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The Binding of Isaac

- On Ritual Abuse -

by Michelangelo da Caravaggio (15711610)

Abraham had to learn that the initiation rites are an abomination to God. Horrific human sa-
crifice was not uncommon in the Middle-East delta, accompanied perhaps by torture and
gruesome self-chastisement, comparable to practices in other parts in the world. We only need
to think of the Mesoamerican culture, some two thousand years later, that developed around the
metropolis of Teotihuacan, a city-state in many ways comparable to Babylon, the city of ancient
Mesopotamia. Teotihuacan served as precursor of, among other things, the Aztec empire. In my
article The Conquest of Mexico this is dealt with. Obviously, initiation differs in our time,
even though we retain vivid memories of the German debaucheries, which in my view belonged
to a kind of initiation practice. The modern type is generally more subtle and not that con-
scious, but it remains idolatrous all the same. It is generally more subtle indeed, but in the wake
of the ongoing dechristianisation of our societies the pagan rites are crawling out of their ca-
verns and graves again.

1 - Ritual Child Abuse still exists

That the pagan rites are becoming ever more prevalent is not too farfetched. On the occasion
of the infamous Dutroux case (1) the Louvain psychotherapist Dirk Vanmarcke brought into
the open the question of ritual child abuse, which can be defined as paganism under the guise
of unrestrained passions. Commenting on the case and based on confessions of his patients,
Vanmarcke is convinced, just like the trauma psychologist Marry van der Feen and the crimi-
nologist Els Lecompte, that Satanic torture of children and ritual child killings do exist. In
1994, after a year of thorough inquiry, a committee instituted by the Belgium government
concluded that the stories of ritual abuse are probably based on suggestion. We just do not
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want to know that children are being raped, tortured and abused, not to mention sacrificed,
says Sofie, a 26-year-old victim from Limburg (South Netherlands), who in 1997 dares for
the first time to confront the public with her gruesome experience. Sometimes even I cannot
grasp what happened. Why should anyone else believe me? We would rather deny this kind
of experience for it forces us to contemplate ourselves. But sadly enough the concentration
camp of the family too often really exists - in all its forms, so not only ritual - and just
imagine that it should have been the little church of the family! Sofie tells (Telegraaf, March
1st 1997):
I was tied up to a table. A man cut my wrist and collected the blood in a cup that was
passed from hand to hand. My father too sipped from it. I was in utter despair, but knew
there was no escape. I had become one of them. My father made me pregnant - or
someone else. How could I know? A friend, a physician, did the abortion. The little child
was sacrificed. Just like chickens and goats. While being abused I felt the blood warmly
sticking between our bodies. () For many years I had to split my life in two as a means
of survival: a normal day-time world with a father, mother and little sister, school and
work; the mysterious night-time world with sex, violence and death.

As long as Sofie could remember, she had been sexually abused by her father. Furthermore:
First they urinated on me and forced me to drink from it. Then they cut open a little
rabbit in front of my very eyes. It was awful. They put a knife in my hands on which a
woman joined hands. The knife disappeared into a kitten. Afterwards I was abused with
the same knife at my throat. I would be next, they told me, while I felt a trickle of blood.
After a number of times I begged them to let me die. No way, those animals could die
because they were innocent. And meanwhile I had become as bad as the whole bunch of
them. And so it kept on escalating.

The American folk singer, Joan Baez, sings a song recalling childhood abuse as the amnesiac
barriers had fall down and the her memories come flashing back. The song captures the
feelings of such people (see Joan Baez.Play Me Backwards - 1991 taken from her perfor-
mance, with her son Gabe and the santana conga player Michael Carabello, at Berkeleys
Leopolds Records in order to promote her Nashville record, called Play Me Backwards):

You dont have to play me backwards,

To get the meaning of my verse,
You dont have to die and go to hell,
To feel the Devils curse.
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Well I thought my life was a photograph,

On the family Christmas card.
Kids all dressed in buttons and bows,
And lined up in the yard.
Were the golden days of childhood,
So lyrical and warm?
Or did the picture start to fade,
On the day that I was born.

Let the night begin, theres a pop of skin,

And the sudden rush of scarlet,
Theres a little boy riding on a goats head,
And a little girl playing the harlot.
Theres a sacrifice in an empty church,
Of sweet lil baby Rose,
And a man in a mask from Mexico,
Is peeling off my clothes.
Ive seen them light the candles,
Ive heard them beat the drum,
And Ive cried Mama, Mama, Im cold as ice,
And Ive got no place to run.

So Im paying for protection,

Smoking out the truth,
Chasing recollections,
Nailing down the proof.

Ill stand before your altar,

And tell everything I know,
Ive come to claim my childhood,
At the chapel of baby Rose.

2 The Scarf Game

Even without this streak of paganism, as regards that which is happening in our ordered so-
ciety, we are in the grip of a mentality still causing us to cast ourselves on the ancient altar of
the sea-monster Poseidon. Look at what is now happening in our schools. There the game
with the shawl, deadly dangerous, where the victim loses consciousness because of a stran-
gulation technique. On January 27, 2001, when interviewed at Radio France International, in
the program Les Maillons du Savoir (the links of knowledge), a certain Ludwikas answered
a question by Emmanuelle Bastide. You live in Isre, you are 17 years old, during how many
years have you practiced this game of the shawl? His answer:
During three years. I know it since five years, and during three years, when in
highschool, I practiced it every day. Its a girlfriend who has shown it to me. The first
time I felt so good that I could not do without it any more. When sleeping in, it was like
in a state of happiness, all surrounded by happiness, you had no pain any more, you did
not feel anything, and I wanted that happiness. At first I did my thing in a group and
afterwards all alone. I guess it was the same for my playmates. In my circle more girls
are doing it. I did not know of the danger. They had told me, there was no risk involved.
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I stopped this game after having read that some died because of it. I went on to a job and
found another happiness, so I dont need it any more.

