The Religious Use of Imagination
The Religious Use of Imagination
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Miracles have been discredited and good Christians distressed through unwitting confusion of miracles with magic. These difFer entirely as regards the human intermediary, the super- human doer and the work done. Magic claimed to he both science and art. As science it knew of secret resources in nature, and as art it had skill to use these. This was "white magic." PROBLEMS AS TO THE RULER 109 But the magician might also be able to compel obedience from superhuman beings ; and if this was through... a compact with evil spirits, his art was " black magic." Had Jesus cast out demons through Beelzebub their prince, he would not Imve been a. miracle-worker but a sorcerer, an adept in black magic. He needed to vindicate himself from such a charge. We find, then, three distinguishing characteristics in magic; first, the human practitioner makes out by use of mystic forms of words, by drawing geometrical figures, by burning aromatics, or even through mechani- cal contrivances, actually to compel and control occult forces, natural or supernatural ; secondly, the superhuman agent may be a minor divinity, a false god, but is always less than Deity, for magic never pretended to power over the Most High ; thirdly, the result is characteristic of the actors.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Miracles have been discredited and good Christians distressed through unwitting confusion of miracles with magic. These difFer entirely as regards the human intermediary, the super- human doer and the work done. Magic claimed to he both science and art. As science it knew of secret resources in nature, and as art it had skill to use these. This was "white magic." PROBLEMS AS TO THE RULER 109 But the magician might also be able to compel obedience from superhuman beings ; and if this was through... a compact with evil spirits, his art was " black magic." Had Jesus cast out demons through Beelzebub their prince, he would not Imve been a. miracle-worker but a sorcerer, an adept in black magic. He needed to vindicate himself from such a charge. We find, then, three distinguishing characteristics in magic; first, the human practitioner makes out by use of mystic forms of words, by drawing geometrical figures, by burning aromatics, or even through mechani- cal contrivances, actually to compel and control occult forces, natural or supernatural ; secondly, the superhuman agent may be a minor divinity, a false god, but is always less than Deity, for magic never pretended to power over the Most High ; thirdly, the result is characteristic of the actors.
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