The Gods Who Walk Among Us

Authors Thomas Horn and Dr. Donald Jones Make Startling Claims In New Book

CHAPTER ONE EXCERPT: "Birds skipped among groves of date palms along
the marshy banks of the Euphrates in the year B.C. 3500. As the sun
arose above Sumer, the alluvial desert of the Middle East came alive
with agricultural activity. In a valley forged between the twin rivers
of the Tigris and the Euphrates, magnificent walled cities awoke to
the chatter of busy streets and marketplaces. In what the Greeks would
later call "Mesopotamia" (between the rivers), the world?s first great
trade center and civilization had developed. The opulent Sumerian
cities of Ur?the home of Abram?Uruk, and Lagash, had become the
economic machines of the ancient Middle East, and industries from as
far away as Jericho near the Mediterranean Sea, and Catal Huyuk in
Asia Minor, competed for the trade opportunities they provided.
Laborers from the biblical city of Jericho exported salt into Sumer,
and miners from Catal Huyuk prepared obsidian, used in making mirrors,
for shipment into the ancient metropolis. But while the prehistoric
people of the East looked to the Sumerians for their supply of daily
bread, the Sumerians themselves gazed heavenward to the early rising
of Utu (Shamash), the all-providing sun god, as he prepared once again
to ride across the sky in his mule-drawn chariot. And, in B.C. 3500,
Utu was not alone among the gods.

By now the Sumerian pantheon provided the earliest known description
of organized mythology, consisting of a complex system of more than
3,000 deities and covering nearly every detail of nature and human
enterprise. There were gods of sunshine and of rain. There were
vegetation gods, fertility gods, river gods, animal gods, and gods of
the afterlife. There were the great gods?Enlil (prince of the air),
Anu (ruler of the heavens), Enki, (the god of water), and so on. Under
these existed a second level of deities, including Nannar the moon
god, Utu the sun god, and Inanna, the "Queen of Heaven." Having so
noted?and this is the big question?where did the gods of Sumeria come
from?

Since the religion of Sumeria was the first known organized mythology
and would greatly influence the foundational beliefs of the
forthcoming nations of Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and others, this
question has interested scholars and historians for more than a
millennium. Specifically, where does one find the historical beginning
of the ancient gods of Sumeria? Were the Sumerian deities the product
of human imagination, or the distortion of some earlier prehistoric
revelation? Were they the "mythologizing" of certain ancient heroes,
or, as some New Age followers suggest, the result of an
extra-terrestrial "alien" visitation whose appearance gave birth to
the legends and mythological gods? More importantly, did the gods of
Sumeria reflect the emergence of a real and spiritual power operating
through pagan dynamics, or were the gods purely the creation of
primitive imaginations?

There are three competing theories regarding the origin of the early
mythological gods: 1) The Euhemerus View; 2) The New Age View; and 3)
The Biblical View. The Euhemerus View was based on the historical
theories of the Greek scholar Euhemerus who claimed that pagan gods
originated with certain ancient and famous kings who were later
deified. The more widely accepted theories?the New Age View and the
Biblical View?have succeeded to become the popular authorities
regarding original paganism, and are therefore the focus of our
attention. What can we learn from these two theories?


THE NEW AGE VIEW CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE GODS A growing doctrine
within the New Age Movement claims that the origin of the gods, and
the human race as we know it today, is the direct result of
extra-terrestrial "UFO" activity. In the introduction to his
bestselling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? , Erich von Daniken, who, it
might be argued, is one of the fathers of the New Age Movement as it
relates to ufology, said: ?I claim that our forefathers received
visits from the universe in the remote past, even though I do not yet
know who these extra-terrestrial intelligences were or from which
planet they came. I nevertheless proclaim that these "strangers"
annihilated part of mankind existing at the time and produced a new,
perhaps the first, homo sapiens.?

As was illustrated in the Hollywood films Contact, and Close
Encounters Of The Third Kind , Erich von Daniken's hypothesis took
America by storm in the 1960's with the proposition that mankind was
possibly the offspring of an ancient, perhaps ongoing,
extra-terrestrial experiment. New Age ufologists like Daniken assert
that the gods of mythology may have been themselves evidence of, and a
reaction to, an encounter with other worldly beings. They claim that
ancient men would have considered space travelers as gods, and would
have recorded their arrival, their experiments, and their departure,
in hieroglyphs, megaliths, and stone tablets, as a "supernatural"
encounter between gods and men?etc?