Franoise Cochet, an ordinary housewife, has written a book about it, that appeared in 2001:
Our kids are playing in secret, to strangle each other: The scarf game. (2) On the book
cover she tells:
Almost a year ago we lost our son Nicolas of fourteen and a half, who fell prey to a
new practice that caught us by surprise and yet is extremely popular among young
people, which consists of strangling each other covertly and in small groups of friends,
as a way of exploring hallucinatory types of experience. It was indeed necessary and
urgent to publish a book that sets out the discovery of these practices, which to us - and
to most parents are unimaginable. Using the most important testimonies that I got, it
also presents a chronological account of our involvement in the course of nine months,
comprising the response of a more or less disengaged government in the face of a real
danger that was threatening our youth.

Anne Corre Geudes, professor at the University of Lisbon, explains in the foreword:
Ask around and continue doing so, and sure enough you will find sooner or later
someone who knows about the scarf game or was asked to participate, for these are not
isolated cases, peripheral phenomenons that are certainly mysterious but not contagious,
coming from nowhere or from the incomprehensible and are destined to return to it, as
the proponents of the systematic prevention of panic would have us believe. The
argument that raises the wrong kind of ideas in someones mind is assuredly false and
is no less than a malicious excuse to deter from serious questioning. No less intriguing,
but more telling or richer in purpose, are the names used by kids in their own parlance to
typify this extraordinary practice: coma, cosmos, Indian dream, Indian sleep, blue
dream, the frog (a term that refers to a jump in emptiness). These names, except the last
one, irresistibly recall the euphoric communion with the universe, the exaltation of the
pure conscious with all objects, the fusion of the subject with the All, the absolute
wholeness - according to the (often erroneous) conception we have of the East perhaps
even mystic visions.

Here follows a summary of an article of December 27, 2000 by Nicolas Lonard, a Belgium
reporter of Sud Presse (Lige):
Nathan B. lives in Arlan and will soon be 14 years old. Unknowingly he regularly
gambled with his life in these past months. Like other juveniles he practised some time
voluntary strangulation, just for the fun of it. With his two thumbs he firmly presses his
aorta or that of a friend after having drawn breath a couple of times. The loss of
consciousness is almost immediate; the key to it is a number of strong sensations. It
was in Spain during a football camp that they showed me the trick, explains Nathan. A
friend told us that he could make us pass out. We tried () it was fun. You fancy that you
are sleeping for hours but it only lasts a few seconds () In addition you get dreams.
You fall down in the most clumsy ways. But when you wake up it hurts Shocking!
Upon hearing that this game has killed already, he answers matter of factly that he did
not consider that this could be dangerous. Nonetheless, one of his friends had serious
problems. He did it all the time. He always wanted to sleep and as long as possible. At
one time, however, he went crazy. When unconscious he knocked his fists against the
walls. When he came round his hands were covered in blood, his skin torn. But this
didnt stop him. Nathan on his part affirms that he does not do it anymore after my
mother told me the risks.

Another witness of this horrible game is Hlne Marin, the mother of Yohan, who died on 8th
of November 2000, whose letter appears in a chapter of Franoise Cochets book:
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My very dear Franoise, What a terrible fate we both share, now that we have lost our
children in such a dramatic way. All those questions that are haunting us wont be
answered and we will have to live with this suffering. In my view adolescents are
fascinated by death and they like to challenge danger at its last frontier. In a society that
applauds the enjoyment of the extreme, strong sensations, the bent for adventure, the
notion of a jump into the unknown, pushing the limits, Yohan decided to try this game
out, which he learned I dont know where. Our society greatly encourages them via the
media that glorifies the benefits of extreme sports like bungee jumping, off-piste skiing,
mountain climbing without gear, etc. When children get involved our arguments become
childish and we as parents remain helpless. I have always detested these morbid video
games (that Yohan found so great) and the typical Halloween so many horrors that, in
the minds of our children, have contributed to trivialise danger and death. And now these
media that destroy the psyche of our children refuse to admit it. They prefer to think that
our children were suicidal and that we are neurotic.

3 A Martyr Typology
In a little known periodical at the time the Christian Jew Louis Goldberg mentions something
that no one thinks about any more: Contrary to what many people believe, it was the task of
the offerer to kill the animal (himself) under the guidance of the officiating priest who caught
the blood and applied it in the appropriate place. (3) It was not the priest who killed the ani-
mal but the Israelite, who did the task under the watchful eye of the priest. What sin could the
Israelite have committed that required the killing by him of a replacement animal? Maybe the
hidden powers beneath the psyche drew him to suicide or at least to a state of mental depres-
sion. So, instead of destroying himself, he killed a beast.

Obviously the process cannot be compared

with simple suicide, but the result is the same.
This is terrifying. Animal and death happen to
be related to one another. In death you find the
animals, or at least the spirits of the ancestors
in animal form. Had our Israelite taken part in
ritual baptism? Did he want to have himself
initiated? Was it once more a question of the
cosmogony and contact with the cosmos in the
fertility rites? Was an antitype baptism in-
volved against the powers of the dead that had
to be counteracted? Equally we may call it the
powers of death. God must have wanted to
make clear that contact with the powers of
death is forbidden. Earlier, during the burnt
offering of Isaac, God made clear that no man
should be sacrificed, but animals instead. Ac-
tually, He Himself would descend as animal to
the kingdom of the dead. Gods lamb would
descend for our reconciliation and preach to the
imprisoned spirits.

