Bible Dictionary: The Occult

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Topical Bible Verses

Leviticus 19:31
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
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Isaiah 8:19
And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? for the living to the dead?
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2 Kings 21:6
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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Leviticus 20:6
And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
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Acts 16:16
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
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Ezekiel 13:18
And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls alive that come to you?
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Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Leviticus 20:27
A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be on them.
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Exodus 22:18
You shall not suffer a witch to live.
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2 Kings 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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Strong's Hebrew

5147. Nachbi -- a Naphtalite
... Word Origin from chabah Definition a Naphtalite NASB Word Usage Nahbi (1). Nakbi.
From chabah; occult; Nachbi, an Israelite -- Nakbi. see HEBREW chabah. ...
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3281. Yalam -- an Edomite
... Word Origin from alam Definition an Edomite NASB Word Usage Jalam (4). Jalam. From
alam; occult; Jalam, an Edomite -- Jalam. see HEBREW alam. 3280, 3281. ...
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Library

Whether we Ought to Distinguish Several Species of Divination?
... express invocation of the demons, belongs that which is practiced by observing certain
things done seriously by men in the research of the occult, whether by ...
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Whether Observances Directed to the Alteration of Bodies, as for ...
... Now in the physical order things have certain occult forces, the reason of which
man is unable to assign; for instance that the magnet attracts iron, and many ...
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I Will Address the Master in one of his Own Phrases. Why, after ...
... If that be true, then what you say, that in this world life is either acquired
or lost, is not true; unless it has some occult meaning. ...
/.../36 i will address the.htm

On the Different Kinds of Cause.
... Further, of causes, some are apparent; others are grasped by a process of reasoning;
others are occult; others are inferred analogically. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter ix on the different kinds.htm

Paracelsus {13}
... for royal roads to knowledge, and to the fame and wealth which might be got out
of knowledge; who meddled with vain dreams about the occult sciences, alchemy ...
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The Apostles did not Keep Back any of the Deposit of Doctrine ...
... wished him to "commit these things to faithful men, who should be able to teach
others also," [2124] be construed into a proof of there being some occult gospel ...
/.../the prescription against heretics/chapter xxv the apostles did not.htm

The Relation of Manichæism to the Old Babylonian Religion as Seen ...
... It is the opinion of Kessler, who has devoted much attention to this sect and to
the relations of occult religious matters in general in Mesopotomia, that "the ...
/.../chapter v name relation of.htm

Whether Divination Practiced by Invoking the Demons is Unlawful?
... What is thy name?" and the latter replied: "My name is Legion, for we are many"
(Mk.5:9). Therefore it seems lawful to question the demons about the occult. ...
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Whether the Priest Ought to Deny the Body of Christ to the Sinner ...
... Verbis. Dom.; cf. Serm. lxxxii). Consequently, Christ's body is not to be
given to occult sinners, even if they ask for it. On the ...
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Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism
... Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim (1487-1535) by his writings increased the prevailing
fascination for occult knowledge and pushed this particular line of ...
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