June 29, 2026

The Castle Built to Seal a Gate to Hell?

The Castle Built to Seal a Gate to Hell?
The Castle Built to Seal a Gate to Hell?
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The Castle Built to Seal a Gate to Hell?
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A castle in Bohemia with no water, no roads, and no strategic value. Built anyway. The chapel went up first -- placed directly over a deep pit in the ground. Condemned prisoners were lowered in on a rope. They came back aged and screaming. The Nazis spent World War II investigating the site, then burned their records when they left. This episode works backward from the evidence at Houska Castle through medieval theology and Nazi occult research all the way to the Book of Revelation. The Abyss is not a metaphor. The Watchers are bound in a pit. And the medieval Church built a chapel over an entrance with the warrior angel standing guard. Some places are closer to the Abyss than others. Houska might be one of them.

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Okay, I want to start with the story. It's the

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twelve hundreds of Bohemia, which is what we call now

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called the Czech Republic. There's a patch of land in

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the forest north of Prague, no road leading to it,

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no river nearby, no town to defend, no trade route

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to protect, but every conventional measure of medieval castle building.

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By every conventional measure of medieval castle building, this land

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is worthless. And yet someone decides to build a castle here,

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not just any castle. They built the chapel first, Before

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before there are walls, before there are living quarters, before

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the thing is even remotely habitable, they build the chapel,

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and they build it directly on top of a large,

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deep hole in the ground. Now here's where it gets interesting.

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According to records from the period, the whole was not

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a mine shaft. It was also not a well. It

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was not a geological feature anyone found particularly useful. What

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it was, according to people who lived near it, was

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a problem. Creatures were reportedly coming out of it, winged

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things half human that emerged at night. The locals wanted

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nothing to do with it. So before anyone bothers with

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the practical business of I don't know a kitchen or

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a well. They put an altar top of the hole.

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And then this part I want you to sit with.

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They allegedly lowered condemned prisoners into the pit on a

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rope as a test to see what was down there. Now,

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the prisoners who came back up came back wrong, like

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white hair, and aged decades, and appeared in what appeared

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to be minutes screaming incoherently. One of them even reportedly

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died shortly after being pulled out. Nobody went back in

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after that. Welcome to broadcasting Seeds. I'm Ben Attantan, and

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today we're going to Huska Castle. We are going to

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figure out what is in that hole, and we are

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going to work backwards through medieval records, Nazi docum, and

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the Book of Revelation to get an answer, because I

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think there is one and it is not comfortable. Let's go.

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Let's start with the crime scene. When investigators are trying

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to figure out what happened at a location, the first

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thing they do is look for things that don't fit,

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things that shouldn't be there, things that break the pattern.

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And Huska is nothing but things that break the pattern.

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The castle sits in the forest in the Cochrinsko National

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Park area about forty about forty kilometers ish north of

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Prague and what it was built in the mid to

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late twelve hundreds, Okay, most likely under the orders of

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who was the king of Bohemia at the time, and

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it is by any reasonable assessment in the completely I

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mean completely wrong location. Here's what a medieval castle is

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supposed to have near it. Okay, a water source, preferably

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a river or well, because you can, you are going

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to need water, both for daily life and for surviving

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a siege if somebody's attacking a trade route or a road.

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Because the economic value of a castle is partly in

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controlling the movement of goods and people. You tax the merchants,

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you protect the roads, You project power. A strategic advantage,

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a hill, a cliff on one side or the other,

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a natural choke point right, something that makes the castle

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hard to attack and easy to defend. Huska has none

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of these. There is no river, the original construction had

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no well. It is not on any major road. It

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has no real strategic value in terms of controlling territory

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or projecting power. It sits at the edge of a cliff, Okay,

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which sounds useful until you realize the cliff faces the

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forest rather than any direction from which an enemy would approach,

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and yet someone spent enormous amounts of money and labor

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to build it. Now, historians have tried to retrofit explanations

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for this. Okay, maybe it was a hunting lodge, Maybe

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it was a administrative center. Maybe it served some regional

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function we don't fully understand. Okay, these these are reasonable

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attempts to explain a building doesn't make sense. But here's

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the thing about those explanations. None of them account for

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the chapel. In medieval castle construction, the order of operations

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was practical. You build what you need to survive first, walls,

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water storage, defense. The chapel comes later, when you have,

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frankly the luxury of it. At Huska, the chapel was

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built first, before the castle was habitable by anyone's definition,

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and the chapel was there. That is not an administrative

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center being practical. That is a response to something urgent.

