People tend to fixate on explicit labels rather than the insidious undercurrent. We make distinctions that God likely would not. If it extends from the same body of teachings and achieves the same corruptive affect on his people, then it is part of that "Mystery Babylon." I try to use the Bible to interpret the Bible. So there is a link within the Bible to the book of Daniel where Belteshazzar allows his Harlots drink from a sacred cup, and then God wrote the message meaning "Elah has numbered your reign, and put an end to it. You have been weighed on the scales, and found lacking. Your reign has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” There is a spiritual Harlotry with worshipping lies or false gods, and that these Harlots have taken what God ordained to be sanctified/ set-apart and defiled/ misappropriated them for their own gain. The figurative "vessel" could be like Biblical writings or traditions. Not only that but the Revelation Harlot has filled the cup with the blood of "saints," whom would really be set-apart Israelites/ disciples of Christ. I'm guessing that, in this instance, that would mean them using the "vessel" to justify martyring those that God truly loves, and so the murder is directly associated with the "vessel." Like people often say "Abrahamic religion/ monotheism is nothing but cruelty & bloodthirsty destruction." Israel is also referred to as a woman/ bride and is called a harlot when they emulated Pagan teachings and followed after false gods (which often involved literal degeneracy and harlotry), but in Psalm 137:8 the Edomites are referred to as the "daughter of Babylon". From this, we may speculate that the figurative meaning to a "harlot of Babylon" is perhaps a "nation" (can be a stateless nation rather than a nation within a nation-state) where as the figurative meaning of the beasts must be something else... The beasts correlate strongly to Lion = Babylon Bear = Medo-Persia Leopard = Greece Iron beast = Rome The final beast is an amalgamation of all the other ones, it has all the heads added up, and different body parts for the different animals. It also correlates to the Statue of Nebuchadnezzar, which is Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Lion = Gold Bear = Silver Leopard = Bronze Iron Beast = Iron Final amalgamation beast = Iron mixed with clay I can only speculate that the beasts are "empires" that are spiritual successor's to Nebuchadnezzar's empire, they are his legacy in a way. In my opinion, the empires can only be instigated and maintained by Shemites, God blessed Shem to be prominent above the other progenitors, the Bible is focused on Shem and Israel and it's essentially a Shemite legacy. It's Eurocentric in other words, Mongol/ Chinese empires are irrelevant to the Biblical story. The rock and the clay that brings down the statue/ global empire, forms the mountain that covers/ inherits the "world." So the general story with the Harlot is that God will put it into the hearts and minds of the leaders of this Beast, the powerful global empire, this amalgamation of past empires, to thoroughly destroy the Harlot of Babylon, whom is drunk on blood and arrogantly riding on top of the beast, and because of this intense desire they will also try to kill anyone/ anything associated with the Harlot or anything that seems to be an extension of it, including the "Bride." They will associate the Harlot with the Bride because the Harlot has the 'vessel' that is associated with the "Bride" and they can't distinguish between that which is corruption & blasphemes and that which upholds the true form of faith. Maybe I filled in too much from my own perspective there but maybe it's worth keeping the idea in mind. ~ Mat 24:29  “And immediately after the distress of those days the **sun** shall be darkened, and the **moon** shall not give its light, and the **stars** shall fall from the heaven, and the **powers of the heavens** shall be shaken." "Powers of the heavens" refers symbolically to the false idols. https://pic8.co/sh/wvzYmi.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/TlWZnJ.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/ERQlSo.png https://pic8.co/sh/28OhkR.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/2U37Ei.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/3MzUlA.jpg (Yaldabaoth/ Demiurge associated with Sun) https://pic8.co/sh/lEfV9Z.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/jT9MtW.