Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials

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I got into it through devil worship

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[@gamer7916]

It's always ironic that the witch hunters primarily accused commoners in the rural countryside of consorting with demons, when in reality the people who are trying to contact demons are those like John Dee, nobles with power, wealth and connections to church and crown whom the witch hunters can't touch even if they tried.

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[@Strauss-]

@@unbroken1010 John Dee was a very devout man who wanted to consort with angels, daemons (messanger of a god) of the God. Many disagreed with ihim that he was accessing angels and said he was instead consorting with darker spirits, which is also why he lost his initial university position. So he had much more reason to be suspected of contacting demons, and was suspected, and did admit to it (albeit he said and thought it was angels), yet he was imprisoned once but never executed.

[@giantsbane9706]

He who smelt it, delt it.

[@giantsbane9706]

@@unbroken1010 or didnt want peeps messing with natural substances that helped one better themselves without religion.

[@yaho5785]

Yeah. Also a lot of midwives were targeted as well, accused of of having slain infants yet in the mothers womb and hindering men performing the sexual act and woman conceiving. As midwives had knowledge on aborticides and birth control. (It's important to note that it was only considered abortion past the Quickening (when the infant first moves) but anything before that wasn't considered abortion and was completely fine for a while).

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[@derekanderson5429]

All things work together for good, for those that love God and are called according to his purpose. Basically the chosen ones. How can we tell who the chosen ones are when the televangelists of today preach Christ crucified for the redeeming of man, while living in a home that could be sold and the proceeds able to feed millions of people. The chosen are those who seek his face. His face is light, and light is always used as another word for truth. So seek the truth. Jesus said I am the way, the "TRUTH" and the life... no man comes to the father but through me. Now Christ is saying I AM the TRUTH. I believe that the only one who walked the earth that was "the One" was Christ. If only to believe in him transforms a man into a spiritual being. I myself can not walk on water, or heal the sick, or feed 5000 people with two loaves of bread a few fishes...but I can believe. Solomon also believed and actually worked magick,Solomonic magick...so who was Solomon calling spiritually for his binding of demons. Why was Solomon allowed this rite. He was deemed to be the most wise of any man, so I doubt he would go against the Almighty of this entire universe and beyond. So if God granted him power over evil then evil is more in bondage than free willed. Evil or what we call evil is really just the ones to test man...they're agents of God unwillingly or unknowingly. God knows the beginning from the end(or vice-versa) and if that is the case, then everything has already been decided. Its his plan after ALL. Trick the trickster...the oppositioner.

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@@SHDUStudios Hubris on your part.

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@mattfinleylive ..... how is saying that Christian proselytizing on a channel that regularly deals with esotericism and occultism in multiple faiths is potentially the wrong audience? It's.... kind of obvious to me that people who want to learn about magic(k) and occultism are not necessarily going to be thrilled or interested in the idea that summoning demons is actually a thing God would be all for bc nothing happens without His say-so. It's an interesting concept, sure, but most people here aren't going to suddenly convert because of it. Because we're studying occultism.

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[@heathenwizard]

Wonderful video! I never knew that there was such a huge temporal overlap between the witch trials and the great renaissance occultists. I can’t help but think the latter got away with it due to their positions of power and privilege in the clergy and at court - and of course, because they were all men.

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[@prognosis8768]

When I read the Malleus Maleficarum, I got the impression that witches may have been targeted more than sorcerers or necromancers because witches were in the business of selling curses and the others weren't. In fact, I kind of got the impression that the definition of a witch was pretty much "someone who sells curses".

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I bet you my house that none of you know anything about the spanish inquisition, but you know myths people told you

[@nooneinparticular3370]

@@jonathansoko1085 It does seem like Sledge does though, since he mentions in this episode how its highly bureaucratic and legalistic nature made it so that almost no one got executed for witchcraft.

[@JQS8810]

Please do a serie on the Pythagorean cult.

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Pythagoras had a cult???

[@JQS8810]

@@erikpaulsanchez4876 yep. Pythagoras was a lot more than “Mathematics”

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[@samtemporary]

May I also recommend Fr. Ripperger's new book, "Dominion", exploring the psychology of demons (and angels) through the lens of scholastic and Aristotelian philosophy. A scholarly tome. Fascinating!

