A glossary of relevant Greek and Latin terms is provided. Nigidius Figulus, a scholarly friend of Cicero's and an occultist, shadowy savant though he be, belongs to a different category and problem for the history of magic. One may question Luck's undifferentiated prosopography of channelers and the undifferentiated genres of the sources. Luck includes some good, not well known, later passages from the neo-Platonist Plotinus, the theurgists Proclus and Maximus of Ephesus, and the Christian bishop Sophronius. He appropriately notes in closing that the Roman Catholic church still requires two attested miracles for canonization as Saint.
Little evidence survives from the losing, elided side.
Eventually, Augustine refashioned the Hebrew angels to serve as the useful good demons that paganism had once enjoyed. They were too useful to suppress utterly. Patristic sources describe monkish battles against demonic monkey-business. He generously defends, ca. At this time, the church showed more forebearance than the state and even granted asylum for some persecuted practitioners.