I was reading a book a few day ago and it got me to pondering some weighty matters. It referenced the Book of Enoch, which was written 200 years before the birth of Christ. Now, I am a spiritual being, but I am not a religious person. No matter what your beliefs, it does raise some interesting thoughts such as:

The fact that supposedly Adam had a wife before Eve. Lilith, a woman who was not at all submissive, who would not lay under him as she should, who was sexually voracious and who was said to have cavorted with demons.

That there were angels who lusted after human women and who had sexual relations with them and caused evil spirits to have proceeded from their bodies. This is where the stories of the Watchers came from and is their beginning and primal origin. “They shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits they shall be called.” (from the book of Enoch)

Could this then not explain people like Papa Doc, Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. I have always believed that true evil does exist. It is born into this world already formed inside a being, within their soul. It is fear or horror that labels it psychopathic or psychopathic, for we are truly terrified by that which we cannot explain. Society can call it whatever it will, I prefer to call it what it is, pure evil.

If not for evil, how else can you explain the likes of the above and scores of others. Take for example Eddie Gein of Plainfield, Wisconsin. He made bowls of human skulls, lampshades and trash cans out of human skin, belts out of nipples and hearts and ears, and had a suit made entirely out of human skin (and you thought that was just a movie didn’t you?).

True evil does exist – I have seen it – up close and personal. The only time in my life that I have ever felt terror was many years ago when I sat in a room with a 14-year-old child, an axe murderer. This was no child though. When you looked into his eyes, they sucked all the light out of the room, they were dead, they were empty, and they were ice cold. That was evil, true evil. He was one of them, because he was definitely not one of us.

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