XVI Century B.C. according to St. Jerome - Leviticus (Third Book of Moses) ~~~ You shall not divine...
Micah 5: 9-14
"-it is Yahweh who speaks- I will ....
tear the charms from your hands,
and you will have no more soothsayers;
tear from you your images and your pillars;
tear from you your sacred poles,
and demolish your idols;
and no longer will you bow down
before the work of your hands.
I will take revenge in anger and fury
on the nations that would not obey."
Same for revelations.... think of John Henry Westen
@Gast6 Your assertion requires more nuance:
Msgr. G. Van Noort, Dogmatic Theology, Vol. 3, Sources of Revelation (1961), p.215:
“It seems indisputable that even a private revelation—at least if it is concerned with matters bearing some relationship to God as our goal—can be believed by the same virtue of faith by which we believe a truth publicly revealed…Granting that the divine origin of the revelation can be established with certainty, the question arises whether such revelations not only can be believed but ought to be believed. Briefly we think the answer is this: such a revelation ought to be believed both by the one who receives it and by those for whom it is destined: the rest of the faithful cannot outrightly deny it without some sort of sin.”
One can cite several other pre-conciliar moral theologians who offer the same teaching.
Thanks for the nuance, @Simon North I thought about the many false seers who should be referred to a psychiatrist.
@Gast6 And you're right about the concern. I think the demons are producing these false events in order to make them so numerous, they obscure the legitimate private revelations (and worse, relativize them).
Reading horiscopes or consulting Tarot cards or playing with ouija board: mortal sin
Even horoscopes - so many women read it and believe in them!
I think it will be under 'pride' = 'superbia' - one of the deadly sins
Pieter_van_der_Heyden_-_Hoogmoed Superbia
Deuteronomio 30, 17-18
"Si te dejas arrastrar a postrarte ante otros dioses y a darles culto, yo os
declaro hoy que pereceréis sin remedio"
2 Corinthians S 6, 14-16:
"Do not harness yourselves in an uneven team with unbelievers. Virtue is no
companion for crime. Light and darkness have nothing in common Christ is
not the ally of Beliar, nor has a believer anything to share with an unbeliever.
The temple of God has no common ground with idols, and that is what we
are-the temple of the living God".
The Prophet Daniel interpreted dreams, St Joseph was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt.
Yeah, that's right, I absolutely agree. I guess 'Ascent of Mount Carmel' went too far this time and with some other posts, too.