John Todd

Beyond The Legend
Christopher A. LaRock

Text copyright 2011 by Christopher Allen LaRock
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John Todd: Beyond The Legend

This book is dedicated in loving memory of John Todd. We can only hope and pray that you are still with us. If not, then we can always pray that you are with the Lord.
This book is also dedicated to his wife and children, as well as all of those who have been positively impacted by John Todd.
You will be missed; but never forgotten.

Forward

The phenomenon of whistle blowers has been with us for quite some time. Such individuals arise from time to time with inside information that the general public is often times completely unaware of. The information given to us by such persons forces us to re-examine the world around us, while challenging our preconceived notions. Quite frequently, people feel threatened by such information when they see their illusions of security and stability being compromised. Our culture has conditioned us to react with skepticism toward anybody who goes against the conventional wisdom.

In a time when the conventional wisdom held to the belief that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus set sail. Although warned that he and his ship would fall off the edge of the world and become lost in space, Columbus embarked on his historic journey that would lead to the discovery of a new continent. There’s no doubt that many saw him as foolish for bucking the wisdom of his day. But it was through his willingness to go against the grain that we can call ourselves Americans.

The tobacco industry knew their products were injurious to human health and that nicotine was addictive long before it became the conventional wisdom. Their own scientists and laboratories discovered this as far back as the 1920s. And yet they chose to suppress this information. It was only when whistle blowers emerged from among them with internal memos and documents taken from their own company archives that the façade of lies and deception began to crumble. Congressional investigations soon followed and the conventional wisdom concerning tobacco was forced to change.

One could go on citing such examples almost without end. But what all of these persons have in common is that they went against the conventional wisdom, and thus became targets for those who seek to maintain it. The subject of this book is a man by the name of John Todd. Todd was brought up in witchcraft and was the descendant of one of the most powerful families within the occult known as the Collins family. The name by which he was known within the occult was Lance Collins.

The Collins Family is credited with bringing witchcraft to the United States and is quite possibly the most powerful witchcraft bloodline on the North American continent. As mentioned before, it was through this bloodline that John Todd descended. Through a very dramatic and strange sequence of events, John Todd was saved from the occult through the power of Jesus Christ and has become one of the most powerful and outspoken whistle blowers to come out of witchcraft.

And just as with whistle blowers who came before him, he quickly became the target of derision and criticism by those who simply didn’t want information exposing the occult world to be revealed.

There have been many detractors who have attempted to refute the personal testimony and expositions given by John Todd since he emerged in the 1970s with his testimony. Several of these persons have even gone as far as to say they have successfully proven Todd to be a fraud and a deceiver. But simply claiming to have refuted somebody doesn’t constitute a legitimate refutation, except within the fertile imaginations of those who seek to refute. Many attempts were even made against his life by those who were at risk of being harmed by his efforts to expose the truth.

This book tells the story of John Todd based upon his testimony, as well as all available information. A book such as this is a tremendously difficult undertaking due to the lack of information currently available. But what information that is available is more than enough to deliver a somewhat definitive record concerning the person of John Todd. What we have as a result of John Todd’s testimony is a sobering reality that should awaken us from our ignorance and force us to confront what is really taking place in our world.

Although it may go against the conventional wisdom of our day, the world of the occult is very real. Witchcraft and the rotten fruit produced by it is also real. The willingness of so many people to deny this doesn’t make it any less true. Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. Though cliché, the truth of this sage observation still stands. Sometimes it’s easier and more convenient to simply go with the flow and accept the conventional wisdom we are indoctrinated with. It is because of this that most people refuse to accept the truth when it is presented to them. The need for whistle blowers in our world is still ever present today as it was centuries ago. Their testimonies are disturbing at times and invoke fear.

“There is NO reason to have fear in your heart . . . There is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to the Devil! . . . He was defeated 2000 years ago! I think the thing that made me the most mad when I got saved was that I served somebody since a child, for over 20 years, that was defeated 2000 years ago. And I guess the only reason that I served him was I didn't realize who he was till I got saved.”
- John Todd

Most people in our day have absolutely no problem believing in the existence of political corruption. The evidence can be found all around us, even to the most casual observer. The misdeeds of our political leaders, along with all of the other sordid things taking place, can be plainly seen. But in spite of this, most people reject anything and everything which is labeled a conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy has almost become a filthy word in our culture and often times conjures up the mental image of one who is paranoid and unreasonable. This climate of cynicism is often employed to discredit anybody who emerges to shine a light upon the realities that aren’t as easily seen.

This cynicism rears its ugly head especially when spiritual matters are brought up in connection with such information. Dr. Walter Martin made the following observation when preaching on Satanism:

“ . . . it is not too fashionable to talk about the devil. The devil has been voted out of office, as far as our age is concerned . . .”

The knee-jerk reaction of people in our world when confronted with the reality of evil, and the conspiracies connected with it, is to simply dismiss it as nonsensical ramblings produced by a paranoid mind. Our world is steering the masses away form things that are spiritual, and leading them toward atheism and secular humanism. It has been said that the devil’s greatest accomplishment in our world has been to convince the masses that he does not exist. Moral relativism has become the norm. We are told there is no good or evil and that we are free to do what is right in our own hearts and minds. If it feels good, do it, and do your own thing have become the leading philosophies.

The morally corrupt fruit of this line of reasoning can be seen all around us. The value placed upon human life is determined by convenience and one’s own perceived right to destroy it. As a result, over 58,000,000 unborn children have been systematically eradicated through abortion within the United States since this form of infanticide was legalized in 1973. Untold millions are still being killed elsewhere in the world. The legal killing of the sick, handicapped, and elderly isn’t far from us.

The institution of marriage is no longer held as sacred as the sexually perverse demand the right to marry their same sex partners or practice polygamy. Even pedophiles are demanding the ‘right’ to practice their perversion legally. Jesus prophesied that the world would be as it was prior to the flood shortly before His second coming. By all outward appearances, the Lord’s prophecies are proving to be unfolding right now in our time.

The subject of this book, John Todd, has had such charges made against him as a result of his testimony. It is therefore vital that a careful examination be made. This book endeavors to do so. As an active member of the occult world, John Todd was privy to many things that the average person is never exposed to. He saw and experienced things that would later make him one of the most powerful weapons against the occult conspiracies which are steering our world toward the one-world government foretold in Bible prophecy. John Todd never claimed to be an inspired prophet. He was simply a man with inside knowledge. The Lord placed a burden upon his heart to expose the unfruitful works of darkness in our world.

John Todd’s personal testimony is just as important for us today as it was back in the 1970s when he first arrived on the scene to warn us of the things to come, and explain how those things are being accomplished. The things that he spoke about over thirty years ago are indeed taking place today. The purpose of this book is to tell his story and to use that story to warn this present generation about the things that have taken place, as well as those things which are to come.

This is the story of John Todd and the incredible legacy he has left behind. The world will once again be reminded about him and face the challenges which lie ahead. The only question which remains is whether we will confront these truths - or deny them until it becomes too late for anything to be done.

And it must be pointed out that this publication was never meant to be a long, drawn out telling of Todd's life story. The author is simply giving the Readers Digest version, while including vital documentation.

Chapter One THE COLLINS BLOODLINE
(In a nutshell)

The Collins family is one of the top 13 Illuminati families and is credited with bringing Witchcraft to the United States. The name Collins originated in the British Isles, in Ireland it began as O’Collins, and in Scotland as Kollyns. Early members of it were Francis, Edward and John. The Collins are believed to have spread all over, - even as far as the West Coast. Their neighbors were the family infamously accused of witchcraft. However, the Salem Witch trials were lead and carried out by the Collins family to destroy the local Christians. Christians have historically been held accountable for these actions the Collins family were actually responsible for Salem, Mass.

One example of some of their aristocratic ties that can be easily pointed to, Arthur Collin’s 9 volume reference work Collin’s Peerage of England published in 1812 was an extensive work on the aristocratic system. Clearly, Arthur Collins had the ’pull’ necessary to undertake such an in-depth work in reference to people of such importance in England.

John Collins, third Governor of Rhode Island. John Collins was born into the rich half of the Collins family in Newport, R.I. John Collins (1717-1795) played an important role in the court cases Trevett vs. Weeden which set the precedence which allowed courts to rule against legislative enactments that were unconstitutional. He championed the creation and distribution of paper money, as well as a strong central government. This position made him quite unpopular in the rural areas of Rhode Island. He married Mary Avery.

Another John Collins (1775-1822) born into a wealthy Collins family was tenth governor of Delaware (1819-1822).

The most prosperous Collins so far was Matthew Garrett Collins (1874-1925). Matthew Garrett Collins was an oil baron. He was the son of Oliver Cromwell Collins, named after Oliver Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell, an early Mason, was paid off by the Amsterdam Jews to allow them back into England.

Matthew Garrett Collins was a Mason. M.G. Collins was a silk manufacturer. It only took him ten years to turn a small company into a $2 million business. He was president of Interstate Gasoline Co. He had dealings with several other big names in oil, such as Oklahoma Gov. Charles Haskell. He served as Trustee for Drew Seminary. He was associated with the Methodist church. Matthew Garrett Collins oil operations and friendship with the governor of Oklahoma are of great significance.

Theodore Clyde Collins, Jr. (Insur. co. exec., banker, pres. of etc. etc.) Arthur Fletcher Collins (real estate corp. exec., head of some financial institutions and a financial analyst)
Henry James Collins 3rd (Insur. Co. exec., treasurer of several financial organizations)
J. Barclay Collins 2nd (oil co. exec., lawyer, bd. dir. of trustee of a hospital)
Leroy Collins, Jr. (banker, dir. or president of some organizations)

Shortly before the Civil War, the American branch of the Collins family changed to the surname of Todd. Presidents Madison and Lincoln were married to Todds. Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd was involved with the occult, and even consulted with spirit mediums on several occasions in order to contact his spirit after his assassination.

John Roger Collins (aerospace co. exec., banker, economist, trustee or bd. of dir. & V.P. of a number of organizations)

John Paul Collins (banker, dir. of Rothschild’s Citicorp Research Corp., plus trustee of a hospital, besides holding other leading positions in a number of other organizations.)

Michael James Collins (not the astronaut) who has been an investment co. exec, pres. Fidelity Union Life Ins., pres. Allianz Investment Corp., pres. Collins Capital, Dallas, Trustee KERA-TV, bd. dir. & v.p, of the Carr P. Collins Foundation.

One Collins descended from the old New England family is the banker Atwood Collins (1851-1926) who graduated from Yale in 1873.
Casper Collins died fighting Indians, and so this family line ended.

Col. William Oliver Collins family was wealthy Episcopalians. W.O. Collins had gone to law school, then later a Senator, and then made a Colonel by the Secretary of War during the Civil War.

Clifton W. Collins--Clifton studied Saint Simon who was the Mason/Illuminatus that spearheaded Communism in the early 19th century. Clifton wrote a book about him entitled Saint Simon.

Copp Collins--Copp Collins was involved in republican politics, and involved with consulting Federal agencies and also Bahrain Petroleum Co., Ltd during the 1950s.

DeWitt Clinton Collins--DeWitt Clinton Collins was born on Sept. 5, 1866. (Named after DeWitt Clinton, who was associated with the Illuminati very early in
American history.) His father, Clinton DeWitt was named after DeWitt Clinton also. D.C. Collins did his post-graduate work in Vienna, and practiced in Chicago.

Hugh Collins--Authored ‘Marxism and the Law’, published by Oxford University Press.

James Foster Collins--Worked for U.S. intelligence, the United Nations, graduated from Yale, served as Research assistant U.S. Senate Atomic Energy Commission, political affairs officer United Nations Secretariat (1946-1949)

Jim Collins--Jim writes books on the occult, UFOs, mysticism, Uri Geller, etc.

John Anderson Collins-- He was involved with illuminati plots involving Unitarians, Rosicrucians, and Masons. Militant abolitionists who wanted to destroy the South militarily. He worked with William Uoyd Garrison.

John Anderson Collins was a socialist (an early precursor to communism). He experimented with Communist ‘social experiments’ in the 1840s.

John Churton Collins-- Authored a book in 1886 on Voltaire, and in 1908 he wrote another. Was a lecturer and traveled to the U.S. and Germany. Was later found dead under suspicious circumstances in a ditch.

Launa Collins and Virginia Collins co-authored the book entitled ‘Levels of Mind’ in 1984.

Mauney D. Collins--Mauney Collins was State Superintendent of Schools in Georgia. He attended Bob Jones College in 1938, was a Freemason, a Grand Master of the Georgia Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, and assoc. editor of the Ga. Odd Fellows News. He was a pastor (ordained in 1909) of Friendship Baptist Church.

Paul Valorous Collins--writer, studied art in Paris, interviewed would-be Italian tyrant Benito Mussolini in 1927 for Outlook Magazine.

Robert DeVille Collins - foreign service officer, intelligence, 1st Secretary to NATO (73-76), director political officer of personnel of the US. State Dept. (80-82), served in the U.S. embassy in Rome. Was a Roman Catholic, and received an award by the Pope.

Ross A. Collins-- Ross A. Collins was a high ranking Mason, a lawyer, an attorney general, and a Congressman. Born in Collinsville, Miss. was chairman of the military appropriation committee, and advocated the use of mechanized weapons.

Varnum Lansing Collins-Princeton Univ. Professor and Episcopalian.
Wilkie Collins-author of occult fiction William Collins-his British Collins Pub. Firm has printed some books on
Sara Aynn Collins (bn. c. 1730) her family was a generational Witchcraft/Satanic family.
A Collins boy born in 1824 was named after that Satanist. His name was DeWitt Clinton Collins (1824-1909).

The Phelps family of Virginia is related to the Collins. The Phelps family (‘God hates fags’ family) arrived in Mass. in 1630 and became a prominent family in the Skull & Bones.

Thelma Todd was known as Hot Toddy. She was a movie actress, was intimately involved with the mob, and men like Lucky Luciano. Hot Toddy had a reputation for going braless, flirting with men, and had a secret desire to be a madam at a brothel as a teenager. Hot Toddy was romantically involved with Lucky Luciano. She was murdered in 1935. $20,000 in jewelry was left on her corpse. The 1989 book ‘Hot Toddy’ by Andy Edmonds solves the murder.

John Todd (The subject of this book) converted to Christianity on Labor Day, 1972. Todd was a member of the Grand Druid Council of the Illuminati. Even those who claim Todd was a fraud admit he had to have been in Satanism to some extent or another, based upon the highly factual information he had.

Chapter Two

John Todd was born and raised in a witchcraft family, known as the Collins. The Collins family first came to America from Scotland and England back in the 17thcentury on a ship which also contained a large number of Puritans. They are credited with being the first people to bring witchcraft to the New World. The Collins family is still regarded as one of the top 13 Illuminati families to this day.

The occultism practiced by the early Collins family was the product of the ancient Druid pagans which populated most of the European continent hundreds of years ago. The Christians would later overtake the continent. This forced the Collins family to take upon the appearance of being Puritans in order to conceal who they were.

Most immigrant families brought their old world traditions and religion with them when they came to North America. The Collins family was no different. They were in New England at the time of the no infamous witch trials in which people accused of Witchcraft were burned at the stake. At least that’s what history has been teaching us for hundreds of years.

“Let me quickly remind you, NO witches were executed in Salem . . . except for one prostitute, everybody executed in Salem were Christians, and they were tried and convicted by a jury and by a pastor who was not a pastor but a slave trader hired by the Collins. The church was built by the Collins and the jury were all members of the Collins' church. Needles to say, they weren't Christians, they were Witches. We went back there and researched it!” - John Todd

Some of the Collins on this side of the Atlantic Ocean changed their last name to Todd prior to the Civil War for the sake of hiding what they had been involved with. However, they never gave up being involved with witchcraft or the occult practices their predecessors brought with them. And it is for this reason that generations of Todds/Collins were able to inherit the spirits used by their ancestors and remain such a powerful bloodline in both witchcraft and the occult.

John Todd started practicing Witchcraft as a five year old child, under the supervision of his family - his foster mother and biological mother. He would later go on to cast his first spell when he was eight years of age, and begin his exhaustive studies needed in order to make him worthy for the Priesthood. But before this formal education in the so-called positive aspects of witchcraft , Todd was taught the so-called ‘negative’ aspects of Christianity. He was taught;

“The Christian is the most evil being, or creature, in the universe. That he wants nothing more than to take the everyday witch out shoot him, burn him, hang him whatever he can do. And that they are the most hateful; beings that ever existed on the same level as, maybe, Adolf Hitler.” - John Todd

John Todd had attended a few Church services when he was ten years of age without the knowledge of those raising him. All of those lessons just happened to be on the book of Revelation. Although the lessons he had picked up by accident didn’t bear fruit immediately, some seeds were planted in his mind as a result of what he had heard with regard to a one world government lead by a single ruler. But these excursions into the Church came to an abrupt end when his activities were discovered by those who were raising him. Going into a Christian Church was a no-no for those in witchcraft and those raising him were very angry with him for doing so.

Todd continued to excel in witchcraft and rise up in rank. At the age of fourteen, he was initiated into organized witchcraft and made a Pastor. This new position gave him more power and authority. But new responsibilities came along with this new position. He got to see the role witchcraft and the occult plays in popular culture and the entertainment industry firsthand. His foster mother was one of the producers of the television show Bewitched, and Todd spent a lot of time on the set as a child. The television show was made and produced by witches

Later on, Todd inherited a collection of old diaries from his great grandmother. The diaries were written by several different members of the Collins family. One was from France Williams Collins, a secretary in a coven Benjamin Franklin belonged to. Hollywood television producers paid for him to bring those diaries to them when he was a teenager. Many characters, stories, and incidents were taken directly from the diaries and used to produce storylines for the show Dark Shadows.

Todd had been told stories about his family history from an early age and was able to supply even more material for the writers of that show as they were putting scripts together.

At the age of eighteen, Todd was made a High Priest. Being a minister in a legally recognized religion made him draft exempt. But by the time he turned nineteen, Todd was convinced that the armed forced needed witches and witchcraft chaplains. He started communicating with others in witchcraft all over the country to pitch his idea. They liked the idea and many rushed off to enlist.

Todd enlisted in the special forces and was sent to Viet Nam. He liked Viet Nam so much, he decided to reenlist. But was seriously wounded in battle and almost died. Upon being sent back to the US, he reenlisted for another six years. But his injuries hadn’t healed completely and he wasn‘t deemed to be in good enough shape to be sent back to Viet Nam. So he was sent to Stuggart, Germany instead.

After a night of drinking and taking drugs in June of 1970, Todd got into an altercation with an officer in down town Stuggart. The confrontation escalated and Todd wound up shooting the officer to death in a gunfight.

“The Army does not appreciate Sergeants shooting officers. They have a way of dealing with that. They locked me quickly up in solitary confinement . . .” - John Todd

Court martial proceedings were immediately started against him. Todd and his legal representative offered to enter a plea of ‘guilty’ in exchange for a thirty-year sentence. The Judge rejected the offer and Todd was returned to solitary confinement to await his impending trial. It appeared as though all hope was lost and that he would be spending the rest of his natural-born life in Leavenworth.

There was a riot in the stockade of the prison one night. A couple of other inmates were placed into the cell with Todd for their own safety while the guards fought to take back control. One of the men placed into Todd’s cell had served his time and had been scheduled to be released that day. Todd saw his chance to alert somebody on the outside about his current predicament and bribed the man to call his foster mother in Los Angeles on his behalf once he was released. He had seen witches cast spells on judges before and figured they could do the same for him. But it didn’t quite work out that way.

Three days after the man made the phone call, Todd’s cell door opened. He stepped out into the corridor to find US Congressman Wiley, State Senator Saxby, and several Generals. They handed him an honorable discharge. Todd was then informed that all records pertaining to his court martial had been destroyed. All of the recorded testimonies had been shredded.

The witnesses who had given the testimonies had been ordered to forget what had happened, and many of them were being sent to Viet Nam. Todd was reassured that everything would be alright. He flew to Fort Dix to collect his papers and personal affects before reentering society.

It had only been a mere twenty-four hours later that Todd found himself a civilian in Ohio with all of his time, rank, top-secret security clearances, and an honorable discharge. Quite naturally, this made him curious. He went to his mother’s house with questions about what had happened.

“Look, you’ve been in this witchcraft thing a long time.”, he started. “What type of spell makes Senators and Generals do what we want?”
“You don’t understand, do you?”, his mother replied.
“That wasn’t a spell. They’re with us.” Todd was taken aback by this revelation.
“Groovy!”, he wondered.
“Senators and Generals that are witches!”
“They’re not witches.”, his mother informed him.
“They just belong to us.”
She handed him an envelope which contained $2,000 in one hundred dollar bills and a first class one-way ticket to New York City.
“What’s this for?”, he asked.
“Just get on the next flight and I’ll make a phone call to let them know you’re coming and they‘ll meet you at the airport.”, she instructed.
“Who are you going to call that’s going to meet me at the airport?”, he asked. “You’ll know when you get there.”, she stated.
This made him curious. The mystery of who would be meeting him at the airport was all he could think about on the flight. He had always believed that witchcraft was just a religion, and nothing more than that. But for the first time in his life, he was beginning to see there was much more to it than just casting spells and burning incense. He figured that if he got to new York City and didn’t like it, he could use the $2,000 spending money to catch a flight back. Besides, Todd was overcome with curiosity to find out who had that kind of money to simply just throw around.
Todd stepped off the plane at JFK International Airport to discover the person waiting for him was somebody whose works he had read exhaustively and regarded as one of the most important male witches in the country; Dr. Raymond Buckland. Dr. Buckland had been personally hand-picked by Philip Rothschild to lead the Illuminati for him. He went to stay at Dr. Buckland’s house and spent the next six months learning all new witchcraft. Dr. Buckland spent that six months tearing down everything Todd had been previously taught in witchcraft. Todd was told that everything he had been taught previous to that was, more or less, just stories they had told the lower-level people. As a lower-level witch, he had been taught that there are only three levels of Witchcraft. But Dr. Buckland informed him that there were yet three more levels above that. He had been previously taught there were three gods. But Dr. Buckland informed him that there is only one, and that his name was Lucifer.
Dr. Buckland was quick to inform him that Lucifer wasn’t Satan. Todd basically had to unlearn everything he had brought up to believe his whole life. Dr. Buckland also went on to explain that Todd, being a male Collins, had a position to occupy on the council of thirteen.

“I felt very privileged that I could be staying with him learning more about Witchcraft from him . . . I even gave his job at the time that I was staying with him, except the newspapers called the university that he was supposed to be working for and the university denied he'd ever been there . . . It’s funny, I even sat in his classes at the university. They have a way of covering things up. He has his own college now for Witches, and his name is Dr. Raymond Buckland. And at that time he was head of the Anthropology Department at Columbia University, although Columbia University likes to say that he never existed now.” - John Todd

Todd’s suspicions about witchcraft being more than just a religion were confirmed by the new things he was learning under Dr. Buckland‘s instruction. Witchcraft had a long-term goal. And that goal was to return ‘Adam’, or ‘the son of god’, to the earth to create peace so that his father ‘Lucifer’ could return to the earth.

Todd was then sent to stay with his foster mother in Los Angeles and spent another six months studying the history and political aspects of the occult world. Needless to say, Todd was somewhat confused by all that he was being taught. It had never been his aspiration to become involved with political matters. He was beginning to see that there was far more to the religion he had been raised up in than spell casting or potion mixing.

It must be pointed out that witches who make it to this level are taught that Lucifer is god, and that the devil Satan does not exist. As far as they’re concerned, Satan is nothing more than a boogie-man invented by the Christians. Giving worship to Lucifer is not the same as giving worship to Satan within the teaching Todd was indoctrinated into. Contrary to popular belief, Witches and Satanists are not the same thing.

“ . . . witches . . . don't believe in Satan, and I was quickly explained to that Lucifer was a good god, and not an evil god. And that Jesus was the imitator.” - John Todd

Todd was then taken up to Colorado and put through an initiation ceremony. The ceremony involved the blood sacrifice of a girl and was lead by Senator George McGovern. Upon taking up his position on the council of thirteen, he was then sent to San Antonio, Texas and given a thirteen state territory. Todd would be in charge of all the political, occult, and drug activity within his assigned territory.

Bribes was routinely handed out to Pastors, politicians, as well as many other highly influential persons the occult world sought to influence. Todd often times handed out such bribes to these people and groups personally. He learned rather quickly who was corrupt and who wasn’t.

“I had 5000 covens, in other words, churches, totaling 65,000 Priests and Priestesses. That's just the ministers, not the congregation . . .” - John Todd

Todd also became acquainted with the occult underbelly of the music world as well. He was made the owner of Zodiac Productions and got to know most of the popular rock stars and musicians of that time. The occult owned the company. But had placed him there as a front man.

His experiences made him privy to certain things that go on behind the scenes of the music industry that are carefully concealed from the public.
Master copies of new rock music albums were cut months in advance. They were then taken into a secret room with a pentagram carved into the floor. (located behind closed doors up by the managers offices) On a full moon, the master would be placed upon an alter so that witches could conjure up familiar spirits. They would then order them to have the demons working under them to follow every recording made from the master. As he put it:

“ . . . there are other things. Such as things, or belongings, that actually were created by the devil. Such as rock music. . . I want to specify this; I am down on this because I am an ex-witch. Without it, witches don't function. . . One of the things that I was supposed to be was the head of this Brenner Enterprises in Texas, which explains to the IRS why I was making all this money. It was a lot of money and one of the companies I was supposed to have owned was Zodiac Productions. The name gives it away. It was a booking agency in Texas; it's changed its name, but it's still the largest booking agency in the U.S. for Rock groups. It was the group that was originally responsible for bringing the Beatles to the U.S. I got to meet most of the groups. The Beatles were already apart when I was there, but I got to meet several of them off and on, and I met almost all of the groups that were in existence then, and a lot that are in existence now. I only found about this many (holds up a few fingers) that weren't occultists, that didn't confess when they were alone that their music came from ‘supernatural forces’, as they would put it . . . When witches do a book, they do a spell over the manuscript and they command demons which are under their authority to enter every manuscript that comes off the press, every copy of that book. So when you buy that book you get a little free gift, like when you open a little Cracker Jacks box and there's a little trinket in there. Well, you get a free demon, free of charge . . . Most of the rock groups do the same thing. And I know . . . Why . . . Records . . . zoomed to the charts. Many people tell me they do this so their records will be best sellers, and you get free of charge your own private demon.”
- John Todd

But Todd was going disenchanted with a lot of what he was seeing. Witchcraft had always been just a religion to him, and none of the things he was involved with at that point had anything to do with what he had been raised with. It was nothing but politics, conspiracy, and shady activities at this level.