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/Yf1rzm.png https://pic8.co/sh/9PJx2k.gif Sun and Moon are associated with the two supposed extremes, a false Hegelian dialectic made to ensnare. Sun = Pillar of Severity, Divine Masculine "Demiurge," blasphemous image of an father-creator-God associated with Child Sacrifice, known as Baal (King)- "Baal Hammon" or "Cronus" to Carthaginians. Allah is a conception of God that fits very neatly with the Luciferian conception of the creator of the physical world. Associated with matter and the material world, as that is his creation. Moon = Pillar of Mercy, Divine Feminine "Sophia," Shekinah (sheath or dwelling of Adonai, it is what Jews say is within the "Wailing Wall," hence why they thrust while reciting incantations), Ashtoreth (Asherah poles), perhaps described as 'Baala' (Lady) Peor (*of* Open Holes). Associated with adversarial rebellion against the authoritarian Demiurge, as well as his material world (and all the innate shackles like binary sex and revulsion), and antinomianism of various kinds, best embodied by the Gnostic Cult- the Cainites. Also associated with the "immaterial" and her shared "sparks" or "souls" which elevate a selection humans, amongst the "Hylics"/ animalistic automatons. Stars/ Star = Pillar of Balance - "Supreme Androgyne"/ "First Matter"/ "Generator"/ "Generating Spirit"/ Mithra. Like in Hinduism where the Polytheistic gods are all component personas of One generative god, the Tri-theism or Duo-theism can be broken down into Polytheism, that's how it's linked with Paganism in general. https://pic8.co/sh/pAG53Z.jpg Although the Sumerian triumvirate/ trinity seems to have a moon God, not Goddess, and the Kali-like Ishtar is associated with the Star. https://pic8.co/sh/Sxeg5b.png (Tablet depicting Ishtar/ Inanna holding a sceptre symbolic of the Tree of Life, you can see the hexagram in the circle) "Lucifer" or "light-bearer" is only a term someone who understands and upholds this paradigm would use but they seem to use it for all three aspects. There is material light of the sun, and immaterial light of the moon, and the star is a convergence between the two but is actually the "limitless light of nothingness," the "Ain Soph Aur." For example: the "Lucifer" Allister Crowley speaks of in his "Hymn to Lucifer" is the "sun-souled Lucifer," and the context confirms he is talking about the concept of God as a demiurge. Where as hermetics and goddess worshippers also have their own "Lucifer." In this paradigm, Earth is essentially hell and "matter" or the order that comes from the Demiurge is an intrusion and a confusion of the true order, so matter is seen as pure chaos and purely evil. Those with a soul are reincarnated for eternity on this earth, in this material reality, (reincarnation is called "Gilgul" in Kabbalah) until they can bring about the downfall of the Demiurge by destroying his creation (destroy the Grand architect by destroying the architecture he is apparently imbued within), and complete the Great Alchemical Work. When Baal worshippers kill their own young for their faith (like Canaanites/ Carthaginians), they are supposed to feel sorrow, they are supposed to feel deprived and that sacrifice is a sign of their devotion to Baal. When Sophia worshippers kill, they kill as an act of war against the material world, they see a Hylic child as an animal, as a "chicken" or something along those lines. They practice antinomianism (from eating filth/ shit, to more depraved sexual acts) to break their connection to the physical world and to the demiurge (become psychopathic), they consciously break down the distinctions that they believe the demiurge wants to uphold- like Binary Sex and Meritocratic Hierarchy and Race. They may act like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths (muh white magic) but they worship two-faced duality as a mentality, and they turn around and say anything that exposes their sins is just libel from backwards savages. I'm sure there are many deeply unaware people involved though. Btw, Jews sacrifice "chickens" in hopes that they can divert negative karma on to the animal, and it takes on their sins before it dies, it pays the penalty of their sins. They all have an understanding of cosmic karma, as if it were woven into the fabric of physical reality and must be acknowledged and instead manipulated- kind of like how they find loopholes and write them in the Talmud. The "Black magic" stuff means "selfish" magic, so materialistic magic or rituals in pursuit of excelling yourself or your group in the material world. They believe that the Demiurge has control over the demons just like Allah created & controls the Djinn. I think both sides practice all forms of enchanting/ divination/ magic/ spiritism that the Bible warns about though. "Demonic pacts" or "rituals of invocation" and the like involve blood rituals, just like Aztec rituals involved human blood sacrifice, and their Sun god was also the god of Sacrifice. In Babylon there was a god of Kings and Priests and it was said that this god created daemons and evil spirits to scare the people into accepting the authority of Kings and Priests in exchange for protection from that explicitly dark force. Apparently the Swastika is a "sun" symbol, but they say the cross is a sun symbol too anyway. I think that's part of the sick joke. No matter what symbols you use or associate with your group, unless they are a random squiggle, they can be tied to some kind of esoteric pagan belief, even if you are completely ignorant of such things- and then the cultists will make judgements based on that association. They even draw meaning from certain gestures when they feel it is significant - https://pic8.co/sh/pU1Vp4.jpg