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Mystic Voices of Today, November 9
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and
after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face
against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:6
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The magicians of heathen times have their counterpart in the spiritu-
alistic mediums, the clairvoyants, and the fortune tellers of today. The
mystic voices that spoke at Endor and at Ephesus are still by their lying
words misleading the children of men. Could the veil be lifted from
before our eyes, we should see evil angels employing all their arts to
deceive and to destroy.
Spiritual beings sometimes appear to persons in the form of their
deceased friends, and relate incidents connected with their lives, and
perform acts which they performed while living. In this way they lead
men to believe that their dead friends are angels, hovering over them,
and communicating with them. Those who thus assume to be the spirits
of the departed, are regarded with a certain idolatry, and with many their
word has greater weight than the Word of God.
I saw the rapidity with which this delusion [spiritualism] was spread-
ing. A train of cars was shown me, going with the speed of lightning.
The angel bade me look carefully. I fixed my eyes upon the train. It
seemed that the whole world was on board. Then he showed me the
conductor, a fair, stately person, whom all the passengers looked up to
and reverenced. I was perplexed and asked my attending angel who it
was. He said, “It is Satan. He is the conductor, in the form of an angel
of light. He has taken the world captive.... And they are all going with
lightning speed to perdition.”
This delusion will spread, and we shall have to contend with it face
to face; and unless we are prepared for it, we shall be ensnared and
overcome.
The people of God must be prepared to withstand these spirits with
the Bible truth that the dead know not anything, and that they who thus
appear are the spirits of devils.
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