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	Confronting Familiar Spirits
		Familiar spirits are common amid the practices of spiritism and witchcraft, but their activity is by no means limited to persons and practices so obviously occult.
		The Hebrew word for "familiar spirit" is ob, meaning "a leathern bottle." To the ears of the ancient Hebrews, the hollow sound of a familiar spirit, speaking through a medium, sounded as though it were coming out of a skin bottle.
		She began to play with an imaginary friend, a familiar spirit, named "Genie." Interestingly, Genie (a derivation of jinn) is one of a class of spirits which assumes various forms, exercises supernatural power, and serves his summoner.
	home.mchsi.com /~ftio/warfare-familiar-spirits.htm (4451 words)

	What Familiar Spirit Are Mormons Following?
		A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
		And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
		As the evidence clearly indicates, every time the expression “familiar spirit” is used by God, it refers specifically to the presence of evil, derived through witchcraft or mysticism that does not come from God.
	www.pleaseconvinceme.com /index/What_Familiar_Spirit_Are_Mormons_Following (1186 words)

	What are familiar spirits?
		In the Old Testament we find that familiar spirits are mentioned more than a few times: Leviticus 19:31, 20:6, 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:9-14; 1 Samuel 28:7-9; 2 Kings 21:6, 23:24; 1 Chronicles 10:13-14; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 8:19, 19:3, 29:4.
		A familiar spirit, then, is a demon who identifies itself with another person.
		"familiar spirits," are given entrance to a person's life are: divination, transcendental meditation, visualization, necromancy, witchcraft, drugs, and alcohol.
	www.gotquestions.org /familiar-spirits.html (353 words)

	Familiar spirit (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a "familiar spirit" (Deut.
		This Hebrew word was equivalent to the pytho of the Greeks, and was used to denote both the person and the spirit which possessed him (Lev.
		The word "familiar" is from the Latin familiaris, meaning a "household servant," and was intended to express the idea that sorcerers had spirits as their servants ready to obey their commands.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/familiarspirit.html (142 words)

	SPIRIT - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The Spirit was the agent of Jesus' miraculous conception (Matthew 1:18,Matthew 1:20), came down on Jesus at His baptism (Matthew 3:16), led Him into the wilderness where He was tempted by the devil (Matthew 4:1), and enabled Him to heal diseases and cast out demons (Matthew 12:28).
		Paul identified the Spirit with the Lord (the risen Christ) and asserted that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, a growing freedom from the law of sin and death (2 Corinthians 3:18; compare Romans 8:2).
		As Scripture closes, the Spirit and the Bride, the church, issue an invitation for all who are thirsty to come and drink of the water of life (Revelation 22:17).
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T5991 (1266 words)

	Familiars (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Familiars have one or two runes that they are connected with, an aura, an effect (the result of the runes), skills (each with a trait that goes along with it), characteristics, a sense, and advantages and disadvantages.
		When a character is riding a familiar (large or very large familiars may be ridden) they generally travel faster, have more range, any damage taken by one is taken by the other, they form multiple targets, but they add their damage bonuses and most personal magics.
		A familiar may start as an aura familiar, then at the next difficulty level gain a mastery, and at the next a new aura or perhaps a skill or a different mastery, all depending on how they grow.
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	Making a Familiar
		If the spirit is not hostile to the wizard, the wizard may now examine and converse with the spirit to determine its suitability for a familiar (the GM should role-play this out, hinting at the spirit's strengths and weaknesses).
		Once the familiar has earned 100 EXP, it may enter a basic career of the wizard's choosing as long as the career is appropriate to the familiar's physical abilities and the GM approves.
		The relation between the wizard and his familiar is based, for the most part, on the agreement the wizard reached with the familiar spirit.
	www.employees.org /~claycle/WFRP/rules/familiars.html (4826 words)

	Familiar Information from Dragon 280
		Familiar's sense allows you to perceive some of what your familiar does, regardless of the distance between you.
		Your familiar's spirit is harmlessly suppressed while you inhabit its body, while your body falls into a deathlike trance.
		The arcane spellcaster must still specify a specific animal to call as a familiar; the familiar that appears however, is a construct version of that creature.
	www.cs.utah.edu /~ramsey/rpg/3e/rules/familiars.html (692 words)

