Beast Wing 666

BEAST WING 666
Abusive Cults in the U.K.
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DEDICATION
To Colin Batley, Elaine Batley, Jaqueline Marling, Shelly

Millar, Peter Petrauske, Jack Kemp, Peter Pracownik,
Peter Mastin, Julian Vayne, Nicola Ward (aka Nikki
Wyrd), Frank Parker, Martin Tucker (aka Martyn Healer,
Dr. Love, and ‘Shed Boy’), Tony Stone (aka Tony the
Wizard), Angelina Lovecraft, Anton Channing, Denise
Channing (Jaq D. Hawkins), Mogg Morgan of Mandrake
of Oxford, Robert Harris (aka Szandor Dashwood), Ann &
Adrian Bryn-Evans.. and to anyone else I have missed
(you know who you are), without all of whom this book
would never have been written. May life bring each of you
everything you truly deserve. So mote it be.
To Peter J. Carroll. May you learn how to divine. A little

humility can go a long way.
To PC Chris Adams 840 and DS Amy Hewitte 801. Better

luck next time in spotting the guilty. We all make
mistakes.
To social workers Rebecca Mumford and

Katherine Marsden of the Welsman Centre, Bristol. May
the world recognize your deeds.
Children depend upon people like you.
With all sincerity;
To Valerie Sinason of The Tavistock Institute,

without whose advice and support we might never have
survived this far. We are not alone.
To Sonia Poulton.
If only there were more journalists like you.
To my daughter, Rose Ward.

May you awaken to the truth and act appropriately. It is
the only way you will survive this unharmed.
I still love you, and always will.
Similarly to my brothers; Jasper, Silas, & Zachary.

May you put the pieces together and come over to the
right side. I miss you.
To Vanessa, the sister I have yet to meet.

I hope you read this, and see through all the lies you have
been fed about me.
To brave young ‘X’, and their mother, who shall receive

all proceeds from this publication. May you both be
granted full and miraculous recovery.
To all survivors of abuse. Know that you are stronger than

those who harmed you. Be proud, and help one another.
May healing laughter be yours.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ............................................................ 1
About the Author .............................................................. 4
ABUSIVE CULTS ......................................................... 13
WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE .......................................... 16
RITUAL ABUSE IN THE U.K.
Convictions so far ........................................................... 20
Colin David Batley, Elaine Batley, Jaqueline Marling, &
Shelly Millar ................................................................... 20
Peter Solheim ................................................................. 24
Peter Petrauske & Jack Kemp ........................................ 27
ADVICE TO PARENTS ................................................ 28
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? ......................................... 30
OCCULT GROUPS IN THE U.K. ................................. 36
Speculative Freemasonry ............................................... 39
Druids ............................................................................. 41
The Golden Dawn .......................................................... 42
Ordo Templi Orientis; Thelema & Aleister Crowley ..... 43
Wicca; The Witchcraft Cult ............................................ 47
The Church of Satan ....................................................... 49
The Temple of Set .......................................................... 53
The Illuminates of Thanateros; Chaos Magic ................ 55
DEATH & HELL DOT COM ........................................ 58
DEATH CULT REJECT
Corroboration of Colin Batley & the I.O.T. ................... 61
THE SATANIC ILLUMINATI
& other red herrings ....................................................... 68
A MESSAGE TO OCCULTISTS .................................. 74
RITUAL ABUSE & MENTAL HEALTH ..................... 78
FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME
& the Paedophile Protection Squad ................................ 81
GANG-STALKING ....................................................... 89
CYBER-STALKING ..................................................... 92
PHONE HACKING ....................................................... 95
HOME INVASION .......................................................100
PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE ....................................... 102
MIND CONTROL
‘Brain Washing’ ............................................................ 104
MULTI-AGENCY FAILURE
A Personal Experience .................................................. 112
CONCLUSION ............................................................ 125
BEAST WING 666 - ABUSIVE CULTS in the U.K.
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INTRODUCTION
“What do you call it when Satanists have children
together? Ritual abuse. It’s a reality, my friends. A very
sad reality.”
- Grobbly the Clown
This book is a first hand perspective on the problem

of ritual abuse and mind control cults in the U.K.;
much of which is ‘occult’ in theme, and targets
children. The author is an insider of occultism whose
own family has been torn apart by events directly
related to the first ever convictions of ritual abuse in
British criminal history; the cult that surrounded
convicted sexual abuser Colin Batley, Elaine Batley,
Jaqueline Marling, Shelly Millar, Peter Petrauske, and
Jack Kemp. Many members of this abusive cult are
still at large, some even gaining a significant level of
‘pseudo-fame’ within the occult community.
During my twenties, I joined an occult organization. I
gained considerable significance within the group,
and was granted a number of pompous sounding titles
of no significance to the wider public, but meant
much within the community I was a part of; Priest,
Mentor, and Magister Templi, as well as the official
‘Fool’ of the U.K. and U.S.A. sections. At the time of
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my involvement the cult was more or less benign, but

later came to harbour a number of abusive
paedophiles.
My own parents also happened to be heavily
involved in Paganism, and remain so at the time of
publication.
For reasons that shall become clear with time, I no
longer have any contact with the cult I joined, or with
my parents.
It is hoped this book will be of use to professionals
who come across this problem in their work; police,
social workers, psychotherapists, journalists, and
others.
It may also be of help to anyone whose own life has
been damaged, directly or indirectly, by abusive cults.
It is also hoped this book will be read by members of
the ‘occult community’. Whilst society as a whole
seems to suffer a collective myopia regarding issues
such as cults and child abuse, the occult community
has been especially groomed to consider any such
allegations in terms of ‘Satanic Panic’, and routinely
mistake any attempts to address such issues as attacks
on the beliefs such communities hold. This book is
not an attack on occultism; it is an attempt to address
a very real problem within the occult community.
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I also have an entirely personal hope for this book;

that it will help lead to the prosecution of the many
guilty in the case relating to my own family. Some of
the guilty have already been convicted, and are at the
time of writing in jail- as has been reported in the
mainstream press. Others are still at large.
About the Author
To anyone outside of occultism, as well as many who

believe themselves ‘insiders’, I am unlikely to be
recognized. It seems fair to give some information as
to who I am. What follows is a kind of brief C.V. of
my involvement in occultism and secret societies,
noting some of the better known ‘achievements’.
My previous written works, aimed towards
‘occultists’, were commended by the likes of Peter J.
Carrol, founder of the once prestigious Illuminates of
Thanateros. My long term involvement with Chaos
Magic is evidenced by the fact that my artwork
appears on the cover of Phil Hine’s free internet book,
Prime Chaos. Kenneth Grant, one time secretary of
Crowley and founder of the Typhonian Order
(previously known as the Typhonian O.T.O.), hailed
me as a genius in a private letter to Mary Hedger,
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author of The History of Fun, who at the time was

‘Chief Pythoness’ of his order. A photograph of
myself with Maxine Sanders, amongst the founders of
modern Wicca, appears at the the conclusion of her
autobiography, ‘Firechild’ (Mandrake of Oxford),
which was taken at the time my most widely available
work, Witcha; A Book of Cunning, (Mandrake of
Oxford), was published. I have made a small number
of television appearances, most notably in Taboo:
Witchcraft, a documentary commissioned by National
Geographic. First editions of books I have written
change hands for at up to £150, accumulating worth
in as little as two years. When I have given public
lectures, these have often gathered large audiences.
I no longer give lectures, and am no longer involved
in ‘occultism’, purely because there are currently so
many abusers in influential positions, and too many
others in denial. Whilst my work was not necessarily
to the tastes of the masses, within my own field I was
successful. I certainly have never had to ‘make stuff
up’ to draw attention to myself or my work, and there
is nobody currently involved at any level of occultism
that has any achievements I would be jealous of.
I am also in the rare position in that members of my
family- most notably my mother, stepfather, and
biological father- have all been involved in various
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forms of Paganism and occultism. On my mother’s

side of the family, generations past had local
reputations as practitioners of ‘white witchcraft’,
whilst my grandmother was well known in her day for
holding seances. According to a disclosure my mother
made to the lady who has been my partner for (at the
time of writing) eleven years, I was conceived at a
Black Mass, although my father told me it was on the
same night that a seance went spookily wrong; either
way, there were whispers of supernatural activity
around my conception, however fanciful they might
be. With a family like mine, having a ‘normal life’
was never much of an option.
My mother’s name is Ann Bryn-Evans, whom many
have respected as a ritual leader, and my stepfather is
Adrian Bryn-Evans, who has for many years been
involved with The Pagan Federation, as well as the
Museum of Witchcraft. Together they run The
Witches’ Market. My mother’s artwork appears on the
cover of my book Witcha, whilst Adrian’s
photographs of exhibits from the Museum of
Witchcraft appear inside. They are the founders of
The House of the Old Ways, of which I was once the
‘Fool’; as it turns out, in more ways than one..
My biological father, Robert Harris, also likes to be
known as Szandor Dashwood; taking his psuedonym
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from two famous ‘Satanists’, Anton Szandor LaVey

and Sir Francis Dashwood. He is well known to many
who hang around Treadwell’s Bookshop, London. A
computer animator and set designer, he was
responsible for the graphics in the sword and sorcery
T.V. show Knightmare, as well as working on several
famous rock videos, T.V. shows, and films.
I do not speak to my parents any more, and never
plan to again. Apparently, my father has disinherited
me for something between £250,000 to £500, 000.
Such can be the price of standing by the truth..
In the mid-nineties, I was invited to join the
Illuminates of Thanateros, an occult organization
often described as ‘prestigious’ within occultism,
becoming their youngest initiate ever at that time.
During the seven years before my resignation, I had
been the founder and Magister Templi of a number of
temples, as well as being the order’s first ever
ordained Priest of Chaos, the Mentor and/or initiator
of some of the presently higher ranking members of
the order in the U.K., and was the official
Insubordinate -a kind of ‘shop steward’ whose role is
to address and prevent abuses of power- to the then
Section Head of both U.K. and U.S.A. (I have been
informed by Peter J. Carrol that no replacement was
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found after my resignation, and the order no longer

assigns an officer to this role).
The mother of my daughter is Nicola Ward, aka
Nikki Wyrd, who happens to be the current Magi and
U.K. Section Head of the Illuminates of Thanateros
(being the highest ranking individual in the U.K.). In
recent years, Nicola Ward has ‘partnered up’ with the
occult author Julian Vayne. They seem to have the run
of the U.K. Illuminates of Thanateros between them,
and together wrote The Book of Baphomet, which
speaks openly about their drug abuse (justified by
posing as ‘shaman’), and contains much that may be
interpreted very differently given appropriate
knowledge.. As one reviewer put it, they obviously
“love their children.”
It just so happens, Ann and Adrian Bryn-Evans knew
Julian Vayne for some twenty years, having been a
part of his ‘Sex Magic’ working group when they all
lived in Milton Keynes. It is a small world..
I have also been amongst the founding members of a
number of other occult groups, with my privately
circulated works gaining modest influence.
At no time during my decades of involvement with
occultism have I been involved in the abuse of any
adult, child, or even animal. Until the prosecution of
Colin Batley (see below), I was amongst those who
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believed such things did not happen within ‘real’

occult groups, and no ‘real’ occultists would ever
participate in such an act. I even said so on television.
Since then, I have not only discovered that ritual
abuse is a reality, but it was happening much closer to
home than I could ever have expected.
If anyone has inside knowledge regarding the
workings of occult organizations, I am certainly
amongst them. Nevertheless, since speaking up about
the reality of ritual child abuse in the U.K., as well as
other heinous activities clearly wrong to anyone of
sound mind, I have been labelled as insane, jealous,
vindictive, generally discredited with false allegations
of every kind, and become a pariah within modern
occult circles.
Many of the very same people who originally
supported my work, including some ‘big names’
within that subculture, have turned against me. At the
time of writing, Mogg Morgan of Mandrake of
Oxford publishing says the following about me upon
his website;
Nathaniel Harris is currently unwell. He is suffering some

form of mental illness, one form of which is misdirected
rage against former friends and associates. He has been
making unpleasant, unsubstantiated accusations on
various internet forums. Under no circumstances should
any of these accusations be given credence. He is
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receiving professional help and we wish him well for the

future. He was a talented writer and artist and in the spirit
of compassion we will continue to make his work
available.
The above statement is over a year old at the time of

writing, and amounts to slander. Not only am I in
good mental health, but I have made many requests
over several years that Mandrake of Oxford cease to
publish my material; continuing to do so is far from
‘compassionate’, and nothing more than an attempt to
retain control. I do not accept any monies from this
publisher, as I consider it tainted.
This is just one example as to the ostracism and
defamation I have suffered from members of the
occult community in their efforts to pretend there are
no abusers amongst them; or worse, to attempt to
convince people I may be an abuser myself. The guilty
also have many dupes that have acted on their behalf.
Occultists have a tendency to interpret accusations of
abuse made against anyone from within their culture
as an attack on occultism itself.
Little wonder, then, that other potential
whistleblowers have been reluctant to come forward.
I have heard that others targeted by the same abusive
cult as our case, and by those connected to them, have
had similar or worse experiences to our own. Some of
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these victims gave up any hope and committed

suicide. We must all do everything we can to stop this
happening to anyone else.
This is not another ‘Satanic Panic’ cooked up to
discredit occultism, to further my own ‘fame’, or for
any other dishonest motive. I am not another
Fundamentalist Christian ranting about Satanic
Conspiracies behind the rock music industry and
Hollywood. There are no U.F.O.s or lizard people
involved in this case. This is not a delusion, a
‘shamanic vision’, or anything to do with ‘False
Memory Syndrome’. This is real. Whilst the guilty
are still at large, lives are being damaged.
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ABUSIVE CULTS
An abusive cult may be defined as a group with a

closed ‘circular’ belief system, whose followers are
recruited and controlled through manipulation and
undue influence (blackmail, violence, rape, and mind
control). This manipulation is imposed without the
informed consent of the individual, with the intent of
altering the personality and behavior of its initiates.
The leadership of such groups are sociopathic, and
‘all powerful’. Followers will be expected to address
them by grandiose titles, such as High Priest,
Supreme Magus, or Lord, and subordinate their will
to that of ‘the group’.
Abusive cults typically set themselves apart through
totalitarian and elitist ideology; creating its own
values often in deliberate challenge to the morals and
ethics of society, as with Satanism and certain Tantric
cults, or considering themselves beyond good and
evil, as with Chaos magic.
Abusive cults engage in all manner of unethical
practices, often as a matter of principle. These may
include ritual abuse, child abuse- including neglect,
torture, rape and murder of children, mind control
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(sometimes called ‘brainwashing’, often employing

