Dear Wiccan Friends: I am just going into my 80th year and my desire, no doubt like yours, is to help people have an eternal happy forever in the spirit world, which we call Heaven. I have made this a lifetime occupation. It is my belief that God wants us to love and care for each other. I pray the following message will help you in your search for the truth. First, let me introduce myself and where I am coming from. I was born on December 25th 1920, in London England to a widow by the name of Golda Alpern. I was placed up for adoption immediately. In those days it was easy to adopt a child. There were few questions asked. The couple who adopted me barely provided the necessities of life, but I am grateful to them for taking me in. Theft drunkenness, gambling, prostitution and bedbugs - all were as common in our part of the East End of London as clean sheets and warm water were in other places. Bookies and prostitutes lived on the street. As children we made money from bookies by warning them when police were in the vicinity. My father drank heavily, gambled, had affairs and beat my mother many times. I can still picture my mother with black eyes and swollen lips. She found life so distressing that she tried to commit suicide a number of times. One evening after my mother and father had been fighting, she threatened to throw herself out from the upstairs window. As she climbed out I managed to pull her back. On another occasion I recall her taking the tube off the gas jet and trying to inhale the gas;. These were terrifying times for me. The event that had the single greatest impact on me was the death of my father. I was only eleven years old at the time. The subject of death was considered taboo in our house. It was something to be feared and never talked about. One night as I was lying on my bed upstairs, I could hear my father crying downstairs. He screamed out to God saying, Please God, don’t let me die! I don’t want to die God, help me! I will never forget the sound of his crying, it was one of despair, fear and terror. Now I can understand why he felt that way. He had lived as though he had a thousand years on earth. I really believed that he knew he was going to Hell and the prospect of this terrified him. He was taken to the hospital in the early hours of the morning and within a few short hours was returned home in a cheap pine box. (In the Jewish religion they bury the dead within 24 hours). I was totally unaware of what happened that night, when I came downstairs, all the furniture was taken out and lying on the floor was this closed coffin. I was terrified. From then on the thought of death held a terrible grip on me, I was afraid to sleep at night for fear that I would not be alive in the morning. That fear stayed with me for many years and even now I can still hear in my mind the screams of my father. DEATH STRIKES AGAIN After my Fathers death, my mother turned to prostitution to support us. The next seven years were the most distressing, embarrassing and soul destroying years of my life. Once more, I had another frightening experience. Death entered my life again when I was about seventeen. My mother had been in the hospital with bronchial pneumonia, and I had been staying in the house alone. Unfortunately my mothers customers did not know about her illness and constantly came to the door knocking and calling her name. I stayed upstairs in my room, too terrified to move. When Mother died in the hospital, a policeman was sent to the house to tell me. At first, I thought he was just another customer and I did not answer the door. After my mothers death there was no place for me to go so I stayed in the house. One night shortly thereafter, as I was lying in bed, I could see her standing in front of me at the top of the staircase. She appeared white and etheric-looking, and she was smiling at me. It seemed to be some sort of apparition. I put the covers over my head, and when I peeked out, she was gone. It was a terrifying experience and from then on my obsession with death grew worse. Shortly after her death World War II broke out and I was called up into the army. I married very young, and regretfully it was a bad marriage ending in divorce. (I have a son who is 52 years old. My first wife has since passed away.) I have written the above to give you some background to show the reason for my getting into the occult. Two deaths in my family which left me in fear. MY LIFE CHANGES After World War II, I was discharged from the army and became a London taxi driver. One day while driving my cab, I picked up a fare that wanted to go to the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. I asked her what went on there. She told me an incredible story, which sounded unbelievable, but years later I found out to be true. She told me that she attended sances and spoke to her dead husband. She told me how it was possible to not only speak to the dead, but actually see, hear and touch them. At first, it sounded too good to be true, but later to my surprise, I experienced for several years the reality of this phenomena. Yes, I know there are frauds, but there are also genuine mediums, who have power to contact the spirit world. I know this for two reasons (1) because of my own personal experiences and (2) because the Word of God in the Bible tells us so. The question is, are we really contacting the spirits of the dead, or are they demons impersonating the dead? I was involved in all forms of psychic phenomena, starting with the Ouija Board and ending up in materialization, through a substance called ectoplasm. I write about this more fully in my book Out From Darkness. At first, the spirit entities that we encountered in the phenomena of materialization through the substance called ectoplasm were quite friendly, but later on they materialized as horrible, grotesque-looking creatures. THERE WAS NO WAY OF CONTROLLING THE SPIRIT WORLD. As a Wiccan you may be thinking what has this to do with me? First let me make it clear Wiccans are not Satanists, neither are Spiritualists Satanists, but when I was a Spiritualist medium we had one thing in common, and that is we invoked spirits from another world. One could be sincere, but is it possible that one could be sincerely wrong? Please look at the following points/questions and prayerfully and honestly answer them. 1. Many witches talk about malevolent (evil and harmful) spirits. 2. Where do these spirits come from, these dangerous, hostile, evil entities? 3. Who or what are they? 4. Why do they exist? 5. Why do we have to fear and avoid them? 6. Why do you have to be protected from them? 7. How do you know whether or not you are being used by them? These are very serious questions. I used to ask these questions when I was in the sance room. I eventually got my answers, and I found them in the manual of the greatest authority in the world, the book of life, the Bible. The answer is clear, they are fallen angels. THE REAL PERSON AND POWER BEHIND WICCA The Bible says, "Our fight in this world is not against flesh and blood, (human beings) but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual powers in heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12). I know how real these principalities, powers and rulers of darkness are. As bizarre as it may seem, I have been involved in the very extremes of psychic phenomena. What occultists don’t understand is that there is a spirit battle for their soul. On one hand, we have the Holy Spirit; on the other side, we have a Spirit world of demonic power. And where do you think the battleground is? Man himself, his very soul. Jesus, in His farewell message to the Apostle said I must go so that the comforter must come (The Holy Spirit) Jesus shed His blood for the remission of our sins. He was the perfect sacrifice. You have to make a decision; you have to choose, either follow Satan or Jesus. Now a lot of people don’t understand this. Why? Because they simply just don’t understand the Bible. Here is the reason why. (I don’t know who the author was, but it made sense to me. The following is what he wrote.) The Bible is a difficult book because it came from the infinite to the finite from the unlimited all powerful God, to limited man. Therefore, you cannot understand the Bible as you could understand the writings of Plato and Socrates. You can study the great philosophers with the natural mind and by diligent application grasp their profound meanings. If the Bible could be understood by natural man, it would be a natural book and could not be the Word of God Since the Bible is from God, and therefore Spiritual, before you can receive its teachings, you must be born of the Spirit and filled with the spirit. Always approach the Bible praying that the Spirit will be your teacher and will guide you to a better understanding of His Holy word, or it will remain a difficult, closed book. Friend, I plead with you, pray about this matter, be honest with yourself, don’t let pride get in the way. There is a way to receive this person, The Holy Spirit. He is waiting for you. This is the most important decision you will ever make in your whole life. Repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for taking time to read this. I only mean the best for you. One day you will go into eternity, Jesus made it clear, He said, “I am the way the truth and the life, NO ONE ENTERS INTO HEAVEN EXCEPT THOUGH ME” (John 14:1-7). Jesus always told the truth. Think about it, very prayerfully. Love in Christ, Ben Alexander http://www.christiananswers.net/q-esp/esp-wiccans.html

