TO BE CONTINUED – LINKS, NOTES, AND ADDITIONAL RESEARCH TO BE ADDED

Update 6: At Alabama.com, there is a report that, although the Black Mass at Harvard was canceled, members of the Satanic Temple of New York, the sponsors, did meet at 10 PM at the Hong Kong Restaurant, near the campus, dressed mostly in black.

Update 5: Just this morning I found an email with an adl.org address, which argued that Devyani Khobragade’s lawyer Daniel Arshack had mishandled her case deliberately because he was Jewish.

Of course, since I followed the case closely, I know this isn’t true.

Arshack made the best of a case the DOJ was intent on pursuing and cleverly outwitted Bharara.  Bharara always had the option to reindict, whatever Arshak did or didn’t do.  It could be a genuine email and perhaps I am mistaken about Arshack.

But I think he did what it took.

So why the email? Probably to hint to  me that the post below might be construed as anti-Semitic. Well, I take such warnings seriously and I revised my writing to see if I had jumped to any unwarranted conclusions. I don’t think I did. So the piece stands….. and the email goes.

Update 4

A site devoted to ritual abuse documents Doug Mesner’s long-time involvement in harassing and defaming people involved in ritual abuse research and therapy, which has even led to actions for defamation.

Update 3 The Harvard club was not able to find another location and the Mass has been canceled.

Update 2

The Satanic Temple of New York claims to be a group that is not supernaturally oriented and uses Satan as a literary metaphor of rebellion against superstition and authority and not a genuine Satanic group, like that of Anton LaVey.

In the interview linked above, Doug Mesner  (aka Lucien Greaves, Douglas Misicko) the founder, explains that the purpose of his group is satirical, not religious.

He founded it to expose hysterical claims in the early 1990s that large numbers of children were being subjected to ritual sex-abuse by Satanists in the public-school system and to debunk the advocates of repressed memory syndrome who testified on their behalf in court.

In “Mobs, Messiahs and Markets,” (2007), following the lead of Counterpunch editor and noted propaganda analyst, Alexander Cockburn, I adopted the same position on the subject, only to find out later that, while it was true that there was mass panic in the 1980s and 1990s, much of it had been fomented to muddy the cases of real ritual child-abuse perpetrated by the intelligence agencies as part of covert mind-control related operations.

Alex Constantine, who researches mind-control and sex-abuse trauma, writes of Cockburn:

“Alex Cockburn’s skepticism toward ritual abuse was summed up in an editorial appearing in the February 8, 1990 Wall Street Journal, “The McMartin Case: Indict the Children, Jail the Parents.” The son of a British spy, and a loquacious defender of the Warren Commission, Cockburn has such strong feelings about the McMartin case that he once publicly maligned an editor of the L.A. Weekly for refusing to print a recommendation that “the tots bearing false witness in the McMartin preschool case be jailed for perjury.”

His primary source on the subject of child abuse, Debbie Nathan, is herself something of a false witness.

In ‘What McMartin Started: The Ritual Abuse Hoax” (Village Voice, June 12, 1990), Ms. Nathan moaned that “children at McMartin told of being molested in tunnels under the school. None were ever found, but until recently parents were still digging.” In fact, 30 days before Nathan’s article appeared, the tunnels were discovered beneath the preschool by scientists hired by the parents, confirming the testimony of the children. The project employed a team of archeologists from local universities, two geologists, a professional excavator, a carbon-dating specialist and a professional photographer to document the dig’s progress and findings. The longest tunnel was six feet beneath the preschool, running eastward 45 feet from the southwest wall, and ten feet along the north wall. The tunnel walls were held in place by support beams and a roof of plywood and tarpaper. A branch of the tunnel led to a nine-foot chamber (the “secret room” described by the children?). Another extended from the preschool to the triplex next door, surfacing beneath a roll-away bathtub. Forensic tests on thousands of objects found at the site – including two hundred animal bones – were conducted.”

In 2007, a senior libertarian activist informed me that Cockburn was himself affiliated with the left-wing of the CIA. I’d by then come to suspect some such thing, given the gate-keeping of Counterpunch on 9/11 research. I stopped writing for them around that time. Later, delving into “conspiracy research,” I came to the conclusion that ritual mind-control sex abuse was real, even if all the evidence for it swirling on the web was densely muddied with disinformation. [Just for balance, here is the conventional skeptical view, promoted by Chip Berlet and SPLC, of so-called satanic ritual abuse.]

