Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), “With Full Faith Take Action Now”
“If we want Jehovah's friendship and protection we must break all connections and associations with spiritism in its many forms. That includes disposing of any objects that relate to spiritism. ... And God's Word shows that, just as a scarecrow cannot talk or walk or help or hurt anyone, the same is true of the images that men make and call sacred.”
The brochure urges readers to destroy objects connected with spiritism, citing the burning of the magical books at Ephesus in Acts 19:19, and at the same time argues from Jeremiah 10:2-5 and Isaiah 44:14-20 that such objects have no power of their own and should not be feared. The two quoted sentences are in paragraphs 81 and 82; the section runs on to page 47.
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Provenance and verification note for Unseen Spirits—Do They Help Us? Or Do They Harm Us? (brochure), With Full Faith Take Action Now
Confidence note. Full section read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page markers in the page's own HTML place the first quoted sentence on page 41 (par. 81) and the second on page 42 (par. 82) — no page-43 marker intervenes. The ellipsis marks an omission of about 180 words. An earlier version of this record gave the second page as 44; that was wrong.
Corroborated by. src-hlth-kl-1995-ch12-get-rid, src-hlth-w-2006-0415-qfr-demon-relief
Notes. This is the publication the Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985 cites at 'Demonism — destroying objects related to: us 41-42, 44-47'.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-us-1978-destroy-objects