The definition of "OCCULT": "Something hidden". You used to be able to walk into any bookstore in America and there was a whole section labeled "Occult". That has been replaced by the term "New Age". Remember, the New Age is not new. Satan has been trying to bring in the New Age or New World Order for thousands of years or since the time of the tower of Babel in the Old Testament.
Aleister Crowley was the first one to actually use the term "New Age" or "New Aeon" in his book titled "The Book of the Law" published in 1904. But the occult is really just satanism packaged in such a way to make it look attractive to unsuspecting initiates. Here are the characteristics of the Occult. Remember, all occultists are Satanists! All illuminati are occultists! So let's look at their bizarre belief system.

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The word Satan comes from the Hebrew word for adversary or enemy (Shaitan) and was adopted in Greek and Latin (Satanas) and modern languages. In the major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Satan is seen as basically the same entity. He was Lucifer, who through his arrogant pride desired to usurp God's status as the Supreme Being. God cast him into Hell with the other fallen angels (otherwise referred to as evil spirits, demons, devils), but they continue to influence the actions of those who unwittingly or (especially) wittingly permit it. To this day they act as adversary to God and His creation. Not all adherents of these religions today believe all these things. Many reject the idea of a devil at all. Some have even said that evil does not even exist; it's just a perception of lack of good. Satanic groups often also accept this, but they claim that Satan is the enlightener and Yahweh is the great enemy of mankind, inverting their cosmology much as they invert the Christian cross.
On June 6th, 1966 (6-6-66)--Anton LaVey Founded the Church of Satan!
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Yes, '66 was a classic year for the old Devil. That was also the year that Beatle John Lennon assured the world that Christianity was on the way out. Lennon admitted in an interview with Playboy that the Beatles were created by the Tavistock institute for the "soul purpose of introducing drugs like LSD into youth culture." 

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"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink... I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now." Lennon was a hypocrite who had peace on his lips but war in his heart. He went on to refer to Jesus as a yellow, garlic eating b-a-s-t-a-r-d." The Beatles as a whole were antichrist and by Lennon's statement, you can see THEY wanted to receive worship.
Lennon, McCartney, and the other Beatles promptly went over to India to worship Hindu gurus, and they introduced their gurus and other vestiges of Eastern mysticism to western culture. All done in a haze of marijuana, LSD, and cocaine. The irony of this is the youth of the day thought they were "doing their own thing." When in fact, they had been manipulated and mind controlled into living life on chemicals so they would be easier to control and less likely to put 2 and 2 together to see what was really happening to them.
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The Illuminati-supervised CIA helped things along. The rock concert "Woodstock was a CIA sponsored event. The U.S. intelligence agency put Satanist Jerry Garcia and his Grateful Dead band (Al Gore's favorite rock group, says Rolling Stone magazine) on its payroll.
The CIA, according to Gerald Heard and SRI International, distributed tons of LSD to a spaced-out youth generation. This was a mind control experiment of the Illuminati elite.

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The 60s saw Hollywood's satanic sex classic Rosemary's Baby hit theaters. It was a movie for which Church of Satan High Priest Anton LaVey acted as a consultant. Actor John Cassavettes, who played Rosemary's Satan-worshipping husband in the movie, also played in a role in the movie The Dirty Dozen.
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By the end of the indulgent decade of the 60s,
America had borne witness to blood murder, sexual perversion,and other Satanic mayhem on a truly epic scale, culminating in 1969's Manson Family murders. Satanist Charles Manson was inspired by Anton LaVey. Manson was also close friends with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and would stay at his home for extended periods of time.

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Others too were inspired by LaVey.
Famous actor/singer Sammy Davis, Jr., became both a religious Jew and a practicing Satanist, joining LaVey's macabre congregation of devil cultists.
Blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield also joined the cult, as did scores of other Hollywood and Las Vegas types.


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One can consider Satanism to be either anything which involves worship or service to Satan or the devil, whether referred to as Satan or as some other entity or deity with similar properties (such as Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction), or one can consider the official principles of the Church of Satan as listed in their "Nine Satanic Statements" written by Anton LaVey.
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1. Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence!;
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2. Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!; [The "spiritual pipe dreams" are other religions, such as Christianity, Satanists certainly don't practice religious tolerance]
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3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit!; [Wisdom in Greek is Gnosis, and Gnosticism plays a major part of Crowley's beliefs. Gnosticism is the belief that one attains enlightenment (even salvation in the schismatic Christian version of this) through esoteric, secret knowledge and initiations that place oneself on a higher plane than the unenlightened. It helps to use lots of Hebrew, Greek and Latin; jargon; and cryptic messages, to make it look all the more esoteric, and to help its adherents feel self-satisfied at the arduous work involved in absorbing the texts' messages]
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4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates! [Rather than loving your neighbor. One must take it upon oneself to play God and decide who is worthy]