“. . . even though I was a part of setting up a world government, I always kind of snickered that it was ever going to happen, that we were serious, that it was kind of a little game we were playing. As long as the Rothschilds had all of the money to spend on our plans, we went ahead and spent the money. So I never took it seriously . . .” - John Todd

The council of thirteen would receive messages directly from the Rothschilds in London. Such messages were delivered in courier pouches by State Department carriers from the London embassy with the crest of the Illuminati on them. These communications were believed to have been given to the Rothschilds directly from Lucifer himself and contained detailed instruction that were to be carried out to the letter by those who the messages were passed along to.

Todd had been to the Rothschilds’ mansion in Britain, and observed how they would always set an extra place at the dining room table for Lucifer to sit at their meals. At times, Lucifer would actually materialize in visible form.

“ He appeared about seven feet tall, usually clothed in deep purple. Sometimes clothed in red, sometimes clothed in gold--purple & gold . . . He . . . Appeared . . . not just handsome, but beautiful. Jet black hair, snow white skin, and the color of his eyes, instead of blue, brown, or whatever, were deep violet - almost deep purple. And when you looked in them, it was like looking down into the Grand Canyon. It's just bottomless, this power! And believe me, if he ever appeared to you, you'd know you were in his presence . . . He did appear physical, & this might shock a few people. I've seen him sit down at tables at meals.” - John Todd

The Grand Druids would meet eight times a year on the witches’ Sabbath at various locations around the world. Todd hosted the very last meeting that he would ever attend. This particular meeting was held in San Antonio at the Casino Building. A courier from the London Embassy, a member of our State Department, brought a sealed courier pouch - so Immigration couldn't touch it - to the meeting and dropped it off. It had never been opened from the time it had been sealed at the London Embassy until it was delivered.

Dr. Buckland cut the seal on the pouch and extracted six letters. The first four were just business as usual. Money that they were to pay out to various people, and instructions that were to be passed along to lawmakers. Todd was asked to read the letters out loud to all of the witches who were in attendance.

In the first letter they opened of the last two was a chart. And in that chart was an eight year plan for a complete world takeover by December of 1980.

"We have found a man whom we believe to be the son of Lucifer. We believe that through his works and our backing he can become ruler of this world, stop all wars, and bring peace, finally, to this war-stricken World.", Todd read aloud to the attentive witches and wizards in attendance.

Now, that literally meant that we had found a person so fantastically-powered that he could convince people he was their only salvation. All of the witches started jumping for joy and praising Lucifer.

“Hey, isn’t that in the Christian Bible?”, Todd asked them absentmindedly.

Needless to say, this question didn’t go over to well. They were on the verge of doing something violent to Todd. But he was able to calm them down and defuse the situation by convincing them that he had simply been joking. But reading about a world ruler having been found brought up an old memory. Something he had heard years before that sounded eerily familiar.

“I had, as a child, accidentally attended a few Sunday school classes because I had nothing better to do. And during those classes I heard about the Book of Revelation, and a few things in it . . . So I had a little background of what the Christians felt was in their Bible. I thought it was foolish, but I had a little background.” - John Todd

After reading that on August 1, 1972, Todd decided it was time for him to begin looking for a way out.
This hadn't been a new idea. Before he was made a Grand Druid, he had thought about getting out. So had a young actress in California that was ordered executed and left hanging with her throat cut by one foot - which is one of the tarot cards - to indicate to all of the other witches that she had been murdered for betraying witchcraft. And after seeing this, and what happened to Sharon Tate, Todd decided he'd stay in. But after his most recent experience, he wanted out.
Todd didn't know how to get out and hadn't even considered Christianity to be a way out. But things had become complicated for him and he could see the occult world for what it truly was.
All he knew was that he desperately wanted to get out!

Chapter Three

As a result of everything Todd had been exposed to since taking up his position among the council of thirteen, he had gotten deeper and deeper into drugs. In fact, he only weighed 149 pounds, and doing $150 a day worth of methedrine speed at that point. Todd was a paranoid mess because of the drug, and everything else that was going on around him only made matters worse. Getting out was still on his mind. But so was the prospect of having a bounty placed on him by the occult for leaving. It was fear that kept him in, but the Lord had other plans for him.

And this is where Todd's story takes an interesting turn!

A local San Antonio Baptist minister discovered that his daughter was an initiated witch when he caught her casting spells in her bedroom one night.
Quite naturally, this came as a shock to him. Nothing he had learned in seminary school had prepared him for something like this. He had been lead to believe that Witches were fables and did not exist in our modern world. But being confronted with the reality that witches do exist forced him to seriously re-evaluate everything he had been taught.
He took up studying the Bible prayerfully with the hope that the solution to his problem would be made plain to him.
His studies of the Old Testament showed him that witchcraft had been the dominant religion of ancient Babylon. And his studies of the book of Revelation showed him it would become the dominant religion of the world once again shortly before the second coming of Christ. This frightened him.
But he soon overcame his fear when he realized that the power behind Witchcraft is the Devil, and how irrational it was for a spirit-filled, born again Christian to be afraid of the Devil.
After his countless attempts to witness to his daughter had proven fruitless, The minister began seeking out the local witchcraft leaders in an effort to witness to them and begin a revival within their ranks. He stumbled upon the name of lance Collins and prayed that their paths would cross so that he would have the opportunity to witness to him. The minister also had several other Christians in town praying and fasting that Lance Collins would get saved.
After doing all of this, the minister ventured out to search for Lance Collins in all of the occult shops and book stores he knew of.
The morning after seeing the documents that had been delivered by the State Department, Todd was awoken by the sound of frantic knocking on his apartment door. He went to the door to find a couple girls who worked in The Spanish Bazaar the occult store located one story down from his apartment. They informed him that the man who owned of the occult store had overdosed on drugs and that he was in critical condition at the hospital. They asked him to let them into the store so they could open for the day. Todd reluctantly agreed and came to their aid.
After letting them in and helping them set up for the day, Todd was making his way to the door to leave when the minister came in. The minister was carrying a big, black Thomson Chain Reference Bible in his hands. Seeing the man entering the door startled him a bit.
“Uh oh!” Todd mumbled to the girls.
“Here comes trouble.”
The minister addressed them.
“I’m looking for Lance Collins.”
“That’s me.”, Todd answered, bracing himself.
“How can I help you?”
“I want to tell you about the love of Je - “, the minister started before being interrupted abruptly in mid-sentence.
“I don’t want to hear it!”, Todd snapped.
“Take your Christian garbage somewhere else! I don’t want to hear it!”
Strangely unaffected by the hostile reception, the minister started to preach. A heated exchange ensued between the two. The minister continued to preach as Todd recited witchcraft spells and cursed at him. This went on for almost five whole minutes before the minister stopped suddenly.
“Oh, you’re ready to quit?”, Todd chided him.
“You’re going to leave now?”
“No.”, the minister replied calmly, seeing that the spirits inhabiting Todd’s body were the ones communicating with him.
“I’m going to take authority over the Devil in you. I order the demon in you to be silent!”, the minister went on to say
Much to his surprise, Todd found himself unable to speak. He was dumbfounded as he stood there listening to what the minister was saying.
“And I command Satan to stop communicating with you supernaturally and I break your power of witchcraft till you come face-to-face with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and then I command your mind to be set free so that you can perceive the Gospel and make your own mind up.”
The minister paused to look into Todd’s eyes before adding,
“And that includes the drugs.”
Todd continued to stare, dumbfounded, as the minister turned and walked out of the store. He thought the minister was crazy for ordering the Devil to stop giving him drugs, and convinced himself that he had stopped arguing with the minister out of curiosity and nothing more than that. Todd couldn't understand why he was feeling the way he was feeling.
There was something about his encounter with the minister that struck him as odd. The minister was unlike any other Christian he had encountered before in his life. While the rest had been afraid of him upon learning he was a witch, this minister was fearless. He proceeded to return to his apartment and shoot-up what was left of his speed.
Todd didn't think he had anything to worry about. He was expecting a very large shipment of drugs to come across the Laredo, Mexico border. The border patrol officers stationed there had been paid off in advance and he thought that there was nothing at all that could go wrong.
Todd scoffed at the words of the minister who had ordered the Devil to stop giving him drugs. And even considered leaving a kilo of it on the minister’s doorstep once it arrived so that he could show that he wasn’t getting drugs from the Devil, and that he couldn’t stop him from getting drugs.
Todd had been raised to believe that the Devil doesn’t exist and is simply a boogie-man invented by Christians.
Todd’s phone rang around midnight. Since the number was only known by a small handful of people within the occult, he figured it must have been an important phone call. The person on the other end of the line told him something he didn’t like. The border security had received word that there were some illegals who would be attempting to sneak across the border that night. The border security officers they had paid off were removed for a stake-out and a reservist was stationed at their post.
The man bringing the drugs across the border had sampled a little of the speed and had pulled up to the border inspection area with three boxes of it lying on the backseat of the car in plain sight. He was quickly arrested and the drugs were seized.
In a panic, Todd became angry with the minister. But quickly dismissed it from his mind as a coincidence. He had more pressing concerns at the moment. Without any drugs in his possession, he knew withdrawal was imminent. He frantically started calling around to everyone he knew. But none of them sold speed, only heroin. After what seemed like eternity, he managed to work the phone calls all the way up to Ohio.
His people in Ohio had received the drug shipment he had sent out to them and could get some of it back down to him in a couple of days. Due to police activity in that area, that was the best they could do for him.
But Todd knew that two days would be too long to wait. His dependency was too strong for him to last that long without a fix.
Todd fell into withdrawal so severe, he felt as though he was dying but could not die. He could hardly remember who he was anymore.
Finally, Todd picked up a loaded handgun and set out to get drugs. If killing somebody was necessary for him to get his fix, he was more than willing to use it. But the withdrawal was so severe, he was unable to get the car out of the parking lot. He wrecked the car in his vain attempt to leave the parking lot.
Todd left the wrecked car and gun behind and started walking down the street in a daze, trying to get his head together.
He walked several blocks before coming upon the Aztec Theatre. Not paying any attention to what movie was playing, he paid his money and went in. Todd sat down three rows back from the screen and tried to get into the movie. The movie was The Cross and the Switchblade.
He was disappointed and figured that he had wasted his money. But with nowhere else to go, he decided to stay and watch the rest of the movie.
Todd sat there trying to make wisecracks at the movie. The character Nicky Cruz intrigued him, while the preacher played by Dave Wilkerson made him angry.
Whenever the preacher would start witnessing to Nicky Cruz, Todd would start shouting profanity at the movie screen. Since Nicky Cruz seemed to be a person Todd could identify with, he figured that maybe he'd convert the preacher. But that isn't what happened.
Nicky Cruz was born again!
That term didn’t mean much to him. Witches talk about being ‘born again’ through rites and reincarnation. The Masons talk about ‘being born’ again also. But something happened to Nicky Cruz that doesn’t happen with witches; his whole personality changed.

“The cornerstone, or the whole floor, of Witchcraft is that you cannot cast a spell, you cannot mix a potion, you cannot do a rite without a firm knowledge of astrology. It is the base for all practices in Witchcraft, and one of its teachings is that you are born a set personality and there is nothing you can do to change from that set personality . . .” - John Todd

The movie ended and Todd slowly made his way out the theatre in a very confused state of mind, not understanding much of what had happened. He was confused even to the point that he had forgotten that he was going through withdrawal. And as he walked out of the door, a young man walked up to him, handed him a gospel tract.

"Here, this is for you", the man ventured to say before turning around and walking away.

Todd looked down at the small comic book tract in his hand. It was a Chick Publications tract called Bewitched; and it was about the dangers and origin of witchcraft.
He had been raised and brought up in a spiritual world. All of his life had been spent listening to spirit guides. But since the minister had prayed for him and had taken authority over those spirits, his spirit guides had not said anything to him. He felt as though something was tugging at his heart as he read the tract. But he had no idea what it was, or what was happening to him.
The tract stated that the show Bewitched had been produced and made by witches.
Todd knew this to be true, since his foster mother had been one of the producers of the show. He had been to the set many times as a child and knew firsthand who was responsible for putting the show together. But the tract also stated that the Devil was behind witchcraft. And since Todd had been raised to believe the Devil doesn’t exist, he was disgusted and promptly discarded it.
Todd made his way back to where his apartment was, but walked into the Witchrun Club Aquarius instead. He walked to the back of the club and sat down in the Manager’s office, locked the door, sat down at the desk, and tried to think things through. He desperately wanted to talk to a Christian in person to find out if Christians are really the way he had been raised to believe they are.
The miracle of change he had seen Nicky Cruz go through didn’t seem likely to happen in real life. He wanted answers. There was a minor problem, however.

“I spent several hours trying to think of a Christian Church that I could go to and ask questions of that we didn’t own the minister of . . . I didn’t have a membership list with me. So I didn’t know who we owned and who we didn’t, and I was afraid to call the wrong pastor because that could get me killed.” - John Todd

Todd sat there thinking for quite some time. And like a strike of lightening, it came to him. He remembered that one of their Witches, who had been a prostitute in the downtown area, had come into the nightclub screaming the night before about the coffee house called the Green Gate Club. He remembered being somewhat irritated by her and not being at all interested in listening to her screaming and carrying on. She complained that she was going bankrupt because some ‘dumb Christians’ from a local Christian coffee house were preaching to the men she was propositioning down by the bus station.

“. . . she had told me about the place. And she had wanted us to burn it down, buy it out . . . Because it was ruining her business.” - John Todd

The Green Gate Christian coffee house had a somewhat sordid and unusual history in and of itself. It had once been a burlesque/strip club before a local Baptist Pastor took matters into his own hands one night. The Pastor went into the place, shoved some strippers off the stage, and began preaching the Gospel.

After about fifteen minutes of his uninvited preaching, over twenty people got saved. The strippers pulled the curtains down, wrapped them around their bodies, and kneeled down at the bar to give their hearts to the Lord. The bartenders, the band, many of the customers, and even the husband and wife that owned the place did likewise.

Shortly after being saved, the owners handed over the deed to the building to the local Baptist Church, which converted it into the Green Gate Christian coffee house. After some more consideration, Todd decided to head down there to talk to somebody about the things that weighed heavily on his mind.

It was past two o’clock in the morning when he arrived at the Green Gate coffee house. The sign on the door indicated that the place had closed at midnight. Todd pulled on the door to find it was unlocked. He ventured inside to find a man bent over the Coke fountain, with a toolbox, making repairs. The Coke fountain had broken shortly before closing time, and this man had volunteered to stay behind to fix it.

“ . . . I firmly believe to this day that God breaks Coke fountains . . . (God) sometimes has to break things in their (Christians) lives to keep them in one place long enough to do His will.”
- John Todd

Todd approached the man and told him that he needed help. The man took one look at Todd’s eyes and agreed. He proceeded to give Todd the standard Christian witness. But nothing he said was reaching him. Todd informed him that he was involved with Witchcraft. Shaken by this revelation, the man’s face turned white as a sheet. He didn’t know what to do, and quickly called the Pastor.

“I've got this Witch down here!”, He informed him in an uneasy tone of voice. “Well, we’ve been praying and fasting that he’d get there. Go ahead and witness to him. We'll just call everybody up and start praying!”, the pastor simply replied.

They started praying. The man started witnessing to him once more - and even started showing him things in the Bible. But he still couldn’t get through to him. The man paused and prayed.

“Lord, give me the sermon on this matter. Give me knowledge. Give me a scripture from your word that will break the devil’s hold on this man.”
“Here we go again!”, Todd thought to himself.
“These Christians are crazy. Here is this guy talking about the Devil again.” But the man’s prayer was promptly answered. The Lord gave him a scripture.

“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but a power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”, 2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)

This got his attention immediately.
No other scripture in God’s word would’ve meant anything to him or would have held any significance in his mind. Todd knew what fear was. It had dominated his life, his mind, and his thoughts the entire time he had been brought up in Witchcraft. The occult world from which he came depended upon fear in order to keep its people in line.

He desperately wanted to rid himself of the fear that had been instilled in him, so the offer was far too great to pass up. Kneeling with the man on the floor of the Christian coffee house, John Todd gave his heart to the Lord and prayed that He would take the fear out of his life.

“ . . . you may have felt great when you got saved, but I don't think you felt as great as I felt when I got saved . . . for the first time, I could think for myself without this heavy, like cotton in my head, is about the only way you could describe it. And my feeling was that if they killed me going out of that place, then I would die happy!--And I walked out, not really thinking about any danger. The next night I was back and saying, ‘You know, I would like to live long enough to enjoy this!’”.
- John Todd

The fear had been so far removed from him, he actually walked into the occult store the very next day with a Bible tucked under his arm. Unhindered by fear, Todd was free to leave the occult world and strike out on his own for the first time in his life.

The Lord he had been rejecting his whole life had finally set him free.
Chapter Four

Coming to Christ from the occult wasn’t as easy as some might presume. Coming out of a cultic system of that nature isn’t anything like coming out of the Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormonism. The most that might befall an apostate Mormon or apostate Jehovah’s Witness is shunning, or being labeled as a wicked person by those they once were associated with within the religion.

But Todd understood, from first-hand experience, the occult isn’t too keen on seeing its members leave and tend to react more harshly toward their apostates. They just simply wouldn’t allow initiated members to walk away. Those who had dared to leave routinely had bounties placed on their heads.

“They do not play games, and this is why we tell young people, don’t go. Because they’ll tell you to come in, it’s nice, it’s loving, it’s a brotherhood. And you get in, and once you’re initiated, you find out it’ll cost them $10,000 if you try to leave. But they’ll send it. That’s the minimum bounty they put on anybody’s head getting out. And they don’t care how young you are. So it’s not a game . . . And they send a professional. They don’t send an everyday person.”
- John Todd

Todd started attending regular church services and continued growing in his new faith. He studied the Bible under the watchful eye of Pastor Jack Taylor, and quickly progressed in his studies. Todd became quite knowledgeable about the Bible and Christian theology. What he read confirmed that the Devil indeed exists and that the power behind the occult and witchcraft was that of the devil. This period of time also allowed him to think back on his life and reflect upon many things that had happened to him up until that point.

“There were many things that I learned in witchcraft. I'm not going to tell you what they were, but there were many things that I learned and many things that I taught as a standard teaching in witchcraft. As you go through apprenticeship, or as you go through what we call the "Outer Court," you are told to do things and you don't ask why you do them. If you do ask why do them, they tell you that you're being naughty and that you shouldn't ask. Mainly because they don't know . . . I never did know why I was doing the things I was doing, or why I was teaching the things I was teaching. They worked, so we did them.”
- John Todd

Although out of witchcraft, Todd was still having problems. He wasn’t completely out of the occult’s grip. As he put it;

“When I was saved, I still contained all of the psychic powers I had for two weeks. And I kept wondering what was going on. And my eyes still had kind of a look that people who have been around Witchcraft, or have been in Witchcraft, know the look I’m talking about. And my eyes still contained this look. And people in the church were wondering what was going on. Although I was trying to live a Christian life really hard, wasn’t really involved in sin, but still had all of this psychic phenomenon happening around me and was still very bothered with the things I had come out of and addicted to them. Not the drugs, but the psychic powers. And finally the church decided (that) if it was good enough for Paul, it was good enough for them. And they took me off in a room and prayed for me for about five hours. And they demanded that the spirits that I had allowed in myself, through asking them to come in through witchcraft, to leave . . . They even called the demon of epilepsy out of me . . . And when I walked out of that room, I no longer had any psychic power whatsoever.”
- John Todd

But he wasn’t out of the woods yet.
There were still those vows of secrecy that he had been required to take upon becoming a member of the council of thirteen. Those vows would have to be broken completely in order for him to sever himself off completely from his former life. He would have to reveal everything he had been privy to and to publicize it all. And this is exactly what he did.

Todd started giving his testimony about coming out of witchcraft on a small scale. He also began speaking about the various different sordid activities taking place within the occult world from which he had come. His ministry was geared toward warning young people, and even Christians, about the dangers of the occult. It wasn’t long before he started to attract attention to himself. Ministers and pastors, mostly, were very much interested in what he had to say.

Jack Chick, President of Chick Publications, got wind of John Todd and took an interest in him.

“I first met John in 1973. I found his information on the occult fascinating . . . John Todd began winning young people out of the occult. His ministry started growing . . .John was attending Faith Baptist Church in Canoga Park, California. On my word, Pastor Roland Rasmussen helped John get speaking engagements.”
- Jack Chick, in a letter written June 16, 1978

Todd was somewhat familiar with Chick, since it had been one of his tracts (Bewitched?) that had played a major role in his conversion.
The two of them got together and collaborated on a Christian-theme comic book entitled, The Broken Cross. The main theme of the storyline was occult human blood sacrifices, and how young ladies were acquired for use in such rituals. But the title was taken from a brief explanation of where the peace sign originated.

“I didn't have to do the initiation that contained the broken cross because I was born into witchcraft and it wasn't necessary. People who have no Christian background do not have to do it. But if a person raised in a Christian church--whether they were Christian or not--wants to join witchcraft, they would have to take a ceramic cross and turn it upside-down and break the cross bars down, symbolizing their rejection of Calvary and the Christian Church. This is said to bring you peace of mind while practicing witchcraft, that's where it got the word "Peace Symbol" from. We called it the Peace Symbol for the last 20 years, they've called it the Broken Cross for the last several hundred.”
- John Todd

The Broken Cross had to be amended some time later once it was brought to their attention that the man who had been doing the lettering for the dialogue bubbles had changed a few words in certain places in order to make the language stronger.

Lucifer had been changed to Satan, and witchcraft removed and replaced with Satanism. Since this publication was intended to reach witches, who don’t believe in Satan, such unauthorized changes would most likely turn them away.

“Since its publication I know of witches coming to Christ through this story. A Police captain visited a friend of mine and told him the book was the most factual he had ever read on the subject.”
- Jack Chick, June 16, 1978

The Broken Cross caused so much commotion, a group of witches cancelled a gathering they had scheduled out of fear that Todd would show up and hand out free copies to everyone in attendance. In spite of the attempts made on his life since coming out of the occult, Todd continued to speak boldly whenever he could.

Todd’s was able to lecture more frequently with the help of the ministers, who had seen the fruit of his ministry, and helped to put him in touch with other churches. His wife would accompany him to the lectures when she could. The lectures were being tape recorded so copies could be made and distributed. He very quickly became a phenomenon within the Evangelical Christian world. Even young people who were involved in Witchcraft would go to hear him speak.

A teenage girl involved in witchcraft walked into a Christian bookstore and asked the clerk if John Todd was still alive. The clerk informed her that he’d been alive for over five years after leaving Witchcraft.

“Well, if John Todd can stay alive for five years - then I can stay alive for five years.”, the girl stated.
“I want to become a Christian and get out.”
There were times when witches, who had attended, would approach him and his wife after the services to say they would leave witchcraft if they had a safe place to go. Todd and his wife eventually opened a retreat in Phoenix, Arizona.
But there was a breach in the security one night. The occult had been watching and sent gunmen into the retreat. Three teenage girls were machine-gunned to death, and one worker was wounded. Todd started opening his retreats in secret, remote locations in the mountains with heightened security.
The funds needed to build such places came from donations given by Christians from the various different churches Todd went to lecture.
The Broken Cross was later followed by Spellbound?, which dealt primarily with rock music. John Todd is featured in the comic book itself as an authority on the occult world who helps the main characters to rescue a young girl from being influenced by the occult through the music she had been listening to. Spellbound? Was later followed up by yet another comic book entitled Angel of Light.

“We worked together on a Crusaders story entitled, The Broken Cross . . . John has given me valuable information on two new publications, Angel of Light and Spellbound . . . I thank God John is risking his neck to warn us of the dangers and techniques used by the Illuminati.”
- Jack Chick, June 16, 1978

John Todd continued to lecture before packed churches and demonstrated himself to be a very gifted and articulate speaker. His audiences clung to his every word, but their reactions varied. People were blown away and inspired by his personal testimony.

But many people had trouble with the rest of the material he had shared with them. The inside knowledge he had with respect to those striving to create a one world government was just too much for many to handle.

People discussing conspiracies is a common, everyday occurrence today. It doesn’t shock too many people when somebody starts a movement claiming that a wellpublicized event came about because of a conspiracy. But it wasn’t too common back in the 1970s. Many people who heard Todd speak simply couldn’t handle much of what he had to say. Especially when high profile names would be dropped in connection with disturbing activities.

But Todd was no fool. He’d anticipated this reaction and resolved to tell the world what was going on. Come hell, or high water.
Chapter Five The Testimony Of John Todd Collins
(Transcript of one of John Todd’s Lecture. Free MP3 downloads of John Todd tapes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6available at http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/articles/john_todd_and_the_illuminati.htm)
Introduction by the Preacher

John is from the family line of Collins that brought witchcraft to Salem, Mass. His occult name was Lance Collins. John was initiated into a witch coven at thirteen years of age, became a High Priest then at eighteen, joined the Military and served in the Special Forces known as the Green Beret's. His IQ tested at 175 and I could go on and on reading many things about him but I think the most Glorious event in his life and I am sure he would agree and I am thankful that this happened, John was saved through the witness of a faithful Pastor, Rev. Jack Tailor and the ministries of the Castle Hills Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas.

I am so glad that he was saved and brought out of that which he was in, AMEN..... (Response...AMEN)
And we thank the Lord especially for that tonight. It is a great Honor and a great Joy to introduce to our Congregation Bro. John Todd, and I am sure what he is going to say tonight will be enlightening, challenging and he is going to speak to all of our hearts.
Let’s give him a real good open door and a Chambersburg welcome, shall we? (response.....Loud Applause 10 secs.)

John Todd

One thing I would like to say before I get started. It never seems to fail that when I am done a few of my brothers and sisters in the Lord have fear in their hearts! There is no reason to have fear in your heart. Seems like every time we talk about the enemy Christians become afraid rather than serve up fighting mad! So I just ask that if you have this fear in your heart when this is over, that you just simply get in your prayer chain or up front or someplace with the Lord and discuss the matter with Him. There is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to the Devil! He was defeated 2000 years ago. That’s why I am here!

He was defeated 2000 years ago! I think the thing that made me the most mad when I got saved was that I served somebody since a child, for over 20 years, that was defeated 2000 years ago. And I guess the only reason that I served him was I didn’t realize who he was till I got saved. It took that enlightenment. Brother Barry preached this morning on the Devil blinding God’s peoples eyes and just the worlds eyes. Take it for a fact! He can do it. For 20 some years I served him as a priest and a high priest and later as a grand druid and had many thousands of people serving him under me. And never once did I even realize who I serving.

