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The Celtic is a neopagan religious movement ricostruzionistico Live from the late nineteenth century, but only emerged in the seventies of the twentieth century. Tend to resume the ancient Celtic Celtic religion, practiced in the geographical areas of ancient Gaul, Ireland and Britain before sopraggiungesse Christianity. It is a pantheistic religious system, animistic and polytheistic, whose theology differs according to the main currents in which it is divided. With the emergence and spread of the mysterious group between the years 1970 and 1980, Celtic has been influenced and in turn shaped the philosophies, New Age and Wicca, which has particularly affected the druidista doctrine, one branch celtiste. Among the first few groups were to approach a purely Celtic; only very recently celtiste religions have undergone a gradual systematization and institutionalization, and the process is still ongoing.

The history of Celtic began in the eighteenth century, specifically in 1781 with the founding of the Ancient Order of Druids, a secret and initiatory. The groups appeared during this period rarely had close links with the ancient Celtic religion, it should be brought back to the same strand that unites the wide range of underground mystery religions that appeared during the twentieth century. The first members of the neo-paganism that is going to be organized to provide a relatively defined religiosity celtista were members of congregations appeared only in the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century. The doctrines of these groups contained several elements of Celtic, many of whom would become the nucleus of a future unified philosophy celtista. This period and these groups are often referred to collectively label Protoceltismo, because of the still widespread doctrinal vagueness that characterized them. Then, with the spread of the means of mass communication, the protoceltisti began to be felt, leading to a rapid growth of the movement. Although the current senistrognatana present the typical elements of the charged reconstructionism [7], other groups are based less on the historical roots of religion, and tend to the introduction of reformers. In the period the first issue of Wiccan and Celtic influences newager (these are the main, but there are many more detectable) went well in the current form of Druidism, the majority today, within which a third branch was formed in 1985, or Keltrianesimo. Tended to a few of the modern celtisti consider it important the link with the old tradition of Celtic Paganism, most druidista recognizes the need for innovation and development of religion celtista in harmony with the context of modern society, recognizing in this way 'implementation in its doctrine of teachings, rituals and practices new and not necessarily Celtic.



The Celtic is a religion essentially animistic and pantheistic, keeping in the tradition of the ancient pagan Celtic religion. The results in many areas in animism, polytheism with the depiction of gods give this humanoid. The pictures are just symbols, however, since the deities are conceived as cosmic forces and identified with the more subtle mechanisms that give rise to the basic processes of nature that give shape to the energy behind the universe. The energy that pervades and constitutes all things is considered divine, and from this emerges a view of nature itself as sacred. For since nature is enlivened by the spirit and cosmic energy and is itself a constituent part thereof, together with demonstration and adoption of this. The deities are essentially the essences that starting from the energy substrate of the world mean that this is going to aggregate, giving birth to matter. It is this concept that lies in the theology of pantheism celtista. One described is the orthodox view, namely accomunante all variations due to the tradition senistrognatana [8], Druidism and Keltrianesimo openly deviate from that vision by embracing a theology and cosmology that keeps so pantheism, but also encompasses the vision parallel unitary and dualistic view of Wicca. The current and the druidista keltriana of Celtic recognize it as an indication of the One God and the cosmic energy that emanates the universe, but in a way similar to the Wiccan religion (which are in some of its current is also monistic) see the One as the source of manifestation of the two opposite poles its complementarity gives rise to all things, and the two principles of eternal interaction between all that exists is the God and Goddess. The Goddess is, as in Wicca, often seen as manifested in three aspects, representing the three phases of human life and the processes that shape the circular and cyclical nature of the world and of man (one of which is the reincarnation). The Goddess is in addition considered the Mother Goddess, thus giving a greater role than that of God, his wife and son often. The Goddess is presumed to be the first in many circumstances, the principle owner, identifying himself with the One and then issuing the pole also speculate that well represented by God the Mother Goddess is Nature, being the entire cosmos and the energy-generating existence, and thus comes to be the same as the natural and conceive of all things, and cycles whose motion gives life to the world. The Keltrianesimo theological approach has a tendency to partially suiteismo. It gives value to the position of man in the world, and the divinity of all humanity as part of nature. Central celtisti cults of all kinds are obviously the traditional gods, among which stand out Tutatis, Morrigan, and Druidism in particular in identifying it with the God Cernunnos.

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Ezra Pound - Ezra Weston Loomis Pound's full name - (Hailey, October 30, 1885 - Venice, November 1, 1972) was an American poet who lived mostly in Europe and was a key player modernism and early twentieth-century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements, mainly of the imago and Vorticism.

If a man is not willing to take some risk to his ideas or his ideas are worth nothing or he is not worth anything.



* The best government is (obviously?) That enables the best intelligence of the nation.
* You can not criticize and be diplomatic at the same time.
* There is no intelligence without emotion. Can there be emotion without much intelligence, but it is something that does not concern us.
* A new knowledge is an experiment, a new friend is a risk.
* I believe in the ideas that become actions.

* Adolf Hitler was a story of Joan of Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. And how many martyrs, brought with it extreme views. (From an interview with Edd Johnson Chicaco Sun, May 9, 1945) * The temple
is sacred because it is not for sale. (From Canti, n. 97)

The temple is holy Because it is not for sale.

* Faith is a cramp, paralysis, atrophy of the mind in certain positions. (From Selected Prose, 1921) * The Art
never asks anyone to do nothing, thinking nothing, be nothing. There exists as a tree, you can see, you can sit in its shade, you can pick bananas, you can cut firewood, you can do absolutely everything that you want. (From the serious artist)
* I can not imagine how a serious artist can never be satisfied with their work. (From Hell) * Do not use
no superfluous word, no adjective which does not disclose anything. (From Letters of Ezra Pound)
* I speak of beauty. There he begins to discuss a wind of April. When he meets you feel revived. You feel revived when they meet in Plato thought that running fast, or a nice profile on a statue. (From the serious artist)
* This is my advice to young people have curiosity. (From an interview on Italian television, June 7, 1968)
* A small amount of money that changes hands quickly will do the job a great deal that moves slowly. (Selected from prose)
* Some books are a treasure, a foundation, read once, will serve you for the rest of life.
* It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial signs indicate that you should write an apocalypse. It is obvious to find people to hell or purgatory.
* It is very difficult for a person to believe in something strongly enough, so that what it means to believe something without bothering others.
* There are two types of ignorance, we might call natural and artificial. At the moment I would say that the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
* "human greatness" is not an energy policy, combined with the straight, direct and agile with the intellect, is incompatible with those who lie to themselves and indulge in petty fictions.
* The bad critic criticizes the poet, not poetry.
* Genius is the ability to see ten things where the ordinary man sees only one, and where the man of talent sees two or three.
* Thinking divides, combines the feel.
* The secret of teaching has something to do with theater. Imitate simply the best teacher you have known.
* Culture is not lack of memory. The culture begins when you can do something without effort.
* The word communicates the thought, the tone and emotions. * Health
countless kills bacteria.
* True education must in ultimately be reserved to men who insist on knowing: the rest is pasture.
* Your mind and you yourselves are our Sargasso Sea.
* The apparition of these faces in the crowd: and who was not irascible.
* You can not do a good economy with bad ethics.
* Do not use any words that you can not say under stress.
* If a man is not willing to take some risks to their own ideas, or ideas are worth nothing or that he is not worth anything.
* All great art is born from the metropolis.
* All major changes are simple.
* A civilized man is one who gives a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a healthy balance of values.
* A man of genius can not help but be born where he was born.
* One of the pleasures of middle age is to discover which one was right, and that he had more reason than he realized at the age of seventeen or twenty-three years.

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José Antonio Primo de Rivera (Madrid, April 24, 1903 / Alicante, 20 November 1936), high-bourgeois origins, was the son of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, who was dictator of Spain from 1923 to 1930. José Antonio was a lawyer and was editor of the far-right newspaper El Beam "and the magazine" ABC ". In 1933 he founded the English Falange (or Phalanx Riviera, then after his death, even of Christ the King or the Sacred Heart of Jesus), who had to make the program as Spain was a call to inspiration Fascist transcendent class struggle. In general elections in the spring of 1936, the Falange won only 0.7% of the vote, but grew rapidly in July and already had 40,000 members enrolled. Primo de Rivera was a supporter of the military revolt of July 1936 against the Republican government during the English Civil War the Falange became the dominant political movement among the nationalists. It was the same de Rivera, who wrote the lyrics of the Phalange "Cara al Sol". In 1936 the Republican government outlawed the Falange was in charge of disorderly conduct, including the attempted murder of law professor Luis Jiménez de Asua, and arrested the head, even de Rivera, and locked in the first Model Prison in Madrid and then from June 5, in Alicante, where it was when it implemented the July 18 military coup by Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco, who started the Civil War (1936-39 ). José Antonio was a prisoner at Alicante until he was executed November 20, 1936. The regime of Francisco Franco developed a personality cult around de Rivera. He was a "martyr of the Crusade" (see "El Ausente" ... "The Absent"). On the outer walls of each parish was placed on the orders of English Franco (El Caudillo) a plaque commemorating local soldiers killed Duante the Civil War ("Caídos por Dios y por España "..." Fallen for God and Spain "). The name of de Rivera was the first in the list on each plate and the name of José Antonio became very popular in Spain. José Antonio's sister, Pilar Primo de Rivera founded the Sección Femenina (the women's branch of the Falange). The Sección Femenina played a huge rebuilding job systematically all the different traditions of the English regions (gastronomy, music, dances, etc...) Franco ordered the building (through the forced labor of political prisoners) of the mausoleum of the Valle de los Caídos, where today lies the body of de Rivera. Nearly forty years later (in 1975), November 20 (the day when he was shot José Antonio), Franco died (he had been kept alive through aggressive treatment for this) and his body was buried next to that of de Rivera.
José Antonio did not consider his motion (called nazionalsindacalismo) as a fascist, because the two had in common only the exaltation of the national concept. On November 20, remains a symbolic date for the extreme right and English European. The last statue remained in Spain of Primo de Rivera was removed from Guadalajara in March 2005 after the government decided it was not suitable for a democratic state. There was also concern that had become a pilgrimage site for right-wing extremists from all over the continent (... and it was true).
The political movement known as Falange Espanola (y de las JONS) was born, as I wrote above, in the early '30s of the Falange in Madrid by José Antonio Primo de Rivera with the Juntas de las Ofensivas Sindacalistas Nacional (oppunto JONS) Onesino of Redondo Ortega and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos.





