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Reading trough this, I must say your knowledge about things is pretty big. But, maybe you should start a journal, if you write like this? I would promise to read it,at least.

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Lord Larehip

War in Heaven by Kyle Griffith
(Spiritual Revolution Press, 1988)


I met Kyle Griffith through a punk rocker I corresponded with named Frank. Frank and I wrote letters and sent each other tapes of music we liked or had recorded ourselves. One day, I sent Frank a manual of my own joke religion/magic system. Frank advised me to send it to Luna, a friend of his. I did and she wrote me back and we began a correspondence.

Luna introduced me to Kyle and we began a long correspondence. Kyle was a mystic and a self-proclaimed “spiritual revolutionary” who told me my joke religion was not really a joke, that the “spirits” just speak through people who put it down in the way that most appeals to them. For me, being skeptical of religion, I approached the whole thing with sardonic humor. In fact, S/R Press issued my manual for a while. Kyle had written a book called War in Heaven, a channeled writing that he said explains how this works. Luna sent me a free copy that had been slightly damaged by a New Age Christian who ordered it but then sent it back and could not be sold now due to its physical condition and I read through it not really expecting much of anything. I couldn’t put it down. The book is often abbreviated “WiH” as well as “the Bluebook” because of its blue covers. It is self-published and spiral bound. The picture I supplied of it is not what it really looks like, I just found it doing a web search and figured it was better than no picture at all but, in truth, the book was spiral bound between two blank blue covers with the title in bold black along with a kind of pentagram. I view this Bluebook as a Black Book.

Kyle had quite a correspondence going and one of his clients was none other than Ivan Stang, founder of the Church of the SubGenius, whom I never met nor corresponded with. He too expressed the idea that his church might not really be the joke he intended it to be. I still have all that correspondence somewhere. I know I never threw it out. Probably in my attic. One day, I’ll have to dig all that out. It was hella interesting reading.

Griffith’s book is in a question and answer format—a discussion between the author and his spirit guide. There are essentially two camps of spirits: the Invisible College who are the good guys and the Theocrats who are the bad guys. There is another group called the Elohim who have quite an unusual purpose as we’ll discover. The following excerpt (which has been cut down as much as I dare) is Griffith communicating with a spirit from the Invisible College:

This dialog starts with their answer to my request for knowledge of the Great Secret...

A. The spiritual beings worshiped as gods by many religious groups are impostors. They are nothing more than the disembodied spirits of human beings who refuse to reincarnate. They remain on the astral plane, where they exercise power over other spirits and over living people. We call them “Theocrats,” a name also used to describe the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and other earthly rulers who justified their demand for absolute political power by posing as divine beings.

The concept that gods are impostors is the first postulate of a theory that provides explicit answers for almost any question about the nature of spiritual reality. Part of this theory is scientific. It explains what the soul is made of and how it functions. It also explains how the body, mind, and soul are inter-related and how psychic powers operate. The rest of the theory is political. It describes the political organization of spirits on the astral plane, and the relationships that different factions of disembodied spirits have with living people.

The Theocrats are violating natural laws when they refuse to reincarnate. The souls of all living beings are constructed to incarnate and draw energy from the physical body. This is the only natural and efficient way in which the soul can get the vital energy it needs to function and regenerate itself. Although the mechanics of this process are quite complicated, we will explain them in some detail to allow you to understand the rest of the theory.

The soul is actually an astral body, made up of a special form of matter. This matter is composed of subatomic particles like ordinary matter, but with different properties. Let us call this special form of matter astral matter, and the ordinary form physical matter.

The subatomic particles that compose astral matter have different properties from the particles that compose physical matter. Physicists on Earth have named and described some of these properties, such as mass, spin, and electrical charge. You also have terms like “charm” in your vocabulary for properties the scientific community apparently understands much less clearly.

The principal difference between astral matter and physical matter is that all astral subatomic particles possess much less mass than equivalent particles of physical matter. The charges and the mass ratios of the particles of astral atoms are about the same as those of physical atoms. In other words, the particles that compose the nucleus of an atom of astral matter have a positive or neutral electrical charge and their mass is greater than that of the negatively charged particles that revolve around the nucleus. However, the astral subatomic particles equivalent to physical protons and neutrons are much less massive than physical electrons.

Since physicists often describe physical electrons as having ”negligible mass” compared with physical protons and neutrons, this means that the total mass of astral atoms is extremely small.

Q. How can astral matter exist in the presence of physical matter? Why don’t the tiny astral atoms simply get sucked in by the gravitational attraction of the physical atoms and end up orbiting them the way electrons do?

A. Astral subatomic particles have a different characteristic that determines gravitational attraction. They are attracted by gravity to each other but not to particles of physical matter. In fact, the astral atoms and molecules that make up the soul occupy the same space as the physical matter that makes up the body. Both kinds of matter are mostly empty space between particles anyway, and since there is no gravitational attraction between the two kinds of matter, the molecules simply slip by one another. This also explains people’s inability to see astral matter or detect it with physical laboratory instruments.

Energy also exists in two different forms, physical energy and astral energy. The photons that make up the two types again have different characteristics. Under most circumstances, astral photons do not react with physical subatomic particles. Nor do physical photons react with astral particles. However, the exception is important.

Q. You’re saying that light and other electromagnetic energy do not affect astral matter. Does this mean that psychic energy is not in the electromagnetic spectrum at all, but in a different one?

A. Yes. Advanced civilizations possess a unified field theory that describes the relationship between the two, but we can’t describe it to you right now. What’s important in this discussion is that psychic or astral energy normally works only on astral matter. It does not produce physical or chemical changes in physical matter. The reverse is also true.

Q. How does psychokinesis work then, or does it exist at all?

A. It exists, but it’s nothing like what you now think. In fact, your whole concept of the nature of psychic powers is a jumble of oversimplifications and errors. Psychokinesis does not move or change physical matter directly, but can do so by working through the links between physical and astral matter. These links are the “Secret of Life.”

The difference between living and non-living matter is that living matter is linked to astral matter but non-living matter is not. Complex organic molecules of physical matter can form a chemical bond with similarly constructed molecules of astral matter, and the resulting structure shows the characteristics of life: irritability and the ability to reproduce.

This process is very complicated, and your knowledge of physics is not adequate to understand all it completely. Here’s an attempt to explain why astral matter can react chemically with physical matter only within living molecules and not within simpler molecules. It has to do with the vibrational frequencies of photons produced when electrons of both physical and astral matter change energy levels within complex organic molecules. These frequencies are the same allowing physical photons to convert to astral and vice-versa.

This happens only in certain kinds of molecules, not in all. These energy conversions allow a sort of chemical bonding to occur if the two molecules are similar enough.

Q. Does this mean that astral matter – in other words, the soul – plays a part in cell division?

A. Yes, in the whole genetic process: it affects the reduplication of DNA. It also affects many different aspects of cell metabolism. And the breaking of the molecular bonds between physical molecules and astral molecules causes the phenomenon commonly called “death”.

Q. How does this tie in with the idea that the body supplies the energy to nourish the soul?

A. Some of the electromagnetic energy generated chemically by the cell’s metabolic processes is converted into astral energy by the links between the physical and astral molecules. This energy flows into the astral matter that composes the soul, powering its various functions and providing the raw material for regeneration of its astral matter. In other words, some electro-magnetic energy is converted into astral energy, passed into the soul, and converted into astral matter there to perform cellular growth and repairs.

The astral plane is actually higher on an ecological energy chain than the Earth plane, which means it receives less total usable energy. Plants convert solar energy into chemical energy. When animals eat the plants, they absorb this energy and use most of it in growth, repair of tissues, moving around, and other activities. However, some of it is also converted into astral energy and passed into the soul.

