Council of Elvira (c. 305 CE)
artifactOccult & Esoteric
Around the year 305, a church meeting first branded poison-and-spell killing as a spiritual crime tied to idol worship.
Who they are
The Council of Elvira, a gathering of bishops in Spain around 305 CE.
What they do
The engine treats it as a founding legal moment where the Church codified certain magic-poison practices as forbidden.
How it works
Its Canon 6 refused communion, even to the dying, for anyone who killed through 'maleficium' (harmful magic), stating explicitly that such a crime could not be done without idolatry.
Why it matters
It matters as the first Church rule turning the old idea of poison-magic into an official spiritual offense, an anchor point in a larger shift the engine tracks.
The engine's record — word for word
Report #77 + unified-ripple anchor node. Iberian episcopal council. Canon 6 denied communion even at point of death to those who kill via maleficium (Latin equivalent of pharmakeia), explicitly noting 'such a crime could not be accomplished without idolatry.' First Church-institutional codification of pharmakeia-as-illicit-spiritual-mediation. Engine-integrated as anchor event for Pharmakeia→Maleficium Phase Transition.
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