The story of Isaac, who, in the end, was not sa-

crificed but replaced by an animal, is called in
Hebrew the Aqedat Yitzchaq - the binding of Isaac. (4) This is a martyr typology. The real
martyrs of God are those who receive a similar Abraham-Isaac task and accept the terrible
descent into their diminution. Martyrdom is a service of substitution for the people, for this
world that is heading on a disaster course. The martyrs are willing to face this terror because
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they have put their trust in God. They know that somehow their sufferings will serve a
purpose and that He will join and support them during their heavy pilgrimage. They know
that He has something better in store than this place full of anguish and sorrow. God joins
them in His Sonship, in His own Aqedat Yitzchaq. Sonship means a descent together with His
companions in their vocation, the chosen ones who stand guarantor for the others in total
reduction. Their experience is that of the descent into the bottomless stinking pit. It seems to
them as if all sorrow is poured out onto them.

The Rules in the Early Church

In the early Church is was decided (Acts 15:20) that Christians from the Gentiles did
not need to follow the rules of the Jews, except as concerns the eating of flesh that had
been polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from consu-
ming blood. These commandments are interesting because they point at the pagan
rites. Of course, the first stage is rather innocent, but later it escalates before the person
realizes what is happening. Satanic rituals are accompanied often with eat festivities
and sexual depravity. And the drinking of human blood also plays a part in it just as a
near-death experience or an orgasm by means of strangling, as is shown by the follo-
wing report where the perpetrators and the victim were Satanists: Arrest Made in
Satanic Killing of 13-Year-Old Girl by Todd Venezia - APBNews.com, Santa Monica,
California # July 23, 1999: A fugitive who allegedly helped strangle a 13-year-old girl
in a 1998 Satanic ritual has been found hiding out in Alabama, police said. (taken
from: The Ross Institute Internet Archives for the Study of Destructive Cults, Contro-
versial Groups and Movements.)

The heavens look like iron, but can we blame God for all that people do to each other? The
fact that, in spite of these troubles, better times lie ahead is a lesson learned from Isaacs sa-
crifice with emphasis on as if and instead of. Here we discover the profile of a martyr.
Who can demonstrate this better than the Son, who is martyr together with the martyrs, who
in a spirit of complete agreement is working for a better world? In this way each martyr has a
self-transcending and nature-transforming task, a task trusted to each tsaddik (just) without
regard of culture or background, but it is nowhere better shown than in the martyr. The vic-
tims derive consolation from the inner conviction that their tears are collected in a dish and
will not be forgotten. David says: put my tears in Your bottle. Their seas of tears will serve a
higher purpose, some time to be revealed. The individual martyr has a self-transcending,
nature-transforming task. Each martyr in his service of substitution is connected in a long line
that reaches back to prehistoric times. Evidently, in the ocean of eternity nothing is lost but
retains its full value with God. The precious tears once shed for the restoration of the staff of
loveliness and the staff of unity (Zech. 11:7-14) run into the New Covenant in His Blood, the
Blood that speaks of better things than the blood of Abel. Their tears are not spilled but
collected by God to participate in the great restoration.

The Son is martyr with the martyrs. That is how He is shown in Hebrew and that is how He
carries His Aqedat Yitzchaq or Akeda Isaac. Standing in as a substitute to pay for others,
which means suffering, is always for the good of the people, for something greater than
oneself. They who volunteer, usually are not chosen. God does not cherish Tammuz-bewai-
lers, those who eagerly seek self-chastisement. (5) That is not the same as mortification and
self-containment. The victims know nothing beforehand, but they discover and learn from
their distress. They are mostly people who, like Job, argue with God over their fate and have
sought out their fate in tears.

There also exists a collective martyrdom. Who has experienced this more than the Jewish
people? The desire for reconciliation is lodged deeply in the Jewish national character and so
it is taught: precious are the things that cause righteousness, for as sacrifices reconcile so do
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sufferings. (Mekilta Bahodesh 7) In contrast to what many Christians believe, the Jews do not
believe that the suffering itself will bring about the messianic age. Yet they realize that the
coming of the messianic age provokes much suffering; that the Messiah, in the way the Jews
like to see him, shows solidarity with that suffering is to them, in this line of reasoning, besi-
des the point. In view of these considerations it is really very sad that in our era the Christian-
European nations have been instrumental in the sorrowful fate of the Jewish people, in which
these nations were confirmed and stimulated by a deviant theology. This explains the Jewish
expression: to suffer at Europes gate, at the Rome gate.

Fortunately initiatives are being deployed to turn the tide. For example, on March 12 2000,
during Sunday Mass at St. Peters Basilica, the Pope or Pontiff (the bridge builder) prayed
in front of the world forum for the forgiveness of two thousand years of sins by the Roman
Catholic Church in which he specifically mentioned the sins committed against Gods belo-
ved children, named Israel. This act of contrition at the threshold of the new millennium
might, by a special disposition of destiny, also fall at the threshold of the messianic age. As
regards the messianic expectation, both viewpoints of the Jewish and Christian traditions look
very different. But on closer scrutiny, they show remarkable similarities.