Since each of these energy conversion processes is less than completely efficient, each link in the energy chain has access to less total energy than the one below it.

Q. The impression of the human soul I get from this is that it’s exactly the same size and shape as the body, linked to it cell-by-cell and molecule-by-molecule. This is very different from my previous concept, which was that it is attached to the body at only one point through the traditional “silver cord.” Please explain.

A. Human beings actually have two souls, not one. So do all other animals; but plants have only one. The soul we’ve been talking about so far is a primitive structure, an astral body that is merely an analog of the physical body. It is alive in the sense that it is made up of molecules of living astral matter, but it is not sentient. It has a nervous system but not a mind. The true soul, the one you were just talking about, is a separate structure of astral matter.

Using the term “somatic soul” for the primitive soul linked cell-by-cell to the body and “astral soul” for the other will make it easier to discuss this subject. The astral soul is a body of astral matter linked to the somatic soul’s nervous system by what you call the silver cord. This is structured like a segment of plant root with feeder roots at both ends. The feeders at one end tap into the somatic soul’s nervous system; those at the other end tap into the astral soul’s nervous system.

Energy flows into the astral soul from the somatic soul and indirectly from the body through this cord. Energy flowing through the silver cord is the astral soul’s only truly efficient source of nourishment.


Q. Why do the Theocrats refuse to reincarnate?

A. Remember Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” saying, “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”? The Theocrats are spirits with great knowledge and psychic power. They are a sort of ruling class on the astral plane, and they don’t want to give up their power and privilege by reincarnating. Highly advanced souls who aren’t Theocrats reincarnate and take the chance that their soul can properly educate their new mind, and that their next reincarnation will be a pleasant and valuable one. But it still involves taking a chance: the body might have hidden flaws that they don’t detect before incarnating, or the child’s earthly environment can take an unforeseen turn for the worse.

Also, the late reincarnation process itself is as traumatic as the physical ordeals of giving birth or being born. This trauma erases many of the memories stored in the astral soul and damages the programming that governs the astral soul’s functioning. The Theocrats are too selfish and egotistical to take these chances, even though the alternative is extremely immoral.

Another reason why Theocrats don’t want to reincarnate is that human beings have two minds as well as two souls. One mind is in the physical body’s brain, the other is in the astral soul, and both have separate consciousness. Normally, the astral mind is conscious while the body sleeps and unconscious while the physical mind is awake. The two are conscious simultaneously only during certain states of altered consciousness. This “time-sharing” is humiliating for the astral mind’s ego, which considers itself superior to that of the physical mind. Theocrats want total consciousness for their astral ego, in addition to power over other spirits.

This brings us to one of the most important things we have to tell you in this whole series of communications.

The nourishment that disembodied spirits receive from living people as radiant psychic energy is not enough to sustain them by itself. This is why all non-Theocratic spirits reincarnate within ten to fifty years after physical death: if they don’t, the astral soul starts to degenerate because of a sort of malnutrition. The astral matter that makes up its tissues can’t regenerate itself properly and reverse the effects of entropy. So the choice is reincarnation or illness, insanity, and death.

The Theocrats have found an alternative to this, but it is an evil one: cannibalism. They use their telepathic powers to hypnotize spirits less highly developed than they are; then they attach the silver cord to them just as if the other astral soul were the somatic soul of an infant.

What I found striking about Griffith’s description of his Theocrats on the astral plane is that they sound quite a lot like Tucker’s Luciferians on the earthly plane. You have to wonder that if the Theocrats are real and they do occasionally reincarnate, do they become Luciferians? Do they become incarnate with all their predatory instincts intact? Indeed in some cultures, soul-eaters are humans while in others the soul-eater is a spirit or deity.

[cont.]

Lord Larehip

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.”

Lord Larehip

War in Heaven - cont.

So what happens to a theocratic band over time? According to the Bluebook, it tends to lose its nature and becomes an “Elemental.”

On one level, Elementals are specialized types of Theocratic bands. They are very large composite spirits containing thousands of human astral souls very closely linked together. On another, they are sentient creatures in their own right, with personalities and emotions quite different from those of ordinary human beings. One thing we want to stress: Elementals and humans are not two races of beings, but different forms of one race.

The structure of a Theocratic band as we described it earlier is similar to a wheel: the spirit controlling the band is the hub, and the subordinate spirits are the spokes.

Notice that the world’s oldest surviving religion, Vedanta, uses such a spoked wheel as its symbol.

The rayed sun used by many other religions is the same symbol, minus the rim of the wheel.

However, the rim is extremely important, because it indicates that a Theocratic band naturally produces a structure of astral matter separate from the individual souls attached to it.


Q. Are you saying that over the course of time, a Theocratic band develops its own astral soul and astral mind that is the equivalent of the composite astral mind of a bee or ant colony?

A. Yes. This is another important reason why Theocratic spirits don’t achieve true immortality. The longer a Theocratic band lasts, the more it develops into a composite entity with a mind of its own. At first, the controlling Theocrat completely dominates the group mind; but eventually that mind becomes powerful enough to become independent, and the band becomes an elemental.










Q. There were persistent rumors for many years that Hitler didn’t really die at the end of the war, but successfully fled Germany. Ever since I made the breakthrough, I’ve suspected that these rumors might be true, but not in the physical sense. In other words, he did commit suicide in that bunker, but immediately took charge of a band of Nazi Theocrats on the astral plane, and is probably still up there today, sustained by the psychic energies of the creeps and misfits who continue to wear the swastika and practice the Nazi creed of bigotry and violence.

A. The truth is much stranger than that. Hitler and hundreds of other Nazi leaders fled as disembodied spirits to Japan to assist their Theocratic allies there. They hoped that a D-Day-type invasion of Japan would prove too costly to the Allies and that Japanese Fascism would survive after a negotiated peace.
At this point, both the German and Japanese Theocrats had access to enormous amounts of energy from the millions of victims of World War Two, and they deliberately manipulated the American government into dropping the atomic bomb to provide them with even more victims.
Their hope was to create an Elemental and use its vast psychic power either to turn defeat into victory on the Earth plane, or to flee to another world.
Fortunately, the attempt failed, and the Theocrats involved were devoured by the entity they were trying to create.
This Elemental still survives on the astral plane, and will become an important focal point in the struggle between the Invisible College and the Theocrats in the future.

And it is this elemental that we are now concerned with. But there is more than one, according to the Bluebook, there are more Elementals now than ever before in earth’s history and as more people die off due to wars and starvation, their souls are captured by Elementals which are even stronger than Theocratic bands. In fact, even Theocratic bands will be devoured by the Elementals as will incarnate humans. No one will be safe. And once the planet has been depopulated far enough, the elementals must leave the planet to look for food elsewhere. But by then the earth’s biosphere will have been badly damaged (once again, the resemblances between this and the way Robert Tucker’s Luciferians hunt and consume are startling).

Lord Larehip

War in Heaven - cont.

Elementals have the potential to be Gods, but they don’t realize it unless raised by their peers.

Elementals don’t have peers in the natural cycle of their evolution because they are the composite form of another race. We individual humans are their parents as well as their children, but we also have a destiny of our own which conflicts with theirs.

This is why the space people interfere with this natural cycle of human evolution. They raise Elementals to be fully human and civilized by teaching them to accept a symbiotic relationship with individual humans.

Remember, an Elemental is similar in structure to a Theocratic band, and it has a place in its astral body for individual humans to attach to it.

In a primitive, animalistic Elemental, these attachment points remain empty when the creature reaches maturity. To produce a God, human astral souls attach themselves to these points as the Elemental is growing and try to control it. If it overcomes them and remains an animal, then it may have to be killed. If the spirits win and tame the Elemental, it becomes a God.

