On Satan and His Minions

Or, the War of Good and Evil

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I recently wrote a piece on the Dissident Right’s discussions over “re-enchanting” the world called “On Sanctification”. Right wingers nowadays are fond of lamenting the death of spiritual life in the West, and they have a right to do so. The soul-sucking materialist malaise modernity replaced its Christian heritage with has finally been acknowledged as a cancer thanks to the heralds of the Woke Revolution. We are in the middle of finding our way back to genuine belief in a spiritual world full of wonders, legends, and power in a process I have called “sanctification”.

Sanctification is simple enough as a concept. The basic idea is that we as Christians are called to make the whole world holy in the name of Christ. However, the idea begs the following question: What are we sanctifying the world from? The very idea of defending what is holy implies there is a force of unholiness in the world, which the believer is battling against. Thus, the dark side of sanctification is revealed. Should the Right choose to sanctify the world in the name of Christ, that means acknowledging the darkness of the world and the human heart. The old gods and their demon servants would creep back into the world.

Jimmy Savile: Satanist and Wizard?

A young Jimmy Savile in that stupid, odd hoodie of his.

The case of Jimmy Savile highlighted this fact to me poignantly. Morgoth recently wrote a fantastic essay on the dark arts and power of Savile, which was the inspiration for this essay. The article is now paywalled, but I will write a short summary of Morgoth’s work for sake of context.

Jimmy Savile was an English entertainer and comedian, born in 1926 on Halloween Night (how ominous). He was a very curious, eccentric fellow. He kept his hair long, even in his dotage, and made most of his public appearances in an odd hoodie, skinny jeans, and hands festooned with gold rings. Savile was also never without a comically giant cigar stuck either between his fingers or between his lips. He made a name for himself entertaining children on late night TV, but he also had unusual influence with politicians, business leaders, and the established entertainer class. He would regularly chat with Prince (now King) Charles along with other prominent political figures.

Savile was also known for his charity work. He regularly worked with hospitals to bring relief to the sick and dying. He even worked with the high security institution Broadmoor, where he had unrestricted access to severely ill patients. The British public saw him as an eccentric but harmless old man. Most of the public had grown up with him by the time his popularity peaked in the 1980s-1990s. “Our Uncle Jimmy”, they called him then. He was the odd uncle of the nation. Oh, how the nation would curse their collective naivete decades later, when all was revealed.

Savile’s image as the odd but wholesome duck of the British family would begin to fall apart in the early 00s. Whispers of horrid crimes and lurid advances began to dog his every waking moment. Seedy accusations weren’t new to Savile. Rumors of his activities always plagued him, but they gained traction as his life and power waned. The dam broke soon after his death, and his crimes were thrown in full view of the public. Savile was a monstrous pedophile, necrophiliac, and serial abuser. His promiscuity was an open secret (he was always accompanied by a large train of women), but the extent of his depravity shocked the nation. He used his charity work at Broadmoor and his children’s TV show Jim’ll Fix It to funnel as many hapless victims into his arms as possible. He used his unrestricted access to the morgue at Broadmoor to defile the bodies of deceased patients. He used his trust and rapport with Broadmoor’s staff to attend to female patients as they took baths and changed into their night gowns before bed. Official police reports claim Savile violated some 328 children during his lifetime thanks to his TV show.

Savile also had a very unsavory relationship with infamous serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was condemned to life imprisonment for killing 13 women and girls. Sutcliffe was a known schizophrenic and was placed at Broadmoor for treatment after his conviction. Savile and Sutcliffe spent many days together conversing over tea, and staff at Broadmoor were all suspicious of Savile’s motivations for spending so much time with the serial killer. More ominous was Savile’s later purchase of Irene Richardson’s penthouse, which was one crime scene of Sutcliffe’s many, horrific murders.

Savile’s debauchery went much deeper than his known crimes. Savile was intimately associated with Satanism, the Occult, and Devil worship. Pictures of a younger Savile wearing a literal wizard’s robe adorned with symbolism of Alastair Crowley’s Thelema cult have surfaced recently on the internet. The cult widely focused on worship and elevation of the self to be equal with the creator god. Savile also adorned one of his many cottages with the tagline “JimmyTheBeast666”, a reference that too closely mirrors Crowley’s own tagline: “TheBeast666”. Even his burial has meaning. His grave site is pointing to the exact stretch of sea where Bram Stoker’s Dracula washed ashore. The allusion is not subtle in the slightest. He continues the vampiric allegory with his own macabre bed, adorned with blood red bedsheets, which Savile nicknamed “The Altar”. The list of Occultic allusions is extensive, and Morgoth has this YouTube documentary linked in the article to save time

Savile in his Thelema Wizard getup.

Savile’s cottage adorned with “JimmyTheBeast666”. A weird, Thelema symbol also adorns the cottage on the right hand side.

