Cannibalism & Human Sacrifice

Nepal police say 4 arrested over child sacrifice

2010-02-12T14:30:00.000-08:00

I keep telling people that human sacrifice never went away, that it is more prominent than ever (it just went underground). I have a blog dedicated to this and cannibalism (it went underground as well). What part of 'underworld' don't people understand? We're living in a demon-run world (from inter dimensional planes and from demons dressed in flesh suits called psychopaths) and I know I'm not the only one who sees this! I used to talk to one of the demonic flesh suits! He told me that he ate human flesh twice a week! What I keep trying to tell people is that you can't have cannibalism without some kind of human sacrifice! This world is getting more evil all the time!

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/168271/nepal-police-say-4-arrested-over-child-sacrifice

Agence France-Presse
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:54 EST

Nepali police said Thursday they had arrested four people in connection with the death of an eight-year-old girl believed to have been killed in a human sacrifice.

Police said the child's throat had been slit and her body pierced with a sharp weapon. Local media reported her blood was found inside a brick kiln along with religious offerings of money and food.

"The circumstances of the killing in early December suggest the girl was sacrificed," local police official Narhari Adhikari told AFP from Rupandehi district in the south of Nepal.

"We have arrested four people including the owner of the brick kiln on charges of murder.

"Two of those arrested confessed they killed the girl as an offering to the gods to bring good fortune to the business," he added.

Mainly Hindu Nepal is deeply traditional and religious rituals are a part of everyday life in the impoverished country. Around 80 percent of the 27 million-strong population are Hindu.

Nepal outlawed human sacrifices in 1780 but experts say it is still practised by some communities in poor rural areas.

"Some people still believe sacrificing human beings will appease the gods, improve their fortunes and raise their social status," said Chunda Bajracharya, professor of cultural studies at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University.

Albinos in dread of a dark superstition

2010-01-17T03:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/albinos_in_dread_of_a_dark_superstition/

Martyn Drakard | Thursday, 14 January 2010
In East Africa, albinos are being killed for their body parts and sold on the black market.

White people no longer stand out, literally, in sub-Saharan Africa, not even in the villages and urban slums where a NGO Land-cruiser, with its white crew, is now a familiar sight. For albino Africans it’s a different story.

The whites are visitors, who are there usually for a specific purpose and they won’t stay forever. An albino may not find it easy to move out. He or she was born there and from an early age is likely to have encountered discrimination and taunts: at school, at sports and leisure, and later when looking for work.

An albino child will very likely be rejected by his father. He will accuse the child’s mother of “infidelity” or tell her that he, the father, is normal; there must be something wrong with the mother. And so he will leave her because he doesn’t want “more children like that one”. But albinos were left to follow their own way, a grim one in a place where the sun is bright and hot, and shines every day of the year. Despite popular misconceptions, they are not mentally handicapped. They are intelligent and smart. They have to be; they are survivors.

That was until three years ago, when a “trade” in albino body parts started, especially in the south-west of Lake Victoria, where albinos are about 1 in 4,000 of the population, as opposed to the 1 in 20,000 of Europe and North America where they are also less noticeable from their complexion.

An albino’s life is hard. He has little or no pigmentation in his hair, skin and eyes. Instead of getting a stylish tan from being out in the sun, he will develop sores on the skin and, unless very careful and rich enough to use sun block regularly, he will contract skin cancer at some point in his life and will always have poor eye-sight.

Now his life is even harder. According to the International Red Cross/Crescent (ICRC), 10,000 have gone into hiding since the killings began in Tanzania, which has the highest known proportion of albinos. In the year to June 2008, 50 were killed in Tanzania. The authorities reacted. In April 2008, the Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete, appointed a 48-year old albino, Al-Symaa Kway-Geer to parliament. Part of her task was to crack down on witch-doctors who encourage the killing of albinos. In January 2009, the Prime Minister revoked the licenses of witch-doctors, many of whom use body parts in black magic.

Why this persecution? The situation is somewhat like when the first whites entered the African interior. People believed that they were half-men, half-gods, that they had some kind of supernatural strength, that they could predict the future, that they could bring sorrow or wealth and that they had either good or evil powers. Since they were different, they were kept at a respectful distance. They were the “pink strangers” carrying sticks that fired and killed.

The albinos must have “powers” too, but the difference is that they are “us”, born among us.

Their body parts, particularly those considered the “most powerful”, such as the head and genitals, are thought to bring good luck and transmit supernatural powers. Unscrupulous businessmen have smelt money. They have been known to sell a complete set of body parts for as much as US$75,000. Illegal miners looking for gems use them; fishermen tie hair to their nets for good luck in getting a catch. Members of the business community in Mwanza, on Lake Victoria, have confessed to buying human body parts from witch-doctors. The word is spreading and traders from the neighbouring countries of Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and eastern Congo are cashing in. Some politicians also regularly consult witch-doctors.

In Tanzania they have been trading in albino organs; in Uganda small children are used by witch-doctors as human sacrifices. A Witchcraft Act has been in force in Uganda since 1931, but it has not been implemented effectively, since some top business people and a few politicians take part in these practices to get rich and further their careers.

The law in Tanzania has been slow to act but something is happening now. As of December 1, seven people had been sentenced to death -- although the death sentence has not been actually implemented in the country since 1995.

In Burundi, albinos have become proactive. They are demanding a census, as well as their own Member of Parliament. In the Ruyigi region of the country, a safe haven has been set up for them by Nicodeme Gahimbare, in his fortified house. Good as this initiative is, a more lasting solution is called for.

Mali, in north-west Africa, and Malawi in the south-east, however, each has albinos who have become popular musicians -- Salif Keita from Mali and Geoffrey Zigoma from Malawi. Social acceptance has proved to be possible.

All this fear and loathing is one of the paradoxes of Africa in transition. On the one hand there are the internet and mobile phone. On there other there are dark superstitions to conjure success at any price. Western countries, of course, are no strangers to such paradoxes. For all their sophistication, they still believe that killing children in the womb will bring relief to broken lives. The temptation to dehumanise people who don't look like us is universal.

Martyn Drakard writes from Kampala, in Uganda.

Ritual Mass Human Sacrifices

2010-01-10T17:09:00.000-08:00

http://one-evil.org/acts/acts_ritual_mass_human_sacrifice.htm

Ritual Mass Human Sacrifice is the deliberate and systematic murder of more than 100 persons based on a religious belief system and according to ritualistic processes.

When reading any history book on mass human sacrifice, inevitably the most barbaric groups in terms of brutal ritual are listed as such cultures as the Maya, the Aztecs and Incas and the hacking of people to death so that their blood ran down great pagan temples.

Yet this image is quite untrue on two fronts. The ancient Maya, Aztecs and Incas were far from the greatest ritual mass human sacrifices compared to the Sadducee noble families over the centuries and secondly the largest number of people sacrificed have been by fire, not by ritual slaughter.

It is conservatively estimated over the past two thousand years, the Sadducee noble families that control christianity and Islam have ritually sacrificed alive by fire in excess of 20 million souls, 18 million of those around 60 years ago in Europe.

The basis of this brutal, evil and terrifying method of murder centre's around maximizing the psychological trauma of human souls to ensure their capture and perpetual grounding for eternity.

The principle is quite simple- a horrendous death in absolute pain will often result in a human mind (soul) incapable of finding rest at least at first. If that soul also believes they were cursed in the process of their horrendous death they become a powerful magical force for those that killed them. This is at the heart of the Sadducee and Vatican legacy for nearly two thousand years.

Greatest Historic Examples of Ritual Mass Human Sacrifice by Burning alive

358-370 Skythopolis, Syria Sarmara (Samaritan) Kingdom up to 2 million Gnostics and Yahud (Judah) Jews

408-428 North Africa King Augustine (St Augustine) of Tunis up to 4 million Gnostics/Christians

1181-1760 Worldwide Roman Catholic Church - Holy Inquisition (Sadducees) up to 2 million burned in individual and mass trials

1940-1945 Poland Roman Catholic Church - Holy Inquisition embedded in SS units (Sadducees) up to 18 million burned alive with priests chanting at ovens 24 x 7

In recent history, one of the most extraordinary cover ups was the complete white wash of any involvement of the Catholic Church in World War II and the Vatican's specific planning and design of the concentrations camps for burning people alive.

Even the accounts of the holocaust have been doctored so that 99.9% of the world is taught that millions were "gassed" to death and only their bodies burnt. Yet all eyewitness accounts have shown that the gas chambers were merely to render victims unconscious in order to chain them to stretchers only to wake up alive being burnt to death in the ovens.

Even the fact that the concentration camp stretchers had chains to lock people trapped to the stretchers has been removed from almost every history book.

Such willing elimination of all evidence of over whelming history less than 100 years old does not bode well for the future. It means similar evens are quite possible, even probable given the history of the Sadducee noble families.

Demon King-Power, Magic Moloch

2010-01-10T17:00:00.000-08:00

People told me that my theology was wrong, that there were many 'gods' in the ancient middle-east of human sacrifice and I said, "No, it was one human sacrifice entity that went by different names." This article exonerates me!

http://one-evil.org/entities_gods/god_Moloch.htm

OTHER NAMES; Melech, Molech, Milcom, Melkom, Moloch, Molek, Malec, Malik, Melek, Malkum, Melqart, Melkart, Milk, Melqarth, Kronos, Cronus.

Background

Moloch, Molech, Molekh, or Molek, representing Hebrew מלך mlk, (translated directly into king) is either the name of a god and the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with that god in cultures throughout the Middle East, including but not limited to the Jewish, Egyptian, Caananite, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant.

Moloch went by many names including, but not limited to, Ba'al, Moloch, Apis Bull, Golden Calf, Chemosh, as well as many other names, and was widely worshipped in the Middle East and wherever Punic culture extended (including, but not limited to, the Ammonites, Edomites and the Moabites). Baal Moloch was conceived under the form of a calf or an ox or depicted as a man with the head of a bull.

Hadad, Baal or simply the King identified the god within his cult. The name Moloch is the name he was known by among his worshippers, but is a Hebrew translation. (MLK has been found on stele at the infant necropolis in Carthage.) The written form Μολώχ Moloch (in the Septuagint Greek translation of the Old Testament), or Molech (Hebrew), is the word Melech or king, transformed by interposing the vowels of bosheth or 'shameful thing'.

The Golden Calf (Moloch) Idol

The Molech idol was a large, hollow brass statue with the head of a bull and the bulging belly of a man. It was designed like an old fashioned pot-bellied stove, with the belly as the firebox.

A child sacrifice laid on the hands, would roll into the fire in the belly cavity. Scripture describes this practice as ‘passing through the fire to Molech,’ Leviticus 18:21.

Cleitarchus, an ancient historian, around 315 BC, gives this description of a fire god at Carthage. (Kronos is the north African name for Molech).

“There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier.”

Diodorus Siculus, 90-30 BC, gives this description of a Carthaginian fire god.

“There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.”

Plutarch, AD 46-127, senior priest of the oracle at Delphi, gives this description of the fire god.

“The whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing [of the children being sacrificed] should not reach the ears of the people.”

Molech worship is essentially identical with worship of Chemosh of Moab, Cronos-Cronos of Carthage and Melkart-Melqart of Tyre. The general name, used throughout Palestine and in the Bible, for this type of fire god, was Baal.

Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals

2010-01-08T12:55:00.000-08:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/6944292/Human-sacrifices-on-the-rise-in-Uganda-as-witch-doctors-admit-to-rituals.html

Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals
Witch doctors in Uganda have admitted their part in human sacrifice amid concerns that the practice is spreading in the African country.

07 Jan 2010

One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed to killing at least 70 people including his own son.

The latter has now given up the ritual and is campaigning to stamp it out, according to BBC News.

The African country's government claimed human sacrifice was on the increase.

According to officials trying to tackle it, the crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity - and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly.

During its investigation, to be broadcast on Thursday on Radio 4 and Newsnight, the BBC team witnessed anti-sacrifice campaigners torching the shrine of a witch-doctor in northern Uganda, who agreed to give up the practice.

He said clients came to him in search of wealth.

"They go and capture other people's children. They bring the heart and the blood directly here to take to the spirits," he said.

"They bring them in small tins and they place these objects under the tree from which the voices of the spirits are coming."

The witch doctor, who said he was paid 500,000 Ugandan shillings (around £160) for a consultation, denied any direct involvement in murder or incitement to murder, saying his spirits spoke directly to clients.

Moses Binoga, the assistant police commissioner who is head of the Ugandan anti-human sacrifice and trafficking task force, said there were 26 murders thought to be part of ritual sacrifice last year compared with three cases in 2007.

"We also have about 120 children and adults reported missing whose fate we have not traced," he added. "From the experience of those whom we recovered, we cannot rule out that they may be victims of human sacrifice."

Barbarian Law of the Blood

2009-12-17T05:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.archangel-michael.us/memberspages/secretstemplar.php

THE SECRETS OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

Humankind lives at the dawn of the manifestation of the Kingdom or mankind’s anchorage in a new dimension. Although the foremost events contributing to this magnificent achievement are hidden and invisible to the human eye, the group consciousness feels what is occurring on the inner planes.

Consequently, information about the Royal Lineage and the Grail is now available to the public, whether through books, articles, films or documentaries. Concomitantly, the Templars, being associated with the royal lineages, are coming back strongly as they try to recover a strategic position in the occult wheels of the planet.

Why the Templars? Because all the major modern occult groups who have secretly influenced politics and, therefore, history have issued from the Templar Order. But mostly, in their time, the Templars were the guardians of the Tradition and of the Bloodline. This signifies that, at a precise/specific time in human history, this group of souls was capable of being in resonance with the Divine Plan and translating it on the earth in the physical dimension. According to their capacity to comprehend, and within the limits of their personal evolution, they were utilized by the Infinite Consciousness as one of the links in the chain.

This does not mean that the actions of the Crusaders and of the Templars WERE the Plan. The Templars were, as most humans, limited in their comprehension of the Divine Purpose because of the epoch during which they lived and because of their own personal evolution. Their participation in the Plan is important but still is a HUMAN INTERPRETATION of the telepathic spiritual imprint received by these people.

The history of humankind is weaved by the instinctual reactions of individuals to the planetary energy of vital current. This vital force is impregnated by the vision of Infinite Consciousness, identified here as the Divine Plan. The Templars’ actions, as well as the actions of the Nazis, of the manipulator-Illuminati, or of anyone, are not and cannot be judged. EACH MOMENT IN PLANETARY HISTORY INSCRIBES ITSELF IN THE PERFECTION OF THE PLAN. The orders of chivalry and their descendants were/are the actors of the fall into the darkness and of the renewal toward the Light, for those who are and will be ready to make amends and to change.

The remains of the chivalric orders and the modern descendants of the medieval Templars naturally place themselves in a philosophy that is similar to the one taught by the Order during the Middle Age. The chivalric orders, under diverse denominations, are still active next to or inside the royal families. But the modern orders and the Freemasonry, even if they can prove a tangible filiation with the Templars, are absolutely not in harmony with the evolution of the Divine Purpose.

OCCULT USE OF MAGIC

During the Middle Age, even more than nowadays, the handling of occult forces as well as the practice of magic and ritual, were a part of daily life. Although of a Christian origin, the Knights Templar lived next to the Jewish and Islamic Initiates. They traveled and established commanderies in countries in which operative magic, Kabbalah and astrology, were taught. They collaborated with the Muslim Assassins from whom they learned alchemy and the occult arts.

" During the Crusades, tens of thousands of Europeans in the Holy Land became steeped in the very creeds they had marched to extirpate. The Sicilian court of the Hohen-stauffen Emperor Friedrich II became a veritable clearing house for Judaic and Islamic currents of thoughts. The Templars were another major conduit – perhaps the major conduit - for such currents." Temple and the Lodge, 136.

In all occult organizations, in all the temples, in all kingdoms, magic and the sacred were the basis of power and of the cult. In order to establish their power, the Atlanteans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Hebrews, the Arabs, the Africans, all people have tried to appropriate for themselves the forces and prerogatives of nature, of Heaven and of Hell. The greed of princes and priests for the esoteric knowledge was and still is based on the search for universal power. They have avidly searched for communication with the invisible world that was supposed to bestow onto them the wisdom, the vision of the future, as well as the support of Heaven.

Officially, neither the Christians nor the Jews are supposed to be practicing divination or magic. "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter of a witch." Deuteronomy 18, 10.

The belief in and human attachment to symbols and magical power artifacts is attested to by the story of the Spear of Destiny. One of the secret motives of Hitler’s invasion into Austria was his insatiable desire to possess the Spear of Longinus, which is supposed to be the one that pierced the Christ’s flank. Let us bear in mind the messianic aspirations and the major role played by the German Holy Roman Emperor Otto III in the startup of the Crusades. We are not surprised to discover that his grandfather, Otto the Great, was in possession of the sword known as the Sword of Longinus, and that Otto III received it for his wedding. (Did he choose his wife according to the dowry?)

It is believed that "The Hofburg Spear received its first recorded mention in the ancient Saxon Chronicle at the Battle of Leck (near Augsbourg) where Otto gained a resounding victory over the Mongolian hordes. The spear was presented to Otto on the occasion of his marriage. The condition attached to the Spear as dowry was that the garrison towns of Europe should be turned into trading cities." Spear,13.

This sword traveled from one King to another and is always linked to extraordinary victories. It is handed down as a sacred and magical object to the one that is believed to play a particular role in the politico-religious history, and probably in God’s Mind, as understood by human authorities.

Were the Carolingians unaware of the following text of the Old Testament?

"There shall not be found among you anyone that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord." Deuteronomy 18, 10.

Moses himself utilized magical practices to confront the Pharaoh and to drive his people out of Egypt. The only change brought by Christendom has been the consolidation of hypocrisy and dissimulation. In the twenty-first century, the high executives of the initiatic and secret societies, as well as those in politics and business, frequently use magic. When the members of a secret order do not feel powerful enough to perform their magical rituals and get the desired results by themselves, specialists are recruited and paid.

The kings of antiquity and, more specifically, the kings that are a part of the Divine Bloodline, held the double function of priest and king. As such, they were the intermediaries between the Divine and the human realms. For a long period of time, the sovereign, because of his blood and DNA, innately had the capacity to communicate with the inner planes. His main function was to anchor and to embody the Divine Plan. Also, he was guiding and protecting his people with the wisdom illustrated by the glorious Solomon, whether he was a real or a symbolic figure. At the start of human history, the first kings were the direct descendants of the Creators. Their filiation, as well as their proximity in time to their divine parents, allowed them to keep themselves naturally linked (religare) with Heaven. But with time and with the progressive fall into matter, the Priest-Kings, the Children of the Dragon and of the Archangels, have slowly fell into a state of spiritual amnesia and degradation.

They first had recourse to subterfuges, to magical practices, in order to reconnect with the Divine. Little by little, they have completely sunk into matter and into darkness, and have become unable to connect themselves with the High Planes. Their level of consciousness (= the capacity to remember their Divinity and their capacity to live it in matter), their rituals and their incantations did not allow them anymore to rejoin the superior spiritual planes. They could only reach the astral plane inhabited with powerful entities, yet far from the refined vibrations of the divine planes. The Priest-Kings sank into an obscene mating with demonic entities. Their actions, their religious practices, were a reflection of their level of consciousness as well as of the invisible planes and the entities with which the Kings were communicating. This is the reason why the Priest-Kings, while sensing the divine call as shown by many refined aspects of their cultures, have still practiced the barbarian law of the blood, coupled with human sacrifices, and a lack of respect for the innocence of the children.

MAGIC - DEFINITIONS

Magic is an intervention in the order of the world. It is not necessary to utilize candles and wax figurines in order to practice magic. We all do it as soon as we consciously use our volitive faculty to intervene in another’s life or to change the nature of things. It is enough, if one is capable, to just emit a THOUGHT. Fortunately, very few individuals have the capacity to manifest at will; our world would only be a little more chaotic than it is already!

An Adept ceases to practice magic when he/she has completely let go, has no more desires, and is fully abandoned to his Divine Self. In such conditions, the Divine Self being an aspect of the Whole, the Adept becomes a channel of the Plan and a conduit for Perfection.

There are three relational levels with the universe - three levels of the Sacred:

- The level of primary magic: The being has noticed the existence of material, animistic forces and constrains them in order to fulfill a desire or a physical or emotional need: I want rain or I want the neighbor’s wife, therefore I do a ritual in order to attract clouds or the lady of my thoughts. To increase my personal power, I use plants, objects; if necessary, I will constrain entities or souls that will serve me and give me their power.

- The level of pure thought: I want rain, I think rain. I do not rely on anything or anyone but on my capacity to broadcast the right thoughtform; I do it in such a way that I do manifest the object of my covetousness.

- I have understood that I am a part of the Whole, about which I know and respect the Sovereign Will. I know that I am loved by the Universal Soul, therefore understood, nurtured and cherished. Consequently, I live in trust and innocence and receive the gifts and blessings of the universe at each instant and in all aspects of my life.

[I have a problem with this 'third' level and I will tell you why. Part of the 'Whole' is being part of evil as the Universal Soul of this universe is evil. If we believe we are part of the 'Whole' then it is easy to accept evil as 'natural' and thus, accepted in our environment when we need to stay as far away from it as possible! Evil does not nurture and cherish. It keeps the Souled alive so it can torment it, oftentimes rape our Souls and to feed off it until it kills us because we are not longer useful to it. Evil wants us to believe that we are part of some 'Mystical Whole' so we won't see it for what it is: a predator that will have to resistance from us because we are believing lofty, idealistic crap while it is getting ready to attack us from behind and plunder from us what it wants. Evil wants us to believe things like 'Sovereign Will' and 'Universal Soul' and all that other stuff so we are easier victims for it! Always Remember That!]

In the same way, the alchemist buckles down to his work in a physical laboratory and practices chemistry. But he will only be capable of transmuting matter when he himself is transmuted.

The ritual of the Catholic Mass and the transubstantiation (or the wish to accomplish it) are magical acts. It is interesting to notice that the Catholic religion, that forbids magic and divination in a strict manner, is founded on a ritual in which the wine and the bread are supposed to be respectively transformed into blood and flesh.

The Judaic law prohibits occult practices. However, the families and clans owned figures, called Teraphims, which were consulted as oracles. The Bible mentions the existence of the Teraphims in the house of King David. The scriptures also state use of the Thummin was set aside for the Chief Priest. The exact nature of the Thummin is not known, but it is said that these objects were interrogated by the Chief Priest so as to make decisions under divine guidance. Closer in history, the cabbalists write the names of or invoke spiritual and demonic powers; they manipulate the divine names, the sephirots of the Tree of Life and the Hebrew language, in order to fabricate talismans and to anchor their will.

THE TEMPLARS IN JERUSALEM

The Crusades lasted two centuries and have definitely changed the course of European history. The role and visible power of the Roman Catholic popes was re-enforced while the population was submitted to an intense intellectual and religious manipulation. But in secret, deep modifications of the creed and of the faith of the Christians were initiated. The contacts and exchanges that occurred with the mystics from the Islamic and Judaic faiths have nourished the need to a return to the esoterical Tradition, and reintroduced the occult sciences in the European culture.

In a very precise context, the religious authorities skillfully organized the population and the knights’ enthusiastic marches, proudly exhibiting the identifying cross on their chests. Sylvester II accessed the papacy in 999, at the dawn of the millennium. The birthday of the Christ was close as well as the anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem. Was the pope affected by the millennialist ideas of the moment or was he looking for specific information about Jerusalem and about the actors of its past? He made contact with the Caliph … and organized in 1001 an expedition of Chronicler-monks in Syria and Palestine:

"Al-Hakim greeted the pope’s entourage with honor and spent many weeks in Jerusalem discussing with them the virtues of Islam versus Christianity. He was so impressed by their sincerity that the caliph gave them, in September 1002, the use of the Byzantine Greek church on the outskirts of Jerusalem for their chapter house and library. Unfortunately, Al-Maqquari (historian of the 13th century) does not name the entourage or the location of their order, merely that they were there as chroniclers or historians. By the time of the First Crusade, they were established in a Greek Basilica on Mount Zion, with the name of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Zion" Cross, 129.

NOTE: "Literally, millennialism refers to the belief, expressed in the book of Revelation, that Christ will establish a one-thousand year reign of the saints on earth before the Last Judgment. More broadly defined, millennialists expect a time of supernatural peace and abundance here on earth." Richard Landes (MILLENNIALISM ,MILLENARIANISM, CHILIASM) Draft of article for the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of World Religions, 1999.)

Between 970 and 1020 C.E., a series of masterpieces was produced by one of the most influential schools of painting in Europe. The artist workshop was housed in the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau and located on an island at the center of Lake Constance. Under the responsibility of the Benedictine monks and commissioned by the then-current Emperor, Kings and Bishops, the artist-monks copied liturgical manuscripts, on/over golden leafs with ornate, precious illuminations.

One of the most important pieces of this series is the Bamberg Apocalypse, which is said to have been ordered by the Emperor Otto III. It reproduces the text of the Apocalypse. This masterpiece includes fifty-seven large format miniatures on gilded ground and over one hundred golden initials. The Emperor died before the completion of the codex and his successor, Henri II, donated it in 1020 to the Collegiate Abbey of Saint Stephan at Bamberg.

The text of the Apocalypse announces the emergence of a monarch who represents the Christ on earth: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called ‘Faithful and True’ and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." Apocalypse 19, 11.

The monarch participates in the establishment of the New Jerusalem which, according to Saint John, will be built after the Last Judgment:

"And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it…And I saw a new heaven and a new earth… And I, John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband…And he that sat on the throne said, Behold I make all things new. And he said unto me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." Apocalypse 21, 2-6.

In fact, the adviser to the German imperial family, Sylvester, probably dreamt of installing such a monarch in Jerusalem as an answer to the prophecies of the Apocalypse. Also, assisted by the Chronicler-monks, Sylvester had most likely compiled a genealogy allowing him to consider Otto III as the divine heir to the Throne of the Christ. Keep in mind that Otto is the one who was gifted with the Spear of Longinus at his wedding.

Sylvester II did not see the completion of his projects. The pious and idealistic emperor died at the age of 21 in 1002, while his genius adviser expired on May 12, 1003. It is whispered that both fatalities were suspicious….

A series of popes succeeded Sylvester II. Once more, Jerusalem falls to the hands of the Turkish infidels in 1071. In 1088 Urbain II takes on the papacy. Supported by the majority of European kings, he focuses on the reunification of the Eastern and Western churches, divided since the Great Schism of 1054. In the Middle East, the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus (reign1081-1118) confronts the Turks who take back Jerusalem and then march toward Constantinople. In 1095, at the occasion of the Council of Placienta, Alexius proposes the union of the Eastern and Western nations and churches in order to fight against the Muslim hordes. Urbain II uses this opportunity to secure his power and harness at his will the warrior energy of the knights.

On November 27th,1095, Pope Urbain II, after convincing the kings in power, harangued the people and the knights, asking them to conquer Palestine so as to free it, as well as the Holy Sepulchre and the Christians, from the Muslim yoke. This call triggered the First Crusade that started in 1096.

The fist wave, lead by Peter the Hermit, gathered an anarchic crowd of 20,000 volunteers without any military education or leadership. After having sacked the Jewish communities on their way, they succumbed to the hands of the Turks.

Then an army followed, organized in sections, commanded by:

- Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and his brother Baldwin

- Bohemond, Norman Prince of Taranto, Italy, and his nephew Tancred

- Raymond, Count de Toulouse and Saint Gilles

- Duke Robert of Normandie, son of William the Conqueror, plus Robert of Flanders and Stephen of Blois, William’s son-in-law

- Hugh, Count of Vermandois

The sudden death of several characters who contributed to the setting into action of the Crusades, the recurring presence of specific monastic orders concomitantly with the intervention of particular royal lineages, are enough clues pointing at the existence of a global plan, secretly conceived and imposed. This plan would include the access and control of the Holy City, and the initiation of a millennium of peace under the ruling of a specific bloodline.

It is true that some of the Crusaders were moved deeply by religious motivations or at least by the belief in the redemption of sins, which was promised as a reward to their sacrifice. But, as time went by, the Crusades became the weapon of the ruling powers, whether political or religious.

"The Crusade, the most potent weapon in the papacy’s formidable arsenal, increasingly emerged as an instrument to be applied as and when popes saw fit, and against whomsoever and wherever its use was appropriate. Crusading had become an elaborate and complex business, ‘the business of the cross’ as it was described at the time." Oxford, 42.

But, beyond all plans for territorial conquests or political plot, the deepest and most powerful motivation, the one that either lifts or corrodes the human soul, is the feeling of divine power and the desire to align oneself with the sacred.

Enthused by their thirst for power and their erroneous interpretation of the spiritual message, the Templars or/and those who supported them - kings, nobilities, popes, assaulted the Middle East. In their minds, it was necessary to conquer and rule in and from the physical city of Jerusalem. The First Crusade ended with the conquest of the Holy City in July 1099. (Note: One can also find a more dramatic version: Friday, June 15th, midday, time of the Crucifixion). Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders, refused the crown but was elected Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Less than one year later, his brother was crowned under the title of Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

"The most important of these events was the political conjunction between East and West begun by Pope Sylvester II, the new Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and the mad Caliph Al Hakim one hundreds years before the first crusade was announced. It was a vast plan conceived and carried out by a group of secret societies for the purpose of creating a world-state in the Holy Land and thereby bringing the chiliast millennium of peace." Cross, 122.

CAPUT

It is said that the Crusaders took hold of the Spear of Destiny, the one that later fascinated and motivated Hitler. Is this the same one that Hitler borrowed in Austria? But the Templars’ treasure was another kind. One of the accusations against the Templars had to do with the possession of a magical object, the Baphomet, that they revered and consulted.

This accusation is mostly the mark of the rampant hypocrisy of this time, as well as of the open manipulation of the courts and of the power that has always been the signature of human beings. Initiates of all nations, Atlantean and Egyptian priests, high grade Templars, were an elite group compared to the general population. Nevertheless, for thousands of years and because of the general level of consciousness allowed to humankind, very rare individuals could directly communicate with Spirit or manifest. Communication through oracles and magic was then an integral part of religion and power. At the time of Chivalry, the cult of relics, real or false, was a source of income for the Church, a hobby for some, and a habit for the Templars. Human relics, especially skulls, were and are still very appreciated in specific circles.

The CRaNium, upper part of the body, represents the celestial vault. It is also the CaveRN in which the brain, the tool of consciousness, lays. At the base of the cranium/skull is located the Alta Major Center, intermediary between the body and the head. It is the center that permits the human to synthesize the chakra system and to start multi-dimensional consciousness. (See I Am That I Am). In the right side of the brain is situated the sacred inter-dimensional door that gives access to universality of egoic/individualized consciousness and to immortality (= continuity of consciousness = conscient creation of unified spacio-temporal continuums). On the CRaNe lays the King’s CRowN. Above it is located the CoRoNal chakra, bridge between heaven and earth.

Divination and communication with the deceased or necromancy (from the Greek necros, dead, and manteia, divination) are an integral part of human history. Necromancy was extensively utilized in antiquity, in Persia, in Chaldea, in Babylon, in Greece, in Rome and elsewhere. Practiced in the temples, in grottos, next to sacred waters, necromancy was still in use at the time of the Templars in Europe and other locations.

One of the most infamous practices in black magic consists of the utilization of children’s heads in order to capture the soul of a spirit or of a deceased. The head is used as a catalyst that allows one to constrain a soul or a demon and make it speak or perform tasks for the benefit of the magician.

Numerous writers mention the existence of magical heads in the Christian world of the Middle Age. These magical tools were known under the charming sobriquet of enchanted heads or Mahomet heads. Gerbert of Aurillac, ex-bishop of Reims, France, also known as His Holiness Pope Sylvester II, is said to have been the owner of such a head, a kind of wise automaton. According to H. P. Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled, "The pope Sylvester II was publicly accused of sorcery by Cardinal Benno because he had fabricated a ‘divinatory copper head’. These heads and other speaking statues, trophies of skillful monks and bishops in terms of magic, were only the reproduction of the animated gods of the old temples." Other sources mention Albert the Great as the happy owner of one of those abjections.

Let us keep in mind that Sylvester II studied mathematics and sciences at the Santa Maria of Ripoll Monastery in Andalousia. There, he perfected his occult knowledge with the cabbalists as well as with the Jewish and Islamic magicians. Except for the desire to place on the throne in Jerusalem a king who would be part of the Sacred Bloodline, it is easy to imagine that His Holiness was also looking for relics, for corpses, with which he would be able to exert his talents to satisfy his obscene desires as a magician, and to connect himself with the vibrations of the Bloodline.

The information found by the Chronicler-monks allowed the Pope to follow the path of the Royal Bloodline. In search of relics, of memories, Sylvester II and the Templars consciously and magically connected themselves with the Sacred Royal Bloodline.

When the Templars claimed the right to dig under the Temple of Jerusalem, they found sepulchers. In these tombs, the bodies of Initiates had been resting for centuries. At least one of them, known to be Wise and a Prophet, gained their attention. In Jerusalem the Knights removed from the earth one of the bodies, which had been anchoring the memories of the Lineage and the DNA of the Dragon. By listening to their instincts as magicians, the Templars desecrated the sepulchers and the embalmed bodies of these Initiates, whose heads they severed. By this act, the Templars have recognized their inability to connect themselves to the archives of the universe, to the memory fields of our planetary system, and to God. Through their misdeed, they have subsequently confessed their failure to manifest their personal power.

During their scabrous ceremonies, the great and valiant knights were used to kneeling in front of these macabre relics, from which an astral part would give them information and temporary power. This head (Chef, in French) allowed them to connect vibratorily with the Divine Royal Bloodline that they knew, and to use its phenomenal power. In return, Spirit, the Consciousness, asked them to temporarily protect the bloodline.

This HEAD, with DIVINE POWER, is the centerpiece of the Templars’ treasure. As already mentioned, the Knights, tasty for relics, had many. However, here we will focus on the "Chef"/head, the main function of which was to anchor the power of the Lodge that possessed it.

