The Occult

Occult means hidden from view, difficult to see. A disease can be occult... if it is hidden and hard to detect... or the word can refer to something not apparent, something veiled. Bucolically, the word occult refers to practices such as astrology (Isaiah 47:13), casting spells (Deut. 18:11), consulting with spirits (Deut. 18:11), magic (Gen. 41:8), sorcery (Exodus. 22:8), witchcraft (Deut. 18:10), and various forms of spiritism, (Deut. 18:11) things that God forbids because they "occult" God.

People who practice occult things like: Ouija, tarot cards, runes, crystal balls, Tantra, hypnosis, astrological charts, séances and even drugs are in spiritual danger because they are playing with the very fires of hell that circumvent the truth of walking with God. The occult will do harm spiritually to a person because they promise light and wisdom, but are void of it. In fact the light they profess to have is no light at all, it is simply darkness, a darness that emanates from a fiery place that is void of God.

Occult practices are things that are believed to open doorways to realms beyond normal understanding and experience, but these realms are not ours they belong to God. God's realms and his glory are not ours for the taking. That is what Satan seeks to do... circumvent God and his will and purpose, usurping all that is God's domain and deceiving humans into doing the same... preventing the possibility of their salvation.

We are not to be those who consult the dead, look for personal gain in card reading or via deception of others, but rather we are to walk with, obey, and consult God, to be those who worship God, in spirit and in truth. This is why Christians leave the occult and it's deeds of darkness alone.