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A history of magic and experimental science

Chapter 5

BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

Foreword 337
13. The Book of Enoch 340
14. Philo Judaeus 348
15. The Gnostics 360
16. The Christian Apocrypha 385
17. The Recognitions of Clement and Simon Magus . 400
18. The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories 428
19. Origen and Celsus 436
20. Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augus-
tine 462
21. Christianity and Natural Science: Basil, Epipha-
Nius, and the Physiologus 480
22. Augustine on Magic and Astrology 504
23. The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in
the Fourth and Fifth Centuries 523