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Lucifer Dethroned

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This is an absolutely compelling read and is a book that will hold your attention from the very first page, although it is also a book which will shock and frighten many readers. No doubt there will be many scoffers but this is a book on a subject which we ignore at our peril.

The book is written from an autobiographical perspective, although the author's wife also has some input. Readers are presented with a detailed, in depth account of the experiences of this husband and wife "team" who were involved in numerous areas of the occult including satanism, witchcraft, wicca and vampirism to mention but a few. Their involvement is described with many confirmatory references which reveal the senior positions and levels that they "attained" during such involvement.

The reality of these "spiritual realms of darkness" emanate from the pages of this book which reveal the depth and extent to which a plethora of occultic practices have permeated all levels of our society, including sadly some elements of the church.

The book begins as the writer accounts his experiences of human "vampirism" where he describes that "you have no idea what it is like to awaken to the need for the taste of blood in your mouth". Thus begins the description of this "voyage" into darkness and deceit in pursuit of "power" and what was thought to be the "truth". A journey that will horrify and disturb many readers, who will likewise be astounded at the degree to which the occult has spread and how even "human sacrifice" is still practised in certain quarters.

The immense amount of detail and dimensions of the experiences described in this book are impossible to cover in a review. Suffice to say that a terrifying descent "headlong into hell" began to come "off the rails" one day when this satanist came across an envelope containing his bank statement and a series of processed cheques relating to the "church of satan". One cheque had been endorsed on the back with the words "I'll be praying for you in Jesus' name". Although this was instantly dismissed, the writer's occultic powers began to cease and he was left feeling weak, sick and exhausted.

From this point on we are presented with the account of a "new" journey which ultimately results in this husband and wife partnership both becoming "born again" Christians. A detailed account which is very moving and which shows clearly the Power of Deliverance through Jesus Christ. A revelation that no matter how far anyone has travelled along the road to depravity, there is still hope and Deliverance. An amazing true story which will elevate those in the darkest depths of depression.

Basing all comments upon a wealth of personal experience, the book declares that all satanists, irrespective of the type of their involvement, are ultimately vulnerable human beings who are victims of deceit and delusion by the master deceiver himself. The book elaborates in chapter 15 that whilst their practices are to be deplored, the Salvation of the individual is to be prayed for. That such individuals should also be compassionately treated as people who are often wounded emotionally and/or physically and that they should not be treated as pariahs as regrettably some churches do. The book declares that the Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ can truly "save to the uttermost".

In addition to this astonishing true story, the book also documents the route to Deliverance for those who wish to be freed from the shackles of the occult. For those who become disturbed whilst beginning to read this book I would personally encourage them to persevere. The story is true and the message is essential to our times. An excellent book.

This book shows what should be obvious to anyone with some knowledge of witchcraft: occult knowledge is no knowledge at all, just a mess of tricks performed by demons to entrap people in a continuous search of power, fueled by greed, lust and selfishness. People jump from one kind of occult philosophy to another, losing their identities in the process and becoming slaves of whatever "magus" or "high priest" is in control of that occult group. After some time, people lose their will and start doing anything their spirits tell them to do.
This is total slavery, and it is surprising that those people think that occultism gives them supreme freedom and that Christianity is a religion of passive dumb people !
Living in Brazil and having relatives involved in voodoo , I am very well familiar with the power of evil spirits and the disastrous consequences of dealing with them.
This excellent book shows to Americans that evil spirits are not the "privilege" of Third World countries, but that they very well established in the USA.
The best part is the wonderful story of how the author was freed by God from the hands of Satan. When God wants someone, nothing can prevent Him from doing His will.
Don't bother about the negative reviews...it is pretty obvious that those people didn't even read the book, they are withches who got together to downgrade the ratings of this book and especially the other excellent book from the same author about Wicca. Read it and draw your own conclusions.

After studying much of these subjects for quite some time, I can tell you that much of what this man has to say is accurate from what I've learned. He ties the Illuminati information in with Satanic and Masonic ritual abuse, maybe the most tragic hidden plague that societies have ever faced. Yes it is real and needs to be more widely exposed. Please don't take my word for it, research these things yourselves and ask God for guidance and discernment along the way. A warning though, you may be deeply wounded by what you find so be prepared. It is our duty to inform others and help bring these things to justice.