A God allows human spirits at an advanced state of development to attach themselves to it and travel with it when it leaves its planet of origin and travels into deep space. These spirits are mentioned in Earth mythologies as “the sons of the Gods,” “Elohim,” and by many other names.

Once the young God becomes fully conscious, they stop controlling the God, and it stops trying to control them. Both cooperate for mutual benefit.

As the Gods travel through the universe, the Elohim who ride on them can visit planets and create life there, or guide the evolution of existing life, without having to die in the process as the original Missionary Spirits did. The God cannot approach the gravitational field of a planet very closely, but the Elohim can do so and return, using psychic technology that the God creates within itself. Another thing the Elohim do before they leave a planet is to create an elaborate and self-sustaining network of astral machines, which remains there for future use.

Much of what the Invisible College is doing on your planet right now makes use of such machines, which were left on Earth’s astral plane by the Elohim when one of the Gods seeded your planet in the remote past.

It might have been hundreds of thousands of years ago, or millions of years. The devices are constructed of organic astral matter. They are machines, but they are also alive as plants are alive. This is why they were able to survive for unimaginable periods of time. The equipment is capable of defending itself from Theocrats and all but the largest Elementals, and of sustaining itself indefinitely. It possesses an artificial intelligence like a computer, but does not have true volition or creativity.

It repairs itself but it does not reproduce or evolve.

Now that brings us to the Elemental the Bluebook claims was born as a result of World War II. The Invisible College and the Elohim (the God-Riders) are trying to tame it and guide it off the planet and elevate it godhood. What do gods live on? Gods live in space and live off stellar radiation. You could say they eat starlight. This Elemental is, in WiH terms, still an infant and so is called “Baby.” The Theocrats and their earthly agents (the Black Lodges) battle with the Invisible College and the Elohim for control of Baby as it possesses tremendous power it has not learned to use yet. The Black Lodges control part of it but apparently not a lot of it while the Elohim and IC seek to wrest all control away from them. As Simon’s Necronomicon says: “And this is the war which shall always be fought unto the last generation of man, for the world in unnatural.” Indeed.

To gain control of the Beast, both sides have used rock music. Think of all the times you hear “baby” uttered in a rock song: “Baby, I love you,” “Baby, please don’t leave me,” “Baby, it’s you,” “Everybody loves my baby,” “You stood and you watched as my baby left town,” “My baby is the centerfold,” “Hold me, baby,” “Goodbye, baby,” “Baby workout,” “You’re kinda cute, baby,” “I’m crazy, baby,” “Motor head baby,” “Baby, you cast your spell on me,” “Take another little piece of my heart now, baby,” “Baby, let me hold your hand,” “He called me baby,” “You’re makin’ me crazy, baby,” “Baby, please don’t go,” “I found a new baby,” “Be my little baby,” “I’m goin’ home to see my baby,” “Baby, let me walk you home,” etc. Every time that singer moans or shouts “baby!” Baby gets another jolt of that psychic love-juice! The true power of electronic media.

Griffith supplies some supplementary material in his book including this message from the Elohim—the God-Riders:

You and your readers should also be constantly aware that the Theocrats do not confine their activities to religion and occultism, but corrupt and control human beings through all activities that produce certain states of altered consciousness.

For example, when people use the electronic media for passive recreational purposes – listening to popular music over the radio or on recordings, watching televised sports events and game shows, and playing the simpler computer games – they often enter a trance state that renders them vulnerable to telepathic mind-control by Theocratic spirits.

We will discuss this electronic mind control in a later chapter; we must first give more background information about the nature of spiritual beings and psychic powers in general.

A. As you are now becoming aware, Spiritual Revolution was intended only for a small audience, mostly rock musicians and magic people and other insiders. That’s why we gave you all those phrases and sentences you didn’t understand and thought were nonsense. Each of these verbal cues was intended to push a few buttons in certain types of people.

Withholding the information now contained in Part Three of War in Heaven kept them from knowing exactly how much you knew, and what side you were on in the conflict, despite your claims to be working for us.

We use the electronic media and especially rock music for reprogramming people only as a side effect. Its main use, the real reason we pushed your planet into an industrial revolution so fast, was to program Baby.

Baby has been close to hatching innumerable times in the last two thousand years, but we’ve always managed to knock it down. We did not want it to leave the planet until we were ready for it.

Now we are ready. At this point, we can destroy it before it leaves, if we must. It knows this; this book is part of the alert we are giving it, that it must be on its best behavior, or we will destroy it.

The music generated by the people we stirred up with your book and our concurrent programming has purposefully alerted Baby to the danger it faces from us unless it drops the Theocrats and Black Lodges that control part of it before it leaves.

There is no need to go over the nonsense paragraphs, but we will. We pushed you to ask for financial aid from music people even though you didn’t really need it. Many of them are rich from the fact that they’ve learned to use the electronic media, as the TV preachers do, to stroke the Beast and cause it to want to hear their beat. (Spell that “here there beat” and you will be thinking as they do.)

They cause it to reach into minds in the audience and ask people to request the music it likes best. This is a Black Lodge use of the Beast.

We pushed you to deny the possibility of people’s becoming more than people and the existence of higher planes of reality for the same reason.
We pushed you to involve a certain songwriter in the book because he was one of our operatives, and has become a focal point of the music. Many of the rest of the music people see him as a sort of superman. Your involving him again, after he has pleaded illness and pulled out of the movement, galvanized many more into action than would have happened otherwise. We know where his loyalties lie, and it is no one else’s business.

It is true that several other songwriters were involved because it was necessary for you to have a list of people to show that you know some of what you were talking about. We know that you have told us some of them have written that you’ve practically ruined their lives, but all we can say is that this is a war, and if you don’t want to be taken for a soldier, don’t wear a uniform. Don’t stand in the line or carry a gun. And never write
songs saying that you do.

I am also one of the backups that will “ride the tiger” – you would say steer the new God clear of the planet during the last days – if the Earth people we are training as pilots don’t make it through basic training.

Some of your readers already know who her pilot is intended to be. He had to drop his gun, and for now he uses affection training, mostly. Unfortunately the psychic cross-waves from the Theocrats and the black lodges have tended to short circuit him for awhile, because he can’t defend himself the way he should be able to do, but we do think he’ll be OK by the time she is ready to go.

And yes, I will answer those who keep asking the question in songs and other telepathic transmissions – Yes; I do “make love to the monster.” It needs human contact to become socialized, and civilized people don’t have to make an artificial separation between affection and sexuality the way primitive people often do.

We can handle the power involved without becoming corrupted.

So don’t misunderstand and think I’m one of the star-struck, like so many of you who are complaining about being “addicted to love.”

Like all of my people, I “carry a gun,” and I will shoot it down, once more, if the Theocrats gain control of it again, or if it becomes dominated by any of the black lodges. This is not as heartless as it sounds to you with only Earth memories. It’s only like sedation and an operation to remove the cancerous elements.

Many of you who use metaphors like “sleeping on the inter-state” already know what the beast-baby is like. What riding the tiger will be like.

Think of the thought-exchange you get whenever you check out the back-road telegraph lines. Then imagine this anytime you want to pull it up, as a constant in your mind, from everyone. Don’t worry about the black magicians. They won’t be with us. Think of your blood brothers, and their passion and their love. This is what you will live with for the next few centuries until we get to another planet.

Remember, too, that we simplify when we say “The Beast.” There are thousands of them now, and hundreds will survive to the end. Each separate group mind will be very different from the others.

Probably many of you already know your sisters/brothers.