José Antonio Primo de Rivera and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos

The movement, who called nationalist-unionist, proposed a revolutionary type of program, in part inspired by the nationalist movements / European fascist era, which combined the respect for traditional values \u200b\u200bof English historians with a strong policy of social upheaval marked by the establishment a type of corporate law, the socialization of the means of production and overcome the parliamentary democracy in favor of new tools of popular participation ("vertical totalitarian"). He always had a strong nationalist, anti-socialist and anti-liberal. The new grouping was presented March 4, 1934 at the Teatro Calderon of Valladolid as a result of the previous February 13 between Primo de Rivera and Ramiro Ledesma. The symbols of the new movement were the red and black flag of JONS and the yoke, with a bundle of five arrows, a traditional emblem of the first Christian King-Catholics. In October 1934 the first National Council was held in Madrid during the Jose Antonio was appointed as head and were only adopted the famous Camisa Azul (blue shirt), as uniform and salute. Then it was founded "Arriba Espana" the official organ of the movement. The political fortunes of the Falange proceeded in phases until the February 1936 elections won by the Popular Front, and from that moment on the militants of the movement grew steadily from 40,000 in 1936 to over 500,000 in 1939 (this at the end of the Civil War). As I said, March 14, 1936 José Antonio was arrested by secret police after his election in the district of Cuenca had been invalidated by depriving him of parliamentary immunity. On 18 July with the Alzamiento (the coup) military led by General Francisco Franco, Emilio Mola and José Sanjurjo outbreak of the Civil War and the subsequent November 20, after a summary trial of dubious legality, held between 13 and Nov. 18, Jose Antonio was shot to death in prison Alicante, where he was detained. In the subsequent months fell all the other leaders of the movement, none of whom survived the war. The political weakness of the new leadership encouraged the unification of the decree of April 19, 1937, under which France joined under his command nationalist movements, merging the Falange and the Traditionalist Communion in the new single party Falange Espanola de las JONS Tradicional y "of which proclaimed itself (undeservedly) National Head (if not the stature neither moral nor political). Most of the Falange, interest or fear, he accepted the confluence of the "Movimiento unificada" by Franco, while those who resisted were arrested, tried, and some executed. The head of the movement, Manuel Hedilla (formerly loyal to de Rivera and his secretary), who refused to recognize the political authority of France, was sentenced to death for high treason. The sentence was later commuted (not to make trouble), but Hedilla remained in jail until the late '40s. The activities of political dissidents continued Phalangists underground until the death of Franco. The Falange (now all of 'Franco') was active in the Civil War with its military units, which were, in general, the shock troops of the National Division. Then Franco, who was neither ever became Phalange, it gradually sterilized pulses, using the movement and its ideology to its own use and to symbolically oppose the socialist ideology, Marxist and liberal thought that the enemy of the English tradition. So in the long period of his dictatorship, the Falange and its founder and only empty symbols are always in support of an autocratic power and gross. The social and political program of the Falange was never achieved, even in small part, and after the late forties, with the gradual marginalization of Serrano Suner (Franco's brother and head of the Phalange) and his men did not occupy the most significant positions of power and government. Although Spain is said to neutral during the Second World War, 'free' English volunteers (Mexicans, Argentines, Uruguayans, Paraguayans) framed in the Falange, fought alongside the Nazis on the eastern front against the Bolsheviks.




Onésimo Redondo Ortega and José Antonio Primo de Rivera

To conclude: José Antonio was a child of his times and a Spain torn by centuries of economic and political decline suspended between a conservative right (Land owners, high clergy and various components of monarchical and dynastic conflicts rooted in lack of producing a minimum of national rebirth) and a left strongly influenced by a class struggle, violent and extremist. In this context, very bleak, foreboding of what would become a civil war, José Antonio developed his own political thought-Patriotic-clerical (in my opinion those who were anticipating the ideas advocated by the fascism of CSR). After a brief experience in the ranks of monarchy, which followed the death of his father, he realized that that right was too dull, and bound to the past due to their economic interests and privileges in order to become a promoter of New Spain, as well matured the need to create something new in English politics, detached from vested interests and sensitive to the real needs of the national community. Thus was born the movement of the Falange that same definition of Jose Antonio had to be an "anti-party", detached from the right side of the monarchy, and clerical conservatives, who strongly disliked and opposed, of course, to the left and the republican-democratic system instituted in Spain those years. The Falange was formed between the components of healthy motivated by the idea of \u200b\u200bimperial Spain, but not nostalgic, relying on age-old values, but not corrupted by the lust for power and darkened by a Church has lost its humanity and already far from its 'origins'. These components were obviously young. The myth of youth, partly borrowed from Mussolini Fascism, became a cornerstone of the Falange and found practical application in the rule within the movement want to accept only people under forty-five years of age. The new movement was then detached from the "bourgeois spirit of resignation before the events" and become architects of a new great project of Spain and then of a new Europe. This anti-bourgeois spirit he brought to the rooms movementists José Antonio Ledesma of nazionalsindacalisti of Ramos. The component nazionalsindacalista where anarchist sympathies remained strong (hence the flag red-black Phalange), after an initial strong suspicion of the bourgeois lawyer Castilian, plus the son of a dictator, became the backbone of the movement.


José Antonio Primo de Rivera in prison, just moments before being executed

Finally de Rivera advocated "third way", that is man-noble aristocracy, high nell'accezione of terms, a typical figure some right 'look', coupled to the ideals and the social demands of their left. At the outbreak of the Civil War and in previous years did not change José Antonio never mind about the English right, as well as the left. Those who advocated the class hatred, argued the importance of unity of the homeland, understood in its highest sense of unity of purpose for the community to the highest, and those who sought to overthrow the deep social injustices promised radical reforms in the opposite . Then, with the outbreak of the Civil War, de Rivera was imprisoned and executed by the Republican troops with neglect of Franco and accomplice of his generals. The left got rid Republican, so the only "political soldier" who had the opposite side and the right, guided and supported by the slain, opportunistic and sinister 'chief' Franco, took advantage of a loss of ally never too popular (because too intellectual) and made him a martyr. Thanks Franco and public ovations to the founder of the Falange were instrumental in maintaining the highest doctrinal component within its (low) the political regime and no real reform in corporate sense was ensured by Caudillo (man devoid of spirituality and social momentum ). At the end of the great enemies of the Right and Left of de Rivera had the upper hand, but his writings are still a reminder of the stature of that great visionary and man of fine culture.

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The video exorcism by Father Alfredo Pallotta

is the defeat of Satan. Evil put to flight by the light of the good that is reflected in the smile of a girl. It is the true story of an exorcism on a film that stopped, "Discovery Channel" sent to America. Screams, groans, prayers and grief. The movies of "Children held" are shocked the whole of America.
Movie or news? Life stories as the case of Martin, who now lives in Lucca teenager Montecatini.
The movie that the protagonist was shot inside the shrine of St. Gemma in Lucca, where until a few years ago exercised his ministry exorcist Father Alfredo Pallotta, a member of the Passionist order.
The cleric was then transferred, perhaps because his mission fueled a clamor, and now sits at the gates of Florence Tavarnuzze, the Passionist Fathers monastery dedicated to St. Paul of the Cross.
The video shot by a troupe of English Channel 4 has been purchased, it seems a large price, by 'Discovery Channel' and recently transmitted.
The reactions were varied. Most appreciated the initiative and "the truth" exorcism by Father Alfredo. But some viewers have even spoken of assembly and built a little 'to art. But who knows father Alfredo (many in Tuscany because now the exorcist, with the permission of the bishops of several places, casts out devils in the region), argues that there is nothing wrong, everything is authentic.
Now, Father Alfredo is keen to detect it would no longer be possible to have this video.
The Church expressly prohibits any shooting or playing live exorcism. But until recently there was no ban on religious and therefore not broken any rule, so as to receive a letter of congratulations by the leading exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth. "I am delighted - Father Amorth writes - that they saw the videotape with your exorcism. Will do much good and I'm happy if the U.S. television play. Other television broadcast by exorcisms only see scenes of suffering. Yours is very positive because it shows after suffering the girl happy and smiling. Do we need exorcists like you. " What you see in the video is very impressive. The teenager assisted by parents is maintained and reacts violently when water is sprayed holy water. With a little voice 'cavernous, but not artificial girl, with his eyes' spirit', shake, cry, addressed to the religious use all the tools of ritual: the crucifix all'aspersorio with a purple stole, the more offenses atrocious. He rimaneimpassibile, continues his invocations to the Trinity and argues summoning the devil to leave by the adolescent. But the devil reagiscescaraventando against the young father Alfred, and keeps repeating that she is his property, has power over that body and soul. Exorcist also asks the devil to confirm its existence, if ever there were questions, and is satisfied. Satan affirms its existence and its domain. After a slow, patient, also made of defeats Martina is finally "liberated". "I was in a long tunnel - said the girl - dark dark and I ran because I wanted to reach the light that lit up her face like a ray of life."

