I saw my son for the first time yesterday. Something happened when I looked at him. I don’t think I was supposed to see him. Halloween gets closer everyday. I am outgrowing my skin. My hands and feet are changing. I am the Christ. Realize what’s happening before it’s to late. 94 is close.
Rosey takes my somewhere every night now. I can’t wait until Halloween now. I decided how I’ll die. I’ll rip my wrist open with my own fingernails. They can’t stop that with a Padded Room. Talk more later, bye.
I can feel pressure building up inside my body. The more I think about this situation the worse it gets. Sometimes it gets so bad It almost makes me go into a frenzy. Rosey says control it for awhile longer and then we’ll let everything go all at once, like a blizzard. They will all pay.
Last night, Rosey put me in a horse. It felt so good to just run and run. I never wanted to stop. He said we’ll do lots of fun things from now on. He says he has to show me a lot of stuff before October. He says not to worry about anything any body says to me or does, because they’re not important and they’ll only lie anyway.
I lay my hands of Heaven and the Sun and the Moon and the stars while the Devil wants to fuck me in the back of her car.
Today I have a splitting headache. I feel like I got a hangover. It’s cause Rosey won’t let me sleep that much...
I don’t feel very well today. I’m getting sick every time me and Rosey do something it makes me really sleepy and hungry. Once I even got a nose bleed. By 1994 nothing will be left. It is going to be the last war. I will have to choose disciples before Halloween.
The war will start in 94--the world ends in 96.
No more. Everyone will pay because everyone is too stupid to open their eyes. This is the final times and I am the new Messiah. Wake up and smell the crud faggets. I don’t care whether you are saved or not. Everyone pays the price.
I’ve been thinking alot. I may change the date to September, 01. Sometimes I just don’t feel like waiting until Halloween. This will be the beginning of the End. I will wait for a sign from the spirits to show me, when to begin. No hope for human kind, the time of the Gods is at hand, they are waiting to Enter the Gates. Kutulu is waking. Once he is awakened, nothing can be done.
My body is changing but that medicine is making it happen a lot more slowly than normal. I am outgrowing my skin. I am eating packs of sugar and Kool-Aid to give my body the extra energy it needs to make its change. Soon people will be able to know I am the Christ just by looking at me.
It seems strange how everyone just keeps going on like nothing is different. I know better. I found out my son was born. The spirits won’t leave me alone. They surround me constantly. Always talking. They won’t let me sleep, they won’t let me think. Everything is different now. I can feel it. I don’t know what it is. I just want to be left alone.170
After the arrest and sentencing of Damien Echols, another murder occurred within his family on September 9th of 1994. During a bonfire under Hernando DeSoto bridge on the west bank of the Mississippi River, his biological mother and father, Pam and Joe Hutchison and his sister Michelle were partying with friends when two shots rang out. Richard B. Ellison lay dead, killed by Pam Hutchison’s .22 caliber pistol. Testimony gathered by police indicated that Ellison was killed by Bryan T. McFadden in a dispute over Pam Hutchison’s affections. According to Pam, she had amorous relations with both Ellison and McFadden, who were living in her trailer with her then ex-husband Joe Hutchison. Bryan T. McFadden pled guilty received a ten year sentence for the murder.171
Damien Echols in Jail
After a year at the maximum security prison in Tucker, Arkansas, Damien Echols told a story about being beaten and raped by fellow death row inmate Mark Edward Gardner. Echols claimed that a cinder block was loosened between his cell and the adjacent cell, allowing Gardner to slip in and rape him. He claimed to have been raped forty times. He also told an interviewer that after he was dead he “would like to stick around awhile, just sort of hang around after I was dead.”172
In 1996, Damien Echols provided an interview for the website Witchcraze. He provided his opinion of the actual killer:
Rick: If you have any theories about the actual killer(s) of Christopher Byers, Steve Branch, and Michael Moore, please elaborate.
