Witchcraft Ruins Life

The book which
unveils the facts

Witchcraft-type of activities are fasci-
nating to many minds. This is because
people sense that a superhuman power is
hidden there, and there is the tantalizing
possibility that they might be able to obtain
some of that power for themselves.
But, after dabbling in it for awhile—after it
has become very difficult to leave—they
eventually discover that the power was
never actually transferred to them. Instead,
that power was steadily being used, more
and more, to control them!
Their personal lives gradually became more
and more miserable. Harassing thoughts,
depression, addictions, and deteriorating health
were all they had gained. Eventually, some
become insane or commit suicide.
The facts are in this book!
Witchcraft
Ruins Lives
FACTS AND TRUE STORIES
Vance Ferrell
The demons are not your friends.

This book will tell you why you must
totally avoid all forms of spiritism
instruction and practice—including
witchcraft books, movies, seances,
channeling, TM, New Age, hypnotism,
ouija boards, astrology, fortune-
telling, psychic predictions, rock
music, the pendulum, dowsing, water
witching, and yoga.
Harvestime Books
HB–761
Witchcraft Ruins Lives
by Vance Ferrell
Published by Harvestime Books
Altamont, TN 37301 USA
Printed in the United States of America
Cover and Text Copyright © 2008
Witchcraft-type of activities are fasci-

nating to many minds. This is because
people sense that a superhuman power is
hidden there, and there is the tantalizing
possibility that they might be able to obtain
some of that power for themselves.
But, after dabbling in it for awhile—after it
has become very difficult to leave—they even-
tually discover that the power was never
actually transferred to them. Instead, that
power was steadily being used, more and
more, to control them!
Their personal lives gradually became more
and more miserable. Harassing thoughts,
depression, addictions, and deteriorating health
were all they had gained. Eventually, some
become insane or commit suicide.
The facts are in this book!
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Contents
A journey into an evil world —
The Harry Potter Books Are Witchcraft 5
The path into a terrible future —

Witchcraft Can Destroy You 25
The lure of the spirit world —

Stories of Capture and Escape 39
They hate and kill even their own followers —

The Spirits Are Vile and Vicious 52
A covenant with hell —

The Bible Condemns Witchcraft 64
Different forms of spiritualism —

More Astounding Facts 85
Someone who can help you —

The Only One Powerful Enough 116
How to be delivered -
or help another to be delivered —
Deliverance from the Occult 118
The road to Endor is the oldest road

And the craziest road of all;
Straight it runs to the witch’s abode
As it did in the days of Saul.
And nothing has changed of the sorrow in store
For those that go down on the road to Endor.
— Rudyard Kipling
4 Witchcraft Ruins Lives
Wicked spirits gather round thee.

Legions of those foes to God,
Principalities most mighty,
Walk unseen the earth abroad.
They are gathering to the battle,
Strengthened for the last deep strife.
Christian arm! Be watchful, ready.
Struggle manfully for life.
And the prince of evil spirits,
Great deceiver of the world!
He who at the blessed Jesus
Once his deadly weapons hurled,
Cometh with unwonted power,
Knowing that his reign will cease,
When the kingdom shall be given
To the mighty Prince of Peace.
We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling
To be living is sublime.
Hark! the waking up of nations,
Gog and Magog to the fray;
Hark! what soundeth?
Is creation groaning for her latter day!
Christian, rouse and arm for conflict,
Nerve thee for the battlefield;
Bear the helmet of salvation,
And the mighty gospel shield;
Let the breastplate, peace, be on thee,
Take the Spirit’s sword in hand;
Boldly, fearlessly, go forth then,
In Jehovah’s strength to stand.
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A journey into an evil world
The Harry Potter

Books Are
Witchcraft
As of January 2008, 180 million copies of
the Harry Potter books have been printed. You
will find them in over 45 languages, in 135 coun-
tries. The worldwide gross dollars for the Harry Pot-
ter films is $3.8 billion. Over 1.5 million audio ver-
sions have been sold. Scholastic, the U.S. publisher
of the books, has netted $350 million in profits from
their sale. The author, J.K. Rowling, is now the rich-
est woman in Britain (June 23, 2007) and the first
billionaire in history who obtained it by writing
books.
The seven books are:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(2003)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow (2007)

Five million copies of the Phoenix book were
sold the first day, with initial printings over 8.5 mil-
lion copies. Movie receipts for opening day were
$44.8 million; 12 million copies of Deathly Hallow
were initially printed. As of January 14, 2008, the
five Harry Potter films have become the biggest fran-
chise in history after taking $4.47 billion at the
world box office. The expected cost to build a Harry
Potter theme park in Orlando is $265 million, set
to open in 2009.
A total of seven books were planned because
Rowling says seven is a magic number. (In this chap-
ter, all reference paging to these books are to the
original books, not the lower-cost paperbacks.)
It is as if a magical spell has been cast over
the world, and everyone must buy and love those
books and everything associated with them. All
types of children’s toys, figures, trading cards, roll-
playing games (similar to Dungeons & Dragons),
costume clothes, computer games, book bags, post-
ers, clocks, shirts, eye glasses, towels, blankets,
playing cards, pens, lunch boxes, and candies are
being marketed. Warner Bros. is producing a full-
length motion picture to match each of the seven
Potter books.
“The Harry Potter phenomenon is unprecedented
in children’s literature.”—Diane Roback, children’s
book editor, Publisher’s Weekly, quoted in USA To-
day, December 2, 1999.
“It’s mind-boggling. It would be easy to attribute
Harry Potter’s success to some form of magical in-
tervention.”—Jean Feiwel, Scholastic representa-
tive, quoted in Los Angels Times, October 22, 1999.
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Complete sets of study books and classroom

study guides have been prepared, “to improve
the curriculum” in public schools; so schoolteach-
ers can lead their students through “the origins
and mysteries of Harry’s world,” including its oc-
cult rituals. (See “Harry Potter Can Help Parents
and Teachers Educate Kids, Children’s Book Ex-
pert Says,” PR Newswire, August 17, 2000.)
Beacham Publications has released the teacher’s
sourcebook, Exploring Harry Potter, with all kinds
of teacher’s aids which include “witches, druids, god-
dess worshipers, and other pagans in America to-
day.”
A recent Gallup poll found that almost one-
third of all parents with kids under eighteen have
children who have read a Harry Potter book (Break-
point, July 14, 2000). Are children being confused
into thinking that these magical powers and people
are real? Yes, they are. Rowling, herself, said this:
“I get letters from children addressed to Profes-
sor Dumbledore, and it’s not a joke, begging to be
let into Hogworts, and some of them are really sad.
Because they want it to be true so badly they’ve con-
vinced themselves it’s true.”—Rowling, Newsweek,
July 1, 2000.
J.K. Rowling claims that the idea for the Harry
Potter books suddenly came to her one day in 1990
while riding on a train. So she just started writing,
and everything came to mind as she wrote. At least,
that is what she says.
“The character of Harry just strolled into my head
. . I really did feel he was someone who walked up
and introduced himself to my mind’s eye.”—
Rowling, quoted in Reuters, July 17, 2000.

Believing her, readers think that, while she never
had any prior knowledge of witchcraft, everything
in the books just popped into her imagination. But,
as we will discover, the reality is far different.
Whether or not Rowling is a practicing witch,
she has, for years, studied deeply into the blackest
of witchcraft training manuals. And she is pour-
ing it all into her seven books. The Harry Potter
books teach every lurid aspect of witchcraft!
Joanne Kathleen Rowling grew up in Scotland.
What she doesn’t tell you is that, since childhood,
she has tried to learn everything she can about
witchcraft.
According to Ian Potter (a childhood friend,
whose last name she used in her book titles),
Rowling used to dress up as a witch all the time.
Ian’s younger sister, Vikki, also remembers those
days when they were growing up together.
“Our favorite thing was to dress up as witches.
We used to dress up and play witch all the time. My
brother would dress up as a wizard. Joanne was
always reading witchcraft stories to us . . We would
make secret potions for her. She would always send
us off to get twigs for the potions.”—Ian Potter and
Vikki Potter, quoted in Danielle Demetriou, “Harry
Potter and the Source of Inspiration,” Electronic
Telegraph, July 1, 2000.
Trying to hide her years of witchcraft involve-
ment, Rowling falsely claims that she knows little
about witchcraft and really has no interest in it.
“I truly am bemused that anyone who has read
the books could think that I am a proponent of the
occult in any serious way. I don’t believe in witch-
craft, in the sense that they’re talking about, at all . .

I don’t believe in magic in the way I describe it in my
books.”—“Success Stuns Harry Potter Author,” As-
sociated Press, July 6, 2000.
But, during a 1999 interview, Rowling admitted
that, in the process of writing the books, she had
studied mythology, witchcraft, and the exact words
used in witches’ spells.
“I do a certain amount of research, and folklore
is quite important in books. So where I’m mention-
ing a creature or a spell that people used to believe
genuinely would work—of course, it didn’t . . then, I
will find out exactly what the words were, and I will
find out exactly what the characteristics of that crea-
ture or ghost were supposed to be . . [Much of sor-
cery material in the books] are things that people
genuinely used to believe in Britain.”—J.K.R. inter-
view on National Public Radio, October 20, 1999.
The truth is that she earlier graduated from a
course in mythological studies at Exeter Univer-
sity in England, and during her entire adult life
has been a thorough researcher into the subject.
“[She has] an extremely well-developed and so-
phisticated knowledge of the occult world, its leg-
ends, history and nuances.”—Richard Abanes,
Harry Potter and the Bible, p. 24.
In an interview on a radio program, she admit-
ted that fully one-third of her material is based on
actual occultism (Rowling interview on The Diane
Rehm Show, WAMU, October 20, 1999). That is also
probably an understatement.
Rowling plays down the fact that witches still
use the spells she is now teaching! When we
dabble with satanism, demons begin affecting our
minds.
During one call-in interview, a wizard excitedly
asked Rowling if she was a member of “The Craft”
(Wicca, the organization witches belong to). When
she answered no, he was shocked and replied, “Well,
you’ve done your homework quite well!” He went on
to say that he loved the Potter books because they
were full of the same occult formulas he regularly
used. (“Wicca” is the name given to the official reli-
gion of Witchcraft, founded in the twentieth century
by Gerald Gardner, who died in 1964. Its members
refer to it as “The Craft.”)
The secular media has gone wild over Harry
Potter. It is as if a single, ominous spirit is con-
trolling their thinking on this matter. Ominously
enough, a majority of the Christian media is also
very much in favor of this outstanding opportunity
for little children to learn how to delve into the deep
things of witchcraft. Even the leading Protestant jour-
nal, Christianity Today, has praised the books.
In an article for the Roman Catholic journal, First
Things, Alan Jacobs of Wheaton College described
the novels as “a great deal of fun,” their magic as
“charming.” He added, “There is in books like this
the possibility for serious moral reflection” (First
Things, January 2000).
Chuck Colson, the man who says he has been
“born again,” said on his Breakpoint broadcast that
fantasy tales are harmless and Rowling’s book char-
acters demonstrate “courage, loyalty, and a willing-
ness to sacrifice for one another; not bad lessons in
a self-centered world” (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint,
November 2, 1999).
America’s leading Christian magazine added

this comment:
“Rowling’s series is a Book of Virtues with a pre-
adolescent funny bone. Amid the laugh-out-loud
scenes are wonderful examples of compassion, loy-
alty, courage, friendship, and even self-sacrifice. No
wonder young readers want to be like these believ-
able characters. That is a Christmas present we can
be grateful for.”—Christianity Today, “Why We Like
Harry Potter,” January 10, 2000.
But not everyone is fooled.
“There is a general nastiness underneath the
mantle of cuteness. The kids lie, they steal, they
take revenge. This is a disturbing moral world, and
it conflicts with what I am trying to teach my chil-
dren.”—Ken McCormick, quoted in Baptist Press,
July 13, 2000.
That is putting it mildly! As we will see below,
the Harry Potter books are actually a chamber of
horrors.
By 1999, more efforts were made to ban the Pot-
ter books from U.S. public schools than any other
book or set of books. By the next year, over 400
lawsuits had been filed to stop the use of those books
in our public schools.
Rowling laughs at the complaints, declaring:
“I am not trying to influence anyone into black
magic. That’s the very last thing I’d want to do . . My
wizarding world is a world of the imagination. I think
it’s a moral world.”—Rowling, quoted in USA Week-
end Online, November 14, 1999.
Rowling says that it really does not matter
what books children look at. Let them read any-
thing they want is her position.
“When I was quite young, my parents never said

books were off limits . . As a child, I read a lot of
adult books. I don’t think you should censor kids’
reading material. It’s important just to let them go
do what they need to do.”—NPR interview, October
20, 1999.
It is of interest that 43 percent of the Potter
books are sold to readers older than fourteen and
29 percent are sold to people over thirty-five.
What do the Harry Potter books teach?
People who are not involved in witchcraft are
considered to be inferior, less intelligent, and slow
to catch on to truth. They are “muggles”; but, as
Rowling said in an interview, they are “not completely
stupid” (Associated Press, July 6, 2000).
Throughout the Potter Series, there is a definite
contrast made between friendly, exciting and intelli-
gent wizards who are fun and cool, who have access
to supernatural power—like Dumbledore, Harry,
and his friends—and stuffy, boring, unintelligent
“members of the non-magical community” who live
in the “dark muggle world.” As one Christian wrote:
“The ordinary person is typified as being bad
because they have no [magic] powers, and heroes
are the people who are using the occult. This is an
inversion of morality.”—Robert Frisken of Christian
Community Schools in Australia, quoted in Sydney
Morning Herald, March 27, 2001.
People who do right are portrayed as a nui-
sance. Only one person seems to have any moral
qualities, Hermione, a girl student. But each time
she pleads with Harry to obey the rules, he always
ridicules and speaks mean to her. As part of the
narrative, Rowling adds that Hermione is a “bossy

know-it-all” and “bad-tempered.”
Parents are something to be avoided, not
obeyed, and escaped from. The family caring for
Harry in the summers occupies themselves with
keeping him locked up in a room (Chamber of Se-
crets, pp. 21-22). In Harry’s world, this is what par-
ents are like:
“Laughing like a maniac, he dragged Harry back
upstairs . . The following morning, he paid a man to
fit bars on Harry’s window . . They let Harry out to
use the bathroom morning and evening. Otherwise
he was locked in his room around the clock.”—
Chamber of Secrets, pp. 21-22.
Fortunately, two boys help Harry run away from
home, where he is rewarded with a nice home to
stay in. Judith Krug, of the Chicago-based Ameri-
can Library Association, praises the message:
“The story line is excellent . . There’s no one al-
ways telling him [Harry] what to do, and what young
person hasn’t said, ‘Oh, if they’d only leave me alone.’
Or ‘I wish that I didn’t have parents!’ They don’t mean
this in a mean way. It’s just that parents get in the
way.”—Judith Krug, quoted in Harry Potter Books:
Craze & Controversy.
Bad conduct is rewarded. Harry and his friends
are repeatedly praised and rewarded by teachers or
other students when they do bad things. Harry is
constantly breaking rules and doing bad things, with-
out receiving any punishment. Instead his actions
are said to be clever, exciting, and the way to have
more adventure. As Starhawk, founder of Covenant
of the Goddess, explains it: “In witchcraft, we do
not fight self-interest, we follow it” (Starhawk, the

Spiral Dance, p. 76). In the Potter books, rules are
made to be broken and lying is an effective way to
achieve a desired end. Students and adults lie con-
stantly to one another, then laugh about it afterward.
Harry’s best friend, Hagrid, continually gets drunk
as a way to make his life happier (five times in Book
3 alone). He never suffers for doing so.
“I think they’re very moral books.”—Rowling,
BBC interview, October 17, 1999.
“Each book takes a theme . . with the idea of mak-
ing choices in your life, and builds on them to give
the child a sense of what it is to be a good human
being.”—Linda Goettina, psychoanalyst, interview,
Nightline, ABC, July 7, 2000.
Swear words are used in these supposedly
“sweet little books for children.” In Chamber of Se-
crets, boys swear (253, 259). In Prisoner of Azka-
ban, specific words are included in swearing: “damn”
(23); “bitch,” referring to Harry’s mother (25); and
“B__” for “bastard” (310). God’s name is used as a
swear word (113). Book 4 (Goblet of Fire) has more:
“Damn” (43, 62, 127, 232, 344, 561, 470) and “Hell”
(626), and more. Every book in the series increases
in the number of swear words.
Acts of hatred and revenge repeatedly occur.
Power and force are the goals to be sought, not
truth and honesty. The child grows accustomed to
finding excitement in meanness, selfishness, and
scenes of horror. The books are vicious and cruel.
Harry discovers a list of “curses and counter-
curses” to use to “bewitch your friends and befuddle
your enemies with the latest revenges” (Sorcerer’s
Stone, p. 80).
Scenes are presented to the susceptible mind
of the child which are more horrible than the most
terrible nightmare. The attention is so riveted by
these shocking things, that the mind is more sus-
ceptible to ideas and practices which are extremely
evil. Here is just one example:
“Out of the shadows, a hooded figure came crawl-
ing across the ground like some stalking beast . .
The cloaked figure reached the unicorn, lowered its
head over the wound in the animal’s side, and be-
gan to drink its blood.”—Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 256.
Believe me: I could give you quotation after quo-
tation that is far more horrible than this!
Spirits take control of people. Voldemort has
no body, so he takes control of the body of Profes-
sor Quirrell. This is what your child reads:
“Where there should have been a back to Quirrell’s
head, there was a face, the most terrible face Harry
had ever seen. It was chalk white with glaring eyes
and slits for nostrils, like a snake . . ‘See what I
have become?’ the face said. ‘Mere shadow and va-
por . . Once I have the elixir of Life, I will be able to
create a body of my own.’ ”—Sorcerer’s Stone, pp.
293-294.
Murders occur repeatedly. The face then tells
Harry that he killed Harry’s father and mother. Then
the face commands Quirrell to kill Harry. “KILL HIM!
KILL HIM” (ibid.; full caps hers)! A “death spell” is
then cast on Harry.
Actual murders of people and animals occur over
and over again. In Goblet of Fire alone, muggles are
“tortured” (589), and their killings are “done for fun”
(143). Three wizards are killed (531, 589), and a

man and his wife are tortured to the point of insan-
ity (595, 603). Cedric is murdered in front of Harry
(638). A child, after killing his father, turns the body
into a bone and buries it (690). Each book gets worse
than the one before it.
“Parents expecting a respite from the violence in
popular culture will be surprised by the amount of
violence that Rowling introduces into her tales. I can-
not think of any classic children’s story that has as
much of it!”—Lee Siegel, Reviewer, The New Re-
public, November 4, 1999.
Life after death and reincarnation is taught.
Death is something to be desired, as the entrance to
a new, more fascinating afterlife.
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is
but the next great adventure.”—Sorcerer’s Stone,
p. 297.
Communication with the dead is a very real
part of these books. Harry finds the mirror of Erised
(“desire” spelled backward; witches like to play with
mysterious backward spelling), which shows him
movie-like images of his dead parents smiling and
waving back at him.
At the end of Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter fights
a dual with Lord Voldemort, a frightful being with a
“snake-like face” and “red eyes glinting through the
darkness.” Accompanied by a swarm of gruesome
“Death Eaters,” Voldemort advances for the kill. But
then Harry magically causes his dead parents to ap-
pear, who provide help.
Of course, all witchcraft is involved with sup-
posed communication with dead spirits. Yet the
Bible clearly warns that all who do so will ulti-

mately be destroyed.
The reader becomes accustomed to gruesome
creatures and disembodied spirits. A room-sized,
three-headed “hellhound” lives under a trapdoor be-
neath the students’ dormitory. “Nearly headless
Nick” lives at the school, whose head falls almost
all the way off whenever someone pulls on his ear
(Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 124). “Moaning Myrtle,” a pre-
viously murdered student who, on various pages,
repeatedly cries out in the night while the students
make fun of the noise. Headless horsemen play
hockey with the head of one of the ghosts who lives
there (Chamber of Secrets, pp. 136-137). Every-
thing horrible and detestable to normal people is
made to appear inviting, fun, and worth copying.
Practically every symbol and object used by
actual witches is found in these books. This in-
cludes spells, spell books, curse and bewitchment
formulas, magic words, exorcism, wands, robes,
cauldrons, flying brooms, and all the rest.
All the weird and vicious animals, and mythical
creatures of ancient centuries (such as elves, goats,
banshees, owls, and dragons), are added to present
a picture of extreme witchery.
Here is one example, which Rowling takes di-
rectly from witchcraft books: The “hand of glory” in
occult teaching is the “right hand of a murderer sev-
ered after death.” In Chamber of Secrets (Book 2),
Harry finds a hand of glory, “a withered hand on a
cushion,” for sale in a wizard shopping store. Draco
wants his father to buy it for him. The shopkeeper
explains how it can help its owner steal things: “Best

