The Croucher at the Door: A Form of Demonized Tulpa in the Bible

.


When we were kids, at least two of us -- I and my older sister -- were annoyed by the croucher-at-the-door phenomenon. As I grew up, I thought it was a mere optical illusion -- a trick my mind was playing on my not-yet-fully-matured brain. Something appeared on television, or my older sister read a story -- I forget which -- identifying the phenomenon as an occultic idea and phenomenon. I remember my sister expressing amazement at this, and saying that she had been bothered by the sensation for years. It did indeed turn out to be a demonic infestation -- an objectively real thing -- in my parents' home. By praying, I was able to dispose of it.

The problem manifested in this fashion. When I would walk into one doorway of a room with two doorways, out of the corner of my eye I would catch something about two feet tall bolting out the other doorway. Sometimes, when I was in a room with only one doorway, when I glanced up I would have the sensation of the same thing bolting out the door to keep me from clearly seeing it.

I disposed of the thing by prayer before I fully understood it. It is one of the demons mentioned in the Bible -- in Genesis 4, the story of Cain and Abel...

4 ...The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

5 but on Cain and his offering he did not. Cain greatly resented this and was crestfallen.

6 So the LORD said to Cain: "Why are you so resentful and crestfallen?

7 If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master." Genesis 4:4b-7.

The Hebrew reads "l·phthch chtath rbtz" or, literally, "at [the] door sin [is a] croucher." "Croucher," rendered "rbtz," here, "robes" in Strong's and "rabisu," in ancient Akkadian, from which the term was derived, was a demon found crouching down, lying in wait at doorways.

In Bible typology, "door" and "gate" symbolize "Christ." In Genesis 4:7, God would be telling Cain that is a "croucher at the door" to symbolically suggest that sin is keeping mankind away from Christ. Much of everything in demonology (and in the demonology of UFOs and the Abduction Phenomenon, by the way) satirizes Biblical teaching. So, perhaps Satan positions those demons who are able to establish a home on Earth in people's residences at doorways to satirize Genesis 4:7.

The idea is that when occultic human focus or the focus of sin creates an evil-tainted tulpa easily occupied by a demon, among other things Satan assigns the occupying demon to the job of being a door-lurking rabisu-type familiar, making gentle fun of Genesis 4:7. I believe that we kids accidentally generated the rabisu tulpa in our parents' by playing with the Ouija board our parents gave us as a toy when we were young.

I have long suspected that the grotesques on Notre Dame...


...were actually a medieval conception of rabisus.



.

A Happier Topic: Sea Monsters

Comic books and cartoons have so thoroughly hackneyed the concept of "sea monsters" and "sea serpents" that the subject is currently regarded as philosophically absurd.

Yet, respecting descriptions of the beast, there is surprising order within the sightings, even well before the Age of Communication when various forms of media abetted the ordered formation of homogenous cross-cultural ideation.

To put it in "the language of the gutter," there's no way all of those people from diverse places and times could have "gotten their stories right" -- could have told essentially the same story. The mechanism just wasn't there.

I've got two theories about sea monster reports, and maybe both are true at the same time: They are the few surviving members of a dying ancient species (and may now in fact, be gone, in the last few decades); or, they are semi-mystical accretions called "tulpas," but of the demonic variety. I believe that the Loch Ness Monster is a demonic tulpa, for example. (Years ago, an Anglican priest actually died trying to exorcise the thing out of Loch Ness.)

In any event, here is a story, written for translation into Vietnamese, of a sea monster which washed-up on the beaches of Massachusetts. I beliueve that this one was of the dying species variety...


For many centuries, men crossing the seas in their ships have reported seeing sea monsters and being attacked by them. Such stories are nonsense, correct?

A sketch of a sea serpent based on an old

drawing

Ask the people in the town of Scituate, Massachusetts. There, in November of 1970, a very strange dead thing washed up onto the beach.

Scituate, Massachusetts

Writer Edward Rowe Snow, famous around the world for his books of true sea stories, rushed to the beach. He was able to examine the dead creature and he also spoke to many witnesses, and so in his 1974 book Supernatural Mysteries and Other Tales he had a chapter describing the creature, and he included photographs of the thing. Snow, who was a very careful researcher, wrote that the creature was about 10 meters in length, had a body which smelled very much like fresh fish, and had four fins or flippers tipped with talons -- long claws like those of an eagle -- with hair between the talons. The most interesting photographs of the creature are of its head.

The Scituate sea monster.

The eyes are not very

visible in this over-exposure,

but in fact the creature has

eyes on the top of his snout,

pointing forward.

It really does look like the head of a plesiosaur, one of the long-necked creatures which used to roam the seas in the time of dinosaurs.

Scientists who are very skeptical about such things say that dead bodies of creatures which look like ancient plesiosaurs are actually the dead bodies of a kind of shark called the basking shark, which happens to rot in a way that makes it look like a plesiosaur.

Top: Diagram shows how a basking shark breeaks down

and rots into the shape of a plesiosaur.

