Dangers of the Occult

"What's wrong with joining the Vampire Club or attending a seance?" your child may ask. For some, exposure to the occult via fantasy games, the media, or music may lead to greater involvement in a dangerous world.

The primary danger of the occult is that it is a path away from God that can bring us into contact with the demonic realm. The demonic forces seek to deceive and destroy individuals. Therefore, contact with the demonic breeds numerous problems.

First, cult experts and psychologists have documented the connection between occult involvement and psychological and emotional disorders. Participants spend numerous hours studying, practicing, and playing games that involve conjuring demons, sacrificing creatures in cruel rituals, controlling sinister forces, and casting spells to disable and kill their enemies. This can affect a person's spiritual, mental, and emotional state.

Second, there is the danger of spirit possession. The occult arts often require one to empty one's mind and invite foreign spirits to control his or her intellect and body. For example, in operating a ouija board, participants are asked to empty their minds to allow other forces to guide them as they attempt to attain messages. In other games, participants are encouraged to call upon a spirit being to help guide them. These techniques open the door for spirit possession.

Third, there is the danger of violence to oneself and others. Many cases of violence and suicides are connected to the occult. Dr. Thomas Redecki, a psychiatrist and chairman of the National Coalition on Television Violence, has given expert testimony at a number of murder trials that were connected to fantasy role-playing games. He states, "I've found multiple instances of attitudes, values and perceptions of reality that were strongly influenced by an immersion in these games. When someone spends 15 to 30 hours a week dreaming of how to go out and kill your opponents and steal treasure, it's not surprising that the desire to act it out in real life occurs."

Real cases include the famous black occultist Aleister Crowley. He ended up in an insane asylum after attempting to conjure up the Devil. Not only that, his children died and his wives went insane or drank themselves to death. In Florida, a group of three teenagers were charged with bludgeoning to death the parents of a fourth girl in their group. These teenagers were involved in the fantasy role-playing game Vampire.

There is no benefit that comes from dabbling in the occult. God's Word tells us to avoid the occult because it can be addicting and harmful. Instead, Philippians 4 says to spend our time dwelling on what is true, noble, right, pure, admirable, and praiseworthy. What we focus on affects our actions and outlook on life. Therefore, we should dwell on what builds the mind, body, and spirit.

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Dungeon  and Dragons 

    The most well known of the fantasy games is Dungeons and Dragons. Although not every
person who plays this and other games will become ensnared by them, they have a seductive
appeal to many, especially teenagers who are vulnerable to their dangerous obsessive qualities
With evidence from clinicians and law enforcement professionals, there is a rapidly growing
understanding of the tragic effects that some who play Dungeons and Dragons experience.
    Dungeons and Dragons is a complicated game in which each player chooses to assume
the identity of an imaginary character.  Because characters with evil and violent powers generally
score more points and live longer, players tend to claim powers of evil in order to have the best
chance of winning Dwarfs, knights, thieves, gods, and devils, demons and also using witchcraft
and magic spells control the game.
This game is a journey into a land of fantasy through complicated images. Players use their wits
to kill their enemies or be killed, all in the quest for power and wealth. A Dungeon Master
orchestrates and referees the game, creating scenarios that are complicated and terrifying.
No board is used, only dice.
    Many who get involved in this particular fantasy game get more then they bargain for.
Because of the basic content of this game in reciting spells and incantations asking for power in
the name of Satan they become more deeply involved in other areas of satanism and witchcraft
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A Case of Murder

    In Oklahoma State Penitentiary the youngest death row inmate is now a 22 year old, but
was 16 when he was convicted for brutality murdering his mother and stepfather. Sean Sellers is an intense, intelligent loner who went from being a 12 year old absorbed in playing Dungeons and Dragons to being a Satan worshiper. He would carry veils of blood to drink to quench his need for power.

Shawn Sellers was put to death Dec. 1999 he was the first to be executed for a crime committed as a youth. 

"We hear this all the time," Patricia Pulling says "A  mother even had her child in a
psychiatric institution and the therapist kept saying, "Don't worry about it, it's just a fad." This kid was doing satanic rituals on her dining room table
The game Dungeons and Dragons is presented as a way to enhance creative thought, and even some schools are using it to stimulate the imagination. But there is no warning, "DANGER!
Playing this game may result in demonic possession and death"

Astrology

    Astrology was developed in ancient Babylonia as the art of foretelling the future from the juxtaposition of the sun, moon, and planets. Despite the ancient roots, it has never been more popular than it is in American culture today. Newspapers across the country carry daily horoscopes, which many otherwise intelligent people rely on to plan their days. Often people view this as a harmless activity, but in reality it is a subtle, deceptive invitation to walk the destructive path of the occult.
    What is the dangers of astrology? First, it is idolatry because it seeks knowledge from a
source other than God. Only He can have all knowledge. Second it provides false and deceptive knowledge that often leads people astray.

Fortune Telling

    The desire to know the future has driven people to seek knowledge from PALM READERS, TAROT CARDS, CRYSTAL BALLS, and FORTUNE TELLERS The practitioners of these occult arts have often had reputation of being charlatans and frauds. Somehow though, it hasn't stopped people from seeking their advice. Today we see a new type of fortune teller the PSYCHIC These occultist charge up to $250 or $300 an hour for making predictions. The availability is wide spread through famous endorsements, and on psychic lines seen on TV.
 The source of their knowledge is by way of channeling through which they lend their bodies and voices to spirit entities who speak through them.
Although the entities sometimes pose as interplanetary visitors or departed spirits they are in fact nothing more then demons. It is amazing that people pay for information and advice from demonic spirit that will ultimately hurt them. The apostle Paul predicted, The Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith and sound teaching of THE BIBLE to give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" .(I Timothy 4:1).

