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From: Pastor Dale Morgan <dgrmor...@telus.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:53:22 -0700
Local: Fri, Aug 22 2008 2:53 am
Subject: Pagan Burning Man Festival Just One of the Signs the Occult Is Sweeping the Globe
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*Perilous Times, Witchcraft and The Occult
Pagan Burning Man Festival Just One of the Signs the Occult Is Sweeping
the Globe*
By Thomas Horn
Esoteric festivals with crowds in the tens of thousands are growing in
popularity
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -- Across the sea in the UK, Brighton proudly
wears the title these days of 'Capital of Occulture.' This year's
Occulture festivities exhibited bigger than ever venues - sacred music
and dance, clarivoyance, psychic and tarot readers, chakra, traditional
witchcraft, tatooing, piercing, fetish satanism, shamanism, transcendent
techniques, and lectures favoring paganism from the original Book of
Shadows.
And then there was the 'Pleasure Dome" where magicians, sorcerers and
witches discussed their trade, including Mogg Morgon, founder of the
Golden Dawn Occult Society, Ralph Harvey, a prominent Wiccan High
Priest, and Emrys, a Shaman of the Cromlech Covenant.
On the heels of this in the U.S., Burning Man has grown to become the
largest ever, surpassing last year's 33,000 participants as the number
of earth-worshipping pagans swell the ranks of party-goers from across
Canada, Brazil, Germany, Russia, and 25 other countries to an isolated
corner of Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
As in the past, this year's clothing-optional Burning Man offers a
no-holds-barred "Woodstock" style festival where neo-pagans, wiccans,
transvestitie entertainers, curiosity seekers, and old hippies can go to
trance, perform rituals, burn sacrifices to deities, fornicate, and
otherwise "express" themselves freely.
The 40-foot-high effigy Burning Man (the "Spirit Cave Man"-- sacred to
local Indians and New Agers) will be torched as usual together with just
about everything else at the close of the festivity.
UNDERSTANDING THE OCCULT FIRES PHENOMENON
The spirit of the occult has existed since the beginning of time. Like
an insidious cancer—unseen, patient, deadly—it has grown. Indications of
its presence have been felt occasionally, and confirmations of its
actuality have been documented from Brighton to Washington D.C.
As we approach the culmination of the “new order of the ages,” cult
experts forecast a continuing revival of such mysticism. While church
attendance continues to decline across the United States and Britain,
adherents of the occult expand their "services" to meet the desires and
mystical interests of a spiritually hungry world.
New Age expert Judy Vorfeld says, “Dabbling in the realm of the occult
is currently stylish. Even some Christians seem unable to avoid the
attraction of this colorful, seductive world.”
She's right. From Burning Man festivals to public school Environmental
Education to faddish television good-guys and bad-girls, today’s
generation is lapping up as much New Age Occultianity as they can get
their hands on. Whether it's comic book heroes that teach youth the
dangerous Persephonian idea that a person can be in league with the
devil and still be a good person, or the syncretistic goals of the
Occulture Festival and Burning Man, the glowing fire of pagan revival
can no longer be denied.
THE REAL BURNING MAN
From a Biblical point of view, powerful and ancient entities are behind
the revival of paganism. In the air above and the earth beneath are
nefarious progenitors of esoteric mysticism. “Demons” to some and “gods”
to others, such forces have numerous titles. They can appear in hideous
forms or as beautiful angels of light. They are the “wicked spirits”
(poneria: the collective body of demon soldiers comprising Satan’s
hordes), “rulers of darkness” (kosmokrators: governing spirits of
darkness), “powers” (exousia: high ranking powers of evil), and
“principalities” (arche: commanding generals over Satan’s fallen army)
of Ephesians 6:12. As the "gods and goddesses" of the underworld, they
live today and encourage mysticism among pagans, witches, New Agers and
even church-goers in at least the following ways:
Aphrodite—sensuality, fertility rites, wiccan rituals, sacred prostitution.
Amun-Ra—masturbation, self realization, environmentalism, Darwinism.
Apis—animal worship, animal rights, animal channeling, occultianity.
Apollo—humanism, oracles, channeling, psychics, drugs, visualization.
Artemis—goddess worship, animal worship, animal rights, lesbianism.
Asclepius—holistic medicine, psychic dreaming, spirit-guide animals.