Wiesel considers the ground of the German annihilation camps to be holy, since the suffering
of the just is so excessive and indescribable, that it may only be trodden in bare feet. Wiesel
was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 in recognition of his unceasing efforts on
behalf of human dignity. Though primarily known as a writer, the price was not awarded for
his literature. The Nobel committee saw his writings and actions on behalf of the Holocaust as
an appeal to world consciousness to prevent this kind of calamity from happening again. Wie-
sel continuously struggled with the agonizing question of Gods silence during the perse-
cution of His people. In Night
(1966) he portrays the evolution of
his despair during his time in Ausch-
witz. He declares: The Eternal, Lord
of the Universe, the all-powerful and
terrible was silent. Why should I bless
His name? What had I to thank Him
for? In the cantata Ani Maamin
(1973) he writes: What kind of Mes-
siah is a Messiah who demands six
million dead before He reveals him-
self? But in the end of the cantata
God does not remain silent. God
weeps and whispers: My children
have defeated Me, they deserve My
gratitude. The expression they
have defeated Me is not a literary
invention of Elie Wiesel, but a typical
piece of Hasidic philosophy based on
a Cabalistic reinterpretation of a fa-
mous rabbinic discussion found in the
Talmud. (Baba Meziah 59b)

The Book of Jasher (Sefer Ha-ya-

shar) offers an interesting case in point. It gives a truly moving account of Isaacs sacrifice,
which emphasises that there was no sadism involved, on the contrary, and it supports the
thesis that human sacrifice was in those days a not uncommon practice. It was the opposite to
this practice that God wanted to teach (exception made for Gods only begotten Son). The
Talmud identifies the Book of Jasher with the books of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and
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Jacob, known as the upright. Sefer Ha-yashar literally means Book of the Upright. This also
refers to the book Genesis. I should point out that in Jewish practice Genesis is commonly
known as Breisheet after the first words used in Genesis. Jasher is the source of Joshua
10:12-13 and 2 Samuel 1:17-27. It follows the books of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy and Joshua. The book was first printed in Venice in 1613 and translated from
Hebrew in English for the first time in 1839. This masterpiece is hardly known yet, even
amongst scholars, and so Appendix-2 gets into detail as concerns its origins. An interesting
part is the story of the binding of Isaac, also shown there, which was borrowed from the first
English edition of 1840.
Hubert Luns

See also the excellent and well documented article on the topic by Daniel Ryder: Satanic
Ritual Abuse - The Evidence Surfaces, originally published in 2001 for the newsletter of the
International Council on Cultism and Ritual Trauma.

See also Youtube movie: Daughter of Satanist tells her story.

This article is partly based on a not published manuscript of Jacqueline Wels from 1986.

Notes
(1) Marc Dutroux (born 1956 in Brussels) was convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and
sexually abused, in 1995 and 1996, six girls ranging in age from 8 to 19, two of whom he
murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He
was arrested in 1996. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004.

(2) Nos enfants jouent strangler en secret: Le jeu du foulard by Franoise Cochet F.-
X. de Guibert, Paris # 2001.

(3) Whatever Happened to the Substitute Atonement of the Torah? by Louis Goldberg -
Issues: A Messianic Jewish Perspective # vol. 5:7, Jan. 1988, published by Jews for Jesus,
which became one of the worlds best-known Christian ministry to the Jewish people with
international headquarters in San Fransisco.

(4) I should mention that the Aqedat Yitzchaq is not sadistic, although Isaac will certainly
have been traumatised. Abraham was also convinced that he was acting rightly, believing God
might bring Isaac back to life. So the incredible thing happened that Abraham was reckoned
just and is even called the father of the believers (Gal. 3:6-9 and Hebr. 11:17-19). 3,500 years
have passed since, while God revealed Himself to this world in many ways. The filthy devils
who these days dare to commit these crimes are more guilty than ever and they do know it!

(5) Bible dictionaries tell us that Tammuz was a Syro-Phoenician god, also called Adonis. He
presumebly dies every year when the fields turn brown, and rises again when they once more
turn green. And the fields turn green because Tammuz rose from the dead, and so this gods
resurrection was considered essential for the worlds survival. So you got the question for the
followers of this cult: how do you ensure this gods resurrection? Part of the answer lied in a
wailing ritual each time the god died.

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.APPENDIX-1.

CHILD ABUSE CASE WITH ANNEKE LUCAS WHEN SIX YEARS OLD

Former child sex slave sold into Belgian aristocratic paedophile ring where boys
and girls were tortured and KILLED reveals the horrors of her five years of abuse
Anneke Lucas, 53, was sold into a murderous paedophile ring in Belgium at six
She was raped 1,700 hours before reaching the age of 12 during horrifying abuse
Children were scared into silence and members of the network killed those who
threatened to go to the police.
At the age of 11, it was decided she was 'of no use anymore' and was to be killed
But she was spared, fled Belgium and now spoken out about sickening ordeal

DAILY MAIL: by Thomas Burrows for MailOnline (Jan. 19 2017)

A former child sex slave sold into a Belgian aristocratic paedophile ring where
boys and girls were raped, tortured and murdered has revealed the horrors of
her five years of abuse.

Anneke Lucas, 53, was sold into the murderous paedophile network in
Belgium when she was just six years old in 1969.

Recalling her sickening abuse, she said: 'I was raped many, many, many
times. I don't have any scars to show how many times I was raped.

'Usually it was a full night and weekend and so I gathered I was raped for about
six hours a week - more than 1,700 hours before I reached the age of 12.'

Anneke Lucas, 53, was sold into the murderous paedophile network in Belgium
when she was just six years old in 1969

Speaking to MailOnline, she said: 'I was first taken to the paedophile ring when
I was six by a woman who worked as a cleaning lady for my mother. She and
her husband took me away for a weekend to babysit me and it was her
husband who took me to the paedophile ring.
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'Later on, my mother got involved and then she

started to take me herself. My mother was never
really a mother. She was a very sick woman and
a psychopath.'

It was around her sixth birthday Miss Lucas was

taken to an orgy for the first time, in a castle.

She was used for an S&M show, chained up with

an iron dog collar and made to eat human faeces.

'Afterwards, left lying there like a broken object,

I felt so humiliated', she said. Miss Lucas at age 6

Bravely speaking out about her horrifying ordeal on the Global Citizen, she
said: 'The adult men that were part of the network were there for various
reasons.

'There was a lot of alcohol and a lot of drugs. The children were a commodity,
the highest and more valued commodity, and used for sex.

'No child deserves what I went through, or what millions of children go through.'

