The Bacchanalia Panic of 186 BCE: Over 7,000 Ancient Satanists Persecuted by Roman Law

If you were looking for where the Cult of Modern Satanism had its origins and where this ideology first began to take shape in Western culture, I would point you to the Ancient Cult of Bacchus from Rome whose adherents were known as the Bacchanalia in 186 BCE.

A Satanic cult that tried to take over the Roman empire by destroying it from within.

Here is the history of what happened to these Ancient Roman Satanists.

According to Roman historian and grammarian, Livy (Titus Livius), the Roman Senate took legal action in 186 BCE against the Cult of Bacchus (Bacchanalia) with the largest systematic persecution of a religious group ever seen in Europe. (Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus)

Livy said the troubles began when a woman named Paculla Annia became a priestess and altered the rites turning them into violent sex-orgies, including the rape of females and male adolescents (Ab urbe condita, 39.11.6-7, 39.13.14.).

He claimed that members of the cult were Romans of all classes with over 7000 people persecuted for sexual crimes and immorality in a massive military campaign lasting five years – the majority of them were executed (Ab urbe condita 39.17.4-39.18.9).

Livy said that the nocturnal version of the Bacchanalia involved wine-drinking to excess, drunkenness, and allegations of both heterosexual and homosexual license with young boys and the free mingling of the sexes and classes.

This was a form of unrestrained liberalism that had led to perverse human and sexual acts that could be compared to modern neoliberalism and Satanism. As we see today, there is a similar culture war happening where people are beginning to speak out against these immoralities and what appears to be the outright grooming of children into their Satanic cult with effeminate homosexual and trans ideologies.

The same thing happened over 2,000 years ago.

For example,  in 186 BCE, the Roman Legal Magistrates declared;

“Yet it would be less serious if their wrongdoing had merely made them effeminate —that was in great measure their personal dishonour —and if they had kept their hands from crime and their thoughts from evil designs: never has there been so much evil in the state nor affecting so many people in so many ways.

Whatever villainy there has been in recent years due to lust, whatever to fraud, whatever to crime, I tell you, has arisen from this one cult. Not yet have they revealed all the crimes to which they have conspired.

Their impious compact still limits itself to private crimes, since as yet it does not have strength enough to crush the state. Daily the evil grows and creeps abroad. It is already too great to be purely a private matter:

Its objective is the control of the state.”

Today, we can clearly see how this Bacchanalian philosophy from over 2,000 years ago is connected to current events with the Cult of Satan and its followers known as the Satanists. They both have very similar ideologies of extreme liberalism, individualism, hedonism, and immorality and we are witnessing similar controversies arise in modern times with the accusations and news that certain members of the Western elite are part of a Satanic cult.

And yes, just like the Ancient Cult of Bachus, the Modern Satanists’ main objective is to control the state.

The persecution of the Bacchanalia would be akin to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 1990s, but back then these ancient Satanists did not have TV, radio and internet so they could not control the media and news narratives so these cult members were not so lucky.

However, as I have written before, Holy War: Russia Declares War On Satanists, the country that calls themselves the Third Rome recently announced a modern military style campaign In response to a recent rise in Satanism across Ukraine and Western countries that will target Satanists.

Most of the Russian elite are on board and have agreed to cooperate in the “desatanization” of Ukraine via a special military operation (SVO). This military operation can be compared to the Bacchanalia Panic of 186 BCE when the Roman Senate outlawed and criminally persecuted the followers of the Cult of Bachus.

For example, Alexei Pavlov, Assistant Secretary of the Security Council Russia said in an interview that he believes that the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has been targeted by enemies who want to “reformat the minds” of Ukrainians and convert people from Christianity.

A type of mind control called the “Satanic State of Mind” that I keep emphasizing as the origins of immorality and evil in Western culture and is the premise of this book. You see, this is the same exact problem from allowing these Satanic cults to operate openly and unrestrained that had occurred in Ancient Rome.

This Bacchanalian (Satanic) mindset led its followers into what the Roman Commander of the First Julio-Claudian dynasty, Postimus calls “the absolute destruction of the moral personality, the dissolution of the rational individual into the Dionysian collective.”

What Postimus refers to as the dissolution of the rational individual into the Dionysian collective is exactly the same philosophy that I claim happens to people who become Satanists and end up in a destructive ideology that I call the “Satanic State of Mind.”

Postumius said in a speech over 2,000 years ago;

“Unrestrained lust (libido) is a rage (furor) that snatches man into a whirlpool (gurges) of desires. He then is no longer with himself (suum) but with the ones who conspire to commit every evil deed and every crime.

In other words, the Bacchanalia mean the absolute destruction of the moral personality, the dissolution of the rational individual into the Dionysian collective.

The consul goes so far as to say, “whatever wrongdoing (peccatum) there has been in these years, whether in the form of lust (libido), or of fraud (fraus), or of violent crime (scelus), all of it, you may be sure, has its origin in this one shrine. (Ab urbe condita 39.16.2.)”