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And the chapel is not just first. It is placed directly,

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and I mean directly, with apparent deliberateness, over the largest

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pit on the property. The pit itself is subject to

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some debate in terms of its exact dimensions, but historical

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accounts describe it as deep enough that no one could

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see the bottom, and wide enough to be significant. It

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was not a natural cave, not a mind shaft, not

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anything that served a practical function. It was just there

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and someone decided to put the altar on top of it.

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I want to make sure we are being precise about

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this though, Okay, please, because it matters. The positioning of

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an altar in a medieval chapel is not accidental. Every

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element of medieval sacred architecture had theological meaning and the

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direction the altar faced, the saints depicted in the frescoes,

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the choice of dedication for the chapel, all of it

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was intentional and communicating. Husca's chapel is dedicated to no

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other than the archadangel Michael. If you know anything about

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Michael and scripture, you know he is not a comfort,

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a comfort and peace figure. Michael is the warrior. He

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is the one described in Daniel as the Great Prince

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who protects God's people. In Revelation twelve, he wages war

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against the dragon. In Jude, he contended with the devil

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over the body of Moses. In Jewish and early Christian tradition,

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Michael is the angel who you call when you need

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something fought, straight up, warrior archangel. The medieval church dedicated

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this chapel to Michael. They put it over the whole.

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The altar sits on top of the pit. That's not decoration,

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that is strategy. One more detail before we move on,

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because it is one of the stranger pieces of evidence

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in this case. Inside the chapel there are frescoes dating

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back to the original construction, medieval paintings, some of them

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well preserved, depicting religious scenes. One of them shows an archer. Okay,

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the archer is drawing a bow, and the archer is

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doing something that in the medieval world carried significant symbolic weight.

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The archer is left handed. In the twenty first century,

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we have approximately zero cultural baggage about left handedness. Right

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about ten percent of the population is left handed. I mean,

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I have a daughter, two daughters that are left handed.

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Good for them, right, fine, no big deal. In the

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medieval world, it was different. The Latin word for left

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is sinister. That is not a coincidence. In terminology, left

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handedness was associated with evil, with the devil, with the demonic.

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The right hand was the hand of God, the hand

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of power, the hand of blessing. The left hand was

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the but the other thing. Someone put a left handed

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archer in the chapel at Huska, and they either knew

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exactly what they were doing or they made a very

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very strange mistake. I do not think they made a mistake.

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So we have a castle built where no castle should be,

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with the chapel, where a foundation should be dedicated to

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the warrior archangel, you know, placed over a hole decorated

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with imagery shaded with the demonic. That is your crime scene.

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Now let's talk about the witnesses. Let me be honest

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with you about the nature of the evidence in this section. Okay,

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medieval documentation is not what we would call rigorous by

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modern standards. We are dealing with chronicles, late and local

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oral traditions and records that passed through many hands before

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they made it to us. Okay, I am going to

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tell you what the historical accounts say, and I am

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going to let you weigh them. You have to weigh.

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What I will also tell you is that the pattern

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is consistent across a very long period of time, which

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is itself a data point. The accounts of strange phenomenon

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at Who's go back to before the castle was built,

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the local population of I mean avoided the area because

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of what they claimed to see near the hit. The

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descriptions are consistent in their broad strokes, Okay, things coming

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out of the hole, things that did not look full

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of human, winged figures, dark in color, that appeared mostly

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at night. Some accounts described these figures as half animal

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half human. Others described them as winged and dark without

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further specification. One recurring description involves figures that moved with

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unusual speed and appeared and disappeared without explanation. There are

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also accounts of headless, so crazy, headless black horses in

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the area, which I mean, which is a specific enough

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detail that it is worth noting. Headless horses are not

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a generic ghost story. They are a fairly specific image,

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and they appear in the accounts associated with Who's Gut