Ouija Board

    The Ouija board is another means of obtaining supernatural knowledge. Isaac Fuld, who patented the Ouija board in 1892, stated on his application that the planchette (the pointing device on which people place their fingers) was moved by a spirit force. Any time a person invites a spirit to communicate with them are leaving themselves open to demonic manifestation. Demonologists  study demon activity in people and places such as, houses Of the cases they respond to 4 out of 10 raised inhuman spirits using a Ouija board The Ouija board is nothing by itself. It's a pressed piece of board with the alphabet on it The same effect can be had with an upside down glass on a waxed table. When you use the Ouija board, you give permission for any unknown spirit to communicate with you in any way they feel. In some cases it has been documented to be violent in manner of communication. QUESTION: Would you open your front door to your home and let just anybody in? Yet that's exactly what you're doing on a supernatural level.
    As it has been mentioned there are many forms of occultism that seek forbidden knowledge such as astrology and other forms of fortune telling, the Ouija board, séances. There are different levels of involvement in these practices, from surface dabbling to heavy dependence. If warned at an early stage, people involved with these things can still renounce them and free themselves from any resulting demonic influences.
But getting free is much more difficult for those involved in deeper levels of occultism he lust for power dominates as in the practice of witchcraft.

White  Witchcraft

    Modern white witches are usually women, in some cases young adolescents who stumble upon a book or two on the subject, easily found in most school libraries.
    In these books are claims to be heirs to an unbroken religious tradition stretching back into primeval history. They worship the Great Mother, the earth mother, the symbol of fertility and the oldest and most elemental of the gods. While witchcraft insists it is a religion and not an evil cult White witches draw a distinction between white magick and black magick.  But the source of power for white witchcraft, or white magick, is the same as that of black magick it is demonic Remember, any supernatural power that is not of God is obviously of Satan.

The Modern Witch of Wicca

    Wicca is the contemporary name for the cult of neopaganism, or white witchcraft. It has been flourishing in the west and especially in the central United States since the 1960's. Wicca also enjoys tax exempt status. Wicca believers state categorically that their 'old religion" is not involved in Satan worship.
    William Schnoebelen, a former high priest in Wicca explains that there are many differences between Wicca groups. In his book Wicca: Satan's Little Lie, he describes some of
the variations he found. For example some groups perform their ceremonies sky clad (nude) while others wear robes. In some groups members are scourged with a whip during a ceremony. Some covens as they are called practice ritual sex and sexual orgies; others may abstain from sexual ceremonies on certain unholy days. New Book: Lucifer Dethroned
    There are, however, a few common elements in all Wicca and neo pagan practices.

  The Nature of Demons in Scripture 

  1. Demons are the spiritual agents involved in all idolatry. They are associated with idols which induces idolatry and along with it worship and sacrifices: 1 Cor 10:20-21, Rev 9:20, Deut 32:17, Isa 13:21, 34:14, 65:3, 11.
  2. Demons twist and pervert the word of God among men and do all they can to seduce believers, 1 Tim. 4:1.
  3. Demons deceive men to believe that by summoning them they can have them bring up and talk to the dead which are only familiar spirits imitating dead people supposedly summoned, Lev. 20:6, 27. Scripture emphatically forbids this practice: Lev. 19:31, Deut. 18:11, Isa. 8:19.
  4. Demons tremble before God, James 2:19; they recognized Christ as Lord and as their future Judge, Matt. 8:29; Luke 4:41. Jesus cast them out of men in many occasions, Matt 8:28-32. through Jesus’ name His disciples also cast out demons on many occasions, Matt. 17:20.

*Evidence of Demons In Scripture

  1. A "wizard" (that is, a soothsayer or a necromancer) has a "familiar spirit" (Lev. 20:27).
  2. A "spirit of jealousy" seeks to stir up human emotions" (Num. 5:14).
  3. God sent ". . . an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; . . . " (Judges 9:23), indicating that even the forces of darkness must take orders from God.
  4. The witch at Endor was said to be in contact with a "familiar spirit" (1 Sam. 28:7).
  5. King Ahab of Israel was judicially given up by God to succumb to a "lying spirit" of false prophecy (1 Kings 22:22-23).
  6. Ancient Egypt was under the influence of a "perverse spirit, " or, in the Hebrew, a "spirit of perversities" (Isa. 19:14).
  7. God says "the spirit of harlotry" caused His people Israel to err (Hosea 4:12; 5:4).
  8. God promises to cleanse the Land of "the unclean spirit" (Zech. 13:2).
  9. In the New Testament, the Messiah encountered several demons and "unclean spirits" during the course of His ministry (for example, see Matthew 12:2232; Mark 1:21-28).
  10. A "spirit of infirmity" is associated with some diseases and illnesses (Luke 13: 1 1).
  11. The Apostles encountered demonic opposition in the days of the early church (Acts 16:16-24; 19:13-17).
  12. Paul mentions "the spirit of the world" who sets himself in opposition to "the Spirit which is from God" (I Cor. 2:12).
  13. We are admonished to believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.- . (1 John 4: 1).
  14. This world is torn between a "spirit of truth" and a "spirit of error" (I John 4:6).

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