There were many things that I learned in witchcraft, I am not going to tell you what they were, but there were many things that I learned and many things that I taught as a standard teaching in witchcraft. As you go through apprenticeship or as you go through what we call the Outer Court, you are told to do things. You don’t ask why you do them! If you do ask why you do them they tell you that you are being naughty, that you shouldn't ask, mainly because they don’t know!

I never did know why I was doing the things I was doing or why I was teaching the things that I was teaching. They worked, so we did them.

After I got saved, it took salvation for me to find out why they worked. And I guess after knowing that, there is no way you can go back from what you came out of.
Very quickly tonight. Well it can’t be very quickly, but I’ll try. I want to give my testimony and then I want to turn it over for questions and answers. I’ve learned the hard way after 5 years it’s normal for me to say the things that I say but it is astounding for you to listen to them.
And I realize that when the meeting is over that many things I say are strange to Christians. Most of you grew up in Christian homes or even if you were in the world you were not very close to what I was into. So when I say things, to me, they are everyday things. I guess that is why we have such a successful ministry with the people on drugs and the people in the occult because they have tried to tell Christians for years the things they have been into and the things they have experienced and they look at them like they are crazy and I come along and I say, Oh, Oh sure I’ll listen to ya. I've been there! I know the same things. And I will sit there and I will listen and they find it very outstanding that I believe them because I have experienced them too.
So I don't gasp at somebody when they tell me that they have seen demons or floated things through the air or received answers on Ouija Boards or made people do their own will by spells, I was there, I know it is so, but at the same time I know how weak it is compared to what I have now.
I have told witches across the United States, we went to St. Paul when they were going to have their convention this year, which they called off, they are having it right now in Washington D.C. . . this is the last night of it. And it was in all the front pages of the newspapers down there. Christians across the Unites States say, You don’t really expect us to believe that witches are that organized. No! They’ve just got Senators and Congressmen and top witches down there all in one convention. They are not that organized, not at all!
But anyway we were there and many witches came up to me and asked me why I would become a Christian. See, witches have the opinion that either Christians are the most evil things that ever lived or they are the most foolish people that ever lived. They wanted to know why I would become a Christian. I said, because I am more powerful now than I was when I was a witch. that’s not the reason. But I said it in words that they would understand. They couldn’t grasp that. I know how they feel. When I was in witchcraft I never considered Christianity until the night I got saved.
I never once considered it was an answer. I never considered that Jesus was an answer and that the things in the Christian Church were foolish at the least and dangerous at the most, and I guess that they are dangerous to witchcraft. But to explain what I am talking about very quickly......
I come from a family called the Collins’ some of them, on this side of the Atlantic Ocean from England, have changed their name to Todd, back prior to the Civil War. But that doesn't say that all Collins’ are Todds’ or this family that I come from. But this family brought witchcraft to the United States. I was in Philadelphia the other night, and I don't understand what it's all about, but after I left there, the newspaper decided that their greatest campaign would be against me. Many things that I said in my testimony they said that they checked out and were not so. Funny we checked them out and they still were so! Like many things that I will mention tonight. We even went as far as to say that witchcraft started outside of Salem Mass. and even named the Bay that the witches landed, after the Head Witch, my ancestor Francis Collins, and the newspaper said that place didn’t exist. We looked at the map and it’s still there. We don’t understand quite what they were up to but I guess they confused enough people to disregard us. We were wondering when people were going to get around to this, but anyway......
I come from the Collin’s family. And just because this is outside of Salem, let me quickly remind you that no witches were executed in Salem! There will be a book coming out shortly on this from Chick Publications.
Except for one prostitute, everyone executed in Salem were Christians. And they were tried and convicted by a jury and by a Pastor who was not a Pastor he was a Slave Trader hired by the Collins’, the Church was built by the Collins’ and the jury were all members of the Collins’ Church. Needless to say they weren’t Christians. They were Witches!
To go on, so I don’t confuse you too much, since I have already destroyed your High School History Lesson. I have a habit of doing that. I will destroy more than that before the night is over but.............When I was a youngster, I started practicing witchcraft. I really cast my first spell when I was about eight, and I started studying for the Priesthood when I was thirteen. I was asked to join the Outer Court of the Coven there in Columbus, Ohio, where I grew up, and at fourteen I was initiated. I would like too add this before I go on. When the service is over I will be glad to talk with any Mason present. And I will compare my initiation to witchcraft, word for word, action for action, with yours! They are identical without change!!! And I will be glad to discuss this matter with you.
After that, at eighteen, I was initiated a High Priest. This made me the Ruling Pastor, more or less. See, in witchcraft, the church is a little different. Only the ministers meet, and they meet once a month! The congregation does not even know who is in it! They only go to their particular Priest and ask for a favor. They never come together.
But uhhhh... At eighteen I was made The High Priest, and that made me draft exempt from the U.S. Army, or from the U.S. Military Service because all of the denominations, or brotherhoods of witchcraft are Federally recognized tax deductible churches, and therefore their ministers do not have to serve! We received 4D Status, but a lot of us at that time thought it was important to get witchcraft started at the different military bases, so we enlisted anyway! That was in 1968.
When I was discharged in 1970, there was a coven at every military base in the U.S. and Europe of all four of the branches of service! So it grows very quickly! I served in Vietnam, came back and re-enlisted for six years, and served thirty days of my six year term, went to Germany for that time, and up until this time I thought that witchcraft was just like being a Baptist or being a Catholic, it was a religion! I didn’t realize there was anything to it except Witchcraft!
And this is where most Witches are at. In fact at this time I believed in a godhead system of gods and goddesses. And I believed in it Very devoutly! I had been raised in it all my life! I believed in Psychic powers and that's all I believed in.
I was there in Germany one night after taking some drugs and doing a lot of drinking and I got into a shootout in the middle of downtown Stuttgart with an Officer! The Officer got killed. Now the Army has a strict No-No about shooting officers. They don't like it. So, they placed me in solitary confinement and there I am waiting for Leavenworth more or less. We had already offered a plea to the judge that I would plead guilty if he would give me thirty years and call it quits, and he tore it up and laughed at us. So I was pretty sure what was in for me and I just sat there. Eventually, through a riot that had happened at the stockade just a few days prior, and a man being placed in solitary confinement along with me and then released from the stockade, I got word out back to the United States by phone, the predicament that I was in. I had been in Germany such a little time that I hadn't had a chance to start a Coven at Stuttgart and I had no way of getting the word out.
But the man placed a phone call to Los Angeles, collect, to my foster mother, and told her the predicament I was in. Now all I asked him to tell her was to cast a spell on the jury so they would think I was a real nice person, and that's all I thought they would do. Now I have seen spells work like this many times, I have seen them work recently many times in courts, but I was not expecting what took place.
About three days after the man made the phone call my cell door opened. And there stood A Senator, A U.S. Congressman, a couple of generals and an honorable discharge. The honorable discharge gave no reason as to why I was being discharged. I just had an honorable discharge like I had. I had all my time and rank and grade. Even a Top Secret Security clearance. I was told that my court martial records had been destroyed and that my military file would be placed with a top secret security clearance so that nobody could get into it. That was the end of it!
The Senator and the Congressman left, and I went to Fort Dix and filed the rest of my papers and stuff and headed for Columbus, Ohio, scratching my head the whole time, wondering what type of spell was so good that it had Senators and Congressmen doing it's bidding! I still didn't catch on to what was going on. So I arrived in Ohio and I began asking questions the day I arrived there and I was told that they had been expecting me and gave me an envelope with a one way, first class ticket to Kennedy Airport in New York City, $2,000.00 for spending money, and I was to get on the next flight and they would make a phone call and tell them I was coming. That was fine except I wanted to know who them were! They said that I would find out when I arrived. So I got on the plane, took off, landed at Kennedy, and sure enough somebody was waiting to meet me. A person that I had read his books, I had thought was one of the greatest Wizards that had ever lived and very privileged that I could be staying with him and learning more about witchcraft from him.
Now I gave his name, which I am going to give in a minute, in Philadelphia last Sunday night. I even gave his job at the time that I was staying with him. The newspaper and everybody else said they called the University he was supposed to be working for and the University denied he had ever been there. Funny, I used to sit in his classes in the University! They have a way of covering things up!
He has his own College now, for witches, his name is name is........ Dr. Raymond Buckland and at that time he was head of the Anthropology department at Columbia University, although Columbia University would like to say he never existed! But I learned with him for awhile and learned a little more in Maryland and went to California and studied some more. During this process I began to learn what most witches don’t know. And that is, the gods they have been worshipping don’t exist!
That they are imitated by what we call Familiar Spirits or Spirit Guides, Demons, (witches don’t like to call them Demons, they like to call them Spirit Guides), and that there is only one god, and that god’s name is Lucifer!
Now this was a shock to me since I was raised to believe that the Devil did not exist! You see, witches are not Satanists. They don’t believe in Satan! And it was quickly explained to me that Lucifer was a good god and not an evil god, and that Jesus Christ was the imitator!
So, Uhhhh, I learned and I learned many things both of witchcraft and I also learned why the Senators and the Politicians were there. They were there because we were the religion of a political organization called the Illuminati.
I was told all about the Illuminati and it’s history. I was schooled in the things that it had done and the things that it was going to do, and the things I was going to do. Before I go on, if I can have the lights dimmed in here and the Pastor will give me a hand, I want to show a few things that will help explain.
I didn’t make these, Brother Barry made them, and I think they have a lot to be desired. I don't know if you can see them or not. The thing you see up here is on the back of your one dollar bill, and what it is, is the Seal of the Illuminati. America tells us that it is the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. The only problem is that the United States has never sealed one document with it, ever, and never intends to. It was in existence before the United States was in existence. I invite you, if you know your Latin, to look at your dollar bills later and down at the bottom, you will see some Latin. It says, This New Order that began in 1776. That means, not the fourth of July, but May 1,1776, the creation day of the Illuminati!
It consists of three Pyramids and a Sphinx which I will go through very quickly. We have put a few blocks on there. There are hundreds of blocks in each Pyramid. This is the Political organization which is the middle Pyramid. The first Pyramid consists of blocks which represent some of it’s Political and Police organizations that they use. We put up ones that mainly concern the United States. On the top of each Pyramid you will see a capstone with an eye in it. The capstone is the Rothschild family, or Tribunal that rules the Illuminati, they were the Creators of it. The eye is Lucifer their God, and their Voice. The first three top blocks are on every Pyramid. The top block is what I was initiated to, the Council of Thirteen called the Grand Druid Council. They only take orders from the Rothschilds’ and nobody else. They are their private priesthood!
The Council of Thirty Three is directly under them. That is the Thirty Three highest Masons in the World. The Council of Five Hundred is some of the wealthiest people in the world. I could honestly say the five hundred richest people and Conglomerates in the World. And that is their Real Power as I will show you in a minute.
This is the politics. I don’t think you can see much of the writing, but this is the organizations of witchcraft. The Golden Dawn is the fourth block up there, which is the Rothschild private Coven. The Aquarian Arts Festival is the organization that ties all of the occult brotherhoods together in St. Paul. The Wicca Church of America, I was a member of. The Church of All Worlds is located in St. Lewis (these are denominations like Northern Baptist, Southern Baptist, Independent Baptist). The National Council of Churches. The Satanic Brotherhood of America. Scientology. Unity is the main platform for witches to be speakers at toward to what they consider Christian people.
The Church of Wicca is another denomination located in Greenfield, N.C. Aquarian Antidefamation League is an organization that was formed by one of the Grand Druids, Isaac Boniwitz, and the American Civil Liberties Union. It's purpose is to pass laws and to sue Christian Churches in Federal Court for defaming witches and the occult, and they have been winning millions of dollars in Federal Court.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment is a Church that Charles Manson belonged to and I was also a member of it and they believe in Human Sacrifice and they believe that the only answer to Christianity is to bomb the Churches and execute the Christians. The Garnarian Brotherhood is the traditional witchcraft in England. The Order of the Rose Cross (another word for it is Rosicrucian) they are a Human Sacrifice Order The Holy Order of the Garter is another traditional English witchcraft group.
I don’t know if you can see this, but this is the most important one. This is the power of the Illuminati! Without the Sphinx, the Mystery of the Illuminati would have no power. This is where all of it’s power comes from. If you notice the head of it is the Rothschild family and the Council of Five Hundred. Under that, the Rockefellers’, DuPont, Kennedys’, Onassis’ and other families. Queen Julianne is also on the Council of Five Hundred. Over in the center is it’s heart! The Bank of England, the Bank of France, the Federal Reserve Bank. Most people think that the Federal Reserve Bank is a Government organization. It is not! It has nothing to do with the Government of the United States. It is a stock holder owned company by individuals! Most of the Stock is own by non-Americans! Ninety percent of it!
The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Bank of America and the 1St. National Bank. The World Common Market. Standard Oil. Montgomery Wards. Sears. Federal Department stores. Fazios’. Safeway groceries, and others. We just put a few blocks up there. Shell Oil. Shell Oil is owned by Queen Julianne and Philip Rothschild. And of course Union 76.
We tell Christians across the United States that you can not shop any day of the week, house wives and husbands can not shop without buying from a company that the Illuminati owns! It is impossible!
About twelve years ago Philip Rothschild ordered one of his mistresses to write an 1100 page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the world through the Illuminati. It was called Atlas Shrugged. One of the things in it is happening on the front pages of the newspapers across the United States right now. In fact it spent 1/3 of the book describing how they would raise the oil prices and later destroy the oil fields and then they would also completely shut down the coal. That was written twelve years ago. It also described how they would blow up grain mills and how they would de-rail trains.
Their sole purpose is to bankrupt their own companies and destroy their own companies until they destroy the currency of the entire world and still be so financially strong that they would withstand it.
Now to get back to my testimony while everyone gets their breath!
I know you thought you were going to hear a lot about spell casting and spooky ghosts but I surprised you. I have something more spooky to tell you.
Anyway, as I learned all this and I was taken up to Colorado Springs, outside of NORAD Center, about a mile away in the same location, and placed through an initiation for this Council of Thirteen. And then I moved to San Antonio, Texas, where I lived until I was Saved, and ruled the thirteen State area that I had from there. When I was saved I had 5000 covens totaling 65000 initiated Priests and Priestesses. That's just the ministers, not the congregations. So it is quite large. This State wasn't one of them. This State is run by Mrs. Buckland, but Ohio was one of them so it is close enough.
I lived there until I was saved Labor Day of '72', and what led to my salvation, was this........................
The Grand Druids meet eight times a year on the Witches Sabbath at various locations in the world. I hosted the last meeting that I attended, it was held in San Antonio at the Casino Building. A courier from the London Embassy, a member of our State Department, brought a 'Sealed Courier Pouch', so immigration couldn't touch it, to the meeting and left it. It had never been opened from the time it had been sealed at the London Embassy. Dr. Buckland cut the seal on it and took out six letters that had been sealed with this Illuminati crest! The first four were just business. Money we were to pay here and there and so on. Actually the Grand Druid Council is nothing but glorified bankers! They write millions of dollars worth of checks to people in political and religious fields every Month.
The last two letters led me to want to get out!
I had, as a child, accidentally attended a few Sunday School classes because I had nothing better to do. During those classes I heard about the Book of Revelation and a few things in it, which was very strange being back in the early 60’s to hear anything like this. At least in the particular kind of Church I was going to, it was kinda liberal. So I had a little background of what the Christians felt was in their Bible. I thought it was foolish, but I had a little background.
Now I always kind of snickered, even though I was part of setting up a world government, I snickered that it was ever going to happen, that we were serious, it was kind of a little game that we were playing. As long as the Rothschilds’ had all the money to spend on our plans, we went ahead and spent their money!
So I never took it seriously until I opened the last two letters!
Now in the first letter that we opened of those last two, was a chart! In that chart, it listed an eight year, step by step plan, for world takeover, ending in the December month of 1980. Since I have gotten out, I have not seen one thing fail or be delayed on that time chart. I am not saying that it won’t be delayed!
But it is going to take a lot of serious Christians doing a lot of serious praying which I have not seen yet!
Next! The last letter we opened contained........ Now I am going to have to quote it and then I am going to have to explain it. You see, witches say English, but they say words that may not mean anything to you. It Said;
We have found a man who we believe to be the son of Lucifer. We Believe through his works and our backing, he can become the ruler of this world, stop all wars, and bring peace finally to this War Stricken World!
Now that literally meant that we had found a person so fantastically powered that he could convince people that he was their only salvation! Now that literally meant, in Christian terms, he was demon possessed like no one had ever seen!
After reading that, on August the first 1972, I decided it was time to look elsewhere to get out. Now this had not been a new idea. Before I was made a Grand Druid I thought about getting out and so had a young actress in California that was ordered executed and left hanging with her throat cut by one foot, which was one of the Tarot Cards, to tell all witches that she had betrayed witchcraft and this was her death. After seeing this, and what happened to Sharon Tate, I decided I’d stay in......but now I wanted out! I didn’t know how to get out, I didn't consider Christianity at all a way out, but I wanted out!
About a month rolled around and I got deeper involved in drugs, in fact the night I was Saved, I weighed 149 pounds because I was doing $150 a day worth of Methedrine (speed). I was Mainlining it, what the street people call crystal. So I was literally in a paranoid mess anyway because of the drug and all these plans hadn’t made me anymore restful. So one morning, Saturday morning, a Baptist preacher came across me in one of our occult stores. He was there because overnight he came to realize that witchcraft was real, when he had always considered it a fable about witches flying on broomsticks with warts on their nose and pointed hats. The way he found it was he found his daughter an Initiated Priestess of a witchcraft coven. He caught her casting spells in her bedroom one night. So it became very real to him, and after much prayer and fasting, he decided to track down a few witches and see if he couldn’t witness to them. He wasn’t getting through to his daughter he thought he might go to the head of it and if they got saved, his daughter would get saved.
So he found me in one of our occult stores called The Spanish Bizarre, there in San Antonio, and started to witness to me. He knew who I was because I was going by my witchcraft name, Lance, and everybody in town had seen me on Television and Radio and the Newspapers, about witchcraft.
So he started witnessing to me and I told him in certain profanity that I didn’t care for it and I would like him to leave! So when this failed he decided he was not going to get past the Demons in me so he started ordering the demons to be quite, and then he proceeded to pray for me, whether I liked it or not! The Prayer went something like this......
I demand that Satan stop giving you his benefits, including drugs. I order that to be so in the name of Jesus. I command Satan to stop communicating with you supernaturally. I break your power of witchcraft. Till you come face-to-face with the Gospel. And then I Command your mind to be set free so that you can perceive the Gospel and make your own mind up! Now this was necessary in my condition because I didn’t have my own mind. Then he left! I thought he was crazy. So I went upstairs and did some more drugs because I couldn’t understand why I was feeling the way I was feeling. And that was not too well at the moment!
Well, that night, I didn't have anything to worry about. I did all my drugs up because I was expecting a very large shipment of drugs to come across to Loreto, Mexico, except something happened that had never happened before. The drugs got busted!
The wrong guard, that was not on our salary, was on the border that night They even brought the wrong car across, they had the wrong license number, the whole....everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong, and the shipment got busted, and I was without drugs!
So when I found out about it, I made a few phone calls around to different areas in the United States, trying to find some drugs that could get to me very quickly, because most people had already used their’s up, we were at the end of it. I was told I would have some Tuesday morning. Now that is a long time to wait for an addict as bad as I was.
So about Monday night (Labor Day night) as I was going through withdrawal extreme (proportionate withdrawal), I got into my car and started to drive it out of the parking lot and almost drove it in the river. So I left it there and I went for a walk. I walked about 4 or 5 blocks and I came upon a Movie Theater. It was just an every day Movie Theater and it is still here to this day. It shows just regular pictures. Not anything to do with the Christian Church so I thought I was pretty safe. I paid my money and went in. Sat down about three rows back. I was going to get right into the Movie. It was a Movie called The Cross and The Switchblade! (laughter by audience)
Now that may seem funny to you, but it was not funny to me at the time! So I sat there, trying to make wise cracks at the movie all night and became interested in Nicky Cruze!
See, you think with one mind (I think with the same mind now as a Christian), but as a Witch, I thought with a different mind. Dave Wilkerson was the Enemy and Nick Cruze was the hero! So I sat there and I thought;
Well, this guy is pretty good, nothing wrong with him. Maybe he will convert the Preacher over here!
And then Nicky got saved!
Now that term meant nothing to us! But when he changed, from the old Nicky Cruze to the new Nicky Cruze, that meant something. That was impossible!
The Cornerstone, or the whole platform of witchcraft, is, you cannot cast a spell you cannot mix a potion you cannot do a rite without a firm knowledge of astrology! It is The Base for all practices in Witchcraft!
One of it’s teachings is you are born a set personality. There is nothing you can do to change from that set personality, and mine was pretty lousy as it was.
So as Nicky Cruze changed, this was a miracle, not understandable to any witch. So going out of there in a very confused state of mind, as I walked out the door, not realizing much of what had happened even to the point that I forgot that I was even going through withdrawal. And I walked out and a young man walked up to me and he handed me this track and said, Here. This is for you. And he turned around and walked away. He didn’t hand anybody else a track. He just left. And the track was called Bewitched!
I was raised in a Supernatural world. All our lives we had spent listening to Spirit Guides. Now since that Preacher had prayed for me, my Spirit Guides had not said a word to me. I was in a vacuum. Have you ever had a trial, where you prayed and prayed and feel like you’re not getting through? Well this is the way I felt and nothing was coming through and I was in a vacuum. And after 14 years of depending upon these spirits to tell me everything to do. Nobody was telling me anything! Because, this preacher had taken authority over them and ordered them to be quiet. As I was reading this booklet, I had sense enough to know that something was trying to get to me. Something was trying to get through. But none of my Spirit Guides would be giving me books on witchcraft that was telling me the Devil was behind it!
So I threw the book away and was in a bigger state of confusion that I had ever been in and I walked back to where my apartment was in the casino building and it consists of several night clubs back there and I walked into one, The Club Aquarius, walked to the back of the club and sat down in the office all alone by myself and tried to think things out.
Now I spent several hours trying to think of a Christian Church that I could go to and ask questions of, that we didn’t own the Minister of. Now that may seem kind of strange to you, but as an Ex-Grand Druid, it is not strange at all.
Much that you see in Churches that you just think is liberalism is pay-off-ism. I will go over that in simple terms!
They have taken the money and rejected The Lord! It is kind of hard for a minister who is not sold out to God to turn down 1/2 million Dollars if it is laid down as a bribe. They can get even higher! In fact, one Church that I know of got Eight Million Dollars in two years and another one got Ten Million Dollars in one year. So they can receive the money. Anyway
I didn’t have a membership list with me so I didn't know who we owned and who we didn’t and I was afraid to call the wrong Pastor because that could get me killed! So I sat there thinking for a little bit and I remembered that the night before one of our witches that was a prostitute in a downtown area, had come screaming into the night club the night before, about a coffee house called the Green gate Club.
Strange place! It used to be a Burlesque place about 3 months prior to that and this minister came in and preached an un-invited revival. The revival took about 15 minutes and 20 some people got saved including the dancers, the bartender, the band the people in the congregation and the husband and wife that owned the place. So when they got saved they decided to turn it over to a Baptist Church that they were going to. That Baptist Church turned out to be the Baptist Church that was praying and fasting for me.
Now don’t confuse Jack Tator with the other Pastor. He was from another Church. He couldn’t get his Church to pray and fast for witches since his Church thought he was Crazy when he said Witch, so he called up Castle Hills which was well known for working in the Power of God!
They asked for people to pray and fast and they got about 500 people to pray and fast over that weekend, that I would get saved. And I firmly believe that, that, had a lot to do with it.
So, she had told me about this place and she wanted us to burn it down, buy it out or something because it was ruining her business. I mean, here is a prostitute, propositioning a soldier, and here is somebody over here preaching the Word of God to him! It doesn’t work!
So she was very upset and uhhhh...I decided I would go look this place up, so I walked on over by the bus station. I went in, it was about 2:00 in the morning. The place was supposed to close at midnight.
I firmly believe to this day that God breaks Coke fountains! Because when I came in there the manager had stayed late to fix the Coke Fountain that had broken down just as he was ready to close. And as I walked in, he started witnessing to me and it was fine till about 45 minutes to an hour and then I brought up Witchcraft. So in a White kind of Ghostly like face he called up the Pastor and said;
I got this Witch down here.
And the Pastor said;
Well, we have been praying and fasting that he would get there so go ahead and witness to him and we will just call everybody up and start praying.
So they started praying and he started witnessing more and started showing me things in the Bible and started praying for me. Pretty soon he was praying and I was praying and The Lord saved me!
(Congregation: AMEN!)
And I have never forgotten it!
See, I was born in a Witchcraft Family where I inherited everything my parents had. In other words, I inherited their demons! Or ones just like the ones they had, so I was never free from the time the doctor spanked me on bottom in the delivery room, until that night in 1972. You may have felt great when you got Saved but I don’t think that you felt as great as I felt when I got saved! We may argue that point, but I don’t.
(Laughter)
But for the first time I could think for myself without this heavy like Cotton in my head is about the only way you could describe it. And my decision was that if they killed me going out of that place then I would die happy! And I walked out, not even thinking of any danger, and the next night I was thinking and saying that I would like to live long enough to enjoy this. The reason for that is, you do not leave witchcraft once you are initiated. When you are in, you are in! To prove this point, there have been, since my salvation, about 500 people saved out of Witchcraft. And that is not very many when you know how many millions are in. Fifty of them have been killed in five years!
Our lives are in danger all the time. My wife’s and myself. And all the people that have come out. They start at $10,000 bounties and work up to several hundred thousand. But it is not just witches. I have a few contacts still back in the Illuminati that will do me favors every once in awhile. They don’t understand why I would want to be a Christian but they don’t think I am all that bad. But I had them run a computer check through one of the computers they have in New York that the occult owns to keep tabs on everybody. I wanted to check out what Christian ministers I might know that had this same problem on them. Brother Barry’s name came up. They have $100,000.00 on that man’s head!
Jack Chick of Chick Publications, Dr. Van Impe, Joe Boyde, Dan Hartry, my pastor Ola Rasmussen - and many others to go on and on. They have felt such a danger to them that they have decided that they are better dead than alive, and were willing to spend millions of dollars to make sure that it happens.
So it is a warfare! And it goes on and it is getting worse and worse! We had to pray much before we would come out to the East Coast. Everybody said I was crazy when I moved to L.A. to minister to the people out there. They don’t know the East Coast. It has been an experience. And we ask that you pray for us as we go around ministering. My wife is usually with me on the road, but she had to go back to Los Angeles on an emergency and we ask that you pray for her while she is on the road.