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in multiple independent sources. Okay, I want to be careful here,

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because I do not. I am not going to tell

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you that every account is credible because I can't, or

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that none of them are embellished because I can't. What

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I am going to tell you is this. If you

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look at the range of phenomenon reported near Who's Gut

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across several I mean several centuries, two things stand out. First,

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the reports predate the castle. Okay, the castle was built

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because people were already reporting something. That is a meaningful

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chronological detail. Second, the reports do not stop when the

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castle was built. Ceiling something does not always mean it stops,

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but it means it could be contained. The prisoner story

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I mentioned in the opening deserves more attention than it

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usually gets. Okay, The broad outline condemned prisoners lowered into

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the pit on a rope to report what they found,

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prisoners coming back aged white hair incoherent is consistent across

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multiple accounts of Huska's early history. The details vary, of course,

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as you would expect from oral tradition, but the core

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claim is specific and repeated. Here's what makes that claim interesting.

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And I'll say this from an investigative standpoint. If you

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are going to make up a story to explain a

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castle built in an unusual location, this is not the

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story you would make up. Okay. The story you would

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make up would involve a heroic king or a great

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battle or a divine vision. The prisoner story. There's nothing

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heroic about it. It is disturbing and practical. Someone wanted

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to know what was in the hole, and they found

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an expedient way to test it without risking anyone valuable. Okay.

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That has the feel of something that actually happened to me,

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and that pattern logic. Okay. There is also the matter

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of the temporal distortions reports. Now, multiple accounts across very

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different time periods describe a sense of time moving different

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near the pit and near the chapel. Medieval accounts framed

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this in theological terms, the sense of being near something

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outside of time. More recent visitors to Huska, which is

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now a tourist site, describe feelings of disorientation, nausea, and

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what some report as a sense of time slipping. I'm

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not going to tell you what to do with that, Okay.

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Time distortion near certain locations is reported widely enough in

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anomaloust phenomenon research. That is a category of experience, okay,

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not not just a one off. Whether that has physical, psychological,

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or genuinely supernatural explanation is above It's way above my

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pay grade. Okay. But what I will say is that

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this pattern you have entities, temporal weirdness, physical effects on

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people who get too close, shows up in enough different

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context and scripture and in high strangeness research that I

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do not dismiss it. The frescoes inside the chapel deserve

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a second look as well, and we talked about the

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left handed archer, but there are other images that are

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worth noting. One fresco depects a woman headed dragon. This

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is not standard medieval iconography, folks. You can find dragons

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in medieval art all over Europe, but a woman headed

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dragon is very specific and strange. Okay. It may connect

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to Revelation twelve, where the dragon and the woman appear

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in opposition, but if so, it is compressed and an

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unusual rendering to say the least. Okay. Another fresco depicts

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Saint Michael or Michael the Archangel, in combat with demons. Again,

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the choice of subject matter is deliberate. This is not

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a chapel decorated with scenes of the Nativity or the

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Life of Christ. This chapel is decorated of images of warfare,

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spiritual warfare specifically. Okay, whoever commissioned the frescoes at Huska

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is telling a story, and the story was something is

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being fought right here that leads us to the most

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organized and deliberate response to whatever was happening at Huska.

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The one that decided the way to deal with this

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was to build an institution over it. I want to

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make an argument here that I think that I think

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is worth the time. Okay. The medieval Church is often

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portrayed in modern culture as either superstitious and irrational or

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corrupt and power hungry. Seems to be this case today too,

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But they or they could be both right. And certainly,

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certainly there was corruption, and certainly there were excesses, and

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certainly not everything in medieval church did the medieval Church

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did was theologically defensible. Okay, now, but there is something

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the medieval Church understood that I think we have largely lost,

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which is this The spiritual world is real, It is active,

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and it requires active engagement. Oh, we sure don't have

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that now. The people who built Huska did not sit

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down in a committee meeting and vote on whether supernatural

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phenomena were real. Okay, There was no disclosure and like

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you know, strung out for years. They lived in a

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world where the line between the visible and invisible was

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understood to be thinner than we think. Okay, I say

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that we like to think. They had a theological framework

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that included the Abyss, the bound spirits, the geographic reality

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of spiritual warfare. And when that framework pointed towards a

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practical problem, something coming out of a hole in Bohemia, right,

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they did what you do with a practical problem, They

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solved it. The solution was elegant in its theological logic.