In a similar way, the “Temple of Satan” and its staged school-yard affronts might provide cover for genuinely occult ritual practitioners. More later on this.

Update 1: The Black Mass has been moved off campus, under pressure from Catholic groups.

ORIGINAL POST ( incomplete, being written in real time):

Note: I am going to publish this piece as I write it so it is on the net, before the time of the Mass. That means, links and addictions, corrections and revisions, mistakes and rethinks, will all appear in real time. Bear with me and check back for the changes.

Harvard Extension School Cultural Studies Club is planning on holding a Black Satanic Mass, in parody of the Catholic church, this evening in conjunction with the New York-based Satanic Temple.

This is the website of the Satanic Temple.

It was embroiled only earlier this year in another controversy, when it applied for a permit to build a statue of Satan next to the Oklahoma State Capitol, where a monument to the Ten Commandments had been built in 2012..

The parody of communion is a favorite practice of Satanists in the tradition of Aleister Crowley, the notorious English occultist.

Crowley, like so many Western “occultists” simply studied yoga and Tantric Saivism from traditional practitioners in South India, (specifically in the Madurai Meenakshi temple, close to where my grandmother lived), then misused and perverted the texts to boost his own ego and suit his own ends. The general belief is that Crowley exaggerated his practices. This version of the story can be found at wiki:

Following a mountaintop sex magic ritual, Crowley also performed an invocation to the demon Choronzon involving blood sacrifice, considering the results to be a watershed in his magical career.^[91] Returning to London in January 1910, Crowley found that Mathers was suing him for publishing Golden Dawn secrets in The Equinox; the court found in favour of Crowley. The case was widely reported on in the press, with Crowley gaining wider fame.^[92] Crowley enjoyed this, and played up to the sensationalist stereotype of being a Satanist and advocate of human sacrifice, despite being neither.^[93]

But I’m inclined to believe that this just a sanitizing of his history for public consumption. Whatever the truth, Crowley’s writings on magic dwelt a great deal on the need for blood sacrifice in Magic/

From Magic in Theory and Practice (Chapter 12):

“It is necessary for us to consider carefully the problems connected with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in Magick. Nigh all ancient Magick revolves around this matter. In particular all the Osirian religions — the rites of the Dying God — refer to this. The slaying of Osiris and Adonis; the mutilation of Attis; the cults of Mexico and Peru; the story of Hercules or Melcarth; the legends of Dionysus and of Mithra, are all connected with this one idea. In the Hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. The first ethical lesson in the Bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the Lord is the sacrifice of blood; Abel, who made this, finding favour with the Lord, while Cain, who offered cabbages, was rather naturally considered a cheap sport. The idea recurs again and again. We have the sacrifice of the Passover, following on the story of Abraham’s being commanded to sacrifice his firstborn son, with the idea of the substitution of animal for human life. The annual ceremony of the two goats carries out this in perpetuity. And we see again the domination of this idea in the romance of Esther, where Haman and Mordecai are the two goats or gods; and ultimately in the presentation of the rite of Purim in Palestine, where Jesus and Barabbas happened to be the Goats in that particular year of which we hear so much, without agreement on the date.”

Another significant connection, for my purpose, is that between Crowley and pedophile practitioner and advocate, dean of the sexual revolution in America, Alfred Kinsey.

In “Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences,” Judith Reisman  has extensively documented Kinsey’s crimes, showing a link between pederasty (and pedophilia) and infanticide, as well as the consumption (cannibalism) of children.

This link is apparent to anyone who has studied the history of serial-killers. A disproportionate number of them were homosexuals who not only assaulted their victims, but ate their body parts.

I want to make it very clear that the statistical study of these ties is inadequate. Correlation is not causation, and many would even dispute correlation, given that the numbers of serial killers is not large enough to adequately study the proportion of homosexuals among them.

Nonetheless, the findings are significant:

“One hundred and three news stories involved the rape and/or murder of children: 90 involved the molestation and murder of a child or children, 11 stories involved only the abduction and rape of children, and two the rape and mutilation, but not the murder, of the children involved. Of the 90 news stories where the child was raped and murdered (0.47% of the unique child molestation stories), 40% involved homosexual molestation.”

What is ever more fascinating is that, other research shows that lack of children and abandonment by family members are significant enough to figure as predictors of serial-killing. Military service is also a factor in prediction for serial killers in the US. (This is in contrast to such widely-accepted predictors as childhood abuse, which turn out to be irrelevant).

