Question

Who once said, “The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophesies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell”?

Answer 1

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Later in the same work, he says that "despite St. Augustine, the reader is invited to tempt hell and damnation by engaging in the study of the subject."