This treasure has been hidden in a secret location until the present time (the Author has not decided yet if it is time to reveal the location), while the attention of the gullible public is purposely directed toward Scotland. Paradoxically, if one projects an energy beam onto the Rosslyn Chapel with the pure intent of historical and world transmutation, the energy immediately rebounds and instantaneously hits a different location…. The famous Rosslyn Chapel, proficiently decorated with mystical symbols in order to attract attention, has been the object of international propaganda through best sellers and through the media. Finally, while a sanitized portrait of the Old Knights is advertised, the public’s interest is steered toward the Templar groups and their descendants.

In order to utilize this head and his memories, the Knights and their descending branches have attached entities to it and have fed it throughout the centuries with magical and obscene bacchanalias. While sustaining this body, they have partially constrained its soul. These heads/chefs have certainly been honored by the Knights but did not belong to them. Through those relics, the Templars have captured the souls’ power, some of them being among the most powerful in human history. In addition to one of those bodies, the Templars have also seized a treasure that was later exploited to strengthen their organization.

The heads utilized by the Templars belonged to different times/epochs and allowed them to establish contacts or vibratory bridges with other space-times. This has facilitated the Knights’ research and exploits in regard to riding multi-dimensions. Even today, the disappearance of the seventeen ships of the Templars’ float is still a mystery. Did the float vanish in a time doorway?

When the Templars lost their position, the Head was secretly passed from one order to the other, insuring the chain of world power. After sojourning not far from Europe, the Caput has followed the travels organized by the Secret Orders. Bear in mind that, after their fall, the Templars migrated all over the globe, and in particular to Scotland, Portugal and America. In Portugal, they re-emerged under the name of Knights of Christ. Two famous members of this order are Vasco de Gama and Prince Henry the Navigator. Christopher Columbus, who supposedly discovered the Americas, was, in fact, married to a Knight of Christ’s family member who provided him with maps and information. It is then under the banner of the patte cross that Columbus’ three vessels arrived in the new world.

After the official disappearance of the Templars and "from the political standpoint, the Order of Malta secretly inherited the Templar initiation. The chief of the Order of Malta had ambassadors and he was dealing as an equal with the pope." In Portugal, the Order was not forbidden but was simply renamed the Order of the Christ. The Templars, to display that they had redeemed themselves from their impurities, changed their red cross for a white one. Quickly an abundance of initiatic Orders recuperated their members using similar rituals and teachings. These occult groups are, in fact, secretly controlled by the same characters. The most renown are the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem or Knights of Rhodes/Malta, the Teutonic Order, the Order of the Garret, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Orders of Saint Michael and the Order of Santiago.

Now, let us answer these questions: Who usurped the position of the Bloodline at the time of the Merovingians? Who detained the reins of world power at this time?

" The first permanent English settlement in what became the United States was at Jamestown, Virginia, in the early 17th century. The financial and land ownership of America was assured from the start with the formation of the Virginia Company set up by King James I in 1606. James knighted Francis Bacon. Under James’ patronage, the Templars, Rosicrucians and other secret societies joined forces under one name, Freemasonry. Who owns the assets apparently owned by the Virginia Company? Answer: The Vatican. On October 3rd, 1213, King John as ‘King of England Corporation Sole’ (controlled by the Templars) claimed autonomy over the sovereign rights of England and assigned them to the Pope, who as Vicar of Christ, claimed dominion over the whole world. In return, the Pope granted executive ship to the English Crown over all these dominions. In other words, the Crown is the Chief executive and the Vatican is the owner." The Biggest Secret, Icke.

THE POWER OF THE CAPUT

The Dragons were the Creators and the initiators of human history. The Royal Blood is then the Blood of the Dragon and of his Descendants. The Dragon’s Lineage, from which the Merovingians are only a link, did not need to be consecrated by any church, any pope or any other authority. They were Kings and Priests by divine right and represented the Universal Order. In their blood, they carried the Dragon DNA, as conceived and transmitted for this cycle of life.

The sovereigns of the Divine Lineage, the illustrious characters of the religious and occult history, and belonging to the Bloodline, are the points of anchorage of the Divine Plan on the Earth. Through their presence, physical as well as magical/occult, they are the foundation of the nations’ power, of Secret Societies, of the Templars and their descendants.

The head, in which the brain and the main glands are located, is the seat of the Father’s Energy and Presence. It is in the head, linked to the crown chakra or vortex, that is situated the Origin, the emitter and receptor of the Divine therefore of the absolute and total power. The Caput, stolen by the Templars, belonged to a very specific soul of a Royal Blood, and was overshadowed by Spirit, the Engine of the Divine Plan. Consequently, this misdeed was the easiest and most secure manner for the Templars to insert themselves in the steps of history and to exert power.

In the process of manifestation of the idea or Divine Plan, the energy or signature of the Creators spread into three vases. These recipients and conduits are:

- The Dragon

- The Mother or Mother-Goddess

- The King, anointed by Spirit

These three energies pervade through three vortices or, more exactly, three systems of vortices, on the planet. To simplify, we will speak about three vortices or chakras:

- The earth base chakra, linked to the Eternal Dragon

- The second or sexual chakra, connected to the Mother

- The crown chakra, tied with the pineal gland and located above the head, therefore out of matter and duality. This center is connected to the extra-temporal power of the Father, incarnated by the King.

The first center contains the VITAL FIRE, the life potential. It is the depository of the DNA. This fire is held by the Dragon. The Dragon is the force that exteriorizes itself into the magma, in the volcanoes, the fault lines and the earth meridians. It is also a Consciousness, an Intelligence, who experiences a life-cycle, and expresses Itself. As all Spiritual Consciousnesses, the Dragon enjoys the prerogatives inherent to his status, but also has duties and responsibilities. The Dragon Energy is masculine in polarity.

The second center, female in polarity, carries the feminine manifestation of the Dragon. It is the feminine Archetype or Mother Goddess or Great Mother. The Dragon’s and the Mother’s Consciousnesses are One. The Dragon brings the semen, the DNA, while the Mother, after receiving it, makes it blossom.

The Crown center is the point from which the Origin, the Plan and the Creative Consciousness expresses Itself. It is the Father, the absolute will and power. Occultists and magicians know the importance of the Head as well as its symbolism and have then naturally utilized this part of the body in order to steal and use each other’s power.

During human history, God or the Divine Consciousness has temporarily abandoned Its power to the Dragon and its descendants, the human beings. For millions of years, the Father has voluntarily abdicated in favor of terrestrial and human experiences.

As a result, and as a sign of their naïveté and also folly, the occultists and the leaders, in their search for power, attempted to summon the Divine and to constrain it for answers. They have practiced rites but most of all sacrifices. NOTE CAGLIOSTRO.

The sacrifice of powerful and glorious Beings, or the innocent and virgin, in order to inflate life to a temple or give strength to an army, the sacrifice of Christian Saints whose blood was spilled for the baptism of a new church, are only some examples of such a practice.

The supreme sacrifice was the death of the Sovereign, of the Head of the Royal Bloodline. This sacrifice is reminiscent of and has only been possible because of God’s decision to momentarily abdicate His Power. This is illustrated by the daily birth and death of the Sun and by the story of Jesus.

When warriors drink their brothers’ blood on the warfield, they ingest the elements of strength and bravery of the dead. But, when a magician appropriates an individual’s head, he takes, at least symbolically, the will, the original power of manifestation, and the political and spiritual authority.

THE TEMPLE

The building of Personal Consciousness and the Manifestation of the Divine Plan, as a whole, are symbolized by the BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. This is the reason why the Egyptian temple, among others, was built in the image of geometry and of the human body.

The Dragon Pharaonic Dynasties have left tangible traces of their passage and of their knowledge of architecture. But the account of the building of the Temple of Solomon, as reported in the Bible, leaves archeologists perplexed. NOTE. Also, according to archeological searches, at the time when Kings David and Solomon were supposed to live, the city of Jerusalem was only a small, insignificant village. Solomon did not even have a palace in which he could shelter his fabulous harem.

Nevertheless, Solomon was an important link in the Bloodline. It is worth noting that he did not strictly respect the Jewish law. Solomon was carried away by his love for the Goddess Astarte. Also, according to the Masonic legend (about which we will talk later), the building of this jewel would have been entrusted to the foreign King, Hiram – yet Hiram of Tyre in the Bible only provided the cedar trees.

THE MASONIC RITUAL, THE DEATH OF HIRAM ABIF

The famous legend of the death of Hiram Abif, at the core of the Masonic rituals, also speaks about the destiny of the Lineage, of the King and of this latter’s association with the BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE.

Hiram Abif is a composite character whose exact origin is still unknown. He is certainly not the King of Tyre who, according to the Bible account, was chosen by Solomon to assist in the construction of the Temple. This king’s name was Hiram:

"And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father." I Kings 5,1.

Second Book of Chronicles (2,14 and 4,16) mentions a certain Huram Abi or Huram AbiV, the final ‘V’ only appearing in some translations. These names would mean Huram my father or Huram his father. The word Abi would also designate a Master of a Counselor.

We will also state the interpretation of Hiram Abif in the book Hiram Key. The authors affirm that "Hiram signifies ‘Noble’ or ‘Kingly’ in Hebrew while Abif had been identified as old French for ‘lost one’, giving a literal description of ‘the King that was lost’. Hiram Key, 121.

What is certain is that this character abruptly appears in the Masonic documents of the early eighteenth century, in 1723. It emerges from nowhere at the same time as a new grade in the young Great Lodge of London, based on the legend of Hiram Abif. It is also the time when the Scottish and London Lodges were fighting for power.

The new grade, based on a story tainted with mystery and symbols with a vaguely biblical background, allowed the London Lodge, created for political purpose, to give itself the image of an occult organization that would mark the re-awakening of a traditional lineage. This yearning for recognition corresponds to the repetitive model of the many "filled with imagination" founders of mystical organizations.

However, the pictures and symbols recycled by the students of the occult are always an emanation, an interpretation, of the unique and original Tradition. They are also the expression of humankind’s group psyche and only translate intuitions of the truth.

THE SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW

The sovereign is the one who builds the temple. His role, contrary to that of his subjects, is not limited to the building of the personal temple. The King erects the divine temple or New Jerusalem, the spiritual and lasting temple that opens the path to the manifestation of the Divine Plan.

The Kings who have consecutively represented the Bloodline were only intermediaries, points of anchor. Not only were the sovereigns humans and, therefore, subject to bodily death, but most of all, the time of the advent of the King and of the manifestation of the New Jerusalem had not arrived yet. This is why the King dies and resuscitates. In Egypt, the funerary rite of the deceased pharaoh is concomitant to the crowning of the new King. At his death, the old pharaoh becomes Osiris and retires on Orion, while the new pharaoh endorses the identity of Horus, the son. The two travel together to Orion where they sojourn with the gods. The young pharaoh, probably assisted by a narcotic, lies inert in a sarcophagus for several days. He magically comes back to life at sunrise as the morning star rises above the horizon. Thus, the French morbid or comical expression, utilized to announce the death of a king: "The king is dead, long life to the king!".

Hiram Abif symbolized all those who, although from a Royal Blood, have only participated in the building of the temporary temple. As with all the pharaohs who were part of the Bloodline, their passage on earth ends with an abortion of their venture, a murder or a hold back/reconsideration by circumstances. They are meant to fail because the time is not propitious. Exterior events, symbolized by the ruffians, will precipitate the death of the Master who refuses to reveal the secrets.

What about the character of Jesus? We will not discuss here the authenticity of Jesus’ story. Whether the latter truly existed or whether he was a created or embellished character set on the world scene by the manipulators of history to force a new religion, does not affect our point here. However, the Bible says that Jesus had twelve apostles. The apostles represent the twelve main extensions of the Soul-Jesus.

Jesus or Joshua means "Son of Nun," son of the Fish. In the first century, Jesus introduced a new doctrine that dominated the Pisces Era. His disciples are fishers of men and the miracle of the multiplication of the fishes can be interpreted as the sudden onset of a new group of disciples. But, at the time of the first century and compared to the divine calendar, it was still too early to establish the Kingdom. Jesus had to be satisfied with sowing and disappearing. Judas, the traitor is only the instrument of the destiny. He represents the part of the Christic-Body that was still not ready.

The Christic-Body (Christ-body) is composed of twelve Masters or twelve extensions. Each is to complete its task in a different space-time. It is only when the Christic-Body and the Earth are simultaneously ready that the Divine Purpose can be manifested and that the Royal Bloodline can bear fruits.

THE FATHER TAKES BACK HIS POWER

At the end of a creation cycle, the Father or Spirit fully takes back his power. That means that all parts of creation return to the Father and vanish in Unity and then into Nothingness. But before this reconciliation or dissolution, the Father closes the loop of evolution, brings back his idea/thought to Himself, and completes the Plan. This is called the Kingdom, the manifestation of the Father’s will, through the Son who is His Ambassador on the planet.

This is the role of the Messiah or the King.

For the purpose of taking back his power, the King, at the head of the Royal Bloodline, successively takes a position in the energy mechanisms and then in the material ruling of the planet. The King represents the Creator who divided Itself in the terrestrial mitosis. His Energy, as mentioned earlier, spread through the Dragon’s Consciousness, itself invested in the Great Mother’s Consciousness.

The King takes back his power successively on the Dragon, on the Mother, and then on the manifested Father or Head.

Logically, the King comes back or resuscitates, as in the eternal myth of all earthly religions:

"Killed by Typhon, our father Osiris is locked in his sarcophagus at the deepest part of each human being. He is the root of a glorious body who will only come back to life with the assistance of our Knowledgeable Mother Isis whose tears are a life balm. Killed by the three bad Compagnons, Master Hiram is reborn in the womb of the new master. The two guards tear the immortal body off (Fire + Air) from the perishable body (Earth + Water). The renaissance of Osiris and of Master Hiram out of their sepulchers are two pictures of this intention. The resurrection of Christ will take the relay on the ancient teachings." Secrets of Egyptian Free-Masonry, 234.

The one who has already incarnated under multiple faces, symbolic and physical, as the Father’s Royal Ambassador, has accepted bestowing his power for centuries to the humans. He has permitted the utilization of his Essence, of his memories, of his power, through his Blood, the Dragon’s Blood, but also through his Heads.

When time is right, at the time of the Resurrection, according to the astral and solar cycles, the King returns and takes back his power. When the King takes back his head, he wakes up within him the Father’s memories and commands. Nothing can stop him or slow down the establishment of his Kingdom, because his Kingdom is the manifestation of his Father’s Will.

The True Head, object of veneration and object of use in the occult societies, was retrieved and its power taken back by its owner. In virtue of this act of will, imprinted by a sacred rite that occurred inter-dimensionally at the time of the Spring Equinox, the power was officially removed from the occult orders and handed down to the shoulders of the successor to the Throne.

By virtue of this decision, all those individuals and groups who have assumed throughout the centuries the titles of Father by Divine Right or heir, are condemned to bend to the natural order or to move aside. Their occult, religious, or political organizations shall accept the transmutation or disappear.

UTILIZATION OF MEMORIES – HEADS

The Templar Order is not the only known religious group that has claimed the right to keep the memories of other souls. The Tibetans, for instance, preserved and decorated ("Thank you for your kindness!") the skulls of their adepts:

The ritual decoration of these ornate skulls originated as long ago as the 14th century. It is said that during the cremation of a powerful monk, his skull rolled out of the fire and toward the feet of the monks attending the cremation. This was taken as a sign that his skull should not be destroyed but glorified and used as a focal point in meditation. (Author’s note: I believe that the ‘sign’ is just a pretext utilized by magicians and weak individuals to usurp one’s power.) Today, there is still a belief that skulls can be used to capture and contain the flesh and blood of a demon. (Short Description of Gods, Goddesses and Ritual Objects of Buddhism and Hinduism in Nepal. Published in 1999 by the Handicraft Association of Nepal in Kathmandu.)

According to Nicholas de Vere, in Dragon Legacy, " the cult of the severed head, as part of Celtic religious practice, originated with the Druids, and therefore the Scythians. Examples of the head as the seat of the soul and the source of mystical wisdom, a bestower of gifts or cornucopia, find expression both in the legend of the head of Bran the Blessed and Bendigaid Fran, Archdruid of Britain. This is retold in the Mabinogion, and the trial papers of the Templars, who owned a head that was said to speak words of transcendental wisdom. This head, along with that of Bran, have both been cited as being aspects of the Grail with whom both Bran and the Templars were connected." page 79.

THE SKULL IN RENNES LE CHATEAU

Let us reconnect this chapter with the Abbe Sauniere’s extraordinary story and with Mary Magdalena. In the Rennes le Chateau Church, she is represented sitting, apparently pregnant (unless her skirt is very full), a skull ostensibly laying next to her. Is this the skull of her Famous Lover or of Saint John the Baptist? It is said that during the first century the healers and preachers organized miracle contests. For instance, Jesus would have been in competition with Simon the Magus. The magicians of the first century used the technique consisting in/of constraining the soul and power of a deceased who had exceptional capacities.

According to the gospel of Mark, "King Herod heard of him. And he said that John the Baptist was risen from the dead and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. When Herod heard thereof, he said: ‘It is John, whom I beheaded, he is risen from the dead.’" Mark 6, 14-16.

The study of ancient magic led some researchers to presume that "the powers which had worked in John had gone over to Jesus. Jesus was called ‘John’ because it was believed that he ‘had’, that is, he possessed and was possessed by, the spirit of the Baptist. If a magician could call up and get control of or identify himself with such a spirit, he could then control inferior spirits or powers." Jesus the Magician, 44. Did Jesus inherit, whatever motivations could be invoked, the Baptist head, which would have increased his personal power? This would explain the relentless desire of some groups to point at the Baptist as the true owner of the occult power. But, one detail : according to the Gospels, Jesus started his miracles BEFORE the death of John the Baptist. We will emphasize on this matter.

Belief in Witchcraft Leads to Murders in Africa

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Belief in Witchcraft Leads to Murders in Africa
By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist
09 December 2009

While many Westerners think of witches and witchcraft as being relics of the Middle Ages (or relegated to modern tourist traps in Salem, Massachusetts), in many countries belief in witches is common, and black magic is considered part of everyday life.

In Africa, witch doctors are consulted not only for healing diseases, but also for placing curses on rivals (or removing curses placed by rivals). Magic (or at least the belief in magic) is used for personal, political and financial gain.

America, of course, has its own version of witch doctors: the thousands of independent fortunetellers and psychic soothsayers with hole-in-the-wall shops occasionally arrested for scamming desperate or gullible customers. (Their victims are often led to believe that a curse has been placed upon them and that it can be removed with a generous "donation.") While fortunetellers usually do only financial and emotional harm, belief in black magic has led to dozens of murders.

In Tanzania, East Africa, at least 50 albinos (people with a rare genetic disorder that leaves the skin, hair, and eyes without pigment) were murdered for their body parts last year, according to the Red Cross. An albino's arms, fingers, genitals, ears, and blood are highly prized on the black market, believed to contain magical powers. People with albinism anywhere often stand out because of their distinctive features; in a continent of dark-skinned Africans, albinos are often the subject of fear, hatred, and ridicule.

The belief and practice of using body parts for magical ritual or benefit is called muti. (Science fiction fans may recall that muti was featured in the hit South African film "District 9," in which the hero's body parts were sought after by a local warlord who believed that the limbs would give him magical powers. That horrific scene was based in fact, not the screenwriter's imagination.)

The muti murders are particularly brutal, with knives and machetes used to cut and hack off limbs, breasts, and other body parts from their screaming victims—including children. Many of the albinos were beheaded, their heads carefully collected and preserved as gruesome good luck charms or for use in rituals.

While many suspects have been arrested for carrying out the albino murders, so far the persons who commissioned the killings (or offered huge sums for human body parts) have not been arrested. Some believe that because belief in witchcraft and muti is so accepted and widespread in East Africa, police, politicians, and judges are hesitant to pursue the criminals too vigorously. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of African albinos live in fear of their lives, shunned and hated because of the color of their skin. To those who believe in science, albinism is merely a rare medical condition; to those who believe in witchcraft and magic, it is a reason to murder and mutilate the innocent.

Children Sacrificed by Illuminati --Defector "Mary Anne"

2009-12-13T12:29:00.000-08:00

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Children Sacrificed by Illuminati --Defector "Mary Anne"
December 12, 2009
by Henry Makow, Ph.D.

The Illuminati sacrifice children in rituals eight times a year, "Mary Anne," an Illuminati defector who had been groomed for high political office, told me Sept 31, 2008 .

I spoke to Mary Anne again last week. She said new and disturbing memories had surfaced. I will present her incredible new information tomorrow evening in "Part Two."

In preparation, I am summarizing my 2008 interview here for people who don't have 45 min to listen to it. Much of what she says in both interviews is simply outrageous. I can't vouch for any of it. But it is consistent with the testimony of other defectors, Svali, Sue Ford and Kathy O'Brien.

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The Illuminati count on people to be incredulous. That's their protection. The more egregious their crimes, the safer they are.

Mary Anne sounds convincing to me. Why would anyone defy the most powerful people in the world? The first interview is available here so you can decide for yourself. Also, both interviews, although 14 months apart, are consistent. People who invent stories rarely can keep track of them.

On Sept. 31, 2008 Mary Anne said that tens of thousands of children will be sacrificed that night (the vernal equinox) in Illuminati ceremonies. The children are bred for the purpose or kidnapped. Satanists believe they gain power from killing. Often they rip out the heart and eat a piece of it. They prefer it to be still beating. At Easter, they kill adults.

There are also sexual rituals involving young children. They are believed to increase power, and create fear and solidarity in members.

Illuminati members live double lives. At night they engage in these Satanic rituals. By day they are found in all walks of life: medicine, education, psychology, therapy, banking, law, law enforcement, government, technology, military, charities and religion.

They are everywhere. The worst are in the news on a daily basis posing as leaders.

They are the elite of Freemasonry. They are generational Satanists, which means you have to be born into it. You can't join. Their children are evaluated and trained. Mormons and "Nation of Islam" have parallel beliefs, she said.

The world has been divided into ten regions. Different groups are in control of North America. They are related to the Crowns of Europe.

Many Jews have a prominent role but the Illuminati is not predominantly Jewish. Muslim, Christian, Mormon, Wicca, Pagan and New Age groups all play a role.

She said 80-90% of the House of Representatives and 100% of the Senate belong to the Illuminati.

Mary Anne said she was sexually abused by her own family from an early age. In spite, or because of this, she was groomed to be a prominent political figure. She worked closely with many world leaders and was sexually abused by them. She was tortured when she refused to carry out assassinations.

All religions are infiltrated and controlled by the Illuminati. The Vatican is rotten at the top. The future "Anti Christ" will be a Pope. All countries, including Russia, China and Iran, are controlled by the Illuminati. "You don't say no."

The Illuminati is behind the homosexual agenda, AIDS, and the sexual revolution. They foster anything that is in rebellion against the Christian God.

CONCLUSION

The first responsibility of government is to prevent a perverse criminal organization from taking control.

Our governments have allowed a satanic secret society, the Illuminati, (i.e. the Judeo Masonic central banking cartel) to usurp power. Most of our "leaders" are their appointees or dupes.

Recently a former pilot for corporate bigwigs wrote to me:

"At times I would hear them talk about "the big boys" ... Most said that they did as they were told by the BIG INVESTORS [i.e. central bankers] who really ran the show behind the scenes, that they [CEO's etc.] were just highly paid actors and messenger boys who read a script and made very few decisions themselves."

Our politicians are analogous. They are the CEO's of the corporations called countries, soon to be amalgamated into a world cartel.

Mankind is headed in the wrong direction. Our only hope is that, when things deteriorate, the masses will become incensed and demand genuine change.

Satanic Holidays
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Human Sacrifice Today

2009-12-13T12:21:00.000-08:00

December 13, 2009

Human Sacrifice Today
by Richard Evans

Here is a list of Satanic sacrificial days, which is accurate. [Go to URL to see them as they wouldn't paste in]

Statistics on missing persons in the Unites States are difficult to find, but are appalling. The following missing persons estimates are from the Kyle Fleischman Foundation: 2,300 American people are reported missing on a DAILY basis.

"Human trafficking" is a very real and huge activity world wide. Among other uses trafficked people are a pool of victims for selection for occult human sacrifices. Mary Ann estimated tens of thousands of sacrifices routinely occur world wide on the dates on the calendar. Best advice to the public is know where your pets and children are at all times.

It is estimated that in 2010 over 1,000,000 missing persons will be registered with law enforcement agencies. 814,957 were registered in 2007.

As of December 1, 2007 only 105,229 missing persons cases were considered "active".

In 2007 only 15.8% of the missing persons cases registered were classified as "located" by the National Crime Information Center.

52% of "active" cases were juveniles. 11% were considered young adults ages 18-20.

55% of missing adults are men, 40% of them white, 30% African American, 20% Latino.

Only in October of 2001 were adults made inclusive of the National Missing Children's Organizations national clearinghouse database for missing people--this was called Kristen's Law. Kristin was also a Charlotte, NC native, like Kyle.

Little legislation since Kristen's law has been initiated by the government to address the growing problem of missing adults cases in our county. No new laws have been enacted and little federal support has been given.

Satanic holiday dates change annually according to the regular calendar and differ from cult to cult

I ate children’s hearts, ex-rebel says

2009-12-10T11:43:00.000-08:00

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I ate children’s hearts, ex-rebel says
BBC, UK
Jan. 22, 2008
Jonathan Paye-Layleh

Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia’s brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.

He said the sacrifices “included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat.”

There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice.

Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as “General Butt Naked” because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy.

He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua.

He was speaking to the BBC, after telling Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that his forces had killed 20,000 people.

Forgiveness

Mr Blahyi said he had first become exposed to killings in 1982 when, at the age of 11, he was ordained “the traditional priest of my tribe.”

He explained that when a rebellion broke out against President Samuel Doe, he had to go to war on behalf of the president, as they were from the same Krahn ethnic group.

He fought against the militia of Charles Taylor, currently on trial for war crimes in The Hague.

As the traditional priest, he says he persuaded the “hesitant” political leaders of his faction to make a human sacrifice before going into battle.

“They asked me to do it in secret; but some of the sacrifices are supposed to be as a ceremony; so my boys and I made some of the sacrifices in the open.”

Mr Blahyi did not say where they had found the children to be killed.

He said he thought that confessing to what he had done and asking for forgiveness could help heal the country’s wounds.

“I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life; and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved,” he said, drinking a bottle of tomato juice in the capital, Monrovia.

‘Ashamed’

Mr Blahyi stopped fighting in 1996, saying God appeared to him as he was charging naked into battle and told him he was doing Satan’s work.

He is now often seen preaching on street corners and churches in Monrovia.

“I now preach against murder and making human sacrifices,” he said.

“Some people see me and congratulate me.

“Others see me and say I should not be walking down the streets of Monrovia posing proud. But I continue to tell such people I am not proud, I am ashamed.”

Between the time he was ordained a “traditional priest” and the time he stopped fighting, he said, “more than 20,000 people fell victim – they were killed.”

Warlord

Liberia’s TRC, modelled on South Africa’s post-apartheid commission, began hearings earlier this month.

Some Liberians, however, say their body is too weak and argue that a war crimes court should be established – Mr Taylor is being accused by a court set up to investigate the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

“If you have an individual admitting that he and his group killed over 20,000 people, certainly there should be a mechanism put in place for such people to face justice,” said Mulbah Morlue, who heads the Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia.

The war is now over but some 15,000 UN peacekeepers remain in the country.

While asking for forgiveness, Mr Blahyi says he’s ready for whatever the TRC decides to do to him.

“I could be electrocuted, I could be hanged,” he said. “But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go.”

He also urged other former fighters to confess their doings because “wherever they go there is a stigma on them”.

But another former warlord, Prince Johnson, says he will not appear before the commission unless he is compelled to do so.

Mr Johnson, now a senator, led the forces who tortured and killed then President Doe in 1990. The video of this brutal killing is still on sale in Liberia.

He says that he has already made his peace with the Doe family but would testify at the TRC if they lodged a formal complaint.

Two dead in ritual killing: Girls, 8 and 10, stabbed, strangled; suspect says deaths a spell gone bad

2009-12-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

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Two dead in ritual killing: Girls, 8 and 10, stabbed, strangled; suspect says deaths a spell gone bad
Sioux City Journal, USA
Jan. 8, 2008
Dolly A. Butz

SIOUX CITY — Two girls found dead in a smoke-filled house Sunday were the victims of a ritual slaying, police said Monday.

Their stepfather, Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., 25, has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8.

Police Lt. Marti Reilly said Harris had been performing “some strange ritual.” Harris told investigators he was casting a spell that “had gone bad” and the spell “could have had severe consequences,” according to Sioux City Police Chief Joe Frisbie.

Harris is being held at the Woodbury County Jail in lieu of $2 million bond and is set to appear in court Jan. 17.

At a news conference Monday afternoon, Frisbie said Kendra and Alysha Suing were were dead before the fire and appear to have died of strangulation and stab wounds. Frisbie said an official cause of death will not be released for several days.

Sioux City Police and Fire departments responded Sunday afternoon to an anonymous report of a fire at 1420 Nebraska St. When officers arrived at the scene, Frisbie said, Harris indicated that the victims were dead in their bedrooms. Frisbie said Harris told authorities he was the only adult present at the scene. The girls’ mother, Marla Harris, also lives at the house.

“You’re talking about people casting spells, spells gone bad,” Frisbie said. “Obviously, there is a lot more going on here than a straightforward homicide.”

Frisbie said Harris also “appeared to have blood on his person” at the scene. He said the investigation is ongoing and declined to say whether Harris had confessed to the murders or whether the girls had been sexually assaulted.

Frisbie confirmed that the fire was set in the basement of the home but declined to speculate on whether it was set as part of a ritual or to cover up evidence.

“A lot of times arson is generally used to cover up other criminal activity,” Frisbie said. “I don’t know if that was his intent at this point.”

The murder is the first multiple homicide in Sioux City since the August 2001 slayings of Leticia Aguilar, her five children and businessman Ronald Fish.

On Monday afternoon, family members removed furniture from the house, which had miminal damage, and loaded it into a red pickup truck. Two pictures, of Alysha and Kendra Suing, sat on a small plastic orange and yellow picnic table on the front porch.

The Suings were students at Irving Elementary School. They transferred to the district in April from out of state, said Sioux City Community Schools Superintendent Larry Williams.

Family members said Kendra and Alysha Suing enjoyed spending time on computers, reading books and listening to music. A favorite song was “Barbie Girl.”

Joe Suing of St. Helena, Neb., whose son Craig Suing of Springfield, Ill., is the girls’ father, said he hadn’t talked to the girls in two years.

“You know, I wish I’d got to know them a little better,” Joe Suing said. “I do know that when they used to come to visit, they liked to see their grandpa when they did see him.”

He said the girls’ mother, Marla Harris, and Harris had married about a year ago but said, “I don’t know the situation, what the guy was like.”

“It makes a guy mad that they have to pick on kids,” Suing said. “If it was a grownup or somebody that had the ability to protect themselves or had a 50-50 chance, you know ….”

“I don’t think it’s really sank in for me yet,” he said.

Williams said counselors and a limited number of faculty members were informed of the deaths before school started Monday morning. He said a general announcement was made individually to each class.

“In a situation of this case, we’re almost just as concerned with the welfare of the adults that work closely with these children as we are with the children,” Williams said while fighting back tears. “There were a lot of tears this morning.”

Williams said multiple counselors were on hand throughout the school day to help students cope with the tragedy and they may be present at the elementary school today.

Serbia: Cult murders premeditated

2009-12-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19232/danijel-jakupek-2

Serbia: Cult murders premeditated
B92, Serbia
Sep. 2, 2007

Police believes Danijel Jakupek, suspected of committing a double murder in Novi Banovci, had planned the crime.

Interior Ministry (MUP) Chief Inspector Zoran Luković, who is in charge of the investigation, says that the crime might have been a part of a ritual.

On Saturday police recovered beheaded bodies of Vasilije Trbović, 26, and his five-year-old nephew, L.O., from the Danube River near Novi Banovci in Vojvodina.

The victims had been reported missing on Monday before police found the bodies.

“The murders were not committed for the sake of the murder, rather they are typical of a cult-inspired ritual. Everything we found in the suspect’s house points to that conclusion,” Luković said.

“What we could see from the literature we found there and judging by the manner he organized his living space, we could say that satanism and witchcraft were at work there, the philosophy leading to auto-aggression or acts of aggression towards someone else,” he explained.

According to Luković, an improvised altar was also found in Jakupek’s house.

“We found some sort of an improvised satanist altar in the basement, while certain pieces of furniture were painted over in satanist colors, red and black, ” he explained.

Asked how it was possible that no one noticed the suspect’s strange behavior, Luković said that people in Serbia “are usually poorly informed of cults and sects.”

He called for the ministries of health and religion to join in the campaign to fight dangerous cults operating in Serbia.

Two victims in suspected cult murders

2009-12-10T11:40:00.000-08:00

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Two victims in suspected cult murders
B92, Serbia
Sep. 1, 2007

NOVI SAD — Police have recovered mutilated bodies of Vasilije Trboviç, 26, and his five-year-old nephew from the Danube Saturday.

They shortly afterwards arrested 26-year old Danijel Jakupek, as he was already suspected of committing the double murder.

Police had been searching for Trboviç and his nephew identified as L.O. for three days before discovering their bodies Friday in the Danube River near Novi Banovci in Vojvodina.

They were reported missing last Tuesday.

The victims were last seen on Monday evening, when they went to Jakupek’s house to watch a movie.

The details of the crime will be made known as soon as investigative judge with the Sremska Mitrovica District Court, Nebojsa Nebojša Starčević, has completed his inquiry.

Meanwhile, Tanjug agency reported that police found what they described as satanic cult literature while searching Jakupek’s house. Manuals on body dismemberment were also discovered, unofficial sources say.

B92 has also learned that Jakobec, after hours of questioning, confessed to the crime.

Police sources say that he killed the boy first in a bathtub in his house using a knife and a handsaw, and murdered Starčević in the nearby woods later.

Jakupek disposed of the dismembered bodies and murder weapons by putting them in a barrel which he then threw into the Danube.

Interior Minister Dragan Jočić reacted to the murders Saturday by telling reporters Serbian police will lead a more intensive campaign against cults whose rituals have fatal outcomes, or those that encourage its members to commit suicide.

