Good people, my only advice today is not to venture out this evening, when all the spirits of evil are abroad and whatever you do today or in the next two days, don’t go round the church widdershins and make sure you don’t dance nine times widdershins around a fairy ring of toadstools.

So, All Hallows Day is upon us again and this evening is the evening before this important holiday – All Hallow’s Even.

In keeping with the way things are twisted round, the evening is now kept and the holiday itself virtually forgotten.  As you’d know, All Hallows derived first from the Roman Feast of the Lemures on May 11-13, to exorcise the malevolent spirits of the dead but as the Lemuria faded with time, the date was moved to November 1st, to bring it next to to the Pagan Samhain [Oct 31-Nov 1].

Samhain, also meaning November, was seen by the Gaels as a time when the wall dividing our world and the other became less divided.  Celtic Pagan tradition involved bonfires, sacrifices and the usual paraphernalia on Oíche Shamhna [Nos Calan Gaeaf].  The other major holiday at the other end of the year was the satanist Beltane, a day for sacrificing babies [or other virgins] and generally worshipping the evil one, a festival traced back to the worship of Ba’al, himself one form of the evil one, along with Ishtar and a host of other forms of the same entity -  Ea for example.

Looks like just a bit of innocent Pagan fun, Beltane, doesn’t it?  You’d be perfectly safe with this lot coming at you and you’d get in some free bonking.

In its Celtic form, it celebrated the coming of the light, of the summer, the light half of the year and any Celtic Neo-Pagan would tell you it is about regeneration, regrowth and it is too.  It just happens to be satanic as well, which naturally most would hotly deny, not being aware of the arcane roots.  This satanic site explains it more clearly – it was always satanic, adopting the trappings of earth worship, tree hugging, sun worship, the harvest and so on but also perpetuating the misery we have in the world today:

There was a prevailing belief in the existence of a Celtic God of the dead known as ‘Samhain”. With extensive research and study accomplished by many scholars, nearly all agree this God was non-existent. Samhain was celebrated for centuries before the xian takeover of Pagan holidays.

To the intruding xian religion, any Gods of the old faith were considered “evil” and therefore especially unwelcome at a time of “danger” for the “soul of any good parishioner”. This was why xtians suppressed the deadly rite and replaced it a day later with “all soul’s day.”

Christianity regards the old gods as myth, not as evil, whereas the real evil continues on in the shadows and the Celts would argue with the satanists about Samhain being the worship of a non-existent god. Here the Christians would agree with the Pagans. Our side most certainly tried to replace the dark unwitting “deadly rite” satanism of the Pagans with the trappings of the light. However, as everyone in this thing is claiming to be “of the light”, it gets confusing for the uninitiated.

For the confused, the Scottish Rite, though a source of trouble round the world, is not quite the same thing.

Anyway, youth will go out tonight and celebrate the dark rituals and welcome in another six months of human misery and the festival tomorrow, dedicated to those who tried to bring good into the world, will be largely forgotten in sleeping off hangovers.

Have a lovely Hallowe’en – good luck!  I know where I feel safer.

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