|2-SATANISM






|1-A QUESTION OF BELIEF



The  state  of witchcraft, occultism and satanism as world movements, no
exaggeration,  overstatement  or silly claims were necessary.  The facts
speak  for  themselves.   It exists.  It is growing, and certain aspects
are indeed very,very ugly and disturbing.

|1-And yet...



In  the  stirrings of fundamentalism as the world heads towards the last
years of the second millennium, which Christian evangelists believe will
be  marked  by the Second Coming, we are seeing the resurgence of a Holy
War  that  has  existed  since the beginning of the first year after the
death  of  Christ.   The  battleground  as  always  is the views held by
non-believers  and  more  especially the opposers of Christ, the dreaded
worshippers   of   Satan,  Lucifer  and  other  leading  lights  of  the
underworld.

Battle  commenced  in  earnest in the spring of 1986 when 400 leaders of
evangelist  movements  from  around the world met in California to begin
formalization  of  their  campaign  to  convert twenty million people to
Christianity  by  the year 2000.  It was part of the worldwide Christian
Decade  of  Evangelism  which was to begin in 1990, to which the satanic
movement  replied  instantly  with  its own Decade of Vengeance.  It was
rapidly  joined by most other groups in the left hand-side of the occult
movement.  Punch and counterpunch began to delivered almost immediately.
I can quote from this sample, sent to me in one of the satanic magazines
I   acquired   for   research:    "DECADE  OF  EVANGELISM,OR  DECADE  OF
VANDALISM...   THESE  PEOPLE MEAN BUSINESS...  NOBODY IS SAFE...THEY ARE
CUNNING   AND  CLEVER.   THESE  POWERFUL  POLITICO  EVANGELICAL  GROUPS,
EMANATING  FROM  THE  USA, HAVE ONE AIM IN MIND:  TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION
VIA  AN  IRON  GRIP  ON THEOCRACY...  THESE WICKED PEOPLE HAVE SUBVERTED
INSTITUTIONS  AND  FAMOUS  CHARITIES EVERYWHERE AND ARE SETTING CULTURES
AGAINST  EACH  OTHER  WITH THEIR FANATICISM...." The pamphlet was filled
with  anti-Christian  vitriol  and  was widely circulated albeit only to
occultists.   Similar  attacks  on  the  evangelist  movements have been
printed  in pretty well every occult magazine I have seen in the past 18
months, hundreds in number.

Meanwhile,  in  Britain,  an organization calling itself the Evangelical
Alliance was formed to fight the devil and his disciples and can be seen
to  have  promoted  a  massive  campaign  which highlighted many alleged
incidences  of  child  abuse,  sacrificial  rites  and terrible cases of
sadistic  torture  during  Black  Mass ceremonies.  Elsewhere, powerful,
cash-rich Christian groups in America began their own extensive lobbying
and   the  weight  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  was  added  to  the
international  campaign  when, in 1987,t he Holy See began preparing its
own   review   of   Satan   past  and  present,  inspiring  debates  and
conversations  on  the  theological  issues  surrounding  the  Prince of
Darkness.  This followed a message sent by the Pope to the Archbishop of
Canterbury,  Dr Robert Runcie, stating that he believed the devil's hand
was behind today's increasingly hedonistic values.
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                       "It  is  not a myth that the devil appeared to St
                       Anthony," Pope John Paul II told a Polish friend.
                       "I  too have seen his evil grin." But perhaps the
                       most    crucial   development,   highlighted   by
                       individual  members  of  the Evangelist Alliance,
                       had  surfaced  even  before that organization was
                       officially formed.  In the sixties and seventies,
                       the devil was more likely to have been discovered
                       living  in  the  bodies of pre-pubescent children
and thus highly melodramatic tales of exorcism surfaced with regularity.
That was until a succession of mass murderers like the Yorkshire Ripper,
Peter  Sutcliffe, and the American serial killer, Richard Ramirez, known
as  the Night Stalker, were said to have been guided by the voice of the
devil.   There  were  deeper  implications too.  Ramirez had a pentagram
tattooed  on the palm of his hand and shouted "Hail Satan!" when he left
court.   Other  mass  killers  in  America claimed membership of satanic
groups, and the British originated Process Church was often mentioned as
being  the provider of a belief system which appeared to give permission
for  murder,  since  Satan  existed  as  the  final  executioner and the
administrator of the final judgement.

One  other  famous case was that of David Berkowitz, who became known as
The  Son  of  Sam  Killer, responsible for six murders and six attempts.
Long  after  his  conviction  and  imprisonment  in 1977, he revealed in
letters  to  a Californian priest that he had been a member of an occult
group  which  pursued "a mixture of satanic practices which included the
teachings  of  the  most  wicked  man  on  earth  Aleister  Crowley.  He
eventually  identified the group as an offshoot of the Process Church of
Final  Judgement,  based in New York.  Power?  It sounds ambitious, even
ridiculous but also MENACING.........  Coming soon.........  More on the
worldwide subject of Satanism with stories from Norway about Black Metal
rock bands and the links with Satanism.


               By KOFFIN BLOOD OF THE SYNDICATE 15/06/95