trauma and drugs), human trafficking, smuggling-
such as pornography, drugs, guns, or gems, fraud and
deceit, theft, harassment of former members and their
families, violent assaults, forced participation in
sexual abuse and forced prostitution, kidnapping,
torture, extreme psychological and emotional abuse,
and conspiracy to commit any or all of these crimes
without arrest and conviction.
Abusive cults are often lead by hardened,
professional criminals. They may be ‘self styled’, as
with most supposedly Satanic youth gangs, or they
may have infiltrated and taken over an otherwise
benign occult group. They may or may not be a
paedophile, and they may or may not genuinely hold
those beliefs demanded of the cult members- with
ritual elements such as Devil worship serving
primarily to detract from the credibility of any
disclosure, and to control victims through inspiring
fear.
A sociopathic criminal who does business outside of
society’s conventions will do whatever is necessary to
ensure the long lasting success of their ‘business’. If
there is financial profit in providing brainwashed
children as sex slaves to other criminal associates,
simultaneously providing grounds for blackmail, the
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sociopathic criminal is unlikely to baulk. Laws and

morals mean nothing- there only to control the herd,
and to be broken by the ‘powerful’. Similarly, they
mean nothing to anyone whose own will is
subordinated to that of the abusive cult and its elitist
philosophy; expressed in Crowley’s Book of the Law
as ‘Do what thou wilt.. the law of the strong’ and
within the Illuminates of Thanateros as ‘Nothing is
true & everything is permitted’.
Due to the nature of initiatory occult groups, it is also
possible for an abusive cult to form and protect itself
within the secrecy of a wider group. There may be
many members in the lower grades, for example, who
have an honest interest in exploring ‘magical ideas’,
but would never knowingly involve themselves with
any criminal activity whatsoever. They are as
innocent and unknowing as Catholics attending mass
lead by a paedophile bishop; and just as unlikely to
believe any disclosures of abuse made against him.
This provides additional credibility in discounting
disclosures, serving to protect the hidden abuser even
further.
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WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE?
The information in this chapter may be too upsetting

for some people to read. However, it is important for
the public to become more informed concerning the
reality and extent of ritual abuse. Victims of abuse
may be accidently ‘triggered’ by some passages;
should this happen, please stop reading, and discuss
anything that arises with your therapist- if you are
lucky enough to have one that has accepted the reality
of ritual abuse.
Ritual abuse is an extreme form of physical, sexual,
and psychological abuse involving ritual symbolism
and behavior, perpetrated against children,
adolescents, and adults. Ritual abuse, as with occult
ritual generally, is not necessarily Satanic; although
for various reasons- perhaps including simply lack of
imagination or originality- much of it is.
Most occult ritual draws upon the psychological
‘powers’ of the archetypes, and Satan is the most
obvious archetype that might appeal to any cult
seeking to transgress society’s moral boundaries
whilst simultaneously inspiring fear. It is thus the first
choice of many criminal youth gangs, or of any cult
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seeking to entice members with the promise of sexual

promiscuity, illicit drugs, moral license, and power.
Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode, but
will be repeated over an extended period of possibly
years or decades. Abusive cults, like most organized
paedophile rings or criminal networks, seek to
involve themselves in the lives of their victims in
every way.
The physical aspects of ritual abuse are severe, and
may include torture and killing. The victim’s silence
will also have been ensured by threats of persecution,
including punishment, torture, and murder. Such
threats may be very real, with victims already having
witnessed the torture and ‘sacrifice’ of people or
animals, or even been forced to participate. This
included not only making disclosure, but also failure
to commit further acts of ‘evil’ at the behest of the
cult.
The sexual abuse is extraordinarily sadistic, intended
to humiliate and ‘break down’ their victim’s
resistance to domination by the cult. It is far worse
than the abuse normally inflicted by a paedophile in
the context of incest. It may include repeated sexual
assaults by men, women, or even other children, often
in a group. It may include forced prostitution and
participation in pornography. Since their ritual abuse
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involved children, any films or photographs may be

employed to blackmail.
The psychological aspects are severe, causing
indescribable mental and emotional suffering, and
such terror that disclosure is often extremely difficult
even decades afterwards. Coupled with the fear of
being disbelieved, which is itself an additional
trauma, many victims may never disclose at all.
Additionally, victims may be so traumatized that they
dissociate from their experiences; a fact that is
capitalized upon by the abusers in the form of mind
control; robbing their victim of their own sense of self
and free will. Having been broken down in such a
fashion, the victim of an abusive cult may be
influenced into giving apparent consent; also serving
further to protect against disclosure.
Many victims of ritual abuse are infants, as reported
in the cases of Batley, Petrauske and Kemp, and
particularly susceptible to being terrorized and
indoctrinated into whatever the their abuser wishes
them to believe. During abuse, and for long after it
ceases, victims live with fear, dissociation, and the
impact of mind control. They may have been abused
over several years, with little or no time during which
they were allowed to feel safe. The devastating and
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long lasting damage will most likely blight their

entire lives.
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It cannot be stressed enough that this is not to say that

all people who identify as Satanists or occultists are,
have been, or will become, ritual abusers. Arguably,
much abuse perpetrated within the Catholic church is
also ritualized, employing religious ‘mind control’
through guilt. For example, victims are typically told
to ‘pretend it is God touching them’.
Both Catholic and Satanic abusers will tell their
victims that nobody will believe them if they disclose.
Just as with Satanic or ‘occult’ themed abuse, it will
rarely consist of a single episode, but will be repeated
over an extended period of time. Nevertheless, the
majority of Catholics do not sexually abuse children.
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RITUAL ABUSE IN THE U.K.

Convictions so far..
Although many people still think that ritual abuse is

some kind of absurd belief akin to U.F.O.s and
Luciferian lizard people, or that all allegations against
those in the Pagan movement are akin to the ‘Satanic
Panic’, the following individuals (bar one, who is
dead) have been successfully prosecuted in the U.K.
Colin David Batley, Elaine Batley, Jaqueline

Marling, & Shelly Millar
Colin David Batley was convicted in 2011 for 35

counts including rape, buggery, sexual assault, forcing
prostitution, and inciting a child to have sex.
Alongside him were his wife Elaine Batley, his wife,
jailed for eight years, Jaqueline Marling, his ‘right
hand woman’, jailed for twelve years, and Shelly
Millar, a prostitute, jailed for five years (see ‘Ruler of
a sick kindgom’: Cul-de-sac sex cult leader Colin
Batley is jailed and ‘may never be released’, Mail, 12
March 2011).
According to a report made by the BBC, 11 March
2011, reporting on Batley being jailed;
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“Batley and his friends were involved in a sex cult that

brainwashed and abused children.. has been jailed and
warned he may never be released. Colin Batley, 48, was
found guilty of 35 offences at Swansea Crown Court..
Three women, including his estranged wife, were also
imprisoned. He moved from London to the small town of
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, where the cult operated in a
cul-de-sac. He was given a public protection sentence
with an 11-year minimum recommendation.”
On sentencing, Judge Paul Thomas QC is reported as

having said the following;
“You set yourself up as the ruler in your own sick little

kingdom. where three women danced as your willing
attendants. You became their master and formed a
community within a community involving child abuse,
rape, and prostitution. You have been described as evil
and that is an entirely accurate statement of your
character. It is clear you have dedicated your life to satisfy
your sexual urges by any means at your disposal.
“The age or sex of your victims was largely a matter of

indifference to you. You treated one victim as nothing
more than a sexual plaything, dominating and controlling
her life, and you persuaded your wife to join in. What
happened has besmirched the unsuspecting town of
Kidwelly..
“You are, and shall be for the foreseeable future, a danger

to children. This has been your life’s work involving
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multiple offences over many years. The public needs

protection from you- there are very serious concerns and
risks for the future if you are released.
“You have fully lived up to the ideals of your mentor

Aleister Crowley. You used the occult to further your
sexual excesses- children were kept as toys for sex
purposes. You took a cruel delight into initiating children
into sex but their lives have been blighted forever.
“It was organised and systemic abuse of children and you

dedicated yourself to such depravity. You controlled the
women in all ways, sexually and financially- they paid
their benefits over to you. But it is an enduring mystery
how you were able to control intelligent women.”
The group were connected to a wider cult, whose

members were never identified or charged. Despite
the protestations of many from within the occult
community, it is a sad fact that Batley’s cult included
many who are not only recognized for supposed
contributions to occultism, but are also trusted and
respected members of the ‘community’. Batley’s
followers called him ‘Lord’, and bore tattoos of the
Eye of Horus as marks of initiation into the cult; those
tattoos have not been ‘washed off’ since the scruffy
child abusing dog breeder they called ‘Lord’ has been
imprisoned.
One might wonder if the reason his neighbours did
not notice an abusive cult operating in their midst.
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They include an ex-bishop, and an ex-police

commissioner amongst them. Might they have been
directly involved? In any case, it seems Batley’s cult
was connected..
An unnamed niece of Colin Batley told of how she

was made pregnant by him, prevented from having an
abortion, and told her child belonged to the cult. A
year later, she became pregnant again, and had her
second son. Shortly after his birth, she discovered
through another cult member that Colin Batley had
abused a child as young as six. She says, “It was the
information and power I needed to escape.” (“He
stole my life”: How a teenager was forced to join a
satanic sex cult.. by her evil uncle, Mirror, 21 July
2012).
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I personally know who the six year old was, and

where they are now. Now a teenager, I shall refer to
them only as ‘X’. Through their disclosures to me,
together with information from other ‘inside sources’,
as well as personal encounters with Colin Batley and
members of his cult, I can identify many other guilty
parties yet to be arrested and prosecuted.
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It took three years before police took allegations

against Colin Batley seriously, during which time he
remained free to abuse. I am reliably informed that
the officers who successfully prosecuted him had to
go against orders from ‘higher up’, and were passed
up for promotion. Doing the right thing, it seems,
proved bad for their careers.
Peter Solheim
Peter Solheim, a 55 year old parish councillor turned

pagan, was ritually tortured to death -see Sex,
witchcraft, and the murder of a Druid, Daily Mail, 6
July 2006. Drugged, and with his limbs bludgeoned to
a bloody pulp with a machete, his body was dumped
in the Channel off the coast of Cornwall and left to
drown.
What the newspaper does not tell you is that his body
also had magical glyphs carved into its flesh, and his
penis had been severed and sown up inside his mouth.
His lover of nine years Margaret James was
convicted at Truro Crown Court of masterminding the
plot to kill him, and jailed for twenty years. However,
she was not convicted of actually committing the
murder herself- to this day, her accomplice(s) have
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never been identified. Those involved in the ritualistic

torture and murder of this man are still at large..
unless they happen to be in jail for other crimes, of
course..
My mother and stepfather, Ann and Adrian Bryn-
Evans, gave ‘evidence’ in the trail. My mother is
quoted in the Daily Mail as having spoken about Peter
Solheims constant flirting and obsession with sex,
saying,
“He spoke about it frequently. At first it was amusing but

then there was too much of it. Margaret smiled and
smirked as if she felt proud about it. But as time went by
she became uncomfortable if he mentioned other women
and said he was attracted to them. He was a boaster. He
described himself as hot stuff. He felt he was very
attractive to women and had no trouble in attracting
them.”
Their friend Peter Petrauske, High Priest of a Wiccan

coven in Falmouth of which Peter Solheim was a
member, (see below) also gave evidence in this trial,
doing all he could to make Peter Solheim sound
ludicrous. He is quoted as having told the court that
whilst the coven would meet in plain white robes,
Peter Solheim would insist on wearing a horned
helmet and breastplate;
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“He wanted to be known as Thor’s Hammer. He was

following the Norse way and was far more interested in
that side of things.”
Personally, I do not trust the ‘evidence’ given by

these people. In the end, the conviction of Margaret
James was based almost entirely on evidence gained
through her mobile phone, all of which could have
been fabricated by a hacker skilled in ‘pranging’ (see
my chapter on ‘Phone Hacking’). She has maintained
her innocence even after prosecution, and the court
admitted she could not have committed the murder
herself.. was she really involved it at all? Might she
have been a ‘patsy’? (When someone is prosecuted
for a crime they did not commit, the investigation is
over, and the real criminal can relax. This is a fairly
standard tactic amongst successful organized
criminals, and far more common than the general
public are aware of.)
And why is it that the court trial concerning Peter
Solheim’s horrific and clearly ritualistic murder
consisted of so much defamation against his
character? Nobody had anything nice to say about
him. Even Professor Ronald Hutton joined in..
Peter Petrauske & Jack Kemp
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Peter Petrauske, who gave evidence alongside my

mother and stepfather in the above trial, would later
turn out to have been a ritual abuser himself,
alongside another man called Jack Kemp (see Pair
jailed over witches’ coven ‘ritualistic’ sex abuse, The
Independent, 14 December 2012). Jack Kemp and
Peter Petrauske spent years tormenting their victims,
one said to be as young as three. Unsurprisingly, both
denied their involvement in abuse, claiming they were
victims of a ‘witch hunt’ or conspiracy.
Peter Solheim was also identified as having been part
of the same paedophile ring.
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Considering the unusual nature of their crimes, as

well as their geographical proximity, what are the
chances of all these people not knowing each other
and being in the same ‘circle’? I can certainly tell you
they had plenty of friends in common..
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ADVICE TO PARENTS
Some important advice to any parent whose child

discloses concerning ritual abuse, which may make
the difference between successful prosecution and
not. Many abusers escape prosecution because of
what are, in essence, failures of the system.
Firstly, do not ask any leading questions at all. This
is counter-intuitive for any concerned parent; it is
natural to want to know everything needed to keep a
child safe. It is normal for disclosures of extreme
abuse to come in ‘bits’- it may take considerable time
before your child tells you the ‘whole story’. It might
even be as innocent a question as to who was
involved, how often it happened, or where other
responsible adults that might have intervened were at
the time. Unfortunately, this also opens you up to
accusations of having dictated or influenced your
child’s disclosure.
Secondly, do not tell the abusers that disclosure has
been made. If they know they are in danger of
discovery, they will adapt their behavior, and possibly
destroy what might otherwise prove useful evidence-
such as any films or photographs they have made.
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Finally, they may have a plan in place for such an

eventuality; after all, they have known about the
abuse all along, even if to anyone else it was
unimaginable.
An investigation may be hindered by almost any
communication between yourself, your child, and
those guilty of abuse. In our own case, it was advised
to have no communication of any kind, and to tell
absolutely nobody.
Hearing disclosure of abuse is itself extremely
traumatic. Although this is secondary to the trauma
suffered by the victim, it can still be extreme enough
to cause lasting post traumatic stress in the listener. If
the abuse was by someone the listener held trusted
and dear, they will also suffer trauma and grief of
their own.
It is often harder to hear such things than it is to deal
with the death of a loved one. Every memory of them,
however cherished, becomes tainted by what they
have done.
A further concern is how such disclosures might
effect other members of the family. Any form of
abuse holds the potential to tear a family apart.
Brothers, sisters, even one’s own children, may turn
against each other. Some may side with the victim,
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but sadly in the majority of cases they will not;

