You can’t make this magickal demonic stuff up folks. This story of magic, sexual assault and demons seems like it comes straight out of a Harry Potter script, but with a sick-pornographic twist.
Hull News is reporting that a self-proclaimed “psychic medium clairvoyant”, Ryan Halsey, 27, had operated a Harry Potter magic school has as gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting a young woman during a magic ritual in which he was trying to free from a “demonic attachment”.
The defendant, Halsey is accused of assaulting a young woman who was his student in her bedroom after trying to exercise her demons by asking her to take her T-shirt and bra off.
Perhaps the wannabe magician falsely assumed the demon may have been hiding in the woman’s bra.
The story is interesting given the fact that it details the facts presented in the case dealing with angry spirits who Halsey has an altercation with and poke him in the eye.
The prosecuting attorney asked the defendant to describe the spirit and he said; “It’s hard to describe, really. Like, erm, that particular spirit, it can do both; it can either become like a mist, or shall we say its energy form mostly, but then can shift very quickly into a human form as well. It was a particularly nasty one.”
He said he managed to “clear it out of the room” and said: “It’s not outside – cross it over completely.”
Halsey denies the crime and is now on trial at Hull Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Halsey had first been asked to go to the house after the family complained of “strange occurrences”, including “hearing footsteps” and “seeing a male figure”. The complainant also said she had seen an “old lady sitting in a chair”.
Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Halsey, who also works at B&Q, said during the first visit – which he attended with a woman he described as his “student” – he was involved in an “altercation” with a spirit and was “poked in the eye”.
“Were you really poked in the eye by a spirit?” asked Claire Holmes, prosecuting.
“Yes,” said Mr Halsey.
“Can you describe for us what happened during that altercation?” Miss Holmes asked.
‘Spirit got angry and attacked me’
Mr Halsey said: “It was just one of those things where they can try and – they get a bit angry shall we say – and like, try and attack me unfortunately, but I’m well protected anyway so it won’t harm me, but there was a few bangs, or whatever.”
“What would have caused the bangs?” Miss Holmes asked.
“Possibly the room itself,” Mr Halsey said.
“How can the room itself make a bang?” Miss Holmes asked.
Mr Halsey said: “When you get energy to a room, any collision can possibly create a sound.”
Asked to describe the spirit that attacked him, Mr Halsey said: “It’s hard to describe, really. Like, erm, that particular spirit, it can do both; it can either become like a mist, or shall we say its energy form mostly, but then can shift very quickly into a human form as well. It was a particularly nasty one.”
He said he managed to “clear it out of the room” and said: “It’s not outside – cross it over completely.”
Mr Halsey said the family were happy with what he had done but asked him to come back after further problems.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
A Pennsylvania grand jury recently released a report on the systematic ways Catholic priests aided and abetted one another to sexually abuse children for 70 years.
It reveals once again how the strict patriarchal hierarchy of the Catholic Church gives rise to conspiracies of silence and allows for routine cover-up of crimes. Cover-ups are also encouraged by clericalism – the belief that ordained priests are inherently superior and closer to God than the laity. This much has been demonstrated by countless observers.
But there is another, lesser-known factor contributing to the abuse, that I want to point out as a scholar of spiritual warfare in some forms of Christianity. This factor lies in the realm of belief: In some strands of Catholic thought, when priests abuse children, it is because they have been tempted by demons, and succumbed.
History of demon beliefs
The Catholic Church invites priests to view sexuality as a battle in the war between good and evil. Spiritual warfare is one name for this view of the world and it has a long history in Catholic teachings.
The idea of demons has been around since antiquity – in the Mediterranean world, the Middle East and elsewhere. In Christianity, preoccupation with demons reached its peak in the Middle Ages. Demons were explicitly defined by the church in 1215 under Pope Innocent III.
Theologians worked to identify classes and ranks of demons who operated under the authority of the devil himself. Demons were seen as fallen angels who disobeyed God and worked to subvert God and goodness.
Demons are malevolent beings who lord over specific domains of sin. Christians are called to battle evil, including evil that comes by way of the demonic. The more pious one is, the more intense will be the attacks from the demons.
After the Second Vatican Council of 1964, demons faded out of focus and exorcisms were rare. But my research shows that the spiritual warfare world view is on the rise in the Catholic Church. This is despite the fact that demons and exorcisms are largely viewed by most American Catholics as remnants of a medieval past.
In 1999, Pope John Paul II brought back a focus on the formal rites of exorcism – the official ritual that priests use to rid a person from demonic affliction or possession. The pope later recommended that every diocese in the Catholic world appoint and train an exorcist.
The Catholic Church in the United States took up the call and in 2012 founded the Pope Leo XII Institute in Illinois to support “the spiritual formation of priests to bring the light of Christ to dispel evil.” To this day it serves as a “school for exorcism and deliverance” of the laity from demons.
Under this belief system, in the battle for souls, demons can establish relationships with people who open the door to them through sin and disobedience to God. If someone masturbates, for example, which is a mortal sin, they are opening the door wider to demons of more serious sexual perversion.