“There is a department within the MUP that deals with cults, however, considering the consequences of the cults’ actions in the past couple of years, we will make their surveillance and registering a priority and raise it to a strategic level,” he said.

Serbia: Police arrest man suspected of killing two in satanic ritual

2009-12-10T11:39:00.000-08:00

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Serbia: Police arrest man suspected of killing two in satanic ritual
AP, via the International Herald Tribune, USA
Sep. 1, 2007

BELGRADE, Serbia: A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion that he killed a 5-year-old boy and his uncle and dismembered them in a satanic ritual, Serbian police said.

The suspect, identified only as Danijel J., 27, is accused of cutting off the victims heads, arms and legs on Monday in Novi Banovci, a village just north of Belgrade, before he dumped their bodies into the Danube River, a police statement said.

Earlier, a police official speaking on condition of anonymity, had said the suspect admitted to the killing, but the statement made no reference to that.

The dismembered bodies of the boy and his 26-year-old uncle were discovered by fishermen on Friday, police said.

Zoran Lukovic, a police inspector involved in the investigation, told B-92 TV that a search of Danijel’s flat in the village showed he possessed “satanic literature” — including a manual on how to dismember a human body — which showed he belonged to an unidentified religious sect.

Belgrade’s B-92 TV, quoting police investigators, said the suspect used a hacksaw and knives to cut the victims at his home and in a nearby forest. It said he did not state the motive for the murders which have spread panic among the local population.

Serbia’s Interior Minister Dragan Jocic said ritual killings are on the rise in Serbia.

Lukovic, the police inspector, said that police discovered “a room with an altar” at Danijel’s home where he performed satanic rites.

‘Cults’ alarm Toboso, Escalante residents

2009-12-10T11:37:00.000-08:00

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‘Cults’ alarm Toboso, Escalante residents
Sun Star, Philippines
June 28, 2006

Police in Toboso town in northern Negros are determined to solve the successive killings of two children recently as it downplayed reports that some cult members may have been behind the death of the kids.

The school and barangay officials also called parents to meetings at the different public schools in Toboso and Escalante City to brief them on the situation and advise them to be wary of the security of their children.

The Toboso Police arrested two men who are suspected to be members of a cultist group who came from Sorsogon, in the Bicol region.

The two, identified as Gerald Prado, 40, and Roberto Engganay, 50, are said to be behind the brutal murder of 6-year-old Jessie Tabotabo last June 12.

His eyeballs were taken out, his nipples removed and his testicles cut. Jessie’s remains was found at Sitio Curba Hagnayan, Barangay Tabun-ak in Toboso last June 13.

His 11-year-old brother Jimmy saw how Prado reportedly drowned his brother and told the Police of the incident.

Prado is said to be a native of Cabuyao in Laguna.

SPO3 Oscar Sisican, case investigator, said they are focusing their probe on the killing of Jessie Tabotabo and Rochelle Gepitolan.

Gepitolan, 11 years old, died after their house in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso was strafed Saturday night. His 41-year-old father Rodolfo was also hurt in the incident.

Sisican said they are yet to arrest the killers of Gepitolan. The strafing, according to reports, was allegedly done by three people.

This as 9-year-old Jericho Mahusay scared people from the Old Poblacion in Escalante City when he reported that three elderly men dressed in blue robes and sporting long hairs tried to abduct him last Sunday, June 24.

The men were reportedly armed with knives when the incident happened.

Mahusay, a Grade 4 student of the Danao Port Elementary School in Old Poblacion, said that he was only able to elude his abductors when two kids, he identified as Lyndon and Dominic, started throwing stones at the men, distracting their attention and thus giving him the chance to bite their hands for the escape.

However, when Police investigators went to the alleged abduction site at the Old Poblacion the boys were nowhere to be found. Neither were there boys by those names.

Mahusay narrated that he was about to buy ice from a neighborhood store when the three suspects reportedly grabbed his wrist and told him that they will pull his eyeballs out.

Afraid, Mahusay took the chance at biting the arms of his abductors when their attention was allegedly distracted by the boys.

This gave him the chance to run to safety.

Senior Insp. Mateo Maguate, Escalante City chief of police, has already mobilized his men to patrol the city’s boundaries and prevent more untoward incidents from happening.

He is hopeful that the patrols will protect the residents and discouraged the alleged cult members from victimizing people.

In the meantime, parents are advised to take extra care of their children, fetched children to and from schools and to keep them at home when night falls.

Child Sacrifice is On the Rise in Uganda

2009-12-10T11:36:00.000-08:00

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Child Sacrifice is On the Rise in Uganda
The Monitor, Uganda
Aug. 14, 2006 Opinion
Robby Muhumuza

The story of toddler, Edrine Muguluma who was recently kidnapped and murdered in ritual sacrifice has shocked the nation. He is one of many children that are increasingly being killed in cold blood on the orders of witchdoctors and traditional healers that we must find a solution to.

To illustrate what I am talking about, I would like to share with you some stories that have made headlines in Uganda.

Shammim Muhammad, aged 5

On April 4, 1999, Jalia Katusiime, a hair dresser from Njeru town, Mukono district left her five-year-old daughter Shammim Muhammed with a neighbour, Francis Muwanga, to go and attend to a customer.

When she returned, both Shammim and Muwanga were missing. There followed a search for her . Her decomposing body was found on Namiya hill. Two of her fingers had been chopped off, her neck cut off and her tongue plucked out.

Her private parts were also missing. Police arrested Muwanga as the chief suspect. Later, he and his wife confessed that they had been advised by a witchdoctor, Yunus Samanya, that if they sacrificed a child to the spirits, they would become rich.

Muwanga, his wife and the witch doctor were sentenced to death on July 29, 1999 and are in prison.

Milly Nsonyiwa, aged 1

One-year-old Milly Nsonyiwa of Mukono district disappeared from her mother, Esther Nakachwa on January 22, 1999.

A month later, Milly’s remains were found in a shrine belonging to Kizito, a traditional healer in the same district. Her body had been cut into pieces – symbolic of sacrifice to the gods.

Reuben Mugabe, aged 12

40-year old James Kareju Mugisha of Kagando, Nyabushozi, Mbarara district was arrested on October 9, 1998, attempting to sell his 12-year-old son Reuben Mugabe to Strabag Construction Company for Shs3m for ritual sacrifice.

Mugisha, a father of 13 children had hoped to escape poverty by selling one of his sons. The above cases are a few of the children sacrificed or who narrowly escaped being sacrificed that have made it to the newspapers.

There is suspicion that the problem is much more widespread, especially in remote rural areas where there is minimal media coverage.

The New Vision reported 15 cases of child sacrifice in 1999 alone. The discovery of over 500 bodies of people who were killed and buried at various sites by the Joseph Kibwetere cult and who nobody had reported missing is an indication of how many children could go missing and are not reported.

In the cases that have been reported, children are kidnapped or stolen from parents or guardians, lured off by promises of sweets, biscuits or toys or sold off or offered by parents or guardians who believe in witchcraft and who are greedy for money and riches.

What are the factors leading to child sacrifice? What suggestions can be made on the way forward?

Witchcraft

Almost all the cases of child sacrifice have revolved around witchcraft. The child sacrifices were carried out by witchdoctors or by their clients who have been advised or ordered to do so by witchdoctors, traditional healers, astrologists, traditional medicine men or cult leaders. (It is important to note that all witchdoctors are traditional healers but NOT all traditional healers or herbalists are witchdoctors and many of them do not sacrifice children).

Such sacrifices are purportedly to appease and invoke gods or spirits or ancestors to use their supernatural abilities to carry out the wishes of the witchdoctor or his or her clients. Such wishes could be the need for healing, protection against enemies or calamities or for riches, prosperity and success.

A number of children have been kidnapped from school.

They are then taken to a witchdoctor’s shrine.

The children are then killed and sacrificed. Most of the bodies have been found decapitated.

Some witchdoctors believe that ritual child sacrifice makes their magic more powerful. Body parts like fingers, genitals, or the heart are mixed with herbs or they are used to make charms or talismans that are given to clients.

Witchcraft, wherever it has occurred, has tended to go with human sacrifice and usually, children have been victims of such rituals.

In the 15th Century, witchcraft thrived in many parts of Europe and was in many instances linked to child sacrifice. For instance, during the reign of King Louis XIV in France, witch trials were held. In one trial of a High Priestess named la Voisin, the following evidence was given:

“The child was held over the altar, a sharp gash across the neck, a stifled cry, and warm drops fell into the chalice… The corpse was handed to la Voisin, who flung it callously into an oven fashioned for that purpose which glowed white in its fierceness. It was proved that regular traffic had been carried on for years with beggar women and the lowest prostitutes, who sold their children for this purpose. At her trial, la Voisin confessed that no less than 2,500 babies had been disposed of in this manner.”

In many traditional African religions linked with ancestral worship and the fear of malicious spirits, child sacrifice to appease the spirits was common.

However, with the advent of Christianity and Islam, many converts turned away from the practice of witchcraft and child sacrifice had died down.

However, there has been a re-insurgence of African-traditional culture, and religion, which has given witchcraft a new brave lease of life.

More people are openly coming out in the media, both newspapers and radio to associate with witchcraft under the guise of traditional medical practice and associated rituals. Consulting of traditional healers, diviners, witchdoctors, astrologers is touted as fashionable and nothing to be ashamed of.

This mentality has encouraged more people to openly consult witchdoctors some of whom are encouraging them to sacrifice children as part of the ritual to make the magic work or appease the gods or spirits.

Gone are the days when consulting witchdoctors would be done at night and in secrecy. Witchdoctors now are well organised and are using advertising a lot by putting up cloth banners near their shrines.

Advertisements with fantastic claims are aired on radio announcements and commercials as well as in the newspapers.

Senior people involved

Occasionally, one hears that senior government officials and politicians are attending official functions organised by traditional healers.

This has enhanced their popularity and encouraged more people to consult them thus increasing the chances of witchcraft-related child sacrifice.

Whenever human sacrifice has been required, children are more likely to be the victims than adults. This is because children are more easily persuaded and lured away than adults. They are weak and vulnerable and can easily be kidnapped and carried away.

Many witchdoctors also believe that children are pure, undefiled and therefore a preferred sacrifice for the spirits and gods, according to a testimony of Maji Moto, a former witchdoctor who turned Christian in 1999.

Whereas the law in Uganda emphasises child protection, child sacrifice as such is not specifically mentioned. This makes it difficult for convicted child murderers to be given maximum punishment.

For instance, the 1999 Children Statute of the Republic of Uganda states in Sec.6.3 that, “A child has the right to be protected from violence, ill-treatment and any behaviours that might show lack of care or interest in the child”.

Local authorities are charged with the duty of protecting the rights and well-being of children in their areas of jurisdiction.

Sec.II.9 of the Children’s Statute says, “The Secretary for Children’s Affairs, chosen from the members of the Council, is responsible for all matters concerning children”.

However, the above is still far from being regularly and satisfactorily implemented and practiced by local councils in Uganda.

Though there is a law against witchcraft, it is not known by many people and it has hardly been used in Uganda’s law courts. Moreover, it does not specifically mention child sacrifice.

Witchcraft Act

Sections of The Witchcraft Act of 1957 state: “Any person who directly or indirectly threatens another with death by witchcraft or by any other supernatural means shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for life”.

It adds, “Any person who practices witchcraft or who holds himself out as a witch, whether on one or more occasions, shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years.”

Those who participate in witchcraft are also covered.

“Any person who hires or procures another person to practice witchcraft or who for evil purposes consults or consorts with another who practices witchcraft shall be guilty of an offence.” When convicted shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years.

As mentioned earlier, though there is a law against witchcraft, it is hardly ever used. Many witchdoctors are doing their practice openly under the guise of traditional healers and herbalists.

There is a big need to set up a mechanism for distinguishing bona fide herbalists from witchdoctors who practice witchcraft and magic and cause a lot of harm including child sacrifice, child abuse, rape and defilement.

There is no doubt that child sacrifice is a most horrendous crime that we all need to participate in preventing and wiping out.

There are a number of ways we can contribute towards eliminating child sacrifice in Uganda.

Awareness campaign against witchcraft. Carry out awareness campaigns against the practice and involvement in witchcraft.

Those involved in witchcraft can easily be manipulated and blackmailed by witchdoctors to participate in child sacrifice. The campaigns can be carried out through the media, local councils, seminars, workshops, posters etc.

Differentiate between traditional healers and witchdoctors. A lot of witchcraft, including child sacrifice goes on under the guise of traditional healers and herbalists.

The government should set up mechanisms for differentiating who is who. For instance a Traditional Healers Act could be enacted. This would include a Board similar to the NGO Board or Medical Board.

Its duty would be to scrutinise, register and monitor the operations of traditional healers and herbalists. This would assist in weeding out witchdoctors including those who sacrifice children.

Strengthen the law and law enforcement so that cases of suspected child sacrifice are investigated and the culprits convicted and punished in a speedy manner. This would convince those who are tempted that they will be dealt with.

Increased vigilance

Encourage Local Councils, parents, neighbours and religious leaders to be more vigilant in inquiring about children who go missing.

Teach and warn children at home and in schools and religious institutions about child kidnapping and child sacrifice like they are being warned against sexual abuse and HIV/Aids. This would make them alert against being lured away or being kidnapped.

The fight against child sacrifice and the protection of our children against this heinous crime needs the concerted efforts of all; the government, civil society, religious leaders, the media, law enforcement officials, teachers and parents.

I believe we can eventually win it.

2 cult members nabbed for boy’s killing

2009-12-10T11:34:00.000-08:00

Human sacrifice is all over the globe. Here's one from the Philippines..

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15064/2-cult-members-nabbed-for-boys-killing

2 cult members nabbed for boy’s killing
Daily Star, Philippines
June 27, 2006
Gilbert Bayoran

The police have arrested two members of an alleged cultist group believed responsible for the mysterious death of a 6-year-old boy whose mutilated body was found floating in a river in Toboso, Negros Occidental.

Senior Inspector Romeo Leyte, Toboso police chief, yesterday identified the suspects arrested during the weekend in Brgys. Tabun-ak and General Luna in Toboso, as Gerald Prado, 40, of Cabuyao, Laguna, and Roberto Engganay,50.

The body of Jessie Tabotabo, 6, who had been reported missing on June 12, was found the next day in Sitio Curba Hagnaya, Brgy. Tabun-ak, Toboso.

The two nipples of Tabotabo, his sex organ two ears, upper and lower lips had been sliced off, and cuts were also noted in his brow, police investigations showed.

Leyte said the Jimmy Tabo-tabo, 11, an elder brother of the victim and a lone witness to the incident, positively identified Prado during a police line-up as the one who dragged and drowned his brother at the Curva Hagnaya River.

Prado, who claimed to be a resident of Cabuyao, Laguna, was arrested by town residents at Crossing Ma-aswa, Brgy. General Luna on Saturday, while Engganay was nabbed the next day in adjacent Brgy. Tabun-ak, all upland barangays of Toboso town, the police said.

Prado denied involvement in the death of Jessie.

Police investigators noted that Prado and Engganay were sporting long beards, and wearing what appears to be dark blue uniforms.

Leyte said Prado and Engganay were also heard talking in a strange dialect inside the Toboso police lock-up cell.

Their arrest triggered speculations among residents in the upland areas of Toboso about the existence of a cultist group targeting minors.

Talks about a cultist group from Surigao province in Mindanao arriving in Toboso also alarmed residents, but these were downplayed by Leyte, who said there is no confirmation of such reports.

Satanic Cult Suspected In Slaying Of Colombian Family

2009-12-10T11:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14972/satanic-cult-suspected-in-slaying-of-colombian-family

Saturday June 17, 2006
Satanic Cult Suspected In Slaying Of Colombian Family

Authorities suspect a satanic cult is responsible for slitting the throats of six members of the same family in Colombia.

The Associated Press reports one of the victims was a child.

The murders took place on June 6, 2006, or 6-6-6, a set of numbers considered by some to be the mark of the devil.

Jorge Gomez, a human rights official in the town of Barrancabermeja, Santander Province, tells the AP, “It seems to have been related to today’s date.”

Authorities were suspicious about there being six victims, adding to their belief that there was a ritualistic aspect to the crime.

Police questioned three family members who were in the house during the killings.

One suspect who is not a relative has been detained.

Human parts sellers nabbed

2009-12-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14270/malawi-human-parts-sellers-nabbed

Malawi: Human parts sellers nabbed
Nation Online, Malawi
Apr. 9, 2006
George Ntonya

If you were doubting that some people sell human parts for a living, this is the time to believe. Home Affairs Minister Anne Kachikho has revealed in parliament that police have discovered some of the traffickers and they are rounding them up.

Kachikho told parliament on Friday that the arrest of three young men at Lilongwe Hotel, after being found in possession of several sets of male private parts, led to the arrest of a man believed to be the main actor in the syndicate.

"We have managed to arrest the principal suspect," Kachikho said adding that police also discovered a dead body believed to be the source of private parts that Leonard Ganizani, Felix Maganga and Jackson Chisepo were found with on Thursday at the hotel.

The minister told the House that the three confessed they were middle men in the human parts business.

The three, smartly dressed and middle-aged, had a set of fresh male private parts wrapped in a plastic paper and hidden in a hat at the time of their arrest. They also hid another plastic bag, in which were similar parts, in the boot of a posh car they parked outside the hotel.

According to Central Region Police spokesman Moyenda Chitimbe, the arrest of Ganizani, 28, Maganga, 42 and Chisepo, 34 led to that of Sumaili Daudi, 27 from Mchepa village in Traditional Authority Kauma in Dedza.

Chitimbe said Daudi is believed to have murdered Backson Makondetsa, 42, and removed his private parts before dumping the corpse in a river at Lumbadzi. Late Makondetsa hailed from Dzoole village in Chief Mkukula's area in Dowa district.

We have charged them with murder and ritual killing for ritual money and they are likely to appear in court next week, Chitimbe said.

Leader of opposition John Tembo commended the police on the arrest and for informing parliament in good time about what had been done so far.

Ganizani comes from TA Chimutu in Lilongwe while Maganga is from Perenje village in TA Nkalo, Chiradzulu. Chisepo, who at first claimed to be a mere taxi driver and ignorant about the private parts, hails from Chikulamayembe village in Dedza district.

Unconfirmed reports indicate that private human parts sell like gold among people who use them for satanic rituals.

South African police accused of ignoring ritual murders

2009-12-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14104/south-african-police-accused-of-ignoring-ritual-murders

South African police accused of ignoring ritual murders
Telegraph, UK
Mar. 26, 2006
Stephen Bevan in Pretoria

Even in a country grown accustomed to horrific acts of violence, it is a crime that still shocks. ”Muti murder”, in which human body parts are removed to be used in traditional “medicine”, is increasing in South Africa – but victims’ families complain that the police too often ignore it.

The murder of four-year-old Connie Ncube, whose mutilated body was discovered in a river near her home east of Pretoria by her father last month, has sparked a public outcry and demands for tougher action against the gruesome crimes.

Jabu Majola said: “I was shocked to see my daughter that way. It took me 10 minutes to identify her because of the way they cut at her. I couldn’t believe someone could do something like this.”

Mr Majola condemned the police for not responding to his calls for almost 12 hours after Connie disappeared. “If they had sent police to search for my daughter when we asked them to, she would be alive today,” he said.

It was only after a report of her death appeared in a local newspaper, Mr Majola said, that the police launched a full investigation and eventually identified a suspect – a neighbour with links to traditional “healers” – who has not been caught.

According to the South African Council of Churches (SACC), there have been 49 ritual killings in one district of Limpopo province alone since the mid-1980s, including that of a seven-year-old boy, Mulweli Nemadandila, whose mutilated body was found in a stream next to his house last month.

Yet, from all of these, there have been only four arrests, and no convictions. The SACC is calling for the cases to be re-investigated.

The Rev Alunamutwe Randi-tsheni, the SACC’s district chairman, said: “We’re very worried about ritual killing at the moment, but the police seem not to be interested. People have been identified as suspects, so why are the police not arresting them?

“Usually they say these people have been eaten by a fish or crabs after drowning in the river, but what kind of a fish is it that just eats human private parts?”

Disquiet at the lack of police response has grown since it emerged that South Africa’s occult-related crimes unit, set up in 1992 to investigate muti (Zulu for “medicine”) killings and Satanism, has quietly been disbanded. The unit, which once numbered 52 officers, was closed, according to a police spokesman, because “the number of reported crimes was too low to justify its existence”.

But the unit’s founder, Kobus Jonker, who has since retired, described that explanation as “unbelievable”.

In 2000, he said, it had dealt with 300 cases of muti-related crimes and that number was “definitely increasing”. He said: “If this unit has closed down completely, it’s a terrible thing. It’s not just anyone who can do this sort of investigation. You must know the culture and the superstitions of the people.”

The belief that body parts contain powerful magic which can be used to bring good luck, help a woman to get pregnant or even make a criminal invisible to the police, is widespread in Africa – and the rewards for those unscrupulous traditional healers, or sangomas, who are willing to supply them are huge. According to Mr Jonker, a human head could fetch up to ?1,150.

The victim is invariably alive when the parts are taken, as it is believed that their screams make the muti even more powerful.

Estimates of the number of muti killings vary widely, from six a year to 100. Anthony Minnaar, a professor of criminal justice studies at the University of South Africa, said: “Because it is often done in secret and the bodies disposed of down a mineshaft or similar, the incidence is much higher than is reported.”

Some of the 800 to 900 children reported missing in South Africa every year are likely to have been murdered for muti, he said.

Mr Minnaar said he believed that some policemen “don’t want to get involved because they think they might themselves be bewitched”.

Supt Attie Lamprecht, who became the head of the occult-related crimes unit in 2000, said that it had not been disbanded but had been “absorbed” into other units. “The capacity is there, it does exist, but it is not a task that is full time,” he said.

Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice

2009-12-10T11:22:00.001-08:00

http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/society/society/37-society/620-ugandas-epidemic-of-child-sacrifice

Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati

When Liz Nabaale gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, happiness filled the home she shared with Henry Sserubiri in Nakinyuguzi village in Makindye, on the outskirts of Kampala city. The boy, whom the couple named Isaac Kyanakyayesu, was their fourth child.

But Kyanakyayesu did not live to celebrate his first birthday. Six months after his birth, he was killed by his father.

Nabaale’s voice quivers at the mention of her husband’s name. “I wanted my son to become an engineer,” she says amid sobs. “I cannot believe that the man I was living with, the father of my children, was the devil.”

Returning home from the market one afternoon last October, Nabaale found the headless body of her baby in a polythene bag.

Overwhelmed, she collapsed. Police later said that 30-year-old Sserubiri beheaded his son in a witchcraft-inspired ritual. Later examination, however, revealed that Sserubiri was a regular user of narcotics and had once been admitted to a mental health hospital.

Similarly gruesome stories of people, especially children, being killed by parents, friends, and strangers in horrific ritual practices have become common in the news in the last four months.

Recent police reports put a staggering figure of 100 children missing in Uganda in November 2008 alone. Many are feared murdered. Eighty of the cases were reported in Kampala alone.
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We are yet to find out the reason behind the missing children,” says Fred Enanga, police CID spokesman, “but ritualistic killing of children is murder, and anyone involved in this act will face murder charges.”

Enanga says that while children may go missing for a number of reasons – human trafficking, family break-ups, child torture by stepmothers, child labour – police suspect that ritualistic child sacrifice tops the list.

At least 25 ritual murders involving children were confirmed in Uganda in 2006. In the same year, there were 230 cases of child abduction. The cases dropped to 108 in 2007, but then increased to 318 in 2008. So far in 2009, 18 cases of child sacrifice have been recorded, 15 of which have been investigated.

Police are increasingly focusing their energies on ritual murders. Most recently, on February 9, Musa Bogere, a witchdoctor, was arrested after human body parts were found floating in a pit-latrine next to his shrine.

After being beaten by enraged residents, Bogere, a resident of Kisenyi Zone in Kampala’s Bwaise suburb, led the police to a swamp where other decomposing body parts, of a woman wrapped in a white sack, had been dumped.

Bogere died in police custody, but, after first confessing to having killed the woman, whose identity is not yet known. He reportedly said he cut off some of her body parts and sold them for Shs100, 000.

This is not the first time Bogere has been linked to horrific crimes. Last August, the witchdoctor and one of his colleagues were arrested for slaughtering a dog and selling its flesh as goat meat. How they got out of jail remains a mystery.

What drives the killings?

It is clear that the stories of Bogere and Sseribiri represent just the tip of the silent morgue of ritual murders in Uganda. What is less clear is how a father, friend or even a stranger could brutally butcher a baby, or any other human being.

City tycoon Godfrey Kato Kajubi is alleged to have ordered the murder of 12-year-old Joseph Kasirye last year in order to bury the child’s body parts underneath a large house he was constructing.

But some analysts believe that more often, poverty, weak legislation and negligent parenting are to blame for the rise in child sacrifice in Uganda.

Negligent parents leave their children with uncouth friends, relatives or even strangers, who in turn connive with witches to kill the children for money. This was, for instance, the reason cited in the murder of 5-year-old Shammim, daughter of Jalia Katusiime, a hairdresser in Njeru town, Mukono District. Katusiime had left her daughter in the care of Francis Muwanga, a neighbour, so that she could attend to a customer. When she returned, both Muwanga and her daughter were missing.

Shammim’s decomposing body was later found with two fingers cut off and her tongue plucked out. Her genitals were also missing.

“With biting poverty, one is sometimes willing to do anything, including sacrifice, to exorcise the perceived curses,” said Timothy Opobo, a programme coordinator at the Africa Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) Uganda Chapter.

Opobo could be right. Shs 50,000 was enough to tempt Patrick Makonzi to chop the head off his 12-year-old nephew, Eriya Kalule, of Namusita village in Kamuli District on Boxing Day. That same month, a boda-boda cyclist in Masajja, Wakiso district, beheaded his twin children for Shs12 million. In another bizarre case, Ssenoga Setubwa, 21, stole a child from Bwaise and sold him for Shs100,000. On January 7, she confessed her offence to a judge and was jailed for 16 years.

Dr Nsaba Buturo, the minister for ethics and integrity, blames the murders on witchcraft. He says the “witchdoctors” prey on people’s fear and greed for riches.

In the Setubwa case, while passing judgment before a packed courtroom, Justice Eridad Mwanguhya declared: “The accused has pleaded guilty to the offence of stealing a child with intent to murder. She is accordingly convicted… but the offence of child sacrifice has been rampant of recent and it was by the mercy of God that a two-year-old innocent child was not killed by the evil desire of a so-called witchdoctor”.

Uganda’s 1957 Witchcraft Act prohibits acts of witchcraft that involve threatening others with death. Convictions lead to prison sentences of up to five years. Yet the law has rarely been enforced, reducing fear of punishment among witchdoctors engaging in child-trafficking and ritual murders.

Another factor that may lie behind the rise in ritual child murders is the increasing number of witchdoctors who choose to practice their craft under the guise of traditional herbal healing, a practice that is not properly regulated.

“For a long time, sacrificing has been done in secrecy. Child sacrifice centres on witchcraft,” says Timothy Opobo. “Today, sacrificing children appears to be exposed because traditional healers and herbalists are everywhere. So witchdoctors have taken advantage of the traditional herbalists by hiding under that umbrella and have advertised in the media.”

Opobo told The Independent that “sacrificing by witchdoctors is done for wealth acquisition and to out-compete rivals.

Children are vulnerable and are believed to be pure – this is why they are being sacrificed”. Police say children are more likely to be victims of ritual sacrifice than adults, because they are more easily lured.

Although most cases of child sacrifice have been reported in Uganda’s central region, where the culture of ritual killing is strong, according to Opobo, other areas, like Lango in the north, are also reporting cases of missing children later found killed in a manner believed to be ritualistic.

Burhan Ssebayigga of Makerere University’s department of religious studies said traditional beliefs, which are strong in Buganda, could be behind the current wave of ritualistic child murders.

“In traditional Buganda, there is a strong belief that a mutilated body ceases to be spiritually powerful. So to sacrifice one needs something innocent or pure. And children are considered spiritually clean and virgin, a fact that makes them a soft target for witchdoctors’ ritualistic practices,” he said.

Fred Enanga, the police spokesman, says ritual murderers “have a belief that in human sacrifice they are appeasing and worshipping the gods or ancestral spirits, so that their wealth is sustained and their problems go away.”

He said the police have recruited intelligence within traditional healers to tip police off about people involved in ritualistic murder of children. Investigations reveal that witchdoctors do not do the killing themselves, but play on the psychology of their clients to do the actual killing and bring them the desired human body parts.

Like the woman who fell victim to Musa Bogere, the witchdoctor who had been arrested just six months earlier for illicitly selling dog meat, many innocent people, especially children, are in constant danger of losing their lives in these ritualistic murders. Policymakers must clamp down strongly on this evil practice.

Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice

2009-12-10T11:22:00.000-08:00

New blood thirsty cult confirmed in Uganda

2009-12-10T11:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4769:new-blood-thirsty-cult-confirmed-in-uganda&catid=34:news&Itemid=59

New blood thirsty cult confirmed in Uganda
Written by Shifa Mwesigye
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:52

Police say the cult whose members are mainly wealthy Kampalans originated from West Africa

Police are investigating a religious cult of predominantly wealthy people linked to human sacrifice in the country.

The Observer has learnt that Police earlier this year, acting on a tip-off, sanctioned an investigation into claims that some wealthy people in the country are responsible for the spiralling acts of child human sacrifice in the country.

The Acting Commissioner of the Police Investigations Department, Moses Binoga, told The Observer in an interview last Thursday at CID headquarters in Kibuli that the Police are taking these allegations seriously.

Since the start of the year, his department has gathered information on this cult whose activities are mainly concentrated in Kampala. He says the cult originated from West Africa.

Authorities in West Africa have in the recent past fought running battles with cult members. On August 6, cult members shot and killed a policeman in Nigeria who was considered a threat to the cult’s activities in Adigbe area.

In the same country, 13 students were killed in clashes between cults calling themselves the Black Axe and the Black Eye, all said to be practising black magic. Some of their activities include killing, rape, extortion and theft.

Nigeria Police also clashed with the Boko Haram cult, killing 700 people and arresting hundreds of members of the group.

“We are investigating a cult which makes them [followers] take human blood periodically. It is a devil cult,” Binoga says of the Kampala cult.

Binoga, who also heads the Collation Crime Intelligence Unit, could however not discuss their findings so far, citing fear of jeopardising the investigations.

“It is an open secret everyone is talking about it, they say if you don’t take blood, the wealth will go,” Binoga says.

Dawn of human sacrifice

Human sacrifice and more intensely child sacrifice is not new to Uganda. On January 22, 1999, one-year-old Milly Nsonyiwa of Mukono District disappeared from her mother, Esther Nakachwa. Her remains where discovered in a shrine a month later.

On April 4, 1999, five year old Shammim Muhammad was left in the care of a neighbour, Francis Muwanga, by her mother Jalia Katusiime, a hair dresser.

Muwanga fled with the little girl, killing her and cutting off her head. He removed her tongue, fingers and private parts. His wife confessed that the two were working on the orders of a witch doctor, Yunus Samanya, who told them that if they sacrificed a child to the spirits, they would become rich.

Muwanga, his wife and the witch doctor were sentenced to death on July 29, 1999 and are in prison.

A year before on October 9, 1998, James Kareju Mugisha in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura District, was arrested while attempting to sell his son, Reuben Mugabe, aged 12 to a construction company for Shs 3million for ritual sacrifice. These are some of the cases that made news before 2008.

But in December 2008, the arrest of businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi in connection with the kidnap and ritual killing of 12-year-old Joseph Kasirye, brought to light many other cases totalling 318 in 2008 – up from 230 in 2006.

Kajubi is accused of buying the head of the boy for witchcraft to boost his wealth. Soon after Kajubi’s arrest, another man, Abbas Mugerwa, was arrested in Masajja after he beheaded his twins.

Mugerwa told The Observer that a rich man had asked him for his twins in exchange for Shs 50million, a deal Mugerwa agreed to; prompting him to behead the three-year olds.

In Nakibizi, Mukono District, one Emmanuel Kironde, a toddler, was found dead with his neck and wrists missing. The toddler had gone missing from his grand mother’s home, Namwandu Wamala, in Njeru Town Council.

Police arrested Moses Kimbowa, a witchdoctor and his accomplices Muzamiru Mukalazi and Anthony Ssendikadiwa. Kimbowa confessed to killing four people.

“Kajubi’s arrest attracted the attention of very many people and after that everything that was happening was taken as human sacrifice, yet in reality the situation is not so bad, it’s been contained; incidents are reducing,” says Binoga.

He adds many of the cases of missing children have been mistaken for child sacrifice when in fact it is human trafficking, as discovered by the CID.

But human sacrifice is one form of trafficking because it involves moving people from one place to another with the intention of exploiting them for their body parts or turning them into slaves.

Get rich quick

Florence Kirabira, Acting Head of Child and Family Protection Unit, says an assessment by Police has revealed that many Ugandans are obsessed with money and becoming rich quickly without working for it.

Some of those obsessed with getting rich quick are ready to do anything, including killing –if that is what the witchdoctor recommends - to reach their goal.

“It’s a difficult and complex situation where children have been sacrificed because of an urge for people to get wealthy. We have people who believe in getting rich [at all costs],” Kirabira says.

According to James Ongom, an investigating officer, 40 children have lost their lives to ritual killings this year alone. Out of these cases, 15 have so far been investigated, but no one has been convicted.

Others attribute part of the belief in super natural powers to the recent wave of “Nollywood” movies from West Africa whose main themes are wealth and devil worship.

“They [people] think when you sacrifice human blood you will become rich over night. Or get promotions on the job ahead of others,” Binoga says.

Children who are considered pure and free of sin are the biggest target. More over, they are easier to trap. A 2007 Police crime report revealed that 230 children fell prey to criminals. Four children were murdered, 44 were rescued.

Most cases occurred in Kampala, Mukono, Mityana, Jinja, Masaka, Masindi and Tororo districts. In December 2008, Police Spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, said Police had registered 130 cases of missing children.

Incidentally, Uganda doesn’t have a law against human trafficking, which complicates the fight against human sacrifice. In early April 2009, Parliament passed the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2008, which prescribes penalties of 15 years to life imprisonment.