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5. Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek! [Including Dead Agenting, even if not admitted or concealed]
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6. Satan represents responsibility for the responsible, instead of concern for psychic vampires!
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7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better more often worse than those that walk on all fours, who, because of his "divine and intellectual development" has become the most vicious animal of them all! [With emphasis on "divine"]
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8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification! [An obvious parody, but deadly serious. Thou shalt kill, thou shalt lie, thou shalt screw your neighbor's spouse and cat, and kill them after, or at least the cat, etc. Many satanic groups place great importance on this; the Cult Awareness Network, before being destroyed, reported that a common initiation ritual involved eating vomit and some sort of sex such as necrophilia or rape. The idea was to do something which was considered "as sinful and disgusting as possible", the more sinful the better, because that would "be pleasing to Satan"; this is why babies (sometimes adults, too) and pets have been deliberately killed in some of these cults.]
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9. Satan has been the best friend that the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all of these years! [Rather than humility, this "church" teaches an arrogant kind of pride, emulating Lucifer's arrogance. This attitude is not limited to this cult.]
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Anton LaVey was an admirer of Aleister Crowley, and actually felt that Crowley's disciples weren't wicked enough:
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"A few years earlier LaVey had explored the writings of Aleister Crowley, and in 1951 he met some of the Berkeley Thelemites. He was unimpressed, as they were more spiritual and less “wicked” than he supposed they should be for disciples of Crowley’s libertine creed." -SOURCE (The Church of Satan website, "Anton Szandor LaVey: A Biographical Sketch").
Aleister Crowley - Initiated to the highest levels of Freemasonry and high priest of the Golden Dawn, said ... "A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim."
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Birds of a feather flock together, and Anton LaVey relied heavily upon Aleister Crowley's philosophies...
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The Satanic Bible relied heavily on many writers of a philosophical nature, most notably Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aleister Crowley.
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Why would anyone glorify such an immoral, God-hating, bisexual, drug-addicted, Satan worshipping, degenerate individual as Aleister Crowley? Anton LaVey was of the Devil, just as was Crowley.
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Then there is this prayer from the _Book_of_Lies_. It obviously takes its form from (a mild term would be that it parodies) the Lord's Prayer (Our Father) of Christianity. OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis) organizations can be rather litigious about the Crowley works that are not under the public domain.
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{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Eta Beta}
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THE CRY OF THE HAWK
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Hoor hath a secret fourfold name: it is Do What
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Thou Wilt.
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Four Words: Naught-One-Many-All.
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Thou-Child!
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Thy Name is holy.
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Thy Kingdom is come.
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Thy Will is done.
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Here is the Bread.
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Here is the Blood.
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Bring us through Temptation!
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Deliver us from Good and Evil!
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That Mine as Thine be the Crown of the Kingdom,
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even now.
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ABRAHADABRA.
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Parodies of well-known Christian prayers, symbols and so forth are a major feature of Satanism as well, such as the Lord's Prayer recited backwards (Crowley felt that becoming an expert in reading, writing, speaking and understanding words backwards was essential. Thus came the 1970's fascination with backward lyrics on LP's) and the upside-down crosses. So this prayer by itself is not rock-hard evidence of Crowley being a satanist, but is very suggestive, especially when considered together with the very obvious satanism noted above. The pope has been seen and photographed with an upside-down cross behind him as well.

With these kind of things in the works and beliefs of Crowley, it is not surprising that Anton LaVey's Church of Satan considers Crowley one of its sources. A cursory net search reveals that plenty of overtly satanic-identified individuals and groups consider Crowley as one of their own, and his books are peddled along with "Hail Satan!" T-shirts on one site. This is not a case of ill-informed fundamentalists finding a "devil under every rock".
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Another relevant fact is that satanist rituals do at times "work". If performed it can cause some actual change to occur (that is Crowley's definition of magick, as well). The moral issue is not whether it works, but if it is morally and ethically right for the illuminati to subject people to the effects of such actions. Obviously if people knew what was going on, there would be riots in the streets! Now scientological rituals also "work" and has observable effects, but I think most readers of this newsgroup agree that it is harmful to both the practitioner and to others. This is not to say that all attempted magic has the desired effect, but it cannot be all dismissed as a hallucination either.
The illuminists and their henchmen are guiding the course of humanity. But it's going down the "lefthand" path or that of satan. The illuminists control the direction of this world through their secret clubs like Skull and Bones to which both George W. Bush and George Bush senior are members.
The Bilderbergers, The Club of Rome, The Trilateral commission, The Council on Foreign Relations are all Illuminati organizations where they plan and plot ways to bring the nations of world into the occultic New World Order. It's important to let the world know! Knowledge is one way of diverting this evil plot. Remember, The Lord said in the bible: "My people perish for lack of knowledge." Don't let that happen to you!

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"HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM"...EPH 5:11