, Did Mighty Acts Of Magic, By Virtue Of The Art Of The Devils Operating In Him.
• Jannes and Jambres
Jannes and Jambres - Wikipedia
Then
The Magicians of Egypt did so with their Enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said.
• Exodus 7:22
Now As Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
• 2 Timothy 3:8
• The Witch / Medium of Endor in
1 Samuel 28 that uses
Necromancy.
Stand now With Your Enchantments
And The Multitude Of YOUR SORCERIES,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now The Astrologers, The Stargazers,
And The Monthly Prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
Behold, They Shall Be As Stubble,
The Fire Shall Burn Them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From The Power Of The Flame;
It shall not
be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
• Isaiah 47:12-14
Then the king gave the command to call
The Magicians, The Astrologers, The Sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
• Daniel 2:2
Now
the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry,
Sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
• Galatians 5:19-20
But Pharaoh also called the wise men and The Sorcerers;
So The Magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner With Their Enchantments.
• Exodus 7:11
So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, Practiced Witchcraft and Soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
• 2 Kings 17:16-17
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads,
To Use Divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver.
• Ezekiel 21:21
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, Anyone Who Practices Divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or A Sorcerer a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
• Deuteronomy 18:10-11
• St. Ephraim the Syrian (306-373 A.D):
"Regard Not Spells and Divinations, for that is communion with Satan."
• St. Cyril of Jerusalem (313-386 A.D.):
"Also give heed neither to observations of the stars nor auguries, nor omens, nor to the fabulous Divinations of the Greeks. Witchcraft, and Enchantment, and The Wicked Practices of Necromancy, admit not even to a hearing."
•
St. Cyril of Jerusalem (313-386 A.D.) :
"The watching of birds, Divination, omens, or amulets, or charms written on leaves, Sorceries, or Other Evil Arts, And All Such Things, are services of the devil; Therefore Shun Them."
• Canon 36 of The Council of Laodicea (363–364 A.D.) states:
"That members of the Sacerdocy and Clerics Must Not Be Magicians Or Enchanters, or mathematicians (i.e., numerologists), or astrologers, or make what are called amulets, which are shackles for their souls; accordingly, we have bidden those wearing these things to be thrown out of the Church."
CHURCH FATHERS: Synod of Laodicea (4th Century)
• St. Basil's canon 65 (330-379 A.D.) states:
"As for Anyone Practicing Incantation Or Sorcery, he shall be allotted the time of A Murderer, it being proportioned to him in such a manner as though he had convicted himself of each sin for a year."
• St. Basil's canon 72 (330-379 A.D.) states:
"Anyone who places himself in the hands of fortune-tellers or any other such persons professing to foresee future events or to discover the whereabouts of lost property, of persons in hiding, etc., he shall be sentenced to the same penalty as is prescribed for murderers and shall do the same length of time and the same penances."
•
Canon 24 of The Council of Ancyra (314 A.D.) states:
"As for those who are Practicing Divination and continuing the customs of the heathen, and who are introducing persons into their homes with a view to Discovering Sorceries, or even with a view to purification, let them fall under the Canon of five years in accordance with the fixed degrees; three years of kneeling, and two years of prayer, without oblation."
CHURCH FATHERS: Council of Ancyra (A.D. 314)
• Council of Elvira, 305 A.D. states :
"It has been decreed that those who in adult age after receiving Baptism shall go into the pagan temples to worship idols, which is a deadly crime And The Height Of Wickedness, shall not be admitted to Communion even at death."
CANONS OF THE CHURCH COUNCIL ELvira (Granada) ca. 309 A. D.
• St. John the Faster's canon 32 deals with people professing
Enchantery or Sorcery.
To those professing Enchantry or Sorcery, we curtail the economy to three years of penitence, provided they cheerfully consent to attach supreme importance to fasting every day, and to subsist on hard and dry food after the ninth hour and to live as inartificially as possible; and, furthermore, to execute two hundred and fifty adoratory salutations, reverently resting their forhead upon the ground. On a par with these persons we also set those women who make amulets and carry on the occupation of fortune-telling.
Interpretation :
Enchanters and Sorcerers, as well as those women who make amulets and tell fortunes, are canonized to forgo Communion for three years by the present Canon, and they have to eat dry food until after the ninth hour, and to eat only enough to subsist on, and to perform 250 metanies every day.
Canons of the Holy Fathers
Use The Sign Of The Cross as A Weapon against it :
• Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373 A.D.)
(
On The Incarnation Of The Word - 31)
"By The Sign Of The Cross All Magic Is Stopped, and All Witchcraft Brought To Nothing"
• Athanasius - Life of St Anthony - par 78 (296-373 ad)
"But we by the mention of Christ crucified put all demons to flight, whom you fear as if they were gods. Where The Sign Of The Cross Is, Magic Is Weak And Witchcraft Has No Strength."
• Athanasius of Alexandria (269-373 A.D.)
"By The Signing Of The Holy And Life-Giving Cross, devils and various scourges are driven away.For it is without price and without cost and praises him who can say it. The holy fathers have, by their words, transmitted to us, and even to the unbelieving heretics, how the two raised fingers and the single hand reveal Christ our God in His dual nature but single substance. The right hand proclaims His immeasurable strength, His sitting on the right hand of the Father, and His coming down unto us from Heaven.
Again, by the movement of the hands to our right the enemies of God will be driven out, as the Lord triumphs over the Devil with His inconquerable power, rendering him dismal and weak."
• Athanasius of Alexandria - Life of St Anthony - Par 23 (296-373 A.D.)
"The demons, therefore, if they see all Christians, and monks especially, labouring cheerfully and advancing, first make an attack by temptation and place hindrances to hamper our way, to wit, evil thoughts. But we need not fear their suggestions, for by prayer, fasting, and faith in the Lord their attack immediately fails. But even when it does they cease not, but knavishly by subtlety come on again. For when they cannot deceive the heart openly with foul pleasures they approach in different guise, and thenceforth shaping displays they attempt to strike fear, changing their shapes, taking the forms of women, wild beasts, creeping things, gigantic bodies, and troops of soldiers. But not even then need you fear their deceitful displays.
For they are nothing and quickly disappear, especially if a man fortify himself beforehand with faith and The Sign Of The Cross."
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