With that came a sense of freedom. No longer do I have to be concerned about what English translation someone is using.
Based on Ephesians 5:11; "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather Reprove them",
a child of God does not have the 'freedom', as it says, to,
"fellowship", or participate and intermingle with The Prince of Darkness
since
Colossians 1:13 says;
"He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and Brought us into the Kingdom of His Beloved Son".
How many Christians have so many friends prominent in the practice of the Occult?
Just like where you and I are are prohibited by God from fellowshipping and being allied with practitioners of the Occult in a secret society with non-Christian people who are "familiar" with spirits, or from visiting, or joining, a Synagogue of Satan, since Occultism commonly involves these
esoteric and
arcane secret societies, such as the Ghostly Guild, The Apostles, The Eranus Club, and other Occult organizations, like Socialism,
Qabalah, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy,
Wicca, the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, New Age, and the
left-hand path and right-hand path and Theosophy, etc. that are designed to investigate ghosts and supernatural appearances. Clubs like that are based upon the idea that such spirits actually exist and appear to men. According to
The Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsvchologv, the members of the Ghostly Club would "relate personal experiences concerned with ghosts and its members were known to have meditations in the solitary darkness of the chapel at Auckland castle.
The secret society called, The Apostles was where they were secretly practicing the Occult with Leading Occult figures who had faith in spiritualism and communion with spirits, a belief that you can fellowship with the spirits of those who died recently and could meditate and pray in full sympathy with all that was good and great in the past.
Once formed, as a secret society, the Eranus Club held seances and the practice of spiritualism. The Eranus Club would eventually become known as an Occult secret society, involving Parapsychology, psychic phenomena, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry and the exploration of other paranormal claims, Alchemy, demonology, and for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, extrasensory perception (ESP), necromancy, and beliefs and practices that deal with hidden or supernatural forces, often involving mysticism, spirituality, including witchcraft, spells, and rituals, astrology, tarot card reading, palmistry, and New Age beliefs, like ghost hunting, and belief in supernatural beings like werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and faeries, Wizards and witches.
Then, in the context of religious practices, the Occult refers to the action or influence of supernatural powers, some secret knowledge of them, and included one person involved, who in 1875 introduced The Dark Occult Underground into the English language, the esotericist Helena Blavatsky.
So, we would never want to be associated with any of those "unfruitful works of darkness".
You get the idea, I hope.
Bible believers recognize these spirits as demons.
1 Peter 5:8; Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 John 5:19; the whole world is under the power of the evil one,
Revelation 12:7-9; the dragon and his angels fought back. / ...that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world,
Daniel 10:12-13; the prince of the kingdom of Persia,
Matthew 4:1-11; to be tempted by the devil;
Luke 22:31; Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat,
John 12:31; the prince of this world,
1 John 4:4; he who is in the world,
Revelation 20:2-3; the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan,
Isaiah 14:12-15; O Lucifer, son of the morning!,
Ezekiel 28:12-17; as a guardian cherub
Genesis 3:1-5; the serpent,
Job 1:6-12; Satan roaming through the earth and walking back and forth in it.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12.