Theurgy (God/guilt-based magick)

[sp!ke]

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>And some inquisitors did.  They began to use the tools of the enemy
>against them.  After all, they had access to hundreds of occult books, had
>seen dark and loathsome rituals performed, knew the witches perhaps better
>than they did themselves.  They were making the ultimate sacrifice -
>risking their immortal soul in order to defend others.


sounds very similar to that movie "the beast" -- about a priest who
predicts the end of the world and descends into a world of violence and sin
in order to track down the devil...
Jared A. Sorensen
http://www.memento-mori.com

"I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just
some stupid things that people shouldn't do. "
- David Cronenberg