However, it is yet to be assented to by the President. For now, the Penal Code is the only law used to charge people involved in human trafficking. According Binoga, the government established a five-person anti-trafficking Police unit within the Ugandan Police Force’s (UPF) Child and Family Protection Unit (CFPU) in January 2009.

Law enforcement officers investigated a number of suspected trafficking cases but did not secure convictions of any offenders.

Human sacrifice, on the other hand, is treated as murder and anyone found guilty of ritual killing is charged with murder and the maximum sentence is death.

smwesigye@observer.ug

Children trafficked for sacrifice, says report

2009-12-10T11:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11443

Children trafficked for sacrifice, says report
Times Online, UK
June 16, 2005

A confidential report into the sacrifice and abuse of children at African churches describes how pastors are profiting from the trafficking of black boys into Britain.

Uncircumcised boys are being smuggled into the country for human sacrifice by fundamentalist sects whose members believe that their ritual killing will enhance spells.

The leaked Metropolitan Police report also reveals “countless” examples of children being beaten or killed after being named as witches by spiritual leaders.

In one of many chilling findings, it was suggested that youngsters were smuggled into the UK and given to men with HIV, who believe that having sex with a the child will cleanse them.

The report, obtained by a journalist on BBC’s Today programme, says that pastors and their churches have developed into a network of a lucrative businesses profiting from superstition throughout the UK, Europe and Africa.

It focused on the London boroughs of Newham and Hackney where a wide gulf between child protection agencies and the communities involved was exposed. Police investigations too are frequently met with silence because of fear and mistrust.

The report was commissioned in the aftermath of the Victoria Climbie inquiry and carried out over ten months by social workers, human rights lawyers and race relations experts from within a number of ethnic minority groups

It describes how investigators visited one church group where, it reports: “Members of the workshop said for spells to be powerful it required a sacrifice of a male child unblemished by circumcision.”

Contributors said that boys were being trafficked into the UK for this purpose, but refused to give further details because they would be “dead meat”.

Another passage said: “A number of pastors maintain that God speaks to them and lets them know when someone is possessed … After much debate, they acknowledged that children labelled as possessed are in danger of being beaten by their families.

“However, they would not accept that they played a major role in inciting such violence.”

John Azah, an independent adviser to the Metropolitan Police, said that since the Climbie case and the ritualistic ‘torso murder’ of a black child known only as ‘Adam’, there were concerns the police were only touching the tip of the iceberg.

He told Today: “There was concern that there was very little, if any, intelligence on what is happening to children.”

The report has called for social services departments to determine how many faith organisations exist and where they are situated. It also urged the Met to highlight the work of child protection agencies to try to encourage the reporting of crimes.

Earlier this month three people, including the girl’s aunt, were convicted of trying to “beat the devil out of” the un-named 10-year-old from Angola.

In May it was revealed that 300 black children aged between four to seven had disappeared from school rolls in three months.

Secretary Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said it was important countries worked together to tackle crimes related to people-trafficking.

“But it’s classically an issue, like all people-trafficking issues, where people are being moved across the whole world, essentially for money, by very substantial criminal organisations.”

The Met said the report was drawn up after workshops debating issues such as female genital mutilation, physical chastisement, forced marriage and faith-related child abuse were held. It added: “The recommendations in the report are being carefully considered at the highest levels in the MPS in conjunction with partner agencies and community groups.”

Okija priests to be prosecuted – Balogun

2009-12-10T10:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8397

Two Nigerians Arrested in Ireland for Ritual Killing
August 19, 2004
Okija priests to be prosecuted – Balogun

Barely one month after the conviction in the United Kingdom of a Nigerian, Kingsley Ojo for the brutal murder of a five year old boy named Adam, police in the Republic of Ireland are questioning two men arrested in Dublin in connection with the murder of the daughter of Malawi’s chief justice.

The headless body of Paiche Unyolo Onyemaechi was found last month in the south of Ireland, where she lived with her Nigerian husband and two children.

Her killing may have had a ritualistic motive, according to the police.

Detectives have been keen to trace her husband, Chika, who is currently missing.

The two men being interviewed by police were arrested in Dublin on Tuesday.

They can be held for up to 72 hours without charge under the Offences Against The State Act.

Ms Onyemaechi, 25, arrived in Ireland more than three years ago. Her body was found in County Kilkenny on July 23 and she was buried in Waterford a week later.

Her father, Malawi’s Chief Justice Leonard Unyolo, travelled to Ireland after receiving news of her death.

He has taken his granchildren back to Malawi to be cared for by family members.

Meanwhile in Nigeria, Inspector General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun yesterday in Okija, Anambra state, said the chief priests and the over 30 priests of the different shrines of Ogwugwu deity arrested on August 4 would be prosecuted for ritual killings at the end of police investigations.

The police, he also said, would involve forensic experts in the examination of the skulls and corpses recovered from the deities’ shrines to determine if there were peculiarities in the pattern of the dead victims.

Balogun who led about 500 policemen to the different shrines of the Ogwugwu deity in Umuhu and Ubahu-Ezike villages, Okija, expressed confidence that the laws of the land would be able to take care of those arrested. He also described the practice of ritual killings and cultism in the name of traditional religion as “barbaric”.

He said sections 207 and 208 of the criminal code are against the possession of dead bodies and section 34 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is against being members of secret cults.

He added that outside those provisions, many other enabling laws governing the country attack the practice of cultism and ritual killings directly in different ways.

While decrying ritual killings and occultic religious practices at this stage of the country’s development as unencouraging, Balogun ruled out the possibility of exonerating the two elderly chief priests of Ogwugwu Isiula and Ogwugwu shrines where over 20 skulls and 50 corpses at different stages of decomposition were found during the police raid.

“The law is no respecter of age,” he said.

The IGP had on arrival at Umuhu and Ubahu-Ezike villages in Okija gone to the shrines to see things for himself. At the Ogwugwu Isiula shrine where he first visited, putrefying decomposing corpses and skeletons in decaying coffins littered the two sides of the path way leading to the stronghold of the shrine. Trees in the entire forests were wrapped in white and red cloths depicting scenes of idol worship and veneration.

Inside the forest enclave, were make-shift homes also decorated in white and red cloths as well as mats with skulls and skeletons of decayed corpses. Personal effects of dead victims including disused radio and cooking pots were deposited there.

The same scenery was replicated at the “Ogwugwu-Akpu” and Ogwugwu Idigo” shrines where the IGP also visited.

But Balogun who spoke to journalists shortly after the tour of the shrines assured that the police will leave no stone unturned in getting to the root of practices at the shrines.

He said the command headquarters was already in possession of the registers kept by the priests of the shrines containing the names of their patrons and the dead. He added that the police would look into the registers in the course of investigations to determine the involvement of the people mentioned, promising to make the outcome public.

“I assure Nigerians that no stone would be left unturned in getting to the root of the practices in these shrines. We have a lot of registers containing the names of the patrons. We will look into them to determine their level of involvement.

“We will involve our forensic experts to see if there are peculiarities in the pattern of killings. The information leading to police raid to these unholy places is not unconnected with the wickedness of the act and involvement of human lives. We will not hesitate to make the contents of the registers and findings from our investigations public after the process”, he said.

Assuring that those found culpable at the end of investigations would definitely be prosecuted, Balogun said he did not initially believe the contents of the register and the shock finds in the shrines, but that his visit had dispelled all that.

“The old chief priests won’t be exempted from prosecution if found culpable. The law is no respecter of age. We shall determine their involvement. People are atimes used as innocent agents. That would also be determined to fish them out”, he said. He added that those other priests of Ogwugwu now on the run would eventually be caught by the long arms of the law as the police are on their trail.

The IGP would not like a situation in which what he called wicked occultic practices would be misrepresented as people’s culture and tradition. He said any system supportive of destruction of lives is barbaric.

“Take tradition out of it. Those in hiding shall be fished out and the law of the land will take care of them. Any system that kills human beings, any deity that authorizes the killing of human beings will certainly be described as barbaric. To me, this is barbaric and should be routed out. The law of Nigeria is above the custom. Any culture that encourages the destruction of lives is barbaric” he said.

He commended the police informant, Mr. Chukwumezie Obed Igwe whose complaint led to the raid of the shrines and said he is a patriotic Nigerian who needed to be protected and encouraged. The IG noted that something concrete had to be done to remove the horrifying sights of the shrines from the psyche of the people of the area.

But the chief priest of Ogwugwu-Akpu, in Ubahu-Ezike village, Okija, Okonkwo Chukwuneta, an elderly man who could not say his age told journalists that the Ogwugwu-Akpu is a “goddess” and the wife to the Ulasi deity in Okija.

He said he had made three statements to the police since the August 4 raid, and that he was arrested and bundled into the bus on the first day of the raid and taken to the house of the chief priest of Ogwugwu Isiula in the negbouring Umuhu village.

Although, he could not say how the worship of the deity started since he was born into it, he nonetheless said it has existed for ages. His duty as the deity’s chief priest, he said, was to listen to complaints from people who come to report how they were oppressed and dispossessed of their land and other property by the rich.

The process of the oath taking, he said, begins with the complaint which is followed with a summon to the “oppressor”. Upon his receipt of the invitation, he is expected to come and tell his own side of the story for the priests to hear in his house which serves as “his court”. When both parties consistently insist on their version as the truth of the matter without any conceeding, the oath is administered as the last resort after they had been reminded of the deity’s killing powers.

He confirmed that a popular business man, from Ihiala known as Chief Victor Okafor, a.k.a Ezego was killed by the Ogwugwu-Akpu deity, but said he would not know if his corpse was deposited in the evil forest.

According to him, somebody he did not name had earlier dragged Ezego to his court to swear to an oath over disagreements in business and financial dealings and that when he died he was brought a report about the death.

“That was in December of 2000 or thereabout”, he said. Later Ezego’s mother and the wife whom he said was chauffeur-driven to his court came to say that the businessman sometime swore on Ogwugwu-Akpu and wanted to know if the deity was responsible for his death.

This, he said, prompted his resort to divination, a kind of consultation with his god to know if it was responsible. The god, he said confirmed its responsibility, and that it needed the corpse. But he said that was the last he saw of Ezego’s people. He suggested that if the business man’s corpse was deposited in the forest, his agents, none of whom was around to answer questions, would be in a position to know.

He also said that outside businessmen, politicians going into alliance and people going over-seas for greener pastures come to him to administer oath of allegiance on them. He added that successful ones amongst the patrons come back later to offer sacrifice of cows or goats to the deity as the case may be.

But he would not confirm if Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, was among the people who visited the shrine last year as according to him, his agents who record names in the register would know better.

Arrests over Kenya child killings

2009-12-10T10:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11488

Arrests over Kenya child killings
BBC, UK
June 21, 2005

Police in Kenya are holding three people in the coastal city of Mombasa, suspected of involvement in the ritual killing of children.

Relatives of the missing children have besieged the police station where the three are being held, demanding to be allowed to take revenge.

Twenty youngsters are known to have disappeared over the past six months and fear has gripped Mombasa.

Three mutilated bodies were recovered last week with missing limbs.

There is a belief among some in Africa that magic charms made with human body parts can help them become rich.

Liberia ritual killings warning

2009-12-10T10:43:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11534

Liberia ritual killings warning
BBC, UK
June 29, 2005

The leader of Liberia’s transitional government, Gyude Bryant, has promised to use the death penalty against anyone found guilty of sacrificial killings.

During an address on state radio Mr Bryant said people were killing in the belief it would make them successful, rich, or the next president.

A BBC correspondent in Liberia says the number of ritual murders are growing.

Sacrifices have been reported in three of Liberia’s counties – the latest involving beheading and organ removal.

Election edge

“We’ll find you, we’ll arrest you, we’ll prosecute you and let me say again to everybody, if the judge passes down a ruling to say you must die by hanging, I will hang you,” Mr Bryant said. “I will sign the death warrant without batting my eye.”

The BBC’s Paul Welsh in Monrovia says that almost two years of peace in Liberia have done little to help ease the poverty in what is one of the world’s poorest nations.

Elections for the first president since Charles Taylor left the country are due in October, which, our correspondent says, is the likely reason for the increased number of ritual killings.

Human parts such as genital organs are believed to offer supernatural powers, especially by aspiring politicians and so the number of alleged ritual killing rises in the run-up to elections.

According to local media reports the latest such killing, which occurred in the northern Bong County, involved a female who was beheaded and had her genital organs removed.

“If you killed because you want to make a sacrifice to be president or senator, you fool yourself,” Mr Bryant said. “Stop ritualistic killings, it will not pay you anything, it will not make you rich, it will not give you jobs.”

In January extra United Nations peacekeepers had to be sent to south-eastern Liberia following violent protests over alleged ritual killings.

Human sacrifice

2009-12-10T10:40:00.000-08:00

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/print/0,9688,184261,00.html

Human sacrifice

The suspected ritual killing of a little boy whose torso was found in the River Thames cast a harsh spotlight on the issue of black magic worldwide. Columnist Christine Aziz reports

It was a grisly find. In September last year, the torso of a five or six-year-old boy was found floating in the River Thames. Wearing orange shorts, the child - of Afro-Caribbean origin and named Adam by detectives - has never been identified, nor has anyone reported him missing.

Police are investigating the possibility of a ritual murder after seven half-burned candles wrapped in a white sheet were found near the body - an apparent link to human sacrifice.

A first post-mortem concluded that the boy died from a 'violent trauma to the neck' and his head and limbs were removed after death. Witchcraft expert and South African pathologist Dr Hendrik Scholtz, who performed a second post-mortem, concluded that the torso had all the hallmarks of a ritualistic killing.

If proved, it would be the first known case of a ritual or 'muti' murder in the UK. Such killings are associated with African witch doctors who use the body parts for black magic potions. According to Dr Scholtz, a human sacrifice takes place when a small group of people need to obtain supernatural powers to be successful in areas such as business or politics.

The possibility that a child could be killed for his or her body parts, which are then used in spells to increase the powers of others, is shocking. But throughout Africa, women and children are the main victims of an ancient black magic practice, which has very little to do with Africa's popular religion, voodoo, but everything to do with fear, greed and power.

Voodoo, with its numerous deities and tradition of animal sacrifice, is rooted in 6,000 years of African history. Today over 60 million people practise voodoo worldwide and it is particularly prevalent amongst the ancestors of African slaves, for example in Brazil, Haiti, Cuba and America. Even in Europe, where members of these countries have settled, voodoo is discreetly practised.

Over the page: more on voodoo
Voodoo priests and priestesses are healers, diviners and deflectors of evil spirits. They disassociate themselves from the Hollywood version of voodoo with its pinned dolls and black magic and say that ritual killings have as little to do with voodoo as Satanism does with Christianity.

Muti murders
Last year three-year-old Thabile Mhlanzi, from the South African village of Dambaze, was found with her tongue, ears and parts of her genitals cut off. She had been left to bleed to death and was believed to be a victim of a witchcraft killing, which police say is on the increase.

When the child's alleged killers appeared at Pietermaritzburg magistrate's court, members of several local women's groups demonstrated noisily outside. Muti killings, they argued, had nothing to do with South African culture and religion but were being used as an excuse by men to abuse and control women and children.

Killing for power
Such killings are a problem throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Anyone travelling or living on the continent will encounter numerous stories and rumours, such as the fact that human heads fetch a high price for ritual use in Nigeria and that politicians and members of the military in West Africa are kept in power by the use of body parts in magic rituals. Worryingly, there is always an increase in ritual killings during elections and wars.

Several years ago, I was reporting in Togo in West Africa. The country's president, Eyadema, ruled via dictatorship but was toppled after bodies of pregnant women and babies were discovered in a lagoon in Lome, the capital. For the Togolese, the findings were enough to confirm rumours that Eyadema relied on ritual slaughter to keep him in power. Riots followed and Eyadema fled the country, only to return later and be voted back as president.

In Ghana, police, with the help of the FBI, are still looking for a serial killer who murdered over 35 women in Accra. When the murders began three years ago they were dubbed the 'vampire killings' by the media because of puncture marks found on the bodies' necks and evidence that blood had been sucked from their fingers. All had been strangled and, in some cases, breasts and genitals were rumoured to have been removed.

Over the page: sexist and fearful
The killings increased during the presidential election in 2000, sparking suspicions that they were linked to muti murders and deathly conspiracy by those seeking power. The theory also cast aspersions on a police force that has seemed either incapable or unwilling to stop the killer.

Sexist and fearful
Elizabeth Akapalu, executive director of Advocates for Gender Equality, believes the police attitude to the vampire killings and their apparent reluctance to find the person or persons responsible not only hints at a fear of those behind the killings, but a rampant sexism.

'This is a reflection of the way women are seen as inferior beings in Africa. There is a murder nearly every month, and no one is doing anything about it. We are invisible and the excuse they give for not investigating properly is to say that the women killed were prostitutes. They were not; most of them were businesswomen and traders. Even if they were prostitutes, that is no excuse. They were mothers, sisters, wives and daughters.'

The ritualistic nature of the killings has made women in Accra more fearful. `There is no smoke without fire,' as market trader Fiona Pepara says, reflecting the suspicions of most Ghanaian women. 'When our soldiers go to fight for the United Nations, some of the top-ranking officers pay for protection rituals. When people get into power they are so afraid of losing it, they will do anything to hang on to it, even seek out the blood of women and bits of their bodies. There's no harm in going to the voodoo priest when you are in trouble, but what these people are doing is evil.'

Back in Britain

Now that Professor Scholtz has linked the child's murder to black magic rituals, the dark side of a religion that spiritually sustains millions with its ancient gods - and which has been officially recognised by Pope John Paul II - will continue to be sensationalised by the media.

Yet for many women, it is another tragedy in a long list of brutal abuse already meted out to women and children around the world that goes unpunished. For them ritual killings have little to do with gods, but everything to do with men.

London murder 'human sacrifice'

2009-12-10T10:31:00.000-08:00

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/29/uk.ritual/?related?related

London murder 'human sacrifice'
January 29, 2002

LONDON, England -- The body of a young boy found floating in London's River Thames was dismembered in a way that is consistent with a human sacrifice, an expert has said.

The torso of the boy, believed to be five to seven years old and of African origin, was found on September 21 near London's Tower Bridge. The body was in orange shorts and had been in the water for up to 10 days.

Police efforts to identify the boy, whom they call Adam, have failed, and on Tuesday they launched an appeal for help from the public.

A reward of $72,500 has been offered for information leading to conviction of Adam's killers.

Dr. Hendrik Scholtz, a South African expert in ritualistic murders who took part in a second autopsy of the boy, told a news conference on Tuesday that the body bore all the hallmarks of a ritualistic death.

He said human sacrifice would be staged by a few people seeking to obtain supernatural powers to be successful in something like business or politics.

"The person is sacrificed to awaken the supernatural force required to attain that goal," he said at the National Police Training Centre in Bramshill, southern England.

"It is my opinion that the nature of the discovery of the body, features of the external examination including the nature of the wounds, clothing and mechanism of death are consistent with those of a ritual homicide as practiced in Africa," Scholtz said.

The youngster's torso was spotted floating in the Thames by a man walking across Tower Bridge.

Police discovered seven half-burned candles wrapped in a white sheet washed up on the southern shore of the Thames. The name Adekoye Jo Fola Adeoye was written on the sheet and the name Fola Adeoye was inscribed on the candles.

Detective Inspector Will O'Reilly told the news conference that the name on the white sheet was common in Nigeria's Yoruba area, but so far they had not been able to trace anyone of that name in Britain.

Detectives have not positively linked the sheet and candles with the death. But they are now looking at whether the murder was part of a Yoruba or "muti" ritualistic murder. They also are considering a paedophile killing, a domestic death and other possibilities.

Scholtz explained that ritualistic murders in Africa have declined from about 30 a year a decade ago to three in the year 2000.

He said that the fingers, brain and skull of the victims were used as potions and medicines for those who wanted to awaken the supernatural forces.

He added that the victim was often a close associate or child of another family member who carried out the killing.

British police said they have been in close touch with detectives in Germany and Belgium, where there have been three similar cases involving the murder of children whose bodies were disposed of in running water.

Indian doc focuses on Hindu cannibal sect

2009-12-10T10:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9842124/from/RL.5/

Indian doc focuses on Hindu cannibal sect
‘Feeding the Dead’ looks at sect who believe eating dead can give powers
Oct. 27, 2005

BOMBAY, India - A new Indian documentary seeks to shed light on a secretive sect of Hindu ascetics who eat corpses in the belief that ingesting dead flesh will make them ageless and give them supernatural powers.

“Feeding on the Dead,” a 10-minute documentary, delves into the closed, little-known world of the 1,000-year-old Aghori sect, whose sadhus, or holy men, pluck dead bodies from the Ganges river.

While the sect has been written about, they’ve rarely been filmed performing rituals. Director Sandeep Singh, who shut down his transport business to pursue filmmaking, said it took him more than three months to gain the trust of an Aghori sadhu and convince him to be filmed while performing a cannibalistic ritual.

There are about 70 Aghori sadhus at a given time, and they remain with the sect for 12 years before returning to their families. Unlike other Hindu holy men, most of whom are vegetarian teetotalers, the Aghoris consume alcohol and meat.

But it is their consumption of human flesh — a practice whose origins remain a mystery — which has earned them the condemnation of other Hindus and relegated most Aghori sadhus to living around crematoriums in the hills of northern India around the holy city of Varanasi, where the documentary was filmed.

Singh and three cameramen waited with an Aghori sadhu — whose name is not mentioned in the film — for 10 days in June before finding a floating corpse. Hindus generally cremate the dead, but bodies are sometimes ceremonially disposed of in the Ganges.

“The body was decomposed and bluish in color, but the sadhu was not afraid about falling sick,” Singh told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “He sat on the corpse, prayed to a goddess of crematoriums and offered some flesh to the goddess before eating it.”

Singh said the sadhu ate part of the corpse’s elbow, believing the flesh would stop him from aging and give him special powers, like the ability to levitate or control the weather.

Singh did not see any of those powers on display.

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Indian woman batters toddler to death in sacrifice to reform husband

2009-12-10T10:28:00.000-08:00

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Indian woman batters toddler to death in sacrifice to reform husband
AFP, France
Dec. 12, 2003

NEW DELHI (AFP) – A two-year-old boy was battered to death in a cowshed in New Delhi by a woman who had been told by a Hindu mystic that if she sacrificed a child her abusive husband would reform, a report said.

The daily Times of India Friday said the woman, named only as Santosh, had taken the boy to the shed where she battered his head with a spade before strangling him. His body was found in a pool of blood in the cowshed in Nangloi, west Delhi, on Saturday night.

The boy, Rahul, had been visiting his uncle in Nangloi when he disappeared. He had been on his way to the local shops with his sister Uma to buy sweets, police officer Satish Golcha said.

“Finally his uncle found the boy’s body in a cowshed behind his neighbour’s house. There were injury marks to the head and his body was lying in a pool of blood,” Golcha said.

The officer said Santosh, who was visiting her brother in Nangloi, had confessed to the murder.

She told police she was married to an autorickshaw driver named Vinod who got drunk and beat her up every day. In desperation she said she had gone to a tantrik who had told her that her husband would reform if she killed a child.

Santosh’s nephew, who allegedly helped in the murder and hid the blood-stained spade, is being questioned by police, who are also searching for the tantrik.

A child sacrifice case was also reported to police in the eastern tribal state of Jharkand, where an eight-year-old boy was apparently killed by a group of men to appease Hindu gods.

Police said Thursday that at least one person had died in protest over the killing in Burkunda district.

Local police had on Wednesday arrested four people including a Hindu priest on charges of murdering the boy, named Munna, who had been missing since December 5.

The following day a mob torched the priest’s house and tried to burn down the police station where the accused were being held.

The arrested men have confessed to sacrificing the boy in a ritual to appease Hindu gods, police said.

Human sacrifices are not uncommon in the deeply poor tribal state.

Indian temple revives 'human sacrifice'

2009-12-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1908706.stm

3 April, 2002
Indian temple revives 'human sacrifice'
Human sacrifice was thought to have died out
By Rahul Karmakar
in Guwahati, north-eastern India

Followers of a Hindu cult in India's north-eastern state of Assam have revived the ancient practice of human sacrifice.

A willing human being is difficult to find these days.

But in the absence of human volunteers, devotees at the Kamakhya Temple near the state capital Guwahati are using six-foot effigies made of flour for the rite.

Steeped in secrecy, human sacrifices to the Mother Goddess Shakti were thought to have died out completely.

The revival of the "Nara bali" practice a few years ago would have remained under wraps had it not been for an academic researching the temple, one of India's holiest pilgrimage sites.

The cult followers had apparently wanted live humans to revive the gory tradition, but opted for an effigy instead fearing a backlash.

Ancient worship

"A willing human being is difficult to find these days," said Dr Pradeep Sharmah, director of the Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture (VKIC).

He said priests had already been heavily criticised by animal rights groups for their use of animals in ritual sacrifices, hence their decision to use human effigies instead of the real thing.

Dr Sharmah was inducted into the inner circle of a handful of "Shakta" priests after he won their trust.

"The sacrifice is made at midnight, on the day of Ashtami during the 10-day autumnal Durga Puja," said Dr Sharmah.

But it can also be carried out on any day specified by divine forces.

"The ancient worshippers believed that the person to be sacrificed was sent by god, and as a rule a woman would never be put to the altar," Dr Sharmah said.

The Kamakhya Temple attracts some 10,000 devotees per day, but certain aspects of the temple's ceremonies - including sacrifices - have been kept closely-guarded secrets.

No witnesses

The administrator of the Kamakhya Trust, Bharati Prasad Sarma, said that no outsiders were ever allowed to witness a sacrifice.

Thousands of devotees worship at the temple

"It is believed that if anyone tries to see the act, evil is bestowed upon him by the Mother," he said.

The administrator said the schoolboy son of a temple priest, or panda, fell blind last year when he tried secretly to watch a ceremony.

The pandas say that only a chosen few are eligible to conduct a sacrifice.

Research shows that human sacrifice at Kamakhya was first revived 75 years ago, but was discontinued a few years later.

A 1933 journal of the Assam Research Society says that living people were sacrificed until the reign of King Gaurinath Singha between 1780 and 1796.

Records of earlier periods at the Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies indicate that the practice was widespread in Assam.

Human sacrifice lives on in India

2009-12-10T10:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-7-2002_pg4_16

July 25, 2002
Human sacrifice lives on in India
By Alex Perry

For the magic to work, the killing had to be done just right. If the goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin’s death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn’t lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water from the Ganges and rubbed her with cooking fat. Then chanting mantras to the “mother” goddess Kali, he sawed off Manju’s hands, breasts and left foot, placing the body parts in front of a photograph of a blood-soaked Kali idol. Police say the arcs of blood on the walls suggest Manju bled to death in minutes.

Human sacrifice has always been an anomaly in India. Even 200 years ago, when a boy was killed every day at a Kali temple in Calcutta, blood cults were at odds with a benign Hindu spiritualism that celebrates abstinence and vegetarianism. But Kali is different. A ferocious slayer of evil in Hindu mythology, the goddess is said to have an insatiable appetite for blood. With the law on killing people more strictly enforced today, ersatz substitutes now stand in for humans when sacrifice is required. Most Kali temples have settled on large pumpkins to represent a human body; other followers slit the throats of two-meter-tall human effigies made of flour, or of animals such as goats.

In secret ceremonies, however, the grizzly practice lives on. Quite simply, say the faithful—known as tantrics—Kali looks after those who look after her, bringing riches to the poor, revenge to the oppressed and newborn joy to the childless. So far this year, police have recorded at least one case of ritual killing a month. In January, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a 24-year-old woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared in their dreams promising hidden treasures. Karmakar killed Manju in Atapur village in Jharkhand state in April. The following month, police dug up the remains of two sisters, aged 18 and 13, in Bihar, dismembered with a ceremonial sword and offered to Kali by their father. Last week on the outskirts of Bombay, maize seller Anil Lakshmikant Singh, 33, beheaded his neighbor’s nine-year-old son to save his marriage on the advice of a tantric. Said Singh: “He promised that a human sacrifice would end all my miseries.” Far from ancient barbarisms that refuse to die, sacrifice and sorcery are making a comeback. Sociologists explain the millions who now throng the two main Kali centers in eastern India, at Kamakhya and Tarapith, as what happens when the rat race that is India’s future meets the superstitions of its past. Sociologist Ashis Nandy says: “You see your neighbor doing well, above his caste and position, and someone tells you to get a child and do a secret ritual and you can catch up.” Adds mysticism expert Ipsita Roy Chakaraverti: “It’s got nothing to do with real mysticism or with spiritualism. It comes down to pure and simple greed.” Tarapith in particular is a giant building site of new hotels, restaurants and stalls selling plastic swords and postcards of Kali’s severed feet. Judging by the visitors here, Kali appeals to both rich and poor: the rows of SUVs parked outside four-star hotels belong to the ranks of businessmen and politicians lining up with their goats behind penniless pilgrims. (“The blood never dries at Tarapith,” whispers one villager.)

There are no human sacrifices at the temple these days. But the mystique of ritual killing is so powerful that even those who actually don’t perform it claim to do so. In their camp in the cremation grounds beside the temple, a throng of tantrics tout for business by competing to be as spooky as possible, lining their mud-walled temples with human skulls and telling tall tales of human sacrifice. “I cut off her head,” says 64-year-old Baba Swami Vivekanand of a girl he says he raised from birth. “We buried the body and brought the head back, cooked it and ate it.” He pauses to demand a $2 donation. “Good story, no?” While most of this is innocent, some followers, like Karmakar, are inevitably emboldened to take their quest for power to the extreme. Karmakar, like many others, was caught. But in the dust-bowl villages of India, where superstition reigns and blood has a dark authority, the question is how many other “holy men” have found that ultimate power still rests in the murderous magic of a virgin sacrifice. —Time Asia

Priest 'makes human sacrifice'

2009-12-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2892333.stm

Priest 'makes human sacrifice'
Mahesh Pandey
BBC correspondent in Bhopal
27 March, 2003

Police have arrested a village priest in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly carrying out a human sacrifice.

The priest, Chandrabhan Singh Lodhi, is accused of sacrificing a low caste Hindu, or Dalit, to please the village goddess in Parsari village of Sagar district.

Human sacrifice is illegal in India.

But a few cases do come to light in socially and economically-backward regions.

Head cut off

According to the police the priest, Chandrbhan Singh Lodhi, and the man he sacrificed, Alam Ahrirwar, had been searching for hidden treasure for a long time.

Lodhi told the police that on Saturday that the two had performed a lengthy ritual to appease the local goddess.

As Alam Ahirwar bowed his head to pay his respect to the deity, Lodhi cut his head off with a sword, the police say - all in the hope of discovering the hidden treasure.

Mr Ahirwar's body was later recovered from a railway track.

Police have registered a case of murder against Lodhi under the Indian Penal Code.

Reports say 55-years-old, Ahirwar, was a regular visitor to the temple and Lodhi often performed black magic on him.

He is believed to have told his family members not to tell anyone his whereabouts, before he left for the temple on Saturday.

Though human sacrifice has long been banned in India, some people, mostly the poor and illiterate - fall under the influence of witch doctors and black magicians in the hope of reversing their fortunes.

Priest to die for child sacrifice

2009-12-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/3189

Priest to die for child sacrifice
May 2, 2003
From correspondents in Ranchi, India

A court has sentenced a priest to death for sacrificing a nine-year-old child to appease a deity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

A lawyer said the state’s High Court upheld the sentence imposed by a lower court, saying it was a case of extreme culpability which rendered life imprisonment inadequate.

“The murder … was definitely extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting and dastardly so as to arouse indignation,” the court said.

The priest was said to have sacrificed the boy in order to please a goddess.

The killing happened in the Jamtara district, nearly 200km from the state capital Ranchi.

He was booked by the police on a complaint lodged by the child’s parents and initially sentenced to death by a Jamtara court.

Hindus to end human sacrifice practice

2009-12-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-6-2003_pg4_18

Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Hindus to end human sacrifice practice
By Zarir Hussain

GUWAHATI: Hundreds of Hindu monks pledged Tuesday to fight ancient barbaric rituals of human sacrifices at temples in India where the grisly practice continues.

“A very miniscule cult still believes that to achieve supernatural magical powers one needs to sacrifice a child at the altar,” Biswajit Giri, a 45-year-old Hindu mystic, told AFP.

“The practice of human sacrifice ... has not died down completely and is being carried out in many select temples secretly.”

Giri is among some 50,000 monks who have assembled at the temple of the Hindu goddess Kamakhya in Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern state of Assam, for the annual Ambubachi Mela, a four-day ritual that began on Sunday.

The Kamakhya temple has long been considered the highest seat of Tantricism, a sort of black magic that has been an integral part of India’s folklore for centuries.

Mystics who gather at the temple claim they can perform wonders — make a childless couple conceive, find a distressed loner a spouse or cast an evil spell on others.. “We have been working hard to create awareness to stop such grisly human sacrifices and other such heinous occult practices that do not fit into the modern way of life,” said Birati Baba, a 60-year-old seer who belongs to the secret Aghor cult, whose adherents meditate in graveyards at night.

“We should put an end to all barbaric practices as such incidents defame tantricism.” Last week, a self-proclaimed mystic with saffron robes and vermillion beads marked on his forehead almost sacrificed his 18-month-old daughter at the Kamakhya temple.

Amritlal Mazumdar was slicing his daughter’s neck with a razor when her screams of pain alerted devotees who rescued the baby from being sacrificed.

“It seems the man was a lunatic and we managed to save the child from being sacrificed. The man was arrested by police later,” temple official Tara Nath Sharma said. “We have deployed special volunteers at the temple to prevent any such bad things from happening,” he said.

Earlier this year, two children were sacrificed in the northeastern state of Tripura after a devotee had a dream that offering human livs to the deity would lead him to hidden treasures.

Legend has it that human sacrifices — an integral part of tantricism — were widespread in Assam and other parts of India although the practice was officially abandoned some 250 years.s.

“There was a temple called Kasai Kathi (slaughter house) in eastern Assam’s Sadia area where it was said human sacrifices were performed,” said Pradeep Sharma, a researcher on tantricism. “But we have no evidence to prove this as the temple is now razed to the ground after heavy flooding triggered by a killer earthquake that rocked the state in 1950.”

