Books Your Parents Warned You About: 9/11 as a Mass Ritual
Book Review: The Most Dangerous Book In The World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual by S.K. Bain
Published in the October, 2020 issue of The Observer.
This year (2020) marked the 19th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 tragedy that left an indelible mark on the world's consciousness.
The events of 9/11 have been reconstructed and analyzed through almost every lens imaginable. Amidst theories involving directed energy weapons and controlled demolitions, S.K. Bain comes in with an original take on what unfolded that Tuesday afternoon in 2001.
Bain's general thesis is this: 9/11 was perpetrated by a Satanic, Aleister Crowley-devoted cult that enacted a sacrificial “MegaRitual,” embedded with occult symbolism and magickal elements, dedicated to Lucifer, with the dual goals of conjuring evil entities and psychologically abusing an unsuspecting population.
Here's the thing about this book... we really wanted to like it. While Bain delivers a thought-provoking look at an “occult script” being played out on a massive scale during the destruction of the Twin Towers, his work ultimately suffers from mediocre evidence and flimsy conclusions.
Bain highlights some truly intriguing synchronicities and the stronger coincidences help make his case that something uncanny took place that day, suggestive of dark forces behind the scenes. Consider his astute examination of the date “9/11” as an subversion of the well-known “9-1-1” emergency contact number. Bain succinctly explains that “9-1-1 had come to mean that help is on the way. The sudden reversal of meaning, which is a key tactic of occultists, was designed to induce psychic stress and mental anguish.”
Bain also compellingly deconstructs the role of the Statue of Liberty as an eerie, “Silent Overseer of the 9/11 MegaRitual.” He traces the statue's esoteric roots back to the ancient Colossus of Rhodes and its parallels to Lucifer as the ‘Light Bringer’ bearing the symbolic torch.
S.K. later dissects the area surrounding Ground Zero in an attempt to prove that it was built as “a massive ritual occult ceremonial center.” In his view, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were constructed to serve as enormous sacrificial altars. Evidence of this nefarious city-planning can be found in the curious architecture of the World Financial Center. This complex of buildings sits directly adjacent to the World Trade Center and is adorned with traditional occult symbols like pyramids and domes. Bain explains how these strategically placed icons imbued the geography around the towers with a veiled and arcane energy.
Examples like these help strengthen the author’s case that 9/11 was a grand enactment of a ritualistic sacrifice, and according to Bain, the occult-loving elite leave certain trademarks to hint at their association. Through a practice known as the “Revelation of the Method,” the orchestrators embed clues that implicate their involvement, which they believe make the general population subconsciously complicit in the act, thus amplifying the overall power of the ritual.
To say that Bain is a disciple of famed conspiracy theorist Michael A. Hoffman would be a slight overstatement—but not by much. S.K. admitted in an 2020 interview that, “absent my reading of Hoffman's work I may not have identified any of this.” Indeed, the author leans heavily on Hoffman’s interpretations of the occult elite’s methods and practices in order to decipher the events of 9/11. Hoffman’s oft-cited book, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, with its unmatched deconstruction of the patterns and tactics employed during public mind-control rituals, serves as the Rosetta Stone through which Bain interprets the unsettling incident.
In the second part of his book, Bain departs from scrutinizing the events of September 11th, and wades into some very tenuous territory. He spends an inordinate amount of time outlining a “work of predictive fiction,” whereby he envisions a false flag nuclear attack taking place on 12/25/2012 in Phoenix, Arizona. Since the city survived past Bain’s timeline, subsequent printings of the book acknowledge that his 170-page prophecy did not come to pass, but applaud the author’s exercise of applying his occult-ritual-driven framework to a possible future occurrence.
To his credit (or his folly), Bain goes deep to connect the dots surrounding this (made-up) event in order to expose the hallmarks of the string-puller’s evil blueprint. This where the book loses steam, as Bain attempts to connect the (made-up) contents of a (made-up) package that he imagines might be delivered to government officials the day before his (made-up) “Black Christmas” explosion. It was around this section that we were struck by the absurdity of analyzing the minutiae of an event that never took place—it’s one thing to dissect the nebulous pieces of actual evidence that can be found in conjunction with occult “MegaRituals,” but it's another thing altogether to spend time deciphering dual meanings behind objects in an imaginary Illuminati Christmas present. The pages Bain spent investigating his fictional event should have been put into further elaborating on the occult themes surrounding 9/11.
Despite his ability to make some chin-rubbing connections, Bain's book about why 9/11 happened fails to fully convince the reader that his premise is true. Instead of seeking to bolster the strongest pieces of evidence, Bain opts for quantity over quality, and too many weak accusations are offered. (For example, suggesting that the name of the air traffic controller (Crowley) on duty at an airport that was only peripherally involved in the day’s events was an insidious breadcrumb left by the organizers as a nod to Aleister Crowley.) Even with these shortcomings, the book is hard to put down, and does its best to provide an alternate perspective of a historical event that remains short on solid conclusions.
