Letter to a Friend Involved with Reiki - Chapter 39

Letter to a Friend Involved with Reiki

Dear Friend, 

It was interesting to talk to you. It makes me have to think to find answers to the questions you addressed. But I think we need to ask and answer the questions: Do all roads lead to truth? Is there only one way? Is there more than one way? Since God’s Word says that all things work together for good to them that love God, I believe in our search for truth, we may go down different paths.

Jesus said, 

They that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.[1]

In Isaiah we read,

Ye shall seek Me and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.[2]

Jesus’ own words convey the same sentiment,

Seek and ye shall find.[3]

In my own personal experience, I rejected the God of Christianity, Christ and the organized religion of both Catholicism and Protestantism because of the hypocrisy and lack of spirituality that I saw in both of them. In my youth, I didn’t meet one priest or minister against the war in Vietnam or against the military industrial complex. They were just part of the club and though they sympathized with my problem of having to go to war, they felt it was my duty to obey my government. Therefore, I searched in Buddhism, yoga, Transcendental Meditation, organic foods, fasting, and Judaism for the answers.

However, after reading and searching intensely on the subject of what I should do about the war, which none of the above answered, I finally found the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that said,

Ye have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on the right cheek, turn to him the other, also,[4]

and later,

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.[5]

The Early Christians suffered persecution under the Romans, but lived out their faith. They went to the lions and torturous deaths, and yet testified of their faith in Christ’s doctrine of love. My stand against the military ultimately came from the following the words of Christ. Even before I experienced salvation’s rebirth in Christ, I received moral strength from reading Jesus’ words in the New Testament, where yoga, meditation, and fasting had failed me.

Since you agree that there are absolutes and therefore absolute truth exists, then we must look at the different religions and their truth claims to see which one or ones actually lead us to the truth. Oddly enough, almost all the religious ideologies claim to be the only way to salvation, or the best way to salvation, or the old and forgotten way to salvation, or the newly-found again way to salvation.

But since almost every one of the religions in the world make the same claim and contradict one another in their claims, they cannot all be true. They may all have truth. But even a lie is often coated in truth in order to deceive. If something is true, then something that contradicts it cannot be true. 

In other words, something cannot be true and false at the same time, unless you play word games. But unclear mystical concepts are very common in India where their meaning of “reality” is that ‘reality’ is an “illusion,” and therefore, is not “real,” which leads to an illogical contradiction or anti-logic. In math we say, if y=3 then y cannot = not 3. “God is love” and “God is the absence of love” cannot both be true because they are contradictory.

The Bible says that Christ was crucified and rose bodily from the dead.[6] The Koran says that Jesus

was not crucified but God let another person be substituted for Him. Therefore, there was no resurrection. The Bible and the Koran contradict one another. Both cannot be true. The statement that all religions basically teach the same thing, unconditional love, is not true. The Koran says we cannot really know God. Only by following the Five Pillars of Islam can a man have a chance of maybe gaining salvation upon death, unless he dies as a martyr in the cause of Islam. That is not to say that followers of Islam cannot be very loving people. 

In my visit to the Saharawi refugees in southern Algeria, I met a very loving Muslim man. His love was almost beyond anything I ever experienced in Europe. But even though he was a loving and caring person that does not necessarily mean that the creed of Islam is true. The Bible says,

God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.[7]

I believe people like my Muslim friend who are really walking in love are close to God. Jesus said,

He that receives you, receives Me.[8]

I believe that although the circumstances made it hard for us to talk to him more intimately about Christ, by his receiving us so cordially, he was actually receiving Christ whom he knew we represented. In the same chapter where John says

God is love.[9]

He also says, 

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (or prove) the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, but is that spirit of Antichrist.[10]

Are the spirits that people are channeling with in Reiki believers in Jesus Christ?