CHAPTER TWO EXCERPT: "?The only Egyptian who did not benefit from this
particular spell was the Pharaoh, and for a very good reason. Although
Pharaoh was considered to be the "son of the sun god" (Ra) and the
incarnation of the falcon god Horus during his lifetime, he was
considered at death to have become the Osiris-the divine judge of the
netherworld. On earth, Pharaoh's son and predecessor would take his
place as the newly anointed manifestation of Horus, and thus each new
generation of the pharaohs provided the gods with a divine spokesman
for the present world and for the afterlife. ·

JUDGMENT OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD-KING

While conducting a recent tour of Egypt and the Holy Land, Donald C.
Jones (Ph.D. in Biblical History and contributing author of this
book), stood outside the Great Pyramid in Giza and pondered what it
must have been like to be an Egyptian Pharaoh. As the divine son of
Ra, Pharaoh was the earthly representative of the supreme god of
cosmic deities; in short, Pharaoh was god on earth. Dr. Jones wondered
what the children of Israel must have thought when Moses challenged
the mighty arm of a ruler whose kingdom was so vast and powerful. Who
would "take on" the leader of a people capable of building a single
structure over thirty times larger than the Empire State Building? The
Great Pyramid was built over 4,500 years ago and out of more than
2,000,000 blocks of stone weighing between 2 and 60 tons each, by
builders whose knowledge of the earth and of the planetary systems was
so advanced that the Great Pyramid faces true North, South, East, and
West, while also standing at the exact center of the Earth's land mass
and at a height exactly that of the earth's mean sea level. One would
hypothecate that the leader of such a people would have easily been
perceived by the ancients as a god on earth. Whereas most scholars
believe that the Great Pyramid-the last standing monument of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World-was built around the year BC 2560, by
Khufu (Cheops), the Pharaoh of the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty, and that
Moses probably challenged the pharaoh known as Ramses II, many other
testaments, temples, and pyramids, have survived to reveal that each
of the Pharaohs were, in their respective times (at least in the mind
of the average Egyptian), the undisputed god-kings of planet earth.

Nevertheless, God instructed Moses to go "unto Pharaoh...[and] bring
forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt" (Ex. 3:10). One
of the main reasons for the Exodus narrative was, I believe, the
historical opportunity for the Hebrew God to reveal Himself as being
more powerful than the Egyptian gods. In other words, the great "I AM"
not only wanted to deliver His people from the Egyptian bondage, but
He wanted to "execute judgment" against "all the gods of Egypt" (Ex.
12:12). Numbers 33:4 says, "For the Egyptians buried all their
firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also
the Lord executed judgments." Thus Yahweh manifested his superiority
over Osiris, Isis, Pharaoh, and the various other gods assigned to
protect the famous Egyptians. Dr. Jones says, "It would be a mistake
to overlook the fact that, taken individually, each plague of the
Exodus stands alone as a specific judgment of a particular Egyptian
god; while, viewed collectively, the plagues of the Exodus illustrate
God's supremacy over, and his attitude towards, the corporate sphere
of the gods of mythology." Let's consider a brief overview of the
plagues of the Exodus, and their respective condemnations of the
Egyptian gods?

CHAPTER THREE EXCERPT: ??Either way, Asclepius represented the last
popular cult of the Olympian Apollo myths and was one of the most
durable challenges to Christianity by the ancient paganisms that
dominated Asia Minor for more than 4,000 years. So popular had the
iconography of Asclepius become that, to this day, the sacred snakes
of the healing god can be found adorning the entry doors and halls of
hospitals in cities around the world.

