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Divination Practices – Tarot – Introduction

By The John Ankerberg Show / September 4, 2002

By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2002 Tarot card readings are among the most popular divination method in use today. What is the origin of this practice, and what…

Divination Practices – Runes – Spiritism

By The John Ankerberg Show / September 4, 2002

By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2002 An “At A Glance” look at altered states of consciousness, a component in many new age techniques and programs. Contents 1 Divination…

Yin-yang

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Unknown to many in North America, the Yin-yang can be sourced to the early Chinese philosophy of dualism, which centers on the idea that the entire…

Wheels and Wolves

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Both wheels and wolves are used as occult symbols—but that doesn’t mean we need to avoid all references with either one! As Carl Teichrib points out:…

Strange Animals—The Unicorn and the Uroboros

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Both these animals, often found in mythological and occult works, hold meanings that are contrary to biblical principles. Carl Teichrib explains in this installment of his…

The Tree of Life

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Just as the book of Genesis tells us about the Tree of Life, so too the occult claims knowledge of the “tree of Life’—and offers diverse…

Dancing Toads and Tortoise Creation

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Folklore says that if you handle a toad with your bare hands, you’ll get warts. A silly superstitious belief, but there is more to the lowly…

Behold the Sun

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Solar imagery plays a prominent role in occult lore, as Carl Teichrib points out in this article. Symbols of Sun worship can be seen throughout the…

Scarabs – The Magical Beetle of Egypt

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 In the recent hit movie The Mummy, and its sequel, The Mummy Returns, strange black beetles known as scarabs were frequently encountered. In reality, scarabs are…

The Mystery of Runes

By The John Ankerberg Show / August 29, 2002

By: Carl Teichrib; ©2002 Runes are letters used in the earliest Germanic and Nordic alphabets. From a purely linguistic perspective, runes are simply a form of writing, but as this…

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