Children were scared into silence and members of the network killed those who
threatened to go to the police.

She told MailOnline: ''I had to do it [the rapes] because there was always the
threat of being killed.

'Children were killed. Boys were more often tortured but girls were killed.

'I was graphically threatened...it was not something that was talked about.

'The killings were not always private and I remember I once saw a body.'

She added: 'The children were set against each other. There were friendships
but I tried to keep things as simple as possible to survive.

'I really didn't want to be made a "favourite" of one of the network because I
knew what happened to girls who got singled out... It created a lot of problems.
I tried not to stand out.'

Ms Lucas, sold into a Belgian aristocratic paedophile ring where boys and girls
were raped, tortured and murdered has revealed the horrors of her five years of
abuse

During the week, she went to school where she described herself as being a
'nonentity'.
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She said: 'I was a shy girl, with few friends at school, and at home no one
cared for me.

'I received more attention in the network. It felt good to be viewed as the most
perfectly beautiful, sensual object by powerful men with high standards in taste.
This was the only positive in my life, and I clung to it as my only raft to keep
from drowning in a sea of shame and self-loathing.'

She told MailOnline: 'When I returned home for the school week, my parents
acted like nothing had happened, so I took their denial and kept telling myself I
was normal.

'I was so ashamed of what happened to me on weekends that I didn't want

to know.

'There was another girl who was at school with me who was being abused in
the network but unfortunately I never found a teacher I could speak to about it.
At one point, in 1974, I had a really bad report card and a teacher I liked yelled
at me and I just remember crying. I wouldn't have dared to speak out. I was
threatened in a way that I didn't feel like there was a way out.'

At the age of 11, having spent five and a half years inside the twisted
aristocratic sex ring, it was decided she was 'of no use anymore' and was to
be killed.

She recalled: 'I was strapped to a butcher's block that was black with all the
blood of children that had come before me.

'One man was forcing five young children to harm me. It was part of their
indoctrination.
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'The torture lasted for a few hours. A burning cigarette was put out on my
forearm. My body is full of scars and every scar reminds me of that moment.

'I thought that I was going to be killed like all the children that weren't loved
enough to live and I was going to be forgotten as well.'

She added: 'When I was being tortured I could see the other children didn't
want to do it. While I was being tortured for most of the time I didn't feel pain...
it was like a body response to being traumatised.

'But then later on I did feel it and it felt horrific. But I didn't want them [the
adults] to see me suffer.'

However she was saved when one of her abusers made a deal with the
politician in charge of the peadophile network while she was tortured.

They made a deal where he would work for the politician in exchange for her
being spared.

The man who tortured her was one of the defendants in the Dutroux case,
which, when it broke in 1996, was believed it would blow up the Belgian
pedophile network. But instead, eight years later, only Marc Dutroux received
a life sentence.

But thanks to the agreement, Miss Lucas was never forced to return to the
club.

She told MailOnline: 'After that I went

back with my mother. I felt numb and it
was very difficult to live at home as my
mother was unhappy about being
unable to punish me anymore. I tried to
please her as much as I could.

'I left home at 16 and then lived with an

adult who was in his 30s...but soon after
I moved in he made clear he wanted me
for sex so I was used for sex again.'

Miss Lucas then moved in by herself,

before leaving Belgium in the 1980s and
moving to London, Paris and LA and
ended up settling in New York.

She eventually left Belgium in the 1980s and moved to London, Paris and LA
before settling in New York

Miss Lucas, who has a 15-year-old daughter, said: 'I wish that wasn't my story
and I wish it was different, but it's important to speak up and I did spent
decades coming to a place where I felt I was worthy of living.
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'I think the fact you had to [hurt other children] was the most damaging part as
I felt like I was a perpetrator and not a victim.'

She added: 'My daughter asked me some years ago why she didn't know her
grandmother and I told her because she wasn't a safe person.

'Then just last year I told her in general what had happened. She heard it and
a few days later she gave me a hug. It was very moving.'

Miss Lucas founded Liberation Prison Yoga in 2014 to help other people who
had been incarcerated and vilified as a child.

She now runs 30 yoga programmes every week in various prisons that focus
on healing.

She said: 'It's been a 30 year healing process and the prison yoga organization
is the culmination of my healing journey, sharing healing modalities with those
traumatized by incarceration. It is very rewarding and empowering work.

'I have spent my adult life trying to heal from the deep wounds of the past.'

A spokesman for the Federal Police in Belgium said they were unable to
comment on Miss Lucas' claims.

Read more:
My Name Is Anneke Lucas and I Was a Sex Slave to Europe's Elite at Age 6
Liberation Prison Yoga | yoga and meditation for jails and prisons
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.APPENDIX-2.

Remark: The entire text of The Ancient Book of Jasher from the first English edition of 1840
is on my SCRIBD site, with its introductory notes. Those notes are commonly not made available
in modern editions, yet are very important in order to get a proper understand of the work.
Proofs of the Life and Death of Jesus (by Hubert Luns) discusses the Book of Jasher, and ans-
wers the question whether we can take it to be the true Book of Jasher.

