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|  The Bible, the Supernatural and the JewsBy McCandlish Phillips In the original, unabridged text - this is not the condensed version. A sweeping overview of the whole supernatural realm, as the Bible reveals it to human understanding. The author takes the reader by the hand and leads from the most basic facts on toward an advanced and mature grasp of these vastly vital realities. Written in the crisp, direct style of a believer who was a famous New York Times reporter, the book was designed to prepare readers to take on the "graduate level" descriptions found in War on the Saints, a book that can be difficult for the uninitiated to handle without adequate basic instruction. This fascinating book is no theoretical presentation of Bible revelations disconnected from daily life. Phillips lays what the Bible states to be true directly beside scores of actual examples of involvement in the supernatural, chiefly by younger people, whom he encountered and interviewed in his extensive investigation. Our price: $20.00 Hardcover: 363 pages Publisher: World Publishing Company (1970) ASIN: B000OKD0Y4 Temporarily out of stock. About the Book The Bible, the Supernatural and the Jews is an investigation of the supernatural in its many aspects and a startling report on its effects on young people today, based in part on the author’s own encounters.
In this fascinating book, McCandlish Phillips ventures into the supernatural to identify powers and forces that are causing rapid, degenerative changes in American society as well as in individual behavior – changes that are inexplicable without an understanding of what lies behind them, unseen, but not incomprehensible. He takes his readers to places they have never been, and shows them things they have never seen, in a report that carefully describes hidden powers behind convulsive events.
A scholar has described the American college campus as a “disaster area for Judaism.” Phillips explains why this is so. He shows why young people of high-school and college age are coming under intense pressures to depart extravagantly from social norms, and why this departure is often more dangerous for a young Jew than it is for a Gentile.
“There are spiritual and supernatural forces at work today causing changes of great magnitude in human affairs. If we fail to recognize them we shall continue to be utterly helpless in dealing with them,” Phillips says, drawing the reader to passages of the Bible that clearly delineate the nature of these forces.
Supernaturalism has flooded in upon the American scene in a rush, creating a widespread interest in clairvoyance, psychicism, occultism, astrology, witchcraft, necromancy, out-of-body travel, transcendental meditation, extrasensory perception, and various forms of mysticism and spiritism. Phillips explains why these things should not be entered into lightly, and he tells why it is especially deadly for a Jew to dabble ignorantly in such things. His book marks out certain danger zones in the supernatural; it also invites the reader to consider supernatural experiences and gifts that the Bible declares to be good, and necessary, for man.
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions,” the Bible promises the Jews, offering a strong invitation to legitimate supernatural experiences. The invitation is extended to the Gentiles also.
Most American synagogues and churches are blind to the supernatural, or even stoutly and rigidly antagonistic to is, Phillips writes, arguing that they have created a tremendous void that is now being filled by other sources: “In their profound distrust of the supernatural, and in their insistence on stale rote, houses of worship have won a reputation among the young as the dullest places in town, so they go out and get their supernatural experiences wherever they can.”
There are active, intelligent, invisible forces affecting world and national events. On an individual level these forces can produce definite effects in thoughts, feelings, speech, and behavior, the author says.
He traces links that exist between forces and events in the physical and natural realms, and forces and concurrent events in the spiritual and supernatural realms. Table of Contents | Part I: | Journey Into the Supernatural | | | The Chariots of Israel: More Than Meets the Eye
The Door That Can Never Be Opened Again
The Impenetrable Order
He Comes As Wind
Testing Prophets and Dreamers of Dreams
A Lady Named Lowe
Journey Into the Supernatural: Knowing What Is | | Part II: | The Biblical Structure of Reality | | | The Invisible God: “I AM”
Angels
Satan
Battle for Allegiance
The Origin of Satan | | Part III: | The Thieves of Forever | | | The Angels of the Dragon
Demons in Hiding
Demons Exposed
Casting Demons Out
King Saul Consults a Medium
A Prevalence of Death
The Thieves of Forever
The Limitation of Demons | | Part IV: | The Challenge to Self-Possession | | | Spirit, Soul, and Body
Stages and Degrees of Demonic Control
Satan’s Three-Part Program for the Young | | Part V: | Mysticism, Mediums, Witchcraft, and Magic | | | A Victim of Magic
Witchcraft in America
New Gods Rush In
A Witch on Wall Street
Drugs and the Supernatural | | Part VI: | Influence | | | The Media – Marching to Satan’s Music
The Other Side of the Ledger
The Influence of the Jews
The Origin of the Youth Subculture
Why Dead? | | Part VII: | On Being a Real Jew | | | Chosen
Tradition and Truth in Conflict
Signs, Symbols, and Reality
Circumcision – Outward and Inward
Charter of Freedom
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| About the Author [from the original 1970 book] McCandlish Phillips has been a reporter on the staff of The New York Times since 1955. His byline appears regularly over deft human interest and color stories, vignettes of city life, and anecdotal profiles of famous men.
