The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism

Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: Jews called in Christ: Original Prophecies of the Messiah changed by the Jews after Christ came

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Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: Jews called in Christ: Original Prophecies of the Messiah changed by the Jews after Christ came

Jews called in Christ: Original Prophecies of the Messiah changed by the Jews after Christ came

The Crucifixion would have happened if the Jews had believed as a nation, but the earthly reign of God in the kingdom of God on earth would have begun then centered on Jersualem. Because of the Jews' Perfidy and Deicide that kingdom will not occur until after Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Second Coming (Parousia, Sayyidah-Qiyamah). The Jews will not be the heralds of it but rather the Apostles (not including Judas Iscariot).

The Crucifixion is established directly in the Psalms.

Original:

Psalm (Zabin) 95 (96) 10 Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath become King on the Tree. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

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Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

Ezra

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Chapter 6:21 And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and all that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat. 22 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the house of the Lord the God of Israel. And Ezra said unto the people: this Passover is your Saviour and your refuge. And if you believe, then it shall come into your hearts, that they shall humiliate Him in spite of the signs that He has done, and that afterwards we shall hope in Him again, and this place shall never be laid desolate, saith the Lord of hosts. But if you do not believe, and do not hear these words that are spoken of Him, you shall be despised of the gentiles.

The part in bold was taken out by the Jews after Jesus came.

The Gospels, especially the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and St. Paul's witness with the rest of the Apostles, and the full consensus of the Church Fathers, make it crystal clear that the Jews had as a nation until one generation (forty years) after the Crucifixion to repent and believe in Christ in order to be saved as a nation. It is also made crystal clear by the same witness, that that Redemption will never be offered to the Jews as a nation again. Individual Jews can come to Christ and confess Him and be saved but only as individuals. All Jews are warmly and openly encouraged to come to Jesus Christ and confess Him as the Messiah and be saved - especially before the public appearance of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal al-masih, the false ha-masciach of the Rebbis. If you wait until after the public appearance of the Antichrist, and do NOT at that time take the mark of the beast blaspheming the Holy Spirit, then by all means do whatever St. Elijah tells you to do, no matter what it costs. Gentiles of the same time, DO WHATEVER St. Enoch tells you to do, no matter what it costs.

The two prophets of God, St. Enoch and St. Elijah, were translated by God into the heavens, not having died, and live there now. They will return to earth as the final prophets prior to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Second Coming, concurrent with the public appearance of the Antichrist and will fight with the Beast - the Antichrist and the False Prophet and the followers sealed unto damnation of the Antichrist. They will be killed by the Antichrist after three and one half years, but then resurrected by God and taken to heaven. Then will come the Return of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from heaven with His elect angels and lay waste unto complete and utter and eternal destruction and damnation in the lake of fire: the entire kingdom of the Antichrist and his followers with Satan and all the demons and devils - all cast into hell forevermore. The saints will then shine forth in glory with God and Christ forevermore in this universe recreated sinless and unstained and pure and holy forevermore. Alleluia, alleluia, glory be to God, Alhamdulillah.

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God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Merovingian Dynasty: PART I THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN

NOTE in the below that the virgin mother goddess of the pagans

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PART I
THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN
During the first century A.D., Alexandria, Egypt was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which, according to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, "Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others." (31:123) It was in the early centuries of the Christian era that the ancient worship of the Mother Goddess was introduced to Christianity by Jews who had fled Israel and embraced Alexandrian Neo-Platonism, which is just a rehash of Greek paganism.
"The Neo-Platonists are Greek philosophers who lived long enough after Plato to have lost the name of Platonists as far as modern scholars are concerned (although they were intellectual disciples of Plato and considered themselves Platonists)." (942:72)
In ancient times, mankind worshipped the hosts of heaven, believing them to be gods and goddesses who ruled the world. Ancient man believed that the constellation Virgo was the Great Mother Goddess who ruled over a Golden Age called Lemuria, which preceded Atlantis. This astrological tradition was transmitted to successive pagan cultures through the ages of mankind.
"Some of the mythological representations of Virgo are Nana, Eve [not the real Eve, but the Eve of Apocryphal Jewish legends added later and not the Biblical account of Adam and Eve which is factually true], Istar, Demeter, Hecate, Themis, Hera, Astraea, Diana, Cybele, Isis, Fortuna, Erigone, Sibylla and the Virgin Mother [the ancient pagan virgin mother of the pagans and the Gnostics - emphatically NOT the blessed virgin Mary who was a virgin and conceived by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to Jesus Christ; but the Jew and Gentile Gnostics tried to substitute the mother goddess for Mary and the Egyptian false god Horus for Jesus Christ - they tried to substitute the false gods Isis and Horus for the real virgin Mary and her Son Jesus Christ, our Lord - the early Church refuted this and would not allow this damnable Blasphemy at all]. All representations of the Great Mother [of the pagans and Gnostics] in some form. She who existed before the masculine gods of ancient and classical mythology." (Stories of the Constellations: The Legend of Virgo: 905)

All of the above with what is shown below as well, is a major part of why the Antichrist can only come of the Jews.