friend of thieves and plunderers! Your son has fine
taste, Sir!” (Chamber of Secrets, pp. 51-52).
Famous spiritualists and gods of earlier cen-
turies are mentioned as names of characters in
the books. This helps the child become acquainted
with leading pagans and gods, so he will later feel at
home with professional witchcraft writings. Here are
a few of the prominent ones mentioned as students,
teachers, etc. in these books: Adalbert (who, in A.D.
745, was condemned to prison for sorcery). Helena
Blavatsky (the most famous spiritualist woman
writer of the twentieth century).
Important pagan deities include Minerva (a Ro-
man goddess), Argus (giant in Greek myth), Cerce
(a witch in Homer’s Illiad), Merlin (King Arthur’s
wizard), Morrighan (an ancient Celtic goddess of
death), Cliodna (pagan goddess of Ireland and a
banshee), Draco (Greek serpent god), and Sibyll
(Greek divination goddess).
Many more could be mentioned.
There was no need for Rowling to go to such
lengths to so heavily saturate the books with
spiritistic lore. The only reason I can think of as
to why she would do this is because she has
made a contract with the devil to bring more
into his ranks. Rowling has done her part and Sa-
tan is doing his part,—and an avalanche of book
sales have made her the richest author in the world.
Magical ability is portrayed as a special em-
powerment which we should seek after. This leads
the reader to begin craving this witching ability. The
books clearly reveal that the only place where any-

one can obtain such power is by personally delving
into witchcraft.
As mentioned earlier, hundreds of children have
written letters to the publishing house, asking the
location of Hogworts School, so they can run away
from home and attend it. They want to become
witches and wizards!
“It is important to remember that we all have
magic inside us.”—Rowling, in a prepared video
released by Scholastic.
That echoes the words of the spiritualists:
“The powers of witchcraft, magic, shamanism, or
whatever one likes to call it, are latent in everyone.”—
Doreen Valiente, The Rebirth of Witchcraft, p. 92.
Even the “funny stories” are extremely hor-
rible. The secular and Christian presses speak glow-
ingly about how delightful and funny the Harry Pot-
ter books are. Here are two examples, from among
so many, with this grotesque humor:
The boys laugh with delight upon learning that
it is witchcraft teaching that mandrake roots are
shriveled up live babies. Killing them is a running
joke throughout Book 2. The children at the school
wear earmuffs when pulling them out of the ground,
because the screams are so loud “before cutting them
up and stewing them” (Chamber of Secrets, p. 264).
“A small, muddy, and extremely ugly baby popped
out of the earth. The leaves were growing right out
of his head. He had pale, green, mottled skin, and
was clearly bawling at the top of his lungs . . They
squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists, and
gnashed their teeth; Harry spent ten whole minutes
trying to squash a particularly fat one into a pot.”—
Chamber of Secrets, pp. 92-94.

Here is another example of Rowling’s “funny sto-
ries.” Can you imagine children reading this? Moan-
ing Myrtle is the spirit of a dead girl, earlier mur-
dered at the school, who wants to commit suicide
and can’t:
“ ‘My life was nothing but misery at this place
and now people come along ruining my death . . I
came in here [to the girl’s bathroom] and tried to
kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I’m—
I’m—’ ‘Already dead,’ said Ron helpfully. Myrtle gave
a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and
dived into the toilet . . Hermione shrugged wearily
and said, ‘Honestly, that was almost cheerful for
Myrtle.’ ”—Chamber of Secrets, p. 156.
“Lighten up, the magic is so tongue-in-cheek,”
says Pastor Rachel Berry Kraps of a Methodist
church in California. “It’s just wonderful fun!” Her
husband, Pastor John Kraps agrees: “We love Harry
Potter, and our whole family is outraged by the op-
position by the Christian right” (quoted in San Jose
Mercury News, November 13, 1999).
Fortune-telling, crystal-ball gazing, and hyp-
notic activity are emphasized as marvelous new
ways to achieve higher knowledge and state of be-
ing.
“ ‘Crystal gazing is a particularly refined art,’ she
[Sibyll, the divination teacher] tells them. ‘We shall
start by practicing relaxing the conscious mind and
external eyes . . so as to clear the Inner Eye and the
superconscious.’ ”—Prisoner of Azkaban, p. 297.
That is exactly what “scryers” (crystal-ball gazers)
do to enter a trance! Many children reading this will
start practicing it. The Encyclopedia of Occultism
and Parapsychology says crystal gazing is a form of

self-induced hypnosis, to free one’s telepathic pow-
ers (Vol. 1, p. 285).
In the Potter books, Sibyll (the name comes from
an ancient prophetic goddess) also teaches Harry
and his friends magical potions from herbs, astral
projection (out-of-body visitation), palmistry, arith-
mancy, numerology, charms (incantations used to
endow amulets or talismen with magical powers),
and runes (magic markings).
In Goblet of Fire, Harry becomes a full-blown
clairvoyant (able to predict the future). This, of
course, encourages the reader to want to do it also.
Each additional book in the series intensifies
the amount of mischief and horror (Prisoner of
Azkaban and Goblet of Fire were the worst, till the
later ones came along). On one hand, the reader
becomes so blunted to bloodshed, that it keeps re-
quiring more to maintain his interest. On the other,
Rowling is leading them toward a predetermined,
sinister objective: to give the children the fullest,
possible education in witchcraft.
“I can tell you that the books are getting darker.
Harry’s going to have quite a bit to deal with as he
gets older.”—Rowling, Online interview, Septem-
ber 25, 1999.
“Each new book seems a bit darker and more
morbidly tragic than the one preceding.”—Steve
Bonta, The New American, August 28, 2000.
“Death and bereavement and what death means,
I would say, are one of the central themes in all seven
books.”—Rowling, in ibid.
Harry Potter started school when he was eleven;
he will be seventeen when he starts the last year.

Rowling warns us that, in addition to all his other
acts of rebellion against law and order, soon he will
start doing things with girls.
“Harry’s going to have quite a bit to deal with as
he gets older . . ‘Harry and his friends will be dis-
covering their hormones as they grow older.’ ”—
Rowling, Online interview, September 25, 1999.
She hints at what is coming in Book 4. Harry
sees a number of sensual, erotic ghost/women, “the
most beautiful women Harry had ever seen” (Goblet
of Fire, 103).
Witchcraft is shown to be very good and some-
thing to be desired. The Potter books are jam-
packed with mysterious information about witches,
warlocks, sorcerers, crystal balls, spells, curses, po-
tions, charms, numerology, divination, astrology,
palmistry, out-of-body travel, and communication
with spirits. All these are part of ancient and mod-
ern occultism. This is witchcraft! The real thing!
Later in this book we will discover that witchcraft
involves contact with the devil and his fallen angels.
Those who enter this evil realm are captured by
demons. And they are only able to escape by the
power of God.
One man who spoke with Rowling during a ra-
dio call-in said he was a male witch and the Harry
Potter books had helped his daughter like what he
was doing (WMUR interview, October 12, 1999).
The occult practices found in the Potter books are
regularly performed by members of satanic arts.
“Harry Potter gives children an appetite for the
occult.”—Robert Night of the Family Research
Council, quoted in Tulsa World, June 20, 2000.

Witchcraft organizations are being besieged
with phone calls and letters from young people
who want to learn how to be witches and wiz-
ards. The pagan Federation, which promotes Wicca
(another name for modern witchcraft) in England,
has had to appoint a special youth officer to reply to
“the flood of inquiries following the success of the
Harry Potter books” (Andy Norfolk, quoted in “Pot-
ter Fans Turning to Witchcraft,” This is London
[magazine], August 4, 2000).
“In response to increased inquiries coming from
youngsters we established a youth officer . . It is
quite probably linked to things like Harry Potter,
Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire
Slayer. Every time an article on witchcraft or pa-
ganism appears, we have a huge surge in calls,
mostly from young girls.”—Ibid.
Here are two of the responses sent in by chil-
dren who had read some of the books: “Thought
the story really made you feel like you could be a
witch or a wizard” (Lily, 11 years old). “I like what
they learned there [at Hogworts] and I want to be a
witch” (Gloria Bishop, 10 years old).
Richard Abanes, author of Harry Potter and the
Bible, warns:
“Ultimately, only a short distance needs to be cov-
ered in order to cross over from Harry’s world into
the realm of real occultism.”—Ibid., p. 173.
Linda Beam with Focus on the Family sounds
the warning:
“Any time the dark side of the supernatural world
is presented as harmless, there is the danger that
children will become curious and find out—too late—
that witchcraft is neither harmless nor imagi-

nary.”—Linda Beam, Teachers in Focus, Decem-
ber 1999.
These books instruct the reader in the ac-
tual practices of witchcraft. These books do more
than merely talk about witches, they explain in de-
tail their training program and how they carry on
their magic.
Information from the actual instructional
books for witches in training are here, provid-
ing entry-level instruction.
The Ordo Anno Mundi (OAM) Series are books
for professional witches. They contain instruction
only slightly in more detail than the Rowling books.
The OAM Series contains complete witchcraft
instructions—yet is little different than the Pot-
ter books!
Here is a comparison between the professional
witchcraft training series and the Harry Potter books:
OAM has seven degrees of “Magical Training,”
and includes classes strikingly similar to those of-
fered at Hogworts, Harry Potter’s school.
OAM General Education primer: “Ancient
Runes.” Here is an example from the Harry Potter
books: “Those are my books for . . Divination, the
Study of Ancient Runes” (Prisoner of Azkaban, p.
57, original edition).
OAM First Degree: “Divination.” An example in
Harry Potter: “We will be covering the basic meth-
ods of Divination this year” (Prisoner of Azkaban,
p. 103).
OAM First Degree: “Spellcasting.” An example
in Potter: “All students should have a copy of The
25
Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1” (Sorcerer’s

Stone, p. 66).
OAM Fourth Degree: “Animal Transformation
(witches also call it “transfiguration”).” An example
from the Potter books: “Transfiguration is some of
the most complex and dangerous magic you will
learn at Hogworts” (Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 134). “My
transformations in those days were—were terrible.
It is very painful to turn into a werewolf . . [My
friends] could each turn into a different animal”
(Prisoner of Azkaban, pp. 353-354).
OAM Fifth Degree: “Magical Lore.” An example
from Potter: “Their very last exam was History of
Magic” (Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 263).
Such books should be read neither by chil-
dren nor by adults. They are evil and a menace
to the eternal welfare of the soul.
The path into a terrible future
Witchcraft Can
Destroy You
People all across America are being deluged
with books on witchcraft. And the situation is
going to get worse, not better. For witchcraft brings
you into contact with demons!
We are dealing with spiritualism, for that is what
witchcraft is. The Bible is very clear about how danger-
ous it is. Spiritualism has existed for thousands of years.

It is contact by humans with demons impersonating
dead human beings. That is nothing to play around with!
The “spirits” are actually fallen angels,—angels who
sided with Satan in his great rebellion and were driven
out of heaven along with him. (Much more on this later
in this book.) Under his control these demons live only
to tempt, harass, and try to control people. These devils
are filled with hatred. And, as we will learn later, they
despise even those on earth who serve them. Fortunately,
under God, the good angels are all powerful and the
evil angels are no match for them. Everyone who pleads
with God for help, and trusts in the name of Jesus as
his Saviour, will be protected.
Spiritualism (also called spiritism) has many
names: witchcraft, sorcery, shamanism, mediumship,
occultism (“occult” means “hidden”), and the dark arts.
Modern names for it include channeling, parapsychol-
ogy, and Luciferian power. Other, more recent words
are New Age and psychics. It is also called “magick,”
with a “k.” (Spiritualists say that “magic,” without the
“k,” is merely the tricks done by a stage performer.) But
it is all spiritualism, and it is based on demon wor-
ship. F.F. Morse, a spiritualist, wrote this:
“The phenomenal aspect of modern spiritualism
reproduces all of the essential principles of the magic
witchcraft and sorcery of the past. The same pow-
ers are involved, the same intelligences operating.”—
F.F. Morse, Practical Occultism, p. 5.
Modern witches—including those in Salem—use the
name, “wicca,” to describe their witchcraft activities. The
word comes from the original Anglo-Saxon spelling for
the modern English word, “witch.”
Female mediums are called “witches,” and males are
called “wizards” or “warlocks.” They communicate with
evil spirits, who are demons. Demons are evil angels
who obey Satan.

Spiritualism, commonly called witchcraft, is satanic
paganism. Witches and wizards enter into a covenant
with the devil to serve him. They hate God and Christ.
They hate Christianity and the Bible. They hate the
ten commandments and the grace of Christ.
They idolize selfishness, force, cruelty, death, and
dead corpses. They love to inflict pain, suffering, and
death on both people and animals. When they can’t kill
people, they kill animals. They love cemeteries and dead
bodies.
Their animal “pets” are owls, black cats, bats, buz-
zards, snakes, and spiders. Anything that could possi-
bly be considered gruesome, they enjoy. Everything
clean and pure and holy they hate. They have a special
liking for snakes and often worship them. Their pictures
frequently include snakes and the head of a goat in the
shape of a five-pointed upside-down star. (The horns,
chin, and two-sided beards are the five “points.”) They
especially like pictures and statues of snakes and goats
because, in the Bible, both, at times, symbolize Satan
(Gen. 3:1-5 and Lev. 16:21-22). Of course, we can un-
derstand why spiritualists like symbols of Satan, for
he is their master.
Their superstitions include creatures; most of them
are horrid and don’t exist—such as ogres, trolls, elves,
goblins, gnomes, fairies, mishapen giants, banshees, drag-
ons (imaginary giant four-legged snakes), and blood-suck-
ing vampires. Other nonexistent creatures that they speak
lovingly about include unicorns, the phoenix, and a large
three-headed black dog.
They talk about these imaginary things in order
to frighten people. They know that the minds of people
who are afraid are easier to control.
But we know that perfect trust in God casts out fear;
it rejects superstitions. If we cling to Jesus and avoid
such things, we will be safe.

Spiritualists love to figure out devices to control
people’s minds or, hopefully, curse them with disease
or other problems. But they cannot injure anyone who
trusts implicitly in God and stays away from their dark
kingdom. They usually can only hurt people who get
too close to them.
Anton LaVey (1930-1997), founder of the Church of
Satan in San Francisco in the 1950s, was a leading twen-
tieth-century spiritualist. In his satanic Bible, he wrote
the rules of demon worshipers. Those rules include self-
ishness instead of helpfulness, indulgence instead of self-
control, vengeance instead of forgiveness, and love for
sin because it produces immediate gratification. He said
man is just an animal and should live like one. All
morality should be ignored. Selfishness and brute
force are the highest good.
But is such miserable living something anyone
should want for his life? No, of course not.
Even though all forms of spiritualism and witch-
craft are extremely dangerous, people are intrigued
by it because it seems so mysterious. They are curious
to know more. It is their curiosity that catches them.
But when they dig more deeply into it,—all they
find it to be is a bunch of lies and fakery. It is like
cobwebs on the wall. There is really nothing there. But,
by the time they make that discovery, it may be too late
for them. They have been caught.
You might ask, “Caught by what?” Caught by the one
thing in spiritualism which is not a fake; it is real! Along
with the mystery, it is what keeps people coming back
until they are snared in a net.
The curiosity seekers sense that a supernatural
power is present in all this, and they crave to have
that power for themselves. They want to be able to ei-
ther control or hurt others. But that selfish craving leads

them into a pit from which many never escape. They
are the ones who are controlled; they are the ones who
are hurt.
They have entered a web of demons. And the power
which controls them is the power of Satan.
They have permitted themselves to be captured by
evil angels. Unless in the strength of Christ they break
loose from this connection, they will be lost souls.
All forms of spiritualism are extremely dangerous,
and none should be toyed with. Even though the whole
thing consists of only false claims and mysterious appa-
ritions,—you and I can still be trapped by it if, through
curiosity, we start liking any of it.
In reality, the whole thing is a gigantic fraud.
Witches say they can fly, but they can’t. They say they can
put curses on people, but they can’t. They say they can
pronounce magic formulas and make magic potents, but
it is all worthless.
Yet there is a power there! They sense its pres-
ence. It is the power of Satan. Oddly enough, the spiri-
tualists don’t have this power. Instead, it is a power
controlling them which has it! It is a power, working
through them, to catch others who get too close.
These evil angels can cause people, who start play-
ing with spiritualism, to see things that are not really
there. It may seem real and exciting, but what those per-
sons think they see—are only appearances, also called
apparitions.
At the request of a paid visitor, the medium mut-
ters incantations (a collection of usually meaning-
less phrases) and something that seems to be a dead
relative may appear. It looks exactly like the person and
talks the way he always talked. But it is not that person;
it is a demon.
An example of this is when King Saul visited
the witch of Endor (1 Sam. 28:7-15). That witch

had entered into a covenant with Satan, to do his
bidding. While the prophet Samuel was living, Saul
despised his counsel. But now, in a time of crisis, he
wanted to talk to the prophet—who by that time
had died.
So Saul asked the witch to show him Samuel. Then
something appeared in the room which looked like
Samuel.
But both you and I know that God did not permit
a servant of the devil to bring Samuel up from the
grave into that room! And Satan cannot restore life or
raise the dead.
Nor would a witch be permitted by God to have any
power over Samuel, either when he was alive or after he
died. We know that is true because God repeatedly said
in the Bible that witches are bad and no one should have
anything to do with them.
Even though that apparition, which spoke to Saul,
may have said something true, it was not Samuel but a
demon that spoke to the king. It was one of Satan’s
devils in the form of a man.
Here is another reason it could not have been Samuel:
The Bible clearly states that King Saul died because
he went to that witch for advice instead of going to
God! We are told that Saul “inquired of it.” He inquired
of “it,” that is, the evil spirit. He didn’t talk to Samuel,
but to a demon:
“Saul died for his transgression which he com-
mitted against the Lord, even against the word of
the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking
counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire
of it; and inquired not of the Lord; therefore He
slew him.”—1 Chronicles 10:13-14.
God forbids us to go to witches, wizards, or other
spiritualists for guidance or, in any way, to seek coun-
sel from the dead. Here is another important Bible verse:

“And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards
that peep and that mutter, should not a people seek
unto their God? [instead of] for the living to [seek
guidance of] the dead? To the law and to the testi-
mony; if they speak not according to this Word, it is
because there is no light in them.”—Isaiah 8:19-
20.
Now, these appearances—or apparitions—can also
take other forms as well. Under a satanic spell, people
can think they see a person rise into the air, a stone change
into a snake, or some other amazing thing.
In the Bible, in order to show that he was acting
under the guidance of God, Moses was told to throw
his shepherd’s staff down and it would turn into a ser-
pent (Ex. 7:8-12). He did this in the presence of Pha-
raoh. That piece of wood had actually changed into a
living snake! Only God can do that; only He can make
life. But then the king’s magicians, who were wizards
under the command of Satan, threw their sticks to the
ground,—and they appeared to change into wiggling
snakes! Yet the sticks had not changed into snakes at all.
They were just sticks laying there. Satan could only pro-
duce an appearance, an illusion.
In the 1970s, an American tourist in India came
upon a fakir, the name for a wizard in India, who regu-
larly charged visitors money to see an interesting sight.
Immediately, this tourist began filming what took place.
The fakir threw down a coiled rope onto the ground
and, as he uttered an incantation, the end of the rope
began rising up into the air by itself! As soon as it
stopped (when the top was about fourteen feet up), a
native boy stepped forward out of the gawking crowd and
began climbing the rope. It was as plain as anything. As
the boy reached the top, the fakir pulled a long knife out
of his belt and also began climbing that rope. By this
time, that thin rope was apparently supporting an im-
mense amount of weight.
When he reached the boy, the fakir cut off the boy’s
head as the tourists screamed with terror. Then both
the fakir and boy jumped ten feet to the ground, without
being hurt. Immediately, both were standing on the
ground and the boy was unhurt. The tourists went wild
with applause.
This tourist realized he had something sensational
in his camera. As soon as he returned to America and
had it developed, he checked to see what he had. This
is what was recorded on the film:
The fakir threw down the coiled rope and stepped
back. The tourists stood there watching him. The boy
stood nearby. Then the tourists began looking upward.
The rope still lay coiled on the ground. All at once, they
looked toward the boy, who continued to remain mo-
tionless. Then they looked slowly upward again. Sud-
denly, they looked at the fakir, as they thought they saw
him climbing also. Soon they screamed in horror. Then
everyone began laughing and applauding. Yet all the while
the fakir and the boy had stood there by the coiled rope.
It was only an appearance, or apparition. Satan
caused them to see something that was not there. This
story, written in a small book by the man who took the
home movie, helps explain the mystery of the magicians’
snakes in Exodus 7.
Those that dabble with spiritualism do not gain
anything worthwhile. They do not become the great
and powerful people they had hoped for. Instead they
become demon-harassed or demon-possessed.
They have chosen to step onto Satan’s enchanted
ground. They don’t feel good; they experience continued
depression. They experience doubts and lose confidence
in themselves. The happiness they used to have is gone.

