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condensed down to six pages by eliminating
the duplication alone. Many of their
definitions are inaccurate. For
example, they list the Hexagram and Yin Yang symbol as "satanic
symbols". Yet the hexagram is the
"Star of David" which is universally understood to be a Judaic
symbol. The Yin Yang is a well known
Asian symbol representing the balance of life energies. Like Anderson's
manual, the CBI Questioned Documents
Examiner's Occult Guide lists the "zoso" symbol with a
similar definition to Anderson's:
"Symbol for three headed dog- protector of gateway to hell,
nickname of Jimmy Page." Many of the errors in such manuals concern ritual dates. In Michelle
Remembers, Dr. Lawrence Pazder states that he
believes that the Satanist’s “New Year's Day was the thirteenth day of the
thirteenth month- that is, January 13."
It doesn't take much intelligence to figure out that if these
Satanists used a calendar with thirteen months, then each year the date of
New Year's would be different. Pazder
makes an awkward attempt to explain this away later in the book by saying
that the "Satanic method of counting is inclusive, so what commonly
would be twenty-seven years is twenty eight by their reckoning." January 13 is the
New Year's Day in the old Julian calendar and Yule observances such as
wassailing are still performed in some parts of Britain on this day. It is also the date of the Norse
Midvintersblot ("mid winter's offering"). This was known as Tiugunde Day in old
England and sacred to Tiu, an ancient Teutonic God that ruled the year. It is also a day sacred to Saint Hilary. None of these customs is Satanic. No other calendar purporting to list dates
of Satanic activity that I have collected in the past 2 decades of studying
Satanic myths lists January 13. Satanists don't observe New Years day as a
holiday. David Balsiger’s ubiquitous 1988 Witchcraft/Satanism Ritual Calendar lists 95 ritual dates plus four weeks devoted to "kidnapping,
holding and ceremonial preparation of person for human sacrifice [sic]"
for a total of 123 ritual days a year.
In other words Balsiger expects us to believe that Satanists devote
33.7% or a third of the entire year to rituals. Many of the dates on Balsiger's calendar
are simply dates of the different phases of the moon as well as the dates of
solar and lunar eclipses. The
calendar's 95 ritual dates call for 13 animal sacrifices, 24 human
sacrifices, 6 blood rituals and 12 sexual orgies, as well as miscellaneous
mutilations and dismemberments. Surely
this much activity would be noticed by someone and reported to the
authorities? One also wonders how
someone could keep a full time job and find time for all of this activity? Fundamentalists seem fond of creating lists of symbols that they
believe to be indicative of occult involvement. In Mystery
Mark of the New Age, author Texe Marrs claims that
"...New Age disciples are told that the following idols, or symbols, are
very important for spiritual initiation into the New Age religion: the lotus, the triangle, the cube, the circle
and the point, the line, certain signs of the Zodiac, and the cup, or the
holy grail. Also mentioned are the
following animal forms: the goat, the
bull, the elephant, the man, the dragon, the lion, the dog, and the
bear. These symbols are mind-pictures
or images that become idols to the New Ager.
Indeed, New Agers frequently buy and display idols of stone, stone,
wood, steel, plastic, and crystal representing these forms. Yet, in using these images the New Age
believer is practising idolatry in violation of God's commandment… New Age
practices idolatry on a grand scale… For example... the rainbow... the
diamond, the crystal, the rose, and the lotus blossom... But tragically the
New Age lie attempts to turn these fantastic creations into things of
horror.” Note how Marrs has lumped all non-Christian religions into one New Age
category and is suggesting that they all have these common symbols. The lotus is a very common symbol in Hindu
and Buddhist spirituality. The holy
grail is a Christian symbol related to the ancient legend of the Fisher
King. Why Marrs figures that only some
of the signs of the Zodiac would be significant to people in the New Age is a
mystery which he does not explain. Of
course some of the animals listed by Marrs such as the goat, bull and lion
are also symbols of the Zodiac, a fact that Marrs seems unaware of. Of course, Christians like Marrs don't seem
to consider crosses, scenes of the crucifixion, or images of Biblical
personalities to be examples of idolatry.
In fact, most of the images that Marrs lists appear in the Bible
too: The circle (Isaiah 40:22), the
rose (47 entries), the unicorn (Numbers 23:22, 24:8; Job 39:9; Psalms 29:6,
92:10), the rainbow (Revelations 4:3, 10:1), the diamond (Exodus 28:18,
39:11; Jeremiah 17:1; Ezekiah 28:13), the crystal (Job 28:17; Ezekiah 1:22;
Revelations 4:6, 21:11, 22:1), the lion (at least 88 entries), the bear (13
entries), the bull (63 entries), the goat (75 entries), the dragon (31
entries), the dog (36 entries), and man (about 5 pages worth of entries
listed in Cruden’s Complete Concordance).
It isn't the New Age turning these symbols into things of horror: Its is people like Marrs trying to convince
us that they are. Another good example of the nonsense one
can find in supposedly serious police manuals is a series of terms which Lou
Sloat borrowed from Ritualistic Crime Consultants in his Texas Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult
Crime Manual. The uninformed may assume that they are actual terms used by occult
groups, but in actual fact they are terms borrowed from the Shannara series
of fantasy novels of Terry Brooks.
These include: "Dragon's
Teeth- Mountains. Usually with a hidden pass." “Druid’s
Keep: Fortress or home of one or a
cult." “Iltdatch: Book containing dark evil magic, rituals,
spells, roots and how they are used."
Iltdatch is a fictional source of evil that
created the Mord Wraiths in Wishsong of Shannara. “Silver
River: Clean water.
Unspoiled Water. Nature's
Finest." Sounds like an advertisement for a brand of bottled water, doesn't
it? |
Experts, pg 4
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