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St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
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BOOK II.
chap. 24. The intercourse and agreement with demons which superstitious observances maintain
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chap
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24
.
The
intercourse
and
agreement
with
demons
which
superstitious
observances
maintain
And
all
these
omens
are
of
force
just
so
far
as
has
been
arranged
with
the
devils
by
that
previous
understanding
in
the
mind
which
is
,
as
it
were
,
the
common
language
,
but
they
are
all
full
of
hurtful
curiosity
,
torturing
anxiety
,
and
deadly
slavery
.
For
it
was
not
because
they
had
meaning
that
they
were
attended
to
,
but
it
was
by
attending
to
and
marking
them
that
they
came
to
have
meaning
.
And
so
they
are
made
different
for
different
people
,
according
to
their
several
notions
and
prejudices
.
For
those
spirits
which
are
bent
upon
deceiving
,
take
care
to
provide
for
each
person
the
same
sort
of
omens
as
they
see
his
own
conjectures
and
preconceptions
have
already
entangled
him
in
.
For
,
to
take
an
illustration
,
the
same
figure
of
the
letter
X
,
which
is
made
in
the
shape
of
a
cross
,
means
one
thing
among
the
Greeks
and
another
among
the
Latins
,
not
by
nature
,
but
by
agreement
and
prearrangement
as
to
its
signification
;
and
so
,
any
one
who
knows
both
languages
uses
this
letter
in
a
different
sense
when
writing
to
a
Greek
from
that
in
which
he
uses
it
when
writing
to
a
Latin
.
And
the
same
sound
,
beta
,
which
is
the
name
of
a
letter
among
the
Greeks
,
is
the
name
of
a
vegetable
among
the
Latins
;
and
when
I
say
,
lege
,
these
two
syllables
mean
one
thing
to
a
Greek
and
another
to
a
Latin
.
Now
,
just
as
all
these
signs
affect
the
mind
according
to
the
arrangements
of
the
community
in
which
each
man
lives
,
and
affect
different
men
'
s
minds
differently
,
because
these
arrangements
are
different
;
and
as
,
further
,
men
did
not
agree
upon
them
as
signs
because
they
were
already
significant
,
but
on
the
contrary
they
are
now
significant
because
men
have
agreed
upon
them
;
in
the
same
way
also
,
those
signs
by
which
the
ruinous
intercourse
with
devils
is
maintained
have
meaning
just
in
proportion
to
each
man
'
s
observations
.
And
this
appears
quite
plainly
in
the
rites
of
the
augurs
;
for
they
,
both
before
they
observe
the
omens
and
after
they
have
completed
their
observations
,
take
pains
not
to
see
the
flight
or
hear
the
cries
of
birds
,
because
these
omens
are
of
no
significance
apart
from
the
previous
arrangement
in
the
mind
of
the
observer
.
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