Strongholds of Satan
Strongholds of Satan
Generation Hex
Because they themselves have nothing to communicate.
She recalled how one person that she interviewed said she was thrown to a sidewalk as a teen and told she would burn in hell.
“This is inexcusable,” she said.
As for parents who think that their child may be getting involved with witchcraft, Burroughs also encourages them to first hear their child’s story.
“They may be exploring their spirituality and see Wicca as a real option,” he said. “If you listen first, then they are more likely to listen to your concerns as well.”
"Summerland" alright..but a lot hotter than July
Generation Hex was published early last month by Harvest House Publishers and includes a foreword written by Dr. Ron Rhodes, one of the world's best-renowned scholars in the field of apologetics as well as the author of over 40 books, many of them bestsellers.
Josh Kimball
Christian Post Reporter
That's for sure...
The occult goes mainstream
As Tom Horn of "Raiders News Network" has been pointing out on his website; and as the Government and military have been exploring for decades.
I do not care what her credentials are: that doesn't make it right or righteous
"New Science"
Okay..here we go. SEE: Philip Collins (the Collins brothers) lengthy articles on Raiders New Network's archives on this very same trend...blending science, technology and the esoteric.
Healing by sound
The falling away, as predicted
Get your editions now so you can join the "responsive reading" with the Antichrist.
Infiltration
New Age to teach virtue?
Like we don't know what Theosophy is?
As documentation of an article I read last week on Hip-Hop artists and rappers who are getting into or are already into the occult, New Age scene.
Oprah Winfrey
Mainstream America turning to the Occult
Demonizing the prisons too
Really? For years now, it has seemed like other page on the net was either New Age, Wicca, Celtic Religion or Occultic in some degree.
The Devil's press is working overtime to explain the Tribulation and his ultimate defeat at the hands of the returning God.
As predicted in the Book of Revelation: the End Time populations will turn away from the one true God, to embrace witchcraft and the occult.
"Off planet" and out of mind
More than even you realize....
Can I barf now?
Yes..the signs of the times. Fallen angels...you do not attract Holy angels. They are sent and assigned by a Holy God; not you. If they are genuinely the "good" angels they wait on God's commandment. On the other hand....those "others" are intrusive, fallen, wicked and deceptive.
Demonic
Demonic
The "demonization" of American society
The book as "gateway?"
"Return of the Great Mother" and connecting with the "Galactic Center."
Seems as if the Antichrist's "forerunners" are hard at work preparing his way into the world.
Yes and that day will come when the Jesus Christ you deny for the sake of the Adversay's false gospel, sets down upon the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Then what?
CIA agents filling up pastoral positions in America's churches?
SEE: "Dominionism" Also there has been for a good number of years an alliance between some of the leading Evangelical leaders/groups and the Federal Government's clandestine activities in South and Central America and some of that involvement isn't pretty or "Christian."
SEE: "The Cedars"; "Dominionists" and "Reconstructionists" as well as "Joel's Army" Google these..
Evangelical Churches and the CIA
"Fifth column" activists infiltrating and using legitimate grassroots organizations for their own fascist/neo-nazi goals.
The Power Elite hope to manipulate these fifth column fascists for their own ends.
Subverting the USA into the NWO
Ron Paul and the Neo-Confederates
Rushdoony and Gary North
Paul's "political baggage"
Whence cometh these Neo-Confederates to the Paul campaign?
"Dominionists"
Gary North and Christian Reconstructionism and Dominionism
Rousas John Rushdoony (Gary North's father-in-law); influenced by Stonewall Jackson's Chaplain, Robert L. Dabney.
I have run into some evidence of this on a personal level
"Dominionism"
Dominionism and secularism..wedded
The result?
Chris Hedges describes Dominionism as follows:
What the disparate sects of this movement, known as Dominionism, share is an obsession with political power.
Dominionists and political power
All opponents of these Dominionists are viewed as agents of Satan
In Vengeance is Ours: The Church in Dominion, Albert Dager synopsizes the three basic tenets upon which this militarized form of Christianity is premised:
1) Satan usurped man's dominion over the earth through the temptation of Adam and Eve; 2) The Church is God's instrument to take dominion back from Satan; 3) Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth's governmental and social institutions. (87)
Number "3" is particularly dangerous given the Bible's warnings about deception in the End Time and the prophesy of a global false "church"
Historian Eric Voegelin expands on Joachim's symbolism:
Joachim of Flora broke with the Augustinian conception of a Christian society when he applied the symbol of the Trinity to the course of history.... In his trinitarian eschatology Joachim created the aggregate of symbols which govern the self-interpretation of modern political society to this day.... The first of these symbols is the conception of history as a sequence of three ages, of which the third age is intelligibly the final Third Realm....
Sounds a lot like Jon Zirpolo's "Church of Christ"
Voegelin explains:
The attempt at immanentizing the meaning of existence is fundamentally an attempt at bringing our knowledge of transcendence into a firmer grip than the cognitio fidei, the cognition of faith, will afford, and the Gnostic experiences offer this firmer grip insofar as they are an expansion of the soul to the point where God is drawn into the existence of man. (124)
Political coups
That they should build the Kingdom of God on earth and not wait for God to do it
Dominionists are enemies of Christ and of the Christian Faith
Truth
A form of godliness but denying it's power
Lucifer
Conrad Goeringer elaborates:
If the bible was the holy book of the Christian enlightenment, then the Encyclopedia was the inspiration of the Enlightenment. Here was a compendium of human knowledge dealing with arts, sciences mechanics and philosophy which swelled to some 36 volumes by 1780.
The 18th century Enlightenment exalted Lucifer
In Morals and Dogma, 33rd Degree Freemason Albert Pike expresses unabashed praise for Lucifer:
LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not. (321)
Whittaker Chambers, former member of the communist underground in America, provides an eloquent summation of secular humanism:
"Humanism is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of Creation under the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil: 'Ye shall be as gods.'" (Qutd. in Baker 206)
Commenting on this new strain of Gnosticism, Wolfgang Smith writes:
In place of an Eschaton which ontologically transcends the confines of this world, the modern Gnostic envisions an End within history, an Eschaton, therefore, which is to be realized within the ontological plane of this visible universe. (238; emphasis added).
Communism, fascism, and other competing forms of socialism proffer a heaven on earth. In this sense, all modern socialist revolutionaries qualify as secular Gnostics:
In this century, with the presentation of traditional religious positions in secular form, there has emerged a secular Gnosticism beside the other great secular religions--the mystical union of Fascism, the apocalypse of Marxist dialectic, the Earthly City of social democracy. The secular Gnosticism is almost never recognized for what it is, and it can exist alongside other convictions almost unperceived. (Webb 418)
James H. Billington describes this "new reality":
The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words Novus Ordo Seclorum.
America and the symbols on the Great Seal
Secuarism and the Occult go hand in hand
A weak Church gives way to a stronger occult inroad
Lucifer: Hebrew "Helei" shares the same meaning as "Prometheus"
The mythical character of Prometheus was central to the Utopian vision of early socialist revolutionaries. James A. Billington explains:
A recurrent mythic theme for revolutionaries -- early romantics, the young Marx, the Russians of Lenin's time -- was Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods for the use of mankind. The Promethean faith of revolutionaries resembled in many respects the general belief that science would lead men out of darkness into light. (6; emphasis added)
"Scientism" (not to be confused with legitimate science
Following this physiological interpretation of governance to its logical ends, Saint-Simon developed the precursor to Marx's "scientific socialism":
Believing that the scientific method should be applied to the body of society as well as to the individual body, Saint-Simon proceeded to analyze society in terms of its physiological components: classes. He never conceived of economic classes in the Marxian sense, but his functional class analysis prepared the way for Marx. (213)
In Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley described this scientistic form of governance:
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown. (116)
Dominionism's roots lie in the Luciferian promoting Enlightenment..running then into the Scientific/Technocratic dictatorship. Dominionism and Scientism seek to bring God and the sublime mysteries of the Faith down into the temporal world and it's application is temporal as well.
The Dominionist's view of Christ's return
John Hagee's denial of Jesus as the Christ
And it sounds too like the "prosperity doctrines"
In regards to Jesus, Weishaupt states:
The secret preserved through the Disciplinam Arcani, and the aim appearing through all His words and deeds, is to give back to men their original liberty and equality. . . . Now one can understand how far Jesus was the Redeemer and Saviour of the world. (Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, no pagination)
In keeping with his esoteric heritage, Weishaupt's Christ was an obscurantist and a secret teacher of older occult doctrines:
No one . . . has so cleverly concealed the high meaning of His teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom as our great master Jesus of Nazareth. This secret meaning and natural consequence of His teaching He hid completely, for Jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the Scriptures. (Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, no pagination)
John Robison explains:
Jesus Christ is represented as the enemy of superstitious observances, and the assertor of the Empire of Reason and of Brotherly love, and his death and memory as dear to mankind. This evidently paves the way for Weishaupt's Christianity. (No pagination)
Weishaupt's Illuminist colleague, Baron von Knigge, reiterates this scientistic portrait of Jesus:
"Jesus Christ established no new Religion; he would only set Religion and Reason in their ancient rights. For this purpose he would unite men in a common bond. He would fit them for this by spreading a just morality, by enlightening the understanding, and by assisting the mind to shake off all prejudices. He would teach all men, in the first place, to govern themselves. Rulers would then be needless, and equality and liberty would take place without any revolution, by the natural and gentle operation of reason and expediency. This great Teacher allows himself to explain every part of the Bible in conformity to these purposes; and he forbids all wrangling among his scholars, because every man may there find a reasonable application to his peculiar doctrines. Let this be true or false, it does not signify. This was a simple Religion, and it was so far inspired; but the minds of his hearers were not fitted for receiving these doctrines. I told you, says he, but you could not bear it. Many therefore were called, but few were chosen." (Qutd. In Robison, no pagination)
No faith in Christ's return
Reformed theology
Christian Reconstructionism and Rousas John Rushdoony
Rejection of the Charismatic gifts in the modern era....Then is the Church of Christ, which not only rejects the Charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit; they also deny the Holy Spirit in effecting the regeneration of the soul.