Chapter Six Occult Symbolism and the Kingdom of Satan John Todd

These are types of jewelry that were created by demonic instruction to very important people. Christians are astonished when I tell them that the greatest Wizard that ever lived, male witch, was King Solomon. When he backslid he really backslid! And as great as his writings were in our Bible, they were as great in the Witchcraft bible! The very initiation rites and how to prepare Witchcraft bibles, how to conjure demons up, everything, even how to commit human sacrifice are writings that he created.

And before I tell you what they mean I want to say this: it is impossible to buy this jewelry, except for the Ankh outside of a witchcraft store until a few years ago. They were handmade by silversmiths belonging to the priesthood and sold only to initiated witches in occult stores. Since then, the Illuminati have decided that one of the greatest tricks they could play on the Christians was to put this jewelry around their necks and on their hands.

The reason is, this stuff attracts demons. They cling around where it’s at. Now, if you’re shocked to see the Star of David up there, that’s because it’s just recently been called the Star of David. For thousands of years it was called the Hexagram or the Crest of Solomon.

Now when a witch wants to practice witchcraft, she’ll get in a pentagram, that's the fivepointed star in the circle, their strongest form of protection. Then they will lay this six-pointed star, or hexagram--which means to hex, or to cast black magic or to put a spell on somebody-they’ll put it in a circle on the floor and this will cause the demons to appear at their instruction.

It is the most evil of signs in witchcraft. I know I may not be getting through to you what I’m trying to get through, but it’s dangerous to have it. The pentagram, the pinnacle with the one point up, means Witchcraft; two points up means demon-worship or Satanism.

It is interesting to note that the Eastern Star symbol is a two points up, five-pointed star. This symbolizes the goat head, which Satanists believe is representative of the Devil, and they use this goat head and worship it like they are worshipping the Devil.

The ankh means that you despise virginity, believe in fertility rites, practice fertility rites and worship the sun god Ra. The sun god Ra is the Egyptian name for Lucifer.
The peace symbol up there is not the peace symbol. I didn't have to do the initiation that contained the broken cross because I was born into Witchcraft and it wasn't necessary, and people who have no Christian background do not have to do it. But if a person raised in a Christian church--whether they were Christian or not--wants to join Witchcraft, they would have to take a ceramic cross and turn it upside-down and break the cross bars down, symbolizing their rejection of Calvary and the Christian Church.
This is said to bring you peace of mind while you practice witchcraft, that's where it got the word peace symbol from. We called it the Peace Symbol for the last 20 years, they've called it the Broken Cross for the last several hundred. Now which are you going to believe?
After that you have what is called the unicorn’s horn, or the Italian horn is what they are calling it now, so they can sell it. Literally, the translation is: You trust the Devil for your finance. If you don’t trust the Devil for your finance, don’t wear it. I can guarantee it has just the opposite reaction in a Christian's life. The last symbol is the symbol that initiated priests and priestesses, coven members, wear to show they have been initiated.
Now Christians ask me;
What’s this got to do with the Christian Church?--We don’t have to worry about it!
This morning we cast demons out of a young man who got delivered from this who had his initiation scar on his wrist who was a counselor and a member of Word of Life Ministries, the Word of Life Christian Club Ministries. They are everywhere, people!
The young lady who took my place grew up, was raised and was a member of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Jerry Falwell's church. Jerry doesn’t know it, but that’s where she grew up, was raised, and she now sits on the Council of 13. So, they are everywhere.

We had to really pray before we could make it to the service tonight, my wife and myself. We’ve been battling the flu, and coughs. We’ve been pushing and we’ve opened ourselves up and weakened our bodies down.

Literally what I’m going to do is teach out of a book that we just did for Chick Publications about a month ago which should be seen in your Christian bookstores in about six months. It took 6 or 8 months to do the artwork on it, a book that we could write in about two days, and it's called The Angel of Light.

And what we’re going to do is take the Devil’s spiritual kingdom and his physical kingdom. The reason I want to do it this way is many people, many political organizations, conservative political organizations specifically, find the Illuminati in their journeys. I mean it’s kinda hard if you’re going to fool around with politics and history not to see the conspiracy. But they look at this little thing over here, and they see a war is happening, or they look over here at this little political movement and they miss the whole picture because they look at it from the outside.

It’s impossible to look at the Illuminati from the outside unless you understand its structure. Physical minds and computers cannot come up with the conspiracy as powerful and as direct, as workable, that has hundreds of different little conspiracies off of it, that do not know that it's all one big conspiracy.

It’s impossible to do something like this without a supernatural direction. We have a supernatural direction in the Christian Church, that's how come the Christian Church grew, we have the Holy Spirit leading us. Well, they have the Prince and Power of the Air. They have Lucifer leading them, and this is something I want to go into.

I want to describe him and go into him in the word and my experiences, and then we're going to go into his physical kingdom, the Illuminati. If you have paper and pencil with you tonight, I recommend that you get it out, because I doubt that you're going to hear the things that you're going to hear here tonight quite like you're going to hear them tonight!

While you’re doing that, I’d like to ask that you turn to Ezekiel the 28thchapter, starting in verse 11, and we’re going to read about 19 Scriptures here tonight in this Chapter. The 28th Chapter of Ezekiel is a prophecy given by Ezekiel who received it of the Lord. The Lord commanded him to give it. He was prophesying unto Satan himself. The prophet of the Lord stood there and prophesied unto Satan.

We have a confusing picture because of many paintings and many Sunday School stories, that are based on tradition about the Devil’s fall, and when we got into The Angel of Light we realized how many traditions we were going to shatter. But we had come to a conclusion before we wrote it that unless it said it in the Word--and no reading in between the lines, please--unless it said it directly in the Word, we weren’t going to put it down. We were going to put it down in the Word. And then I stood over here and said, well that’s exactly the way it was in the occult.-And we matched the two of them up and they matched perfectly.

So we’re not going to take you through any traditions tonight, so if you have a lot of Baptist traditions you’re going to get a lot of it shattered tonight between this chapter and the 24th chapter of Matthew, and you’re going to walk out of here either a changed person or ready to lynch the pastor and myself! But let’s take this tonight and I want the young people to pay attention to this.

This is the most perfect description of Lucifer. And when you’re gone and if you’re still listening to the garbage that you call music today, you need to get re-saved. Because this is the
Scripture for it, read with me: Moreover the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying... Now I want to say something here about this chapter.

He’s prophesying to the prince of Tyrus, and many people believe that this was ... I can’t think of this name now, but anyway, the ruler of Babylon. And if you’ll get in Isaiah where it talks about Lucifer the fallen star, before he started prophesying to Lucifer, Isaiah was prophesying to the same ruler. (Isa.14:4.)

The reason for this is the perfect description of the Illuminati--and the Illuminati didn't even exist in its organized form at that time--it's because there was a ruler, a prince. A power was a ruler, and then there was the king over that prince, so it was the power behind that Earthly ruler.

And this is where people aren’t looking today and are not paying attention to Ephesians 6:12 today. They’re not looking at things with a supernatural stance behind the physical. While Walter Cronkite or somebody else gets on television and says this is happening, you ought to get down on your knees and say;

Lord, what’s really happening?
Because it’s not the way they’re telling it!
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
The first thing we want to point out about Lucifer is, when he was created he was the complete sum of all beauty and wisdom. You see, God wasn't created, but never had a created creature ever been created with such beauty and such wisdom, and that was Lucifer;
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God, every precious stone was thy covering. And it lists the stones and gold. And on down it lists;
The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
He was created with musical instruments imbedded in his body, that’s how he was created!
You see, Lucifer is trying to be a god in this prophecy, and we’ll go on in it. He’s trying to be a god, he’s trying to be as great as God. He’s trying to build a kingdom in the sides of the mountain of the North and so on, and it's a description of God’s Kingdom. He knows that music was created for God, dance was created for God. He knows that if he is going to be a god he is going to have to have music.
You can’t be a god without musical worship, so he created his own music. It’s not just rock. I get sick of people saying just rock. I’m down on all music except the music that is created for the Lord. The reason I’m particularly down on Country and Western, and if you ever listen to it, it’s worse that rock! It’s more about lust. It’s more about drinking. It’s more about fighting than any other thing. And recently it’s even begun to be about witchcraft.
See, witches don’t say Witchcraft, and they don’t say witches. They say practicers, or something like this. And they say the force, for those who’ve been to Star Wars. They say the force, so they describe him as the force. Now Tom C. Hall has come out with a song called, The Force, and the music is the background music for witchcraft ceremonies. It’s his music to the words of that song.
And in Star Wars --which is the biggest thing that Witchcraft has ever done to spread its doctrine -in Star Wars and in this song they say, And may the force be with you till we’re apart. This is almost identical to what witches say when they greet and part, so it’s not by accident, People. Nothing is by accident anymore. If I can get anything across to you tonight; you’re going to walk out of here saying there’s nothing that happens by accident.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.
He covered God’s throne. He was the chosen cherub. Now one of the traditions about Lucifer is that he was one of three archangels. Quickly, can anybody find a Scripture for that in the Bible?--It doesn’t exist! That’s a tradition. That’s the problem, you’ve got too many traditions! He was a cherub, he wasn’t an archangel, there’s a difference. The Jews go in much more deeply than we do on angels, they still believe in the angels instead of believing in the Holy Spirit.
But I firmly believe that the Devil’s kingdom supernaturally is set up to counterfeit God’s and he has seven principalities. He has set his spiritual kingdom up identical with God’s kingdom and there are seven--he wasn’t one of them. A third of the angels rebelled with him, yes, that’s in Revelation that happens, but that doesn’t mean he was one of the three archangels. That’s just our way of thinking. (Rev.12:3,4.)
The chosen cherub.
The anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God: thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created till iniquity was found in thee." He was perfect till then. "By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God. Now what is the Lord saying here?
I will cast thee out.
If you think that Lucifer is locked out of Heaven, I suggest you go back and read the first Chapter of Job all over again, and then go read Revelation. Revelation isn't a history book, it’s a prophecy book, and in there we find he’ll get cast out. The Devil's walking here, this is his domain. He’s our accuser, that's what Satan means, accuser. He stands before the Throne of God constantly accusing us. I’ll let you study this later, because I want to go on, but on and on it describes him.
The main thing I want to point out is how he looks. So in the sketch we drew for the artists for The Angel of Light, we drew him as the covering angel before God’s Throne, covered with jewels. And when God’s light shone through him it was like a prism, it changed the colors to where they come out, and colors are extremely important to the Devil. Everything he does is in colors, without them, nothing happens. It’s like Jeane Dixon sees blue serpents, and we’re going to go into that tonight.
Anyway, earlier today I was talking about when I’ve seen Lucifer. I don’t know why it’s so astounding to Christians that somebody should see the Devil, but I suggest this to you: fight him really hard and I can guarantee he’ll show up in your life. He’ll pay you a visit and say hi! No, I’m serious, I really am, it’s not a joke. If you start fighting the Devil, if he doesn’t show up-which is doubtful that he would--he will send somebody to imitate him and pay you a visit. The Pastor and his wife were telling me tonight of a visit that they’ve had. Will you confirm this visit, Pastor? Absolutely! It was a very spooky one, wasn’t it, Sister? But because they did not fear, he had to leave. Now I want to say something to you very quickly while we’re on the supernatural part of the Devil. The Devil can only interfere in a Christian’s life through several things, he can only come in your home for this reason:
If you fear him he can come in because you have worshipped him. So don’t fear him! If you own something that belongs to him, such as the jewelry we described in Sunday School this morning; or such as books on the occult, or books on astrology which is the occult; or such as writings that are supposed to be best sellers, but come on people, they’re loaded with stuff that Larry Flynt would love to put in his magazine!--Best sellers that are just descriptions for pornography books so Doubleday can make an extra buck!

Rock Music

And then there are other things such as things or belongings that actuality were created by the Devil. Such as rock music. Now I want to specify this, I am down on this because I am an ex-witch. Without it witches don't function. I dropped this out of my testimony this morning, I should have given it. One of the things that I was supposed to be was the head of this Brenner Enterprises in Texas which explains to the IRS why I was making all this money.

It was a lot of money and one of the companies I was supposed to have owned was called Zodiac Productions. The name gives it away. It was a booking agency in Texas; it’s changed its name, but it’s still the largest booking agency in the U.S. for rock groups. It was the group that was originally responsible for bringing the Beatles to the U.S. I got to meet most of the groups.

The Beatles were already apart when I was there. But I got to meet several of them off and on. And I met almost all of the groups that were in existence then. And a lot that are in existence now. I only found about this many (holds up a few fingers) that weren’t occultists, that didn’t confess when they were alone that their music came from supernatural forces as they would put it.

So I want to tell the teenagers and the parents something real quick before I go on: When witches do a book, they do a spell over the manuscript and they command demons which are under their authority to enter every manuscript that comes off the press, every copy of that book. So when you buy that book you get a little free gift, like when you open a little Cracker Jacks box and there’s a little trinket in there. Well, you get a free demon, free of charge.

Well, most of the rock groups do the same thing. And I know. I’ve talked to one just recently--David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young that used to exist and is getting back together--and he told me this is why his records and others’ records zoomed to the charts. Many people tell me they do this so their records will be best sellers, and you get free of charge your own private demon.

So parents, if you’re compromising with your kids to keep them from running away from home, you are responsible for that article in the home because you're the head of the house. (Audience: Amen, preach it, Brother!)

Now this is an ex-witch talkin’ who knows about demons, so you better pay attention!! Maybe that’s why your finances are messed up! Maybe that’s why your kids and you are sick once in a while and you shouldn’t be. The preacher asked me how much credit do I give the Devil for sickness? I said;

All of it, lock, stock and barrel!
Principalities and Drugs

Now let’s go on or I’ll be on that all night. Anyway, I want to give you something real quick; there are seven principalities in the Devil’s kingdom. The way it’s set up, there’s Satan and then there’s Beelzebub. I know a lot of Christians thought that was another title for Satan, but that’s his prince. That would have been his position to God, that would have been his chosen angel. Under that are the seven principalities, and under the principalities are the powers, and under the powers, billions of demons. I just praise the Lord that the pit’s locked and that most of them are there. But there’s still millions running around.

But always, The seven principalities are as follows; Rege, which is the principality of the occult and many things that are under the occult. And this is for the young people; witches know the difference between witchcraft and Sorcery. That’s why I don’t like the modern translations of the Bible, because they list witchcraft as Sorcery.

Sorcery is the use of certain drugs that are actually occult drugs. There’s a difference. Timothy Leary, when he wrote his book on LSD said;
You’re not hallucinating when you take acid. Acid is blocking the physical senses out so that you can see a supernatural World!
And since God doesn’t use LSD, that only leaves one supernatural world left! And most people that have been on LSD for a long time will tell you;
I wasn’t hallucinating when I saw that!
Now this is why we ask many people if they’ve been in the occult and if they’ve said no, then we’ll stop and say;
But you were on acid. Or you’ve been on coke, or you’ve been on a strong form of hashish of or you’ve been on speed!

Something that’s classified as a hallucinogenic. That’s a sorcery drug. The word sorcery comes from the word that we receive pharmacist from meaning the dispenser of drugs. In this case, sorcery means the use of drugs for occult purposes. Now there's other things that are in this, of course, there's witchcraft and all this.

The next one is lasers. I was going to put all of this on the board but I decided to go through it real quick so I can use the board for other things. Lasers is sexual lust, and that says it right there. You want to know all the things that are under Rege?--Everything that’s in the 18th Chapter of Deuteronomy is under Rege.

One thing I usually warn Christians about is this cute little game going around the Christian church that when a woman is pregnant with a child, somebody will get a button or a ring or a medallion of some type, swing it over their hand and say, Let’s see if you’re going to have a girl or a boy. That’s called divination, fortune telling.

If that woman or man that was doing that cute little trick, that old wives tale, were caught doing that in Israel, they’d take her out and stone him or her to death, and the person that was allowing it to be done! Today we’re under grace, praise the Lord for that, or I wouldn’t be here, but I’m telling you it’s that serious! We could go into the demonic reasons for it, but you might gain troubles from it by allowing it to happen.

Next after lasers. After lust is Bacchus. I don’t have the spelling on it, good luck. I’m sorry I didn’t put everything on the board but I left my notes back in Ohio. Bacchus was even an old Roman god. A couple other of these principalities had gods named after them in different pagan countries during pagan times.

Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, is pretty close to what he was, and he is the principality of addiction. Now I’ve seen many people who shouldn’t be doing deliverance because they don’t know what they’re doing, calling demons of nicotine out, demons of alcoholism, and the demons standing there laughing at them because there’s no such creature!

But there is a demon of addiction, and the reason I specify this is that he doesn’t care what you feed him, just as long as you’re addicted to it. That can be food and caffeine as well as alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. Now food and caffeine are not bad except when you’ve got to have it and you use it as a solution to your problems.

Take for example a woman in a liberal church. She had problems she doesn’t go to the Lord. She’ll go to her liquor cabinet and her pack of Marlboros--as she’s hooked on both--or taking her prescribed barbiturates from the doctor. Now over in the Fundamental church this isn’t allowed, except maybe the prescribed prescription from the doctor. And she’ll go where? Does anybody know?

If she has lots of problems, where does she run to if she doesn’t run to the Lord? What does she do if she gets nervous? She eats! How many people get up in the morning and have got to have ... now I’m talking about having a cup of coffee to pop the ol’ peepers up, I gotta have my cup of coffee! I’m gonna die if I don’t have my cup of coffee!cup of coffee! I’m gonna die if I don’t have my cup of coffee! pack of Pepsi in three hours, 16 cans of Dr. Pepper a day! Come on!

You can talk about alcoholics. We’ve got some caffeine addicts around here! There’s a difference between drinking it because you like it, and don’t kid me!! It’s like the guy putting the cigarette down and saying, Oh well, I could quit any time, I just like to do it. Yeah, I could quit drinking 26 cups of coffee a day, but I just enjoy coffee! Then go to Sanka! If you can stand the withdrawals! Come on, you know what I mean! It’s the same demon! He does not care.

To give you an example, I mentioned teen challenge today. Teen Challenge will not accept anybody from the occult because they don’t cast out demons and they can’t handle them. That’s why they don’t get much success with drugs anymore because since Dave Wilkerson got rid of exorcism, Teen Challenge dropped out of it, they don’t do deliverance. So therefore the people come in, they get them off of cigarettes, they get them off of drugs, but they come out weighing 200 or 300 pounds and 26 cups of coffee a day and they’ve got the same demons!

They’re feeding the same demons but they’re giving them a new diet! Can somebody tell me, amen? You understand what I’m trying to say? Oh, you understand? Ok! Next after that is Pan. If you know Shakespeare, Pan says, What fools these mortals be! It kind of gives him away.

Pan is the principality of the mind. This is the Devil’s favorite playground. When you say sanctify the spirit, soul and body, this is the soul, the mind. Now, to give you an example, we run into Pan more than any other demon. Now we don’t use names. But I’m giving you the names anyway. We just use categories in deliverance.

We run into him because this is the demon of rejection. And this is the base for everybody that has sexual problems, and the base where everybody has drug problems, and the base for everybody that has occult problems. Because they pick this demon up when they’re a child, sometimes before they’re even born, and they carry this thing that opens them up to other demons, trying to feed and fulfill the demon that’s driving them from within. If you’ve ever seen a person with the spirit of rejection you'll know what I mean.

And he’s also over neuralgia, depression, suicide, schizophrenia, paranoia, all the mental illnesses. This is why people with rejection problems have deep depression, they try and kill themselves, they’re nervous all the time, they all tie together, people! The next one after it is Set, and this will answer the Pastor's question he had about sickness.

Set is the principality of death. He was the Egyptian god of the underworld, the same thing. Set is over all sicknesses, in fact there're 39 major illnesses--that’s what the physicians say today--and the occult credits him with 39 powers, 39 little sub-groups. And it’s interesting that it's believed that Christ took 39 stripes for our healing.

How many have I got now? Five? I know what the 7this. But I want to leave it till the 7th. Okay, I’ve got Lasers, Rege, Bacchus, Set, Pan. I can’t think of what the other one is. I'm trying to think of the category that’s missing. Sheila, help! We don’t have our notes with us! I’m gonna skip it, I’ll come back to it.

The seventh one does not have a name because witches don’t use it. You see, witches will call these others up and will send them out or have them command demons to go out. They don't use this one. They call it a Christian principality. Remember I said earlier this morning there's no such thing as an undedicated witch; I had to get saved before I found undedicated people in religion! Now this is the reason why:

It’s called the principality of contentment. You come to church, you might even come to Sunday nights, and if you’re good you might even show up at prayer meeting on Wednesday, but that’s if you have a few problems during the week and you need a religious fix. Come on, People, this is the reason. This is why churches don’t grow, they don’t have bus programs, they don’t grow, they don’t go out and canvas.

That’s why were you come together for a witnessing night, you might get eight people out of three hundred to show up, because of this. I’ve walked into churches like that Calvary Chapel down in Costa Mesa with 3,000 young people.--You come back three months later and you’ve got 3,000 different young people! That’s because they either backslid or went to a Biblebelieving church so they could grow!

You can feel the power. the principality in the air of contentment. When you walk through the door, you can suffocate!--That is if you came out of what I came out of and you know what they feel like. Anyway, I’m still trying to think of the last one. Oh boy, I’ll probably remember it when the service is over. OK, let’s go on to the physical kingdom.

Oh, somebody asked me earlier today when I was in Sunday School describing Lucifer. He must not want this to come out - about when he appeared. He did appear physical, and this might shock a few people. I’ve seen him sit down at tables at meals. I’ve seen him even have sexual relationships with women at witchcraft meetings, at higher meetings. In fact, the girl that took my place whose witch name is Regina, it means the bride of Lucifer. Now the witches believe it too!

He appeared about seven feet tall, usually clothed in deep purple. Sometimes clothed in red. Sometimes clothed in gold, purple and gold. The only time I’ve seen him clothed in anything else was about six hours after I got saved. He showed up as Satan--that was a shock--and he was clothed in black, but he still appeared the same. About seven feet tall, and I’d have to say not just handsome, but beautiful.

Jet black hair, snow white skin, and the color of his eyes, instead of blue. brown, or whatever, were a deep violet, almost deep purple. And when you looked in them, it was like looking down into the Grand Canyon. It’s just bottomless, this power! And believe me, if he ever appeared to you, you’d know you were in his presence.

Now I want to go on to the physical kingdom the Illuminati. For those of you who were maybe not around this morning, the Illuminati means The Light Bearers. Call it Great Conspiracy, call it what it's called today, Moriah, which means The Conquering Wind; call it the CFR, which is its political name to this country; call it anything you want to call it, it’s still the Illuminati, and I want to give some quick history about the Illuminati here.

Its official birthday is May 1, 1776 - recognize the year people? That’s its official birthday. It existed about five to six years before, but that’s it official birth date. May 1st you have, the Communists have it, but all these countries that have ties with the Illuminati, May 1st is the most holiest day because it is Beltane to the witches, and Beltane is New Years Day, and all things begin on Beltane.

It’s the day that Lucifer comes back from the underground and dwells in the skies above, according to the witches. Now I don’t believe that doctrine now, but that’s the doctrine we believed then. They spent between Halloween and Beltane under the Earth and came back in the summer months. That’s how come the seasons change and all that good stuff. In other words, witchcraft is paganism.. All the witches call themselves pagans because they believe in the old pagan religions, which means pre-Christian religion.

Now, this is the structure. The reason I’ve left the other blocks out, there’s actually three pyramids, each one bigger than the next, but this is on all of them, the Capstone. Now I want to explain the Illuminati with these pyramids so there’s so confusion.

The first pyramid is organization, not financial, not political, Organization. You’ll find the Masons here, that's one of the originals. You’ll find the Grand Lodges of the Orient, which is where the Illuminati started. You’ll find the Scottish Rites, the York Rites, the Oddfellows, the Jaycees--any organization that is secret, that has an inner group besides the outer group, you will find there, as long as it's not directly occultism.

The natures are in doctrine and most members don’t know that the witches believe and do the same things that they do. In fact, I think the Masons would be shocked to look at a drawing, a blueprint of the Golden Dawn Temple--which is the Rothschild’s private coven in London--and see that all Mason’s temples are based upon that blueprint. They would be shocked to read that the Rothschilds do the same rites that the Masons do. You might tell a few Masons that, I may have just told a few of them that!

Up here you’ll also find B'NAI B'RITH, a very, very powerful Illuminati organization. They couldn’t be doing what they're doing today without B’nai B’rith. You'll find the American Civil Liberties Union, you’ll also find a new one that was created off of it by the man that is actually the brains of the Illuminati today, Isaac Bonovitz.

What Mr. Bonovitz created is called the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League. You may not feel it much out on the East Coast yet, but out on the West Coast the Christians have already felt it. It’s won Federal suit after Federal suit of any Christian church touching witchcraft, of any Christian church taking the occult on.--And that's exactly what it is, it’s the anti-defamation league to the Occult.

At the top of every pyramid you will find 500 - the 500 is the world banking system. It’s a counsel of the 500 richest people in the world, and it’s been in existence for hundreds of years. Some of the people on it today are David Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Phillip and Edward Rothschild--in fact all the Rothschilds; Queen Juliana and her husband. All the delegates from the Arab countries that own all your oil that doesn’t exist ... Hmmmm.

The next is the council of 33, the 33 highest Masons in the world. After that is the Council of 13, the Grand Druid Council, this is what I sat on. After that there’s a Capstone, the Rothschild’s Tribunal--Edward, Phillip and Richard are the ones that are sitting up on the Rothschild's Tribunal now. It’s believed that Richard is the third one, in other words, we aren't sure who the third one is. In it is the leader of the Illuminati: the all-seeing eye, Lucifer!

Now have any of you been noticing the news lately and they’ll be talking about the stock market or the deflation of the dollar or something, and they’ll show this pyramid and capstone from the back of the dollar bill? Have you been noticing the eye on it lately? The whole thing will be green and they’ll make the eye blue with a big glare coming out of it, and the eye’s twice as big as it normally is!

Because the TV Uses Witchcraft symbols. Now see, you don't know witch language. They have their own witch language, symbols that you see everyday throughout the World that witches understand. They put these symbols on their store names. They create their store names, because the witch language and witch symbols are for witches who are going by there. witches know who owns them, they know the Illuminati owns them.

I guarantee, people that you probably shop with Satan. You probably shop at ten stores including the gas situation, grocery store, department store and so on, and nine of them probably belong to the Illuminati. To give you an example, Federal Department Stores is the biggest department store chain in the World. One of their leading members, Lazarus, is the biggest stockholder. They own Gold Circle, they own K-Mart which is Kresge's, they own Lazarus, they own Federal Department Stores, I know a bunch of them in Baltimore, I forget all of them.