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Hell seen by St. Faustina Kowalska

Helena Kowalska (Faustina Maria) was born March 25, 1955 at Glogowiec, Poland. He entered the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. At the behest of his spiritual director wrote the diary, which he called "Divine Mercy in my soul." He died at 33 October 5, 1938. Even
S. Faustina Kowalska, the confidante of the merciful Jesus, he experienced hell.
is how she describes the event: "Today, under the guidance of an angel, I was in the depths of hell. It is a place of great torment to the fullest extent frighteningly large. These are the various penalties that I've seen: the first otherwise, what is the hell is the loss of God and the other, the constant pangs of conscience, and the third, the knowledge that fate will not change ever, the fourth sentence is the fire that penetrates the soul, but not annihilated, it is a terrible Penalty:
... is a purely spiritual fire, lit by the wrath of God, the fifth sentence is the continuous darkness, a horrible suffocating stench, and while it is dark demons and damned souls we see each other and see all the evil of others and their own, the sixth sentence the company continues to Satan, the seventh penalty is terrible despair, hatred of God, curses, curses, blasphemies.
These are sentences that all the damned suffer together, but this is not the end of torments. There are special torments for different souls that are the torments of the senses. Every soul that has sinned is tormented in a terrible and indescribable. There are horrible caves, pits of torture where torture is different each other. I would have died at the sight of those horrible tortures, if he had not supported the omnipotence of God the sinner know that with the sense in which sin will be tortured for all eternity. "
He adds:" I am writing this on the orders of God, so that no soul is justified by saying that there is no hell, or that nobody knows how. I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, the command of God I was in the depths of hell in order to testify and tell the souls that hell exists. What I wrote is a faint shadow of the things I've seen. One thing I noticed that most of the souls that are there are souls who did not believe that there were no hell. "

as is, then, hell in the vision of Sister Faustina? Here are the essentials:
a) Hell is a place of great torment to the fullest extent frighteningly large. Horrible caves and pits of torture where torture is different each other.
b) The principal penalties that torture the damned are seven: The loss of God is the so-called pain of loss, what the hell really constitute sce ¬; Continuing pangs of conscience. The damned will be tortured by the memory of sins committed, by the memory of the many aid received and accepted. They could escape so easily but ... The knowledge that this was scary will never change. The tremendous despair with the hatred of God and the curses and imprecations. They will always be far from God and into the fire. Most will not leave from that prison of despair and death. The fire is worth summarizing all the pains that go under the name of "pain of sense", that a purely spiritual fire, lit by the wrath of God that penetrates the soul without destroying. With the fire darkness continues with a horrible suffocating stench, the company continues to Satan.
c) These sentences are all the damned suffer, but this is not the end of torments. There are special torments for different souls that are the torments of senses. Every soul that has sinned is tormented in a terrible and indescribable. There are horrible caves, pits of torture where torture is different each other. And here

Sr. Faustina adds, what is revealed and written about hell is only a pale shadow of reality.

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The creation and fall

It is not known when and how the angels were created, and this has certainly not at all important. Every right implies that God took them from nothing probably before the creation of the material universe, certainly before the man and woman, but commentators and theologians are very embarrassed to give a more accurate answer. St. Augustine believed that they were created at the same time of light. The German stigmatized Santa Anna Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), as a good Augustinian nun, seems to have reached this point his spiritual father: This view is perhaps the first that I had. I was then a child five to six years, and I thought that everyone could see those things, like what we see around us (...).
I saw first of all an infinite space of light spread before me, and, in this relaxed, more like a globe of light in which I saw the Unity of the Trinity. I called her acquiescence in myself, and I saw you as an operation to the exterior: the globe then appeared in the choirs of heavenly spirits, such as concentric circles or rings extend to infinity, shining with light, strength and beauty. This world of light was like a sun in the first world, and together they brought all these choirs of angels to those in a rush of love. She also reached the Bible, the Fathers and Doctors, the number of heavenly spirits, which all agree in saying immense: Behold, O man, before whom thou shalt come into the crowd of witnesses in court. The whole human race will be present. Summon all men in every spirit that have existed from Adam to this day. It 'an immense multitude. It is still small, because the angels are much more numerous: they are the 99 sheep, and in that humanity is not that one. And 'in fact wrote that his servants are a thousand times a thousand, that this number does not define their multitude, but because the Prophet has not been able to express a larger one.

Santa Francesca Romana (1386-1440), undoubtedly the best informed among the mystics sull'angelologia, seeing them out of the hands of the Creator "as when the snow falls and that there are so many flakes in the air meeting" He saw the admirable servant of Christ, the creation of angels, and say how they were created all at once pure and beautiful, then they were divided into groups, and this distinction was marked with different colors, and this according to his dignity. Even this distinction, beauty, or rather knew discernette those who had to persevere in grace, as opposed those who were lost. It says that they were blessed roughly a third. And when she saw them create, so it was nice to be part of the Creator by angels, not being able to express it, all the beauty caught fire as seraphic.

Even before her, St. Angela of Foligno (1248-1309) could not conceal his wonder at the multitude of spirits prostrate in adoration around the Christ, which she once contemplated during mass. Yet she saw nothing but a small fraction of the heavenly: Their host was charming and so many perfectly, that if the number and size were not the laws of creation, I would have believed without number and without measures the sublime crowd I saw. I could not wait to finish this multitude or in width or length, I saw wild beyond our numbers.
the same initial vision, Anna Catherine Emmerich saw the rebellion and fall of a part of them, she saw that occur immediately after the creation of the angelic world: I saw just a part of these circles freeze at themselves. They stood motionless in their beauty, he conceived a selfish pleasure, and considering that all beauty was in them, they fell back and stared in themselves. At first, everyone was transported out of them by moving higher, now a part of them stared at themselves and at the same time, I saw all this portion of the collapse and darken bright choruses, while in the other heavenly spirits sent away and they had filled the spaces left vacant, so that the whole angelic sphere became smaller than before. But I have not seen the angels who remained faithful to have chased the other venturing beyond the limits of the world of light. The German

stigmatized Therese Neumann (1898-1962) was she too, September 29, 1928, a vision of the rebellion and the fall of the angels: Today, the feast of St. Michael, Teresa provides the angelic world (light figures teenagers, dressed in robes of light of a large sparkling white), unfolding in different orders, with 12 archangels at the top. At first, the Angels are still all nice and good, and sing. Then arises a struggle in gestures, words and movements, during which about a third of the angelic spirits are obscure and even four of them. Then the angels remained light and darkness have become angels in two armies ready for combat, dark angels under the leadership of the most powerful of the archangels, and good under the command of one who comes after him in dignity and that they meet at the cry of Michael! The fight continues until such time as the good angels reject the evil in the depths. And the victorious spirit sing with joy: "Kadosch, kadosch, kadosch. The fall of the rebellious spirits - now called demons - is the most dramatic episode in the history of the angelic world.

To emphasize the horror, the Fathers of the Church have applied to Lucifer, the leader of fallen angels, the words of the prophet Isaiah: How art thou fallen from heaven / Astro Bright, son of? / How did you get knocked down, you who subjugate all the nations? / You were saying in your heart I will climb up into heaven, Above the stars of God / erect my throne, I will sit on the mountain of the meeting / In the depths of the north: I will climb the peaks of the clouds, I will be like the Most High (Isaiah 14, 12-14).

This drama is evoked in the Apocalypse of John, in the form of a symbolic struggle: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels made war on the Dragon. And the dragon made war, as well as his angels, and they did not have the upper hand, and is no longer room for them in heaven. It was thrown, the Dragon, the great (Dragon), the Serpent, the old (Snake), who is called Devil and Satan, who disperses the whole world was thrown on the earth and his angels were cast with him (Rev 12, 7-9).
How about a widescreen, Anne Catherine Emmerich beheld the fight, in total silence that makes the sight even more impressive to the point that she could not find words to describe it. And she concluded: "There will be a tough fight, my soul and this fight seemed infinitely long, so that it is almost impossible. But the fight is taking place now on earth, since there is more fighting in the sky, just as God has decreed

One legend reports that traces of this battle are still visible today in what is called the Colorado Provencal region of hills and ravines of the village of Apt, at the foot of the Luberon red rock - which until the early twentieth century ocher fueled a thriving industry - is due to blood rejected by the rebel angels' angel Gabriel, who would have soaked the earth. As well, the stone chapel erected indicating Lorencajal de San Miguel, Spain, would be the rock in which the archangel Lucifer would put groggy at the time of great struggle. GABRIELLE BOSSIS

Mysticism (1874-1950), claims to have heard Jesus tell him that human history will end when the rows left empty by the fallen angels in heaven will be filled by a corresponding number of elected members. How to say how many angels!

This revelation has nothing original, formerly St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) it was made, following an equally indisputable authorities like St. Augustine and St. Bernard (The celestial choirs) then knew the wonders of God in an unparalleled splendor. They understood that such struggle would no longer have place in heaven and that henceforth no angel would fall from the sky. And they learned in the pure divinity that the number of fallen spirits was about to be replaced with the clay pots. Knowing then that the number of those who fell was about to be restored, they began to forget the fall, as if it had not existed.
The statement will be taken up by Bossuet, by Anne Catherine Emmerich, of the other mystics again: "But Gabrielle heard from the lips of Jesus is precious, since there is an eschatological view very interesting." Gabrielle Bossis began to have the expressions of Christ in 1936, when a transatlantic crossing. She was then sixty-two, and noted the words within, which were published in seven installments under the title "He and I". Above all, men know this fight on a daily basis, this relentless confrontation with the mystery of evil, suffering, temptation. Even more than the saints, that their search for God, their communion with the misery of their brothers and their proximity to the creation give hypersensitive to the devastation caused by sin, but also polishes on their own weaknesses and their limits. They know they are in the heart of the struggle, that souls are the pledge, but also the help of God and his angels will never be them less, as the following anecdote illustrates. One day, Abba Moses - an old converted brigand, as many hermits came to expiate in solitude the loss of their past life - he goes to visit the Lone Isidore, who lived in the remote wilderness of Scetis: tempted by the devil, unclean, he went to ask at the holy hermit comfort and encouragement. Leaving the packaging of the baskets (his favorite occupation, prayer), Isidore made him go with him on the roof terrace of his cell: - View to the West! Moses saw then, the line of the west, a multitude of demons who were preparing to fight noisily. Frightened, he turned to the lonely, who continued: - Look to the East! This time, Moses saw a huge army of angels brighter than the sun, absorbed in silent prayer and deployed in battle. And Isidore to conclude: - The ones you saw in the west, here are the ones that attack the saints and those who have stocks to the east, are those that God sends help to the saints. Know therefore that the number and strength are on our side. All ingagliardito, Moses regained his hermitage, determined not to be more impressed by the temptations of the devil. That was in the fifth century.
E 'happened to various saints to be in direct contact with Satan, suffering the assaults of its immediate in their blood, but also in their flesh, without going back up to Anthony the Great, in the third century, or to Martin of Tours, one hundred years later known Examples of the Curé of Ars, well yes, but also of John Calabria, Padre Pio and Martha Robin, to name just the most recent.

This would seem foolish, would smile spirits strong, but YVONNE-Aime JESUS \u200b\u200b(Yvonne Beauvais, 1901-1951), the famous religious Malestroit, answered by an expert, she referred to the devil inflicted cruel and very real abuse of which his body bears the scars to his death: To say that there are wise people who deny the personal existence and the work of the devil! I would certainly see what they would do if you get under a visible form at the foot of their bed, returning to their room at night! The heavenly spirits, who experience they know the price of defeat - eternal damnation - they have received from God "order to keep the men in all (their) way" (Psalm 91, 11). This mission, which they exercised in many different ways depending on the circumstances and temperament of each, shall be referred particularly to certain among them, the guardian angels: we will meet them along these pages.

