TAKE ONE BABY STEP

Take One Baby Step (How easy it is to get into the occult)
Scriptures are from KJV

Honest! I was a little girl once and we played all kinds of silly games. I mentioned a game to a six year old girl today and she looked at me like I was crazy. I asked what she would be doing when she got out of school. Nothing! It's boring. I played games but I got bored, too. I wanted something more. I wanted excitement.

I didn't really like my life. I pretended it was something different. I lived in the future of what might have been instead of what was. We played a game "Mother may I?" I don't remember it all but "Mother" would say "take one baby step or a giant step or something in between. The occult is like that. You take one baby step and maybe a few more until you are privileged to take one giant step. By that time you are hooked.

I always had my nose in a book. I liked Nancy Drew detective books, Little Women, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz. When I became a teenager, I leaned toward ones with excitement and romance in them, especially the Gothic ones. They always had some supernatural scenes in them, enough to give you goose bumps. I enjoyed that unknown factor of unexplainable happenings. My mother didn't know what I was reading or what I was interested in. She really didn't care. Young mothers, please pay attention to what your children are reading and what music they listen to. I am just telling you how easy it is to get trapped into the occult. The devil makes it fun for impressionable young minds.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 "There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits or a wizard or a neocramancer." Divination means witchcraft or trying to tell the future by occult means. Occult means mysterious, beyond human understanding or hidden.

I had quite a few pen pals. One woman was practically crying for help. Her husband was a male witch. As a new Christian, I thought I could help her. I talked about Jesus and salvation. I said I would pray for her. She wrote back and told me to quit writing to her. She was afraid for my life. She said if he got hold of my letters, he could use them to take possession of my body. I dropped a pen pal. Isaiah 15:23 "For REBELLION is as the sin of witchcraft, and STUBBORNNESS is as iniquity and idolatry." How many kids are rebellious and stubborn today? How about grownups? I've been guilty of both.

I read my horoscope every day. I wanted to know what to expect. I said I didn't believe it; it was just fun. Just the same I was careful about what I did that day. I had my first part time job as waitress at 16. I made 35 cents an hour. At 17 I was offered a job as telephone operator for 75 cents an hour. That was a big jump and a lot of money at that time so I took it. My parents made me pay $10 a week for rent. Whatever I had left over, I could spend it anyway I wanted to.

I bought all the books I could find on astrology to learn how to chart my own life and for anyone else who was interested. My biggest thrill was to take a train into Pittsburgh to take dance lessons at Arthur Murray's. I found a quaint little Mystic tea room around the corner from the dance studio where I could get my fortune told. It was exciting. I had a curious mind and wanted to learn about many forbidden things.

I played with the Ouija board. It can scare and thrill you at the same time. Sometime between reading cards and getting married at 22, I joined the Rosicrucians, a mind over matter secret society. You THINK you see a tree but it is really only in your mind. You can just as easily make it disappear---so they say. I never tried it but I didn't doubt it could be so. Before you open your mail, you use ESP on it. You concentrate on what your mail is before you open it. You do the same with the telephone. Amazingly, it did work.

One experiment I had to make was to put two candles on either side of a mirror on a mantle. All other lights are turned off. You look straight into your own eyes and tell them what you saw. I saw the devil; leering at me as if to say: "Ha! Ha! I got you now." That scared me. I ran and turned every light in the house on. I quit that route. New ones took its place.

I tried hypnosis and the hypnotist, with a pretty good practice, wanted me to take over. She was getting too old. It just struck me now. If she really believed what she was teaching and doing, she wouldn't be getting old. It fits tightly in with reincarnation.

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