Witchcraft originally sought secret knowledge and power of Nature by the help of spirits, in communities of elite, leisurely people of special esoteric knowledge. In the Middle Ages it syncretised with religion but became outlawed if it crossed the lines set by the Church. Modern science was originally, around 1500, called natural witchcraft as it sought to find similar secret knowledge of Nature, and power, but without seeking help from spirits (now, indeed: it even denies existence of spirits), and instead using experiments in similar experimental communities. It was often esoteric, like witchcraft or sorcery previously, and it focussed specifically on areas of secret knowledge taught in times before Enoch by fallen angels: Cosmetics and other coloured chemicals and metallurgy and medical drugs and interbreeding of animals. The Book of Enoch warns how such things angered God so much that He sent the Flood because it resulted in increased sin, promiscuity, immorality, violence which caused people to cry in anguish to Him. The Church had mostly lost the knowledge of the Book of Enoch and, without the scriptural warnings of Enoch, it permitted the tremendous spread of such technologies and sciences. Eventually these communities of leisurely experimentation, unhindered by the Church, (now a Catholic and Protestant split Church), opened the way to the pollution and destruction of the Earth by petrochemical industries and plastic production and global introduction of motor cars and planes.