FACTS ABOUT DIONYSUS (BACCHUS)?THE MYSTERY GOD

Dionysus, the Thirteenth God of the Greeks, was the divine son of Zeus
and of the mortal Semele. He was often depicted as the inventor of
wine, abandon, and revelry, but this description seems inadequate in
that it refers only to the basic elements of intoxication and
enthusiasm which were used by the Bacchae (the female participants of
the Dionystic mysteries; also known as Maenads and Bacchantes) in
their rituals to experience Dionysus, the intoxicating god of
unbridled human desire. Followers of Dionysus considered him to be
much more than the inventor of wine. He was the presence that is
otherwise defined as the craving within man that longs to ?let itself
go? and to ?give itself over? to the baser earthly desires. What a
Christian might resist as the lustful wants of the carnal man, the
followers of Dionysus embraced as the incarnate power that would, in
the next life, liberate the souls of mankind from the constraints of
this present world and from the customs which sought to define
respectability through a person?s obedience to moral law. Until that
liberating (?) day arrive, the worshippers of Dionysus attempted to
bring themselves into union with the god through a ritual casting off
of the bonds of sexual denial and primal constraint by seeking to
attain to a higher state of ecstasy. The uninhibited rituals of
ecstasy (Greek for ?outside the body?) supposedly brought the
followers of Dionysus into a supernatural condition which enabled them
to escape the temporary limitations of the body and mind and to
achieve a state of enthousiasmos, or, outside the body and ?inside the
god.? In this sense Dionysus represented a dichotomy within the Greek
religion, as the primary maxim of the Greek culture was one of
moderation, or, "nothing too extreme." But Dionysus embodied the
absolute extreme in that he sought to inflame the forbidden passions
of human desire. Interestingly, and most students of psychology will
understand, this gave Dionysus a stronger allure among the Greeks who
otherwise tried in so many ways to suppress and control the wild and
secret lusts of the human heart. But Dionysus resisted every such
effort, and, according to myth, visited a terrible madness upon those
who tried to deny him his free expression. The Dionystic idea of
mental disease resulting from the suppression of secret inner desires,
especially aberrant sexual desires, was later reflected in the
atheistic teachings of Sigmund Freud. Thus Freudianism might be called
the grandchild of the cult of Dionysus. Conversely, the person who
gave himself over to the will of Dionysus was rewarded with unlimited
psychological and physical delights. Such mythical systems of mental
punishments and physical rewards based on resistance and/or submission
to Dionysus, were both symbolically and literally illustrated in the
cult rituals of the Bacchae, as the Bacchae women (married and
unmarried Greek women had the ?right? to participate in the mysteries
of Dionysus) migrated in frenzied hillside groups, dressed
transvestite in fawn skins and accompanied by screaming, music,
dancing, and licentious behavior. When, for instance, a baby animal
was too young and lacking in instinct to sense the danger and run away
from the revelers, it was picked up and suckled by nursing mothers who
participated in the hillside rituals. But when older animals sought to
escape the marauding Bacchae, they were considered ?resistant? to the
will of Dionysus and were torn apart and eaten alive as a part of the
fevered ritual. Human participants were sometimes subjected to the
same orgiastic cruelty, as the rule of the cult was "anything goes,"
including lesbianism, beastiality, etc. Later versions of the ritual
(Bacchanalia) expanded to include pedophilia and male revelers, and
perversions of sexual behavior were often worse between men than they
were between men and women. Any creature (sometimes a child) that
dared to resist such perversion of Dionysus was subjected to sparagmos
("torn apart') and omophagia ("consumed raw").

In B.C. 410, Euripides wrote of the bloody rituals of the Bacchae in
his famous play, The Bacchantes:

?...the Bacchantes....with hands that bore no weapon of steel,
attacked our cattle as they browsed. Then wouldst thou have seen Agave
mastering some sleek lowing calf, while others rent the heifers limb
from limb. Before thy eyes there would have been hurling of ribs and
hoofs this way and that, and strips of flesh, all blood be-dabbled,
dripped as they hung from the pine branches. Wild bulls, that glared
but now with rage along their horns, found themselves tripped up,
dragged down to earth by countless maidens hands.'

Euripedes went on to describe how Pentheus, the King of Thebes, was
torn apart and eaten alive by his own mother as, according to the
play, she fell under the spell of Dionysus.

