Necromancy: Outlawed Or Scared Magic?

Necromancy was believed to give you power over god and his minions for your own glory and not that of god (Pico, Oration, p.78). Necromancy was magic that was done for your own will. It was black magic. This magic could be used to empower your life or destroy another’s. Scared magic was becoming more socially acceptable when studied by high status figures such as Pico and Agrippa. They looked at magic from a scientific point of view, and studied and wrote books on it. They were looking to make magic a legitimate practice. They connected magic with already accepted religious doctrines such as the Cabala and the Bible. When the church outlawed necromancy and paganism it created a surplus of magicians and clergymen who needed work. They started
Scared magic was documented and studied by educated and high status people. Necromancy was more of an underground cult that had to operate in secrecy. When the church outlawed magic it left a lot of magicians out of work so they started working underground. When working in the dark these magicians could do any kind of magic they wished. Also to make ends meet they had to continue working and provide what the customers wanted. Therefore, scared magic was more accepted by the church and community. Those who practiced scared magic were working in universities or with the church as holy men. Those who were practicing magic underground were considered necromancers. However, the line between necromancy and scared magic becomes more blurred when they both consider themselves masters of demons. With the protection from the divine names in both types of magic you can control demons (Agrippa, Renaissance Magic and Science, p.113). The Key of Solomon talks about using demons to attain a higher knowledge (Dr. Rudd, The Lesser Key of Solomon, p.127). Therefore, the necromancy and the magus are using intelligent beings or spirits to attain a higher knowledge. The end goal is the same but the path taken is from a different route. Taken together the same systems of magic used by scared magicians and necromancers were relatively the same considering the end goal. Furthermore, necromancers did not consider themselves necromancers. They believed they were using the highest divine form of philosophy (Dr. Rudd, The Lesser Key of Solomon, p.127), which is similar to scared magic. The church deemed any aspects that threatened their doctrine as diabolical to maintain control over the masses. This was evident when they outlawed paganism but adopted their beliefs to a degree. Anytime a religion is outwardly discriminating against