Thomas Aquinas vs. Hermes Trismegistus (A 13th-century Anti-Magical Polemic)

Christian destroys WOKE magician with FACTS and LOGIC. Joking, thank you for the video.

These vigorously critical words from Thomas Aquinas highlight two fascinating take-aways for me: 1) is that the ways of the magi or practitioner of the celestial "pagan" Arts is morally ambiguous and intellectually ill-conceived according to the high virtue of his faith. And 2) by virtue of his critique, for him to write this, there WERE magi and other practitioners of magical Arts causing seemingly REAL effects in his day. 😳

Woah this Thomas guy should make a podcast i love his mind

Keep up the awesome job, Dan! 👍

Great video and the artwork you added was perfect!

Thank you for the best content ever! 🎉

Ahhh yea more polemics! I love these stuffy gent's and their absolutely next level shade throwing. As always thank you for what you do here. It is absolutely a privilege to have access to this knowledge, and I am immensely grateful to you, and your fellow youtubers (of literally every knowledge set imaginable) who freely give all of this to us with real love and passion. The Great Work continues!

Ive been looking for new knowledge and wow that was powerful and made alot of sense. Tyvm! 😊

I'm admired of your image archive.

Thank you for always sharing the truth. May the Lord keep blessing you with the knowledge and understanding to keep sharing with the mass.

Excellent. Thank you.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Very interesting. I'd love to hear more of Thomas Aquinas's work and theories on this channel.

Woah crazy 😊 exactly what I was thinking. 🌙☀️

Boss man Dan! I have a question for you that's unrelated to this subject in particular but, is directly related to the big Triple Fantastical rascal himself. Being that Hermes is essentially some kind of representation or avatar/archetype or whatever you'd refer to it as for Ahura Mazda (Hermuz), wouldn't the Caduceus kind of be a counterintuitive symbol due to the Zoroastrians disdain for the Serpent? Now, I'm fully aware that the Caduceus is representative of the Kundalini and Pineal Gland but, it does seem kinda strange (to me at least) that our guy is a representative of A.M. and even has the association with Fire but, also carries the Caduceus which I would think would be an almost disrespectful gesture in regards to the origins of the figure in regards to the Persians and Zoroastrianism. Sorry for being so off topic but I wasn't sure where I could or should ask this otherwise.

Thank you, Magister Dan. But, I mean, who was right?

Happy up-coming B-Day, Dan 🎉🎉::: it's gonna be a doosie, as far as the astrology; Pluto moving into Aquarius😮... (one of my wonders was Aquinas at the end of his life.. saying that all he had written was "as straw". ☆♡◇) well, maybe pluto moving into aquarius will be a good thing!? who knows...i'm ready for some goodness... Long live the Picatrix! 😂

An intriguing showdown between Thomas Aquinas and Hermes Trismegistus. 🤔💬📚

Heck ya dan

Would you ever make a video talking about the comments of Justin Martyr, who linked pagan mystery cults with fallen angels?