Postscript: One of the things that the Bluebook discussed was “EVP” or electronic voice phenomenon where you recorded pure static off the radio and listen back to it and you can sometimes hear voices speaking, often addressing you directly. I had never heard of it before then. WiH mentioned the work of Konstantins Raudive in this regard:

Q. Another thing I’m wondering about is “Raudive voices,” named for a psychic researcher who postulated that disembodied spirits could impress their voices onto magnetic recording tape. I have received a large number of messages of this type during my music research. Are they really put there by spirits who psychokinetically manipulate the molecules in the tape, or is there another explanation?

A. The messages are not on the tapes, but in your mind. What actually happens is that spirits perceive the pattern of static going onto the tape and key it to a telepathic message they’re sending into your subconscious. You can consciously retrieve the message when you listen to the tape. The proof is that sometimes more than one person will hear the same message on a particular tape, sometimes not. Also, if you listen to such a tape frequently, you can learn to retrieve the message without it.

Both the IC and the Theocrats use this method of communication frequently, on music tapes as well as tapes containing only static.

I did, in fact, locate Raudive’s 1971 book, Breakthrough, where he describes in detail his work in EVP. Curious, I tried it out by recording static off the radio but never heard anything. I decided there was nothing to it. At one point, my younger brother wanted to know why I was listening to static and I explained it but he expressed no real interest. My brother is a hard-headed guy who is good with his hands but not a cerebral deep-thinker. He’s not stupid by any means, great with electronics and makes his own guitar and bass devices and even sells them to other people. Great recording engineer but strictly a straight-shooter—the world works this way because it has no need to work any other way. Something like EVP holds no interest for him.

A few years ago, my brother called me out of the blue excitedly and pointedly asking me about some experiment I had done back in the early 90s recording static to hear mysterious voices. I explained it again but told him I never heard anything. Then he began to tell me that he had recorded some static after reading about EVP just to see what there was to it, he heard a voice on the tape eventually taking shape say what sounded to his wife like, “Ferguson.” My brother said that he thought it sounded like “Jurgenson” and the voice said something before that but he couldn’t make it out. Upon repeated listenings, he thought the voice said, “Friedrich Jurgenson.” When his wife looked up the name on the internet, it turns out that Friedrich Jurgenson is the founder of EVP! They were both shocked. They had never heard of Friedrich Jurgenson and I never mentioned him to my brother because I didn’t know who he was either. I was only familiar with Raudive and then had only a passing interest. My brother was so dumbfounded that he called me immediately because he remembered my static experiment. He was talking so fast he was tripping over his own words. I had never heard him that way before. He said he found a forum online dedicated to EVP and so opened an account there and posted his story and he’d check later to see who replied. When I spoke to him later, he said he received several responses of “So you heard it too?” He is a firm believer in EVP now and believes Jurgenson’s spirit was communicating to him. Whatever. That’s my EVP story. And the end of my review of War In Heaven.

Lord Larehip

The Magus by Francis Barrett
(Weiser Books, 2000)



Henricus Cornelius Agrippa was born in Cologne in 1486 and had read Speculum by the great alchemist and fellow native of Cologne, Albertus Magnus. Some time after this, he traveled about and always seemed to be well connected. This has led his biographers such as Nauert and Zambelli to speculate that Agrippa belonged to one or more secret societies. Agrippa was a pupil of the abbot Trithemius in Germany about 1509 and 10 under whom he studied alchemy and philosophy. He showed great promise although in what way is arguable. Some say he possessed very high intellect while others say he was no more than average for his day but had a great ability to convince others of his intellect and powers. Whatever the truth is, there is no doubt that Agrippa had many convinced that he could transmute base metals into gold simply on command, raise and command all the “spirits of the air and demons of the earth,” and raise the dead. He also appears to have studied Arabic magic although no one is sure when or under whom. Much of his philosophy seems to be drawn from the Sufi or tasawwuf (lit. “to wear wool”) as they call themselves, and his student, Wierus, was also quite versed in Arabic magic and mystical philosophy.



Agrippa did not earn his reputation by being quiet and unassuming. Like his contemporary, Paracelsus, he was outspoken to the point of bombast (in fact, the very word “bombast” was derived from Paracelsus’ true name, Theophrastus Bombastus). A staunch Catholic, Agrippa favored the reformist Martin Luther while opposing the Dominicans whom he considered full of vice and poison probably due to their carrying out of the Inquisition.

Henry VIII, always in need of money and, like many sovereigns before him, was not above extorting it from his loyal subjects, invited Agrippa to come live in England under his protection. Obviously, Henry had heard about the great transmuting powers of Agrippa and was hoping to have an inexhaustible supply of gold. In England by 1510, Agrippa encountered the humanist movement of Sir Thomas More, John Colet and Erasmus. He may have been in England only a short while but we know that he and Colet were studying the biblical epistles together.

By 1511, Agrippa was in Italy—the center of the humanist movement and where Erasmus had been for the three years prior. Agrippa absorbed the occult philosophy freely taught in Italy by some of Europe’s finest scholars. Cabala was huge in Italy at this time and Agrippa made the acquaintance of Agostino Ricci, a converso who was interested in the Catholic Reform movement and how cabala could play a significant role in bringing it about along with his colleague, Cardinal Egidius of Viterbo.

Agrippa enjoyed great success with sovereigns everywhere he went. Emperor Maximilian made him his secretary and bestowed the title of Chevalier on him. He was even given command of a regiment although this was an honorary position. For a man such as Agrippa, the thought certainly counted.

Back in France at the University of Dole, Agrippa taught Hebrew. Again, we encounter another supposed Christian magician who really appears to be a Jew. Hebrew was a dead language at this time. Few European Jews spoke anything but European languages and Middle Eastern Jews spoke only Aramaic and had since well before the times that Christ supposedly walked there. Hebrew was known only to Jewish scholars and rabbis and yet here is Agrippa in Europe teaching Hebrew. However, Agrippa’s post at Dole would not last long. He came to loggerheads with the Franciscans over a theological point and was forced to flee to London where he continued to teach Hebrew as well as practice astrology.

He later went to Pavia where he lectured on Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet and the Corpus Hermeticum. However, his alchemical learning and typical irascibility fell under suspicion of the clergy and Agrippa decided to accept the title of Advocate-General of Metz. Again, Agrippa found himself opposing the clergy on everything from the fidelity of St. Anne to witchcraft. The Dominican Inquisitor, Nicholas Savini, had ordered the arrest of a peasant girl whose mother had been accused of witchcraft. Savini stated that if one was a witch the other was likely a witch as well. Agrippa again spoke up and stated that heredity was not just cause to arrest the girl. She was taken away to be tortured, which Agrippa, to his credit tried to prevent but failed. However, at her trial, he stood by her and won her acquittal. In fact, he succeeded too well for his own good. The girl’s accusers were fined! In the bitterness of their humiliating defeat, they naturally accused Agrippa of being a magician, something actually quite true and, in 1520, he was forced to flee from Metz.

Agrippa went to Cologne but the heat was on against witchcraft, sorcery and the like and getting so hot that he was unable to stay. He became an itinerant fortune-teller and healer after this. He went to Geneva, Chambrai, Freibourg, Lyons and finally ended up in Holland under the protection of the governor, Margaret of Austria. Even then his passport was torn up by the Earl of Vendôme who contemptuously called him “a conjuror.”