simply because the truth is too traumatic.
In our own case, since police waited two months to

appropriately respond to disclosures, all this advice
came too late. Furthermore, my natural anger at the
guilty, mixed with fear at having nobody hearing us,
and extreme disenfranchised grief, was all held up as
‘evidence’ of an unstable and abusive character;
something the abusers capitalized on by writing
letters to the police, social services, and even my
doctor.
The psychological effect of having heard the
disclosures was not understood or considered by any
professionals involved. Indeed, it seems that the fact I
did not kill anyone, or myself, was considered as
‘evidence’ that none of it was real. Of course, if I had
killed anyone, I would have been discredited as a
murderer.
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WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
Ritual abuse is a crime many still refuse to believe

happens, despite the convictions of Batley, Petrauske,
Kemp, and others. No doubt people suffered similar
problems a hundred years ago if they tried to speak up
about paedophilia in the Catholic church. There
almost seems to be a conspiracy in place to make sure
things stay that way, and why would there not be? ..
But to say such a thing outright would have me
labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’, and the social stigma
of speaking out would increase even further.
Any society not registered with the Crown may be
considered a ‘conspiracy’ under U.K. law, at least
according to a high ranking Freemason I met whilst I
was a member of the Illuminates of Thanateros, but
never mind..
Getting away with any crime whatsoever is simply a
matter of ensuring nobody believes you are guilty. If
arrest is unavoidable, evidence must be discounted,
and juries swayed. If the blame can be shifted to
somebody else (a ‘patsy’), and they are successfully
prosecuted despite their innocence, any investigations
into the matter will be closed. Even surer is to
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convince people no crime was committed in the first

place; that it is unbelievable, and anybody speaking
up must be deluded, a vindictive liar, or otherwise
‘deeply troubled’. All these methods are employed
whenever abusers of any kind are exposed by their
victims.
It is wholly expected this book will attract deeply
unpleasant accusations regarding the motives and
credibility of its author. These will come not just from
the guilty, but from others with invested belief that
ritual abuse is a myth; be they Satanists, Thelemites,
Druids, Wiccans, or Chaos Magicians. I would like to
make it clear this book is not an attack on occultism,
any more than exposing paedophiles in the church is
an attack on Jesus.
Yet also, to say that abusers within these circles are
not ‘real’ occultists is like saying paedophiles in the
church are not real Christians, despite being priests
and bishops, if not popes.
One should not dismiss disclosures from victims of
‘Catholic abuse’ simply because one personally does
or does not believe in God. Similarly, we should not
dismiss the disclosures of ritual abuse based upon our
own beliefs- or lack thereof- regarding occultism.
One does not have to personally believe in ‘the
occult’ to recognize that plenty of people do, or that
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these people often join groups, and that any group-

however benign, naive, or just plain kooky at the
outset- can turn malign under the wrong leadership.
Nor should it be assumed anyone believing in ‘occult
forces’ must be deluded, any more than belief in Jesus
should provide grounds to dismiss the possibility of
‘Catholic abuse’. One might personally believe
‘occultism’ and Jesus both about as likely as tooth-
fairies, but one does not have the right to condemn
another’s sanity for their own belief in any of these
things.
Furthermore, abusive cults employ techniques of
‘brainwashing’; to make someone believe you can do
malign sorcery is as an effective method of control as
actually being able to. To all practical ends, both
amount to the same thing; mind control.
Nor should we dismiss claims of those believing
their abuse is linked to government mind control
experiments. There is evidence that government
agencies have performed many illegal and
transgressive psychological experiments on its own
citizens in the past, such as those conducted in Nazi
Germany, or the MK Ultra experiments of the C.I.A.,
both of which involved links to occult orders and
symbolism.
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It may also be that some victims are made to falsely

believe in such government connections as part of
their control, so they believe their abusers wield
greater influence than they really have. For example,
members of Colin Batley’s cult were apparently
brainwashed into believing assassins would kill them
if they were disobedient. Anonymous whistleblowers,
posting on internet forums, have often assumed
connection between the cult and MK Ultra. It is
probable that they were encouraged to believe these
things, in order to frighten them into silence.
This does not mean the abuse itself never happened,
even if it stretches the credibility of disclosure. For
example, the Illuminates of Thanateros have no links
to anyone that might be responsible for the eye-in-
the-pyramid that appears on the American dollar bill,
but anyone unknowing enough to suspect they do
might also be persuaded the order is secretly
protected by the government. It is unlikely they would
be disavowed of such belief by anyone in the
organization.
Whatever unusual beliefs someone may -or may not-
hold, this should never provide reason to dismiss
disclosures of abuse. If such happened as a result of
membership within a cult, we should expect them to
hold beliefs corresponding to those held by other
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members of that cult. This is a very important point

for professionals to recognize.
Religious, spiritual, and political beliefs- including
the most outlandish conspiracy theories- are a
freedom in the U.K., and protected against prejudice
by the Freedom of Belief Act 2010. The fact that
someone holds unusual beliefs does not in itself give
us any clues as to the validity of their disclosures,
whether they believe in Satan, Santa, little green men,
government mind control, a universe that turns out
not to exist if you look at it close enough, or a
bearded old man that lives on a cloud and created the
world in seven days. All beliefs- be they spiritual or
political- seem equally absurd, given the appropriate
alternative perspective.
It is to an abuser’s advantage to target victims of
minority groups already suffering misunderstanding
and persecution within wider society. A mother whose
child was abused at a smoke-weed-and-protest-for-
peace camp, for example, would get a very different
reaction from the police than a conventional, middle
class, presumed law abiding parent. Now imagine
trying to tell the police your child was abused by a
cult of black magicians, and that you are an occultist
yourself.. What kind of a reaction do you think you
would get?
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OCCULT GROUPS IN THE U.K.
Occult groups are generally secretive, even if their

existence is public knowledge. As a rule, membership
requires initiation; a ritual whereby grave oaths are
made to keep any secrets within the group, such as its
membership, and anything that happens during its
rituals. Anyone who breaks their oaths of initiation
will be excommunicated. Often the oath itself will
contain dire warnings of persecution, such as the
warning given during admittance into the I.O.T.,
“Should I ever break this oath, may I be stripped of
all protection.”
Initiates are usually taught that such oaths serve to
protect against prejudice from outsiders; for example,
secrecy may be the difference between having a good
job or finding oneself next to unemployable. Belief in
occultism, let alone the practice of it, attracts much
scorn from the wider public, few of whom even
understand what occultism actually ‘is’, or spend the
time to learn what it is that occultists actually believe
or do.
In the past, churches and governments have rounded
up occultists and executed them, declaring the
practice of magic to be a threat to society. Wiccans,
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for example, are taught about the ‘Burning Times’ of

the Inquisition, the Malleus Malificarum, and the
days of Mathew Hopkins- The Witchfinder General.
The ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s is interpreted as
a continuum of such persecutions. The fact that most
Wiccans are middle class and white, and unlikely to
have ever been persecuted for anything, is neither
here nor there.
Such oaths can also make life very difficult for
anyone investigating such a group, be they police or
journalists. It is clear that any such group, however
benign at the outset, could be easily exploited by an
abusive leadership due to these oaths. Anybody
whistleblowing from within such a group would be
betraying their oaths of initiation. Persecution by the
group, and possibly ostracism from ‘occultism’
generally, would inevitably follow.
Furthermore, most groups have ‘grades’ which may
only be attained through progressive initiations. For
example, in an order with three degrees, there will be
secrets held by the second that are not revealed to the
first, and secrets held by the third that will not be
revealed to the first or second. It is perfectly possible
for the higher ranking members of such an
organization to be involved in activities in which the
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lower ranking members have no knowledge

whatsoever.
It has to be observed, above all, that whilst the
‘norm’ for individuals is to act in a responsible,
intelligent, and entirely sane manner, the ‘norm’ for
groups can be entirely different. It is almost as if
groups of people can become subject to a ‘third
mind’, which over-rules the person they are as an
individual; the most obvious example being the way
‘mobs’ can sweep everyone involved along with it,
driving them to behavior they would never otherwise
exhibit.
Initiation within one occult group does not
necessarily preclude membership of another. The
different groups are not exclusive arms of one
religion, as with Catholicism and Protestantism,
where someone chooses between one or the other. For
example, someone might be an initiate of Druidry,
Wicca, and the Illuminates of Thanateros. Indeed,
there are many individuals who seem to collect
initiations like badges.
Occult groups spring up, and die out, regularly
within occultism. Many have a ‘public face’, whilst
others do not. Some of the most influential groups
currently active in the U.K. are;
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Esoteric Freemasonry
Druids
Golden Dawn
Ordo Templi Orientis
Wicca
The Church of Satan
The Temple of Set
The Illuminates of Thanateros
Speculative Freemasonry
Although much of Freemasonry seems to consist of

charitable businessmen, there are inevitably going to
be others drawn to the symbol laden rituals of the
fraternity due to an interest in occultism; there is
much that the two have in common. Indeed, almost all
occult groups are influenced by the initiatory grade
system of Freemasonry, and are in this sense pseudo-
masonic.
Membership of Freemasonry is dependent on a
ritualized initiation that includes an oath to keep
silent upon the membership, rituals, or other secret
matters of the organization, on pain of a whole litany
of punishments from having the tongue cut out to the
body being torn into pieces. Within the order,
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members are organized by a hierarchic structure of

three progressive ‘grades’, each recognized by further
ritual initiation.
Whilst Freemasonry exists as a single organizing
principle, groups of individuals meet in separate
lodges, membership of which may or may not
overlap. Similarly, those involved in Esoteric
Freemasonry may also be actively involved with other
‘occult’ groups.
Where I have met Freemasons operating within other
organizations, they tend to be present amongst the
higher degrees. Nevertheless, contrary to some
conspiracy theorists, the occult organizations of the
world are not all secretly controlled by the Masons,
and they do not all lead ultimately to the Illuminati.
Many allegations have been made over the years of
ritual abuse perpetrated by members of Masonic
lodges. I myself once had an acquaintance who
alleged such abuse, telling me his doctor, the head
teacher at his school, and his father were all a part of
the same lodge. There was nowhere for him to turn to
for help, and everyone treated him as if he were
delusional. Not long after I met him, he killed
himself.
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Druids
The original druids were the priestcraft of the ancient

Britons. The term appears in Irish as druidh, in Welsh
as derwydd, and in Gaelic as druidh; meaning an
augur- someone able to ‘read signs’ for knowledge.
Although the ancient druids practiced human
sacrifice, most modern druids are quite harmless.
Modern druidry is a ‘revival’; there is no unbroken
link between any modern order of druids and the
priestcraft of history. Its rituals, however well
researched, are modern constructs based on
speculation. Nevertheless, the chief concern of
druidry is connection with ancestry, and the spiritual
history of the land. Although there is no clear
evidence of what the ancient druids really believed,
modern druidry tends to be an eclectic ‘earth’ based
religion whose rituals commemorate the turning of
the seasons.
As with other occult organizations, the various orders
of druidry require initiation, and oaths of secrecy.
Famous druids of history include the poet William
Blake. In the modern day, the most famous member
of any druid order is probably Prince Charles,
although most druids are not so well connected to
have ever met him.
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The ritually murdered paedophile Peter Solheim was

a modern druid, and also a Wiccan. A number of the
active abusers within Batley’s cult, those I can
identify who are still at large, identify as druids.
My mother and stepfather, whilst also involved in
Wicca, ‘traditional’ witchcraft, and other forms of
Paganism, are also ‘druids’.
The Golden Dawn
The original Golden Dawn was a turn of the century

co-Masonic organization largely dedicated to the
spiritual mysteries of ancient Egypt, drawing from the
legacy of Eliphas Levi, the Theosophical Society of
Helena Blavatsky, and the Societas Rosicrucian in
Anglia (S.R.I.A.). Its membership included many
upstanding and respectable members of society; most
notably the poet W. B. Yates, George Bernard Shaw,
Major General C. Fuller, MacGregor Mathers, and the
actress Florence Farr.
The Golden Dawn arguably became the prototype for
initiatory occult orders to follow. Nevertheless, an
over-emphasis on personal intrigue, to the neglect of
magical development and research, ultimately led to
the extinction of the order.
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Various modern groups claim direct links to this

original Golden Dawn, none of which can be
demonstrated. As with the original organization (i.e.
the ‘real’ one), membership of these pseudo-groups
usually requires initiation and oaths of secrecy.
Ordo Templi Orientis;

Thelema & Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was, arguably, the worst thing that

ever happened to occultism. Others might say he was
the point where occultism gained its ‘rock & roll’.
A sociopathic narcissist, Crowley was in his own day
evicted from the Golden Dawn, and despised by
almost every fraternity in Europe. Hence it was that
that he decided to found his own group; the Ordo
Templi Orientis. He then went on to plagiarize and
publish research and rituals he had stolen during
membership of these older esoteric fraternities.
Crowley’s most influential text is The Book of the
Law, which he claimed was dictated to him by an
extradimensional being. Part prophecy, part
philosophy, this book became the Bible of his own
religion, which he called Thelema; meaning ‘Will’ in
ancient Greek. The central tenets of his religion are
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that ‘there is no god but man’, whilst simultaneously

‘every man and every woman is a star’. Its adherents
concern themselves with the discovery of their own
True Will, in the understanding that this ‘greater
purpose’ will bring them into correspondence with the
Will of the universe. Thelemic doctrine is expressed
thus; Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law.
Love is the law, love under will. This is our law, the
law of the strong, and the joy of the world.
Crowley liked to identify himself as the Great Beast
666, and was an active bisexual. Proclaiming himself
Magus of the Aeon, he saw himself as a prophet. Few
people took his claims seriously whilst he was alive,
at least compared to his popularity in the modern day.
Nevertheless, he left behind him a ‘lineage’ of
initiation.
When Crowley died, there were bitter arguments as
to who was to take over the leadership of the O.T.O.
As a result, the organization split into two, both
claiming the right to be considered the ‘real’ O.T.O.
whilst scorning the other.
The Caliphate O.T.O., remained dedicated to
following the strict rituals left by Crowley, such as the
Gnostic Mass. This organization is still going strong
in the modern day, having lodges in Britain, America,
and Europe. They essentially consider themselves to
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be a kind of church, with rituals and a hierarchy of

priestcraft similar to that of Catholicism- but with
considerably less budget. Their Gnostic theology
includes consecrated hosts that contain semen and
menstrual blood; ‘cakes of light’. The better known
members of the modern Caliphate O.T.O. include the
film maker Kenneth Anger, and the musician David
Tibet.
The Typhonian O.T.O., formed by Kenneth Grant,
dedicated themselves to a more creative occultism,
with members doing much original research. Grant
published three influential texts, called The Typhonian
Trilogy, which introduced the work of various lesser
known occultists to the wider world; most notably
Austin Osman Spare.
In the early years of the new millennium, a biter legal
battle between the Caliphate and Typhonian O.T.O.
resulted in a decision against Kenneth Grant’s order
being allowed to call themselves a satrap of the
O.T.O., and they became known instead as the
Typhonian Order.
Since the death of Kenneth Grant, the Typhonian
Order seems to have gone into decline, although there
may be a resurgence in the future; occultists having a
particular fascination with the revival of dead things.
The Caliphate O.T.O. appears to be going strong,
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with its main centre in Hastings. Membership of the