[@warboats]

Another very well researched and informative video (without being dry!). What you were saying bout how the working class and peasantry, mainly the women, were subject to demonisation, persecution, torture and execution on a scale much much higher than the upper classes reminds me of an article I read by Mark Laskey called ‘rebellion of the damned’, it’s well worth reading. he talks about how the “‘flying on brooms” stuff was actually due to hallucinagenic folk potions (some mix of acconite, belladonna, wolfsbane and hashish/opium or something along those lines) that were smeared on broomshandles and taken intravaginally during certain traditional folk-religious celebration (I think the church made up some nonsense that this potion was made up of mushed up baby parts)... sorry it’s very late and I can’t recall it that clearly, but I thought it was a really interesting article, this vid has made me want to reread it. This channel is consistently good, I really appreciate the work you lot put in!

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University of Paris: Rules for the Fall Semester (Updated): 1. Kegs are no longer allowed in dormitory elevators. 2. NO ANIMALS IN THE LECTURE HALLS 3. Necromancy is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN 4. Clothing MUST be worn under collegiate robes. etc.

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[@Darisiabgal7573]

Justin, this is an absolute masterpiece of scholarship. I want to make a couple of points. The video rightly so begins with a perception, 2nd hand, of the mystic rites of a "pagan" belief. And this idea of practice as it can be divided between the Holy and the demonic is just nonsense. Augustine is engaging in special pleading to create heresiology. We can talk about iconography in the church, the church at one point realizing that the muslims had a point sought to get rid of all but the simplist icons in the chuch, twice, and they failed. While we could advance a number of reasons why it failed the simplist is that the iconography is part of the magick of the orthodox rites. When these icons were removed the experiential component of christian worship felt lower than with the icons. The orthodoxy created very careful wording to make it seem that people werent actually praying to idols, but this is simply special pleading. Philosophically speaking when a adherant to religion begins to bisect "us" and "them" or the ordination of some virtual space, 7th heaven or ninth layer of hell, such that there is hierarchy in accordance of some political system, then we see the promotion of individuals to divine status and their nemesis to demons. The best example i kniw of is Nabo the vizier of Marduk is promoted to go as Nabos fortunes rise. In the case of Yeshua, as his divinity is promoted so follow the saints. The problem with these systems is they dont last, very few christians kniw who Marduk and Nabo are, though they probably know Nabo Kadurri usur by some false name the Jews gave him. We have in the text of the bible what people want to believe about the past, not the actual past. We have in the doctrine of orthodoxy what people want to believe about a Nazarian, not the theology of the Nazarian. Its all conflated superstition. Second. I think that in the 13th to 16th century things in Europe were not going as desired, not only was the late medieval period marked by the black death, but also the not-so-little little ice age. It gave a chance for authorities to consolidate power and become more doctrinal. We see a systematization arising for example first and last names, concepts of marriage are solidifying and the authority of the church. As you mentioned the first university formed, there would be the tying of medicine to the collegiate system and decline of folk medicine. The priesthood becomes celebate. European society is gradually undergoing a restructuring and certain aspects once widely accepted become taboo. When we talk about religious practices i can make the point that everything is pagan in some sense, and if we use objective criteria idolatry abounds in every practice, there ample evidence of "us"-versus-"them"-ism everywhere. So the witch hunts of that period are sinply the soup du jour. I mean if we went by icons of magic, select anyone out based on their selected trinkets, images, and fetishes. When thinks start to go way bad around 1275 heading into 1315, @nd things did not improve, the baltic sea froze over in 1314, the greenland colony collapsed in 1405. You need villians to blame so you look for "thems" among you to persecute. There is a rudimentary survival mechanism at play, i mean if food production is collapsing and black death spreads in popukated areas you really dont need healers and women, you need a reduction in popukation until the system can be reworked.