They have anxiety attacks. They have more fears. Al-
though they may have brief periods of excitement at times,
they no longer have peace of heart.
It is not the witch—but the demons—who are in
charge of what is happening to those people. And the
demons enjoy giving many of them even worse prob-
lems. They may fall to the floor. They may lay there un-
able to move. They may go into a coma. Some crawl
around on the floor like animals, sometimes making ani-
mal sounds. Some slither on the floor like a snake. Oth-
ers develop shakes, make strange noises, or have fits
of laughter which they cannot stop. Some become sick,
even chronically. Many become insane and some com-
mit suicide. Some commit murder.
Since witchcraft, channeling, and other demonic ac-
tivities appear so inviting today, we must be on guard!
The spiritualists will tell you a little here and a little
there, to draw you in. But seeing it all at once—as you
are learning here,—shows that there is a hidden power
there which can ruin your life and ultimately destroy
you.
Children’s witchcraft books, videos, and games are
extremely dangerous! Something exciting seems to be
there. People seem able to enter a supernatural world
and obtain great power. On each page is a little more,
and gradually the reader is drawn into it because ev-
erything seems so fascinating.
So, by way of warning, here are some of the
things the spiritualists—the wizards and witches—
work with:
They have spell books in which are written incanta-
tions, spells, and charms. They imagine that, by pro-
nouncing them, they accomplish something. But they
don’t. They use these spells to utter curses on people
and animals (and countercurses on other witches).
What is a spell? It is a meaningless group of non-

sensical words. Nothing more. It has no power to accom-
plish anything. If I sat here and babbled such sentences,
you would think I was only six months old. But if a wiz-
ard does it, people imagine it to be something very mys-
terious.
Satan was once a mighty angel in heaven. But he re-
belled against God; and now he is the lord of confusion—
and of selfishness, suffering, fear, and death. Those are
the gifts he offers you in spiritualism.
Witches also love cauldrons. These are black iron
pots in which they boil plants, algae, and fungi. Man-
drake root is a favorite. They think that, by drinking those
miserable mixtures, something great will happen. But it
never does.
One exception is when they add wormwood to the
mixture, which is recommended to the reader in Book I
of the Harry Potter Series (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, p. 137 in the original edition). Drinking that will
cause delirium, paralysis, convulsions, brain damage,
kidney failure, and death. Absinthe contains wormwood
and is a deadly poison.
Spiritualists wave sticks (which they call “magic
wands”) in the air, thinking that it also accomplishes
something. But it doesn’t. Isn’t it a little foolish sitting
around, waving a stick in the air? Only babies do that.
Since all forms of spiritualism and witchcraft accom-
plish absolutely nothing, one wonders why anyone would
be interested in it. But do not forget that a person is
initially attracted by the mystery and false claims.
Then, when he pauses to look at it a little, he senses
that a supernatural power is present.
If he does not immediately flee, soon he is cap-
tured by that power; and it is only with difficulty that
he may escape.
In order to attract the curious so they will be cap-

tured, the spiritualists have to keep everything ap-
pearing mysterious. They get a devilish delight in hav-
ing others share their desperate, miserable lives.
To add to the mystery, they write words in runes
(ancient German or other characters which are hard to
read) or some other meaningless scribbles. They talk
about magic numbers (numerology) and magic lines
(geomancy).
Anything random is said to mean something,
whether it be tea leaves in the bottom of a cup (tea read-
ing) or lines on a hand (palmistry). That which is mean-
ingless becomes important. But those things which
are very important, like the Bible, the ten command-
ments, moral principles, and the saving power of
Christ are ignored or ridiculed.
Crystal balls are highly valued because, when any-
one looks into them,—he can’t see anything! What a crazy
way to try to obtain information. But Satan uses sticks,
meaningless sentences, and confusing glass to hide
the fact that there is nothing real in all the messages,
predictions, and appearances of witchcraft.
Ouija boards and tarot cards are something else
you want to totally avoid. They may seem harmless;
but demons will enter your mind if you use them, even
for a short time. Other very real dangers are dowsing
rods, pendulums (a small weight on the end of a string),
and water witching. They are not harmless, but step-
ping stones toward more captivating problems later.
One thing that is very real in spiritualism is hyp-
notism. It is satanic power used to capture and control a
human mind. Beware, and have nothing to do with it!
A spiritualist waves his hand meaninglessly or gets you
to repeat one or a few words over and over. He does this
to confuse your mind, so it will go into a dreamy state.
But, when one mind controls another, Satan controls

both! Do not let someone else control your mind.
There is medical hypnosis, research hypnosis, den-
tal hypnosis, psychiatric (counseling) hypnosis, and rec-
reational hypnosis. Each of them can be dangerous.
Yet you cannot be hypnotized if you refuse and then
leave the place. Do not relax. Keep your mind clearly fixed
on Jesus, pray, trust in Him,—and get your friends and
yourself out of there. Do not linger. Do not dare some-
one to try to hypnotize you.
So-called “psychics” claim to be able to predict
future events for the coming year, but it is extremely
rare that any of their predictions come true. If they had
any ability at all, they should be able to get at least 51
percent right instead of about six percent (according to
investigators who have searched for later possible fulfill-
ments).
Horoscopes are another fortune-telling device that
is as worthless as the rest. Astrology is based on the
idea that everyone born on a certain date will, day after
day and year after year throughout their lives, have the
very same experiences. But that does not happen.
It is a good rule to avoid reading stories by people
who like witches. Such children’s stories are not as
harmless as they appear. Some who read them are later
led into contact with actual witches. We should avoid what-
ever might give Satan access to our minds.
Fairy tales may seem harmless and apparently pro-
duce no harmful effects. Yet they are unreal and, al-
though obviously about imaginary creatures, prepare the
mind to like reading such things. The person who reads
them will later be more favorable toward the reading
and enjoyment of stories more openly about witch-
craft. Later still he will be more susceptible to astrology,
hypnotism, and contacts with spiritist mediums, today
called channelers.
Fairy tales lead young people away from a love for
God’s Word, the Bible. Later, when the Gospel is pre-
sented to them, they may be harder to reach. They prefer
living in an unreal world.
There are so many things today which cause young
people to continually crave greater excitement, that it
becomes easier for Satan to lead them into various ad-
dictions. They have become dissatisfied with everyday
living.
The Bible says that Satan is a liar and the father
of it (John 8:44). Spiritualism is nothing more than a
bunch of lies, carefully packaged to bring a lot of sad-
ness and heartache into your life.
The Holy Scriptures are our only safe guide. God
has given terrible warnings against having anything to
do with witches, wizards, enchanters, and sorcerers.
Here is part of what the Bible says about this.
The warnings are very strong; for God knows that spiri-
tualism is especially used by Satan to take control of
people:
Spiritualists are an abomination to God—“There
shall not be found among you any one that maketh his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter,
or a witch . . or a necromancer. For all that do these
things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because
of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them
out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord
thy God.”—Deuteronomy 18:10-13.
Have nothing to do with them—“Regard not them
that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to
be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”—Leviticus
19:31.
Saul died for asking advice of an evil spirit—
“Saul died for his transgression which he committed

against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which
he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had
a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; and inquired not of the
Lord; therefore He slew him.”—1 Chronicles 10:13-14.
(See 1 Samuel 28:7-15).
God will judge them severely—“And I will come
near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness
against the sorcerers.”—Malachi 3:5.
Do not listen to their lies—“Therefore hearken not
ye to . . your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers . . for
they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from
your land.”—Jeremiah 27:9-10.
God does not want them to continue to live—
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”—Exodus 22:18.
“A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or
that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death.”—Leviticus
20:27.
Spiritualists will not go to heaven—“Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies . . I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things shall not inherit the king-
dom of God.”—Galatians 5:20-21.
Go to God and the Bible for counsel, not to spiri-
tualists—“And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that
peep and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their
God? [instead of] for the living to [seek guidance of] the
dead? To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not
according to this Word, it is because there is no light in
them.”—Isaiah 8:19-20.
In the last days, many will be deluded into plac-
ing confidence in spiritualists—“Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils.”—1 Timothy 4:1.
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If you believe the Bible and want to be re-

deemed by Christ, you cannot have anything to
do with witches, wizards, psychics, and all the
rest.
This chapter provided a brief overview of witch-
craft, which is a form of spiritualism.
Let us now examine a number of actual case
histories of individuals who, for a short time
or permanently, became caught in the web.
The lure of the spirit world
Stories of Capture
and Escape
—But more often of capture and eventual
destruction, rather than escape.
First, we will consider several stories of cap-
ture and ultimate ruin,—sometimes from only
one encounter with a witch or spiritualist.
Roy Anderson tells of an ocean journey from Aus-
tralia to New Zealand. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fa-
mous both as the author of the Sherlock Homes
Series and as a leading spiritualist, was on the ship.
Anderson’s cabin mate, who lived in Sydney, was a
salesman for a large engineering company.
When he mentioned that he was going to speak
with Doyle, Anderson warned him not to do so.

“You will probably end up being a spiritualist.”
But the salesman shrugged off the advice.
Returning later, he told Anderson that Doyle had
told him about several of his ancestors. And then
the salesman announced that he was going to be-
come a spiritist (another name for a spiritualist).
As soon as the ship docked, he immediately resigned
from his firm and told his wife they were moving
with Doyle to England, to help him in his work. Now
under the control of another power, there is no
indication that he ever escaped (R.A. Anderson,
Secrets of the Spirit World, pp. 77-78).
“I began reading anti-Christian books and they
gave me what I wanted, reasons for rejecting Chris-
tianity. Books about the occult excited me the
most. It really turned me on to realize that there
was a power out there waiting for me, from a differ-
ent source than I’d heard about in church.
“One night I was watching a Satan worship ser-
vice on television. A high priest was praying to Sa-
tan . . I thought, this must be the other side, the
other Force . . and I’m going to try it!
“So I told God to get lost, that even if he was real
I didn’t want him in my life anymore. I shook my
fist in his face and cursed him. I wanted the super-
natural Force I’d seen in that Satan worship ser-
vice. As I cursed God, suddenly I felt this other
Force come into me.
“I gave myself to Satan that night . . and I felt an
overwhelming hatred for God—which I knew came
from this Force. I damned God until I had no more
strength . .
“I would pull all the shades down, take the phone

off the hook, put a chain on the door . . and start
communicating with spirits. I’d raise my hands to
Satan, thank him for all the blessings he’d given me,
and pray to him.
“Often the house would become icy cold, and I
would see the spirits.
“At first I thought I was in control . . but the
more involved I became with Satan, the more I
realized he was controlling me . . dictating to me
what I could and couldn’t do.
“I would find myself in places I hadn’t intended
to go . . I was in sort of a trance, out of control. My
life was no longer my own.
“I finally decided to commit suicide, because
I had lost that peace Satan had seemed to give me
at first.”—Greg Jordan, in a personal interview
with Dave Hunt, in The Cult Explosion, pp. 148-
149.
A husband and wife, who expressed great skep-
ticism about spiritism, went to hear a medium speak
at Foresters Hall in the heart of London’s West End.
After giving a brief introduction, the spiritist
medium named this couple, and mentioned that
less than six weeks earlier the wife’s sister had died.
—Then something that looked like the dead sis-
ter suddenly appeared on the platform beside the
spiritist lecturer. After the meeting, the couple said
that they were now confirmed spiritualists and would
follow them wherever they might lead (Anderson,
pp. 10-11).
Next, here are several stories of capture
which ultimately resulted in later deliverance

as the imperiled ones cried to God for help.
“Consider the case of Bill Slater, head of BBC
television drama. One evening, after attending ‘an
impromptu seance’ with a Ouija (pronounced, wee-
jee) board, he went home. In the early hours of the
morning:
“ ‘I found myself half-awake, knowing there was
some kind of presence massing itself on my chest.
It was, to my certain knowledge, making every
effort to take over my mind and body. It cost me
considerable willpower to concentrate all my facul-
ties to push the thing away. And, for what seemed
like twenty minutes, this spiritual tussle went on
between this awful presence and myself. Needless
to say, although before going to bed I had felt
perfectly happy and at ease with a very good friend
I knew well. But now I was absolutely terrified; I
have never known such fear since. I was finally able
to call my friend’s name; he woke up, put on the
light, and was astonished to find me well-nigh a gib-
bering idiot. I have never since had any psychic ex-
perience.’ ”—Bill Slater, as told to his friend, Colin
Wilson, Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult,
p. 451.
In the book, Facts on Spirit Guides, John Anker-
berg and John Welden tell about Carl, a psycholo-
gist with a degree in physics and a personal interest
in religion and parapsychology (the study of the oc-
cult).
Becoming a leading parapsychologist re-
searcher, he spent a number of years at a mid-
Western university, continuing experiments which

included numerous psychic and mystical experi-
ences.
“Gradually, however, Carl admitted to him-
self that some deep alteration was taking place
inside of him. He had earlier encountered some
gnawing doubts about the fundamental nature of
the spiritual path he was now on. But he had sup-
pressed them, because they were too uncomfortable
in their implications. Any doubt as to what kind of
spirit was leading him could mean a total revision
of his work; it could even mean resigning his pro-
fessorship and renouncing his parapsychological re-
search . . Eventually, after years of painstaking
effort, Carl became consumed by forces so evil
he ended up as an incoherent vegetable requir-
ing eleven months of hospitalization . . He finally
had to conclude:
“ ‘Solemnly and of my own free will I wish to
acknowledge that knowingly and freely I entered into
possession by an evil spirit. And, although that spirit
came to me under the guise of saving me, perfecting
me, helping me to help others, I knew all along it
was evil’ (quoted in Malachi Martin, Hostage to the
Devil: the Possession and Exorcism of Five Living
Americans, p. 485).”—John Ankerberg and John
Welden, Facts on Spirit Guides, pp. 40-41.
After having earlier held Bible studies with a fam-
ily in New Zealand, Roy Anderson found that the
father spent his spare time communicating with
spirits in a private room in his home.
After several years of efforts to reach this man
for Christ, accompanied by a friend, Anderson went
to the man’s home one day.

“Before going up to the house we prayed, and
then I phoned to say we were coming. The wife met
us at the door and led us into the living room. As
soon as I entered, I sensed that things were any-
thing but reassuring; for there sat our friend in
silent communion with the spirits. I had seen him,
on other occasions, sitting on the davenport talking
to his spirit friend. He spoke no words; it was
thought communion.
“We waited a few minutes; then, began our con-
versation in a casual strain at first . . [but soon] his
attitude changed. He became adamant, and for an
hour and a half he opposed everything we sug-
gested. Seeing we were getting nowhere, I rose to
leave. In doing so, however, I said, ‘I have never left
this home without having prayer, and I do not in-
tend to tonight. Let us kneel together.’
“This took him somewhat off guard. Naturally
he was in no mood to pray, but out of respect he
cooperated. He had the same leering smirk that I
had seen at other times when he had been com-
muning with spirits . .
“Then I asked him to pray. Scarcely had he be-
gun when I sensed something was wrong. He seemed
hardly able to speak. I knew what it was . . for we
were being pressured by an unseen power. It is a
harrowing experience to feel every inch of one’s body
under pressure, which becomes stronger every
moment. We could scarcely breathe, much less
speak.
“Then the door opened of its own accord and
in came a huge apparition, appearing as a knight
in shining armor and holding aloft an upturned

Turkish scimitar. At the sight, my friend [the man
who lived in the house], this powerfully built former
police officer and leader of a detective squad, sprang
from his place. Throwing one arm around his wife’s
neck and the other around mine, he clung to us,
trembling like a frightened child!
“The situation was desperate, for this spirit
threatened to kill him. Summoning all the strength
I could, I challenged, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ, I
command the devils to leave this house at once!’
“What followed was terrific! Never before or since
have I heard anything like it. Hell seemed to be let
loose! Windows rattled, doors slammed, and the
whole house shook as if by an earthquake. We heard
shrieking and yelling. The house rocked, but we
remained on our knees until at last the uproar
ceased. The calm that followed was as impressive
as the tumult before.
“As we rose from our knees, we looked at each
other in amazement. That man’s look of terror was
gone, but he was still shaking.
“Now he knew that God was there, in the very
place which had been rattled by the powers of hell.
He also knew that the power of Jesus Christ is
far greater than that of Satan.”—Roy A. Ander-
son, Secrets of the Spirit World, pp. 8-9.
Anderson also tells an earlier experience when
he led a university student, from Birmingham, En-
gland, to God. The man had earlier been an assis-
tant to one of England’s leading scientists—who was
also a prominent spiritualist.
Later, when his wife and mother died, that man
turned to a medium in the hope that he could

talk to them again.
But, in spite of this background, upon now learn-
ing that the Bible condemned witchcraft and spirit-
ualism, and that those who practice it were not go-
ing to heaven,—he totally renounced all those ear-
lier connections. We will let Anderson continue the
story:
“To disentangle himself was not easy, as any-
one knows who has tried. ‘I just cannot get away
from the spirits,’ he told me. ‘These apparitions won’t
leave me alone. They continually visit me and tell
me they are deeply wounded by my attitude. They
wake me up in the dead of night, sometimes three
or four times a night. What can I do to get away
from it all?’
“We were living not far from each other, so we
decided it might help if we shared a room. I could
at least be company for him, and I might be able to
support him in his battle with the spirits. We put
our beds fairly close together, so that if he was
troubled in the night he could easily waken me.
“All went well for a week or two . . Soon, how-
ever, he was accosted by the same beings as before.
And it happened usually in the middle of the night.
First they would shake his bed to awaken him. They
would start to converse. They were usually trans-
parent in appearance. One of them, he claimed,
was the ‘living image’ of his mother. And, in an au-
dible voice, this apparition would tell him of her
affection for him.
“When he would say, ‘I do not believe you,’ and
would turn his back, then the other, purporting to
be his sister, would come to the other side of the

bed and tell him he was breaking his mother’s heart.
When this happened he would switch on the light
and begin to read. He always kept a devotional book
or two handy.
“All would be quiet for perhaps half an hour.
Then suddenly the book would be snatched from
his hands and flung to the other end of the room.
The light would go out of its own accord. And a
voice, harsh and strident, would call out, ‘You’ll
read, will you?’ . . We felt the need of help from a
higher source, so we prayed. And God heard our
prayers, for deliverance came at last.”—R.A.
Anderson, Secrets of the Spirit World, pp. 12-13.
A girl had become friends with a witch, and
had read a little in their writings. But nothing more.
Then it happened:
“On January 5, 1939, seventeen-year-old Maria
and her grandmother were passing a bridge where
three years before the body of Giuseppe Veraldi had
been found, apparently a suicide. Maria stopped still,
stared at the riverbank, and fainted.
“When she regained consciousness, she spoke
in a coarse, masculine voice. ‘I am Pepe,’ she said,
and she began to drink wine and smoke cigarettes,
play cards, and write in the handwriting of the dead
Giuseppe. She told how his friends drank his wine,
threw him over the bridge, and beat him to death
with an iron pipe. Then she acted out the crime.
She eventually returned to her normal self when
the dead boy’s mother ordered ‘him’ to leave her.
Twelve years later a letter came from one of Giuseppe
Veraldi’s cronies, now living in Argentina, confess-
ing to the crime just as Maria had described it.”—

Time magazine, February 18, 1957.
“A young Fijian woman, living in Winembuka,
about sixty miles from Suva, whose grandfather had
been a devil priest, decided she would try to con-
tact the power with whom he communed. This
was to be just a bit of fun, so she thought . .
“Against her parents’ pleadings, this girl contin-
ued to have contact with this demon . . It became so
gruesome, even to her, that at last she realized she
must make a break. One day she summoned all her
mental strength and turned her back on the whole
thing.
“Then something happened! She immediately
became possessed. Her appearance changed, and
she would neither eat nor drink. Clearly, a super-
human power controlled her . . In desperation, her
family sent for a minister. After hearing the full story,
this Christian leader asked two or three other min-
isters to join him. Together they sought God’s power
for the girl’s deliverance.
“Then they came to the home and endeavored
to talk with this young woman, but she would not
communicate. Instead, she became enraged and
screamed in defiance, threatening them. In reply
they ordered the spirit, in the name of Jesus
Christ, to come out of her.
“Suddenly, she fastened her eyes upon them and,
stretching out full length with staring eyes and froth-
ing mouth, she made her way across the floor slith-
ering like a snake. Then she became limp and
completely still. They waited quietly for a few min-
utes, then bathed her face and gave her time to come
to herself. At last she opened her eyes and sat up.

