DE OCCULTA

ascendants, a sickness or pain is added, there none of the previous three can help at all, but it must also be dealt with magically and supernaturally, and driven away again in the same way it was brought in, etc.

Hence it comes that such miserable, bewitched people have been abandoned by so many supposed doctors who have not known these things. And even if one has told them, they have given as an answer that it is against God, that one is misusing His holy name, although I have not misused it in the least. If I were using it for a human's ruin, for harm, or for disadvantage, cursing and blaspheming God, or otherwise conjuring a spirit, human, herb, root, stone, etc., or the like by His name, then one could well say with truth and rightly that I had misused the name of God, taken it in vain, and angered God with it; but not before.

The Theologi theologians and Sophisten sophists say...