Thus, Hume asserts, the evidence against miracles will always outweigh the evidence for them:
Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man, seemingly in good health, should die on a sudden: because such a kind of death, though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country. (No pagination)
Hobbes, who was a radical empiricist and materialist, rejected divine revelation on the grounds that such experiences could imperil so-called "civil order." Hobbes begins with a critique of all claimants to supernatural revelation:
When God speaketh to man, it must be either immediately or by mediation of another man, to whom He had formerly spoken by Himself immediately. How God speaketh to a man immediately may be understood by those well enough to whom He hath so spoken; but how the same should be understood by another is hard, if not impossible, to know. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it. (No pagination)
While Hobbes' argument totters perilously on the edge of agnosticism, he never firmly commits himself to rejecting the Scriptures. Hobbes continues:
So that it is manifest that the teaching of the religion which God hath established, and the showing of a present miracle, joined together, were the only marks whereby the Scripture would have a true prophet. (No pagination)
Hobbes argues that the cessation of miracles upholds both the validity of the Scriptures and the divine right of the "governors of earth":
Seeing therefore miracles now cease, we have no sign left whereby to acknowledge the pretended revelations or inspirations of any private man; nor obligation to give ear to any doctrine, farther than it is conformable to the Holy Scriptures , which since the time of our Saviour supply the place and sufficiently recompense the want of all other prophecy; and from which, by wise and learned interpretation, and careful ratiocination, all rules and precepts necessary to the knowledge of our duty both to God and man, without enthusiasm, or supernatural inspiration, may easily be deduced. And this Scripture is it out of which I am to take the principles of my discourse concerning the rights of those that are the supreme governors on earth of Christian Commonwealths, and of the duty of Christian subjects towards their sovereigns. (No pagination)
Notes from the Author B"H 12/00 - Kislev 5761
This article appeared originally as "Masters of the Blinding Light: What the Jewish People Should Know About the New Age Movement", posted to the Web in 3/97 (Adar Bet 5757) courtesy of the Jewish Student Union, University of Colorado. A copy was filed at that time in the archives of the Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). It was removed from the U of Colorado webserver in 10/99, without notice or explanation. But for those interested, it can still be found on other sites.
But as far as hostility toward ethnic Jewish identity, most New Agers will say with confidence: "No way! Jews are fully accepted in New Age circles."
If you believe this, you've been had!
"The Plan"
Theosophist Alice Bailey and the educational plan "Goals 2000"
Bailey's disciples
And remember, the Hindus love Obama. Even sending him an idol replica of their monkey god since learning he carries a small charm on his key ring of the same.
The New World Order firmly embedded in New Age teaching
The "Power Elite" and global population reduction.
to "change" the USA
Amnesty International
The Rainbow Coalition
The U.S. Military's "First Earth Battalion"
Brooke Newell former VP of Chase Manhattan Bank
Scientology
And his darling eldest son
Montessori
Planned Parenthood
Skull and Bones (Yale)
Skull and Bones (Yale)
The CFR
Well this group we know and are not surprised. Just look at the fruits of their labor around the world and here in "the Homeland."
Educational systems by way of the World Core Curriculum, written by the UN's Robert Mueller based on the channeled writings of Alice Bailey by her demonic spirit posing as the "Tibetan Teacher" Djwahl Khul.
Satanic designs
Expunging the New Age rolls of Jim Jones as if he was never one of them.
New Age claims on Jerusalem
Robert Mueller
Spirit guides (demonic spirits) are actually "hosted" at the United Nations through "an unpublicized group" called SEAT (the Society for Enlightenment and Transformation)
planned war against the Jews and "their God"; which btw is the Christian's God as well.
Devil worship
As a good many Evangelical Christian "suckers" are buying into
As has happened within the Christian Evangelical community
The NAs' hatred of the Jewish God (and the Christians)
The "Antichrist's" "god of forces" as the Book of Daniel explains it?
SEE: Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch for their real identity
The fallen angelic host of Genesis 6 and their Nephilim offspring
Paul referred to these as "principalities, powers in high places and the rulers of darkness of this present age."
"Sanat Kumara" = Satan (the "anointed cherub that covereth)
Because in truth, he is a fallen angel
Christians need to be purged of Jewish concepts
The Antichrist
Antichrist
Antichrist and Satan...the time of "the Mark?"
666
Nero: the destroyer of Christians and Hitler, the destroyer of Jews.
A great deal is embodied in this one sentence....destruction of every genuine follower of Jesus and eventually the 1/3 of Jews who refuse to acknowledge the Antichrist's self proclomation as "God."
Persecution of Christians
No...he got his butt kicked in the cosmic war of rebellion
The Bible's "Apollyon" - the "Destroyer" - the "Beast" from the Pit
Bush's Neocon "doctrine" of bringing "democracy" at the end of a gun
Satan
Equating Satan with "Logos" - the Word..i.e. Jesus the Christ
Until "he (the Holy Spirit) who prevents (restrains the manifestation of ultimate evil) is taken out of the way...
The message of the UFOs, ETs and Aliens
The Devil's twist on demon possession
Or immediately call an exorcist; which would foil the plan of the "Walk-in"
Barack Obama?
The whole "Satanic" point of Yoga/meditation.
One of the favorite sayings of Bush's Neocons
Hillary Clinton
This "El Morya"...is it possible he is that evil angel "Moriah" spoken of by Thomas Horn of Raiders News Network?....the "Angel in the Whirlwind?"
Satan's discards
God and the Christians are referred to here as the obstructionists and hinderers of Satan's and the NAs' master plans......And yes...we are!
The demonic host of fallen angels' and their "Master's" hatred of God
In other words: Jesus the Christ...very God and Son of God....Praise His name forever!!!
A demonic twist to the Biblical Flood epoch; where the "one" and only "True" God of righteousness wearied at the wickedness of his creation under the evil fallen angels, brought their reign of terror to an end by sending a global cataclysm of flood waters to cleanse the earth. The fallen angels, some imprisoned in "chains of darkness" and their free roaming evil "brothers" in a sense did vacate an earth and temporal dwelling never meant for them and either were imprisoned in the bowels of the earth or hightailed it to the spiritual dimension of "Space" from which they came.
The Holy God and Christians are just messing it all up
In other words: reject the pleas of Christians for salvation and resist the Holy Spirit.
Boy!!! Does this phrase sound familiar in 2008-2009!!!
Persecution and total eradication by death of Jews and by extension...Christians
Jesus said:
"Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." Matthew 24: 4-6
In his Introduction to Animal Farm, George Orwell decried the cowardly refusal of British publishers to criticize Communism -- or to publish his book:
"...it was obvious that there would be great difficulty in getting it published .... One publisher actually started by accepting the book, but after making the preliminary arrangements he decided to consult the Ministry of Information [which apparently] warned him... against publishing it.
Here is an extract from his letter:
"...it might be... highly ill-advised to publish at the present time. If the fable were addressed generally to dictators and dictatorships at large then publication would be all right, but the fable does follow... so completely the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators, that it can apply only to Russia.... Another thing: ...the choice of pigs as the ruling caste will no doubt give offence to many people...."[5]
Aldous Huxley describes the results in Brave New World Revisited,
"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Their suggestibility is increased to the point where they cease to have any judgment or will of their own. ... they are subject to sudden excesses of rage, enthusiasm and panic. In a word, a man in a crowd behaves as though he had swallowed a large dose of some powerful intoxicant [See The Dopamine-Driven Church]. He is a victim of what I have called 'herd-poisoning.'”[7]
As Marx and Engels wrote in The Communist Manifesto (1848):
"...communism abolishes eternal truths... and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience....
According to Christianity Today, Rick Warren is pleased to share Obama's inauguration platform with Bishop Gene Robinson, a homosexual who has promised to give the prayer without using a Bible. Complimenting Obama, Warren said,
"President-elect Obama has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground."[9]
As Aldous Huxley wrote,
"To be successful a propagandist must learn how to manipulate these instincts and emotions.... Twenty years before Madison Avenue embarked upon 'Motivational Research,' Hitler was systematically exploring and exploiting the secret fears and hopes, the cravings, anxieties and frustrations of the German masses....
After his miraculous release ten years later, he described the decadence of the ravaging Russian armies that occupied East Germany until 1990:
"I had begun to discover, during those first few months of Russian occupation... what man without God can come to. Although I could not then comprehend why the Russians conducted themselves as they did, the dreadful events of Black Sunday in Dresden... gave me my first inkling of the moral erosion that had taken place among the Soviet people.
"Under cover of darkness, neighbors continued to slip over to our house for refuge. The tales they had to tell made us sick. Several of the women were hysterical.... Their lust spent in rape, the Red soldiers turned to looting...."
"...when you remove God from a society, you remove the basis for a moral code...."[10] John Noble, I Found God in Soviet Russia
Author Mark Steyn documents some of the atrocities in his recent article, "The 'oldest hatred' lives, from Gaza to Florida:"
"In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell 'You are the brothers of pigs!,' and a protester complains to his interviewer that 'Hitler didn't do a good job.'
"In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, 'You need a big oven, that's what you need!'
"In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, 'Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!'
"In Toulouse [France] a synagogue is firebombed... a Jewish man is savagely assaulted by 20 youths taunting, 'Palestine will kill the Jews.'... a Jewish schoolgirl is brutally beaten by a gang jeering, 'Jews must die.'
"In Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a synagogue; in Antwerp, lit rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home."[12]
As Pastor Rick Warren told Stephen Colbert,
"A fundamentalist is somebody who stops listening. There are fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist Jews, fundamentalist Muslims.... It's an attitude that doesn't listen to anyone else."[14]
That's not true, unless you define "listen" as the process toward dialectical consensus, which many do. In that context, Warren's strange statement in a 2006 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer makes sense:
"Warren predicts that fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be 'one of the big enemies of the 21st century.' ... 'Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism....'"[15]
In a May 2005 interview with the Pew Forum on Religion, Warren defined this persistent "enemy:"
"... they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America ... Now the word 'fundamentalist' actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity."[16]
That "legalistic, narrow view" is God-given faith in these five essential Truths: (1) the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) the virgin birth, (3) His atonement for sin through the cross, (4) His resurrection, and (5) the inerrancy of His Word. But those fundamentals are no longer acceptable in many churches. As Jesus said,
"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.... If they persecuted Me they will persecute you... for they do not know the One who sent Me." John 15:19-21
"...it was incredible to him [a Red Army Sergeant] that any Soviet youth could have been so thoroughly poisoned by religion.
"Zalivako was not finished. 'It is evident that you resist teaching, Moiseyev, and the advice of your superiors. That is a concern to me. You are in need of a lesson. Since you are fond of praying on your knees, I shall give you an opportunity for constructive socialist labor in that position. You are to wash the barrack’s drill hall and all the corridors on your knees.... You will work all night. Perhaps an exercise of this nature, and before your comrades, might help to persuade you to be teachable. You will have opportunity to consider if you wish to cling to your anti-Soviet views. Dismissed.'...
"...the news of a believer in the unit had passed through the whole company.... Fast upon the first story came the second, that the Polit-Ruk had set Moiseyev to scrubbing the enormous barrack hall with a small hand brush and a bucket.
"Incredibly, he was in good humor, singing and smiling as he worked in spite of continuous interruptions by officers who called him into their offices to harass him. By lunch, soldiers were drifting into the hall... watching him work, listening to the quiet hymns he sang with such evident joy. He was a mystery." [17]
'They each and all reflect a sense that we share the pain of others, and a sense that we believe in something bigger than
ourselves -
Divine strength: Gordon Brown, in St Paul's Cathedral, talking about faith and the global economy
Mr Brown, with Australian PM Kevin Rudd in the historic cathedral, in the week that world leaders meet for the G20 summit
Brown: 'We cannot and will not pass by the side when people are suffering'
Sadly, this is the way the world is heading - one world government and Gordan Brown seems to lend his blessing to this. It will be authoritarian and anyone who rebels against its philosophy will be persecuted. May God help us when this happens because it will be a government with no Christian values.
- Margaret, Cardiff, 31/3/2009 13:49
"New world order", why does this make me nervous.