See: The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: Genocide and the Beast will be destroyed by Christ

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Seven Covenants of the Holy and Only True God

1 ADAM’S COVENANT

2 NOAH’S COVENANT

3 ABRAHAM’S COVENANT

4 MOSES’ COVENANT

5 DAVID’S COVENANT

6 DANIEL’S COVENANT

7 CHRIST JESUS IMMORTAL SON MOST HOLY ANGEL OF ALMIGHTY COUNSEL CAPTAIN OF THE HOSTS OF THE LORD THE GIVER OF ALL COVENANTS WITH GOD SHOWN FORTH BY HIS PROMISE OF THE KEYS OF HIMSELF THE MESSIAH TO PETER AND TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM - CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR THE FINAL COVENANT

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Seven Ages

1 Creation – Flood – Adam’s Covenant
2 Flood – Abraham – Noah’s Covenant
3 Abraham – David – Abraham’s Covenant
4 David - Babylonian Captivity – David’s Covenant
5 Babylonian Captivity - Jesus Christ the Messiah – Daniel’s Covenant
6 Jesus Christ the Messiah – to consummation of the Age of Grace – Christ’s Covenant
7 The Great Tribulation and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ – part of Christ’s Covenant
The Great Tribulation will see the return of the two Prophets St. Enoch and St. Elijah - St. Enoch is of Adam’s Covenant and was translated by God to be, and is witness to the nations of all ages on earth at the end of the Age of Grace. St. Elijah who was translated by God and appeared with St. Moses at the Transfiguration of Christ is of Moses’ Covenant to which the corresponding age was Abraham’s and is now future – The Great Tribulation.

Mt:17:11:
11 But he answering, said to them: Elijah indeed shall come, and restore all things.

Rv:11:4:
4 These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks [the two Prophets, St. Enoch and St. Elijah] that stand before the Lord of the earth. (DRV)
The eighth age is the Eternal Reign visibly of Christ with all His saints and elect angels in this recreated universe. Had Moses’ Covenant not been abrogated by Israel’s apostasy, there would be no necessity of the seventh age (the Great Tribulation) and the covenants and ages would be the same: {what now will be the eighth age, the eternal reign of Christ visibly in His recreated universe, would have been the seventh age - and the great tribulation, the very short but horrible seventh age, would not occur, it would never come to pass. But because of the Jews Perfidy and Deicide the great tribulation will now occur and is the seventh age preceding the eighth age - the eternal reign of Christ visibly in His recreated universe. The Crucifixion would have happened if the Jews had believed, but the outcome as noted above, especially see St. Ezra above (Ezra 6), would have been radically different. The Jews knew full well Who Christ was, the ancient Romans did not. The Jews's sin is unforgivable but the ancient Romans' sin was not unforgivable.}

i.e.
Age
1 Creation –Adam’s Covenant
2 Flood –Noah’s Covenant
3 Abraham –Abraham’s Covenant
4 Moses – Moses’ Covenant
5 David - Babylonian Captivity – David’s Covenant
6 Babylonian Captivity - Jesus Christ the Messiah – Daniel’s Covenant
7 Jesus Christ the Messiah – to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and His eternal reign in His recreated universe.

The end of the eschaton and the watching that Jesus Christ commanded

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WATCH!!! FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST COMES WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT HIM!

The Catholic Creed: The Creed of the Whole and Undivided Church as Given by the Apostles stands unalterably OPPOSED to: The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism.

St. Isidore -- The First and Second ages of the World

St. Isidore -- The Third Age of the World and The Fourth Age of the World

St. Isidore -- The Fifth Age of the World and Sixth Age until St. John

St. Isidore -- The Sixth age of the World until St. Ambrose

St. Isidore -- The Sixth Age of the World until 616 A.D.

The Great Apostasy Prophesied by the Lord Jesus Christ

The Great Tribulation and the End of this Age

Prophecy of Christ

The Punishments Of The Apostates In The Future

What is the watching that Jesus said.

Jesuit Operatives

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The Church Fathers were adamant that when Gnosticism brought back the paganism that Christ redeemed us from, that would be the great apostasy we are warned of in scripture to flee from and have nothing to do with, at peril of our own salvation if we don't!

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: Look up, your redemption is at hand: Hermes Trimegistus

Examples of Jesuit operatives using Judaist pseudo Hebrew contacts, sources and fronts to mask their ON PURPOSE Vatican II sponsored return to paganism.

The First Amendment: Agent Malachi Martin (“Pilgrim” Michael Serafian): his part in the Jewish takeover of the Church of Rome | What Do You Believe?