O.T.O. or Typhonian Order does not preclude
membership of other occult organizations. Both
groups identify as Thelemite.
In the modern day, Crowley is heralded as the most
influential magician of British history. His books
continue to influence thousands if not millions of
people. The fact that some of these people have
interpreted Crowley’s words as justification for
abusing others is no reflection upon the huge number
of perfectly rational people inspired by his books.
Convicted ritualistic child abuser Jack Kemp, jailed in

December 2012, identified himself as a Thelemite,
despite also being part of a Wiccan coven.
Colin Batley also claimed to have been a Thelemite;
although my own ‘insider knowledge’ places him as a
member of the Illuminates of Thanateros (see below),
whilst membership of his cult seems to have drawn
from many tentacles of contemporary occultism;
some were also druids, Wiccans, Setians, or members
of other groups. Orgies taking place at his house in
Kidwelly, Wales, often began with a reading from The
Book of the Law.
When my partner and I were being stalked and
targeted by Batley as part of a conspiracy to murder,
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we encountered him at an event commemorating the

life of Crowley.
Wicca; The Witchcraft Cult
Often claiming to be a continuation or revival of an

ancient fertility cult indigenous to Britain, for which
there is scant evidence for ever having existed in the
first place, Wicca is a modern religion dating to the
1950s. Its two main branches; Gardnerian and
Alexandrian, take their names from their original
charismatic leaders, Gerald Gardner and Alex
Sanders.
Although originally a distinct group requiring
initiation for membership, many people today identify
as Wiccans and witches without any initiation or
connection to either Gardnerian or Alexandrian
covens.
Wiccan ritual is a mixture of religion and magic
(witchcraft). Religious ritual focusses on a dualistic
theology of God and Goddess, and is largely nature
based. Witchcraft ritual tends to focus on divination
(crystal balls, Tarot cards, etc., employed to tell the
future or gain otherwise hidden information) and
spellcasting (the raising of an imaginary ‘cone of
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power’, or the arranging of objects in sympathy with

a desired outcome, in an attempt to manipulate future
events).
Initiated Wiccans meet in ‘covens’, usually during
one of the eight agricultural festivals on the ‘wheel of
the year’, which they call Sabbats, or during nights of
the full moon, which they call Esbats. Such meetings
may take place in the outdoors, or around each other’s
houses. Rituals may be ‘robed’ or ‘skyclad’ (a term
Wiccans use to mean naked).
Wiccans tend to identify one another through the
symbol of the pentagram, although individual covens
may also employ different symbols.
Initiation into a Wiccan coven involves the oath to
Know, to Will, to Dare, and to Keep Silence regarding
the membership, rituals, or other secrets of the group.
It is understood that the breaking of such an oath will
bring dire consequences, not the least of which being
malign curses thrown by its leadership. Within covens
there are three progressive grades of initiation, being
the first degree, whereby the member is recognized as
Witch, the second degree of Priest or Priestess, and
the third degree of High Priest or High Priestess,
recognizing the right to lead a coven.
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Convicted paedophile and ritualistic abuser Peter

Petrauske was an initiated third degree Wiccan High
Priest of a coven based in Falmouth.
The Church of Satan
Modern Satanism is essentially an American

phenomena, beginning in 1966 when Anton LaVey
formed The Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht
(April 30th). For the first four years, this organization
remained based around LaVey’s own home in San
Franscisco’s Richmond District. Group rituals were
held on Friday nights, whilst Anton LaVey gave
lectures during the week. The initial membership was
around fifty people.
The organization soon gathered interest from others
around America and abroad, who wrote to San
Franscisco asking how they, too, could become
Satanists, and so in 1970 LaVey summarized the
tenets of his philosophy and published The Satanic
Bible; the foundation stone for most modern
Satanists, whose popularity has only increased with
the passing years.
The Satanic Bible does not portray Satan as an actual
supernatural entity; rather he is employed as a symbol
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for hedonistic self indulgence, whilst the philosophy

itself is atheistic. Nevertheless, the text also includes
many simplified and standardized Satanic rituals,
invoking the names of many demons with names
drawn drawn chiefly from medieval grimoires and
mythological traditions, intended to produce magical
results.
Membership within the Church of Satan became
formalized through initiation, recognizing five
progressive grades; the first conferring the right to
call oneself a Satanist, the second being Warlock or
Witch, the third being Priest or Priestess of Mendes,
the fourth conferring the title of Magister, and fifth
being Magus.
Anton LaVey’s daughter, Zeena LaVey, has spoken
up many times concerning the immature, selfish, and
violent behavior of her sociopathic father. There have
been many unconfirmed rumors of incestuous abuse
between Anton LaVey and his daughter, Zeena, who
became pregnant at thirteen and gave birth to Stanton
LaVey.
Although Church of Satan representatives were quick
to claim Stanton is not a member of the surviving
organization when he was accused alongside ‘Sharon
Hate’ of false imprisonment and rape- for which he
was never charged- Stanton has been reported to
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consider himself of the ‘First Family of Satanism’,

and intent on continuing from where his forebears left
off.
The Church of Satan has had undeniably abusive
characters amongst it members during its history.
They include the serial killer Richard Ramirez ‘The
Night Stalker’, who drew heavily on CoS literature,
although the Satanic nature of his murders is largely
played down. Another was Tom Creech, who was
sentenced to hang in the state of Idaho in 1976 for the
murder of two men. Third and fourth are Susan Atkins
and Bobby Beausoliel of the Manson Family.
It is of note that Atkins was present during the brutal
murders in the homes of Hinman, Tate, and Labianca.
LaVey had recently played the role of Satan in
Rosemary’s Baby, in which Sharon Tate played the
lead. Newspaper reports at the time were rich with
claims that the Polanskis were Satanists who hosted
drug fueled orgies.
Norren Gosh, author of Why Johnny Can’t Come
Home (2000) names Anton LaVey and his ‘second in
command’ Michael Aquino as having been amongst
the ritual abusers of her son. During a court hearing
on the behalf of Paul Bonnacci she made the
following statement;
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“There was a man by the name of Michael Aquino. He was

in the military. He had top Pentagon clearance. He was a
pedophile. He was a Satanist. He’s founded the Temple of
Set. And he was also a very close friend of Anton LaVey.
The two of them were very active in ritualistic sexual
abuse. And they deferred funding from this government
program to use this experimentation upon children …where
they deliberately split off the personalities of these children
into multiples so that when they’re questioned or put under
oath or questioned under lie detector, that unless the
operator knows how to question a multiple personality
disorder, they turn up with no evidence.
“They use these kids to sexually compromise politicians or
anyone else they wish to have control of… they were taken
to be used by professional pedophiles. People that have the
money to buy what they want, take the kids wherever they
want... and by splitting the children’s personalities they
could then train each one of the personalities to do a
different function. And the rest of the personalities within
that host personality would not be aware of it or remember
it.”
During the 1980s, Anton LaVey is said to have been

‘pimping’ the young witches in his coven, initiating
them into the CoS by having them sell sexual favours
in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
The modern Church of Satan continues to flourish
today, with membership and initiation into its degrees
requiring the payment of a fee. It is not, by and large,
taken very seriously within British occultism, being
regarded as something of an equivalent of
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Scientology for aging rock stars. Amongst its better

known members are Boyd Rice, an originator of the
‘industrial music’ movement, and the anti-christ
superstar Marilyn Manson.
The Temple of Set
Another organization of American origin, with

scattered membership in the U.K., founded in 1975 by
Michael Aquino and a small number of disgruntled
members from the Church of Satan who were
unhappy with some of LaVey’s decisions. They take
their name from the Egyptian god of Chaos, Set, who
is considered to be the earliest manifestation of the
archetype we would later come to call Satan.
Upon founding the order, Aquino revealed his
‘channeled’ work The Book of Coming Forth by
Night, effectively pulling the same trick as Crowley
did with The Book of the Law.
A controversial and very well connected figure,
Michael Aquino is the son of Betty Ford. A Lt.
Colonel, Politico/Military Affairs, Military
Intelligence Branch, U.S. Army (retired), and a
specialist in Psychological Operations, he is the
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author of the military paper, From PsyOp to

MindWar,; the Psychology of Victory.
The Temple of Set is taken far more seriously in the
U.S.A. and U.K. than the Church of Satan, and
propounds a far deeper, and to many more disturbing,
philosophy of Black Magic and the ‘Left Hand Path’.
As with most occult groups, membership requires
initiation and oaths of secrecy.
In 1987, Michael Aquino and his wife, who went by
the name Lilith (the Hebrew demon of infant death),
were accused of sexually abusing three year old boys
and girls in day care programs at the U.S. Army’s
Presidio. No prosecution was made, due to
intervention from the military in the interest of
national security.
Cathy O’Brian, in her book Trance-Formations of
America, and David Shurter in Down the Rabbit
Hole; A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story, both
claim to have been abused and brainwashed by
Michael Aquino. Both tell also of mind control
comparable to that in the testimony given by Gosch,
and the kidnapping and ritual abuse of her son.
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The Illuminates of Thanateros; Chaos Magic.
Formed by Peter J. Carrol- a wealthy real estate

investor and co-proprietor of Amphora Aromatics in
the 70s, the I.O.T. (Illuminates of Thanateros) has
grown to become amongst the most influential groups
in modern occultism, with membership spread across
the U.K., U.S.A. and Europe, and rumors of sections
now existing in Russia. They practice what has come
to be called Chaos Magic, the central tenet of which
is expressed in the couplet Nothing is true &
everything is permitted.
Despite the philosophy and name of the group, there
is no connection between the I.O.T. and the Illuminati
of popular conspiracy theory, although it is unlikely
any member would disillusion you from thinking
there is.
Members argue that Chaos Magic itself is not a belief
system, but rather a meta-belief which allows for
‘paradigm shifting’; what they believe may shift from
one day to the next, so that Chaos Magicians might
practice rituals from any other occult system,
adapting them to suit their own needs.
I.O.T. members consider their spirituality to be a
manifestation of a millennia-old tradition, claiming
relation to everything from witchcraft to the
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Illuminati, and ultimately dating back to the earliest

shamans. Their central ritual is an invocation of their
‘god’ of Chaos; a goat headed and behooved
hermaphrodite deity, often identified with Satan,
which they call Baphomet.
Temples of the I.O.T., and Chaos magic groups in
general, typically include members of other occult
organizations, such as the Church of Satan or Temple
of Set. Indeed, infiltration of other organizations is
actively encouraged, especially if there is potential to
move through the grades and gain influence.
As with other occult groups, membership of the
I.O.T. is recognized by initiation through progressive
grades. These are numbered backwards as follows;
the first level of membership is called the 4°, Novice,
during which time the aspirant is expected to train
themselves in entering trance (mind control). The 3°,
Initiate, recognizes full membership, and confers the
rights to act as Mentor (teacher), Magister Templi
(leader of an individual satrap or ‘Temple’), or Priest
(a kind of ‘outreach’ for Chaos Magic). The 2° is
Adept, conferring further responsibilities. The 1°
confers leadership of a ‘section’ (i.e. U.K. Section,
U.S.A. Section, German Section).
The current leadership of the I.O.T. in the U.K. are
Nicola Ward, aka Nikki Wyrd, and Julian Vayne- the
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mother and step-father-outlaw to my daughter. An ex-

member of the I.O.T. myself, I can tell you that Colin
Batley was a Magister Templi of the I.O.T., and that
his group were recognized and supported by members
of the larger order.
I have spoken to Peter J. Carrol face to face
concerning the problem of ritual abuse, only to be
treated with high handed arrogance. When I asked
him why, if he was the magician he claimed to be, he
could not just divine the truth, he responded with the
words, “Divination is not my strong point.”
There you have it. Since divination is, by definition,
the asking for wisdom, I am not of the opinion that
Peter J. Carrol is everything he has been made out to
be. Another quote from the same conversation throws
much light on his attitude; “Magical orders are a bit
like sausages. If you want to enjoy one, it is best not
to watch it being made.”
I also have received countless emails from Peter J.
Carrol which read like something the B.B.C. might
have said during the days of Jimmy Saville. This truly
is shameful behavior from someone supposed to be an
example to the occult community. May his shame, if
he has the wit to admit to any or not, condemn him
and all his works to the Abyss.
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DEATH & HELL DOT COM
The website deathandhell.com, which provides a

manual on trauma based mind control
(‘brainwashing’ by rape hypnotism and similar), as
well as many references to child abuse, child
sacrifice, murder, and necrophilia. The site purports to
be run by a group calling itself the Church of Latter
Day Satanists, with a sub-groups calling themselves
the Feral Light University and Temple Dahmer,
claiming links to the order of A.T.W.A. (‘All the Way
Alive’) founded by Charles Manson. Clear links may
be shown between deathandhell.com and the
Illuminates of Thanateros.
Although often dismissed as ‘humorous’, only an
abuser would find any of this material funny. Any
victim of abuse would be further traumatized by the
many open references to the kind of abuse they may
have suffered, and what appear to be confessions of
extreme abuse. Much of it seems specifically
designed to ‘trigger’ the lasting effects of trauma, and
so ‘increase distress’. The website promises to be able
to supply the reader with child abuse images (which is
referred to on the site as ‘kiddy porn’), such as
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victims of ritual abuse may have been forced into

participating in. There are many references to
paedophilia on its message-board, such as a comment
reading ‘Even in Hell I want to **** a nine year old
girl’.
The 'language' of Chaos Magic is used throughout the
site. High ranking IOT member Dave Lee, whose
work is also published by Mandrake of Oxford, is
reffered to on the messageboard;
A post on the Deathandhell message board reads;
http://www.deathandhell.com/wwwboard/messages/
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"Posted by infek bin Laden (207.202.173.244) on May 13,