This speech is so hypocritical I'm surprised the congregation did not bust out laughing especially when you think that a nurse was suspended for praying, a teaching assistant is suspended for her 5 year old daughter having and sharing her faith and yesterday a man reprimanded for saying "God bless".
All this under the eye of Gormless Brown, now we do, do God! Hypocrite!
- Jeff, Llandrindod Wells, 31/3/2009 14:24
What a sanctimonious hypocrital waste of space (I wanted to use stronger words, but you wouldn't print ithem. He has the gall to stand in a pulpit and preach to us about values, when on the same webpage his MPs are rewarding themselves with even more gold plated pension money. Just when I think this idiot can't possibly sink any lower, he surprises us all by sinking even deeper. the quicker we get rid of this dictator the better for all.
- Alex, Fochabers, Scotland, 31/3/2009 14:29
new world order hm a lot of that going about these last few years,something we all have too watch out for,sounds fishy when all the leaders of the world (good or bad)start saying about a new world order, is there something we should know about.
- sean, PontyPooL.S WALES., 31/3/2009
While we are bringing religion into the discussion, perhaps we should actually consider God's wise response to man's attempts to unite under one 'common purpose' in building the tower of Babel... in God's wisdom, united we fall, divided we stand. When the world unites, who will provide the checks and balances on the centralized power of the new world order?
Skip forward to the Bible's prophetic warnings about the coming one world government and the ultimate tyrannical monetary enslavement of the world,
"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Don't be fooled by this diabolical message... the new world order is no solution to our financial crisis... it is a trojan horse... and Brown speaks as an angel of light, with a forked tongue... in a supposed house of God, no less.
- Christian, Vancouver/Canada, 31/3/2009
You couldn't make this up........whatever your beliefs why oh why would God be interested in fat greedy materialistic bankers and money makers - the whole mess is of mans making and a human by-product of self first, second and third. Just look at the environment and world colonisation, poverty, and global warming - all at mans folly. We are even making a mess in the Earth's orbit. If there are any UFO's/E.T.s they will probably want to keep Man at arm's length - as just look at what we are capable of and achieve as a global society. As we were told by the Archbishop of Canterbury - God will not intervene with global warming, as for the financial crisis the seeds of greed have come to fruition. Labour have done everything to destroy morals, family values, society and Brown is totally responsible for the lack of banking controls/regulation - as all other freedoms have been severely eroded since 1997 in Labours Orwellian Britain.
- Ash, Sussex, England., 31/3/2009 15:10
Some 30-minutes or so after leaving Fendley’s office, Christian appeared at the office of Granite City Bank president Wyatt C. Martin. After introducing himself to Mr Martin in the same manner in which he did to Fendley, he repealed his mission and desires to have a monument erected.
Christian told Martin that he represented a group of individuals who had planned this project for more than 20 years, and that each one of the group was a loyal American who believed in God and country.
He said the group of sponsors wished to remain anonymous and went on to say that his real name was not Robert C. Christian as he had introduced himself, but this was simply a name chosen because of his Christian faith.
More precisely...
The message, to be inscribed on the stones, is to all mankind and is non-sectarian, nor nationalistic, nor in any sense political. The stones must speak for themselves to all who take note and should appeal to believers and non-believers , wherever. and at all times.
Christian returned several days later with a wooden model of the intended structure, and a message from the group:
Stonehenge and other vestiges of human thought arouse our curiosity but carry no message for our guidance. To convey our ideas across time to other human beings we want to erect a monument. A cluster of graven stones...which will silently display our ideas when we have gone. We hope they will merit increasing acceptance and that through their silent persistence they will hasten in a small degree the coming Age of Reason.
The ten instructions etched into the stones are:
A 2009 feature on the monument in Wired Magazine pointed out...
...Among them is an activist named Mark Dice, author of a book called The Resistance Manifesto. In 2005, Dice (who was using a pseudonym of his own — ”John Conner” — appropriated from the Terminator franchise’s main character) began to demand that the Guidestones be “smashed into a million pieces.” He claims that the monument has “a deep Satanic origin,” a stance that has earned him plenty of coverage, both in print and on the Web. According to Dice, Christian was a high-ranking member of “a Luciferian secret society” at the forefront of the New World Order. “The elite are planning to develop successful life-extension technology in the next few decades that will nearly stop the aging process,” Dice says, “and they fear that with the current population of Earth so high, the masses will be using resources that the elite want for themselves. The Guidestones are the New World Order’s Ten Commandments. They’re also a way for the elite to get a laugh at the expense of the uninformed masses, as their agenda stands as clear as day and the zombies don’t even notice it.”
In the words of the great Renaissance scholar, Dame Frances Yates:
The religion of New Atlantis has much in common with that of the Rosicrucian manifestos. It is intensely Christian in spirit, though not doctrinal, interpreting the Christian spirit in terms of practical benevolence, like the R.C. Brothers... The inhabitants of New Atlantis would appear to have achieved the great instauration of learning and have therefore returned to the state of Adam in Paradise before the Fall – the objective of advancement both for Bacon and for the authors of the Rosicrucian manifestos.
For example, in one tale the Biblical prophet Enoch is moved to create a lasting monument, inscribed with hieroglyphs, to ensure that certain secret knowledge is not lost:
The degeneracy of mankind became so great , and their perversions of pure antediluvian Masonry so grievous, that, according to our traditions, Enoch feared the genuine secrets would be lost, and swallowed up in the predicted Deluge. To prevent which he hid the Grand Secret, engraven on a white oriental porphyry stone, in the bowels of the Earth; and being apprehensive that the morality and science which had been embodied in Freemasonry with such care would be absorbed in the general destruction; to preserve the principles of the science, he built two pillars near the spot where they were concealed, with an inscription in hieroglyphs, importing that near it was a precious treasure which had been dedicated to God.
Arturo de Hoyos, Grand Archivist for the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction, suggests another possible source for the myths of the Royal Arch degree:
The writings of Flavius Josephus may also have contributed to the Masonic tradition. In his Antiquities of the Jews (Book I, Chap. II, vs. 3), he mentions that Seth, the son of Adam “made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also to inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them.”
According to a statement by the monument’s designers...
...The group consciousness of our race is blind, perverse, and easily distracted by trivia while it should be focused on fundamentals. We are entering a critical era. Population pressures will soon create political and economic crisis throughout the world. These will make more difficult and at the same time more needed the building of a rational world society.
...The approaching crisis may make mankind willing to accept a system of world law which will stress the responsibility of individual nations in regulating internal affairs, and which will assist them in the peaceful management of international frictions. With such a system we could eliminate war. We could provide every person an opportunity to seek a life of purpose and fulfillment.
There are alternatives to Armageddon. They are attainable. But they will not happen without coordinated efforts by millions of dedicated people in all nations of the world.
The more provocative part of the inscription is the word “maintaining” – and the group are quite clear in their intended meaning on this point:
In 1980, as these stones were being raised, the most pressing world problem was the need to control human numbers...controlling our reproduction is urgently needed. It will require major changes in our attitudes and customs.
...In these circumstances, reproduction is no longer exclusively a personal matter. Society must have a voice and some power of direction in regulating this vital function. The wishes of human couples are important, but not paramount.
The interests of present society and the welfare of future generations must be given increasing consideration as we develop mechanisms to bring rational control to our childbearing. No person should be brought into the world unwanted and unneeded. No child should be conceived through carelessness. If each life is to have value, every conception must be part of an ordered plan of two parents who are aware of their responsibilities to that child and to society.
...Knowledge and techniques for regulating human reproduction are now in existence.
The Disk surface...is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’
On the reverse side of the disk from the globe graphic are over 13,000 microetched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification.
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But yet, the Marxist/Pagan POTUS cannot, would not attend the traditional "Christian" prayer breakfast. Nor can he, as most demon possessed, tolerate the sight of the name "Jesus Christ" and had to have that name covered up before he would give a speech at Georgetown U.
And maybe next year there will be added Head Hunters and devotees of the Cargo Cult
For this to happen the pagan custom had to be relocated onto what the art historian Hans Weigert in 1934 had called 'the deepest maternal foundations of blood and soil'."
By Professor Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
An Electronic Seminars in History Presentation
The Teutonic heritage provided some valuable contributions to the evolution of modern Paganism as evidenced its mythos, ethics, glorification of the ancient past and especially in its reverence to nature."
from: Germanic Contributions to the Neo-Pagan Movement
By John C. Mayer
The Nazi regime intended to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremistsWilliam L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Holocaust was preceded by vast pageants which Hitler used to promote his version of neo-Paganism."
By Eric Holmberg and Jay Rogers
Heinrich Heine - a Jew converted to Christianity, was able to discern the true German psyche - wrote in 1834:
...the day will come when... the old stone gods will rise and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes. And Thor, leaping forth with his giant hammer, will crush the Gothic Cathedrals!
Carl Jung:
We cannot possibly get beyond our present level of culture unless we receive a powerful impetus fromour primitive roots. But we shall receive it only if we go back beyond our cultural level, thus giving the suppressed primitive man in ourselves a chance to develop. We need some new foundations. We must dig down to the primitive in us, for only out of the conflict between civilized man and the Germanic barbarian will there come what we need: a new experience of god.
The following is a talk presented to the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship in April 1999. It is primarily based on Richard Noll's two important historical studies of Carl Jung and the origins of the Jungian movement:
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement (Princeton University Press, 1994), abbreviated TJC;
and
The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung (Random House, 1997), abbreviated TAC.
Nietzsche was also mad as a hatter..
This philosophy has been welling up in American society for some time and can be seen in the UN even; the "green" movement; the "Wilding" project of the USA, etc..etc..
The "middle class", "capitalism" and the "Jew" as hindering and suppressing the "healthy" human..I've seen this view expressed either wittingly or unwittingly on a great number of websites. And some of these in turn claim to be very pro-American, patriotic sites.
from: IN HITLER'S SHADAOW
The Myth of Nazism's Conservative Roots
By Elbridge Colby
Deputy Editor,The Harvard Salient
Anton van Harskam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
And this attempt will have a rebirth on steroids during the Tribulation period.
"Writing his last book in London after his 1938 escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, the atheist Freud reported:
We must not forget that all the peoples who now excel in the practice of antisemitism became Christians only in relatively recent times, sometimes forced to it by bloody compulsion. One might say they are all badly christened; under the thin veneer of Christianity they have remained what their ancestors were, barbarically polytheistic. They have not yet overcome their grudge against the new religion which was forced on them, and they have projected it on to the source from which Christianity came to them.
Issued today by the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
At the level of theological reflection we cannot ignore the fact that not a few in the Nazi party not only showed aversion to the idea of divine Providence at work in human affairs, but gave proof of a definite hatred directed at God himselfThe Shoah was the work of a thoroughly modern neo-pagan regime
The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us, between the Germans and the Jews. All else is facade and illusion
Hitler's speech to the Reichstag in 1939:
If the international finance-Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations into a world war yet again, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
They know that victory for us means victory for religion.
And they could not tolerate that. The world is too small to provide adequate "living room" for both Hitler and God.
We are fighting on the same side with the British people.
