Spirit Guides
Angels or Demonic Visitors?

Some mediums claim a spirit guide is a highly evolved spirit with the sole purpose of helping the medium develop and use their skills. The mediums claim they assist in following their spiritual path. Other mediums claim a spirit guide is one who brings other spirits to a medium's attention or carries communications between a medium and the spirits of the dead. Many mediums claim to have specific guides who regularly work with them and "bring in" spirits of the dead. Some mediums claim that spirits of the dead will communicate with them directly without the use of a spirit guide .

The relationship between the medium and the guide may be providential, or it may be based on family ties. In 1958, the English-born Spiritualist C. Dorreen Phillips wrote of her experiences with a medium at Camp Chesterfield, Indiana: "In Rev. James Laughton's seances there are many Indians. They are very noisy and appear to have great power. The little guides, or doorkeepers, are usually Indian boys and girls who act as messengers who help to locate the spirit friends who wish to speak with you."  Then, describing the mediumship of Rev. Lillian Dee Johnson of Saint Petersburg, Florida, she noted, "Mandy Lou is Rev. Johnson's guide. She was, on earth, a slave to Rev. Johnson's grandmother."

Many practitioners of touch therapies such as Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch often claim that their spirit guides are angels in attempt to make their clients feel more comfortable. However, as believers in Christ Jesus we know that the only angel they are contacting are "fallen angels" or demonic spirit guides. 1 Peter 5:8  warns us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring  lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."

Peter and Jude discuss the reality of these angels. 1 Peter 2:4 reminds us about the reality of such angels, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment". Jude 6 repeats the reality of such demonic visitors. He refers to those same demonic familiars that 1 Peter warns about, "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

We need to be aware that when touch therapists talk about spirit guides they are instead talking about fallen angels who are in fact nothing more than demonic spirits. I leave you with this admonition, "Be sober, be vigilant. . . " (1 Peter 5:8).