	SIBERIAN HUSKIES^HUSKY SPIRIT GUIDES^Spirtuality Holistic Metaphysical Animal Healing^Friendly Familars
		You don't have to be a witch or believe in familiars to have one.
		Familiars can also be something other than the ordinary type of pets we humans like to have abut us.
		Often familiars make themselves known through meditation and dreams.This usually applies to people who can't have pets or who feel connected to animal it would be impossible to have in their lives.Whenever a change is coming into my life, no matter how small, tigers, leopards, cheetahs,cats, wolves,and bears appear suddenly in my meditations and dreams.
	www.husky-petlove.com /friendly.html (1122 words)

	Source of Premonitions
		The third interpretation is that "familiar spirits" are demons that gather around families from one generation to another.
		Familiar spirits are a particular type of demon.
		A familiar spirit's goal is to live in a human body as they are detached spirits living in the air around us.
	www.spiritualcuriosity.com /curiosity/source_of_premonitions.htm (439 words)

	religious_spirit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this writing, I have held my experience with the familiar spirit until last and I hope it is not too much of a surprise to you.
		Familiar Spirit: A supernatural spirit or demon supposed to attend on or serve a person.
		You see, the person was vulnerable to the spirit in the first place (either uneducated about the spirit or a weakness in that area) and the same vulnerability is still there.
	www.homestead.com /upstream/religious_spirit.html (3406 words)

	Familiar spirit - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Western tradition[?] a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English 'familiar', related to family) is a minor demon who obeys a witch, conjurer[?], etc., and serves and helps that person.
		These spirits are also said to be able of inspiring artists and writers (compare with muses).
		The familiar is given to the conjurer by another demon, higher in status, with whom the person has made a pact or, in other cases, having been the demon compelled by the conjurer.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/fa/Familiar_spirit.html (116 words)

	What is a Familiar?
		In legend, a familiar or familiar spirit is a supernatural being that helps and supports a witch or magician.
		In addition to animals, humanoid creatures were believed to serve as familiars; sometimes, these familiars looked like regular people, and sometimes, they were said to be odd in appearance, having some deformity or resembling stereotypical images of demons.
		Familiars were considered at least as dangerous as witches, as they were thought to be supernatural beings that looked like normal animals and could spy or wreak havoc for their witch without being easily detected.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-familiar.htm (399 words)

	Spirit Familiars - Occult 100: Book of Shadows, Occult Archive & Spells & Rituals Page
		Spirit familiars can be the spirits of animals that have once lived or they can be those animal spirits a witch or magician has come into contact with through divination, astral travel or other extra sensory communications.
		Most commonly, the operational spirit familiars of witches and magicians are animals that they have loved and cared for in life.
		In fact the lessons it teaches are better for the individual because they bring him or her closer to higher consciousness which is the goal of all beings from the lowest thoughtforms (too weak even to stimulate life in a single-celled organism) to the highest gods in the universe.
	www.occult100.com /bos/spiritfamiliar.html (936 words)

	FAMILIAR SPIRITS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Familiar spirits are also those that have been passed down to you from your blood line, in Adam (that is).
		I know that when I was born again all my familiar spirits were eradicated, all the ties of oppression I had to the curse in Adam, going right down my family bloodline to me. That was all placed at the bottom of the sea, the day I got born again.
		If someone has not studied the Bible concerning familiar spirits than they are vulnerable to them, especially during emotional periods in their lives, such as the passing of a loved one, times of depression or severe lonliness.
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	Spirit - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Used primarily in the Old Testament and New Testament of the wind, as in Genesis 8:1; Numbers 11:31; Amos 4:13 ("createth the wind"); Hebrews 1:7 (angels, "spirits" or "winds" in margin); often used of the breath, as in Job 12:10; 15:30, and in 2 Thessalonians 2:8 (wicked consumed by "the breath of his mouth").
		The spirit is thus in man the principle of life--but of man as distinguished from the brute--so that in death this spirit is yielded to the Lord (Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59; 1 Corinthians 5:5, "that the spirit may be saved").
		The Book of Ac may be termed the Book of the Holy Spirit, working with power in man. This Spirit is placed on a level with Father and Son in the Apostolic Benediction (2 Corinthians 13:14) and in the parting message of the Saviour to His disciples (Matthew 28:19).
	studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8338 (870 words)

