Concerning J.R.R. Tolkien who wrote 'The Lord of the Rings' he was a member of a small coffee shop group called The Inklings. They met regularly at the Eagle & the Child and spent countless hours discussing literature and philosophy from the early 1930' to late 1949.
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The group included Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams. Tolkein (a mystic Catholic) was friends with Lewis (a protestant) and they influenced each other in their ideas about life, good vs evil, and theology. It was from this gathering at the Eagle and the Child that the ideas for such classic fiction/fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings & The Chronicles of Narnia were born. The problem is that there was an unnoticed evil influence in the group and that influence profoundly affected them as is seen in how the writers mixed good with evil (i.e. the use of magic to battle evil and the use of demonic characters who were looked upon as good).
The evil influence in the group found its source in Charles Williams, a man whom C.S. Lewis adored. What they did not know through all those years was the fact that Williams was a member of the Rosicrucians, a mystical group that practiced astral projection. He was also a member of the Golden Dawn, the same group that Aliester Crowley ('the great beast 666' as he called himself) was a member of. Williams was involved in black magic and he had a
profound influence on Lewis in particular.
Excerpts from*The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends*by
Humphrey Carpenter
*(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979), pages 80-84.
"...a fundamental element in Charles Williams’s character, the thing that he was trying to express when he told a friend: ‘At bottom a darkness has always haunted me.’ What was this darkness? ...
"...by the time he was in his late twenties he was making some study of the beliefs and practices of that semi-magical branch of Christianity known as*Rosicrucianism.*[An occult system using a blend of Egyptian and Christian symbols]*During this period he read books by the Rosicrucian writer A. E. Waite; he entered into correspondence with Waite, and at Waite’s invitation was initiated (in 1917) into an organization called the*Order of the Golden Dawn....
"Among its first initiates was a coroner who allegedly performed*necromantic*rites... while another early member was*black magician Aleister Crowley, the self styled Great Beast.... But the*Order of the Golden Dawnalso included persons of less outlandish ways, such as*W. B. Yeats, whom Williams met during the period of his membership, one or two clergy with a taste for the mystical, and A. E. Waite himself....* It was this group that Williams joined.
"As a neophyte aspiring to be initiated into the Golden Dawn he would apparently have had to declare: ‘My soul... seeking for the Light of Occult Knowledge...*[I chose not to include this oath].’ He also had to take an oath to keep the rites secret, on penalty of a ‘hostile current’ which would be set against him if he broke faith.... Probably they were harmless enough*[they were*not harmless], based as they seem to have been on*Waite’s enthusiasms for freemasonry, vaguely Christian mysticism, and*Rosicrucianism, a system of occult beliefs which combines the symbolism of Christianity with the terminology of*alchemy...."*[This is a demonic counterfeit of Christianity, yet it seems to be influencing the church through the popularity of mysticism, spiritual experience, and postmodern disinterest in God's unchanging Word]
"Waite’s own explanation of Rosicrucianism comes as near to lucidity as does any account of this opaque subject: ‘The Cross is the sign or symbol... of the*Brotherhood*in its inward dedication, of pure*mystical wisdom. Its red colour represents the mystical and divine blood of Christ.... There is placed in its centre a Rose 'of the colour of Blood' to indicate the work of Sacred and Divine*Alchemy...’"*(A. E. Waite, The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (William Rider,1924), pp. 107—8.)...
"Certainly membership of the Golden Dawn involved the performance of rituals, which*Williams, with his love of rite and ceremony, entered into wholeheartedly...* he had always taken care to*learn by heart the wordsof any Golden Dawn rite.... There does not seem to have been anything in Waite’s ‘temple’ of the Golden Dawn which was opposed to Christianity.*[Everything there opposed Christianity!]**Indeed Waite, who had been brought up a Catholic, believed its practices to be part of what he called the ‘Secret Tradition’ of Christianity, the tradition that besides the overt meaning of Christian doctrine there is also a hidden series of truths revealed only to an elect few. Waite remarked of this*gnostic tradition, and apparently of his ‘temple’... ‘It is not in competition with the external Christian Churches....'* Waite also made a special study of talismans and of the*Tarot cards.... These and other*details of occult knowledge*were to play a major part in Williams’s novels."
http://www.crossroad.to/heaven/Excerpts/books/lewis/inklings-williams.htm
This explains why there is so much confusion in the biblical Christian world as it concerns the boundaries of good vs evil...or even WHAT is actually good vs evil. Lewis portrayed certain characters as 'good' like the Pan character, Mr. Tumnus. Pan, the satyr, however is a symbol of Satan and satyrs are condemned in the Bible.
Isaiah 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there
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Hmm, why would God condemn something that doesn't exist? But there are millions of Christians who deny that such creatures exist.
By the way, this is direct scriptural proof that devils can become physical. Pan devils were known to show up at the ancient Greek bachanalia that always featured an orge with music, dancing, and physical unions between the pan devils and humans.
Such things still happen even in our day. Example: The yearly Ballo del Doge in Venice, Italy at the beginning of spring. It is the Italian Mardi Gra and devils combine with humans to tempt them, deceive them, and mate with them.
View this if you think you can stomach it, but be warned it is awful. From the Ballo del Doge 2010 banquet entitled Seven Dreams, Seven Sins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY0bQ4ozo0
Some of the participants in that recording were actual devils.
