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.
“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.
For thousands of years before our present era, epilepsy was associated with evil demons and also ghosts that roam in the home at night.
As I mentioned in my article, The Babylonians Diagnosed Epilepsy As Demon Possession, the Ancient Babylonians were the first people in history to study and document the various human neurological and psychiatric disorders, including epilepsy. They believed that epilepsy was the cause of a supernatural disorder due to an invasion of the body by evil demons or spirits or the anger of personal gods.
The Babylonian demon of epilepsy was said to be called Lugalurra (bēl-urri/Lugal-urri/Lugal-ugri/Lugal-arri) which means “Lord of the Roof.”
For example, tow lines from the the text reads, “If a man approaches a woman on the roof, the Lugal-arra will seize him,” or “If a man approaches a woman on the roof, the (demon) Lurker (rabisu) will strike him with a stroke.”
Since the Babylonians play a large role in years leading up to the formation of Christianity, it should be no surprise to you that we find that the Lord of the Roof in the New Testament has a parallel in the Gospel of Matthew with the epileptic boy healed by Jesus is said to be possessed by “the Son of the Roof” (bar ˀeggārâ, Matthew 17:15).
The Ante-Nicene Christian Library: The Apostolic fathers (1870) says the Syriac word Peshitta translated in § 1, 79 as “The son-of-the-roof,” a Syriac phrase said to mean a demon of lunacy. A word used in Arabic of the devil producing insanity.
The lines read in transcription of the Babylonian tablets have been interpreted by researchers from the Institute of Epileptology from King’s College, London, United Kingdom, and †Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
summa am ˇ elu anta ¯ subb ˇ u b ˆ el¯ uri ¯ …qat etimmi q ¯ at m¯ am¯ ˆıti…
eli-su iba ˇ sˇsi al ˇ u lemnu ireddi- ˆ sˇu´…
They are translated as:
“If a man has been suffering from antasubb ˇ u, b ˆ el¯ uri ¯ , qat etimmi ¯ or qat m¯ am¯ ˆıti, and an alu lemnu ˆ then begins to inflict him with ideas of persecution…”
The researchers stated that the word antasubb ˇ u,ˆ is a understood to mean “the falling disease,” or what we call epilepsy characterized by major seizures. The term bel¯ uri – means literally “the lord of the roof.” It was this demon that supposedly caused epilepsy by lurking on the roof of a house.
The word qat etimmi ¯ means “the hand (power or influence) of a ghost.” The words alu lemnu ˆ translate, nonspecifically, to “evil demon.”
It is interesting that the Babylonians had said that epilepsy was caused by a demon and specifically, a demon called the Lord of the Roof who they thought actually “lurked on the roof of a house.”
Why the Lord of the Roof and why did they think this demon had resided on the roofs of their homes?
In my own experiences in dealing with the supernatural, modern science and “things that can possibly lurk on the rood on our modern homes,” I have met with a supernatural entity/organism that is intelligent, parasitical, and adversarial to humans to the point that it seeks to maim, eat and kill them.
Like the mythical Kronos, the real-life devourer of children…
This organism is the oldest living entity on earth. We know it as Mold in English and Fungus in Latin.
An evil demon like entity that lives on the roofs of houses and inside the walls and in the basement wreaking complete havoc and mayhem on the occupants of that same sid house unbeknownst to them until often, it is too late.
Here is some supporting evidence for my Babylonian theory on toxic parasitical molds being the true “Lord of the Roof.”
Mold makes Vancouver house uninhabitable – “Couple’s health, finances, wrecked by situation”
Craig and Shelly Johnson bought their Andresen neighborhood home 24 years ago. To the high school sweethearts, it was the perfect place to raise their kids and enjoy their future grandkids.
This summer, the Johnsons learned their dream home was poisoning them.
After a decade of unexplained chronic pain, fatigue, respiratory infections and debilitating headaches, Craig, 54, and Shelly, 50, learned the attic of their home was full of various varieties of black and white mold.
Mold forces Seminole County firefighters out of station, into trailer
Firefighters are not allowed inside the building during remediation and must sleep in the temporary trailer behind the building.
“The crews here knew there was likely going to be mold behind the cabinets, due to the leaks in the past,” Seminole County Fire Union President Jon Divita said.
