Directed by Michael J. Bassett in 2009, Solomon Kane explores how badly the decisions of those in power can go wrong in a free-will environment when they are not in control of their own minds or guided by higher consciousness. Without a connection to Christ Consciousness and the love of the Father, humanity leaves itself wide open to negative influences that can prove disastrous for our communities.

Solomon Kane: Mercenary and Outcast

James Purefoy stars as Solomon Kane, a brutally efficient 16th-century mercenary who has spent his youth fighting for England in wars across the continents after being disinherited by his father.

Solomon is the second son of Josiah Kane, a powerful nobleman who resides at the ancestral family home, Kane Castle, in Devon, in the West Country of England.

Patriarchal Control and the Denial of Free Will

In this film, we witness how patriarchal energy has infected Josiah’s mind, with far-reaching consequences. His need for control causes chaos not only within his own family, but also for the local community.

His denial of love and Natural Law causes Josiah to be driven by the need to dominate. He denies the free will of his second son and attempts to determine Solomon’s path for him.

This raises one of the central questions of the film. We are told that Earth is a free-will environment, but what happens when free will is exercised within a hijacked system of patriarchy that consistently seeks control? Solomon chooses for himself, but he is punished for that choice. His free will is not treated as a sacred right, but as an act of rebellion.

The Firstborn Son and the Energy of Domination

Josiah is not in control of his own mind. He is being controlled by an energy that causes him to favour his firstborn son, Marcus, so that Marcus inherits the family estate. Patriarchal energy favours the firstborn son regardless of character, and in this case we are shown that Marcus is not worthy. Solomon makes it clear that Marcus is undeserving because of his poor character and bullying nature.

This pattern is important. Marcus is oppressive towards others, just as Josiah is oppressive towards Solomon. The energy of domination is being passed down through the family line.

Religion as Control

Solomon, Josiah’s second son, is made to feel less important when Josiah tries to remove him from worldly ambition by forcing him into the church. Again, Josiah is connecting with patriarchal control energy. He is not guiding Solomon towards God, love, or spiritual truth; he is using religion as another instrument of control.

The core teaching of Jesus was to love God the Father with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbour as you love yourself. He asks us not to do unto others what we would not want done unto ourselves.

Yet institutional religion, in the form of Roman Catholicism and Christianity, has often sought to control the minds of the people rather than spiritually nourish them. In this reading, the church becomes part of the matrix of control, severing people from their direct connection to God and placing a hierarchical priesthood between humanity and the divine.

This separation from God causes people to lose their natural connection to higher consciousness. Instead of living from love, care, and service to others, humanity is pulled down into lower vibrational energy that serves the ego.

In The Lost Disciples, Jarett argues that the Romans invented Catholicism to distract the people away from Christ’s The Way, as taught by Jesus’ disciples. Jesus was killed by the decision of the Sadducean high priest Caiaphas, who then sought to kill the disciples to suppress the teaching of The Way. When the Roman armies failed to defeat the Celts, who were protecting the disciples, the Romans invented Roman Catholicism, venerating Jesus’ Mother and taking attention away from the teachings of Christ.

This is the same pattern we see in Josiah. When direct connection to God is replaced by hierarchy, fear, and control, ego begins to rule the mind, leading to the downfall of society.

Solomon Chooses Freedom

Solomon knows his own mind and rejects his father’s instruction to join the church. He chooses freedom and disinheritance.

As he walks away from the family castle, he sees Marcus forcing himself on a woman. Solomon instinctively knows this is wrong and stands up to him. Marcus takes no notice. They scuffle, and Marcus falls from a cliff. Solomon continues his solitary journey in the belief that he has killed his brother.

Solomon leaves England and becomes a ruthless privateer and mercenary, leading men into battle and plunder. His life becomes one of vicious violence, conquest, and bloodshed, until a terrifying encounter with demonic forces causes him to realise that his soul is damned.

Josiah’s Bargain with Darker Forces

We later learn that Marcus did not die in the fall. Instead, his face was badly injured and disfigured. In Solomon’s absence, Josiah seeks the assistance of a magician, King Malachi, in an attempt to restore power to his firstborn son. This is another disastrous decision made by a man whose mind is not aligned with love or God’s wisdom.

