9/11 and the Conspiracy Against Religion
The hidden spiritual significance of the destruction of the Twin Towers
A Down the Wombat Hole reproduction of the cover for William Basinski’s Ambient music classic The Disintegration Loops. Basinski witnessed the 9/11 attacks live on his Manhattan balcony, and took the cover image of the bleak, smoked-filled aftermath himself. The melancholic progressive tape decay of the music became synonymous with the event for many… and yes, he was a 9/11 truther.
Where does one even start when digging down into the most iconic of wombat holes that is 9/11?
From a conspiracy perspective — what I know best — the terrorist (“terrorist”) attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York on September 11, 2011, have almost certainly been responsible for more descents down alternative reality burrows than any other world event. This is largely due to the demonstrably ridiculous lie that is the official story, which falls apart in staggering rapidity once one fully focuses their attention on the recorded facts of the event.
But it is obviously so much more than that: we know that the event holds an unparalleled level of significance across various social contexts.
On a psychological, even spiritual level, it shocked and traumatised an entire nation, and — given the prominence of that nation in world events — the rest of the world as well.
On a political level, it laid bare how blatantly and shamelessly Governments and their related organs will utilise such traumatic events to forward their own agendas; the subsequent War on Terror would pave the way for the toxic geo-political environment that has since shaped the 21st century.
On a cultural level, it gave a fatal blow to the privileged and protected status of America, and in a broader sense it shattered the illusions of much of the Western world that they might be immune from the turmoil steadily enveloping the Middle East.
Perhaps less obvious is its religious connotations: a climax as such in the spiritual battle between the two largest organised faiths on the planet.
This latter perspective was the first angle through which I properly came to study 9/11: as an astonishing fulfilment of religious prophecy and divine intervention. But that turned out to be just the starting point.
In fact, as you dig deeper into the 9/11 conspiracy, it is obvious that it represented a profoundly religious act… just not in the way that we have been lead to believe.
One of the best decisions I have ever made in my life was too move away from my birth city of Perth, Western Australia, to a remote coastal town roughly 8 hours drive away.
Aside from any broader life benefits that came from shifting locations (which have been varied and significant), the moving process itself — including several years of driving to and from this town before officially making residence — opened me up to the unique educational opportunity that is the consumption of audiobook over long-haul car trips. Having such an extended period of time to mentally dedicate to a new and challenging topic — balanced by the changing terrain, slow moving trucks and occasional toilet/stretch breaks — offers ripe conditions for overhauling one’s long held worldview.
My post-city-life has in fact been fundamentally shaped by the books that I listened to as I embarked on this new life journey. While far from the most influential, one of the first of these listens was a fascinating little tale called The Harbinger by Jonathon Cahn.
It is also far from the best book I have listened to. It employs a slightly tortured fictional narrative to unravel its central argument, and is padded almost unforgivably with less-than-compelling dialogue to presumably beef it out to a respectable page count. Cahn has also received some particularly sharp criticisms from peers for his handling of scripture, including this impressively smug and spiteful takedown from one of my old favourites, Dr. Michael Heiser.
Nonetheless, the central argument of the book is a fascinating one that clearly caught the attention of many Biblically-minded people, and is the reason why it became the runaway best seller in Christian America that it did.
The book begins with a proposition that gets to the heart of America as a Judeo-Christian nation: that it was established by its Founding Fathers as a continuation of the same Covenant with the Biblical God upon which Israel was established. Essentially, that America is the closest we have to God’s Kingdom on Earth. You know the basics of this spiel already:
“To be a vessel of redemption, a light to the world. And so it would give refuge to the world’s poor and needy, and hope to its oppressed. It would stand, more than once, against the dark movements of the modern age that threatened to engulf the world…and liberate millions from oppression” (pp. 19-20).
Whether you accept this premise or not, it is impossible to understand America without acknowledging how deeply this belief is held in its heartland populace. Not just understanding America back then, but understanding it now: specifically, the pushback that is occurring against our secular and ungodly Modern Age. For this Covenant is conditional, as is the God who made it: if America was to stray away from its divine foundations, the penalties for these transgressions would be swift and fierce.
This is the primary context within which The Harbinger frames the 9/11 attacks: the unavoidable consequence — the Divine Judgement — of a nation turning away from God. It came through the abolition of prayer and scripture in schools, through a return to idol worship that is celebrity culture, through materialism, through moral liberation, and (of course) through the modern day practice of child sacrifice that Conservative Christianity believe abortion to be.
Cahn explicitly links the perceived moral descent of America to that of Israel’s final days, and points to a series of warning signs — Harbingers — that the two nations shared. And he makes a pretty convincing case.