	The Doctrines of Men - Devils
		A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
		And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
		And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
	www.bibleufo.com /devils.htm (1532 words)

	Wicca & Witchcraft - Witches Familiar Companions
		I soon came to understand that I was embracing a very old tradition of the Witch in the woods and the Familiar spirit that kept his or her company.
		Should you someday wish to work with a Familiar spirit, I believe you will find the days ahead to be filled with magic.
		Familiars may take the form of a beloved pet, a totem animal, or even a helpful nonphysical entity.
	herbalmusings.com /familiar-companion.htm (1018 words)

	Familiar spirit - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, etc., and serves and helps that person.
		Furthermore, in many cases the power of the familiar is directly proportional to the power of the wizard (as in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, although the comparison is not perfect, the nature of Pullman's daemons being dissimilar from standard notions of a familiar).
		Familiars have appeared in several fantasy role playing systems, most notably as the companions of wizards and sorcerers in recent versions of Dungeons and Dragons.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=261331 (356 words)

	The Witch's Familiar, Past and Present
		The Romans, for example, believed that each household was protected by a familiar whose job it was to keep the family from harm, and shamans and medicine men of various tribal traditions have long honored the spirits of animals for their wisdom and assistance in magickal workings.
		It became common knowledge that witches often took the form of their familiars to travel unnoticed to their unholy sabbats, and that as a reward, they were given drops of the witch's blood.
		While the familiar could take any animal form, right down to the smallest spider, the creature whose reputation suffered most from its role as the witch's evil accomplice was, of course, the cat.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_age_perspectives/38594/1 (444 words)

	message
		The advancement of the familiar spirit is always proportioned to that of the spirit he protects.
		While you yourself have a spirit of higher degree who watches over you, you may, in your turn, become the protector of a spirit who is lower than you; and the progress you help him to make will contribute to your own advancement.
		Wherever the laws consecrate injustice, inhumanity, good spirits are in the minority and the mass of bad ones who flock in, attracted by that state of things, keep the people in their false ideas, and paralyze the good influences which, being only partial.
	studentorgs.utexas.edu /kardec/messagedec98.html (3367 words)

	CHAPTER VII FAMILIAR SPIRITS
		The cult of the Familiar Spirit would appear to have reached a high stage of development among the island tribes; at any rate, it is from these people that comparatively complete records of its existence have come down to us.
		The precise source or origin of these Familiar Spirits is unfortunately nowhere given, beyond the statement that they leave the human body at death in company with the particular spirit connected with the deceased's heart (ibid., 484).
		These Familiar Spirits [Icheiri or Chemin] often nestle themselves inside bones taken from a grave, which are wrapped up with cotton into grotesque figures, and so give oracles: they say it is the Spirit of the Dead that talks (RoP, 473, 479).
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/sa/aflg/aflg07.htm (1005 words)

	familiar - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		an animal, as a cat, that embodies a supernatural spirit and aids a witch in performing magic.
		Familiar means well-acquainted with another person: a familiar friend.
		a supernatural spirit or demon supposed to attend on or serve a person.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/familiar (520 words)

	Truth VS Experience
		A familiar spirit is a devil spirit that hangs around to get "familiar" with people and circumstances and then impersonates a person after he/she dies and speaks through another person who has the familiar spirit living in him.
		When a familiar spirit produces a person who was once alive, it must look, act, and sound like the original if the counterfeit is to be believed by someone who is very knowledgeable of the person being imitated.
		This spirit never told Saul any positive thing; nor did it tell him anything that had not already been revealed to him (with the notable exception that it told Saul about his death.) Death is of the devil (Hebrews 2:14) anyway, and the spirit was setting Saul up to die.
	www.cortright.org /truexp.htm (1906 words)

	Familiar spirit (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a "familiar spirit" (Deut.
		This Hebrew word was equivalent to the pytho of the Greeks, and was used to denote both the person and the spirit which possessed him (Lev.
		The word "familiar" is from the Latin familiaris, meaning a "household servant," and was intended to express the idea that sorcerers had spirits as their servants ready to obey their commands.
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/familiarspirit.html (142 words)

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