We are fighting on the same side with the Russian people.
We are fighting on the same side as the brave people of China.
We are fighting on the same side as the indomitable Dutch.
We are fighting on the same side as all the other governments in exile.
We are inspired by a faith which goes back all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis:
"God created man in His own image."
We on our side are striving to be true to that divine heritage
They have drawn nation after nation into this war. The men who pull the strings of this demented man in the White House have managed actually to draw one nation after the other into this war. But to just the same degree a wave of anti-Semitism has swept over nation after nation. And it will move on farther. State after state that enters this war will one day become anti-Semitic.
In Germany too the Jews once laughed at my prophecies. I don't know whether they are still laughing, or whether they have already lost the inclination to laugh, but I can assure you that everywhere they will stop laughing. With these prophecies I shall prove to be right.
Given Italy's past, Marre said he is not surprised by the revival. "Italy is the land of the gods," he said.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
The "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" is the modern title of the Medieval "Inquisition", so some have claimed
Alexander Hislop wrote in The Two Babylons :
"The identity of Nimrod, however, and the Egyptian, Osiris, having been established, we have thereby light as to Nimrod's death. Osiris met with a violent death, and that violent death of Osiris was the central theme of the whole idolatry of Egypt. If Osiris was Nimrod, as we have seen, that violent death which the Egyptians so pathetically deplored in their annual festivals was just the death of Nimrod. The accounts in regard to the death of the god worshipped in the several mysteries of the different countries are all to the same effect. A statement of Plato seems to show, that in his day the Egyptian Osiris was regarded as identical to Tammuz; and Tammuz is well known to have been the same as Adonis, the famous Huntsman, for whose death Venus is fabled to have made such bitter lamentations. As the women of Egypt wept for Osiris, as the Phenician and Assyrian women wept for Tammuz, so in Greece and Rome the women wept for Bacchus, whose name, as we have seen, means 'The bewailed,' or 'Lamented one.'" (p. 56)
Nimrod=Osiris=Tammuz=Bacchus
"Simultaneously a vault containing the ancient records of the earth will be opened in Egypt. The opening of the vault will usher in the millennium. A great celebration has already been planned by the Millennium Society to take place at the pyramids in Egypt. According to the January 3, 1989, edition of the Arizona Daily Star, 'President-elect Bush is spending this New Year's holiday at Camp David, Maryland, but in 10 years he may be in Egypt. Organizers of the Millennium Society say he's already committed to ushering in the next century at the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza.'"
And to bring this article current to 2009, POTUS Obama gave an "important" address to the Pan Muslim world from Egypt
NASA did recently (2009) explode a missile device near the southern pole of the moon; seeking, they said, to detect water from the dust thus shot up from the surface.
Although it is plausible that a series of catastrophes will lead mankind to embrace the spurious archaeological records as valid, Mr. Cooper makes us wonder whether he is exposing or promoting the mystery religions when he gives credence further on to the Grail mythos of the Rosicrucian brotherhood:
"I am amazed at the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the information that they have unearthed. Most of all I am amazed at their inability to put the puzzle together. The treasure hidden in France is not the treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem. It is the Holy Grail itself, the robe of Jesus, the last remaining pieces of the Cross of Crucifixion, and, according to my sources, someone's bones. I can tell you that the reality of the bones will shake the world to its very foundations if I have been told the truth. The relics are hidden in France." (p. 76)
Since this expose, the first link, which is Lambert Dolphin's Home Page, has been removed from the Banner site, most likely because it displays a banner for the MYTHOS & LOGOS WEB RINGS, which includes, among many others, the following New Age webrings:
Existentialism Ring
Circle of the Muses
Philosophy Webring
Critical Psychology Webring
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Mythology Ring
Unity of Spiritual Experience Webring
SpiritRing
Circle of Light Ring
The Open Your Mind Ring
On a page titled Remote Viewing, Channeling, ESP--and the Power of God , Lambert Dolphin describes his 30 year career at the Stanford Research Institute:
"For thirty years I enjoyed a wonderful and challenging career spanning some 30 years with a large and prestigious West Coast think tank. [SRI] Our projects at the lab were often multi-disciplinary and the climate was one where all sorts of diverse ideas could be exchanged freely. Our projects ranged over the broadest possible range."
The following chronicle of Lambert Dolphin's activities appears in The Message of the Sphinx:"Back in Egypt in 1977, a year after the Viking images had first reached the Earth, Mark Lehner [A.R.E.’s ‘man’ at Giza] made contact with NASA’s Dr. Lambert T. Dolphin, leader of the Stanford Research Institute project at the Sphinx ..." (p. 313)
"Later in 1977 Lambert Dolphin traveled to Virginia Beach to negotiate funding from the Edgar Cayce organization for a proposed new SRI project at Giza... In (1983) ‘The Independent Mars Project’ was set up in the United States by Richard Hoagland, a former NASA consultant, and Lambert Dolphin… " (pp. 313-14)
It seems that Edgar Cayce, who was known as the "sleeping prophet," entered into deep trances during which he prophesied the existence of a Hall of Records in Egypt with identification as to its specific location:"One of the most persistent accounts given by Edgar Cayce during his deep trances concerned:
"'References and clues [which] indicate Egypt as a repository for records - records of Atlantis and ancient Egypt during the time of Ra-Ta, which may some day be found... that a vast underground repository was established containing a library of wisdom from the lost civilization of Atlantis: 'This in position lies, as the sun rises from the waters, the line of shadow (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx...There is a chamber or passage from the right forepaw [of the Sphinx] to this entrance of the record chamber...'"
"In 1977, the US National Science Foundation funded a project at Giza again involving the SRI...According to the SRI team's official report: 'Several anomalies were observed as a result of our resistivity survey at the Sphinx...Behind the rear paws (north-west end) we ran two traverses. Both traverses indicate an anomaly that could possibly be due to a tunnel aligned north-west to south-east..." (Footnote: L.T. Dolphin, E. Moussa et.al, 'Applications of Modern Sensing Techniques to Egyptology', Menlo Park, Calif., SRI International, September 1977)
"According to ECF/ARE historians the 1973-4 and 1977 projects paved the way for work. . . that would succeed in discovering hidden chambers. Exactly how and where is not made clear. At any rate in 1978 the ECF/ARE collaborated with the SRI and provided funds (to the tune of about US $50,000) for a more detailed survey of the Sphinx enclosure and the nearby Sphinx Temple. Should any 'anomalies' be found it was agreed that the SRI was to confirm them with acoustic sounding techniques..." (p. 91)
The Edgar Cayce Foundation funded SRI again in 1982, at which time the location of the mysterious chambers under the paw of the Great Sphinx was verified by SRI:"Adding to the intrigue were further discoveries that the SRI made around the Sphinx in 1982 as a result of yet another project financed by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Mark Lehner . . . described what the SRI did as follows:
"They brought a very powerful acoustical sounder, which is a long pencil-shaped thing...They put the sounder underneath the paw [of the Sphinx] and always got a good, clear signal - there's no underground cavity blocking it. And they put it along the paw between the elbow and that box on the side...and there was always a good signal. But, at my prompting, they put it on the bedrock floor inside the box - and it was dead in three places where they put it down, as though there is some kind of opening or empty space underneath that was blocking the signal..." (p. 93)
In 1985, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and A.R.E. magazine, "Venture Inward," identified the primary agency created to fulfill Edgar Cayce's prophecy concerning the second coming of Christ:
"There has been one systematic search, a sort of direct shot at finding the Hall of Records, when the Edgar Cayce Foundation funded SRI International..." (p. 85)
THE MYSTERIOUS STRUCTURES THAT MAY UPSTAGE
NASA'S EVIDENCE OF MARTIAN LIFE
August 17-19, 1996
from the 'Daily Mail' - London
by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock
Could the sphinx of Mars be proof of an alien civilization as great as our own?
"...Former NASA consultant Richard Hoagland is convinced there may be a 'terrestrial connection' between Giza and Cydonia - the region of Mars where the mysterious structures are located - perhaps a common source that imparted the same legacy of knowledge and symbolism on both worlds.
"Hoagland's interest in Giza began when he met Dr. Lambert Dolphin , a scientist from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) who had conducted radar and seismographic research to locate hidden chambers near and under the Great Sphinx.
"Dr. Dolphin was captivated by Hoagland's idea of a 'Martian Sphinx' - the Face - and , in 1983, was instrumental in helping Hoagland set up the Independent Mars Investigation Project under the aegis of SRI..."
Finally, a brief portion of the Appendix of The Message of the Sphinx, is worth quoting which shows the professional relationship between Lambert Dolphin of Stanford Research Institute and Dr. Zahi Hawass, former Director and present Undersecretary of State for Egypt's Giza Plateau of the Egyptian Antiquity Organization who, we are told, discovered the tomb of Osiris this week on Fox TV.
The Message of the Sphinx
Appendix 5
The Door Inside the Great Pyramid;
Tunnels - and Chambers Under the Great Sphinx
Further developments
Since the first English-language edition of this book went to press in February i996 there have been a number of significant developments concerning the opening of the door in the Great Pyramid at the end of the southern shaft of the Queen's Chamber (see in particular Chapter 7) and the search for tunnels and chambers under the Great Sphinx (see in particular Chapter 2 and Chapter 5).
Mars and Giza:
Strange connections and synchronicity
SEE: 2009 movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats"
ENDNOTES for Appendix 5 of The Message of the Sphinx
The Door Inside the Great Pyramid; Tunnels - and Chambers Under the Great Sphinx
Further developments
1. Sunday Telegraph, 1 January, 1995.
2. Sat I, Spiegel Reportage, 15 August 1995.
3. Egyptian Gazette, 31 March 1996.
4. Documented conversations with Peter Zurring.
5. Serpent, op. cit., p. 229.
6. Al Akhbar El Yom, 8 January 1994.
7. Edgar Cayce Reading Ref No 3976-15, in Earth Changes circulating file, Edgar Cayce Foundation, 1993, p. 38.
Mars and Giza: Strange connections and synchronicity
22. Dr. James Hurtak, The Keys of Enoch, California, 1976. See also the video UFO: Evidence of the Use of Extraterrestrial Technology, Labyrinth Media, UK.
23. Richard C. Hoagland, The Monuments of Mars, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1992, p. 262. See also Plates 38 and 39.
24. Omni Magazine, 'Interview with Farouk El Baz', 1990, p. 75.
Alexander Hislop revealed the true meaning of the festival of the Winter Solstice in his classic work, The Two Babylons:
"This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun’s yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle. But there is indubitable evidence that the festival in question had a much higher influence than this--that it commemorated not merely the figurative birthday of the sun in the renewal of its course, but the birth-day of the grand Deliverer...the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity." 1.
The interpretation of the Horus myth is explained in the book, Spiritual Politics: Changing the World From the Inside Out by Corrine McLaughlin and & Gordon Davidson:
"Like the goddess Isis, who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity -- different races, religions and cultures." - 42:62
SEE: Tom Horn's website, "Raiders News Network" and his forthcoming book, "Apollyon Rising 2012"
In The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop noted the purity of the early church as regards the adoption of pagan traditions prior to the Roman Catholic apostasy:
"...within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and...not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it the name of Christ." 2.