Middle: A plesiosaur-shaped basking shark carcass

pulled-up in the Pacific.

Bottom: The basking-shark skeleton: Easily mistaken

for that of a plesiosaur.

Two things make us think that the Massachusetts sea monster was not a rotting shark body. First, Edward Rowe Snow reports that the creature smelled like fresh fish -- not rotten garbage. In fact, the meat of the creature was so fresh that the crowd on the beach began to cut off pieces and cook and eat them right on the beach! The next day a Massachusetts restaurant even mixed the flesh into its soup and began to sell Sea Monster Soup! That does not sound too much like a rotting shark body, does it? Second, there is the photograph of the monster’s head, included with this article, up above. It just does not look like a rotting shark’s head.

The Disappearing Man

This is the story as I originally wrote it. I'll have some comments to make afterwards...

There are stars in space which are so heavy that their own gravity makes them crush themselves and collapse themselves downward, downward, downward, toward their own centers. This makes that star’s gravity so strong, that light itself gets pulled into the star, so that the star looks perfectly black. Scientists think that a person getting too close to such a star would experience time reversal -- time going backward into the past, not forward into the future, and so a space traveler falling into one of these stars would be lost forever, fired away like a cannon into the distant past. And so, they call these amazing stars “black holes.”

Dangerous “holes” where a man can suddenly disappear are only in space, not on Earth, correct?

Maybe not.

In September, 1880, in the state of Tennessee in the United States, on a farm not too far from the town called Gallatin…


…the man who owned the farm, David Lang, leaned against the fence around the area where he kept his horses. His wife was back at the house, a few hundred feet away, watching the children play with a new toy.

A friend of the family, a local Judge named August Peck, turned his carriage off the nearby road, and the Judge and a brother-in-law in the carriage with him shouted and waved to the Lang family as they came close to the house.

The farmer, David Lang, turned and waved to the Judge, and started walking across the field.

His wife, his two children, and the Judge and the Judge’s brother-in-law, 5 people altogether, were looking at David Lang.

At that moment, poof! David Lang suddenly disappeared, before their eyes, without a sound!

Mrs. Lang and the two children and the Judge and his brother-in-law all ran across the field to the spot where they had just watched David Lang simply disappear. They checked and checked again for holes in the ground where he might have fallen, but ground was without holes.

At first Mrs. Lang became extremely sick, from the terrible stress of the very strange experience. But, she recovered, and as time passed the family, with no husband to help them keep the farm going, began to be very, very poor.

One day, in April, 1881, seven months after David Lang simply disappeared, Mr. Lang’s two children were playing in the field where the incident occurred. The little girl, 11 year old Sarah, noticed that in a perfect circle around the place where her father disappeared, the grass was yellow and was having trouble growing. Reminded by the grass circle of her father’s disappearance, little Sarah walked into the circle and yelled something like, “Daddy? Are you there?”

Suddenly, Sarah and her 8 year old brother heard their father yelling back! From out of nowhere their father’s voice called, “HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME!”

The two shocked children noticed that the voice of their father sounded like it was getting farther and farther away!

“HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME!”

And finally his voice was gone. And that was the last anyone heard of David Lang.


My opinion, now, is that everyone is looking at the story upside down. David Lang died sometime before everyone saw him disappear.

What they saw disappear was a tulpa -- a ghost Mr. Lang accidentally created by intense focus at the time of his prior death.

The same tulpa generated the voice heard by the children. The "help" they heard was not a cry for assistance at that moment. Instead, it was a typical tulpa "recording" of thoughts in Mr. Lang's head as he died of whatever caused his death before his ghost disappeared like that.

What Are Crop Circles?

We have all seen crop circles in the news. My favorite is the "Milk Hill Monster," above.

As the media, extremely curious about the things, began to dispatch investigative reporters every time one appeared, two ale drinkers in an English pub were finally interviewed, I think by BBC. They said, "We're doing it!," and they showed the cameras their little boards with their little ropes attached. They showed how they use their little ropes to pull their little boards tight against the soles of their shoes as they stomped down swaths of stalks of whatever crop they were stomping on.

That did it for the media. Problem solved. Those mystical crop circles with their impossible complexity and perfection were the work of -- who else? -- tricky English ale drinkers and their imitators! Media brains essentially shut down after that.

Now look again at the Milk Hill Monster above. The teeny tiny dot in the center of the center circle is a person. The Milk Hill Monster was almost 1,000 feet wide -- a little short of one quarter of a mile.

A few thoughtful readers may have already realized the problem entailed by its size and complexity. Cornwall, where the Milk Hill Monster appeared overnight one night, is about 10 degrees latitude higher than where I am in New Jersey. Summer nights at 50 degrees latitude (where the Milk Hill Monster appeared on August 12) are very short -- 5 hours.

So, whoever or whatever generated the Milk Hill Monster had about 5 hours from Sunset to Sunrise to work in the dark.

Cut that down to 4 hours, to accommodate the beginning and ending twilight.

