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Pagan Roots of Halloween
Pagan Roots of Halloween

I am going through all the booklets I have on the topic
so you can read my resources. If you want to write

an article or book on the topic please feel free to use

as you like.

Rough Notes -WDHCF

• Where did Halloween originate from?


• How did we get it?


• Halloween was celebrated by pagans centuries
  before the First Century Congregation was founded.


• Introduced into the First Century Congregation
  centuries after the death of the Apostles, yet it
  was celebrated by the pagans centuries before the
  
  First Century Congregation was founded.
  


• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries, by Ralph
  Linton, page 4, it says, "The American celebration
  rests upon Scotish and Irish folk customs which
  
  can be traced in direct line from Pre-Christian
  
  times. Although Halloween has become a night of
  
  rollicking fun, superstitious spells, and eerie
  
  games which people take only half seriously, its
  
  beginnings were quite otherwise. The earliest
  
  Halloween celebrations were held by the Druids in
  
  honor of Samhain, Lord of the Dead, whose festival
  
  fell on November 1."
  


• very distant from being righteous festival.


• pagan holiday masquerading as though it was a
  genuine custom of the true Congregation of
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ.
  


• parents allow their children to get involved in the
  spirit of the pagan custom.


• The Encyclopedia Americana states, "it's clearly a
  relic of pagan times."


• The Encyclopedia Britannica states, "It long
  antedates Christianity. The two chief
  characteristics of ancient Halloween were the
  
  lighting of bonfires and the belief that this is the
  
  one night in the year during which ghosts and
  
  witches are most likely to wander about. History
  
  shows that the main celebrations of Halloween were
  
  Druidical and this is further provided by the fact
  
  that in parts of Ireland October 31 is still known
  
  as Oidhch Shamhna, "Virgil of Saman.'"
  


• Halloween celebrated by the pagans long before
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ was even born.


• Halloween was celebrated by the Romans.


• Encyclopedia Britannica continues, "On the Druidic
  ceremonies were grafted some of the characteristics
  of the Roman festival in honor of Pomona held about
  
  November 1, in which nuts and apples, representing
  
  the winter store of fruits, played an important
  
  part."
  


• Halloween's pagan customs are widespread around the
  world to celebrate this season.


• The Book of Halloween by Ruth Kelley writes, "The
  pagan Druid priests taught the immortality of the
  soul, that it passed from one body to another at
  
  death ... They believed that on the last night of
  
  the old year (October 31) the lord of death
  
  gathered together the souls of all those who had
  
  died in the passing year and had been condemned to
  
  live in the bodies of animals, to decree what forms
  
  they should inhabit for the next twelve months. He
  
  could be coaxed to give lighter sentence by gifts
  
  and prayers. "
  


• Halloween Through Twenty Centuries page 5 writes,
  "On the New Year, their sins being expiated, they
  were released to go to the Druid Heaven."
  


• Wheel of the Year, picture found
  here
  illustrates Pagan festivals such as Samhain
  
  (Halloween), Yule (Saturnalia - Christmas),
  
  Imbolc, Ostara (Ishtar - Easter) Beltane, Litha,
  
  Lammas, Mabon, which some of their customs have
  
  been grafted into Christianity.
  


• Halloween / Samhain promoted the 'Doctrine of
  Immortality of the Soul" that the dead are not
  really dead.
  


• almost all heathen countries had festivals or days
  set aside to honor the dead.


• These festivals originated from the death of Nimrod,
  (Genesis 10:8-10) whom Semiramis said had resurrected
  from the dead when an evergreen tree grew out of a
  
  dead tree stump which is the origins of the Christmas
  
  tree associating Yule (Saturnalia - Christmas) to Samhain
  
  (Halloween).
  


• The meaning of the word "Halloween" - Allhallows or
  Hallowmas, or All Saints Day which is one of the
  festivals of the Catholic Church says Lintons
  
  Halloween Through Twenty Centuries, page 3.
  


• Samhain / Halloween was the evening celebration
  commencing at sunset, in anticipation of November 1,
  honoring the Lord of the Dead.
  


• Who is Lord of the Dead?


• Yeshua / Jesus Christ states in Matthew 22:31-32
  "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have
  ye not read that which was spoken to you by God,
  
  saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of
  
  Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God
  
  of the dead, but of the living"
  


• God is not God of the dead but in reality and in
  righteousness, Yeshua / Jesus Christ is Lord of the
  dead.
  


• the dead do not serve God (Psalm 6:5, 115:17), the
  soul that sins dies (Ezekiel 18:4), the dead know
  nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), the dead's thoughts
  
  perish (Psalm 146:4), only God has immortality
  
  (1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15-16), and only God can destroy
  
  a persons soul (Matthew 10:28)
  


• to consult the dead is an abomination.
  (Leviticus 19:31, Deuteronomy 18:9-12) and is part
  of the abominations of the nations.
  