An excerpt from the Book of Jasher on the binding of Isaac

(ch. 23:3-6) And Abraham said within himself, how shall I separate my son Isaac from
Sarah his mother, in order to bring him up for a burnt offering before the Lord? And
Abraham came into the tent, and he sat before Sarah, his wife, and he spoke these words
to her: My son Isaac is grown up and he has not for some time studied the service of his
God, now tomorrow I will go and bring him to Shem, and Eber his son, and there he will
learn the ways of the Lord, for they will teach him to know the Lord as well as to know
that when he prayeth continually before the Lord, He will answer him, therefore there he
will know the way of serving the Lord his God.
And Sarah said: Thou hast spoken well, go my lord and go unto him as thou hast said,
but remove him not at a great distance from me, neither let him remain there too long,
for my soul is bound within his soul.
(ch. 23:40-90) And Abraham went with Isaac toward the place that God had told him.
And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place at a distance which
God had told him of. And a pillar of fire appeared to him that reached from the earth to
heaven, and a cloud of glory upon the mountain, and the glory of the Lord was seen in the
cloud. And Abraham said to Isaac: My son dost thou see in that mountain, which we
perceive at a distance, that which I see upon it? And Isaac answered and said unto his
father: I see and lo a pillar of fire and a cloud, and the glory of the Lord is seen upon the
cloud.
And Abraham knew that his son Isaac was accepted before the Lord for a burnt offering.
And Abraham said unto Eliezer and unto Ishmael his son: Do you also see that which we
see upon the mountain which is at a distance? And they answered and said: We see
nothing more than like other mountains of the earth.
And Abraham knew that they were not accepted before the Lord to go with them, and
Abraham said to them: Abide ye here with the ass whilst I and Isaac my son will go to
yonder mount and worship there before the Lord and then return to you. And Eliezer
and Ishmael remained in that place, as Abraham had commanded.
And Abraham took wood for a burnt offering and placed it upon his son Isaac, and he
took the fire and the knife, and they both went to that place.
And when they were going along Isaac said to his father: Behold, I see here the fire and
wood, and where then is the lamb that is to be the burnt offering before the Lord? And
Abraham answered his son Isaac, saying: The Lord has made choice of thee my son, to
be a perfect burnt offering instead of the lamb.
And Isaac said unto his father: I will do all that the Lord spoke to thee with joy and
cheerfulness of heart. And Abraham again said unto Isaac his son: Is there in thy heart
any thought or counsel concerning this, which is not proper? Tell me my son, I pray thee,
O my son conceal it not from me. And Isaac answered his father Abraham and said unto
him: O my father, as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is nothing in my heart
to cause me to deviate either to the right or to the left from the word that He has spoken
to thee. Neither limb nor muscle has moved or stirred at this, nor is there in my heart any
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thought or evil counsel concerning this. But I am of joyful and cheerful heart in this
matter, and I say, blessed is the Lord who has this day chosen me to be a burnt offering
before Him.
And Abraham greatly rejoiced at the words of Isaac, and they went on and came together
to that place that the Lord had spoken of.
And Abraham approached to build the altar in that place, and Abraham was weeping, and
Isaac took stones and mortar until they had finished building the altar. And Abraham
took the wood and placed it in order upon the altar which he had built. And he took his
son Isaac and bound him in order to place him upon the wood which was upon the altar,
to slay him for a burnt offering before the Lord.
And Isaac said to his father: Bind me securely and then place me upon the altar lest I
should turn and move, and break loose from the force of the knife upon my flesh and
thereby profane the burnt offering. And Abraham did so. And Isaac still said to his
father: O my father, when thou shalt have slain me and burnt me for an offering, take
with thee that which shall remain of my ashes to bring to Sarah my mother, and say to
her, this is the sweet smelling savor of Isaac; but do not tell her this if she should sit near
a well or upon any high place, lest she should cast her soul after me and die.
And Abraham heard the words of Isaac, and he lifted up his voice and wept when Isaac
spake these words; and Abrahams tears gushed down upon Isaac his son, and Isaac wept
bitterly, and he said to his father: Hasten thou, O my father, and do with me the will of
the Lord our God as He has commanded thee. And the hearts of Abraham and Isaac
rejoiced at this thing which the Lord commanded them; but the eye wept bitterly whilst
the heart rejoiced.
And Abraham bound his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar upon the wood, and Isaac
stretched forth his neck upon the altar before his father, and Abraham stretched forth his
hand to take the knife to slay his son as a burnt offering before the Lord.
At that time the angels of mercy came before the Lord and spake to Him concerning
Isaac, saying: O Lord, Thou art a merciful and compassionate king over all that Thou
hast created in heaven and in earth, and Thou supportest them all; give therefore ransom
and redemption instead of thy servant Isaac, and pity and have compassion upon
Abraham and upon Isaac his son, who are this day performing Thy commands. Hast thou
seen, O Lord, how Isaac the son of Abraham Thy servant is bound down to the slaughter
like an animal? Now, therefore let Thy pity be roused for them, O Lord.
At that time the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and called to him from heaven, and said
unto him: Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him, for now
I know that thou fearest God in performing this act, and in not withholding thy son, thine
only son, from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram was caught in a thicket by his
horns; that was the ram which the Lord God had created in the earth in the day that He
made earth and heaven. For the Lord had prepared this ram from that day, to be a burnt
offering instead of Isaac. And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught
hold of him and entangled his horns in the thicket, that he might not advance to
Abraham, in order that Abraham might slay his son.
And Abraham, seeing the ram advancing to him and Satan withholding him, fetched him
and brought him before the altar, and he loosened his son Isaac from his binding, and he
put the ram in his stead, and Abraham killed the ram upon the altar, and brought it up as
an offering in the place of his son Isaac. And Abraham sprinkled some of the blood of the
ram upon the altar, and he exclaimed and said: This is in the place of my son, and may
this be considered this day as the blood of my son before the Lord.
And all that Abraham did on this occasion by the altar, he would exclaim and say: This is
in the room of my son, and may it this day be considered before the Lord in the place of
my son. And Abraham finished the whole of the service by the altar, and the service was
accepted before the Lord, and was accounted as if it had been Isaac; and the Lord blessed
Abraham and his seed on that day.
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And Satan went to Sarah, and he appeared to her in the figure of an old man very humble
and meek, and Abraham was yet engaged in the burnt offering before the Lord. And he
said unto her: Dost thou not know all the work that Abraham has made with thine only
son this day? For he took Isaac and built an altar and killed him, and brought him up as a
sacrifice upon the altar, and Isaac cried and wept before his father, but he looked not at
him, neither did he have compassion over him. And Satan repeated these words, and he
went away from her, and Sarah heard all the words of Satan, and she imagined him to be
an old man from amongst the sons of men who had been with her son, and had come and
told her these things.
And Sarah lifted up her voice and wept and cried out bitterly on account of her son; and
she threw herself upon the ground and she cast dust upon her head, and she said: O my
son, Isaac my son, O that I had this day died instead of thee. And she continued to weep
and said: It grieves me for thee, O my son, my son Isaac, O that I had died this day in thy
stead. And she still continued to weep, and said: It grieves me for thee after that I have
reared thee and have brought thee up; now my joy is turned into mourning over thee, I
that had a longing for thee, and cried and prayed to God till I bare thee at ninety years
old; and now hast thou served this day for the knife and the fire, to be made an offering.
But I console myself with thee my son, in its being the word of the Lord, for thou didst
perform the command of thy God: for who can transgress the word of our God, in whose
hands is the soul of every living creature? Thou art just O Lord our God, for all thy works
are good and righteous; for I also am rejoiced with thy word which Thou didst command
and whilst mine eye weepeth bitterly my heart rejoiceth. And Sarah laid her head upon
the bosom of one of her handmaids, and she became as still as a stone.
She afterwards rose up and went about making inquiries till she came to Hebron, and she
inquired of all those whom she met walking in the road, and no one could tell her what
had happened to her son. And she came with her maid servants and men servants to
Kireath Arba, which is Hebron, and she asked concerning her son, and she remained
there whilst she sent some of her servants to seek where Abraham had gone with Isaac;
they went to seek him in the house of Shem and Eber, and they could not find him, and
they sought throughout the land and he was not there.
And behold, Satan came to Sarah in the shape of an old man, and he came and stood
before her, and he said unto her: I spoke falsely unto thee, for Abraham did not kill his
son and he is not dead. And when she heard the word her joy was so exceedingly violent
on account of her son, that her soul went out through joy: she died and was gathered to
her people.
And when Abraham had finished his service he returned with his son Isaac to his young
men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba, and they came home.
And Abraham sought for Sarah, and could not find her, and he made inquiries
concerning her, and they said unto him: She went as far as Hebron to seek you both
where you had gone, for thus was she informed.
And Abraham and Isaac went to her to Hebron, and when they found that she was dead
they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly over her; and Isaac fell upon his mothers face
and wept over her, and he said: My mother, my mother, why hast thou forsaken me? (6)
Where hast thou gone? O how, how hast thou left me! And Abraham and Isaac wept
greatly and all their servants wept with them on account of Sarah, and they mourned over
her a great and heavy mourning.

