"History of Halloween - Secret Occult Origins from Mystery Babylon"
The Halloween
Connection









By  J. R. Terrier







Every October 31, millions of people - young and old alike - dress up like
witches, demons, ghosts, and assorted other “evil” characters to celebrate
what has become one of America’s biggest retail holidays – Halloween!  

Historically, Halloween (in its past and present celebrations and under its
various names) is the deadliest tradition / festival ever celebrated in human
history.  This Satanic night is dedicated tot he (Celtic) Lord of the Dead,
symbolized by the Horned-god and the Stag-god.  The ancient Druids
celebrated Samhain / Halloween as a 3-day fire festival, building huge
bonfires (literally bone fires) in an attempt to ward off roaming demons.  
These same fires also provided the means to offer human sacrifices to the
sun gods.


The Occult Calendar

Halloween has its origins in the world of the occult.  Occultists believe that
numbers contain inherent power, and many base their lives on numerology.  
Numerology is also a key component of astrology – another system which
occultists follow closely.  Thus the occult calendar is divided into 4 parts of
13 weeks each.  Note that 13 x 4 = 52 weeks – our year!

In the occult system, the number 6 = man, the number 7 = divine
perfection or god, and the number 13 = rebellion against authority and
depravity.  So, in the occult or satanic world, the number 13 represents the
state of man’s having reached divine perfection, self-achieved perfection,
and illumination.  

The word “occult” means “that which is hidden from sight” and it deals
with the evil side of the supernatural.  The Bible tells us of the goodness
and grace of God.  It tells us to proclaim this knowledge openly to everyone
who will listen.  The Bible is a supernatural book and its subject material
covers the on-going battle of good vs. evil from God’s point of view.  Satan’
s religion is the occult.  It is propagated by staying behind a cloak of
superstition and secrecy.  Satan is the personification of pride.  He has an
insatiable desire to be like God and he continually attempts to replace God
in the hearts and minds of men.  At the present time Satan and his demonic
spirit forces freely travel back and forth between heaven and earth while
pursuing their own evil plans of ruling over creation.  The Apostle Paul
writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit makes it clear to us that our
Christian warfare is not against mere mortals:

“For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood but against the despotisms,
against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of
this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly
(supernatural) sphere.” (Ephesians 6:12 – Amplified)  

Some people can sense the presence of “another dimension,” yet they are
often embarrassed to admit belief in a “dark side” of the supernatural.  
However, most of our children have no problems relating to this dark side
because they have been so indoctrinated by movies and books that proclaim
this dark side.  And then we have the celebration of Halloween at the end
of October.  Halloween is a pagan holy day sacred to the ancient Druids as
well as to modern day witches, Wiccans, Illuminists, Satanists and others.  
Those who think Halloween is harmless fun are actually part of the
majority, but those who participate in this so-call ed “harmless tradition” are
unwitting participants in a world-wide deception of staggering proportions.  
Deception is the stock and trade of Satan and his demonic forces.  They
have, over a period of time, lulled this world to sleep, thus setting it up for
the ultimate deception – the Antichrist.

Halloween’s nearer origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of
Samhain (pronounced sow-in).  Over 2,000 years ago the Celts lived in the
areas we now know as the United Kingdom, Northern France, and Ireland.  
They celebrated their new year on the date we now know as November 1st
(from the Gregorian Calendar).  This day marked the end of summer and
the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter.  The Celts believed
that on the night before the new year (October 31), the boundary between
the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.  And it was on this
night they celebrated Samhain because they believed the spirits / ghosts of
the dead returned to earth.  The Celtic priests, the Druids, built huge sacred
bonfires and the people gathered to burn sacrifices to the Celtic gods.   

As Christianity spread to parts of Europe, instead of trying to abolish these
pagan customs, people tried to introduce ideas which reflected “a more
Christian world view”.  Thus – Halloween became a confusing mixture of
pagan rituals and practices and Christian tradition.   Witches and witchcraft
are dominant themes of the festival of Samhain / Halloween.  In fact,
virtually all of the symbols associated with Halloween (witches, monsters,
ogres, vampires, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, devils, and demons) portray evil.  
When we celebrate the Festival of Samhain a long with the dark powers
and supernatural spirits it represents, we glorify the power of Satan – and
not the power of God the Father.  We may believe that such a celebration /
tradition is “all in fun.”  To those who oppose Christ, this celebration is
very serious business.  They observe this festival with satanic rituals,
casting spells, and even the offering of human blood sacrifices on their
altars.  

In the period at the end of the Third Millennium BCE (before the Common
Era), a religious system emerged in Chaldea (a land we now know as Iraq)
in the city of Babylon - the center of the then-known world.  The leader of
this religious system is identified in the Bible as Nimrod.  The religio n that
emerged from Babylon was a mystery system centered on Nimrod and
Semiramis, the Mother Goddess figure identified with him.  There is
traceable history of the false religious doctrines that spread out from
Babylon and into the whole world.   As men spread about the face of the
earth, they used this mystery system.  The system is not new.  It is
ancient.  The Bible calls it “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of
Harlots, and the Abominations of the Earth.” (Revelation 17:5).  Its form as
Mysticism is the vehicle by which it is transported everywhere.  Its aim is to
release the individual from obedience to the One True God.

Nimrod was given the name of Saturn in the Babylonian Mysteries.  In
turn, Saturn was also known by many names.  The rites and ceremonies of
the Babylonian Mysteries included worship of the Babylonian Sacred
Hebdomad (worship of the seven planets:  the Moon, the Sun, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn).  The worship of the seven planets
literally devoured Israel until God gave them up to worship the Hosts of
Heaven.  Israel’s idolatrous worship ceremonies were conducted in the
pagan Tabernacle of Saturn.   