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If the pit is a problem, you place the most

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sacred thing you have access to directly on top of it,

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the altar, the place of sacrifice, and the presence of God.

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You build the House of God over the mouth of

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the pit. This is not random. This is an application

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of the theology of Christ's authority over the demonic, expressed

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in architecture. In Matthew sixteen eighteen, Jesus says the gates

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of Hell will not prevail against the Church. That language

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gates of Hell, gates of the underworld, gates of the Abyss,

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was not metaphorical. In medieval ears, they understood gates as physical, actual,

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physical realities, entrances, places where something came through, and the

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response to a gate was to build a church on

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top of it, because the church stood in the authority

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of Christ, and that authority they believed was sufficient. I

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want you to think about the courage that that represents.

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These are people who believed, based on their theology, their tradition,

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and apparently the testimony of the people lowered into the pit,

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that there was something genuinely dangerous below them. And their

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response was not to run. Their response was to plant

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the flag of sacred space and hold the ground. That

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is applied theology. That is what taking the supernatural seriously

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looks like when it meets practical reality. The dedication to

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Michael is worth returning to Okay because it reinforces the

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architectural theology in the tradition surrounding Michael. One of his

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specific functions is a guardian of entrances between the spiritual

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and physical realms. He appears in scripture at moments of

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transition and confrontation. In Daniel, he is described as the

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prince who stands guard. In Revelation, he casts the dragon

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out of heaven. In Christian tradition, Michael is frequently invoked,

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specifically at places where the boundary between the visible and

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invisible is understood to be thin. Dedicating the chapel at

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Huska to Michael is not just a pious gesture, it

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is a strategic one. They put the warrior angel on

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watch at the entrance to that pit left handed archer.

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Fresco may carry additional meaning in its context. Some scholars

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of medieval iconography have suggested that the fresco is not

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a straightforward depiction of evil, but rather an acknowledgment of

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what is being contained. The chapel. Is not pretending the

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pit does not exist. It is stating clearly what is

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being held. The left handed archer in the chapel is

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representation of what is on the other side of the altar. Okay,

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which is a very different kind of confidence that simply

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ignored ignoring the problem, right, But the broader pattern of

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building sacred structures over spiritually compromised sites is worth acknowledging

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here as well. This is not unique to Huska. The

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Vatican is built on a site associated with pagan worship

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and in earlier history with a some sort of mystery cult. Okay, phyregion,

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I think is how you say it, Phyrigian mystery cult.

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Many of the great European cathedrals are constructed on sites

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that had previously been used for pagan worship, and the

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medieval Church understood this practice as the claiming of territory,

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the conversion of spiritually contested ground through the establishment of

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sacred space. Huska is an extreme example of this practice,

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to say the least, but most of the sites where

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the Church built over pagan or spiritually significant locations were

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in the medieval view places where the spiritual world had

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i say, left a residue. Huska appears to have been

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understood as a place where the spiritual world was actively

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breaking through to reality. Okay, the response was proportionally more intense.

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I mean, you build the warrior angel on top of

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the whole, You put the altar on the mouth of

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the pit, and you hold that ground. The castle that

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followed was in a real sense, completely secondary. Huska was

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built to house the chapel, not the other way around,

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which you've talked about, Which brings us to the part

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of the story that is both the most recent and

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the most disturbing. The Nazis and in nineteen thirty five

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Heinrich Kimler established a research institute. I can't even say

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this on a name, irbe called the on in the

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name translates roughly to ancestral heritage. What its stated purpose

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was to research the history and achievements of the supposed

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Aryan race, It's actual purpose was considerably stranger joked in

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perfect Nazi fashion, The nonerbe on An Herba funded and

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organized expeditions to Tibet, Ethiopia, Iceland, and various European locations.

