Occult Decorating: Feng Shui Exposed

 

For those who have any doubt that the occult revival since Vatican II has reached everywhere, even to the top places in corporate America, read the following excerpt from Inc.com :

I have file folders everywhere, piled on my desk, stacked on my shelves, filling up my bookcases and plopped into incline sorters that I've nailed to the wall beside me for easy access. Hundreds upon hundreds of file folders. I know the contents and location of each one.

It's a great system.

Except that I've spent the past week moving nearly every single folder, because I may have been unwittingly holding myself back from higher levels of energy, productivity and profits.

Look around your office and ask this question:

Do the items in my space represent where I want to go with my business, or do they represent where I've been?

This is the question responsible for all of my file re-homing, and it springs from a deep dive into the study of feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of re-vamping your space to maximize the flow of positive energy.

Before your mind goes to magical fountains and dragon statues, consider this: Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, as well as companies like Coca-Cola, Nike and Intel have all used feng shui in their office spaces for greater productivity, happiness and success.

Feng shui has been a natural course of study given my mindfulness practice, as both disciplines ask you to slow down and pay close attention to how your mind and body feel in the present moment. Both practices also encourage you to notice the impact of your surroundings. (See inc.com/elisa-boxer/nike-intel-coca-cola-all-use-feng-shui-to-boost-productivity-how-to-use-it-in-your-life.html; Emphasis mine).

So what, exactly, is feng shui (pronounced as "fung shway"), and how is it occult? According to one source: Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that involves arranging your environment in a way that promotes balance, harmony, and good fortune. (See nimbushomes.com/blog/improve-feng-shui-for-your-home-in-2023). In this post, the occult origins, occult principles, and dangers of feng shui will be exposed for those who think of it as a "helpful" and "chic" way some people decorate their homes and offices. 

Decorating for Demons

[I have used many sources in compiling the information contained in this post. I would like to acknowledge especially Brandon, S.G.F. ed. (1970) “Feng Shui.” A Dictionary of Comparative Religion, and Too, Lillian (1999), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Feng Shui. I give full attribution to my sources and take no credit for myself other than putting it together in a condensed post. ---Introibo]

Feng Shui means “wind and water” and allegedly deals with understanding the forces and powers that are continually around us with the hope of harnessing these forces and receiving good fortune. Many of the fundamental texts associated with Feng Shui have been around for over 4000 years. This ancient art was confined to the ruling class until during the Tang Dynasty in China (A.D. 618-907) when Master Yang Yun-Sang wrote several books that allowed the general public to have access to the "secrets" of Feng Shui. 

Unfortunately, many believe Feng Shui  to be just another decorating concept. One website promoting feng shui says it is “about balance, comfort and harmony. Feng shui is not a religion or a mystical belief.  Rather, it is a science that offers the ability to create a balance in your dwelling or place of work.” (See 168fengshui.com). One “how to” book says, “This Chinese art of harmonious placement is largely common sense and good design.” (See Henwood and Choy Feng Shui: How to Create Harmony and Balance in Your Living and Working Environment [1999], inside front cover). Beneath the veneer of this ancient art, however, are concepts that go far beyond common sense decorating advice.

 It is an intricate occult, pagan system designed to harness the flow of an invisible universal force called chi (pronounced “chee,” also spelled qi, ki [pronounced "key"], or ch’i) in order to maximize its benefits. The chi in one’s physical surroundings, in concert with yin and yang energies and the five elements (earth, water, fire, metal, and wood), is thought to be affected by the characteristics and placement of physical objects: “The skill of a Feng Shui consultant lies in recognizing where chi is flowing freely, where it is trapped and stagnant, or where it may be excessive. The work of an occupier is to create space for chi to flow and activate the opportunities that may be frustrated by obstacles.” (See fengshuisociety.org). 

Chi is believed to be the most important influence on our lives. Chi means “life’s breath” or “energy” and is the unifying energy that links everything together. It has been likened symbolically to the cosmic breath of a dragon.

The concept of Chi originated in the Chinese Zhou dynasty and it literally means “gas.” Chi is the force that creates mountains, the brushstroke of a calligrapher, the movement of a dancer and is everywhere. Chi is also with us from birth to death and without it, we cannot live. Each person has a different chi and it can influence the destiny of one’s life. Chi can be enhanced through meditation, positive human relationships and a healthy environment. Chi constantly changes and no one can escape its powers. Feng Shui helps teach you how to manipulate the chi in your life.

Universal life energy is also linked in many pagan cultures to supernormal powers and sorcery. Tantric yoga, for example, cultivates the flow of prana in order to raise psychic powers, prana being the source of Hindu magic. In alchemy, this universal force is called spiritus; the occult kabbalah terms it astral light; and hypnotist Franz Mesmer called it magnetic fluid. The chi is also claimed as the source of power for levitation and other occult feats.

