Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 9 : § 4.1-3

Chapter 9 The Eighth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She commands the Church’s armies

Continuing our translation of the 1845 reprint of Fr François Poiré's Triple Crown of the Mother of God (1643 French edition).

Notre Dame des Grâces, Cotignac.(Poggi, 2020)

§ 4. The second Legion of the enemies of God and the Holy Virgin : Magicians, Sorcerers and other such monsters of nature having familiar intercourse with the Devil

 1   It is with good reason that the Holy Prophet Job[1] represents the devil under the figure of Leviathan, meaning he who gathers around himself; forasmuch as, knowing very well his own weakness as well as the invincible power of the one he has presumed to attack, he finds it necessary to recruit helpers and to assemble forces around him from every side, intending to use their help and assistance to make up for his relative powerlessness. This matters little to him, however, provided he can find souls redeemed by the precious blood of the Son of God. These are enough to stoke up his anger and make him foam with rage. There would indeed be sufficient to paralyse souls with fear, seeing how he has plans to bring about their destruction, but we may take consolation from the words of God Himself speaking through the prophet Ezekiel and addressing the devil under the name of the Great Dragon as follows[2]: Listen, great dragon, thou who dost progress like the King of the waters amidst the vasty seas. I will attach to thy scales all the fishes of the waters, from the greatest to the smallest; thou wilt draw them after thee, and thou wilt thyself be hauled with them onto the shore to be cut open and chopped into little pieces. St Gregory comments on this passage as follows:

This dragon is none other than the Prince of Hell around whom are gathered the sinners of the world who join themselves to him and become part of him, and in the end become companions with him in his punishment, just as they were in his evil.

We have already seen the Devil’s first army, composed of those rebellious spirits whom he drew away in the very beginning from service to God. We now see the arrival of the second cohort which yields nothing much to the first when it comes to malice and cruelty. It is a miserable brood of wretches assembled together from various places, all adepts in the practice of hatred for God, whom we call Magicians and Sorcerers. There are others too that are like these and they are all truly children of darkness and freakish creatures of the night.

Footnotes

[1] Chap. xl.

[2] Chap. xxix (paraphrase).

 2   In order to give you a clearer idea of the sort of monsters we are talking about, I should clarify that by these words Magicians and Sorcerers I am referring to those sinners who are the most abominable in all the world after the Demons themselves; those who are foremost in committing acts of divine and human lèse-Majesté, declared as such by all laws; those latter-day Giants who, along with the devil their father, are leagued against Heaven and determined to attack the Divinity. They are such wretches, however, that the mountains of injuries and blasphemers they pile up one upon the other, will in the end fall upon them and crush them. I am speaking of those enemies of all piety, those mockers of all religion, those master practitioners of sacrilege, those profaners of everything holy; those who abuse the sacraments, who trample on the blood of the Testament, and pay homage to the enemy of God and the sacraments that He has left us for our salvation. The hairs would stand up on the back of your neck and the sun itself would darken in mourning if I were to describe even the least detail of the crimes of which they stand accused and convicted. I prefer to spare the eyes and the ears of chaste souls rather than to soil them by giving an account of the vile deeds of these possessed spirits. The things that they do in their unspeakable orgies and that they cover under the darkness of night are too shameful to tell and to hear. Is it not, for example, a horrible thing to recount that an old sorceress called Jeanne Potière, who cast a spell causing the devil to enter into possession of those poor religious sisters as we mentioned earlier[1], was charged with having received communion sacrilegiously four hundred and thirty times, without mentioning other excesses that she committed against God and men, countless and beyond measure?

Footnotes

[1] See § 3. 5.

 3   I am speaking here of those:

• who traffic in iniquity and who, carried away by a vain hope of obtaining something from the enemy, bind themselves to him and commit themselves to undertake and complete everything he commands them to do; 
• who become his instruments for the commission of every sort of sin and especially those that he cannot commit himself; 
• who become the slaves of Satan, bought and sold in order to do evil, and bound to pay back what they owe him through the crimes he commissions from them every day; and those
• who, as a price for their pretended friendship with him, become as if transformed into him through participation in his spirit; those whom we could call with St Augustine[1] the glory and the triumph of the Devil, making them worse even than those who dishonour God.

I am speaking here of persons who are filthy pits and abysses of sin, since the demons do not enter into these prostituted souls a mere dozen at a time but in their millions. Following on the infidelity, wickedness, atheism, heresy, schism, apostasy and despair which may be counted amongst the most execrable of crimes, we see gross iniquities of every description, undying hatred, anger beyond all bounds, diabolical vengeance, murder of the body and of the soul, sacrilege and other similar monstrosities of sin planned and prepared in the darkest dungeons of hell. What words can I find to describe the maniacal spirit that carries them away so that, not being content only with the evil that they themselves can commit, they freely consent to all those evils which they themselves cannot put into effect?

Footnotes

[1] Lib. de Vera Relig., in c. 55.

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen. 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

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