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A 17th century woodcut of Moloch, the demon-god to whom the Ammonites are supposed to have sacrificed children.
Human beings are represented as being shut up in the cells within the body of the model, and are burned to death by
the fires below. (Fortean Picture Library)
man, and will cut him off from among his
people, because he has given one of his
children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and
profaning my holy name. (Lev. 20:2–3)
The practice of child sacrifice was also regularly
condemned by the Hebrew prophets, and is
mentioned as late as the time of the prophet
Ezekiel in the eighth century B.C.E.
See also Judaism
For Further Reading:
Carpenter, E. E. “Sacrifice, Human.” In The
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Vol.
4. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1988, 258–260.
Harrison, R. K. “Molech.” In The International
Standard Bible Dictionary. Vol. 3. Grand Rapids,
MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1988, 401.
Heider, George C. “Molech.” In The Anchor Bible
Dictionary. Vol. 4. New York: Doubleday, 1992,
895–898.
Sykes, Egerton, Who’s Who: Non-Classical Mythology.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Monastery of the Seven Rays
The Monastery of the Seven Rays is the organization
related to the activities of Chicago occultistmagician
Michael Bertiaux. He received his magical
training in Haiti, where the French Martinist tradition
had been established at the end of the eighteenth
century, and was ordained and consecrated
bishop of the Neo-Pythagorean Church. The
Monastery of the Seven Rays became popular in the
1970s through its advertisements in Fate Magazine.
It is a magical order that draws upon modern
Thelemic magick, Vodoun, and the nineteenthcentury
French Gnostic-occult tradition.
The Neo-Pythagorean Gnostic Church, on the
other hand, is the ecclesiastical structure that