Don't Be Duped Over Halloween.
Learn The Truth About Your Own Heritage.
Ever wondered why snipe-nosed
religious zealots get so upset by Halloween every year and spend
more effort trying to spoil all the kid's fun than seeing to the
REALLY important problems in life?
Why do these killjoys get so hot
under the collar about what amounts to a yearly fancy dress party
where the kids get a chance to turn the tables on the adults and
have fun with harmless harum-scarum jokes and tricks? There must be
more to it than appears at first glance. There is and you will be
astonished to learn the truth and how it effects you. Halloween is
the last vestiges of a powerful culture which has been written out
of the history books. The religious fanatics who did that want to
keep YOU blind. They don't want you to know that for thousands of
years before Christian Missionaries arrived at our shores we already
had a successful, workable and highly effective British Heritage
which knocked the spots off theirs. The fact is that Christianity is
not our 'normal' culture. Britain was MISSIONISED.
Christianity was imposed upon us
just in the same way that missionaries invaded Africa and destroyed
all the native religions there. Just in the same way that they did
it in Australia to the Aborigines and in North America to the
Amerindians. Just as they are doing it again, right now as you read
this, to tribes in the Amazon basin. Destroying or corrupting the
original successful native culture and their ancient beliefs and
folklore which are deemed 'incompatible' with Christian Supremacist
doctrines.
Britain has a vital, expansive
and valuable Celtic Pagan Culture which the Christian Church has
tried to suppress for over a thousand years. Halloween is symbolic
as the only completely pagan festival which they have been unable to
usurp. EVERY major Christian festival in this country is based upon
a Pagan festival. All the really enjoyable parts of these occasions
are leftovers from the original pagan festivals and are part and
parcel of the ancient culture of our peoples.
The Christmas Yule Log fire,
Christmas trees, santa claus, giving presents, mistletoe, ribald
carols, Morris Dancing, St George & the Dragon, Easter Eggs,
etc, etc. These are just a few examples - our whole culture is shot
through with pagan influence and folklore. Its collective meaning
and identity is lost because in the book of British Heritage the
religious fanatics have re-written between the lines.
The first missionaries
befriended the easy going pagans and then amalgamated their worship
with ours building churches on pagan sacred hills and sites,
incorporating pagan altars in the churches and dedicating them with
representations of pagan nature spirits carved upon roof bosses etc.
Bit by bit the Christian missionaries usurped the British Pagan
Heritage but later when they had obtained political power, they used
the iron first of intolerance to outlaw paganism and wipe out the
pagan culture using lies and deceit. The official Histories were
re-written and in order to keep this massive lie under wraps we have
been treated to a thousands years of evil propaganda about how awful
witches and pagans were supposed to have been.
Our nursery rhymes are replete
with Good Fairys but never Good Witches even though the first free
National Health service was run by Witches who used their knowledge
of herbal lore and drugs to heal their communities free of charge or
for a pittance.
Instead we are conditioned in
childhood to identify the 'The Wicked Witch' stereotype; ugly,
deformed, nasty & withered. The very word Paganism is identified
with barbarous acts, profanity and defilement in the popular mind.
The hatchet-job continues in the Oxford English Dictionary. When
defining Hinduism it says
"The doctrines and rites of Hinduism.
When defining Pagan it states
"One who worships false Gods".
Of course the gods of Hinduism
and Celtic Paganism are derived from the same source but the OED,
one of the most respected academic institutions in the world
continues to refuse to change its clearly prejudiced definition of
Paganism; and so the British public continue to be insulated from
their heritage
Yet the truth is that the Pagan
culture is one of the most gentle, all-embracing, socially
responsible, pluralistic, easy-going, pro-ecological, anti-sexist,
anti-racist, life-loving beliefs in the world. Paganism in fact has
for thousands of years embodied those communal values, social
morality and ecological responsibility which have recently been
'discovered' by people everywhere.
They were there all the time of
course. Conclusions and perceptions which have been heavily
suppressed for over a thousand years by people like those who
campaign about Halloween. What do the anti-Halloween
stick-in-the-muds say to you? They say:
'DO NOT LOOK, DO NOT LISTEN, DO NOT
INVOLVE YOURSELF in anything to do with Halloween FOR IT IS EVIL. IT
WILL HARM YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN. IT WILL HARM OUR SOCIETY .'
When what they REALLY mean is
that if you find out the truth it will destroy THEIR power over you
because you will escape the thrall of their spiritual terrorism.
