Excerpt from Counsels on Spiritualism
The law of Moses contains the following passages: "There shall not be found amongst you a consulter with familiar spirits,or a wizard,or a necromancer: for all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord." "And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits,to go whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people."
In accordance with this law, Saul treated sorcery as a capital crime. When his own misconduct became rebellion, - a rebellion which finally extinguished the fortunes of his house in tears and blood, - he was told by Samuel that it was the sin of witchcraft. It is made one of the greatest virtues of the good king Josiah, that he set a flinty face against all attempts at dealing with spirits; and one of the greatest crimes of the wicked king Manasseh, that he practiced and abetted such attempts.
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