"Our Lady is the surest, the easiest, the shortest and most perfect means of going to Jesus Christ" - St Louis de Montfort
[Note: The Holy Spirit is bypassed in favour of Mary. Whoever thinks that it is not enough to go to Jesus directly is really just praying to Mary while pretending it brings him closer to Jesus. If Jesus is as approachable and understanding and as human as the Bible says there is no need for Mary. To go to her is really bypassing Jesus while pretending that this bypassing isn't happening. Indeed the only Jesus it can bring one close to is the one in one's head not the real one. The Catholic Church believes Jesus is physically present in the Eucharist or communion. To say that you need Mary to go to Jesus is strange if the Church really believes one is united with Jesus in tremendous intimacy by receiving communion. Clearly then one must keep one's focus on Mary even then. That is like having sex with your wife while looking at your wife's mother and giving her the attention.]
Consecration to Our Lady by Pope John Paul II
Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother
Live in me, act in me.
Speak in and through me.
Think your thoughts in my mind.
Love through my heart.
Give me your dispositions and feelings.
Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus.
Correct and enlighten and expand my thoughts and behaviour.
Possess my soul and take over my entire personality and life.
Replace it with yourself.
Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving.
Pray in and through me.
Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. Amen.
[Note: This prayer is the most extreme ever composed to the Virgin Mary. It calls out for possession].
St Patrick's Community's Parish Mission Book, page 17 promotes this prayer.
WHAT_IS_WRONG_WITH_NECROMANCY_
RESURRECTION_OF_JESUS_AND_NECROMANCY_
Necromancy is calling up the
dead or talking to them to get information they have access to. Christianity has always taught that necromancy is a sin and an act of
black magic.
Some rituals for necromancy are full of devotion to God. But they are still necromancy. The Church condemns the rituals. Necromancy is necromancy whether done in the name of God and love or not.
Roman Catholicism accepts necromancy as part of its religion but it refuses to admit that it is necromancy.
Roman Catholicism teaches that you can pray to the angels and the saints and get guidance from them.
The Church says this is really praying to God for they have nothing of their own only what they have got from God. But if when Catholics pray to a saint, such as Mary, then why don't they make that clear? They would pray, "Mary I praise what God has made you and in doing so I honour him. You have no power of your own and I ask that God may bless me through your agency." But they do not. Instead they go, "Hail Holy Queen Mother of Mercy. Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope."
The Church lies that it simply asks saints and angels to pray for it. If it believed in doing that it would pray, "Angels and saints of God pray for me." Instead it prays to them as if they were gods and could hear all their problems and understand what to do.
The angels and saints can pray for you without knowing you have invoked them. Talking to them as if they can hear every word is really treating them as if they were the God who knows all secrets.
Catholicism uses necromantic prayers. Here is a Catholic prayer that shows that in principle the Church is not opposed to getting psychically or supernaturally delivered information from beings who are not God,
"Angel of God my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side. To light and guard and rule and guide. Amen."
It is perfectly acceptable for a Catholic to change Angel of God to the name of a dead "holy" person such as John Paul II or Blessed John XXIII or the notorious murder monger St Dominic Guzman.
That is a Spiritism beyond any practiced by Spiritualists who do not want the spirits around them all day.
Spiritualists who are under a good measure of Christian influence will say that the spirits that guide them and inspire them and to whom they pray depend entirely on God to do these things so that it is really God who deserves all the honour. Yet Catholicism condemns them as turning to spirits and not God. Catholicism has to forbid spiritualism for Catholic tradition and the Bible do it but then it goes and creates a thinly disguised form of it to practice itself.
The Catholics say that praying to saints and angels is not ignoring God or Jesus but rather addressing them through a saint. They say praying to the saint is honouring God in the saint not the saint himself or herself so it is another way of praying to God. If that is true then the saint does not help us at all, its only God who does the helping. They say that if the saint personally helps you it is because God gave them his power to do it with so it is really he who is helping. This denies the Catholic doctrine that the saints help us with their intercession. If God does what a saint asks him to do, it does not follow that the saint was a cause. God is supreme and so the real cause was just God's choosing to do it. If God is perfect he will do good if we ask and will not need a saint to ask as well. Praying to the saints undermines the goodness of God. To claim you can use a saint maybe to do what God won't do is in fact to call upon the saint to try out ungodly powers.
