In Hoc Signo Vinces

But the crowning point of the tyrant’s wickedness was his having recourse to sorcery: sometimes for magic purposes ripping up women with child, at other times searching into the bowels of newborn infants. He slew lions also, and practised certain horrid arts for evoking demons, and averting the approaching war, hoping by these means to get the victory. In short, it is impossible to describe the manifold acts of oppression by which this tyrant of Rome enslaved his subjects: so that by this time they were reduced to the most extreme penury and want of necessary food, a scarcity such as our contemporaries do not remember ever before to have existed at Rome.

Eusebius, Life of Constantine, Book I, Chapter XXXVI

That was Maxentius in 312, on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the eve on which Constantine received his famous vision of Cross. In that Sign, Constantine conquered, and Christendom began, bringing at least some degree of restraint to intercourse with Saint Paul’s elemental spirits, which are Saint John’s fallen angels, and which the human race worships in the absence of Abrahamic monotheism, not as worthy of worship, which they are not, but as deserving of fear, which to an extent they are. They are real, and the startlingly similar accounts and depictions of demons on different sides of the world arise from different people’s and different peoples’ encounters with the same ones. They always return to the fore when the Faith is in retreat.

See the Imbolc that the Irish are being ordered to believe that they had always kept even though almost none of them had ever heard of it until a few years ago. Even native speakers of Irish express an inability to pronounce it. Saint Brigid was the Abbess of Kildare, that Abbey being one of her several monastic foundations. By means that not even Christopher Hitchens could have denied a priori, her skull made its way to Church of Saint John the Baptist in the Lumiar district of Lisbon, where it was long used to bless the faithful of her feast day, which was locally as important as her name was common. But to a pre-Christian cult of a goddess of that same name, the only references date from well into the Christian period, just as only Saint Bede the Venerable ever mentions Ēostre, and even he says that everything to do with her had died out by his day. Oh, well, Unholy Brigid is real now, as the name under which an objectively existent force is invoked by a country in which one in six pregnancies ended in abortion.

And see the Epstein Files. In hoc signo vinces.