For all struggles those are the hardest where the fight is continuous and victory rare. But as among the good Angels nothing can be without order, so among the bad all is disorder, and therefore they all indifferently follow these practices. Secondly, it may be argued that semen has no power of generation except as long as the heat of life is retained in it, and that this must be lost when it is carried great distances. But it is submitted that the true source of witchraft is the influence of the celestial bodies, and not devils. So all the works of witches are said to be miraculous only inasmuch as they are done by some cause unknown to us, and outside the order of created nature as known to us.
Women are intellectually like children.
The kingdom of the Romans endured much evil through Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, that worst of women. And not, further, that the Canon speaks of loose lovers who, to save their mistresses from shame, use contraceptives, such as potions, or herbs that contravene nature, without any help from devils. And such penitents are to be punished as homicides. For there are three degrees of witches. It must not be omitted that certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, believe and profess that they ride in the night hours on certain beasts with Diana , the heathen goddess, or with Herodias, and with a countless number of women, and that in the untimely silence of night they travel over great distances of land.