Demiurge: the vampire god
The lands of the Middle East were once terrorised by a certain deity of fearsome nature and
unfathomable cruelty. A deity with an insatiable thirst for blood. It was the Semitic god Moloch,
whose cult demanded human sacrifice, preferably of children.
But who was Moloch, and why would anyone follow such a terrible being? Greek and Roman historians
such as Plutarch, Theodore, Diodorus Siculus and Clearchus associated Moloch with Cronus (the
Roman Saturn or Sabbath god), perhaps because of the habit of both gods to eat children, and the
Romans maintained this identification. The myth of Moloch claimed that due to a tragedy at the
beginning of time the spirit of Moloch had transformed itself into darkness by becoming
According to this doctrine, babies were the closest beings to matter, whereas as a person grows up,
he develops higher psychic and spiritual abilities, babies are all impetus, all Id, like animals, and
therefore more hylic or material than older people.
Moloch was depicted as a horned demon usually in golden statues with open mouth and receptive arms.
Immolated children were thrown into the mouth of the demon and
ended up in an incandescent bonfire in their stomach. This brutal cult was popular among the
Canaanites, Phoenicians and Hebrews. The Phoenicians carried the cult to their colony in Carthage and
it is said that after their military defeat by the Greeks they sacrificed 300 innocent children from the
best families of the aristocracy to please Moloch. The rite was known as the Molk Rite.
Who was Moloch? The Romans associated him with Saturn, a very obscure deity of the Latin pantheon.
who devoured his children to prevent them from overthrowing him in the future, but was defeated by
Zeus whose mother he hid so that he would not be devoured. Saturn is the god of the Sabbath, the god
of the Sabbath.
It is also associated with the Greek Chronos, the god of time. The Bible tells us:
We also know that Yahweh ordered Abraham to perform a human sacrifice, the immolation of his own
son Isaac (or Ishmael according to the Mohammedans) something that does not seem to surprise the
patriarch, perhaps because it was a common practice in the area. Yet Yahweh stops Abraham at the last
moment and settles for the sacrifice of a sheep, which, though also an innocent animal, is at least
less evil than sacrificing a child. Something similar is told in Genesis when Yahweh rejects the offering that
Cain gives him a vegetarian crop offering, while he receives the animal's blood with satisfaction.
sacrificed by Abel. In any case it is clear that Yahweh demands animal sacrifices and that he is pleased
when living beings are killed in his name. This ritual or molk must be done as a burnt offering, i.e. the
animal sacrificed must preferably be burnt alive, as the Old Testament commands.
Deuteronomy 12:27 "and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of
the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your
God, and you may eat the flesh."
Exodus 22:29-30 "You shall not delay the firstfruits of your harvest or of your winepress. You shall
give me the firstborn of your sons. You shall do the same with that of your ox and of your sheep;
seven days it shall be with its mother, and on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
Genesis 8:20 And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean beast and of every clean
bird, and o f f e r e d burnt offerings on the altar. 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour.
Even today Jews and Mohammedans practice bloody animal sacrifices in honour of their god.
Theosophy and other esoteric schools consider animals to have souls (although they do not have
souls).
has Spirit or Monad like humans, at least not while they are at that evolutionary degree), that basic
spiritual essence makes their ritual killing accompanied by the pain and suffering of the
The unfortunate being is enough to feed the Demiurge Yahweh-Moloch whom the humus of blood
pleases like a drug and who feeds on life energy, although other darker religions (satanic, voodooist and
cabalistic sects) feed him with human blood which is, as the
Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, the one he is most satisfied with.
The Gnostic heretics of first century Christianity felt it inconceivable that such a cruel being could be
the very father of Jesus Christ who had preached love, brotherhood and peace. Some, such as
Marcion, wrote treatises disavowing any Jewish influence on the
Christianity. This entity was called the Demiurge, an imperfect god, son of the goddess Sophia who was
emanated by the God of Light, the perfect and Uncreated Unmanifest Absolute that dwells in the Pleroma.
The term Demiurge was coined by Plato in his dialogue Timaeus. For Plato, there were two realities;
the World of Ideas and the World of Forms, a spiritual universe (the Pleroma) and a
material (the realm of the Demiurge) created and imperfect in which everything is a twisted copy of
the World of Ideas. For Plato the Demiurge is not the supreme god but creates the physical universe
out of the
pre-existing forms which are eternal (the Pleroma). Platonic philosophy and particularly Neoplatonism
would have a tutelary influence on later Gnosticism. It is not surprising then that the Neoplatonic
philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria strongly rejected Christianity and, as punishment, was martyred in a
gruesome way by the acolytes of the Demiurge, groups of fanatical Christians in the service of
Hypatia's enemy, Bishop St. Cyril, who skinned her alive.
The myth of Saturn is also associated with Gnostic concepts. Saturn is the son of Uranus, the god of
Heaven, an abstract concept that can easily be equated with the Gnostic Pleroma and the God of
Light. Saturn's mother is Gaia, the primordial goddess or Sophia known in other cultures as Gaia and
called Shekhina in the Kabbalah.
It could be said that any religion that in any way encourages the sacrifice of animal blood or
is a demiurgic religion. Bloodshed is palatable to Yahweh-Moloch and this is the classic sign of a
Molochite religion.
The Demiurge makes pacts with different peoples so that they will worship him and become his
slaves. The Zendavesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrianism, mentions that this was the case of the
Turanians with the evil god Ahriman. Salvador Freixedo succeeds in demonstrating that the god of the
Aztecs was the same as the god of the Hebrews, given the parallels between the religious histories of
both peoples. The
Aztecs, by order of their god, performed bloody human sacrifices and circumcision.