Stairway to Heaven Backwards is Christian
Some Christians have accused the band Led Zeppelin for putting a Satanic message in the song Stairway to Heaven backward.
This is the part that can heard clearly that has been widely shared.
"So here's to my Sweet Satan
The one who's little path would make me sad
Whose power is satan? He'll give you 666.
There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan."
The first line is obviously sarcastic in the context of the other lines.
Taking things literally is what Camille Paglia calls, “Stalinist literalism.”
Some Brits call it being a thick American.
All the other lines are critical of Satan, not praising.
The “tool shed” is like the “tool house” nick name for Aleister Crowley’s Boleskin House owned by Jimmy page from 1970-1991. I'm not the first to say this.
This suggests that this is Aleister Crowley’s confessing from hell that he was wrong.
This message could only be delivered by the Holy Spirit of Jesus. In other words God, as the trinity is one: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
It is extremely difficult to engineer lyrics backward, a practice called back-masking.
And why would anyone bother?
Why would they put a Christian message in their song?
It makes no sense.
There is an entire book on backward lyrics understood as an unconscious expression guided by the Holy Spirit, entitled: Reverse Speech: Voices From The Unconscious, by David Oates.
Commenting on Stairway he says,
“Finally, a reversal appears on a live version of the song sung in 1976 [live album Song Remains the Same] that says:
“Forgive me Lord, forgive me Lord, forgive me Lord.”
How could this be considered satanic?
Who’s asking for forgiveness and why?
Since when does the nature of Satan, metaphoric or otherwise, include forgiveness?
Stairway to Heaven is actaully a gospel song as my companion psge explains, Stairway to Heaven.
Not only was it not deilberately back masked, it was deliberately written at all but was spontaneously "channeled" as my other page explains.
The Christian Misinterpretation
Christian interpretations of the backward messages are sometimes based on a single line: “Here’s to my sweet Satan.”
This line is taken out of context and all lines that have other meanings are ignored.
Taking things out of context is a typical strategy of people whose only intention is too attack to be right, and are too lazy and incompetent to see deeper.
They have the satanic panic.
Now that we know that God had a hand in writing Stairway, we can search the forward lyrics for Godly meanings.
Read my companion article: Stairway to Heaven is a Gospel Song, the pinned post here.