Here is Reisman talking to the Catholic magazine, The Wanderer:

“Kinsey, Reisman further explained, was an adoring disciple of Britain’s “great beast,” Alastair Crowley, considered the “prophet of pedophilia” and a known satanist.

The Wanderer asked her if there was a link between satanism and pederasty, and she responded:

“Yes, certainly….

“There is a direct link between Kinsey and Crowley, as I showed in my book, Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences.

“Kinsey visited Crowley’s lair or ‘abbey’ in Sicily, as a pilgrim who goes to a religious place of holy worship. Crowley, we know was involved in ritualistic sacrifices of various kinds, including the ritualistic sexual abuse, and deaths, of children. Kinsey went to Crowley’s lair to adore Crowley’s images of people in copulatory positions.

“Kinsey’s promotion of children as sexual objects for adults to consume is of a piece with Crowley and the whole concept of satanic human sacrifice. Clearly, we sacrifice our children when we engage in sex with them. Those who do it, know it.

“Pedophilia, or more commonly, pederasty, is a form of human sacrifice. Anyone who assaults a child sexually knows they are not only killing that child’s soul, but some would say, from a psychotherapeutic perspective, they are turning that child into a dysfunctional, self-destructive individual, and they know the child-victim will also act out on other children, perhaps hundreds, the rest of his life, and so the human destruction is perpetuated.”

In this respect, recall that the self-styled Duke Porn star, Belle Knox (who, in my opinion, is a mind-control victim), said that she was being “consumed” by porn watchers who then hypocritically condemned her.  This was taken as an astute comment on the commodification of sex as a consumer item. But it was a double-entendre. She was hinting at and approving her consumption as a near-underage girl by a pedophilic culture

In case you think this is a wild reading of her words, consider that Mike Kulich, who made the porn contract offer to the Duke student, Thomas Bagley, runs a porn distribution company called Monarchy Distribution.

Monarch is the name given to an alleged mind-control program spun out of the better-known and better documented CIA program called MK Ultra.

So-called “conspiracy sites” claim that Satanism or some version thereof, is the religion practiced surreptitiously by the elites of what is called the New World Order, but I believe there is an alternative case to be made that events like the spurious Black Mass performance are orchestrated provocations directed at conservative Christians. They are intended to polarize debate in the country, demonize and misrepresent non-Christian traditions  (and make them the victims of the inevitable backlash), as well as distract from important foreign policy issues. They might also be intended to provoke anti-Semitism and religious conflict.

Be that as it may, the debate is inadequate without noticing the date of the controversy.

Today is May 12, which is the day in 1942 when the first train-load of Jews, some 1500 of them, arrived at Auschwitz, the worst of the Nazi camps where Jews (and many others) were exterminated during World War II.

Auschwitz, for the ruling elites, was the Holocaust (sacrifice) that enabled the Jews to acquire the Promised Land.

The number of Jews who died – still controversial  in some circles- is reckoned as 6 million, which has a sacred significance in Talmudic lore.

It was the number mentioned as the number of those “lost,” apparently long before the actual Nazi extermination.

The reason given by students of number symbolism is that the number six in the Talmudic prophecies pertains to Man (since man was created on the sixth day in the Book of Genesis), while the number ten represent the Kingdom of God realized on earth (Malkuth in the Sephiroth).

The 600,000 number multiplied by 10 became 6 million, according to this number symbolism.

Thus, one of the keys to contemporary secular eschatology, wherein the Jews and Israel become the salvation of the world,  lies in number symbolism and ancient Hebrew prophecy of the necessity of “losing six” (six million Jews) if the Jews are to return to Israel.

[I will research this angle some more, to make sure I have not been mislead by anti-Semitic propaganda or government-created disinformation.]

I believe that the Harvard Black Mass, as well as some other events in the last few days, are connected to this May 12 anniversary of Auschwitz.

First, very relevant to the Black Mass story is the abortion video published by abortion activist Emily Letts on Youtube last week, which I called out as a snuff movie as soon as I saw it.

The video was was replete with black-magic symbolism.

Let me point out some of it:

First. Moral inversion (Vampirism is good).

The perverse equation here is between giving birth to a child and murdering it. This is a typical moral inversion of the kind used in Satanism.

Notice that Ms. Letts was not equating birth and death, as religious texts often do when they teach that death to the physical world is birth in the spiritual world.