“ ‘Where am I, and why are you all here?’ she
asked, puzzled. To her surprise, they informed her
that she had taken neither food nor water for three
days.
“Turning to her parents, she asked forgive-
ness for her defiance of their counsel. Then she
thanked the ministers for their prayers, but most of
all she gave gratitude to God for her deliverance.”—
Roy A. Anderson, Secrets of the Spirit World, pp.
14-15.
Joan Harrison got involved in TM (transcen-
dental meditation). She thought it was harmless,
and had been told it was good for her health. The
so-called “mediation” consists of mindlessly repeat-
ing over and over a “mantra,” which is the name of
a Hindu demon god. Here is her story:
“During my practice of TM over the years, I
often experienced the presence of spirits sitting
on either side of me as I meditated.
“One night during a teachers’ training course,
after many hours of meditating, one of the spirits
tried to enter my body to take possession of me.
It was very frightening. Only later did I learn that
these spirit beings were demons. I sensed the pres-
ence of evil and resisted its attempts to possess me.
“Demon possession, I discovered, is one of the
ever-present dangers of so-called ‘higher’ states of
consciousness—especially so with TM, because the
mantra, that one is given to repeat, is the name of a
Hindu god; and the Bible says they actually repre-
sent demons (1 Cor. 10:20).”—Personal interview
by Dave Hunt with Joan Harrison, quoted in Dave

Hunt, The Cult Explosion, p. 156.
Next, we turn our attention to a very un-
usual case which shows how these are also
lying spirits. It shows to what deceptive lengths
these lying spirits will go in their efforts to capture
someone.
“It was during the dark days of World War II.
The dread word had come to a widowed mother:
‘Your son—missing in action.’ A neighbor who had
also lost a son in the war invited her to attend a
monthly meeting at a seance, during which a me-
dium brought up the spirits of the dead.
“Mrs. Dorcas hesitated. Tears were in her eyes,
uncertainty in her voice. She was told that her only
son had appeared in that seance she had not at-
tended, and wanted to talk with her. What should
she do? She had been taught from the Scriptures
that ‘the dead know not anything, neither have they
anymore a reward; for the memory of them is for-
gotten. Also their love, and their hatred and their
envy is now perished’ (Eccl. 9:5-6).
“Loneliness in conflict with conscience, a mo-
ment of hesitation. Then she said, ‘I’ll go just once.’
But she went twice. And then, again and again she
returned. She wrote to her pastor, ‘Please drop my
name from your church records. I no longer believe
as you do.’
“The days, weeks and months passed by. The
war was finally over. One day there was a knock
upon the front door of the Dorcas home. Mother
Dorcas stood there transfixed, terrified. It was
her son. ‘Mother, what’s the matter? Let me in.’

‘You’re not my son,’ she cried, ‘You’re dead!’
“ ‘No, I’m very much alive,’ said the son. ‘I’ve
been in a concentration camp.’ The next Sabbath
mother and son went back to the church.
“Who spoke to Mrs. Dorcas through the me-
dium? Not her son. Not an angel from heaven. It
must have been a fallen angel, a demon spirit pre-
tending to be her son.”—Varner J. Johns, Spirits of
Devils Working Miracles, p. 9.
Here is another story, where a spirit misled
people:
“A certain medium, Mrs. Blanch Cooler, suppos-
edly communicated with the spirit of a man she had
known earlier, named Gordon Davies. He had been
killed in battle. The spirit, purporting to be Davies
and speaking in a voice that sounded like his,
described some unusual features of a house and
other information . . But events proved the commu-
nication was not from the departed Davies, because
he had not departed. He turned up alive and was
shown to have had nothing whatever to do with
the seance!”—Stan Baldwin, Games Satan Plays,
cited in Clifford Wilson and John Weldon, Occult
Shock and Psychic Forces, p. 99.
Evil spirits are not something you want to
tamper with, for they will ultimately destroy you.
The next chapter will tell you just how evil these
creatures are!
They hate and even kill followers

The Spirits Are Vile

and Vicious
In this chapter, we will notice several intriguing
facts about the demon spirits, the demons of witch-
craft who pretend to be departed dead.
(1) They utter information which is foolish,
trivial, and very often untrue. (2) They are totally
evil, vile, and hateful. (3) They are quite rude, and
pester everyone willing to become a follower. (4) They
get people to kill animals and injure and murder
people. (5) It is extremely dangerous to consult a
spirit or spiritualist, for it can bring great injury to
your mind and body. (6) They terrify, injure, and
frequently kill their own followers.
Why then is anyone attracted to the spirit
world? It is because of the sense of power which
is there. These individuals hope to gain some of
that power. But the power remains with the spir-
its—and it is a power to control the minds and
bodies of men and women! Instead of gaining
hoped-for power, those who delve into witchcraft and
allied evil arts—are themselves overpowered! They
are captured and become depressed, mean, and
hateful—just like the demons now in possession of
them.
By the way, there is no such thing as “white
magick,” something that is safe to do. There is no
such thing as “nice spirits.” All of Satan’s angels are

evil and cruel like their master.
The demons utter information which is fool-
ish, trivial, and very often untrue. It is not worth
going to listen to, much less the great peril that such
contact brings by going.
“Despite untold numbers of hours of alleged ut-
terances, most of the spirit ‘messages’ are inex-
pressibly tedious, inane, pointless. Most objective
investigators complain that a majority of the strange
communications are patently nonsensical and self-
contradictory.
“This untrustworthiness of communications
purporting to emanate from the ‘spirit world’ was
stressed by English physicist Sir Oliver Lodge [a
dedicated spiritualist himself], who depreciated the
calumny, distortion, and evil of the messages in
the course of transmission . . Direct deception has
been admittedly present at all stages of spiritualism’s
history. In fact, the spiritualist journal, The Medium
(May 2, 1874), printed a letter headed, ‘Is There
Any Remedy for Lying Spirits?’ ”—Leroy Edwin
Froom, Spiritualism Today, p. 36.
“One of the most alarming things about the medi-
umistic racket is how completely some people put
their lives into the hands of ill-educated, emotion-
ally unbalanced individuals who claim a hot line
to heaven. As a medium, I was routinely asked about
business decisions, marital problems, whether to
have an abortion, how to improve sexual perfor-
mance, and similar intimate and important subjects.
That people who ask such questions of a medium
are risking their mental, moral and monetary health

is a shocking but quite accurate description of the
matter.”—M. Lamar Keene, Psychic Mafia, p. 22.
They are extremely rude, and continually pes-
ter those willing to become followers.
“Eminent spiritualists constantly complain that
‘they are frequently plagued by the intruding spir-
its of devils’ (Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymon, p. xi).
Stainton Moses, another spiritualist, in Spirit Teach-
ings, warns of ‘foes of God and man’ who are malig-
nant spirits (p. 243). In another book, he tells how
a ‘motley crowd’ of spirits rush in, ‘eager to seek
communication with living men’ (Spirit Identity,
p. 16). As a result, there is fraud and conniving by
‘malignant, depraved, cunning, and untruthful
spirits’ (ibid.). It is not a wholesome picture. But
these are some of the unconcealable ‘fruits’ on the
tree of spiritualism.”—Leroy Edwin Froom, Spiri-
tualism Today, p. 36.
The evil spirits are evil, vile, and hateful.
“Sir William Barrett, who often took part in ex-
periments with Mrs. Travers Smith, goes a step fur-
ther and tells of depraved communication ‘inter-
spersed with profane and occasionally obscene
language’ (The Threshold of the Unseen, p. 250).
Another writer says that ‘mischievous messages’
are often followed by ‘mental damage’ to the me-
dium (Mable V. Robertson, The Other Side of God’s
Door, Preface). Others likewise write of the ‘evil spir-
its’ that inject themselves and seek to degrade the
medium (T.A.R. Purchas, The Spiritual Adventures
of a Business Man, pp. 218-219). Such fruitage ob-
viously comes from beneath.”—Ibid.

These evil spirits get people to kill animals,
and injure and murder people.
“Murder after murder has been linked to the
[witchcraft and spirit seance] craze, with the mur-
derers openly admitting to police or to reporters
that they worshiped Satan. Police, more and more
frequently, are finding grim evidence of both ani-
mal and human sacrifices.”—George Vandeman,
Psychic Roulette, p. 100.
“The worship of Satan has deep historical roots.
Known as satanism, it is found expressed in vari-
ous ways. Black magic, so-called “white magic,” the
Black Mass, facets of the drug culture, and blood
sacrifice all have connections with satanism.
(In Escape from Witchcraft, Roberta Blanken-
ship explains what two girls, both satanists, wrote to
her as part of their initiation ritual):
“They had to go to a graveyard in the dead of
night, walk across a man-sized cross, and denounce
any belief in Christ. Afterwards, a ritual was per-
formed and the girls had to drink the blood of
animals that had been skinned alive.”—Roberta
Blankenship, Escape from Witchcraft, p. 1.
“In April 1973, the battered, mutilated body
of a 17-year-old boy, Ross ‘Mike’ Cochran, was found
outside of Daytona Beach, Florida. An Associated
Press story said, ‘The verdict of police is that Coch-
ran was the victim of devil worshipers, killed in a
frenzied sacrificial ritual.’
“Lynn McMillon, Oklahoma Christian College
professor, reports, ‘One variety of satanism consists
primarily of sex clubs that embellish their orgies

with satanist rituals. Another variety of satanists
use street drugs in their rites.’ ”—Lynn Walker, Su-
pernatural Power and the Occult, p. 1.
It is extremely dangerous to consult a spirit
or spiritualist, for it can bring great injury to your
mind and body.
“Dr. Franz Volgyesi, an outstanding physician,
for a time took part in spiritualistic phenomena
through the services of a medium called Lazlo. As a
demonstration of the influence of spiritualistic ac-
tivity on the medium, Volgyesi wrote: ‘Then Lazlo
suffered much hard luck, sickness, and emotional
upsets. He pushed many men, who came to him
seeking guidance through the spirits, to the point
of suicide.’ Finally he and a girl friend decided to
commit suicide themselves. With their arms around
each other, Lazlo put a bullet through both of them in
the region of the heart. The girl died, but he recov-
ered . . After my experience with Lazlo I stopped the
personal work and investigations that I had begun
in the spirit world. It is too dangerous.”—Franz
Volgyesi, The Soul is Everything, p. 289.
“Obsessional fascination is common and seri-
ous, for the person is completely captivated. The
spirit that dominates him takes possession of his
confidence, and even paralyzes his own judg-
ment.”—Allan Kardec, What is Spiritualism? pp.
95-96.
Dr. Merrill F. Unger, author of four books on
occultism and demons, wrote this:
“The psychic bondage and oppression that traf-
fickers in occultism themselves suffer, as well as their

dupes, is horrifying to contemplate.”—M.F. Unger,
Demons in the World Today, p. 95.
“Both psychiatry and psychology recognize the
adverse effects of spiritistic activity upon the
mind. Symptoms of split personality appear after
sustained dealings in the occult. Psychiatry defines
the resulting disorder as mediumistic psychosis.”—
Ibid., p. 59.
Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, a trial attorney,
has authored or edited several books on the occult.
He wrote this:
“There is a definite correlation between negative
occult activity and madness. European psychiatrist
L. Szondi has shown a high correlation between in-
volvement in spiritualism and occultism, on one
hand, and schizophrenia on the other. The tragedy
of most sorcery, invocation of demons, and related
practices is that those who carry on these activities
refuse to face the fact that they always turn out for
the worst. What is received through the Faustian
past never satisfies, and one pays with one’s soul in
the end.”—J.W. Montgomery, Principalities and
Powers: the World of the Occult, p. 149.
“This obsessional subjugation [of the person
to the spirit] is a physical coercion always produced
by these very evil spirits, which can, when they wish,
totally neutralize his free will. Sometimes it is lim-
ited to simple disagreeable impressions; sometimes
it causes disorderly movements, such as shouts
and incoherent or insulting words.”—Allan Kar-
dec, What is Spiritualism? p. 96.
“Dr. Carl A. Wickland, M.D., a physician, accom-

plished spiritist, and researcher in psychology . .
became an acknowledged authority in the area of
spiritism and the occult . . Wickland’s life was simi-
lar to that of the great Emanuel Swedenborg, the
famous spiritist of the eighteenth century. Though
both Swedenborg and Wickland practiced spiritism
extensively, both issued stern warnings about its
dangers. He said ‘a great number of unaccount-
able suicides are due to the possessing influence of
spirits. Some of these spirits are actuated by a
desire to torment their victims’ (Wickland, Thirty
Years Among the Dead, p. 132). —Yet they are tor-
menting their own followers!
“According to his own extensive experience, he
observed that spiritism frequently causes ‘appar-
ent insanity, varying in degrees from a simple
mental aberration to, and including, all types of
dementia, hysteria, epilepsy, melancholia, shell
shock, kleptomania, idiocy, suicidal mania, as
well as amnesia, functional bestiality, atrocities,
and other forms of criminality’ (ibid., p. 17).
“In fact, his book devotes entire chapters to the
spirits’ influence in fostering suicide, criminal
practices, drug use, and other unsavory activi-
ties. ‘In many cases of revolting murder, investiga-
tion will show that the crimes were committed by
innocent persons under the control of disembodied
spirits’ (ibid., p. 116).
“Wickland is not alone in his assessment of the
psychological dangers of occult practice. Some au-
thorities think that a significant percentage of those
institutionalized in mental hospitals may be suf-
fering from mental illness induced by occult prac-

tice and/or demonization . . Dr. Koch mentions . . a
Christian psychiatrist who believes that up to half
of the inmates in his psychiatric clinic are suffering
from occult oppression rather than true mental ill-
ness . .
“Roger L. Moore, psychologist of religion at Chi-
cago Theological Seminary, observes that ‘there are
haunting parallels’ between the paranoid schizo-
phrenic and the deeply involved occultist. He also
stated at a four-day symposium of the American
Academy of Religion, ‘Participation in the occult is
dangerous for persons who are the most interested
in it . . A lot of them have become paranoid psy-
chotics’ (R.L. Moore, quoted in Los Angeles Times,
December 30, 1977).”—John Ankerberg and John
Weldon, The Facts on the Occult, p. 27.
These demons terrify, injure, and frequently
kill their own followers—including spiritist me-
diums and channelers.
The demon spirits are so evil and hateful that
when the spiritualist mediums, who have dedicated
their lives to their control, become old and less use-
ful—very often the demons inflict on them great
suffering and finally an agonizing death.
This has happened repeatedly. God cannot help
those poor sufferers; for long ago, they have cursed,
reviled, and rejected Him. And they have no more
desire to return to their Creator, who alone is able
to deliver them. They totally lack the protection from
devils which the good angels give to the children of
God.
In the Bible, demons are presented as in-

flicting numerous physical and psychological ail-
ments upon their victims. Many of these parallel
today’s cases of channeling [the name for modern
spiritist seances). The array of symptoms suggest
the possibility of virtual monopoly over the work-
ings of the human mind and body: skin disease
(Job 2:7), destructive and irrational acts (Matt.
8:28; Luke 8:27), deafness and inability to speak
(Mark 9:25; Luke 11:14), epileptic-like seizures
(Matt. 17:15; Mark 9:17-18; Luke 9:39), blindness
(Matt. 12:22), tormenting pain (Rev. 9:1-11), insan-
ity (Luke 8:26-35), severe physical deformity (Luke
13:11-17), and other symptoms. Demons can at-
tempt to murder a person (Matt. 17:15, 18).
“If I stayed in mediumship I saw only deepening
gloom. All the mediums I’ve known or known
about have had tragic endings.
“The Fox sisters, who started it all, wound up as
alcoholic derelicts. William Slade, famed for his
slate-writing tricks, died insane in a Michigan sani-
tarium. Margery, the medium, lay on her deathbed
a hopeless drunk. The celebrated Arthur Ford
fought the battle of the bottle to the very end and
lost . . Wherever I looked it was the same: mediums
at the end of a tawdry life.”—M. Lamar Keene,
Psychic Maffia, pp. 147-148.
“There are many cases where occult activity has
directly resulted in the destruction of human life.
It is not just that there are a few cases; the fact is
there are thousands of them littered throughout the
history of religion, occultism, spiritism, and para-
psychology—mental illness, suicide, physical

crippling, blindness, death. People who would never
think of playing Russian Roulette with a gun, even
once, or who would never deliberately take a dan-
gerous drug, have a very good reason for their deci-
sions. The odds of disaster are too high. Yet the odds
of harming oneself from occult practices are appar-
ently just as high or higher. What is amazing is that
the evidence is there for all to see and yet it is ig-
nored.”—John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Facts
on Spirit Guides, p. 38.
“I have found that nine out of 10 cases of oc-
cult involvement result in harming people. This
is supported by many thousands of examples.”—
Kurt Koch, Occult Bondage and Deliverance, p.
130.
“Many mediums are mentally unbalanced to a
degree that verges on actual insanity. And only
the most credulous, among their changing clientele
who seek their guidance, can remain blind to the
fact. Very many mediums show marked evidence
of paranoia.”—D.H. Rawcliffe, Illusions and Delu-
sions of the Supernatural and the Occult, p. 172.
“Most people do not know that the famous me-
dium Arthur Ford became a morphine addict and
alcoholic, which caused him no end of grief much
of his life. Bishop James Pike died a tragic death
from his involvement in spiritism. Medium Jane
Roberts died at the young age of 55. Others became
addicted to drugs.
“Medium Edgar Cayce, a large man (6' 2'') died
in misery weighing a mere 60 pounds. The biogra-
phy on Cayce by Joseph Millard reveals the extent

of suffering Cayce’s occult involvement cost him—
from psychic attacks to mysterious fires, erratic
personality changes and emotional torments, con-
stant bad luck and personal setback, plus guilt
induced by psychic readings that ruined others’
lives. Many channelers seem to succumb to vari-
ous vices later in life, from sexual immorality to
numbing their conscience, to alcoholism and drug
addiction, to crime and worse.”—John Ankerberg
and John Weldon, Facts on Spirit Guides, p. 39.
“Many, many magicians and people who deal with
spirits have been strangled or killed. I know be-
cause I’ve been near quite a few of these cases.”—
Sri Chinmoy, Astrology and the Beyond, p. 62. [He
is a spiritist adviser at the United Nations].
“Dr. Kurt Koch observed, after 45 years of coun-
seling the occultly oppressed, that from his own ex-
perience ‘numerous cases of suicides, fatal acci-
dents, strokes and insanity are to be observed
among occult practitioners.’ And that ‘anyone who
has had to observe, for 45 years, the effects of spir-
itism can only warn people with all the strength at
his disposal’ (Kurt Koch, Occult Bondage and De-
liverance, p. 31; also see Kurt Koch, Occult ABC,
p. 238).”—John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Facts
on Spirit Guides, p. 40.
The following statement is highly significant.
Whenever someone who has dabbled in spiritual-
ism—even the spirit mediums themselves—try, even
slightly, to cut loose from the control of the spir-
its,—they will be struck by various diseases as
punishment to keep them from leaving. Then,

when they stop trying to leave, the diseases are re-
moved. —Yet all the while, whether or not they
try to leave, their bodies and minds gradually de-
teriorate from the effects of their connection with
demons.
“Over many years, the very act of channeling
[spiritist mediumship] itself appears to have a
destructive effect upon the human body. It is as if
there is a type of, for lack of a better word, ‘psychic
vampirism’ at work which slowly eats away at a
person’s physical constitution.
“Time and again in the lives of psychics, medi-
ums and spiritualists, we have observed the power
of the spirits in holding their captives to do their
will (2 Tim. 2:24-26). When one attempts to sup-
press their channeling or mediumship [i.e., try to
escape from the spirit’s control], for example, the
result will frequently be symptoms of disease or
other serious problems, forcing a return to the
practice.”—John Ankerberg and John Weldon,
Facts on Spirit Guides, p. 40.
In view of such facts as those found in this
chapter,—why would you want to have anything
to do with any books, movies, pictures, maga-
zines, music, or even toys which might lead you
toward an interest in witchcraft?
A covenant with hell
The Bible Condemns

