The heathen oracles have their counterpart in the spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyants, and fortunetellers of today. The mystic voices that spoke at Ekron and En-dor are still by their lying words misleading the children of men. The prince of darkness has but appeared under a new guise. The mysteries of heathen worship are replaced by the secret associations and seances, the obscurities and wonders, of the sorcerers of our time. Their disclosures are eagerly received by thousands who refuse to accept light from God’s word or from His Spirit. While they speak with scorn of the magicians of old, the great deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts under a different form. {5T 193.1}

(193) De hedenske orakler har deres sidestykke i nutidens spiritistiske medier, clairvoyante samt spåmænd og spåkvinder. De mystiske røster, der talte i Ekron og i En-Dor, vildleder endnu menneskenes børn ved deres løgnagtige ord. Mørkets fyrste har kun vist sig i en ny skikkelse. Den hedenske gudsdyrkelses mysterier erstattes af de hemmelige foreninger og seancer, de ubekendte personer og undere, som nutidens troldmænd virker gennem. Deres åbenbarelser modtages med begærlighed af tusinder af mennesker, som vægrer sig ved at modtage lys fra Guds ord eller fra hans Ånd. Medens de omtaler oldtidens troldmænd med ringeagt, leer den store bedrager triumferende, når de bøjer sig for hans kunster i en anden form.