Sin has really become an instrument most effective in the education of intellect and soul. The notion that magic and witchcraft have some relationship with rationality or science managed to reach some and form an advocacy of a new religion based on love, art, magic and mathesis. Some believe magic has an impact on belief, thought, and behavior. Magic takes a sort of professional pleasure in profaning holy things; in its rites, it performs the contrary of the religious ceremony. On its side, religion, when it has not condemned and prohibited magic rites, has always looked upon them with disfavor. Witches were thought to be dangerous without knowing it; their witchcraft was made active simply by feeling of resentment or grudge. The accusation attempted to regulate the situation by vindicating one and condemning the other rival. Since witches do not necessarily know that they are such, acts of witchcraft are often unwitting. Thus, in a consideration of witchcraft, the only evidence that has occurred is that an accusation is made and sustained (usually by oracle).   

Many people also believed that cartoons like He-man and TV shows like Supernatural and the Vampire Diaries are used to sneak in evil and indoctrinate the population. However, some believe that TV shows, which display occult symbols and rituals are necessary because they are culturally relevant. And furthermore, not to attack reporters and the news, because some do excellent, but many people feel the news is evil and drains their energy because some reporters habitually lie and steal confidential information and illegally leak it and distort it. It is rumored that some news anchors make speeches in praise of the devil, and that they read their own beliefs and attitudes into their works. Whereas, TV shows like Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries give a deep magical insight into nature and their work is illustrated with magical diagrams, representing mathesis, and they outline a movement of tolerance and general philanthropy which is to replace sectarian bitterness.   

Reformation and acceptance of other cultures and religions is important because in August of 1591, Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600) taught occult procedures. He was arrested in Venice and thrown into the prisons of the Inquisition. At the end of the Venetian trial, he recanted his scripts, but was sent to Rome for another trial, remined in prison for eight years, at the end of which he was sentenced as a heretic (having refused, this time, to recant) and was burned alive on the Campo de’ Fiori. Many believed the Giordano Bruno was burned alive because he was an Egyptian magician, who had been propagating throughout Europe some movement of nature of which remains mysterious, although it may be connected with the origins of Rosicrucianism and of Freemasonry. Giordano Bruno was actually Italian, but at an early age he entered the Dominican order and become an inmate of the Dominican convent in Naples. However, his philosophical views in themselves can have had little to do with the condemnation. 

In reality, although many condemned Giordano Bruno and labeled him as a confused thinker, his philosophy, his magic, and his religion can all be seen as forming part of an outlook on nature and on humans which, however unusual, is nevertheless perfectly coherent within its own premises. Giordano Bruno gave public lectures that attracted King Henri III, and published two books on the art of memory, and he also appeared as the martyr for modern sciences and the Copernican theory. As a result, statues were erected in honor of Giordano Bruno by anticlericals in Italy. Many errors can be made by novice who judge things based on their limited information much like in art criticism. If we interpret a painting in light of its context, then try to interpret the context in light of the painting, we are in grave danger of finding only confirmation for our prior beliefs about the painting and the historical context. 

There are two kinds of magic. The first is practiced by those who unite themselves to demons by a specific religious rite, and, relying on their help, often contrive portents. This, however, was thoroughly rejected when the Prince of this World was cast out. However, the other kind of magic is practiced by those who seasonably subject natural material to natural causes to be formed in a wondrous way. Nature gives to the bodies an appetite and tendency through which they would desire the lower places and give them, in addition, gravity and cold as means through which they can descend to the desired place [the center of the World]. It gives to the subtler ones the desire for the higher place and added lightness and warmth as means through which they would reach the desired ends. The present state of the World represents a transitory process limited at both extreme by the moments of creation and of Last Judgment.   

As to the human soul, it too has faculties and movements, often expressed as appetites: the natural appetite of the human intellect and will is directed toward the infinite true and good only that is, toward God, as its ends. Again, the whole attempts of our Souls is to become God. This attempt is no less natural for men than the attempt to fly is for birds. For it is inherent in all humans always every everywhere and therefore follows, not a contingent quality of an individual, but the nature of the species itself. Therefore, witches do believe in God and if many of them have no idea that they are witches, we cannot condemn them. Last night, I had a dream that there were a series of explosions and my body started shaking and the room with filled with smoke, then my feet started to fly towards the Heavens and my head was toward Earth. So, I was vertically levitating upside down. There seems to be a parallelism between the Soul and fire, because both tend to rise to the tops of their respective spheres. Thus, the several frenzies constitute a rising series, or rather, a set of rungs on the ladder up to God.  

The end of fire is the concavity of the last Heaven. Therefore, if there were no obstacle each flame would fly up to that place, and when it reached that concavity, if it had sufficient extension, it would extend itself throughout that whole concavity in order to enjoy entirely what is natural to it. The goal and the end of the mind is the true and good itself: God, there it runs by an essential instinct like fire. The technique was to assist the soul’s cleaving to God, purifying and elevating the magician toward the divine. Second, through such elevation, the magician gains powers over the angels and ministering forces, and can manipulate them to produce Worldly erect. The higher magician rises through the spheres and the divine world, the more powerful the angels which can be thus manipulated; furthermore, such manipulation binds the magician to the superior nature of the angel, aiding further ascent. No magician can control spirits whose status is higher than one’s own, therefore the manipulation of the angels is both proof of purity and an instrument for achieving the divine union. The radical promise of ceremonial magic is fulfilled: demonic magic leads the soul to God.   

It appears that each form of frenzy induces the soul to rise to the appropriate sphere. The dream represents the soul being diverted to the mind, the supreme part of itself, and makes it fit and pure temple of the gods, in which the divine spirits may dwell. The divine spirits here are angels in the narrow and superior sense, such as Archangels Michael, Uriel, Raziel, and so forth; such angels sometimes speak prophecy through human mouths, and the soul is filled with felicity, wisdom, and oracles. And the ceremonies consist in observing cleanliness, and purity, of mind, then body, and those these which are about the body. And that is why some people cannot have the sex nor eat pork, nor do drugs. Some people believe that Giordano Bruno used conducive magic, and made a leap upward though the spheres in an ascent to his new Universe, on the ladders of occult sympathies running through all nature. With magic and divine rites, he ascended to the height of the divinity.

Giordano Bruno bold explorations of the inner World may become important to the historian of psychology. He was moving under laws placed in the Universe of God, who is not a magician, but a mathematician and a mechanic. Giordano Bruno used his extraordinary vision of an immensely expanded Universe, ruled by laws of magical animism. He became an outstanding figure, the old legend of the martyrdom of the advanced thinker and gravity substituted for the psychic life of nature as the principle of movement. Seeing every power and virtue is from above, from God, from the intelligences and stars, who can neither err nor do evil. You do not know, for you could never learn it from your own heart, which is all purity and rectitude, what a mixture of good there may be in things evil; and how the greatest criminal, if you look at his or her conduct from their own point of view, or from any side point, may seem not so unquestionably guilty, after all.