2001 at 16:04:31:
In Reply to: Bubastis Sactuary posted by Jaq D Hawkins
on May 08, 2001 at 11:22:02:
: Hi,
: Dave Lee tells me that his Bubastis Sactuary is posted
somewhere on this site. Any hints where or if it's still
here?
: ~ Jaq
Greetings JD !
Dave Lee's "Bubastis Sanctuary" is located at
http://www.deathandhell.com/corpus/sstories_index.html
up from the skies,
(infek bin Laden"
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And who is 'JD'? Is it by any chance Chaos magic

author Jaq D. Hawkins?
http://www.jaqdhawkins.co.uk/
Deathandhell.com seems to originate in Seattle, USA;

there is even information concerning a purported
‘Satanic Pride Day’, where like minded sadists could
meet and visit a hardware store to buy potential
torture implements.
The Section Head for the USA during the early
period of the new millennium, when Mastin was 'in
charge' in the UK, was Douglas Grant; whom I met
only once, when he presented a sado-masochistic
ritual at an international meeting of the Illuminates of
Thanateros, centered around a young lady in a
master-slave relationship with him.
http://ashejournal.com/index.php?id=166
"Douglas Grant is a retired Section Head of the occult
organization The International Pact of the Illuminates of
Thanateros."
A simple Google search on 'douglas grant iot seattle'

reveals;
[Alt.Magick.Chaos]: REF faq (1/1)
www.faqs.org/faqs/magick/chaos/faq/8 Aug 2012 –
Douglas Grant for the IOT USA. ... AX/Anon Faction
Attn: RoikaXul POB 16035 Seattle WA
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DEATH CULT REJECT

Corroboration of Colin Batley & the I.O.T.
“What do you call a Chaos Magicians who’s lost control

of their ego? An Id I.O.T.” - Grobbly the Clown
Unsurprisingly, others have attempted to ‘blow the

whistle’ on abusive cults within the U.K. These have
usually been made anonymously, for reasons that
should by now be obvious. The following posts by
someone calling themselves deathcultreject are of
direct relevance to our own case.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?
t=47620&page=5
"Originally Posted by deathcultreject
“I live opposite a school, and I've only caught one person

there who was a definate paedo trying to ingratiate
himself with the parents.
“Here's a list of things which led me to that conclusion.
“he has . . .
“1) Close involvement with a gang which routineley

intimidates and blackmails people who report sex crimes
to the police, and also harasses their family.
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“2) Close involvement with people who gang stalk me (I

have Multiple Personality Disorder, so they regard me as a
paedophile victim who is giving evidence just by existing)
“3) Harassed me with such gangs and claimed to have

blackmail pictures of me.
“4) Repeated things which have been leaked from a black

magic order called "Illuminates of Thanateros" and were
leaked by the pro mind control pro paedophile contingent
of that order. He repeated a distortion of a ritual which
was distorted exactly the same way the nonces had
distorted it.
“5) He was pointed out to me as someone who had

'shagged' a friend's under age niece.
“6) I remember seeing him with two men in a bar who had
very young terrified girls with them (about age 10) whom
they were feeding Ouzo and snogging and groping.
“So I decided it would be a good idea to beat him up a

bit . . .
“The stalkers didn't like that. They became more desperate

to spike me because their standard methods weren't
working. When I caught them in the attempt twice, I had
the whole thing proven."
h t t p : / / w w w. d a v i d i c k e . c o m /forum/archive/
index.php/t-91811.html
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Who are they? If that's true, you have a moral duty to

warn people.
The Illuminates of Thanateros.
Their British isles section has / had a leader who

advocates semen from 12 year old boys as having
rejuvinating qualities.
They also have a full blown Sociopath who was

expelled from the Catholic church.
During Illuminates of Thanateros gatherings he drops

all pretence of non predation, and he drops all pretence
of civilised agendas and does nothing but batter
everyone with paedophile mind control no matter what
is going on, or what commitments he has made
otherwise.
He's the one who has been caught sending written

formulars intended to damage and control people with
MPD problems.
He has cronies in the IOT who are care workers in

South Wales, and I've seen one of them talking to
herself in a little girl voice. She has been responsible
for presenting rituals intended to silence child abuse /
MKULTRA victims claiming that it's bad for people's
mental health to hear about them.
When these people talk about 'healing' they really mean

'protecting' people from 'bad news' which would upset
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them. In other words, keeping the public ignorant of

child abuse.
Edited to correct and say that the predator has been

made to leave the Catholic priesthood. I don't know
about the church.
The Section Head and ‘Magus’ of the I.O.T. in the

U.K. during the period deathcultreject writes about
was a man called Peter Mastin; someone well known
to me, but far from liked. Within the Illuminates of
Thanateros, his paedophile interests are not only an
open secret; they are amongst the reasons he was
awarded the grandiose title ‘Bishop of Chaos’.
Despite police failing to find evidence that he is a
peadophile, it remains my opinion that Mastin is
wholly capable of extreme abuse.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/archive/index.php/
t-21103.html
"In early 2006 in South Wales, the Illuminates of

Thanateros posthumously initiated a young man who
had hanged himself to death and gave him the new
name of 'Frater Photographer'.
Most people are not aware that you can join the IOT
order by hanging yourself.
Later that year, two particularly sociopathic members
bullied and lied their way into adding a ritual of their
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own to the proceedings of the 'dead to rights campaign'

whilst it was active at Pavilan cave in South Wales.
The original intention of the dead to rights campaign
was to return grave robbed remains to their original
resting place respectfully and with dignity.
Despite protest from people who knew what was going
on, the two psychopaths claimed to have talked to 'the
spirits of the cave' and been given permission to plant
an 'artifact' called 'the red arrow of chaos' in order to
recruit more initiates.
From then on there was a spate of suicides and
suspicious deaths over South Wales, many deaths were
by hanging.
The red arrow of chaos signifies war, and
psychological warfare.
Is ‘Fra. Photographer’ the dead son of Colin and

Elaine Batley? Compare the above disclosure to this
report in the Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
news/article-1364583/Evil-paedophile-guilty-
running-cul-sac-sex-cult-seaside-
home.html#ixzz2FhHToU00)
"The Batleys had four children, one of whom, Damian,

died of strangulation three years ago when a bizarre sex
game went wrong. He was found hanging from his
bedroom door at the family home and had been filming
himself."
A further connection that may be less tenuous than it

seems is that Batley’s group were threatened with
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assassins, and the philosophy of the Illuminates of

Thanateros; supposedly the last words of Hassan ibn
Sabbah, founder of the original spiritual order of
Hashishim (the origin of the word ‘assassin’);
Nothing is true and everything is permitted.
Whilst police and newspapers reported these
assassins as fictional, presumably believed in by
victims because of mind control, there remains the
strong possibility that real murders were indeed
committed by the cult; such as the ritual torture and
murder of Peter Solheim. Having met Colin Batley in
person, it is apparent to us that he thought of himself
as an ‘Assassin’.
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THE SATANIC ILLUMINATI

& other Red Herrings
“Nothing is true and everything is permissabubble. The

philosificum absurdus abyssus of the illuminated gnoses.
Except that it isn’t actually true..” - Grobbly the Clown
According to the anti-Satanists, most but not all of

whom are Christian organizations, there is an
international conspiracy of black magicians abducting
children and abusing them. The reasons they are
doing this are apparently manyfold; from mind
control experiments through to actual demons
demanding ‘sacrifice’ in order to manifest on the
physical plain. The reason we are all ignorant of this
conspiracy is that it goes right to the top, and the dark
sorcerers of the Illuminati are secretly running a one
world government.
According to Satanists and their sympathizers, this
conspiracy is actually between Christians and
therapists, who are implanting false memories in their
patients to accidently or deliberately support the
hypothesis of a worldwide conspiracy of child
abusing Satanists. The reason for this is simply that
we live in a Christian culture; unconsciously or not,
all these people are acting with an essentially
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Christian agenda, having its roots in the ‘witch hunts’

of history.
Where will it all end?
I suggest there is no conspiracy. I suggest the reason
why these thousands of disclosures all show so many
similarities is simply that abusive cults tend to behave
in similar and fairly predictable ways; that is, once
their existence has been recognized as a reality. In the
same way that sociopaths tend to behave predictably,
once one has insight into their psychology, so do
groups that have sociopaths amongst their leadership.
It must also be recognized that some group
dynamics, as do some philosophies, encourage
sociopathic traits in their members; in such cases, it is
not simply a case of removing the leadership; like a
hydra, if you cut off one head another grows in its
place.
Abusive cults, whether they are Wiccan covens that
become infiltrated and taken over by paedophiles,
spontaneously arising amongst American college
kids, drug dealing street gangs mixed up with black
magic, or Haitian cults of the Loup-Garou, do not
have to be involved in any kind of conspiracy to all
hold common traits in their behavior. All seek to
persecute, abuse, control, torture, and ultimately kill
their victims in a ritualized manner.
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This behavior is clearly wrong, and it is not difficult

for even the perpetrators to recognize it; in spiritual
terms as they are commonly understood, it is evil.
Since ritual serves to evoke the power of archetypes,
it should come as no surprise that abusive ritual cults,
in many but not all cases, tend to identify with
archetypes of evil; most commonly personified in
Western culture as Satan.
This same archetype is known by occultists by many
other names, as is apparent through even the most
cursory examination of the literature; Cernunos, Pan,
Set, Lucifer, the Hidden One, and Baphomet all being
essentially the same archetype. This remains so even
if occultists identifying with it might argue they are
not Satanists, and do not ‘worship evil’. The fact that
confusion between ‘real occultism’ and abusive
Satanism is so common that the difference has to be
explained to outsiders is demonstration of this fact.
Since real occultism, and abusive cults, both
commonly identify with the same archetypes, and
both perform rituals, is it not inevitable that we will
come across abusive cults apparently practicing
certain aspects of ‘real occultism’? Is it not also
inevitable that some real occult groups will become
abusive?
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Ritualized behavior may be found in all cultures. It is

humanity’s natural expression of our spiritual nature;
our ‘consciousness in relation to cosmos’. All
religions exhibit this trait. Whilst many superficial
differences may be found between the religious rituals
of human culture, it is inevitable that we shall also
find many similarities. Most, for example, build altars
upon which the symbols of deity, or other spiritual
principle, are displayed. Most have prayers, which are
easily comparable to each other in style and purpose.
Similarly, the rituals of occultism are rooted in this
same, universal human behavior trait. Most are
centered around an altar. Whilst the prayers of
exoteric religions are offered to transcendent deities
presumed to exist in some ‘other place’, the rituals of
occultism are aimed towards immanent deity whose
presence may be evoked into ‘presence’, or invoked
to take possession of a celebrant. There are many
other similarities between the rituals of all occult
groups, such as the casting of the circle, as explained
in almost any book on the subject.
Is it not also inevitable that amongst ritually abusive
cults, we would find similarities in the manner that
abuse is ritualized? People are the same all over the
world, and their rituals have changed very little in all
history. Once this is understood, there is no need to
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resort to any kind of conspiracy theory to explain the

similarities between one abusive cult and another. It is
all simply the lowest human behavior, wherever it is
found, and as such highly predictable. Hail Satan,
indeed..
Which is not to say that criminals do not conspire.
With the advent of the internet, this has become easier
and more likely that ever before. The internet made
possible a paedophile ring with 7,000 members, who
acted to enable and protect one another. An abusive
cult could easily find a market for images made
during ritual abuse.
Is it not also inevitable- given that abusive cults arise
all over the world- that a similar network might arise
amongst those who ritualize their abuse? That, sooner
or later if not already, there will arise an international
conspiracy of ritual abusers? And might not such a
group, just as they exploit belief in magic, spirits etc.
exploit any already existing bizarre yet strikingly
common beliefs about Satanic Illuminati, sacrifices to
Moloch by the Bilderberg Group, MK Ultra and
government mind control, or alien reptiles controlling
our world leaders, to further terrorize and confuse
their victims- regardless of there being any truth -or
lack of thereof- to these conspiracy theories?
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Whether we choose to believe it or not, it seems this

is exactly what has happened.
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A MESSAGE TO OCCULTISTS
Abusers may be found in any institution, from the

B.B.C. to government, psychiatry, the police, social
services, or religion. Wherever an institution is
accused, they will defend themselves to the teeth.
Occult orders are no different.
To any occultist who happens to be reading this
book, I ask the following;
Operation Yew-Tree has recognized and investigated

links between Jimmy Saville and a Satanically
themed sex club, and some of his victims have
disclosed their abuse to have been Satanically themed
and ritualistic. Nevertheless, these facts have not been
widely reported, and where they have those reports
have been attacked by other journalists. Why is it
possible for us to believe that Jimmy Saville abused
so many children, in so many settings, and betrayed
so much trust.. but impossible for us to accept that he
wore a black robe and chanted ‘Hail Satan’ when he
did it?
It seems any child abuser might get away with his
crimes simply by employing the right paraphernalia,
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and ritualizing the violation- thus making the crime

‘Satanic Ritual Abuse’, which many people remain
adamant does not exist, rather than mere child abuse,
which is a widely recognized reality.
If that was all it took to rob a bank, do you not think
we would have gangs of black robed criminals
regularly turning over Barclays with cries of “Don’t
move, and nobody gets sacrificed to Satan?” Would
we all be arguing that Satanic Bank Robbery does not
exist, whilst all this was going on?
Or supposing a ring of child abusers chose to dress
up as something else, such as clowns or cowboys?
Would we then be arguing that ‘Circus Themed
Abuse’ or ‘Wild West Abuse’ does not exist? Would
the disclosure of their victims be just as easily
discredited? Is that really all it would take?
Do you really believe that occultism is the only
spiritual culture in the world that harbours no
paedophiles? How likely is it really that abusers exist
in the Church, in Buddhism, Hinduism, indeed every
religion, but not within Paganism, and certainly not
Satanism?
Why? What makes occultists so different from the
rest of humanity?
For all their grandiose titles and posturing, occultists
are just as human as anyone else. Of course there are
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abusers amongst the occult community, just as there

are in other walks of life. To deny this for any reason
is to allow those abusers to prosper, and to become
enablers. Knowingly or not, it is to become
responsible for child abuse due to having protected
the perpetrators. Those who have acted to discredit or
otherwise attack those making disclosures of abuse
have become directly involved in the persecution of
innocent people.
It is my unhappy experience that occultism in the
U.K. not only harbors paedophiles, but is thoroughly
infected with them. The Pagan community will
invariably rally around member against whom
allegations of abuse are made, always assuming
another ‘Satanic Panic’ persecution, and rarely -if
ever- considering such allegations might actually be
true. What better place, then, for a paedophile to hide,
and to find the support they need should they ever be
discovered?
Just as the B.B.C., the Catholic Church, and
corrupted local authorities, all have to take
responsibility for having allowed paedophiles to
prosper in their midst, so must occultism.
Convictions have been made, and ritual abuse has
been proved a reality. We can no longer pretend. We
can no longer gloss over the failings of the
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community. One cannot make compromises with

abusers without becoming tainted by them. Abusers
must always be exposed; anything less is to protect
and enable them.
Yes, the first few of us to take a stand will find
ourselves ostracized, as I have been. What value is
our community if it means rubbing shoulders with
child abusers and murderers? Is keeping such
company really very wise? Would it not be wise to
expose these people, and prevent them from
prospering? Is not the quest for wisdom supposed to
be the whole point in occultism?
There are bound to be the occasional convulsions in
any culture, however ancient or new, uncovering
abuses of trust or power. At first, these may cause a
great sensation. If the situation is favorable on the
whole, such abuses can be easily concealed from the
public; everything is forgotten and complacency
reigns once more. Yet to the wise, such occurrences
are grave omens that cannot be ignored. This is the
only way of avoiding further tragedy.
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RITUAL ABUSE & MENTAL HEALTH
It should be expected that anyone targeted by an