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Evil haunts us? Why?

"never stoops to defend him, stimulate and inspire, the guardian angel is sad for what might afflict his protege: material loss, business failures, accidents, illness, old age, inconstancy, shortcomings, sins? Accompanying the man in all his ways, guardian angel who has not sometimes sad? What is the attitude of the angel in front of the problem that is a secret torment for unbelievers too dark and a hindrance to the unbelievers in their journey towards the truth: that is evil in its various manifestations, and c ' is in the world? How does the angel frequent objection: "If God existed would not permit evil. The evil is there, then there is no God? ".
Here we present a dilemma. Or the angel is suffering for our tests and thus do not enjoy a perfect happiness, or our guardian angel does not weep with those who weep, indifferent as a selfish and cold in front of the evils that afflict us and then he lacks the understanding and sympathy. The answer given by St. Thomas to this seemingly insoluble problem opens up deeper perspective on the world of angels and human life. "The angels - says St. Thomas - do not feel pain nor the sins of men or penalties. The world is only what is right according to divine justice, and that she is tolerated, so the angels and the other blessed adhere totally to the order of divine justice. But why then does God permit evil? Why can not it do otherwise? Certainly not. He is omnipotent. The slightest thing would be enough to prevent the murder of a murderess or persecution of a tyrant or dictator to kill a bully and so on. If God tolerates evil is always and solely to obtain a good, short or long term.
St. Thomas explains this divine style with a very simple example: the behavior of a sailor whose vessel, laden with goods, is in danger of sinking into the sea in a storm. The sailor does not want to throw overboard the merchandise, but he wants a serious imminent danger of death. This loss is resolved in a gain for him. He saves lives! Derives from an evil good. Sacrifice not, the merchandise, and save more lives. Acting wisely. Persists in wanting to save his goods, to miss the boat and the life. So does God, when you tolerate diseases and epidemics, earthquakes and floods, murders and wars, the faults moral, the sacrilege, the apostasy of individuals and peoples, if not prevent these evils - and I could easily do so - is because his wisdom and his power will derive a day or the other of the greatest assets. From the dark depths of human misery, by the mercies of God can draw unexpected treasures. This
are well aware of the angels, so do not grieve for our pains. It is therefore not at all indifferent to that angels do not grieve in front of the faults and misfortunes of their protected, but because of a more penetrating knowledge of these evils. Their serenity is not derived from ignorance, but by superior science. While the human eye stops at the rough bark of the evidence, not by reference consider in depth nor the future, the look of the guardian angel through the skin, enters the interior and penetrates the future. The seed planted in the ground he already discerned the ear. The angel of God which participates in science with a single glance embraces all things, past, present and future. In a page magnificent, worthy of St. Augustine, Pius XII compares the limited views of men with infinite knowledge of God, which involves the angels
"All men are almost children before God, everyone, including the deepest thinkers, the most experienced leaders of nations. They consider the events with the short sight of passing time and fly irreparable. God looks at them instead from the heights and the center of the motionless eternity. They have before them the narrow views of a few years but God has before it the universal view of the centuries. They ponder the future human events from their causes and their immediate effects; God sees them in their remote causes and measures them away in their effects. They want justice and are shocked immediately before the ephemeral power of the enemies of God, the suffering and humiliation of the good. But Heavenly Father in the light of its eternal embrace, penetrates and dominates the vicissitudes of history, like the serene peace of the world without end, and will continue to make the sun rise on the good and bad, to guide their steps of children, firmly and tenderness. You just need to let themselves be led by him and have confidence in the power and wisdom of His love for them. "
Friar John of the Cross is thrown by his brother in a Carmelite convent in the prison of Toledo. Reprehensible act, however, from which God will obtain wonders! It was precisely in his dark prison of Toledo, who received the thanks of light and love that brought him to the highest degree of the mystical life. After his release, he spoke of his captors as distinguished benefactors. His intimate union with God allowed him to participate in some way to the insight that the angels, by adhering to God's plans, events and people they need to understand that if God permits an evil, which is not to obtain a greater good. Imagine Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a bullet at the siege of Pamplona French that breaks a leg. We try to represent the reactions of his friends. "What a disgrace - some have cried - that's a career interrupted ..".
"How lucky - others have thought - it is a liberation! Touched by grace Captain Inigo Lopez (that was his name) will embark on a career incomparably more noble and more useful to people that the profession of arms. " As our guardian angels, so the saints in heaven, and then our dead, freed from the flames of purgatory and entered into the light of God, keep la serenità dinanzi al mali temporali e ai peccati degli uomini. Sulle prime questo atteggiamento imperturbabile sembra inumano ed incomprensibile. Si dirà: una madre entrata in paradiso come potrà non rattristarsi delle prove dei figli rimasti sulla terra? Non parteciperebbe alle loro preoccupazioni materiali? Non soffrirebbe per i loro peccati? Non fremerebbe vedendoli sulla via della perdizione? È necessario ripeterlo: la serenità dei cittadini del cielo dinanzi ai mali che affliggono gli abitanti della terra non è il frutto dell'ignoranza, né dell'indifferenza di chi, divenuto ricco, dimentica la sorte dei suoi compagni di via. È piuttosto il frutto di una scienza più profonda e di un amore più illuminato. Poiché their will is totally united to that of God, the elect enter into his peace can feel neither pain nor contrary to the view of the vicissitudes of men. Their intelligence, being immersed in God's, men see the evidence of the fulfillment of God's plan that are all adorable. An English mystic, Julian of Norwich, concerned about the problem of evil and suffering, communicating their concerns to our Lord.
He reassured and asked to trust in His love and His omnipotence: "In the end you'll see that everything was fine." "In the end" here is the keyword that illuminates the problem of evil. The angel sees the end. The man, who uses only of reason and ignores this order and protested against the pain. The believer has a faith is weak, unwilling to bear, while the Christian faith believes in living a happy end. Most strongly believe, the more involved - never equal it - the unflappable serenity of the angels before the bad. Peace is a deep feature of the friends of God, it lies in the depths of their soul and is reflected from their face and their eyes. " [... but the Angels really exist? Ed Medjugorje].

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Why is there evil? The devil exists

If God the Father Almighty, Creator of the ordered and good world, cares for all His creatures, why does evil exist? To this question as pressing as inevitable, as painful as it is mysterious, no quick answer will suffice. And 'the whole of Christian faith that is the answer to that question, the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his son with the gift of the Spirit, the gather the Church, with the power of the sacraments and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to give their consent, but which, by a terrible mystery, can also escape.
There is a point of the Christian message that is not for a certain appearance, an answer to the problem of evil. But because God did not create a world that perfect spot for not being able to be any harm? "In his infinite power, God could always create something better" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, 25, 6).
However, in his infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world "in a state of journeying" towards its ultimate perfection. This process of becoming, in God's plan involves, with the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. So, along with the physical good there is also physical evil as long as the establishment has reached its perfection (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, 71). The angels and men, intelligent and free creatures, have to walk to their ultimate destiny for a free choice and preferential love. They can then deviate. In fact, they have sinned. It 's so that the world has entered the moral evil, immeasurably more serious than the physical pain. God is not in any way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. However, respecting the freedom of His creatures, permits, and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good:
"For God Almighty. . ., Being supremely good, would never allow any evil to exist in his works, if it was not powerful enough and good to draw from the same evil well (St. Augustine, Enchiridion de fide, spe et charity, 11, 3).
Thus, over time, we can discover that God in his almighty providence can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even moral, caused by his creatures: "It was not you," said Joseph to his brothers, "a sent me here, but God. . . if you thought evil against me, God meant it for good. . . to live a great people "(Genesis 45, Genesis 50 8, 20 Tobias 2, 12-18).
From the greatest moral evil ever committed, the rejection and murder of the Son of God, caused by the sins of all men, God, by the superabundance of his grace, drew the greatest of goods: the glorification of Christ and our redemption. With this, however, evil becomes good. "Everything works for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28). St. Thomas More, shortly before his martyrdom, consoled his daughter by saying:
"Nothing happens that God forbid, and I'm sure that whatever happens, bad as it appears, will in fact always for the better" (St. Thomas More, Letter to Margaret Roper to Alice Alington the conversation with his father in prison, Liturgy of the Hours, III, Office of Readings for June 22).
Julian of Norwich says, "I learned by the grace of God I had to stay firm in your faith, and then I firmly and fully believe that everything would be over for good. . . : You'll see that same sort of thing will be for every good "(Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, 32). We firmly believe that God is Lord of the world and history. But the ways of his providence often remain unknown. Only at the end, when it will end our imperfect knowledge and we will see God "face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12), fully know the streets, along which, even through the dramas of evil and sin, God will lead the its creation until the rest of that Saturday (Genesis 2:2) final, in view of which he created heaven and earth. [Catechism of the Catholic Church].

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human intelligence will never be able to test whether everything that Scripture tells us about the devil is actually mere prophetic imagination or misinterpretation of metaphors. All those who say the lack of it simply because science is unable to collect documentation about, in addition to be extremely superficial, lie indirectly under the influence and the spiritual leader of the devil are heretics. Science, as we all know, approve anything that can be experienced, but with regard to demonic possession, harassment, hauntings, etc. ... it will never give concrete explanations, therefore considered appropriate to reduce everything to the psyche, its magnetic phenomena or to unknown mechanisms, etc ....

We believe that the devil still exists today, because Jesus himself has revealed it and put us on guard until the end of time. In the Old Testament are not many texts that speak of the devil. Moses himself, it seems to intentionally hide the existence of the Jewish people to be powerful, because he had the conviction that they would certainly have another idol. One must not forget, in fact, that the Jews, like all of the time people were very superstitious and would certainly have ended up even worship Lucifer and his "Cronies". In the book of Job is the story revealed that the wily opponent engages in a vain attempt to permanently remove the man from God
"One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. The Lord asked Satan, "Where are you from?". Satan answered the LORD, "From a ride on earth, I have traveled." The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is none like him on earth, blameless and upright man, fearing God and from evil alien. " Satan answered the Lord and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that is hers? You have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions to the ground. But put forth thy hand and touch all that he and he will curse thee to thy face. " The Lord said to Satan: "Behold, all that has is in your power, but do not lay a hand on him." Satan went out from the Lord "(Job 1, 6-12).
very important we find a passage in the Book of Zechariah when, by a vision, you can unmask the figure of the devil and his never-ending action ever accuser.
"Then he showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan was at his right hand to accuse him. The angel of Lord said to Satan, "the Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord rebuke you that you have chosen Jerusalem "(Zechariah 3: 1-2).