"Here is the general reformation of the world announced in the Rosicrucian manifestos described as a world reformation... Whilst involving definite reforms in education, church, and law, this general reformation has millenarian overtones; it will bring the world back to the state in which Adam found it, which was also Saturn's golden age. So, in the Confessio, the second Rosicrucian manifesto, the general reformation is said to presage ‘a great influx of truth and light’ such as surrounded Adam in Paradise, and which God will allow before the end of the world...this millennium, this return to the golden age of Adam and Saturn, is said to be assisted by ‘the high society of the Rosicrucians.’" 3.
"In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, ‘about the time of the winter solstice.’ The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves - Yule day - proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. ‘Yule’ is the Chaldee name for an ‘infant’ or ‘little child’ and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, ‘Yule-day,’ or the ‘Child’s day,’ and the night which preceded it, ‘Mother-night,’ long before they came into contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide in the realms of paganism was this birth-day observed." 4.
"The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt it was the palm tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognized as ‘Man the Branch.’ And this entirely accounts for putting the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas Eve and the appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, ‘The seed of the woman,’ ...he has to enter the fire on ‘Mother night,’ that he may be born the next day out of it, as the ‘Branch of God,’ or the Tree that brings divine gifts to men." 5.
"...the divine child born at the winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god (after that god had been cut in pieces...on purpose to revenge his death upon his murderers.) Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory, was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all his branches, and cut down almost to the ground. But the great Serpent, the symbol of the life restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock...and lo, at its side sprouts a young tree - a tree of an entirely different kind, that is never to be cut down by a hostile power -...and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of his power, how that after having fallen before his enemies, he has risen triumphant over them all. Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed in Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth was held at the Natalis invicti solis, 'The birthday of the unconquered Sun." 6.
Moreover, the Romans practiced human sacrifice during the Saturnalia and human heads adorned the pine trees as ornaments.
"William Smith, in his Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities...notes this is stated distinctly in Macrobius who tells us that 'on the Saturnalia presents were made with little pottery figures or faces.'... And he adds that, as with Dionysus, 'We have then the propitiation by human sacrifice once real and afterwards simulated, at festivals of Jupiter, and of gods connected with death, Saturnus (to whom human sacrifice especially belonged...). These masks or figures...were hung upon the boughs of trees...for Vergil speaks of a pine... There can be little doubt that (they)...represented sacrifices'." - 54:130
When the prophet Jeremiah warned Israel of God's approaching judgment for its apostasy, he described precisely the heathen custom of decorating the Christmas tree, which custom God forbade his people to practice:
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Jer. 10:1-6
In her Theosophical Glossary, H.P. Blavatsky thus describes Horus:
"Horus (Eg.). The last in the line of divine Sovereigns in Egypt, said to be the son of Osiris and Isis. He is the great god ‘loved of Heaven,’ the ‘'beloved of the Sun, the offspring of the gods, the subjugator of the world.’ At the time of the Winter Solstice (our Christmas), his image in the form of a small newly-born infant, was brought out from the sanctuary for the adoration of the worshipping crowds..." 7.
NOTE: This reincarnating of a "god" into a child is seen to an extent in the Tibetan practice of searching quite exhaustively for a "divine" child in whom the recently deceased Dahli Lama's spirit has chosen to indwell
"A broad element of English Christianity still considered Christmas celebration a pagan blasphemy. The Puritans, Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Calvinists and other denominations brought this opposition to early New England and strong opposition to the holiday lasted in America until the middle of the 18th century." 8.
"In Britain…social conditions were laying the foundations for a glorious revival of the Christmas spirit, as a reaction to the wretchedness and drab poverty that was a byproduct of the Victorian age… As early as 1841, Punch [a British periodical] suggested that the Christmas season should be a time for helping the poor and hungry, a sentiment that was given tremendous impetus by Charles Dickens in his Christmas Carol two years later." 9.
"By us...who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and fro, new year’s day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful are the heathen to their religion who take special care to adopt no solemnity from the Christians." 10.
"…the golden calf was built and the celebration declared a ‘feast to the Lord.’...The people had declared a celebration to honor God that he did not recognize as being in his honor." 11.
"Hathor and Aphis, the cow and bull gods of Egypt, were representatives of sun worship. Their worship was just one stage in the long Egyptian history of solar veneration. The golden calf at Mount Sinai is more than sufficient evidence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship. The event at Mount Sinai was just one episode in the Satanic apostasy which began at the tower of Babel. The celebration of December 25th, originally proclaimed in honor of the birth of the sun god Mithra, can only be one of the final events in the long continuing saga of Satanic sun worship." 12.
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: If this people go up to sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
27 Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
28 And he set one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
29 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan...
32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense."
"Thus Jeroboam made Israel to sin, and introduced idolatry, which continued in the kingdom of Israel till the Assyrian captivity. Though it is probable he meant this worship for Jehovah the God of Israel, it was directly contrary to the Divine law, and dishonorable to the Divine majesty, to be thus represented. The people might be less shocked at worshipping the God of Israel under a similitude, than if they had once been invited to worship Baal, but it made way for that idolatry." 13.
However, in a late 1994 conversation with a Boston talk show host, Loren Decker, Gary privately admitted to a personal ongoing friendship with Muller:
"...the New Age has got it right...they’ve gotten their symbols right when it comes to 2000 in terms of a new millennium and a hope-a symbol of hope-and transformation. The new millennium happens within, not without. We need to begin anew and so there’s a number of people who...have answered the questions about what this means - it’s not external, it’s internal. All the dreams that Muller has for our world are Christian dreams when it comes down to it in terms of the democratic dreams... I have no shame that I call him a friend. I wouldn’t call him a friend on the air, but I’m honored to be his friend and honored to learn from him... I see Robert Muller one of the most Christian statespeople - Christian values, not Christian relationships or Christian culture - but he is incarnating quite a bit of what Jesus has called for and his visions for the U.N. of greatness are largely mimicked after his visions of greatness for the Church -- what the Church has achieved... These people have learned their lessons from the Bible - the Book of Revelation and the New Jerusalem - far better than we have and are bringing the Kingdom of God to earth and you have to respect it and at the same time you can’t lose the genesis of it, which is Jesus...It’s kind of like banquet etiquette ...those who will be first shall be last... We need to invite the poor to this thing, the public and the church might be last to - I’m not downing the church at all, but I’m just saying it’s funny the people that have seen this Star - people you wouldn’t think..." 18.
Beyond this seemingly superhuman profile, Mr. Gary, who describes himself as "The Millennium Doctor," confided in 1995 to the L.A. Times that he is anticipating a new assignment --
"When asked if the Millennium Doctor will keep operating till the year 2000, Jay confesses he is looking to heaven for a new vocation. 'I might shed my white doctor’s coat to become a stage manager. You would have never heard of the Beatles without Brian Epstein.' Apparently as the Bimillennium approaches, even a superstar like Jesus Christ is in need of an advance man." 20.
At this conference, Richard Kirby described the new religion of the 21st century as:
"...that altered state of consciousness of the religious thinker and... the coming astronomical or cosmic age of religion. For the merely terrestrial age of religion is passing away...and as geocentric cosmology gave way to heliocentric cosmology in the 16th century, so geocentric or terrestrial religion is giving way to astronomical, astronautical cosmo-centric religion of the 21st century. A vast restructuring is going on..." 21.
During the World Future conference, Dr. Kirby characterized Jay Gary’s book, The Star Of 2000, as "questioning the role of Christ in the 21st century." This book does in fact omit any presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and promotes every futurist and New Age thinker as innovative and contributing to a new understanding of Christ -- a perception which Jay Gary believes the Church must now acquire:
"At times, the world can reveal a broader implication of the gospel of Jesus Christ which the church has forgotten or never discovered." 22.
"Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness, and as we move into a New Age...each of us in some way is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic Initiation, the particular doorway though which the individual must pass if he is to come fully into the presence of his light and wholeness. Lucifer prepares man in all his ways for the experience of Christhood..." 23.
Avoiding the worst scenario at all costs, no Antichrist appears in The Star Of 2000.
Or does he?
One such book, Bloodline of the Holy Grail by Laurence Gardiner, remonstrates that there has been a cover-up of the true historical accounts and graciously provides the true records for readers:
"(Bloodline's) authority rests with revolutionary interpretations, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and with the many Gospels and early texts that were conveniently obscured from the public domain. Recorded facts have also been culled from Celtic annals, and from chronicles of the Dark Ages, along with much information from the sovereign, saintly and chivalric archives of Europe. Throughout the centuries, an ongoing Church and governmental conspiracy has prevailed against the Messianic inheritance. This heightened when Imperial Rome diverted the course of Christianity to suit an alternative ideal, and has continued to the present day." 25.
The Theosophical Glossary defines the term "Magi" as a derivative from the Latin word for ‘great’:
"The name of the ancient hereditary priests and learned adepts in Persia and Media, a word derived from Mâha, great, which became later mog or mag, a priest in Pehlevi..." 27.
"Chaldea was the home of a great and ancient sacred knowledge called astrology. Chaldea became Babylon, which later became Persia. Five centuries before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Zoroaster brought a new religion to this land. Zoroastrianism played a significant role in this ancient world. Zoroastrian priests were astronomer-priests. The ancient Persian temples, ziggurats, were astronomical observatories. In these observatory-temples, the ancient Persian priests spent the nights watching the divine magic unfold. Around the time of the Jesus’ birth, Zoroastrian magi undoubtedly practiced astrology." 28.
"The...remnants of mystical or sacred (Iranian) writings that the Magi of Asia Minor - the Maguseans -- composed in Greek... The principal book of this kind, given under the names of Zoroaster, Ostaneas and Hystapes, dates back to the second century of our era. It was these books, perhaps, which did the most to prepare the mythical framework in which our Gnosis was coming to birth." 29.
"A series of emanations from the Godhead …were intended to constitute the created world. As the emanations proceeded from their divine source, a catastrophic event occurred -- the breaking of the vessels that carried them. Sparks of the divine light fell into the material domain where they were imprisoned in shells of matter. The task of the Qabbalist was to liberate the sparks in order to reconstitute the divine configuration, the primordial man (adam quadmon), a goal with eschatological overtones." 30.
The Secret Book of the Egyptian Gnostics claims that Adam had prophesied the narrative of the Magi and was buried in a Persian cave along with certain treasures:
"At the same time, now mingling nascent Christianity with these Iranian and Jewish myths (Zoroaster), there were amplifications of the major episode of the Magi keeping watch for the rising of the star that was to guide them to Bethlehem for the adoration of the Messiah. The principle work in which ...all these traditions became synchrotized was The Book of the Cave of Treasures...It puts all these revelations into the mouth of Adam as the first of a long series of prophets, who predicts how the Magi will await the announcement of the Saviour, near this cave in which Adam himself will have been interred, and where the Treasures are concealed which the Magi will carry to Bethlehem." 31.
