I used to be heavily into the occult.. In early 2009 I began to read the Bible as a magical manual. I was determined to find the "secrets" hidden deep in this holy book.. Secrets that few, if any, Christians had ever known. I am rather obsessive about the things I become interested in, and this was no different.. I started out studying the Word for about an hour each day. One hour quickly became two hours, which became three, then five.. After a couple of months of this I realized that *JESUS* was the be-all and end-all of the Kaballah, the culmination of every metaphysical system, the highest power that existed. Although I would never use those terms to describe, now days, my relationship with Jesus, these were the terms I knew at the time.. Familiar ground, if you will. I *KNEW* I needed this Jesus, that He was really what every occultist is looking for. Most people that get into any form of magic, be it witchcraft, Yoga, TM, New Age, Native American religion etc... ..are rarely in it for power or personal gain. Most want desperately to save the world, to feel spiritual energy and Divine Providence in a *tangible* way. They want to *help* others and spread LOVE. What they don't know is that God has already provided the *only* Way for humans to gain that kind of freedom.. -freedom from sin, freedom from death (the wages of sin), freedom from the Karmic Wheel/Akashic Record/Book of Consciences/Reap-What-You-Sow, Divine JUSTICE. AS A CHRISTIAN, I WILL NEVER REAP THE HARVEST FROM THE SEEDS I SOWED BEFORE I KNEW JESUS! Don't get me wrong, I know there is a consequence for our actions.. God is not mocked, and whatsoever a man sows, that shall he reap. I also know that once we are Christians, our bodies become the Temple of the Holy Ghost, we become set apart for His GOOD WORKS. But.. What I did as my former man, the man that was crucified with Christ, those things have passed away and I can NO LONGER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM! PRAISE GOD! I can have a Powerful, tangible, more-real-than-life-itself relationship with the Spirit of God that created the ENTIRE UNIVERSE! I can have an ongoing possession and invocation of Jesus Christ; I can wear Him like a cloak and be led in every action and every moment by the Spirit of Life.. ..And I don't have to use any herbs, or potions, no magic words or incantations, no banishing rituals or sacred geometry for protection, no amulets or ritual tools for a weapon, no harsh physical punishment or sensory deprivation, no hallucinogenic drugs or unhealthy sexual practices to open a spiritual portal.. I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP, AS AN ADOPTED SON OF GOD, WHICH HAS GIVEN ME THE POWER OF ATTORNEY TO USE THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES, AND HAS RESTORED POWER AND DOMINION, OVER THIS LIFE, TO MANKIND! Amen.