The false god Saturn was usually pictured as an aged man holding a sickle,
from which we undoubtedly get our representation of Death – the old man
with a sickle.  Saturn is associated with Death and the Grim Reaper – the
skeleton dressed in a black hood holding a sickle that reaps human beings at
their death.  This same figure of the Grim Reaper is used to denote the end
of a year just as a newborn baby symbolizes the start of a new year.  Both
symbols (Grim Reaper and Baby) denote Time.  Another name for Saturn
is Kronos which also means Time.  (Of course all these names refer to
Nimrod.)

The House of Israel offered sacrifices to the planet god Saturn.  (Saturn
was the highest of the seven planets.) They worshipped in the Tabernacle
of Saturn and declared Saturn to be their king and star god.  (In ancient
times, planets were called wandering stars.) This King Saturn was none
other than Nimrod, who was proclaimed (in the Babylonian Mysteries) to
have been resurrected and ascended to the planet Saturn.   

(Note - Nimrod was known by other names:  Osiris, Saturn, Jupiter, Helios,
Ra, Baal, Baalim / Baalam, Melquart, Tamuz, Horus, Jupiter, Sol.)  

Osiris was Lord of the Underworld who was worshipped throughout Egypt
as a patron of the dead, lord of the necropolis (a large cemetery), and as the
guarantor of rebirth.  He was identified with resurrection.  Osiris (Jupiter)
was a man-god, son of Helios / Ra / Saturn and brother and husband of Isis
/ Ishtar / Semiramis (and numerous other names.)   

The Phoenicians worshipped the father god Baal, the mother goddess
Astarte / Semiramis / Ashtoreth, and the son Melqart / Tamuz.  Baal (plural
Baalim) was the name used in the Old Testament to refer to the deities of
the Canaanites.  By the 14th century BC, Baal was worshipped as the ruler
of the universe.  Baal (another name for him is Hadad) was referred to as
“the son of Dagon.”  Baal was also known as El.  (Again – all these names
refer to Nimrod.)

Melqart (also known as Son of Baal, El – Ruler of the Universe, God of
Tyre, King of the Underworld, and Protector of the Universe) symbolized
the annual cycle of vegetation and was associated with the female deity /
goddess Astarte / Isis / Ishtar / Semiramis.

The character of Nimrod may not have been a man at all, but rather a
Babylonian deity who was considered to have been present at the
foundations of all of the cities in both Sumer and Akkad.  Since no one king
or even one of the false gods had ever ruled for the entirety of
Mesopotamian history, it is possible that Moses, in his writing of the first
five books of the Old Testament, may have decided to give this “king” the
generic name of Nimrod, just as he did with the term “b alal” (confusion) to
describe the Tower of Babel.  In this way, Moses would have avoided
mentioning the name of a foreign / false god in his writing and thus Moses
avoided breaking God’s First Commandment.   

Not too many years after the flood of Noah, Nimrod attempted to unify the
descendants of Noah into a one-world government.  This first great
unification of the world attempted the synchronization of cultural, political,
and religious thoughts into one.  It all began at one place – the tower of
Babel - in the city of Babel</ st1:City> / Babylon.  The Tower of Babel
was man’s symbolic statement of his own vanity and his independence
from any type of authority from God.  Those who began this system of
power passed their “torch” of authority to every succeeding generation and
empire that has existed since then.  The false religion formed at the Tower
of Babel was the beginning of polytheism – the worship of many gods.  The
snake, the sun, and fire were also worshipped as deities.  Human sacrifice
was practiced.  Nimrod, through the Babylonian empire and religion, began
to unite the people into his own one-world government.  Noah’s righteous
son Shem, unable to further tolerate the apostate religion formed by Nimrod
murdered him, cut his body into pieces, and scattered the parts throughout
the Babylonian empire as a warning to others of what would happen to
them if they continued this abominable false religion.  After the murder /
death of Nimrod, the whole system of Babylon had to change.  This system
could no longer be an openly-explicit graphic religion; it had to be hidden
under a cloak of assumed names and ideals.  Its real origins and agendas are
hidden from the general populace.   All of the different facets of the now-
hidden (occult) Babylonian false religion are collectively lumped together
under one blanket title:  Mystery Babylon.     

If history truly repeats itself, then understanding our past is the key to
diagnosing what is going on in our world today and to determining who is
behind this movement.  Do we have another one-world government in the
making?  In Matthew 24:37-39 (NKJV) Jesus tells us, “But as the days of
Noah were so also will the coming of the Son of Man be ...... And (they)
did not know until the flood came and took them all away – so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be.”  The culture of Noah’s day is being brought
back to us by the Babylonian system (that never died) and by the very
descendants of the people who originated it.   

From ancient Babylon, this diabolical mystery religion and the pagan rituals
associated with it spread to Egypt, Asia, North and South America – all
over the world.  As Halloween, it is now firmly entrenched in mainstream,
modern society where it has become high on the list of many people’s
favorite celebrations.  

Dressing in scary costumes and going trick-or-treating are only a few of the
customs of our traditional Halloween celebration which come to us right
from the world of the occult and paganism.

Most of us are exposed to the occult every day through movies, television,
media ads, computer games, and role playing games.  This exposure is
purposely hidden from us so we are not consciously aware of it.  How can
this happen?