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There's one prop from the X-Files series that has stayed with me: the "I Want To Believe" poster on the wall of Mulder's office (I hope I spelled his name right). It has stayed with me because I, too, would like to believe; to believe in something, anything. When I was very young I was a Christian and believed all of that Christian stuff, however, I can't do it anymore. I've found that one cannot intellectually will oneself to believe in anything, it requires an epiphany of sorts. Belief is a matter for the emotions, it grows out of you and is not something that you can take from the world and then internalise. I don't think that the ability to believe, once it has left you, can be resurrected by the conscious mind. It requires a lightning bolt from the outside straight into your emotional core. But I suspect that I'm not expressing myself very well, so I'll close with my confession that while I believe in death, the "Angel of Death" is just a curious anomaly among many others. More's the pity.

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[@thoth_amon]

that directorum book, like the guide book to evil demon worshipers by the vatican, reminds me of the diagnostic book for psychiatry, a list of all the ways someone is normal/good and evil/mentally ill, and rights are taken away, locked up, etc...., excuse me sometimes, my brain works in strange ways, i always see similar systems of things instead of the things themselves

[@mikebaker2436]

10:10 This understanding of travel being demonic fantasy of the mind goes all the way back to Evagrius Ponticus' description of "The Wanderer" (or Vagabond) in Peri Logismon. Here, an elusive demon distracts the desert monk by causing his mind to wander and visit all kinds of places in elaborate daydreams.

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Agreed.

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Your content is always so conplex but precise... Do you happen to have something on vampirism in magick? i find ir hard to get good info on vampire witches and i fins the topic very interesting

[@oceanusprocellarum1119]

Romuva is the name of the surviving Pagan Lithuanian tradition. It's now recognized by the state government.

[@jrmckim]

Coming from learning more about the Spanish Conquistadors take over of central and south America, many priests were brought along to convert "indians" to Christianity. Though most condemned tribal leaders to burn at the stake. This was around the early 1500s. What i find disturbing about this is how the priests forced tribal leaders to convert to Christianity. They threatened to burn them at the stake if they refused but were still condemned to die by hanging after converting.

[@Lesterfaye81]

There's a 17th century grimoire available on Amazon called Long Lost Friend that I bought. It was so interesting. Most it is Christian prayers, but there's some other stuff in there that is obviously spell work. I had to put it into my home office because I kept having terrible dreams with it next to my bed. (I'm an Episcopalian. We're pretty chill in general.) It's just so interesting and I wonder where the German Christians that wrote this thing got this stuff and how they justified it given this sort of attitude.

[@ArielRyanBautista1313]

You should cover the trial of Urbain Grandier of Loudoun, that was a completely political witch trial

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Absolutely - and the Templars

[@changer1285]

23:37 you are a ray of light in a dark world. I really really hope more people gain critical thinking skills.

[@src3360]

I waa led down the esoteric path bcuz of my childhood. I lived with, mostly, my great grandparents. My parents were MDs and worked constantly, so I was raised by my grandparents. I saw some ghosts. I saw my grandpa sitting on his bed and then sitting in his recliner chair, after he had been dead for a few months. He was talking but I heard nothing. Then, years later my grandma died and I saw her as well. She was in the kitchen both times. Both times her mouth was moving but I heard acute silence, like I did with my grandpa. As ive gotten older I have seen less and less. Im an ARNP and have scene somw crazy things. Much to much to write out here 💜🤘

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Thank you for your work!

[@astrogypsy]

On re-watching this episode, well... Doc Justin, you rock! Thx man.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

:) Thanks!

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Medieval manuscripts are so beautiful.

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right?

[@customercareskeleton]

It's fascinating to learn the origin of warlocks and necromancers

[@jrmckim]

Ive always been fascinated by different religions and how they relate to one another. I come from a tiny town (population 800) in Louisiana. We had no post office or stores but had a church on every road. I was raised pentecostal then assembly of God. We had 3 Baptist, 2 Methodist, and 3 Church of Christ. Plus a pentecostal and an assembly of God church. As a child I wondered how there could be so many varying churches but 1 God. Thats when I found out about other religions and beliefs. I came to the conclusion that all these religions are connected. I looked at religion as a mountain. Theres different ways to climb a mountain but it all has the same destination, God.

[@ampersandman757]

Am I seriously meant to believe that this guy is an occult scholar and his name is Dr Sledge? Because that's a pulp character if there ever was one

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yeah..my students say that I sound like a 1970s era marvel villain. I take that as a compliment :)

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Love the graphics.