THEY OWN THEM THROUGHOUT THE U.S. I think Penny’s is about the only one that they don’t own. Sears belongs to the Illuminati, Montgomery Wards belongs to Mobile Oil which belongs to the Illuminati. There isn’t one oil company that you can buy your gasoline at today that’s not owned 100% by Illuminati stockholders. Shell was the last to go when they went down. Interesting that that’s one of the things that's bringing us to our knees.

Now I want to give some things that are gonna happen. I invite you to go home and research the 24th Chapter of Matthew if you are of the opinion that you are going to be raptured out of here without anything at all happening to you. Pastor, for their benefit, do you agree with this?

Pastor: Yes, I believe that a lot’s going to happen before it.

It's going to get a lot worse.
Now I want to say that I believe in the rapture and I believe in the tribulation and I
believe that hundreds of thousands of Christians are going to die within a few years.--Because
they didn't read the Word of God which warned us in advance that it was going to be the way it is
going to be, and they listened to preachers that told them and patted them on the back. Are you
familiar with Jeremiah?--If not, I invite you to read it.
Jeremiah stood up as a prophet of God and warned the city time and time again until
destruction was upon them, and they threw him in a pit because the rest of the prophets of the
temple stood up and said, No, it’s all going to be all right. It ain’t gonna come because God’s
gonna save us!
--But God didn't say it. He said, I'm gonna tear this city apart!
Now in the 24thchapter of Matthew, he said that the time was coming. Now this is Jesus’
own words, the time was coming that would be so bad that you wouldn't be able to stop and go
back in your house and pick up a coat! He even said pray that when you run--that’s exactly what
it said, flee, run as fast as you can, flee--and pray that it doesn't happen in the Wintertime. Wow,
would people run, and what did I say, I’d be spinnin’ my tracks!
Europe has already been prepared for this for years, and across the U.S. people are waking up that are Christians and are preparing for a space of time. I believe it’s going to be kind of short because it’s gonna be so bad that it couldn’t be long, nobody would live if it was long.
It’s gonna be short but to the point.
Now a plan of world rule will never take the effect if you are independent of that world
rule. The only reason that the mark of the beast - that’s what many Christians call it, or a tag of
being one of the group that’s buying, selling, and so on--the only reason that would work is if you
had to buy. If you don’t have to buy, what good will it do you?
Everything since Jimmy Carter got in that he has done has been to set it up so you will
not be independent of the U.S. government, or any government that will exist later. You must
function within them for every bite of food and every drop of gasoline, is the major plan. And
that’s why--it’s what’s hit them back--it hasn’t come into effect yet. In fact the Gun Law, which
was one of the most important steps, was to have been in a year ago. That’s the only measure that
they're behind on.
I met a man from the National Rifle Association (NRA) that without them being
Christians I sure can appreciate some of the things they’ve done that I’ve seen from behind the
scenes. Martin Iegues was Jimmy Carter’s campaign manager who is the head of the National
Gun Control Center in Atlanta, Georgia, which is the organization whose purpose it is to take
every hand gun, every rifle, every shotgun out of every home in the U.S.
Now this may not seem very important and I am amazed at how many Christians seem to
think that being a Christian means that you should be against guns. How many of you think that,
seriously? That if you’re a Christian you should be against guns, that guns are evil? I’ve got news
for you: the Illuminati is so scared of every private-owned gun that it’s unbelievable! It’s the only
threat to them.
The only threat to them right now of their plans is your privately-owned guns. Now I
asked the Pastor if I could just throw in these things, and I have, and I’m going to give them to
you, and if you were afraid this morning, I pray that you won’t get afraid now! Lord help them. That timetable that I saw said, when Charles Manson is released that within months of his
release, they were to start Helter Skelter. I’ve got a feeling I’m gonna get back on rock music
now. The Beatles are classified in the occult world as the four major prophets. That’s right,
there’s more to the Beatles than meets the eye. Their White Double Album ... now this’ll mean
nothing to a lot of you, and a lot to the young people. Their White Double Album is considered to
be the Book of Revelation to witches. That’s right. That and a book called Atlas Shrugs. Now in it is a song called Helter Skelter. You should listen to that song, I used to have a
lot of drug friends get together and say, I wonder what that means? Witches knew what it meant.
It was part of witch language. It meant a time when the pit would be opened and the demons
would be set free and the World would become insane in less than a 24-hour period and they’d be
killing everybody--their next door neighbors, their kids, their wife, everything! The World would
just completely go mass insane overnight.
Now Manson is not just a mass murderer who got sent to jail. Take my word for it, if you
don't take anything else, please take my word for it. Manson would have never gone to jail had he
not been told that that was where he was supposed to go. If the Illuminati would've wanted to
keep him out, he would've never gone to jail. They need him, so they let him get convicted. Manson went to jail because, in the seven years that he’s been in, he has organized from
his jail cell every prison across the U.S. Now we’ve talked to prison officials, and prisoners walk
around in prisons saluting each other and say, Helter Skelter’s our salvation! Pray Helter Skelter
will come! Helter Skelter will release us!
They’re waiting for a time when the World will go
completely insane and they’ll flood out of the prisons and they firmly believe--it’s not going to
happen but they firmly believe it--that they will take over this country.
Now, from talking to bikers--bikers meaning people that belong to illegal motorcycle
clubs like The Hell’s Angels, The Outlaws, The Pagans and so on. They have stopped fighting
amongst themselves, people. They have stopped killing each other anymore. You could get in a Bike War and 200 people could lay dead in the street in no time at all. You never heard about it because they got rid of all the bodies and got rid of all the guns and so on. But Bike Wars went on
like this all the time out in the country.
They stopped fighting. They don’t blow up each other’s club houses anymore. They don’t
shoot each other’s wives and this type of thing. They’ve quit fighting. They’ve won, they're
brothers for the first time, and their leader is Manson. He did this to the Hells Angels when he
was in prison there, that’s why he’s still there. He’ll be out.
They haven’t let him out yet because they’re not ready for him. The moment they get the
gun controls measures down and another law called the Anti-Hoarding act, which will be coming
up next year which will say you’ll go to Federal Penitentiary if you stockpile food, if you
stockpile ammunition and guns, if you stockpile medical supplies, if you stockpile gasoline,
you’re gonna go to jail if they find out about it.
You see the farmer’s strike and these accidental grain fires that we’ve been having lately?
People, come on, four of them?! There was one I heard on the news last night driving into Des
Moines, several of the largest grain dealers around up in smoke! If you want to believe that, you
go ahead and believe it, I believe it's set. They're cutting the food down.
You don’t feel it yet, but wait till you go to the store, try and buy a head of lettuce and
there’s no lettuce. That farmer’s strike is really good for the farmers and I’m glad the farmers
want to get some more money. But the Illuminati always uses people, and the people who started
that farmer’s strike were the closest friends of Jimmy Carter in Georgia. His own sister is one of
the leaders of it, not Ruth, the other one.
It’s so you will have to depend upon the government’s surplus food to eat, and you’re not
going to get it without a Government Card. We’ll talk about that cared in a minute, in fact we’ll
talk about it now. Anybody here recently within the last three years been in Europe, traveling
through the Holy Land or anything, anybody? Shucks. This is the reason I asked you that. How many of you know about the ten toes of Daniel, the reconstruction of the Roman
Empire? The iron was still there, it was only mixed with clay. Now, when the Common Market
was first formed there were ten, and Norway dropped out. The reason, Norway was not part of the
original Roman Empire, and God’s Word said it had to be part. About three months ago Greece
said, We will join you! They were the missing country.
Now when you go over there and you buy something, like shoes made in Italy or clothing
that’s made by the European common market, there's a good 85% chance that you'll see this
emblem on it. Anybody know what it is?--666, called the three-tailed comet. Now this same mark
appears in more places. If you look back, when Richard Nixon was in, our country decided it was
going to buy a lot of World currency to be distributed in 1980 or thereabouts.
Since then they’ve decided it’s better to go to a credit card. In other words, paperless
money and so on, where you never handle the money. But when it was bought, this was on all the
World common currency. Besides that, Jimmy Carter has decided that every red-blooded
American who is really a red-blooded American, and I’m blood red, I’m an American, will own a
security card to prove they’re an honest American.
Now. how many of you have been in a new department store and have seen the fancy
cash registers that are actually computer banks? There’s a slot that they run cards through.
They’ve even done it with the phones now where you can call by running a card through, a credit
card. The reason is that you’re going to have to have this magnetic security card, and this is on it.
It’s on it, People, pay attention, it’s on it! If you get Revelations, you get the meaning. You’re not going to be able to buy. You’re not going to pay another payment on your
home, on your car. You’re not going to get any gasoline in your car. You’re not going to get the
Pampers for your baby. You’re not going to get any bread, milk, and hamburger at the store.
You’re not going to run down to Ponderosa or whatever they’ve got on the East Coast and buy a
steak. It’s gonna cease!
And the U.S. has got a bad problem. It’s called the corner store complex. You know, at 10 o’clock at night you run down to the corner store and pick up a 6-pack of Pepsi--I hope it’s Pepsi and not Coors! Come on, when there’s the least little thing that we want, we run down and get it. What happens when you’re not allowed to buy gasoline but you’ve got this card?--You say, Well, I’ll take the card, but when they tell me I have to have a tattoo, I’ll quit it. Huh!
If you take the card, you’ve done taken it! That’s all you need. People, pay attention to
me! This card is scheduled to come out in a year-and-a-half, and the computer bank is already set
for it in Dallas.
The nickname of the talking computer in Dallas is nicknamed after its brother computer
in Amsterdam, The Beast. We talked to member of the National Guard in California and they’ve
changed their patch. He told me that in less than a year, Carter will have every National Guard in
every State wearing this patch, and they’re all hooked into the security computer called The
Beast
. We’re being set up.
Now when Manson gets out and Helter Skelter starts, in the first year, one million U.S.
citizens are marked for death. Now my question is, are you going to be one of them? Are you
going to stay around and be one of them? I'm not going to be one of them. I've been running
around for five years with people shooting at me, I've become an expert at it! Now listen to me,
I've told your Pastor what to do, Pastor Berry, Dr. Rasmussen and others across the country, this
isn't just John Todd, I'm doing something about it. Joe Boyd has been doing something about it
for 20 years.
What you better start doing about it, people, is you better start putting a little food back
for your family. I invite you to do a little experiment. Go home tonight and tomorrow get out a
paper and pencil, housewives, and take all the food out of your refrigerator and your freezer and
your cabinets and add it up in meals. I don’t mean survival meals. I mean meals that you can
work off for every member of your family.
Find out how much food, if you couldn’t get any tomorrow, you would have in your
home. Well, you're going to get a little bit of a warning because the Illuminati is going to try
something. They’re gonna try several little practices first. There’s a huge Teamster’s strike
coming that’s going to cut the food going into the cities. I don't mean a strike that's going to last a
few days, I mean nothing is going to move!
Nothing is going to move. The railways are going on strike at the same time and so are
specific airlines. The Longshoremen are going to go on strike so nothing comes off the ships. In
others words, nothing is going to move. Now you ought to go off to your grocery store, because if
this happens, how soon would you die on your feet? Most cities will tell you within two weeks
everybody would be starving. That's all the food there is in their storehouses.
There was a book released twelve years ago called Atlas Shrugs. It was a novel,
supposedly, written by one of Phillip Rothschild’s girlfriends at his instructions. It is a coded
book for witches that tells how they are to gain control of the World. In this book there is sort of a
parable about New York City, New York City is more or less the World.
They close by saying, we have won when the lights go out in New York City! And I
don’t mean the power failure, people, either. They’ll shut down all the trucks leaving, all the ships
coming in, they'll shut all the planes coming down. When everything was shut down, then the
lights went out for good.
When the book was done, the reader of the book takes his hand and lifts it up and draws
the dollar sign in the air. I’m going to draw this familiar sign of the dollar. It’s a witchcraft
symbol that means to control and to scourge. It’s 8,000 years old, people, and it was never the
dollar sign until we thought it was the dollar sign. Isaac Bonovitz says that through this symbol
we will now rule and control the world
. And the book ends.
Now in the book, all the way through, businessmen that belong to these organizations
purposely bankrupt or destroy their businesses so there aren’t any businesses, and they drive the
others out of business. And all the way through they use the battle plan called the presence from below and the presence from above. Anybody that's studied Communism knows the same plan. That means the Devil must destroy all the regulations, and the bankers do it this way, and guess who’s in the middle, people?--Us!
That’s what’s coming.

Chapter Seven
John Todd Question and Answer Transcript

The following is a compilation of question and answer segments transcribed from taped sermons given by John Todd. He’d often open the floor to the congregation to ask questions immediately following the talks he gave.

Question inaudible on tape
John Todd: Well, the Bilderbergers are in the 500. I didn’t know you would know that term, so I didn’t use it.
Question about Trilateral Council - Inaudible on tape

John Todd: I’m sure you couldn’t see the pyramid, but it was on the pyramid. The Trilateral Council is the Inner Council of the CFR, Council of Foreign Relations, which is the American name for the Illuminati. They are not there without full knowledge and they are handpicked by David Rockefeller, the leader of the Illuminati in the United States. Ok?

Inaudible question John Todd: I don’t know. I wasn’t over that state.

Let me ask you a question; is it a United Methodist Church? Well, that’s because the United Methodist Church has accepted the Omega Brotherhood, an organization started in Phoenix by United Methodist members who believe séances are Christian practice, and it is now accepted in the United Methodist Church. So he can be that and not be kicked out.

Question: Would you briefly outline the steps remaining in the world takeover plan between now and 1980?

John Todd: If the Pastor has no objections, Ok. The reason I ask this is that it can be pretty frightening and pretty unbelievable. I like to leave that to the last question so they’ll believe everything else I have to say before I say this! They usually reject everything after that because they're sitting around in shock!

What remains is this; they are in the process of a trial and error right now. And they test things. Last year they tested what it would be like to be without fuel to heat your homes. This year they are going to see if they can’t starve you, absolutely shut all electricity off in the East Coast. Now the timetable in the book Atlas Shrugs ended with this:

When the lights of New York City go out for the last time, we will have the World!

Now, that means that - towards the end - they are going to cut the cities off completely. There'll be a Teamsters strike, nothing will move for months, I mean nothing will move. These strikes will be more violent than the coal miners' strikes are right now, and the coal miners will strike again.

They are in the process of destroying all stored food and farmland in the farmer’s strike so that we will be without any food in the cities or in the country or anywhere except what is in the Federal storehouses. The air controllers will strike and nothing will fly over the skies of the U.S. except military flights. The longshoremen will strike and nothing will come off the boats, and the train engineers will strike and nothing will move. In other words, nothing is going to move at all.

Now, if you live in a large city, how are you going to get your food if they don’t bring it to you? Everything will be paralyzed, nothing will move. At the same time there will be riot and revolution within the United States, in fact the whole world will be in it.

It seems strange, and Christians cannot grasp that a mass murderer like Charles Manson will be released from prison. You should have heard the vote when he was up for release a month ago. He was kept there by two votes. Two votes kept him from leaving prison. Now, they didn’t want him out, and let me explain something, he did not go there because the jury found him guilty.

They could not have sent him to prison if the Illuminati did not want him to go. He went there for a reason, and we have talked to prison officials across the U.S. and people belonging to the motorcycle clubs and so on, and we have received the same answer: He has them united.

There is a mass army within every prison from coast to coast. They have been promised weapons, military weapons. To verify this, the U.S. Army has said, and so has the Marine Corps, that in the last five years they have lost many of their small arms weapons to theft in the United States. That includes hand-held ground-to-air, heatseeking missiles that can take a DC-10 out of the sky at 40,000 feet. One of the largest storehouses is in Baltimore and the second largest is in Philadelphia for these weapons, so they are very close to you.

He has been gathering an army, and outside of prison it amounts to over 100,000 professionally-trained military people. They have been hiring ex-Green Berets, Rangers, Navy, to train them in camps--one is down in West Virginia to give you an example--to train them in special forces tactics. Every one of them is as trained as a Green Beret, and that is very well-trained! Manson will be released either next year or the following year, they haven’t decided yet.

I’ll tell you this; the one thing that will hold their plan up is if they don’t get the gun law passed. These people will refuse to go out and cause havoc if people will be shooting back at them, so they have been promised that all the guns will be confiscated before they make their move. Now, they have been promised they will get this country, what they don't know is they have been set up.

They have been set up just so they will kill a certain amount of people: The figure at the present is that in the first year, one million people will be butchered. I use that term because that is about how to describe what will happen, and I will leave it to your imagination and your prayer life as to who is scheduled to be killed.

This is just so that they can get the National Guard called out. They recently passed a law that gives the President the right to suspend the Constitution and Congress and call Martial Law and call out the military. Now that would seem too harsh to us right now, but what happens when millions of people are getting shot at and killed?--Then they will be calling for it to happen! That's some of the stuff that’s coming about. Some of it is legislation that is being passed right now.

House bill 41 went through the house and is before the Senate right now. If it passes, it will pull much of the Federal tax deduction status of many of the Christian churches, and the ones that keep it, the people who give to them, their names will be printed with their addresses, their phone numbers and their work addresses of every giver in every Post Office in the United States. It’s called House Bill 41. This will give those radicals your dwelling address and where you work so that they can come and look you up!

Another one was the martial law act, which has been passed, and the antihoarding act. It is the one thing they fear. See, the whole thing is, if you can be independent of Federal help, their plan won't work. You must be dependent on the Federal Government for every bite of food, every light bulb in your house and every warmth that you feel coming through your homes. You must be dependent upon them.

Now, the anti-hoarding act forbids you to store over one-month’s food supply, to store medical supplies or fuel supplies over a month at a time. There is a reason for it-their reason. The last one is called the Genocide Act, some of you may have heard of it. They defeated it eight years ago but now it looks like it is going to get passed, it’s before the Senate now.

It can put you in a federal prison for converting somebody from the faith that they were born into by their parents. In other words, if you convert and Catholic, a Jew or a witch, and their parents press charges, you an go to federal penitentiary for it, and it's getting ready to pass now.

Inaudible question John Todd: Well, you're talking to an ex-Illuminatist who knows that there is no such thing.

Anybody coming out of the Illuminati can tell you that the Communist party is run by Illuminatists. Not Communists. History will show it, that sometime back in 1776, Adrian Pike--then the head of the Illuminati, also head of the Masons at the time--said that they needed to create a political party that would frighten the world and keep it fighting each other until they could bring peace to the world--and then Karl Marx showed up. Now if you go to the British Museum, you can find two checks for several thousand pounds made out to Karl Marx, signed by Nathan Rothschild. Ok?

And I can go into much history about the Communist party, how Lenin and Trotsky both stayed at the Krupp mansion in New York, financed by Rockefeller and Krupp and Swifts and others: How they put four million dollars worth of Jacob Swift’s gold to finance the revolution, sailed from New York Harbor where their ship was confiscated by the British Government as it tried to run a blockade during WWI.--How Woodrow Wilson called and ordered their release so America wouldn’t go into the War, and how they were sent on their way. There’s much history about it.

Question: What does Witchcraft have to do with the Masons? John Todd: Well, other than the 33 highest Masons who are on the Council of 33, most Masons do not realize that they have taken the same rites that makes a person and witch. They have taken the same rites to become a Mason, except that we cut our wrists and they don't cut their wrists, that's the only differences!

Ii is exactly the same. I could lay a drawing of our temple down, your temple is laid out the same. I can describe our Witchcraft rites, yours are exactly the same. We’ve been doing it for 8000 years--what's your excuse?

Question about the organizations involved

John Todd: Let me read off the organizations real quick: B’nai B’rith; American Civil Liberties Union; the Scottish Rites--by the way, Witchcraft is supposed to be the old religion of Scotland; the New York Rites; the Jaycees; and I want to explain about the Junior Chamber of Commerce. We in the Illuminati needed a group to fund and to finance the training of the radical groups that would be used later--the Jr. Chamber of Commerce was the group chosen to do the funding. The Masonic lodges, both the White and the Blue; the Knights of Columbus; the Knights of Philistivis and the Oddfellows.

Now, I want to say something about these lodges; that means it’s leaders use these organizations for their purposes. That does not mean that the members of those organizations know what’s going on. Clear back after our Revolutionary War--you can find this in the Adams Chronicles--John Adams wrote George Washington asking him to beware of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and their misuse of the Masonic Lodges which Washington was a member of, and this is a direct quote:

Because they were using it for Illuminati purposes and the worship of Lucifer. Now I have in my car photo static copies of books handed only to chosen ones in the 32nd--that means just the ones they’ve handpicked out of the 32nd Level and the 33rd Level--describing the initiation of the 33rd Level Masons, also describing what they thought of Jesus--believe me, it’s not polite!--and who the true God is.

They consider Jesus to be the impersonator and the true god is Lucifer. And that’s in black-and-white out of Masonic books. Now I’ve got them in my car, and if it gets into a debate after the service, I can go get ‘em and let you read ‘em out of your own books!

Next question?

Question: Before I was saved, I had a deck of tarot cards, and right after James Bond came out I got rid of them because I started feeling I was getting answers and some of those answers were taking place and I was scared.

John Todd: Oh, I’m sure. You got your answers from demons.
Follow-Up: Yeah, that’s what scared me.
John Todd: If you had read the 18th Chapter of Deuteronomy, you wouldn't have done it. You could have been stoned to death in the Old Testament for it.
Question: Are the cards set up a certain way? Does it mean something the way the cards are set up?

John Todd: Every drawing means something, and the demons control how they fall and use'm. But they can only be 90% accurate. Nothing in Witchcraft is ever 100% accurate. OK, next?

Question: What are the Illuminati plans for Israel?

John Todd: They will use Israel to gain control of the world. All nations except the United States will go after Israel just before they take over the world, it’s called World War III, and Jimmy Carter with the U.S. government will step in and save Israel.

Dad: Already happening!
John Todd continues: Right now, Carter is losing popularity. Don’t let that deceive you, give him a year, he’ll be a god to many people. Ok?

That’s all I can tell you right now. If I told you everything, I’d lose you. Just hang in there. I said what I’ve said tonight five years ago and people were ready to lynch me; now they’re listening to me because they can see it in the newspaper, Ok?

Question: What can we as Christians do?

John Todd: Pray! I’ll tell you this; the only thing the Illuminati fear, as I said, is an independent person who can live, eat, sleep, stay warm and defend themselves separate from Federal help. You see, they tried twice before; they have never been this organized, Ok? They’ve tried twice before in 200 years to rule the World and came very close. Once during Napoleon and once during WWI, they came extremely close to gaining the World both times. Now let’s pray that the Lord messes up their plans one more time. I haven’t seen it happen yet, but I’d like to see it happen!

Question about a coven in Pennsylvania somewhere.
John Todd: I’m not familiar with the town. I wasn’t over Pennsylvania, so I don’t know. If you were invited to a coven down there, there’s one down there.
Question: Are you sure? John Todd: Yeah. They don’t invite you to covens unless there was one down there.
Now I’ve got a question for you; have you been playing with the Ouija board at séances?
Person asking question responds: Oh no. I’m scared of Ouija boards!
John Todd: Well, I can only tell you they wouldn't have invited you down there unless you had been doing something of the occult, and I'll let it go at that.
Question: Is rock music an outgrowth of witchcraft?

John Todd: You can’t practice Witchcraft without it! Now when I was in there, I was president of the largest booking agency--they’ve had to change their name since then because of the publicity I’ve been giving them--but at the time they were called Zodiac Productions. I knew most of the rock groups in the united States--I still do. Some of my closest friends are like David Crosby from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Graham Nash and others that are around there, and I still talk to many of them.

Most of the rock groups are members of a Witchcraft church. That doesn’t mean they’ve been initiated. It means that’s their religion, and when they do a song they’ll ask the witch coven or the temple to cast a spell over that song so that it will become a hit and sell. Now what takes place when a witch casts a spell is they order a lot of demos to do things. They don't know that’s what they do, but that's in essence what happens.

Now that means when you go buy an album and you take it home with you, it’s like buying a box of Cracker Jacks: you get a free surprise. It’s called a demon! It goes along with the record. Now much of the music is written in witch language by witches. Elton John has made the statement that he has never written a song or sung a song that was not written in witch language, example: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is 100% witch language.

That’s why many songs, you don’t understand. That’s why many people who listen to them don’t understand until they get high on drugs and then all of a sudden the meanings start coming to them. Many songs have been written in witch language such as the whole album by Carole King called Tapestry.

The book of prophecy to witches is the Double White Album that The Beatles produced containing the song Helter Skelter. Every song in it is prophecy. Oh, let’s see Horse with No Name. One Tin Soldier. I could list thousands of songs that were written this way. They definitely have demonic influence behind them.

Parents, I want to say this to you; have you noticed the increase of rebellion in teenagers in the home? The reason is; it’s your fault. You let them listen to it. It stirs up rebellion. It’s not the words in the song, it’s the music. Witches know it. They hit certain chords on purpose. As many people that have once been in hypnosis, like Dr. Berry when he was younger was involved in hypnosis can tell you.

The music is hypnotic. It stirs up a war-like nature in the young people. Now they’re going to boo me when this is over, but it’s still the truth anyway. Now if you want to have them stay the way they are and you want to baby ‘em, because you're afraid they might get mad at you and run away from home or something, you go ahead and let them keep on playing it because they’re going to do it anyway.

Or you go home and you break the records and you burn the covers! Now, when witches get saved, nobody tells them to get out of rock music. When they hand their Witchcraft items over to be burned--you notice I said burned, not just thrown in the trashcan, it’s Scriptural--they hand their records over too, because they’ve lived a in a World of the supernatural and they know the supernatural is tied in with music.

Now, the most perfect description of Lucifer that ever existed is in the 28th chapter of Ezekiel on the King of Tyrus. It describes Lucifer being created with musical instruments imbedded in his body. It’s true, as a person who has seen him, it's true. He thinks he’s a god and therefore he must have music because gods must have music. (Isa. 14:4-21.)

Now you can go ahead and let his music be played in your home if you choose. Or you can become a stronger Christian and get rid of it! You’re the parents. The parents are the ones. The kids are not going to answer for it.

Inaudible question
John Todd: No, it would become an effect. It's strange because they wouldn't have gotten attacked without Christian help.

See, Witchcraft never sacrifices anything that they don’t gain 10,000 more, and when they lost the battle on purpose in court with the Moonies, that set the stage for the Genocide Act. While we were yelling;

Yeah. Get them out of those false cults and rehabilitate them!
We were setting the stage for our own downfall. You don’t give up freedom to a certain group without losing it yourself. They’ve always set it up this way, and I’m always surprised at how easy Christians fall into it.

Question: How do you feel about the John Birch Society?

