Chapter III: On Sins Opposed to the First Precept

St. Thomas, 2.2, q. 92 seqq.; St. Alphonsus, III, n. 1-29; ed. G., I, p. 370; Salmanticenses, tr. 21, c. 11; Billuart, Diss. VII, VIII; Aertnys, l. 3, n. 7; Lehmkuhl, I, n. 488; Tanquerey, I, n. 894; Ami du Cl., Study on Demonism, 1902, 1904; Walter, Der Aberglaube; Linz. Quart. Schr., 1907, p. 517; Schneider, Der neuere Geisterglaube.

Just as through the first precept acts are prescribed by which we subject to God soul, body, and goods as to the supreme Lord, so through it, on the contrary side, there are PROHIBITED both acts by which the honor of principality is carried to another or becomes excessive, as happens through various superstitions, and those acts of irreligiosity by which such honor owed to God simply fails. - Whence let us treat: 1. of superstition; 2. of irreligiosity.