"In The Book of the Cave of Treasures ...let us quote from it these lines, supposedly spoken by the Magi: Adam imparted revelations to his son Seth...he recommended his son Seth never to fail in justice as he Adam had done. Seth welcomed the teaching of his father with a pure heart and it was given to him to inscribe this wisdom in a book and to teach it...And thanks to him, for the first time in this world, there was seen a book written in the name of the Most High. Seth bequeathed to his descendents the book thus written, and that book was handed down even to Noah...(who) took with him into the Ark the books of these teachings... He ordained in his turn that the generation that came after him were to repeat...the mysteries in the books of Seth...These mysteries and this narrative were handed down even to our fathers...who passed them on to us." 32.
"After Noah’s emergence from the Ark, he is said to have promulgated seven precepts for the government of the new race of men of whom he was to be the progenitor... (1) To do justice (2) Worship God (3) Abstain from idolatry (4) Preserve chastity (5) Do not commit murder (6) Do not steal (7) Do not eat blood." 33.
"(1) Thou shalt not engage in idol worship. (2) Thou shalt not blaspheme God. (3) Thou shalt not shed innocent blood. (4) Thou shalt not engage in bestial, incestuous, adulterous or homosexual relations not commit the act of rape. (5) Thou shalt not steal. (6) Thou shalt establish laws and courts of law to administer these laws, including the death penalty for those who kill, administered only if there is one testifying eyewitness. (7) Thou shalt not be cruel to animals." 35.
Capital punishment by beheading...SEE: Book of Revelation and the saints "under the altar" who have been "beheaded" for their testimony of Jesus Christ
"The gift of the magi was really the changing of civilization. It doesn’t matter what religion you are, the last two thousand years have been the age of Christianity...The Three Wise Men sought out the birth of a baby to play a role in the founding of a religion that has been dominant for two thousand years... The suppressed origins of Christianity date back to these magi who recognized the sign of their times... The magi were undoubtedly the founders of Christmas, and of Christianity." 41.
"This fall believers around the world are ‘praying through the window.’ For some it will mean a prayer journey among the 10/40 Window, for others it will mean a month of concerted prayer that God might bring forth new treasures from the unreached world. If our highest prayers would be answered, what might come forth from the cradle of civilization? Perhaps you envision a people movement sweeping through the Kurds, or the Palestinians. If this were to happen it would virtually be another Journey of the Wise Men, a spiritual procession arising from the heart of the cradle of civilization... As we approach 2000, another journey of the Magi could be reenacted before our eyes." 42.
I wonder, if as some good men have written, if George H.W. Bush's war with Iraq and then his Son, George W. Bush's diversion from Afghanistan to an invasion of Iraq far from Bin Laden's hideout, may have had more sinister and esoteric goals than simply a quest for oil or to bring democracy to the Iraqi people. Tom Horn has written of the Bush Admin and their henchmens' search for a "Star Gate" in the "Cradle of Civilization"
Let it be noted here, that as this very informative article by Ms Aho was written before Sept 11, 2001 and the subsequent history of the "War on Terror", she could not have seen the rise of militant Islam and it's growing ranks within the western world..to wit: Islam also practices capital punishment by decapitation..all those, according to Islam, who refuse to submit to Allah, are subjects for beheading.
The bewildered Zalshar wondered:
"Was I here to search for the true spirit of Christmas until I found it? Would I follow that Star, wherever it led, until the whole world saw Him?"
"Yet, I kept waiting for the time when the whole world would find the Prince of Peace."
"Another spiritual procession will certainly begin before the year 2000."
"On the eve of the bimillennial, Zalshar, the fourth wise man, found himself gazing more each night into the heavens. Then one evening it suddenly appeared. Morning was just about to break when Jupiter and Saturn strolled together like two saffron flames merging into one. As Zalshar watched, a royal blue spark burst out of the darkness beneath. Jupiter emerged wearing a magnificent mantle of light. ‘This is the heavenly sign,’ Zalshar cried. ‘The morning Star is soon to arise in every heart. Another journey of the Magi must surely begin.’ Before embarking Zalshar lifted up his eyes to heaven and prayed, ‘Oh sovereign Lord, Father of Lights...’" 45.
It is noteworthy that David Spangler identifies Lucifer as the "Morning Star" and redefines his name of Light Bearer to mean the source of Enlightenment or Gnosis:
"The light that reveals to us the presence of the Christ...comes from Lucifer. He is the light-giver, he is aptly named the Morning Star because it is his light that heralds for man the dawn of a great consciousness... He stands...as the Great Initiator, the one who hands the soul over to the Christ." 46.
"Lucifer (Lat.). The planet Venus, as the bright ‘Morning Star.’ Before Milton, Lucifer had never been the name of the Devil. Quite the reverse, since the Christian Saviour is made to say of himself in Revelations (xvi.22) ‘I am. . .the bright morning star’ or Lucifer." 47.
"…in perhaps one of the greatest acts of compassion ever witnessed in our ancient memory, willingly gave and continues to give of himself as our personal mirror of darkness because he loves us that much..." 48.
We think not . . . depending upon which version of the Bible is at hand. Mme. Blavatsky, who laid the doctrinal foundation for the modern New Age Movement, published her Theosophical Glossary in England in 1892, seven years after the release of the 1885 English Revised Version of the Old Testament. A significant revision found in the 1885 ERV (and the modern versions based upon it) is the removal of Lucifer’s name from Isaiah 14:12 and the substitution of "morning star" for "son of the morning."
Isaiah 14:12,15
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou brought down to the ground, which did weaken the nations. For thou has said in thine heart... I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." (KJV)
"How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart... I will make myself like the Most High. But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit." (NIV)
Gregg Braden offers this scholarly rationalization:
"...in the twelfth century A.D.... (there was) a well intentioned error in translation that Lucifer and Satan were treated as one and the same. Detailed by Andrew Collins in the book, Templar Legacy & Masonic Inheritance within Rosslyn Chapel, the error may have come from an interpretation of the Biblical book of Isaiah. ‘How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.’ According to Collins, Biblical scholars are in agreement that this is a reference to the king of Babylon at the time, Nebuchadnezzar, known as ‘The Morning Star.’ Collins goes on to say that the term ‘Lucifer’ is believed to have been a name given both the king as well as the Morning Star, Venus..." 49.
Astrologer Levine also describes the Jupiter/ Saturn alignment at daybreak (the very time at which Zalshar saw the "morning star") as the "heliacal rising of his star." According to his revolutionary exegesis of Matthew 2:2:
"The original Aramaic text quotes the magi as saying they had seen ‘his star in heliacal rising.’ Heliacal rising means that it is the last star that is seen in the sky before the sun rises and makes other stars invisible in the brightness of daylight. This was a common observation technique for astrologers of those days." 52.
"The Hieropolitan priests were high initiates in the mysteries of the heavens and their dominant preoccupation was the observation and recording of the various motions of the sun and the moon, planets and the stars.... The particular worship peculiar to Heliopolis [the earliest cult centre of the sun-god Re] was that of the stars. From the worship of the stars evolved the worship of Re in the form of ‘Horus-of-the-Horizon...the god rising in the east at dawn’...Pyramid Texts also specify the time of day at which the sky is to be observed - clearly dawn, since this was when the birth of the gods was said to have occurred.’" 53.
Authors of The Message of the Sphinx, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, explain this astral phenomenon:
"…the two fold funeral regions of Osiris are said to reelect eachother at the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius, the ‘star of Isis,’ the sister-wife of Osiris and mother of Horus-an astronomical event which we know coincided in the early Pyramid Age with the appearance of the rising sun at the summer solstice (known as the birth of ‘Re’). It was at this propitious moment that Horus-King set out on his quest for the regeneration of Egypt by participating in a grand rebirth ritual simultaneously as the ‘son of Osiris’ and the son of ‘Re.’ As the ‘son of Osiris’ he emerged from the womb of Isis, i.e. the day of the ‘Birth of Re.’" 54.
Blogger and secularists, Christopher Knowles, has written of an occultic/neo-pagan society within the U.S. Military made up predominantly of officers, which Knowles terms the "Sirius Cult"
"Howbeit we know that after a time there will now be a general reformation, both of divine and human things, according to our desire, and the expectation of others. For it is fitting, that before the rising of the sun, there should appear and break forth Aurora or some clearness, or divine light in the sky." 56.
Satan/Lucifer, ever the supreme copy cat of the true Almighty God, feels the need to announce the "birth" or coming of his demonic "Son" by a great sign/star in the heavens; just as was done for Jesus Christ at his birth
And Tom Horn does a brilliant job in bringing forth in his soon to be released book (Nov 2009), "Apollyon Rising 2012" continuity of Nimrod=Osiris=Horus=Apollo=Antichrist
Rives corroborates his hypothesis with a reference to The Five Great Monarchies Of The Ancient World:
"It may be perhaps suspected...that an esoteric doctrine...taught the real identity of the several gods and goddesses, who may have been understood by the better instructed to represent, not distinct and separate beings, but several phases of the divine nature. Ancient polytheism had, it may be surmised, to a great extent this origin, the various names and titles of the Supreme, which designated His different attributes or the different spheres of His operation, coming by degrees to be misunderstood, and to pass, first with the vulgar, and at last with all but the most enlightened, for the appellation of a number of gods." 59.
Nineteenth century Theosophical Society leader, Charles Leadbeater, stated in The Hidden Secrets of Masonry:
"...the Blazing Star...was called the 'star of the dawn' or Morning Star'; and represented Horus of the resurrection, who was pictured as bearing it upon his head and as having given it to his followers." 60.
Will the "Mark of the Beast" then be simply a "star?"
"Pike explains that the Blazing Star in our Lodges ...represents ...Sirius. Pike also calls this Dog Star Horus and Sothis. Other sources list this Star as Star of Isis, Star in the East, Star of the Annunciation ...Star of Hathor, Star of Horus, Nile Star, Morning Star ...Star of Set...Lucifer." 61.
In Matthew 24:30, the Lord Jesus Christ foretold that a heavenly sign would precede the Second Coming and certain events which would attend His glorious return:
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
"Let a temple to Christ be built so a new memorial might stand. Send forth your holy angels from the East to the West, to gather praises and tributes to present to Christ our best. As this happens in heaven, on earth may awakening come. As we celebrate the greatest Christmas ever may your will be done." 63.
"Eastern Orthodox Christianity - which has never forsaken the Cosmic Christ as has the West - considers the feast of the Transfiguration to be the pivotal point of the liturgical year... The Eastern Orthodox tradition, as represented by theologian Nicolas Berdyaev, celebrates some of the implications of a Cosmic Christ theology of the Transfiguration. Berdyaev writes: 'The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of Theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation... Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world... The kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.'" (pp. 102-3)
"The only mention of the Magi in Scripture comes from Matthew 2:1-16. The traditional number of three wise men has been inferred from the three gifts mentioned: gold, frankincense and myrrh. All the rest, including the names of Gaspar, Melchoir and Balthasar, derive from early apocryphal writings and stories written in the Middle Ages. The legend of a fourth king who started farther away than the others, missed the nativity in Bethlehem and wandered until Good Friday, has been told by Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), in his classic, The Story Of The Other Wise Man. The parable in this prologue is my creation, inspired in part by Jim Bradford’s nativity play, Journey To The Light." 65.
Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur" apparently picked up this theme of a 4th Magi who missed the birth of Christ at Bethlehem and only finding the Messiah on Good Friday, when he altered it somewhat his epic book by causing this one, single "Wise Man" to hunt for 30 years for the Baby thus born, only to find him again the day that grown child was crucified.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts, shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. - II Tim. 4:3,4
On the NASA Internet site were posted the following excerpts from reports related to the extension:
"Originally scheduled to end its exploration on December 7, 1997, NASA and Congress have approved the extension of Galileo’s studies through the last day of 1999..." 67.
"On December 7, 1997, the Galileo spacecraft completes its two-year ‘Prime Mission’ study at Jupiter. At that point, we enter into a new phase, the Galileo Europa Mission (GEM), a tightly focussed, low-cost continuation of Galileo’s exploration of the Jovian system, scheduled to last through the end of 1999." 68.
"NASA Headquarters has agreed in principle to extend the Galileo mission past its planned January 31 finale. Details of funding and itinerary for the new extended mission, to be called the Galileo Millennium Mission, must still be resolved. A Europa encounter took place January 3, 2000, and is technically still part of the current, extended Galileo Europa Mission. Another Io flyby is planned for February 20, with flybys of Ganymede on May 20 and December 28, and joint observations of Jupiter with the Cassini spacecraft in December 2000.
"Galileo engineers like to say that the spacecraft has already lived 'well past its warranty', surviving radiation exposure more than twice the level it was designed to withstand. Although the radiation has created some problems with spacecraft instruments, Galileo is still functioning well. There's no way to predict how long the spacecraft will remain healthy, but as long as it does, it provides valuable opportunities for exploration. In addition, it will serve as a flying testbed of how electronic parts really survive through high radiation exposure over long periods."
NASA's response:
"Maybe some excellent scientific ideas can be planned for Galileo at the end of 1998! Eventually, Galileo will run out of propellant, or electronics on board the spacecraft will stop functioning because of damage from the high radiation around Jupiter...but Galileo will continue to orbit Jupiter for a very long time after the mission ends. Eventually, sometime between several hundred to a thousand years in the future (these things are very hard to predict), Galileo will suffer one of the following fates: 1. The spacecraft will impact one of Jupiter’s satellites (most likely) 2. The spacecraft will impact Jupiter (less likely) 3. The spacecraft will escape Jupiter and go into solar orbit (much less likely)." 69. (Italics added)
"The spacecraft called Galileo is on its way to Jupiter, a baby star with a gaseous makeup exactly the same as the sun, with the load of 49.7 pounds of plutonium, supposedly being used as batteries to power the craft. When its final orbit decays in December, 1999, Galileo will deliver its payload into the center of Jupiter. The unbelievable pressure that will be encountered will cause a reaction exactly as occurs when an atomic bomb is exploded by an implosion detonator...lighting the hydrogen and helium atmosphere of Jupiter and resulting in the birth of the star that has already been named Lucifer. The world will interpret it as a sign of tremendous religious significance. It will fulfill prophecy." 70.
Galileo End of Mission Status
"The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The Deep Space Network tracking station in Goldstone, Calif., received the last signal at 12:43:14 PDT. The delay is due to the time it takes for the signal to travel to Earth." - 683
According to one scientific opinion:
"Plutonium is the core of hydrogen bombs, which produce light and heat by nuclear fusion created by implosion of the core. This same reaction could be created by causing the Galileo craft to plunge into Jupiter, creating an implosion/fusion detonation due to the rapid increase in pressure on the plutonium. Remember that a nuclear chain reaction does not require oxygen as a catalyst. Rather, what we are dealing with is the conversion of mass into energy as in any other nuclear reaction. This is the famous Einsteinian equation E=MC2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared) which basically means that if a quantity of mass is accelerated rapidly enough, almost pure energy in the form of light and heat will be produced. Although Jupiter, which is 90% hydrogen, does not have the mass to become a star, the resulting release of energy in the form of light and heat would be greater than the combined simultaneous detonation of all nuclear weapons now in existence on earth. Quite a spectacle. Is it possible? It certainly is." - 686
COSMIC CHRISTMAS
BIRTH OF THE SUN GOD
PART II
"Cassini is powered by 72 pounds of extremely poisonous plutonium, the most ever flown in space. It is also the biggest, most complex inter-planetary probe and the most expensive too - $34 billion for the whole mission... Cassini’s mission won’t begin, scientifically, until the spacecraft and its 18 instruments reach Saturn in July 2004. The route is roundabout: The first stop, so to speak, is Venus in 1998 and again in 1999 to use the planet’s gravity like a slingshot to speed Cassini on its way. The spacecraft will sweep within 500 miles of Earth in 1999 - a prospect that terrifies Cassini opponents more than the launch did - and by Jupiter in 2000. NASA said there is a less than 1-in-1 million chance that the probe will enter Earth’s atmosphere in 1999 and spread plutonium. "Opponents said they would continue their fight. NASA plans to use plutonium - though less of it - on its smaller interplanetary missions. ‘It’s a bigger picture than even just Cassini. This is just the icebreaker,’ said Carol Mosley of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice, which failed in a court attempt to stop Cassini." 72.
"The Cassini probe will be whipping around the earth at around 40,000 miles per hour, significantly faster than the escape velocity of the earth (25,000 miles per hour) and faster than many meteorites. If there is even the tiniest miscalculation of the trajectory, the Cassini may burn up in the atmosphere and spray a significant portion of land area with plutonium. There is ample experimental evidence that space probes, without heat shields, will vaporize upon re-entry. However, (NASA’s Final Environmental Impact Statement) again takes a low estimate of plutonium release... Assuming NASA’s own computer models and methodology, one can easily show that casualty figures from Cassini can be 200,000 or more. One does not have to make outlandish assumptions to come up with huge casualty figures." 73.
Hmmm..wonder which "flood" that was? Perhaps the one in Genesis: which details the reasons for such a catastrophe?
Hancock and Bauval cite the Edgar Cayce Foundation as the moneyed interest that funded the project:
"Headquartered in Virginia Beach in the United States . . . the A.R.E. [Association for Research and Enlightenment] is a multimillion dollar organization that exists to promulgate the teachings and prophecies of the American psychic Edgar Cayce, who died in 1945. Prominent amongst Cayce’s pronouncements were many statements... to the effect that the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC by the survivors of Atlantis who had concealed beneath it a ‘Hall of Records’ containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the human race. Cayce prophesied that this Hall of Records would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He connected the opening to the second coming of Christ and asserted that the contents of the Hall would not be shared with the general public until many years after it had first been entered by ‘three who would make of the perfect way of life.’" 74.
"In our research we have stumbled across a tangled web of clues, connections and overlap-ping interests appearing to suggest that American scientists with links to NASA may have quietly involved themselves, since at least the 1970’s, in covert ‘expeditions’ to unveil the secrets of the great pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza..." 75.
"Back in Egypt in 1977, a year after the Viking images had first reached the Earth, Mark Lehner [A.R.E.’s ‘man’ at Giza] made contact with NASA’s Dr. Lambert T. Dolphin, leader of the Stanford Research Institute project at the Sphinx ...Later in 1977 Lambert Dolphin traveled to Virginia Beach to negotiate funding from the Edgar Cayce organization for a proposed new SRI project at Giza... In (1983) ‘The Independent Mars Project’ was set up in the United States by Richard Hoagland, a former NASA consultant, and Lambert Dolphin…
The following quote of Cayce's is to be found on page 159 of Lytle W. Robinson's 1979 book, Is It True What They Say About Edgar Cayce:
"...with the changes that will be wrought, true Americanism, the universal thought that is expressed and manifested in the brotherhood of man, as in the Masonic Order, will be the eventual rule in the settlement of affairs in the world." 80.
"NASA's Galileo spacecraft has been transmitting to Earth this past week pictures and other science information gathered during the Dec. 16, 1997 flyby of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. The information, which had been stored on the spacecraft's onboard tape recorder, includes fields and particles observations of the interaction between Europa and Jupiter's magnetic and electric field environment. Also included are pictures and observations of Europa's wedged regions and hot regions. Important observations of surface changes on the volcanic moon Io will help later on in the Galileo Europa Mission, when one or two close Io flybys are planned. Next week, Galileo will transmit science information and pictures of Europa's regions of fretted shapes and regions of dark lines, as well as images of the Gilgamesh region on another Jovian moon, Ganymede." 81.
In 1985, the Edgar Cayce Foundation and A.R.E. magazine, "Venture Inward," revealed the primary agency created to fulfill Edgar Cayce's prophecy concerning the second coming of Christ:
"There has been one systematic search, a sort of direct shot at finding the Hall of Records, when the Edgar Cayce Foundation funded SRI International..." 83.
H.P. Blavatsky wrote of these spirits in her Theosophical Glossary:
"As our earth has its hierarchy of terrestrial planetary spirits, so has every other heavenly body. The highest planetary spirit ruling over any globe is in reality the ‘Personal God’ of that planet and far more truly its ‘over-ruling providence' than the self-congratulatory Infinite Personal Deity of modern Churchianity." 84.
"...the Gnostics derived some of their lore from the stellar religion practiced by the Chaldean astrologers. They adopted the seven planetary spirits or gods... represented by the classical gods of Roman and Greek mythology -- Mercury (Hermes), Venus (Aphrodite), Mars (Aries), Jupiter (Zeus), Saturn (Chronos), Sol and Luna. 85.
"The greatest planetary rhythm that was observable to the ancient astronomer- priest was the rhythm of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction... The Jupiter/Saturn conjunction...actually jumps from astrological sign to sign with great regularity... It is the combination of astrologically rare events that created the Star of Bethlehem.
"There is much evidence to suggest that what we call the Star of David was an alignment of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. In ancient Jewish tradition, Jupiter was the planet called the ‘King’s Star.’ Even later in Greek mythology, Jupiter, or Jove, was the King of the Gods. Every 20 years, when the King’s Star lined up with Saturn, the star of final authority, the ancient Jews called this the Star of David." 86.
"In the Astro-Mythology of the Egyptians, we find belief in the first man-god (Horus I)...and his death and resurrection as Amsu...This was the first sign or hieroglyphic of Amsu...Amsu - the risen Horus - the first man-god risen in spiritual form." 87.
"Christ is a Greek word for king. A king was one who was literally born under the cosmic signature of the King’s Star. Jesus, as we know, was born in the lineage of the House of David. But to be born in the lineage of David didn’t only mean that you had parents in that lineage. It also meant that you were born under the Star of David, which occurred when Jupiter, the King ’s Star, aligned with Saturn...there was, in fact, a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, in the sign of Pisces, in the years 7-6 BC." 88.
"For the last couple of thousand years, the North Pole of the Earth has been pointing to that area in the sky we call Pisces. This means that, astrologically, we have been in the Age of Pisces, or the Age of the Fish! Note the connections between the fish and Christianity. Christ was a fisher among men. The vesica Pisces, the vessel of the soul, became a symbol for the church. Fish represents the apparent multiplicity, and in the Age of the Fish, it was reserved for the religious mystic to see how all the individual fishes are, in truth, one.