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They were looking for occult artifacts, ancient knowledge, supernatural power sources,

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the evidence of mystical Aryan prehistory that would basically support

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the ideology of the Third Reich. They were people, know this, right,

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They were, in practical terms, the organization that people make

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movies about now when they had like Indiana Jones fighting

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Nazis over the Ark of the Covenant, all right, except

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for they were real and they were very serious about

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what they were doing. The SS occupied Huska Castle during

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the Second World War. The exact nature of the activities

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there are not fully documented, okay, in large part because

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when German forces retreated from Bohemia, they burned them all

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their records. They burned them from Hoska, and that's a shame.

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Whatever they found, whatever they were doing, they did not

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want to leave a paper trail. I want to pause

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on that detail for a moment because it's significant. I

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think armies burn records all the time when they retreat. Okay,

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that is standard practice. But armies burn the records that matter,

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the operational records, the intelligence files, the things that would

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be useful to the enemy for or embarrassing to the commanders.

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The records burned a Huska were research records, not military

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operational records, research records. Whatever the SS was investigating at

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the site of a castle built to contain a supernatural

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put they considered those findings worth destroying rather than letting

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them fall into other hands. To me, that tells you

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they found something, or at least they thought that they

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had found something. Himmler's specific interest in Huska is documented, Okay,

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that we have through the details of what he was

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looking for, there are not. Okay, what we I know

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of his broader interests helped fill in the picture just

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a little because Himmler believed, genuinely believed, not as propaganda

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but as personal his actual personal conviction in the reality

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of a cult and supernatural phenomenon. He believed that certain

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locations on Earth had special significance, that certain artifacts carried

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genuine supernatural power, and that access that power was a

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military and strategic objective for him. He was in the

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framework of scripture, okay, looking in exactly the right direction.

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He just had no idea what he was actually dealing

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with or and no framework that would help him deal

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I guess deal with it safely. The Nazi s Sahuska

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is a data point I want you to take seriously

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for a specific reason. The men of this unit were

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not superstitious peasants telling campfire stories, okay. They were in

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many cases academics and historians, archaeologist, anthropologists, and linguists. They

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were applying what they understood to be rigorous research methodology

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to the question of supernatural power and ancient knowledge, and

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they identified Who's Got as a site worth investigating. I

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mean they came to it through an entirely wrong ideological framework,

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in my opinion, and whether they concluded, you know, whatever

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they concluded was filtered through a worldview that was, in

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my opinion, morally bankrupt and empirically contaminated. Right. I am

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not vouching for their conclusions. What I am saying is

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that their interest in the site is independent corroboration that

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something about Huska stood out as genuinely anomalous. Okay, when

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the people responsible for the Holocaust think a castle in

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Bohemia is worth a wartime research expedition, that is information.

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Bottom line, There's one more detail from the Nazi period

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of Huska that comes from local accounts rather than official records.

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Residents in the area reported strange sounds and lights from

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the castle during the SS occupation. Shocker right. What is

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notable is that the specific reports described sounds associated with

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the pit area and figures seen near the chapel at

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night during the occupation. Whether those reports are reliable as

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difficult to say, as usual, what they suggest, if true,

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is that whatever the builders of Fusca spent centuries containing

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did not take the SS occupation as a reason to

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stay quiet. The Nazis left, they burned their papers, and

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they did not come back, and the whole is still there. Now,

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moving to scripture, I want to do something that I

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think is the most important part of this episode. I

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want to work backwards. We started with phenomena, we moved

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to the medieval response, we looked at the Nazi corroboration.

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Now I want to go to the only source that

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I think actually provides a coherent framework for all of it.

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Let's talk about the abyss. The abyss is not a

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metaphor in scripture. It is This is important, okay. In

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the modern Western Church, there is a strong tendency to

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read the supernatural elements of Scripture as figurative. And there's

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probably plenty of you listening to this that agree with that,

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as literary devices figurative right, communicating spiritual truths that are

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not to be taken literally. I understand that tendency. I do.

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I grew up that way, and that's what I was taught.

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It is a product of centuries of enlightenment influence on

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Biblical interpretation. But folks, it has a cost. Okay, it

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has cost to something significant, which is the ability to

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take scripture seriously on its own terms. Scripture takes the

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abyss seriously, completely literally seriously, okay. In Revelation nine to twelve,

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the apostle John writes about a star falling from the

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sky to the earth. The star was given the key

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to the shaft of the abyss. When the abyss was opened,

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smoke rose from it, like the smoke of a gigantic furnace.

