Lucifer’s Lodge - Satanic Ritual Abuse In The Catholic Church - By William H. Kennedy

  a branch of Christian theological studies called “apolo-
getics,” which is the art of refuting criticisms directed against the
orthodox interpretation of Christian scripture. Unfortunately,
many people whose religious interests could be classified as
‘occult’ also feel the need to resort to “apologetics” when con-
fronted by an orthodox Christian with the “Satanic” nature of
their beliefs. They claim that there is nothing “Satanic” or “Lucife-
rian” about their interests, and that the Christians are simply “mis-
interpreting” an ancient tradition that predates the concepts of
both Christ and the Devil. Some even claim to be more truly
‘Christian’ than their detractors, throwing around New Age terms
like “Christ-consciousness.”
The worst perpetrators of “Satanic apologetics” are those who
openly call themselves “Satanists,” especially members of the
Church of Satan. These people claim to speak for the Satanic tra-
dition, and yet they relegate Satan to the position of an “arche-
type” with no real existence. To them, Satan merely represents
‘intellectual rebellion.’ Their beliefs are, at bottom, atheistic, and
if they worship anyone, it is themselves.
What is really annoying is how Church of Satan members assume
that all other followers of Satanic traditions are like they are. Thus
the practice of Satanic apologetics spreads to the “debunking” of
phenomena like Satanic human sacrifice, Satanic Ritual Abuse,
and Satanic conspiracy theories. Recently, a Church of Satan rep-
resentative appeared on Linda Vester’s ‘Dayside’ show on Fox News, debunking the notion that Laci Peterson could have been
killed by Satanists. Real Satanists, she argued, are abstract philoso-
phers, embracing a system of self-empowerment. Real Satanists
have no desire to kill anybody. Real Satanists don’t even actually
worship Satan. This woman could not conceive that a group of
people who call themselves Satanists, or that are perceived as
Satanists by outsiders, might exist who do not share her abstract
notions about the “Satan archetype.” She could not conceive that
such a group might exist, perpetuating the ancient religious tradi-
tions of our ancestors: traditions that at one time definitely
included both human and animal sacrifice, and that would most
certainly be perceived as “Satanic” today. People like her believe
that Satanism, instead of stretching back to antiquity, was
invented out of a vacuum in  by Anton LaVey in Southern
California. Such a claim, of course, flies in the face of the numer-
ous cases of murders committed by people who later admitted to
being motivated by Satanism. While such cases are not epidemic,
they certainly do take place. There are also hundreds of murders
that take place in Africa every year as sacrifices to traditional Afri-
can gods. Similar animistic religions prevail throughout the Third
World, and in many cases have spread to the First World as well.
And while the number of human sacrifices taking place in the
First World is undoubtedly limited, the number of animal sacri-
fices made in the name of Voudon and Santeria is too high to be
counted. While the participants might not label themselves
Satanists, they are certainly worshipping demonic beings, and
their practices are perceived as such by outsiders.
But Satanic apologists will still tell you that nothing like this ever
takes place. I have heard similar arguments about Satanic Ritual
Abuse. While it is true that many of the alleged “victims” of SRA
who have gone public have since been proven to be lying, delu-
sional, or both, to say that such a thing “never happens” is to
ignore numberless incidents of bizarre human behavior. Further-
more, it is no real secret that “sex-magic” rites, including the prac-
tice of sexual aberrations, have formed part of certain occult
sciences from the very beginning. The practices of the priests of
Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and India all involved sex rituals,
with temple prostitution as an integral part of their tradition, as did those of the priesthoods of numerous other cultures. Judaism
and Christianity were really part of a comparatively small minor-
ity of religious traditions in the ancient world that did not
include, overtly at least, the practices of human sacrifice and
sacred sex—though the same can also be said of Confucianism,
Buddhism (at least in its original form), Islam, and probably Tao-
ism. Throughout the Old Testament, the priests of Israel are
shown struggling desperately to keep the public, the monarchy,
and even their fellow priests pure of the religious taint of the hea-
then gods of their neighbors—an insurmountable task given that
they were confronted with a perpetual onslaught of overwhelm-
ingly persuasive influence. This was especially the case whenever
the sons of Israel made wives or concubines of the women of hea-
then nations. Wise King Solomon is famous for having dabbled in
the magical arts, but he is equally well-known for his exceptionally
large harem of foreign women. It perhaps goes without saying that
the sex practices of these ancient cults rarely stayed within the
bounds considered acceptable by modern standards. Homosexual-
ity, bestiality, incest, and group orgies were common, and there
was certainly no age restriction on the participants, nor any
requirement that the participants be consenting. Rape was com-
mon, and the murder of the victim before, during, or after the sex
rite was common as well. Infanticide or abortion was not an
uncommon end for the unhappy fruits of these unions. In other
instances, the children were raised with privileges, as the divine
offspring of the god to whom the ceremony had been dedicated.
Indeed, the tradition of sex magic begins with the myth of a mat-
ing between gods and humans. I speak, of course, about the inter-
breeding between the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men”
recounted in Genesis . This incident is elaborated upon greatly in
the Book of Enoch and other apocryphal texts, where these “sons of
God” are also referred to as “the Watchers,” and are described as
fallen angels. the Book of Enoch portrays the Watchers as being
consumed with lust upon the sight of human women, and
describes how, as they descended from Heaven, “their parts of
shame hung down like horses.”