Like Modern Satanism was imported into the U.S.A. and other Western countries by the Brittish Spy, Aleister Crowley, the Cult of Bachus was also a foreign religion that came to Rome from a different country.

Livy said that the Bacchus cult is an alien religion, imported from Greece via Etruria, which, first, “spread like an epidemic” thereby “infecting the people’s minds with error,” and, secondly, is not performed openly in public but “secretly and at night”.

He tells us about the history of the Bacchanalia “had started as a cult for women, and it was the rule that no man should be admitted. There had been three fixed days in a year on which initiations took place at daytime into the Bacchic mysteries, and it was the custom for the matrons to be chosen as priestesses in rotations” (Ab urbe condita 39.13.).

Livy quotes an account by Hispala who reports:

[Paculla Annia] had performed the ceremonies by night instead of by day, and in place of three days in a year she had appointed five days of initiation in each month. From the time when the rites were held promiscuously, with men and women mixed together, and when the license offered by darkness had been added, no sort of crime, no kind of immorality was left unattempted.

There were more obscenities practiced between men than between men and women. Anyone refusing to submit to outrage or being reluctant to commit crimes was slaughtered as a sacrificial victim. To regard nothing as forbidden was among these people the summit of religious achievement (Ab urbe condita 39.13.9-11).

Livy said a principle of the society is to hold every ordinance of god and nature in contempt. Men, as if seized by fits of madness, gave oracles; and the matrons, dressed as Bacchae, with disheveled hair and burning torches ran down to the Tiber River plunging their torches into the water. But since their torches contained sulphur and chalk, they were not extinguished.

Men who refused to take part in the orgies and crimes were said to be thrown into dark caverns, while the perpetrators declared that they had been carried off by the gods.

Livy said that the Roman Senate decreed that the priests of these rites, male and female, were to be arrested, not only in Rome but in all market-towns and centers of population. They prohibited by law that no one who had been initiated into the Bacchic rites or should attempt to assemble or meet for the purpose of holding these ceremonies or to perform any such religious rite. More especially, it was decreed that an inquiry should be held regarding those persons who had assembled or conspired for the furtherance of any immoral or criminal design (Ab urbe condita 39.14.7-8).

When the meeting was dismissed, according to Livy, there was great panic in the whole City, nor was this confined only to the walls or the boundaries of Rome; but gradually [p. 269] through all Italy, as letters were received from their friends concerning the decree of the senate, concerning the assembly and the edict of the consuls, the terror began to spread.

Many during the night after the day when the revelation was made in the meeting were caught trying to escape and brought back by the guards whom the triumviri had posted at the gates: the names of many were reported.

Livy wrote that men and women, committed suicide. In the conspiracy, it was said, more than seven thousand men and women were involved.

But the heads of the conspiracy, it was clear, were Marcus and Gaius Atinius of the Roman plebs, and the Faliscan Lucius Opicernius and the Campanian Minius Cerrinius: they were the source of all wickedness and wrongdoing, the story went, and they were the supreme priests and the founders of the cult.

It was seen to be that at the first opportunity they were arrested. They were brought before the consuls, confessed, and asked for no delay in standing trial.

Livy describes the immediately following persecutions, which were enacted as question extraordinaria on the basis of the decree as necessary emergency measures. Livy also reports that the measures caused great terror inside and outside of the city, numerous suicides, and a mass flight from Rome. According to Cicero, the measures even included military operations, which makes them appear almost crusade-like (De legibus 2.15.37).

It is my belief that the Cult of Bacchus that was once a small portion of the Roman Empire and was once almost eliminated has now grown today into a massive world-wide army of both complicit and incomplicit soldiers and civilians.

What Russian philosopher, Alexandr Dugin calls, “the Armies of Hell.”

These are the same people today fighting for so-called neoliberal (Libertine), atheistic, woke, and Satanic ideologies such as transgender children, LGBTQ rights, abortion, and the right to do whatever the hell they want to whomever they want regardless of the moral and ethical implications.

The reason is because like Ancient Rome had members of all classes in the Cult of Bacchus, today we have a similar and much sinister problem with the Satanists inserted into every branch of our government, military, religious institutions, and the media.

People who may seem just like you and I but who are secretly controlled by the “Satanic State of Mind,” whether they call themselves Satanists or they know it or not makes no difference.

That is what they are.

As I have said many times, you will know a Satanist (tare) by their fruits (works) or the lack thereof  – not by a membership card.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;  but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.

So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’

But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matthew 13:24-13:30)

When Jesus’ disciples were alone with him, they asked him to explain the parable.

Jesus said that the sower of the good seed represented himself and the Apostles; the field represented the world; the good seed, his righteous followers; and the tares, those who followed Satan.

Satan was the sower of the tares.

The harvest represented the end of the world, and the reapers represented the angels.

The Armies of Heavan.

SOURCES:

Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri Book XXXVIII, erklärt von M. Weissenborn

Livy. Books XXXVIII-XXXIX with an English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936: published without copyright notice.