Athene—goddess worship, feminism, the spirituality movement, lesbianism.
Baal—oracles, polytheism, abortion, fertility issues.
Demeter—environmental education, earth worship, goddess worship.
Dionysus—drunkeness, freudianism, ecstasy, pornography, lesbianism,
abortion.
Eros—eroticism, mystic sex, body worship, body piercing, sacred
prostitution.
Gaia—earth worship, environmentalism, paganism, pantheism, sweat lodges.
Geb—environmental movement, animal rights, eco-paganism.
Hades—devil worship, occultism, spiritism, necromancy.
Hathor—goddess worship, earth worship, animal rights, animal worship.
Hecate—witchcraft, necromancy, crystals, spells, druidism, feminism.
Heka—mysticism, demonism, animal rights, environmentalism.
Hypnos—hypnotism, psychic dreaming, prognostication, e.s.p., clairvoyance.
Imhoteb—mystic healing, animal dancing, holistic medicine, vision quests.
Isis—wicca, witchcraft, goddess worship, magic, channeling, visualization.
Min and Qetesh—fertility rites, body worship, sensuality, pornography.
Osiris—occultianity, necromancy, anthropomorphism, occultism, spiritism.
Persephone—animism, zoroastrianism, dualism, magic, necromancy.
Ptah—universalism, pantheism, mysticism, holistic medicine.
Sekhmet—environmentalism, mystic medicine, animal worship.
Seth—homosexuality, rebellion, earth worship, environmental movement.
Vatchit—devil worship, channeling, trancing, visualization, necromancy.
Zeus—satanism, transexualism, pantheism, oracles, animal worship.
By whatever names they may otherwise be called, the underworld spirits
elevated in the Burning Man and Occulture festivals are gathering the
combined efforts of the kingdom of Satan toward a conspiracy of
apocalyptic proportions. As a consequence, we are experiencing an
unprecedented pagan revival at a time when the United States and Britain
are considered the most advanced economic and technological powers in
the world.
Where will the revival of paganism lead?
Billy Graham says, “Lucifer, our archenemy, controls one of the most
powerful and well-oiled war machines in the universe. He controls
principalities, powers, and dominions. Every nation, city, village, and
individual has felt the hot breath of his evil power. He is already
gathering the nations of the world for the last great battle in the war
against Christ—Armageddon.”
Many pagans would disagree with Graham, saying they reject the idea of
personal evil spirits such as Satan and his angels. The concepts of Hell
and a future Great Judgment are also disregarded. But the reality of
Hell and the doom of Satan's followers is described in the Bible. The
"old gods" of the underworld will be destroyed by Yahweh. "The Lord will
be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth"
(Zeph. 2:11). "The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I
will punish...the gods" (Jer. 46:25). Yahweh will also punish the leader
of the gods, that old serpent, called the Devil, and his human
followers. In Isaiah we read:
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation
be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. In that day the
Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the
piercing serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isa.
26:20-27:1)
However futile, the pagan gods will retaliate, and a war of
indescribable intensity will occur. This is the war mentioned by Graham.
It will be fought on land and sea, in the heavens above, and in the
earth below, in the physical and spiritual worlds. It will include
"Michael and his angels [fighting] against the dragon; and the dragon
[fighting] and his angels" (Rev. 12:7). According to the Bible, last
days pagans will join the battle, calling upon "idols of gold, and
silver, and brass, and stone, and wood" (Rev. 9:20) to summon "the
spirits of devils working miracles, which go forth unto the Kings of the
earth...to gather them to the battle of that great day...[to] a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon" (Rev. 16:13-14; 16). There, in
the valley of Megiddo, the omnipotent Christ will utterly repel the
forces of darkness and destroy the pagan armies. Blood will flow like
rivers, and the fowl of the air will "eat the flesh of the mighty, and
drink the blood of the princes of the earth."
Between now and then, Christian's have the same opportunity to preach
the same Gospel that caused the Oracle at Delphi to surrender in 362 A.D.
To the physician of the Emperor Julian, the Byzantine ruler who tried to
restore paganism after Christianity had become the official religion of
the Byzantine Empire, the god Apollo sent message: "Tell the King," said
the oracle, "that the curiously built temple has fallen to the ground,
that bright Apollo no longer has a roof over his head, or prophetic
laurel, or babbling spring. Yes, even the murmuring water has dried up."