War in Heaven - cont.
But how do the Theocrats operate? How does a Theocratic band form? This excerpt explains:
Q. People who have had point-of-death experiences have often reported being met by Jesus, angels, or other religious figures who invited them into Heaven; but meeting spirits who claim to be previously deceased relatives or friends is even more common. Is this part of the recruiting process?
A. Yes. Point-of-death experiences represent a major mistake by the Theocrats: trying to recruit people who are close to death but not really dying. The silver cord is stretched out very long but not broken, and the mind is in a state of consciousness very similar to that occurring during the actual death process. The Theocrats perceive this and try to recruit the person into their band, but nothing happens because the silver cord is still intact, and disembodied spirits lack the psychic power to break it. Eventually, the person returns to normal consciousness and remembers a point-of-death experience.
We call this a major mistake by the Theocrats because many point-of-death experiences reveal information about the afterlife that the Theocrats would like to conceal. Sometimes, members of the Invisible College show up during the encounter and warn the person that the Theocrats are impostors who enslave and destroy souls.
Only a few remember this warning consciously and talk about it afterwards, but many more are affected by it enough to become hostile to the Theocratic aspects of religion.
Q. I remember reading passages in accounts of point-of-death experiences that support both of your statements. Especially, many people who have had such experiences tend to avoid church attendance and involvement with any sort of traditional religious dogma from then on. I’ve always been somewhat mystified by this, because it would seem logical for such an experience to strengthen faith in religion, not weaken it.
A. The greatest enemy of Theocracy is the truth. The more that people find out about the true nature of the afterlife and other aspects of spiritual reality, the harder it is for the Theocrats to delude and enslave them. This is why so many Theocratic religious sects forbid deliberate mediumistic contact with the spirit world.
But point-of-death experiences are accidents, and there isn’t much that the Theocrats can do to prevent them.
Q. When people see the spirits of dead relatives waiting to greet then during point-of-death experiences, are these fakes like the Theocrats pretending to be Jesus, or are the other spirits really their relatives?
A. Quite often, they really are. Theocratic bands often contain many members of one family. There are several reasons for this. Frequently, whole families belong to the same church congregation and are recruited, after death, into the Theocratic band that controls it. Even if not, ties of family affection are also used to recruit spirits after death. One of the most important activities of every Theocratic band is obtaining new members to replace the souls the band devours.
Maintaining a relationship with an organized group of living people also allows the Theocrats to maintain a social and political system here on Earth working in their interest. Theocratic bands maintain their relationships with the living by using religious mind control, which should be described in a separate chapter.
Let us end this chapter by pointing out that every single one of the ideas at the core of traditional deistic doctrine is a lie.
“Only God (under various specific names in different sects) is good: people are basically evil and are incapable of improving themselves morally by their own efforts.” This is a lie.
“Only God is naturally immortal, but people can gain immortality by doing proper service for the Deity.” This is a lie.
“Human beings can receive forgiveness for their sins, and divine strength to prop up their various weaknesses, by ‘Letting God into their hearts’ i.e., by creating a powerful psychic bond between themselves and the deity.” This is also a lie.
Q. From what I’ve learned so far, the biggest lie of all is that the “gods” worshiped by organized religions are “archetypes of virtue.” We humans are bad enough, but the Theocrats are obviously many times worse than the worst of us. And it’s not Satan who’s the real “Father of Lies.” It’s God.
A. Exactly.
They can draw out enough energy this way to sustain themselves on the astral plane indefinitely, but the process destroys the other spirit.
Q. This is very frightening. Can they do this to just any other spirit, and can they do it to an astral soul incarnated in a body?
A. Fortunately, no to both. If they could, neither you nor we would be here talking about it. The Theocrats would have eaten up all of us just to get rid of us. They claim to be gods, but their powers are actually quite limited. Some of them are both more knowledgeable and psychically more powerful than most of the rest of us, living and disembodied, but they are far from omnipotent.
They can’t damage an embodied soul or override its conscious will, and they usually can’t capture and devour disembodied souls who resist them, except for the weak and untrained ones that mediums call “lost souls.” And even the majority of lost souls are capable of random psychokinetic bursts that allow them to flee the Theocrats when threatened.
The Theocrats obtain victims by posing as gods and persuading religious believers to enter their bands by promising them "eternal bliss in Heaven."
So religious mind control would be an important weapon for the Theocrats to employ on the earthly plane. It guarantees recruits into Theocratic bands when the person dies. Thinking she is going to sit at the right hand of god, she is instead imprisoned with a Theocratic something like being on a chain-gang.
Artist H. R. Giger’s poltergeist, a composite being which consists of entrapped souls and so is a Theocratic band.
Poltergeist from the 1982 movie of the same name.
The Egyptian goddess known Ammit which means “devourer” or “soul-eater.” She is depicted as part lion, part hippopotamus and part crocodile. When a person died, his heart was weighed by Anubis against a feather of Ma’at. If he was found wanting, his soul was devoured by Ammit and he could not journey onto join Osiris. Since the soul is immortal, it cannot be destroyed but is instead eternally restless. Ammit was not worshiped, there were no cults that venerated her. She was universally recognized by all Egyptians as something to fear. Although WiH never talks about Ammit, the reason she was never worshiped would be because she gets her worship masquerading as other gods. If people understood what “gods” are, they wouldn’t worship them either.
Artist’s conception of a wendigo which has the composite nature of a Theocratic band. The wendigo originated among the Algonquin tribes of the Great Lakes region. The wendigo was a manitou or powerful spirit being that hungers for human flesh (read “flesh” as “souls” and you have a Theocrat). But humans that commit cannibalism could become a human wendigo (read “cannibalism” as “the consuming of emotional and intellectual energies” and you have a Luciferian). Today, people who exhibit a preference for eating human flesh are said to have a “wendigo psychosis.”