Principalities and Powers
Demonic forces never stopped running through human affairs. We just stopped seeing them.
That needs way more emphasis... As a culture, we shut our eyes tightly and denied the existence of anything supernatural. That's not entirely true - In part, it was the dominance of Christianity in the western world that effectively suppressed demons and the occult that serve them - You can see it happen in history. Read the lamentations of the seers of Apollo - The Sibylline Oracles - who admitted that the Christian prophets in their lands prevented them from being able to see - Their vision faded and lost effect.
And the same, transmitted across all the lands where the Christian God became established. Every arcane religion lost it's effective power - The creatures of the night, the trolls and ogres, goblins and elves... all of the magical left the land before it, in legend, crossing the seas in the beginning of the Age of Man...
But this was in the beginning of Christian power, when believers cast out demons and showed miracles. As lands were secured however, those acts of power diminished... Christian teaching prevailed.
But as its power diminished, the Age of Reason rose up in the vaccuum, culminating in the rise of occult power seductively dressed as science, and the Right of Kings disguised in eliteism guarded by bureaucracy.
Christianity remained - largely gutted - A form of godliness, but denying its power - a panacea for the masses... While Luciferianism remained ensconced in Society's elites, and in secret societies... Simply look at the layout of Washington DC, the profane symbolism, to understand just who presided and controlled the government of this (at the time) unquestionably Christian nation.
Frog in a pot. As education systems were employed to teach the youth doubt in their God, and organized education promoted the seven sacred (profane) sciences (now the seven liberal arts) culture began to falter, and the pendulum began to swing the other way... And the profane, which used to be contained in red light districts across the tracks, began to be legalized and mainstreamed. Purposefully.
And the working end of satanism began to flourish, Christians no longer guarding the gates, the occult trickle began to flood. Witchcraft and Voodoo legitimized. Crowley and Blavatski ascend, Nazi occult hidden in science, till Jack Parsons and Ron Hubbard open a portal with occult arts and it doesn't even make the news - That place, where they opened that portal, we know now as Area 51. Coincidence? No, it is not.
I don’t know if the Rodgers story is true. What I do know is that it’s entirely plausible, and it’s entirely in line with trends that have popped up all over in the course of these last few months.
Something is changing in the way we face the supernatural.
Of course it is true - evidence abounds - It is just ignored. Waived off. Nothing to see here... Or worse yet, ridiculed. And none of this is new. None.
Our most primitive human ancestors, in the four millennia between banishment from the garden and the Incarnation of Christ—without either the light of revelation or the accumulation of reason we call tradition—knew there were dark things in the world that they should fear. We can claim (as has become fashionable) that they were merely spiritualizing the mundane dangers man faced before conquering nature.
That would make us fools.
Oh you ain't seen nothing yet. The trickle has become a cascade. The cascade will become a flood. And this is where the rubber hits the road - Not in the politics and society pages that so many are distracted by. This, right here, is the seething evil that drives it all.