As we know, necromancy is calling up the dead or talking to them to get information they have access to. The appalling book, Born Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic, accepts Webster’s definition of necromancy as trying to find out about the future from the dead (page 162). This book is attempting to dispel the Evangelical Christian complaint that Catholics praying to saints is necromancy. It is trying to dispel it on the basis that the Catholics are not trying to divine the future by praying to saints. To do that it uses a false definition of necromancy. But clearly necromancy is not just calling the dead up so that you might know the future from them but the act of communicating with the dead itself. That is what is wrong with the practice. It can't be anything else. The communicating is a bigger element than the wish to know the future. It is not calling up the dead to learn something that is the problem - it is the calling up of the dead. If calling on the dead is right, then it cannot be wrong to call on them to tell you the future for they don't have to tell you anything.
Christian
doctrine says that only God knows the future. This, in itself, does not forbid you to call up
or call on spirits to
hear their predictions for they see things and know things and plans we don’t
though they might not know all the future.
They invisibly listen in on world events. They could give you accurate
predictions based not on seeing the future but on the way they see things are
headed.
The dead might not be able to tell you what they know. An evil spirit might pretend to be the dead person you are talking to. You might want to know something about the past or the present and not the future at all. All these considerations show that the book is taking us for fools and it gives the impression that it is okay to call up or call on the dead as long as it is not about the future which is ludicrous.
No matter what Born Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic says, about necromancy being bad and calling up the dead to be told the future it cannot see this as wrong. Would it not be necromancy to go to bed praying that St Rita will appear in a dream to tell you something about the future?
Calling on the dead to reveal something is as much necromancy as calling the dead up to visible appearance or whatever. You are still dealing with the dead. Necromancy can take the form of asking the dead to appear or asking the dead to speak to you without appearing. Or it can take the form of asking the dead a question and asking them to give a sign in reply. For example, "If Charlie loves me let me see two ravens tomorrow." Roman Catholicism tends to go for the latter kind. Catholics are always asking for signs from saints. For example, they ask St Anthony to help them find things and they believe that if he does that then he does it chiefly as an indication of his kindly power and the effectiveness of invoking the saints.
If it is true that saints are only believed in for the sake of the miracles they do, then saint worship is not about honouring decency. Does a saint just exist for doing miracles? The Church has to say yes! The saint does miracles but must be a miracle of holiness too! The Church says that only God's grace, his miracle power to heal the heart of natural evil, makes saints.
What could be wrong
with necromancy when you want God to send a dead person to tell you things in
your dreams? That is not bypassing
God but honouring him, it would seem.
Necromancy is forbidden by God and is to be understood as any attempt to make supernatural contact with a being that is not God. God said we must love him with all our powers and all our heart and mind so if he has a supernatural revelation for us he will appear in some form to us himself to keep things direct and in homage to the commandment banning necromancy. Why not when he can do it himself? Anything else would be spurious.
The Church says that to honour the saints is to honour God for it is God who has made them saints and the powers they have are his powers. The Hail Holy Queen prayer goes, "Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears." Catholics pray to saints the same way they do to God. But they claim they are really honouring God in doing so for it is God who the prayers and honours are ultimately meant for. If that so, then why do even they frown on somebody who says that masses should be offered to the Blessed Virgin Mary? Why can't the Church say, "Mary, we offer you the body and blood of Jesus Christ sacrificed for our sins and we ask you to wash us in his precious blood." It can if this is just honouring the God who is in Mary. They know fine well that their excuse that honouring the saints is honouring God doesn't work.