Such demons include figures mentioned in the Bible such as Baal, the ancient Phoenician sun God, and his consort Ashtoreth, now viewed as a force of sexual immorality and perversion. Jezebel, the ninth-century B.C. Phoenician princess, lives into the modern era as a demonic personality who encourages illicit sexual acts, violence and rape.
Devil and role-play in one church
Writing for Commonweal, an American Catholic journal, one ex-seminarian described a formation, or training, workshop sponsored by his seminary. He described how participants were given nametags with the names of demons on them and asked to play the role of demons to tempt one another. He explained how they would choose one person and “hiss and curse” to entice him to “watch pornography” and “masturbate.”
The point, of course, was to train the participants how to choose chastity and to stand strong against sexual desire.
To be clear, this is only one documented instance. However, I would argue that it points to the Church’s current preoccupation with evil spirits and the need for priests to ritually remove that evil.
It is sobering that one seminary should choose to offer those training for a life of service and celibacy, a role-play of hissing demon impersonators, as a way to govern their conduct.
Medieval practices in today’s church?
Ascribing sexual desire to demonic temptation takes away the blame from the perpetrators. It puts the cause, the consequences, and questions of accountability into an invisible world populated by angels and demons, sin and repentance.
Suggesting that the offending priests were afflicted by demons is a version of “the devil made me do it.”
There is a second heartbreak. Many of the abused report feeling guilty, as if they had sinned themselves. I have heard from my own research participants that because sinning opens the door to more demons and more sin, then some abuse survivors think of themselves as being in relationships with personal demons and more vulnerable to demonic attack.
As investigations continue into the institutional factors allowing for this horrific abuse, it may also be pertinent to look into some of the intellectual and theological elements at the heart of the Catholic tradition.
For some branches of the Church, this includes the medieval world of demons.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
In my studies into the Gnosis of Jesus, I came across a peculiar text in the Sacred Writings of the Apocrypha of the New Testament as translated by The Ante-Nicene Fathers which details the early childhood of Jesus. It tells of a seldom-heard story of how Jesus was considered a child prodigy for his incredible superhuman abilities when it came to “knowledge of all things ie: True Gnosis” and also his magical abilities to heal and kill at will.
In fact, he was considered to be so smart that he regularly outwitted and admonished the more learned elders, priests and schoolmasters in public to the point that they became his disciples and believers. Below is an example of the Lord’s Gnosis that begins with a conversation between a schoolmaster named Zacchaeus with Joseph and the young magician, Jesus. The story details the Lord’s secret knowledge of letters and also how Jesus told the master about a certain Gnosis which he had never either heard or read in any book.
The Master then proclaims that Jesus is “more learned than all the masters” and “This son of thine has no need of instruction” – ie: DNA Gnosis.
Here is the story…
“There was, moreover, at Jerusalem, a certain man named Zacchaeus, who taught boys. He said to Joseph: Why, O Joseph, dost thou not bring Jesus to me to learn his letters? Joseph agreed to do so, and reported the matter to the Lady Mary.
They, therefore, took Him to the master; and he, as soon as he saw Him, wrote out the alphabet for Him, and told Him to say Aleph. And when He had said Aleph, the master ordered Him to pronounce Beth. And the Lord Jesus said to him: Tell me first the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I shall pronounce Beth.
And when the master threatened to flog Him, the Lord Jesus explained to him the meanings of the letters Aleph and Beth; also which figures of the letter were straight, which crooked, which drawn round into a spiral, which marked with points, which without them, why one letter went before another; and many other things He began to recount and to elucidate which the master himself had never either heard or read in any book.
The Lord Jesus, moreover, said to the master: Listen, and I shall say them to thee. And He began clearly and distinctly to repeat Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, on to Tau. And the master was astonished and said:
“I think that this boy was born before Noah.”
And turning to Joseph, he said: Thou hast brought to me to be taught a boy more learned than all the masters. To the Lady Mary also he said:
“This son of thine has no need of instruction.”
In the next scene, Bad Boy Jesus comes out again and his mother Mary again put him on house arrest because everyone who opposes him, he kills.
“Thereafter they took Him to another and a more learned master, who, when he saw Him, said: Say Aleph. And when He had said Aleph, the master ordered him to pronounce Beth. And the Lord Jesus answered him, and said: First tell me the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I shall pronounce Beth. And when the master hereupon raised his hand and flogged Him, immediately his hand dried up, and he died. Then said Joseph, to the Lady Mary:
From this time we shall not let him go out of the house, since every one who opposes him is struck dead.
And when He was twelve years old, they took Him to Jerusalem to the feast. And when the feast was finished, they indeed returned ; but the Lord Jesus remained in the temple among the teachers and elders and learned men of the sons of Israel, to whom He put various questions upon the sciences, and gave answers in His turn.” For He said to them : Whose son is the Messias P They answered Him: The son of David. Wherefore then, said He, does he in the Spirit call him his lord, when he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, that I may put thine enemies under thy footsteps?’