Many of the monks who have assembled here from various parts of India and the neighboring Hindu kingdom of Nepal say human sacrifices continue in many places, although such rituals are steeped in secrecy to avoid public gaze and controversy. “Human sacrifices are an essential ingredient to appease the goddess and then get her divine blessings,” said another sage.

“But then nowadays you don’t get volunteers for the sacrifice and hence, as something symbolic, devotees perform the ritual using six-foot effigies made of flour.” —AFP

Human sacrifice cult that knows no boundaries

2009-12-10T10:06:00.000-08:00

http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/indo%20-%20cussack.htm

A PEDESTRIAN crossing Tower Bridge spotted it: something that resembled a small torso dressed in orange shorts, floating near the north bank of the Thames, as he walked to work on the morning of September 21, 2001. It was indeed a human torso measuring only about 18 inches by eight inches and identified by the coroner as that of a young boy, aged between five and eight years with dark skin colour. The child's body had been skillfully butchered, the legs, arms and head removed and may have been hung upside down and drained entirely of blood before it was dressed in a pair of orange shorts and placed in the river. There was nothing to identify the child and no reports of missing children in the UK or Europe matched his physical description.

Further examination showed that the boy had been well nourished and had not been sexually abused. The contents of the stomach revealed traces of a common cough medicine and something quite bizarre. Just before he was murdered, the child had been fed a potion containing quartz clay pellets, ground animal bone and tiny particles of rough gold. The label on the orange shorts showed they were sold exclusively by Woolworths in Germany.

In the absence of fingerprints and dental records, Scotland Yard had no means of identifying the child. DNA technology was useless because there was nothing with which to match it, no relatives to provide body samples as a starting point for scientists.

The Metropolitan Police and Coroner's Court deal with about 45 bodies taken from the Thames each year but had never encountered anything like this. A special investigation unit was set up under Commander Andy Baker and led by Detective William O'Reilly - the senior officer who visited Dublin this week accompanying gardai during the arrest of a west African man in Tallaght.

The unit began the traditional methodology of a murder investigation: identifying and eliminating possible leads; contacting foreign police forces for possible links; issuing press releases in an attempt to elicit public responses; and initiating forensic scientific research.

They approached Professor Ken Pye, a forensic geologist at Royal Holloway College whose genetic research techniques can tell, from trace elements in a human body, the geographical area where that person lived. In the case of the juvenile torso, Professor Pye found that it came from a small area in north-west Africa, probably a rural area near the city of Benin in south-western Nigeria. The forensic examination by Professor Pye also showed that the child had spent only a brief time in western Europe, probably only weeks before his murder.

The Met officers now had to establish the identity of the child and a motive for his murder. Firstly they gave the dead child a name, Adam. They had to discover why someone had brought Adam to London from Africa and then murdered him in such a careful and horrific manner.

Quickly, the theory that Adam was the victim of what is termed a ritualistic murder began to feature prominently in the Met's thinking. The detective unit's appeal for assistance from the European police liaison agency, Europol, in the Hague quickly produced general supporting evidence for this theory. Three weeks before the body in the Thames was discovered, the naked torso of a white girl, aged between five and seven, was found floating near the Dutch lake resort of Nulde. The girl had been butchered in exactly the same way. The Dutch police were also looking at the possibility of a ritualistic killing and had contacted detectives in Hamburg, Germany, where a similar case had been reported.

While the police in London began attempting to trace west Africans who had come into Britain from Germany, they also decided to visit South Africa where the Natal police have an occult crimes unit which specialises in investigating human sacrifice by 'Muti' witch doctors.

They visited the remote Zulu settlement of Eshowe in KwaZulu, Natal, where locals had been living in fear after the dismembered bodies of six villagers were found. One of the victims was a nine-year-old boy whose eyes, tongue and testicles had been removed. What appeared to be the limbs of five other children had been scattered in the scrubland. The locals knew it was the work of Muti witch doctors.

The Metropolitan Police enlisted the help of the South African academic Dr Hendrik Scholtz, an expert on witch doctors, Muti black magic and ritualistic murder. Commenting on the Adam murder he said: "The nature of the discovery of the body, features of the external examination including the nature of the wounds, clothing and mechanism of death are consistent with those of a ritual homicide as practised in Africa."

The motive for the murder was that the human parts were to be used as sacrifices to Muti deities in return for these gods bestowing greater powers on those in possession of the sacrificed body parts: the eyes to give the power of seeing into the future; the arms for greater strength; the legs for greater mobility; the penis, a particular prize, to give greater virility and fertility. The point of the sacrifice, Dr Scholtz said was to "awaken the supernatural force required to attain that goal".

After meeting with Dr Scholtz, Commander Baker confirmed: "We are looking at the possibility of a ritual murder. Muti is a taboo subject in the sub-Sahara, let alone in London, but there is some suggestion of ceremonies taking place in the UK and strong rumours that body parts are used. They could be brought in or taken from murdered bodies. Our fear is, it is the first of many."

In 2001, the South African government became sufficiently concerned at the growth in such murders to set up a Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murders to investigate 140 killings that year alone in remote areas of the northern province. During their visit to South Africa, the Metropolitan Police officers successfully appealed to Nelson Mandela to broadcast a statement throughout Africa appealing for information about Adam and calling for an end to human sacrifice.

The first break in the Adam case came when Scottish police investigated a Nigerian asylum seeker who was reported to them after a claim that she had told a neighbour she was going to sacrifice her two young daughters. In January last year, Strathclyde Police found a variety of artifacts including feathers and stones in her house and two pairs of orange shorts identical to those put on Adam's remains. She had been living in Germany before coming to England in 2001.

She was detained and DNA tested but there was no connection between her DNA results and Adam. With no evidence to connect her with Adam, Joyce Asaguede was deported back to Nigeria with her two daughters but, the Metropolitan Police say, she is still under activeinvestigation.

It was through investigation of Asaguede that led the Metropolitan detectives to Dublin to question her former husband, believed to be named Akpojo Tor Koulibaly, also known as Sam Onojhighovie and Sam Kualibaly, who was arrested at his home in Tallaght on Thursday.

Koulibaly, 37, was already sought by German police after absconding while facing human trafficking and fraud charges for which he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2001. German police have sought his extradition to serve the sentence imposed.

It is understood Koulibaly moved to England from Germany during early 2001 and from there moved to Cork and, more recently, Dublin. A computer found at his home was seized for analysis at the request of the Metropolitan Police. However, there is no evidence connecting Koulibaly with the murder.

This is the first investigation ever, involving gardai, into apparent human sacrifice, a practice that disappeared in western Europe in prehistoric times. Last May, however, a conference of senior police held by Europol heard that with greater globalization and movement of people from areas where human sacrifice is practised, it was only a matter of time before such crimes began to occur in Europe.

About 10 such suspected cases are now under investigation by EU police forces. With almost no means of tracing the movement of unknown children brought into the EU on false passports, it is feared that many more such murders may have taken place and that more will happen.

The Second Stage of Theocracy - Mass Human Sacrifice

2009-12-09T11:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.zeitlin.net/EndEnchantment/WarInHeaven2.html

WAR IN HEAVEN / Notes Part Two

The History of Theocracy

The Stages of Theocracy

First Tribal Shamanism
Second Mass human sacrifice
Third God-Kings
Fourth Major modern religions
Fifth To be discussed later

First Stage. The chief characteristic of first-stage Theocratic religions is tribal shamanism of the type that produced the Alta Mira cave paintings thousands of years ago. First stage theocratic religions have never entirely died out, and still exist among certain tribes of North American Indians, Africans, and Australian Aborigines. But most have been evolving into more advanced types or have been replaced with outside religions since these peoples came into contact with foreigners over the past few hundred years.

The terms "primitive" and "advanced" are from the viewpoint of the Theocrats, who judge a religious system by how well it allows them to control every phase of human thinking and behavior, especially the conscious use of the psychic powers. (This reminds us of the term "Advanced Beings" (AB) employed by Paul Von Ward to designate beings who have the power to control the relationship with ordinary Earth humans. See the Open SETI Forum on Gods, Genes, and Consciousness.) Actually most first-stage Theocratic religions teach extremely sophisticated and effective psychic-development systems. This is what makes them primitive -- in the sense of "crude and inefficient" -- from the viewpoint of the Theocrats.

The shamans who serve as clergy are conscious psychics, and their religious services are usually conducted with the entire congregation in a psychic trance. For this reason, the majority of people in these societies who learned signficant psychic skills in a previous lifetime have an opportunity to develop them consciously during the present lifetime. This is in direct contast to the more advanced forms of Theocratic religion, which discourage conscious, independent psychic activity, and employ the religious trance rather than the psychic trance.

A religious elite composed of shamans is much harder for the Theocrats to control than one composed of clerical or secular rulers who submit to religous mind control. A shaman is much more likely to put his or her own psychic development above the telepathic commands of the Theocrats. Also, shamanistic mythologies often contain major elements of the truth about Theocracy, and so teach people an instinctive aversion for mind control and enslavement by spirits.

Most shamanistic religions teach that some spirits eat souls. However, the information is usually encoded in such a way that the believers, including the shamans, do not realize that the "Eaters of Souls" are their own gods. Instead, the Eaters of Souls are said to be the gods of enemy tribes, or spirits that are very different from human beings (such as the Windigos of various Amerind tribes), or the ghosts of human criminals and outcasts. The shamanstic religions usually teach that the tribe's own gods protect people from the Eaters of Souls.

Also, the powers of the Eaters of Souls are exaggerated. Most of the legends say they can steal the souls of living people, except those of the most powerful shamans. And this idea hasn't died out at all. It's present in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, in the modern Fundamentalist propaganda about demonic possession, and in the extant first-stage religions themselves. For example, the present-day Navajos still have powerful instinctive fears of witches and shape-changers, and much of their traditional religious practice is intended as a defense against these evil beings.

At this point, Griffith states that he himself feels a deep instinctive fear that maybe the Theocrats can in fact forcibly take over the minds of living people or somehow damage their souls. His guides respond by saying that he learned this from a psychic and social environment that is dominated to some extent by the Theocrats and their propaganda. But they are liars. Their control over people is indirect, exercised mostly by programming the subconscious mind. They can't overwhelm the conscious will of any normal person, only the wills of people with seriously damaged physical or astral minds; and they can't directly harm or enslave the soul when it is incarnated.

At a certain point in the future, the Theocrats will probably become more powerful. This subject will be treated in a later part of the book. But the Invisible College states that it is nothing to be unduly alarmed about, because they are prepared to deal with it.

At any rate, first-stage Theocratic religion is far less efficient than the more advanced stages of Theocratic religion in providing nourishment for the Theocrats, because it doesn't provide much opportunity for them to enslave and devour the souls of believers after death. The souls of shamans don't allow the Theocrats to control them on the astral plane. Either they reincarnate, or they set themselves up as independent Theocrats in their own right.

The whole religious system encourages people to practice conscious psychic development techniques and to become shamans themselves if they have the necessary talent. Since the shamans enjoy political power and social prestige, there is strong motivation for psychic development, even though the training methods such primitive societies employ are usually laborious, painful, and dangerous.

As to the non-shamans in those societies, they usually can't be enslaved by the Theocrats either, because their fears of the Eaters of Souls keep them from approaching their gods after death. They expect to become fearful wanderers after death, and that's exactly what happens. Sometimes the Theocrats manage to catch them and persuade them to put themselves under direct telepathic hypnosis, but that's the exception rather than the rule. So the Theocrats of a primitive shamanistic religion are usually quite short-lived. Often, deceased shamans try being Theocrats for a while. Then they have to reincarnate to keep from literally starving to death.

Second Stage. The second stage of Theocratic religion involves mass human sacrifice and usually cannibalism on a large scale as well. The Aztecs practiced it until about five hundred years ago, and some of the ancient Middle Eastern people did also, starting about five thousand years ago.

Such practices were also part of many primitive shamanistic religions. The difference is in the scale of the sacrifices and cannibalism. The second-stage Theocratic religions became possible only when human societies started to become densely populated and highly organized. Such societies built cities and had reasonably sophisticated farming techniques. They also had large, powerful governments and highly organized armies that fought major wars.

Second-stage theocratic societies, then, were large, densely populated, totalitarian, and practiced human sacrifice on a large scale. The most important factor is deism: belief in gods that are omnipotent or at least significantly superhuman. This separates the higher levels of Theocratic religion from primitive shamanism, which considers the gods rather similar to earthly shamans, except that they are disembodied spirits. Often they are simply called "the Spirits of Our Ancestors" or "The Shamans in the Spirit World."

Cannibalism was practiced only by those second-stage Theocratic societies that were short of red meat in their diet -- the Aztecs and the ancient Polynesians, for example, who didn't have many domesticated food animals.

The reason that second-stage Theocratic religion practiced mass human sacrifice was to supply the Theocrats with a constant food supply. When the victims were killed as part of a large public religious ceremony, the telepathic chain reaction generated by a congregation in the religious trance was sufficent to put the victims' astral souls into a hypnotic trance before death. When they were suddenly and violently killed, the Theocrats were usually able to get control of the souls before they had a chance to flee. This is one of the few examples in the history of Theocracy where the Theocrats were able to seize souls by force, and they could do it only with the help of large numbers of living people.

Today's Theocrats, all of them, like to see cultists do terrible things such as performing human sacrifice, even though they don't usually get control of the soul of the sacrificial victim (because there aren't enough people present at such ceremonies to generate sufficeint psychic power). They support any practice that gives occultists and others outside Theocratic religion a bad name.

Griffith asked why so much less is known about second-stage Theocratic societies and their religions than about either primitive shamanism or more advanced societies. It seemed to him that the ancient Egyptians and Hebrews were not societies with second-stage Theocratic religions.

The guides replied that both were in the third stage when they first appeared in written historical records, and archaeological evidence shows that they probably went directly from the first stage to the third, as did the Greeks and the rest of the Western Aryan peoples. The second stage of Theocratic religion was a failed experiment from the Theocratic point of view. And from the human point of view, such societies were so repugnant that few people want to learn much about them. This is why historians have written so little about them.

And this is the reason why the Romans so utterly obliterated Carthage. The Carthaginians practiced human sacrifice. Now, the Romans did also, through most of their history: gladiatorial fights to the death and throwing people to the lions are definitely in that category. But the Roman religion was third-stage, not second-stage. Human sacrifices were only a small, atavistic detail in Roman paganism, not the main focal point of the whole religious system that they were to the Carthaginians.

The main reason that second-stage Theocratic religion has been quite rare in history is simply that it's so cruel and violent. Societies like that had to fight endless wars against their neighbors or else enslave and sacrifice a significant portion of their own population. Either way, they tended to become unstable because of the mass violence, or to be conquered by their enemies. However, the real reason such religons were short-lived is that they couldn't compete with third- or fourth-stage Theocratic religions when they came in contact with them.

Third Stage. The third stage of Theocratic religion involves mass animal sacrifices. Although they prefer human souls, Theocratic spirits can nourish themsleves off the astral souls of lower animals to some extent. And these souls are easier to paralyze and control with religious rituals than human souls are. However, the astral tissues of animal souls aren't very compatible with the astral souls of the Theocrats, so they are not a good food source. The main reason the third stage is considered higher than the second is simply that societies with such a religion can remain stable for long periods of time.

Third-stage Theocrats tend to be short-lived, except that they also receive some nourishment from the psychic energy generated by their worshippers, which is better for them than the animal souls alone. Even more important, most of the major third-stage religions have had some fourth-stage components as well. This was especially true of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, Hindus, and Western Aryan Pagans. Judaism and Vedanta eventually evolved into fully-developed fourth-stage religions. The others survived for a long time with a mixture of the two.

One of the chief characteristics of all third-stage Theocratic religions was that their practices were not much concerned with the condition of life after death. Greek and Roman mythology, for example, gave an extremely accurate description of what the afterlife was actually like for believers in those religions. Most people simply wandered aimlessly in Hades -- the astral plane -- for a few years and then sank into "forgetfulness." The concept of reincarnation was known, but it was stressed only by a few elite groups comparable to modern occultists -- such as the Greek and Eygyptian Mystery Cults.

Religious practice in third-stage religions was concerned almost entirely with gaining the favor of the gods during earthly life, not with life after death. The Theocrats running such religions didn't know how to enslave souls on the astral plane, so they ignored them. Instead, they pregrammed living people to send them the souls of sacrificed animals, and to broadcast psychic energy during orgiastic rituals.

Fourth Stage. The fourth stage of Theocratic religion is the one represented by all the major modern religions. Its most important characteristic is that the Theocrats use religious mind control to delude souls into deliberately putting themselves under Theocratic control after death, thinking they are enteing "eternal bliss in Heaven" or "union with the Godhead."

The nature of fourth-stage Theocratic religions has already been adequately discussed.

I cannot leave this topic without drawing a comparison with the stages of religion as outlined by Paul Von Ward in Gods, Genes, and Consciousness. Note that "religion" does not equate with "Theocracy" as defined in War in Heaven. The Theocracy is a particular group of beings and a power structure. It is largely non-physical. Religion is a social activity, seemingly organized by humans in response to a sensed divinity (in the case of modern religions), but putatively fostered and controlled by the Theocracy.

Von Ward's information is derived from a liberal analysis of historical and archaeological data. From his sources, he constructs a model of intervention into a preexisting naturalistic human culture. The model of Griffith's presentation is derived from non-physical players who can view the Theocrats on their level of being and action. The stages described by Griffith are as they are seen from the inside, as it were, and in terms of the needs and aims of the Theocracy, for whom the gods of religions are fictionalized stand-ins.

A crucial difference between the two scenarios is in the nature of the ABs. Griffith's Theocrats would definitely qualify as belonging to the class of Von Ward's ABs, but they did not come swooping down onto a humanity in its naturalistic state, as Von Ward suggests. Rather, in the War in Heaven scenario, they were already present at that stage. How the Theocracy arrived or originated is not explained at this point in the book; it is very clearly dealt with in later chapters.

There is a second apparent difference suggested by the table above: the nature of the second stage. Actually this is somewhat spurious. Von Ward would probably not equate the practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism with the magical stage of religion, though he would likely agree that it did take place.

Index

The Invisible College (2)

Note: The dialogs between Kyle Griffith and his guides from the Invisible College, as quoted or characterized in this section of the notes and throughout the book, may give the impression that English is the common language used between astral entities. Of course this cannot be true, and even the status of language as we know it would be dubious.
Indeed, Griffith clarifies this issue in a private communication:

"...neither the mind contained in the embodied astral soul nor the astral minds of disembodied spirits use English or any other human language. Instead, they use entirely different “pre-verbal” symbols to encode information. The speech center in the physical mind then translates these into ordinary human language."
The name “Invisible College” is just a collective term in common use on the astral plane to describe all disembodied spirits who are not members of Theocratic bands and are not merely lost souls wandering around helpless because they can't function effectively in the spirit world. A synonym in wide use is “free spirits,” which contains a play on words because “free” is used in two senses at once. It means “free of Theocratic control” simultaneously with “free to move around the astral plane at will and communicate telepathically with other spirits.”
There are three main groups of spirits in the Invisible College: enlightened ones, magicians, and space people.

Enlightened Ones. Most of these spirits were highly advanced in spiritual knowledge and the use of their psychic powers during life, but they were also devout believers in some sect of the Eastern religious system that includes Vedanta and Buddhism. They were wise enough to refuse to join the Theocratic bands associated with their particular sect after death, because they could psychically perceive the enslavement and exploitation going on in the various Heavens. (Few of the Western occultists who have called themselves “Illuminati” or some other synonym of “enlightened ones” join this group after physical death; most become magicians or Theocrats.)

The enlightened ones could be very useful to the cause of the Invisible College, but few of them are willing to stay on the astral plane and help actively fight Theocracy. They believe that the Theocratic perversions of Heaven they observe there are illusions, and that perceiving such illusions proves that they are not yet advanced enough to liberate themselves from the cycle of rebirth. So they go back and live another earthly life, always hoping that the next time they die they will be worthy to enter the true Heaven. They consider the War in Heaven an illusion and run away from it, back into earthly existence, which they also consider illusory.

The idea that much of the universe is “maya” or illusion is just Theocratic propaganda, and the refusal of the enlightened ones to help in the war against Theocracy is a perfect example of how effective it is. Physical life on Earth is no illusion, nor is existence as a disembodied spirit on the astral plane. What's illusory is the claim of the Theocrats to be the gods of various religions, and the lie that their Heavens offer the human soul eternal life.

What happens to saints in the Judeo-Christian religions after death? Most become Theocrats if they are devout members of Theocratic churches during life. However, some people who claimed to work miracles through faith in religious doctrine have become magician spirits after death. They were really occultists whose faith was merely a sham to allow them to work within the religious establishment.

However, even some believers in the Western religious systems whose psychic powers are highly developed are still quite vulnerable to being enslaved by the Theocrats after death, whereas similar people in the East often remain free of Theocratic control and go on incarnating. This is because the Eastern religions teach belief in reincarnation as part of their official doctrine.

The political structure of Judeo-Christian Theocracy on the astral plane is complex. The Theocrats in charge of bands force many advanced souls within these religions to reincarnate, because such spirits don't make very good subordinate Theocrats but are too valuable to the religion as a whole to kill.

The average Theocratic spirit that has been described so far realizes that religious doctrine and mythology are lies and is cynically seeking immortality and political power. The enlightened ones, although they possess a high degree of spiritual knowledge and psychic development, still actually believe in the doctrine. Therefore, if they joined a Theocratic band and observed first-hand how it operates, they might rebel. Because of this, the leaders of Theocratic bands usually persuade such spirits to return to Earth to further the interests of the religion.

The Christian Bible contains references to this: the passages in which various people ask Jesus if he is Elias or some other Hebrew prophet returned to Earth. Liberal Christians often use passages of this type as Scriptural authority to support reincarnation, which, of course, they are.

Although Jesus denied that he was the reincarnation of any of the Hebrew prophets, this was just a simple “No” to the specific questions. He had a perfect opportunity to make a definitive statement denying the existence of reincarnation, and he didn't take it. This suggests that the author of the passage was an enemy of Theocracy and knew elements of “the Great Secret” -- that is, everything this book is saying.

Getting back to the point, the Theocrats persuade many of the saints in western fourth-stage Theocratic religion to reincarnate. Often they become charismatic preachers who win large numbers of new converts, or religious leaders who increase the power of churches over the whole of society. In the process, they may become so corrupted by earthly power that they eventually become Theocrats.

Magicians. This is the second major group in the Invisible College. The term “magician” is used very loosely to refer to people who made effective conscious use of their psychic powers while alive, and did not voluntarily join a Theocratic band after death. It is a very diverse group, and the spirits that compose it belonged to many different cultures and social classes during life.

Many magician spirits belonged to the Spiritualists, Theosophists, Rosicrucians, or other well-known Western occult groups during life. Others belonged to occult groups that are usually labeled as Pagan religions, such as Witchcraft, Voodoo, Santaria, etc. Still others had been commercial fortune-tellers or psychic healers. (Many of the magicians in this last category considered themselves Christians and performed their psychic activities “in the name of Christ.” However, the Theocratic churches were afraid of their conscious psychic activities and banned them from membership, so they kept their freedom after death.)

In the East, many martial-arts experts, Yogis, Tantrists, Zen Masters, Sufis, etc., become magician spirits after death, as do people who make their living doing divination or practicing psychic healing. The shamans of the surviving first-stage religions also often join the magician spirits when they die.

These spirits all had wide practical experience with the operational use of their psychic powers when they were alive. (This includes some people who had possessed highly-developed psychic powers during life but were never consciously aware of them.) The average magician had definite religious beliefs during life, but these were not strong enough to compel joining a Theocratic band after death. Magicians, living or disembodied, tend to be practical people, not mystics or “true believers.”

Most of the spirit guides who assist occultists all over the world in obtaining spiritual knowledge and in learning conscious control of their psychic powers are magicians. The Theocrats are seriously frightened of the work these spirits do, which explains why Fundamentalist propaganda contains such stern warnings against contacting them.

This accounts for the propaganda against Ouija boards and other aids that help people achieve independent, consciously-controlled contact with disembodied spirits. The warnings about demonic possession through engaging in mediumistic workings are especially ironic, as the spirit-contact that Fundamentalists achieve at services using religious mind control are much closer to the descriptions of “possession” than what happens to occultists when they hold mediumistic conversations with spirits.

But passing information to people with conscious mediumistic powers is one of the less important things magicians, do, because there aren't very many conscious spirit mediums. However, the magician spirits can communicate telepathically with a much larger segment of the living population on a strictly subconscious level, and do so very frequently. Such spirits are responsible for many experiences that people call prophetic dreams, flashes of insight, hunches, intuition, instinctive knowledge, etc. However, some of the experiences assigned these names are entirely the product of the person's own subconscious imagination or psychic powers. There's usually no way to tell the difference.

Griffith brings up a point that worries him and he believes may worry some readers: he doesn't like the idea that a spirit or another person can plant in his mind an idea that he will consider the product of his own memory or creative powers. This, he says, is an invasion of his privacy and of his right to make decisions for himself. It is a matter of ethics.

The response: “Would you rather be drafted into the army to fight against beings as evil as Hitler, or to fight on their side?” Most Earth people simply don't have the psychic strength of spiritual knowledge to remain neutral in the war between the Theocrats and the Invisible College. If the Invisible College doesn't manipulate them subconsciously, then the Theocrats will do so anyway. Their own code of ethics applies the principle of “greatest good.” An individual manipulated by both sides is better off than if he or she were influenced by the Theocrats alone.

As to “informed consent,” this book and hundreds of similar attempts to communicate the same information are intended to provide the general public with the information they need to make a choice. They call this “making a personal breakthrough in spiritual consciousness.” They want people to learn enough about how mind control operates to avoid situations that expose them to it.

Even now, when very few people are consciously aware of the nature of Theocracy and the forces opposing it, the Invisible College thinks their methods are still more ethical than those of the Theocrats and their religions. Brainwashing people with religious mind control is the Theocrats' strategy of first choice, whereas the Invisible College employs such methods very sparingly.

When they work with people who are consciously learning occultism, they try to inform them about exactly what is going on as well as they can. The more spiritual information people learn and the stronger their conscious psychic powers become, the more they are able to avoid subconscious telepathic mind control by either side in the War in Heaven. For example, Griffith himself seems to be quite capable of questioning them on ethical matters and making his own value judgments about what he receives in the process of writing this book.

Getting back to the description of what the magician spirits in the Invisible College do: Placing information about Theocracy in the minds of living people is only their second most important job. The principal service they perform for the human race is assisting other souls in reincarnating.

It's an old Spiritualist tradition that mediums and their spirit guides offer help to the souls of the recently deceased who seem in distress. Unfortunately, the traditional Spiritualists and those of their spirit guides who held similar beliefs during life do harm as often as good when they attempt to aid lost souls, because most of them lack even the most rudimentary knowledge about Theocracy. Instead of attempting to help such spirits reincarnate, they talk about such lost souls being “Earthbound”, and they try to assist the distressed spirits to enter the “higher astral.”

But the whole astral plane is in direct contact with the Earth, and the only parts of it that give the illusion of not being closely linked to Earth are those under the control of the Theocrats. All too often, when Spiritualists and similar occultists assist souls in “entering the higher astral,” they are actually sending them straight into the control of some band of Theocrats, to be enslaved and devoured. That is because the majority of Spiritualists and the magician spirits that serve as their spirit guides are too friendly to deistic religion and too ignorant of the realities of life on the astral plane. This is beginning to change now, but it's still a major problem.

In many cases, people who had read a lot of occult literature during life put up more resistance to understanding the true nature of Theocracy than atheists, agnostics, and even some believers in orthodox religion. It's actually easier to show religious people that their gods are impostors than it is to show occultists that there are no “planes higher than the astral.” The beliefs of the former are easier to refute because they are simple and clear-cut. The delusions of occultists are more complex and sophisticated. Many of them tell us, “OK, so some Heavens are really Hells of psychic vampirism. I'm going to keep looking until I find one that's not.” Unfortunately, there are Theocratic bands specifically designed to entrap spirits like this, bands run by Theocrats who were occultists themselves during life.

Griffith observes that the Invisible College faces the same problems in dealing with people on the astral plane as he has in getting people on Earth to accept the information described in this book. There are thousands of years of false knowledge to overcome, and virtually every body of available spiritual information is heavily corrupted with Theocratic propaganda. It strikes him as miraculous that the Invisible College was able to start teaching such knowledge widely, both on the astral plane and on Earth. He asks how this was done.

Space People. Griffith's guides state that about seven hundred years ago, scientists from their world established two-way contact with spirits on Earth's astral plane. Accidents in interstellar transportation had already marooned quite a few extraterrestrial spirits on Earth, but they were not capable of communicating with the societies they'd come from. (Ironically, psychic machines capable of establishing such communication existed on Earth's astral plane, but none of the spirits who came here by accident possessed the specialized skills for using them.)

Of course, such spirits were forced to reincarnate periodically, and every time they did so, they lost a portion of their original memories. This meant that Earth people remained ignorant of the basic facts about spiritual reality, including the true nature of the Theocratic spirits who claim to be gods. There were always a few spirits around who knew the truth, but they were seldom able to communicate more than hints of it to others before they lost the memory of who they were and where they came from.

The two-way contact roughly coincided with the beginnings of modern Western civilization. There are numerous passages in occult literature from the late Middle Ages on about telepathic conversations between mediums and spirit entities who resemble modern UFO-contactee descriptions of space people much more than they do the traditional angels, demons, or spirits of deceased Earth people. Several of these accounts include what appears to be advanced information about physics, astronomy, and other sciences – and is exactly that. The accounts that have survived are just a small part of the whole.

As soon as this contact was established, spirits from advanced civilizations started coming to Earth deliberately to attempt to build an advanced civilization here. The fight against Theocracy is a necessary negative step that has to be taken before the real goal is accomplished, which is to make the Earth a fit place for human beings to live.

The guides acknowledge that both traditional occult literature and modern UFO-contactee stories lack sufficient detail to make them credible. Usually, they're just full of truisms and banalities. They say that it's taken centuries to prepare people even to think about what life in a truly advanced society would be like. The process has to be done gradually, over a long period of time, and most of it has been done on the level of action, not that of intellectual theory.

As to why the spirits from advanced civilizations couldn't take some kind of direct action against the Theocrats right at the beginning, it simply wasn't possible. The space people don't come here physically, but as naked spirits transmitted across vast distances. We come with a certain amount of knowledge, a small part of which we can communicate directly to Earth people, and with psychic powers that are highly trained but not especially powerful in terms of force. The average Theocratic spirit is actually “stronger” than one of us in terms of sheer ability to radiate psychic energy as a disembodied spirit.

The reason is that a normal spirit can transmit only limited amounts of astral energy through the psychic powers – less than that which can be radiated by the psychic powers of a similar spirit incarnated in a physical body. But Theocratic spirits are not bound by this limitation, because they don't keep their astral soul in a normal condition. Instead, they absorb energy from other spirits and grow as much as they can. Abnormal growth gives them access to more internal astral energy and hence stronger psychic powers than a normal spirit possesses.

So they have been forced to use finesse rather than brute strength in fighting the Theocrats, and also have been forced to enlist the aid of living people in many different ways.

But couldn't they have used those psychic machines that were here? Not until the present because the process requires large amounts of astral energy. One of the reasons for assisting us in building a physical technology is so that they could tap some of the psychic energy raised by the electronic mind-control networks and use it to repair and run psychic machines constructed of astral matter. They could have done it previously only by using the methods employed by second-stage Theocratic religion: mass human sacrifices and mass destruction of human souls. This is far beyond the limits to which they will stretch their ethics. It is a means that no end will justify.

Index

Satan and Buddha

Satan. The whole mythology of Satan and the Rebellion of the Angels was the creation of spirits fighting Theocracy long ago, and the original teachings of the Buddha contain similar elements.
Does using terms like “Satan” invite accusations of being “devil-worshippers?” They respond that they have good reason to use terms that encourage people to take a closer look at the Biblical myths about Satan. But the Invisible College rejects "worship" as the term is usually defined: "Absolute, unquestioning belief in and obedience to a spiritual being or a body of doctrine."

Individual sovereignty is the most fundamental postulate of the philosophy of the Invisible College. Each person must assume full responsibility for making value judgments on ethical and political matters. The Invisible College never advocates absolute obedience to ANY authority, even their own. They urge people to resist orders from leaders if they disagree with them, and to use laws, customs, and ideologies only as guides for making their own decisions on specific issues. Assuming personal responsibility for running their own lives makes people wiser and stronger. Unquestioning obedience to orders or fixed doctrine only makes them increasingly dependent and powerless.

The concepts that Satan is a "God of Evil" who demands the same kind of worship as Jehovah or other Theocratic conceptions of deity, and that he tempts people to do exactly the reverse of all the individual ethical principles in the Judeo-Christian moral code, are both Theocratic propaganda incorporated into religious doctrine to keep people from understanding the Invisible College's original and constructive purpose in creating the myth about Satan and getting it incorporated into the Bible.

Satan has a much more favorable image in literature and folk tradition in all the Judeo-Christian cultures than you'd expect him to have if he was really the archetype of reversed Biblical morality that religious doctrine claims he is.

Look at all the folk tales in which the Devil simply opposes the puritanical, "blue-nose" aspects of Christian morality that say that sex and other sensual pleasures are intrinsically evil. The Invisible College has already pointed out the role these puritanical doctrines play in the religious mind-control process.

The Theocrats want religious believers to feel guilty every time they feel sexual desire or enjoy any "pleasures of the flesh." The guilt literally addicts them to attending church services that subject them to religious mind control. When the Devil of folk tradition says that sensual pleasure is not immoral in itself, then he is actually advocating an ethical code superior to the Judeo-Christian one.

In ancient Hebrew, the word satan simply meant “adversary” or “enemy.” The Invisible College communicated the myth about the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent to some of the prophets who wrote the Old Testament just to ensure that people who read Judeo-Christian scripture would realize that Jehovah has enemies. They also claim responsibility for other elements of that myth: that disobeying Jehovah by eating the forbidden fruit enabled human beings to discern good from evil, and that there was another secret, that of the Tree of Life that would give people eternal life without involvement with Jehovah or other Theocrats.