If you honour God when you honour the saints, why can you be seen to be possibly honouring the saints when you pray to God? Protestants don't honour the saints directly but they believe they honour those saints in Heaven who love God by honouring the God these saints adore so much. The saints love God so much that they are pleased and delighted and indirectly honoured when others adore him too.
Protestantism. To honour God is to honour the saints.
Roman Catholicism. To honour the saints is to honour God. To honour God is to honour the saints.
Two alternatives. It makes more sense to honour God without praying to the saints for that honours the saints anyway. He is closer to them than even they could ever be to him. God loves the saints more than the saints could ever love him. He is better than them. He is more honoured by going to him directly than by going to him indirectly through the saints. If you honour the mother you go to her directly and you don't honour her baby in the guise of honouring her.
The Bible gives strong
and serious condemnations against necromancy. In Deuteronomy 18 it condemns those who
consult ghosts, it says nothing about the future, and who seek oracles as
necromancers and says that these people are an abomination in the sight of the
Lord. Most people who consult ghosts
prefer to do it without trying to hear voices and see the ghost. They want the ghost to put the answer in
their minds for that is all that is needed anyway. But they are still calling up the dead
and doing necromancy. They want the
ghost to hear them and they seek help from the ghost.
Leviticus
In 1 Samuel 28, the
Witch of Endor calls up the dead prophet Samuel’s ghost and she alone can
see it and she gets a message from it for King Saul. It is not said that she
tried to force him to appear. It is
not said that he came against his will.
She may just have asked him to appear and he did. Mediums say they all do that. She didn’t do anything different
from a Catholic who might call on a saint to show their presence by doing some
good work for them or perform some wonder.
So dealing with the dead is one of the most emphatically and fanatically forbidden sins in the Bible. The sin is so hated by God that he would not want us to do anything that might be necromantic such as praying to the saints for we can live without praying to them.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH NECROMANCY?
Why is God so severe in relation to necromancy? Why does he want the sin abhorred and its practitioners destroyed?
It is not
because necromancy is trying to force the dead to do anything. Even the
most devoted necromancer claims that the dead only help if they wish or allow
themselves to be forced if they wish. No necromancer can risk being
thought able to force the dead to appear for if he is a fraud he will soon be
found out. It is better to take peoples money and try to communicate with
the dead and if nothing happens just say the dead didn't wish to speak or see
the need to. Necromancy is not about forcing in
the proper sense. It is mad to think that the
necromancer is trying to make the dead appear whether they want to or not. No necromancer says they can do that. They claim that the dead speak if they
want to. And if the dead
don’t want to they can still use psychic power to tell the necromancer
what he or she wants to know.
Catholics say the dead always want you to communicate with them.
It could be because we
are going to spirits rather than him for answers. But many necromancers claim that God has
arranged things this way so it is not necessarily shutting him out. Catholics say that God likes us to use
intermediaries. But maybe necromancy
is condemned because God does not approve of what does not bring us straight to
him without priests and without saints.
God wants us to forget about intermediaries and to use them is to insult
his will and is hidden idolatry for the messenger is more important than the
message in a real sense.
It could be that only
God can call up the dead not the necromancer. But no necromancer believes that he
calls the dead up without a gift from God.
Catholics also say that the saints cannot listen to you except by the
power of God.
If necromancy involves
trying to know the future there is no harm in asking God to show you the future
through a saint or whatever for it is left up to him to decide if he should let
you know.
It could be that only
demons help the necromancers. There
is no reason to think this for necromancy need not be anti-God or cruel. And talking to demons need only be a
problem if you take them too seriously and do not check them out.
The only problem that God
can have with necromancy is that he wants people to go directly to him and it
has God using intermediaries. This
means that praying to the saints or souls in Purgatory is necromancy.
The Catholic Church advises praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory to get them out of there. They can't help themselves so if we pray to God he reduces their sentence. He does this for he likes being prayed to. He rewards us for the praying by doing what we want. And this is getting the souls out of Purgatory or closer to it. The Church says that the souls do good works and suffer in Purgatory. Purgatory is a purifying punishment. The only kind of purifying punishment is when people suffer and sacrifice a lot to do good as punishment for their sin. The only kind of good the spirits in Purgatory can do is communicate with people o give them guidance and comfort them psychically.
