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Nowisee
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Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010 - 4:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I found a reference to this in an old sda devotional which I bought at a garage sale to throw away. A friend found the source, and I'd like to share it:


quote:

These Satanic agents claim to cure disease. They attribute their power to electricity, magnetism, or the so-called "sympathetic remedies," while in truth they are but channels for Satan's ELECTRIC CURRENTS.



Signs of the Times, March 24, 1887.

What do you make of this? Is Satan AC or DC? :-)Too weird for me.
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Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010 - 7:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I wonder if she was referring to shock treatments for the mentally ill ?

I seem to remember EGW recommending some kind of electric light treatments at the Kellog sanitarium though... ? Before she turned against him anyway.
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Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010 - 9:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nowisee, is she referring to those machines like Kellogg used in his health conditioning center?

I love the question: is Satan AC or DC? Ha!

Colleen
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 6:55 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I like that you bought the book to throw away! I would have done the same thing :-)
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 9:40 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OK, the context is spiritualism:


quote:

The mystic voices that spoke at Ekron and Endor are still, by their lying words, misleading the children of men. The prince of darkness has but appeared under a new guise. The heathen oracles of ages long past have their counterpart in their spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyants and fortune-tellers of today....And their disclosures are eagerly received by thousands who refuse to accept light from the word or Spirit of God.They speak with scorn of the magicians of old, while the great deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts...These Satanic agents (mediums, clairvoyants and fortune-tellers) claim to cure disease. They attribute their power to electricity, magnetism, or the so-called "sympathetic remedies," while in truth they are but channels for Satan's electric currents. By this means he casts his spell over the bodies and souls of men.




In the devotional Satan's currents were mentioned in conjunction with EGW's teachings that our bodies have electricity in them, so therefore Satan can hook into our electrical systems because he has electric currents, too. In this way he can control us.

So, no she is not referring to machines but to mediums.
Nowisee
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 9:47 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OK, the context is spiritualism:


quote:

The mystic voices that spoke at Ekron and Endor are still, by their lying words, misleading the children of men. The prince of darkness has but appeared under a new guise. The heathen oracles of ages long past have their counterpart in their spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyants and fortune-tellers of today....And their disclosures are eagerly received by thousands who refuse to accept light from the word or Spirit of God.They speak with scorn of the magicians of old, while the great deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts...These Satanic agents (mediums, clairvoyants and fortune-tellers) claim to cure disease. They attribute their power to electricity, magnetism, or the so-called "sympathetic remedies," while in truth they are but channels for Satan's electric currents. By this means he casts his spell over the bodies and souls of men.




In the devotional Satan's currents were mentioned in conjunction with EGW's teachings that our bodies have electricity in them, so therefore Satan can hook into our electrical systems because he has electric currents, too. In this way he can control us.

So, no she is not referring to machines but to mediums.
Colleentinker
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 12:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh, my goodness!! Nowisee, she is so indicting herself! She essentially taught what those mediums taught--and let's not forget she had an angelic guide for her dreams and visions.

Nothing like hiding in plain sight...she exposes and defames the spiritualists and mediums, and she actually was functioning in a similar way. As a friend of ours says, "they had the same chairman of the board."

Colleen
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 1:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I learned "If you spot it...........you've got it!"

J9
Surfy
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 9:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Has there been anyone that wrote more about satan than Ellen did?

If what she wrote about satan is along the same lines as what she wrote about Jesus, it is not to be believed either. However, she really spent a lot of time writing about satan.

Surfy
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 10:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"while in truth they are but channels for Satan's electric currents. By this means he casts his spell over the bodies and souls of men."

Well, she should know!! The fox smells his own hole. She who smelt it, dealt it.

:-) Leigh Anne

(Message edited by grace_alone on September 07, 2010)
Bb
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Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 4:43 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Haha Leigh Anne, I was thinking the same thing! :-)
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Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 10:01 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Leigh Anne, like the way you put it, "The fox smells his own hole. She who smelt it, dealt it."
:-), :-)
Diana L

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