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This is a description of a real location being opened

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by a real key. The abyss was a shaft. It

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has an opening, It produces smoke when opened, and something

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comes out of it when it is unlocked. Revelation ninety

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three continues with entities emerging from the smoke, described as

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having human faces, long hair, and the power to torment

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human beings. These are not locusts in a biological sense.

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They are something that was contained, and when the containment

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was removed, they emerge. Jump back to the letters of

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Peter and Jude. Peter two two four tells second Peter sorry.

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Second Peter two four tells us that God did not

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spare angels when they sinned, but send them to Tartarus,

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a specific Greek term for the deepest pit of the underworld,

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a place beneath even hades, putting them in chains of

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darkness to be held for judgment. These are not angels

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who fell and roamed the earth. These are angels who

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were bound specifically in a pit in darkness in chains.

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Jude won six gives us the same category angels who

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did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their

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proper dwelling, kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains held

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until judgment on the Great Day. Who are these angels? Well,

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I guess we'll go back to Genesis six. As per usual,

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it seems, Genesis six one through four describes a moment

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when the sons of God in the Hebrew Bene Elohim

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saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and took

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them as wives. The result was the enophel giants hybrids.

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This is precisely the event that Jude and Peter connect

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to the binding in the Pit the Bene Eloheen in

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context of ancient Near Eastern theology, and in the way

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the phrase is used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible refers

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to divine beings, members of the heavenly court, angels watchers,

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the same beings described in the Book of Enoch as

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the watchers who descended to Mount Herman and crossed a

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line that was not theirs to cross. The Book of Enoch,

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which was quoted by Jude and was clearly familiar to

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the early Church, gives us considerably more detail. In Enoch

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chapter ten, God commands the angel Raphael to bind a zazel,

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one of the watcher leaders, hand and foot. The command

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is specific make an opening in the desert. This is

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I'm going to talk about this in later episodes here too, Okay,

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all of this, and then cast him therein place, rough

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and jagged rocks over him, cover him with darkness, let

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him abide there forever, cover his face that he may

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not see light, And on the day of the Great Judgment,

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he shall be cast into the fire.

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Wow.

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Right, a pit rocks, darkness until judgment. That is the Abyss,

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not as a metaphor as a real location, a place

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of confinement for real entities who crossed a real boundary

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and are now held until a real day of judgment.

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Now go back to Huska. What is the pit at Huska?

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What were the winged half human figures that emerged from it?

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What were the condemned version encountering when they came back,

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aged and incoherent. I'm not going to tell you definitely

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that Huska is a literal access point to the Abyss.

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Of course I can't prove that, and I would be

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overstating the evidence if I claimed to. Okay, what I

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will tell you is this the scriptural framework of a

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pit that contains bound entities from which dark things can

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emerge when the containment is compromised is not a story

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the medieval Church invented to explain Huska. Okay. It is

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a framework that pre Dae Tuska by over a thousand years,

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and the response of the medieval church build the warrior

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angel on top of it, put the altar on the

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mouth of the pit. Hold the ground in the authority

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of Christ is consistent with exactly that frame, and who's

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to say it it's only one pit, right? The modern

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Western Church would look at a pit on Bohemia from

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which winged figures emerge and spend most of its energy

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debating whether the witnesses were reliable and whether demons are

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really literal. The medieval Church would have started building the

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chapel before you explain finished explaining the problem, okay. I

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think they were closer to the biblical worldview than we

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are today. Period. There is one more thread I want

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to poll here, and it comes from Revelation twenty some

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people's favorite place in Revelation. Revelation twenty one through three

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describes an angel coming down out of heaven with the

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key to the Abyss and a great chain. The dragon

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is seized, bound for a thousand years, thrown into the Abyss,

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the abyss is locked. The abyss is sealed over him.

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The language here is almost architectural, right, A key, a chain,

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the abyss is locked, the abyss is sealed. This is

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the same conceptual framework the builders of Whoska are working

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with are working from. The abyss is a real place.

