Theurgy (God/guilt-based magick)

[James Palmer]

> >
> >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...

Spanish darkly comic movie?  I think I've read a review of it, but not
seen it.  Either that or there's another one with a similar theme.