John Todd: How do I feel about them? Did you see that pyramid? I'm against any organization whose leaders are 33rd Level Masons, and their leader is a 33rd Level Mason. Now, he's taken off his Masonic ring in the last couple of years, but he is still a 33rd Level Mason. You cannot hit the Illuminati and be part of it.

The Illuminati knows the people are going to find out about them, people found out about them without my help. Brother Berry knew about them before I came along. So we find out about them, and the best thing they can do is call your attention towards something else and say that’s that. So they have reflected the attention on Zionism and have said that’s where it’s at. The only problem is that most of the people in the Illuminati aren’t Jews. Their founders were Jews by birth, but not by religion.

But most of its leaders, except for the Rothschilds, are Gaelic, Scotch, or French Gaelic. It’s got nothing to do with Jews. My family and most of the people serving on the Grand Druid, their family trees go back to the pagan temples in Rome and Greece and England, to the original priesthood. Some go back as far as Egypt and Babylon. It’s got nothing to do with the Jews.

So, I don’t like them. I don’t like anybody that’s a hate group, for one thing. And I’ve heard too much hate doctrine about the Birch Society. See, I’m not choosy about who I hit!

Ha!
Inaudible question

John Todd: Did everybody understand what he was saying?
A person who has been in the occult, and been saved, are they more troubled by
demons than a person who has never been there? Yes, if they haven’t been through a
deliverance. But at the same time, they are a bigger weapon against the Devil. You can’t
trick a witch with false doctrine, they’ve heard them all. You can’t pass off a phony Christian on a witch, and you can’t pass a witch off on them that's a Christian. They’ve
been there, they know what to spot.
That’s why I look at a person’s eyes when I talk to them. If that person has
demonic influence in their life, I want to know about it, I want to know who I’m talking
to and who I’m not talking to. And when you’ve lived in a supernatural world and you
have dealt with demons like witches have, it’s no different when you spot them in a
person who’s professing to be a Christian who isn’t living the life.
So they are a stronger weapon against the Devil. Because they served him. See, as
close as we are to Jesus now, as loving and compassionate as the relationship we have
with Him now, that’s how we felt about the Devil, whether we knew he was the Devil or
not. And so when you are that close to something, you know about it.
If you backslide, you still know about Christianity. So a backslidden, saved witch
knows about Witchcraft. It’s the same thing. But they do have problems, and needless to
say, the Devil doesn’t like it, so we’re hit a little harder than maybe somebody else might
be. But at the same time, we grow faster and stronger because of it.

Inaudible Question

John Todd: Yes. We are starting a retreat. As I told you, many people have been killed that have come out of it. It has gotten so that witches aren’t trusting to come out of it now. Very few are coming out because of the fear, and there is no place for them to go. I mean, when you ask a Christian;

Will you let this witch come into your home so they’ll have a place to stay? And all of a sudden you visualize people throwing grenades through your window and shooting up your house, you change your mind!--Because that’s probably what will happen.

So, we have decided to build a retreat somewhere in the wilderness country somewhere on the West Coast. I’m not going to say where. An armed retreat where these people can be safe till they grow, and then they can either leave the retreat or they can stay. And it will serve a double purpose. I don’t want to go into--later for Christians. But right now, that’s its purpose, and we’re believing that it will get built. We need $50,000, and in the month-and-a-half since we have been trying to raise the money, my pastor's received $25.

So, you see, it’s kind of hard to convince Christians that a place like this is needed when they can go home to their safe house every night, not realizing that for a witch to become saved or a witch to leave Witchcraft, their life is in extreme danger and they probably will be killed. It’s easy to feel safe when you’re safe. I guess that’s why I feel it, because I’m in danger all the time, so I know how they feel. And I’ve had many a close friend that have become Christians and then been killed, so we are trying to build such a retreat.

Question: Can a person be under the influence of a demon and profess to be a Christian and not know it?
John Todd: Oh, I really don’t think - yeah. I guess you can. I have to look at it from your point of view. A woman that was a Christian was at Brother Berry’s church this morning and we put her through a deliverance. In other words, we cast the demons out of her.

She was not possessed. A Christian cannot be possessed. I want to make that clear. But she had demonic spiritual influences. She had tried to take her life; she was going into fits of depression to where her prayer life could not conquer them. She hadn’t in 18 months felt the joy that she felt this morning when it was over. When you can no longer crucify the flesh, and it goes beyond just crucifying the flesh, then it’s time you cast out the demon.

Question: This is done by prayer?

John Todd: That’s how it’s done. It’s done through prayer, fasting, the blood and the Name of Jesus. I don’t pray to it. I just tell the devil to get out! Actually, it is very well noted, you can do it for yourself if you have the faith. Actually, they are the ones that are doing it anyway; we just have to say a prayer of rejection and we just take authority over them, but they could do the same thing if they believed it.

Question: Is Tex Watson, the fellow who killed Sharon Tate, born again?
John Todd: That’s what he says, yeah. Question: And he is in prison now. Will he be released and is he a witch?

John Todd: But you’ve got to understand something, if Tex was a born-again Christian he would tell all. There’s been several people who are supposed to be born again of that group and they have not told anything. If they were born again, they’d be telling all, and they’re not. That’s why I don’t believe it. You can believe it if you choose, but I don't, because I know Manson, he’s an old buddy of mine.

I know what went on and it wasn’t a mass killing. It was a contract killing. Even the police who tried them knew that, but they didn’t want to press it in the trial because they didn’t think they could get a conviction if they pressed a conspiracy theory behind it. And I talked with the police officers behind it. No, I don't believe it. If Tex was born again and he was in prison, they'd be trying to kill him for one thing.

Manson runs the prisons. Nothing goes on in there that he doesn’t give the orders to, and that’s from the very security guards that work there. Well, I don’t accept it, I’m sorry, but I came out of that world and I realize ... let me give you this: (See "Carter the Poor Example," No.909.)

They recently asked Anita Bryant whether Jimmy Carter was a Christian or not. And this was her answer. I’ll use this as an example, and I loved what her answer was. Christians are so gullible and I really appreciate Anita for this, she said;

You’re not a Christian because you say you’re born again, you're a Christian if you have the fruit of the Spirit. Does he?
That’s the whole question. If the fruit’s there, they’re Christians. If it’s not there, you’re going to grow up thorns and not apples. Ok? That’s all I can tell you. Yes?

Question regarding rock music in the Church John Todd: You’re talking about Jesus Rock. I mentioned a church earlier that we spent 8 million dollars in two years to build in Costa Mesa, California. They started Jesus Rock music. The reason for the 8 million dollars was to put rock music in churches that did not allow rock music. It’s not what’s sung on the tune, it’s the music.

Question: Can a person be a member of a fundamental Church and actually be a witch and not a Christian?

John Todd: Absolutely! They’ve spent millions of dollars putting plants in Fundamental churches around the United States. They train them in Christian beliefs. The newest form of blasphemy by a witch towards the Christian God is to sit there and praise the Lord and act like a Christian, laughing the whole time. Absolutely.

That’s what Regina, the girl that took my place, did. Her main thrust was to keep an eye on Jerry Falwell’s church while she was Witch Queen of Virginia, and she was so good at it they made her a Grand Druid when I resigned. So there’s a lot of it. In fact the church that reached me had four High Priestesses attending the church, and had it in a mess until they started finding out what was going on and took a hand and corrected the matter.

They have tried recently to get Witchcraft. That’s mainly the Ouija board and séances, in many Christian High Schools. Because 95% of the people inducted into witchcraft in the last couple of years were inducted by their junior high and high school teachers in the public school system, by teachers that were scholarshipped and funded and put through college, that were coven members just so they could spread witchcraft. And so through many liberal practices at schools, they’ve been using Christian schools, so now they are trying to get in the Christian schools. Ok?

Question about politics

John Todd: I don’t know. I don’t keep tabs on that. The only thing I know about politics is what was happening when I got in, and I try to stay away from politics. I was very politically-minded when I was a witch. I try to stay very Christian-minded and you can’t do both. I’ll take this one and then I'm going to close. Yes?

Question: What you said about demons being around Witchcraft books; why do you carry your books?
John Todd: What books?
Follow-up Question: About the Masonic Temple

John Todd: Oh, those books aren’t the same books. The two books that I have--and I don’t have any with me tonight--one is written by Charles Finney who was saved out of the Masons, and another one was the first man executed by the Illuminati for betraying them, Captain Morgan. And this is the reason I carry those two books, because they expose. But I don’t believe that a Christian can have books written by witches in their libraries and get away with it, and I don’t own any. I burned all mine when I got saved. Question: Are there any Christian books that are factual on witchcraft?

John Todd: I’m sorry to say there are no Christian books that are factual on Witchcraft. Except The Broken Cross and The Angel of Light. There are no others. The reason I’ve never written a book is because all the major Christian companies wanted to rewrite the book, and it would end up 50% untrue.

That’s what Mike Warsee said. He said he didn’t write his own book. Logos wrote it for him. He said;

Now John; you know it didn’t happen that way.
I said;
Well why did you put your name to it then?
Well, there’s no books on it. The only books that I’ve seen are witch books, and if you buy them, you’re in trouble!

Chapter Eight

There were several attempts made on John Todd’s life since he left witchcraft. Those who he had been in the occult with attempted to kill him supernaturally through spell casting, but quickly gave that up when it failed to get results. Shots were fired at him on several occasions, buildings were bombed, and he was eventually poisoned. There was even an incident in which a couple of FBI agents tried to kill him in broad daylight in sight of witnesses. Todd tried and failed to get them indicted.

Jack Chick gives the following account relating to an attempt made on John Todd’s life:

“On Sunday evening, October 22nd, I received a phone call that gunfire had hit John's house. My wife and I drove to his place at about 9 pm. There were five squad cars in front of his house. John's face was gray. Someone had fired a shotgun through the baby's window aiming at John reading in the front room. It missed the children sleeping in the front bedroom and sprayed through the hall, hitting John's arm and breaking part of the front window. John jumped up, ran to the back of the house, and as the man went over the back wall, he responded to John's command to halt by firing his shotgun at John. Todd fired two shots. Eight neighbors saw the man going over the wall. No one could say this attempt on John's life was self-inflicted as they claim the others were. I saw the blasted window, the torn curtains, and the pellet wound in John's arm. The oldest girl, age 6, told me when the shooting started she put the babies on the floor to protect them. What a price to pay for exposing the occult!”
- Jack Chick, October 26, 1978

Todd gave this account of a poisoning:

“I spent Monday in the hospital because I wasn’t careful at a job I was having. And somehow, somebody, I got the blood tests to prove it, slipped poison in the pop that I was drinking. And I was in critical condition and still have the scar from the IV. I went into convulsions and seizures, and a lot of people prayed . . . I walked out of the hospital. I was sick for a few days, but I walked out of that hospital. Because I got careless. It was a new way they had tried, and I wasn’t ready for it.”
- John Todd

John Todd continued his ministry in spite of all of the enemies he had created by naming specific churches and ministers who had taken Illuminati money. His tendency to step on the toes of many high profile individuals and groups quickly made him the target of critics and detractors. These critics fall into three camps.

Some were people directly involved with the occult conspiracies Todd was exposing. Their reasons for trying to discredit him, after every attempt at killing him had failed, are obvious.

Others were persons without any specific agenda, who had simply been fooled into thinking that all of the rumors and slanderous accusations made against him had discredited him and his testimony. What is an honest Pastor to think when some unknown man comes forward to say that the Pastors he considers to be his closest friends, and assumes are holy men of God, are on the payroll of the occult? Something like that is far too heavy for some to accept. So they go on the defense without knowing that their friends really are dirty and have been paid off.

And some just couldn’t handle the fantastic things he was talking about. These are the people who only see what’s presented to them on the news or in the newspapers and never question anything. And why should they? Nobody wants to be seen as a conspiracy nut after all.

Which of his critics and detractors fall into which of these camps is impossible to determine. They all look and sound the same from their outward appearances. But his critics and detractors haven’t been able to so easily explain away the events he told us about that have happened.

It is true that the timelines given by Todd, with respect to when specific events were to take place, have proven to be inaccurate. Some have pointed to this as proof that John Todd was a fraud. But it must be pointed out that these specific events have and are still being carried out. So the dates and timelines are at fault. Not Todd. He simply gave us the information he picked up from a chart he had seen while in the occult world.

The occult world from which he came carefully planned out everything they would do in elaborate timelines. At times, some of the things planned could not be carried out within the timeline they put together. Unforeseen events tend to take place which interfere with certain laws being passed by which a new world order can be established.

We have indeed seen fear mongering used by political leaders to justify new laws and legislation which limit our constitutional rights. We have seen large corporations outsourcing jobs and bankrupting their own companies. We saw the great East Coast power grid failure. Outbreaks of diseases. Terrorist attacks. Economic trouble. Bank/corporate bail-outs. And fuel shortages. Many of the things John Todd warned us about have indeed taken place. And many more are likely to take place.

The ultimate fate of John Todd still remains a mystery. There are only four possible answers to what became of him:
1) John Todd is alive, and has gone into hiding in response to the attempts made on his life, and slanderous attacks made by his critics.
2) John Todd was locked away somewhere to keep him quiet and is still alive.
3) John Todd was locked away somewhere and died, either from natural causes or murder.
4) John Todd was assassinated by the occult world.

There’s no doubt somebody somewhere knows what happened to him. But it is highly unlikely such persons will ever reveal what they know. Much like Jimmy Hoffa, the fate of John Todd may never be known. But what little information there is seems to strongly indicate that John Todd had died. But there’s always hope that he is alive somewhere and simply in hiding, as suggested before.

For the sake of presenting the most accurate record possible, this information is included in the next pages. The reader must make up their own mind and come to their own conclusion. The author of this book has inquired of Chick publications with respect to John Todd’s whereabouts. This is the message and reply:

From: Christopher LaRock (address removed) Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:57 PM To: Jack Chick
Subject: Question

I would like to start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of John Todd.
I would like to know where I can learn more about him, and whether he is still alive.
* * * *
Hello, Christopher,
Thank you for contacting us!
We here at Chick Publications have not heard from John Todd in over 25 years. We have no information on his whereabouts or if he is still alive.
Sorry I could not be of more assistance.
God bless,
Chick Publications

Jack Chick of Chick Publications issued the following letters in reference to his dealings with Todd. They are included here for the sake of their historical value. Chick fill in some of the missing details. He had direct communication with John Todd and his wife, and therefore serves somewhat as an account of the events indirectly from Todd himself.

CHICK PUBLICATIONS June 16, 1978 PO Box 662
Chino, California 91710

To Whom It May Concern: This letter is in regard to my association with John Todd.

I first met John in 1973. I found his information on the occult fascinating. We worked together on a Crusaders story entitled, “The Broken Cross”. Since its publication I know of witches coming to Christ through this story. A Police captain visited a friend of mine and told him the book was the most factual he had ever read on the subject.

John Todd began winning young people out of the occult. His ministry started growing. When John took these young people to a church called “Melodyland” in Southern California, I was told they announced from the platform that no witch could be saved. That was disaster to John's ministry. He was involved with churches and Full Gospel Businessmen and all of them were of the Charismatic persuasion. John was promised support that never came.

When attempts were made on John’s life, the Christians shied away from him. In those years witchcraft was avoided like the plague. Everything turned sour. No Christian would touch John, so he went back to the only thing he knew, the occult. He and his wife, Sheila, opened up an occult bookstore.

I kept calling John, telling him he was saved, but he believed the Armenian doctrine that once he went back to sin he was lost forever. I kept at him. He pushed the occult religion at me, but I wouldn’t give up and I told him he still belonged to Jesus. I called him my brother and he told me to stop calling him that. When I almost gave up, John called me and told me that he and Sheila had come back to Christ.

John remembered when he was training for the position of a Grand Druid priest that a huge sum of money supposedly was passed from the Illuminati to the organization called “Melodyland”, and John believes that is why his ministry was hit.

Since coming back into Christian work, John has had many attempts on his life, verified by his wife. John is exposing Masonry which has infiltrated our churches. It’s an unseen enemy. John has given me valuable information on 2 new publications, “Angel of Light” and “Spellbound”. The latter on rock music will have a devastating effect on Christian rock music. I thank God John is risking his neck to warn us of the dangers and techniques used by the Illuminati.

John was attending Faith Baptist Church in Canoga Park, California. On my word, Pastor Roland Rasmusson helped John get speaking engagements. John has made mistakes from the platform. It’s understandable. He is in a new line of work. Both John and his wife have used extensive drugs and are still suffering from the effects. Some of the mistakes were deliberately fed to John to make him look bad. I can verify that through his wife, Sheila.

Pastor Rasmusson was caught in a hard place when John quoted the wrong input from the platform. Then, one of his church members was given an old tape to re-use. On it was a message John had made while instructing classes in the occult when he had backslidden. The tape was played to the deacons, and I believe pressure was put on Dr. Rasmusson to disassociate himself from John. They knew John had been backslidden because he told them that. I got the same material from John on the phone when I was trying to win him back to Christ.

I was assured the tape would only be played to the deacons, but since then, copies have fallen into various hands, and this is now being used as a club. Pastor Rasmussen still calls John his brother and he told me he believes John is saved. When John preaches, pastors tell me of revival and the most difficult to reach came to Christ, including Masons.

My question is: Who is behind John's attackers? I know the Masons are delighted. So are the Illuminati. Are the ones attacking John winning souls? Why is it aired publicly? If John goes down because of the pressures from Christians, it will be a day of rejoicing for the occult.

I back John up 100% with all his faults. I know this brother is doing his best to advance the kingdom of God. We must keep one fact in mind. John is not a minister, but a Christian layman sharing what he knows about a very explosive subject. We should be eager to know about what is going on in the enemy’s camp, and to my knowledge, John Todd is the only one qualified to give us that information. I encourage you to stand with him in the face of this onslaught.

JACK T. CHICK, PRESIDENT, Chick Publications, Inc.

CHICK PUBLICATIONS October 26, 1978 PO Box 662
Chino, California 91710

To Whom it May Concern in the Lord:
This letter should be a warning to us on how subtle the enemy can be as an angel of light. I consider John Todd a friend and a brother in Christ.

On Sunday evening, October 22nd, I received a phone call that gunfire had hit John’s house. My wife and I drove to his place at about 9 pm. There were five squad cars in front of his house.

John’s face was gray. Someone had fired a shotgun through the baby’s window aiming at John reading in the front room. It missed the children sleeping in the front bedroom and sprayed through the hall, hitting John’s arm and breaking part of the front window. John jumped up, ran to the back of the house, and as the man went over the back wall, he responded to John’s command to halt by firing his shotgun at John. Todd fired two shots. Eight neighbors saw the man going over the wall. No one could say this attempt on John’s life was self-inflicted as they claim the others were. I saw the blasted window, the torn curtains, and the pellet wound in John’s arm. The oldest girl, age 6, told me when the shooting started she put the babies on the floor to protect them. What a price to pay for exposing the occult!

New disturbing material has arrived in the mail with letters and newspaper clippings covering a period of time when John Todd had pulled away from the Lord, from July 1975 until March 1976 and beyond. In John's defense, I would like to give the other side of the story.

As some of you know, when John and Sheila backslid, I called them many times trying to get them to come back to the Lord, so I'm familiar with much of what happened during this time. The pressures John Todd faced after working with me on “The Broken Cross” in 1974 contributed to his backsliding. When the occult put the heat on John, Christians didn't want to become involved. His support vanished. The incident that broke the camel's back took place in the Midwest.

A pastor asked John to refurbish an old building which belonged to his church, telling John he would use it as a retreat for ex-witches and for drug rehabilitation. John and Sheila put in 18 hours a day plus $2000.00 of their own funds as well as their furniture into this place. The night it was finished John said the pastor changed his mind and wanted someone else to run it. An argument took place. The pastor pushed Sheila and she had a miscarriage that night.

Everything was gone. They headed for Ohio in a Greyhound bus with only two suitcases and three boxes of clothing. They were broke and hungry when they reached Sheila’s folks. Because of their past history with the occult in that area of Dayton they were not welcomed in the churches. By now they were very bitter.

The occult world would never forgive John Todd for writing “The Broken Cross”. He was branded a traitor. Too many witches got saved reading that book. John’s Catholic Landlord, Mr. James Seifer, wanted to invest his money either in an adult or an occult bookstore. He decided on an occult store and offered John and Sheila 50% if they’d run it. They agreed. This was September 9, 1975. They had gone back into the world. The Illuminati was outraged. It was like some cheap hood trying to set up a prostitution ring in an area controlled by the Mafia. John Todd, the outcast had moved into their territory. He had to be destroyed. I used to call the occult store and tell them I loved them and that Jesus loved them and wanted them to come back to Him.

Now we come to the insidious plot to wipe out John Todd as I believe it happened. Most of the people involved were directly tied to the Illuminati via the pope of the occult called Gavin Frost. I’ve been told the enforcer, who wants the Christians destroyed, is Isaac Bonewits who head up the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League. These were some of the heavyweights John was facing. The others were high priests and priestesses in local covens as well as Masons. Now understand, no legitimate witch was allowed in John’s store. It had been boycotted.

John was surprised when two real witches came into his store bringing a 16-year old runaway named Karen Schnipper. She had been beaten by her father. Immediately John felt sorry for her. He had been a beaten child. They asked for John's help. Here’s where it gets interesting.

The two witches were Bob and Julie Pritchet (not sure of spelling). They were known as “Terror” and “Albarros” (not sure of that spelling either) which means the Black One, or Under god, or the devil. These two were leaders in the local Church of Wicca, under the control of Gavin Frost, the pope of the occult. The girl, Karen, was a witch from Chicago. John estimated her to be a second level witch. She had a history of incest and heavy drugs. She offered John $200.00 to drive her to Chicago to get away from her brutal father. He had a broken hand from hitting Karen. John agreed to take her.

Before he got to Chicago, John stopped and called Sheila. She told him there was an all-points bulletin on him for kidnapping. The police were waiting for John in Chicago; the father had made the charge. I believe the witches plotted the whole set-up. The police offered John immunity if he’d bring the girl back. The deal was made through John's boss. All charges were dropped. John admits he and Sheila were deep into sin. They were away from the Lord and miserable.

In January 1976, a 13-year old girl was missing from a children’s home in Dayton called “Shawen Acres”, located about a block form the occult store. A police officer by the name of Robert Keen who handled hundreds of cases singled out this girl. He accused John of killing her. According to police reports, John says this 13-year old girl was a habitual runaway because her father raped her at age 10 and she had become a member of the motorcycle gang called “The Outlaws”. She was a known prostitute.

Officer Keen searched John’s house and pushed one of the employees around, breathing threats of a murder charge against John Todd. This officer claimed to be a Christian. I called John on the phone that day and he told me about some of this man’s actions. He was bitter. I said, “John, from what you’re telling me, he isn’t a Christian.” There was no love. After a while the case was dropped.

In February of 1976 John was arrested for the Karen Schnipper kidnap case again. It was a shock. He applied for bail. At the same time he was hit with a warrant for his arrest in Carlsbad, New Mexico for forgery. Bail was denied. The warrants for his arrest from New Mexico turned out to be phony. John was not wanted. They finally gave him bail.

Now the Illuminati made a deal with him. On February 21, 1976 at 7 pm John and Sheila were invited to a dinner with Gavin Frost, the pope of the occult and his associate Isaac Bonewits. They warned John to never mention the Illuminati again. John refused. They were furious. The next day in a Unitarian church, Gavin Frost denounced John. A “wanted” poster was to be issued for John raising the price on his head by the organization.

An interesting meeting took place. Gavin Frost, the pope of the occult who despises Christianity, and Isaac Bonewits, his enforcer who seethes with hate for the believers in Christ, met with the Christian police officer as friends. Isn’t that strange? The other man was Wes Hill, the man who reported all the stories on John Todd and for some reason always misquoted him. It looks like they all had something in common.

In March, 1976, I got a surprise call from John. He called me “Brother”. I praise the Lord because John and Sheila had come back to Christ. They closed the occult store and burned its contents. He was still on bail. The trial was coming up. Unknown to John, his lawyers were Masons. They told John if he agreed to say he was guilty of driving Karen across the state line he would be released. John agreed. For some reason a visiting judge from Tennessee presided. He also was a Mason. He gave John the maximum sentence of 6 months with no probation.

The first night in the institution, the nurse insisted that John get a shot of Phenobarbital and Valium, claiming his records showed at one time he had been an epileptic. They pumped so many drugs into John that by the end of three months he was in critical condition, moving him from the Veterans’ Hospital to the General and back again. They were also hitting him with 6 shots a day. He was being overdosed purposely. A specialist was only allowed to see John once. He took a blood sample and said John was critical and in a toxic state, poisoned by Dilantin in his body. John didn’t recognize Sheila. He was having 10 to 12 seizures a day.

Sheila got on the phone and begged me to help her. I told her to get a lawyer. She did. The Lord was with her. The lawyer contacted a Judge Shields and said that John Todd through the lawyer would file a suit in inhumane punishment against this court. The judge ordered John released. John's life was saved. The Illuminati lost that round. God had answered our prayers.
(Interesting note: While John was in jail that little 13-year old runaway that John was accused of murdering by Officer Keen called up her mother to say she was out of the state of Ohio and that she was alive.)

John was released on December 23, 1976. After the first of the year Judge Shields gave John permission to go to Phoenix, Arizona for a job. Later, John moved to Alabama and called his probation officer to see if it was all right. The officer said it was fine.

John and Sheila told me they would try to warn the churches one more time what the Illuminati is doing to our churches and what they have planned for us. It takes guts to tell what's coming. John makes mistakes on certain statements and he’ll admit it. He is a Christian layman, not a minister.

Part of the material being circulated includes letters from ex-police officer Keen and part of the news clippings from that area. All this was when John was backslidden. John points out the letters ex-Officer Keen sent were secret within the occult organization. Only witches or Masons could possibly get their hands on them. The last people on earth I would believe would be Galvin Frost, the pope of the occult and his enforcer, Isaac Bonewits who I’ve been told commit animal sacrifices and who knows what else to the prince of darkness. These men are not my brothers in Christ. They hate the ground we walk on. God help us when we have to rely on witches for information.

At least John has given us the warning. He is being blasted by witches and Christians alike. As far as I’m concerned, his past is under the blood. John has confessed all this to the Lord Jesus.

It would be easy to compromise and give in to these pressures, but I won’t. I believe and love both John and Sheila. They are fighting for survival, never knowing where the next shotgun blast will come from.

I know that as a result of his messages revival is breaking out. Pastors have called me by phone and told me that the kids are burning their rock music and getting saved.
I believe the dear brothers in the Lord who are sending out this material have made a mistake in not knowing who they are lining up with. I pray these attacks cease and that we may all be in much prayer about this. John and Sheila need our support as they face an unbelievable powerful force who would stop at nothing to destroy them. They are counting on Christians to help them silence John. If I thought for one minute John was a phony, I would not hesitate for a second to expose him. I’ve prayed and sought God about this matter and I believe John is a true brother in Christ who has been given a very difficult ministry.

