"White magic" always wrong, sinful, cursed

Why “white magic” is always wrong and sinful

I get ideas about lectures people must receive by reading the newspaper, listening to TV and radio, and also contemplating the actions of humans that I observe both near and afar, even to the opposite sides of the world. Today I read a very sad article about a large family whose home was destroyed in a fire, killing their oldest son. I have faith that people in their community will pull together to support them. The parents are, understandably, broken hearted. The mother related a dream she had where her son appeared to her and reassured her that she should not feel bad because he is alright.

This touching event gave me a flash of insight about how I can use it as a way to starkly illustrate how even the most “benevolent” and “loving” seeming so called “white magic” is always the wrong thing to do. Let’s use as an exercise the assumption that some people can send dreams to other people. And so let’s assume in such a situation, that some “kind” witch or warlock decides to send such a lovely dream to a grieving mother. It would be very easy for them to rationalize that they were doing a “good” thing, because they “know” the child is “at peace” and that it is never “wrong” to “comfort” those who mourn.

Well, they would be dead wrong and committing a grave sin that God will punish them for. Here are the reasons why, using this scenario for ease of understanding.

1) Genuine dreams and messages sent by God are much more healing and powerful, yet much more subtle. It is very likely that a “white magic” dream would stomp right over the mother’s ability to receive a genuine dream or message by God. When one is given a “loud” message, like human hearing, it messes up the ability to hear low register. The Bible states clearly that God speaks in a small quiet voice. Therefore the vivid loud cartoon nature of a human envisioned and sent “white magic” dream is like giving the human tinnitus.

2) Soon is not always better. It may not have been the right time to send the mother a vision of her son. Humans go through great biological and mental stress early in the trauma, and it takes months before feelings such as denial fully are absorbed and transformed. So to send an “encouraging” message while the hormones and stress physio-biological is still in a sort of twilight place of “reality” or “not,” is to send the message when she is least able to benefit from it.

3) Humans cannot possibly imagine what a genuine message or vision from God is like. For example, sending a cartoon like image of the child having fun and doing well is not at all a fraction of what God could send. For example, God could have sent a vision where the mother is actually able to see how her son truly is in heaven. The woman could then have been genuinely blessed, rather than receive a cardboard human made greeting card with their cartoon image of what would “feel and look good.” It is outrageous for any human to think that they know what condolence to send ON BEHALF OF GOD. I shudder at the arrogance and damage done.

4) How does a human know that the mother should have been the one to receive the dream? The entire family benefits from the telling, but only one from the receiving. What if the father is the one who should have received the vision from God, or one of the children? Only God knows who benefits most from his authentic blessings and grace. It is outrageous to again, make cardboard Hollywood script assumptions about who should “receive comfort.”

5) Prematurely reassuring someone that “it is alright” cheats them of the dignity of the magnitude of their loss. It is disrespecting them by insinuating that they should be “reassured” and therefore “emotionally move on,” even when only weeks have passed and it is a truly horrendous and grave loss to endure. People have dignity and are entitled to not have their assimilation of the degree of their loss “cut short” by someone who decides on God’s behalf that they know better than God.

6) Use of cheap symbolism in the dream, such as candies they hold, sports they loved, pets they had and so forth rob the deceased and those who mourn him or her of the dignity of knowing that heaven is not the dishing up of earthly goodies to “make up for being dead.” I can personally authoritatively tell you that children are engaged in much more numinous and wise “activities” in heaven that benefit all humanity, not popping their favorite foods. They don’t stay infantilized in heaven, once they meet God, OBVIOUSLY. I mean, duh. I don’t know how adults have gotten the idea that is used to comfort children that heaven is just a continuation of what the child was doing, but with all their favorite things. That’s OK to tell a child when you have your first discussions of death and heaven with them, but for goodness gracious, how did adults become so moronic that they think that this is what actually happens in heaven? So you harm the faith of the person by portraying their loved decreased doing self gratifying and childish activities.

7) Sometimes a long period of silence is essential for the salvation of the entire family. The quiet having of faith, without creating an expectation of receiving cartoon like dreams of “comfort,” is in the long run the more fertile and expansive garden within which to grow faith. It takes humans in general a long time to rerun in their minds all that has happened, and all the possibilities implicit in the event, and how to extract mature meaning and faith from what has happened. God may not send them a message or sign for decades for exactly that reason.

8) When you use “white magic” to “send a message” to someone, what does that mean for everyone else who hears and reads about it who never received such a message? Do you set up your “white magic” sausage factory to make sure anyone you know gets a hunk of “white magic consolation,” and thus magnify the damage and error to hundreds and thousands of families? Or do you let newspaper readers to just think, “Wow, lucky mother to get that ‘heavenly message’ from their son. I wonder why no one in our family got such a message when so and so died.”

9) And then, of course, when the person does not get another dream, you let them think that “God is mad at them,” or “they don’t deserve getting another dream.” If you had left well enough alone and not sent the “comfort dream,” you’d not have made an instant addict of the recipient and their family. It is just outrageous that so called “white magic” manipulators can be so pig ignorant and cruel to not realize this.

I actually could go on with even more illumination of the damaging implications of the thorough wickedness of “white magic,” but I think this more than adequately makes the point. “White magic” practitioners are totally in defiance of God and will be chastised and punished accordingly. I just tremble in outrage knowing how for years people have defied what God explicitly ordered in the Bible and the Qur’an. I cheer every time someone who practices magic is executed in the Islamic countries, and I don’t give a rat’s ass how “white” the magic was they were attempting, because all it does is harm the innocent and insult God, hindering his will and defying God to his face.