9 Investigates obtained records that show concerns about leaks and mold were well-documented.
Spring 2015 maintenance notes stated, “There is a roof leak in the kitchen. It is above the cabinets to the left of the sink. Water is running down into the cabinets down the doors onto the counter.”
By December 2015, maintenance notes stated, “There is mold and wood rot that needs to be mitigated.”
MILAN, Illinois – A Milan homeowner says he and his family have been going through hell in a dispute with American Family insurance over toxic mold in their home and what caused it.
“They’ve been lying to us. They haven’t been up front and honest, they’ve been deceitful, just everything you would not expect from an insurance company,” said homeowner Jason Beeks.
He and his family have been forced to flee their home because of toxic levels of mold.
“Right now, the atmosphere inside the house is not live-able. It will kill you,” he said.
He says it started after a heavy wind and hail storm that hit the neighborhood on August 2, 2015. Several roofs were damaged, and Beeks filed claims on two vehicles and his 7-year-old roof.
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.
The first line (obverse) of the text of Tablet 26 from the Babylonian ‘Medical Diagnostic Series’ reads, “If epilepsy falls once upon a person [or falls many times] it is the result of possession by a demon or departed spirit.” (British Museum, London-See Kinnier Wilson and Reynolds, 1990)
This is known as the “epilepsy tablet” numbered 26 in a series of 40 tablets which comprise an early Babylonian treatise known as Sa-gig (Sumerian) or Sakikku (Babylonian), which is said to mean “all diseases”
The Ancient Babylonians were the first people in history to study and document the various human neurological and psychiatric disorders, including epilepsy. They believed that epilepsy was the cause of a supernatural disorder due to an invasion of the body by evil demons or spirits or the anger of personal gods, which like in Catholicism, required the intervention of the priest or ašipu.
The descriptions they left behind are very similar to our more modern clinical descriptions, minus the demons and spirits. The Babylonian medical text includes many of the classical symptoms of epilepsy such as paranoid delusions, hallucinations, mood and sleep disorders, as well as religiosity and hyposexuality.
Several different words for epilepsy are found in the medical texts, including bennu, miqit šamê (Sum. AN.TA.ŠUB.BA), and miqtu, as well as the Hands of several supernatural entities. They also describe the core symptoms by the words miqtu “fall”, ḫayyatu “fit”, and ṣibtu “seizure”.
Please keep in mind that the Babylonians were well aware of the multiple attacks that haunt epilepsy sufferers could be the attack of solitary or multiple demons who had seized upon the victim. They used priests to heal the victims and apparently knew the exact timing to intervene in order to drive the demon out of the person.
The following account of a unilateral focal motor seizure, which today we call ‘Jacksonian’, illustrates how a demon can be driven out only if the person is “consciously aware” and if “they are not so aware, the demon cannot be driven out.”
“If at the time of his possession, while he is sitting down, his (left) eye moves to the side, a lip puckers, saliva flows from his mouth, and his hand, leg and trunk on the left side jerk (or twitch) like a newly-slaughtered sheep it is miqtu. If at the time of the possession he is consciously aware, the demon can be driven out; if at the time of the possession he is not so aware, the demon cannot be driven out.” (BM 47753, reverse, lines 1–3).
The Babylonians had detailed the psychoses of epilepsy which we find from texts belonging to the British Museum and the Berlin National Museum (Reynolds and Kinnier Wilson, 2008).
‘If a man has been suffering from seizures, absence attacks, nocturnal epilepsy or automatisms, and an (or, possibly, the) evil demon then begins to inflict him with (ideas of) persecution so that he says—although no one will agree with him that it is so—that the finger of condemnation is being pointed at him behind his back and that god or goddess are angry with him; if he sees horrible, alarming, or immoral “visions” and is (consequently) in a constant state of fear; if he engages in periodic outbursts of anger against god or goddess, is obsessed with delusions of his own mind, evolves his own religion, and says—although (again) they will not allow it—that his family are hostile towards him and that god, king, his superiors and (city) elders treat him unjustly … and he has no desire for female relationships …’.
They were also aware of the serious potential consequence of epilepsy resulting in death:
‘If an epilepsy demon falls many times upon him and on a given day he seven times pursues and possesses him, his life will be spared. If he should fall upon him eight times his life may not be spared’ (BM 47753, obverse, line 6).
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.
