I stumbled on a
link for Cosmopolitan Magazine and was met with the following...
Yes, You Need Spell Candles
Like scented candles, but better.
That was the headline. I did a double take to make sure I was on the right website. I glanced at the browser and saw a different description in the header.
Where to Find Magic Spell Candles, Ritual Candles Online
As I skimmed the article I encountered an unexpected surprise. This wasn't fun and games or a Halloween prank. They provided directions for the spell in the piece.
In the field of candle magic, different colors signify different areas of life—like red for love, sex, and passion, or green for prosperity and money. To work candle magic, choose a candle based on what you want to happen. Then, visualize your goal; “dress” the candle by rubbing it with oil and/or scratching in symbols while focusing on your goal; and finally, light the candle.
This is the second article they've written on candle magick. The
first was published earlier this year. They've elected to use the occult spelling for the word to differentiate it from a magic show. The demographic for the magazine is fairly young. Most readers are in their teens or early twenties. Many would assume its harmless.
Question
How would you address this with a child, loved one, or a stranger? Does it bother you? Please share your thoughts.
Yours in His Service,
~Bella
Of course you've already been discussing above some important aspects, and some of the most important.
But, also, we can get asked questions by children that are much more ordinary, on a far simpler level.
In the past when younger people have asked me what I thought about 'crystals' or 'tarot readings' or such, I simply said stuff like, "People can believe a lot of things that are just beliefs."
As I see it, it's meaningful for my testimony about Christ to others that I
don't believe in crystals, tarot readings and such (candles, magic, whatnot...),.because they "are just beliefs", but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the very Son of God, risen!, and to come again!
The contrast.
I believe in Christ for reasons. I
don't believe in whatever else magic stuff, because it's only belief.
I began to believe in Christ because everything he says proves true over time, over and over. And that's only the start.
In contrast, a tarot reading is just a generally true statements about life that would apply to most anyone, like for instance "you will meet someone special" -- which of course is always true in life, for just about everyone every month, in some manner.
So, a red candle for love is merely at most just a way to remember that love is something, and it would of course be that some something without that red candle, unchanged. Believing the candle itself helps do something can be merely superstitious, like believing in a good luck charm.
That's a good way to answer that question to the young or to those that don't think there are such things as spiritual powers.
Instead of believing in stuff that is mere belief -- empty hope without promise -- I believe instead in the One Who can save you!
Our rescuer -- Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior, who suffered unto death for us, to rescue us from our sins!
So, that's how I'd talk with a curious child or non believer about such.
