Why people use latin language in occult and in “spells”?
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Latin, and to a lesser degree Greek, have been the language for learned secrets since the Dark Ages. Much of the knowledge from the Roman Empire that was preserved was preserved in Latin, and after a few centuries of language drift it was unintelligible even to though who could read, unless you were specifically educated in it. It became the language thinkers wrote their ideas in, and the sacred language of the Catholic church, to the extent they issued a death penalty against those who would translate it.
Both arcane mathematics and divine blessings were issued in Latin, it is not surprising occultists did the same. In fact, at times there was little difference between the two, Newton used Latin for both groundbreaking science and alchemical gibberish.
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