Witchcraft
In this chapter, we will learn what God has
told us about these matters. This is so impor-
tant that He has given specific warnings. We
dare not ignore those warnings and run on heed-
lessly down a road that will lead us to destruc-
tion.
(1) What does the Bible says about Satan? (2)
Who are these “spirits” that appear to people? (3)
Why must we not have anything to do with them?
(4) What are the two main lies of Satan?
What does the Bible says about Satan?
It is imperative that we understand the iden-
tity and the character of these strange supernatu-
ral powers. We need to have clearly before us what
God says about them and His warning prohibitions
against them. Only in this way can we be protected
from the deception and terrible retribution that will
come from making friends with them.
Special information and unmistakable warn-
ings are to be found all through the Old and New
Testaments regarding Satan, demons, evil spirits,
familiar spirits, necromancy (trying to talk to the
dead), sorcery, witchcraft, divination, and wizardry.
Satan before his fall from heaven was named

Lucifer (Isa. 14:12-14), anointed cherub, and cov-
ering cherub (Eze. 28:14, 16). Since his fall he is
called accuser of the brethren (Rev. 12:10), adver-
sary (1 Peter 5:8), Beelzebub (Matt. 12:24), devil
(Rev. 12:9), enemy (Matt. 13:28, 39), father of lies,
liar, and murderer (John 8:44), old serpent (Rev.
20:2), power of darkness (Col. 1:13), prince of this
world (John 12:31), prince of devils (Matt. 12:24),
prince of the power of the air (Eph. 2:2), god of this
world (2 Cor. 4:4), spirit that worketh in the chil-
dren of disobedience (Eph. 2:2), tempter (Matt. 4:3),
and wicked one (Matt. 13:19). It is clear that Sa-
tan is real, and God wants us to have nothing to
do with him!
Satan was once an angel of light. His name,
being Lucifer, means “light bearer” (Isa. 14:12-14;
Eze. 28:13-19). But rebellion against God in heaven
changed him into a demon of darkness. When he
was cast out of heaven, the angels who sided with
him were cast out with him (Rev. 12:7-9).
We want to know more about these angels
who were cast out of heaven with Satan.
The New Testament constantly tells about the
reality and personality of these angels who are
called demons. They are also called “spirits,” “un-
clean spirits,” and “wicked” spirits (Mark 7:25-26;
Luke 10:17, 20; Matt. 12:43, 45). In the Gospels
(which is Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), the term,
“unclean spirits,” is used interchangeably with “dev-
ils” (Mark 1:27, 34; 3:11, 15; 6:7, 13). They are the
devil’s “angels” (Matt. 25:41; 2 Peter 2:4) and are
so numerous as to make Satan’s power operative
practically everywhere (Mark 5:2, 8-9). They are ca-

pable of entering and controlling both man and beast
(Mark 5:8, 11-13). Satan and his fallen angels have
the ability to impart information, to change their
appearance, and to personate others (2 Cor. 11:13-
14). “And no marvel; for Satan himself is trans-
formed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also be transformed as the
ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be ac-
cording to their works” (2 Cor. 11:14-15).
Demon influence and possession are con-
stantly portrayed in the New Testament. These
demons are unclean, sullen, violent, malicious. They
know Jesus to be the Son of God, and are com-
pelled to recognize His authority (Matt. 8:28, 31).
—That is an important truth to remember!
They inflict physical maladies (Matt. 12:22;
17:15-18; Luke 13:16) and cause those disorders
of the mind induced by demon control. Christ while
on earth cast out devils by the Spirit of God (Matt.
12:28).
A succession of instances of demon posses-
sion appear in the New Testament—the two Gerge-
senes, the dumb man, the blind and dumb man,
the Syrophenician’s daughter, the lunatic child, the
man in the synagogue, and Mary Magdalene. These
devils were cast out by Jesus (Matt. 4:24; 8:16; Luke
8:2). Power over demons was also given by Christ
to His disciples, and they too cast them out.
Demons are always—without exception—the
adversaries of man (1 Peter 5:8; Matt. 12:45) and
they bear false messages. Nevertheless, they “believe
[that God exists] and tremble,” and are to be judged
(James 2:19; Matt. 8:29) and punished (Luke 8:28;

2 Peter 2:4; Rev. 12:7-9). Of this they are very much
aware.
Next, we want to learn what the Bible teaches
about sorcery and witchcraft. The Scriptures are
very clear about this!
Of the various occult activities being done in
Bible times, sorcery (witchcraft) was most widely
named as practiced among the nations. Sorcery
is divination through the assistance of evil spirits.
It was practiced among the Egyptians (Isa. 19:3, 11-
13), by the Ninevites (Nahum 3:4), and also by the
Babylonians (Isa. 47:9-13; Eze. 21:21-22; Dan. 2:2,
10, 27). It was likewise exercised by such individu-
als as Balaam (Num. 22:6-7; 23:23) and Jezebel (2
Kgs. 9:22). In New Testament times it was practiced
by Simon Magus (Acts 8:9, 11), Elymas (Acts 13:8),
the damsel at Philippi (Acts 16:16), and the sons of
Sceva (Acts 19:13-15).
Are we told to avoid these things?
God expressly forbade us to consult “familiar
spirits” (Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27; Deut. 18:10-11; Isa.
8:19; 19:3) or to have anything to do with necro-
mancy—which is trying to contact dead people
(Deut. 18:11; 26:14; Isa. 8:19). Wizardry was simi-
larly prohibited (Ex. 22:18; Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27).
And, under the theocracy, witches were to be de-
stroyed (1 Sam. 28:3, 9).
All divination was strictly forbidden (Lev. 19:26-
28, 31; 20:6; Deut. 18:9-14). All contact of this sort
was denounced, as was all divining by means of “fa-
miliar spirits” (Lev. 20:27). Sorcerers were strictly
forbidden (Ex. 22:18; Deut. 18:10-12), with warn-

ings against their deceptions (Jer. 27:9-10) and their
punishment foretold (Micah 5:12; Mal. 3:5; Rev.
21:8).
What does the Bible teach about those who
practiced witchcraft and other satanic arts?
According to Scripture, many in ancient Israel
“sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord
(2 Kgs. 17:16-17). By their sins, they gave them-
selves into the control of Satan, who then used
them to capture still others who sought them for
advice! They did this by necromancy, witchcraft, sor-
cery, familiar spirits, etc., and thus became the
slaves of the demonic powers behind the occult and
mysterious rites.
Because of their evil influence, and the reliance
of some upon them and the “spirits,” witchcraft and
wizardry were sternly forbidden.
Spiritualists are an abomination to God—“There
shall not be found among you any one that maketh his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter,
or a witch . . or a necromancer. For all that do these
things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because
of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them
out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord
thy God.”—Deuteronomy 18:10-13.
Have nothing to do with them—“Regard not them
that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to
be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”—Leviticus
19:31.
Do not listen to their lies—“Therefore hearken not
ye to . . your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers . . for
they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from
your land.”—Jeremiah 27:9-10.

God will judge them severely—“And I will come near
to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against
the sorcerers.”—Malachi 3:5.
God does not want them to continue to live—“Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live.”—Exodus 22:18. “A man
also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a
wizard, shall surely be put to death.”—Leviticus 20:27.
We should not ask advice of an evil spirit. King
Saul died because he did this—“Saul died for his trans-
gression which he committed against the Lord, even
against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also
for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to
inquire of it; and inquired not of the Lord; therefore He
slew him.”—1 Chronicles 10:13-14. (See 1 Samuel 28:7-
15).
We are commanded not to go to them, lest we be
defiled—“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, nei-
ther seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the
Lord your God.”—Leviticus 19:31.
Those that go to them will be cut off—“The soul
that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after
wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I will even set My
face against that soul, and will cut him off from among
his people.”—Leviticus 20:6.
Spiritualists will not go to heaven—“Idolatry, witch-
craft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedi-
tions, heresies . . I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.”—Galatians 5:20-21.
They will be put to death—“A man also or woman
that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely
be put to death.”—Leviticus 20:27.
Go to God and the Bible for counsel, not to spiri-
tualists—“And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that
peep and that mutter; should not a people seek unto

their God? [instead of] for the living to [seek guidance of]
the dead? To the law and to the testimony; if they speak
not according to this Word, it is because there is no light
in them.”—Isaiah 8:19-20.
In the last days, many will be deluded into plac-
ing confidence in spiritualists—“Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils.”—1 Timothy 4:1.
The trouble began when Lucifer rebelled in
heaven and chose to disobey God’s holy law. In
the book of Revelation we are told:
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and His
angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither
was their place found anymore in heaven. And the
great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called
the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him.”—Revelation 12:7-9.
The titanic struggle between the dragon—Sa-
tan—with his rebellious angels, and Michael—
Christ—with His loyal angels, resulted in the expul-
sion of the rebels from heaven. Peter says: “God
spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down” (2 Peter 2:4).
Jesus said: “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from
heaven” (Luke 10:18).
The issue came to its terrific climax at Cal-
vary. Here the King of love and the king of hate met
in mortal combat. Through those dark and agoniz-
ing hours Jesus struggled against the combined pow-
ers of hell. On that hill outside Jerusalem the con-

flict of the ages reached its most desperate height.
But, in spite of all the devil could do, the Saviour of
the world held to the principles of godliness and
won a glorious victory. That crucial cry from the
cross, “It is finished” (John 19:30), was no moan of
despair; it was a shout of triumph. Finished indeed
was the contest of the ownership of this world.
That mighty shout, “It is finished,” which rang
from Calvary’s hill, sounded the death knell of
Satan and his hosts of demons. The battle had
been won, the enemy unmasked, and the king of
hell dethroned. And it was the Creator Himself who
descended to the battlefield of earth and broke the
stranglehold of evil.
When Jesus died, it was no mere human sacri-
fice; it was God offering Himself for lost men. Hav-
ing died in the place of man, He became the Re-
deemer of the lost race. At the completion of that
sacrifice, a mighty shout was heard in heaven: “Now
is come salvation . . for the accuser of our brethren
is cast down” (Rev. 12:10).
That song of praise from the angelic host re-
verberated to the very edge of the universe. The
battle had been won, assuring us that evil will ulti-
mately be eradicated from the universe. But in the
meantime the conflict between truth and error, be-
tween the kingdom of light and the kingdom of dark-
ness, has continued and will continue until our Lord
returns in glory. The time is coming when Satan
and all his followers will forever be destroyed.
It has ever been Satan’s studied plan to de-
stroy confidence in the Bible. In these last days
we can expect the enemy of God and man to come,

as the apostle said, “as an angel of light” (2 Cor.
11:14) and “with all power and signs and lying won-
ders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteou-
sness” (2 Thess. 2:9-10). The Scripture says Satan
is out to “make war with the saints, and to over-
come them” (Rev. 13:7). That expression, “make
war,” is found sixteen times in the New Testament
and nine times in the book of Revelation. These ref-
erences are always in connection with the terrible
conflict between light and darkness, between holi-
ness and sin.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiri-
tual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto
you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand.”—Ephesians 6:12-13.
To be able to stand in the evil days just ahead
can only be done by clinging to the hand of Christ.
The war will intensify as we near the close of time.
The power of spiritualism will intensify and will
deceive many.
If we are to fully understand the deadly na-
ture of witchcraft and spiritism, we need to
know about Satan’s first two lies.
Satan’s first lie is this: If you sin, by disobeying
what God commands, you will not surely die, but
live forever. His second lie is this: If you sin, you
will become as God, knowing the glorious things
that He has hidden from you; you will learn the
occult.
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any

beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
“And the woman said unto the serpent, We may
eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye die.
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die: For God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”—Gen-
esis 3:1-5.
Instead of dying if you sin against God’s require-
ments, the Devil said, you will live forever and be-
come God!
Let us now examine these two lies, which Sa-
tan has been telling people for thousands of years.
The authoritative National Spiritualist Associa-
tion Yearbook declares: “Spiritualism is God’s mes-
sage to mortals, declaring that There Is No Death.
That all who pass on still live. That there is hope in
the life beyond for the most sinful. That every soul
will progress through the ages to heights, sublime
and glorious—to God himself.”
“The Teachings of spiritualism will go on con-
quering until the whole world shall know and re-
joice in the great truth: ‘There is no death’ and all
God’s great family are linked in glad communica-
tion and fellowship.”—A.B.C. of Spiritualism, Ques-
tion No. 100.
The site of the original Fox cottage, where mod-
ern spiritualism was born over a century ago, has

this monument proclaiming the error that spiritism
is based on: “The Birthplace of Modern Spiritual-
ism . . March 31, 1848. THERE IS NO DEATH.
THERE ARE NO DEAD.” (Full caps are theirs.)
The well-known research writer, Dave Hunt, ex-
plains:
“Spiritism in Western Europe, England, and North
America generally involves seances in which com-
munication is received from spirits that usually
claim to be dead relatives of the people present in
the seance. However, Jesus taught that the dead
cannot come back to speak with, or appear to,
the living (Eccl. 9:5-6) . .
“A common thread of deceit runs through all the
messages delivered by alleged spirits of the dead,
regardless of the culture, place, or time in history,
and by whatever means they communicate—whether
in a seance, through a ouija board, during a hyp-
notic trance, or in spontaneous appearances. The
spirit communicators (including alleged space be-
ings) invariably repeat and elaborate the same
lies the serpent told Eve. Their very claim to be
spirits of the dead is a denial of what God said about
death and an obvious attempt to support the ser-
pent’s promise: ‘You won’t really die!’ The idea is
always given that death involves no judgment and
no heaven or hell, but is like stepping through a
door into another room of life, where we continue
to learn our lessons and to progress ever higher on
our way to full godhood.”—Dave Hunt, The Cult
Explosion, p. 145.
The lie goes back to the very gates of Eden

and the beginning of the human race, when
through the medium of an apparently talking ser-
pent, Satan, the father of lies, assured our first
parents that they should “not surely die” but that
they should “be as gods” (Gen. 3:4-5). This dual
deception was spread abroad among the heathen
nations as they developed and became part of the
pagan religious structure—whether of pantheism,
polytheism, or animism. Cults and incantations,
necromancy and witchcraft, familiar spirits and di-
viners—all flourished in heathendom, blighting the
world. It was adopted in the great civilizations of
antiquity: Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, and Rome.
And now it has spread to the Western world.
The Serpent said to Eve: “Ye shall not surely
die . . but ye shall be as gods” (Gen. 3:4-5). The
Egyptians believed the lie and buried with their kings
a retinue of servants for life in the next world. All
pagan religions deny the reality of death. The sooth-
sayers in the seance bring up the supposed spirits
of the dead. The occult teaches the transmigration
of souls. There is indeed a spirit world—but the
spirits are not those of our departed dead. They are
the evil angels, “the spirits of devils working mir-
acles” (Rev. 16:14), to deceive as many as possible.
The Bible says, “The living know that they
shall die, but the dead know not anything” (Eccl.
9:5). “His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it
not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it
not of them” (Job 14:21). But spiritualism declares:
“There is no death; there are no dead” (Mrs. M.E.
Cadwallader, Centennial Book, p. 68).

Clyde A. Dibble, a well-known spiritist writer
and practitioner said it this way: “We do not com-
municate with the dead but with the living . . The
evidence is increasing that they are not silent and
away, only that many are still blind, deaf, and in-
sensitive spiritually to those other dimensions of
the spirit.”—C.A. Dibble, The Summit of Spiritual
Understanding, June 1964.
In the same issue of that journal, Arthur A.
Meyers wrote about the other of the twin errors:
“Infinite Intelligence is not a formulated divine
creature [he is saying there is no actual God] . . It is
instead an Infinite Intelligence. —You are that Power;
you are God.”—A.A. Meyers, ibid.
The devil has said, “You are God and you will
not die.” The question each must decide for him-
self is, Whom shall we believe? God or the devil?
Our decision determines our destiny.
The Bible says:
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
goest.”—Ecclesiastes 9:10.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of
man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth
forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day
his thoughts perish.”—Psalm 146:3-4.
How could departed friends, whose thoughts
have perished, communicate information to anyone?
They cannot and do not.
The doctrine of natural immortality is that
all men have eternal life. But the Scriptures

teach that man, apart from Christ, does not
have eternal life.
Eternal life is not inherent in man. It is the gift
of God, and is given only to those who accept Christ
and remain true to Him till the end. Jesus said:
“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all
things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life.”—John 3:35-36.
“And this is the record, that God hath given to
us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that
hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the
Son of God hath not life.”—1 John 5:11-12.
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to
kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”—
John 10:10.
The Christian has this everlasting life now—only
by faith. It will become his by actual possession
only at the Second Advent of Christ.
Who has immortality? This is an important
question.
The dictionary defines the word, “immortality,”
as a quality or state of being exempt from death.
The Apostle Paul says we will “put on immortal-
ity” (1 Cor. 15:54) when our Saviour comes in glory,
with all His holy angels with Him.
“We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
“For this corruptible must put on incorrup-
tion, and this mortal must put on immortality.
“So when this corruptible shall have put on in-
corruption, and this mortal shall have put on im-
mortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is
thy victory?”—1 Corinthians 15:51-55.
If immortality is something we must “put on,” it
is evident we do not possess it now. God alone pos-
sesses immortality.
“[God] who is the blessed and only Potentate,
the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can
see: to whom be honor and power everlasting.”—1
Timothy 6:15-16.
Immortality, then, is a divine quality. We do not
have it innately. Apart from an acceptance of Christ
as our Saviour, there is no such thing as an immor-
tal soul. We will become immortal, but not until our
Saviour’s second advent. Then, and not until then,
will those who have died in the hope of the resur-
rection be raised from their graves; from a state of
corruption they will “put on incorruption.” At the
same time the righteous who are living on earth will
“all be changed” (1 Cor. 15:52, quoted earlier). And
that change will be drastic; for the natural body will
then become a spiritual, or immortal, body that is
made like unto our Lord’s resurrected and glorious
body. This is clearly stated by John:
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know

that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him;
for we shall see Him as He is.
“And every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself [now].”—1 John 3:2-3.
In preparation for the glorious future that will
be ours at Christ’s second coming, we are not to
consult demons. But we should now, in the en-
abling strength Christ imparts, purify our lives
by living clean, godly lives in accordance with the
Ten Commandments, God’s moral standard of con-
duct.
Death, for God’s children, will come to an
end. Not until our Saviour returns will death be
“swallowed up in victory” (1 Cor. 15:54).
“For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies
under His feet. The last enemy that shall be de-
stroyed is death.”—1 Corinthians 15:25-26.
Spiritualists speak of death as a “friend.” But
the Bible calls death an “enemy.” The difference
is tremendous. Death is an intruder that came as a
result of sin. But, when our Saviour returns to the
earth for His people, He will bring an end to death
for His redeemed ones.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and [for His faithful ones] there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be anymore pain: for the former things are
passed away.”—Revelation 21:4.
The message of the resurrection was central
in the preaching of the Apostles. They fearlessly
declared our Lord’s resurrection. Because He died
and rose again, “there shall be a resurrection of

the dead, both of the just and unjust” (Acts 24:15).
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent
Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the
last day.
“And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that
every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him,
may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up
at the last day.”—John 6:39-40.
Jesus was not talking about the soul’s survival
after death, but rather a bodily resurrection from
the dead. It is because the dead do not survive—
and continue living—that a resurrection is nec-
essary. But it does not take place until our Lord
returns with all His holy angels in the skies, not
before.
This truth of an awakening from the sleep
of death is found in both the Old and New Tes-
taments:
“Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell
in dust . . the earth shall cast out the dead.”—Isaiah
26:19.
“As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteous-
ness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy
likeness.”—Psalm 17:15.
Those words, “when I awake” are significant. All
though the Bible death is referred to as “sleep.”
In 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4, and 2 Timo-
thy 4 we repeatedly find the words, “slept,” “made
alive,” “they that are Christ’ at His coming,” “sleep,”
“changed,” “last trump,” “raised incorruptible,” “put
on immortality,” “asleep,” “sleep in Jesus,” “dead in