Note
(6) The expression My mother, my mother, why has thou forsaken me? shows a remar-
kable similarity with Mark 15:33-34, when Jesus dies on the Cross: Now when the sixth
hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth
hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?, which is
translated: My God, My God, why have Your forsaken Me?
 17.

THE ANCIENT BOOK OF JASHER

IN A TRANSLATION BASED ON THE ORIGINAL HEBREW
WITH THE ORIGINAL INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

THE ANCIENT BOOK OF JASHER

referred to in

JOSHUA AND SECOND SAMUEL

t
FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED
FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW INTO ENGLISH
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NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY M. N. NOAH & A. S. GOULD,
AT 144 NASSAU-STREET
First edition 1840.
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Introductory notes to the first edition of the Book of Jasher

The Hebrew preface to the first printed edition of 1613 adds the following:

It has at this time been ascertained by us that when the holy city Jerusalem was destroyed
by Titus [in 70 AD], all the military heads went in to rob and plunder, and that amongst
the officers of Titus was one whose name was Sidrus, who went in to search, and found in
Jerusalem a house of great extent, and took away all the spoils which he found there;
when he wished to go out of the house, he looked at the wall and fancied that he saw
treasures there, so he broke down the wall in the building and found a cask full of various
books of the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa, also books of the kings of Israel,
and of the kings of other nations, as well as many other books of Israel, together with the
books [later] adopted and established by the Mishnah; many rolls were also lying there;
he also found there all sorts of provision and wine in abundance, and discovered an old
man sitting there, who was reading in those books. When the officer saw this great sight
he was greatly astonished, and said to the old man: Why dost thou sit alone in this place,
without any person remaining with thee? So the old man answered: For many years
was I aware of this second destruction of Jerusalem, so I built this house and made for
myself a porch, and I brought with me these books to read, and I brought also sufficient
provision, thinking thereby to save my life.
And God caused the old man to find favor in the eyes of the officer, who brought him
forth with respect with all his books, and they went from city to city and from country to
country until they reached Sevilia; and the officer found that this old man was possessed
of wisdom and understanding and acquainted with various kinds of science, upon
discovering which he raised and honored him, was constantly in his house and was
taught by him all sorts of wisdom, and they built for themselves a lofty and spacious
house in the suburbs of Sevilia and placed there all those books.
This house is yet in Sevilia unto this day, and they wrote there all the events that would
hereafter take place amongst the kings of the world unto the coming of our Messiah.
And it came to pass that when God carried us away with a mighty captivity by the hands
of the kings of Edom, from city to city and from country to country in bitter anxiety, this
book, called The Generations of Adam together with other books came into our hands,
for they came from that house in Sevilia, and they came afterward to our city Napuli,
which city is under the sway of the king of Spain, (whose glory may be exalted). And
when we saw these books, that they were books of all wisdom, we resolved in our minds
to print them like all the books that came to our hands. Now this book is the best and
most valuable of all, and of this book twelve copies have reached us, and we searched in
them and found them all of one copy, there was no difference, nothing added and nothing
deficient, nor any alteration in letters, words or events, for they were all alike as it were of
one copy. Since, therefore, we saw in this book great merit urging us to this resolve, we
are determined to print it.
It is found written that this book is called the Book Jasher. All its transactions are in
that order as they had taken place in the world as regards priority and succession, for
thou wilt not find in this book any postponement of events that were anterior, or priority
of those that were posterior, but every thing is recorded in its place and time. Thou wilt
thus find that it relates the death of such a one at the particular time of the life of another
and thus throughout. Owing to this it was called Sefer Ha-yashar, but it is customary to
call it the Generations of Adam, the reason of which is that they call it by that with
which it commences, but the chief name thereof is the Book Jasher owning to the
reasons we have assigned. Now it is found that this book is translated into Greek, entitles
Lo libris de los divitiis.
() May God teach us the good way and direct us in a prosperous path for the sake of His
mercies and kindnesses, and may He graciously fulfil the desires of our hearts, Amen,
and so be His will.
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The translator says in the preface to the publication of 1839:

