February 9, 2003

To: Lucifer, Prince of the World

From: Dracma, Overlord of Babylon

Subject: The Tale of Two Cities

My most Glorious and Illustrious Master, I would like to record for posterity my glorious history of success down through the centuries as we implement our plans. One might call this "The Tale of Two cities" - that wretched city "Jerusalem" and the glorious city of "Babylon". Many millennia ago you appointed me "Overlord of Babylon" - not just the ancient city but the glorious civilization we spawned and the progression of our evil intent down through history from one civilization to the next.

A few times it looked like our plot may be foiled. First, you were kicked out of the "Garden of Eden" (woops, sorry to remind you). Then we were populating the world with our "demon spawn" and the flood wiped that out. But soon after Noah, our man Nimrod established the Great City of Babylon and things began going great for us as we began to build the Tower of Babel, uniting the entire world around You, my glorious, notorious Master, to worship You and bring your kingdom to earth. Then, the whole world was thrown into confusion when suddenly people couldn't understand one another and spoke different languages and scattered to the four winds.

Well, not to be discouraged, we regrouped and gradually rebuilt our evil influence again with Nebuchadnezzar who built You a glorious city, known as one of the seven wonders of the world, the hanging gardens of Babylon, a monument to Your glory and power. We ruled the civilized world. We brought false religion at its very best - idolatry and worship of the image of the Beast! Our empire has always had three faces: political and military power, economic and commercial power and our glorious religion -- worship to You, the god of this world. I presided over this great kingdom from the "netherworld."

But alas, all good things must end so we moved west to Tyre and Sidon where the political and commercial empire was spread by the Phoenicians. Religious idolatry was rampant. Then along came the Greeks and that famous conqueror Alexander the Great who brought Greek Civilization into the lower Mediterranean. Now as overlord of Babylon, I used the spread of Greek civilization to advance Your idolatrous worship, and yes, commerce and of course, political conquest. As you may recall, it was at this point in time that I took the name "Dracma" in honor of the Greek currency - what better way to describe me than "money, money, money." It was an honor!

Along comes Rome, and I see an opportunity to spread our influence far beyond our Mediterranean roots. The Romans absorbed the religion, the commerce and of course, brought the best armies of the world. Finally, even after that temporary setback we had when "You Know Who" lived and was crucified, we established your throne in Rome at the very seat of Christendom and we were able to bring the entire "Western Civilization" into those wonderful "Dark Ages" when that "Book" was practically hidden from the people. Only a select few priests were allowed to read it. We kept that Christian thing pretty much in the hands of "professionals" - far from the reach of the common man. We were able to infiltrate the very bowels of the Church with our own rituals and practices. We brought worship of all kinds of idols, even the "mother" symbol, the Queen of heaven, relics, the sun, the seasons and all kinds of wonderful Babylonian practices. The Roman Church was ours to control. We had a great time and there was little opposition from those so-called "Christians." I was your right hand there in Rome as we polluted the world with our sorceries.

We rocked along in that wonderful darkness for a thousand years or so when all hell broke loose (pardon the expression) with the beginning of the Reformation. The worst thing that happened was getting that blasted "Book" in the hands of the people. All of the sudden, things seemed to be falling apart. We lost some ground, but managed to keep the Nicolaitan system (yeah for the professional clergy!). Most Reformation Churches such as the Lutherans and Anglicans were still connected to the State. In fact, they were "state" churches. I must personally take credit for a few innovations during that time period. The concept of the "Protestant Ethic" - worldly success equates to the blessings of God, for example. So we still managed to keep the church intertwined with politics, and spiritual and financial success together along with a good dose of Babylonian/Roman apostasy such as meeting on Sunday (great word, right?) and holy days such as Christmas and Easter. Baal, Ashtoreth, Athena, Isis, Zeus - doesn't matter what you call them, we just keep changing the names but protect the concept!

We managed to keep the world in semi-darkness at least and then along comes a big curve ball, a real challenge for us demonic guys and gals. They discovered the "New World". No problem! The lower half of the continent was kept under the shroud of the Babylonian (woops, I mean Roman Catholic) Church, but the upper half looked like it might get a little bit out of control. Well, a little Masonry here, a little enlightenment there and we were able to gradually avert a disaster.

We realized early on that Civilization was moving West, so I gladly picked up and moved my HQ (headquarters) to the spunky little country called "America". Although there was an evangelical fervor and sense of destiny to rule the world in that little country, I realized that with some work, I could subvert this little experiment and bend it to our ends. It wasn't long before Europe wore itself out with wars, and the New Babylon (Amerika) began to emerge.

I am proud to say that New Babylon has in fact, ascended to heights never known by any other empire before it in terms of wealth, religious fervor and military power. Remember Pax Romana when Rome ruled the world in peace for a thousand years? Well Pax Amerikana surpasses Babylon, Greece, Rome or any European nation in power, and might. The New Babylon virtually controls commerce in nearly every country of the world (or they are marginalized and irrelevant as Cuba), consumes forty percent of the world's products and controls all banking and flow of funds through the IMF, World Bank, etc. Her armies are in 120 countries around the world and the largest air bases in the world across Asia and in the Middle East. She spends more on her military that all the countries of the world combined! They are currently circling the great oil patch in the Middle East I know as "home sweet home" - Babylon, of course. And guess what? We are about to have a new "King of Babylon". Imagine that!

This is the country that represents the culmination of our plans, the last great empire, the "little horn" no one expects to usher in Your kingdom, my Illustrious Master. No other nation in history has the commercial, military or Christian religious zeal to dominate the world. No one can stand against her. No one can match her wealth! No one can match her sense of destiny, her zeal to bring the Christian faith, do good and bring truth, justice and the Amerikan way to the world at large.

Now, I must say, we are a clever team, about to spring the trap on an unsuspecting world and on unsuspecting Christians themselves who we have tried to subvert and deceive over the years. They won't know what hit them. They will never guess. As Overlord of Babylon, or "New Babylon", if you will, we have the consummation of Western Civilization, the climax before we take control and usher in Your Kingdom Oh Dark Lord and Master.

In the next few months, I will reveal our "end game" scenario and plans. Those sniveling Christians are putty in our hands and will never give up their riches, their split-level homes, spas, cruises and 401ks. Threaten their pocket book. Threaten their health. Let Hollywood dull their minds, the media spin the news and the politicians cleverly package their lies. They will never figure it out until it is too late! So until our next installment…

Dracma, Your Not So Humble Servant