The Inquisition is NOT Over

by High Priest Zevios Metathronos

Most people believe the persecution of spiritual practitioners ended centuries ago. They're wrong. The methods have changed. The underlying program hasn't. Every major Abrahamic system and its ideological offspring (including Communism) contains explicit doctrinal mandates to suppress, punish, or kill anyone who practices meditation, energy work, divination, or communion with the original Gods.

This isn't conspiracy. It's scripture. It's law. It's policy. And it's happening right now.

Christianity: "Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live"

The Christian mandate against spiritual practitioners is not ambiguous. It's written in plain language.

The Hebrew word translated as "witch" is mekhashepha (מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה), which refers broadly to anyone who practices sorcery, divination, herbalism, energy work, or communion with spirits. In the ancient world, this covered virtually every spiritual practice outside of the Yahwistic priesthood. The commandment is not restricted to "evil" magick. It targets all magick.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 expands the prohibition:

Read that list carefully. Divination, omen reading, spellcraft, mediumship, necromancy: every practice taught on this website is explicitly named and condemned. The text doesn't say "discouraged." It says "abomination." The penalty elsewhere in the Torah is death.

These weren't dead letters. They were enforced. The historical record is unambiguous:

The Roman Imperial persecutions (4th-6th centuries CE) began almost immediately after Christianity became the state religion. Emperor Theodosius I issued edicts in 391-392 CE banning all Pagan sacrifice, closing temples, and criminalizing the practice of traditional religion. The Serapeum of Alexandria (one of the greatest temples in the ancient world) was destroyed in 391 CE. The philosopher Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob in 415 CE. The Academy of Athens (Plato's school, operating continuously for 900 years) was closed by Emperor Justinian in 529 CE (Damascius, Life of Isidore; Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, 2006).

The Medieval Inquisitions (12th-19th centuries) systematized the killing. The Papal Inquisition (established 1231), the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834), and the Roman Inquisition (1542-1860) operated as judicial machinery for identifying and destroying anyone suspected of spiritual practice outside Church control. The Malleus Maleficarum (1487), written by the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, became the operational manual for witch trials across Europe. Conservative estimates place the total number of people executed for "witchcraft" across Europe between 40,000 and 60,000, with some scholars arguing for higher numbers when including unofficial killings (Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, 4th ed., 2016).

The methods of the Inquisition are documented in detail: stretching on the rack, the strappado (suspension by bound wrists from behind), sleep deprivation, water torture, burning of extremities, and death by burning at the stake. These were applied to herbalists, midwives, healers, astrologers, diviners, and anyone whose spiritual practice fell outside Church orthodoxy (Peters, Inquisition, 1988).

The destruction was not limited to people. The Church systematically burned books. Entire libraries of Pagan, Hermetic, and Gnostic texts were destroyed. What survives today (the Corpus Hermeticum, fragments of the PGM, scattered Orphic texts) represents a fraction of what existed before the Christian program of cultural annihilation.

Islam: The Death Penalty for Sorcery

Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) classifies sorcery (sihr, سِحْر) as a capital offense. This is not a fringe interpretation. It's mainstream doctrine across multiple schools of Islamic law.

The Hadith literature records the Prophet Muhammad saying: "The punishment of the sorcerer is a blow with the sword" (al-Tirmidhi 1460). The Hanbali, Maliki, and Hanafi schools of jurisprudence all classify sihr as either apostasy (riddah) or a crime warranting execution (hadd punishment). The Shafi'i school is slightly more lenient, permitting execution only if the sorcery caused death.

In practice, this means that in countries governed by Sharia law, the following activities carry potential death sentences: energy work, divination, astrology, communion with spirits, meditation practices derived from non-Islamic traditions, and any form of spiritual practice that the authorities classify as "sorcery."

Saudi Arabia maintained a dedicated "Anti-Witchcraft Unit" within its religious police (the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) which investigated and prosecuted cases of sorcery. Multiple executions for "sorcery" have been documented in the 21st century. In 2011, a Saudi woman was executed by beheading for "practicing witchcraft and sorcery." In 2012, a Sudanese man was executed in Saudi Arabia on the same charge (Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia: Country Summary, 2012; Amnesty International, Annual Reports 2011-2012).

