When I was a teenager, I was sucked into the occult.
Many of you already know that, even my oldest friends.
But what you may not know is what pulled me in.
It's a simple phrase, and yet it unlocked
the doorway to the occult.
Oh, and I recently found it -- in a commonly used Bible!
Want to know what it was? And what it has to do with this?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
I was going to Palm Springs High School,
and a person my dad knew gave me a book.
It was the writings of this guy, Hermes Trismegistus --
that means, "thrice-great," "three-times-great."
This is his picture.
And this is what it said he was:
kind of a blend of
Hermes or Mercury the secretary of the gods,
and Thoth,
an Egyptian god that among other things
was the god of astrology: the belief that
the stars and planets (above) influence your life (below)
and of alchemy: the belief that
you can change ordinary metals into solid gold,
or make a liquid that can dissolve anything,
cure all diseases, and make you live forever.
That's appropriate, actually, because what I learned was
a single phrase that is based on something
called "The Emerald Tablet," from this guy.
It's also the basis of hermetic science.
Four words:
"As above, so below."
Those four words put me on a path.
You start to take it apart and see what it means,
and it's like peeling an onion -- lots and lots of layers --
just like the occult.
First, it means that things on the earth (below)
come from or are affected by things above,
like the stars and the planets. That's astrology,
among other things.
Second of all, you find out it has to do with
gaining and having power, or realizing your true potential.
At that point, you might get spirit guides.
But how do you know if those spirit guides
are good or evil?
Spoiler: if it says it's going to teach you secrets
that give you power --it's evil.
God doesn't do things that way.
But I didn't know that.
So, spirit guides. That's what happened to me.
Then seeking power leads to new religious beliefs.
Look at the colors: black and white.
That's on purpose.
Black and white take on new meanings.
They are opposites: above and below --
good and bad, masculine and feminine.
They say you cannot have one without the other.
That means you cannot have evil without the good,
or good without evil.
Then it means even more. Since evil and good
are simply opposites, then ONE IS NOT BETTER THAN THE OTHER.
Yin and Yang, man and woman, white and black, good and bad,
they are all the same.
That would mean there really IS no bad, then.
There is just what works for you and
what doesn't work for you.
That is what this, the Baphomet,
is really all about. Nobody believes it's a real creature.
It's all SYMBOLS.
Right arm, masculine, up, white crescent moon,
"solve," dissolve a solid into a liquid.
Left arm, feminine, down, black crescent moon,
"coagula," turn a liquid into a solid.
That is alchemy.
And there's lots more here.
Eliphas Levi's translator used it to make
the Devil tarot card.
On his forehead there's an upright pentagram.
Then there's the flame -- taken together it means
he has the keys to enlightenment.
This whole mess is what they call the path of enlightenment.
Sounds pretty dark to me.
But then they tell you, if you are one of "the very elect"
(Hermes Trismegistus's book says that very word, "elect").
If you are one of the elect, then you will be let in
on even more secrets.
Then you can rise above all this and
receive true enlightenment -- but to get that done,
you have to conquer the light-bearer.
That's right here in the occultic writings of
the guy who drew the Baphomet and described it.
This is Eliphas Levi.
That's also in the famous Masonic writings of
this guy, Albert Pike, who wrote Morals and Dogma.
Of course, it's also in the Masonic writings of this,
old "Cute Eyes" himself, Manly P. Hall,
in The Secret Teachings of All Ages. You can see that yourself.
So yeah, you have to conquer
the light-bearer, in order to get
the power that he hides.
But who is the light-bearer? In Latin that's what?
"Lucifer."
In my occultic books, including my Unity dictionary,
from the Unity School of Christianity,
as it's called, it says that Lucifer isn't Satan.
Satan is bad thinking, but Lucifer brings
light and enlightenment.
Then they say that you can master the secrets to
-- get this -- CONQUER the Light-Bearer Lucifer,
and then you can have the powers that he hides.
That's what the Baphomet is really all about.
If you read, Should a Christian Be a Mason?
you can find out more about Baphomet. Nowadays Satanists use Baphomet
all over the place. Take a look at this.
Here's popular culture.
Look at all that merchandise.
And look at these singers, all pushing Baphomet
in their various ways.
And don't leave the kids out. That's actually on a kid's show.
[Adult Swim - but kids watch.] And that's a Satanic book there.
So what is the secret of Baphomet?
That good and evil are two sides of the same coin --
the light side and the dark side of
the Force, if you will. Get it?
So God and Satan would also be the same thing.
Isn't that what Satan wanted, to be worshiped as a god?
Yeah.
So to the most "enlightened" or "illuminated" people,
it goes one step further.
They say that Lucifer, who offered the knowledge
of good and evil, was really good;
and God, who said "You can't
eat from that tree," was really bad.
And now you know their secret.
How do people on that path let other people know
that they're on that path? Code words.
One of the simplest, of course, is those four words:
"As above, so below."
What upside-down thinking! Right?
God had a lot to say about that kind of thing.
In Isaiah 5:20, in the holy word of God it says,
"Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light,
and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!"
And then it says in verse 21:
"Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!"
Oh -- and that other Bible I told you about?
See this guy? His name is Eugene Peterson.
He put together this Bible, called "The Message" Bible.
Look at his Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:
Instead of "Hallowed be thy name," it says, "Reveal who you are."
Why? Is God hiding? Do we have to reveal Him?
Then, instead of saying, "Thy will be done,
in earth as it is in heaven," The Message says,
"Do what's best, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW."
Look at that! There's those code words.
So why did he use them, if they're not really in the text?
What kind of "message" is he sending?
And to whom?
Black and white are NOT two sides
of the same force. God and whatever God wants,
is good. Disobeying God is evil,
plain and simple.
And Baphomet is a symbol of
rebelling against God, no matter what way
you may define it.
I want to obey God. So I'm sticking with
what God said, in my King James Bible.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.