Unquestionably, the world has a fascination for all things supernatural, including those things that are distinctly occultish. Witchcraft, Voodoo, Spiritism, Mysticism, you name it, people are enthralled by it. The appeal is understandable. We strive to comprehend the incomprehensible and to put it even more simply, we love to try to scare ourselves. The question to ask yourself is, what is it that scares me? Is it ghosts haunting my house? Witches chanting incantations in the moonlight? Werewolves and Vampire bats? Urban legends and ghost stories at the campfire? Any number of things can scare us, but the thrill is in the seeking of the thrill. Hence, people end up entering the world of the Occult in subtle ways they usually are not even aware of.
Are there such things as ghosts? How about Poltergeists, or “mischievous spirits” if you prefer. Let’s explore that question for a moment. Ghost stories have gone as far back into history as the minds that created them, but what exactly, are these tales based upon? In the Bible God speaks about the living and the dead. He states, “absent from the body, present with the Lord.” Taken in that context, one would think that all people who die automatically and instantly go to Heaven. Further excursions into the Scriptures reveals that not all people do go to Heaven but there are in fact, two destinations for the dead, but for the sake of this argument we will assume that all people do go to Heaven when they die. Now, if that is the case, then where are these ghosts coming from? Are they faked by people who wish to become famous? Are they just lonely people playing tricks on others? There really are only two options here. Either they are real or they are not.
If these hauntings are real, and if they are not being caused by the dead, (see hypothetical conclusion above) then we need to look elsewhere to find the source of these hauntings. The fact is, there are other spirits out there besides just our own, there are angels and there are demons. The demons are, in fact, nothing more than angels that have fallen from Grace. They are evil beings who live to deceive and one of the ways they deceive us is by pretending to be something they are not. They pose as outer space aliens, they pose as angels, they pose as ghosts. Why not? If they can get even one of us to believe them then they figure they have won. We humans play with fire when we play with Tarot cards and Oija boards because these things open up windows between our world and the world of the demonic. A great percentage of the time a personal haunting can be traced back to something occultish that the haunted person was once involved in. This would not be the case if the haunted structure was once home to a person who died and now haunts the domain.
So to be complete in our search for the truth about hauntings, we must at least assume that demons do participate in the occasional haunt, which would, it seems, make the haunting even more frightening for people of a squeamish nature. Is this assumption logical? I’m sure many of us would hope not, but truly, if the spirit that is doing the haunting is of an evil nature, or, if you hesitate to use the word, “evil”, then we’ll use mischievous instead, though it is hardly an adequate word, then it should be assumed that the spirit in question is not a benevolent one, and therefore, probably demonic in nature. Yet, we still refuse to use the word demon in context with the word haunting. I believe this is because people do not want to admit that such things as angels and demons actually could exist. Because if they believe in those beings, they would by all rights have to believe also in the God who created those beings. This is something many people are not prepared to do.
As a result we go on asking each other if “ghosts” are real, and all the while ignoring the fact that many of us don’t even believe that human beings have souls, or if we do have them then we all automatically go to Heaven. (Not my personal belief.) What we do not ask is, are demons real, and are they a part of my life? If they are, how do I get rid of them? Nobody ever asks those questions because they are considered archaic and “religious” in nature. It seems that the only way out of this puzzle is to seek the truth, even though many of us believe that truth is relative. When it comes right down to it, the only real truths come from the mouth of God Himself, and those truths shall set us free.