Damien: I have no doubt that the actual killer is John Mark Byers. He had the knife with his son's blood on it, not to mention the fact that he could never keep his alibi straight. It was also proven in court that whoever killed those children had the skill of a surgeon and Byers was a jewel cutter. There was also testimony that his knife could have made the wounds on the children because the blade was consistent with the cut pattern.173
Mara Leveritt, author of the book about the West Memphis Three titled Devil’s Knot, also interviewed Echols in 1994. He talked to her about his interest in occultism and Raymond Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft:
I was interested in Stonehenge. It aroused my curiosity. So then I went and looked up the Druids. I would go off on, like, research binges.
He read that paganism had existed before Christianity. "I figured, if they're the first, maybe they were right and we've just strayed off the path...
...And last week, he was told that he would not be allowed to receive two books he had mail ordered from a Memphis bookstore. Prison authorities described the book on their refusal form as "unauthorized material."
Echols asked that the books be turned over to this reporter. One, titled, "Helping Yourself with White Witchcraft" by Al G. Manning, is superficial to the point of silliness, with tips on warding off evil eyes, concocting love potions, and spells to attract money and prosperity.
The other is the "Complete Book of Witchcraft" by Raymond Buckland, a far more serious explanation of witchcraft's history, beliefs, and rituals.
Neither book contains any reference to Satanism, other that to dismiss is as a slander Christians have historically leveled against pagans. The only violence depicted in the books appears in Buckland's section on history, when he recounts the tortures and executions of witches (and of thousands of people who were merely accused of being witches), from 1484, when Pope Innocent VII issues his infamous bull against witches, to this country's colonial era and the infamous Salem witch trails.
It's ignorance," Echols says of the prison's decision. "They let in other non-Christian books. They let the Koran in here. You see? Even here, it's all this religion thing.174
Echols with long fingernails
Drawing of child sacrifice by Damien Echols
A baby rattle rests among four tombstones with pentagrams.
Note the “energy” ascends towards the sky to a pentagram
during the night of a full moon.
11. History of Witchcraft:
the occult basis for the murders
The great secret of magic, the unique and incommunicable Arcana, has for its purpose the placing of supernatural power at the service of the human will in some way. To attain such an achievement it is necessary to KNOW what has to be done, to WILL what is required, to DARE what must be attempted and to KEEP SILENT with discernment.175
Eliphas Levi
ALEISTER CROWLEY
(note the thumbs)
Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947) was born into a wealthy, Puritan family in Royal Leamington Spa, England. Possessed of a first rate mind and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Crowley intended to be “one of the glories of the future.” At Cambridge he changed his first name to Aleister, abandoned the Christian faith of his parents, and began an in depth study into the occult:
The forces of good were those which had constantly oppressed me. I saw them daily destroying the happiness of my fellow-men. Since, therefore, it was my business to explore the spiritual world, my first step must be to get into personal communication with the devil.176
As the foremost Devil worshipper and accumulator of occult knowledge in the late 19th and early 20th Century, Aleister Crowley (self-titled The Grea
t Beast 666) based his works upon preceding magicians, writers, and philosophers, incorporating their ideas, and his own, into a new religion for a New Age. All modern occultists eventually hear of and read Crowley, and I have found few unmoved by the breadth and depth of his thought. Much of the information about Crowley and the religious systems he formulated are intentionally concealed from public understanding. In my book Prophet Of Evil, I provide a detailed analysis of his life.
Crowley emphasized the importance of numbers in defining the universe and his ideas. For Crowley, the number eleven is of supreme importance:
“Firstly”, 11 is the number of Magick in itself. It is therefore suitable to all types of operation.
“Secondly”, it is the sacred number par excellence of the new Aeon. As it is written in the Book of the Law:
“...11, as all their numbers who are of us.” “Thirdly”, it is the number of the letters of the word
ABRAHADABRA, which is the word of the Aeon.177
Crowley spelled his version of magick with a K to differentiate his ideas from common parlor magicians. Scientific Illuminism in his view was far different from the rabbit and hat magic tricks of a top-hatted showman.