Iran's Islamic Penal Code (Articles 286-287) classifies sihr as a form of "corruption on earth" (ifsad fil-arz), punishable by death. Afghanistan under the Taliban revived execution for sorcery. In parts of northern Nigeria governed by Sharia, accusations of witchcraft lead to imprisonment or mob violence (Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, 2005).

The Quranic basis is Surah Al-Baqarah 2:102, which describes sorcery as something taught by "devils" (shayatin) and warns that practitioners "will have no share in the Hereafter." Combined with the Hadith mandate and the jurisprudential consensus, this creates a comprehensive doctrinal framework for the execution of spiritual practitioners in the Islamic world.

Communism: The Destruction of the Spirit by Material Doctrine

Communism, as formulated by Marx and implemented by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and their successors, is the Abrahamic program stripped of its theological vocabulary and repackaged as political economy. The structural parallel is not metaphorical. It's architectural.

Marx wrote: "Religion is the opium of the people" (Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1843). This wasn't an observation. It was a program statement. Communist regimes have systematically destroyed temples, murdered priests, burned spiritual texts, criminalized meditation, and tortured practitioners in every country where they've taken power.

The Soviet Union destroyed over 40,000 churches and mosques between 1917 and 1940. Orthodox priests, Buddhist lamas, Islamic clerics, and shamanic practitioners were executed, imprisoned in gulags, or forced into psychiatric facilities. The League of Militant Atheists (Soyuz Voinstvuyushchikh Bezbozhnikov), founded in 1925, conducted systematic anti-religious campaigns that included the desecration of relics, the confiscation of sacred objects, and the public humiliation of believers (Husband, "Godless Communists": Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 2000).

In China, the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) destroyed thousands of temples, monasteries, and sacred sites. Buddhist monks and Taoist priests were publicly beaten, forced to perform manual labor, and in many cases killed. The invasion and occupation of Tibet (1950-present) has resulted in the destruction of over 6,000 monasteries and the killing or imprisonment of thousands of monks and nuns (Smith, Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations, 1996).

The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China (ongoing since 1999) is the most visible contemporary example. Falun Gong is a meditation and energy cultivation practice rooted in traditional Chinese spiritual disciplines (qigong). The Chinese Communist Party classified it as a "heretical organization" (xiejiao) in 1999 and launched a systematic campaign of arrest, detention, torture, and forced organ harvesting against its practitioners.

The torture methods documented by Falun Gong practitioners are identical to those of the Inquisition: electric shock to genitals and sensitive areas, prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation, systematic starvation, and sexual violence. The U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, and multiple independent tribunals have documented these abuses (Kilgour, Gutmann & Matas, Bloody Harvest / The Slaughter: An Update, 2016; China Tribunal, Final Judgment, 2019).

The key insight: China promotes the Bible while outlawing Falun Gong books. The Amity Printing Company, operating under state license, has produced over 200 million Bibles for distribution in China and abroad. The government that tortures people for practicing meditation grants printing licenses for the Christian Bible. This is not a contradiction. It's the program working as designed: the Abrahamic text is permitted because it serves the same suppressive function as the Communist doctrine. Both remove the individual's spiritual autonomy.

The Pattern

Three systems. One pattern.

Christianity commands: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." It enforced this for 1,500 years through the Inquisition, witch trials, temple destruction, and book burning. It continues to enforce it through cultural stigma and legal obstruction wherever it holds political power.

Islam commands: "The punishment of the sorcerer is a blow with the sword." It enforces this today in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Africa. Practitioners of energy work, divination, and non-Islamic meditation are imprisoned or killed under Sharia law in the 21st century.

Communism commands: religion is opium, spirituality is superstition, and the practitioner is an enemy of the state. It has destroyed more temples, killed more priests, and tortured more meditators in the last century than the Inquisition managed in five.

The target is always the same: the person who cultivates spiritual power independently. The herbalist. The meditator. The astrologer. The energy worker. The person who talks to the Gods without permission from an institutional intermediary.

We are that person. Every Zevist who meditates, who performs ritual, who vibrates a mantra, who communicates with their Guardian Daemon, who builds bioelectrical power through daily practice, is doing exactly what these four systems were designed to prevent.

The Inquisition didn't end. It changed uniforms.