Witchcraft: Adoption Circle in the knowledge. (Celeste Piliponis)
Steve White
Archived to DejaNews 12/17/97.
steve
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In article <celesta-ya0240800...@news.prodigy.net>,
cel...@usa.net (Celeste) wrote:
> In article <19971216153...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
> redwi...@aol.com (RedWitch04) wrote:
>
> > >Subject: Witchcraft: Adoption Circle in the knowledge.
> > >From: cel...@usa.net (Celeste)
> > >Date: Tue, Dec 16, 1997 07:32 EST
> > >Message-id: <celesta-ya0240800...@news.prodigy.net
> >
> > >Wicca is an ancient religion which required human sacrifice. Although most
> > >witches today deny using human or animal blood sacrifices, cases of witches
> > >who used blood letting and sacrifice are replete throughout history even to
> > >the present day.
> >
> > Forgetting your own origins, aren't ya? There were never any blood
sacrafices
> > to the Christian God, right Celeste?
>
> Yes, before that both Satan and God required blood sacrifices. But Satan
> required the blood of humans, while God required animal, a first fruit or
> the best of the flock for people to tithe or demonstrate their faith in the
> Lord to provide for them. Jesus brought with Him the New Covenant, He was
> to serve has the final sacrifice, there is no more need to shed blood of
> any kind to prove our faith and loyalty, His blood is final attonement.
> Now we can prove our faith and loyalty by simply believing or "choosing" to
> believe until you are given evidence by Jesus Himself, and by tithing and
> being faithful to read the Bible and going to church.
>
> You know I have had this terrible preminition, or hunch that the nine month
> old infant girl, Sabrina, that was stolen out of her crib in Florida was
> taken and sacrificed to Satan. I believe that parents with infants really
> need to keep their guards up in protecting infants under the age of 3 years
> from satanic abductions in the soon coming or next 3 to 5 years. I hope
> we don't start hearing about more mysterious infant abductions. So far,
> Satan has managed to put too much stress on parents, putting them under
> spells that lead to them killing their own children. Perhaps that this
> Sabrina case is just another one of those. I don't know for sure. But
> just the same, protect your children and yourselves from falling prey, both
> socially and spiritually, to what Satan is up to in these times, for these
> are the last days. Anyone who is actually guided by the Holy Spirit,
> studies and knows the Biblical prophecies has their eyes open to what is
> true, is able to see that this is indeed the last days.
>
> > BTW the majority of the animalsacrafices
> > once used in this religion took place around this time of year when animals
> > were being slaughtered for winter food.
>
> Yes, but they weren't allowed to eat the sacrifices. This was to prove
> loyalty and trust in God to provide for those who obeyed His Laws. People
> weren't even give permission to eat animals until after Noah. After the
> flood, all the vegetation had been destroyed, and until it was restored
> Noah and His family required permission to eat animals so they wouldn't
> starve. This is when God put the fear of man into animals, and greated a
> food chain. God intends for us to return to things as they were before the
> days of Noah, once Jesus Christ returns. Won't the animal rights activists
> have something to celebrate? There will be no more killing on all His Holy
> Mountain, THUS SAITH THE LORD!
>
> > As far as the Human Sacrafices go...I could go on in depth about
it...but why
> > bother...you're not going to listen anyway.
>
> I know all I need to know. I realise the you are very misled yourself.
> You couldn't possibly understand the danger you are putting yourself in, if
> you did you would be practicing witchcraft.
>
>
> > >Modern 20th century Wiccans draw their religious ideology
> > >from the Mother Earth cults of the Celtic and Nordic peoples of
> > >pre-Christian Europe
> >
> > Cults. Ha ha ha ha ha ha Cute. Not realistic but cute anyway.
>
> You are blind if you think normal people with a sound mind can't recognise
> that Wicca is nothing more than a satanic cult.
>
> > <massive snip>
> >
> > >Most modern witches deny that they are followers of Satan and claim that
> > >their pagan concept of diverse gods does not match the Christian concept of
> > >the devil. Although Wiccans deny their association with the devil, they
> > >readily admit that they worship "a Horned God named Pan.
