The Mind a Battlefield 517
Today’s so-called scientific hypnotism and religious yogi, which
enable people to. possess the powers of telepathy, healing, and
transforming, are in reality founded upon these two principles. Using
the argument that certain methods can be beneficial to mankind,
those of this class who perform such techniques as focusing one’s
attention, sitting silently, contemplating and meditating, are actually
employing these devices to reduce their mind to a blank condition
and their will to passivity so as to invite supernatural spirits or
demons to supply them with many wonderful experiences. Our
purpose here is not to inquire whether or not these people realize
they are inviting evil spirits to come; we merely wish to observe that
they are fulfilling the requirements for demon possession. The
consequence is grave; perhaps later they shall awaken to the fact that
what they have welcomed are indeed evil spirits.
Our intention here is not a full treatment of this subject. We
simply wish to acquaint the Lord’s children with the principles
behind the practice of the black arts: which are a blank and passive
mind and will. Evil spirits are overjoyed should these conditions be
present, as they can immediately commence to do their dark work.
It is well for every Christian to always bear in mind the one basic
and crucially important distinction between the working of evil
spirits and that of the Holy Spirit: the Latter works when man fulfills
His working conditions, while the former work when man fulfills
their working conditions. If man, even though he may appear to be
seeking the Holy Spirit, meets the requirements for evil spirits to
operate, God’s Spirit will never operate. The wicked spirits wait
tirelessly for the opportunity to act. Should anyone be incompetent to
distinguish what is truly of God from what is a counterfeit, he need
only ask himself one question: what kind of condition was he in
when first he experienced such phenomena? If he had fulfilled the
prerequisites for the Holy Spirit’s activity, it must then have been
from God; but had he met the necessary conditions for evil spirits to
work, then what he encountered must have been the evil spirit. We