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Let’s hit on some Alchemy, and there take on being the first to combine phosphorus and oxidizer (red phosphorus and potassium chlorate), it might not have been those two compounds, but Armstrong credited with the combined compounds hence “Armstrong mixture” 1950’s! I don’t think so, try much earlier.

[@thoth_amon]

i seen a video not too long ago about "corpse medicine", and thought to myself, that is necromancy, used to be used in medieval times, apothecary would sell corpse parts as cures for ailments

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haha don't ask them about aphrodisiacs

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You have a really cool tie

[@alphaetomega]

Church: Nice soul you got there, be a real shame... if SATAN were to take it

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Oh that old inquisition...

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I can't help but hear Dana Carvey's voice saying... "SATAN?" as I read your comment, anyone else?

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@@mjonhouston Yep, me too.

[@drewmagick6919]

Interesting perspective about the core being a conspiracy theory. Good point.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yeah, I really think that's a way for modern folks to get a handle on what happened.

[@acarrot589]

Now that you suggested, I would like to know more about Lithuanian and Christian mixtures

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Love this channel so much !

[@thefrantasticmissfine]

10:40 eyes my Animorphs collection from middle school 👀

[@roonieh9619]

May you please make a video on magic in the “Decameron”?

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Loved 'In Search of' too.

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Am I there only one who thinks you are a very funny guy in a subtle ironic and slightly sarcastic way? LOL Thank You Sir!

[@rvfiasco]

I recieved Magick in Theory and Practice in the mail one day. Blew my mind. Been studying ever since.

[@randallpetroelje3913]

Don’t follow the “beast “. There’s booby traps hidden.

[@bobmcbob9856]

IDK about Iceland but well into the medieval & in the case of the South Slavs even modern periods, soul-projecting shamans and folk healers remained widely accepted. In Montenegro they were sometimes seen as tricking the devil while there and throughout in the South Slavic sphere there’s often little mention of God & they’re seen as the descendants of benevolent storm dragons or the binding demons in their bodies, even some high medieval Serbian Christian monarchs are said to have the powers of an evil spirit though whether it’s by descent from such a spirit or the binding of one within their bodies is unclear, though after that shamanic powers from demons & dragons becomes mostly a decentralized rural belief/superstition

[@bobmcbob9856]

As should be evident from my comment I’m not as knowledgeable on Russia as on the Balkans but these kinds of practices were widespread generally in Eastern Europe, even in Lithuania you get soul-projecting werewolves

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However I am the newest and don't want to bother you but l do have a few questions l also found your PP

[@abramelinthemage3894]

As a fellow student of the craft I would would love a private 5 minutes of your time. Im sure you will not experience the emotion know as regret. Talk soon. Amazing channel too.

[@dmtripreport8542]

Awesome episode! Thanks!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks! Glad you are liking my content!

[@mattserven3956]

Nice lecture!

[@markbreen-klein4913]

Wait, did you say you still play D&D? Would you be interested in playing a session?

[@romanmay2867]

i am very confused about the solomon magic circles and such, how would binding and trapping them be bad? or banishing them?

[@stevenv6463]

It's interesting how the Mesoamerican idea of shapeshifters or naguales also became very negative in catholic Mexico.

[@brianscott9525]

What is the beautiful piano music at the beginning?

[@slidvonjunzt7608]

Your joke at 20:44 made this "devil worshipper" giggle like a schoolboy who just heard a dirty word! ;'D

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Good Morning Dr. Sledge from California 🏔️

[@OuroborosAlchemist]

1:54 Well, I wasn't expecting that one

[@ChrisWizzerd]

I love this stuff!!!

[@jrmckim]

Im not sure my chemo/ multiple sclerosis brain can keep up but I am trying to understand. Thats what matters right?

[@johnrohde5510]

Shape shifting was stil an important part of Kashubian folk beliefs at the start of the C20th: see, The Cashian Civilisation, Lorentz et al.

[@k98killer]

20:13 can honestly say I did not expect that, because nobody ever does.

[@anachronisticappalachian]

St. Augustine was correct about magical requests being answered by demons. However, one can direct those same requests to God.

