Jack Marino Chen was just five years old when she was sexually abused by a family member. This tragic event led Jack down a dark path that most of us can only imagine.
After years of turmoil, strange supernatural experiences, and a series of toxic relationships, Jack joined a cult called the Golden Dawn. [she] He practiced ceremonial magic in the Masonic lodges.”
“In the darkness, Jesus Christ met me and saved me,” she says. Allie Beth Stuckey.
Now Jack is on a mission to share his testimony and spread the hope of the gospel.
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Jack's story actually begins when she was five years old, but it wasn't until she was in high school, when she entered a series of toxic friendships and abusive romantic relationships, that she began to learn about New Age concepts that eventually led to her involvement with the occult.
Jack recalls a special relationship with a Native American boy, during which they “stayed up all night on the reservation, taking drugs and talking about aliens and ancestors and the elements” — a time when there was “no violence” between them.
In his next relationship, Jack was introduced to “psychedelic drugs,” “New Age festivals,” “sexual liberation,” “polyamory,” “karma,” and the power of “crystals” and “moonlight.”
These were essentially gateway ideas that led to the occult.
“Follow New Age and you'll find the occult,” Jack tells Ally.
As she delved deeper into dark spiritual practices, one day Jack “saw a glowing tarot card” in a metaphysical store. Believing she received a revelation from God, she purchased the card and began to study it in depth.
“In the end, it became the Thoth tarot card, written by a guy named Aleister Crowley. He's known as the most evil man of all time,” she explained, adding that Crowley “actually spread a lot of evil things in America. It was just too evil to say out loud.”
“The next step was to join this Golden Dawn,” Jack said, noting that “Aleister Crowley was part of the Golden Dawn, the original Golden Dawn, which was founded in the late 19th century.”
“I was living in Los Angeles at the time. [Golden Dawn] They had orders that practiced the same system of magic.”
When she was invited to the Masonic lodge, which was being used for a meeting, “at the top of the stairs, [her] He is wearing a black hooded robe.”
“I was taken into a room, I was given a black robe, I had to wear red socks and I was told to meditate, rather than pray, in preparation for the ceremony,” Jack recalled, adding that at one point “a sword was held to me.” [her] She wore a “scroll around her neck” to ensure she would never reveal the cult's secrets.
Perhaps most shocking is that Jack still considered himself a Christian at this stage in his life.
“We thought we were getting closer to Christ because that's what we were taught. We used the name Jesus Christ but Jesus was something you could become, something you could reach. I thought I had a deep understanding of what it meant to be a Christian, but I was worshiping the devil and becoming more and more sexually depraved,” she recalled.
“I was involved in sex magic,” she confessed, adding that the rituals practiced by the cult often involved blood, and “blood is thought to have power.”
Not surprisingly, abortion, identified by both Allie and Jack as “child sacrifice,” was another practice glorified in the occult.
“I [child sacrifice] “I thank God I was saved before that, but if it had started, it would have made sense to me based on what I completely believed and thought was good,” Jack says.
“That's why this makes me so uneasy. I thought it was a good thing to be able to be a god of my own body,” she lamented, adding that the ideas of abortion and using one's own blood in magical rituals are deeply linked to the “women's empowerment” and “self-empowerment” movements in today's secularized culture.
Thankfully, Genuine For Jack, Jesus Christ was close by, and in that moment of terrible darkness, God reached out and saved her.
To hear Jack's incredible story of salvation and find out how she escaped the occult, watch the episode above.
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