> >
> > Some worship Pan some simply worship the Great Horned God. The horns denote
> > the Gods masculinity. Since this description of the Great Horned God was
> > around long before any description of "Satan" or the "Devil" was ever
> > given...one is left to assume that the concept and drawings of "Satan"
and the
> > "Devil" are based on the Great Horned God thereby attempting to make
the Great
> > Horned God an evil diety.
>
> Is anyone listening to this? Do you see right past what this is saying?
>
> >
> > >It is an
> > >inescapable fact that Pan is the universal symbol for Satan. Half-human and
> > >half-goat, Pan remains one of the most enduring and compelling symbols for
> > >the anti-Christ.
> >
> > No it's not inescapable at all. See above and how early Christianty twisted
> > everything around so that it fit with their belief system.
>
> No, what the early Christians did was see how dangerous this form of
> worship was, they saw it being lived out into fullfillment. They saw
> humans being sacrificed, phallus worship, sexual perversions unspeakable,
> terrible disease and sickness, death, wickedness and God intervened, told
> them to flee and separate themselves from any forms of pagan worship, He
> gave them His Laws and taught them to guided by Him, a decent and loving
> God, the TRUE Creator of all things. One who is leading us on the path of
> a true and genuine peace on earth that is yet to come and be fullfilled.
>
> > >Instead of God incarnate in man, as with Jesus, we see man
> > >joined to animal - one that is historically representative of the basest of
> > >animal and sexual passions
> >
> > Hey, what can I say? We actually *like* sex and passion.
>
> No, you are liking your own perversions of it. Christians no a lot more
> about love and passion than these perverts who are spreading diseases,
> aborting their children, having children out of wed lock and placing them
> for adoption, and turning our values and sensible morality up side down.
>
> > Sorry about your
> > lack thereof. The image of Man joined to Animal represents mans
kinship with
> > the Earth and all it's beings.
>
> Yes, and this leads to men thinking since animals are our kin it must be
> okay if we all join in on their sexual orgies and perverted sex practices.
> Those who wrote the Bible were witnesses to what pagan practices inevitably
> lead up to. You are headed down a very dangerous and evil road. God is
> not going to allow this to happen again. He promised Jesus would return to
> prevent it from ever getting this bad again. If you continue down this
> path, you are hastening the end of human history as we know it today. The
> Bible warns us of this.
>
> Celeste
>
> --
> "A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone whose life is
> not." - Spurgeon
>
> Luke 6:22-23:
> "Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you
> and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
> Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in
> heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets."
Steve White
Archived to DejaNews 12/17/97.
steve
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In article <celesta-ya0240800...@news.prodigy.net>,
cel...@usa.net (Celeste) wrote:
> http://www.forerunner.com/champion/X0038.html
>
> What is the Wiccan religion?
>
> Wicca is an ancient religion which required human sacrifice. Although most
> witches today deny using human or animal blood sacrifices, cases of witches
> who used blood letting and sacrifice are replete throughout history even to
> the present day. Modern 20th century Wiccans draw their religious ideology
> from the Mother Earth cults of the Celtic and Nordic peoples of
> pre-Christian Europe. The word "Wiccan" first appears in an early
> manuscript of an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the alliterative phrase: wyccan and
> wælcyrian, "witches and valkyries."1 The word in Old English has masculine
> and feminine endings and denotes both men and women using magic arts. The
> word "victim" in English has the same derivation as wycca and originally
> meant a living human being "set apart" to be sacrificed to a deity.2
>
> The religion is traced to ancient Celtic and Northern German people who
> practiced human sacrifice. The Roman historian, Tacitus, records that the
> ancestors of the English speaking peoples, the Angles, sacrificed to the
> Mother Earth Goddess. In his Germania, "On the Origin and Geography of
> Germany," Tacitus describes this gruesome ritual as "a ceremony performed
> by slaves who are immediately afterward drowned in the lake." Some of the
> victims, astonishingly preserved in peat bogs, are on display in museums in
> Denmark.3
>
> Modern witches unabashedly make reference to the pagan rituals of
> pre-Christian Europe in describing their religion. In a paper submitted to
> the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, Michael Thorne
> writes: "Modern Witchcraft (or Wicca) is the most common expression of the
> religious movement known as Neo-paganism.... Its practitioners are reviving
> ancient Pagan practices and
> beliefs of pre-Christian Europe and adapting them to contemporary American
> life.... Wiccans focus their liturgy and worship around a Goddess and a
> God. Rituals and services are timed to the phases of the moon and to the
> Wheel of the Year (i.e., the solstices, equinoxes, and the days falling
> midway between these such as May Day and Hallowe'en). Most witches treat
> their practice as a priesthood, somewhat akin to the mystery cults of
> classical Greece and Rome, involving years of training and passage through
> life transforming initiatory rituals. All witches agree on the ethical
> code, 'An it harm none, do what ye will'; in other words, 'Do what you
> believe is right, but let no one be harmed by your actions.'"4
>
> According to a recent Ms. magazine article: "Witchcraft is about wholeness,
> about celebrating one's intimacy with the Goddess and the earth, who are
> one and the same.... [T]here are 200,000 women and men practicing the Old
> Religion in the United States. The Institute for the Study of American
> Religion in Santa Barbara, California, claims that Witchcraft and Paganism
> are the fastest growing religions in the country, countering the rise of
> Christian fundamentalism."5
>
> 1 The Northern World, ed. David M. Wilson (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York,
> 1980) p.40.