  (Deuteronomy 18:9, 1 Kings 14:24, Ezekiel 6:9)
  


• How is Yeshua / Jesus Christ Lord of the dead? He
  defeated death as atonement for our sins but also to
  become Lord of the dead (Romans 14:9)
  


• Yeshua / Jesus Christ through his resurrection
  obtained the keys to Hades or state of the dead.
  (Revelation 1:18)
  


• Who did Yeshua / Jesus take the authority of "Lord
  of the Dead" from? Satan / Lucifer ofcourse.
  (Hebrews 2:14)
  


• What is Yeshua's / Jesus Christ's function as Lord
  of the Living and the Dead?


• on the last day to change the righteous from mortal
  to immortal (1 Corinthians 15:51-58,
  1 Thessalonians 4:14-18), to resurrect the righteous
  
  to eternal life (John 3:16) and the unrighteous to
  
  resurrection of condemnation (John 6:39, 40, 44, 54,
  
  11:24-26, 12:48, 5:28-30)
  


• Paganism make the "Lord of the Dead" other than
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ but give authority to deities
  such as Samhain, Baal, Nimrod, Hercules, Tammuz,
  
  Adonis, Achilles, Orion, Belial, Mithra, Horus,
  
  Osiris, Thor, Yule, Cronos, Kronus, Saturn, Odin,
  
  Bacchus, Dionysus, Molech, Deonius, Jupiter, Man
  
  the Branch, Wodan, Attes, Attis, and many others
  
  depending which variation of paganism the name
  
  derives from.
  


• Paganism really is worshiping Satan / Lucifer as
  "Lord of the Dead" , as Satan deceives the whole
  world (Revelation 12:9) and Satan / Lucifer is the
  
  Prince the power of the air (Eph 2:2) and god of
  
  this world (2 Cor 4:4).
  


• Giving these deities the authority of "Lord of the
  Dead" rather than Yeshua / Jesus Christ is
  glorifying Satan / Lucifer and is a form of
  
  Idolatry.
  


• In my opinion Halloween is Satanic.


• people today are deceived into believing that
  Halloween is harmless fun, but infact are honoring
  Satan on this day.
  


• most people know deep in their soul that Halloween
  is Occult, sinful, and honors Satan / Lucifer


• Apostle Paul states that this kind of worship is
  worshiping demons (Galatians 4:8)


• Halloween is not a righteous form of worship to
  worship God


• The True God demands that worshipers worship him
  in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:23-24)


• What is the origins of All Saints Day?


• November 1st, derived from the pagans is celebrated
  by in hundreds of Church denominations to honor
  the dead Saints
  


• Pope Urban IV states All Saints day is "to honor
  all the saints, known and unknown, and to supply
  any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of
  
  saints' feasts during the year" according to
  
  Reference Catholic Encyclopedia
  


• How did Christianity come to venerating saints
  come to be observed on the day in honor of the
  devil?
  


• The Catholic Encyclopedia continues, "... The
  Church, feeling that every martyr should be
  venerated, appointed a common day for all."
  


• The Catholic Encyclopedia continues, "Gregory III
  (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the basilica
  of St. Peter to all saints and fixed the
  
  anniversary on November 1 ... Gregory IV
  
  (827-844) extended the celebration on 1 November
  
  to the entire church. The vigil (Halloween) seems
  
  to have been held as early as the feast itself."
  


• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries Ralph Linton
  says, "All Saints' Day was introduced into the
  church calender because the year was not long
  
  enough to make it possible to dedicate a special
  
  day for each spirit of the Catholic Church, ... That
  
  the day chosen was one already associated in the
  
  popular mind with a thronging of spirits of the
  
  dead which was quite in line with church policy
  
  of incorporating harmless pagan folk ideas. "
  


• Protestant Churches observe All Saints' Day "since
  it was on this day in 1517, that Martin Luther
  posted his epoch-making ninety-five theses on the
  
  door of the castle church at Wittenberg, ... He
  
  chose Halloween night because he knew that the
  
  townsfolk ... would be coming to the church that
  
  night." (Halloween pp 9-10)
  


• What is the origins of "Trick or Treat?"


• Where did the prank of children knocking on peoples
  doors and shouting "Trick or Treat" come from?


• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries Ralph Linton
  says, "... certainly it comes from pagan times. ...
  led by a man in a white robe wearing a horse mask.
  
  ... which indicated that this custom was a survival
  
  of a Druid rite."
  


• The horse head was sacred to the Sun God.


• The procession levied a contribution from the
  farmers in the perverted name of what probably was
  an old Druid god. Unless the procession was treated
  
  liberally with gifts, the farmers were tricked with
  
  the threat of a curse that would ruin following years
  
  crops.
  


• The custom of having processions at Halloween were
  further derived by wealthy churches during the Middle
  Ages copying the ancient Greek and Roman processions
  
  parading the relics of patron saints.
  


• Poorer churches could not afford to buy relics so
  they used caricatures of their patron saints


• Halloween Through Twenty Centuries page 103 states,
  "Those who were not playing the parts of the holy
  ones also wanted to get into the procession and so
  
  dressed up as angels or devils. The Allhallows
  
  procession around the churchyard eventually became a
  
  gay and motley parade."
  


• the "Trick or Treat" custom simply derived from these
  former degenerate absurd customs which came out of
  paganism, grafting them into Christianity labeling
  
  them with Christian names.

Shalom Michael Grant