Nuggets from Occult Invasion—A Conflict Between God and Satan

The Bible presents in great detail the One whom it claims is the true God, the Creator of the universe. It presents Satan as well, the adversary of both God and man. Satan appears as a serpent who entices Eve with the promise that if she will disobey God and follow him she will attain immortality and godhood. This enticer to evil, called “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians:4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
See All...) because he is the inspiration behind the world’s false religions, is known throughout the Bible as “the great dragon…that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world” (Revelation:12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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Many people today consider themselves too sophisticated to take the story of the Garden of Eden literally. Surely that part about Eve’s conversation with a talking snake marks the story as mythology. Such superstition is acceptable only to primitive peoples. Any attempt to teach it today would be an insult to modern man. So the argument goes.

Yet the very skeptics who are too intelligent to believe that Satan used a serpent to speak to Eve embrace native American Indian spirituality. There seems to be no problem in believing that Indian medicine men speak to all manner of animals and birds and even become these creatures at times. And are not some of our leading scientists attempting to converse with chimpanzees and even dolphins? Listen to Dr. John Lilly again:

“Dolphins are an example of a high alien intelligence, and I’ve fought that one out with various people since I published my first book on the subject in 1961, Man and Dolphin. But I’m not fighting with them anymore. They’re coming around; they’re beginning to apply cognitive psychology to dolphins.”

The Sioux Indians, whom Phil Jackson looks up to as his mentors and whose spirituality he has adopted, teach that the “sacred pipe” was given to them ages ago by a beautiful woman who used serpents in her magic and who, as they watched, turned into a “young red and brown buffalo calf,” then into a “white buffalo,” then into a “black buffalo,” then disappeared. Black Elk declares that this story “should not only be taken as an event in time, but also as an eternal truth.” Jackson, who rejected Christianity and adopted native American spirituality, seems to have no trouble accepting this story as literally true.