Christ,” “rise first,” “and so shall we ever be with
the Lord.”
These were Christ’s words when He told His dis-
ciples that Lazarus had died:
“He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleep-
eth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall
do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but
they thought that He had spoken of taking of rest in
sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus
is dead.”—John 11:11-14.
In obedience to Christ’s command, “Lazarus,
come forth,” that dead man awoke from his sleep of
death and was reunited with his family. The Lord
did not call him from another plane or far-off world.
But He called him from the sepulcher, the very place
where they had laid him after he died.
The question is then asked, What is the
“spirit”? The Bible says:
“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it
was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave
it.”—Ecclesiastes 12:7.
The spirit, or breath of life (ruach in the He-
brew), returns to its Source; the power by which
man has lived goes back to God who gave it. The
power to live comes from God. And it goes back
to God at death. “In Him we live, and move, and
have our being” (Acts 17:28).
Many seem confused about the spirit, not know-
ing how to define it. The Bible gives the answer:
“The body without the spirit is dead.”—James
2:26.
The Greek word for “spirit” is Pneuma. This is

the source of our English word, “pneumatic.” Those
with marginal references will see that pneuma is
referred to as “breath.” This word, pneuma, is trans-
lated 288 times as “spirit.” But, whichever word is
used in translation, breath or spirit, one thing is
certain: Without it, the body is dead. Job said it
this way:
“All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit
of God is in my nostrils.”—Job 27:3.
The spirit that returns to God at death is not
an immortal soul. But it is the breath of life, the
power by which we live.
When God created man, He “breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul” (Gen. 2:7). God did not breathe a soul into
man. He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.” When the
power of God touched the inanimate dust, the life-
less form became alive—a living soul. It takes the
breath, or Spirit of God, to make a living soul. So
when the breath of life, the power by which we live,
is withdrawn, death is the result.
This is emphasized by the psalmist:
“Thou hidest Thy face, they are troubled: Thou
takest away their breath, they die and return to
their dust. Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are
created: and Thou renewest the face of the earth.”—
Psalm 104:29-30.
As mentioned earlier, the Hebrew word for breath
and spirit is ruach. And this is also translated
“wind.” In the Old Testament, ruach appears 379
times. But not in a single instance does it suggest
that man has a separate surviving soul, capable of

conscious existence apart from the body.
Without the breath, or spirit of life, man has no
consciousness; his is the sleep of death. Paul wrote
about believers who had “fallen asleep in Christ” (1
Cor. 15:18). How comforting is the thought that those
of us who have died are at rest. When our Lord de-
scends the flaming skies as “King of kings and Lord
of lords,” He will command the spirit, or the breath
of life, to unite with the inanimate dust. And the
bodies of those who have trusted in Him for salva-
tion, that have gone into corruption and apparent
nothingness, will at the Creator’s word come forth
glorified. They will spring forth joyfully to life,
“caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord” (1 Thess. 4:17).
The thief on the cross. Someone may ask, “But
didn’t Jesus tell the thief on the cross that he would
be with Him that day in heaven?”
Here is the verse, as given in the King James
Version:
“And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.”—Luke
23:43.
Actually, there are no commas in the original
Bible; they were added later. Based on the context
of events which followed soon after, the original
Greek can read thus: “Verily I say unto thee to-
day, thou shalt be with Me in paradise.” Jesus
promised that the thief would be saved, but not that
he would go to heaven that day. He assured him
that, “today—the very day that we are both hanging
on crosses, I promise that you will later be in heaven

with Me.”
We know that this interpretation is correct for
three reasons: (1) The thief did not die that day.
People did not usually die of crucifixion in one day,
but Jesus died of a broken heart that afternoon and
everyone was surprised that He had died so soon.
When the soldiers came, they found Him already
dead and the two thieves crucified with Him still
alive. At sundown it would be the Bible Sabbath. So
they took them down from the cross, because they
expected their deaths after the Sabbath. It was
against their custom to keep them on the cross af-
ter the Sabbath begins (John 19:30-33).
(2) Jesus did not go to heaven until after He
arose from the dead on Sunday morning. He said,
“I am not yet ascended to My Father” (John 20:17).
Christ was buried before sundown on Friday (Luke
23:50-54) and did not rise from the dead until Sun-
day morning (Matt. 28:1-6).
“Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not [Detain Me
not in Greek]; for I am not yet ascended to My Fa-
ther: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I
ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My
God, and your God.”—John 20:17.
(3) This explanation agrees with other passages
of Scripture about the state of the dead.
Wouldn’t you rather live forever with God,
holy angels, and happy people,—than experi-
ence the future that is before those who take
part in the satanic arts?
God has a heaven full of blessings for you. And
you can begin to experience it right now, if you will
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give your life to Christ; repent of your sins; and,

through the enabling strength which He alone can
impart, put them away and obey all that God com-
mands in His holy Word, the Bible.
Different forms of spiritualism
More
Astounding Facts
There are several other facts about spiritism
and witchcraft which we need to understand, so
we can warn our friends against them.
First, today there are a number of other types
of witchcraft which are captivating large num-
bers of people. Let us briefly consider some of the
leading ones.
Seances. Someone may tell you that something
marvelous happened at a seance they attended. Here
are some of the actual hoaxes that occur at those
gatherings. But not everything done is fakery. You
should not attend these gatherings, and you should
warn others not to go!
The people are sitting in almost total dark-
ness at seances because the lights are turned down
and the windows are blacked out (“because the spir-
its like it that way” is the excuse given). The small
audience is seated in a row facing the front. There is

also a table in front, a chair for the medium, and
space on both sides and behind him for his assis-
tant to silently and unseen move around. That
makes it easier to do special tricks to fool everyone.
The medium’s associate will dress in black
from head to toe. Objects which are white or bright
will suddenly appear, either on the table or will
apparently float in space.
Each visitor is given a blank card to hand in,
possibly with his name signed on it. These are placed
on the table. Soon they disappear, or float off into
space and suddenly disappear from view. Later
cards containing messages written on them “from
the spirits” float into view and are placed on the
table.
A solid object (called an “apport”) suddenly ap-
pears in space, floating around. It is often a silver
trumpet, which moves around and eventually dis-
appears.
The table tilts. Harry Houdini said this was done
by the medium lifting the table with a steel rod or
hook under his sleeve or vest.
The table begins “rapping” because the me-
dium taps the leg with the edge of his shoe, which
has steel on it. Or wires from the bottom of a table
leg lead to the next room, which controls an electric
coil under the table top, making certain numbers of
clicks,
Trick photography produces photos of people
who have died, but who now appear semi-transpar-
ent. Additional tricks could be mentioned.
Channeling. This is just a modern name for
old-fashioned witchcraft. Seances may be held, or

“readings” may be given, which predict events to oc-
cur that year. (Most of the “prophecies” are not ful-
filled. But, by December, few recall what was pre-
dicted in January.)
Wicca. This is the modern name for witches
and witchcraft. “Wicca” is an ancient word for
“witch.” Females are called “witches,” and males
are called “wizards” or “warlocks.”
The New Age movement. This, plus Wicca,
communication with the dead, astrology, femi-
nism, hippie counterculture, street drugs mixed
with mysticism, world disarmament and hunger
projects, secular humanism, and atheism.
Several famous books and movie stars helped
to popularize this spiritist fad. Since the 1980s, it
has entered the public schools, corporate training,
and many churches. Political and military organi-
zations encourage it. The UN became a major cen-
ter for promoting it. The so-called “New Age” is sup-
posed to bring in worldwide peace.
Yoga, especially, is used to supposedly help
relax people and improve their health. Instead,
the controlling spirit causes depression when the
individual is not frequently engaged in yoga. More
on yoga later.
Transcendentalism (TM). TM (also called Ma-
harishi Technology and Unified Field) started in
the 1960s, when the Beatles visited India and learned
about yoga from a holy man, called Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi. He later came to the United States and,
selling his “training program,” became a multimil-
lionaire.
TM is a combination of Hinduism and Raga
Yoga. People pay money to learn how to do TM. It
consists of being given a “personal mantra” (“sa-
cred word”) to mindlessly repeat over and over
again during a “meditation session” while the per-
son is sitting cross-legged on the floor. The “mantra”
is the Sanscrit (ancient Indian) word or phrase for
one or two Hindu deities. (So, by repeating the man-
tra, the person is actually praying to a pagan god.)
According to Maharishi and others, the objec-
tive is to “come out of your personal nature,” “empty
yourself of self,” unite with an impersonal god, and
thus receive “enlightenment.” This will bring you
under that god’s control and “make you his sur-
rendered servant.” TM and other Eastern cults
have brought a flood of Eastern occult thinking to
the West.
Hinduism, Buddhism and Karma. The doc-
trine of reincarnation is crucial to this survey of
Eastern occultism. It is a key teaching of Hindu-
ism, and the basis of both Brahmanism and Bud-
dhism. Reincarnation teaches that each new birth
into the world is determined by the deeds of the pre-
vious life. This is karma. As a result, the soul which
lives forever is, at death, continually reborn again—
as a person or perhaps as an animal.
This doctrine of reincarnation and transmigra-
tion of souls was also found in Egypt and Persia
before the time of Zoroaster. But it was derived from
Indian sources. There are endless incarnations be-
fore all men return to the impersonal “World Soul,”
and all evil is ended. Like all occult practices,
karma is a way to ignore salvation through Christ,

as well as a way to avoid responsibility and pun-
ishment for sin. Karma teaches that one life just
keeps leading to the next one.
Buddhism and dharma. Buddha was born in
563 B.C. in Lumini near Nepal’s border with India.
His Dharma (“way” or “doctrine”) was based on
Hindu karma, but aimed at ending the cycle of suf-
fering in successive transmigrations. Escape was
said to be possible by reaching nirvana, a condi-
tion of infinite bliss likened to an extinguished flame
(“nirvana” means “to blow out”); in other words, a
mindless, thoughtless, nothingness kind of eternal
existence.
Yoga. Yoga is an Indian ritual involving cer-
tain body positions, breathing patterns, looking
steadily at a candle flame, etc.; and, during this
“meditation,” one is either thinking of nothing
or repeating a mantra (the name of the god to be
worshiped), etc. This is supposed to unite the hu-
man soul in “total surrender” to the Supreme Spirit.
As with other occult practices, the spirit con-
trolling the person actually produces within him a
state of depression or a physical problem, when it
is not engaged in. But while it is done regularly,
the depression lifts and the body seems to feel
better.
A major text on Yoga states, “The aim of all yoga
is realization of the Absolute Brahman.” Hindu be-
lief teaches that Brahmam is the master god, present
in all things (pantheism); yet it is always unknow-
able. His manifestation to men is through the Hindu
god, Shiva (or Siva), the god of destruction. In other

words, because you have placed yourself under
the power of an evil spirit, either you submit to
Brahmam, or Shiva will destroy you.
There are four forms of Yoga, one of which is
Hatha Yoga, the practice most familiar to the gen-
eral public. It is divided into eight stages: Body pu-
rification, postures, mudras (other postures), breath
control, stilling the mind, concentration, mediation,
and union with god (Shiva).
Body purification (kriyas) involves belching air,
vomiting water, swallowing a 15-foot-long cloth or
running a string up the nose, through the nasal cav-
ity and out of the mouth. Most people who begin yoga
assume that the positions are mere techniques to calm
the body and improve physical fitness. But each one
has occult relations. For example, the postures
(asanas) are practiced by facing the rising sun and
repeating the twelve Sanskrit names of the Lord Sun.
Information on Yoga has been given here in more
detail, since so many are becoming involved in it
and do not realize how terrible it is—until it be-
comes difficult for them to escape.
Taoism. Lao-tse (Lao Tzu) lived in South China
in 604 B.C. He invented Taoism (pronounced, dow’-
ism), which includes the concept of yin (good, mas-
culinity) and yang (evil, femininity)—two opposing
forces in everything. People must solve the problem
by balancing both in everything they do. In this way,
they live in harmony with the Tao.
As with other heathen concepts, there is no need
to accept Christ, obey the Creator God, or put away
sin. Just try to live a regular, somewhat civilized
life. The movie, Star Wars, was based on the Taoist

concept of ch’i, which is “the Force” that pro-
vides you with energy to keep pushing forward
and getting what you want. The Martial Arts (Ju-
Jitsu, Karate, etc.) are based on Taoism and teach
training in how to use force.
Satanism. This is the direct worship of Sa-
tan himself. People have been murdered during
special worship rituals. It was very secretive in past
ages, until popularized, beginning in 1966, by Anton
Szandor La Vey in San Francisco. Founding the “First
Church of Satan,” he wrote a book, starred in a
Hollywood movie (in which he played the role of the
devil), and published a monthly newsletter. La Vey’s
church had a membership of thousands. As with
other spiritualists, he came to a miserable end and
is now dead. All types of nudism and sexual activity
are used as part of the “worship service.”
Psychics. So-called “psychics” are people who
claim to receive messages from the spirit world,
and are thus able to make predictions about com-
ing events. At the beginning of each year, leading
psychics often publish lists of events which will oc-
cur during the next 12 months. By December, people
have forgotten the list and do not notice that only
a few events (which were very likely to occur)
actually happened. This fact has been documented
by their critics.
Here are several examples of the failure of
their predictions: Charles Laughead predicted, in
early 1954, that the world would end on December
21, 1954, and a few would be rescued by space
ships. Jeane Dixon, the most famous 20th century

psychic, said (in her first book) a child born in the
Middle East on February 5, 1962, would become a
“great force” about 1980; and his power would grow
until 1999, when he would bring peace to the entire
planet. In her second book, she said he would in-
stead be the anti-Christ. In her third book, she said
a nuclear holocaust would occur in 1999. Here are
some of her other predictions: World War III would
begin in 1954 and Castro would be overthrown in
the 1970s.
Edgar Cayce, the other leading psychic, predicted
that California would fall into the Pacific Ocean in
the early 1970s. Their demons, in whom they
trusted, had lied to them.
Hypnotism. Hypnotism requires a complete
unconditional submission of the will of one per-
son to another. This is dangerous! Whenever one
mind controls another, Satan controls both of
them. Hypnotism (hypnosis, “spirit healing,” “mag-
netic healing”) is important in modern spiritualism
and is used by many “faith healers.” It also tends to
weaken the willpower, and makes it easier for that
person to be hypnotized again later by anyone.
The so-called healer’s “energy” or “vital curative
force” is received by him “from doctors in the spirit
world, because he is a medium” (R.S. Waldorf, “Spiri-
tual Healing,” Centennial Book, p. 204). Modern
hypnotism began about 1775 with Friedrich A. Mes-
mer, an Austrian physician. But Egyptian, Chaldean,
and Hindu conjurers and sorcerers had long before
produced the same results. Harry Edwards, a Brit-
ish healer, claimed thousands of cures. In Into the
Unknown, he frankly states, “We couldn’t work with-

out the spirits . . It is all by the power of the spirits
that these changes take place” (p. 127). Do not go
to hypnotists or “Christian healers” for help with
your physical or emotional problems!
Autohypnosis (hynotizing one’s self) is also
dangerous. When a person does this to himself,
sometimes it comes on unexpectedly later. He may
have used it to go to sleep at night,—and then later he
suddenly falls asleep while driving down the highway!
Astrology. Along with witchcraft books and
games, the most widespread interest in the oc-
cult today is astrology. It is based on the supposed
12 “houses” of the Zodiac. A person’s “Sun-sign” is
said to be the Zodiac sign (Pisces, Libra, Aries, etc.)
the sun was passing through at the moment of a
person’s birth. In other words, astrological “signs”
are supposedly based upon the time of your birth,
in relation to the position of the planets, stars, sun,
and moon at that time. It is claimed that “the posi-
tion of the Sun in the Zodiac at the time of your
birth determines the vital energy released by that
planet and affects the cells of your brain and body”
(Anthony Norvell, Astrology, Your Wheel of Fortune,
pp. 2-3). Looking to the stars for guidance is con-
demned in the Bible (Deut. 4:19; 17:2-5).
“For most adherents of astrology, it is enough that
it satisfies them. There is a fascination with the
power, without a suspicion as to the nature of
that power.”—Charles Strohmer (former astrolo-
ger), What Your Horoscope Doesn’t Tell You, p. 42.
Many researchers tell us that astrology has always
been connected to spirits through its contact with
supernatural spirit beings who were held to be

“gods” (Franz Cumont, Astrology and Religion
Among the Greeks and Romans; K.C. Tunnicliffe,
Aztec Astrology; Colin Wilson, The Occult).
This foolish theory is the means by which those
who make “horoscopes” (“charts”) for individuals,
and publish them in newspapers, make a lot of
money. Here are several flaws in the theory: (1)
Twins are born at the same time and in the same
place; yet they encounter very different experiences
in life. (2) The Earth has an uneven wobble as it
spins on its axis. As a result, there has been a shift
in the Zodiac to about a month later than centuries
earlier, when the present chart theories were for-
mulated. For example, the constellation of Virgo is
now in the sign of Scorpio. (3) A new book by an
astrologer (Astrology Fourteen) stated that there are
actually 14 constellations in the Zodiac, instead
of 12. (4) Those born north of the Arctic Circle
have no horoscope; yet events regularly happen to
them, as to everyone else. (5) In Alaska, Norway,
Finland, Greenland, etc., the Zodiac stars only ap-
pear for a few months each year. During that time,
according to the theory, the stars cannot be “influ-
encing” them. (6) Astrologers claim there are only
seven planets, when actually there are nine (if Pluto
is considered a planet). (7) There are billions of ob-
jects in the sky; why are only the sun, moon, seven
planets, and a small band of stars used as guides
to predict events? (8) The predictions of astrolo-
gers usually fail unless so generally stated that they
can be interpreted both ways. (Example: Jeane
Dixon predicted that Jackie Kennedy would not re-
marry,—yet Kennedy then remarried a Greek ship

owner, Aristotle Onassis, a few days after that pre-
diction was announced.) (9) All the horoscopes for
a person will be different. The daily horoscopes
published by various astrologers in newspapers will
be entire different from one another. A person can
go to two different astrologers for charts, and each
will be different than the other. (10) Astrology is
based on the theory that the planets revolve
around the Earth. This “geocentric theory” was dis-
proved by Copernicus and Galileo over four centu-
ries ago. (11) One’s hereditary patterns are actu-
ally fixed at the moment of conception; yet as-
trologers date their charts from the moment of birth.
But the moment of conception cannot be deter-
mined. (12) Actual scientific studies of people re-
veal absolutely no similarities of traits or events
occurring in the lives of people with certain
‘signs.’ Dozens of such studies have been done. (13)
Repeated studies of astrologers’ predictions have
been made—and the failure rate is astoundingly
high. For example, from January 1974 to March
1979, astronomers Culver and Ianna examined over
3,000 published predictions in five astrology maga-
zines and two leading newspaper astrologers. The
total number of predictions was over 3,000, and
the failure rate was over 95%!
Astrology is a worship of nature, instead of
nature’s God. It leads people to depend on their
astrologer for help, instead of praying to God for
help and guidance.
Fortune-telling. Fortune-telling is also known
as divination; and the one practicing it is a di-
viner.
The diviner makes use of various props to re-
ceive his supernatural knowledge, including palm-
istry (“reading” the lines on the hand), cartomancy
(tarot cards), mirror mantic (crystal balls or rock crys-
tals), teacup reading (tea leaves in the bottom of cup).
Although some think it is always a complete
hoax, yet evil angels are present. This is shown by
the effect they exert on the lives of the fortune-tell-
ers themselves. Kurt Koch, in his book, Between
Christ and Satan, says that those “diviners” fre-
quently reveal instability, violent tempers, addic-
tions, vices, cursing, nervous disturbances, psycho-
pathic symptoms, paralysis, and other emotional
and mental illnesses (see pp. 49-50). In the Bible,
God speaks about true and false predictions of the
future. Does it turn out to be true? (Deut. 18:20-22;
13:1-5; Eze. 13:3, 6-9). Does it agree with what the
Bible teaches? (2 Tim. 3:16-17). God condemns
them (Deut. 18:20-22; Lev. 20:6, 27).
Ouija boards. Pronounced “wee-jee” boards,
these should be totally avoided! Two people, sit-
ting opposite one another, place their fingertips on
the board—and then it moves by itself back and forth
above letters, spelling out something! Evil spirits
guide the information which is given. This fact of
supernatural guidance has been proven by a num-
ber of scientific experiments. In addition, many
cases are reported of spirit “possession” after using
them. Even though they are sold in toy shops,—Ouija
boards are not playthings! (A similar equally occult
device is “spirit writing,” which uses similar equip-
ment.)
Dowsing. Dowsing (water witching) is the