[@FraktalPriest]

Having recently been possessed by more than one Daimon(d) this video, like all of yours of course, is super informative! Ty!

[@randallpetroelje3913]

Understanding the Lord and power. Binah and chokmah. I loved Poe too. A nice way to get to know the “dark “ arts , I guess for lack of a better term. Im definitely a great fan of yours. I’ll definitely contribute. Im more of a Golden Dawn fan that a Crowley enthusiast. You cover pretty much every spectrum of the arcane. You’re wise and I give you thanks 🙏 for giving a opportunity for like minded people.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks! Glad you are liking my content!

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Thanks!

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You’re the kinda dude that ends up on the JRE podcast.

[@a.6900]

i think it would be sick if you added captions

[@OliveJewel]

How did these little imps transform from the spiritually inspiring daimon of the Greeks to the malevolent Christian demon?

[@mothgoth0]

15:10 is sooo interesting, because φάρμακον also means regular medicine! A witch is ἡ φαρμακεύτρια/ἡ φαρμακίς [pharmakeutria/pharmakis], which would mean... "a woman who makes drugs... druguess?". Witchcraft could be translated as ἡ γοητεία [goeteia], ἡ μαγική [magike] or, drumroll please, ἡ φαρμακεία [pharmakeia] which also means "poisoning [someone]" (noun). It immediately marks the connection of witches and herbalism, without mentioning any practice of magic itself!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thank the lxx for that

[@astrogypsy]

Nice job Doc; Thx.

[@dansheppard2965]

At 5:40, not only defeating the forces of evil, but doing it wearing flip-flops.

[@changer1285]

Great intro.

[@rchelvam813]

@ 22:00 Is this the first conspiracy theory (maybe manufactured too)?

[@bobby-joemountrushmore3618]

Lol, I'm here for the humor

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Ha! Glad you appreciate my attempts!

[@JohnVander70]

Very interesting.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!

[@themadhatter34]

Metal and hammer are all the good stuff!

[@Ghostkeeper]

what about Solomon capturing falling Angels to Use for Power,,, Solomon was givin Wisdom from GOD,,,,,,

[@Iconicnotcon]

@@jerryshunk7152 well he probably still had it but didn’t use it anymore

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i love this guy

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

That wheel reminds me of a natal astrological birth chart.

[@funningames2243]

Wait a minute! Incubus lover? Want that a song by Stevie Wonder? Kind of an upbeat little diddy, if I'm tremendous correctly.

[@milascave2]

I have a copy of the "Malouse Malefactors." But I find it a very difficult book to read. The print is so very, very small. But, as I understand it, early conspiracy theories against early Christians that they were involved in a secret society, had secret rituals in which they worshiped an evil God, had weird and taboo sex, during ritualized orgies, during which they had sex with and killed children, and drank their blood, were later used against Jews, Pagans, and rival Christians, especially during the Inquisitional the many witch hunts. More recently, those same accusations emerged in the 19890s "satanic Panic." And currently, these same charges are being leveled against leading Democrats according to the Q-Annon theory. If history does not repeat itself, it at least rhymes, and some myths just will not die.

[@leonardium1]

Loved the Q-anon reference, lol

[@Tw0tson]

*soy face*

[@Strauss-]

@@Tw0tson well done

[@Merle1987]

Basically, Christianity comes across as psychotic.

[@danielpaulson8838]

Absolutely agreed.

[@Gh4styyy]

But killing babys is okay?​@@danielpaulson8838

[@Dmicroluv]

27:33 I thought that you'll say "because they were male" but instead you said "sinners". To me it is still not clear why they weren't also "blasphemous".

[@chdao]

If demons can lie and say that they are angels, what is to stop them from pretending to be Jesus/God?

[@DanBellusci]

Really enjoying your work. What is the painting at 5:30 called?

[@georgethompson1460]

It's like the satanic panic but cooler.

[@JamesDavid-yt4ec]

7:00 .... "Shadow of Death" ('death' being dark) and "therefore" the shadow of death is "light" ... ((I have used the term ' black light ' --- ABSOLUTELY NOT A RACIAL SLUR)). May be better descriptor: " TYPICALLY Incapable Wavelength " (insustainable) (unstable)