9/11 itself was the first Harbinger, representing the first ‘breach’ of God’s previously assured protection. This is, the book argues, further confirmed by the fact that the breach was made by (Islamaphobia alert) the very people opposed to God’s Will — just like it was the Assyrians who attacked Israel, a Middle Eastern race who also used terrorism as their greatest weapon.
From there we get a series of subsequent synchronicities with Biblical events. They largely centre around an obscure passage from Isaiah 9:10 (damn, only one digit off from perfect numerological synchronicity!):
“The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.”
This was Israel’s response to their own breach — a statement of continued defiance that essentially sealed their fate — but that also played itself out in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York. This is argued both in a general sense — the United States would show similar defiance as Israel, doubling down on its moral superiority rather than turning to introspection as to the underlying causes of the attacks — but also in very specific ways.
This includes the deliberate use of quarried (i.e. ‘hewn’) rock — named The Freedom Stone (of course) — as the cornerstone for the rebuilding at Ground Zero; the coincidental felling by building debris of an English Sycamore tree directly adjacent to Ground Zero and its replacement by (of course) a Cedar tree; and finally (of course) the word-for-word quotation of Isaiah 9:10 in Washington DC on numerous occasions, most prophetically on the day after the attacks took place. Almost like they were prepared?
The most convincing proof for the existence of a hidden hand at work in these events comes not from 9/11 itself, but another significant crisis that followed it: the financial crash of 2008.
In a practical political sense, this crash might be seen as a logical consequence of the unprecedented spending that underpinned the War on Terror. In a prophetic sense, according to Cahn, this global economic implosion was the fulfilment of the Isaiah 9:10 promise that the US had indeed written its own obituary. But looking at the specifics timing of the events in 2008, there is an indisputably epic synchronicity to another, also relatively obscure Bible concept: that of the Shemitah.
The basic idea of The Shemitah (around which Cahn later wrote a sequel) relates back to the Old Testament Laws delivered onto the Jews by Moses. Like the Sabbath, where Jews would observe a break from work every seventh day, so too were they compelled to observe a break in working the land every seven years:
“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield… but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.” Exodus 23:10-11
This Shemitah year was essentially an act of obedience to and faith in God, that he would provide enough food in the previous six years to allow the Jews to survive, and that this period of rest would allow the Earth to replenish for the next six. It also had an economic aspect to it — The Shemitah Effect — essentially a built-in mini-recession that would prevent larger financial crashes from occurring. The more well known Jubilee year of rest would be observed in the year after the 7th Shemitah — meaning every 50 years the Jews would undertake the additional test of faith to go two consecutive years without food production and major economic activity. Needless to say, the Jews failed this test, and according to a prophecy in the Book of Daniel were subsequently banished from their homeland for a period of 70 years.
What has this ancient concept got to do with 9/11 and the proceeding financial crash? It is all about the timing.
Cahn traces the Shemitah cycle from the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 70AD, which places us within Shemitah years in modern times across both 2000-2001 and 2007-2008. If the Shemitah Effect was indeed real, we should therefore see at the end of these years a significant economic downturn. Cahn argues (not always convincingly) that such downturns did indeed occur on Shemitah years. More convincingly, he points to a stunningly obvious timing: it was almost exactly seven years from the first plane hitting the Twin Towers, to the collapse of the Lehman Brothers in September of 2008.
A further proof for the believers, as if more was needed, of America’s fall away from God.
Now, to reiterate: it seems quite likely that Cahn has milked these interesting synchronicities between Biblical text and recent world events for all that they were worth, and has done so very successfully. But you don’t sell this many books if there isn’t some form of truth at the heart of his arguments.
So — and now we get to the spicy stuff — if we accept the premise that there is merit to the Biblical synchronicities that can be found in The Harbinger, we must then ask: who was responsible for such synchronicities?
Cahn’s view is, of course, the work of the divine — of God — acting through unwitting humans. Perhaps, for example, there is indeed some divine 7 year cycle encoded into human economic systems, and that the “Shemitah Effect” is something that transcends the Old Testament Jews. Perhaps it truly was some act of divine judgement that exactly 7 years after 9/11 attacks — the final, unheeded warning for an amoral America now doomed by the exact same failings as Israel — a devastating economic collapse would occur.
A less generous view would be that those involved in this story (perhaps even Cahn himself, if we are to look at his contribution through an uncharitable and cynical lens) knew exactly what they were doing: that these events were planned, carried out or at least described in the book in a way that would align with Biblical prophecy. That by doing so, 9/11 and its aftermath could be used as a tool to turn the two major religions of the world against each other: perpetuating a state of war that profits and benefits the military industrial complex that those responsible for planning the tragedy owe allegiance to.
As one gets more accustomed to the deepness of the 9/11 rabbit hole, one starts to inevitably side with the latter, more nefarious explanation.