search for, and location of, underground springs
and other objects beneath the ground by the use
of a divining rod. This is a V-shaped wooden branch
or piece of wire from 6-18 inches in length used by
a dowser. A “force” is supposed to suddenly come
up into the rod, causing it to snap downward. Ac-
tual tests by researchers with many dowsers have
shown that they are not able to locate buried glass
bottles containing water (M. Christopher, ESP, Seers
and Psychics, p. 140).
Yet, at the same time, there are individuals who
are able to locate water, even using maps from dis-
tant locations (using a pendulum; see below). A spir-
itist contact is believed to be involved here. For some
dowsers, the tree branch in their hands will dip the
number of feet that the water is below ground. Those
particular spirits are measuring in feet; if they were
in Europe, they would use the metric scale! This
shows the working of an active spirit intelligence.
Stay away from all forms of spirit contact, in-
cluding dowsing.
Dowsing may be mentioned in the Bible: “My
people ask counsel at their stocks [sticks], and their
staff [stick] declareth unto them: for the spirit of
whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have
gone a-whoring from under their God.”—Hosea
4:12.
Pendulum. The pendulum is a small stone
or piece of metal suspended on a string. It is
used for several different supernatural functions: (1)
Water witching and using maps, as mentioned above
under Dowsing. (2) Deciding which herb should be
used in healing, or the location of disease in the body,

or how many tablets to take at a given meal. (3) It is
even used to “purify” food before it is eaten!
The suspended weight is held over a map, or
the food, or a person lying horizontally. —And then,
in a certain area, the “pendulum” will begin swing-
ing back and forth, circling clockwise, or counter-
clockwise. Obviously, we have here the very same
spiritist principle used in the Ouija board! Both
involve a movement beyond human control.
“She carefully lifted the pendulum over the sick
neighbor and began to divine for the proper herb to
be used for healing. If the pendulum swung clock-
wise, licorice root should be used, and if it swung
counterclockwise, gooseberry bark would be the
treatment of choice” (Warren Peters, M.D., Mysti-
cal Medicine, p. 31). This is attributed to powers
within the person himself, or to “force fields,” or to
“mind over matter,” etc. But spiritist activity is the
real cause.
Peters also tells of a Christian family that began
to rely on the pendulum for every minor decision in
the home. Then one day, the father discovered the
truth while driving to work:
“I felt like singing of God’s love, so that’s what I
did . . [He began singing Christian hymns] . . As I
was driving along, singing of God’s love, the thought
occurred to me to try using the pendulum while sing-
ing. I picked it up, held it over my hand, but it did
not move. Next I held it over my lunch, still noth-
ing—dead as a doornail. Needless to say, I was
shaken, and very scared . . I had my answer! I felt
as if a weight had been lifted from me. I took my
pendulum and threw the thing as far into the

woods as I could. I’ve not picked one up since. I
thank God every day for His protection and deliver-
ance from the power of Satan.”—Ibid., p. 37.
Rock music. The present author has written a
complete low-cost book on the deadly effects of rock
music on both those who perform it and those who
listen to it. (See the last page in this present book.)
Demons guide, not only in the message of the
lyrics but also, the type of beat and wildness of
the music.
“One of the most uncanny stories I have ever
heard was related to me by a close friend of mine
who works among the hippies. For several weeks
he dealt with a sixteen-year-old boy who, by his own
admission, communed with evil spirits.
“One day, the boy asked my friend to turn on
the radio to a rock and roll station. As they listened,
this teenager would relate the words to the songs he
had never heard before, just prior to the time the
singer on the recording would sing them. When
asked how he could do this, the boy replied that
the same demon spirits that he was acquainted
with had inspired the songs. Also, he explained
that while on acid trips he could hear demons
sing some of the very songs he would later hear
recorded by psychedelic rock groups.
“Many ‘heavy’ rock groups write their songs while
under the influence of drugs. Some of them admit
to receiving the inspiration for songs from a power
that seems to control them. In 1968, Ginger Baker,
the drummer of The Cream, was interviewed con-
cerning his emotional feelings while he performed.
He replied, ‘It happens to us quite often: It feels as

though I’m not playing my instrument. Something
else is playing it and that same thing is playing all
three of our instruments (referring to the rest of the
group). That’s what I mean when I say, it’s frighten-
ing sometimes. Maybe we’ll all play the same phrase
out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.’ ”—
L.E. Tucker, Satanic Spectacular, pp. 12-13.
Evil video games. Millions of kids formerly in-
terested only in video games are now reading, thanks
to the unprecedented popularity of the Harry Potter
books. This is because both are so much alike—
in evil, violence, spiritist influence, murder, and
death. The games prepare children for spiritism,
crime, street drugs, and violence. Those games
prepared millions for the Potter books.
On-line gaming has increased by 50%. The num-
ber of 2-17 year olds that play on-line has increased
to 92%. Worldwide sales of video games have reached
$20 billion dollars a year. Yet research shows that
less than 5% of parents know the content of the video
games in their own homes. There are no laws regu-
lating who can buy a video game. Many video games
instruct the player to kill, run someone over with a
car, shoot someone, and mangle the victim. Video
games are addictive and can control a person’s
life. Sorcery, witchcraft, satanism, and magic play
a vital part in many of the games. Do you want
your child to play at being a witch, sorcerer, gang-
ster, or rapist?
From the early 1980s, down to the present
time, Dungeons & Dragons has been the largest
electronic witchcraft game. It is the best example
and largest seller among witchcraft-type games.

It is just what the title declares it to be—a horrid col-
lection of atrocities, done for the fun of it.
As of 2006, Dungeons & Dragons remains the
best-known and best-selling role-playing game
(RPG), with an estimated 20 million people having
played the game and more than U.S. $1 billion in
book and equipment sales. (“Role-playing games”
involve actually becoming part of the game and in-
teracting in it with others. The player becomes this
other person!) Dungeons & Dragons has also pro-
duced other D&D-branded products.
A 1990 survey conducted in the United States,
Australia, and Canada estimated that at least 7.5
million people engaged in RPGs (role-playing
games) at least once a month in those three coun-
tries. A 2000 survey by the RPG company, “Wizards
of the Coast,” estimated that approximately 5.5 mil-
lion Americans play RPGs regularly. Additionally,
there are numerous RPG conventions and gather-
ings held throughout English-speaking nations.
There are also sizeable RPG communities in France,
Germany, Spain and Italy, among others.
Unlike on-line computer games, RPGs require a
close level of face-to-face social interaction. They
are usually played in an isolated area, typically a
room at a private residence, marked off from the
outside world with paraphernalia unique to the sub-
culture of gamers and involving a great deal of jar-
gon and symbols that have meaning only to those
who are part of the group. Players actively work to
create marked “liminal spaces” in which they can
shake off their mainstream socio-cultural identity
and adopt symbols and images deemed inimicable

to the mainstream cultural construction of the self,
but which form their own unique anti-structure in
opposition to the mainstream socio-cultural order.
Fully 35% of men and 20% of women choose to play
characters of the other gender, and 60% prefer to
play nonhuman characters.
These games blur the boundaries between re-
ality and fantasy, leading people to engage in
street drugs, immoral or anti-social activities, per-
version, paganism, and satanism.
The moral panic that started in the 1980s in the
United States (and to a lesser extent in Australia
and France) directed against RPGs, especially Dun-
geons and Dragons, originated in the media response
to the suicides of the 16-year-old college sophomore
James Egbert III, in August 1980, and the 16-year-
old high school student Irving Bink Pulling in June
1982.
Patricia Pulling, mother of Irving Bink Pull-
ing, attempted to sue TSR, the manufacturer of
Dungeons and Dragons, for the death of her son.
The case was thrown out of court in 1984. She then
partnered with Illinois psychiatrist Thomas Radecki,
director of the National Coalition on Television Vio-
lence (NCTV), to form a new organization with close
links to several fundamentalist Christian bodies
called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons
(B.A.D.D.). Pulling linked her belief, that there
was satanic influence behind RPGs, to three other
threats: Heavy Metal music, the pagan revival,
and the satanic ritual abuse. Here is Pulling’s de-
scription of the content and effects of Dungeons
and Dragons:
“A fantasy role-playing game which uses de-
monology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blas-
phemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex per-
version, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type
rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism,
desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divi-
nation and other teachings.
“There have been a number of deaths nation-
wide, where games like Dungeons and Dragons were
either the decisive factor in adolescent suicide and
murder or played a major factor in the violent be-
havior of such tragedies. Since role-playing is typi-
cally used for behavior modification, it resulted
in violent actions and increased homicide and
suicide rates in adolescents.”
Comic books and movies. A large number of
so-called “comic” books are filled with demonol-
ogy concepts.
Comic books gained early popularity in the
1930s, originally as funny cartoon strips in the news-
paper for the whole family. Soon though, came the
comic book, beginning with Superman and Batman,
targeted in particular for youth.
The comic book’s first step up was to televi-
sion. TV drama (such as X-Men, SpiderMan, and
Batman) made from comic books became popular
in the 1970s-1980s. Then came movies of Super-
man and later Batman, SpiderMan, X-Men, The
Incredible Hulk, etc.
In many comics, the violence and blatant
sexual advances rival that of infamous video
games like Grand Theft Auto and the Resident Evil
Series. Frequently, practices connected to the

occult are presented; whereas others dabble in
homosexuality and drug abuse. Who do you want
teaching your kids about those things, you or the
comic book?
Fairy tales. Many Christian parents have le-
gitimate questions about letting their children
read books about fairies, witches, goblins, hob-
bits, and magic. Should we read and condone writ-
ings that elevate supernatural powers which the
Bible condemns?
Although it is true that some of these books de-
pict battles by good forces against evil (while even
worse books, such as the Harry Potter Series, praise
everything evil)—yet the truth is that reading books
or seeing movies which portray the a “better type
of witchcraft”—prepare the mind to enjoy the
worse kind later. These “better other worldly
books,” such as C.S. Lewis’ Narnia, J.R. Tolkien’s
Lord of the Rings, and Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz
introduce all ages who devour them to crave still
more unreal, unnatural, exciting things later on.
Fairy tales (even the “best kind”) unfit the mind
for Bible study, a desire for godly living, and a
close walk with Christ.
One Catholic writer said this about the fairy tale
books of C.S. Lewis (another Catholic):
“Almost everyone knows of C.S. Lewis. Many peo-
ple have read his books, and a large number of
Catholics recommend and approve of him as one of
the ‘greatest Christian writers of our time.’ The truth
is Lewis opposed Christianity, dismissed truth as
having any value, and lied openly concerning essen-
tial Christian doctrines. Yet Lewis does this so skill-

fully that few notice.”—Vincent P. Lewis, The Real
C.S. Lewis.
How can C.S. Lewis’ fairy-tale books, totally
unrelated to everyday reality, be called “Christian”?
“The movie of The Lion, the Witch, and the Ward-
robe, like the original book, is a fantasy in which
four English children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and
Lucy, find their way through a large wardrobe into
Narnia, a world ruled by an evil White Witch, where
it is always winter and never Christmas. With the
help of some talking animals, especially a huge lion
called Aslan, the Witch is eventually defeated, and
spring returns to Narnia, where the four children
become kings and queens.”—The New York Review
of Books, February 9, 2006.
Yet many church members and their pastors
excuse such reading matter as “Christian allegories.”
The book, summarized above, cannot possibly be
said to have anything to do with Christianity. C.S.
Lewis, himself, told everyone who asked him that
his books were not Christian allegories; they were
just fairy-tale fiction, which he enjoyed writing.
C.S. Lewis always claimed that The Chronicles
of Narnia were not allegorical. “You are mistaken
when you think that everything in the books ‘repre-
sents’ something in the world,” he wrote to a group
of school children. “Things do that in The Pilgrim’s
Progress, but I’m not writing that way.”—Alison
Laurie, The Passion of C.S. Lewis.
Regarding J.R. Tolkein, we are told:
“J.R. Tolkien once described his epic master-
piece, The Lord of the Rings, as ‘a fundamentally
religious and Catholic work.’ Yet nowhere in its pages

is there any mention of religion, let alone of the
Catholic Church, Christ, or even God. Tolkien’s
hobbits have no religious practices or cult; of prayer,
sacrifice, or corporate worship there is no sign.
“To make matters more difficult, Tolkien was
equally emphatic that The Lord of the Rings is not
to be understood allegorically. In fact, Tolkien was
famously hostile to allegory in general . . How then
can The Lord of the Rings be in any sense described
as a fundamentally Catholic work, or even a reli-
gious one?”—Steven D. Greydanus, Faith and Fan-
tasy, p. 8.
Halloween. Here are two quotations to thought-
fully compare:
“The day witches celebrate above all others is
October 31, which is Allhallows’ Eve, or Halloween.
It is believed that on this night Satan and his
witches have their greatest power.”—Josh Mc-
Dowell and Don Stewart, Understanding the Oc-
cult, p. 176.
“Halloween, you’d not be surprised to know, is
my favorite holiday.”—J.K. Rowling, TIME maga-
zine, Oct. 30, 2000.
The origin of Halloween goes back 2,000 years
before the days of Christianity to a practice of the
ancient druids in Britain, France, Germany and the
Celtic countries. The celebration honored their god
Samhain, lord of the dead. The Celtic people con-
sidered November 1st to be the day of death. It was
the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. The
time of falling leaves seemed an appropriate time to
celebrate death. Halloween was to them a celebra-
tion honoring the god of the dead.

The druids believe that, especially on this one
night, the spirits of the dead returned to their
former home to visit the living,—who must pro-
vide food for them or the evil spirits would do all
types of terrible things to the people. This legend
has come down to our own time. In order to be as
much like witches as possible, children dress like
them and then go from door to door demanding
candy. Not in the slightest degree should we honor,
much less celebrate, any day dedicated the witch-
craft and evil spirits.
UFOs. There is a great fascination with “uni-
dentified flying objects.” People, tired of their hum-
drum lives, are thrilled at the opportunity to think
that alien creatures visit us from time to time in
flying saucers. Surveys indicate that about 55% of
Americans believe in the reality of UFOs.
There is an ever-increasing number of man-
made objects in the atmosphere above us, such
as weather balloons, planes, or reflected light from
satellites. Because the Space Station, for example, is
quite large, when orbiting overhead a little after sun-
set, it is remarkably brilliant and can easily be seen.
Our only safety is in clinging to the Bible and
its clear teachings. Otherwise we will be swept
by one or another of the many deceptions which
Satan is using to engross the minds of millions,
so they will not desire to live godly lives through
faith in Christ.
Parapsychology. Before concluding this chap-
ter, mention should be made of parapsychology.
This is the supposedly “scientific” study of vari-

ous forms of witchcraft and seances. University
professors and their graduate students seek to “in-
vestigate” these things—but, finding that a super-
natural power is involved, they frequently are them-
selves captured by it. This is another area which
should be totally avoided.
Research work in the field of parapsychology
is now part of the curriculum in a number of uni-
versities. J.B. Rhine, of Duke University, claims that
their research will eventually place spiritist phenom-
ena on a “sound scientific basis.”
“Certain scientists are now working upon a new
field of research, to harness supersonic rays, by
means of which it is hoped to establish electronic
communication with the spirit world . . It is believed
that, in the same way as Morse telegraphy evolved
into radio speech and television pictures, in the fu-
ture it should be possible for everyone to hear and
see those on the Other Side, and even to obtain pan-
oramic pictures of the spirit world.”—George C.
Harrop, In Search of the Hereafter, p. 213.
Men and women are ever-looking everywhere
except the right place—the Bible—for the help
they so desperately need.
Evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin is the
individual considered to have been most respon-
sible for introducing the modern theory of evolu-
tion. Yet few are acquainted with his life story or
realize that it was after being initiated into de-
monology that the theory of “natural selection”
gradually formed in his mind, which would be-
come the basis of the modern theory of evolution.
Here is additional information on a little-known

portion of Charles Darwin’s life. The first quotation
is from the present author’s book, Evolution Hand-
book. (See back page for further information on
this book).
“Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was born into
wealth and able to have a life of ease. He took two
years of medical school at Edinburgh University, and
then dropped out. It was the only scientific train-
ing he ever received. Because he spent the time
in bars with his friends, he barely passed his
courses. Darwin had no particular purpose in life,
and his father planned to get him into a nicely paid
job as an Anglican minister. Darwin did not object.
“But an influential relative got him a position
as the unpaid “naturalist” on a ship planning to
sail around the world, the Beagle. The voyage lasted
from December 1831 to October 1836.”—Vance
Ferrell, Evolution Handbook, p. 25.
With absolutely no plans for what he should do
in life, young Darwin had only recently turned 24
when he stepped on board that ship. He thought it
would be five years of fun, seeing the world. But
it turned out to be an astounding learning expe-
rience for him. After initially becoming interested
in collecting specimens,—Darwin was initiated
into spiritualism during his repeated inland trips
in South America. Robert Fitz Roy, the ship’s cap-
tain, would drop him off at various ports and young
Darwin would spend weeks on journeys into the in-
terior, watching the natives and learning from them.
“It is of interest that, after engaging in spirit-
ism, certain men in history have been seized with
a deep hatred of God and have then been guided

to devise evil teachings that have destroyed large
numbers of people, while others have engaged in
warfare which have annihilated millions. In connec-
tion with this, we think of such known spiritists as
Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler. It is not commonly
known that Charles Darwin, while a naturalist
aboard the Beagle, was initiated into witchcraft
in South America by nationals. During horseback
travels into the interior, he took part in their cer-
emonies and, as a result, something happened
to him. Upon his return to England, although his
health was strangely weakened, he spent the rest of
his life working on theories to destroy faith in the
Creator.”—Ibid., pp. 25-26.
While in South America, Darwin spent a total
of several months with natives—constantly learn-
ing from them, eating as they did, and doing what
they did.
“While the ship pursued its task, Darwin often
disembarked for weeks or months at a time . . Wher-
ever he went, his perceptive eye scanned the jumble
of nature’s phenomena and seized on that which
gave meaning to the rest . . The study of human
nature—whether seen in the behavior of a savage
tribesman or glimpsed in the recesses of his own
heart—also came within his purview.”—Allen
Villiers, “In the Wake of Darwin’s Beagle,” National
Geographic, December 1969, p. 453.
“After an excursion to Tierra del Fuego, she [the
ship, Beagle] returned north for seven more months
in 1833. During both periods Darwin explored
ashore, making discovery after discovery. For
weeks at a time he trekked on horseback, through