abusive cult will have been traumatized by the
experience. They may exhibiting extremely unusual
behavior. It may be their abuse has resulted in
P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), or possibly
even actual brain damage, such as with D.I.D.
(Dissociative Identity Disorder).
Too often, such conditions have provided reason to
dismiss the disclosures of those who have suffered
extreme abuse, resulting in no justice being served. It
is important to make the distinction that P.T.S.D. and
D.I.D. are both symptoms of what has happened to
someone, rather than something that is unexplainably
wrong with them.
It is also important to recognize these conditions are
often misdiagnosed if there is no knowledge of their
cause, or if disclosures are dismissed; D.I.D., for
example, is often misdiagnosed as autism, whilst
P.T.S.D. may become confused with any number of
different anxiety disorders.
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Nor should we allow abusers free reign to target

anyone who already has these conditions, or for that
matter any other kind of disorder, illness, or disability.
Furthermore, abusive cults will work hard to
discredit anyone speaking up against them. Believe it
or not, they will conspire to make it seem their victim
is a delusional paranoid conspiracy theorist. They will
do this in a number of ways, from making
‘concerned’ reports about their target to the local
authorities, to organized gang stalking.
It is a rare person indeed who would not be reduced
to a nervous wreck by such behavior. We should also
expect anyone being targeted by an abusive cult to be
hyper-vigilant. Events that seem innocuous to anyone
else will have fearful implications. They may have
been gang-stalked, for example, and therefore -at
least occasionally - suspicious of completely innocent
people they see on the street.
The first thing almost any abuser responds when they
have been found out is, “You are mad.” This is as true
of the unfaithful spouse as it is the wife beater, or
predatory peadophile. We should expect the same
accusations to be made against anyone speaking up
against an abusive cult, and recognize that many
people will be making discrediting one individual,
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who may themselves have been socially isolated as a

result of the cult’s activities.
Indeed, we should hold anyone making such
unfounded accusations of ‘mental illness’ as suspect,
considering their actions potential proof for
involvement in abuse.
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FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME

& the Paedophile Protection Squad
Victims of ‘occult’ ritual abuse are most likely to find

themselves facing another misdiagnosis; F.M.S. (False
Memory Syndrome). That is to say, it is assumed their
memories are at fault, and although they clearly recall
being severely abused, traumatized, and
‘brainwashed’ by an abusive cult, none of it actually
happened. Uniquely amongst ‘syndromes’, nobody
has ever been diagnosed with F.M.S. during any form
of therapy; the term only ever arrises during court
proceedings as a defense against accusations of child
abuse. Such ‘diagnoses’ are made almost invariably
by untrained lay persons, based solely upon the
denials of the accused.
‘False Memory Syndrome’ was the conclusion in all
those cases that have become known as the ‘Satanic
Panic’; apparently what actually happened was that
incompetent therapists somehow implanted these
memories using hypnosis. Furthermore, over the past
three decades, this unlikely accident has apparently
been repeated by hundreds of therapists working with
thousands of clients.
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The irony is that it is indeed possible for false

memories to occur regarding extreme abuse; real
memories are so harmful to recall that the brain
dissociates from them entirely, refusing to ‘bring
them to mind’ as a matter of psychological self
preservation. As a further layer of defense, actual
false memories may occur in order to prevent the
truth being recalled at all.
In extreme cases, the mind will actually
‘honeycomb’ and become a multiple personality, so
that in psychological terms the abuse was not suffered
by the ‘primary self’ but by an alter or ‘sub-
personality’. This is what is known as D.I.D., and is
an effect that some ritual abusers are well aware of,
and have learnt how to exploit. Where abusers see
their victim in distress, including psychologically,
they will seek to increase this distress. They may also
seek to exploit the symptoms of D.I.D. and turn them
to advantage; mind control.
The phrase ‘False Memory Syndrome’ was coined by
Professor Peter Freyd and his wife Pamela, step
siblings who married, in response to allegations of the
sexual abuse of their daughter, Jennifer Freyd, a
Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon.
After successfully discrediting the claims made
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against them, Pamela and Peter Freyd went on to

establish the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
Another founding member was psychologist Dr.
Ralph Underwager, who was interviewed in 1991 by
the editor of the Amsterdam based magazine Paidika:
The Journal of Paedophilia. When asked, “Is
choosing paedophilia for you a responsible choice for
the individual?”, Underwager replied, “Certainly it is
responsible..”
Amongst the loudest voices of the False Memory
Syndrome Foundation in the U.S.A. is currently Doug
Mesner, who has been equally vocal about his
leadership of his aggressively Satanic group. He
seems to put considerable effort into online attacks
upon the credibility of those who speak up about
ritual abuse. There are, unfortunately, no shortage of
people like him.
In 2000 the British government refused to publish the
results of a specially commissioned report by Valerie
Sinason focussing on the experiences of fifty
survivors, concluding that they suffered real Satanic
abuse and are not suffering ‘false memory syndrome’.
It may be no coincidence that the report reopened the
debate started a decade earlier concerning children in
Rochdale, Nottingham, and Orkney, and that these
centers all had links to leading political figures. (See
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Satanic abuse no myth, say experts, ‘The

Independent’, 30 April 2000).
Furthermore, if False Memory Syndrome were
widely known to have been discredited, then the
‘Satanic Panic’ of the 80s might just turn out to have
been not such a ‘panic’ after all..
There has been no systematic research documenting
False Memory Syndrome, and is not recognized by
any professional psychiatric or psychological
organization. The British Psychological Society
performed a survey of 108 therapists whose patients
had recovered suppressed memories of abuse, and
found no convincing evidence for its existence. In
response, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation
were lead to admitting that F.M.S. cannot explain
most examples of recovered memories of trauma.
The assumption that repressed memories are in fact
False Memory Syndrome induced during therapy is
challenged by the fact that a substantial proportion of
survivors have not participated in any kind of therapy.
Further research has shown that, even where there has
been the intervention of a therapist, most such
memories are recalled without the use of hypnotism
or other recall techniques, and most usually outside of
therapy session.
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The idea that therapists could be accidently

implanting false memories of extremely unusual
traumatic events is further challenged by the fact that
this is extremely difficult- if not impossible- to
achieve even deliberately. Whilst it has not been found
impossible to implant false memories, including
memories that would have been traumatic experiences
had they been real, these memories have to be
believable- they must not produce cognitive
dissonance, or shatter the subject’s ‘world view’.
After using extensive suggestive techniques, Porter,
Yuille and Lehman (1999) reported success in getting
some research subjects to ‘recover’ a false memory of a
stressful event (e.g., dog attack). 26% of participants
‘recovered’ a complete false memory, and another 30%
recalled aspects of the false experience. Note that
being attacked by a dog, although traumatic, is not an
unusual or ‘unbelievable’ event; it does not stretch
credibility, and produces no immediate cognitive
dissonance.
In a similar study, Pezdek, Finger and Hodge (1997)
implanted false memories in adults that they had been
lost in a shopping mall as children. Again, this is
entirely ‘plausible’, yet only 3 out of 20 subjects could
be influenced into ‘recovering’ such a memory. They
also tried to convince subjects they had been given
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rectal enemas as children- far more analogous to abuse,

indeed sometimes featuring in the genuine sexual
exploitation of children. No subjects could be falsely
lead to believe this.
The techniques involved in inducing these false
memories were advanced; they included the
‘hijacking’ of the parental figures in their subjects.
Subjects were convinced their own parents clearly
recalled the false event. Nevertheless, the event still
had to seem credible to the subject. Had they really
been given enemas during their childhood, the irony
is that such a memory could indeed become
repressed. Thus, empirical evidence exists that it is
impossible for therapists to implant false memories of
extremely bizarre and traumatic events, and extremely
likely such ‘mind blowing’ events when real would be
‘forgotten’; conversely, it may even be that the
‘unbelievable’ qualities of Satanic ritual abuse serve
to further their repression- they are as unbelievable to
the victim as they are to anyone they might give
disclosure to, should the memory be recalled.
Furthermore, the effectiveness of ‘hijacking’ the
parental figure in such experiments suggests that it is
fairly easy for real parents to influence the creation of
‘false memories’ that do not include abuse. Since it is
often a natural self defense to ‘forget’ traumatic
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memories, this might allow such abusive parents to

exploit the tendency to create ‘cover’ memories that
serve to prevent real memories arising; a further self
defense against further trauma caused by recollection.
Any abusive family intent on completely messing up
a child’s reality with false memories of not being
abused has every chance of succeeding.
Even more difficult for the F.M.S.F. to dismiss is the
steadily increasing number of people who have come
forward whose testimonies do not involve any level
of repressed memories. Despite this, those making
disclosure still find themselves having to fight off the
F.M.S. label. As should be expected, a number have
also been diagnosed as suffering P.T.S.D., D.I.D. or
similar trauma related conditions, and so go unheard;
despite that there condition is itself proof that extreme
trauma of some kind occurred.
F.M.S. is itself a form of psychological abuse. Being
heard and believed is crucial in healing from abuse. It
is therefore disturbing to discover that many
individual psychotherapists have been influenced by
F.M.S. rhetoric, despite this lack of evidence for the
syndrome’s existence, and the disproving of its
central assumptions. The problem is that since F,M.S.
has been accepted in the legal courts, it has become
possible for those who successfully counter
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disclosures of abuse with claims of F.M.S. to then go

on to sue any therapist who supposedly implanted
such memories.
This has had tragic consequences. As one bereaved
mother stated to a London newspaper, after the
suicide of her daughter;
My daughter has been abused by her father from the age of

seven until 15. She had developed psychiatric problems and
was admitted voluntarily to a clinic, where she was seen by
the therapist. She rang me afterwards and was in a terrible
state. She had been told her abuse was part of false memory
syndrome. Two weeks later she took an overdose of
prescription medication and died. I believe that had my
daughter been believed, she would have stayed at the unit
and would be alive today. (Dobson, 1998)
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GANG-STALKING
“I used to have a large cult following. They call it gang-

stalking..” - Grobbly the Clown
Another problem we have encountered directly, as

have others according to online disclosures by those
who had trouble with the same cult(s), is gang-
stalking. This is a method whereby the cult work
together to stalk their target in the streets, following
them wherever they go, often keeping in touch with
one another using mobile phones.
In essence, it is the same technique employed by
investigative teams when a subject is ‘tailed’. When
the same tactics are employed by churches, perhaps
targeting members of the community they deem to be
‘deviant’ (anything from sexual deviancy to playing
loud music late at night), it is more commonly known
as ‘cause stalking’. It is not a new phenomena,
although modern technology has meant
communication between stalkers is now easier, and
the technique does seem to have grown more popular
as a result.
When those same people tailing you happen to be
guilty of child abuse and murder, have no problem
allowing you to notice them, and have already
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prejudiced local police against their target, the

experience is highly unpleasant. If none of them have
been arrested and prosecuted, what they are doing is
hard to pin down as illegal, even if it is a form of
intimidation. If they manage to provoke an extreme
reaction, this is reported and held up as evidence of
irrational and possibly violent behavior.
Should their target report to police concerning being
followed around by members of a cult, they will of
course sound like they are paranoid and delusional,
and the cult will capitalize upon this.
My most important advice to anyone with reason to
believe they are being stalked is, firstly, to stay out of
any areas where you might be vulnerable. Do not take
risks, and gamble with your well-being; possibly even
your life. Carry a camera with you at all times,
preferably with the ability to record video and sound,
and collect evidence. In most cases this will put the
frights into your stalkers, and they will back off.
Stalkers may threaten with legal action unless
footage is erased, perhaps claiming rights to any
photographs of themselves; this is an empty threat.
They are also likely to respond by taking photographs
and footage of us with cameras of their own. Whilst
this is unnerving, it should not be allowed to deter
from taking evidence of their behavior.
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All this is very frightening, and it is meant to be. The

most important thing is not to rise to this behavior.
Realise how much effort the abusers are putting in to
discomforting you, and recognize this is in direct
proportion to the discomfort you are causing them.
The more intense the stalking, the more afraid the
abusers of discovery and imprisonment. Prove to
them that this method of psychological abuse will not
get them the results they are looking for, and their
efforts will all have been in vain.
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CYBER-STALKING
Gang-stalking may also impinge on the lives of

targets through the internet, and cyber-stalking;
collecting information through forums and social
media such as Twitter and Facebook.
It is often a simple matter to look up who someone is
friends with, who their family are, where they work,
and even where someone plans to be over a weekend.
Social media is a stalker’s dream come true. They can
collect information from their targets, and even
engage with them for further information through
‘sockpuppets’; false online identities. We suggest
anyone with reason to believe they are being targeted
by an abusive cult be very sparing of their use of
social media; if at all.
Paedophile rings and abusive cults, as well as
organized criminal networks generally, are also likely
to have skilled hackers amongst their numbers. These
will be employed to gather further information on
their target. On the whole, such activity will be kept
clandestine, giving as few indications as possible that
security has been breached.
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At other times, and I have certainly experienced this,

they may take noticeable control of the target
computer as a form of intimidation.
A further danger is that hackers connected to
paedophile rings may attempt to place incriminating
material in the hard drive of anyone threatening them.
Do not do anything that would make such a task
easier for them, such as clicking links that arrive in
any emails, or using easily breached video messaging
software.
Be entirely vigilant in who you communicate with
over email. It is unwise to send and receive emails
over a wap-enabled mobile phone, as these seem to be
very easy to hack indeed.
Many computers these days are connected to
microphones and video cameras, which can give
hackers insight into their target’s home and life. It is
also a good idea to disable any cameras or
microphones connected to any laptops, tablets, or
other computers. It is probably best not to have such
equipment connected at all.
The internet can be a powerful tool for anyone
exposing an abusive cult. It is therefore in their
interest to deter you as far from possible, through
hacking and online attacks. It is advisable to make all
the same precautions as any informed campaigner for
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rights and justice with well connected enemies that

seek to undermine them.
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PHONE-HACKING
As technologies have progressed and converged,

mobile phones have become increasingly
complicated. From a hardware perspective, they
consist of the following components; the battery, the
SIM card, and the phone itself.
The battery is the main power supply for the phone.
People often assume that taking the battery out will
mean a phone cannot work, but this is not necessarily
the case. Many models carry secondary slimline
batteries to keep some functions active. Considering
the increasing miniaturization of surveillance devices
in general, it is wholly plausible for such secondary
batteries to provide enough power for a mobile phone
to still be used as a ‘bug’ or tracking device.
The SIM card is a microchip carrying various details
such as the number of the phone itself. It is relatively
easy to remove and replace from the back of most
mobile phones. This does not prevent the phone itself
being identified, however; each phone has its own
IMEI serial number. Although this number can be
changed, it is illegal to do so in the U.K.
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The phone itself is a complex device performing