Before I read this book I was Wiccan. This book revealed to me just how deceived I had been for 5 years of my life. When I found out the truth, I immediately changed. I was saved by Jesus, and I'm going on for God. This book will undoubtedly change anyone's life whether saved or not.

William's true story of being delivered out of the arms of Satan into the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ is fantastic. From start to finish the reader is glued page after page. This is a true testimonial that no matter how low a person is in this world that the Lord Jesus Christ will save anyone that calls upon His mighty name.

Let me begin by saying that I do not intend to discuss the question of whether these events really happened. Despite the fact that other 'born-again' Christian accounts of previous satanic involvement have not stood up to scrutiny (sadly, you just can't trust anyone these), I assume that everything Schnoebelen claims to have happened either did happen or at least he thinks it did.
As such there are a few things to note. First, there are some rather peculiar claims that he makes about his achievements. I am a mathematician, and I have only a few classes left before I am ABD (all but dissertation accomplished for a doctorate) so I will single out one claim in particular. He says that when he met 'Aquarius' (Michael Bertiaux), this person told him that before being consecrated a gnostic bishop he would have to undergo a comprehensive examination on Russell's 'Principia Mathematica.' He was consecrated a few weeks later.
That's absurd. The Principia Mathematica is a nigh-impossible book which is something like 2000 pages long. It takes 300 pages to prove that 1+1=2! This is not a book that someone with a background in music and possibly theology is going to be able to sit down and bang through and then take a comprehensive exam in under a month. Very few mathematicians could do it! So either no such exam happened, or else Aquarius didn't require real knowledge of the math (which would not be surprising; go to any bookstore and look at the popular books on physics and you'll find New Age occult types claiming to have mastered quantum mechanics - they're full of it).
And I don't think this guy is a math expert. He states in one chapter that if trying to witness to a satanist, point out to them that for satanic author, the author might be telling the truth, or blend the truth with lies, or be lying entirely, or be mistaken. He then states that since there are four possibilities there is 'at best a 75% of being deceived.' It doesn't take a mathematics expert to observe that not all four possibilities are of equal probability! If I say 'tomorrow either we will be hit with an asteroid killing 90% of humanity or we won't be,' does this mean that it is 50/50? (I guess also, there's at least a 75% chance that Schnoebelen is wrong in his book)!
Furthermore, there's no such thing as 'Russell's Principia Mathematica.' The Principia was co-authored by Russell and Whitehead. I mention this because this book has a tendency to gloss over details... which leads to:
Schnoebelen writes in a very confusing way about which organizations he was involved in, how he was involved, and the like. Anyone reading might assume he had been made a Roman Catholic priest, a gnostic bishop, and a Russian Orthodox bishop. Well...
1. He was never a Roman Catholic priest. He was made a priest in a fringe group which was not in communion with the Vatican.
2. It is not clear who chrismated him into Orthodoxy, but I suspect it is the same story for him as for his mentor Bertiaux, whose lines of succession can be viewed online. B. was brought into the Roman Catholic succession and into the Russian Orthodox succession by a 'wandering bishop.' A 'wandering bishop' is someone who has been ordained in a ceremony but is not in communion with the parent Church. Often, wandering bishops owe their ordinations to other wandering bishops. And in fact, while the Vatican recognizes such ordinations as 'valid but illicit' due to their wide-spread application of 'ex opere operare,' the Orthodox believe that no ordination can occur outside the Orthodox communion, AND they believe that if a person leaves the communion or engages in heretical teaching (such as modern gnosticism) the ordination is forfeited (Catholics believe that ordinations are indelible, but Orthodox do not).
So he was never in the Roman Catholic communion as a clergyman, and if he was in the Orthodox communion at all, it was only for a few moments while he was ordained and then he lost that communion by teaching the heresies of gnosticism and satanism! But to listen to him, you would think that he was in full communion with both the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox. This is simply not true!
In fact, wandering bishops tend to accumulate 'multiple lines' (of course, their claims to Orthodox lines are denied by the true Orthodox for the reasons stated above: even if their initial ordination was valid, they lose it if they go outside the communion, and any ordinations done outside the communion are viewed as not being ordinations at all), and pass on multiple lines at once. Thus Bertiaux received several 'lines' in a single day according to succession lists I have viewed.
He also cannot keep straight the doctrines of these Churches. He claims for example that the Orthodox teach that in changing from bread and wine to the Body and Blood, nine pints of the Blood of Christ are miraculously contained in the Chalice (he says the Catholics teach this too). I asked an Orthodox priest who is a friend of mine about this (without telling him the source or why I wanted to know) and he said that this is definitely not an Orthodox teaching! As far as I can tell, it isn't even a Catholic teaching. The Orthodox do teach that even the smallest amount of the transformed bread and wine, when eaten, gives full participation in the Body and Blood of Christ. Perhaps this is where Schnoebelen became confused. But if we can't trust him to keep this kind of thing straight, how can we trust him to keep anything else straight about the beliefs of these Churches?