Jesus said, 

I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes unto the father, but by me.[11]

He said, 

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness (and you believe it is light), how great is that darkness (then you’re really in great darkness).[12]

Apostle Paul said that even the Devil himself can appear as an angel of light.[13] Apostle John said that the “beast,” Satan’s man during the Last Days, would perform great signs and wonders so that the whole world would believe in him.[14]

From my experience and from reading the Bible, I am under the conviction that all the religions can be placed under two categories. The first are those that profess that one must obey certain rules, or do certain exercises, eat certain foods, etc, to be saved. The second are those who profess that man is incapable of saving himself and he needs a Savior.

In the first group, we can put false Christianity or Churchianity or religiousity in whatever form or sect it appears, plus all the other “isms,” sects, and spiritual movements of both East and West which teach us that we can save ourselves through our own efforts whether they be meditating, calling upon certain spiritual entities, using certain signs, symbols, or rocks, eating or not eating certain foods, performing certain rituals, wearing certain symbols, chanting certain lines, etc. Though these ‘isms’ may contain some truth, they profess to be the truth in order to gain converts and disciples. But the truth is they are not “the truth.”

The truth is that man is not capable of saving himself by his own self righteous efforts. That is why the world is like it is today. The world needs a Savior. We long for a Savior. Not just some ethereal concept of salvation. The Bible says we are made in God’s image.[15] Because of that we are able to think, communicate, use language, create and love. If God is just some “universal energy” or “life force” why should we have a conscience telling us the difference between right and wrong? 

The belief in the Christian God of the Bible gives ample reasons for why we can love, reason, judge, create, think and feel. The Bible says God is love.[16] But it also says He’s a consuming fire.[17] The Bible says that Jesus stands at the right hand of the Father [18] and that Jesus will judge the living and the dead.[19] When we die, we are not just reunited with the universal life force or energy; we are reunited with the Person of Christ, and with the departed saints who are surrounding us now like a great cloud of witnesses.[20]

It is not true that all the religions teach the same principle, unconditional love. The Bible does teach that God has an unconditional love for us. However, if we reject God’s love for us, He will not overrule our free will. If other faiths teach something similar, it’s like the example of the counterfeit bill. The counterfeit has to be pretty close to the real to pass off as the truth. Therefore, even false religious beliefs need to have some universal truths in their doctrines in order to be believed.

Jesus not only preached love, he lived and died in love for the sins of mankind, both you and me. We cannot save ourselves.[21] We need a Savior to cleanse us from our impurities. If we depend upon our own ability to cleanse ourselves, or the calling upon spirits or angels to do so, we will be found short. Only Christ alone can redeem sin, the only begotten Son of God. Our own righteous efforts cannot save us or keep us saved. It’s Christ alone. The Bible says,

Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.[22]

No one else died for the sins of mankind and testified of the truth of His doctrine through the mighty miracles He did. His final resurrection from the dead confirmed His divinity. Death was swallowed up in victory. [23] Only Christ died and rose from the dead.[24] This is the foundation stone of Christianity. No other faith has such a firm foundation. The Bible also is a living book full of prophecies which Christ fulfilled. It is a book full with prophecies yet to be fulfilled.

I was young and energetic like you when I first experienced the love of God during a drug trip. At that epiphany experience I asked, “Is this is what Jesus was all about?” But since I did not know any real Christians, I looked elsewhere. The New Age Movement, which has only recently arrived in Portugal, had been made popular through the Beatles’ music. Eastern thought and Transcendental Meditation became the intellectual norm. I bought into it fully and filled my heart and mind with the popular New Age books of that era.

I meditated, did yoga, fasted, and ate organic food cooked only in a special way to gain my spirituality. But it was never enough. Even with all my effort it was never enough. I always came down from the high, got impatient, did something unloving, and became discouraged - especially with my inability to stay on that spiritual high. I couldn’t keep the spiritual high. I couldn’t maintain a state of righteousness. Thank God I found the truth was much simpler. I found true Christianity; I found the power of God’s Word, comfort of the Holy Spirit and the discernment and wisdom that knowing God’s Word gives.