many functions, including microphones and listening
devices as a bare minimum. With the addition of
cameras, i-players, internet browsers, and so on, most
modern telephones are computers in their own right.
The more sophisticated these computers have
become, the more features have been added.
Another aspect of mobile phones is the software their
computers run. Various manufacturers and networks
include additional software to the advertised features.
Manufacturers, networks, and the final distributor, all
apply their own software, and this will vary from one
model to the next, as well as between countries. There
is a lot going on in our mobile phones that we are
unlikely to have any clue about.
Thanks to this computerization, mobile phones are
increasingly open to being ‘hacked’; software
technology exists which can scan the mobile devices
in a room to identify the various makes and models
present, carefully tailoring signals to prompt devices
into making updates or security patches which are
actually intrusive programs (‘malware’); thus putting
the phone under the control of a third party.
One feature of various Nokia phones, sometimes sold
by specialists in surveillance equipment but otherwise
very common, is that they are easily activated by
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remote without alerting anyone. It may be called by

another phone, and employed as a hidden microphone
or ‘bug’; listening in to any conversations in a room.
It is often a simple matter for a hacker to gain access
not just to messages, but activating the phone’s
microphone and effectively bugging the target,
listening into conversations. Video cameras may also
be accessed. This takes the average hacker less than
fifteen minutes to achieve; any wap enabled mobile
device is an easy target. All that is required is
knowledge of the phone number, a ‘bounce’ to hide
the whereabouts of the hacker via ‘hidemyass.com’ or
similar, and a from there to somewhere like
‘cracker.com’.
Anyone whistleblowing, or otherwise experiencing
cyber-stalking and/or gang-stalking, should be aware
of just how easy this is. The kids these days call it
‘pranging’. In our own experience, phone hacking
may have been employed to remove information from
our phones- such as abusive texts that could have
provided evidence in court- rather than to plant it.
Nevertheless, it is an easy matter to send messages
from a compromised mobile to anyone in its address
book, as well as to fabricate messages from anyone
the owner has contact with.
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Another feature which may be hacked and employed

against a targeted individual is the GPS system, which
allows accurate positioning of a phone’s location.
This is measured through the proximity of mobile
phones masts; for a mobile phone to send or receive a
message or make a call it needs to send out a
transmission to locate its nearest mast to
communicate with, so that the network can route it
directly. A log will also be made, according to UK
legislation such as the 2001 Anti-Terrorism, Crime, &
Security Act, recording the SIM and IMEI numbers
associated with the phone, its make and model, the
location triad, time and duration of any calls, the
phone number called, and the content of any text
messages. If other features are enabled, such as back-
ups of the address book, these will also be recorded.
A mobile phone left in proximity of stereo speakers
may cause them to ‘hiss’ as it transmits all this
information. This is what makes the mobile phone
useful as a tracking device, and may be employed by
police during prosecution, just as it may be abused by
hackers.
There are firms that actively track mobile phones on
behalf of employers, thus ensuring they are where
they are supposed to be, or to parents wishing to keep
an eye on their children. Another tracks the mobile
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phones in shopping centers, to track the patterns of

shoppers using it; although this does not apparently
identify the phone user, this information might be
easily matched to CCTV footage.
All I can suggest for anyone being targeted by an
abusive cult is to be very careful who you give your
number to. It is probably not a good idea to use a wap
enabled mobile phone, or one with a camera.
I have also been shocked by how few law
enforcement agencies seem aware of this possibility.
Whilst the cult were still able to dupe the police into
doing their bidding, I had the experience of being
raided by the Metropolitan Police, who took away my
computer and mobile phone to search for evidence. It
was a frightening experience- especially given that
the paedophile ring targeting me could easily have
hacked any of my equipment and planted
incriminating materials on my hard drive. None of
the Metropolitan Police had even heard of ‘pranging’,
despite being specialists in the investigation of cyber-
crime.
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HOME INVASION
Members of the cult may have gained access to a

target’s home; for purposes of spying, petty theft, to
‘creepy crawl’ in the manor of the Manson family
whilst their target is asleep, or to murder. They may
be careful enough to leave no signs of their
transgression, or they may inform their target in any
number of ways to cause trauma. In the worst case,
cult members may rape, torture, and murder their
victims in their own homes, and/or setting fire to the
property. Make no mistake; what we are dealing with
is psychopathic behavior.
I have heard confession (boasting, in fact) from an
abuser and a cult member of disturbing ‘mind games’
that have taken years to unfold, starting with a home
invasion and the copying of private photographs, and
ending with the gift of a one-hundred piece jigsaw.
Such cruel patience may seem incomprehensible, but
is typical of the obsessive and sadistic personality
type.
If their target has placed trust in the wrong people,
the cult may have their own copies of the target’s
front door key, or for any other lock. They may have
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given copies to family members, allowed someone to

sleep in their home overnight, or merely left keys
unattended and in sight whilst out of the room for just
a few seconds; all it takes to make an imprint from
someone’s keys using two pieces of warm sealing
wax, and copies can easily be made from these.
If children have been groomed and targeted, and had
their own house keys, their abusers will probably
have made copies.
I would advise anyone breaking away from, or
speaking out against, abusive cults to change all their
locks, and take all precautions against home invasion
they can.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
Abusive cults are well aware that driving their target

insane is as final as murder. They are also aware that
there are no laws under which they might be
successfully prosecuted. Those involved in my own
case have certainly sought to exploit this loophole;
with varying degrees of success. Anyone speaking out
against abusive cults is likely to suffer the same
manner of abuse. There are many forms this might
take.
What magicians call ‘cursing’ is itself a form of
psychological abuse. Its nature is exemplified in the
Egyptian heiroglyph for ‘curse’; a man hitting himself
in his own head with an axe. That is to say, the
purpose of psychological abuse (cursing) is to turn the
victim’s own thought processes against them. The
first wall of defense against such an attack is to
understand what the abusers are doing, and why.
Abusers know that certain phrases can be ‘imprinted’
in a person’s mind to ‘trigger’ unpleasant and fearful
associations. For example, if a victim has been
consistently threatened with being murdered and
barbecued, any reference to ‘having a barbecue’ will
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have a completely different connotation than it might

do to anyone else hearing or reading the same
message. Although they may personally register a
message as a horrific death threat, anyone they try
and explain this to will suspect they are paranoid.
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MIND-CONTROL
‘Brain Washing’
“I washed my brain. Now I can’t do anything with it.” -

Grobbly the Clown
Anyone dealing directly with the victims of abusive

cults needs to have at least a cursory understanding of
the mind control- sometimes called ‘brainwashing’-
they may have been subjected to. It is well reported
that the cult surrounding Colin Batley employed
brainwashing techniques to control its victims, as well
as others who considered themselves to be ‘initiates’
of the group.
Mind control might be understood in terms of
hypnotism. Altered states of consciousness are
induced in the subject, which allow for psychological
manipulation. For example, a command might be
given to someone whilst they are in trance, of which
they are completely unaware upon return to normal
consciousness, and yet will be carried out upon the
deliverance of a certain ‘trigger’.
The main tools employed by abusive cults in
brainwashing are drugs, rape, and other forms of
trauma. These methods may be usefully categorized
as ‘Trauma Based Mind Control’ (T.B.M.C.). They
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are completely different, for example, than those

methods we tend to think of as ‘hypnotism’, which
involve far more gentle trance inducing techniques.
Nevertheless, the results can be very similar.
Commands can be imprinted into the subconscious
minds of the subject, of which they may be entirely
unaware.
One particularly brutal method of T.B.M.C. might be
described as ‘rape hypnotism’. When someone suffers
a traumatic experience, the conscious mind may
completely refuse to call that experience to memory.
Thus, any command given to the victim during their
abuse may only be recalled by subjectively reliving
the trauma. Nevertheless, this command may be
associated with a ‘trigger’, as with what we might
consider ‘conventional’ hypnotism. The employment
of dissociative drugs also opens the victim up to
various forms of mind control.
An example of the kind of mind control that has been
reported as employed by abusive cults is the
‘programming’ of a victim to make phone calls in the
night, of which they have no memory of in the
morning, leaving messages on answering machines
that tell their abusers exactly where they are. Such a
program is employed should the victim ever escape
the cult and go into hiding.
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Not all psychological abuse requires the target to be

induced into an altered state of consciousness. There
are other techniques, such as those gleaned from
N.L.P. (Nuero-Linguistic Programming). I do not
have enough space here to explain what N.L.P. is or
how it works, and suggest anyone dealing with
abusive cults takes the time to search out the most
respected works in this field, such as Bandler and
Grinder’s The Structure of Magic. Such techniques
have been successfully employed by therapists
worldwide; so much so that many psychiatrists and
psychologists seem to consider N.L.P. a serious threat
to their livelihood. As with any healing knowledge, in
the wrong hands it may be used to cause harm.
Most sociopaths quickly learn that their own
personalities have the potential to subdue those of
‘normal’ people they meet; often entirely by accident.
Their behavior proves disturbing, even unpsetting and
traumatic, to those who experience normal levels of
empathy; it is ‘out of line’, and we do not know how
to respond. This confusion is easily exploited by any
sociopath also trained in N.L.P., who employs any
moment of ‘mental blankness’ to imprint or lead their
target’s own responses and decisions.
The most famous technique of ‘malign N.L.P.’ is The
October-Man Sequence. From my understanding, this
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is a method for inducing what is otherwise called

Stockholm Syndrome in a victim, making them
emotionally dependent on their abuser, considering
them to be protection from a harsh and dangerous
world rather than the source of threat itself. The
‘handler’ effectively acquires god-like status in the
mind of their victim.
Most groups practicing ‘magic’ require participants of

ritual to willingly enter trance states. Initiation may
require the aspirant to train themselves, usually
through meditation, to enter trance at will. The
‘training manual’ of the Illuminates of Thanateros, for
example, begins with a book entitled Liber MMM;
Mind Control. The program is essentially one of
meditation, and experiments in a techniques of self
hypnosis such as sigils; a kind of d.i.y. subliminal.
The very name of the order, Thanateros, is a
combination of Thanatos- the god of death- and Eros
-the god of sex. The techniques of attaining trance, or
‘gnosis’ as it is referred to within the cult, are divided
into two categories accordingly; Thanatos for ‘the
death posture’, meditation, visualization, chanting,
and any other quiescent trance, and Eros for sexual
magic, orgasm, pain, dancing, any extreme emotion,
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and any excitatory trances that work the participant

ultimately into a frenzy.
Both routes to altered states of consciousness may be
employed in brainwashing (i.e. Mind Control). The
advantage to any malign leadership in such a group is
that all they have to do to put their following into a
trance is tell them to do it for themselves.
Occultists call this ‘third mind’ effect the egregore. It
is spoken about as if it is, in itself, a sentient being.
Claims may be made by the leadership of the group of
having communicated with this egregore, and so are
in a position to know, or direct, the ‘will of the
group’. Combined with rituals that involve all
participants voluntarily entering suggestible trance
states,
‘Possession’ rites, such as those typical of the
Illuminates of Thanateros, are similarly employed to
manipulate the psychology of the group. Such
invocations are typically imagined to call on the god
of Chaos Magic; Baphomet. Typically, a ‘priest/ess’
will have been chosen to embody this ‘possession’;
which is to say, to ‘method act’. At the culmination of
the ritual, the priest/ess pretending to be Baphomet
makes a proclamation, and consecrates a sacrament-
typically wine, which may have been ‘laced’ with
hallucinogenic drugs such as L.S.D.
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In The Book of Baphomet (whose opening dedication

is to ‘The Children of Baphomet’), as well as on their
related blog and elsewhere, Nikki Wyrd (Nicola
Ward) and Julian Vayne write openly about their
employment of mind altering ‘sacraments’ to
‘commune’ with the patron demon of the Illuminates
of Thanateros, justifying themselves with ludicrous
claims to being ‘shaman’. They profess to using
L.S.D., ‘magic mushrooms’, ketamine, toad venom,
and d.m.t. amongst other drugs. It should be clear to
anyone that substances such as these may also be
abused by those intent on mind control and
psychological abuse.
Through ritual, occult groups effectively brainwash
themselves into ‘believing’, by all acting ‘as if’. What
may seem ludicrous to any individual, such as the
idea that someone might be possessed by the demon
Baphomet and thus acquire god-like supernatural
abilities, becomes entirely believable to the
participants in the midst of the sustained psychodrama
that is ‘occult ritual’.
This ‘as if’ psychological principle may also be
witnessed in Christianity; it is why, during any crisis
of faith, religious adherents are advised to pray more
often- and more fervently. In doing so they are acting
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‘as if’ their faith is stronger; more often than not, this
paradoxically serves to strengthen their faith.
It cannot be said often enough that repetition is a
common feature of many brainwashing techniques.
This effect applies also to the ‘as if’ principle. Whilst
recently initiated members may harbor doubts about
the ritual’s validity, these will be worn away over
repetition during continued membership and their
own persistent behavior ‘as if’. Should they remain
involved in the group from an early and
impressionable age, or over a period of many years,
this ‘as if’ principle will be all the stronger.
For example, by the time an initiate of the
Illuminates of Thanateros has progressed through the
progressive initiations that finally put them in charge
of the order, and thus regularly leading such
possession ritual themselves, they may be so used to
acting ‘as if’ that they honestly believe themselves
possessed by Baphomet. Such progressively acquired
delusions of self deification are unlikely to have
happy results.
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MULTI-AGENCY FAILURE
A Personal Experience
Imagine you are a single mother, and one day your

child discloses that whilst they were in the care of
their father they had been sexually abused. These
disclosures are completely convincing, but the father
has been cunning and there is no physical evidence.
The police can do nothing.
Now imagine social services become involved, and
say you made your child say all they disclosed,
because you are a vindictive and want to damage the
life of the father. That it is all lies, and that you have
emotionally abused your child.
Now imagine they take your child away, and you find
yourself in the Family Law Courts, with social
services moving to send your child to live with their
father, and remove your rights as a parent. You are
told that if you ever say the father is an abuser, to
anyone, that you will be sent to jail.
This is a situation that arrises in the U.K. with
disturbing regularity. Campaigners calling attention to
the problem call it Court Ordered Abuse.
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Now imagine all of the above, but your child also

tells you their father was involved with an abusive
cult who made films of the abuse to distribute on the
‘black market’. That your child had been deliberately
brain damaged, and subjected to ‘mind control’.
Imagine this horrific criminal conspiracy includes
members of your own family and many people you
trusted, over a period of a decade. Imagine some of
those involved have already been convicted, that you
have actually met them, and that however shocking
these disclosures may be you know your child is
telling the truth.
In September 2012, I was present during the first

