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As a child I didn't know this and would chant 'we're off the see the wizard' like all the others. Well, God doesn't want us 'off to see the wizard' !!!!
The wizard is a charlatan! They all are. You see how insiduous it is.
Not all chemical dependency is pharmakeia; only those whose goal is spiritual experience. In the Greek context, the pythia at Delphi inhaled vapours from the earth and consequently spoke in ecstasy; such utterances were deemed Apollo's message.She had to act like a young girl when she was 16 and the studios, MGM and her own mother put her on drugs to make her lose weight because she was too fat. Those drugs were addictiive (pharmokeopia..is one of those greek words that also mean SORCERY). Anyway she died at age 47 after long battle and intense suffering with those pills.
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Movies can cast spells on people. People DO become obsessed with the characters portrayed in them. I met this guy who was YEARS older than me, like 50 and he was still obssessed with Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the movie. I didn't understand this obssession, I thought she was ok, but didn't know that much about her. Well she's a brilliant artist, BUT there is this whole dark side to her and what people these days don't know is she got into a lot of drugs and alcohol, directly as a result of this film. She had to act like a young girl when she was 16 and the studios, MGM and her own mother put her on drugs to make her lose weight because she was too fat. Those drugs were addictiive (pharmokeopia..is one of those greek words that also mean SORCERY). Anyway she died at age 47 after long battle and intense suffering with those pills.
God has shown me whats behind a lot of the entertainment books, movies and other media that I 'consumed' as a child. He didn't do it all at once, He dealt with the big things first, like, for example yoga and new age/psychic things.
Going as far back to the age of maybe 5 or 6, I was exposed to the movie 'Wizard of Oz' as a child and, because I was the target audience, was completely under its spell. I was fascinated, not with the 'wicked witch' but Dorothy, who is they said 'a good witch' although she's an ordinary girl, in the movie, she goes to a fortune teller and then all this weird stuff starts happening to her. She's not happy at home and wants to leave. She dreams of 'going over the rainbow' which in of it self is not a bad desire, but her unhappiness makes her seek the wrong things.
I definitely did idolise this movie at a young age as I thought it was cool that it changed from black and white to colour and Dorothy was my heroine. Although toto and the other characters were cute. What I didn't realise at the time was this story the movie was based on comes from occult theosophy. I found this out much later, after I became a christian.
Movies can cast spells on people. People DO become obsessed with the characters portrayed in them. I met this guy who was YEARS older than me, like 50 and he was still obssessed with Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the movie. I didn't understand this obssession, I thought she was ok, but didn't know that much about her. Well she's a brilliant artist, BUT there is this whole dark side to her and what people these days don't know is she got into a lot of drugs and alcohol, directly as a result of this film. She had to act like a young girl when she was 16 and the studios, MGM and her own mother put her on drugs to make her lose weight because she was too fat. Those drugs were addictiive (pharmokeopia..is one of those greek words that also mean SORCERY). Anyway she died at age 47 after long battle and intense suffering with those pills.
I wouldn't say that it was a direct result of that one movie, but I think most people know this...her death is probably one of the most famous premature ones in Hollywood. The industry still mourns what could have been.Well she's a brilliant artist, BUT there is this whole dark side to her and what people these days don't know is she got into a lot of drugs and alcohol, directly as a result of this film.
Another thing people get really riled up about is rock music and pop stars and think they not occult influenced either. Well they being naive about that one too.
Its not a farfetched claim, sorry, you just making an exception for things you are under the spell of. Ho and lotr are not that great, they just childish things people need to put away.
Really. Why keep arguing when you know God doesnt like it?
I watched all of LOTR and HP. I don't see how I am under a spell. I am not doing anything occult.
In fact I am against any kind of occult practices in real life. When my family visited the memorial of my deceased grandparents, I absolutely refused to burn any incenses for them (as per Chinese tradition). I do not even bow my head to their memorial in respect. Not saying I don't respect them. But I do not bow down to the dead.
And I recently spoke against Pentecostalism in my small group. I personally believe all these speaking in "angelic" languages and shaking like crazy on the ground are all satanic. I think we should worry a lot more about Pentecostalism than the occult. All of these "feeling" God and "feeling" the Holy Spirit is very dangerous. So is listening to a voice in our head and claiming it to be from God. I had directly hear from Pentecostals that God told them it is OK to sin, and so it was ok to sin. Why? Because the bible is outdated (yup, some Pentecostals would go that far) and the voice in their head is the updated version of God's message. That's how many cults got started.
It is not spells that I worry about. It is Satan. And I need God's close help to defeat Satan everyday, on every single decision I make. Just yesterday at 2am I had a great temptation to sin over me. But I successfully resisted it with God's help.
CS lewis, I read actually was an atheist before he became a christian and did dabble in the occult, which is why he wrote lion witch and wardrobe and knew a lot about them...witches that is. In that book, its a witch not a wizard, thats the star of the story as it were.
You cant say that witches and wizards arent real and completely made up out of peoples imaginations.
I think people are afraid to say that yes. Some people ARE witches and wizards. You can tell. In my previous workplace, I encountered many that were.
They did occult practices. Whether it was new age or channelling or visualization or reading horoscopes. Their belief system was, basically I am God. One of my english teachers was brlliant, he was a wizard, there was no other explanation for the spell he cast over students.
One of my former bosses, in fact most of them, obtained their positions of power through occult practises, one actually told me she did divination.
She would cast horoscopes over the people she employed. She told me that i was picked because i was a taurus. And also, she used crystals. She had this dowsing or pendulum that would help her make desicsions.
Except Harry Potter was completely made up in someone's mind. There is no connection to real-life witchcraft. There is no connection to Satan. The words they use and their abilities were COMPLETELY made up and have no bearing on the real world.
So I think there is a major difference between enjoying a fictional movie and getting involved in real witchcraft.
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