To:              Lucifer the Most High and Enlightened One
From:          Dracma, Overlord of Babylon

Subject:       Background

Illustrious Master,

I find it imperative to communicate in this form so that we will have a written history of our wonderful exploits here on earth.  Ever since we tricked that lovely couple, Adam and Eve, things have never been the same.  All you had to do was promise them that they too could “be as gods, knowing good and evil” we have had our way with these sniveling, flawed, weak little humans.  They are certainly no match for our wily ways.  We have managed to distract and divert them every step of the way except for a few setbacks here and there.  But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Let me introduce myself to our readers.  My current name is Dracma, overlord or arch demon of Babylon.  I have been known by many names over the years, Beelzebub, Mamone, Hammon, Baal of Tyre and other locations or just plain Mammon—the Hebrew word for riches, greed and avarice.  I have moved from one principality to another over the centuries according to the dictum – “follow the money”.  Currently that happens to be what I call Babylon but others know it as the United States of America – pretty much the center for greed, avarice and conspicuous consumption in the world today.  They seem to have cut quite a deal with the rest of the world –“you all work and we enjoy the fruits of your labor!”  What a sweet deal!  Not even Rome was quite as successful at pulling off the heist of all time.  But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself.  So I could call myself “Dollar” but that is crass with no class so I prefer Dracma, sometimes spelled “Drachma” – and no, I’m not a rock group!  The Dracma was Greek coin, beginning in about 1100 B.C. (I’m much older than that of course) but during Alexander the Great, it became the “Euro-coin” of the day.  Anyway, I think it’s kind of cool.  I’m not just about money.  Some called me “Uko”, the god of chaos and trickery.  Our goal is to confuse and deceive man.

As I said, it all started in this beautiful garden called Eden.  Once these humans believed our lie, they became alienated from G..d – you know, their Creator.  They felt bad and even tried to make clothes out of fig leaves, realizing for the first time they were running around in the buff.  But what we accomplished was huge.  They were not only kicked out of the “Garden”, they were banned from H..S presence – no more walks and talks, no more nothing – just birth pain and hard work!!!  So right away we have a little pandemic starting and Cain kills the other son Abel out of jealousy.  That was the start of mayhem and I’m proud to say it hasn’t stopped since!

As time goes along, things were getting so good, they started building these huge astrological towers to us.  But that old wet blanket “G..d saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,”  so along came the flood spoiling all of our excellent work.  The rest is history as they say.  No matter how hard we tried to thwart H..S plans, Abraham went on to have a couple of kids called Esau and Isaac.  We created quite a stir between these two which is going on to this day.  We thought we had them when that little brat Joseph foiled us again as did Moses later.

See, the thing is, we knew better than anyone, that G..d had a plan and wanted to come down to earth as a man in order to reestablish H..S relationship with man.  So we did everything we could to wipe out H..S people over hundreds and hundreds of years.  Now during the 400 years of captivity in Egypt they got used to the “good life” for a while until Pharaoh started getting carried away with his full employment pyramid projects using them as slave labor.  Along comes Moses, that rabble rouser, shouting “let my people go.”  Sparing you the details, the good news is that the H..S people were not all that different than everyone else and they decided to make a golden calf to worship – fine with us.  This is a recurring theme that goes on and on for the next many hundreds of years.  They just can’t resist the cultures and religions around them and follow G..d after all He had done for them.  Very quick to forget!   But ever since the first couple, man has had a tendency to want to make their own gods with their own hands and their own imagination.  I call them “designer gods”.  They were so stupid as to attribute deity to idols made by their own hands.  As you may recall, that was a real hey day for us because, even though they were clueless, we were the object of their worship!  Very cool as I recall.

There were a few setbacks along the way.  The people would lose battles, be invaded and finally repent.  G..d would forgive them and bless them for a while.  But fortunately they had short memories and would soon be back to their old ways.  It got so bad that eventually they were carried off captive to Babylon.  Their temple was completely destroyed and it looked like we had finally won the battle.  Think about it – captured, scattered and then a few come back to rebuild.  What a disaster!  Fortunately, it wasn’t long before they forgot and reverted to their old ways in spite of those prophets always stirring things up, warning them.  So things rock along for a few hundred more years and along comes that MAN!
We did our best to stir everyone up against him – the Jews, the Romans, the whole world and when they hung him on that tree, we thought we had finally won.  But three days later, He’s alive again walking around stirring up trouble.  Our only hope was to launch an all out campaign: first, kill His followers; second, twist history so later generations will question whether it was real or not, and third, if any survived, we had to infiltrate their ranks and try and turn them into another religion – just like the one they left.  We realized these early Christians (as they were called) were different than anything we had ever seen before.  Something had happened to them we hadn’t seen since the first couple.  They had a relationship with G..d again and it was turning our world upside down.  We had to stop them!
And how were we to do that?  Religion!  Yes, I said religion.  Create some experts which were later called priests so that just like in the old days, they were the only ones who were supposed to know anything.  They became intermediaries again.  Create a hierarchy of specialists to get the message as far away from the people as possible.  Get them out of homes and back into buildings where they could be controlled and brainwashed.  Turn their message into a routine – forms and religious practices borrowing a little from the cultures around them.  (Remember how well this worked with the Israelites?)  Mix it up, muddy the waters and call it “Christian”.  It worked!  That living group of people became another dead, tradition bound organization where the laity knew their place and the clergy took care of business.  Those “dark ages” were our brightest days.  Remember?

Again, there were a few bumps in the road.  About fifteen hundred years after the MAN, some people started reading that “Book” and started to see that they had been misled and had missed the point completely.  But even though they saw the “priesthood of the believer” they still kept the clergy, the sermon, the building, programs and all the trappings so even the Protestants were still trapped in a system.  The other major milestone which helped us tremendously up to the present day is our argument that if a person was truly blessed by G..d, they would be healthy and wealthy.  This idea became known as the “Protestant Ethic” and was later embodied in the “green gospel”.  The idea was to keep Christians chasing the blessing of the almighty dollar, dracma or whatever you want to call it.  Even as their own “Book” says, “you can’t serve G..d and Mammon.”


That pretty much brings us up to the present day in a very brief summary form, but you get the idea.  To this day our program of apostasy and deception is working very well.  Daily we are undercutting the faith of these so-called believers, watering it down, making it more politically correct, more loving and accepting.  We have them totally bamboozled, confused and exhausted.  They are working harder than ever and their lives are soon nicely compartmentalized that they give G..d a little bit of attention once a week at best.
In future writings we will lay out our “end game.”  It is brilliant, I must say.  We have most of them under a strong delusion and they think they are on top of their game when they are really under our thumb!  So that’s all for now.


Humbly,

Dracma, Overlord of Babylon

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