The material in the Book of Genesis, even though it pertains to the Creation and the earliest history of the Hebrews and the Jewish religion, was mostly dictated to Jewish prophets after the Exodus. Judaism started to adopt important elements of fourth-stage Theocratic religion during the Egyptian Captivity, not long after Ikhnaton tried to change Egyptian Paganism into a fourth-stage religion and failed. Fourth-stage Theocratic religions all have a creation myth that includes the concept of Original Sin.

Even though first-century Judaism practiced animal sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, Judaism was almost entirely into the fourth stage when Christianity broke away from it. It started becoming a fourth-stage religion at the time of Moses, though the process was gradual rather than sudden. Survival of limited amounts of animal sacrifice was just an atavism. The core of Jewish doctrine from the time of Moses down to the present has been that Jehovah is both an angry, judgmental deity who condemns people for Original Sin, and a loving god who forgives their sins after various acts of faith and ritual atonement. All the Christians did was assign separate names to these two different aspects of the one deity: Jehovah, or God the Father, to the judgmental aspect, and Jesus, or God the Son, to the forgiving aspect.

As to the origin of the concepts of Satan and the War in Heaven...

First of all, a fourth-stage Theocratic religion has no need for a god of evil to tempt people into sin: the concept of Original Sin itself makes any sort of Devil superfluous. However, if such a concept survives as an atavism from an earlier stage of the religion's development, it does no harm, any more than did the token sacrifices of doves by the Jews at Jerusalem, as described in the New Testament.

Judaism had originally been a polytheistic religion. Most of the angels with names ending “iel” had originally been “god of ..."; for example, "Barakiel -- God of Lightning." Therefore Judaism already had a concept of "Satan" similar to the "adversary" or "trickster" gods in other third-stage religions. It was quite natural to incorporate Satan into the creation myth to tempt people into Original Sin.

Griffith asks, “Was the Hebrew Pagan deity Satan originally a god in serpentine form like Damballa and some of the other African trickster deities?”

Possibly. we really don't know. What we're telling you here is mostly derived from our knowledge of modern religious and occult works, supplemented to some extent by rumors that have circulated on the astral plane for thousands of years. We have no exact historical details on any of this, just educated guesses. However, the choice of a serpent image for the deity that tempted people into disobeying Jehovah is obvious if you realize that it was enemies of Theocracy who dictated the myth in the form in which we know it.

The serpent was intended as a symbol of reincarnation, because snakes shed their skins, leaving behind a casting that resembles a dead snake to a casual glance, while the animal crawls on about its business with a shiny, new, young-looking skin. The Theocrats who called themselves "Jehovah" did not want people to believe in reincarnation, even though the fourth-stage religious concept of "dwelling in the House of the Lord forever" was probably not known to the Jews at the time the creation myth was first dictated.

Griffith asks if the concept of reincarnation was known to the Jews at that time.

As we said before, we have no exact historical knowledge of the time, just age-old rumor and inference from literature on Earth. However, our best guess is that every human culture throughout history and back into prehistory has had at least rudimentary knowledge of reincarnation. There are references to it in literature from every culture we know about, including those in the ancient Near East contemporary with the people who wrote Genesis, so we assume the concept was known to them. More important, a small number of people in every culture have always possessed enough conscious past-life memories to re-establish rumors about reincarnation even if a Theocratic religion has managed to suppress them.

Here Griffith asks who was opposing Theocracy at the time of Moses, or whenever the myth concerning Adam and Eve and the serpent was written, if the Invisible College has been in existence for only a few centuries.

Exact names for the forces opposing Theocracy are actually arbitrary and unimportant. We prefer to reserve the term "Invisible College" to refer to the highly organized opposition to Theocracy that started when large numbers of spirits from advanced extraterrestrial civilizations started coming to Earth voluntarily about six or seven hundred years ago. However, small numbers of such spirits have been accidentally transported to Earth's astral plane throughout history and far back into prehistoric times, and many of them have tried to fight Theocracy as best they could. One spirit with advanced knowledge could have been responsible for the creation myth we're describing here.

The process by which the Theocrats dictate "holy writ" to religious believers is, like that used for this book, some form of automatic writing or other mediumistic reception of data from spirits on the astral plane. The only difference is that the spirits involved are Theocrats instead of members of the Invisible College.

Since it is extremely difficult for the mediums themselves to tell exactly who in the spirit world is dictating to them at a given time, Griffith's guides always review everything he receives from them several times and leave him to be the final judge as to whether what he has received is really from them or is Theocratic deception.

Griffith realizes that he has to be responsible for that, to ensure that what he receives is internally consistent and agrees with his own rational judgment based on the evidence available in his memory.

The Invisible College finds it easier to send anti-Theocratic messages to the prophets of Theocratic religions, who don't normally question divine revelations, than it is for Theocrats to deceive conscious “Spiritual Revolutionaries” (a term Griffith and the Invisible College were promoting when this book was published).

This is exactly what happened with the myth about the serpent and the Fall. A spirit hostile to Theocracy managed to dictate the story to one of the Hebrew prophets, and somehow it survived long enough in folk tradition to be written into the Old Testament. And the Invisible College is glad it did, because it reveals some important spiritual truths to anyone capable of understanding them.

One is that Jehovah has an enemy who communicates with people and urges them to rebel. Another is that these messages of rebellion are involved with ethics and morality. Jehovah says, "Right and wrong are only what I tell you they are, and they are absolute values that never vary." Satan, on the other hand, says, "Use your intellect to determine what is right and wrong in a given situation, because such value judgments are highly dependent on the environment you're in at a given time." Since the latter statement is rational and the former irrational, people are put into conflict with Theocratic religious doctrine every time they use their intellect to make rational value judgments.

The doctrines of organized religions have to be accepted on faith because they are not rational. This religious myth is one of the reasons why. The Theocrats don't want people to become consciously aware of the basically illogical nature of absolute moral doctrine, but there is nothing they can do about it. The more highly developed a person's rational intellect, the less likely he or she is to accept religious doctrine on "blind faith."

The serpent myth is only a minor detail in Judeo-Christian mythology, but it has been very important over the centuries in the fight against Theocracy. And it's also obvious why the Judeo-Christian Theocrats countered it with further mythology about Satan as the Father of Lies who goes around telling people it's good to kill and steal and otherwise do the opposite of the religious moral code.

The Theocrats tried to obscure the information about using the intellect to make ethical decisions on a rational basis. They added many extraneous details to the mythology about Satan. For example, they included the idea that telepathy, mediumship, and other human psychic powers are either "works of God" or "works of the Devil." This allows them to forbid religious believers to communicate with spirits hostile to Theocracy without revealing various facts about spiritual reality that the Theocrats wish to conceal.

And then there's all the propaganda about demonic possession. As was discussed earlier, the irony of the whole concept of "possession" is that the Theocrats themselves practice something rather similar to it when they program people into becoming willing slaves through religious mind control.

The important thing to remember whenever possession is mentioned is simply this: no spirit, Theocrat or otherwise, can actually force living people to do things contrary to their conscious will and their customary ideas of right and wrong. Even religious mind control can only reprogram a person's opinions and beliefs one small step at a time: it's a slow, gradual process, not a sudden, dramatic takeover. It's very important for the reader to realize this.

However, even gradual reprogramming can produce some extremely evil and violent people if it continues over a whole lifetime. There are plenty of people in this country right now who are emotionally and morally capable of "killing a Commie for Christ" or acting on the literal meaning of the Biblical passage, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." However, this has nothing to do with the sudden, violent "possession by evil spirits" that Fundamentalist propaganda spreads around so freely, and that many serious occultists also accept. That, fortunately, is a myth.

The Tree of Life. As the serpent myth represents the concept that people have the right to determine good and evil for themselves through the free exercise of the conscious intellect, the Tree of Life represents certain essential details of the breakthrough information -- the concepts that people can only achieve immortality through reincarnation and that the "eternal life in heaven" offered by deities is a delusion. However, you must remember that the Tree of Life is mentioned only so the Theocrats can gloat that they prevented people from gaining this knowledge.

The secret referred to in this passage is not just immortality, but the complete knowledge that Theocratic spirits have about the nature of the soul, reincarnation, psychic powers, etc. Apparently the spirit who dictated these passages tried to communicate the whole breakthrough and failed.

Buddha. The beginning of Buddhism is a similar case in which enemies of Theocracy tried to help people make the breakthrough but didn't quite succeed. After the Buddha achieved enlightenment, he made some statements that seemed self-contradictory, at least on the surface. He attributed his spiritual progress to his own efforts, not to a "gift" from omnipotent deities. He also stated in so many words that ordinary people could achieve enlightenment through practicing the proper psychic development techniques. But at the same time, his statements about reincarnation appeared paradoxical. He said that achieving enlightenment meant that he no longer needed to reincarnate, but he also said that he would continue to do so to help other people achieve enlightenment.

The Invisible College guides attempt to explain this. They state that what the Buddha called his enlightenment is actually a version of the breakthrough – that is, he became consciously aware of exact1y what the Vedantic gods really are and how they operate. But the words in which his followers wrote down his knowledge are somewhat confusing.

They understood the most important part of his message quite clearly: the path to enlightenment is the disciplined practice of various psychic development techniques. Notice too that the Buddha himself didn't limit his followers in which specific techniques they used, because part of his knowledge must have been that different techniques work better for a given individual than others. He was quite vague on this, and Buddhists ever since have practiced a wide variety of techniques drawn from Yoga, Tantra, and other sources within Vedanta.

However, the basic teachings of Buddha are anti-deistic whereas those of Vedanta were highly deistic. Many modern Buddhists believe that if they personally achieve enlightenment, their souls will merge with the soul of Buddha into Nirvana, a "state of blissful nothingness." Vedantic doctrine in the time of the Buddha already taught that enlightened souls would merge with Brahma or some other god. This doctrine was grafted onto the Buddha's teachings after his death, when Buddhism was taken over by the Vedantic Theocrats.

Buddhism was originally founded to fight Theocracy, as were Gnosticism and some forms of early Christianity. The Buddha implied by his own example that the enlightened were capable of transcending reincarnation but deliberately chose not to do so in order to be of service to the human race. The Buddha realized he could become a Theocrat and remain on the astral plane indefinitely, but he refused to do so for ethical reasons. This interpretation of the early Buddhist teaching is possible for people who have already made the breakthrough from some other source, but it is not stated clearly enough in the writings themselves to make finding and understanding it very easy.

Even though he founded a major religion, the enlightenment the Buddha achieved was still only a partial breakthrough. Much of what he learned from the Invisible College was on a subconscious level; it is reflected indirectly in his various teachings and practices as described by his followers after his death when they wrote the early literature, but much of it never came out in so many words in his actual teachings.

He didn't actually say that the Vedantic gods are evil beings who eat souls, or that enlightened souls need to reincarnate for their own good as well as that of living people. This vital information is implied, but never directly stated. For example, the Buddha did teach that animal sacrifices and "austere practices" -- by which he meant self-torture, starvation, etc. -- are not mandatory for one to achieve enlightenment; but he didn't antagonize the Vedantic majority around him, or their gods, by saying that "The gods are evil." However, after his death, the legends portrayed the Vedantic gods as "worshipping" the enlightened Buddha, implying at the least that they had no power over him.

It is also important to remember that the Buddha was preaching to an audience with far different religious beliefs from those of modern Westerners, or of modern Buddhists, for that matter. The Vedanta of his time was a third-stage Pagan religion based on large-scale animal sacrifice and orgiastic rituals, but its doctrine also included many atavistic myths surviving from the first stage. As well as being the priests of third-stage Vedanta, the Brahmins also functioned as first-stage shamans who insured that various spiritual beings were "fed" to keep them from eating human souls after death. Direct references to the gods as "Eaters of Souls" occur in Vedantic hymns used in the Soma ritual.

Griffith observes that most of the Buddha's actual sermons or lectures seemed to be on ethics, similar to the Vedantic ethics of the culture he lived in, which contained many inconsistencies. The guides reply that he preached a version of the Vedantic ethical code and reIigious customs stripped of some of the worst self-contradictions, like the concept of non-violence co-existing with animal sacrifice and with various forms of violence against oneself in the name of religious practice. However, it is easy to misunderstand what he was actually doing, which was to separate ethics from the process of achieving enlightenment.

In other words, says Griffith, he said 1iving ethically was important, but not direct1y related to the psychic development that causes enlightenment. Again, this interpretation is possible from reading the Buddhist literature, but the point is not made clearly enough for most people to understand it. Certainly most modern Buddhists don't.

Modern Buddhism, except for a few occult groups associated with it, is a Theocratic religion. Buddhists feel that their ethical conduct as well as their psychic development practices will earn them enlightenment by pleasing various incarnations of the Buddha, all of which are imagined to co-exist as gods similar to the Vedantic gods. This is not what Buddha taught at all.

Griffith: Certain Zen masters, whom I class with the occult minority within Buddhism, have said things like, "There are no gods, there are no Buddhas.”

When they do this, they are fighting against the tendency of the majority of Buddhists to worship the Buddha as a god, instead of seeking enlightenment through their own efforts and practicing ethical conduct for humanistic reasons -- to serve their own interests and that of other people -- instead of to earn divine favor. Zen masters have even told students who were drifting into deism, "Contemplate the Buddha as a piece of dried shit."

This anti-deistic, anti-Theocratic teaching is even more evident in the doctrines of some of the Eastern occult secret societies involved with the martial arts. These secret societies have often worked under the direction of the Invisible College to fight against the control of both religion and politics in China and Japan by the Theocrats. That's why they sometimes tell initiates, "We are devils," because they are literally fighting against the "gods," in the sense of fighting deism and defending the idea that people can achieve enlightenment through their own efforts.

However, you have to be careful when you read about secret societies of this type, because many of them have fought for the Theocrats at one time and against them at other times, depending on the personalities and beliefs of the members.

Ancient human burial site shows evidence of mass cannibalism: 'Slaves were skinned and butchered like animals'

2009-12-08T15:51:00.000-08:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1233667/Cannibalism-uncovered-Ancient-human-burial-site-shows-evidence-slaves-skinned-butchered-like-animals.html

Ancient human burial site shows evidence of mass cannibalism: 'Slaves were skinned and butchered like animals'
Fiona McRae
Daily Mail
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:37 EST

Evidence of mass cannibalism, in which men, women and children were on the menu, has been unearthed in Germany.

The 'intentionally mutilated' remains of up to 500 people were found in 7,000-year-old pits near the village of Herxheim in the south-west of the country.

Marks on the bones show that the bodies were skinned and the flesh removed using techniques normally used to butcher animals.

Human bones at the site are evidence they had been butchered like animals

Some of the bones may have been smashed to allow the living to suck the marrow out of the dead, others were chewed and one researcher even believes the victims could have been 'spit-roasted'.

So far, the remains of 10 people - eight adults and two children aged around 6 and 16 - have been analysed.

But with around 500 bodies already dug up and many more waiting to be recovered, the journal Antiquity reports that the true figure could be much higher.

Archaeologist Bruno Boulestin said: 'We see patterns on the bones of animals indicating they have been spit-roasted.

'We have seen some of these patterns on the human bones.

'It is highly probable that a great number of the thousand or so individuals deposited in Herxheim were subjected to cannibalism.'

Dr Boulestin, of Bordeaux University in France, suspects the deaths - and feasts - took place over just a few decades.

It is thought that the remains belong either to people eaten in victory celebrations after being killed in wars, or to people slaughtered and consumed in ritual sacrifices.

It is also possible that the cannibalism was carried out when the early farming society suffered famine.

Further evidence of Neolithic cannibalism comes from 6,000-year-old bones unearthed in a French cave and analysed in the 1980s.

But other experts say the dead of both locations may simply have been given ritual burials, in which the flesh was removed as part of the ceremony.

Peru's 'human fat killers' were invented to cover up deaths

2009-12-04T07:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/perus-human-fat-killers-were-invented-to-cover-up-deaths-1833160.html

Peru's 'human fat killers' were invented to cover up deaths
Guy Adams
Independent UK
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:36 EST

When police in Peru announced that they'd broken up a criminal gang who roamed the Andes killing peasant farmers, draining the fat from their dead bodies, and then selling it to European cosmetics manufacturers for use in expensive anti-aging skin creams, there was widespread shock and revulsion although medical experts were quick to sound a note of scepticism.

A functioning kidney, or liver, is worth thousands of dollars, but there is no black market in human fat, they pointed out. Surgeons carrying out liposuction operations throw away gallons of the stuff each week.

Yesterday, the experts were vindicated. Peru's police chief was forced to sack his top organised crime investigator amid growing evidence that he and several colleagues deliberately invented the elaborate story to cover up evidence of officers being involved in dozens of unlawful killings.

A fortnight ago, the sacked officer, General Felix Murga had claimed to have arrested four members of "an international criminal network trafficking human fat". The "gang" had carried out between 30 and 60 murders a year, in the country's central Huanuco province he had claimed.

The macabre details of the alleged gang's activities garnered international media attention. And opposition politicians now believe that police invented the story to divert attention from allegations that officers had killed 46 suspects in 2007 and 2008 in the coastal town of Trujillo. "My hypothesis is that they were mainly trying to cover up the tremendous revelation of extrajudicial killings of criminals in Trujillo made by Ricardo Uceda ... in Poder magazine," the former deputy interior minister, Carlos Basombrio, wrote on his blog yesterday.

If so, then the senior cops certainly knew how to tell a tall story. At the original press conference, they played a video of one suspect "confessing," before showing off two soft drink bottles filled with a yellow fluid they said was human fat that had been decanted for export fetching prices of nearly £10,000 a litre.

Journalists were told how victims were approached on remote roads and lured to a hut in the jungle. There the police claimed, they were bludgeoned to death. Heads, arms and legs were cut off, the police had claimed. Major organs were removed and discarded. Candles were placed beneath the torsos, so that melting fat would dribble into pots and other collecting vessels. Investigators in Huanuco, who complain they were excluded from the inquiry, now believe the four arrested men, who are still in custody, had carried out only one murder, linked to the cocaine trade.

They say they may have bottled that victim's fat to intimidate rivals in an area rife with drug trafficking.

Blowing the Whistle, Chpt. 5: Tracking the Crack in the Universe (Loosh 101)

2009-11-30T12:50:00.001-08:00

We don't have to be part of the human sacrifice system! We really can reprogram ourselves to be what we were intended to BE!

http://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/loosh-101-tracking-the-crack-in-the-universe/
Blowing the Whistle, Chpt. 5: Tracking the Crack in the Universe (Loosh 101)

This is the fifth chapter in an evolving book, “Blowing the Whistle on Enlightenment: Confessions of a New Age Heretic,” by Bronte Baxter

Did you ever wonder why a good God would build a world where the only way to survive is by taking life? How long would you stay alive if you refused to eat? You may love animals and grow plants inside your home and flowers in your garden, but every time you eat, you destroy the life of something. A something with a consciousness, that feels and desires to live, as we do.

The other day I grabbed an onion from a basket to chop up, and I saw it had sprouted a beautiful, tender, light-green shoot. It had a life inside it, a consciousness that wanted to take root, breathe air and thrive. Any tears in chopping that onion did not come from the fumes.

I’m not a sentimentalist. I’m a person questioning, increasingly aware of an insidious thread woven through biological life. We are born, we feed, and we die. Life is a process of consuming other living things in order to stay alive as long as possible until death in turn consumes us. We tell ourselves life is a whole lot more, but it’s reduced to that as long as we must feed to survive. If we can’t stay alive more than a few months without food, how can eating not be fundamental to how we define our existence?

Eating is a requirement for biological life as we know it. It’s the thread that holds together material existence. More than a thread, it’s a chain, binding us to the law that we must consume each other. Rebelling is punishable by death.

What kind of God or gods would create a world predicated on killing? We don’t like to ask that, and we find every excuse to avoid looking at this question. But every time a dear one dies, or you find a nibbled bird in the yard destroyed by an idle cat, or you read about an animal that has suffered mercilessly, or another molested child, or a nation ravaged by a quake that’s buried thousands of living people, your mind goes back to that nagging question. Who would make a world like this? Was it truly a God of love?

According to much evidence, it wasn’t. The world was created by something else. Or if it was created by the loving God our hearts insist exists, then creation has been tampered with by someone else so merciless that it barely resembles the original divine vision. The biological universe is controlled by the law that to live we must take life or die. That is sinister. Something there is that makes us have to eat, that makes us age and disintegrate. This is the “something wrong with the world,” the crack in the universe. Knowledge of it works “like a splinter in the mind, driving you mad,” quoting “The Matrix.” Yet awakening to the truth of our predicament is the first step toward radical change. Only radical change can possibly right the fundamental flaw woven into physical creation.

And how well-woven it is. Not only does violence wind through the lives of all Earth life like the fibers of a time-bomb attached to a victim. It reaches out into space, where supernovas implode, collapsing millions of stars along with all living beings on all their attendant planets. Death and devouring are so pervasive most people can’t conceive of a world without them, or if they can conceive it, they label the concept preposterous. Yet quantum physics shows that matter is nothing but atoms: emptiness vibrating. Emptiness does not die and neither does the energy it oscillates. So why must bodies die that are made of up of these things?

Robert Monroe, in his book “Far Journeys,” writes of contact he had with a light being in an out-of-body experience. (Monroe is arguably the world’s foremost researcher on OBEs; he started an institute with trainee/researchers to scientifically investigate the phenomenon.) Reportedly the light being told Monroe that when humans die, their energy is released and harvested by trans-dimensional beings, who use it to extend their own life spans. The claim is that the universe is a garden created by these beings as their food source.

According to Monroe’s story, animals are intentionally positioned on this planet to feed on plants and on each other, thereby releasing the life force of their victims so it can be harvested. In a predator-prey struggle, exceptional energy is produced in the combatants. The spilling of blood in a fight-to-the-death conflict releases this intense energy, which the light beings call “loosh.” Loosh is also harvested from the loneliness of animals and humans, as well as from the emotions engendered when a parent is forced to defend the life of its young. Another source of loosh is humans’ worship.

According to Monroe’s informant, our creators, the cosmic “energy farmers,” intentionally equipped animals with devices like fangs, claws and super-speed in order to prolong predator-prey combat and thereby produce more loosh. In other words, the greater the suffering, the more life force is spewed from our bodies, and the tastier the energy meal for our creators.

This story told to Monroe (which threw him into a two-week depression) corresponds to reports in some of the world’s oldest scriptures, the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas of India. There we read that “the universe is upheld by sacrifice” (Atharva Veda) and that “all who are living (in this world) are the sacrificers. There is none living who does not perform yagya (sacrifice). This body is (created) for sacrifice, and arises out of sacrifice and changes according to sacrifice.” (Garbha Upanishad)

Again:

“(Death as the Creator) resolved to devour all that he had created; for he eats all. . . He is the eater of the whole universe; this whole universe is his food.” (Mahabharata)

In the writings of Carlos Castaneda, who chronicles the life and teachings of a Yaquii sorcerer called Don Juan, we find another story of the Divine devouring humans, in this case human consciousness. Reports Castaneda:

“The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle’s beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagle’s food. The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things.” (“The Eagle’s Gift,” by Carlos Castaneda)

The idea that man must sacrifice (must kill something or be killed in order to appease the gods) is apparently intrinsic to all the world’s root religions. We find blood ritual, including human sacrifice, in the Druidic tradition, Tibetan Buddhism, among the Indians of the Americas, in Greece and Rome, Africa, China, Arabia, Germany, Phoenicia and Egypt. Even the Old Testament (Judges 11:31-40) has a little-advertised story of human sacrifice, with the Israelite judge Jephthah ritually slaughtering his own daughter to fulfill a vow he made to Jehovah.

While we may not think of Judaism as typically promoting human sacrifice, it more than promoted it if we count the genocide Jehovah demanded of the Hebrews. In one day alone, they murdered 12,000 Canaanites “and utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey with the edge of the sword.”(Joshua: 6:21)

In Islam, the situation is similar. Allah, while paying lip service to the immorality of human sacrifice, orders his servants in the Koran to practice jihad against all unbelievers. “When the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.” (Koran: 9:5)

Peace-loving Moslems interpret such passages as “symbolic” in their desire to justify their faith, much as Christians try to justify Jehovah’s sociopathic behavior with excuses. In many ways, the god of Islam reasons and rants like the god of the Israelites. Could it be the same entity? It isn’t contradictory that he would support two separate peoples, then lead them to fight each other. Not if his agenda is to stimulate and harvest plenty of loosh.

Christianity, the religion of brotherly love, is implicated in blood sacrifice by being rooted in the Jewish tradition. The Bible declares Jesus is the son of God (Jehovah), and Jehovah announces at Jesus’ baptism, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased.” (Matthew: 17:5) Where was Jesus when his father was slaughtering the Canaanites? Jesus himself becomes a blood sacrifice, a fact that Catholics reenact in the mass and that Protestants bathe themselves in to be “saved.” Christians are no strangers to sacrifice.

If suffering and death were part of creation that no one, including the gods, could help, there’d be some reason to be more forgiving. I might even buy the story that they need us to support them with our homage and we need them to keep the universe running. But when you add blood sacrifice into the equation, I abandon ship. It’s one thing if the gods can’t prevent earthly suffering and death – quite another if they seek it out and thrive from it – or worse yet, created it. And that’s what blood sacrifice, and the scriptures around it, indicate.

When the oldest scriptures of the world tell us we were created as food for the gods, I have to ask myself if I want to live in a universe where that might be true. The fact is, I don’t. I can no longer give my approval to that kind of reality. So if I won’t live with it, I have to come up with something better. I have to find something more fundamental than the physical universe to locate my identity in, and my power in. I sense, as many do these days, that there’s something beyond the universe as it has been presented to us, something outside this box, outside this system. That’s what I seek to know, connect with, and draw from.

Robert Morning Sky, a truth seeker of the Hopi and Apache traditions, tells a story he learned from his people about a race of beings who knew no limitations, who existed far outside this physical universe. One day one of them declared his intention to visit Earth and take on a body just for the adventure of it, for the experience. His friends cautioned him, as this universe had a reputation as amnesia-producing, a place of no return. But the entity laughed that off and promised to come back after one lifetime.

Centuries passed, and the entity never came home. One of his comrades decided to enter the physical world to go look for his friend. He promised not to get lost in matter and to return with the other individual. More centuries passed, and neither being returned. So another immortal entered physical mass, and he also never came back. In time many members of these unlimited beings incarnated in human form, and the story goes, none of them yet has gone home.

Maybe we are those people, starting to remember who we are. Maybe it’s time to break out of the hypnosis we’ve lived under for eons, the unquestioned assumptions that we must kill and eat, suffer and die, live in lack and sadness, and undergo all the human drama as it has been defined for us.

Is it insane to think that humans can beat the system? That we could make a choice to stop the activities that supply our up-line with fuel? That we could minimize – even stop – our own refueling from the life force of creatures lower than us on the food chain? Is it madness to think that our bodies, made of undying energy, could themselves not have to die, that we might learn to live on the power of infinite consciousness, which we can access within ourselves, being part of it?

While some may call that madness, I prefer it to the world I see around me. I certainly prefer it to death. I prefer it to loss of my dear ones, and to sickness and poverty. The greatest experiment mankind can engage in is mastery of the principles of freedom, creation, abundance, and immortality. We’re wearing body suits that in 70-some years of use are programmed to self-destruct. What could be more important than changing that programming?

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna warns: “He who does not follow the wheel thus set revolving lives in vain.” The wheel is the cycle of birth and death, karma and retribution, human sacrifice and divine blessing. To rebel against this system is to fail in our life purpose as defined by those who say they are our creators and gods. But surely life was meant to be more than dinner for the next rung up on the food chain. If “living in vain” means breaking out of that, I’m all for that kind of failure.

Bronte Baxter

© Bronte Baxter 2008

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Israel Murdering Palestinians for Their Organs

2009-11-30T12:49:00.001-08:00

This is vampire capitalism at it's worst plus human sacrifice in modern times!

Murdering Palestinians for their organs: "All facts on the ground prove Swedish report correct"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14885
By Saed Bannoura

Global Research, August 23, 2009
Voltaire Network

Former Palestinian detainee, researcher Abdul-Nasser Farwana, stated that all facts on the ground, since decades, prove that the Israeli occupation executed Palestinian detainees after they surrendered and refused to hand their bodies to their families. Hundreds of bodies were transferred to the families days, months or even years after the fact, and when the bodies were sent back, they were missing vital internal organs.

Link for the Aftonbladet report by Swedish journalist Donald Boström:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article5652583.ab

Farwana added that the Swedish report, written by Donald Boström and published by Aftonbladet, Stockholm daily paper, regarding illegal trafficking of body parts of Palestinians is directly connected to the execution of Palestinians after they surrendered to the army, and is connected with the arrest of 40 well-known figures, including Rabbis in New Jersey for money laundering and corruption, in a scheme that involved sales of Israeli kidneys in the US and other corruption rackets.

Farwana added that one of the illegal acts carried out by Israel is having secret detention facilities in which dozens of detainees were imprisoned and never heard of anymore. This is in addition to the “Numbers Graveyard” in which “unknown” Palestinian and Arab fighters are buried.

He said that Israel still denies it is holding hundreds of Palestinian and Arab fighter, and refuses to cooperate with the Red Cross on the issue.

The researcher added that Israel is the only state that had a policy of detaining the bodies of slain Arab and Palestinian fighters, and that some 300 fighters are buried in the numbers graveyard.

Hundreds of bodies were returned during prisoner-swap deals, including the latest swap-deal between Hezbollah and Israel in which some 200 bodies were moved to Lebanon.

Farwana further said that dozens of detainees died in Israeli prisons, some due to torture, and their bodies were not immediately sent to their families, but instead were moved to forensic center, and some of their body parts were removed before bodies were sent back to the Palestinians.

He said the Swedish paper said in its report that Palestinians youth were abducted by the Israeli army from their homes, were killed later on, and when their bodies were return, they were cut open and vital organs were missing.

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Rosenberg, who was recently arrested in New York, is believed to be involved in illegal trade of organs, and that he sold Kidney to patients in the United States for 160.000 USD.

The Aftonbladet report placed the Israeli-Swedish relations at odds, and some Israel officials demanded Sweden to officially apologize, while other officials said that this report in part of the efforts to demonize Israel and the Jews.

150,000 Farm Suicides in India from 1997 Through 2005

2009-11-30T12:48:00.001-08:00

http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath11172007.html

Neoliberalism's Price Tag: 150,000 Farm Suicides in India from 1997 Through 2005
P. Sainath
Counterpunch
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:23 UTC

A Farmer is Committing Suicide Every 32 Minutes

Close to 150,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in nine years from 1997 to 2005, official data show. While farm suicides have occurred in many Indian states, nearly two thirds of these deaths are concentrated in five states where just a third of the country's population lives. This means that farmers' suicides occurred in those (mainly cash crop) regions with appalling intensity.

On average, one Indian farmer committed suicide every 32 minutes between 1997 and 2005. Since 2002, that has become one suicide every 30 minutes. However, the frequency at which farmers take their lives in any region smaller than the country - say a single State or group of States - has to be lower. Because the number of suicides in any such region would be less than the total for the country as a whole in any year. Yet, the frequency at which farmers are killing themselves in many regions is appalling.

On average, one farmer took his or her life every 53 minutes between 1997 and 2005 in just the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh). In Maharashtra alone, that was one suicide every three hours. It got even worse after 2001. It rose to one farm suicide every 48 minutes in these Big Four States, and one every two and a quarter hours in Maharashtra alone. The Big Four have together seen 89,362 farmers' suicides between 1997 and 2005, or 44,102 between 2002 and 2005.
The five worst-hit states are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (including Chattisgarh) and Kerala. Of these States, only Kerala showed no sustained increase in the number of yearly farm suicides over this period. That's mainly because of a decline after 2003 which was that state's worst year. Maharashtra, for which data exists from 1995, is by far the worst state in the country. Farm suicides there more than trebled from 1083 in 1995 to 3926 in 2005.

Suicides as a whole rose nationally in the 1997-2005 period. But the rate of increase in farm suicides was far higher than the rate of increase in suicides by non-farmers. In the Big Four states of Maharashtra, AP, Karnataka and MP, the percentage increases in farm suicides were more than double the increase in non-farm suicides in this period. While suicides by non-farmers went up by 23 per cent in the Big Four states, farmers' suicides went up 52 per cent. Indeed, the Big Four states might be termed the Suicide SEZ or 'Special Elimination Zone' for farmers this past decade. In 1997 these States accounted for 53 per cent, or just over half of all farmers' suicides in the country. By 2005, that figure was 64 per cent. That is, in less than a decade, their share of farm suicides, already disproportionately high, leapt to nearly two-thirds.

These and other grim findings emerge from a comprehensive study of official data on farm suicides by Prof. K Nagaraj of the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS).

The data analysed by Prof. Nagaraj are drawn from the various issues of Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India. This is a publication of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The period covered by the study is from 1997-2005.

Of the 150,000 Indian farmers who took their own lives between 1997 and 2005, nearly two-thirds did so in just the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh). "What's worse," says K. Nagaraj of the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), "the trend for this group of states looks quite dismal. All four have, over the nine-year period, shown an ascending trend in farmers' suicides. This emerges from the painstaking study on farmers' suicides in India between 1997 and 2005 that Professor Nagaraj has just concluded. The study draws on data from the National Crime Records Bureau.

"They began keeping farm data only from 1995," says Professor Nagaraj. "But significant states did not start reporting their data till about two years later. So the study begins with the year 1997. And 2005 is the last year for which such data were available nationally." He has also drawn on the 2001 Census in order to calculate the suicide rate for farmers (FSR). That is, suicides per 100,000 farmers.

The number of Indians committing suicide each year rose from around 96,000 in 1997 to roughly 114,000 in 2005. In the same period, the number of farmers taking their own lives each year shot up dramatically, from under 14,000 in 1997 to over 17,000 in 2005. While the rise in farm suicides has been on for over a decade, there have been sharp spurts in some years. For instance, 2004 saw well over 18,200 farm suicides across India. Almost two-thirds of these were in the Big Four or 'Suicide SEZ' states.