> 2 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1975.
> 3 McCrum, The Story of English (Elisabeth Sifton Books, Viking, New York,
> 1987) p.57.
> 4 Michael Thorne, "A Portrait of Wicca," A Sourcebook for the Community of
> Religions, The Council for a Parliament of the World's
> Religions.
> 5 Jan Phillips, "The Craft of the Wise," Ms., January/February 1993.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Eric Holmerg, Hells Bell's, Reel to Real Ministries, P.O. Box 4145
> Gainesville, FL 32602.
>
> Witchcraft and Satanism: Are they one and the same?
>
> Most modern witches deny that they are followers of Satan and claim that
> their pagan concept of diverse gods does not match the Christian concept of
> the devil. Although Wiccans deny their association with the devil, they
> readily admit that they worship "a Horned God named Pan." It is an
> inescapable fact that Pan is the universal symbol for Satan. Half-human and
> half-goat, Pan remains one of the most enduring and compelling symbols for
> the anti-Christ. Instead of God incarnate in man, as with Jesus, we see man
> joined to animal - one that is historically representative of the basest of
> animal and sexual passions.
>
> The ancient cult of Pan involved rites of passage. In the Rites of Pan,
> music and sometimes drugs were used to entice spirits to possess the
> ritual's participants. Possession by Pan, from which we get the word
> "panic," often results in an obsession with sex and a need for immediate
> gratification. We see the sociological manifestations of this anti-Christ
> spirit everywhere in today's society.
>
> The universal law of witchcraft is similar to satanism: "An' ye harm none,
> Do what thou wilt." Another way this philosophy is expressed is in the
> satanic theology of Aleister Crowley, the most infamous satanist of our
> modern age - "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law." This is Crowley's
> most well-known and enduring proverb.
>
> This philosophy may seem right to those who have "been made spiritually
> blind by the god of this age" (2 Cor. 4:4). Yet this blinding deception
> obscures one of life's most elementary truths - that ultimately there are
> two kingdoms and two types of people; those in God's kingdom who have been
> redeemed by God and those in Satan's who are trying to redeem themselves.
>
> In the same way that the Kingdom of God holds to one supreme commandment,
> "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and
> strength" (Deut. 6:5; Mark 12:30), so witchcraft can also be reduced to one
> essential law, "An' ye harm none, Do what thou wilt." and, in the case of
> Satanism, simply, "Do what thou wilt." Contrary to the deceptive
> stereotype, no black masses or wild sex rituals are necessary to be a
> follower of Satan - simply deny the love and the authority of God by living
> your life the way you want to. You can even be religious, attend church
> regularly, tithe, perform good works. If it's a religion based upon your
> own terms, you are still comfortably fulfilling the dictates of Satan's
> most primary law: "Do what thou wilt."
>
> How ironic that witches and satanists should understand better than most
> Christians the true root of sin and the essential duality that divides
> asunder the whole of mankind. Each of us is ultimately given a choice upon
> which hangs the weight of eternity. We can go our own way and remain
> forever lost - or we can reach out to the One who is "the way, the truth,
> and the life" (John 14:6).
>
> Eric Holmerg, Hells Bell's, Reel to Real Ministries, P.O. Box 4145
> Gainesville, FL 32602.