Part 13

Pentecost, its gifts transmitted, 91.

Peter de Abano, author of an important question, 97.

Perpetuum mobile naturae, method of producing, 130, 131.

Pierre Delancre complains against witch-knots, 216.

Philosophy, system of possible within the Church, 20; adherents of the scholastic may use Aristotle's dialectics, 21.

Planetary world, next beneath that of fixed stars, 2; consisting of seven heavens, 2.

Planets guided by angels, 3; influence the elements and man, 134, 135.

Plotinus, tries to restore Neoplatonism, 40.

Pope, feudal lord of emperors, 18; determines the true inductions of philosophy, 21; Sergius III., 63; Urban Vitus, 65.

Pope John XXII., complains that his life is endangered by sorcerers, 177.

Pope Innocent VIII., puts forth a bull against the spread of sorcery, 178.

Popular maxims of superstition, 208-211.

Power, from a spiritual source only, 3; communicated to the heavens and the earth by angels, 3.

Power, order of angels, guide the stars and planets, 5.

Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, the third and lowest hierarchy, hold supremacy over terrestrial things, 5, 6.

Principalities, part of the lowest hierarchy of angels, guardian spirits of nations, 6.

Proclus, last Neoplatonician, 44.

Pythagoras, glorified as fit to rank with Christ in miraculous gifts, 40; believed the universe founded on numbers, 124.

Rain-processions in the Middle Ages, 74.

Reason, darkened by apostacy, 13.

"Recognitiones divi Clementis ad Jacob.," quoted, 165.

Reformation, retains somewhat of the Church-magic, 92.

Relics, their magical use, 66.

Remigius, ascribes witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.

Renaissance, overthrew the darkness and superstition of the Middle Ages, 222-223.

Saints, intercession of, more effective than that of Seraphim, 17; not disturbed by misery of the damned, 27; have control over various diseases, 69.

Satan, the Judaized Ahriman, 35.

Saturn, belonging to the first of the planetary spaces, 2.