In 1528, while in Antwerp, Agrippa publicly claimed to oppose Henry VIII due to his much-publicized divorce from the Spanish royal lady, Catherine of Aragon, in favor of the English commoner, Anne Boleyn (although Henry had first taken up with Anne’s sister, Mary). Agrippa was probably sought out to give weight to Catherine because Henry had a Franciscan friar named Francesco Giorgi (1466-1540) on his side. Despite his Franciscan status, Giorgi was another Neo-Platonist cabalist who wrote De Harmonia Mundi (1525) and Problemata (1536). Like Agrippa, he was another Hebrew scholar and we can be reasonably certain that Agrippa was sought out for the same reason. In fact, the Jewish law on divorce was appealed to in this case.

Eventually, Wierus, a physician at Cleves, became a disciple of Agrippa’s and stayed with him for several years. Thanks to his level-headedness, many of the fantastic stories about his teacher can be safely laid to rest. Agrippa, for example, was said to have a familiar spirit in the form of a black dog which accompanied him everywhere and even ate at his table. Agrippa always seemed to know what was going on everywhere despite the fact that he would shut himself away in his magical laboratory for a week or more without once being seen. People assumed the dog roamed about and kept Agrippa informed of current events but may have actually been due to his connections into secret societies. Paulus Jovius even relates a story that, upon his deathbed, Agrippa removed the dog’s collar with its necromantic inscription and told it, “Begone, wretched animal, which has been the cause of my entire destruction.” The animal then promptly ran to the River Saône and drowned itself. Wierus assures us that nothing of the sort was true. Agrippa did indeed have a black dog that he let eat at his table but it was simply a pet that he was very fond of. Wierus himself had taken the dog for many a walk pronouncing him a perfectly innocent and affectionate animal.

Other feats of magic attributed to Agrippa, however, have not been accounted for. Whether they are exaggerations or delusions or a combination of both is not known. There is the possibility that Agrippa staged them with secret help and so we are once again speculating about his connection to secret societies. For example, the Earl of Surrey, Erasmus and others encountered Agrippa at the court of the Elector of Saxony. Erasmus bade him to materialize Tully giving his oration for Roscius. Agrippa commanded Tully to appear and supposedly he did and gave his oration “with such astonishing animation, so fervent an exaltation of spirit, and such soul-stirring gestures, that all the persons present were ready, like the Romans of old, to pronounce his client innocent of every charge that had been brought against him.”

The Earl of Surrey was also allowed to see, at his request, his mistress in a magic glass of Agrippa’s as she wept piteously for her love in his absence. Similarly, Agrippa had shown Thomas Cromwell a hunting party of Henry VIII’s in the Windsor forest with his magic glass. He showed Charles V images of Solomon, David, Gideon and nine others in his glass in historically accurate detail. He also had Thomas More dream the entire Fall of Troy. He also supposedly had a group of demons reanimate a meddling man they had killed in Agrippa’s house during his absence and walk the man about town so that people would think he was alive and then have the man drop dead of an apparent disease thereby getting Agrippa out of a scandal but apparently the man’s strangulation marks were too obvious to go unnoticed. From this episode, we can chalk up Agrippa as the first to pull “A Weekend at Bernie’s.”

In 1532, Agrippa completed his large three-volume work, Occult Philosophy, which was published in Antwerp much to the chagrin of the Inquisition. This was his second book to be published. In 1526, his De Vanitate Scientiarum had been published in France. While the first book had stated that all sciences, including the occult sciences, were empty and that there was nothing new under the sun, in his new book, Agrippa talked of a “key” to magical knowledge that would open all doors. Under the title, De Occulta Philosophia, Agrippa’s work is valuable as it places the magic of Ficino side-by-side with the Qabala of Pico and the compendium played a large role in the spread of Neoplatonism during the Renaissance. The philosophy espoused in Agrippa’s three volumes contained what certainly appears to be, as stated, Sufi philosophy as well as an influence from Reuchlin and his brand of Christianized Cabbala—something “powerful” that could reinforce the Lutheran evangelical reform popular in that day without overshadowing the humanism that existed before the Reformation.

Occult Philosophy was not a new work. Agrippa had written an early draft back in Germany and had dedicated it to Trithemius. This draft still exists. However, he ran into trouble with Erasmus over the work. Even though the two men had been fairly close and appeared to respect one another, Erasmus began to show a definite anti-Semitic streak. Erasmus had originally encouraged Reuchlin in his studies of the qabbala but now was against any “Judaising” of Christian philosophy. Specifically, Erasmus did not want occult philosophy in the form of ceremonial magic applied to Christian ceremonies as a means of strengthening the Christian religion with a more powerful philosophy. This was the very idea that Agrippa championed in the third book of Occult Philosophy. The attitude of Erasmus would demonstrate that magic in Europe was viewed by gentiles as being primarily Jewish. Apparently the idea of Jewish philosophy being employed as the backbone of Christian reform worried Erasmus and so he and Agrippa found themselves at loggerheads.

Some years later, a fourth book appeared that was attributed to Agrippa and included in Occult Philosophy. It was a grimoire of magic spells purported to be the key Agrippa had spoken of. Wierus and others ridiculed it. Agrippa himself had nothing to say on the matter as he had died in Grenoble some years before in 1535 in the house of a wealthy patron. All four books were published in English a century later in Britain.

The reason for the biography of Cornelius Agrippa is because Barrett’s book, published in 1801, was essentially taken from the four books of Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy and also from the Heptameron of Peter of Abano translated in 1655 by Robert Turner. Barrett, whose birth and death are not precisely known, was considered quite an eccentric in his day who taught the magical arts to students in his apartment.


Francis Barrett.

The book covers natural magic (talismans, amulets, charms, stones, etc.), alchemy, astrology, seals, elements, numerology, magnetism, cabbala, exorcism, skrying (crystal ball gazing) and conjurations of spirits. There are also a number of biographies including one of Agrippa. So the tradition of Agrippa is carried on here to great length. The Magus was not well known or received in Barrett’s day but became quite popular when magician Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant, 1810-1875, a non-Jewish Frenchmen who Judaised his name) began to use it. From there, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn used as a basis for their ceremonial magic. The book also contains some strange artwork to be used in the various rituals.



The book is available in a number of editions. I had it back in the 80s with a greenish cover but that disappeared so I bought a new one in the 90s with the cover shown above. I have seen at least three other editions all with different covers.

Lord Larehip

The Malleus Maleficarum by James Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer
(Dover Publications, 1971)



A Black Book masquerading as a holy one. It was a witch-hunter's manual and it was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, few of whom were actually witches.

The 16th Century

If we were to think that the Reformation or the Renaissance enlightened people and did away with superstition, we would be wrong. There seemed to be an increase of belief in witches having familiars and dancing with the devil, demonology, necromancy and so forth. Nor was only the Catholic Church guilty of persecuting people believed to be witches and warlocks; the Protestant Church was as bad. By the 17th century, witch-hunting was at least as popular as it had been in the 14th century. Nobody is sure how many “witches” were executed during this time. Numbers range from 40,000, which seems to be accurate, to 10 million, which is certainly too high. During this time, no one was safe. To be a female was to run the risk of being accused a witch by everyone from other jealous females to males angry at being rejected as suitors. Old women were even more prone to be accused because her appearance harked back to the old pagan fear of "the Hag." But girls as young as eight years were accused and executed. Those who defended the accused were also accused in turn. Those who did not participate in the burnings of these unfortunates ran the risk of being accused. Even infants were accused.

The Malleus Maleficarum a.k.a. The Witch Hammer (c. 1486), by two German Catholic inquisitors, James Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, became the law book of the day. In its pages were methods of identifying witches as well as the most effective methods of disposing of them. Witches were accused of everything from crop failures to the souring of milk. Montague Summers states that The Malleus Maleficarum “lay on the bench of every judge, on the desk of every magistrate. It was the ultimate, irrefutable, unarguable authority. It was implicitly accepted not only by Catholic but by Protestant legislature.” Such should demonstrate just how seriously witchcraft was regarded at this time.

