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








       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 to the (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 personifi cation 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?  The scary answer to this question is revealed in a new book,
which is now available.



Author J. R. Terrier has spent many hours digging into ancient texts and
numerous other resources to uncover the obscure and little-known origins
of the Halloween tradition / celebration.   

The author uncovers the ancient origins of Halloween which have been
purposely hidden and obscured. J. R. Terrier uncovers the truth:  The
celebration of Halloween is a tradition derived from Baal worship, the
occult, and paganism.   

What unseen forces do we pay tribute to when we celebrate Halloween?  J.
R. Terrier has a book which is a must-read for those who want to
understand the real origin of this pagan, occult tradition.

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NTIS  2007


The History of Halloween - Secret Occult Origins from Mystery
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Dedicated to exposing the system of ancient Babylon, and its parallels today.