The tearing apart and eating alive of a sacrificial victim may refer
to the earliest history of the cult of Dionysus. An ancient and
violent cult ritual existing since the dawn of paganism stipulated
that, by eating alive, or by drinking the blood, of an enemy or an
animal, a person might somehow capture the essence or ?soul-strength?
of the victim. The earliest Norwegian huntsmen believed in this idea?

CHAPTER FOUR EXCERPT: ??want to destroy the loving Mother Earth. Each
episode of Captain Planet ends by encouaging kids to help Gaia and the
Planeteers save the earth from evildoers. The new animated Superman,
that once proud defender of ?truth, justice, and the American way,?
has also seen the light, and, evidently, converted to New Age
mysticism. His girlfriend, Lois Lane, consults the ?white Wiccan
coven? for information or magic to assist in Superman?s task.

THE BURNING MAN

For the past ten years such earth-worshipping pagans, and their little
cartoon-watching pagans, have migrated from Canada, Brazil, Germany,
Russia, and 25 other countries, to an isolated corner of Black Rock
Desert in Nevada, where a four-day-long New Age techno-fest known as
?The Burning Man? has been conducted. Attendance at the 1997 pagan
carnival witnessed an estimated 15,000 Wiccans, Satanists, Goddesses
(white witches), Nudists, and a consortium of other lost party-goers,
converge on the hot Nevada desert for a Labor Day weekend of ?glorious
Hell on earth.? The number of participants at the Burning Man gala has
nearly doubled each year since 1986, and by the year 2000 organizers
hope to break an attendance of 30,000. The Burning Man is a
no-holds-barred New Age ?Woodstock? style festival, where neo-pagans,
Wiccans, transvestitie entertainers, back-slidden Christians, and a
host of homosexuals, go to trance, perform rituals, burn sacrifices to
idols, dance in the nude, engage in sex, and otherwise ?express?
themselves and become one with Gaia. Attendees set up theme camps such
as ?Lost Vegas,? ?Motel 666,? and ?Crucifixion With a Celebrity?
(where one can purchase a picture of a crucified obese Elvis).
Hamburgers are sold by devil-worshipping pagans at the McSatan cafe,
and T-shirts are available that proudly proclaim, ?Praise The Whore.?
The Burning Man itself is a 40-foot-high effigy of the ?Spirit Cave
Man? (sacred to local Indians and New Agers) which is torched,
together with just about everything else, at the close of the festivities.

George Otis Jr., president of The Sentinel Group (a Christian research
agency), attended the 1996 Burning Man festival with a colleague. He
wrote of the experience:

?On Saturday night, the hell-themed 1996 festival reached its
crescendo in the form of a drama....These people were literally
celebrating the fact that one day they would enter hell. To simulate
their journey, the camp?s center stage was transformed into the
?Vestibule of Hell.? The guest of honor was none other than ?Papa
Satan.?....As the lecherous Papa Satan bowed in mock chains before a
placard reading ?Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved,? a group called ?Idiot Flesh,? [supposedly Christians] dressed
as hooded executioners, began to play a discordant dirge accompanied
by flashing strobes. When the crowd started its torchlight procession
toward the Gates of Hell and an eerie, sculpted castle called The City
of Dis, I sensed an unmistakable chill in the air. Our march had been
joined by unseen, malevolent guests....nudist and a moving sea of
devil banners [also] moved around us....At the tri-tower City of Dis,
our descent into the Inferno reached a demonic sanctuary....While
massive loudspeakers pumped out a hellish bass tone accompanied by
tormented screams....people dressed as demonic insects celebrated by
copulating with other captured souls. It was a scene that looked as if
it had been plucked from a horrific nightmare. Mesmerized by the
evocative music, the performers began to chant, ?Devil?s delight, fire
tonight!? Wood piles inside the towers of Dis were ignited, causing
orange flames to belch forth from the eyes and mouths of demonic
gargoyles built onto the turrets. As the heat became more intense, the
entourage danced around the towers. Satan had defeated the church.'

Otis continued the report by confessing, ?I had to remind myself that
what I had witnessed at the Burning Man Festival was happening right
here in the United States?not in the temples of India or the deserts
of Sinai.? He also admits that he met many friendly, creative, and
intelligent people at the Burning Man festival, and he encourages
believers to contend for such lost souls in prayer.

