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Oftener, however, it serves the tempter’s purpose best to lure men to
destruction by flattery. The teaching of the demon-gods, in ancient
times, fostered the vilest license. The divine precepts condemning sin
and enforcing righteousness, were set aside; truth was lightly regarded,
and impurity was not only permitted, but enjoined. Spiritualism de-
clares that there is no death, no sin, no judgment, no retribution; that
“men are unfallen demigods”; that desire is the highest law; and that
man is accountable only to himself. The barriers that God has erected
to guard truth, purity, and reverence, are broken down, and many are
thus emboldened in sin. Does not such teaching suggest an origin
similar to that of demon worship?—
The Signs of the Times, June 30,
1890
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Mystic Voices, Mediums, Clairvoyants, and Fortune-tellers—
The mystic voices that spoke at Ekron and Endor are still, by their lying
words, misleading the children of men. The prince of darkness has but
appeared under a new guise. The heathen oracles of ages long past
have their counterpart in the spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyants
and fortune tellers of today. The mysteries of heathen worship are
replaced by the secret associations and seances, the obscurities and
wonders, of the sorcerers of our time. And their disclosures are eagerly
received by thousands who refuse to accept light from the Word or the
Spirit of God. They speak with scorn of the magicians of old, while
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the great deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts under a
different form.
These Satanic agents claim to cure disease. They attribute their
power to electricity, magnetism, or the so-called “sympathetic reme-
dies,” while in truth they are but channels for Satan’s electric currents.
By this means he casts his spell over the bodies and souls of men.—
The
Signs of the Times, March 24, 1887
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The Path to Hell—Vain philosophy is employed in representing
the path to hell as a path of safety. With the imagination highly
wrought, and voices musically tuned, they picture the broad road as
one of happiness and glory. Ambition holds before deluded souls, as
Satan presented to Eve, a freedom and bliss for them to enjoy which
they never conceived was possible. Men are praised who have traveled
the broad path to hell, and after they die are exalted to the highest
positions in the eternal world. Satan, clothed in robes of brightness,
appearing like an exalted angel, tempted the world’s Redeemer without