The Candle and the Veil

After reviewing Savile’s many crimes, his connections to the Demonic and the Occult, and his activities over the years, Morgoth ends the article with a question: Was Savile a wizard? Morgoth himself doesn’t answer, and personally I think he fears the answer. Who wouldn’t fear the answer? The best you can say about Savile is that he was an evil, degenerate, and manipulative man who reveled in his lust and debauchery for his entire life. But wizardry? That charge heaps another, deep layer of evil over his already disgusting misdeeds. That would imply Savile was not only highly charismatic and manipulative, but also sold his soul to God knows what powers for wealth and influence.

Admitting Savile was a wizard, who held significant power over Britain and individuals in his life, would tear our comfortable modernity open like a wet paper bag. Suddenly spiritual power is a real phenomenon. If spiritual power is real, then it can be used for good and evil purposes. And if spiritual power can be used for good and evil purposes, does that mean entities use the spiritual power in the world for good and evil purposes? Isn’t that effectively an admission that demons and angels exist? And if demons and angels exist, doesn’t that mean their Masters exist?

Suddenly, it seems we’ve opened a Pandora’s Jar of uncomfortable, scary questions. Modernity has firmly resolved to never answer these questions. Modernity can’t answer these questions, or even properly address them. The deal modernity cut with the nations at the end of WWII, of ever-increasing progress and a secular utopia, won’t allow these questions of faith and power to be answered. In truth, Modernity has not put these questions of power and faith in a jar we’ve foolishly opened. Modernity constructed a tent around a candle, told us the space between the candle and the tent walls was the whole world, then forbade us to look outside the tent into the dark void surrounding us. “Ignore the scary growling, mysterious shadow figures, and occasional bloodcurdling scream that comes from outside the tent,” our modernist prophets told us. “Those are merely figments of your imaginations. Nothing exists beyond the tent.”

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Previous generations liked the arrangement because the candle was warm, sufficiently bright, and pleasant to look at. Its cheery light brought joy to our forefathers and comforted them enough to ignore the screaming, shadow figures, and nameless beasts they knew wandered outside. Our ancestors even began to doubt the stories their forefathers told them about those same phenomena. Clearly, they can’t exist, otherwise we would see them here in the tent, bathed in candlelight! But that was then. The candle has never been replaced, and it has burned low in recent years. Its light decreased steadily as the wick burned to a stub. Now the things outside the veil, the things we were told aren’t real, are now making regular intrusions into the tent in the dimming light. We catch the occasional glimpse in the dim flickering of the candle, but what we see terrifies us. How many demons, chimeric beasts, and ghosts must we see inside our tent before we recognize that our Modernist prophets lied to us?

The Return of the Old Gods

To be more straightforward with the point I’m making: I hope “Right Wingers” understand what exactly they are demanding when they claim to desire a “reenchanted” world. Yes, holiness and Godliness would return, but you cannot have God without Satan and sin. If secularism dies and God reenters society after being cast out, demons and Satan also make their return. Our world will grow darker and more profane instead of holier. At least initially in the sanctification project. Evil would be acting openly in society instead of covertly, where its presence can be comfortably ignored. The Jimmy Saviles of the world would come crawling out of the woodwork as Modernity’s scales are lifted from our eyes.

We could no longer ignore the simple fact that evil people and evil powers exist, and those evil powers and principalities have more influence over this corrupt world than God seemingly has. If evil powers and evil principalities exist, then a truly moral person has a duty to fight evil in his own life and society and refuse to give an inch in compromise. All political and social battles will become wars of existential, spiritual belief. The perk of Modernity is these wars of deep belief, which previously wreaked havoc in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia, and Africa for centuries, were driven completely underground where their damage was substantially minimized. Without Modernity, those wars of belief will come roaring back after being suppressed for decades or centuries in some cases.

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This is the reality “Right Wingers” will get when we demand a “re-enchantment”. I get the feeling we haven’t thought through exactly what that means. God will return yes, and so will true belief, but so will sin, Satan, and crusades. It is as our Lord said in Luke, as He and His Disciples prepare to go to the Garden in Gethsemane:

Did you go in want of anything, when I sent you out without purse, or wallet, or shoes? They told him, Nothing; and he said, But now it is time for a man to take his purse with him, if he has one, and his wallet too; and to sell his cloak and buy a sword, if he has none. Believe me, one word has been written that has yet to find its fulfilment in me, And he was counted among the malefactors. Sure enough, all that has been written of me must be fulfilled. See, Lord, they told him, here are two swords. And he said to them, That is enough.

Luke 22:36 – 38.

I hope everyone calling for “re-enchantment” or “sanctification” have bought their sword. I hope they’ve prepared their minds, bodies, and souls for the coming war. A sanctified world, an enchanted world, will be far better than our current paradigm. I’m not under any illusion that modernity is somehow better. But that doesn’t mean a sanctified world will be birthed bloodlessly and without strife. Much suffering and death is ahead of us, and St. Michael’s Prayer better be on our lips as our battle cry when that time comes.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the Power of God, cast into Hell Satan, and all the evil spirits who prowl around the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.