Again the chief of the teachers said to Him : Hast thou read the books? Both the books, said the Lord Jesus, and the things contained in the books. And He explained the books, and the law, and the precepts, and the statutes, and the mysteries, which are contained in the books of the prophets — things which the understanding of no creature attains to. That teacher therefore said: I hitherto have neither attained to nor heard of such knowledge: Who, pray, do you think that boy will be?
And a philosopher who was there present, a skillful astronomer, asked the Lord Jesus whether He had studied astronomy. And the Lord Jesus answered him, and explained the number of the spheres, and of the heavenly bodies, their natures and operations; their opposition; their aspect, triangular, square, and sextile; their course, direct and retrograde; the twenty-fourths,” and sixtieths of twenty-fourths; and other things beyond the reach of reason.
There was also among those philosophers one very skilled in treating of natural science, and he asked the Lord Jesus whether He had studied medicine. And He, in reply, explained to him physics and metaphysics, hyperphysics and hypophysics, the powers likewise and humours of the body, and the effects of the same ; also the number of members and bones, of veins, arteries, and nerves; also the effect of heat and dryness, of cold and moisture, and what these give rise to ; what was the operation of the soul upon the body, and its perceptions and powers; what was the operation of the faculty of speech, of anger, of desire ; lastly, their conjunction and disjunction, and other things beyond the reach of any created intellect. Then that philosopher rose up, and adored the Lord Jesus, and said:
Lord, from this time I will be thy disciple and slave.
While they were speaking to each other of these and other things, the Lady Mary came, after having gone about seeking Him for three days along with Joseph. She therefore, seeing Him sitting among the teachers asking them questions, and answering in His turn, said to Him: My son, why hast thou treated us thus? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee with great trouble. But He said: Why do you seek me? Do you not know that I ought to occupy myself in my Father’s house? But they did not understand the words that He spoke to them. Then those teachers asked Mary whether He were her son; and when she signified that He was, they said:
Blessed art thou, O Mary, who hast brought forth such a son. And returning with them to Nazareth, He obeyed them in all things. And His mother kept all these words of His in her heart. And the Lord Jesus advanced in stature, and in wisdom, and in favour with God and man.5 54. And from this day He began to hide His miracles and mysteries and secrets, and to give attention to the law, until He completed His thirtieth year, when His Father publicly declared Him at the Jordan by this voice sent down from heaven:
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased ; the Holy Spirit being present in the form of a white dove.”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“I personally think, and I know it’s not very Christian, but I actually think it’s a demon that’s within me. At some point and time, it entered me when I was young. And it basically controlled me.”
The confession above came from a devout family man and Church President who murdered 10 people in cold blood, including two children which spread fear across Wichita, Kansas, beginning in the 1970s.
Dennis Rader, 73-year-old, who dubbed himself “BTK” (Bind, Torture, Kill) pleaded guilty in 2005 for the deaths in which he “trolled” for victims, including his neighbors that he then shot, stabbed or strangled.
Here is a picture of Radar, the self-professed demon possessed carcass dressed up as one of his victims.
A new documentary on Oxygen Network titled “Snapped: Notorious BTK Serial Killer” will be airing on Sept. 2 to show the sick life of the man who posed as a seemingly normal dude by day, but brutally slaughtered people by night.
Rader said his problems began in grade school, with his sexual fantasies that were “just a little bit weirder” than other people’s.
“Somewhere along the line, someone had to pick something up from me somewhere that there was a problem,” he said. “They should have identified it.”
Radar meticulously stalked his victims, learned their pattern and chose them on a set of criteria. People who knew him said that he loved to exert his authority and control over others and was very focused on the rules to the point of being overzealous in his actions.
He was eventually caught as a result of mistakes like after hanging the girl, he masturbated on her legs, leading to his DNA being recovered which was compared in 2005 with a sample that the police managed to obtain from Rader’s own daughter.
Radar claims that all serial killers in history have what he calls the Factor X in common, which is this demon, making them to do things that they cannot control.
Here is an alleged drawing that the killer did who he said drove him to kill. He named him “batter”.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
A Catholic priest took to Twitter to warn the star of the new occult cable TV show Dark Tourist that he is in “great spiritual and physical danger”.
A priest named Father Klement tweeted his warning to David Farrier saying he may have “entered into a pact with a demon”.
The tweet came presumably is due to the seventh episode of Dark Tourist, in which Farrier meets a woman Voodoo priest who leads him through an elaborate initiation ceremony.
Klement said, “I am a Catholic priest and exorcist,” reads the message. “For your own good, I would like to inform you that you have entered into a pact with a demon by taking part in a decree of initiation voodoo.
“This fact exposed you to great spiritual and physical danger. If possible, and if you believe what I am saying, look for a priest to help you break this malefic link.”
Farrier then replied to the tweet of doom saying: “so basically I’m f****d.”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