"In these times, we have talk now of another new age, The Age of Aquarius. Because the equinox slips backwards, it goes from Pisces to Aquarius, rather than Aries. It is the resonance between the changing of the ages two thousand years ago, and the changing of the ages in modern times that captures our attention as this story unfolds...
"The story of the Star of Bethlehem tells us that cosmic alignments herald earthly events. The Lord’s Prayer tells us that "it is done on earth as it is in heaven." The words are clear even if we, in our scientific mindset, shirk from the true meaning. Ancient prophecy was often astrological.
"What will the stars of the late 20th Century mean to the big historical picture? What will these times bring? The Christmas Star brings us an answer, or at least a perspective. Even if we were alive during the ministry of Jesus and were personally touched by his spiritual magic, we could not, in our wildest imagination, have predicted what was to follow. By the same token, even if we accept that these are times of great proportion, and that we are at the edge of a new world, we cannot know what is around the bend of history." 89.
There is, in fact, an abrupt transition to a new system of laws prophesied in Daniel 7:25, which verse also foretells a change of the times under the rule of Antichrist.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws...
The planetary god of Saturn is characterized in astrology as one that brings suffering. Vera Alder stated as much in her book, The Initiation of the World:
"Pain and pressure are born upon this planet ...from the planet Saturn." 91.
Age of Saturn? "Pain and pressure are born upon this planet..."??? "Tribulation", as it is understood by Christians, means great pressure..a crushing pressure if you will..."hard to bear." Any connection here?
Meaning: that the Antichrist, the false Christ, will be produced out of a time of global sorrow, trial, catastrophe and then proceed to deceive people into believing that catastrophe and turmoil was "the" prophesied tribulation and that he "is" the literal return of Jesus/the Christ? Is this the "lie" and great deception the Bible states has the trend to deceive "even the very elect were it possible?"
"...the religion of Saturn is Saturnian gnosis - which turns out to be a rehash of the gnosticism that the high level Satanists believe in. Saturn is severe. Jupiter is mild. The merging of Saturn (severity) with Jupiter is the creation of the new Golden Age -- according to high level Satanic hierarchy teachings." 92.
Dr. John Billingham of NASA’s Ames Research Center stated "We have reached the time when we know we can talk to each other across the distances between the stars." Expectations are high in the scientific community that a message from across the universe is imminent. Hancock and Bauval report:
"The only scientists actively working on [decoding such a message] today are those involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - SETI for short. They endlessly sweep the heavens for messages from distant civilizations and they have therefore naturally had to give some thought to what might happen if they ever did identify such a message." 94.
"Exoterically speaking, a point of contact, a moment of 'spiritual intercourse,' is imminent, and out of that moment a new world can be born." 96.
"...the Gnostics derived some of their lore from the stellar religion practiced by the Chaldean astrologers. They adopted the seven planetary spirits or gods...represented by the classical gods of Roman and Greek mythology -- Mercury (Hermes), Venus (Aphrodite), Mars (Aries), Jupiter (Zeus), Saturn (Chronos), Sol and Luna. In Gnostic belief these gods were transformed into archangels who became the central focus of medieval magic and Hermetic tradition." 97.
Carefully note in the following excerpt from Cosmic Christmas Gabriel’s words that "the fruit of the Seed," rather than the Seed, is the Son of God.
"I entered the circle of unceasing Light... I lifted my eyes to see a necklace - a clear vial on a golden chain - dangling from (God’s) extended hand... Handing me the necklace, He explained, ‘This vial will contain the essence of Myself; a Seed to be placed in the womb of a young girl... The fruit of the Seed is the Son of God. Take it to her... He draped the chain around my neck. Amazingly, the vial was no longer empty. It glowed with Light. Jesus. Tell her to call my son Jesus..." 98.
"From the circle of Light came His extended hand. From His throne came an honest invitation. ‘Will you surrender? Will you return to me?’ I do not know the thoughts of Satan. But I believe that for a fleeting second the evil heart softened..." 99.
"Finally, the Bible tells no story of a throne room encounter where Lucifer is offered a second chance. But the Bible does contain page after page showing God giving grace to the scalawags and turncoats of the world. He seems more willing to give grace than we are to seek it. Such divine love leaves me to wonder one thing more: if the old snake himself sought mercy, wouldn’t he too, find it where millions have - at the foot of the cross of Christ?" 100.
"After a preliminary examination of all possible different attempts at a solution of the problem of evil, the attempt is here made to represent the devil as an instrument of God. Christ and the devil are the two hands of God, Christ the right hand, and the devil the left, the devil having power over this world-epoch and Christ over the next. The devil here assumes very much the characteristics of the punishing and just God of the Old Testament, and the prospect is even held out of his ultimate pardon." 101.
"One final time I faced the Light. We turned and plunged into the heavenlies. On a wave of His Light we flew... We flew as a torrent of stars through the universe... On a wave of worship I flew, this time alone. I circled through the clouds and over the ground... I knew her in an instant. Her heart had no shadow. Her soul was as pure as any I’ve seen... Her heart is so flawless, so willing..." 102.
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all thing were created by him, and for him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. 1:16, 17
"Mary...You will become pregnant and give birth to a son and call His name Jesus. He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Highest. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; He will rule Jacob’s house forever - no end, ever, to His kingdom...
"I continued, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the highest hover over you; therefore the child you bring to birth will be called Holy, Son of God...
"‘I’m the Lord’s maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say.’ As she spoke, a Light appeared in her womb. I glanced at the vial. It was empty." 103.
"We must recover the simple idea that the spark of eternity has been placed within each human being. We must fan this flame, this tiny spark within each person - and insure that no government, not group, or no authority is allowed to smother or snuff out this sacred flame." 104.
"(Mary) was considered by the elders and priests to have the most flawless character of all women in the temple. At the age of fourteen, Gabriel was sent to Mary's bed chamber. He stood outside her chamber door and poured his radiant light into her chamber. When she saw this great light she became afraid and he backed away. The procedure was repeated three times. On the third time, Gabriel spoke to her and assured her that she need not be afraid. He told Mary who he was and that he had been sent to inform her that she had been chosen among all women to bear the body of the new Messiah and to protect and raise the child with great care.
"The Holy Spirit then entered into Mary through her air pipe in her throat, and there the seed thought of the baby Messiah initially took shape. As she held this immaculate concept within her mind and heart, the fetus of Jesus began to take shape in her womb." 105.
"...the seed thought of the baby Messiah initially took shape... As she held this immaculate concept within her mind and heart, the fetus of Jesus began to take shape in her womb."
The four elements of ancient cosmology are earth, air, fire and water. In alchemy, a fifth essence is believed to enhance these material elements. The four elements and the quintessence which elevates them to a higher plane have been elucidated by Hans Biederman in A Dictionary Of Symbolism: Cultural Icons And The Meanings Behind Them:
"The alchemists’ spiritual focus on essence, rather than matter, was supposed to increase the proportion of the fifth essence in the make-up of the entire world. The quintessence was thought to be present within each of the four elements as its sublime creature: in the water as the dolphin, in fire as the phoenix, in the air as the eagle and on earth as the human race. At the same time, the quintessence was believed to envelop and extend beyond each of the others. The graphic symbol corresponding to the quintessence is the pentacle." 106.
the eagle or phoenix has figured prominently in more recent times by being worn as a piece of jewelry on the clothing of Hillary Clinton and John McCain's wife.
In Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception: Mystic Christianity, no less than Rosicrucian Grand Master, Max Heindels, identifies December 24 and 25 as the most potent time of the astrological year and the ideal time for initiation rites:
"The night between the 24th and 25th of December is the holy night, par excellence, of the entire year. The zodiacal sign of the Immaculate Celestial Virgin stands upon the eastern horizon near midnight. The sun of the new year is then born and starts upon his journey from the southernmost point toward the northern hemisphere, to save that part of humanity (physically) from the darkness and famine which would inevitably result if he were to remain permanently south of the equator... The spiritual influences are strongest, in the north, at midnight of the 24th of December... It would then be easiest for those who wish to take a definite step toward initiation to get in conscious touch with the spiritual time... The blazing star is ever there to guide him." 111.
As have John McCain's wife
We may conclude from this definition that "Gnosis" is the fruit of the Seed or the product of the Divine Light that is implanted in those who are willing to receive it. The very symbolism presented in the Annunciation scenes of Cosmic Christmas and Messiah & The Second Coming is also found in the Gnostic dictionary of Hans Biederman:
"...The divine lightning from heaven entered the utterly pure oyster, Mary, the Mother of God, and a pearl of great price came forth from her as it is written: she gave birth to Christ, the pearl begotten by divine lightning." 114.
"A Gnostic ‘Hymn of the Soul’ attributed to Bardesanes and dating from the early Christian era is impressive in its richness: A child (representing humanity) is sent out into distant Egypt on the long pilgrimage of life, to fetch a pearl out of a deep well guarded by a dragon. But he eats the customary food of the country and forgets his mission, until a letter (saving doctrine) brought by an eagle reminds him of it. Now the task of recovering the pearl - enlightenment (gnosis) - from the well can be undertaken." 116.
"Typhon, or the Dragon...is worsted by Horus, who pierces his head with a spear...As Set--he is the darkness of night, the murderer of Osiris, who is the light of day and the sun." 117.
"The ‘bright morning star’...represents Horus of the resurrection or Jesus...in Revelation the son of God promises to give the morning star to them that overcometh...the morning star was equally identified with Horus...the star of dawn. Henceforth the Morning Star was given to followers of Horus, therefore we use it. It was the star of Horus and his guide which led him to paradise when he seated himself upon his throne, and then Horus gave his star as a guide to his followers." 118.
The parable of the Pearl of Great Price did not originate with the Alexandrian Gnostics or even the Babylonian Magi. Rather it was first written in Holy Scripture, and is found in a private discourse between the Lord Jesus and his disciples:
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matt. 13:45, 46
"All the children of men are busy, seeking goodly pearls; one would be rich, another would be honourable, another would be learned; but most are imposed upon, and take up with counterfeits for pearls. Jesus Christ is a pearl of great price, a jewel of inestimable value, which will make those who have it rich, truly rich, rich toward God. In having him, we have enough to make us happy here and forever. What worthless pebbles are all worldly things, compared with this pearl of great price.
"A true Christian seeks and finds this pearl of great price. What will it avail us to know of Christ, if we do not know him as ours, as made to us wisdom? I Cor. 1.30. Those who would have a saving interest in Christ, must be willing to leave all to follow him. -- A man may buy gold too dear, but not this pearl of price. When the convinced sinner has Christ discovered to his soul, as the all-gracious Saviour of the lost, all things else become comparatively worthless in his estimation. He sees that eternal misery is his portion if he obtains not this prize." 120.
The proposed legislation has set off a ferocious debate about the costs of dealing with climate change - with conservative Democrats and Republicans saying reducing America's use of oil will deepen unemployment and hurt average American families.
Republicans in the Senate have threatened to boycott a session today that had been called to move forward a draft of a 920-page proposed law to deal with climate change.