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The Occult Origins Of Santa by jamst(m): 9:14am On Dec 27, 2014
Christmas is a dual holiday. On the same day
the birth of Jesus and the ideals of Christian
charity are celebrated, though there is a
simultaneous holiday which been foisted on
us by occult forces who exercise increasing
influence in our world. The other Christmas involves silly myths which include a fat man
in a red suit with magical powers who lives
in the North Pole. Santa is an anagram for Satan. Santa has no
Christian associations at all, but is rather the
survival of the ancient worship of the god of
the underworld, in the form of Saturn. The origin of Christmas is to be found in the 4
pagan seasonal holidays that coincide with
the ancient cycles of the dying-god,
symbolized by the Sun. They correspond to
the two solstices and equinoxes: Christmas,
Easter, St. John’s Day and Halloween. The dying-god, as god of the underworld,
was the form Lucifer was worshipped by
cultures outside of the Judeo-Christian
tradition. He was found among many
different peoples in ancient times, according
to different names depending on the cultures. The Egyptians worshipped Osiris, the
Canaanites Baal, the Babylonians Bel or
Marduk, the Greeks Dionysus and the
Persians Mithras. The dying-god was equated with Venus,
whose original Latin name was Lucifer.
Additionally, he was also represented by the
Sun, and equated with the planet Saturn,
“the nocturnal Sun”, to represent his
darker aspects. As god of the Underworld, he presided over the souls of the dead. And,
because primitive paganism elevated this
evil to the level of a god, it was regarded as
necessary to also render him worship. This
involved rites of apotropaic magic, meaning
to avert evil. While the good god required the performance of good, the evil god demanded
the performance of evil. Therefore, to
prevent his evil, or to direct it, or that of his
minions among the demons, against ones
enemies, it was necessary to perform evil
sacrifices, the most powerful of which was the slaying of a child. Thus, the Israelites were also accused of
sacrificing their own children to the Canaanite
god Moloch, another title for Baal. Moloch was
identified with Saturn, whom the Babylonians regarded as the “star of the Sun.”[1] The Greek myth of Kronos swallowing his
children was compared to the Carthaginian
worship of Moloch, or Saturn, by the ancient
historian Diodorus: Among the Carthaginians there was a brazen
statue of Saturn putting forth the palms of his
hands bending in such a manner toward the
earth, as that the boy who was laid upon
them, in order to be sacrificed, should slip off,
and so fall down headlong into a deep fiery furnace. Hence it is probable that Euripides
took what he fabulously relates concerning
the sacrifice in Taurus, where he introduces
Iphigenia asking Orestes this question: “But
what sepulchre will me dead receive, shall
the gulf of sacred fire me have?” The ancient fable likewise that is common among
all the Grecians, that Saturn devoured his
own children, seems to be confirmed by this law among the Carthaginians.[2] The origin of Christmas is the Saturnalia, an
ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity
Saturn, held on the 17th of December of the
Julian calendar and later expanded with
festivities through to the 23rd of December.
According to Porphyry, the Saturnalia occurred near the winter solstice because the
sun enters Capricorn, the astrological house
of Saturn, at that time. The Saturnalia is the best-known of several
festivals in the Greco-Roman world,
celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of
Saturn, in the Roman Forum, and a public
banquet, followed by private gift-giving,
festivities, and a carnival atmosphere that overturned Roman social norms. Slaves were
treated to a banquet of the kind usually
enjoyed by their masters. Saturnalian license
also permitted slaves to enjoy a pretense of
disrespect for their masters, and exempted
them from punishment. Imperial sources refer to a Saturnalicius
princeps who ruled as master of ceremonies
for the proceedings. He was appointed by lot,
and has been compared to the medieval Lord
of Misrule at the Feast of Fools. His inane
commands, such as “Sing naked” or “Throw him into cold water,” had to be
obeyed by the other guests at the convivium:
he creates and (mis)rules a chaotic and
absurd world. In The Golden Bough, Jame Frazer interpreted
an incident from the Acts of Saint Dasius, an
early martyrological text, as indicative of
human sacrifice in connection with the
Saturnalia. Dasius was a Christian soldier
who refused to play the part of the King of the Saturnalia when it was allotted to him,
and for his refusal was killed. Frazer then
surmises that the King of the Saturnalia was
originally a scapegoat victim who was killed
as a human sacrifice to Saturn at the end of
his festival. The popularity of Saturnalia continued into
the third and fourth centuries AD, and as the
Roman Empire came under Christian rule,
