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Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Universae. Concilii Laodiceni
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
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egL. — 56. Quod non oportet sacerdotes aut do- ricos, magos aut incantatores esse, vel mathemati- cos, vel astrologos, aut facere quæ dicuntur phylacteria, quae quidem sunt animarum ipsarum vincula. Eos autem qui ferunt, ejici ab ecclesia præcipimus.
[CXL]. — 56. That priests or clerics must not be magicians or enchanters, or mathematicians, or astrologers, or make what are called phylacteries, which are in fact bonds for the souls themselves. And those who wear them we order to be cast out of the church.
Translator's note. The opening 'egL.' is a garbled numeral, evidently CXL (the canons before and after are CXXXVIII and CXLI); '56' may likewise be a misprint. 'do- ricos' is read as clericos. 'Mathematicians' here are casters of horoscopes; 'phylacteries' are amulets.
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