Yours for the lost,
JACK CHICK, President, Chick Publications, Inc.
Chapter Nine

The author of this book is not presenting the following documentation as his own intellectual property. This material was carefully researched and obtained from other sources. The e-mails presented were sent to a website established to defend John Todd’s honor and then posted.

Feb. 7, 2006
Former Inmate Christopher Kollyns, SCDC# 145461, AKA John Wayne Todd, was serving a 30 year sentence for Criminal Sexual Conduct 1st Degree. His sentence started in May 1987 and he was released from our agency in April 2004 due to the expiration of his sentence.

Dennis R. Patterson, Sr.
Director, Division of Classification and Inmate Records South Carolina Dept. of Corrections
(803) 896-8551

Mr. Kollyns was deemed a Sexually Violent Predator pursuant to SC Law. He is currently housed at the Behavioral Disorder Treatment Unit which is overseen by the SC Department of Mental Health. He has been housed there since his release from our agency.

Dennis R. Patterson, Sr.
Director, Division of Classification and Inmate Records South Carolina Dept. of Corrections
(803) 896-8551
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March 9, 2006 from emails from a person named Sekhmet:

John Todd is alive and well and IN PRISON. I have visited him there. He was convicted for rape, and there are many other victims who have come forward. He has served his prison time, but is deemed too dangerous by the State of South Carolina to be released to society, and I completely agree. Another thing you should know is that Todd made my acquaintance when he asked for a wiccan chaplain.
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June 21, 2007
An email:

On page 93 of Springmeier’s Bloodlines of the Illuminati, he states "reports to this author allege that the day Todd was released from prison, he was picked up by a helicopter and killed. To the best of my knowledge Johnnie Todd was killed the day he won his freedom."

"Johnnie Todd won his appeal (the Federal appeals court came down hard on the state of So. Carolina) and in Jan. 1994, Todd called this author from prison to inform him that he was to be released, but that he needed tens of thousands of dollars. This author was not able to come up with the thousand of dollars that Todd wanted immediately. Later, Springmeier was told that the Illuminati offered to let Todd live if he could come up with a large ransom. Reports to this author allege that the day Todd was released from prison, he was picked up by a helicopter and killed. To the best of my knowledge Johnnie Todd was killed the day he won his freedom. Obviously, the Illuminati does enforce the oaths and vows that their members force d to make. The entire episode is of course a sad one for this author."
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Dec. 29, 2007
An email:

I called the institute that John Todd was staying at in South Carolina. & they told me that he passed away 11/10/2007. But again I say, it may not have really been Todd who died in that institution.
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May 9, 2008 update: On April 30, 2008 email:

Back in 1978 I attended Liberty University. A guy named Steve Hoffer was a John Todd promoter of sorts on campus. This amounted to simply passing out some tapes and the like not really like some sort of official promoter. I saw him last in the fall of 79. He had a letter he claimed was from Johns wife and it informed him that John had been killed that fall late. He read me the letter, I saw the letter. He was warned that he could be in danger. He has some close relationship at least by mail with the Todds’.

He left for home for Christmas break but never showed up. His car was found abandoned in Cincinnati about two weeks later. He was found around early May of 80 a few mile outside Lynchburg tied to a tree and garroted in classic style, his body still hanging there. As you may know this is a special method of death and has a history and meaning. The death of a heretic.

At the time of his death Steve had been publicly investigating Jerry Falwell while a student at Liberty. As you can figure this caused no small controversy considering Steve was a student there. As you may know Falwell was on Johns list of conspirators. Falwell publicly told the student body that he didn't know Todd, as Todd had claimed he knew Jerry personally, as well as saying Todd was off the hook mentally. Steve's death can be verified if the records are still available or if Todds wife is still living she may remember Steve.

The following transcript has been left uncorrected and unedited. The text remains true to the recording from which it has been derived. The assembly of the text into paragraphs was done by the author for the sake of giving the testimony a more professional appearance.

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Feb. 26, 1991

I am John Todd, and this tape is being made in a prison cell in South Carolina, it is very late at night. All the inmates are locked down in their cells, but you will still hear noise off and on. And if the guard comes by, I have to stop and be very quiet. The reason for this tape is that I have been framed and put in prison by orders of U.S. Senator from South Carolina Strom Thurmond.

I’ll go into all the reasons for that, and what happened to me. And only recently, in fact just about a week and a half ago did I find out how it was really accomplished. As I started to say, the reason for this tape is to get the word out about where I’m at.

I’ve been in custody almost four years now. I’ve been in a prison cell for three years, and that time is a very closely guarded secret by the government, by the Illuminati and definitely by the conspirators. The word of what has happened to me has not gotten out of the state of South Carolina. Here you have religious magazines that are run by the Illuminati, speakers who are members within their organization, or collaborators who have been bought by them over the years. Many of them who would consider themselves to be personal enemies of mine because of exposes which came out about them by me in the ‘70s- early ‘80s.

Yet, not one of them has said a word, although they all know about it for fear that the true believers that are out there will find out what has happened to me. When I was arrested, one of the few things that was taken from my apartment was my files containing my mailing list.

These were taken by the police although they had nothing to do with the case I was supposedly being charged with. And two years later when we went through a law suit to get everything back, this was one of the few items that did not come back. They Just vanished, just disappeared. The reason for it, a was the reason for taking the two personal address books that I had. One I carried in my billfold for such an emergency and one was in my library shelf were taken by SLED also. This was hopefully to keep me from contact with anybody who could help me obtain legal services or whatever. I want to go into the case very carefully, very diligently.

One of the things that seems to be very frightening to Christians is that such a thing could actually take place. Many who knew I was innocent could not believe that I had been found guilty. Not so much that -because-, it just wasn’t there, it didn’t take place, so therefore even the manufactured evidence wasn't even there. They just couldn't believe that a child of God in this country could go to prison. (I had stopped and came to the door. I can’t let this tape be known that it is being made or it would never get out of here.)

I want to say this now before I go on, whoever receives a copy of this tape I’m asking you to make a copy or copies and get the word out. Make phone calls. Let people know what has happened to me. Let them know that they can be of service to get me out of here.

This is what is most feared about putting me in here, that the word will get out. Let me tell you what all has happened here.
We need to go back to 1987 in Columbia, South Carolina where I was living. I had been hurt. I had been doing labor, construction work, carpenter work for several years. I had stopped speaking publicly after my divorce to the woman who had stood beside me for years and years and years, headquarters. Give me a polygraph." Immediately in the form of a scream, I can assure you, not a statement, the SLED agent, a Lt. Carleton Meddle, who is now a captain, who was made captain three days after I was convicted, over promoted- promoted over people in front of him, screamed out loud, "No, we’re not going to give you a polygraph.' That was their stance all the way through.
I took a polygraph after my conviction. I paid for the polygraph. I - the polygraph. But it's not admissible in court. Now they took me-- Pm going to go through this all so you can see. Immediately, I knew this whole thing was a frame. I wasn't sure what they were up to but let it go. The solicitor said he wanted to have my apartment searched for evidence of the rape, And that he could get a search warrant, but they would prefer that I allow them to search. ,,Well," I said, ,,I have an attorney who is representing me in the lawsuit.
He is also a criminal attorney if you allow me to call him, you allow me to ask his advice and he says "yes", I will allow you to do it."
They really didn't have a choice in this matter. I was asking for my attorney and they were supposed to. They took me in the hospital downstairs to the security room. I didn't know this at the time, but out of the 17 arresting officers that were SLED there five were lieutenants in the room with me out of the 26 Lieutenants la the state. That's unheard of. Plus the head solicitor. It gets better. They take me into a room. The solicitor calls my attorney. I still didn't realize who he was or anything.
He called my attorney. I spoke with my attorney. He told my attorney that if he allowed me to sign this thing. and then again he told that they didn't have a search warrant, which was a lie.
The search warrant was limited as to what they could have took from my apartment. They weren't interested in anything in the rape, as you will find out. They were interested in other materials, which they could not have took under the search warrant. So they told him they will take me straight to Jail, they will go to my apartment, and search it. I signed it. They took me to my apartment. They had lied to my attorney.
They proceeded to box up three 30 gallon plastic trash bags and four boxes with material. Nothing, except 3 knifes- that they claimed they were trying to find the knife which was used in the rape. I showed them where all my knifes were and some business stationary with the publishing company.
Other than that knife nothing that went out of there was used during the trial. Nothing was used except what I just said. Everything else was business material, printing concerning my past ministry, or the ministry I was involved in which was the newsletter. The whole time I was there I was not questioned about sexual assault as they put it, I was only asked questions about the Christian underground.
I want to stop and explain that. There is, though some of you might find it shocking,, there is an underground in the United States, a Christian underground. It was formed over the trials in Nebraska, where Christians, pastors, ministers of the church were sent to prison. Where we started seeing non-passed laws about child abuse being put into effect by the federal and state governments without ever being passed as law. Children were being taken from their parents without a chance for the parents to be allowed to speak in the trial.
All it took was some child psychologist, "I suspect child abuse, blah blah blah."
We started seeing how 90% of the people being tried were fundamentalist Christians, so an underground was formed. It contained Christian survivalists but it contained everyday people also. And all they wanted was where these safe houses were, where these places of refuge were, what the underground conductors who they were. That's all they were asking me. And yet nothing was in South Carolina, So it was out of their jurisdiction. So I knew they were asking for the federal government.
I was taken from there to SLED and for the first time I was questioned concerning the so-called rape. I realized, you would have to be arrested to understand the shock you go through, I was just numb. But as my head started clearing and I realized that they held in their hands evidence that they had took from the apartment which would clear me, I told them. I also told them about my whereabouts that night. I told them people they could go question. And here's their statement, "it is not our job to go question witnesses that will prove your innocence."
While I was at SLED headquarters the solicitor who had left us after we had left the apartment went and held a press conference. This was his story: I was arrested for one rape, I was suspected in three maybe, as many as eighty. That's right. Family members on their way home from work at five thirty in the evening were hearing this on the radio. Never before was anybody that wasn't a murderer ever given this much publicity and never before in the history of SLED had a person who was charged only with criminal sexual assault ever been investigated or charged by SLED.
Before I was even booked in the jail, I realized that these folks did not believe I was guilty. They were only interested in something else. I wasn't sure quite yet what. The next morning I was brought before a state magistrate for a bail hearing and to be arraigned. I was denied bail on the following.
Now listen to this.
The solicitor tells the magistrate the following, I'm not a resident of South Carolina. But he had just searched my apartment. I had several businesses in South Carolina and had lived here for years. Further, they said I had no residence in South Carolina. And yet they had just searched it. Three, they said I had a passport and they were worried I'd flee the country. The passport had been taken from my apartment and had expired on that very day on my birthday of 1967 and they knew it.
The next statement was that I had no visible means of support. And yet they knew that I did. And the last one was that I had no family members in South Carolina, and yet, I had children right here. As I tried to tell the magistrate this was all incorrect he wouldn't hear it. I had not yet realized that I was on the front cover of the state newspaper. Now the state newspaper is the newspaper in Columbia. It had a co-owned newspaper called The Record which does not exist now. They have combined them. The newspapers print whatever the authorities want them to print in this state. The interesting thing in this was that it started to go into my military record.
Now the Illuminati and collaborators in the Christian church have led to discredit me for years. Mainly they have said that I have lied about my participation in the military, what I was involved in, that I was in Vietnam, or any of this.
During the next several days, the state became very upset at the U. S. military because the US. military said I was involved in a military group in Vietnam called Phoenix and that all members who were in Phoenix their military records were sealed and in Langley, VA. with the CIA. That is what I have said for years and years and years. And after all this, thousands and thousands of dollars paid to the collaborators within the Christian Church to Illuminati collaborators and plants have put out about me. This newspaper, which was trying to harm me, destroyed it in a matter of days. I became known as the survivalist rapist or the green beret rapist and it all came out about me being ex-special forces green beret.
All this stuff denied by Christianity Today, and Logos and all these others for over a year was Just blown away in a matter of moments.
Over the next two weeks, it went from I was suspected of 80 rapes to 100 rapes. Everyday the solicitor was holding a news conference. Everyday I was smeared in the news.
In fact when they realized that either what they could frame me of, was falling apart on them they proceeded to take my picture and put it on the television. "We know he has done all this would anybody who has been followed by this man please come forward."
They broadcast my picture all over the state. And I imagine-I was told- hundreds of crank calls but nothing ever came out because nothing had ever happened. And the problem was, and we're only guessing here, is the solicitor had been tricked by SLED. The solicitor really believed this. And he thought it was a high publicity case and it blew up on him and he was embarrassed. But he was being asked, we uncovered this. This is how it went before my arrest. And I think you will be surprised by the lies [?or irony?] in all this.
SLED took statements from Meryl Blackburn 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning 17th I'm sorry -May 18th Monday morning--(I’m sorry.) It was actually Monday morning May 18th at 2:30 in the morning. They arrested me at 3:30 in the afternoon. After taking statements, a close friend of Strom Thurmond who was sexually involved with the woman, who was all these women's bosses, came down to SLED headquarters went with them to solicitor James Anders office, and told Anders he wanted me sent to prison; he didn't care how. He then went to the state magistrate and got a warrant signed.
This politician, who lived hundreds of miles away, came down here for that precise purpose and was involved. His name was Larry Martin. Now the reason that Strom Thurmond hated me, in case you're familiar or not familiar with this, is that when I was living in California working with Chick publications and preaching very heavily in '87 and doing mostly exposes on everybody it had come out about Strom Thurmond being the highest ranking Mason in the world, and that he was also a member of the voting Board of Regents for the Bob Jones University.
Now the first thing that Bob Jones University did was to deny that Thurmond was a Mason. But Thurmond wouldn't go along with it. He knew he was too well known as being a Mason. So he came out and tried to defend Masonic beliefs that Christians can be that. It blew up on him. And he became so outraged that even though Bob Jones University was always calling me a liar, constantly trying to hurt me; they had to ask him to step down. The lie was not removed.
He was only placed to the non-voting board of regents, and., believe me, he still had all of his power. At that time, I was told he [Thurmond] is going to get you for this. I made a major mistake. I didn't pray about this. I met, and I let people supposedly Christian people talk me into moving to South Carolina. These were the first people to desert me when all this happened.
Now the interesting thing about this was all through this the only thing they had was this woman's statement. And it came out that woman had first went to the sheriff's department and the sheriff would not believe her because it had been-- she was talking about so far back that she admitted on the stand that she never had told anybody, that she had never sought medical help.
There were some things that I don't want to testify- I don't want to say on this tape because it might offend people but things she described that night would have required her to receive emergency treatment in order to stay alive if it had really taken place, and yet she said she was not hurt, not damaged, was not bruised. She was not cut. She was not harmed in any way.
The situation was this, I was held for nine months in custody awaiting trial. The speedy trial law here was totally disregarded by the judge. The reason I was held so long is this woman moved out of state didn't want to come back to the state. It was not- I believe this- it was not really a conspiracy in the beginning. This was a woman who wanted revenge for being fired. When it got out of hand she didn't know who she was dealing with. When it had gotten out of hand and become so publicized and she saw all these people running around trying desperately to do me in, she ran away. See what happened was that when she went to SLED, they typed my name into the computer that they have there.
They have what they call a black list, a hit list that the politicians in South Carolina put people on. When my name popped up it became a field day and it just became too much for her, and she left, and they had to force her to come back. Now whether she was honest with them or whether they really knew what had happened or what I do know. But they completely changed her appearance for the trial. They dyed her hair, they put her in different clothes, they restyled and cut her hair so that this was how much she changed. I had only seen her a couple times, but when she came into the trial I kept asking my attorney when Meryl Blackburn was going to be here. I did not recognize her. That's how much she had changed.
And so people who would have seen her that night which were alibi witnesses of mine would not have been able to perfectly identify her was the plan. And the reason for this is that there were witnesses who could have destroyed her testimony. But most important is lab tests that I happen to know the Lord was behind. I checked into the hospital within six or seven hours from when she claims this had taken place. It was supposed to have taken place Mother's Day weekend of '87 and like in the wee hours of Saturday morning. And Saturday afternoon around lunchtime I was checking in to the hospital.
The test on admittance was this test for alcohol and drugs. Now this woman didn't know that. SLED and the prosecution didn't know that. And this woman claimed in her affidavit that I had forced her to drink and to take drugs and that I was drinking and taking drugs along with her. The urine analysis totally proved her to be lying; there were no drugs or alcohol in my system. And yet, and let me say that (O.K.), finally it was brought to trial Jan. 21 which was a Thursday of 1988. The jury was selected.
A week before I was to go to trial I had all the funds that I had left I settled my law suit out of court, which was to be $120,000. I settled it out for $10,000 and gave it to my attorney who was supposed to spend it all on a private investigator. This private investigator was an ex-SLED agent. Supposedly, he tracked down all the witnesses I had told him There was enough evidence for, all this time I sat there and I knew I was going to be found innocent.
I knew I was innocent. I knew the evidence was there to prove it. And the lawyer came and told me they had the lab tests. That they went before the judge and argued against the solicitor and got lab tests admitted into evidence and it was going to be there. He had drawn as he put it 32 witness's subpoenas and had served most of them, and was going to have the witnesses there and it was going to be an open show. And so all day of the 21st I watched the trial not worried, and yet not understanding what my attorney was doing. My attorney was making me out to be the bad-you see my attorney wanted me to take the stand and say I had affair with this woman and she was just upset. And I wouldn't do it. I didn't know at the time that he was in on it. And if they lost, they really weren't going to lose this case.
If they lost, they wanted at least to destroy my reputation. And I couldn't understand where the witnesses were. And I didn't know until this month that they were there, they were just segregated outside of the courtroom. And so all day of the 21st I listened to the testimony.
It was so ridiculous the jurors were laughing at the testimony, that's how ridiculous. I insisted when some nurses were up for jury duty I had insisted they get on the stand because they would have been able to believe the medical evidence. I mean the medical evidence which cleared me, we won right then and there.
I couldn't understand my lawyer put a woman on the jury who admitted, it's in the transcript, that her and her husband had seen the stories and read the stories and had already formed a conclusion.
Obviously, if you had read the stories the conclusion would have been that I was guilty. Right? And as far as the public knew, I was still being suspected of all these, you know hundred something rapes, and nobody knew these didn't exist and nobody knew they didn't go anywhere. So as this jury took, I couldn't understand it. He said, "Oh, don't worry, it will be alright, I know what I am doing."
The next day we come back, [I] still expecting to present a case, the 22nd of January, (1] still expecting to present a case. They called up a few minor witnesses. The only new witness they put on the case, they were trying to prove that the publishing company didn't exist, that it was phony, that it was a scam to draw women into it that I could rape and all this type of stuff.
This is what the prosecution was trying to prove. There was just too much thousands of dollars yeah, blah, blah, I'll come and testify and blah blah." Then he turns around and tells my court appointed attorney for the Post-conviction that he thinks James Corry, that's the attorney's name, did marvelous work for me sad did the best he could under the circumstances. Yes, I'm innocent but no attorney could have done better for me. Making himself a witness who wasn't usable, but he didn't show up for the trial though he promised. This pastor had files [files?-word unclear] in his hand to set me free and refused to use it. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to why. I did not know the full extent of what my attorney had done to me. I was sent to prison. Until Feb. 15, a week or so ago [?].
At the post-conviction in Columbia South Carolina the only two witnesses present were myself sad the attorney for the state. My attorney was testifying for the state. He got on the stand sad lied about several things that needed to be true, that I need personally knew to be true. Now he had told me up until then that the reason be didn't use the lab was that it didn't show a screen for alcohol and for all these years I had believed him.
On the stand however, knowing that it might come out, he revealed that it did show a screen for alcohol. And he couldn't give a good reason why he didn't use it. That in also the time I found out that all the witnesses subpoenaed were sitting outside the courtroom the whole time for two days said he never called them.
Then the court-appointed attorney asked him, "Would this witness had contradicted Meryl Blackburn ? "would this one?" "Yes." "Would this one?" "Yes." On and on for the whole time for two days, and be never [?]. And the court appointed attorney kept asking him, "Would this have contradicted Meryl Blackburn? With this one?" "yes" and with this one? "Yes." and on and on. And yet he kept saying it wasn't important to present that. It wasn't important that there wasn't any witnesses. According to law, the lawyer can refuse to call witnesses.
However, the Constitution says I have a right to have witnesses there. Under South Carolina law, an attorney can override the defendant and not call the witnesses. And that's what they did to me. So in essence my Constitutional Rights were [blank pause], so I was sent to prison without being able to produce any witnesses.
Now we left the Post-conviction hearing on Feb 15 knowing that it was lost, knowing that it was rigged from the very beginning. About the most major point why my attorney threw the case. The Judge cut me off. We could have documented it and proved it. Testify. In essence, he took our defense away by not permitting me to testify at all about it. Again no fair trial. He said, ,,I will let you know in 3o days". But we knew, we knew at the time, it was pretty much open and shut.
But then I pretty much. knew that in no state court would any court appointed attorney was I ever going to get anywhere. This attorney should have subpoenaed Rev. Randle sad put him on the stand sad be refused to do so. Again not calling witnesses.
There was another brother named Joe in Charlotte who was a major witness in the case. He would alone got me a new trial but stating that I had called him from the jail after the first day of the trial and told him I needed him to be a witness at the next day, for him to take off work to corn on down to Columbia and testify. He then called my attorney and my attorney told him not to come. This man now won't even talk to Christians about it. When they talk to him on the phone, he's just terrified, he's scared to death. under no circumstances will be come to Columbia, South Carolina. There is a conspiracy going on here. That could be overruled by an attorney.
There are a couple of attorneys in this state who are known that they can't be gotten to. And they have all told me that my case is open and shut. I should never have went to prison. I could have been set free by a couple court orders. But I have never been able to get these attorneys. And the reason for me not being able to write anybody, or have contact with anybody was so that funds could never be reached, could never be raised so that I could hire an attorney that could set me free.
In May, I'll have been in custody for 4 years. In January, this year I was already in prison for 3 years, for something that I didn't do, and for something that could have proved I was innocent, if I'd just been allowed to produce witnesses. In essence I have to hire an attorney who will subpoena the witnesses who will make no deal to sell me out and will let me have a fair trial.
There is something else that you need to know. Three days after I was placed in jail without bail my attorney came to me. He said the Federal prosecutor, the assistant attorney general, whatever you want to call him the attorney solicitor, wanted to make a deal. Now remember I was facing a state charge not a federal charge. But this was the Feds. Now all I had to do was tell him where all the Christians were hiding, identify all these people in the underground, and I could go free. And I said no. It's a matter of record that a federal proffer, this is an immunity grant for testimony, was offered me--it's on record-- and it was turned down. After I was convicted in '88 I was sent to prison in Columbia--there are several. Kirkland was the name of mine.
I was called up front and I was told to sit down and wait, that the secret service was coming to talk to me. The woman supervising omcer who was on duty found it strange that this secret service agent who was supposed to be locally from Columbia did not know where the prison was. And she just said, "Boy they are hiring dumb people today we had to give him instruction how to get here."
When he arrived he let it slip out that he was actually a member of President Reagan's body guard staff from Wash. D.C. He said that he had to leave in a couple of days to Moscow. This was right before the Reagan-Moscow trip. And that he had to get ready to set up for the President. What was he doing here? And all he wanted was the same information. Of course it was the information. Why was the secret service involved?
He was a member of Reagan's staff. Now after that, I was left alone, everything was left alone for a long time. And then in '90 in the winter of '90, the FBI came. I had been moved to a ah- I had been in three prisons. They keep moving me around and they are fixing to move me again is what they tell me.
The FBI came this was late at night I was brought from my cell after everyone else was locked down, and I was taken up front. There were two agents of the FBI. They said they were there to question me again, was I willing to talk? was I willing to make a deal? I said, "no." They said all this could be behind me, I said "no". They left. They've came back three other times. Finally they quit coming. I guess they are getting the message. But I kind of expect them to show up now that I've lost the post-conviction. As soon as I get notified in writing that I've lost this post-conviction, I expect for them to show up again trying to know if I will make a deal; the answer is 'no."
Isn't it amazing that I'm supposed to be this terrible rapist on a state charge that the Feds somehow have authority over this state charge and they are willing to let me just go, wipe it off the books for turning Christians who are wanted for nothing,, a lot of times nothing but misdemeanor warrants, or child custody warrants where the state wants to take the kids, or for violations of court orders.
A lot of these people are on the run, from Christian schools where the state has sworn out warrants for these Christians because they were teaching the children, and the state decided that this was not right and so on. Little stuff, and yet they are willing to let me go for all these people plus the Christians who are hiding them out. I think you'd better wake up brothers and sisters, because I was sent to prison without the right to a fair trial and I want tell you what. It could be done real easy. It could be done real easy. They control the media. They could say anything about you they want to say. They control the governments. They control the police forces.
Wake up!
I want to go into something else that is going on right now in the news. For over twelve years I have said that the goal of the United States government was to activate what is called Operation Garden Plot and its sub-plot Operation Cablesplice. Which was martial law, total military control over all police forces, governments, and so on. I've said that in order to do that they wanted the populace out there to scream at the president that he wasn't doing his job of protecting them from acts of terrorism. And that they were willing to give up their constitutional rights.
Now we have seen time and time again in order to stop the drug wars to stop the drug dealers, and all the bloodshed that they are willing to give up Constitutional rights. People are willing to do it. People, when terrorism strikes, are willing to do it. Now for years, the Illuminati have tried to have the Arab countries be so outraged that they would start terrorism in the United States on a great massive rate. And our country is more susceptible than any other country for the simple reason that we are not prepared for it. We don't believe it could happen to us. And they thought they were going to be able to do it in Lebanon. They didn't pull it off. They thought by hitting Gaddafi he would act, he wasn't able to strike back. He was unable to do it. And now we are involved in a war whose sole purpose is to have those acts of terrorism launched upon us in this country. [The media has hyped every act of terrorism they could dredge up in recent years.-F.] And I will leave you with that.
Now people soon you will all be in the same danger I'm in. I'm asking for your help. I assure you in the name of our lord Jesus Christ I am innocent of this charge. I state so before the Lord and you in his name. I'm innocent of this. Is it any surprise that John Todd who did them so much damage will be framed and sent to prison? Remember that I warned everybody about it that it would happen 2 years before it happened. I was warned. What is so agitating in this is that Christians who should have stood by me, who knew I was innocent, didn't do it.
They became so afraid that they would be gone after, that they just left me here. I need your help. I need copies of this tape made. I need it passed around. I need the word to get around. I need anybody who can help to get the word around, and to help financially. Not until I can hire these non-collaborating attorneys will I get proved and get free. I could be free at this time. I could have been free three years ago. I never should have been sent to prison all I would have had to do was to have help and never had it. And I definitely desperately need this, I'm not very good, I wasn't very good at asking for finances when I was in the ministry. I couldn't even take my own offerings in the church. I need your help.
I have a dear brother and sister... [name given is no longer working with him--at present 1, Fritz Springmeier am] is their name who have stood with me all through this. They don't have anything. They are just an everyday couple, a married couple. The man works he works hard. He works long hours. He is not a minister. But they can't get to him. And he is willing to have this [financial help come to him. See, I can't receive money [cash & checks] I can only receive a few dollars and they have to be in a U.S. postal money order.
And if they catch me receiving a lot of mail in here again, they will come down hard on me, and it just makes it impossible. This dear brother and sister in the Lord will take money, put it in the account and whenever there is enough money, move to get my release. I am asking you to help. I am asking you whether it is five dollars or a hundred dollars, or a thousand dollars. Please, we need desperately. We need to raise the finances. We need to get me free.
I never understood before as much as I understood now Paul's writings for when he was in prison to the churches for simple things, a coat, a few belongings, some finances- people who sent to him. And others who totally neglected him yet called themselves his brother and sister in Christ. It was so clear. I am asking for your help. I'm sending this tape to a couple of ministers, who after all these years I finally got their addresses again. And the Lord has just blessed me recently, and I will send this tape out. Now I'm hoping others will make copies and send it out. I'm hoping the word will get out.
There is no use for me giving you my address for they keep moving me around from prison to prison so much I may not even be here before this week is out. So let me give you how to send funds and how to contact me if you really feel you want to reach me. You can write me, and they will send me your letter and I'll pray about it. And if I need to take the risk and write you, I'll do it.
For those who wish to help you can send cash, money orders, whatever, since I'm not allowed to sign anything in prison they need to be mailed out to this party. [now Fritz Springmeier] And if you would make it out to the party whose name I going to give you in a minute... [At present checks can be made out to Fritz Springmeier to help Johnnie Todd. Put a notation on the check for what it is for.]
You will be surprised for a small contribution of a gift of $5 how grateful I'll be. Right now the earliest I can get out [without winning in court] is the year 2005. That's a long time people for something you didn't do. We just don't have that long. I've got family and loved ones, and brothers and sisters in Christ that I desperately need to be out there for I'm asking for your help.
If the Illuminati, Strom Thurmond and them put so much effort to this to me, there is a reason. And I'm asking for your help. I'm asking ministers who hear this who have newsletters to just simply send out what is going on here, to make copies of this tape and to make it available.
People I don't have much time left in here. Right now there is a conspiracy going on and one of the reasons I hurry to make this tape there is a man in prison who years ago who had threatened to kill me.
Amazingly, I'm just John Todd., I don't know why they would want to do that. Because at that time they were not sure what kind of a scandal it would cause they separated us they sent us to different prisons. And they put what is called a flag on my record, saying that we couldn't ever be in the same prison together. Nine months ago, when I was fighting to gain my freedom, lawsuits and doing some different stuff myself, because I didn't have an attorney. They got upset at me, they wanted to punish me by sending me to another prison.
O.K. They couldn't do it because this man was at that prison. And they let me know they couldn't do it, that our records were flagged. Now this man was doing a life sentence without parole for murder. Since being in prison he has stabbed four people. Three of them in the last couple years since I've known him. He has sworn to kill me. And now he is here.
A few weeks ago, he stabbed an inmate and a second inmate at another institution, and instead of charging him with it, and putting him into solitary, like they had done before, they dropped the charges, and sent him to this prison. When I heard that he was here, he was being held up in the lock up in solitary waiting for bed space in my unit. He will be just a couple of cells from me.
I went to the authorities here and I complained. Surprisingly guess what brothers and sisters? the flags on our records had disappeared. And there was no record of them ever being there. In fact, they went so far as to say there is no record in our records of us being in the same prison together. And yet we'd been in two prisons together and in the same building a few cells apart. And its right there. That much is in the records. O.K. Complaints were filed and so on and so forth. And I looked right at the Captain here, Capt. Byrd over security and told him, ,,You did this. You got the man who will kill me.
There is no big secret about this. This doesn't happen by accident.' Now at that time what was supposed to be done was that they should have shipped me. When I complained they should have shipped me. They claimed they couldn't send him anywhere else, that he's been to all these prisons and done all these things, that this was the last place they could have him. Well, they should have sent me away.
Now they are claiming that none of the other prisons want to take me. Isn't it amazing that they can't ship me when this man is scheduled to move into my unit into my prison dorm here Fri. This is Monday. They're doing this to try to kill me. What will happen? I'm in the Lord's hands... [John Todd repeats his request for help]...They are afraid that eventually I'll get my freedom....God bless you.

