(urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS

[David Duffy]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> Jerry Friedman wrote:
>
>> To me, goety and theurgy are only one branch of magic.
>> Another is the kind that works by sympathy and contagion,
>>  such as sticking pins in dolls or keeping one's accidental
>> cut from being infected by cleaning the knife that caused it.....
>
> Exactly so. The big distinction is between magia, the application of
> natural laws like sympathy and contagion; and goetia, dealings with
> supernatural powers. Some years ago I wrote a mini essay on this for a
> friend who was defending the Harry Potter books for her church:
> http://www.molthagen.de/kerstin/buecher/hp_anleit_ddo.html

"Practising yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry 
Potter" ;)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/8915691/Harry-Potter-and-yoga-are-evil-says-Catholic-Church-exorcist.html

Cheers, David Duffy