Sebastian watched the gruesome act with disbelieving, horror-widened eyes, the villagers hacked upon the chest of the man and ripped out his still-beating heart. As if that scene from hell was not enough, the blonde woman stepped forward to catch the man’s blood in an earthen bowl. Somehow, Sebastian managed to run, walk, and crawl the 17 miles to Villa Gran in a virtual state of shock.
Patrolman Luis Martinez did not laugh at the boy’s wild story. He had been hearing some very strange rumors about a pagan cult flourishing in Yerba Buena. If Patrolman Martinez had not decided to return to the village with the teenager to investigate the story, today Sebastian might well have been a successful doctor practicing among his people. As it was, the cultists fell upon the officer and the boy, hacked them to death with machetes, and added their corpses as sacrifice to the Inca gods.
Inspector Abelardo G. Gomez did not repeat the patrolman’s fatal mistake. Although the cultists resisted arrest and fired upon Gomez and his officers, they dropped their weapons and surrendered when their “immortal” priest, Santos, caught a slug from a policeman’s rifle and died instantly.
On June 13, 1963, only 11 days after their arrest, Eleazor and Magdalena Solis were brought to trial along with 12 members of the cult. The Mexican state of Tarnaulipas had abolished capital punishment, but each of the 14 cultists brought to trial received the maximum sentence of 30 years in the state prison at Victoria. At the trial it was learned that Cayetano Hernandez, the man who had originally conceived the scheme to milk Yerba Buena for sex and money, had been murdered by Jesus Rubio in a power play within the cult shortly after Patrolman Martinez and Sebastian Gurrero had been murdered.
As distasteful as it may seem to many, space age technology and the ancient traditions of blood sacrifice can exist side by side very easily in the crazy quilt patterns of planet Earth. The February 1990 issue of Omni magazine’s “Explorations” section carried the following extraordinary quote from a self-confessed practitioner of human sacrifice: “If a person comprehends, if he’s really convinced, and has enough faith to carry out a human sacrifice, only then does good luck really come to him—cars, houses, everything.”
The 74-year-old Aymara Indian with the alias “Maximo Coa,” described without the slightest indication of guilt or remorse how he cut his victims’ throats, filled a crystal goblet with their blood, and presented it to the patron of the sacrifice—and, quite often, to his wife or girlfriend, as well. Proud of conducting at least 12 human sacrifices, Coa offers unique discourses on the Bible which he believes promises hidden knowledge.
Tragically, such an atavistic religious impulse remains unchecked in those who heed the summons of spirit parasites to shed the blood of their brothers and sisters in order to secure what the negative entities have deluded them into believing will attract the favor of the Old Gods. And sometimes human sacrifices are offered only in order to satisfy personal lust and greed.
The Demon-riddled Hysteria of the Middle Ages
In all the many centuries of spiritual warfare waged against the human species, one of the most masterful and deadly ploys ever engaged by the Sons and Daughters of Lilith and their fellow disciples of darkness was begun at the beginning of the second millennium C.E. and continued for nearly 800 years. During these demon-riddled centuries, the very priests who had sworn to banish human sacrifice ripped the flesh and shed the blood of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of innocent men and women. The very Church that preached the message that Christ had performed the ultimate and final blood sacrifice for the sins of all humankind began a monstrous campaign of gathering fresh sacrifices to be killed on the rack, the wheel, and the stake to atone for demon-inspired sins.
Some call this ghastly period “the time of burning.” The Roman Catholic Church called it the Inquisition.
Alarmed with what he believed to be the growing influence of Satan in Europe, Pope Innocent III actively began to condemn heretics as soon as he ascended to the papacy in 1198. The first burnings for heresy may have taken place in about the year 1000 in Ravenna, but the first actual recorded burning occurred at Orleans in 1022, and was ordered by Robert the Pious, King of France. Other burnings were followed by those at Toulouse in 1028 and conducted by Simon de Monfort.
In 1047 “Upir” made its first appearance as a term for a wicked or “blood-sucking person,” when a document referred to a Russian prince as “Upir Lichy,” or “wicked vampire.” The word “vampyre” would not enter the English language until 1734.
In 1196, William of Newburgh’s Chronicles included several reports of vampire-like beings in England. Executions of those who had fallen from grace with the Church were sporadic and few until 1197 when Pedro of Aragon ordered the burning of heretics who had lapsed in their promises to repent of their sins of doubt and questioning.
In 1198, Pope Innocent declared such individuals as traitors against Christ and condemned them to death by burning.
By offering the bodies of their human servants on the pyres of flames to defeat demons, the priestcraft had the creatures of the dark side laughing with delight and hungrily feeding on the soul energy of the innocent victims that the Church so self-righteously offered up to them. Once the burnings had been set in motion, it took little effort to convince those in power that they were only serving the god of their faith by finding more heretics and demon-worshippers to sacrifice.
In 1208, the Cathar sect—also known as the Albigensians—had become so popular among the people in Europe that Pope Innocent III considered them a greater threat to Christianity than the Islamic warriors who were pummeling the Christian knights on the Crusades. Although the Cathars centered their faith around Jesus Christ, they perceived him as pure spirit, like an angel, that had descended from Heaven on the instructions of the God of Good to liberate humankind from the world of matter. According to the Cathars, because Christ was pure spirit, he did not die on the cross and the teachings of the Church were false. To quell his concern, the Pope ordered the only crusade ever launched against fellow Christians by attacking the Cathars who resided in the Albi region of southern France.
The Cathars held out against the armies massed against them until Montsegur, their final stronghold, fell in 1246. Hundreds of the remaining Cathars were burned at the stake—men, women, and children. Pope Innocent III did not live to see his triumph over the heretics, for he died in 1216. Before he died, however, he enacted a papal bull that allowed a judge to try a suspected witch or heretic even when there was no accuser and granted the judge the power to be both judge and prosecutor.
In his report to Emperor Otto IV in 1214, Gervaise of Tilbury reported cases in Auvergne in which men were seen to take the form of wolves during the full moon.
In 1220, Caesarius of Heisterbach described numerous accounts of shape-shifting, pacts with Satan, and the ability of witches to fly through the air.
The Inquisition came into existence in 1231 with the Excommunicamus of Pope Gregory IX, who entrusted the office of Inquisitor primarily to the Franciscans and the Dominicans, who, because of their reputation for superior knowledge of theology