Dear friends, do not think that what is written in Sacred Scripture is the product of fantasy and superstition, remember that the word of God is always present. We read together the following biblical quotations:

"Yes, God created man for immortality, and made him a picture of his own nature. But death entered the world through the envy of the devil, and make this experience, those who belong to him "(Wisdom 2: 23-24);

" On the same day happened to Sara the daughter of Raguel, a resident of Ecbatana, in Media, to hear insults from a servant of his father. You must know that it was given in marriage to seven men and Asmodeus, the evil demon, she killed them to him, before they could unite with her as you do with their wives "(Tobit 3, 7-8);

" Then the boy turned to the angel asked, "Azaria, brother, what remedy may be in the heart, liver and gall of the fish?". He replied, "As for the heart and liver, it can do fumigations in the presence of a person, man or woman possessed by the devil or an evil spirit in it and cease any harassment and will not track any more" (Tobit 6 , 7-8);

"I also heard the saying that a devil killed their husbands. For this I am afraid the devil is jealous of her, she does not hurt, but if someone want to pull over, he kills him "(Tobit 6, 14-15);

" Satan rose up against Israel. He pushed David to conduct a census of Israel. David said to Joab and the leaders of the people: Go, count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan, so portatemene the bill so I know their number "(Chronicles 21: 1-2);

" How you are fallen from heaven , Lucifer, son of? How come you have been lying on the ground, Lord of peoples? Yet you thought: I will climb into the sky, the stars of God exalt the throne will dwell on the mount of assembly, in the most remote parts of the north. I will climb on the upper regions of clouds, I will be equal to the Most High. But you have been plunged into hell, into the depths of the abyss "(Isaiah 14, 12-15);

In the New Testament we can see about three hundred citations where is mentioned the devil and his works, nevertheless, however, in same steps, it is obvious the victory of Christ and the will of the Salvation Army. Jesus himself spoke of the devil on many occasions, and never urges us not to lower our guard.

"Let your speech be yes, yes, no, no more than this comes from evil" (Matthew 5, 37);

"Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil "(Matthew 6: 11-13);

" You, therefore the parable of the sower whenever anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, is the Devil and off what was sown in his heart: this is the seed sown along the road "(Matthew 13: 18-19);

"Have you come out with swords and clubs as a bandit? Every day I was with you in the temple and did not lay hands on me, but this is your hour, and the power of darkness "(Luke 22, 53);

" And when he comes he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and condemnation. Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and not see me, because at the trial, because the prince of this world is judged "(John 16, 8-11).

Jesus lived among us with the specific intent to prove that the kingdom of Satan, man is corruptible, it can destroy, he did this.
"Whoever commits sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Now is the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work "(1 John 3, 8).

He came to earth to establish his kingdom and the power to defeat the Evil One.
"In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying," Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand "(Matthew 3: 1-2);

" Jesus replied: "In truth, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God "(John 3, 5);

" The kingdom of God is not a question of food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved of men "(Romans 14, 17-18).

The final victory of Christ over Satan has been mostly sealed, and finally with his death on the cross for us.
"Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, they have also become involved, to reduce that through death he who has the power of death, is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery "(Hebrews 2: 14-15).

"Be sober, be vigilant. Your enemy the devil goes around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that your brothers throughout the world undergo the same sufferings of you " (1 Peter 5: 8-9).

Sacred Scripture is very clear about it. The existence of the devil is a reality.

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Dissertation on the true and false miracles and the power of demons and angels on the bodies

There's nothing much referred to, as the miracles and works of good and bad spirits in the bodies, and there is perhaps nothing that you do not have the most confused ideas and more false than the qualities of a true miracle and extent of the power of spirit over matter. Some people, who delight in the power of spirit and dell'intrepido, watching everything that is said of the power of evil angels, their appearances, the illusions that cause to our senses, obsessions and possessions of demons, which produce changes in the air, and many other things that are attributed to them, consider this as tales that serve to entertain the spirits weak, look with pity on those who they seem convinced. Others go the opposite extreme.
was persuaded by everything that is said about the power of demons, wizards and sorcerers. I simply believe all the miracles that are perceived or real tell them, and accept, without question, with all the stories you tell of the apparitions of spirits and possession of the body by demons. Others, finally, with a much more dangerous state of mind, take time to deny all the miracles and all that is said of demons, angels and spirits, on the pretext that there is a multitude of false miracles, and often is past, wonders, some effects that are natural but extraordinary only because the causes were unknown to those who were witnesses.

what Scripture tells us of the miracles wrought by the magicians of Pharaoh and the appearance of Samuel to Saul, the soul, forces us to examine, here, this matter more thoroughly and with more extension, and to lead an orderly We first begin to examine the nature, possibilities and qualities of a miracle, and then the power of angels, spirits and demons in the production of supernatural effects. The common idea that you, a true miracle, that is something that transcends the normal rules of nature.
That a man walk on water, now that the rods take the form of a snake here is what is called a miracle. A false miracle, by contrast, is an action that seems, but that is not truly beyond the ordinary laws of nature. For example, a fire that takes the hair of a person due to a combustible mood that can be seen of course - as he is told the story of Julius and a few other things - that the fire does not burn the hair to which was attacked, is not a miracle, how to see the fire of Spirit that does not consume a laundry that you take.

There are a hundred things similar in nature, which seem miraculous, but that does not seem that out of ignorance in which we are of the nature of things.

Augustine explains very well that all the miraculous things we see happening are at the same time, natural and supernatural. They are natural in what they are effects of God's will that produces them, as nature is nothing but the will of the Creator, and supernatural in what they are above the ordinary laws of nature and notes. They are, therefore, look to our supernatural because they are contrary to the laws della natura che ci sono note, ma non sono soprannaturali allo sguardo di Dio : “Nec enima ista cum fiunt, contra natura sunt, nisi nobis, quibus aliter naturae cursus innotuit ; non autem Deo, cui hoc est natura, quod fecerit”.
E, nel 21° Libro della “Città di Dio” : Come si può fare che ciò che accade per volontà di Dio sia contrario alla natura, poiché la volontà di un sì grande Maestro è la natura stessa delle cose ? I prodigi non sono dunque contro la natura, ma contro ciò che ci è noto della natura : “Quomodo est contra naturam quod Dei fit voluntate, cum voluntas tanti utique Conditoris, conditae cuiusque rei natura sit ? Portentum ergo fit non contra naturam, sed contra quam est known nature. " He understands that this principle of St. Augustine: "Let the will of God is the nature of things", should be extended to natural things, moral things because this is quite different. Although powerful in the moral as in physical, but the will of man does not obey passively to his grace, like matter, which has neither soul nor freedom, obeys the will of God When Spinoza (Treaty theological-political, ch. 6) to deny the possibility of miracles, he endeavors to prove that it is possible that the course of nature is never interrupted. Here's his great reasoning : The laws of nature are nothing more than the decrees of God Now the decrees of God can not change because God is unchangeable. The laws of nature, therefore, can not change. So miracles are impossible because a miracle is contrary to the known laws of nature and ordinary. This author assumes that God must always act in a way, absolute, general, invariable, and that the laws of nature and the effects that depend on them are so connected and dependent upon each other, we can not conceive of the slightest change or the least change without destroying the idea of \u200b\u200ba Being infinitely wise, immutable, always the same and confident in its operations. But this idea, it seems, at first sight.
So glorious God, and that seems to reject everything that he suffers from imperfection and change, this idea, after all, who does not tend to destroy the notion that one must have the right of a being infinitely free, infinitely wise and infinitely powerful, whose will, infinitely fertile, does not depend at all the events and is not related to the effects it produces, but on the contrary, considers these effects in a dependence on its decrees, always free, though still immutable in themselves. At all times, all events and all the circumstances, all the movements of free will are created in God He knows everything that has happened, everything what is happening and all that will happen. He shall, currently and effectively, to all the real effects that are produced, leaving the free agents, all their freedom and producing, in the bodies, all the movements that you notice. It does not form at all new decrees in time, as if it came some new knowledge or something unexpected, that I determined to take new decisions. All events, all the changes that we see in nature, are a follow of his eternal plans, q denotes that some diversity in its various works, there is no variety in the will of those who produce, "Opera mutatio, Consilia mutatio not. " Features of the creature, it uses the second his will, without changing its nature, because his will is the nature of everything. The chaining of secondary causes, their subordination to the general laws of motion and arrangement of parts of the universe, everything is so necessary in himself that depends on a principle and an intelligence that leads perfectly free, he runs, that preserves and the bodies and movements, and that even if it goes away by the laws and rules that we have taken the trouble to point out, running free and unchangeable decrees, and so, miracles come in, like everything else, in 'economy of God's plans and, consequently, in the order of nature. Spinoza was formed too narrow an idea of \u200b\u200bthe will of God, if he pretends to be so unalterable as to be freer, where he played sull'equivoco terms of these "Laws of Nature," as if these laws of nature were so different from the will of God or a miracle if you destroy these laws of nature.
We showed that the will of God to be the nature of things, that a miracle was a result of the will of God, but a free will and particular, that would produce a different effect than it produces, following the course of ordinary and known nature. Here's the idea we have of a true miracle. From

