Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, Chapter 45 summary

What happens

1. The author explains sight and imagination as bodily motions, then traces belief in demons to mistaking mental appearances for independent beings.
2. He describes Greek demonology spreading among Jews and interprets scriptural possession as illness, vision, or wicked intention.
3. He distinguishes inward honor from outward worship and defines images as appearances, likenesses, or representations.
4. He separates civil respect and authorized worship from idolatry, while examining coercion and the misleading example of religious teachers.
5. He rejects scriptural defenses of image worship and attributes its survival to valuable statues, renamed images, and ambitious pastors.
6. He traces canonization, papal titles, processions, candles, holy water, and festivals to Greek and Roman religious customs.

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