Whatever may have been written and published by commentators, relative to the
fabrications of Jasher, I am persuaded they had no reference to this work, although this is
the work slightly touched upon by Dr Horne, as the publication of Venice, on the first
discovery of printing; but of its origin and history he knew nothing beyond the rumor that
it had originally been brought from Jerusalem. There are some events recorded in Jasher
that are found in the Talmud, no doubt copied from Jasher; for although we find in the
Talmud, the Mishnah, and Gemara, many parables and fanciful tales, to effect moral and
religious purposes, yet every thing that we have in Jasher we find recorded in the Bible,
with this difference, that in Jasher the occurrences of the Bible are amplified and detailed
at length. The celebrated philosopher, Mendelssohn, expresses a high opinion of this
work. (7)
() Without giving it to the world as a work of divine inspiration, or assuming the
responsibility to say that it is not an inspired book, I have no hesitation in pronouncing
it a work of great antiquity and interest, and a work that is entitled, even regarding it as a
literary curiosity, to a great circulation among those who take pleasure in studying the
Scriptures.
() If commentators upon the holy Scriptures have sought for illustrations in the works
of Homer, Pliny, Herodotus, and other profane writers; if they have anxiously caught at
glimmerings among the absurdities of paganism, and the obscurities of heathen fables,
the translator humbly and respectfully hopes that they will now grant a favorable
reception to evidence of an entirely opposite character, which is presented in the Book of
Jasher.
He does not recommend it to their notice as a work of inspiration, but as a monument of
history, comparatively covered with the ivy of the remotest ages; as a work possessing, in
its language, all the characteristic simplicity of patriarchal times; and as such, he
conceives it peculiarly calculated to illustrate and confirm the sacred truths handed down
to us in the Scriptures.
But in making these observations, he is far from offering it as a perfect record. Like all
other ancient writings, (except the inspired volume), it has in some respects suffered
from the consuming hand of time; and there is reason to believe that some additions have
been made to it. In fine, it contains a history of the lives and memorable transactions of
all the illustrious characters recorded in sacred history, from Adam down to the time of
the Elders, who immediately succeeded Joshua.

Note
(7) This must be Moses Mendelssohn who lived from 1729 to 1786 and was the most celebra-
ted German Jew of his time. However, and sadly enough, this Moses was ordained in 1761 by
Jonathan Eibeschutz, who was excommunicated five years earlier by the supreme Rabbinical
Court of European Jewry. The reason cited in the proceedings was seduction to Sabbatian
Frankist idolatry. The ordination certificate, in the files now of the Schiff collection at the New
York Public Library, reeks of Sabbatian vile concepts. Mendelssohn translated the Bible into
German, which he published along with a Hebrew commentary in an effort, so he told, to
upgrade Jewish education. For this he was severely criticized in Orthodox circles because they
feared that instead of disseminating knowledge of the Bible it was propagating German lan-
guage and through it German culture, which by this means would suffocate the Jewish way of
life. Because of his Sabbatian affiliation we may assume that indeed this was his true object.
In the view of orthodox Jewry (also my view), culture, language and religion are interwoven
and therefore they regarded this as such a serious issue. Mendelssohn scorned at the idea of a
national home for the Jewish people for in his words the Jewish nation was irrevocably dead.
He advocated an artificial cosmopolitism.
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The Ancient Book of Jasher (67:21-49)

The Lord chose the Hebrews as the lot of His inheritance from amongst all the
nations of the earth, and who is there to stretch his hand against them with
impunity ? ( )

And Pharao said unto Balaam : "What shall we do unto Israel ? Surely after a certain
manner did we at first counsel against them and could not prevail over them. Now
therefore give you also advice against them by which we may prevail over them."
() And Balaam answered Pharao : "Of all that the King has counselled against the
Hebrews they shall be delivered, and the king will not be able to prevail over them
with any counsel. For if thou thinkest to lessen them by the flaming fire, thou canst
not prevail over them, for surely their God delivered Abraham their father from the
oven of fire of the Chaldeans ; and if thou thinkest to destroy them by the sword,
surely Isaac their father was delivered from it, and a ram was placed in his stead.
And if by hard and rigorous labor thou thinkest to lessen them, thou wilt not prevail
even in this, for their father Jacob served Laban in all manner of hard work, and
prospered. Now therefore, O King, hear my words, for this is the counsel which is
counselled against them, by which thou wilt prevail over them, and from which thou
shouldst not depart. If it please the King, let him order all their children that shall
be born from this day forward, to be thrown into the water, for by this canst thou
wipe out their name, for none of them, nor of their fathers, were tried in this man-
ner." [They did not have an escape from water yet but during the Exodus from
Egypt, at the time of crossing the Red Sea, God saved them miraculously. ]