God and the Occult

God and the Occult

1989 3 March 12 God and the Occult (285) According to tax authorities in France, there are 50,000 registered clairvoyants-more than there are priests and doctors – with a business turnover of about 600 million dollars. It would seem that, in France, the occult is flourishing, with one in every four of the working population, i.e. an estimated 8 million people, consulting a clairvoyant, a sorcerer or an astrologist. (AFP, Paris)

Many blame the economic recession and its attendant ills for the increase in physical and psychological ailments. But why should it be to clairvoyance and to the occult that people turn in their state of affliction? It is mainly in the hopes that if they find the key to the unknown factors which shape human destiny, they will in some measure be able to better their lot in life. The mistake they make is to turn to other human beings who are supposed to be endowed with “superior powers”, with extra-sensory perception and with a great deal else which could never stand up to investigation. They suffer from the illusion that these allegedly special gifts can somehow alter human fate for the better in throwing light on the future course of individual lives. At best, this can be but a temporary prop in the face of material and spiritual hardship.

The one and only true source of spiritual nourishment is the lord God Almighty. Belief in and submission to God are the true solutions to human problems. No human being, however superior his gifts maybe, can equal God in His omnipotence. It is, therefore, regrettable that so many human beings have strayed so far away from their Creator and Sustainer that they can even think of occultism as a more effective source of assistance.