Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

web and are no longer a part of them. “They believe that the dream catcher holds the destiny of their future.”

Without going into much comment on the above tale, most Christian researchers will recognize the occultic connotations throughout this little story. Notice the fantasy of a spider speaking, the use of visions, the “sacred language,” and the idea that it is the dream catcher that holds each person’s destiny rather than God. Notice also the phrase “web of life.” The idea of an etheric or planetary web was developed by Alice A. Bailey, an occultist, but initially expressed by Chief Seattle around 1854 in his supposed quote: “This we know...the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected, like blood which connects one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life —he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” John Lash reveals that it is a “[k]ey idea in New Age philosophy of holistics, central to the new paradigm of GAIA, and major subject of study and exploration in geomancy.” [Emphasis in the original] Geomancy, by the way, is a form of divination, which is explicitly forbidden in the Bible. (See Deuteronomy 18:10-12; II Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 14:14; Ezekiel 12:24; 13:6-7; Acts 16:16.) Returning to the story of the dream net, we find that the spider (Iktomi) was known as a trickster. How can you be sure that he didn’t trick the people with his tale of the dream catcher? How can you be sure that the good dreams are