This would not be such a problem except that Schnoebelen is so staunchly against Catholicism and Orthodoxy on the basis of his experience with these fringe groups which aren't even Catholic or Orthodox for the most part. Old Catholicism is no more Roman Catholicism than Lutheranism is (although Old Catholicism tends to be closer in form). Plus there's several branches of the Old Catholics (or more, perhaps), and the branch he got involved in was _very_ out there according to those who have investigated his story. And apart from gnostic iconography he appears to have had little to do with the Orthodox (of course, gnostic iconography is derived from Orthodox iconography, but it is not precisely the same thing). He may have been initiated in the vampire cult in an Orthodox Church, but the description sounds like a gnostic one (I have at least read of the 'little closed up chapel out back' being in a gnostic Church area, just as his initiation was described).

In addition, for those who think this will be: 'wow, a vampire saved by Jesus!' it is more like 'a vampire, who didn't really want to be one anymore, was prayed for by a bank clerk, and became... a mormon!' That's right - for several years after his vampirism he was a mormon before being converted to the protestant doctrine of sola scriptura by reading, not Scripture, but... Chick comics! Although he said he converted because of reading Romans and Galatians, he said he 'compared them to the comics,' that is, he interpreted them as Baptists interpret them. In fact at his 'moment of conversion' he did not reach to the Bible but to the Chick comic for instructions (which explains why he didn't find the instruction 'by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone' or that the Lord gave His Apostles the authority to forgive sins, both of which are taught in the Bible)! I find it ironic given that much of his point in this book seems to be 'the teachings of the Apostolic Churches are false! Sola Scriptura!' but at this crucial moment he prefers the comic...
Oh and while a mormon, he wrote a stunning and emotional apology (defense) of them, declaring how he could barely stand after his ordination, he had felt so much power, and the like (it is available online)... very similar to how he now gushes about his new-found faith.
Don't get me wrong, I am very glad that he has gotten out of the satanism (and mormonism) but I wouldn't take his criticisms of the RC and Orthodox seriously for even a moment...

Having had experience with people in the Occult, I have found this book very accurate and intriguing. Although people tell me that he is lying in the statements they make, however I have never seen any proof of what they are talking about. I have known occults to destroy records of those who become saved.

There are many people who believe in the God and Godess but they have know proof of their existence but the one true God has always had proof, especially when the scientist that are into physics, and mathematics, ext. say there is creator that had to make the universe the way it is. When people enter "Soft Sciences" I have noticed they put their faith in themselves instead of truelly investigating if there is a true god. I have all those who look for the True God eventually find themselve being Gentile Christian or Judeo-Christians. Both sects of christianity being under the same god.

I bought this book last summer (1998) and once I started reading it, I found it hard to put down. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, who's involved in this kind of lifestyle, who wants OUT. I would ALSO recommend this book to Christians, who STILL don't believe, this world that the author was involved in, exists. It does, and folks would be well advised, to know as much about it, as they can.

For anyone that thinks they know about what goes on in the life of a satanist, they have no idea until they read this book and see how the writer of the book realized there is greater power in Jesus Christ, and Christ is more powerful than any spiritual being hands down. Very useful in todays liberal, anti-God, pro-New age, pro-occult society.

It's been a few years since I've read this book. It is a spellbinding story of this man's spiritual journey through the occult and nominal Christian denominations to finally become a Bible believing Christian. Every sincere truth seeking Christian should read this book. I have recommened it to many friends and family members. It is so eye opening to see how the enemy of souls works in the world in occult practices as well as so called Christian environments to decieve people. The Bible is our only defense against his deceptions.