Witchcraft Can Destroy You
These evil spirits get people to kill animals, and injure and murder people.
“Murder after murder has been linked to the [witchcraft and spirit séance] craze, with the murderers openly admitting to police or to reporters that they worshiped Satan. Police, more and more frequently, are finding grim evidence of both animal 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 various 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 Blankenship 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 performed 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 Cochran 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, Supernatural 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 activity 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 recovered . . 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 serious, for the person is completely captivated. The spirit that dominates him takes possession of his confidence, and even paralyzes his own judgment.”—
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 traffickers 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 involvement 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 limited to simple disagreeable impressions; sometimes it causes disorderly movements, such as shouts and incoherent or insulting words.”—
Allan Kardec, What is Spiritualism? p. 96.
“Dr. Carl A. Wickland, M.D., a physician, accomplished spiritist, and researcher in psychology . . became an acknowledged authority in the area of spiritism and the occult . . Wickland’s life was similar 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 unaccountable 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 tormenting their own followers!
“According to his own extensive experience, he observed that spiritism frequently causes ‘apparent 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 activities. ‘In many cases of revolting murder, investigation 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 authorities think that a significant percentage of those institutionalized in mental hospitals may be suffering from mental illness induced by occult practice 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 illness . .
“Roger L. Moore, psychologist of religion at Chicago Theological Seminary, observes that ‘there are haunting parallels’ between the paranoid schizophrenic 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 psychotics’
(R. L. Moore, quoted in Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1977).”—
John Ankerberg and John Weldon, The Facts on the Occult, p. 27.