Animals were accused of being familiars (a type of animal helper with supernormal intelligence) of the witch and were burned. Often, it was customary to burn a black cat along with a witch. When black cats ran low, any cat was game. As a result, the cat population of Europe dipped very low and many feel that this allowed diseases as the Black Death to spread unchecked because the rat population ballooned out of control with no cats to hunt them. But again, the Black Death was assumed to be the work of Satan and outbreaks were often attributed to innocent old women or pretty young ladies and they went to the stake, the ducking stool or the gallows, one and all, without mercy. And with them went some poor, hapless animal.

While stories of witches making pacts with Satan and suckling their familiars, usually a cat or dog, with a special teat on their bodies were lurid with accounts of debauchery and sex, the witch-hunting tactics were the very embodiment of perversion.

Indeed the Catholic Church seemed to be enforcing its moral code on the populace via the threat of the charge of witchcraft. Using the Hammer a their guide, if a man kept a mistress, the mistress was a witch. If a woman inflamed a man's passions, whether she wanted him or not, the woman was a witch. Her bewitching powers could be activated by feeding a man her dung (and here we see that the authors of the Hammer were familiar wit Black Books as the Picatrix). If a woman was a midwife, she was a witch (i.e. she places herself in a position to procure children to sacrifice to Satan). If woman healed with herbs, she was a witch. And so on.

Although the witch hunts were aimed primarily at people who were not witches and made victims simply of other Christians, especially the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this should not be mistaken for saying there were no real witches. There were and the witch-finders and inquisitors did occasionally interrogate, torture and execute actual witches.

The influence of the Church did not extend into the rural areas of Europe in the sixteenth century. Even where it did, it was simply mixed with the pagan peasant religions that predominated in the area for centuries. The peasant religions were essentially agrarian cults.

Italy, for example, had an agrarian cult known as “benandanti” (lit. “good walkers”). Those who claimed to be of the benandanti told the inquisitors that they fought for Christ against witches that worshiped the devil. The two groups met at night as battling armies who rode on the backs of hares and cats. The armies challenged one another four times a year and then named a location for the battle. On the appointed night, always on Thursdays or the “Ember Days,” the armies met in the spirit, each carrying its own standard—red (or yellow) for the witches and white for the benandanti. They would then battle over crops and livestock. The evil ones fought using sorghum stalks as weapons while the benandanti fought using fennel stalks (or viburnum branches) in a competition that was essentially jousting. If the benandanti won the battle, that crop or livestock would be plentiful for that season. Those who claimed to be benandanti told their interrogators that they could not reveal too much or they would be beaten by the others.

Further investigation revealed that the men and women who were benandanti were called to the ranks at age twenty by the beating of a drum. The drummer, the captain, was another peasant man who was placed over them and assumed to be appointed by god. The benandanti was released from his or her obligation of nocturnal battle at the age of forty although the chosen could stay on if he or she wanted to. One man, Moduco, added that those who are chosen as benandanti are born with a “caul” wrapped about them. A benandanti who does not wear the caul cannot participate in the nocturnal battles. The caul appears to be the placenta which is saved by the mother, who has it baptized along with the child and has nine masses said over it, and given to the child at the proper time. The placenta in many of the old rural pre-Christian religions is believed to possess magical powers and protect soldiers from blows. This ties in with the benandanti being soldiers who were under the command of a captain and march to battle to a drumbeat.

What we can gather about the benandanti then is the following: The benandanti were a type of secret military order among the peasantry where battling was done in the spirit and appears to be generational and matriarchal. Although the inquisitors would turn the benandanti into a diabolic cult and their night battles into witches’ sabbats, the earliest accounts of the battles by those who claimed to be benandanti contain no references to any appearance of a devil or Satan present at the battles nor any type of worship performed. There were references to the playing of games, dancing and a battle over crops and livestock that consisted of a form of jousting.

We find many similarities between benandanti and witches even though the former were always careful to distinguish themselves from the latter. Both witches and benandanti claimed to attend “games” in the spirit leaving the physical body behind (although some witches claimed to attend their conventicles in the flesh either on occasion or as a matter of habit). To an observer, the body would appear to be dead. Both claimed that if the spirit were gone too long, it would not be able to re-enter the body. Both claimed the spirit or soul traveled about on an animal or in animal form, the most common being the mouse (although cats are quite popular among witches while benandanti often claimed to arrive at the battlefields riding on cats). If the soul failed to re-enter the body, it would be forced to wander about in the animal form. Witches claimed to anoint or grease themselves prior to falling into their deathlike trances while benandanti claimed only to fall into the trances but omitting mention of anointing and some outright denying it; others, however, did claim to anoint. These similarities were enough to get the benandanti labeled as witches by the Inquisition. However, at no point does the benandanti night battle take on any resemblance to a sabbat.

Clearly, this was a different peasant religion than witchery and one that apparently saw itself opposed to witchery despite the superficial resemblances.

But what was the purpose of the benandanti, the spiritual army? Obviously, their purpose was, as a fertility cult, to protect the harvest. Their claim of participating in the night battles four nights out of the year on the Ember Days shows that they performed one battle at the turn of each season. The army they battled was that of famine, flood, hail, wind, erosion, blizzard, drought and anything else that might threaten their survival. There were also many instances in European history where warring kingdoms and nations sent armies into the other’s territory to attack farmers’ crops and raze them as an attempt to force famine on the foe. These spiritual night battles may also have arisen from memories of such wars in hopes of preventing future ones.

The benandanti inquisition took place in the 1580s, so we can see that well into the Christian era Europe was far from being united under Christendom that history would have us believe was the case since the times of Charlemagne. The benandanti, the true witches, the Cathars, the Druids, the Hermetic Cabalists and other groups demonstrated that Europe was a many-varied patchwork of spiritual systems and folk religions that persisted despite all the Church’s efforts to get rid of these “heresies” and monopolize Europe under a single Christian banner.

This should demonstrate how far the mighty had fallen. The Christian Church had perverted the meaning of Satan. The goatish Pan-like image was turned into an image of an evil being. In reality, Pan was the same god that the Christian Church claimed to worship. Pan was created from an early time in human history before humanity had learned its own power and potential. In this very early stage of human consciousness, animals were used to represent the powers of the elements and nature which held sway over hapless humanity. A storm god might be imaged as a raging bull rather than a big, fearsome man wielding a big stone axe because humanity had not yet advanced far enough to make axes. This god was impersonal but could be temporarily sated with the proper propitiation. As time wore on, the animal started to become anthropomorphized. He went eventually from a horned man-animal to a man wearing the skin and antlers of a stag to a man wearing a horned helmet and so on. Satan was simply a nature deity. But this deity was now in competition with the Christian Church and so its image was debased and maligned.



Likewise, the words “witch” and “wizard” became synonymous with evil. The roots of both words actually deal with knowledge and wisdom. The wizard is the wise one. The witch has wits, that is, knowledge. If either ever cavorted with Satan the reason would only be because, as nature-worshipers, they would obviously hold the nature god in high esteem and seek communion with this presence whose powers rule over the earth and all life. The Christian Church used its own Gnostic roots (which it vigorously denies) to first disparage matter as evil (except Gnostics believed matter to be biologically evil while the Church said matter was morally evil) and then said that since Satan is the god of the world of matter, he too is evil. Therefore, anyone who worships or seeks communion with this god is evil. In reality, the Christian god and Satan are the same god conceived in different stages of humanity’s conscious development.

Fortunately, not all of Europe was so oppressed.

