Sananda Armin
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Hello there,
I'll make it short and sweet. I'm a 19-year-old guy. My family is spiritual, therefore,
since I'm Persian, I'm not associated as being Muslim. I'm very spiritual but agnostic
and just curious about the world. My questions:
- Are there any techniques on summoning a God as in some sort of summoning ritual, not of the occult
type?
Hope my question is not as vague as it sounds to me.
Thanks for your time and have a great day.
— Sananda
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Are there any techniques on summoning a God as in a summoning ritual, not of the occult
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Eric replied:
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Hi, Sananda —
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If by summoning a god, you mean
like summoning a genie to do your bidding, the one true God whom we worship
does not work this way. He is Ruler over the Universe and we serve Him,
not the other way around.
Such an act is a forbidden form of divination. There are evil spirits who falsely represent themselves as gods and it
is they who would respond, leading you into a heap of trouble.
If your goal is to humbly petition the one true God, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, no ritual is needed.
- Direct your worship to Jesus (God, the
Son),
- commit yourself to do his will and follow him, and
- lay your needs
before him as you would speak to a friend, and He will listen.
Note the difference between the two approaches.
- One treats God as an object to be controlled to do one's will. [This
is the essence of magic.]
- The other, the Christian approach:
- treats God as a person (or, in reality, three Persons)
- serves Him to do His Will, and
- establishes a personal relationship of
trust with Him.
We advise and exhort you to shun the former and embrace the latter.
Eric
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Sananda replied:
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Hmm, I knew my question would
be vague.
The things you stated, I already knew so I'll try for a second
attempt to ask my question:
- To summon a God (Jesus, for instance) what do I need to do?
- For instance, do I
recite some power words?
- Do I light some candles, with incense, a mirror and cape
on to summon this God?
If I do the candles, incense, mirror, and cape, that's identical to what the
occult would
perform; which I'm not into.
In other words, I'm in search of a technique for summoning a high power
spirit, to talk to. Not to give them demands, because from past experiences
when you demand a spiritual being, it almost always causes trouble. I can
do meditation and or assemble a sigil to summon the specific God
from. I'm just curious to know if you guys know any other way to speak
to a God . . . or a high power spirit.
P.S. When you stated: Commit yourself to do His Will and follow Him,
that's
basically saying to have a chain on your neck and become a slave.
I'm just saying,
that's how it comes across.
Again, thanks for your time,
Sananda
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Eric replied:
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Sananda —
What you are proposing is in fact identical to the occult. It has nothing
to do with our faith. You have in fact been involved with the occult for
some time. We cannot tell you how to summon a god. We can tell
you how to pray to the One True God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit.
It doesn't involve rituals, candles, incense, mirrors,
or incantations. To think that He can be invoked in such ways is to completely
misunderstand Him. God is love and we must love Him as a Father, trust
in Him, and do His Will since He alone knows how we were made and what
is best for us.
Indeed, it is, as the New Testament which Jesus's Apostles
wrote for us communicates but it is sweet slavery. It is better to be
a slave to the beneficent, merciful, loving God of Heaven who wants nothing
less than your good than to the elemental powers you wish to summon, who
will chew you up and spit you out as you seem to have already learned.
Beware of the so-called gods of which you speak. They are nothing more
than evil spirits who wish you harm. When you come to your senses, when
you are viciously enslaved by elemental powers with no other means to escape,
remember this:
Your hope is in the name of Jesus, the Creator of all the
Universe
— cry out to Him, surrender your life to Him, and serve Him,
not as one god among
many but as the God of gods and Lord of lords, and He will free
you.
Pray from the heart as often as you are troubled by the spirits,
Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Eric
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Mike replied:
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Hi Sananda,
I just wanted to add to my colleague's fine answers.
Eric said:
- The other, the Christian approach:
- treats God as a person (or, in reality, three Persons)
- serves Him to do His Will, and
- establishes a personal relationship of
trust with Him.
In accordance with serving the Lord and doing what He commanded us to do,
Catholic Christians, through the ministerial priesthood Jesus established
offer up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
In doing so, properly
understood, the priest does summon the Lord through the Church's liturgical
ritual and what appears to be bread and wine becomes the Body and Blood
of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Church is not treating God as an object to be controlled in any way
but rather we are doing what He commanded us to do.
By receiving the Body and Blood of our Lord, Catholic Christians develop
the deepest personal relationship anyone could ever have with God Himself.
That's one of the reasons I love being a Catholic.
- Muslims see their relationship with God as a Master/Slave relationship
- Catholic Christians have a deep personal relationship with Jesus Christ
through the Eucharist, and see their relationship with God as a Loving
Father/Loving Son relationship. Someone you can share your:
- joys
- sufferings
- anxieties, and
- needs with.
If you are a Muslim who longs for that deep, personal relationship with
God Himself, think about looking into our faith more by buying a cheap Catechism.
If you feel uncomfortable learning about what Catholics believe but
are interested in praying the way Catholics pray, google for one of our favorite devotionals, the Rosary.
Mike
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