the forests of Brazil and over the wide pampas of
the Argentine, living with gauchos, roughing it with
his saddle for a pillow and sheepskin saddle blan-
ket for a bed.”—Ibid., p. 467.
Because the chart room on the ship, where Dar-
win stayed, was small and crowded, when at sea he
ate meals with Captain Fitz Roy, who was a godly
Christian. In later years, the captain mentioned that,
although energetic, the young man did not seem a
bit skeptical of religion at first. But, by the time
the Beagle had left South America in September
1835, Darwin seemed to have become a changed
man. Something had happened to his thinking since
the ship made its first port of call on that continent
in December 1831.
After spending some time with the natives at
Tierra del Fuego, the Beagle journeyed to Argen-
tina, where from August 11 to 17, 1833, Darwin
traveled on horseback in the back country. Arriving
at Montevideo, he made a round-trip by horseback
from November 14 to 28. From September 27 to
October 2, he journeyed again on horseback, re-
turning by boat down the river.
“He braved all dangers in quest of knowledge,
journeying hundreds of miles with a few gauchos.
He traveled from the mouth of the Rio Negro north
to Bahia Blanca, and thence another 400 miles to
Buenos Aires, sleeping under the stars, eating what-
ever game the gauchos could bag . .
“From Buenos Aires he rode horseback 300
miles northwest over dangerous roads to Santa Fe,
on an arm of the Parana, returning by boat down-
river.”—Ibid., p. 473.
On June 11, 1834, the Beagle entered the
Pacific Ocean. Several times when the ship landed
at various ports in Chile, Darwin would go ashore
for more trips: April 18 to May 8, 1834 traveling on
the Santa Cruz River by boat, with frequent stops
to learn native lore from indigenous peoples.
March 18 to April 10, 1835 was spent inland, during
which time he left Valparaiso and crossed the Andes
by mule. Returning to that port city, he headed north
by horseback to Copiapo (April 27 to June 22).
“In March 1835, Darwin crossed the Andes
from Santiago, Chile, to Mendoza in Argentina by
way of Portillo Pass [altitude of 12,572 ft.], return-
ing by the Uspallata. His companions were two Chil-
ean guides, his transport 10 mules. The journey
across the Andes and back took 24 days.”—Ibid.,
p. 475.
“Back from his Andean journeys, Darwin met
the Beagle briefly at Valparaiso on April 23, 1835,
and returned promptly ashore to travel overland
through central Chile to Copiapo, to rejoin the ship
there. He had traveled the hard way, camping in the
open.”—Ibid., p. 477.
In early September 1835, now back on the Bea-
gle, the ship headed northwest to the Galapagos
Islands, arriving on September 15. In the course
of his repeated contacts with natives, studying
their cultures, collecting artifacts, and taking part
in their spiritist trances, Charles Darwin became
gripped with a new sense of purpose for his life:
to find evidence to disprove the existence of God.
“After leaving South America, Darwin was on the
Galapagos Islands for a few days. While there, he

saw some finches which had blown in from South
America and adapted to their environment, produc-
ing several subspecies. He was certain that this
showed cross-species evolution (change into new
species). But they were still finches. This theory
about the finches was the primary evidence of
evolution he brought back with him to England.
“Darwin, knowing nothing about the practi-
calities of genetics, then married his first cousin,
which resulted in all seven of his children having
physical or mental disorders. (One girl died after
birth, another at 10. His oldest daughter had a pro-
longed breakdown at 15. Three of his children be-
came semi-invalids, and his last son was born men-
tally retarded and died 19 months after birth.)
“His book, Origin of the Species, was first
published in November 1859. The full title, On
the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Se-
lection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in
the Struggle for Life, reveals the viciousness of the
underlying concept; this concept led directly to two
of the worst wars in the history of mankind.
“In his book, Darwin reasoned from theory to
facts, and provided little evidence for what he
had to say. Modern evolutionists are ashamed of
the book, with its ridiculous arguments.”—Evolu-
tion Handbook, p. 26.
Darwin stole his theory of “natural selection,
based on survival of the fittest,” from Alfred
Russell Wallace, who devised the theory after be-
coming a spiritist while living with natives dur-
ing a naturalist trip to the interior of Southeast
Asia. Here is the background of this:

“Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) is consid-
ered to be the man who developed the theory which
Darwin published. Wallace was deeply involved in
spiritism at the time he formulated the theory in
his Ternate Paper, which Darwin, with the help of
two friends (Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker), pi-
rated and published under his own name. Darwin,
a wealthy man, thus obtained the royalties which
belonged to Wallace, a poverty-ridden theorist. In
1980, Arnold C. Brackman, in his book, A Delicate
Arrangement, established that Darwin plagiarized
Wallace’s material. It was arranged that a paper by
Darwin would be read to the Royal Society in Lon-
don, while Wallace’s was held back until later. Pri-
orities for the ideas thus having been taken care of,
Darwin set to work to prepare his book.
“In 1875, Wallace came out openly for spirit-
ism and Marxism, another stepchild of Darwin-
ism. This was Wallace’s theory: Species have
changed in the past, by which one species descended
from another in a manner that we cannot prove to-
day. That is exactly what modern evolution teaches.
Yet it has no more evidence supporting the theory
than Wallace had in 1858, when he devised the
theory while in a malarial fever.
“In February 1858, while in a delirious fever on
the island of Ternate in the Moluccas, Wallace con-
ceived the idea, ‘survival of the fittest,’ as being
the method by which species change. But the con-
cept proves nothing. The fittest; which one is that?
It is the one that survived longest. Which one sur-
vives longest? The fittest. This is reasoning in a
circle. The phrase says nothing about the evolu-

tionary process, much less proving it.
“In the first edition of his book, Darwin regarded
‘natural selection’ and ‘survival of the fittest’ as dif-
ferent concepts. By the sixth edition of his Origin of
the Species, he thought they meant the same thing,
but that ‘survival of the fittest’ was the more accu-
rate. In a still later book (Descent of Man, 1871),
Darwin ultimately abandoned “natural selection”
as a hopeless mechanism and returned to Lamarck-
ism. Even Darwin recognized the theory was fall-
ing to pieces. The supporting evidence just was not
there.”—Ibid., pp. 24-25.
Lamarckism, which Darwin later returned to,
is rejected by every modern scientist and was dis-
proved in 1891.
Lamarkism. “An important 19th-century error
was the theory of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-
1829), later called ‘Lamarckism.’ It is the theory
of inheritance of acquired characteristics, and
was solidly disproved by August Weismann in
1891, when he cut the tails off 19 successive gen-
erations of rats—and their offspring continued to
grow tails! Later still, when the inheritance of char-
acteristics was found to depend on the DNA genetic
coding and not habits or environmental circumstan-
ces, the reason why Lamarckism could not work
was then understood.
“Lamarckism teaches that one animal grew
an organ for some reason—or no reason at all,—
and then passed that organ on to the next gen-
eration, which was stuck with it.”—Ibid., p. 297.
—So now you know the story behind the begin-
ning of modern evolutionary theory. It was given to
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace by demons,
after they were initiated into witchcraft by local
natives. It seemed fitting that this present book, on
the effects of witchcraft on our world today should
include this information about the origin of the
downward trend in morality—which, among other
things, has resulted in society’s current craze to in-
vestigate witchcraft.
Someone who can help you
The Only One

Powerful Enough
Only Christ is powerful enough to deliver us from
Satan’s power. Only He can forgive our sins, and
strengthen and keep us safe, so we can live with
Him forever.
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
[is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”—Ro-
mans 6:23.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”—
John 14:6.
“And this is the record, that God hath given to us
eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the
Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life.”—1 John 5:11-12.
The Only One Powerful Enough 117
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:

and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life.”—
John 3:36.
Christ can do for us that which we cannot do
for ourselves.
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin-
ners.”—1 Timothy 1:15.
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
none other name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.”—Acts 4:12.
“Wherefore He is able also to save them to the ut-
termost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever
liveth to make intercession for them.”—Hebrews 7:25.
“We are the children of God: And if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so
be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glori-
fied together.”—Romans 8:16-17.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave Himself for me.”—Galatians
2:20.
“For this is the love of God, that we keep His com-
mandments: and His commandments are not griev-
ous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world,
[even] our faith.”—1 John 5:3-4.
The power of God is in the Bible. Through the
enabling grace of Christ, we study and obey it.
“And they were astonished at His doctrine: for His
word was with power.”—Luke 4:32.
“He sent His word, and healed them, and deliv-
ered [them] from their destructions.”—Psalm 107:20.
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and
abideth forever.”—1 Peter 1:23.
“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
by taking heed thereto according to Thy Word.”—Psalm
119:9.
“Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might
not sin against Thee.”—Psalm 119:11.
“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partak-
ers of the divine nature, having escaped the corrup-
tion that is in the world.”—2 Peter 1:4.
How to be delivered - or help

someone else to be delivered
Deliverance
from the Occult
First, recognize the sovereignty of God. Christ
and Christ alone is the source of deliverance from
spiritist bondage. The worldly methods (psychol-
ogy, ritual, hypnosis, meditation, etc.) will only add
to the problem!
The prayerful help of a godly counselor (pas-
tor or earnest Christian friend) should be sought.
He should be a person who is fully dedicated to
God and has no personal problems which the spir-
its can take advantage of. Full deliverance may take
a period of time. But, with united prayer of a few
faithful friends, it can occur rather quickly.
All paraphernalia of occultism must be de-
stroyed (Acts 19:19). This includes even little fig-

ures made out of precious stones. They often origi-
nate from heathen temples.
All occult contacts and friendship must be
broken, and not even gifts from occultists should
be accepted.
In the difficult case of a person living with
parents who are occultists, it may be necessary
to secure other living arrangements. Conditions
must be right before the prayer of faith and inter-
cession can succeed. Because the powers of dark-
ness may attempt to strike back without mercy,
battles should be undertaken only when the par-
ticipant is fully prepared.
Deliverance from the power of the occult re-
quires complete surrender to Christ on the part
of both counselor and the one needing help. Our
first responsibility must be to Christ and our rela-
tionship to Him. We cannot help others in so diffi-
cult an area until we ourselves are securely grounded
as Christians. Every person who really wants to be
delivered from the hold of the occult must be pre-
pared to commit his life entirely to Christ.
When a person is delivered from a state of
occult subjection, he must withhold nothing in
his life from the Lord. Those areas which are not
surrendered to his Lord will soon be occupied again
by the enemy.
If we have truly made Jesus Christ our Lord,
then He will protect us from the lordship of others
or secret sins. Our commitment cannot be half-
hearted.
The occultly oppressed person must acknowl-
edge and confess his participation in occult ac-

tivity as sin, because such practices are indeed sin-
ful before God and require confession (Deut. 18:9-
12; 1 John 1:9). This confession must be voluntary,
or it is worthless. The purpose of the confession is
to bring into the light that which is occult (hidden,
secret), as well as to renounce the horrid thing and
put it away. Open confession of every single hidden
thing in the life should be made, in order to remove
the very last foothold of the enemy. This confession
should not only cover the occult, but also every other
area of departure from the Lord and His will in his
life. Nothing should be allowed to build up or de-
velop which may give the devil an opportunity to
return (Eph. 4:27). A prayer renouncing everything
occult is important.
Frequently, the subjected person finds it diffi-
cult to grasp the fact that his sins have been for-
given. A barrier seems to lie in his way. Therefore
explain that he must pray the prayer of renuncia-
tion of the occult first of all. This is because every
sin connected with sorcery is basically a contract
with the powers of darkness. By means of sorcery,
the archenemy of mankind gains the right of owner-
ship over a person’s life.
The person may be unable to give this prayer,
to bring his hands together to pray, or his lips or
vocal chords may be unusable. He may fall into a
trance when it comes to renouncing the devil. What
should be done?
One can either command the evil powers to leave
in the name of Jesus or else call some other Chris-
tian brothers to join him in praying for the sub-
jected person.
Renunciation may be followed by a remark-
able change for the better. But not everyone expe-
riences such elated feeling after deliverance; yet the
change of ownership is still valid no matter how
one feels.
It is vital to assure the individual that in Christ
his sins have been forgiven. No matter how bad a
person’s sins may have been, they can be forgiven.
Scriptures may be read which will help him.
These could include John 5:24; 6:47; 20:31; Gala-
tians 1:4; Ephesians 1:7, 13-14; Colossians 1:14; 1
Peter 1:3-5, 18-19; Isaiah 53:4-7; 1 Peter 2:24; 1
John 1:7-9. All of these will be quoted in full at the
end of this chapter.
Counseling should involve teamwork. The sup-
port of other Christians, church elders, etc. is im-
portant. Counseling the occultly oppressed is gen-
erally a matter of teamwork. The individual coun-
selor is far too weak to take upon his own shoul-
ders all the problems he will meet.
This is because people with occult subjection
will often suffer their first attacks from the de-
mons after they first seek to follow Christ and
serve Him. In other words, the battle often does
not begin until a person tries to receive Christ or
actually does so.
Prayer will continue to be important afterward.
Even after a person is delivered from the occult, he
is still vulnerable. It is thus vital that a small group
of Christians take upon themselves to continue to
pray for him and care for him after his conversion.
Many times a converted occultist has struggled tre-
mendously because he could find no one in the

church to help him.
If necessary, this group need only consist of
two Christians. They should meet together two or
three times a week for prayer. The best thing is for
the subjected person to be present; yet this is not
absolutely necessary. Neither is it necessary that the
oppressed person have made an open confession
before all the members of the group. His renuncia-
tion of the occult may only have been made before
the counselor at the very start.
When a person is delivered from occult op-
pression, it is crucial that he grow as a Chris-
tian! Through the enabling grace of Christ, he must
obey the Ten Commandments, the Moral Code which
God gave to mankind. He must continually read in
the Bible and submit to its teachings. He should
fellowship with fellow Christians each week. He
should know and share with others basic Christian
doctrine and how to come to Christ and live with
Him.
Sometimes it will be found that demons have
returned into a person’s life; and, at this point, it
seems the battle is greater. Very often this occurs
when the liberated one leaves the Christian atmo-
sphere and returns to a home where others are in-
volved in occultism and sorcery.
Those who have been delivered from occult
oppression and then returned to live in a spiritis-
tic atmosphere never find real peace. It is best
that those folk stay away from their parents or other
relatives or former friends who they know are into
occultism.
Warn them that anyone who fails to remain

close to Christ and act on all that the Bible says
for our protection will live in continuous danger
of falling victim once more to the influence of the
spirits who earlier left them.
Christian counselors and those they seek to help
must keep in mind that the victory is won be-
cause of the power of Christ; through His enabling
strength alone; to complete submission and obedi-
ence to His Written Word, the Bible and the Ten Com-
mandments. We must believe God’s promises and
act in faith, even in what may seem to be hope-
less situations. But none are finally hopeless; for,
with God, all things are possible—if, in his heart,
the possessed person really wants to be delivered.
Furthermore, just because a battle may con-
tinue to rage is not evidence that the battle will
be lost. Many times, in Biblical history and church
history, spiritual battles have been undertaken which
have required great endurance, perseverance, pa-
tience, and faith.
It is urgent that each of us remain close to
Christ every day. Each person that seeks our
prayers, encouragement and help is not just “an-
other case,” but a special individual who we must
earnestly pray for and help to come to Christ and
His saving power.
On the next four pages, you will find precious
Bible promises which you can claim in time of need.
How very thankful we can be for the Holy Bible! It is
our safeguard and strength. It contains the truths
we need to study and obey so that, through the en-
abling grace of Christ, we can be saved!
PRECIOUS BIBLE PROMISES

FORGIVENESS OF SIN
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word,
and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death unto life.”—John 5:24.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me
hath everlasting life.”—John 6:47.
“These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might
have life through His name.”—John 20:31.
“[Jesus Christ] Who gave Himself for our sins, that
He might deliver us from this present evil world, accord-
ing to the will of God and our Father.”—Galatians 1:4.
“In whom we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
..
“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word
of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise
of His glory.”—Ephesians 1:7, 13-14.
“In whom we have redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins.”—Colossians 1:14.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath be-
gotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorrupt-
ible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
—1 Peter 1:3-5,
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but
Precious Bible Promises 125
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without

blemish and without spot.”—1 Peter 1:18-19.
“Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgres-
sions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath
laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and
He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep be-
fore her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not his mouth.”—
Isaiah 53:4-7.
“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”—1 Pe-
ter 2:24.
“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrigh-
teousness.”—1 John 1:7-9.
ACCEPTANCE AND PRAISE
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song;
He also is become my salvation.”—Isaiah 12:2.
“The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will
give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from
them that walk uprightly.”—Psalm 84:11.
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sus-
tain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be
moved.”—Psalm 55:22.
“The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He
will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy: He will rest
in His love, He will joy over thee with singing.”—Zephaniah

3:17.
“In whom we have boldness and access with confi-
dence by the faith of Him.”—Ephesians 3:12.
“The Lord is with you, while ye be with Him, and if ye
seek Him, He will be found of you; but if ye forsake Him,
He will forsake you.”—2 Chronicles 15:2.
“They cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saveth
them out of their distresses.”—Psalm 107:19.
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be
weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”—2 Chronicles
15:7.
“O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a
joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation.”—Psalm 95:1.
“Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee: Thou art
my God, I will exalt Thee.”—Psalm 118:28.
“O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His
mercy endureth forever.”—Psalm 118:29.
“But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is
godly for Himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto
Him.”—Psalm 4:3.
“Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than
the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the rec-
ompense of the reward.”—Hebrews 11:26.
SANCTIFICATION AND OBEDIENCE
“The Lord is my strength and song.”—Exodus 15:2.
“In God I will praise His Word . . in God I have put
my trust; I will not fear what man can do unto me.”—
Psalm 56:10-11.
“Unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and
to present you faultless before the presence of His glory
with exceeding joy.”—Jude 24.
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord
delivereth him out of them all.”—Psalm 34:19.
“My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is
made perfect in weakness.”—2 Corinthians 12:9.
Precious Bible Promises 127
“Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth him-

self, even as He is pure.”—1 John 3:3.
“He became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey Him.”—Hebrews 5:9.
“Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delight-
eth greatly in His commandments.”—Psalm 112:1.
“Every branch that beareth fruit He purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit . . He that abideth in Me, and
I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without
Me ye can do nothing.”—John 15:2, 5.
“Blessed are they that do His commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city.”—Revelation 22:14.
“Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall
be My people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”—Jere-
miah 7:23.
LOOKING INTO OUR FUTURE
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en-
tered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love Him.”—1 Corinthians 2:9.
“God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He
hath prepared for them a city.”—Hebrews 11:16.
“He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be anymore pain: for the former things
are passed away.”—Revelation 21:3-4.
“But the saints of the most High shall take the king-
dom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and
ever.”—Daniel 7:18.
“And they shall reign forever and ever.”—Revelation
22:5.
—Oh, come Lord Jesus, come quickly! —vf
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The book which

unveils the facts

The demons are not your friends.

Witchcraft-type of activities are fasci-

Additional copies: For additional copies of this book at remark-

The path into a terrible future —

The lure of the spirit world —

They hate and kill even their own followers —

A covenant with hell —

Different forms of spiritualism —

Someone who can help you —

The road to Endor is the oldest road

Wicked spirits gather round thee.

A journey into an evil world

The Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow (2007)

Complete sets of study books and classroom

Rowling, quoted in Reuters, July 17, 2000.

craft, in the sense that they’re talking about, at all . .

America’s leading Christian magazine added

“When I was quite young, my parents never said

narrative, Rowling adds that Hermione is a “bossy

not fight self-interest, we follow it” (Starhawk, the

(143). Three wizards are killed (531, 589), and a

Bible clearly warns that all who do so will ulti-

explains how it can help its owner steal things: “Best

books clearly reveal that the only place where any-

Chamber of Secrets, pp. 92-94.

and Parapsychology says crystal gazing is a form of

he will be seventeen when he starts the last year.

Council, quoted in Tulsa World, June 20, 2000.

that witchcraft is neither harmless nor imagi-

Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1” (Sorcerer’s

The path into a terrible future

ous it is. Spiritualism has existed for thousands of years.

who obey Satan.

such things, we will be safe.

ther control or hurt others. But that selfish craving leads

the witch of Endor (1 Sam. 28:7-15). That witch

sel from the dead. Here is another important Bible verse:

in themselves. The happiness they used to have is gone.

What is a spell? It is a meaningless group of non-

In order to attract the curious so they will be cap-

But, when one mind controls another, Satan controls

“Saul died for his transgression which he committed

If you believe the Bible and want to be re-

The lure of the spirit world

with Doyle, Anderson warned him not to do so.

“I would pull all the shades down, take the phone

which ultimately resulted in later deliverance

Western university, continuing experiments which

to the man’s home one day.

in shining armor and holding aloft an upturned

turned to a medium in the hope that he could

be his sister, would come to the other side of the

ing to the crime just as Maria had described it.”—

to herself. At last she opened her eyes and sat up.

by Dave Hunt with Joan Harrison, quoted in Dave

her son. ‘Mother, what’s the matter? Let me in.’

They hate and even kill followers