THE SECRET ARTS - NYOBS 11.29

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 11 - DEMONS

THE SECRET ARTS - RABBIT TRAIL

• Man is born with a desire for power, especially the power of the Secret Arts - supernatural power – and they join organizations that are mystical and become involved in the occult. - They desire to be one of the “Enlightened ones” and have “Spirit Guides” to advise them.
• Hindu Guru’s give a “special word” to their followers – This word is used as a mantra which is repeated over and over inside, putting their mind in neutral, opening the door for spirit activity. – Many religions with their thumb and finger forming a circle; chant or hum a sound that vibrates their body, empting their mind allowing access to the spirit world.
• Demons work through warlocks, wizards, witches, mediums, psychics, divine healers, fortune-tellers, palm readers, crystal ball readers, and astrologers who have yielded their minds to the spirit realm. – These people as so blinded that they believe they are receiving information directly from the departed dead; the “good spirits” of God. 
• Demonic interest: Free Masons - The Order of the Eastern Star – Demola - The Mormon Temple - The Order of the Golden Dawn - Yin/Yang – Astrology - Tara Cards – Hypnosis – Silva Mind Control - Symbol Therapy - Visualization & guided imagery – Yoga (Hindus) - Tai Chi – Reflexology - Magnetic Healing - Transcendental Meditation – Chanting - Spirit Channeling – Automatic Writings – Séances -  Ouija boards – LSD color experimentations – Cosmic consciousness – shaktipat, attunement or paradigm shift – necromancy (raising the dead for communication). - Speaking in Demonic languages –Acupuncture – Acupressure – Biofeedback, Guided Imagery and Horoscopes.
• Demonic signs: Zodiac signs – triangles – pyramids – pentagrams – hexagrams - Star of David - enneagram (9 triangle points in a circle)  wheel – circle – Sun - all-seeing eye - rainbows (antahkarana, the rainbow bridge) (7 colors) - perverted cross – swastika - Egyptian ankh – crystals – diamond – dragon – serpent - yin/yang – locus – unicorn - flying Pegasus horse - centaur and the mermaid- the lotus blossom – cube - point within a circle - the line - a cup or holy grail – goat – bull – elephant – dragon – lion - dog and bear – sign of the cloven hoof or footprint of the devil.
• Good Luck/Bad Luck – Christians do not believe in Good or Bad luck – Every good gift and every perfect gift comes from God, so we can surely understand where the bad comes from. – Superstition says not to break a mirror or walk under a ladder or let a black cat cross your path – There are lucky days, lucky charms, metals, stones, and rabbit’s feet, Palm readers and horoscopes.  Unknowingly to us, these things are guiding our thoughts and our actions.
• The deception:  The enlightened one, through imaging and visualization can energize and command Deity spirits to serve and do their bidding.  Their conscience becomes seared and they desire the mark, then they find out the spirits are not really deity, but demonic, but it’s too late. - At the end God will send a deluding Spirit to harden their hearts so they will be unable to repent.  He gives them what they want.
• Totally possessed - Once a demon enters a person, he becomes the “doorkeeper” of his soul and can allow others to enter. – One scripture says “seven” more demons enter – Seven is the Biblical number for completeness. – Completely consumed - Totally possessed.
• The Believers protection: – There are seven (complete) things protecting us from the evil one. – Submission to God - The blood of Jesus Christ – The Holy Spirit within us - God’s Word from the Bible – Our authority as believers – The gifts of the spirit – Our Prayer life.

Ex 7:11 – The secret arts

11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts.  NIV

Luke 11:24-26 – Totally demon possessed

24 'I will return to my house from which I came.'

25 And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order.

26 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first." NKJV

James 1:17 – Good comes from God – not luck

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, NKJV

1 Tim 6:20 – Turn away from counterfeit spiritual illumination.

20 Turn away from the irreverent babble and godless chatter, with the vain and empty and worldly phrases, and the subtleties and the contradiction in what is falsely call knowledge and spiritual illumination.

James 4:7-8 – Resist Satan and he will flee from you.

7 Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. NKJV