everything we have said, it is easy to conclude that the power to do miracles is reserved to God alone and thus, neither angels nor demons, neither the disembodied souls can never work miracles, though they may contribute to miraculous action, with their prayers, or as an instrumental cause. It 's so many miracles that God has done for the ministry of Angels and the Prophets under the Old Testament, and that, in the New, the Apostles and many of the saints, after them, did miracles, that they from God, through mediation and by their prayers or who made them, by the authority which God had overlaid. But, about demons, it is difficult to conceive how they could do miraculous actions. This can not be, by their own strength, and even less for their prayers. It seems, then, that it must be said that God wanted to use them as instruments of his revenge when, through them, has supernatural actions, or rather, that there is no miracle that has been made by demons and that all what are you giving such false miracles, illusions, and surprising actions, but purely natural. And 'what is necessary to consider here. Scripture tells us that the wizards of Pharaoh changed the rods, which they had, in snakes, which changed the water into blood, and they did almost all the miracles that Moses had made (and Es.5 s.). And Moses warns us against false prophets, miracles, so that seems to prove that he did not doubt that the devil could not do through them. "If he gets up, he says, among you, a prophet or a man who claims to have had prophetic dreams, and that predicts a miracle and a miracle, and that what he predicts will happen, and that, after this, say: We're going to serve other gods, do not listen to all the talk of this prophet because the Lord will try "(Deut. 13:1). Jesus Christ, having been accused by the Pharisees, to cast out demons in the name of Beelzebub, rather than destroy this charge, ruining the principle of the Pharisees, which assumed power in the devil to perform miracles, they're happy to see that the devil can not be against himself, nor act against its own interests, it was impossible that he wanted to obey Jesus Christ, not trying to destroy his kingdom (mt.9, 34, 12:24). It warns, in another place, to warn us by the wonders and miracles of the false prophets (Matt. 24.24).
St. Paul predicted signs and wonders that the Antichrist has to do, and teaches us that Satan is transformed into an angel of light (2 Thess. 2.9). Finally, several Fathers believed that the change of the rods of the magicians in snakes, it was true, what would seem to give the devil the power to work miracles, because you can not conceive that such a change could have become so natural. Origen ("Efficit similiter contrary virtus virgam serpentem, fecerat sicut virtus Dei, ..."), who obviously recognized the power of the devil about the rods of the magicians did the same thing about the power of God's rod of Moses, but that the devil could not put the rods in the first state that had changed into snakes, because his power may well be extended to do evil, but to do good or to cause changes that tend to the good: "Contrary evil quidem virtus aliquid facere potest, sed non potest integrum in return. " Theodoret, to refute those who dared to say that Moses did not do that through the wonders of magic secrets, found no reason that best evoke what the Pharaoh's magicians are forced to do: "That the finger of God if they meddle." Why, then, he said, if Moses just cheating the senses, with its prestige, the magicians were not the same and what to do to convince him as an impostor, with similar wonders. St. Augustine ("Deus solus verus true Creator east, here causas serpentem, fecerat sicut virtus Dei, etc.."), Having asked this question, knowing that if the rods of the magicians were called dragons, the sacred text, simply because they had the figure of this animal, without having reality, the change had been made, since it was not that fantastic and apparently, he replies that it seems that the ways of speaking of Scripture, being the same, we must therefore recognize, in the rods of the magicians, a similar change to what is known to Moses. But, having argued then, that we should, therefore, that the demons they created these snakes, a change so abrupt and sudden, a rod into a snake, not seeming neither possible nor natural, he says that there is, by nature, a universal principle, extended to all elements, which contains the seed of all things corporeal, which seem on the outside, virtually all of their principles. They are
operated by staff time and cost, but these agents can not and should not be called because the creators do not extract anything from nothing and that only determine the natural causes to produce their effects from the outside. Thus, the Angels have been bad, according to this Father, produce a moment of snakes, the material of the rods of the magicians, application, with a subtle virtue and surprising reasons that seem very far away from producing a sudden and extraordinary effect, but for as a creator, he does not grant that to God alone, who gave being to natural causes and spread in nature to that principle, which we have spoken. The same Holy supports the same opinion, and with the same evidence in his books of the Trinity. He tries, even in his books "City of God", that demons can not do anything, even the power that they are natural, that with special help of God, who can not produce any new creature, but only change species that God has created, so that, far from being able to change the nature of the soul, they can not even change a man's body, for example, that of a beast. Finally, in his Letter to Deogratias, argues that the operations of the demons that seem to have some resemblance to that of good angels, who do not have the truth, but the appearance, and that this is not a result of the wisdom of the bad spirits, but their scam. What he will not, apparently, to understand is that false miracles of paganism and not those which speak of the Holy Scriptures, are as real change and real miracles. St. Thomas thinks on the same principles of St. Augustine, and makes the same consequences. He argues that the devil can not create anything in nature, and that all changes are simply natural that he operates, giving certain movements or certain forms of a substance already created, and that if sometimes seems to do the wonders, above nature, these wonders are merely apparent and amazing.
Most commentators have embraced this view in which all the difficulty is whether the rods of the magicians are of a nature so as to be readily changed into snakes, with the simple application of natural active substances of matter. Toasted, which it did not seem possible, he believed that the devil, with a delicacy which are not very capable, put true and real snakes, instead of the rods, which he subtly and away without knowing it. Others like to say that this spirit better than artificial, having foreseen what was to be produced by Moses, with the declaration that they had done, before the people, prepared, even then, the wizards batons and ordered them, little by little, to receive the real change that he / she worked, reducing them to snakes. But, whichever way this has happened, nor the Fathers, nor the commentators recognize all the miracles here as such. See nothing but a metamorphosis, very strange, indeed, and very difficult, but that is neither above nor against the laws of nature. And 'certain that the Scripture that tells or foretells the signs that the false Christs, false prophets and the devil have done or should do, not stress that these miracles are real or that the devil makes them, with absolute power and independent. St. Paul calls, the miracles that will happen under the Antichrist, "Satan's operations, the operations of falsehood and injustice" (2 Thess. 2:9-10). If the Scripture tells us some miracles by the devil, it insinuates that it is always for God's permission, which can use the Angels to punish the bad bad guys, in a supernatural way. This also appears from the history of the plagues of Egypt. God allows the devil to change the rods of the magicians in snakes and convert the water of the Nile into blood, but does not allow them to produce fruit flies (eg 8.18, 9.10), and could not protect himself against plagues Moses gave rise to all other Egyptians. He limits their power, without the effects of their evil, shows that it is the Master. Sant 'Agostino recognizes that the demons they changed the rods of the magicians in snakes, but argues that they did not create anything again: "Do not nec fuerunt tamen creatores draconum magic Angels mali nec quibus illi ministris operabantur. The demons could well provide the opportunity and prepare the grounds for the production of some extraordinary effect, but only God can make and create new beings, as he alone has, in the natural agents, the virtue of producing something of out.
"Nec ideo putandum east istis transgressoribus Angels to serve mutum hanc rerum visibilium materiam, sed Deo alone." Although St. Thomas recognizes that changes made by magicians of Pharaoh is accurate and not fantastic, he asserts, however, that are not true miracles, since they are produced by a natural cause: "Not true miracle thus paving habent rationem, quae sunt virtute aliquarum naturalium causarum. St. Augustine and St. Thomas recognized, therefore, that there is only God who can do real miracles and that all the miracles that have been made by creatures that are not made deliberately and with the help of God Other Fathers are even less favorable to those who want the devil can do miracles, because they teach that the magicians of Pharaoh did not really change their rods into snakes and they did just an illusion in the eyes of the spectators, who thought they saw what was not . Philo makes no difficulty in saying that the magicians of Egypt did not take their art to try to destroy, with their charm, the impression that the true miracles of Moses were on the spirit of the assistants, but willing to cheat others, were fooled themselves, since God confused their art with the power of the miracle of the rod of Aaron, who devoured them, turned into snakes.
And although it seems to say that they would produce real snakes, adds that the rod of Moses, having devoured the serpents produced by the various wizards, and being returned in its original nature of the rod, God would have it, with this show so amazing, to convince the most talented more unjust and biased, that what had happened, by Moses, was not a result of a subtlety and address human wrong, but an operation of virtue God that all things are easy. From this implies that the rods of the magicians were not changed in snakes for a power quite naturally and with a simple effect of magic. Joseph is said to Pharaoh, Moses, that the miracle that is about to do in his presence, by changing the rod into a snake, it is not something that has the semblance of truth or prestige just to fool the simple and ignorant , as was done by magicians, but that is a miracle of virtue and power of God the author of the Orthodox issues, under the name of San Giustino, said that all the magicians they had done the work of devil, who were pure prestige, with which the cheated eyes of those present, representing them as snakes or frogs, which, in fact, was neither the one nor the other. Saint Justin (Dialogue with Trypho ") compares the miracles of these magicians of Egypt to fake the devil has worked wonders, among the Gentiles, that he looks at them as the illusions and false miracles. Tertullian is no doubt that the rods of the magicians were not of vain appearances, fooling the eyes of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, but, as he says, the truth of Moses devoured the lies of the Wizards: "Corpora videbantur et Pharaon Aegyptis magicarum virgarum dracones sed veritas mendacium devoravit Moses. " It seems that St. Jerome had before their eyes the words of Tertullian, when he said, speaking of the Antichrist: "Like the magicians withstood Moses with lies, and that the rod of Moses devoured their rods, so the truth of Jesus Christ will eat the lie antichrist. "
St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Prospero, the author of the Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul, under the name of Ambrose, the Abbot Rupert, and several others have also believed that there was nothing real in exchange that the magicians had , their rods into snakes, and consequently, that all the miracle consisted in having cheated the senses of the audience, making them appear of the objects that were not actually present.

can make quite substantial objections against what we said because: 1 - Whether the devil had really changed into snakes, the rods of the magicians, and that has made their only change in shape, with a movement and a secret subtle operation, to have fascinated the eyes of those present, to make them believe that there there were real snakes, everything is above the known forces of nature in a spirit. 2nd - If you say that God has helped, by his will, the devil in these operations, and to many similar objects that are narrated in Scripture, it follows that God helps to sin and the devil helps in evil that he does to men, is trying the good, and punishing the bad guys. 3rd - If true miracle, we mean that it is above the known laws of nature and above the natural forces of the one who produces it, it can be concluded that most of the men, being unable to discern a true from a false miracle, proof of miracles, which seems more proportionate to the scope of the people's will become useless, because the discussion of the laws of nature will be impossible.

