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St. Thomas Aquinas and the Occult, Part 2

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Aristotelian Physics - The Evil Eye

In the summa theologia, aquinas says when a soul is vehemently moved to wickedness, that this might manifest in the eyes. This was aquinass explanation for the evil eye. To day, such natural mental abilities to affect things at a distance would be classified as psychic powers.

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