GuD

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Lord Larehip

The Malleus Maleficarum [cont]

The 17th Century

Matthew Hopkins, England’s own “Witch-Finder Generall,” of the 17th century had established criteria for how the witch was to be discovered. He would walk a “witch” up and down the length of a room without food or sleep until they confessed. Should this not work, a witch would find her thumbs tied to her toes and then she was thrown into a river or lake. Since water was holy (e.g. used in baptisms), if she sank, she was innocent of the charge. If she floated, the water was rejecting her and she was therefore unholy. Hopkins had even accused a clergyman of being a witch and accused him of causing a ship at sea to sink. The clergyman was bound and thrown into the water but did not sink whereupon he was dragged out of the water and hung.

Hopkins hung several young women said to be descended from witches. He hung a woman accused by her own daughter of witchcraft in order to explain her own absence from home late at night. He charged twenty shillings per case. Eventually, a group of angry people bound Hopkins and flung him into the water. He did not sink. He was fished out and disgraced and died sometime later of tuberculosis.

There were famous cases of out and out Satanism and black magic such as those of Marie Bosse and Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin a.k.a. La Voisin, both of whom specialized in the manufacture of poisons and had many clients from the upper crust of French society including Louis XIV’s own mistress Marquise de Montespan, whom it was believed may have been plotting to poison him. She and La Voisin were believed to have also sacrificed infants to Ashtaroth and Asmodeus. Louis hushed the whole thing up but still ordered a complete investigation which resulted in the largest single legal proceeding of his reign where, between 1679 and 1682, 34 people were executed, and many more were fined, exiled or sent to dungeons to spend the rest of their lives chained to walls. About 70 were acquitted. Louis’s abolition of witch persecution laws in 1672 likely avoided a huge persecution.

The Salem Witch Trials

In 1692, several young girls caused a witch hysteria that ensued in Salem Village in the Massachusetts colony. Over 300 years in the past, the details of the afflictions that assailed the girls and the cause of them has been perhaps overdone.

The story goes that in the household of Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village, a slave woman from the West Indies, Tituba, was regaling Parris’s daughter, Elizabeth, and her cousin, Abigail Williams, and other friends of the girls with tales and stories to pass a dreary New England winter. At one point, Tituba showed the girls how to divine the future by breaking an egg in a glass and staring into the albumen. The girls were quite taken with this method of divination—which comes from England (and really a form of skrying) and is not a practice of Caribbean Indians or blacks. The girls would stare into egg albumen trying to see their future husbands, something we would expect young ladies approaching puberty to be interested in, although some of the girls were in their late teens and one, Mary Warren, was twenty. The other girls were Ann Putnam, Jr., 12, Mercy Lewis, 19, Mary Walcott, 16, and Elizabeth Hubbard, 17.

At one point, Reverend Parris came home and found the girls engaging in this heathen practice and became very angry. The girls, fearing punishment, began to exhibit bizarre symptoms such as falling into swoons from which they could not be awoken, convulsive fits, loss of memory, sight and hearing. Whether the girls were acting in order to avoid punishment for their foray into the occult by an overzealous Puritan clergyman or whether they convinced themselves that they were indeed possessed to subconsciously avoid punishment is open to question. Author Chadwick Hansen believes the girls were legitimately suffering from a type of hysteria because they exhibited many of the same symptoms diagnosed in legitimate hysteria patients.

Naturally, the girls were assumed to have been bewitched by someone. To find by whom, the mother of one of the girls made a “witch cake” from meal and the urine of the girls. This was baked over a fire and fed to the Parris family dog, presumably a familiar. The girls now named their bewitchers: Tituba and two eccentric women named Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn.

At this, Joseph Hutchinson, Thomas Putnam, Edward Putnam and Thomas Preston appeared before the magistrates and swore out warrants of witchcraft against the accused. The three women were brought before two magistrates, John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin. Hathorne assumed the guilt of the women from the very beginning. Sarah Good, probably verging on the brink bipolar illness or perhaps simple madness, behaved strangely before the magistrates and accused Sarah Osburn. Good’s own husband and daughter, four-year-old Dorcas, accused her of being a witch and an enemy to all that is good (although the testimony of Dorcas was most unconscionably gained). They also accused her of having imps.

Sarah Osburn denied all wrongdoing against the girls who, being present, immediately and conveniently fell into fits. Tituba, being Afro-Latino likely sensed the whole episode would be solely attributed to her in the end, made some fifty detailed confessions implicating others. Her willingness to confess so prolifically was no doubt facilitated by the fact that Reverend Parris had literally beaten her into her first confession.

Before long, others were accused of witchcraft: Rebecca Nurse, John Procter, Susannah Martin, Giles Corey, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, Bridget Bishop, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, Elizabeth Procter, George Jacobs, Sr., Sarah Cloyse, Roger Toothaker, Lyndia Dustin, Elizabeth Johnson, Abigail Hobbes, Sarah Wardwell, Ann Foster, Abigail Faulkner and many others. Some, such as Rebecca Nurse, were simply accused of appearing in spirit form at someone’s bedside. Abigail Hobbes was arrested simply for being too demonstrably angry over the arrest of her cousin, Elizabeth Johnson.

The trials were not shining examples of American justice. Perhaps the worst aspect of the trials was the accused were initially found innocent due to lack of corroborating evidence but upon hearing this verdict, the girls supposedly afflicted began to swoon or fall to the floor writhing and screaming. The verdict was rescinded and now “spectral evidence” was accepted, that is, the accused appearing to the afflicted as apparitions or spirits would be acceptable evidence of guilt. Many of the accused were now found guilty and their death warrants signed by William Stoughton.

On Gallows Hill, June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hung. People were convinced that Rebecca Nurse would somehow be spared. She was upstanding and convicted on nothing but this spectral evidence. On June 19, however, she went to the gallows along with Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wildes.

The problem with the witch-hunt is that it is self-perpetuating as long as the accused can provide more names. To loosen tongues a little more, the authorities added the incentive of confiscating the property of all accused, leaving them and their families homeless unless they provided worthy information. Neighbors, in desperation, accused one another. To prevent a great outcry against the proceedings, those who came to the assistance of the accused or issued complaints were likewise accused. As a result, family members were often forced to stay silent when another family member was accused. This caused great rifts between neighbors and within families and served to widen the already wide rift between residents of Salem Village and nearby Salem Town. And the witch-hunt continued.

August 19, 1692 was a busy day on Gallows Hill as John Proctor, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, and George Jacobs, Sr. were executed. The common belief of the time was that a witch in service to the devil could not recite the Lord’s Prayer all the way through without making a mistake. With the rope looped about his neck, Proctor recited the Lord’s Prayer flawlessly and was hung.

On September 19, Giles Corey, accused of witchcraft, was being induced to confess. Corey had already accused his wife, Martha, for which she now sat in prison waiting for her turn on Gallows Hill. Corey now retracted his accusation against his wife but did so by denying that he had said things that other witnesses had testified to hearing him say. He was outnumbered and therefore judged to be lying. He was placed beneath large stones with more weight gradually added until he reinstated his accusation. Instead, Corey only begged for “more weight.” His request was granted and he finally expired from his treatment.

Three days later, Corey’s wife, Martha, along with Mary Easty. Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell met their fates on Gallows Hill.

The accusers enjoyed great fame in the colonies. One can only wonder what effect this had on the minds of such young girls. As females, they should have enjoyed little standing but were now celebrities. Their simple accusations could destroy a reputation, ruin a family, seize another’s property, throw away another’s freedom, end another’s life. And who were they to judge their own actions? Adults around them took them so seriously.