To meet the first difficulty, it should be noted that the nature and strength of the Angels, demons, and souls separate from matter, there are quite unknown, and so it is very difficult positive note, how far is their power over the bodies and to distinguish what is natural or supernatural in their sensitive operations. Some ancient people believed that angels, demons, and souls were physical and not, in truth, as our bodies, which are thick, heavy, palpable, gross, but they had thin bodies, thin and ethereal, like a ' Air imperceptible.
E 'on these very principles that they believed that demons loved the smoke of sacrifices, the melodies, the blood of the victims, the trade in women and that they were bound for a time, and some buildings in certain places. As the angels good, that they placed all the difference between them and the demons, and lay in wickedness nell'ostinazione demons in evil, but the nature and essence of these spirits was different between them. They did not differ as to the affected eye is different from the healthy eye, sound and hearing, by hearing failure. Finally, although they believed that souls were immortal and capable of supreme happiness, not considered for this purely spiritual. The thought that kept body and, after the death of the body, the figure of what they had inspired. Some ancients called this body the soul, separated from the coarse bodies, "like the stars" or "like lightning". They were the subject of her immortality, of what is often the soul appeared near the tombs, and that it retains the shape of the body that has animated and the inclinations that did appear during the life of this body. Supported these views on the history of rich and poor over that of Lazarus, and mainly about what St. Thomas says in the Gospel: "Unless I see the nail prints in his feet and in his hands, I do not believe" (Gv.20 , 25), because, says Origen, was convinced that the body of the soul of Jesus Christ might appear in the eyes of the Apostles, in much the same way that it had left the body. Today we have ideas and principles quite different, and should, consequently, reasoning in a completely different way, the operations of angels and spirits, on the bodies. It was not a bad idea, conceived in the old assumption that the subtle body of an angel or a demon, could make considerable changes in the organs of animals, air and the elements.
The great knowledge they have of the structures of our bodies and other secrets of nature, they can serve to shake up the springs and secondary causes to act, subtly and unknown, but nevertheless it is not impossible to conceive once that it is recognized that the agents of corporal shot and intelligent. You could say that their actions, which seemed extraordinary, however, were not miraculous since there is nothing contrary notice to the known laws of nature. A body can make the motion to another body, and a body of a subtlety of agility, an extraordinary penetration, can, of course, produce, and changes in other body movements that are very different from those produced by our bodies slow, clumsy and heavy soils, in other bodies of the same nature. But in our principles to reason quite differently. A spirit, entirely detached from matter, which did not conceive that the intelligence and will, can not, as it seems, cause, of course, no movement or make himself immediately and no impression on the subject, because it has no physical proportions with it. And so, whether it be said that the devil has used the natural disposition, which he found in the woods the rods of the magicians, to change these snakes, when previously there were none, in their presence, whether it did appear to outside, a ghost that represent snakes and all these effects are obviously incompatible with the nature of a substance merely clever. Here's what we discovered the reason for this topic. But if you resort to Revelation, we see a way to explain all these operations of the Angels, demons and spirits, without being obliged to have recourse to the miracle.