Josiah foolishly hands power over to Malachi and is eventually held prisoner in his own castle. The father who sought to control his son is himself controlled. This is the consequence of choosing domination over love. By trying to preserve power through patriarchal force, he opens the door to an even darker power.

Solomon’s Repentance

After a terrifying encounter with demonic forces, the Devil’s reaper announces that he has come to claim Solomon’s soul. In that moment, Solomon realises that his life of violence has damned his soul. His only hope of redemption is to renounce bloodshed and devote himself to repentance, becoming a wanderer committed to a life of peace.

Fear in the Monastery

Having given his wealth to a group of monks, Solomon seeks sanctuary in their monastery. They soon expel him in fear that his presence endangers them.

Ironically, more weakness ensues when God’s men become fearful of doing the right thing to support a man in spiritual need. They do not trust in the power of God. Their minds are controlled by fear, not love, causing them to commit harm against Solomon. They do not show the bravery of the Celts, who gave refuge to the disciples of Christ after the killing of Jesus. The Celts protected the disciples for 300 years and were under attack from the Roman Army for the entire time, with one battle lasting nine years.

The Journey Home

However, this rejection marks the start of Solomon’s journey home and the beginning of his true path. As he travels across Southern England, his spirituality is tested when he witnesses how the Raiders are ravaging the people. This savage group destroys villages and brings terror to communities through torture, killing, and imprisonment. The survivors are brutally herded up as slaves.

Demonic Energy and the Loss of Humanity

The peaceable Solomon witnesses the savage treatment of the English people by a fearsome head of the army, who fills each conscript with demonic energy. This force causes their inhumane behaviour towards the people. They become automatons empowered by demons.

When an innocent Puritan family is attacked and a young woman is kidnapped by the Raiders, Solomon is forced back into violence. The story becomes a redemption quest. He must confront sorcery, demons, and his own past to save her and possibly redeem his soul.

The Return to Kane Castle

King Malachi is an evil sorcerer whose forces have taken control of the land. He has also taken over Kane Castle, bringing Solomon’s outer battle back to the place where his original wound began.

We later discover that the fearsome masked leader of Malachi’s army is Marcus himself. Josiah’s bargain with Malachi has given his firstborn son greater power, but that power has not brought wisdom, love, or justice. It has brought misery for others. Villages are burned. Families are slaughtered. Survivors are enslaved. A barbaric system is upheld through sorcery, demonic energy, and the corrupted will of men who have surrendered their minds to darkness.

Natural Law and the Question of Influence

The cause of this misery can be traced back to Josiah. He was filled with controlling patriarchal power and, instead of submitting to love and finding God’s energy within himself, he sought more power through Malachi. This is what happens when the human mind is not disciplined, not spiritually connected, and not guided by Natural Law.

Natural Law asks us to cause no loss, harm, or injury, and to commit no fraud. It requires us to act from truth, love, and personal responsibility. Josiah does the opposite. He seeks to dominate, manipulate, and control. In doing so, he becomes the doorway through which darker forces enter.

Choosing Love Over Control

Solomon Kane must ultimately confront Malachi, along with the deeper demonic power behind him. In doing so, the film asks us to consider which forces guide our own choices. Are we acting from love, truth, and higher consciousness, or are we being influenced by fear, domination, and forces we have not yet learned to recognise?

This is why it is fundamental to meditate, take control of the mind, and connect with God’s love within us. Only then can we begin to recognise the influences acting upon us and choose a path aligned with Natural Law, love and truth, rather than fear, domination, and control.

Shamanic Healing

Shamanic healing can help by supporting people to become more conscious of the energies, beliefs, wounds, and influences that may be shaping their choices beneath the surface. Through practices such as journeying, energy clearing, soul retrieval, cord cutting, and reconnection with spiritual guidance, a person can begin to recognise where fear, control, trauma, or inherited patterns are directing their life. This deeper awareness helps restore personal sovereignty, strengthen the connection to higher consciousness, and bring the individual back into alignment with love, truth, Natural Law, and the wisdom of the soul.