Jesus The Mage

The ancient rites have lost their effectiveness since Christianity appeared in the world. The Christian and Catholic religion, in fact, is the legitimate daughter of Jesus, king of the Mages. A simple scapular worn by a truly Christian person is a more in- vincible talisman than the ring and pentade of Solomon. The Mass is the most prodigious of evocations. Necromancers evoke the dead, the sorcerer evokes the devil and he shakes, but the Catholic priest does not tremble in evoking the living God. Catholics alone have priests because they alone have the altar and the offering, i.e. the whole of religion. To practise high Magic is to compete with the Catholic priesthood; it is to be a dissident priest. Rome is the great Thebes of the new initiation . . . It has crypts for its catacombs; for talismen, its rosaries and medallions; for a magic chain, its congregations; for magnetic fires, its convents; for centres of attraction, its confessionals; for means of expansion, its pulpits and the addresses of its bishops; it has, lastly, its Pope, the Man-God rendered visible. (Eliphas Levi, Le Grande Arcane ou I'occultisme devoile, Paris, 1921, pp. 67-68, 83-84)Discord.
----Circlethrice.com, Dec 20, 2018 — ... to Christian theology (and many people find a lot of power in the concept of Jesus the Mage) then this is the day to renew your commitment.
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* Jesus the Magician: Charlatan or Son of God? is a 1978 book by Morton Smith arguing that the historical Jesus was a magician who "sprang from a Galilean strain of Semitic paganism" (p. 68).
* Was Jesus a magician? | livescience.com | 2020
-Ancient art throughout the catacombs of Rome, painted on the walls and carved into stone coffins, shows Jesus as he multiplies loaves of bread, heals the sick and brings the dead back to life. These images are unified by one surprising element: In each of them, Jesus appears to brandish a wand. That led scholars to wonder: Did ancient Christians see Jesus as a magician? -- Was Jesus a magician? By Isobel Whitcomb - Live Science Contributor October 18, 2020
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* Valentin Tomberg
*Boris Mouravieff
* Magecraft; Magic; Jesuit Witchcraft; Christian Spellcraft; Jesuit Spellcraft; Jesuit Dark Magic; Pyromancy
* Spellcraft
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Category:Christianity