Scripture tells us a great number of facts, which we can not recognize the devil, by author, for example, the evils that hurts to Job, a large number of owned, in the Gospel, Jesus Christ himself, tempted by the devil, and led on a high mountain and then the pinnacle of the Temple.
will say that in these meetings, God has granted to the devil, the power of miracles and wonders that God has made us to meet the ill will of the devil? As if to say that God works miracles in favor of the devil, to deceive, to harm, to afflict men, what you can not say without swearing. We must therefore say that the devil has had in these meetings, with the permission of God, a power that is natural. This permission of God is well expressed in the history of disasters of Job and that of the man who was freed by Jesus Christ, by a legion of demons. As for the miraculous works that were attributed, in the Scriptures, the good angels and the apparitions of the souls separated from the body, you should not always look like something of a miracle. If you see them act on the bodies and make sudden changes in the field and extraordinary in the air, in the elements and our senses, everything can be done without a miracle from them. If there is the miracle and the supernatural is simply what God allows, rarely, these extraordinary and miraculous effects, because the effects of common and ordinary the power of angels and the devil on our bodies, our senses, our imagination and a hundred other things that surround us and to which, our dissipation makes it impossible to apply, no one makes use of the miracle to make it right. If our good angels guide us and lead us away from danger, fill the imagination of pious objects, if the devil, by contrast, inspires us bad feelings, to bring us to sin if we are able to mess things is our imagination; Because if, in ourselves, movements opposed to reason and decency, do not believe that, in this, something which is beyond his power and natural and known, however, to get it right, there is nothing less difficult, for a spirit, that what Scripture teaches us that God permitted the temptations, the devil, to do with Jesus Christ. All the difference is that the devil appeared to the Savior, so sensitive, rather than the way we normally try, that is more hidden, not acting less and that is why, on our senses, our moods, our bodies on our imagination, though we see them with bodily eyes.
But as a purely spiritual substance can act, so on a physical body? And 'you have to explain. We have established in principle that the will of God is the nature of things. There seems to a large number of facts, compared in Scripture, that angels and demons physically act on the bodies. But, as a spirit can attach itself to a body? What proportion are between two things so different? What is the relationship between the will of an intelligent being and the movement of matter? I reply that there is also between our soul and our body. Anyone who doubts that the soul imparts motion to the blood, the animal spirits, to all our members? And who does not see that the movements of the body, blood, moods and objects affecting the sensitive soul, causing the thoughts and feelings of joy, fear, grief, pleasure? However, what could be more incompatible and more disproportionate a spirit and matter, that the will of the soul and body movements? It 's more difficult for an angel or a demon, cause some movement in the air, in our eyes, in our imagination? It 's true that we are sure, for the experience that we have, that God has willed that there was a natural union and a mutual dependence between the movements and passions of our body and our soul, we do not have certainty about the Angels and demons. But we do not have this certainty of God's will, the mutual dependence of our bodies and our souls with this reasoning: our souls and our bodies can not, of course, abide in union which are each about the other, which for a particular effect of the will of God must, therefore, that this will be joined by all-powerful. And you can not do a very similar argument about angels and demons? Can not be applied to the material to cause movement, who by the will of God must, therefore, that there are applied, this will, supposedly acting on her.
We have shown that the angels and demons really act on the body, we must therefore recognize that God has willed that, at the will of a spirit, a body was put in motion, so that spirit as he'd like, or rather, God has pledged to give the matter, certain movements, at the will of a spirit. And that is what makes the nature of spirits, or rather this is God's will that makes the action of spirits on the body is sometimes a natural action and not always miraculous. As to the second difficulty, which can be made against our reasoning, that if God wishes to contribute, with the devil, the evil that hurts the good and the temptations that allows them to happen, it would follow that God is the author of evil or at least who favors and who contributes. We have already answered the first objection to this and it should not embarrass the devil too much, more than embarrass ourselves, it is certain that God helps so physical and natural environment, all the evils that we commit to the outside, criminal acts that are committed in the body and the body. It is recognized that God helps the evil, evil according to what has physical and material. Material contributes to a bad deed, gives movement to the subject, the occasion of the will of a villain, as the occasion of the will of a just, as a result of the union that has been established between our bodies and our souls, but it does not follow from this that contributes to bad, got his second to be formally in evil as evil. The third difficulty is more substantial. It 's true that most men are not able to discern between true and false miracle. But it does not follow that proof of this miracle is useless to the people. You just have to say this consequence, that the people should be more reserved in judging things supernatural and miraculous that it is not normal. It must be recognized that it is trying to despise and that sometimes it takes real miracle is that what is not in appearance. There are some facts that are so evidently miraculous, that it is impossible and that the wrong people, even though crude and ignorant as it is supposed to look like a normal wonders. When Moses separates, with a flick of the rod, the waters of the Red Sea and then, to his command, is to return to their original state, when water is drawn from a rock and brings up the earth to swallow the seditious, and when Jesus Christ resurrected Lazarus, dead for four days, and resurrecting himself. There is no one who does not conceive that they are real miracles.
not need to judge, nor to have recourse to philosophy or higher knowledge, or to a long examination, or in deep discussions. And if Moses and Jesus Christ have one indisputable miracle, commensurate with the extent of the simplest, and that is that the highbrow can not reasonably deny it, he concluded, with good reason, that all other miracles are less obvious and which are made to confirm the same doctrine and the truths are equally reliable and equally undeniable early. When a man uneducated and illiterate, could not, precisely to know, from where comes the power of angels, demons, wizards, and what a clever charlatan is capable of doing to fool the eyes of men, can not ignore that at least a natural agent, no matter what, can not, at a time, by its own virtues, resurrect itself, stop the sun, to stop a storm. When you do not know exactly where it comes from the power of the agents I talk to, I'm quite sure that does not reach there. To act the bodies on the subject, and to cause considerable changes, it is necessary for the preparation, it takes time, you must follow certain laws of motion. There is only the first cause, namely that the omnipotent agent can, at a time, produce such miraculous effects. It should clearly distinguish between these two sentences: Simple, and even the most skilled, do not know all the laws of nature or all the virtues of natural agents. And this one: The simple and the wise can not ignore something that is above the forces of nature. I know what I can not. But I do not know what I can or how far they can get my natural forces. Although I know of, for example, that I can not run as strong a shot crossbow, I do not know tell me how far I can run. In addition, when speaking of the impression that miracles have to do over the spirits, we must distinguish between different states and different levels of people. One man, for example, which is ignorant of the true religion, a pagan, the doctrine must believe that the aims and that you try with miracles, except that this doctrine is not contrary to natural light or miracles, he sees do not give him the right person for suspicion of illusion.
if they get a second miracle worker, which destroys the doctrine of the first and confirming its first review, with signs opposite to those of the first, the pay must suspend its review and examine his doctrine. But if a Christian is already trained, which is located between two workers of miracles, he must choose: 1 - what is approved by the Church, 2nd - what is the greatest miracles, 3rd - the one who preaches a doctrine more pure and healthy, and absolutely must reject that which is rejected by the Church, which preaches against Jesus Christ, announcing a false doctrine or a moral corrupt. But, I tell you, there is circular reasoning and begging the question in all this? I ask you a note, to distinguish between true and false miracles, and you say that true miracles are those that serve to confirm the sound doctrine. E I ask if the evidence of the doctrine of the two preachers, you tell me to stick to what works miracles, for if they do both, to relate to the Church. And I doubt if that is the true Church, you referred me to the miracles and teaching. One thing can not be used as proof in itself. We must not give, in principle, what is at issue. It says that here, the principle on which it is based around what we say is that God, as Truth itself can not lead to error or authorize the deception and lies, with his approval and with a retinue of miracles, which, having promised the infallibility of his Church, can not deny his promise. Here is the beginning of our reasoning; principle is undeniable and closed in the very idea that we all have of the Deity as a Being infinitely perfect. Therefore, when in doubt the truth of a miracle, or competition between two players of miracles, referring to the examination of doctrine or authority of the Church, I do not infallible consequence of the principle that you can not contest, that is God can not cheat and that the decision is the decision of his Church of the Holy Spirit. The Church draws, therefore, its strength from the Word of Jesus' miracles and teaching are supported on the same basis. It is not begging the question, is a concatenation test and principles that respond to each other and that claims to each other by the power and light. That the magicians, the false prophets, the Antichrist can take some actions that, considered in themselves, appear as other miraculous actions of Moses, Jesus Christ and the Apostles, is indisputable, but that wizards and other ministers devil have done such a great noise of miracles, so detailed, it followed that they have made with the same authority and the same readiness that they have predicted that they have stopped the course when they wanted them to have facts to support a doctrine of God, to establish the truth, to destroy the error, idolatry, superstition, deceit, the kingdom of the devil, and the glory of God, is what you do not absolutely deny.
The Savior had to perform miracles similar to those of the ancient Prophets had announced, says St. Augustine, as their God, their Lord, their Master, for fear it did not seem absurd if he did what others had done. But there are some miracles that no one else has ever done or could do, to prove that he was above all the miracle worker, of whatever nature and quality of whatever they were, as "born of a virgin, raised from the dead by its own virtue, he ascends into heaven. " If these actions do not enough to prove his divinity, I do not know what could prove it. Celsius objected, however, Christians are supposed miracles of the gods of paganism, authority to enforce against those of Jesus Christ. But Origen makes much difference to note the diversity that lies between morality and the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and the absurdities and abominations of the worship of false gods. Who can support, he said, that the correction of the ways is by cheating? What interest can have the devil in the deployment of miracles for the sanctification of mankind? Arnobius challenged the pagans to make them see that their gods had never wrought miracles similar to those of Jesus Christ, with their single command. It 's impossible that God allows man to be fooled by a long following of false miracles, especially if the man is in good faith and if the corruption of his heart, and contempt for truth and justice does not render him worthy of darkness and error to find the love that he likes. The Pharaoh's magicians did, no doubt, something that seemed miraculous, changing their rods into snakes. But God does not already confused the first time by devouring, the rod of Moses, who had snakes appear? And when Moses took the example of production of gnats, God does not stop their power and were not forced to confess that it was the finger of God acting through Moses? They were affected, like other Egyptians, the plague of ulcers, and their art could do nothing against the evil Israel, who were free of these scourges with which God smote the Egyptians, and rejoiced that a profound peace, while all the rest of the country was desolate, so much for changing the water into blood, so much for the hail and lightning, and finally to the darkness and death of humans and animals. That you compare the alleged miracles of the magicians of Pharaoh, those of Apollonius of Thyane, and deities of paganism with those of Jesus, Moses and the Apostles: which disproportion there notice?
We have seen that the devil has stopped the course of rivers, which has divided the waters of the sea, which has softened the salty waters of a spring, which has extracted water from a rock, which has predicted things that depended on the combination of different things free, long before they happened? He raised the dead buried for several days? Wizards have walked on water, healed the blind, the lame, the dumb from birth, without touching, without prepare, with their single command? The miracles that are mentioned, magicians and gods of paganism, who are given? Authors are faithful, contemporary witnesses of what they write, and suffer the torments and death itself, to support what they teach? The devil obsessed and tormented bodies, due to illness, good try here the effects of his power. If you see Jesus, is to encourage him, if he could, groped to God, to worship the most unworthy of all creatures. All it does, proceed from a power dangerous and harmful. Appeared everywhere as the father of lying, impiety, and superstition. Talk to Eve, is to drop it in his disobedience to God makes it look if the wonders of his power against Job, and to commit impatience and despair. Finally, all those supposed miracles that do not tend to do with the poor souls, of the wicked and evil. That's what leads to the power of the devil and his ministers. Thus, as the angel of darkness turns into an angel of light that Beelzebub cast out demons, that false prophets do miracles that lead to error, if possible, even the elect will always be easy to discern truth from falsehood. The actions, opinions, doctrine, the end of the spirit of the sons of darkness, they soon recognize them for what they were. Most laymen will never be fooled by false miracles, if they have just as much deference to the proceedings and orders of the Church as it should have. E 'to you to judge the merits of the mission and the true from the false apostles. If the Church condemns Simon, it is because he had to do the most amazing wonders, would rise in clouds, it was necessary to tell him anathema (Acts 8.20 to 21). The doctrine
helps wonders and miracles argue doctrine. These two must be inseparable: they are two principles related to each other and cemented. The people should not judge at all nor the doctrine nor by miracles, and his faith includes one other, and the submission of the truly faithful embracing the doctrine, proved by miracles, and miracles, accompanied by sound doctrine. The proof of miracles, recognized by the Church, there is always, in all its force, in relation to the wise simple coma. We respect, miracles, the nature of God's omnipotence that strikes us, and the authority of the Church, which recognizes them. So a miracle must be: 1 - Above the natural forces and known by what it produces, 2nd - must lead to God and Jesus Christ, 3 ° - I must not have anything against the true doctrine, piety, to the Church. It seems that the Jews and the Pharisees of Jesus' time had, up there, the same as our idea, and it is this idea, poorly understood, which they took as a pretext to reject the Savior, in the teaching and actions, which demanded not see all these characters. They had God's Law, which forbade them to listen to every worker of miracles, which would teach them a doctrine that would maintain or conduct contrary to this Act, and orders to appeal to the Fathers, to discern the good from the bad prophets. Jesus Christ, according to the Pharisees, to break the law, the priests disapproved of his teaching and his actions. It seems, therefore, that the people should not adhere to Jesus, however, the Savior says that the Jews are very guilty of not to accept his doctrine and that "they would not sin, if He had not done among them works that no one else had ever made "(John 15:24). He wanted, therefore, that he believed that his works miracles were certain of what he taught. He demanded that the Jews had the obligation to believe, and that was enough that he did miracles, to justify his conduct and his teaching. It 's the conclusion I drew Nicodemus when he said to Jesus: "We know that you are a teacher sent from God, because anyone can do wonders that you do unless God is with him" (John 3:2).
In fact, when miracles are sure, no one should host of other serious as the one sent by God who makes them. They necessarily carry with them the nature of truth and divinity. And 'when the doctrine was suspect, like that of Jesus to Nicodemus could have been because it seemed to destroy the traditions of the Pharisees, if there are some miracles and manifest the same side, they need to prevail on the evidence of miracles that could be difficult by the doctrine. What property is based on this principle that God can not deceive. Now he be misleading if the miracles being reported a false doctrine that did not seem obviously false to the light of common sense and if a great worker of miracles had not already warned not to believe them. So if there was a division in the church and the Arians, for example, who said they were grounded in Scripture, as the Catholics had done miracles, and non-Catholics, they had been misled, because there was the need to conclude favor of miracles or to follow a falsehood. Now that is what God can do and what they would do, however, if he allowed, in a dark matter and doubtful, there were the miracles from the two sides, this would be the case, then that should be used to the rules that we have proposed: the examination of Scripture, the nature of the miracle, the conduct of what it does, the authority of the Church, and, most importantly, prayer, to purify his heart from the presumption and unruly desires that can close your eyes and lead us into error.
Tertullliano note on this subject, something that deserves much attention. It seems, he says, that the Son of God could no longer use the authority of miracles to prove his mission, after having weakened or destroyed the evidence rather than by preaching that the imposters would do miracles that could deceive even the elect "Temerariam signorum atque virtutum ostendit fidem, ut etiam apud pseudo christos facillimarum. Where does so, he adds, that Jesus Christ wants us to approve it, whether we recognize, whether we receive the witness of his miracles, but he refused the same privilege to other workers of miracles? E ', no doubt, because, having come first, and having the first, since the precepts of the nature and quality of miracles, has earned the trust and made himself the master of spirits. As what comes first in the bathroom, fill the position and closes the door to others, so Jesus Christ has thrown everyone else, and has reserved, to Him alone, the trust: "Ita fidem occupavit, posteris quibusque proeripuit!
Having the advantage of coming first, have discredited those who had come after him, tarring and preachers.

St. Augustine, in response to the Donatists, who boasted of having workers of miracles, and who said they had made one Pontius, and that God had answered Donato, when he prayed, the Holy Father said: 1 - that the heretics are the first to be duped, believing in fairy tales or cheating, telling us what they themselves did not believe. 2nd - Assuming that they did miracles, he argues that they did not charity at all, without which, the fede, che fa trasportare le montagne, non serve a niente. Ora egli giudica che essi non hanno affatto la carità, perché hanno rotto l’unità. 3° - Infine, egli dice che il Figlio di Dio ci ha messi in guardia contro questi operatori di miracoli : “Contra istos mirabiliaros cautum me fecit Deus meus, dicens : In novissimis diebus exurgent pseudoprophetae, facientes signa et portenta, ut in errorem inducant, si fieri potest, etiam electos”. Un soldato disertore può far spavento ad un uomo di campagna ; ma quello che non vuol essere sorpreso, né spaventato, fa attenzione, se questo soldato è nel suo campo e se segue il suo esercito, e se la divisa che egli porta può dargli qualche autorità. Se is separated from his body and no way to distinguish the uniform that does not fear the threats and is opposed to his efforts. He still serves, elsewhere, the same comparison and distinguishes the miracles of the magicians from those of the saints, for the purpose you propose, and for the right and authority with which they do. Wizards seek their own glory and the saints, the glory of God the first act with a power that is granted to them in a certain order and in some extent, but the Saints operate with public authorities, emanated from the One to whom all power has been given in Heaven and on Earth. Finally all we have said so far, touching the true and false miracles, you can ensure: 1 - God alone can do miracles, for he alone can act against the normal rules of nature or suspend the action, when and how he deems appropriate. 2nd - That men, angels and demons can sometimes make miraculous actions, the express will of God, making good use of her child, to carry out his orders and to serve as a tool to his or her mercy Justice . 3rd - What spirits are separated from matter, may, of course, without miracle, to act on the bodies. 4th - That the alleged miracles of the magicians of Pharaoh are magical operations, of which the devil is the author and the instrument. 5th - What is the real miracle is a lot of its external authority, compared to the people, doctrine and merit of one who does it, and the opposition of the Church.