One can go on and on as to the inconsistencies of the official narrative surrounding 9/11, and many have: as a starting point, we have this list of provable facts about the event; and we have these two videos — one 5 minutes of sass and snark, the other an hour of science and sense. However, the key takeaway is this: the 9/11 attacks were almost certainly a carefully orchestrated event. Thus, one might assume that the correlation of these events to Biblical prophecy was also carefully orchestrated.
In other words: there was no ‘divine intervention’ at play here; the attacks were not carried out by an outside force in the same way they were in the Bible — the invading ‘other’ that has Islam has become to Western Christianity. Rather: they were, to use a phrase, an ‘Inside Job’. If such ‘insiders’ could plan and carry out such an event, we probably shouldn’t put it past them to manipulate an economic crash that (just for kicks) they would bring about exactly 7 years later.
One might even conclude, based on this evidence, that 9/11 was as astonishingly brutal act of religious trolling: a conspiracy against religion itself, even.
This possibility becomes even more real, and even more unsettling, once you start to understand that 9/11 was, in itself, a profoundly religious act: a ritual sacrifice in honour of the secretive spiritual beliefs of those who carried out the attacks.
This may sound like a bit of stretch, but the occult aspects of 9/11 have been well documented. For these purposes, we can leave Cahn and his wealth-and-fame-bringing Bible explorations behind, and bring in a second book: one far more compelling and convincing in identifying a coherent explanation for the events on September 11, 2001 — the self-proclaimed “Most Dangerous Book in the World” in fact, by the splendidly named S. K. Bain.
In Bain’s thesis, we are presented with a detailed and fairly unshakeable theory that 9/11’s real ‘truth’ is that it was a mass satanic ritual. To fully appreciate these connections, one has to put the thinking cap down and the tin foil hat on. Ready?
We have the apparent use of Gematria (number patterns). Starting with 9/11 itself: the deliberate use of the 9-1-1 sequence that had for so long represented the number to call for help, now given a new and permanently traumatic meaning. The number 11: September 11; American Airlines Flight 11, the first to hit the towers — 11 is a number with strong occult meaning (“the number of Magick itself” according to the infamous Aleister Crowley) that may also be witnessed in the shape of the towers themselves.
From the shape of the towers we also can find links to ancient law. Were they in fact symbols of the “Pillars of Hermes”, a Greek God who was probably also the Egyptian God Thoth? This multi-named God, with a different iteration in virtually every ancient religion, was the source of knowledge upon which the philosophy of Hermeticism is based: knowledge that he allegedly hid inside his aforementioned two great pillars designed to survive an incoming great flood. These pillars may also symbolise the boundary between this world and the next — or between the living and the dead, making them the literal Gates of Death and/or Hell; which also may or may not be the two pillars of Freemasonry found in Solomon’s Temple — Jachin and Boaz — which may or may not also be equivalent to pillars in front of a sacrificial alter (you can start to see how this stuff works).
We could go on, ticking many if not most of the occult/conspiracy boxes (did you know that the Statue of Liberty is probably an ode to the original torchbearer Prometheus, who is probably actually Lucifer, meaning Lucifer was literally standing there watching as the towers were brought down?). Bain suggests all roads inevitably lead back to the aforementioned Crowley — the self-proclaimed number one Satan stan who is commonly described as “The Wickedest Man in the World” — who also regrettably appears to be the most influential prophet in the murky occult religion that inspired the culprits of 9/11.
And let’s not forget the role of the Commander in Chief himself, George W. Bush: surely one of the greatest character actors the modern world has seen, given most of the world still believes him to be a bumbling, inept fool. There he was, sitting in front of a group of African American school children, singing “The Pet Goat” — perhaps maybe a nod to Baphomet, the androgynous half-man-half-goat satanic symbol — being told of the attacks, yet sitting for another 7 (of course 7) minutes without reaction as the country descended outside into unprecedented chaos.
It’s ok, he said he just didn’t want to scare the kids! I’m sure an acknowledged member of Skull and Bones — the secretive and exclusive Yale society whose “Bonesmen” make up many of the key positions of the United State’s intelligence community — would ever lie about such a thing.
Fun fact about Bush — this is how his presence at a United Nations General Assembly meeting was described by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez:
"And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today.”
One thing I realised early on in my adventures down the wombat hole is that conspiracy and religion are inseparable.
One can see in the aforementioned lengthy discussion a theory for how the world’s two main religions were hijacked and turned against each other through an act of deception as ruthlessly brilliant as it was despicable. By who? By another group of people with their own religious practices: founded on a set of ancient spiritual principles largely unknown, yet that have profound influence on the events of our world, both in the past and in the present.
There is another thing you will also learn very quickly about the conspiracy world: whether you personally believe in the religion practiced by our shadowy elites is irrelevant, because they most certainly believe it, and it dictates everything they do.