That  belief gives value to asceticism and self-restraint.

Instead,  Letts equated murder (the taking of another person’s life) with the increase of her own life, which is a form of vampirism.

Her words marked the abortion as ritual infanticide, intended to appease spirits or demonic powers.

Infanticide of this kind was typical of the worship of Molech or Baal in the Old Testament and it was forbidden to the Israelites.

Vampirism is exactly the opposite of the communion bread that Jesus offered to his disciples to give them eternal life.

Jesus’s sacrifice of his life – the definition of perfect love for others in Christianity  – is inverted into the Satanic ritual of taking life to increase one’s own.

The vampirism is especially evil because it is the perversion of the relationship between mother and child, the strongest of  human loves and one intended to reflect God’s love for each soul.

Second. Arrogation to herself of divinity. Letts portrays herself as a goddess.

The Letts video shows her humming and singing while contemplating her own ability to dispose of life and create it:

The non-graphic video focuses on her face and shows her breathing and humming through the procedure.”

(“Why I Filmed My Abortion,” Cosmopolitan, May 5, 2014)

Again, this is typical of Satanism. The capacity to give life is with God, not with Letts, who is only the vehicle.  In the Bible, Satan’s primary fault is wanting to usurp the position of God. Letts might well consider herself a goddess, but the reality is she is only a human being, pretending to be more, which is quite a different thing.

That this arrogation of the role of divinity was intentional is shown by the indifference displayed by the actress, which, if her purpose was to make her decision sympathetic, defeated her purpose. It back-fired by displaying the callousness and moral vacuity of the radical abortion position.

Now, if the sole intention of the video had been to remove the stigma of abortion, the video would surely have shown a more sympathetic figure, perhaps a woman who was sick, or had been raped.

Thus, I believe the motivation for the video was not what the sponsors of the video competition claimed.

I suggest that the idea all along was to promote a view of abortion as intentional, calculated killing, for the mother’s convenience. The objective was to efface the mother’s “sentimental” attachment to the child. That thesis is substantiated in an article in Salon, written earlier in the year by another abortion zealot.

Now, many people, including me, have felt something amiss in the whole narrative of the video. Some have suggested it was a hoax and Letts was not pregnant. I think the truth might be worse. I suggest that Letts deliberately got herself pregnant in order to kill the child to create the video.

I will explain why I think that in another post so as not to distract from the analysis of the symbolism here.

Third.  Preserving souvenirs of a killing.

Explaining why she made the video, Letts wrote a long piece at Cosmopolitan (Why I Filmed My Abortion), claiming that she was just as attached to her sonogram, as most people are to a child.  She made a rather bizarre claim that if her house were on fire, the first thing she would grab would be the sonogram. When I read this, I was immediately struck by the awkwardness of the story. It felt as if she had deliberately inserted this paragraph to follow some script. The “house on fire” symbolism is familiar to me from Buddhist texts, where the lusts of the body are said to feel like fire. Buddha asks us to flee the body, as a house on fire.  I first thought this was some kind of perverse reference to that. Perhaps it is.

But there is a more ready explanation. . In the worship of Molech, the children were thrown into the mouth of the idol so that they fell into the furnace below. The burnt bodies were the only souvenirs of what happened.

Could the “burning house” of the Cosmopolitan piece be a veiled reference to the charnel house of  Molech? And the sonogram, with its hieroglyphs, a veiled reference to the skeletal remains of the children.

Fourth. The invocation of sacrifice.

This interpretation gains weight when you notice another bizarre part of the Cosmopolitan piece – Letts’ insistence that women who kill their children, in spite of all the negative stories they hear about the ill-effects on their health or future fertility, as “sacrificing” these things, for the sake of killing the child:

“Yet women come into the clinic all the time terrified that they are going to be cut open, convinced that they won’t be able to have kids after the abortion. The misinformation is amazing, but think about it: They are still willing to sacrifice these things because they know that they can’t carry the child at this moment.”

Who talks about “sacrificing” when they are killing something, if not the practitioners of ritual sacrifice?

Of burnt offering? Burnt offering is exactly what the burning of children (House on fire) was in the worship of Moloch/Baal.

But “burnt offering” is exactly what the Holocaust means (It was at first called  Shoah (Catastrophe) by the Jews).

The genocide of 6 million Jews was the burned offering that enabled the Jews as a people to regain the land of Israel.