Occult

From the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, a massive number of prosecutions of alleged witches washed across parts of Europe. The courts targeted women and children rather than adult males. Tens of thousands of innocent women and children were wrongly convicted of being participants of witchcraft and were convicted through heinous trials. The number of executions increased drastically on a daily basis. In most executions, prosecutors used these methods: “burned by the stake,”…

The concept of magical beings such as fairies, witches, mage’s and spirits are seen as fabricated creatures to a modern audience. Regarded as products of imagination or hallucination, situated outside the realm of reality. However, to Shakespeare and his audience the actuality of the supernatural was very real. Fairies would roam the countryside; any neighbour could be a witch or mage and the practice of magic could be learned from books like any other academic subject. In William Shakespeare’s…

Out of Darkness II When Jesus encountered the powers of darkness oppressing a person, the oppressing spirits would often speak or identify themselves, recognizing the presence of His authority over them. St. Mark writes an eye witness report of spirits speaking out of a man from Gerasenes and the extra human strength they exerted through him. The man was drawn toward Jesus in his humanness, and, at the same time being, repelled away from Jesus because of the oppression of darkness at work…

Good stories leave room for interpretation within their woven plots and characters; Good writers allow for these interpretations flourish and reveal themselves to the audience. Just like in our own lives, stories aren’t always so cut and dry. There are ideas and situations that are both morally and factually gray, things we aren’t so sure about one way or the other. One particular author who hones in on looking at the lines between good and evil is Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne uses very…

there were two “magical rings” that granted invisibility, one was given to the just man and the other to the unjust man; no man can withstand the desires that drive them; especially knowing they could and would get away with anyway actions due to the occult ring. This idea that no man would remain just if given the chance to be a god among mere men. So, at the end of the day the unjust and just are no different because eventually the just will become unjust if the opportunity presented itself…

L. Ron Hubbard. London: London : M. Joseph, 1987. Print. Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986. Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health. Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles, Calif. : Bridge Publications, 1992. Print Hugh B. Urban. “The Occult Roots of Scientology?: L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, vol. 15, no. 3, 2012, pp. 91–116.…

variety of crimes including homicide, sexual assault, extortion, kidnapping, and obscene telephone calls. There are certain types of crimes that make use of offender/criminal profiling more than others, including rape crimes, mutilation murders and occult crimes. (Geberth, 1996; Holmes & Holmes,…

World War II World War II was arguably one of the deadliest wars in the history of the world. It started in 1939 and ended in 1945 and yielded approximately 80 million deaths, including casualties of war and those who died of disease and exposure to chemicals used during the war. One major cause of the war was the invasion of Poland by the Germans, however; the Treaty of Versailles was also a catalyst to the start of the war. The Treaty of Versailles required an already poor Germany to pay for…

The people who settled Sodom were the descendants of Noah’s grandson, Canaan. Was the seed of evil that reached its fullness in Noah’s day before the flood also present in the seed of Ham’s son, Canaan? Is it also possible that Ham’s wife was with child when she entered the ark? If so, perhaps the seed of wickedness from Ham’s wife — like Noah’s wine — was given time to ferment. Whether through that birth or a repetition of demonic unions like those prior to the flood, wickedness would again…

institution of magic. Due to the subject nature of magic and children, many religious groups fought to have the books banned from libraries because they believed that the stories would entice young readers to practice black magic and fall into the occult. This controversy is arguably the most…