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These are the kind of books which find their source of content in human wisdom , rather than in divine revelation . For although in Divine revelation there are contained some things which are not beyond the reach of unassisted reason , and which are made the objects of such revelation in order " that all may come to know them with facility , certainty , and safety from error , yet not on this account can supernatural Revelation be said to be absolutely necessary ; it is only necessary because God has ordinated man to a supernatural end . This , the only true religion , has alone been able to manifest that the gods of the nations are most impure demons , who desire to be thought gods , availing themselves of the names of certain defunct souls , or the appearance of mundane creatures , and with proud impurity rejoicing in things most base and infamous , as though in divine honors , and envying human souls their conversion to the true God . " From this it is indeed clear that although things happen which are stated by those divining not according to God , they are not to be accepted in the sense that what is anticipated by them takes place , or what they worship is worshipped . No angel could venture to intrude into those divine counsels and decrees , or to offer himself as the surety and sponsor for that new covenant .