Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Many regard spiritualism as a hoax and its phenomena as fake.
But while it is true that the results of trickery have often been passed
off as genuine, there have also been striking evidences of
supernatural power. And many who reject spiritualism as human
deceit will be led to admit its claims when they are confronted with
manifestations that they cannot explain.
Modern spiritualism and ancient witchcraft--both claiming
communion with the dead as their most important principle--are
based on that first lie by which Satan deceived Eve in Eden: "You
will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it ...
you will be like God." (Genesis 3:4, 5). Based on falsehood, both
modern spiritualism and ancient witchcraft are from the father of
lies.
God said: "The dead know nothing. ... Nevermore will they
have a share in anything done under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6).
"His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his
thoughts perish." (Psalm 146:4 KJV). The Lord declared to Israel:
"The person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute
himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him
off from his people." (Leviticus 20:6).
The "familiar spirits" were not the spirits of the dead, but evil
angels, the messengers of Satan. The psalmist, speaking of Israel,
says that "they even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to
demons," and in the next verse he explains that they sacrificed them
"to the idols of Canaan." (Psalm 106:37, 38). In their supposed
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