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Feng Shui	Frances	Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Question: Why would Feng Shui be demonic? I have several books on Feng Shui that I believe are mostly common sense. To place a sofa or desk so that you face the door in the room so that you will not be startled when someone enters the room. Clearing away clutter to promote serenity and clear thinking. I do not believe in having Buddah statues or that sort of thing. Do that mean I have allowed the demonic in my home? My daughters also like Feng Shui. Not sure if I introduced one of my daughters to it, or she introduced me to it. Have we sinned by using Feng Shui which mostly is just common sense in arranging furniture and selecting colors in rooms of your home?
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM Dear Frances: Feng Shui is fundamentally not about where you place your sofa. The whole theory of Feng Shui and its purpose is to align your physical surroundings to best facilitate Ch'i -- that occult (invisible) force that is the basis of oriental cosmology and utterly hostile to the Christian cosmology. In Feng Shui the sofa is ultimately positioned according to metaphysical energies that will attain the optimal flow. According to one Feng Shui website: Feng Shui, to repeat, is a study of environmental effect on mankind. While Feng Shui is one of the factors, other factors also affect humankind's life path and the most significant of these is astrology or destiny. As such, I have also included sections on Chinese Astrology and other related disciplines. Feng Shui is a companion to Chinese divination. In this aspect Feng Shui can become geomancy, divination by geographic features. Divination is a sin against the First Commandment. An Indonesian architect Sutrisno Murtiyoso reported said about Feng Shui, "In countries where belief in feng shui is still very strong, feng shui has become a hodgepodge of superstitions and unverified notions which are passed off in the university curriculum as scientific principles of architecture or city planning." On another Feng Shui website, after giving fine advice that one should clear clutter from their house and pay attention to quality air and light, is added this nonsense as the third piece of advice: 3. Define the Ba-Gua, or the feng shui energy map of your house, by using one of the two main feng shui methods - the compass or the BTB grid. Once you define the bagua, you will know which areas of your home are connected to specific areas of your life. For example, in traditional feng shui, the Southeast feng shui area of your home is connected to the flow of money energy in your life. This is called divination, a mortal sin. The advice goes one with more nonsense about the five elements and other aspects of oriental cosmology. Bottomline: Strictly practical considerations in how you decorate your home or position your furniture is not a problem. But to Feng Fooy you home is another manner. Whether you intend to do it or not, to use Feng Shui is to use Chinese theories of cosmology that are false and occult in nature related to non-existent "energy" flows. Definitive Bottomline from the Church: In the document A Christian reflection on the New Age (no. 7.2) Feng Shui is defined: Feng-shui: a form of geomancy, in this case an occult Chinese method of deciphering the hidden presence of positive and negative currents in buildings and other places, on the basis of a knowledge of earthly and atmospheric forces. “Just like the human body or the cosmos, sites are places criss-crossed by influxes whose correct balance is the source of health and life.” Such Chinese occultism and New Age nonsense is condemned by the Church. Rule of Thumb: Any philosophy or activity that relates to "energy" flows is nonsense and connects one with ways of thinking and practice that are inconsistent with the Christian Faith. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Why would Feng Shui be demonic? I have several books on Feng Shui that I believe are mostly common sense. To place a sofa or desk so that you face the door in the room so that you will not be startled when someone enters the room. Clearing away clutter to promote serenity and clear thinking. I do not believe in having Buddah statues or that sort of thing. Do that mean I have allowed the demonic in my home?

My daughters also like Feng Shui. Not sure if I introduced one of my daughters to it, or she introduced me to it. Have we sinned by using Feng Shui which mostly is just common sense in arranging furniture and selecting colors in rooms of your home?

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM

Dear Frances:

Feng Shui is fundamentally not about where you place your sofa. The whole theory of Feng Shui and its purpose is to align your physical surroundings to best facilitate Ch'i -- that occult (invisible) force that is the basis of oriental cosmology and utterly hostile to the Christian cosmology.

In Feng Shui the sofa is ultimately positioned according to metaphysical energies that will attain the optimal flow.

According to one Feng Shui website:

Feng Shui, to repeat, is a study of environmental effect on mankind. While Feng Shui is one of the factors, other factors also affect humankind's life path and the most significant of these is astrology or destiny. As such, I have also included sections on Chinese Astrology and other related disciplines.

Feng Shui is a companion to Chinese divination. In this aspect Feng Shui can become geomancy, divination by geographic features. Divination is a sin against the First Commandment.

An Indonesian architect Sutrisno Murtiyoso reported said about Feng Shui, "In countries where belief in feng shui is still very strong, feng shui has become a hodgepodge of superstitions and unverified notions which are passed off in the university curriculum as scientific principles of architecture or city planning."

On another Feng Shui website, after giving fine advice that one should clear clutter from their house and pay attention to quality air and light, is added this nonsense as the third piece of advice:

3. Define the Ba-Gua, or the feng shui energy map of your house, by using one of the two main feng shui methods - the compass or the BTB grid. Once you define the bagua, you will know which areas of your home are connected to specific areas of your life. For example, in traditional feng shui, the Southeast feng shui area of your home is connected to the flow of money energy in your life.

This is called divination, a mortal sin.

The advice goes one with more nonsense about the five elements and other aspects of oriental cosmology.

Bottomline: Strictly practical considerations in how you decorate your home or position your furniture is not a problem. But to Feng Fooy you home is another manner. Whether you intend to do it or not, to use Feng Shui is to use Chinese theories of cosmology that are false and occult in nature related to non-existent "energy" flows.

Definitive Bottomline from the Church: In the document A Christian reflection on the New Age (no. 7.2) Feng Shui is defined:

Feng-shui: a form of geomancy, in this case an occult Chinese method of deciphering the hidden presence of positive and negative currents in buildings and other places, on the basis of a knowledge of earthly and atmospheric forces. “Just like the human body or the cosmos, sites are places criss-crossed by influxes whose correct balance is the source of health and life.”

Such Chinese occultism and New Age nonsense is condemned by the Church.

Rule of Thumb: Any philosophy or activity that relates to "energy" flows is nonsense and connects one with ways of thinking and practice that are inconsistent with the Christian Faith.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.