ZEUS, OSIRIS, AND APOLLO LIVE!?NEW AGE ORACLES

?What advantage then hath the Jew?...Much every way: chiefly, because
that unto them were committed the oracles of God? (Rom. 3:1-2). When
the apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome concerning the oracles
(logion, ?divine utterances?) that God gave to the Jews, he was
refering to the revelations of the Old Testament Law and Prophets. In
the Bible, the word ?oracle? means supernatural utterance. It can also
refer to a device used in the production of divine utterances. The
Bible is thus an oracle, as was the Urim and Thummim (sacred devices)
of the Old Testament. When men or women speak as true prophets of God,
they are likewise considered ?an oracle of God? (1 Pet. 4:11). New Age
pagans, such as attend the Burning Man Festival, are extremely
interested in such oracular phenomena, and they readily accept certain
portions of the Bible as divinely oracular (the verses they believe
support their ideas of God, reincarnation, spirit communing, and the
afterlife). But, in the quest for spiritual knowledge, modern pagans
also reach out beyond the ?confines? of the Bible into a veiled world
of mystical utterances, table-tapping, quija boards, psychic phone
lines, visualization, channeling, and other esoteric forms of
prognostication.

I once preached a sermon on oracles and the ?death of the Olympian
gods.? I boldly proclaimed that Christianity had swept the globe, and
that, as far as I knew, not a living person remained on earth that
bowed in reverence to Apollo, or consulted at his sacred shrines. The
sermon was received with rousing applause by the listening audience,
and I sold some tapes. The only problem was, I was wrong. Apollo?s
Oracle at Delphi, the most famous oracle of antiquity, is in ruins.
But the worship of the Olympian god, and the order of his pythian
priestesses, are actively involved in Wiccan and New Age paganism in
the 1990?s. The fact is, it?s unclear if the worship of Apollo or the
consulting of his oracles ever ceased. There is some evidence that
generational witches may have continued the worship of Apollo and the
secrets of his pythian divination for centuries. Whether or not that?s
true, the admirers of Apollo number in the tens of thousands today.
This is primarily because Apollo is an oracle god, and his disciples
are granted a ?divine audience.? Unlike other underworld spirits,
Apollo audibly communicates...

CHAPTER FIVE EXCERPT: ??In the near future a man of superior
intelligence, wit, charm, and diplomacy, will emerge on the world
scene as a savior. He will seemingly possess a transcendent wisdom
that enables him to solve problems and offer solutions to many of
today?s most perplexing issues. His popularity will be widespread, and
his fans will include young and old, religious and non-religious, male
and female. Talk show hosts will interview his colleagues, news
anchors will cover his movements, scholars will applaud his uncanny
ability at resolving what has escaped the rest of us, and the poor
will bow down at his table. He will, in every human way, appeal to the
best idea of society. But his profound comprehension and irresistible
presence will be the result of an invisible network of thousands of
years of collective knowledge. He will, like the pharaohs of Egypt,
represent the embodiment of a very old and super-intellegent spirit.
Just as Jesus Christ was the ?seed of the woman? (Gen. 3:15), he will
be the ?seed of the serpent.? Although his arrival in the form of a
man was foretold by numerous Scriptures, the broad masses of the world
will not recognize him as paganism?s ultimate incarnation?the ?beast?
of Revelation 13:1.

It?s been assumed for centuries that a prerequisite for the end-time
Pharaoh (the Antichrist) will be a ?revived? world order?an umbrella
under which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic groups,
ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world,
orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. Such a system will
supposedly be free of religious and political extremes, and membership
will tolerate the philosophical and cultural differences of its
constituents. Except for minor nonconformities, war, intolerance, and
hunger will be a thing of the past. At the head of the utopian
administration, a single personality will surface. He will appear to
be a man of distinguished character, but will ultimately become ?a
king of fierce countenance? (Dan. 8:23). With imperious decree he will
facilitate a one-world government, a universal religion, and global
socialism. Those that refuse his New World Order will inevitably be
imprisoned or destroyed, until at last he exalts himself ?above all
that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth
in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God? (2 Thess. 2:4).