Christian evangelists would have you believe that before
Christianity came to our shores that our British ancestors, YOUR
British Ancestors, were part of a vile licentious, criminal, society
who were in league with the devil and that by observing their
festival of Halloween (the Ancient Celtic fire feast of 'Samhain')
you are allowing their influence to continue to harm and affect our
society in some unspecified way.
This is LUDICROUS.
The truth is that the Celts were extremely able and talented
people with a brilliance for art and innovation. They were the
original Europhiles. The Celts believed in reincarnation and so to
them life and death were but cycles of maturity in a divine plan.
This 'infinite' philosophy gave a completely different perspective
to life than the finite, one-time-hit,
get-it-all-right-or-go-to-hell state of paranoia which
fundamentalist Christianity espouses. To the Celts Halloween was
looked forward to with anticipation as an opportunity to remember
the beloved Grandparents, parents, tribal chiefs and immediate
generations of ancestors who had already passed to
the'summerlands'.
They feasted and celebrated on
'autumn-fruits'. To the Celts it was their 'new year' and their
calendar turned at this point. Psychically it was believed to be a
special time of year when the veil between the world of spirit and
the physical world grew thin enough to enable divination to succeed
and the whole festival was one of a joyful reunion tinged with
mystery and imagination. A positive look towards the future beyond
the dark winter ahead.
The festival is not unique to
the Celts. The ancient Egyptians had a similar festival where mummys
of ancestors were brought out to celebrate with the living. Judaism
has its feasts of the dead where the departed are remembered and
vestiges of similar celebrations occur in other
religions.
Halloween was the last Pagan
festival to be suppressed. There was no equivalent celebration in
Christianity until 993 AD when the feast of All-hallows was invented
and overlaid onto the Ancient Samhain festival. From that point on
the church attempted to change the nature of Halloween and pervert
its original symbolism. They are still doing it.
Halloween Killjoys therefore
want to ban the festival for both political and personal reasons.
First they don't want Europeans to even know that they have a
bona-fide religious alternative which existed for thousands of years
before Christian evangelical missionaries came to brainwash us into
their absolutist theocracy and suppress the valuable traditions of
the British Heritage.
Secondly, they are themselves a
product of the up-tight, narrow-minded restrictive, puritanical
philosophies of the fundamentalist interpretation of the bible. They
can't release the joie-de-vivre in themselves and hate to see a joy
of life in others unless it conforms to their inflexible code of
morality and conduct. Remember that the people who campaign to ban
Halloween aren't 'ordinary' Christian folk, they are activist
religious fanatics. Fundamentalists who flaunt their
social-responsibility before the media but keep their
'hidden-agenda' of subconscious racism and religious
suppression quiet.
They might SEEM like everyone
else but they are NOT. By definition fundamentalists believe that
the devil really exists. That's right they believe that a
personified form of the devil lurks somewhere out there lying in
wait to attack and possess people. That his demons can infest the
bodies of everyone who has not committed their life strictly by
biblical writ. This barmy Supremacist philosophy immediately groups
people into two classes, those that are human and those that have
become non-human because they don't believe in the same gods. The
Jews, the Gypsies, the Aboriginies and the Maories are all very well
aware of the despicable treatment meted out to people who are
considered non-human. Cultural Prejudice is at the root of ALL
racial and sexual prejudice and overcoming it is the key to true
pluralism. Our society has yet to learn that but it will have
to if we want to live in harmony in a true
global-community.
These Christian Supremacists
come on strong with their self-righteous moralising using
window-dressing debates which sound like reasonable arguments. No
one ever asks them about their OTHER campaigns or beliefs. The fact
that they consider ordinary Christian Folk, no matter how pious they
may be, to be agents of the devil unless they undergo exorcism and
conform to the fundamentalist's unreasonable interpretation of
biblical writ. Halloween is the thin end of the wedge. When you
support their banning of Halloween celebrations in schools you are
not saving children from danger, you are giving in to spiritual
terrorism, to emotional blackmail and thereby lending power to
pernicious people who want to also outlaw homosexuality, alternative
healing, rock-music, sex education, one-parent families, divorce,
artificial insemination, transplant surgery, ethnic schools,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and any other religion which they see as
'competing' with their theocracy. That's the kind of treatment they
have given Paganism over the past thousand or so years. Well here's
the real truth of the matter:
The terms Witchcraft and
Paganism are interchangeable but Witchcraft/Paganism has nothing
whatsoever to do with Satanism. Witches/Pagans do not believe in the
devil. The Devil is a Christian concept. We have no devil-figure in
our cosmology. We do not worship the Devil so don't project your
repressed psychoses onto us. The devil was invented by Christian
theologists to account for the ever present evil occurrences in a
world which is supposedly controlled by an omnipotent &
omniscient god. If god created and controls the world then he/she/it
must also have created and therefore be responsible for the evil in
it. If God does not create & control evil then he/she/it
is not omnipotent and therefore not the all powerful and only god.