disclosures by a teenager I shall call ‘X’. These
disclosures concerned events ten years preciously,
when they had been ritually abused, psychologically
manipulated (brainwashed), and sexually exploited by
the cult of Colin Batley. They had been only six years
old when this abuse happened, and it was so horrific
it took a decade to speak up. Their disclosures
identified many people I had once been friends and
associates with, as well as close members of my own
family, to be amongst their abusers.
There are many things X recalls, despite having
never read the newspapers or any books on occultism,
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which coupled with my own knowledge means I am

personally more than 100% certain as to the identities
of a large number of his abusers. Some of these
people I once loved, most have had my respect at one
time or another. Only a few would I ever have
suspected of being capable of abuse; but then again,
what abuser does not know how to exploit trust?
Betrayal is their kick..
All these people were/are connected, effectively if
not ‘officially’ (i.e. by initiation, which cannot be
ruled out) in the same cult operating in the West
Country, Cornwall, Wales, as well as having cross
county links to other groups around England, some of
whom in turn have links internationally.
Until they have been successfully prosecuted, I am
not in a position to directly name all the guilty-at-
large in a work such as this without risking further
legal troubles of my own. Furthermore, any
information made public may hinder police
investigation; it is my sincere hope that one day there
will be a thorough investigation into this matter.
X also made disclosures concerning abuse that had
occurred far more recently and locally. It turned out
that one cult member was an immediate neighbour.
Another, a convicted child killer, also lived
somewhere close by. They had continued to target X
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even after they had come to live with their mother. X

had been groomed, and sexually assaulted by a
startling number of people throughout the summer
holiday of the previous year, and whenever they had
been staying with their father.
X took their disclosures to the police. Unfortunately,
due to their extremely unusual nature, they were not
taken seriously. Indeed, it took two months before
anyone was assigned to their case. Even then, the
Crown Prosecution Service concluded, without
further investigation, that there was no case. None of
the accused were ever even interviewed, apart from
one- X’s biological father, and the worst betrayer of
all- who voluntarily entered his local police station
and convinced the local carrot crunching officers of
his rural abode that he was a nice friendly harmless
hippy.
From then onwards it became apparent that X’s
disclosures had not only been unfairly dismissed, but
massive errors had been made by the assigned Child
Protection officer in interpreting events. Those that
were guilty then had all written letters to the police
and social services, weaving a clever illusion that
made it appear I was behind the allegations, due to a
vendetta and/or delusional paranoia. Despite that no
such complaints had ever been leveled against me
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before, and this landslide of complaints only

happened after X made his disclosures, and all came
from the very people identified as abusers, this
proved very effective in discrediting X’s disclosures
and provoking negative attention upon myself.
The fact that I had been directly involved with
occultism was in itself interpreted by four out of the
seven psychiatrists I have been interviewed by during
all this as proof of delusion; as was my claim that
family members, ex-lovers, lost friends, and even
neighbours (believe it or not!) were also all involved
in occultism, and were furthermore members of a cult
guilty of ritual abuse and the making/distribution of
child abuse images.
At one point, I even found myself being sectioned in
a psychiatric facility. This was rescinded after only
four days of observation. (Ironically, one of the nurses
on the ward I was in happened to be a practicing
Pagan, who liked to stand in the smoking area in the
morning and invoke the Horned One in Gaelic;
although it was not they who made the decision I
should be released). Nevertheless, the fact I had been
sectioned at all went some way to ensuring there was
no police investigation. Despite having been judged
in good mental health, the stigma remained.
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That there was no investigation was then held up as

evidence there had been no abuse, which in turn was
proffered as further evidence that I must be
delusional- since I continued to believe there had
been. This misinformation then went back to the
police, and we all three fell to the mercy of an abusive
cult with effectively no recourse or protection from
the law.
The fact that X continued to stand by his original
disclosures, as did their mother, meant that they too
had their sanity questioned. It was effectively claimed
I had them both under some kind of mind control.
During the time of the court-case I was attacked in
the street by some of those directly involved in X’s
abuse a number of times. I was also attacked and
knocked down by strangers misdirected by the guilty
into believing I deserved it. I was even attacked on
my own doorstep. Meanwhile, the police acted as if it
has all been some feud they could make sense of;
continuing to believe that our allegations of
involvement in a paedophile ring and abusive cult
were false. Frightening times indeed.
All this lead, inevitably, to a social worker enforcing

contact between X and his sexually abusive biological
father, who had also allowed his ritual abuse by Colin
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Batley’s cult. Indeed, when concerns had first been

raised some years before, another social worker had
already enforced contact and prolonged extreme child
abuse for a further three years.
Social Services did everything within their power to
deny their mistakes, which resulted in further trauma
to X- whose disclosures were discounted due to a
social worker’s decision that X’s mental condition
meant his word could not be trusted.
A case was held in the Family Law Courts. Social
Services accused me, and the mother of the young
man who made his disclosures, on trial for apparently
making him say and write everything he had told the
police, and attempted not only to enforce contact with
his abusive father but to send him back to live with
him.
Although I was not initially a part of the court case, I
was mentioned so many times- with Social Services
continually claiming I was somehow behind the X’s
disclosures, for a number of presumed motives from
having some personal vendetta, to trying to boost my
book sales, to having accidently implanted memories
or otherwise influenced X during imagined amateur
therapy sessions that never, in reality, took place
(supposedly validating their hypothesis of False
Memory Syndrome).
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A message was delivered to me through a mutual

friend of X’s mother, and so I applied the case as an
intervener, and was granted permission by the judge.
As the case progressed further, they attempted to
place the burden entirely upon X’s mother and myself
to prove that the paedophile ring really existed, and
everything he had said was true; i.e. to do everything
the police should have been doing, had the social
worker not acted towards closing down any
investigation in the first place.
In a bid to protect her son, X’s mother agreed he
should be placed in temporary foster care. Members
of the paedophile ring not only knew where they were
living, but had already targeted X locally, with many
instances of stalking and further sexual assaults
including gang rape. Since she had no money to move
home, and was receiving no help or protection from
local authorities or police, placing her son somewhere
where even she did not know where he was seemed
like a sensible, if somewhat traumatic, decision to
make. It would also mean nobody could say X was
being made to say things, so it was hoped this could
go some way towards his disclosures being taken
seriously. It was also understood that X would receive
appropriate therapy- the judge ordered it, although
Social Services did not arrange for any.
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All manner of assumptions were made, largely based

upon slanderous ‘concerned disclosures’ made to
police and local authorities by the very people guilty
of abuse.
The cult had a plan in place, and knew how to
misdirect local authorities, police, and others. There
are members who have already gotten away with
murder, quite literally, as well as the abuse of both
children and adults over decades. They know the law
as well as any barrister, having come up against it
many times, and have never been successfully
prosecuted. Others, including a child killer who
served 48 years in jail, have learnt from their
experiences and are cunning enough to avoid being
captured again.
Much was made concerning my having been
sectioned, and references made to ‘deteriorating
mental health’. I had never needed to be
psychiatrically assessed before any of X’s disclosures,
and had no history of mental illness, but was assessed
once again; bringing the total number of psychiatrists
I had spoken to that year to seven. It was, quite
honestly, enough to send anyone crazy.
Painfully, the fact that my mother had been
treacherous and I had experienced abuse during my
own childhood was proffered as evidence that I would
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be more likely to suffer the delusion that X had been

abused.
Social Services called one of those accused of
abusing X in his disclosures, raping them in a local
park at the bequest of X’s father and possibly others
in the abusive cult, as a witness against us. They made
all all kinds of outrageous lies, saying they had
witnessed my bullying X, and that- on first meeting
him- I had spontaneously told him I had myself been
involved with child abuse as a members of the
Illuminates of Thanateros and was attempting to
detract from my own crimes by whistleblowing on
other abusers in the cult. A friend of X’s father over
many years, he pretended not to know him in the
court room.
A 150 page document was delivered to X’s father
from a prominent member of the Illuminates of
Thanateros attempting to give the impression that I
had a vendetta against them going back several years.
In reality, I had nothing against this person until X
informed me of their role in ritual abuse. This
material also failed to convince the judge, since it
included a letter I had written in good faith due to
their involvement with X’s father, and their insistence
upon taking my own daughter to X’s father’s house
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house. This clearly showed I had no vendetta, but had

been attempting to act as a responsible adult.
My own daughter took the stand and did all she could
to undermine our integrity with numerous lies. She
revealed that she had also continued to have contact
with X’s father, and others who had been involved in
the conspiracy of abuse.
The whole process took nine months, and wasted
several thousands of pounds of public money. During
this time, Social Services wore X down, and
successfully arranged contact with their abusive
father; the very man who had arranged their ritual
torture, sexual exploitation, stalking, and further
rapes. They even allowed this vile ‘man’ to
photograph and film X, and almost allowed him to
visit the foster carer’s home, despite the location still
being a secret to his mother. In short, almost exactly
the opposite of everything they should have been
doing to protect them.
The social worker could not have acted more
inappropriately if she had secretly been a member of
the cult; if at any point we wondered if she was part
of the conspiracy, it was because she acted as if she
may as well have been. Information from an
anonymous whistleblower ‘deathcultreject’ suggests
there were/are social worker within the abusive cult,
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and she just happened to come from Wales- not far

from where Colin Batley and his cult were active. If
there is one thing I have learnt throughout all this, it
is that no possibility can be discounted, however
improbable it may seem at the outset. After all, the
cult had ten years to plan and prepare for the
eventuality of X’s disclosures and it is a simple matter
to ask for a transfer. She certainly seemed more
interested in winning than getting to the truth.. the lies
she told are countless.
In the end, the court gave a residency order to the
abusive father. Since there was no proof that anybody
had deliberately made X ‘say these things’, it was
concluded that X had been accidently induced to have
false memories.. something expert hypnotists have
proved impossible to do intentionally, let alone
accidently!
It was traumatizing enough that these things
happened. To be treated as we were by police, local
authorities, and the family law courts increased this
trauma considerably. It is no exaggeration to say this
situation could have killed all three of us.
It still might.
Since ‘X’ is now in the ‘care’ of their abuser, it
should come as no surprise that they have retracted
their original disclosures. They are once again being
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effectively brainwashed and groomed. We can only

hope that they will disclose again in the future.
Thanks to the actions of incompetent police and
social workers, the vile scum who abused them are
free to continue, and to target others.
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CONCLUSION
We cannot tell you how common ritual abuse is in the

U.K., because we do not know, but we can tell you it
definitely happens, and what we have seen so far in
the news is just the tip of the iceberg.
We can also tell you the problem is hugely
misunderstood by police and local authorities, who
invariably respond with misplaced incredulity and act
inappropriately. This results in danger to victims
being increased, just when they most need protection.
It is hoped this book will help raise awareness,
making it easier for victims to come forward and be
heard. There are a greater number of us out there than
most would expect, perhaps even including ourselves.
Having seen others so bravely speaking up for the
truth, despite all the antagonism thrown at them, has
helped us find the strength to do the same.
It is also only fair to warn anyone ‘stepping in’ as to
some of the problems they may face; the danger,
threats, tricks, legal loopholes, and institutional
corruption their abusers might exploit.
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To step in is to enter a fight, and we must be prepared

to receive a few punches back. As it says in the I-
Ching;
One must go through the water.

It goes over one’s head.
Misfortune. No blame.
Which is to say that sometimes heading into danger

is the correct action. One incurs no blame in giving
up one’s life that the good and the right may prevail.
There are some things that are simply more important
than life.
The only way to survive all this is to find laughter in
the darkness. Let us never lose the ability to laugh,
however ‘inappropriate’ our humour may seem to
those who have never been effected by such tragedy.
Laughter heals, and aids in the assimilation of
difficult information. This is why, after any major
tragedy, people make ‘sick jokes’. It is, in fact, a
healthy sign that the tragedy is being assimilated and
‘moved through’. As Grobbly, my own ‘inner
clown’ (and self created pseudo alter personality),
often reminds me; “Life is a joke, and death is its
punch-line.”
Life is too short for too many tears.
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Behemoth in the Room, where further information
will be posted when available;
www.wordpress/nathanieljharris
I may be contacted by email at;

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Abusive Cults in the U.K.

‘All rites reversed’; the reader is invited to reproduce

To Colin Batley, Elaine Batley, Jaqueline Marling, Shelly

To Peter J. Carroll. May you learn how to divine. A little

To PC Chris Adams 840 and DS Amy Hewitte 801. Better

To social workers Rebecca Mumford and

To Valerie Sinason of The Tavistock Institute,

To my daughter, Rose Ward.

Similarly to my brothers; Jasper, Silas, & Zachary.

To Vanessa, the sister I have yet to meet.

To brave young ‘X’, and their mother, who shall receive

To all survivors of abuse. Know that you are stronger than

This book is a first hand perspective on the problem

my involvement the cult was more or less benign, but

I also have an entirely personal hope for this book;

About the Author

To anyone outside of occultism, as well as many who

author of The History of Fun, who at the time was

forms of Paganism and occultism. On my mother’s

from two famous ‘Satanists’, Anton Szandor LaVey

found after my resignation, and the order no longer

believed such things did not happen within ‘real’

Nathaniel Harris is currently unwell. He is suffering some

receiving professional help and we wish him well for the

The above statement is over a year old at the time of

these victims gave up any hope and committed

An abusive cult may be defined as a group with a

(sometimes called ‘brainwashing’, often employing

sociopathic criminal is unlikely to baulk. Laws and

WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE?

The information in this chapter may be too upsetting

seeking to entice members with the promise of sexual

involved children, any films or photographs may be

long lasting damage will most likely blight their

It cannot be stressed enough that this is not to say that

RITUAL ABUSE IN THE U.K.

Although many people still think that ritual abuse is

Colin David Batley, Elaine Batley, Jaqueline

Colin David Batley was convicted in 2011 for 35

“Batley and his friends were involved in a sex cult that

On sentencing, Judge Paul Thomas QC is reported as

“You set yourself up as the ruler in your own sick little

“The age or sex of your victims was largely a matter of

“You are, and shall be for the foreseeable future, a danger

multiple offences over many years. The public needs

“You have fully lived up to the ideals of your mentor

“It was organised and systemic abuse of children and you

The group were connected to a wider cult, whose

They include an ex-bishop, and an ex-police

An unnamed niece of Colin Batley told of how she

I personally know who the six year old was, and

It took three years before police took allegations

Peter Solheim, a 55 year old parish councillor turned

never been identified. Those involved in the ritualistic

“He spoke about it frequently. At first it was amusing but

Their friend Peter Petrauske, High Priest of a Wiccan

“He wanted to be known as Thor’s Hammer. He was

Personally, I do not trust the ‘evidence’ given by

Peter Petrauske & Jack Kemp

Peter Petrauske, who gave evidence alongside my

Considering the unusual nature of their crimes, as

Some important advice to any parent whose child

Finally, they may have a plan in place for such an

but sadly in the majority of cases they will not;

In our own case, since police waited two months to

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?