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There have been more wars since the creation of the United Nations, than there have been since the beginning of time to the creation of the United Nations. (Anthony J. Hilder) Although it is painful to consider, have we become complacent when it comes to systematic mass murder and organized killing? Are we just plain asleep when it comes to awareness of the archetypal drama of which each of us are players in the mythological linkages that guide and unite our civilization? (William Henry, One Foot in Atlantis) In one of the most tragic ironies, the majority of humans continue to worship those “gods” who abused them the most. (Jack Barranger, Past Shock) As said before, the atrocities of our times are not something new to the Earth. The coming of evil into the world was a problem of the sages of the past. It is a problem for us today and unless we accept its origin it will persist as a problem for future genera- tions. We were forewarned by our ancestors of the times we now find ourselves in. Then she added a prophecy in which she foretold the approaching end of the divine age and the coming of a new one, in which the summers would be flowerless, the cows milkless and women shameless and men strengthless, in which there would be trees without fruit and seas without fish, when old men would give false judgments and legislators would make unjust laws, when warriors would betray one another and men would be thieves and there would be no more virtue in the world. (Babd, Queen of the Tuatha de Danaan) There saw she wade in the heavy streams, Men - foul murderers and perjurers, and them who others’ wives seduce to sin, brothers slay brothers; sisters’ children shed each other's blood. Hard is the world, sensual sin grows huge. There the sword-ages, axe-ages; shields are cleft in twain; storm ages, murder-ages; till the world falls dead and men no longer spare or pity one another. (Norse Elder Edda: The Prophesy of the Goddess Vala, page 416, Norse Mythology by Anderson). But despite the histories, despite the statistics, and the vehemence of the suppression and crime, there are still those who think that evil being endemic can be assuaged through time, when the good continue to generate enough love and forgiveness and begin “embracing” the darkness and even the dark ones themselves. It does not occur 106 From the Sword to the Syringe From at least three millennia ago, we have these words from the high priestesses of the Celtic peoples: And from the Teutonic priestesses, the same: Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation