| "believing Christians are divided on the question of what they should think of rod and pendulum [dowsers]. I have met doctors, pastors, missionaries, and even evangelists who use the rod or pendulum and believe they have received this gift from God." (Kurt Koch, Occult ABC (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1980), 185-86. )" |
| Satanic
Occult Powers are Being Used by Pagans and Bible Believers Alike -
[Very good article presenting Con- side - bfg]
"I had a Dowser in a church I pastored in Michigan who was a member in good standing in the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (IFCA), and he was vicious in his defense of his occult arts. We stood against him in prayer, along with a man who was victimized by him, and by the power of Christ we stopped his dowsing rods from working. There was water only 18 inches down under him as he did his dowsing, and he got NOTHING. He was noted for all the wells he had dowsed. This man is very likely in hell right now,..." |
| "Dr. Karl Berg, Arch-Bishop of Salzburg, Austria in a Decree of 1942, said "If a Christian wants to do Gods will and protects himself with prayers when doing radiaesthesic works (dowsing) and use his or her instruments only in a helping way based on love, when examining houses, and finding water, then this work is blessed by the church." |
| "The question
remains: should dowsing be used if it is really a method of occultic
divination?... Further, the Bible condemns divination by name in several
passages."
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0099a.txt |
| Responsible
Dowsing is Endorsed by Religious Leaders<>by
Susan Collins [Very good article presenting Pro side- bfg]
"I am convinced that responsible dowsing practices fit comfortably within all religious traditions, and in this article have brought together quotes from a variety of sources to support this view. As Matthew 7:7 says, "Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and you will find; knock and it shall be opened unto you:" |
| "The prophet Hosea of biblical times condemned it. His people had adopted the ways of their pagan captors, including the art of divination. He stated, "They consult their piece of wood and their wand makes pronouncements to them." " |
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"From the 17th century on, many priests wrote about the use of dowsing for healing and helping purposes. These include: Jesuit Father Kircher, Jacques Le Royer and Abbé de Vallemont. Abbé Alexis Mermet, a country priest, wrote the Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia in 1935. In Quebec in the 1960's, a catholic bishop, Edouard Jetté, was a well-known dowser and wrote a book titled Au Seuil du Subconscient. "The Vatican endorsed dowsing in a letter written in May 1935 by Mgr Eugene Tisserand, Prefect of the Vatican Library, to Monsieur Delattre, Secretary General of the Society 'Amis de la Radiesthesie'. " "The Vatican also used dowsing when the engineer Czepl, a leading Austrian dowser, was invited to assist, as a dowser, in planning a restoration of the Cathedral of St. Peter. 3" |
| "Today, the Roman Catholic Church takes somewhat the same stand as reflected in its works on Moral Theology, stating that for anything except searching for water, dowsing is "practicing superstition" which is a serious sin. The Catholic Information Service of the Knights of Columbus classifies dowsing as "rank superstition" and breaking the first commandment only if using the power as supernatural." |