Occult Flourishing

Occult Flourishing

1985 5 May 9 Occult Flourishing (299) The occult is flourishing in France, where last year an estimated eight million French people, or one in every four of the working population consulted a clairvoyant, sorcerer or astrologist, reports AFP from Paris.

According to the tax authorities, there are 50,000 registered clairvoyants – more than there are priests or doctors – with a business turnover from 500 to 600 million dollars.

With the deepening economic recession, more and more people are turning to the occult for relief for their physical and psychological ailments.

Why do people turn to clairvoyance or the occult for a solution to their problems? It happens that frequently man comes face to face with the hard truth that the material resources at his command are insufficient. A desperate need for a prop to rely upon derives him towards some mysterious source.

In this quest for unknown factors which he could hold responsible for shaping events, man often attributes them to some human being’ like himself. This, however, is nothing but an illusion, it is just turning to something which is as powerless as he is and is no solution to the problem.

The one and only thing which man can depend on is God. It is a pity that acceptance of the fact that visible resources are powerless, far from bringing man closer to the realization of this truth has, lead him further away from his true destination who has been forgetful of his Lord, has missed his chance, after being within reach of it. Having found a clue to assist him in apprehending the reality, he had, nevertheless, forfeited the opportunity to establish contact with it by turning to a creature who is powerless in comparison with the All-Powerful God. God alone is the solution to his problems. God alone can serve his needs.