In 1900, Crowley determined to access his Holy Guardian Angel by way of the Abramelin operation detailed in the grimoire Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-melin the Mage. The book dictates that one must set aside six months of austerity to complete a magical working whereby the practitioner can obtain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel (HGA). The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage was translated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, magical mentor of Aleister Crowley, from a 15th century French manuscript found in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris. The author is Abraham of Würzburg, who writes it as advice to his young son Lamech. Written in three separate books, Abraham recounts many fantastic adventures in which he sought magical powers from various notorious wizards and sorcerors. However, he was unimpressed by all of them, until he stumbled across Abramelin by the Nile. The book aims at the utter subjugation of the demonic princes of the world; this is achieved by months of prayer, supplication and ritual. It is the medieval magical philosophy of constraining demons by divine authority. In the book, one has to evoke the Four Great Princes of the Evil of the World, their eight sub-princes and the 316 servitors, which will charge previously prepared talismans. These charged talismans will enable the magician to gratify his needs and desires. One can then command these spirits by use of symbols, letters and signs.
Aleister Crowley considered the Book of Abramelin very important and made it part of his magical system in his secret society, Ordo Templi Orientis, or the O.T. O. Crowley streamlined his idea of the Abramelin ritual into Liber Samekh, the book written under the number 800, which promises the same Knowledge and Conversation of one’s Holy Guardian Angel (HGA).
Crowley planned to start the Abramelin operation on Easter, 1900. He began the preliminary steps by consecrating robes, oils, implements, and searching for a secluded location. He found a suitable house in the August of 1899 in the Manor of Boleskine overlooking Loch Ness in remote, far northern Scotland.
Eerie events occurred upon commencement of the Abra-melin operation. Crowley stated in his Confessions “the demons connected with Abra-melin cannot wait to be invoked; they come unsought.”178 The spirits afflicted nearby residents: a workman employed to renovate Boleskine house attacked Crowley and had to be forcibly restrained in the cellar. His housekeeper went on a three day drinking binge and then tried to kill his wife and children. While consecrating the necessary talismans, Crowley saw his lodge and terrace “became peopled with shadowy shapes, sufficiently substantial, as a rule, to be almost opaque. I say shapes; and yet the truth is that they were no shapes properly speaking.” Locals began avoiding all travel near Boleskine Manor.179
In 1904, Crowley received the most important information in his life from a discarnate entity named Aiwass. While in Cairo, Egypt, he was instructed to transcribe a document, which he titled “The Book of the Law.” The book became the centerpiece of his new religion.
In his magical masterwork, Magick in Theory and Practice, Crowley expounds upon the efficacy of blood sacrifice:
In any case it was the theory of the ancient Magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the animal this energy is liberated suddenly. The animal should therefore be killed within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be, so that its energy cannot escape....But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best.180
Crowley continually emphasized the importance of the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. “If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work.” He reveals to the reader what entity he considers his own Holy Guardian Angel:
THE BEAST 666 (Crowley) has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ — the solar-phallic-hermetic “Lucifer” is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and “The Devil” SATAN or HADIT of our particular unit of the Starry Universe.181
Thus, we can see the importance of the Abramelin magical operation to Crowley and clearly determine from his own statement contained in Magick in Theory and Practice, that his Holy Guardian Angel (HGA) was the Devil.
Gerald Brousseau Gardner holding Aleister Crowley’s walking stick, posing next to a skull.
Gerald Brousseau Gardner
Gerald Gardner was born in 1884 into a middle class family in Lancashire, England. Like Crowley, he inherited a significant amount of money. He became a member of the occult society the Freemasons in 1908 while visiting Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
In the 1940‘s, Gardner invented the occult doctrines of Wicca, and much like the Golden Dawn mythos, created a novel historical background for his new religion. He began codifying his religion, referencing The Lesser Key of Solomon, or Goetia, the writings of Aleister Crowley, and Aradia, the Gospel of Witches (1899), a novel based on an Italian witch cult in Tuscany. Gardner penned the books Witchcraft Today and The Meaning of Witchcraft. Gardner was described in the 1950's as "being about 5'6" tall and stocky with snow white hair and a goatee.” He was often seen wearing a tweed suit, a homespun wool jumper with sandals on bare feet. His reading glasses hung in a case from a cord around his neck, and his fingers were covered in magical rings. One ring spelled out his O.T.O. magical name "Scire" in letters of the Theban alphabet. Along with a nervous twitching of his hands and eyelids, his speech was reported as being rather jerky.
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