My thoughts on the letter are this...There is a God and only one God and his name is Jesus. If you dont want to spend an eternity in hell follow him and his teachings. I think the overall moral of this letter is to repent be baptized in Jesus name and recieve his holy spirit. He is just trying to educate us on what is good and what is evil...this is my thought on the matter what is yours?

I can't explain why I feel this way but I think this man is a torchered sp? soul. And no NOT b/c his is Christian and NOT b/c he was involved in the occult but b/c that just the feeling I get about him. Is there anyone that feels the same?

It appears that this man is sort of preaching. He is taking his life experiences, and the way he has dealt with them, and reaching a conclusion about what he believes is the true religion. It also seems that this man is trying to get other people to believe it too, and in a way that has come to be associated with people who force their religion on others. My overall impression in this letter is this: First he tries to make us feel sorry for him becuase he's had a hard life. Then he tries to tell us why we believe what we do (because we "don't understand" the Bible). And then, he tries to explain it to us in a way that he hopes will make us convert. And he closes by saying that we're all basically going to hell unless we believe in Jesus. That's the way it comes across to me. Make sense?

Looks like he's trying to stonewall with words.

i think he's trying to convert wiccans to christianity. also he has had a very hard life and i think he wants people to know that there is always a bright side

Another proselytizing Christian with little to no understanding of Wicca, logic, or how to establish a cause/effect relationship between events attempting to use scare tactics to get people to accept Yahweh and Jesus.

I think he is a lonely elderly man who has spent his life trying to find answers and a way of over coming his fear of death. He thinks he has found his answer, but it appears he is trying to convince himself as well as the rest of us. As he seems to still be fighting that fear.