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FAMED MYSTIC SAW OCCULT OPERATING IN A 'SPHERE' OF DARK FIGURES WHO HAD FALLEN FROM THE LIGHT

We all know that dabbling with anything psychic or occult is dangerous -- brings a wrong force -- but exactly what are the mechanics of that?

In the simplest reckoning, we need only to know, of course, that it's the force of dark, instead of the force of Light. As such it has dark ramifications.

But the mystic, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, had a detailed interpretation of exactly how the occult operates, in the book of her concepts, The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich: a true treasure trove of various fascinating insights.

They are offered for discernment.

After a woman she knew had allowed herself to be persuaded to visit a fortuneteller in Warendorf, Germany, who accurately "saw," in her cards, that an elderly woman was dying, the mystic explained, to the woman who had gone to the psychic:

"Not the card, but their faith in them, makes the fortuneteller see! They say what they see, but not what the card shows. The card is the image of an idol, but it is the devil who is the idol. He is often forced to tell the truth, and then the fortuneteller announces it angrily." Indeed, joy and happiness do not seem like the traits of most occultists.

At one point, in 1821, we also learn, Emmerich, contemplating the public life of Our Lord, saw again the nature and moral effects of mesmerism (a form of trance popular at the time). The relation between men and the powers of darkness were shown her in three spheres or worlds. The lowest and darkest comprised those who dealt in magic and openly worshipped the demon, says the book; the second those who indulged in sensual desires and superstition; the third was the region of "freemasonry" and "liberalism" (her words.)

These three worlds were bound together, in Emmerich's view, by what the author, Very Reverend Carl E. Schmöger, describes as "innumerable interlacing threads which, like a ladder, led from the highest to the lowest; at the lowest sphere, as also in the middle one, she beheld mesmerism with its various states and bodily remedies. The mystic understood "that it was the most efficient means employed by the demon for the destruction of mankind"!

That's worth weighing.

(Perhaps it equates with certain modern esoteric means of alternate healing such as reiki?)

There are many things, in these books, that are just gripping. "In the lowest sphere," said Emmerich, according to Schmöger, "I saw certain states and relations which in common life are not regarded as absolutely awful. Many individuals therein were under the influence of mesmerism. I saw something abominable between them and the mesmerizer, dark, shadowy figures passing from one to the other.

"I have rarely, if ever, seen persons mesmerized without discovering sensuality in them. Clairvoyance is produced by the agency of evil spirits. I beheld people falling from the upper and brighter sphere on account of heir employing magic under the name of science in the treatment of diseases.

"Then I saw them mesmerizing and, blinded by their apparent success, they attracted many from the upper sphere. I saw them eager to palm off cures wrought by infernal agency, reflections of the mirrors of hell, as cures from Heaven effected by God's favored souls.

"In this lowest story I beheld very distinguished men, laboring unknown to themselves in the sphere of the infernal church."

[resources: The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich]

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