For many years the idea of an ?Orwellian? society?where a one-world
government oversees the smallest details of our lives and where human
liberties are abandoned?was considered anathema. The concept that
rugged individualism could be sacrificed for an anesthetized universal
harmony was repudiated by America?s greatest minds. Then, in the
1970?s, things began to change. Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller
for the creation of a ?new world order,? presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter campaigned, saying, ?We must replace balance of power politics
with world order politics.? Evidently he struck a chord with world
leaders. During the 1980?s President George Bush continued the
one-world dirge by announcing over national television that ?a new
world order? had arrived. Following the initial broadcast, President
Bush addressed the Congress and made the additional comment:

?What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big
idea?a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in
common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace
and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of
our struggle, and worthy of our children?s future!?

Ever since the President?s astonishing newscast, a parade of political
and religious leaders have discharged a profusion of New Age rhetoric
aimed at implementing the goals of the New World Order. Al Gore, in
his book Earth In the Balance, wrote ?...we must all become partners
in a bold effort to change the very foundation of our civilization.?
The director of the United Nations World Health Organization, Brock
Chisolm, announced: ?To achieve world government, it [will be]
necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty
to family traditions, national patriotism....? And New Age guru
Benjamin Creme hit the nail on the head by admitting: ?What is the
plan? It includes the installation of a new world government and a new
world religion under Maitreia.? (Maitreia is a New Age ?messiah?.)

Concurrent with the political aspects of the New World Order is the
syncretistic and spiritual goals of the New Age Movement. The blending
of politics and spirituality, such as occurs in New Age mysticism,
harmonizes perfectly with the ideas of an end-time marriage of
governmental policy and religious creed as was prophesied in the
Bible. To that end the tools necessary for paganism?s ultimate
incarnation?the god-king of the Great Tribulation (Satan in flesh)?are
in place. The ?gods? have been revived through modern mysticism. The
pagan agenda of governing by ?divine representation? is being
constructed. The governments of the world are uniting beneath a
one-world banner, and the earths masses stand at the brink of a
decisive moment in time.

In his book, The New World Order, Pat Robertson sees the strategy of
the coming world leader played out in the following way:

?It is as if a giant plan is unfolding, everything perfectly on cue.
Europe sets the date for its union. Communism collapses. A hugely
popular war is fought in the Middle East. The United Nations is
rescued from scorn by an easily swayed public. A new world order is
announced. Christianity has been battered in the public arena, and New
Age religions are in place in the schools and corporations, and among
the elite. Then a financial collapse accelerates the move toward a
world money system.

The United States...turns its defense requirements over to the United
Nations, along with its sovereignty. The United Nations severly limits
property rights and clamps down on all Christian evangelism and
Christian distinctives under the Declaration of the Elimination of All
Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religious Belief
already adopted by the General Assembly....Then the New Age religion
of humanity becomes official, and the new world order leaders embrace
it. Then they elect a world president with plenary powers who is
totally given to the religion of humanity.?

Who will be enthroned as the President of the New World Order? Lord
Maitreia? United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali? A
resurrected John F. Kennedy? The Pope? A complete unknown? I do not
know. But an ancient scheme is unfolding. At the core of the
conspiracy a leader of indescribable brutality is scheduled to appear.
He will make the combined depravities of Antiochus Epiphenes, Hitler,
Stalin, and Genghis Khan, all of whom were types of the antichrist,
look like child?s play. He will raise his fist, ?speaking great
things....in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven? (Rev. 13:5-6). He will
champion worship of the ?old gods? and ?cause that as many as would
not worship the image of the beast should be killed? (Rev. 13:15), and
he will revive an ancient mystery religion that is ?the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean
and hateful bird? (Rev. 18:2). Such verses are reminiscent of the
Mystery religions of Dionysus and Demeter in which the Greek god Pan,
a consort of Dionysus, was famous for his pandemonium (?all the
devils?). The coming world religion will be similar to the Dionysian
cult in that those who reject the will of the New Age god-king will be
destroyed?

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