Demoniality by Candice Black & Ludivico Maria Sinistrari

Author:Candice Black & Ludivico Maria Sinistrari [Black, Candice & Sinistrari, Ludivico Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Occult
ISBN: 9781908694027
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2011-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Me puer Hebranis, Diuos Deus ipse gubernans,

Cedere sede iubet, tristemque redire sub orcum;

Aris ergo dehinc tacitis abscedito nostris.

“A Hebrew child, who sways the Gods, and himself a God, “Bids me quit my seat and return to the infernal regions; “Depart therefore from our altars, henceforward mute.”

So Nicephorus, I. 17; Suidas, and Cedrenus in his Com pendium Historiæ relate.

There were many more prodigies warning the Gentiles of the advent of the Son of God: they have been collected from various Authors, by Baronius, and are to be found in his Annals, and by Cornelius à Lapide in his Commentary upon Aggeus.

99. From all this it is clear that the Gentiles also belonged, as well as the Jews, to the fold of Christ, that is, to the same Church of the Faithful; it cannot therefore be correctly said that the words of Christ: “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” are exclusively applicable to the Gentiles, who had, in common with the Jews, the faith in God, the hope, prophecy, expectation, predictive prodigies and preaching of the Messiah.

100. I therefore maintain that by the words other sheep may very well be understood those rational Creatures or animals of whom we have been treating hitherto. They are, as we have pointed out, capable of salvation and damnation, and Jesus Christ is the Mediator between God and man, wherefore every rational Creature (for rational creatures attain to salvation in consideration of the infinite merits of Christ, through the grace He confers upon them, without which salvation is impossible of attainment), every rational creature, I say, must have cherished, at the same time as the faith in one God, the hope of the advent of Christ, and have had the revelation of His Nativity in the flesh and of the principles of the law of grace. Those were therefore the sheep which were not of that human fold, and which Christ had to bring; the sheep which were to hear His voice, that is, the announcement of His advent and of the evangelical doctrine, either directly through Himself, or through the Apostles; the sheep which, partaking with men of heavenly bliss, were to realize one fold and one shepherd.

101. To this interpretation, which I hold to be in no way improper, force is added by what we related, according to S. Jerome, of that little man who requested S. Antony to pray, for him and his fellows, unto the common God, whom he knew to have suffered in human flesh. For, it implies that they were aware of the advent and of the death of Christ, whom, as God, they were anxious to propitiate, since they sought, to that effect, the intercession of S. Antony.

102. Thereto tends also the fact mentioned by Cardinal Baronius ( Annals, 129), quoting Eusebius of Cesarea, Præparatio Euangelica, v. 9, and Plutarch De Defectu Oraculorum, as being one of the prodigies which took place at the time of the death of Christ. He relates that in the

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