Jesus said, 

My Word is truth.[25]

He said, 

If you continue in My Word, then... you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.[26]

But He also warned that many would come in His name saying they were Christ and deceive many.[27] [28] Paul tells us there will be a great falling away first and then shall the man of sin be revealed,[29] the Antichrist. Paul also admonished that even the Devil himself can appear as an angel of light.[30] And Jesus warned that the false Messiahs would do great and mighty miracles,[31] so we know that the Devil and his fallen angels can and do inspire their human followers on earth in the Last Days to perform seeming miracles.[32] Many people will be deceived.

Jesus said the love of many would grow colder.[33] He said men’s behavior would be similar to that of Sodom and Gomorrah[34] before its destruction. He said violence would increase and there would be wars, earthquakes and pestilences like Ebola and Aids, but that all these things were the beginning of sorrows and that things would get worse.[35] Mankind is indeed headed for some apocalyptic events that will shake the foundations of the world. Jesus said that unless He controlled and shortened the destruction mankind would cease to exist, that man would destroy himself.[36]

I believe Reiki is not the truth, but an imitation, a deception. The calling upon the angels of light is in fact the calling upon deceptive spirits who cannot fulfill their promises but are sent to confuse and disorient the truth-seeker and keep them from the real truth of the Gospel. I have read various testimonies of former Reiki Masters who have, after a sad journey through Reiki, finally found Christ. Some have sent out warnings to others.

I will end here, my friend, to not go on too long. But I will attach two links for you to view on the subject. Catholic Leader Talks About REIKI[37]

and Why Christians Should Avoid Reiki and Energy Healing.[38] 

Or you might want to get the book at the left, The Reiki Danger: Healing that Harms by Eric S. Harz.[39] In my search for the truth, I eventually had no desire for those Eastern philosophies and exercises. The reason though was because I was full of the Word and had found the answers in my in depth study of the Scriptures. Would you be interested in studying more from the Bible? Jesus said if you do,

the truth would set you free.[40]

Will you take up the challenge to “continue in His Word?”[41]

Let me know! We could study the Word together. If you would like to watch a longer video on the subject of Reiki, I have included another one below.[42]

 (End of letter to a Reiki Master)

At this point I would like to apologize if some of the chapters repeat information discussed in previous chapters. Some chapters were written as independent items which I later thought worthwhile to include in the text. Rather than do a lot of editing, I have left them pretty much as they were. But hopefully by repeating the same information, it will make it easier for you to remember.

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Notes:

[1] Matthew 5:6
[2] Jeremiah 29:13

[3] Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

[4] Matthew 5:38-39
[5] Matthew 5:43-44

[6] 1Corinthians 15:3-5 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: and that he was seen of Cephas, then the twelve:

[7] 1John 4:16

[8] Matthew 10:40
[9] 1John 4:8
[10] 1John 4:1-2
[11] John 14:6
[12] Matthew 6:23 …If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! (paraphrased in text)
[13] 2Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

14] Revelation 13:13-14 … and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon (the Devil) which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?....

[15] Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

[16] 1John 4:8

[17] Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

[18] Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

[19] Acts 10:42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of the quick (living) and dead.

[20] Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

[21] Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.

[22] Titus 3:5

[23] 1Corinthians 15:54
[24] 1Corinthians 15:3-4
[25] John 17:17
[26] John 8:31-32
[27] Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

[28] Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

[29] 2Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you be any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

[30] 2Corinthians 11:14

[31] Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

[32] Revelation 13:13-14 And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceives them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast….

[33] Matthew 24:12

[34] Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fired and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

[35] Matthew 24:6-8 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; ss that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

[36] Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

[37] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5C7t_XEAdU
[38] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6Wus-F6j4&ab_channel=DoreenVirtue (accessed 09/2020)
[39] https://www.amazon.com/Reiki-Danger-Healing-that-Harms/dp/0966830105
[40] John 8:32
[41] John 8:31

[42] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkiNFjzJ6y4&ab_channel=DoreenVirtue (accessed 09/2020)

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