He is best known for two stories – one on a Jewish Nazi, the other on a Jewish Marine. The first was his famous 1965 exposé of Daniel Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party and New York State head of the Ku Klux Klan, whose career in spreading viciously anti-Semitic hate literature ended violently when Phillips revealed his hidden Jewish birth and upbringing. The other was a front-page biography on the short life of Pfc. Richard Marks, a prep school boy who joined the Marines and died in a tank in Vietnam.
McCandlish Phillips was born at Mount Vernon in 1927, reared in Boston; New York; Cleveland; Huntington, Indiana; and Brookline, Massachusetts – an upbringing that ran the full cycle from rural wheat farm to teeming city street.
He worked for the Boston Sport-Light, the Brookline Citizen, and the United States Army, before joining the Times as a night copy boy in 1952. He wrote his way to the staff and “soon he was one of the best reporters on the paper,” as Gay Talese recounted in The Kingdom and the Power.
He has covered the whole run of general news – parades, strikes, riots, trials, United Nations affairs, political campaigns, and he has concentrated lately on the New York City cultural news beat.
In 1960, Phillips became the first Times reporter to receive the newly established Meyer Berger Award of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, for excellence in reporting and writing the news in the tradition of the late Meyer Berger of the Times.
In a column about him in the New York Herald Tribune, author Dick Schaap wrote:
“McCandlish Phillips is not the typical American newspaperman. He keeps a Bible on his desk and, between assignments, he reads from it…. A slender six-feet five-inches tall, a friendly and gentle man, McCandlish Phillips is, obviously, an uncommonly decent human being. He is, also, an uncommonly gifted newspaperman.”
| | Summary The Bible asserts, uniformly and from beginning to end, that there are different levels of intelligent life – some of them unseen.
Do angels exist? They do, says the author, and he explains what they do and what their existence means to men.
Do evil spirits exist? They do, he affirms, and he points to strong evidence of their increasing contact with human beings.
They exist in an order beyond and above that of the natural, called the supernatural. There are limits upon what men can discover by the scientific method – they reach an end of what they can discover when they reach the end of the physical creation. Yet man is entitled to know of these unseen things.
In “Drugs and the Supernatural” McCandlish Phillips sets forth what he calls “the direct and mysterious relationship between certain drugs and the supernatural: Users experience stunning supernatural effects, unsuspected dimensions of the weird, and they also experience extremes of terror and chaotic, crashing misperceptions.”
What is the youth subculture? Where did it come from? Where will it ultimately lead? Chapters such as “The Origin of the Youth Subculture” attempt to answer these questions.
Phillips writes with clarity and precision, so that an uninitiated reader may easily understand. Chapters such as: “New Gods Rush In”, “Witchcraft in America”, “Journey into the Supernatural: Knowing What Is”, “The Door That Can Never Be Opened Again”, “Satan”, “Demons in Hiding”, “Signs, Symbols, and Reality”, “Charter of Freedom” will lead the reader into a progressively greater understanding of the supernatural and how it affects nations and men.
This book, addressed especially to the Jews, is not exclusively for the Jews. It is written especially for young people of college age, but it will be of a great interest to others.
Referring to a time “When the morning starts sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy!” the writer reminds us that the Bible yet promises that “You shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace. The mountains and hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
In that promise, and in others like it, there is all that young people need and desire. No rock festival, for all its throbbing rhythms, can offer anything approaching that.
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