Surely they must be doing the will of God and surely must have been assaulted by the devil and by his witches or why would everyone place so much weight on their mere word? How were they to know that they were being used by people like Sheriff George Corwin to seize property for the gain of town officials? In a very real way, the girls were the most innocent victims of all. They were simply too young to understand the consequences of their actions. They were being encouraged to accuse, accuse, accuse and so accuse they did—all the way up to the wife of the governor of Massachusetts. And then abruptly, the witch-hunt unceremoniously ended.

Osburn, Toothaker, Dustin, Foster and approximately thirteen others would spend the rest of their lives in prison. Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s widow, would never be sentenced. She was pregnant and, by the time she had her child, the witch trials had ended. But other families were not so lucky. Rebecca Nurse and Mary Easty had been sisters and Sarah Cloyse was another sister of the two who barely avoided execution. Virtually the entire family had been wiped out.

People began to speak out and condemn the actions of the Salem court. Not the least of these being the influential clergyman Increase Mather. With the ice broken, survivors and families of the executed began to demand justice for the wrongs done them and their kin.

Families and individuals spent years trying to recoup their losses, both financially and to their reputations. Many of the accused who survived over a decade after the trials as well as their dead kin had their attainders reversed such as Samuel and Sarah Wardwell, Abigail Faulkner, and John and Elizabeth Proctor, for example (even though John had been executed). Others never had their attainders reversed and they stand to this day: Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Johnson, Susanna Martin, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot “Mammy” Redd and Margaret Scott. Of them, only Bishop and Redd were actual witches.

Poor Tituba, who had unwittingly and innocently started the whole thing simply for trying to keep young, restless girls in her master’s house entertained, was sold off into slavery along with her husband and never heard from again. She could count herself lucky for in Europe she’d have gone to the stake.

Many families could never be recompensed for what they had undergone. Sarah Good’s daughter, Dorcas, was manipulated into confessing herself a witch (which would have sent her to the stake in Europe) and was chained up in prison for about eight months when she was no more than five and subjected to terrible treatment (which was how she was induced to testify against her mother) such that she was not normal the rest of her life. Sarah had also had an infant child and forced to suckle it in prison but the child died from the terrible environment just before its mother’s execution. The relationships within the family of George Burroughs degenerated down through the years into violent feuds—each side bitterly blaming the other for what had happened to George.

There were, needless to say, extremely bitter feelings in Salem Village and Salem Town. These hatreds and resentments carried on for generations. Even into the nineteenth century, Judge John Hathorne’s great-great-grandson, a customs inspector in Salem (a major seaport by that time) found success as a novelist and, to escape the stigma of the Hathorne name, called himself Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Samuel Parris never apologized for his role. He was the main cause of the entire debacle and blamed by both Village and Town more than anyone else but never fully admitted to wrongdoing, never expressed any real remorse. By 1695, his congregation in the Village refused to come to his sermons and refused to make donations to his church. By 1697, the quarrel ended up in court and was decided by paying off Parris who then left town to nobody’s disappointment. He was replaced by Reverend Joseph Green who deserves credit for appeasing bad feelings in the Village. In 1699, he brought Rebecca Good’s family back into the church where they were welcomed by the congregation.

In 1706, Salem Village accepted the apology of Ann Putnam who sought to explain her role in the hysteria. Reverend Green brought her into the church and read her statement aloud to the congregation as she stood silently, head bowed. She wrote:

“I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling Providence that befell my father’s family in the year about ’92; that I, being in my childhood, should by such a Providence of God be made an instrument for the accusing of several persons of a grievous crime, whereby their lives were taken away from them, whom I now have just grounds and good reason to believe they were innocent persons; and that it was a great delusion of Satan that deceived me in that sad time, whereby I justly fear I have been instrumental with others, though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon myself and this land the guilt of innocent blood; though what was said or done by me against any person I can truly and uprightly say before God and man, I did it not out of any anger, malice, or ill-will to any person, for I had no such thing against any of them; but what I did was ignorantly, being deluded by Satan.”

The other girls never issued such an apology or sought to explain themselves and were more or less ostracized for the rest of their days.

Salem Village appeared to be more willing to resolve and redress issues of the accused and the executed and their families than Salem Town. The Village began lifting the excommunication of many of the victims years before the Town did. This only served to deepen the resentments between Village and Town. Unable to come to any true reconciliation, Salem Village marked itself off from Salem Town by officially changing its name to Danvers by which it is known to this day. Salem Town is now simply Salem.

Perhaps the most fitting statement of wrongdoing came from the investigators of the witch-hunt—the jurors who heard the cases—who had been wrestling with their own brand of demons. The statement, which follows, was a most fitting way to bring an end to an era of darkness and superstition and usher in the light of the eighteenth century:

“We whose names are underwritten, being in the year 1692 called to serve as jurors in court at Salem, on trial of many who were by some suspected guilty of doing acts of witchcraft upon the bodies of sundry persons,

“We confess that we ourselves were not capable to understand nor able to withstand the mysterious delusions of the Powers of Darkness and Prince of the Air, but were, for want of knowledge in ourselves and better information from others, prevailed with to take up with such evidence against the accused as on further consideration and better information we justly fear was insufficient for the touching the lives of any (Deuteronomy 17.6), whereby we fear we have been instrumental with others, though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves and this People of the Lord the guilt of innocent blood, which sin the Lord saith in scripture he would not pardon (2 Kings 24.4), that is, we suppose, in regard of his temporal judgments.

“We do therefore hereby signify to all in general (and to the surviving sufferers in especial) our deep sense of and sorrow for our errors in acting on such evidence to the condemning of any person, and do hereby declare that we justly fear that we were sadly deluded and mistaken, for which we are much disquieted and distressed in our minds, and do therefore humbly beg forgiveness, first of God for Christ’s sake for this our error, and pray that God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others. And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with and not experienced in matters of that nature.

“We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all, whom we have justly offended, and do declare according to our present minds, we would none of us do such things again on such grounds for the whole world, praying you to accept of this in way of satisfaction for our offense, and that you would bless the inheritance of the Lord, that He may be entreated for the Land.”

FOREMAN, Thomas Fisk,
William Fisk, John Batcheler, Thomas Fisk, Junior, John Dane, Joseph Evelith, Thomas Perly, Senior, John Peabody, Thomas Perkins, Samuel Sayer, Andrew Eliot, Henry Herrick, Senior

Lord Larehip

The planned monument the Satanic Church would like to erect in Oklahoma City in front of the state capitol.

The model for Satan used in the monument came from this:



This image was developed by Eliphas Levi. Satan has a winged human torso with breasts, cloven hooves, green-scaled belly and a goat’s head bearing a one-point-up pentagram (sans circle) on its forehead. On its belly is a caduceus--the twin snakes that represent the unification of all dualities as well as the double helix of DNA, the basis of all life. Satan is the Great Unifier, all things are united in him/her. Notice that he/she points to both heaven and hell. This Grand Goat is GAOTU--the Great Architect of the Universe.

It should be pointed out, however, that Satanists do not believe in Satan as an actual deity the way Christians believe in their god (which is actually the same as Satan). Those I have spoken to do not even have a Creation scenario nor an eschatology (an end-times scenario). They do not drink blood, do not sacrifice people (most don't sacrifice animals, either) and do not molest children as per the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s. Satanists generally view children as feral humans who must be allowed to develop naturally and molestation grossly interferes with that development and so is not allowed. Any Satanist who has molested children was acting on his own impulses and not following any tenet or ritual of Satanism and said person will more than likely be kicked out.

LaVey's Church of Satan even pays taxes and always has. LaVey has refused to support any Satanic organization that claims tax-exempt status. Even this long after his death, CoS continues to pay taxes as per his wishes.

The Christian Church is a travesty and a sham in comparison. And now, let us pray:


Alvin Curran: Canti illuminati (1982) - YouTube