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     OP - February 23, 2015, 08:15 AM
    https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=h93iCQkR9WMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=christian+magic&ots=U6zwjXyAcI&sig=KXwFF8FwDCSQNvR2ifdJGNSdgok#v=onepage&q=christian%20magic&f=false

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    This provocative collection of rites, spells, amulets, curses, and recipes of the early Coptic Christians documents Christianity as a living folk religion resembling other popular belief systems - something quite different from what theo-logical and doctrinal traditions have led us to believe.

    Like The Nag Hammadi Library, this extraordinary collection of little known incantatory texts radically alters our perception of Christianity as primarily a highly theological and orthodox tradition. These texts and illustrations show that the folk practices of the earliest Christians are quite similar to the day-to-day beliefs and rituals of spirituality that imbue indigenous primal religions and popular religion generally.

     Placing these previously unknown ancient texts in historical context and explaining their significance, Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith also reveal the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the Christian teaching practice. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs from the original ancient documents and containing a plethora of rituals, curses, and spells, Ancient Christian Magic is the practical and liturgical companion to the narrative and theological texts of The Nag Hammadi Library.


    The introductory comments that in Egypt priests who carried out rituals were called reciters....

    I think that in christianity, the rituals led to the stories, for example the last supper is described by Paul, I think this is a template for a ritual of eating and drinking the body and blood of the christ.  This later became a just so story about a Jesus before his death.

    I wonder if the same is true of Islam.  The rituals preceded the koran.

    Recite!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


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