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It has an entrance. The entrance can be opened or sealed,

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and the appropriate response to the entrance being opened is

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to lock and seal it. The builders of Husco, we're

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doing in stone and sacred architecture. What revelation describes the

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angel doing with a key and a chain. They are

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sealing an abyss. Whether they succeeded, whether the pit at

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Huske is connected to what scripture describes, whether the phenomenon

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there represents genuine spiritual breakthrough or something else entirely, I

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leave those questions open for you to wrestle with, okay,

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but I do not think the evidence is ambiguous about

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what the builders believed they were doing. I'm starting to

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talk about this a lot. Is that, regardless of what

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we think or what you think, they believed they needed

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to seal that pet. They believed they are were standing

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guard over a door to somewhere very dark and they

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used everything they had to hold it shut. Period. So

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here is where I land on Huska. Okay, this is

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not a History channel mystery. This is not a curiosity

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for people who like creepy travel destination destinations, although it is.

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Huska Castle is a theological case study in what happens

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when the Western Church loses its biblical framework for the

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spiritual world. The builders of Huska, operating in the thirteenth

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century with no scientific framework for what they were seeing,

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got something fundamentally right that we often get fundamentally wrong.

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They did not debate whether the spiritual world was real.

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They responded to it. They took the evidence seriously, applied

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their theology to practical problem to the practical problem in

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front of them, and built a containment structure dedicated to

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the warrior Angel over the mouth of said Pitt. That

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is not superstition, That is faith applied in reality. The

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Nazi interest in is a dark footnote what a pointed

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lesson when you abandon the biblical framework for understanding the supernatural,

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when you remove Christ from the center and start looking

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at spiritual power as something to be acquired and I'll

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say weaponized, You get that unit that SS unit that

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Himmler was in charge of people looking in the right

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direction with completely the wrong map, right reaching into something

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they had no framework to handle safely. They burned their

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papers and left the pet is still there. What I

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want to leave you with is this Scripture does not

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tell us that the spiritual world will politely limit its

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activities to places and contexts that are convenient for our

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theological comfort. Revelation nine is not a symbolic poem about

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the feeling of spiritual difficulty. It is a description of

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something coming out of a freaking hole in the ground

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when the containment is removed. The biblical worldview, the one

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the medieval Church was actually operating from, takes that seriously.

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It accounts for bound entities, It accounts for geographic spiritual significance,

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It accounts for the fact that some places are closer

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to what Scripture calls the Abyss than others. And it

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provides a response the authority of Christ, the presence of

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sacred space, the warrior angel standing guard over that pit.

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We have traded that framework for a version of Christianity

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that struggles to explain who Usca or the Book of Enoch,

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or Revelation nine or Genesis six or any of the

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other places where scripture is very clear that the supernatural

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is not metaphorical. I think Whuska is an invitation to

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take scripture on its own terms, and maybe to think

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twice about what's underneath the ground you're standing on even Okay,

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that's it. I'm Bene Tanton. This is broadcasting seeds. I

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urge you to stay awake.

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The bill nor.

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Kings, no tower for thorn, no over in the valley,

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no road to lead them home. Just a chapel and

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the timber with your roots flit stone and not so

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placed insidelence on the mouth that should stay close.

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They said it so yet west, they said it was face.

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They were born in the round and pull back years

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in the plant squid brock sas and the same so

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is enough for.

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Such suck the full.

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Sound very sad my control. When the eye is strong,

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being a best funds are still, I will stand a

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bottle and on wheel was sh FROs the fo see

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the sun so onto a stone cool.

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There's a castle in the forest that were castles should

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not be no wls.

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To drinks, to daylight, nor either see but the.

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Chapel came in for it like your crosser, gainst the

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throat of the thing body from outside that the old

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one thing day of frescos, last handed fight like your warning,

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dressing color my conte and dressed as sad as a dragon.

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When the woman sides has a war side, go every

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fratres arcade section. When the heaven starts a food so

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as look the f talsy go feelingsto bury and but

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letting my cot from the plan where the nicest crowning

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thee a becas face. If the zar still house my nay,

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I will stand above the hole and I will rush

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through the fir feeling under stone, sell it un your

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stone