To escape this chicken-and-egg situation theologians came up with
THE DEVIL.The fallen angel whom God DID create in order to inflict
pain, death and suffering upon us so we can be 'tested' to see
whether we are good enough to get into heaven. We are told that we
have freewill and that we don't HAVE to suffer evil; we have a
choice between God or The Devil. (Some choice)
The matter of the deaths of
millions of people who have been killed en-masse by natural
disasters such as earthquakes and tidal waves is another thing
entirely. Pagans/Witches , on the other hand, realise that all evil
comes from within the individual and is caused by spite, vengeance,
misjudged actions or inactions in the face of questions of
principle. We believe that evil is a power HUMANS exert and can only
be erradicated by an understanding of self, a fulfillment of human
potential within a sympathetic culture which glorifies idiosyncrasy
and difference instead of attempting to stamp out individuality
through the imposition of artificial values.We recognise and accept
the personal responsibility for one's actions on other
people.
Paganism/Witchcraft is very
similar in its practical applications to Humanism except that we
believe in a divine force or Creative Intelligence which permeates
and vitalises everything in an inextricable matrix which connects
all sentient and non-sentient things. Pagans are not anti-Christian
and co-exist with all other non-absolutist beliefs.
Now we come to the final gambit
which the spiritual gangsters DEFINITELY don't want you to consider.
To keep THIS quiet they have killed MILLIONS of people on trumped up
charges throughout history. Satanism is an exclusive part of the
Christian Theology. As defined by Christian Theology the idea of
Satanism appears nowhere else in world religions. Even Judaism, who
gave the word Satan into our language from their word SHAITAN do not
consider Satan in the same superstitious way that fundamentalist do,
rather they see instead a natural force of negativity. If you like
the negative part of the inner conscience which justifies acts which
the personality knows to be wrong and a necessary part of the inner
dialouge of self above which we must all rise. In Biblical Hebrew
SHAITAN means 'adversary'.
The autonomous evil/demonic
force attributed to it by Christian fundamentalists is entirely
unique to their mind-set. accordingly without their unique construct
of Satanism, Christianity would be incomplete. By inventing the
antidote along with the poison they have a captured market. In order
to become a Satanist you have to be a lapsed Christian and believe
not only in the same devil, but the same god. Satanism and
Christianity are therefore two ends of the same stick. That's right.
Christianity perpetuates itself by generating its own evil. They get
away with doing this by scapegoating Paganism/Witchcraft and
confusing us with Satanists. Of course whilst people are prepared to
project the blame for their own actions onto scapegoats then evil,
injustice and intolerance will continue to exist ad infinitum. In
fact that's the spiritual feedback loop which we've been locked into
for a thousand years.
Amazingly all that is needed to
break the cycle is a look beyond the obvious into our own heritage.
An easy thing to do but something which up until 1951 was ILLEGAL
and which has been socially TABOO for over a thousand
years.
There we go. You thought the
controversy over Halloween had something to do with the danger from
dark occult forces. Now you know that it has more to do with
controlling and suppressing independent thought and action. The
bottom line is that this isn't a Christian vs Pagan conflict. It is
a power-play by a handful of unrepresentational religious fanatics
who want to reinstate a theocracy. In order to do so they use
medieval superstition to manipulate the insecurities of the
ignorant. The fundamentalists claim that they are protecting the
weak and gullible in our society. In fact those are exactly the
people they seek to gain control over with their fear and
superstition. The people who will eventually suffer from their
enforced ignorance.
Do society and yourself a
favour. Don't entertain these people. Don't provide them with the
arena of argument which they thrive upon to further their ends. See
how they have blinded you. Seek the truth. Seek your own heritage
and know it as it is.
(c) world copyright holders:
The Sub-culture Alternatives Freedom Foundation (S.A.F.F.) Leeds,
Yorkshire, U.K.
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