[end of message.]

The tape was smuggled out. Most likely through his legal representative. John Todd did get moved from this prison after this tape was made, where two inmates who were paid to stab him stabbed him in the back. While he was on the ground, they stabbed him three more times. Todd lost a lost of blood, but recovered and returned to general population. He was still hopeful to gain his freedom that time a year later. An appeal had been won, and he was to receive his fair day in court. He had an immediate need of $800 this upcoming month for a chance to get legal help. He had to meet legal deadlines.

Epilogue
Update on John Todd 2011

The following e-mail was sent to a man who maintains a website devoted to John Todd. For the sake of historical accuracy with respect to John Todd and his story, this message will appear in this publication.

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Message:
Good to hear from you and to read this letter. Please don’t publish my name although I hold out little hope that the thing isn’t known anyway by the right folks. Or wrong folks. The Collins folks are very powerful and well connected around here. Not in public as it were but when one does some looking into it the truth can be found. And it’s not just the Collins folks.

As I think I told you in an email that Druid grave area have vanished. The stones were moved. It was a large scale fail on my part not to get a photo of the 13 markers all numbered and in a circle. But as important someone is watching at least what goes on at your web site. While we cant produce photos of this grave area let its removal even if only between a few serve as a reminder of some realities.

More info. It may be that Steve Hoffer’s style of death was not published in the news. But it was mentioned by Falwell and I heard it with my own ears as I had made a trip back to Liberty U after boot camp to see a girlfriend and attended a service. Steve’s body had just been found that week and Steve being of note around there Falwell talked about it. Plus it was a big mystery on campus as to what had happened to Steve. Falwell felt it was the work of God. That Steve was turned over to evil for the destruction of the flesh as a warning for attacking Falwell himself and thus Gods work. I sat and listened to that knowing about and having read that letter from Todd’s wife and that Steve had been warned but it didn’t sink in but slowly over the years. In fact I have come to the point of seeing all this as not simply happenstance. My being from Columbus and meeting Steve etc. etc.

It was great to get confirmation that Jack and Todd’s old pastor say that they had not heard from him since late 79. Great work on this guy’s part. I am understanding here that Todd was killed very late in 79, his wife sent Steve a letter within weeks and Steve was dead by say 3rd week in Dec 1979. Looks like related killings. I am also going to believe that this letter and any related paper tying Steve with Todd was taken from Steve’s things. If Steve had anything at his parents home it was taken as well. His parents are most likely passed on.

Have you had any sort of traditional or otherwise demonic harassment over this? Let me just say that Columbus has some very powerful witches here of the first order. And they know I know about them not just from this but before I ever knew of John Todd. That’s one reason I perked up back in the day when first learning of John and where he was from.

By they way another guy that got a hold of me from YouTube said he was from the UK wanted to know what I knew about the Collins folks. I sent him some info about high up government appointments in state government. Have not heard from him. He wanted me to dig but these are just not the sort of folks you want to dig on outside the net. I told him even if they knew John and it’s been awhile now what 30 years they wouldn’t say anything if what he said was true.

Bonus Story

(The following is merely a portion of a story currently being written for the upcoming publication Random Thoughts: And Other Short Stories. It is entitled The Liberation of Anne Frank and is a piece of historical fiction dedicated in loving memory to one of History's most important people. This is history - as it should have taken place.)

We all knew the rules, the code of conduct, when it came to time travel. They had been drilled into our heads time and time again. Over and over. Repeatedly. But some rules are too callous. Too inhuman and without compassion. Especially when innocent human lives were at stake. To allow such evil to take place for the sake of preserving a specific historic time line was simply insane. So quite naturally, a small band of us rebelled.

We didn't know what our punishment would be. Nor did we care. The rules were nonsense to begin with. And this is where our story begins.
Naturally, we couldn't use government owned machinery to carry out our mission. They monitored the activities too closely for any of us to get away with anything that would violate the rules. So we had to recreate the machinery in secret without getting caught. I, personally, don't know very much about the science of time travel. But enough of us did. All of us had advanced military training and access to the most sophisticated weapons and gear in existence. We were sure that our rogue mission would be a success. The change in this particular time line would probably go unnoticed, as anybody unaware of what we were doing would just simply accept whatever happened as being a part of the original time line
My group was comprised of American and Israeli soldiers, both male and female. The machine we were to use in our mission was integrated into a large, nuclear submarine. Perfect for evacuating civilians. The design of the sub made it impossible for anybody to detect it with radar equipment. With all of our preparations completed, we embarked upon our history altering journey.
My men and I arrived in our designated country. We had our American uniforms and gear with us. We had a game plan based upon all available historical documentation at our disposal. The American uniforms were modeled after the sort worn by combat soldiers of that time. Every detail was meticulously gone over.
Our arrival took place at night and we fanned out, neutralizing all enemy personnel quietly. The fascists were caught completely off guard and unable to compete with our modern weapons. We took the country from them in one night. We were amazing.
Day soon came and the civilian population was stunned to see that they had been liberated. None of the radio broadcasts they'd heard mentioned anything about an allied invasion of their occupied nation. It was a pleasant surprise, to say the least. But we had a much bigger mission ahead of us; one that wouldn't involve the use of force.
I took a small group of men and a few women soldiers with me to the all too familiar street address and casually walked inside. The people inside the small office were frightened to see us at first. But their fear was quickly replaced with relief once I drew attention to the American flag patch stitched to my uniform. I recognized the woman seated at a desk and smiled at her warmly.
“Does anybody here speak English?”, I asked.
I already knew there were people present who spoke fluent English. I even knew who they were. I simply asked so that they could hear my American accent and know for certain that we were who we claimed we were.
As I expected, the woman behind the desk stood and walked toward me.
“I speak English.”, she told me.
“You don't have to worry about anything any more.”, I told her, as the rest of the people listened.
“You have been liberated by the United States Army. We arrived late last night and removed the enemy from your country. Go now and tell the others.”
She looked at me for a moment, puzzled.
“Your friends, I mean.”, I clarified.
She seemed to understand what I meant and immediately left the room. My men and I followed her. She paused at the end of a hallway and looked at the uniform of one of the Israeli soldiers in confusion. But she didn't ask any questions.
We followed her into another part of the building where there were other people. They seemed panicked at first. But the woman spoke to them in a language I never heard before. Dutch? Most likely. The atmosphere of fear soon melted away, giving way to relief and celebration. A tall, lean man I recognized immediately welcomed us warmly in fluent English. “United States Army. You've been liberated.”, I told him.
“The fascists have been driven from the country and we are occupying now. Feel free to come outside with us and enjoy the fresh air. It is safe now. You have nothing to be afraid of any longer. We will protect you.”
I recognized everybody else present as they gathered around us. Especially one of them. A face known world wide. (In my time, at least. She was only another civilian as far as the people in this time period were concerned.)
He smiled at me, joy and relief mixed into one.
I thought she was much prettier in person; the little sister I'd always wanted. I tried not to go into shock or grin too broadly. My Israeli companions weren't as reserved as I was and immediately flocked over to her. She was confused by of the attention, and even more confused by the Israeli flags stitched to their uniforms. I remembered from her writings that boys in her old school all liked her. I laughed before I could stifle it. My laugh was met by confused stares. All of us went outside. American and Israeli soldiers were everywhere. The man looked around.
“The Americans I recognize from their uniforms. But these other soldiers – the ones wearing the star of David on their uniforms – I do not recognize.”, he whispered to me. “Israelis”, I replied.
“These soldiers are from Palestine?”, he inquired.
I stifled a laugh, recalling that this was what people from his time called the holy land. But I realized that I must come clean with him. I knew it would only be a matter of time before I said something that was out of place for somebody from this time. A historical reference. An expression not yet created. Something. I sucked in a breath of air and faced him, ready for whatever reaction I might get.
“It's complicated. And I'm afraid that if I tell you the truth, you might think that I'm lying – or have gone mad.”, I started.
“My friends and I are from the future. We traveled back to this time, in violation of the oaths we have sworn to the American government, in order to rescue you and your family. In our history, Israel was reestablished as a nation in 1948. These are soldiers from that nation. That is why they are wearing flags which bear the star of David. It is their national flag.” I paused to gauge his reaction. He was simply listening politely, so I went on. “As for myself, I'm just an American. I brought these Israeli soldiers with me so that they could finally get to meet one of the most important people from future Jewish history; somebody highly regarded and beloved by millions of Jews and non-Jews alike.”
He looked at me strangely for a moment.
“What are you going on about, young man?”, he asked me.
“I have done nothing of importance for anybody to regard me in the future – if what you are telling me is true.”
“I wasn't speaking about you, Sir. Although you are a rather important person also.”, I replied.
“I was referring to somebody else who has been hiding in this building with you.”
I pointed to his youngest daughter, who didn't seem to be paying as much attention to us as she was the soldiers walking up and down the narrow sidewalks.
Now was the moment of truth; I would tell him everything. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
“On the fourth of August, the fascists were informed about your presence here.”, I started, the words sticking in my throat.
“All of you were arrested and sent away. You were the only person to survive. Upon your return, you learned of this tragedy. And that is when your friend gave you the notebooks. Those notebooks were edited and published after the war. Future generations will learn about her in history class. Her diary is required reading for all young people. Many people will be deeply moved and touched by her words. I love her like a little sister, and just simply had to come back to this time in order to save her life – as well as the lives of everyone else.”
I paused so that he could digest what I'd said. And then I continued.
“Even that ill mannered dentist friend of yours. I'm not too fond of him, personally. Why couldn't he just allow her to use the stupid desk so she could study and write in her diary? And who is he to say that her study of mythology was unimportant? I read about him in the diary and wanted so much to slap him across his face for being rude to a young lady.”
He was staring at me in shock.
“How could you know so much?”, he asked.
“As I've told you before; you published your daughter's diary after the war and everybody all over the world has read it. I know a lot about you, your family, and your friends.”, I answered. “If you are not yet convinced that I'm from the future, take a look at this.” I handed him my pocket change, pointing out the dates on the coins.
“Incredible!”, he whispered.
“There's more I must tell you. Very disturbing things.”, I continued.
“All of those rumors you've heard on the radio are true – and much more horrific that what has been reported by the BBC. This period of time you are now living in is known by future people as the holocaust. The Germans are trying to kill every Jewish person in Europe. They call it the final solution. By the end of the war, they will have killed six million men, women, children, and even infants – simply because they are Jewish. The allies held a trial in Nuremberg. The Germans responsible for this mass murder were tried, convicted, and hanged for their crimes. But the man most responsible for this murder wasn't brought to justice until 1961; Adolf Eichmann.”
He looked at me with an expression I couldn't read. I went on.
“Maybe I should start over from the beginning. The German army was all but destroyed by the allies in mid 1945. The Soviets were bombing Berlin into rubble. Hitler, ravaged by disease and mental illness, went into hiding with his mistress in a bunker in Berlin.”
I paused and smiled before continuing.
“Ironic, isn't it? Hitler himself had to go into hiding!”
He laughed, and I laughed along with him. I went on with the history lesson.
“He was mumbling incoherently and scaring his men who were with him. He married his mistress as the Soviet bombs rattled his bunker. The Soviets were advancing swiftly toward Berlin with only a small group of Hitler Youth to stand against them. The Italian dictator Mussolini had already been killed by a mob of his own people and displayed in public. Hitler knew that a similar fate awaited him once the Soviets captured him. He knew that the war had been lost and decided to end his own life. Several other high ranking Nazi officials took their own lives as well. Many fled Europe and were later captured. They were tried for war crimes and executed.”
I paused to collect my thoughts. He was still listening politely, so I concluded. “The Soviets only found charred bones buried in a trench when they arrived at the bunker. Germany surrendered and the war came to an end. The allies had discovered the death camps as they were advancing across Europe and knew of the horrific war crimes being committed against civilians – simply because they were Jews. It was around this time that you returned here and learned that you were the only survivor. You went on to publish your daughter's diary, which has stood as one of the most powerful testimonies given by Hitler's victims. This is why we had to come back through time. We just simply couldn't allow such a terrible thing to happen. We had to change history and save you.”
He seemed fascinated.
“What ever became of the American's war with Japan?”, he inquired.
“The war with Japan continued.”, I told him.
“President Roosevelt died of a stroke shortly after the war in Europe ended. A man named Harry Truman became president. The American government had produced a bomb of tremendous power called the atomic bomb. Truman ordered two of these bombs to be dropped on two major Japanese cities. This took place in 1946. Japan surrendered unconditionally and the war ended. As part of the unconditional surrender, the Japanese were forbidden to ever create a military for their country. But this ended in 2001 when America was attacked by terrorists.”
I realized that a history lesson of such a nature would probably be too much for him to handle and immediately regretted telling him so much. But he surprised me by maintaining his composure. So I ventured to tell him more.
“The Israeli government spent years hunting Nazi fugitives so they could be brought to justice. Eichmann, the chief architect of the Nazi genocide, was captured in Argentina and taken to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes in 1961 – the year both of my parents were born. He was convicted in a Jewish court and hanged.”
I paused, and then added.
“I know that all of this must be strange for you. But every word is the truth, Sir. But please believe me; none of my men would ever allow any harm to come to you or anybody else you've been hiding with. We have come to love all of you and would do anything to keep you safe.” His daughters were staring at us. Although I knew they were studying English, I had no way of knowing how much they had understood. I smiled at them warmly and bowed my head respectfully.
“Ladies.”, I stated simply, supposing this was how a gentleman of this time would show young ladies the respect they deserve.
To be honest, the fact that these young ladies were who they were probably motivated me to behave more gentlemanly more so than any need I felt to conform to 1940s etiquette. “Forgive me if anything I've said was a bit too graphic or upsetting.”, I added. “I feel that you should know the truth about what's going on. I owe you that much honesty.” “That's quite alright.”, he told me.
“Good.”, I replied.
“I have come to have a great deal of respect for you after everything I've learned in history class and my own personal research. I would never deliberately say or do anything to offend you.”
I glanced over to where the others were standing. They seemed fascinated by how easily the two of us were conversing with each other in spite of the fact that one of us was born in America while the other had been born in Germany. This gave me a thought.
“From what I understand, your daughters and that young man there have been studying English for the past two years.”, I started.
“How much of what I've said do you suppose they picked up on?”
“It's hard to say.”, he told me.
“You are a native speaker and have the tendency to speak rather quickly. Possibly much too quickly for any of them to make out distinct words clearly.”
My eyes cut to the youngest. I still couldn't get over the fact that it was really her! It was wonderful. As hard as it was for my brain to register the reality, she was standing just a couple of dozen feet away from me – in the flesh – looking more beautiful and angelic than any of the old black and white photographs I'd seen. None of them did her justice. I'd always wanted her as a younger sister so that I could be her friend and protect her from the fate she would've been left to face if we hadn't broken the rules to come back here to save her. I'd finally been given the chance to do all of that.
“As strange as this may sound to you, your youngest child has always been somebody I've admired most from history.”, I admitted to the man.
“I've always wished that she were my sister.”
He didn't say anything. So I continued.
“I don't mean to be so sentimental, Sir. But just imagine how you would feel if you were given the chance to travel back through time and meet one of your biggest heros. Wouldn't you go on and on as I am? This is the most incredible experience of my life. She's my favorite author, and my favorite historical person.”
He nodded. I'd decided to change topics.
“Now that you've been liberated and are now free to move around freely, is there anything you'd like to do to celebrate? I would be more than happy to accommodate you. All of my men would.” “We have nowhere to go at the moment.”, he told me.
“The Germans probably took possession of our apartment and all of the personal belongings we had to leave behind when we came here to hide. So we don't have much more than the meager possessions we were able to bring with us. And food is a bit hard to come by, as you can imagine.”
“I know.”, I told him politely.
“I've read about that in the English translation of her diary. It made me sad to know that all of you were made to go without so many things that us Americans have come to take for granted. My men and I would be more than happy to acquire anything you wish. All you have to do is ask. But it would appear that all of you will be spending a little more time here until we can arrange to have you moved to a safer location. Maybe we could finish this discussion in private some time later? I'm sure you have several questions you'd like to ask me.”
By this time, everyone who was employed at the warehouse had joined us outside. They seemed ecstatic over the news that they'd been liberated. Naturally, they wanted to meet their liberators. And we were more than happy to meet with them. We had a great time. “What happened to all the Germans?”, the lady from the office finally asked me. “We killed all of them.”, I replied with a shrug.
“They won't be giving you any more trouble. I assure you.”
A couple of people were speaking Dutch. A few more, German. I had no idea what they were saying. I turned to the man.
“I have no clue what anybody is saying.”, I told him.
“I only speak English.”
“They're thanking you for saving them from the Germans.”, he told me.
“They're factory workers and office staff.”
“Maybe you could interpret for me?”, I asked.
I carried on what seemed like a press conference for almost 2 hours. Everyone wanted to know what was going on in other parts of Europe. I answered them to the best of my knowledge, leaving nothing out – trying not to tell them things that hadn't happened yet. I'd already let the man in on the fact that we were from the future and wasn't sure if I should share that with the others. They were genuinely happy to see us. I could tell by the way they beamed at us with wide grins and tearful eyes.
“Excuse me, Sir. This is an American uniform that you are wearing?”, I heard somebody ask me in heavily accented English.”
“Yes it is.”, I replied.
I turned around. It was the young man. I'd seen old photographs of him before. I knew who he was and quickly shook his hand before giving him a quick hug. I tapped his shoulder with my fist in a teasing gesture. He laughed, and then looked over at the youngest girl again. She seemed happy to be outdoors for the first time since coming here. I was overwhelmed to be standing so close to such a legendary person. I turned back to the young man.
“How much English do you know?”, I asked him.
“Not as much as you. But some.”, he replied.
“Could you tell the girls that I said that it's nice to meet them?”, I asked.
I watched as he gave them my message. We exchanged warm smiles with each other. The others had already ventured back inside, and I followed close behind. I noticed that some of my men were also following. They were carrying food and other supplies. Roasted chicken, bread, cheese, fruit, and several other items. The timing couldn't have been better!
We reached the makeshift kitchen tucked away in the rear portion of the building. There was only room for eight people at the table. But I didn't mind. I wasn't about to help myself to the food that was meant for them. The man invited me to join them anyway – which was nice. I happily accepted his invitation.
“Thank you for the food.”, he told me.
“No problem.”, I replied.
“I hope this food doesn't conflict with any of the dietary restrictions of your religion. I specifically told my men to make sure that every article of food they bring in here is Kosher.” He laughed.
“That's very considerate of you.”, he said.
“But you shouldn't be going so far out of your way. None of us is in any position to be choosy about what you bring us to eat.”
“Still; I wouldn't want to offend you by giving you pork – or anything else that's contrary to the dietary restrictions of your faith.”, I assured him.
I noticed the others looking at us as we talked. A few of them were in the process of learning to speak English, and perhaps weren't used to having a native speaker using the language so freely and naturally as I was. This must've been somewhat fascinating for them to witness. Out of courtesy, I figured I should slow down a bit as I spoke so that those persons learning English could make sense of what I was saying.
“From what I understand, you daughters were writing to a girl in America before you were forced to go into hiding.”, I mentioned.
“I suppose they will be able to resume writing letters to her now that you're free. I would like to take all of you to England so that you'll be safe until after the war. My men and I can arrange that. I know you have family there.”
He looked at me, stunned. So I continued.
“I've heard a lot of the interviews you gave to the media after the war. That's just something I picked up on. I also know that you have family in both Switzerland and the United States. Your nephew in Switzerland is a successful actor and human rights advocate in the future. Buddy Elias, I believe.”
“You seem to know a lot about us.”, he mused.
“Would you mind telling me a bit about yourself?”
A reasonable request.
“I was born on September 20, 1982 in Flint, Michigan. I'm the oldest of four children. I have two younger brothers, a younger sister, and a half-sister who lives in South Carolina.”, I started. “I'm not sure what else there is to say. I'm sort of a boring person. Not too interesting, really. What would you like to know?”
We carried on with our discussion as the others ate. Their eyes were on us the whole time, still fascinated. After all this time in hiding, it must've surreal to have an American soldier, in full uniform, seated with them in their hiding place – casually carrying on a normal lunchtime conversation. I could only imagine how it felt to be liberated after living day after day under the constant threat of being discovered and shipped off to one of those death camps. I knew that they had spoken often about what they would do once they were free. Now that they had been freed, I got the distinct impression that they didn't know what to do with their new found freedom. Perhaps my men and I could keep them entertained and help them with that.
They seemed to be enjoying the food we'd given them. Such luxuries were out of their reach just yesterday. It made me happy to see them enjoying themselves. The world had gone completely mad; and yet here we were. It was nice. And I was happy that my men and I had decided not to adhere to the rules and regulations which governed us. None of this would've been possible otherwise.
My attention was again drawn to the youngest person seated at the table. The one I'd read about for most of my life. The one whose diary had deeply affected me ever sine I'd read it. The ending had always broken my heart, bringing on a deep pain that nothing could cure. But now that my men were here to save her, the happy ending I'd always longed for would finally be a reality.
Her beautiful diary wouldn't end on August 1, 1944. The Nazis wouldn't be here just three days later to arrest her. She wouldn't have to endure the brutality of being herded into a train to be sent off to a death camp. Nobody would shave her head or brand numbers into her forearm. She wouldn't have to endure starvation and slave labor. She wouldn't have to watch her mother and sister die before succumbing to Typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She wouldn't be wrapped in a common sheet and crudely tossed into a mass grave, reduced to nothing more than a statistic; just one more victim of a mad man's mindless need to murder an entire race of human beings. No. Hell No!
She would be taken to a safe place where she could continue writing her diary. She would get to finish her novel, The Life of Cady. She would get the chance to live the life she deserved to live, rather than dying tragically as one of Hitler's victims. She would survive to tell her story. And I would no longer have to grieve for this girl. She would be alive. It made my insides warm to consider the possibilities. I hoped to be as an older brother to her.