RESURRECTION OF JESUS AND NECROMANCY
The ban on necromancy in the
Bible would imply that the
apostles while getting messages from the risen Jesus were also practicing necromancy.
Their necromancy was
of the extreme kind which involved talking to the spirit which had taken over a
body that was dead and should have stayed
dead. The resurrection of
Jesus Christ was condemned as sorcery by the Law of Moses for Jesus’ didn’t
fit the teaching of the Law. The
Church says that these appearances were spontaneous and were not sought and so
are to be left out of this equation.
But the gospels themselves say that Jesus predicted clearly before his
crucifixion that he would rise from the dead and be seen after being nailed to
the cross but argue lamely that the apostles forgot about this. Clearly what happened was the apostles
did expect to see visions if Jesus predicted them but they were embarrassed at
how much this looked like necromancy or that they induced themselves to see the
visions so they said they forgot what Jesus said. All necromancers claimed that you should
seek visions if God wants to send them and they said you were inspired to call
up spirits that were willing to appear so that technically speaking the
appearances are spontaneous so the Church is covering up the fact that the
resurrection appearances were necromantic.
The Church always
taught that faith is a gift from God that is supernatural in origin in the
sense that the Holy Spirit gives you light to see the truth. So the apostles did not believe in the
resurrection because of a missing body or visions but because they felt the
Spirit was telling them that Jesus rose.
They had a sense of the Holy Spirit communicating with them and revealing.
They believed this sense and it was because of it that they decided that
the visions of Jesus were really from God and of Jesus. It was that sense that was behind their
faith not empty tombs or visions. They
were not even corroboration for they were not needed. The entire Christian world has been led
astray by alleged light from the Spirit.
It only results in schism and confusion and over-confidence. You would need to be smarter than the
Holy Spirit and psychic to know for sure if your inner voice really was the
Spirit so that is what you are saying when you say you have light from
God. So even Christians having
faith means they are claiming psychic powers and powers of divination which are
prohibited in the Old Testament Torah which never says faith is a gift from
God. The fruits of the resurrection
have been occultism and fanaticism and arrogance. The arrogance has been camouflaged
as humility: “Oh I am right about what the Spirit says and you are wrong –
and probably purposely wrong too”.
This black fruit indicates that Jesus, if he lived, was indeed a black
magician as the Jews used to say even according to the New Testament. To prevent chaos, some people like the
The Devil then was
behind the apparitions of the saints and of Jesus and answers the prayers made
to the saints. Roman Catholicism is
an occult religion steeped in black magic for those who believe in the Devil
and see that saint-worship is incompatible with respect for God. Believers just run after saints for the miracles
saints supposedly do – they don’t care if they are doing God’s
will or not. From a Christian point
of view, Roman Catholicism has no excuse for God says his Spirit will guide
people out of such practices if they want to listen to him. It is the successor to the sorcery
system that was once
The Roman Catholic Church says it adores Jesus as
the Risen God and prays to saints because the Bible commands it and the Bible
is the word of God. God and man
wrote it together so it is fully human and fully divine. This doctrine actually demands that the
authors become God and yet stay themselves to work which is magic and is
totally contradictory. The Church
won’t admit this though. The
authors need psychic powers to write what God wants for the inspiration theory
says they could write what they wanted and were not like typewriters. So when a necromantic book that claims
an inspiration that blasphemes God commands saint worship and says Jesus rose
and communicated after his demise it cannot want us to disapprove of these necromantic
activities. It is being hypocritical if it forbids them.
The Catholic Church is an occultic religion. The Bible says that speaking to the dead and looking for their help is necromancy for only God should be approached for help. The Catholic Church prays to the dead. It seeks visions from the dead and asks them to do miracles if they are in Heaven so that it can canonise them as saints.
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