The year 1998, too, saw a huge increase over the previous year. Farm suicides crossed the 16,000 mark, beating the preceding year by nearly 2,400 such deaths. Farm suicides as a proportion of total suicides rose from 14.2 in 1997 to 15.0 in 2005.

Professor Nagaraj also points to the Annual Compound Growth Rate (ACGR) "for suicides nationally, for suicides amongst farmers, and those committed using pesticides."

The ACGR for all suicides in India over a nine-year period is 2.18 per cent. This is not very much higher than the population growth rate. But for farm suicides it is much higher, at nearly 3 (or 2.91) per cent. Powerfully, the ACGR for suicides committed by consuming pesticide was 2.5 per cent. Close to the figure for farmers.

Such suicides are often linked to the farm crisis, with pesticide being the handiest tool available to the farmer. "There are clear, disturbing patterns and trends in both farmers' suicides and pesticide suicides," says Professor Nagaraj.

Alarming though that is, it still does not capture the full picture. The data on suicides are complex, and sometimes misleading. This is not just because of the flawed manner in which they are put together, or because of who puts them together. There are other problems, too. Farmers' suicides as a percentage of total farmers is hard to calculate on a yearly basis. A clear national 'farm suicide rate' can be derived only for 2001. That is because we have the Census to tell us how many farmers there were in the country that year. For other years, that figure would be a conjecture, however plausible.

But even in 2001, when the farm suicides were not yet at their worst, the farm suicide rate (FSR) at 12.9 was much higher than the general suicide rate (GSR) at 10.6 for that year. But the GSR slowed down after that to 10.3 by 2005 even as the total number of suicides went up. It means that the increase in the number of general suicides did not keep pace with the growth in general population. But the farm suicide rate seems to have risen more steeply after 2001. By all accounts, while the number of farm suicides kept increasing, the number of farmers has fallen since 2001, with countless thousands abandoning agriculture.

In 2005, the Big Four or 'Suicide SEZ' states accounted for 43.9 per cent of all suicides and 64.0 per cent of all farm suicides in the country. By contrast, a group of states with the highest general suicide rates - including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura, and Puducherry - accounted for 20.5 per cent of farm suicides in India. "Their share of both total suicides and of farmers' suicides declined between 1997 and 2005 even as that of the Big Four steadily rose," points out Professor Nagaraj.

To the extent the media have covered the farm crisis, their focus has been on farm suicides in four states - Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. Very broadly speaking, that appears to have been right. All have very high rates of farmers' suicides. Madhya Pradesh though, is a major state showing such trends which has received scant attention. (Among smaller regions and states, Goa, and Puducherry show extremely high farm suicide rates but on tiny absolute numbers.)

It is important that the figure of 150,000 farm suicides is a bottom line estimate. It is by no means accurate or exhaustive. There are inherent and serious inaccuracies in the NCRB data as they are based on ground data that exclude large groups of people. As Professor Nagaraj puts it: "There is likely to be a serious underestimation of suicides, particularly of farmers' suicides, in these reports. The most important problem is the way a farmer is defined at the ground level: as someone who has a title to land. This is likely, for instance, to leave out tenant farmers and, particularly, women farmers."

The quality of reporting also varies from state to state. For instance, Haryana shows a very low ratio of farm suicides to general suicides. This conflicts with other assessments of the problem in that State. Data from Punjab have also been highly contested by groups monitoring the farm crisis there.

However, even in this flawed data, the trends are clear and alarming. But what has driven the huge increase in farm suicides, particularly in the Big Four or 'Suicide SEZ' States? "Overall," says Professor Nagaraj, "there exists since the mid-90s, an acute agrarian crisis. That's across the country. In the Big Four and some other states, specific factors compound the problem. These are zones of highly diversified, commercialised agriculture. Cash crops dominate. (And to a lesser extent, coarse cereals.)

Water stress has been a common feature - and problems with land and water have worsened as state investment in agriculture disappears. Cultivation costs have shot up in these high input zones, with some inputs seeing cost hikes of several hundred per cent. The lack of regulation of these and other aspects of agriculture have sharpened those problems. Meanwhile, prices have crashed, as in the case of cotton, due to massive U.S.-EU subsidies to their growers. Or due to price rigging with the tightening grip of large corporations over the trade in agricultural commodities."

"From the mid-'90s onwards," points out Professor Nagaraj, "prices and farm incomes crashed. As costs rose - even as bank credit dried up - so did indebtedness. Even as subsidies for corporate farmers in the West rose, we cut our few, very minimal life supports and subsidies to our own farmers. The collapse of investment in agriculture also meant it was and is most difficult to get out of this trap."

P. Sainath is the rural affairs editor of The Hindu and the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He can be reached at: psainath@vsnl.com.

If Right-Wingers Get Their Way, 22,000 Americans Will Continue to Be Killed by Lack of Health Care Each Year

2009-11-30T12:47:00.001-08:00

The evil, demonic psychopaths must secretly kill humans for their god of evil. Set-an is real thirsty for blood. This is one way they do it! And the REAL NUMBER OF DEATHS is over a 100,000 per year!

By Mark Ames, AlterNet
August 13, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/141941/

The right-wing anti-Obama-care movement is OK with killing off tens of thousands of Americans each year.

That's what this is all about: The right-wingers and their corporate sponsors are protecting a medieval and violent health care system that kills more Americans each year than all the Americans who have died in the war on terror since 2001, including the 3,000 victims of 9/11, and the 5,000-plus U.S. service members who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every two months, the American health care industry is party to the slaughter of more Americans than al-Qaida managed to kill. Osama bin Laden must look at the Tea Baggers, FreedomWorks, health-industry billionaires like Rick Scott and the rest, and think, "If only I could kill as many Americans as they do! These guys are pros!"

They need to answer for this -- they need to explain why they are trying to protect a system that kills 22,000 Americans per year -- a figure based on a landmark report by the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

In fact, 22,000 is a conservative figure -- one of the authors of that report thinks the real figure in 2006 alone was 27,000 Americans killed from our health care system, perhaps as high as 40,000. But I'll stick to the conservative casualty number of 22,000, which is horrific enough.

If you believe in making health care available to every American, there's no reason to be skittish about talking about it on these terms. The right wing sure as hell isn't: in fact, its whole argument against health care reform is a hypothetical, future-tense dystopia of Americans murdered by their government, a fiction invented by hired marketing whizzes.

It's winning the "debate" based on a lie that hasn't even happened, whereas in this present-tense reality we all inhabit now, one American dies every 24 minutes because of this health care system.

It's time we protect ourselves and those we love, and that means stopping this slaughterhouse and saving Americans.

That's why health care reform isn't the place for wonkish debate and complicated rational arguments -- this is a battle to protect ourselves from people who are fine with their fellow citizens dying in horrible pain, not a debate-club tournament.

The right-wing thugs crashing Obama-care town hall meetings don't seem to mind being party to the mass murder of Americans, because they hate our freedoms.

For example, the freedom to elect a president whom they disagree with, or whose skin color they find repulsive. These goons hate Americans so much that they're willing to get violent -- actually, that's almost redundant, because it's like saying, "They're willing to get violent in order to kill 22,000 of us."

But that's how it is: They're attacking anyone who threatens to pull the plug on a health-care monster that's responsible for slaughtering some 200,000 Americans this decade.

If you go back to the first successful campaign to destroy first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care program in 1993, then the total number of Americans killed is well over 300,000 -- that's more than the 292,000 Americans who died fighting Fascism in World War I. Let me repeat: Since 1993, more Americans have been killed by our health care system than were killed on the battlefield in World War II.

It's no coincidence that the same rat who led America into the disastrous war in Iraq -- pundit Bill Kristol -- is the same one who led the fight against health care reform in 1993 and 2009.

Kristol has more American blood on his hands than a thousand Benedict Arnolds -- he was party to the slaughter of more than 4,000 Americans in Iraq and the death of America's geopolitical power. And with health care, Kristol has been one of the health care junta's prime ideologues, resulting in deaths of a few hundred thousand Americans here at home. Not that he's hiding it. Kristol himself wrote recently, "This is no time to pull punches. Go for the kill."

Let's take Kristol at his word -- he sees Americans trying get the sort of health care he has, and his response is to "Go for the kill." And that's exactly what they're doing: killing us.

So let's stop pretending that the health care battle is a "debate," because it's not.

It's a fight, a struggle to the death, to avoid death and suffering. The right wing understood this long ago, and that's why its winning -- again. The right-wingers are fighting for a system that kills Americans for their personal profit. And like colonial overlords, they're now unleashing hired thugs to attack anyone who threatens their riches.

It's the oldest and most serious battle of all: the battle for life and death, between misery and happiness -- all of which are scarce resources. When you look at this stripped of the silly civics-class sheen that too many progressives adhere to, then the right wing's vicious tactics aren't at all shocking, but rather, obvious.

Since the dawn of time, man has murdered, terrorized and plundered in order to live longer and healthier. That's all that's going on -- but in this fight, one side showed up to the battlefield ready for blood, and the other side -- the majority of Americans who voted for Obama, or the 76 percent of Americans who support a public option plan -- showed up armed with debate points and sneers.

No wonder we've all but lost.

And we'll remain stuck in this retro-Middle Ages nightmare, in which health care CEOs earn billions and golf in luxury until they're well over 100 years old, while 52 million Americans have no health care coverage at all.

It's a transfer not only of this nation's wealth but of American blood and vital organs -- transferred from the bodies of tens of millions of Americans and into the richest 1 percent's longevity, just like the way Grandpa in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre stayed alive by eating the flesh and blood of gullible Americans.

The stats prove that we are ruled by cannibals: the gap between the lifespan of America's wealthiest and its poorest has doubled since 1980. Overall the lifespan of the average American has plummeted from its No. 13 world ranking in 1960 to No. 42 today, lower than Costa Rica's.

Usually, you only find this sort of plummeting longevity in countries occupied and exploited by brutal colonial powers that could give a damn how many natives die under their watch. The Congo under Belgium's King Leopold saw lifespans plummet while a handful of royal outsiders looted the country as quickly as they could.

America is the new Congo: we're subject to a handful of King Leopold billionaire colonialists, like the veiny-headed freak Rick Scott, looting the wealth and murdering tens of thousands, employing embittered natives as thug collaborators to keep the local population from demanding better conditions for ourselves.

Scott is literally a Texas Chainsaw Massacre character -- the one-time business partner of former President George W. Bush in the Texas Rangers scam, Scott made millions for himself in the 1990s by creating a health care monster called Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., which defrauded American taxpayers out of billions through false Medicare bills.

It paid the largest corporate fraud fines in history -- $1.7 billion -- and squeezed even more money by downsizing staff to the point where "babies were attended as infrequently as every three hours. Once, the only nurse caring for seven ill infants was so busy she failed to hear an alarm when a baby stopped breathing. A parent dashed to the baby and stimulated breathing, the state report said." [New York Times, 5/11/97]

Scott should not be allowed to walk free. By any standard I know of, he is a traitor who profits off the deaths of Americans, and he should be tried for his crimes against this country. All of his hundreds of millions of dollars are blood profits extracted from American corpses.

Rick Scott should be tarred and feathered, shipped off to Guantanamo until he gives up all of his blood money, and then strapped into a space capsule and fired off into deep space to ensure that this monster never harms another American again. That's in a just world.

But in our Congo-America reality, Scott is a respectable oligarch, all over the airwaves and Washington as the leader of the Conservatives for Patient's Rights group, back in the health care clinic business, fighting to keep his loot and that of his fellow health care billionaires, at the expense of tens of thousands of American lives.

And guess what? He's winning. He's winning because he's willing to see Americans die in order to enrich himself.

The colonized peoples of Africa, India, China and elsewhere had to fight to overthrow the vampires that ruled them and killed them. It's time we understood that these people hate us, and America for them is merely a slaughterhouse whose profits fund their pat lives.

Until we understand what's at stake as much as they do, we'll never have a chance in hell of saving ourselves.

Read more of Mark Ames at eXiledonline.com. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond.

Poor economy hammers Canadians' health

2009-11-30T12:46:00.001-08:00

The puppet masters know that bad economics keeps people depressed (which opens them up to diseases and early death) and bad economics keep people from taking care of themselves because they can't afford the costs or co-pays. This another way people are human sacrificed for the elite and their god of evil.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/191514-Poor-economy-hammers-Canadians-health

Poor economy hammers Canadians' health
André Picard
The Globe and Mail
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:37 UTC

The economic downturn is delivering a beating to Canadians' health as well as their wealth, a new poll shows.

The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association, shows that while 57 per cent of Canadians are worried about their financial security, an almost equal number, 52 per cent, are worried about their health.

That is almost twice as many as 27 per cent of those polled who were worried about losing their jobs.

And many Canadians, especially those in lower income brackets, are cutting corners with their health to make ends meet.

"Emerson said famously that the greatest wealth is health," said Dr. Robert Ouellet, president of the CMA. "This year, the CMA's report card shows that these tough economic times could also be a serious health hazard for Canadians."

The poll, which will be released Monday at the CMA convention in Saskatoon, shows that nationwide, two in five Canadians say are feeling overwhelmed or stressed by financial concerns.

Respondents also revealed that their financial worries have led them to spend less time, energy and money on staying healthy. To wit:
32 per cent said they are spending less on food;

25 per cent said they have cancelled or delayed a dental appointment to save money;

23 per cent said they are sleeping less than normal because of financial worries;

22 per cent said they had eschewed recreation or sporting activities to pinch pennies;

16 per cent of those polled said they had gone as far as to skip meals to save money;

14 per cent said they had delayed or stopped buying their prescription medications because money was too tight;

10 per cent said they had delayed or cancelled a doctor's appointment.
In every one of the examples cited, there was a clear gradient based on household income, the pollster noted. Similarly, the less education a person has, the harder hit he appears to absorb by the recession.

For example, 28 per cent of those with annual income under $30,000 said they had skipped meals, compared to 8 per cent of those with family income above $90,000. Likewise, 22 per cent of low-income respondents had failed to fill a prescription for lack of money compared to 7 per cent of those in the high-income group.

Overall, 41 per cent of Canadians rated their health as excellent or very good, 38 per cent said it was good, and 20 per cent rated their health as fair or poor.

The poll examining the links between the recession and health was conducted by Ipsos-Reid, which surveyed 3,223 Canadian adults online between June 25 and July 11. The results are considered accurate within 1.73 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

A second poll, also conducted by Ipsos-Reid, consisted of a telephone survey of 1,002 adults conducted June 7 to 9. Those results are considered accurate within 3.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

The telephone survey focused on Canadians' perceptions of the health system and of governments' handling of the health file. The CMA has asked similar questions for nine years running and published the results in the form of a report card.

The overall quality of the health system is deemed to be about the same as last year, according to the poll results. Twenty-six per cent of respondents gave "overall care" a grade of A, while 41 per cent accorded it a B, 26 per cent a C and 7 per cent a failing F grade.

Residents of Ontario, Alberta and B.C. gave the highest number of A grades, while those in Manitoba and Saskatchewan doled out the fewest As.

In 2009, survey respondents gave governments slightly higher marks than in 2008. Thirty-nine per cent of those polled gave the federal government either an A or B grade, compared to 34 per cent last year.

The provinces, for their part, garnered 43 per cent A or B grades, up from 40 per cent in 2008. Again, Ontario and Alberta residents were the most pleased with the performance of their governments, while Quebeckers were the least pleased.

Canadians are almost evenly divided between pessimists and optimists when it comes to predicting the future of health care delivery. According to the poll, 51 per cent of think services will improve, while 46 per cent believe they will deteriorate. (Three per cent are unsure.)

Download CMA's 9th Annual National Report Card on Health Care here.

Tracking the Crack in the Universe (Loosh 101)

2009-11-30T12:45:00.000-08:00

Interpreter of Organized Evil

2009-11-30T12:44:00.000-08:00

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/12/news/cl-56208?pg=0

Interpreter of Organized Evil
By PAUL LIEBERMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
October 12, 2001

NEW YORK — "When I'm very much in demand," Robert Jay Lifton said, "you know that the world is in trouble."

It was a joke, of course, but not a joke, for he was standing before an audience of fellow psychiatrists and other therapists who had sought him out as the logical person, indeed, to help them understand what they were now living through.

"He has spent most of his life trying to fathom the unfathomable," explained Dr. Michael Singer, director of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, introducing the 75-year-old Lifton as the man to launch its lecture series Terror and Aftermath: Perspectives on the World Trade Center Tragedy.

Most everyone there knew the details of Lifton's long interest in atrocities and their survivors: how as a young psychiatrist, in the 1950s, he studied Chinese "Thought Reform," brainwashing to produce a "psychology of totalism." He went on to study survivors of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, and Vietnam veterans, and Nazi doctors, and then the Japanese terrorist cult of Aum Shinrikyo, which in 1995 released deadly sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system with the apocalyptic goal of "destroying the world to save it."

Now the New York therapists were hoping he could explain, "How could this have happened again?" And they were asking not as observers, Singer said, but "now unfortunately, as victims ourselves."

The group gathered Tuesday night in the auditorium of NYU medical Center, virtually next door to Bellevue Hospital and its chilling "Wall of Prayers," with the faces of hundreds of people first listed as merely "missing" from the twin towers. Many had been trying to help families of such people, or others who escaped. They were coping, as well, with the new fears of their old patients--and of their own families.

Lifton would, in the course of the evening, offer them insights on the apocalyptic dimension of Osama bin Laden's movement, and the death anxiety that he sees as he surveys the country, a view into the minds of both perpetrators and targets.

Decades ago, Lipton became part of a group that believed psychological insights could help them better understand historical figures and events. Their leader was Erik Erikson, the Danish painter-turned-analyst who wrote about the stages of life and helped popularize the concept of identity. Erikson also produced books on Martin Luther and Gandhi suggesting how their individual conflicts helped them come up with new ways of thinking, or acting, for millions of others.

While such "psychohistory" could become reductionist in lesser hands, or even invite parody--Did Hitler become Hitler because he had only one testicle?--Erikson spawned such followers as Robert Coles, with his studies of "Children in Crisis," and Lifton, who was interested in psychological makeup of entire groups.

Teaching at institutions such as Yale and Harvard, the "Wellfleet Group" would meet to hash out their theories at Lifton's home on Cape Cod. "We have a long tradition of reflecting on dreadful events," he says, "in a utopian setting."

It was there, as well, that he wrote much of his 1999 book on the Japanese cult that killed 11 people in its subway attack, injured several thousand more, and had even bigger plans: to make tons of nerve gas and use crop-dusting helicopters to release it in the major cities of Japan, and perhaps the U.S., setting off world war. In "Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism," Lifton warned that the events in Japan might signal worse to come.

"Its members can claim the distinction of being the first group in history to combine ultimate fanaticism with ultimate weapons in a project to destroy the world," he wrote. "The next group of disciples to try might not be quite as small as Aum, or as inept, or as encumbered by its own madness."

That book did not sell well, however--and Lifton was not delighted with some reviews. It was almost as if he had cried out into a void.

Then came Sept. 11. "I had to go to New York one way or another."

There were a couple of reasons he had to go. One was that he had written mostly about history. Even his interviews with the Japanese cult members were after the fact, their leader already in prison. What was happening in New York wasn't history--it was ongoing, and far from finished.

The second reason: He was a New Yorker himself. Lifton grew up in Brooklyn and attended one of the city's huge high schools, Erasmus Hall, before attending Cornell and New York Medical College. But any New York insularity had ended with his service as an Air Force psychiatrist, stationed in Korea and Japan.

"I really discovered the world from that," says Lifton, who sometimes made a joke of it after he became a leading protester of the Vietnam War, suggesting in 1974 that the Nobel Prize be awarded to those who resisted serving. He also combined his humor and political views in doodled cartoons, creating conversations between two stick-figure birds, one young, small and naive, the other older, larger and pompous.

Though Lifton first came to public attention while teaching at Harvard, then Yale, from 1956 to 1967, for the past 15 years he had been back in New York, teaching at the City University's graduate center and at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he headed a Center on Violence and Human Survival.

This summer, however, he sold his apartment on Central Park West and bought a home in Cambridge, Mass., where he will return to Harvard as a senior fellow in the Kennedy School and psychiatry chairman at the medical school.

In New York the media kept calling him, needing a quote or talking head on terrorism, violence or the plight of survivors. But Lifton also wanted to visit ground zero and, he hoped, start speaking to the people whose lives were upended.

He also knew he'd be asked to share what he'd learned over 50 years--and Tuesday's talk was his first chance to do that in any formal setting, though he quickly cautioned his audience "what I say is really preliminary." He was still trying to figure it out too.

He went through each of his studies, often not needing to elaborate on its relevance to ongoing events.

The "thought reform" practiced by the Communist Chinese was an illustration of how individuals could be taken over by a cause, pulled into an "all-or-nothing commitment, a polarization of good and evil." His theories in this area were an extension of Erikson's observations of how adolescents, in particular, were prone to fanaticism. Finding it hard to form an identity, they opted for one that was rigid, with no fluidity, handed them by a strong leader. That was Lifton's "psychology of totalism."

His subsequent studies showed how such a phenomenon could serve the causes of violence--not always committed by strangers.

From Vietnam veterans, especially antiwar veterans, he observed "destroying to save

From the Nazi doctors, he "came upon the idea of 'killing to heal,"' the notion that certain people have to be killed in order to heal the dominant group [This is part of the secret human sacrifice phenomena].

In the Japanese cult, he saw both apocalyptic motivation and desire to take "ownership of death." The group also engaged in "altruistic murder, in which members felt they bestowed benefits

Lifton worries that Americans do not understand this apocalyptic dimension of such destructive movements--and that of Osama bin Laden, whom he sees operating on two levels: with easily graspable political grievances, such as about America's support of Israel or its presence in Saudi Arabia; yet also speaking of cleansing the world of the Great Satan, America, and of Muslims who do not fit in his ideal.

"He talks about those who are defiled, who are nonbelievers."

"I think people misunderstand Bin Laden when they leave out that dimension, which is amorphous, and without boundaries."

He noted that Americans may be skeptical of such pious pronunciations when they learn that the hijackers went to strip clubs or malls. "I'm not certain, but it sounds to me like a form of what I call 'Doubling,"' he said, "the formation of a functionally second self, so it is true that some of them could drink and make merry and go bowling, and do things that ordinary Americans did . . . so removed from the suicidal martyr's mission . . . It's the kind of double life that spies can often live."

In understanding the impact on Americans, he turns to the survivors of Hiroshima. Though the devastation there was far greater, "we heard people [in New York] describe the feeling that it seemed like a nuclear attack, like a nuclear bomb had gone off. It struck him that the term used, "ground zero," was "a nuclear weapons term."

"In my experience, survivors immediately experience a sense of anxiety, or a death-haunted image [stemming from] the death immersion or the death encounter

He's been made aware of such fears in a personal way. His two children both have shared their fears for the future of their own young daughters.

So he is worried, first about them, and the knowledge that this fear is a real one, given "the realistic possibly of further terrorism." But he fears the American response, too. For while "survivor anger is understandable, quite human," he does not believe that anger should drive policy. Though speculating that it will be impossible to ever satisfy the apocalyptic groups, he still hopes for some "minimally violent means of achieving some form of justice

While agreeing that "we should do everything we can to bring the perpetrators to justice," he cautions that such groups can spur a response that accepts their "totalistic" vision of the struggle--as with the initial naming of the American counter-effort as "Operation Infinite Justice."

When it was time for questions, the shrinks asked briefly about helping patients in therapy. But mostly they spoke like any Americans, passionately debating the politics of the moment.

One questioner wanted to point out the legitimate complaints about America that might have spurred the attack. "Is the U.S. taking more than its share of the world?" he asked.

"A man like Bin Laden can have very real grievances as well as an apocalyptic vision," Lifton responded. "If you dropped a cruise missile [on him], you wouldn't stop Islamic terrorism."

Another question: After half a century of studying such phenomena, what about the past month took him by surprise?

"I insisted in [the 1999] book that this could exist here," Lifton said. "Nevertheless, I was shocked. I wasn't free from this invulnerability

"We're all in the middle of something that we can't fully grasp or evaluate. We're unable to extricate ourselves sufficiently to take much distance from it. I have been trying to connect it with other extreme events I've studied. But having said that, we realize we're not free of this. It contains us, it threatens us. And we're all making inner decisions about what we do with it. I'm thinking constantly about it--and making notes."

He and a colleague at the Center on Human Violence, Charles B. Strozier, have already begun the $130,000 research project to interview in depth, and over time, people who directly observed the unfolding drama.

Lifton predicted he would be back in New York a lot.

There's one thing he hasn't had time for.

"I haven't done a single cartoon since Sept. 11," he said.

Human Gene Mutation Creates Resistance to Kuru - A Rare, Violent Epidemic

2009-11-30T07:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/11/human-gene-mutation-creates-resistance-to-kuru-a-rare-violent-epidemic.html#more

November 24, 2009
Human Gene Mutation Creates Resistance to Kuru - A Rare, Violent Epidemic

"It's absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable."

Professor John Collinge, Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit

A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council scientists.

Kuru is a fatal prion disease geographically unique to an area in Papua New Guinea. In the mid 20th Century, an epidemic of kuru devastated a population in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The infection was passed on at funeral feasts, where mainly women and children consumed their deceased relatives as a mark of respect and mourning -a practice banned and ceased in the late 1950s.

Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies belong to group of fatal progressive conditions that affect the nervous system in humans and animals. In humans, prion diseases impair brain function, causing memory changes, personality changes, a decline in intellectual function (dementia), and problems with movement that worsen over time.

Scientists from the MRC Prion Unit, a national centre of excellence in prion diseases, assessed over 3000 people from the affected and surrounding Eastern Highland populations, including 709 who had participated in cannibalistic burial feasts, 152 of whom subsequently died of kuru. They discovered a novel and unique variation in the prion protein gene called G127V in people from the Purosa valley region where kuru was most rife.

This gene mutation, which is found nowhere else in the world, seems to offer high or even complete protection against the development of kuru and has become frequent in this area through natural selection over recent history, in direct response to the epidemic. This is thought be one the strongest examples ever of recent natural selection in humans.

The study, which began in 1996, is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Massacre of Innocence

2009-11-26T13:23:00.000-08:00

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/massacre.html

The Campaign for Radical Truth in History, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816
Massacre of Innocence
By Eric Holmberg

IN FOCUSING ON THE SUBJECT OF ABORTION, much has been contended from a medical and social perspective. But when we pull the lid off and look at abortion from a spiritual perspective, the implications are far more profound and staggering.

The Bible tells us: "Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12).

Our enemy in fighting abortion is not the abortionist, the courts or those who are advocating for abortion rights. Our enemy is the one who was a murderer from the beginning - Satan and the spiritual forces under his command.

Throughout history, certain pagan cultures have sacrificed human infants to demons as a part of a complicated ritual in return for favors asked of them.

Few of those involved in abortion today are consciously engaging in child sacrifice, although that is precisely what abortion is - the sacrifice of a human life for the convenience or needs of others. In that respect, it is no less barbaric than the human sacrifice practiced to ensure, for example, a successful harvest. But beyond this, there is a spiritual, satanically inspired dimension that gives frightening realism to abortion's identification with literal child sacrifice.

The Bible supports this idea as often we see a particular action viewed by God as something of a more overtly occultic nature. Rebellion is called witchcraft; immorality is likened to idolatry; hatred is a kin to murder - thus abortion is child sacrifice.

The Origins of Child Sacrifice

To discover the origins of child sacrifice we can examine a key passage of scripture. Genesis 19 gives the account of Lot and his daughters, some of the early ancestors of mankind: "And Lot went up from Zoar and stayed in the mountains and his two daughters with him." Then the first born said to the younger, "Our father is old and there is not a man on earth to come into us after the manner of the earth."

Now it so happens that there were men available just a few miles away geographically. But they meant something different. The "earth" is throughout scripture a symbol of a fallen unregenerate realm. James tells us that there is a wisdom from above that is "pure and peaceable," but that there is a wisdom from below which is "earthly, natural and demonic" (James 3:15,17). In the same way that many modern feminists want men purely on their own terms, Lot's daughters wanted a man in this "manner of the earth."

"So they made their father drink wine that night and laid with him" (Genesis 19:29-38). This was a gross act of rebellion against both their father and God. As a result both daughters had children. The oldest daughter's son was named Moab. His descendents, the Moabites, ultimately became an idolatrousnation that was one of the primary enemies of God's people - Israel.

The youngest daughter's son - Ben Ammi - became the father of the sons of Ammon. 1 Kings 11:7 calls Molech "the detestable idol of the Ammonites." The name Molech in Hebrew means: "to ascend the throne" or, in other words, to usurp God's authority. Leviticus 20:2 tells us that Molech worship involved the sacrifice of one's offspring. While the Ammonites primarily sacrificed post-natal children, it is no coincidence that it is the Ammonites that God condemns in the book of Amos for a particular form of blood-thirstiness:

"For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, will I not revoke its punishment, because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their borders" (Amos 1:13).

To "enlarge one's borders" is a biblical metaphor applied not just to land, but to extend the boundaries of acceptable human conduct. How common this is still today as we hear cries of - "It's my choice" and - "Keep your religion out of my life."

Baal and Molech Worship

"And they built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech" (Jeremiah 32:35).

"They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons as offering to Baal" (Jeremiah 19:5).

Here the Bible implies what modern archaeologists and anthropologists have recently discovered: that Molech and Baal represent the same pagan god. The wife of Baal is Asherah and the wife of Molech is Ashteroth. Asherah and Ashteroth represent the same fertility goddess. This demon was known to the Greeks as Aphrodite; to the Egyptians as Isis; and to the Phoenicians as Tanet.

The ancient city of Carthage was the capital of the Phoenician empire. Their civilization was advanced culturally and highly educated. But recent archaeological expeditions have revealed its most notable feature - the high incidence of child sacrifice. Archaeological relics have been uncovered, such as the altars on which children were sacrificed and stone markers, which marked the burial place of the remains. Stone carvings on the markers depict children who were sacrificed. Clay jars were used to hold the remains. Entire burial grounds full of these slaughtered children have been uncovered.

As barbaric as this sounds, we must remember that this is precisely what we do through abortion. With one obvious exception - today we don't honor or bury the children we kill.

Archaeologists have established that the primary deity that they children were sacrificed to was the goddess Tanet, the name being a regional representation of the more universal Ashteroth.

The typical rationalist would attribute these rites to superstition and would suggest that science and intellectual advancement would cause this type of unfortunate behavior to lessen and finally cease. But archaeologists have discovered that over Carthage's history, the incident of child sacrifice, even in the face of considerable intellectual advances, actually increased until it suddenly stopped.

And how did it stop? When God judged Carthage. Roman armies invaded and suddenly destroyed the entire civilization. The stark ruins of Carthage are a testimony that God is not mocked. We have to ask ourselves: How far are we from a judgment for our own abortion holocaust?

17th Century France

Another incident occurred some three hundred years ago in France. Seventeenth century France - while not as egalitarian - was still very much like western society today. There was substantial material wealth and a large leisure class obsessed with entertainment and sensual pursuits. There was great sophistication in the arts and a dramatic decline in morality. In the 18th century, the age's philosopher would be Voltaire who provided the underpinning for the "Age of Reason." Its philosophy was a reworking of the old idea that man doesn't need God, but through his own efforts, now coupled with science, he can save himself.

The king was Louis XIV who had a painting done depicting himself as a god with lightning bolts clenched in his hand. This is the essence of secular humanism: man trying to be God. Like many of the aristocrats of his time Louis was sexually promiscuous. One of his mistresses, Madame de Montespan, was so highly favored of Louis that many considered her the unofficial queen of France.

During her reign a disturbing thing began to take place. Many male members of Louis' court began dying for no discernible reason. In order to investigate what appeared to be murders, Louis employed a detective, Gabriel de La Reynie, the Lieutenant General of the police in Versaille. His inquiries led to a witch named la Voisin who provided the poisons that were responsible for the deaths. This investigation also uncovered a network of abortion services connected with satanic rituals. The following is the testimony of la Voisin's daughter at the subsequent trial:

"At one of Madame de Montespan's masses, I saw my mother bring an infant, obviously premature, and place it over a basin over which its throat was slit, and its blood drained into the chalice."

Note that the child was premature, obviously the victim of abortion. Then the cup filled with the baby's blood was lifted up to heaven and this invocation was given: "Hail Ashteroth and Asmodeus, Princes of friendship, I conjure you to accept the sacrifice of this child in return for the favors asked of you."

Ashteroth was the goddess wife of Molech. Asmodeus is a transliteration of the Hebrew name for a demon that is normally associated with lust. Aborted children were being sacrificed in a satanic ritual designed to empower the practitioners.

One might ask: why aborted prenatal children? For one thing, it is easier to mistreat or abuse someone who doesn't look just like us. This is the root of racial prejudice as well as the view that unborn children are somehow less human than ourselves. Second, since the distinction from fetus to infant relative to their humanity is in fact meaningless, the sacrifice of a fetal child serves the same purpose as the sacrifice of a post-natal child or an adult.

Modern Feminism

Today we have given the demons of human sacrifice new names: "Career" -"Convenience" - "Money" - "Lust" - "Self." But beyond this, we have come full circle; today's rationalism has given way to a new feminist spirituality that honors these same demons actually calling them by their proper biblical and historical names. Is it just a coincidence that the hottest sub-movement within the feminist movement that began to emerge just after the Roe v. Wade decision is goddess worship? One of the primary deities that is being worshipped is Aphrodite - the goddess of child sacrifice.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, is perhaps the best 20th century example of the destructive power of spiritual deception. That she was wallowing in deception can be seen in a quote from a book written by an admirer: "She had tried to dispel depression by sex, travel, Rosicrucianism (a cult), numerology, now she tried a new panacea - astrology." Sanger was a confirmed adulteress who consistently and publicly supported a "woman's right to destroy." She became deeply involved with Havelock Ellis, a modern day false prophet who advocated a variety of bizarre sex practices supposing them to be the keys to spiritual enlightenment and power. For Margaret Sanger and her militantly (even religiously) promiscuous lifestyle, abortion became a necessary backup for contraceptive failure.

A more recent example can be found in a newsletter published by the National Abortion Federation. It provides an account of the 1985 national convention. One of the speakers was Carter Heyward, an ordained Episcopal priest who has been active for many years in the feminist movement. This quote was taken from her address: "If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning."