Now, look at the picture again. I read once that that is 409 circles. (You can check it, and please correct me if that number is wrong.)

And then note that there are no footsteps through the crop leading to the Monster.

That means that enough people to cut a massive and massively complex design in a crop had to get to it by walking like tight rope walkers through the tractor ruts, and then they had to do insufficient damage to the crop, when they left the ruts and walked into the area to be stomped, to generate a perfect finished product.

Even discounting what I am about to talk about, impossible.

The entire Chinese army, hanging by their toes from strings connecting them to helicopters, could not have achieved the Milk Hill Monster in one night.

They are wrong.

There are fake crop circles. Some TV shows have shown English crop circle clubs faking them.

Without exception, their multi-hour creations are paltry affairs -- little, teeny things compared to the Milk Hill Monster.

Crop circles are mystical.

Mystical what?

I'll get to that shortly.

There are sharp distinctions in detail between real crop circles and fake crop circles.

Real crop circles have unkinked stalks. In fake crop circles, the kinking damage to crop stalks is immense. Why? Because heavy people are stomping on it!

Real crop circles have no footprints in the circle areas. Fake crop circle are jammed with footprints. Why? Because one can't make a crop circle by "hanging by his toes from a helicopter"! If the crop circle is non-mystical, the maker has to walk all over the thing. It's simple!

Real crop circles tend to be braided in different ways. Fake crop circles are all braided in the same fashion, because there are only 3 ways to make them -- from the perimeter in. From the center out. Or from the middle to the perimeter and the center. You can increase complexity by playing with clockwise and counter clockwise -- but fakers can't get too complex -- otherwise, even a simple "idiot level" circle takes all 4 hours of darkness, even if created by a large team.

Again, look at the Milk Hill Monster. It appeared in one night. Fake? Or mystical?

I'll "have no truck with" (remember how the nuns used to say that?) someone who says "fake" unless they recreate the Milk Hill Monster for me on the same night of the year at the same latitude. They can use as big a budget as they want (their money -- not mine). They can use as many people as they want. But it has to be done in the dark, in one (1) night, and it has to look as good and as "footprintless" as the photo above from the same altitude. And I get to watch the work.

There will be no takers. Not even Bill Gates would try it. It's not do-able.

They're mystical.

So, who -- or what -- is doing them?

I vote "the Devil" on this one.

My ghost/UFO/demon theory is this...

Just because a non-Catholic says it, doesn't mean it's wrong. So, the Tibetan Buddhists are right: By concentration, we can create "tulpas," sometimes called "thought forms." Tulpas are shapes in the fabric of reality which God, when He created Man "in His image," gave us the power to generate. I think that there is no better explanation, technically.

Why would God have done this?

Tulpas are "positively predestined" to be "prayer vehicles." They carry our prayers to God, and they bring back the help. That doesn't mean that they have to "go" anyplace. They are somehow the "conduit," the "pipes," for the prayer-and-answer process. I think that God could have do this another way. What we look at, when we look at tulpas, are the way He simply happened to do it.

A person's prayer enters the tulpa he created by his concentration, and an angel, containing some kind of "special presence of God," travels in the tulpa back to the pray - er and his problem, and solves it.

But I use the term "positively predestined" to incorporate Church theology. Though we are all "positively predestined" to Heaven, we have the power to refuse the offer, and to bend our wills and our use of reality to walking away from God, and, ultimately, to Hell.

That includes tulpa use. Negative prayers are not just possible, but they happen all of the time. Negative prayers produce a tulpa which the Devil and his demons can jump into and make use of. People know these as pernicious "ghosts" and malevolent "presences."

The negative human thinking doesn't have to be a directed "curse" of some sort.

It can be sin, concentrated upon.

And mass dedication to sin can be as strong a "tulpa generator" as a meditator's meditation.

So, when the culture, especially via the media, successfully propagandizes a particular variety of sinful enjoyment, that tends to cause an ambience of evil which begins to spontaneously generate demonic tulpas.

It's kind of like the "dark side" of "relic - ization" of an area by leaving a relic in a place, such as a room in a home.

I believe that UFOs are demonic tulpas generated by society's evil ambience.

I believe that true crop circles are the mischief of demonically-occupied tulpas with some kind of "misdirection goal" in mind.

In a word, you are looking at what the occult calls "true magic," and what the Church rightly calls "evil."

Interestingly, I believe that today's crop circles are predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2. There Paul is discussing things to occur before the end of the world. He notes that before the end there must be some kind of significant occurrence of "signs and wonders that lie." 2 Thessalonians 2:9.

Seemingly to enlarge upon Paul's revelation in 2 Thessalonians 2, Mary, as Our Lady of LaSalette said, in LaSalette, France, in 1846, "Let the Pope beware of miracle workers, for the time has come for the most astonishing wonders to take place on the earth and in the air." In other words, bad "wonders on the earth and in the air."

Isn't it interesting how well crop circles and UFOs fit that description?