REGINA: So this made you stop reading the Tarot?
ALEX: That particular anecdote happened years after I started, just a few months after I began to break away from that lifestyle. But the other thing that made me stop concerns the endless questions a reader starts to have about looking into the future.
REGINA : Questions?
ALEX: Solid priests tell us that demons cannot see the future, but they're very good at guessing, at making extremely educated guesses.
Demons will show you what they think is going to happen in the future through tarot cards, but they'll always also suggest that the very act of looking at the future has changed it. A reader will endlessly begin to tug on that question without being able to find a satisfactory answer.
REGINA: So, for example?
ALEX: If for example a medium perceives a disaster in someone's future, do they tell the person about it? The loving person will quickly answer, yes of course!
Then the demon will cause confusion by rhetorically asking if the act of informing the person is what triggers the disaster in the first place.
It's very easy to become confused very quickly in thinking about these questions, because the demon isn't necessarily incorrect, to ask the question, what if telling the person about a tragic event to come is what triggers it?
REGINA: Seems like a quick way down a moral rabbit hole.
ALEX: This is, I think partially why God doesn't want us trying to divine the future through morally evil means like divination, because it is not proper to our infinitesimal existence to be trying to learn how God's plan is going to play out.
REGINA: And then there’s the horrible confusion that a person must live with.
ALEX: Of course, the demons want to sow confusion, because by causing confusion for all concerned, they can move unseen through the chaos and using virtually no effort set off the chain reaction that destroys the lives of many people.
That's not a rhetorical device; that almost happened to me. It was an astonishingly sophisticated gambit on the part of the enemy. But by then a chance encounter with an old woman asking for extensive financial advice let me see that this was becoming far too dangerous.
REGINA: Were you ever concerned about the doors that you were opening to the occult?
ALEX: Oh no. No, I never worried about that. I went whole hog, I jumped in with both feet. Tarot was not the only skill I acquired; I did far more troubling things. And I
risked much.
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