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Saint Thomas's Idea of the Occult
People in the 12 hundreds knew that magnets had a hidden force that allowed them to attract iron. amber could have ahidden force that would attract the hair on your arms. And they knew that there is a force that makes things on earth fall down. But they didn't have concepts of electromagnetism and gravity to explain these things. From their perspective, they were caused by multiple different hidden or occult forces. Yewe, well, look at how aquinas then was faced with all this sea of occult things. How did aquinas go sorting the good from the bad? In it excellent. We'll also have a link to my book, teaching with authority.