05-10-2025, 03:37 AM
(04-10-2025, 09:25 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In general occult books had no name attached, firstly because it was illegal.. in a you will be burned alive way. ... Unless you are Antonius of Montolmo.. who I'm honestly not sure how he avoided becoming a pile of ash (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
AFAIK, the Church did not generally care about occult books, alchemy, bizarre cosmological theories, etc. So much so that thousands of such manuscripts have survived to this day. What it was very sensitive about was challenges to its authority. Galileo got in trouble because he was a very undiplomatic character and stepped hard on the toes of the astronomers of the Vatican Observatory, who were supposed to be the best in the world.
And the reason why Giordano Bruno was burned was not his theory about other planets being inhabited, but the fact that he used that theory to argue that the Pope could not claim to be the only supreme authority for all Christianity. Because Jesus must have appeared on those other planets too, to save the people living there; and He must have founded other Christian Churches there; which must have their own Popes... And Giordano was going around the courts of Europe telling that to kings and princes...
All the best, --jorge