Stay close to God and His Love - Stay away from all forms of occult.

Focus your life on God and His goodness and you will not have to worry about the occult.

Occult would include Ouija boards, seances, fortune telling, psychic reading, all these are forms of opening the underworld.  It is a form of divination.  Divination and other occult practices are condemned in the Bible numerous times.  The very action of using a Ouija board has profound spiritual consequences that are beyond our control, whenever we seek to engage demons, we move away from the One True God.  Stay away from all forms of occult practices — by staying close to God.  If you have questions pray in the spirit.

Divination is discussed in the Bible and condemned as is witchcraft and other methods of sorcery and magic.  A more prevalent form of occult presently is the stories from the occult; stories creating another world that people get entranced in.  The evil world is full of creative creatures who are willing to help popular authors and screenwriters draft exciting and perverse stories that capture people’s attention.  They are particularly anxious to help the songwriters create rhythms and lyrics that capture people’s attention and lock into their memories.  Musical hits are important.  And these demons start young, junior high school is not too early to get the children hooked. 

Witch of Endor by Nikolai Ge, 1857.Angels, demons, spirits and souls do exist.  We have a spirit and a soul and a body.  We are like God in many ways.  He created us in His image.  Angles, demons (fallen angles) and other spirits do not have these qualities.  Some people claim there are three levels of demon activity in our lives: temptation – which we all experience, obsession – when demons torment a person mentally, physically, and emotionally, and then possession – when the demon takes control of the person’s being, the demon actually doing things in this real world via the possessed person.  These can all be intermittent, occurring at times and not at other times.

Demon possession is not so well recognized these days, few people are looking for signs.  But some of the heinous crimes and atrocities of war are committed by possessed people.  One recently interrogated Humas terrorist was himself appalled at some of the things they had done.  He said, “We became like animals,” and our religion does not teach that.  Might these be the words of a demon possessed man?  Remember that there is much more to this world than meets the eye, or can be measured by our five senses of our fancy instruments.  We may say that we don’t believe in all that spirit stuff, but if we really didn’t believe, scary movies would not be scary.

So focus on God, avoid unholy things.  As you focus on God and love your neighbor, you will not be a victim of these demons.