How Feng Shui is Put Into Practice

A feng shui consultant must take many things into account: how the chi is flowing in a house, the shape of the land and house, the directions the rooms face, the location of the rooms, the decor of the home, and the landscaping of the yard/garden. They are also factored in with yin and yang, along with the five elements of water, earth, fire, metal, and wood. Feng shui practice can include traditional feng shui, modern interpretations of feng shui, geomancy, dowsing, space clearing, and astrology.

Around the fourth century A.D., feng shui split into two schools, one based on landscape contours and the other based on the use of a “cosmic compass to chart astrological factors, I Ching hexagrams, the Five Phases, and other elements,” with further “metaphysical” elements added around the eleventh century. The former school became known as the Form School and the latter became the Compass School.

The Form School depends on intuitive insight and emphasizes the shape and contours of the area. The Form School might advocate that a small river should be in front of the house, that there should be an open view of the sky, and that the most used door of the dwelling should have “auspicious decors,” which are Chinese characters containing “auspicious meanings.” The four mythical animals — the red bird, the black tortoise, the blue dragon, and the white tiger — are to be placed symbolically in the front and the back and to the left and the right of the desired location. This can be done with landscape shapes, colors, and/or statues. The black tortoise, for example, is ideally a hill at the back of the building.

The intricate approach of the Compass School, based on a view of the flow of chi as well as the earth’s magnetic effects and fields, uses the trigrams of the I Ching, which are subdivided into hexagrams. The elements of the compass method are based on Chinese numerology “that identifies lucky and unlucky corners of a building according to specific numerical calculations.” Particular colors are also associated with the compass points.

Within the Compass School, the most popular tool is an octagonal grid called a bagua, which shows the eight basic directions of the compass. These directions are known as guas (categorized according to birth time), which can also be called the Nine Palaces (eight directions plus the center). This process detects the lucky and unlucky areas of the house. The eight directions include four that are positive (stimulation, success, content, calm) and four that are negative (depression, loneliness, weakness, destructiveness). The eight directions also correspond to the eight trigrams. Using your birth date and time, you can generate a chart of your eight guas to reveal in which of the eight directions each of the positive and negative forces abide.

The eight directions can also be depicted in a square shape called the Luo-shu (or Lo Shu) or magic square. According to legend, the magic square appeared on the back of a turtle 4,000 years ago. The square, which is comprised of numbers that add up to 15 in any direction, became part of Taoist magical practice.

The compass method, for example, may result in the north being “calm,” the southeast “destructive,” the south “weak,” and the west “content.” Contemporary feng shui uses names for these directions that are more palatable to the modern consumer, such as prosperity, fame, relationships, creative energy, travel and helpful people, career, knowledge, and family and health.

One feng shui book gives a formula for calculating one’s mingua (destiny number). It determines which direction and which of the five elements are luckiest — information that can be applied in the eight directional formula. What if more than one person lives in the house? Traditionally, the number of the “breadwinner”(who makes the most money) is used, although each person or breadwinner can use different areas of the house. Conflicts can be modified with the use of colors and objects related to each person’s element, whether it be wood, fire, earth, metal, or water.

Examples of Applied Feng Shui

It is claimed that a large part of comprehending Feng Shui is in understanding how your surroundings affect you. Practitioners (called "Feng Shui Consultants") have explained these effects of Feng Shui in ordinary daily life, so people will be able to make the "chi around them flow as smoothly as possible."

Here is some of the occult nonsense you must buy into:

• The foot of your bed should not face the door. The Chi’s flow will disrupt your sleep

• Living next to a place of worship, school, hospital, or fire station can cause health risks

• Pools with rounded corners are believed to create beneficial chi for the residents of the house

• The ideal situation for a business is to be located on a street corner with the entrance on a diagonal, drawing in chi, customers, and money from two directions

• Windows should not slide up and down because they only let in half as much chi as their size and occupants tend to give people a false impression

• The closer the bedroom is to the front door, the less peace residents will feel

• Dining Chairs should be even in number because even numbers represent luck and single chairs represent loneliness

• Colored ribbons and wind chimes near artificial ventilation devices will flutter and make music and enliven chi

• Flushing the toilet with the lid open increases the chances that “your money will go, too.”

• Cover your computer screen at night if it is in a bedroom so it won’t “act as a mirror and disturb your spirit” in sleep

• Hang curtains at the bottom of stairs or put a mirror on the landing to draw chi up so that chi does not flow down and out the door

• To help chi rise up the stairs, put plants under the stairs or hang art that is “light and bright.”