That an ordained leader of a church that supposedly represents Jesus to the world could describe child sacrifice as a sacrament or holy rite of the church without facing excommunication is a staggering illustration of the collective deception we are facing as a nation.

Several other examples are found in the December 1985 issue of Ms. magazine - the undisputed leader of feminist publications. This particular issue was completely dedicated to exploring the new emerging spirituality in modern feminism. Much space was given to Goddess worship or adulation of the various demons associated with child sacrifice (including Isis and Aphrodite). The central article in this issue of Ms. is filled with testimonies showing the gross deception that has already taken captive much of our nation - men and women alike.

"The feminist spirituality movement began to emerge in the mid-1970s and has become one of the largest submovements within feminism. It's amorphous, blending in a surprisingly smooth amalgam radical feminism, pacifism, witchcraft, Eastern mysticism, goddess worship, animism, psychic healing, and a variety of practices normally associated with 'fortune-telling.' It exists nationwide and takes the form of large, daylong workshops, small meditation groups, and even covens that meet to work spells and do rituals under the full moon. But to the women in feminist spirituality, witchcraft had even a more fundamental meaning. It is a woman's religion, vilified by patriarchal Christianity, and now, finally, reclaimed."1

This represents just the tip of the iceberg as we are witnessing an explosion of books, magazines, "how-to" manuals, artwork and the inevitable paraphernalia that accompanies the development of any organized religion. In one of the few instances where they both agree, both Ms. magazine and the Bible label these various permutations of spiritual deception as - "witchcraft."

Battling Witchcraft

Biblically, witchcraft is linked to rebellion - specifically, rebellion against God's authority. This can be heard in the feminist chant: "Not the church, not the state, women must decide our fate!" It is true that the state should have minimal say in deciding anyone's fate - male or female. But the the state's intrusion into a woman's fate in forbidding abortion, is infinitesimally small compared to the abortifier's decision that the unborn child's fate should be death. But the Church, as God's representative in the earth, should assist in deciding the fate of all those who desire to do God's will. The only alternative is to "choose one's own fate" or one's own will. And this is rebellion - the foundation of all witchcraft.

When we consider the word "witchcraft," one Bible personality comes to mind - Jezebel. In 1 Kings 18:19, Elijah the prophet of God mentions Jezebel along with some of the deities we know about. He asks to see "the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table." Jezebel represents the corrupting influence of witchcraft.

Jesus spoke to the Church of Thyatira about another Jezebel: "But I have one thing against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leads my bond servants astray so that they commit acts of immortality and eat things sacrificed to idols" (Revelation 2:20).

This admonition cuts to the heart of the Church in America. "One of the Religious Left's premier organizations is the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. RCAR is a hardline supporter of federally funded abortions and the Freedom of Choice Act. RCAR represents groups of liberal Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Brethren, Moravians, Jews, Humanists, and Unitarians."2

Truly, the Church in America and much of the world has become the modern equivalent of the Church of Thyatira. Jezebel has been tolerated and even ordained.

God's command is that we "repent of her deeds" and drive Jezebel out of the Church and from our nation. To help us understand the magnitude of the battle which this represents, the prophet Malachi announces that God will send the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord. 400 years later, Jesus connects John the Baptist with the ministry of Elijah.

The distinguishing feature of both Elijah and John's lives was their boldness in confronting wickedness and their command to repent. Scripture calls this ministry "Preparing the Way of the Lord." In the same way that Elijah confronted the wicked rulers of his time, in the same way that John prepared the way for the advent of Christ, so God's man in the earth, the Church, will prepare the way for the ultimate return of the Lord.

There are many ways in which the Church has been called to "prepare the way" - the most notable being the Great Commission - to go into all the world and preach the gospel. But just as Jezebel was Elijah's greatest challenge, we too, must confront and defeat the forces of witchcraft that have manifested through abortion. And just as Elijah was almost defeated by Jezebel and John was killed by the witchcraft of Herod's wife, we must also realize that this battle is a deadly one. There can be no victory without the radical commitment to fight witchcraft.

Spiritual Warfare

The spiritual pattern which has led us to America's abortion holocaust is thus summarized: the demons gained a foothold in the earth through the incestuous acts of Lot's daughters. Their descendents, the Ammonites, became possessed and worshipped this spirit (identified variously as Molech or Baal) through child sacrifice. The god-goddess pairs of Baal-Asherah and Molech-Ashteroth were worshipped throughout the ancient pagan world as a part of a widespread "Mother Earth" cult. In seventeenth-century France, the goddess resurfaced as Ashteroth. And finally, Ashteroth became Aphrodite and resurfaced in a new 20th century feminist spirituality. And its no coincidence that abortion - today's form of child sacrifice - came right along with it.

It is important today to note the historic rationale of those who in ancient times offered up their own children to idols - that the sacrifice of blood rejuvenated and strengthened the deity to whom it was dedicated at the same time binding him to the offerer of the sacrifice. In other words, when they sacrificed their children to an idol, they became spiritual slaves to the demon it represented. Even more frightening was the effect upon the spirit - greater power was released through the outpouring of innocent blood.

This principle is borne out in scripture. In 2 Kings 3:26,27, one of the descendents of Lot's daughters, the King of Moab, was about to face certain defeat at the hands of the Israelites. To prevent this from happening, he offered up his oldest son as a sacrifice. The fact that it was a burnt offering tells us that it was undoubtedly made to Baal, Molech or Ashteroth. What is sobering is that it worked: the Moabites defeated the Israelites.

The spiritual heritage of the Moabites and the Ammonites is passed down to our own day through abortion. Today the church is fighting against those same spiritual forces for the very survival of our nation. Without all out spiritual warfare, what are our chances of victory when the demons' lust is being gorged on the blood of not just one, but 1.5 million children killed each year?

The land that God chose to bring His people into after their long captivity in Egypt was filled with nations that practiced child sacrifice. And what was his commandment to Israel? "When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then shall you drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. And destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places" (Joshua 33:51,52).

This scripture provides a model for our response to child sacrifice in our era. The Old Testament is not just a collection of stories, but provides temporal examples of what we must accomplish in the spiritual realm. In the same way, for example, that the people of God, Israel, followed a man named Joshua into the promised land, so the Church, spiritual Israel, follows a man named Joshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), into the land of promise. Everything that the Israelites underwent has a direct New Covenant application. In this passage, God commands His people, past and present, to destroy all idolatry.

How do we accomplish this in light of the New Covenant? Should we, like the ancient Israel, begin to attack the individuals responsible for the idolatry? Of course not. "Our battle is not against flesh and blood" (Ephesians 6:12).

In Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit had not yet been given in the way hat we experience Him today. Man had neither the anointing nor the authority to confront the demonic powers directly. In order to defeat the forces of wickedness, their was no recourse except to destroy the people through whom those forces acted.

But with the coming of Jesus, the whole scenario changed. For the first time we see a man directly confronting the spiritual forces of darkness. In Luke 11:20, Jesus even defines this as one of the primary signs that the kingdom of God has come into this world: "But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." At last God's people could direct their efforts to the real problem: the spiritual realm. Instead of destroying his human adversaries, they could begin to love them and work for their salvation.

Jesus expects His Church to manifest the same authority and power as He did during His life on earth as a man. In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said: "All power and authority has been given to me in heaven and earth." He commanded His disciples to go into all the world wrenching it from the control of Satan and his forces.

In John 14:12, Jesus said: "He who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father." In Mark 16:17, He said: "And these signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons."

In Luke 7:28, He makes a clear distinction between the realms of power of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, when He said that of all the Old Covenant prophets, there was none more powerful than John the Baptist, but that now, even the least Christian (this includes even you and me) is greater in power and authority than John.

Immediately after Joshua led Israel into the promised land, they zealously began to obey God's commandment. Often their obedience necessitated the obliteration of entire cities. In the same way, God wants us to be just as committed, just as ruthless as Joshua and his armies in destroying the forces of idolatry on the world. Only now, we are to direct our attention to the real enemy - the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

Disobedience of God's People

What ultimately happened to the Israelites? The book of Judges recounts their their initial steps to apostasy. Instead of totally destroying and driving out the Canaanites, they began to enslave them. The result of their disobedience is seen in one of the most tragic passages of scripture: "They did not destroy the peoples as the Lord commanded them, but they mingled with the nations [the unbelieving heathen world] and they learned their practices and served their idols which became a snare to them. They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to devils" (Psalms 106:34-37; Judges 1:28).

Through abortion, we have followed precisely the same slippery slope to destruction. In fact, we are already there. Ezekiel 16:20 gives us even further evidence of our guilt today. "Moreover, you took you sons and daughters which you bore unto me and you sacrificed them to idols to be devoured."

What does the Bible mean by "sons and daughter which you have bore unto me"? The Bible gives us the key. Exodus 13:2 says: "Sanctify unto Me every first born, the first offspring of every womb of the sons of Israel, both of man and beast. It belongs to me." The firstborn was traditionally considered "born unto the Lord."

History and archaeology has shown us that child sacrifice, as with the example of the King of Moab, centered on the first born child. Is it simple irony or coincidence that the majority of children that will face the abortionist's knife in this country are also first born - "set apart for the Lord"?

"You slaughtered my children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire. And besides all all your abominations and harlotries, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood" (Ezekiel 16:21,22).

We would all do well - especially those who are pro-abortion - to remember that we were once naked, bare and dependent on others older than ourselves for the chance to live.

The Israelites chose for the site of their sacrificial rituals, a place called the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. This valley, which still goes by that name today, is just outside of Jerusalem. The Valley of the Son of Hinnom translates into Greek as "Gehenna" - which also the word for hell. It is significant to note that Jesus himself introduced and used this word - one that was fully recognized by the common people of His day as the name of a valley where child sacrifice took place. He used this word to describe the eternal habitation of Satan himself.

In light of this, Jesus' words in Matthew 16:18 become a stirring cry to action for His church to fight abortion: "And upon this rock, I will build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Gates are not offensive weapons but defensive. The gates of hell are erected to protect Satan's kingdom and to keep the Church out. Jesus' use of the word Gehenna clearly substantiates that there is no greater manifestation of hell on earth than the sacrifice of children.

Today, walls - both spiritual and natural - have been erected to protect this so-called "right." Jesus Christ has called and anointed us to tear down those walls and proclaim deliverance to the captives - to "rescue those who are being taken away to the slaughter" (Proverbs 24:11 TLB).

What will you do, as a child of God, to respond in obedience?

Notes

1 Karen Lindsey, Ms., December 1985, p.38.

2 Steve Beard, World, May 22, 1993.

Michael A. Hoffman II comments: Some counter-balance should have been inserted in this report regarding false accusations of witchcraft against women such as midwives, the legacy of which continues today in the war of the pharmaceutical companies and some gynecologists against natural, herbal medicine and midwives.

The author also gives the impression that witchcraft was revived in 17th century France. But the case cited was an abuse rather than a trend.

Witchcraft never was extirpated in the whole of western history. Moreover, if we need fix a date for the institutionalization of witchcraft in the Christian West, we should look to 16th century Protestant England where, under Elizabeth I, the sorcerer John Dee achieved state power, founded Freemasonry and built upon the occult edifice of Catholic heretics such as Girodano Bruno and Pico della Mirandola in pursuing a "Christian" kabbalah and an alliance with the black magic practicioner, Rabbi Judah Lowe of Prague.

Peru: Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'

2009-11-21T01:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/20/peru-gang-killing-human-fat

Rory Carroll
The Guardian
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38 EST

Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment

The remains of victims that were allegedly kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang in the jungle of Peru for human fat trafficking.

A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend.

Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said.

Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in Huánuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks.

Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police, said Cudeña and three other suspects were in custody and that another seven gang members were being hunted.

The jailed men have confessed to killing five people, but police suspect the number of victims is far higher, with 60 people reported missing in Huánuco this year alone. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to £36,000 a gallon.

At a news conference police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human. "The fat was extracted from the thorax and thighs," said Eusebio Felix Murga, chief of police of Dirincri district. Police also showed a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim discovered last month in a coca-growing valley.

Police said they received a tip four months ago about a trade in human fat, which exported the amber liquid to Europe as anti-wrinkle cream. In addition to the alleged ringleader the suspects were named as Segundo Castillejos Agüero, Marcos Veramendi Princípe and Enadina Estela Claudio. They have been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, illegal firearms possession and drug trafficking.

The alleged plot has evoked comparisons to Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume in which a killer distills the essence of his victims into a jar. Others compare it to the film Fight Club in which a character played by Brad Pitt steals bags of human fat from a liposuction clinic to make soap.

The gang have been nicknamed the Pishtacos after the ruthless assassins of indigenous Quechua legend who ambushed solitary victims and drained their fat as an offering to gods to make the land fertile. Another version depicts them as cannibal bandits who ate the skin and sold the fat. The stories date back to before the European conquest.

The suspects allegedly would sever victims' heads, arms and legs, remove organs and suspend torsos from hooks above candles, which warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. Members claimed other gangs were engaged in similar killings.

Medical experts said human fat had cosmetic applications to keep skin supple, but were sceptical about an international black market. "It doesn't make any sense, because in most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from people who are willing to donate," Adam Katz, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia medical school, told the Associated Press.

Peruvians expressed shock that grisly Andean legends they heard from their grandparents could turn out to have a modern twist. "It's really incredible that killers like this could exist today," said one contributor to the newspaper Peru21.

Homeless Men Kill, Dismember, Eat Victim in Russian Urals

2009-11-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091113/156824966.html

Homeless Men Kill, Dismember, Eat Victim in Russian Urals
RIA Novosti
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:32 EST
© RIA Novosti

A 25-year old man was killed, dismembered, eaten and parts of his body sold to a nearby fast-food stand in the Perm region of the Russian Urals, criminal investigators have reported.

According to the official site of the local Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's office, three homeless men killed the victim out of "personal enmity."

"They stabbed him several times with a knife and a hit him with a hammer. The victim died at the scene of the crime," the site reports.

All three of the perpetrators, who have previous criminal records, have been detained. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison.

No One Else Will Stop The Killing

2009-10-28T17:34:00.001-07:00

The serpent puppet masters don't want the killing to stop. The are cruel plus they must have human sacrifice for their god of evil, set-an!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23828.htm

No One Else Will Stop The Killing
Mike Ferner
Information Clearing House
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:36 EDT
Veterans' Group To Members: Multiply Resistance By Any Peaceful Means Possible

In a statement directed to the U.S. House of Representatives, President Obama and its membership, Veterans For Peace urged its chapters to demonstrate opposition to the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan by doing two things:

1) Take the actions listed below within the next several days, before President Obama decides to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and

2) Plan acts of even greater resistance during the two days following any such decision.

Veterans' Group To Members: Multiply Resistance By Any Peaceful Means Possible

Continue writing and calling our representatives and demanding peace.

· If we've done that: take to the streets

· If we've done that: sit down in the streets

· If we've done that: sit down in Congressional offices

· If we've done that: sit down, clog up, incapacitate, call in sick, withdraw consent and generally bring the nation's business to a halt, wherever and whenever we can, with any peaceful means available.

To President Obama and the House of Representatives:

As veterans of our nation's wars, we insist you hear our call.

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke an unassailable truth when he said, "War would end if the dead could return." If you believe that is true, Mr. President and Members of the House, you must heed our counsel well: we are the closest anyone can come to that truth the dead would speak. Stop the killing!

Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have protested at and have been arrested in House Office Buildings, the House Gallery, the White House and Congressional offices across the nation. We have pleaded, then demanded, that you stop the suffering in these countries. Although promised prior to the election, no combat brigades have returned from Iraq. And now we can smell the mire of escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Nevertheless, we cannot cease to appeal to that spark of humanity in your hearts. We know wealthy, powerful interests such as weapons contractors, lobbyists and right-wing broadcasters daily make a deafening noise, trying to drown out the voice that insists, "Stop the killing." We also know that no matter how quiet the voice of humanity might become, it can never be silenced.

So we lift up to you voices much more eloquent than our own, voices of soldiers who survived the worst fighting human beings have ever experienced, World War One. For nearly 100 years, the wisdom and compassion of their poetry has endured. Their words now stand as one of the world's most powerful witnesses to the madness of war.

You must hear them.
And you yourself would mutter when
You took the things that once were men,
And sped them through that zone of hate
To where the dripping surgeons wait;
And wonder too if in God's sight
War ever, ever can be right.
- From "Foreword" by British ambulance driver, Robert Service
And
...
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
- From "Dulce et Decorum est" (It is Sweet and Right to Die for Your Country)
by British Army Lt. Wilfred Owen, killed a week before the 1918 Armistice.

More than that we cannot say to you, so we will address our former brothers and sisters in arms who are now our brothers and sisters in peace.

To members of Veterans For Peace:

At one time in our lives we bore the hardships and dangers of military service. We were not strangers to privation, or fear, or acts of courage. Although the America of our childhood history books has been shaken and some would say, shattered by what we learned in the military and since, we can still hear the call to service when it is clear and true.

Nothing could be more clear or true today than the need for us to do everything we humanly can to stop the killing. Not just stop the escalation - stop the killing. Bring all the troops home. Take care of them when they get here. Pay to rebuild what we have destroyed.

It is important for us to rededicate ourselves to the resolution we adopted at our 2008 convention: Afghanistan is not "the right war." We must leave as soon as possible.

This is important to repeat because this administration and some in Congress would have us believe that we cannot withdraw immediately from Afghanistan, we must provide some stability and protection from the likes of the Taliban.

So we state without doubt: our occupation of Afghanistan is driving the violent opposition to it. More U.S. troops and more occupation will mean more anger and yet more violent reaction from those whose lands we occupy.

We must rededicate ourselves to ending this cycle of violence.

The Taliban recruit from the ranks of the unemployed and the poor. One important way to reduce unemployment, poverty and Taliban recruits is to fund programs that provide work and income. To say that the government of Afghanistan is corrupt and that economic development funds are wasted is to conveniently ignore the real reason we are in Afghanistan.

Throughout Afghanistan, grassroots networks are making a difference at the local and tribal level. This is where we should put our money.

But we are not in Afghanistan to give them democracy, even if that were possible. Neither is our purpose to build up that country's smaller, more democratic institutions that serve the population. We occupy Afghanistan because America the Empire demands control of its resources and to have a strategic locations from which to project military power. As the Secretary-General of NATO said recently, "We need a stable government in Afghanistan, a government that we can deal with."

And no one - NO one, but us is going to stop the killing; neither the President nor the Congress. We can beseech them, ask them, demand from them that they stop the killing and bring all the troops home. But until we exert the power of massive resistance to the Empire that only we can exert, it will keep rolling over Afghanis, Iraqis, Pakistanis and whoever else that is in its way.

We must continue writing and calling our representatives and demanding peace. If we've done that we must take to the streets. If we've done that we must sit down in the streets. If we've done that we must sit down in Congressional offices and if we've done that we must sit down, clog up, incapacitate, withdraw our consent and generally bring business as usual to a halt wherever we can, with any peaceful means available.

If we do not take every step we can we know what will happen. Combat brigades will stay in Iraq, drone attacks, Special Forces and the CIA will continue to kill and maim in Pakistan, and 40, 60, 80,000 more troops will be sent to Afghanistan where the suffering and death will increase dramatically - for years to come.

Even when we do all of the above we must anticipate that it may not be enough to stay the hand of death. The American Empire is a mighty machine. We will need to make common cause with all those living in the heart of Empire who are also its victims. We know who they are. We see them every day - on the streets, where we work, where we shop, where we pray, where we play.

They and we are the common folk, not possessed of significant wealth. But we are skilled and numerous and creative and tenacious. And we have nothing but time. The Empire may be mighty but it is also as of glass - the next blow against it may well be the one that sends a crack through its entire length, the next blow causing it to shatter. We cannot know when that will happen or whose blow may be the deciding one. Our job is simple: to never quit. To use a military analogy, as long as an army, no matter how tattered, remains in the field, the revolution continues.

That's all we have to do. But we must do it. Starting now.

Ferner is a former Navy hospital corpsman and President of Veterans For Peace mike.ferner@sbcglobal.net

Claire Colley interviews Rana Husseini, author of 'Murder in the Name of Honour'

2009-10-22T06:36:00.001-07:00

I'm including this article here because it is mentioned in this article that 'blood cleanses' and the belief that blood cleanses is a deep belief of human sacrifice (see the connnection?)

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=99708

16/07/2009 4:36 pm
Claire Colley interviews Rana Husseini, author of 'Murder in the Name of Honour', for the New Statesman.

Your book Murder in the Name of Honour continues your efforts to break the silence around honour killings. What first inspired your campaign?

I was reporting for the Jordan Times and encountered a horrific case of a 16-year-old girl called Kifaya, who was killed because she was raped by her brother and the family blamed her for tarnishing their honour. I found it very hard to comprehend.

I was sitting talking to her uncles and they were still blaming her. When I published the story, a woman rang the paper screaming that we shouldn’t cover these crimes. I was enraged that this call came from a woman. So, I decided to follow my heart; I would report each case and force people to act. It worked – a movement happened after that. Now I call them “so-called honour killings” because they have nothing to do with real honour.

You detail murder after murder in the book, almost pummelling the reader. Was this your intention?

You have to put a face to and humanise the victims. So many women are deprived of their right to live. I wanted people to read this book and be angry. When a family thinks that its female relative has tarnished its reputation, by engaging in sexual relations, by being a victim of rape, incest, by marrying the man of her choice, or even just speaking with a strange man, it feels the only way to fix things is with blood. Blood cleanses honour. Many families, when they kill their relative, want to get rid of the shame completely. Sometimes they don’t even take the corpse, and often women are buried in unmarked graves. I wanted to be the voice of these women so that people become enraged and do something.

Murder in the Name of Honour shows how you tried to alter the laws in Jordan that permit these murders. Has there been any change?

Laws alone are not going to end the crime, or protect women, but we have to try to change them, for women’s dignity. You can write a bad cheque in Jordan and get a longer sentence than for killing a woman in the name of honour. The laws haven’t changed, but attitudes have, among lawyers, judges and the police. They care more now. They don’t treat these crimes as just another woman who was killed. Now, finally, there is talk about changing the law.

The book shows that honour crimes aren’t solely a problem for Muslim cultures.

They’re not, but Muslims have always been portrayed in a negative manner. The media are not fair. Honour violence is an international phenomenon. In the book, there’s a case of a Sikh woman killed. In Italy, there were two recent cases involving Christians. And there are reports of it happening in small villages in Spain and Greece. It happens everywhere.

You interviewed several murderers for the book. How did that feel?

The first time I met Sarhan, who had killed his sister Yasmin, I felt a lot of anger. There he was, sitting and smiling. But I interviewed him several times and realised that he was ignorant. These are ignorant people. One time I suggested to him, “You didn’t want to kill your sister. Were you put in this situation?” And he said he regretted it but would do it again. He said he wished society would execute honour killers, and then his family would not have pushed him. That’s not a man proud of his actions. Men are forced into the situation by their families.

You’ve received death threats for your activist work. How do you manage these?

I believe in fate and am a firm believer in what I do. I feel that when it is my time to go, nothing will stop it. I’m doing right things that don’t contradict human rights or religion; any normal person would know that those killings are wrong. Yet I have people accusing me of being a Zionist agent, a radical feminist, a western agent who wants to destroy the morals of society. But I don’t lose sleep over death threats. There will always be people who will oppose you. That’s life.

“Murder in the Name of Honour: the True Story of One Woman’s Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime” is published by Oneworld (£12.99)

Witnesses testify in albino trial

2009-10-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8071405.stm

Witnesses testify in albino trial
Witnesses have testified in the case of 11 men in Burundi, accused of the attempted murder of albino people and selling of their body parts.

Initial charges of murder have been dropped because the prosecution failed to produce enough evidence.

Police suspect the body parts are being sold in neighbouring Tanzania, for use in witchcraft.

Forty-six albino people have been murdered in Tanzania in the past 18 months, but no-one has been convicted.

But the violence against albinos is not restricted to Tanzania; last November a six-year-old albino girl in Burundi was found dead with her head and limbs removed.

'Desecrating graves'

Thursday's hearing in the eastern province of Ruyigi, near the Tanzanian border, has generated a great deal of interest.

Witnesses travelled from the remote north-east of Burundi to give testimony linking one of the defendants with the killers of a married man with albinism whose body parts were allegedly taken to Tanzania.

The case began last week, but had to be adjourned after witnesses failed to show up.

The BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge says the courtroom is so crammed many people are waiting outside to hear details of the evidence second hand.

Our reporter says eight of the accused allegedly helped traffic albino body parts and desecrated a graveyard to take the parts of someone who was buried.

The rest of the defendants are accused of attempting to kill an albino child. The accused deny the charges.

Witchdoctors in the region are known to tell clients that potions made with albino body parts will bring them luck in love, life and business.

BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says Tanzania's government has promised action and the fact that there have been no reported attacks or murders of albinos for two months in Tanzania provides some hope.

Hundreds of people including witchdoctors and business people have been arrested but the justice system in Tanzania is notoriously slow and corrupt and so far nobody has been convicted, he says.

Albinism affects one in 20,000 people worldwide, but in Tanzania the prevalence appears to be much higher.

The Albino Association of Tanzania says that although just 4,000 albinos are officially registered in the country, they believe the actual number could be as high as 173,000. A census is now under way to try to verify the figures.

Albinos butchered for 'magic potions' in Tanzania

2009-10-20T12:16:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8296495.stm

Erick David Nampesya
BBC
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:10 EDT
© BBC Mariam Staford Bandaba is too scared to return to her home village

One year ago, Mariam Staford Bandaba, an albino woman living in Tanzania, was viciously attacked by a machete-wielding gang who tried to kill her and sell her remains for witchcraft.

She escaped with her life, but only just.

The attackers chopped off one of her hands - the other had to be amputated in hospital, where she spent weeks recovering from her horrific injuries.

Traumatised, Ms Staford Bandaba then took the brave step of identifying her attackers.

She was taken to a safe-house where she lived under government protection.

But the government recently decided she could no longer live there, leaving the 28-year-old fearing for her safety.

The administrative officer in the village where she was re-housed, Erasmus Rugarabamu, told the BBC Swahili service that the situation had improved and no albinos had been killed in her home village in the north-western Kagera region in the past year.

The decision by the authorities comes just a few weeks after a court sentenced three men to death for the murder of an albino boy.

Albino murders

Ms Staford Bandaba is one of thousands of people with albinism who live in fear in Tanzania.

Her harrowing tale has become commonplace in a country where 53 albinos are believed to have been murdered in the past two years.

Albinos, who are pale because of a lack of pigment in their skin, have been routinely killed because witchdoctors say that potions made with their body parts will bring good fortune in love, life and business to those who use them.

The killings have also spread to neighbouring Burundi where at least 12 people have been murdered.

The victims were mutilated and their body parts are believed to have been sold in Tanzania to make potions.

One man was sentenced to death and eight others were jailed in Burundi earlier this year.

Ms Staford Bandaba's alleged attackers have been caught in north-western Tanzania, the region where the vast majority of the murders have been carried out.

Tears

The story of her eviction caught the attention of a businessman who has agreed to let her and her mother live in a room in his house for a year.

But after that she has no idea what will happen to her.

Before moving out of the safe house, she told me that she broke down in tears when the district commissioner told her the news.

"I can't imagine what will happen. What I did in front of him was just start crying."

She is even more upset because it is not just her who had to leave.

Her father and four siblings who were taking care of her and feeding her were also evicted.

They have had no choice but to return to the village where she was so brutally attacked.

Her father, Staford Bandaba, admitted he was very anxious about reprisal attacks being carried out on his family.

"Those who are responsible, all their relatives are still living there in the village, and those released from prison, are still living where we were living. So how can we stay there?"

But Mr Rugarabamu defended the government's decision.

"Some of the attackers were found not guilty, so we can't keep them in prison, so they will be allowed to return to the village according to the law. But those found guilty are still in prison awaiting their fate."

That is little comfort for Ms Staford Bandaba's father.

Now that she no longer has government protection, "We are worried that they will finish her off."

And he is not the only one who thinks that could happen.

Condemnation

"Albinos are still being hunted and we don't yet know how to solve the problem," one local resident says.

"We cannot understand this decision."

"The government only seems to be doing half its duty. They started well and they should continue to help Mariam get a permanent house which will be safe," another person tells me.

President Jakaya Kikwete has said the albino murders have brought shame to Tanzania and his government has taken steps to identify and prosecute the perpetrators.

In March thousands of people took part in an exercise to identify those they suspected of being involved, by filling in forms anonymously.

The authorities have also issued a ban on all traditional healers, and several people have been arrested.

The government has now given Ms Staford Bandaba a plot of land to build a house away from her village.

But she says she has no money for the construction work, leaving her feeling abandoned at a time when she needs the help most.

"I was born an albino," she says. "But my attackers have made me disabled. I am begging all Tanzanians to kindly keep on helping me, because my situation is now worse. I have no hands."

Fortunately, a local businessman has heard her plea.

But in a year's time, Ms Staford Bandaba will once again be faced with the prospect of having to return to the village where she was nearly killed.

Human sacrifice scientists discovered in India

2009-10-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

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Thursday 15th October, 2009
Human sacrifice scientists discovered in India
Big News Network.com Monday 12th October, 2009

Two senior scientists of India’s Defence Research and Development Establishment at Gwalior have been accused of attempting to use a junior colleague as a human sacrifice.

Police have alleged a complaint was lodged by the wife of Sushil Kumar, a junior scientist at the DRDE.

Shradha Sharma, approached police on Saturday night to accuse the senior scientists of being involved in witchcraft and attempting to make a human sacrifice of her husband.

While the police have acted on the complaint, they have only charged the scientists over causing hurt, criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement.

According to the complaint, one of the scientists invited Sushil Kumar, who had not been unwell, to his residence on the DRDE campus to cure him.

It is alleged that after entering the residence, the two scientists asked Sushil to go to sleep, before producing a sharp edged weapon.

According to the wife’s testimony, Sushil managed to run from the house after fighting off the men.

Why did God command human sacrifice? (Part 3)

2009-10-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.christianpost.com/blogs/tentativeapologist/2009/05/why-did-god-command-human-sacrifice-part-3-06/index.html

May 06,2009, 11:38AM
Why did God command human sacrifice? (Part 3)
By Randal Rauser

When the police of Plano, TX arrived at the house, the scene was one of unspeakable horror. Dena Schlosser, the mother, was in a state of rapturous praise while "He touched me" played in the background. She was covered in blood, as was the butcher knife. In the crib lay ten month old Margaret, her arms amputated, her life ebbing away. Mrs. Schlosser explained that God had commanded her to cut off her child's arms as an act of religious devotion. And she, ever the faithful disciple, had obliged.

Any morally decent person will recoil in horror and shock at this event. And most any person of Christian faith will confidently state that God certainly did not command Schlosser to amputate poor Margaret's arms. God simply wouldn't do that.

Let us agree with the court-appointed psychologists: Mrs. Schlosser was mentally disturbed, delusional, wacky, plain nuts. (Though after four years in a mental hospital she was released last November.) God did not demand this act. But even if we conclude this in Mrs. Schlosser's case, we still need to ask whether it could ever be possible for God to command such an action. Put it this way: is God's prohibition of the killing of infants as acts of religious devotional absolute or relative? If it is absolute then it is true that God never has and never will (and never could) command the killing of an infant as an act of religious devotion. If it is relative, then there may be cases where God would demand something like this of his followers.

I have thought long and hard on this one, and it seems to me that I have overwhelming moral intuitions that the act committed by Mrs. Schlosser is wrong not only circumstantially but necessarily. That is, it could not possibly be right. It could never be morally praiseworthy to kill an infant as an act of religious devotion.

Amazingly, in drawing this conclusion I find myself out of step with the majority of Christians who, faced with the divine command to kill infants in the occupation of Canaan (and long after), are forced to conclude that the prohibition of killing infants as acts of religious devotion is contextual or circumstantial.

This prompts the question: how could an act like that undertaken by Mrs. Schlosser possibly be morally praiseworthy? (And let's be clear, the Christian who accepts the biblical texts as is must accept that the acts are morally praiseworthy because they are considered to be so in the texts.)

Let me suggest two possible avenues of moral theorizing that could defend the morality of the act: a command-based ethic and a results-based ethic.

The command-based approach would say that our moral duties as human beings are constituted by divine commands. If God commands that we ought to clothe and feed the stranger then it follows that it is our moral duty to clothe and feed the stranger. And thus the clothing and feeding of the stranger is morally praiseworthy.

On the other hand, if God commands that we ought to bludgeon the stranger then it follows that it is our moral duty to bludgeon the stranger. And thus in this case the bludgeoning of the stranger is morally praiseworthy ... even if the stranger happens to be an infant. As a result, if Mrs. Schlosser was commanded by God to kill Margaret, then the act was not murder (which is an immoral action) but rather a morally praiseworthy killing.

It is difficult for me to put into words how bizarre, repugnant, and counterintuitive this proposal is. (Not to mention the epistemological problems it raises: that is, how does one know what God's commands are or might be at a given moment? See the film Frailty for a very disturbing exploration of these themes.) Nonetheless it has been made by leading Christian apologists.

The second approach is outcome-based. According to this view, a given action is morally praiseworthy if it leads to a greater amount of happiness or good than would otherwise occur. Thus, the killing of an infant as an act of religious devotion is morally praiseworthy if it leads to greater goods. It is easy to speculate on the goods the Israelites might have experienced at the killing of the Canaanites including the maintenance of a religious purity that would otherwise have been impossible had the Canaanites been allowed to live.

There are at least two problems with the outcome-based approach. First, one can argue that there are certain actions which always produce more suffering or evil in the long-run than good or happiness. And genocide (not to mention the killing of infants simpliciter) is as good a candidate for such an action as any. The long-term effects of war are always brutalizing, leading to a dehumanizing corruption of the perpetrators, not to mention the victims. (The effect is more intense yet in wars that target non-combatants.)

Second, the outcome-based approach has another name: utilitarianism. Christians have generally been unremitting critics of utilitarianism and for good reason. We all recognize that there are some things which are always, always, always wrong. And if Mrs. Schlosser's actions would not count among those things, then what possibly could?