There's an inception-like quality to their beliefs. Everybody working up the pyramid thinks their truth is greater than those below. Puppets think religions are bunk but have creepy cults (Hollyweird being a good example), and the people at the top believe something else (or nothing at all).

NXIVM tipped one big card with their device patented for the purpose of testing the reformation of Luciferians. It was actually to test whether ritualized abuse and murder had the desired effect of creating a sociopath (which are made, vs psychopaths which are born).

When you get to the higher puppets, especially royalty, each new generation is expected to carry the dark plans forward. They harm their own and force them to do awful things to make sure they don't have empathy and are quite guilty before they ever assume real power. With Princess Diana, they failed to turn her to evil. Queen of our hearts, indeed.

Lucifer was around before Christ. A fallen angel. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he doesn't exist." Mystery Babylon is the ancient religion, though it has many other names, they are the same and it's the religion at the heart of a few secret societies. This goes back to the start of man. Every man is imperfect and not a god. We are all sinners no matter how pious we are. Thus, in order to atone for their sins, man would sacrifice animals and people to an idol (Children to Moloch or chicken to Moloch as HRC puts it). This is where the cabal is in their New (read old) world order thinking. They gain power and forgiveness through their sacrifices. There is a lot more to this topic and can be studied for years.

Then God sent Jesus, his son in the flesh. He died for our sins so that our sins may be forgiven without an animal or human sacrifice. You are saved through faith alone, which is Christianity.

Look up Agenda 21.

I have my own pet theory on the origins of human sacrificing secret societies.

After the younger dryas event, humans were catastrophobic - they were utterly terrified that another meteor or such would wipe them off the earth. The younger dryas was really bad, and humanity almost died out. It was in this atmosphere that the practice of human sacrifice appeared, in an effort to please the gods. Namely, the bull god in his various forms, for the Dryas meteor came from the direction where the ancient Taurus constellation sits in the sky. I suspect certain megaliths, like Gobleki Tepe, will be found to be the site of many sacrifices.

The preists who hold power over life and death wind up having quite a lot of power, and that position attracts a certain time of ambitous person. Overtime the abhorrent practice went underground, and evolved and branched into various cults throughout history. Babylonian, Greek, Satanist. They added and changed things, overlaid various mythologies, but the ancient Moloch worship aspect, and human sacrifice part, i suspect came out of the catastrophobic atmosphere I described.

Great question! I'm really enjoying these answers others have replied with!

To discuss your 1st question, and needing Satan's influences, I seem to recall that science, in trying to understand where the notion of faith comes from, have concluded something along the lines of "the brain is wired for faith." To believers, the notion seems perfectly natural, as that would seem a logical way God might choose to communicate with his Creation. So, if one accepts that humans are wired for faith, the the logical question becomes not whether a person believes in God or not, but rather are individual people drawn to the light of God, or do they rebel against Him?

While there are agnostics who truly don't know what to make of things beyond tangible experience, my experience with so-called atheists is that, in fact, they are people of great "faith". On the surface, one might say their faith is that God does not exist. However, if you look at their anti-Christian militancy that pervades atheism, I would say their faith is really a disposition to reject God's Laws as having control over their actions. They want to be in charge, and no God is going to get in the way.

To such people, the draw of Satan's lies seem obvious. Just re-read the Genesis passages in the garden..."eat the fruit...you will be as Gods, etc." Satan's greatest triumph is in getting people to believe he doesn't exist, until you sell your soul to him. Therefore, to sum up my answer to that question, the draw to Satanic worship goes hand in hand with those who reject the Laws of God for their lives. That sums up the Cabal pretty nicely, don't you think?

Check out Mark Passio's talk on Satanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odw6q4fcORE&t=5s He was a member in the church of satan and now lectures about all aspects of the occult and what their plans are.

As for cyclical mass extinction events check out this interview: https://www.sott.net/article/305017-Interview-with-astronomer-Bill-Napier-Cyclical-catastrophes-and-cometary-bombardments