some of its customs have influenced the
seasonal celebrations surrounding Christmas
and the New Year. In one of the interpretations in Macrobius’ work,
Saturnalia is a festival of light leading to the
winter solstice, with the abundant presence
of candles symbolizing the quest for
knowledge and truth. The renewal of light
and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire at the
Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, the “Birthday of
the Unconquerable Sun,” on December 25. The cult of Sol Invictus, of Syrian in origin,
was harmonized with the cult of Mithras,
with which it was so similar that the two are
often confused. Ultimately, reserved for the
highest ranking members, and representing
the ultimate mystery, the ancient Mysteries of Mithras equated Mithras with the
Leontocephalus, a lion-headed and winged
god who was also equated with Hades, the
Greek Satan. The Leontocephalus has also
been identified with Saturn. According to
Ptolemy, the people of Persia and Mesopotamia “worship the star of
Aphrodite [Venus], naming it Isis, and the
star of Kronos [Saturn] as Mithras Helios (Sun).”[3] Saturn, known as the nocturnal Sun, and “Pluto”, Porphyry explained, “is
the Sun going beneath the earth and voyaging round the invisible world…” [4] Imposed by Roman emperors on their
subjects a century before Constantine, and
instead of being eliminated in the time of his
reign, it seems to have to have survived by
being absorbed into Christianity. In common
with Jesus, Mithras was born in a cave surrounded by animals and shepherds at the
Winter Solstice in December, dates that had
specific astronomical significance. In the
Julian calendar, the twenty-fifth of December
was reckoned the winter solstice, and was
regarded as the Nativity of the Sun, because from this date the length of the day began to
increase, and therefore, was regarded as the
day of the rebirth of the Sun-god and the
rejuvenation of life. The Gospels, however, say nothing as to the
day of Christ’s birth, and accordingly the
early Church did not celebrate it. In time,
though, the Christians of Egypt had come to
regard the sixth of January as the birth of the
Saviour, and that date gradually spread until, by the fourth century AD, it was universally
established in the East. Finally, however, at
the end of the third or the beginning of the
fourth century AD, the Western Church, which
had never recognized the sixth of January as
the day of the Nativity, adopted the twenty- fifth of December as the true date. Christian authors, like Justin Martyr and
Tertullian, noted the similarities between
Christianity and Mithraism, but claimed that
the mysteries were demonically inspired
imitations of the true Christianity. To Justin
Martyr: “Jesus took bread, and… said, “this do ye in remembrance of me, this is
my body”; and, after the same manner,
having taken the cup and given thanks, He
said, “this is my blood”; and gave it to
them… Which the wicked devils have
imitated in the mysteries of Mithra, commanding the same thing to be done.” [5] To Tertullian, “washing is the channel
through which they are initiated into the
sacred rites of some notorious Isis or
Mithras… at the Eleusinia they are baptized to
achieve regeneration, and the remission of
their sins. Which fact being acknowledged, we recognize here also the zeal of the devil
rivaling the things of God, while we find him, too, practicing baptism.” [6]] Tertullian states that Mithras “in the kingdom of
Satan, sets his marks on the forehead of his
soldiers; celebrates also the oblation of
bread, and introduces an image of
resurrection… What also must one say to
Satan’s limiting his chief priest to a single marriage: He too, has his virgins; he, too, his
proficients in continence… Satan has shown
such emulation in… administration of
Christ’s sacraments” that he “succeeded
in adapting to his profane and rival creed the
very documents of divine things and of the Christian saints.” [7] Effectively, although his mission began as
that of an orthodox Jewish reformer, Jesus
became the dying god of the mysteries,
whose death and resurrection was
celebrated every spring, known as Easter.
Most of the churches had decided to observe Easter replacing the Jewish Passover. The
Jewish Passover festival was ostensibly
celebrated to commemorate the night God
slew the firstborn sons of the Egyptians,
expect those houses marked with the blood
of a sacrificed lamb, which He passed over. In actuality, Passover was an assimilation of
the spring rites that celebrated the death and
resurrection of Tammuz. The Book of Ezekiel
speaks of as an abomination among the Jews,
with Jewish women sitting by the gate of the Temple weeping for the foreign god.[8]
Re: The Occult Origins Of Santa by jamst(m): 9:27am On Dec 27, 2014
Re: The Occult Origins Of Santa by Nobody: 10:34am On Dec 28, 2014
I've been suspecting this Santa of a Clause thing.
Re: The Occult Origins Of Santa by SeverusSnape(m): 10:39am On Dec 28, 2014
Conspiracy Theories!

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