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The eating of meat is a remnant of primitive demon-worship, when animals were sacrificed on temple altars to these unseen and unholy creatures. The initiated among the early Christian Fathers knew this well. In The Spiritual Crisis of Man, I have already stated Saint John Chrysostom's opinion of meat-eating as being "unnatural" and "of demoniacal origin" while Origen wrote, "Do not flatter the demons by means of sacrifices."

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 59