•  Because the kitchen is the money room, cooking on all burners with a variety of food will help bring in money

• Use crystals to "draw in chi"

• A home’s front door should be simple and practical and face the sun so that it will attract “fame, fortune, and longevity”

• Don’t have the foot of your bed in line with the door; the bed’s head should be on the north/south axis to be “in line with the magnetic energy of the earth.”

• A pointed roof (associated with fire) against a curved roof shape (associated with metal) is destructive since fire melts metal

Here in New York City, you can become a "Feng Shui Consultant" through studying occult practices over eight months that will run you $3,595 (See Feng Shui Manhattan School fengshuimanhattan.com). You can then charge a client a consultation fee of $500, and lay out the floor plan for an additional $800 or so. Such full time consultants can earn from $50,000 to $250,000 per year depending on how much you grow your reputation and get wealthy clients. 

The Evils of Using Feng Shui

1. You are decorating your home/office with a practice based on the heresy of pantheism.

Pantheism is the view that the world is either identical to God, or an expression of God’s nature. It comes from ‘pan’ meaning all, and ‘theism,’ which means belief in God. So according to pantheism, “God is everything and everything is God.” (See philosophytalk.org/blog/pantheism). 

The Vatican Council of 1870 infallibly defined:

CANON 3. If anyone shall say that the substance and essence of God and of all things is one and the same; let him be anathema. 

This is an infallible condemnation of pantheism. No one can therefore endorse any form of pantheism without being a heretic.

2.  You implicitly accept that health, healing, and having good things happen in your life is tied to invisible energy forces.

You accept as true that:

• Life (chi) energy must flow properly within the body in order for it to be healthy. If the life energy does not flow well or is blocked or hindered in some way, then the result is a health issue

• Life energy can be detected by practitioners in various ways. Some claim to be able to read auras-alleged visual representations of the energy flowing in and around everyone

• There is no longer a need for a personal, all-powerful, transcendent God. Instead, the impersonal life force is the cause of good fortune and even “miracles.” Moreover, being part of this life force, we too can master it and perform “miracles” as well. Jesus, then, was merely a master of this life force, he is not God Incarnate

• The energy flowing through the universe is indeed the life force that permeates reality because "God" and the universe are One. Therefore, this energy must be what we have called God (pantheism). If we are energy and energy is “God,” then we must be divine. "You are god" is one of the cornerstones of occult belief.

3. You are using a divination technique forbidden by the One True Church.

Principles of the I Ching, a divinatory tool, are used in feng shui. Feng shui itself is a form of divination based on Taoist philosophy. The sin of divination is committed when one has the will to receive occult [hidden] knowledge from forbidden sources, or uses the means to obtain knowledge from those sources, even though there be no communication or response on the part of the spirits of evil. (See theologians McHugh and Callan, Moral Theology, [1930], 2:363). 

4. The occult "energy" you invite are demons that can obsess or even possess you.

Even a broken clock will be correct twice every 24 hours. Below, a Vatican II sect "exorcist" (correctly) warns of possession by means of Feng Shui:

Roman Catholics cannot practice feng shui, a Chinese geomantic practice, since it can render them vulnerable to attacks by the devil, a priest said yesterday.

“If one makes use of hard work, perseverance and prayer, why would there be a need to harness the elements of nature through feng shui? Faith in God and the practice of feng shui contradict each other,” said Michell Joe Zerrudo, resident exorcist of the diocese of Cubao, Quezon City, in an interview over CBCPNews, the newsletter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

He said feng shui and other superstitious practices that are supposed to bring good luck is a “direct offense” against the first commandment: I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.

He warned the faithful that these superstitious practices to welcome the New Year might actually do more harm than good.

Zerrudo reminded Catholics about St. Paul’s warnings to the Ephesians about Satan, whom the apostle called the “prince of the power of air.” Feng shui, he noted, claims to harness the power of nature in order to bring harmony and balance, giving a person success in life.

(See.philstar.com/metro/2015/01/03/1408883/exorcist-priest-feng-shui-catholic-faith-contradict-each-other#:~:text=MANILA%2C%20Philippines%20%2D%20Roman%20Catholics%20cannot,of%20nature%20through%20feng%20shui%3F; Emphasis mine). 

Conclusion

Feng Shui is occult in origin, in principle, and in practice. Some feng shui consultants recommend clearing the space in your home through a ritual involving physical cleaning, a purification ceremony, invoking positive energy, and preserving the clean energy through the placement of a quartz crystal. Others recommend meeting “the Spirit of your home (!),” which could be a person, an animal, a voice, or a presence.

When you decorate your home, you can design a pleasing environment without using feng shui at all. One need only rely on common sense, personal likes and dislikes, and artistic sensibilities. Know that feng shui is decorating your home to invite demons. Invite evil in, and you can be sure they will take you up on the offer.