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: Maurice Pinay Blog: Rama Coomaraswamy and the Great Game

Look up, your redemption is at hand: Hermes Trimegistus

2011-08-01T09:50:00.000-07:00

Look up, your redemption is at hand: Hermes Trimegistus

Hermes Trimegistus is the triple god of the ancient Greeks and closely embedded with Isis-Horus of the ancient Egyptians. In the Gréco-égyptienne religion of the Roman dominated (both political and in the syncretistic religious sense) Mediterranean cultural milieu of the first century these were central to both Gnosticism and Hermeticism - both of which shared the belief that Lucifer (Satan - Saturn) was truly god on earth. The North African form of Hermes Trimegistus was Priapus and was most depraved in the worst sense. These are the sources for the Gnostic opposition to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and biblical faith in Him as Redeemer. This is the magic of the Gnostics and Hermetics, condemned without reservation by God. This magical "secret knowledge" is the very ancient Hermetic proposition of calling God and the Devil two sides of the same coin. That is a lie from Satan. Those who listen to that lie will be condemned to hell eternally by Jesus Christ at His return from heaven at the end of this age to resurrect all men and judge the quick and the dead.

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On the Trail of the Winged God
Hermes and Hermeticism Throughout the Ages

by Stephan A. Hoeller

There are few names to which more diverse persons and disciplines lay claim than the term "Hermetic." Alchemists ancient and contemporary apply the adjective "Hermetic" to their art, while magicians attach the name to their ceremonies of evocation and invocation. Followers of Meister Eckhart, Raymond Lull, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and most recently Valentin Tomberg are joined by academic scholars of esoterica, all of whom attach the word "Hermetic" to their activities.

Who, then, was Hermes, and what may be said of the philosophy or religion that is connected with him? The early twentieth-century scholar Walter Scott, in his classic edition of the Hermetic texts, writes of a legend preserved by the Renaissance writer Vergicius:

They say that this Hermes left his own country and traveled all over the world…; and that he tried to teach men to revere and worship one God alone, …the demiurgus and genetor [begetter] of all things; …and that he lived a very wise and pious life, occupied in intellectual contemplation…, and giving no heed to the gross things of the material world…; and that having returned to his own country, he wrote at the time many books of mystical theology and philosophy.1

Until relatively recently, no one had a clear picture of either the authorship or the context of the mysterious writings ascribed to Hermes. Descriptions such as the one above are really no more than a summary of the ideal laid down in the "Hermetic" writings. The early Christian Fathers, in time, mostly held that Hermes was a great sage who lived before Moses and that he was a pious and wise man who received revelations from God that were later fully explained by Christianity. None mentioned that he was a Greek god.

The Greek Hermes

The British scholar R.F. Willetts wrote that "in many ways, Hermes is the most sympathetic, the most baffling, the most confusing, the most complex, and therefore the most Greek of all the Olympian gods."2 If Hermes is the god of the mind, then these qualities appear in an even more meaningful light. For is the mind not the most baffling, confusing, and at the same time the most beguiling, of all the attributes of life?

The name Hermes appears to have originated in the word for "stone heap." Probably since prehistoric times there existed in Crete and in other Greek regions a custom or erecting a herma or hermaion consisting of an upright stone surrounded at its base by a heap of smaller stones. Such monuments were used to serve as boundaries or as landmarks for wayfarers.

A mythological connection existed between these simple monuments and the deity named Hermes. When Hermes killed the many-eyed monster Argus, he was brought to trial by the gods. They voted for Hermes' innocence, each casting a vote by throwing a small stone at his feet so that a heap of stones grew up around him.

Hermes became best known as the swift messenger of the gods. Euripides, in his prologue to the play Ion, has Hermes introduce himself as follows:

Atlas, who wears on back of bronze the ancient
Abode of the gods in heaven, had a daughter
Whose name was Maia, born of a goddess:
She lay with Zeus, and bore me, Hermes,
Servant of the immortals.

Hermes is thus of a double origin. His grandfather is Atlas, the demigod who holds up heaven, but Maia, his mother, already has a goddess as her mother, while Hermes' father, Zeus, is of course the highest of the gods. It is tempting to interpret this as saying that from worldly toil (Atlas), with a heavy infusion of divine inspiration, comes forth consciousness, as symbolized by Hermes.

Versatility and mutability are Hermes' most prominent characteristics. His specialties are eloquence and invention (he invented the lyre). He is the god of travel and the protector of sacrifices; he is also god of commerce and good luck. The common quality in all of these is again consciousness, the agile movement of mind that goes to and fro, joining humans and gods, assisting the exchange of ideas and commercial goods. Consciousness has a shadow side, however: Hermes is also noted for cunning and for fraud, perjury, and theft.

The association of Hermes with theft become evident in the pseudo-Homeric Hymn to Hermes, which tells in great detail how the young god, barely risen from his cradle, carries off some of Apollo's prize oxen. The enraged Apollo denounces Hermes to Zeus but is mollified by the gift of the lyre, which the young Hermes has just invented by placing strings across the shell of a tortoise. That the larcenous trickster god is the one who bestows the instrument of poetry upon Apollo may be a point of some significance. Art is bestowed not by prosaic rectitude, but by the freedom of intuition, a function not bound by earthly rules.

While Hermes is regarded as one of the earliest and most primitive gods of the Greeks, he enjoys so much subsequent prominence that he must be recognized as an archetype devoted to mediating between, and unifying, the opposites. This foreshadows his later role as master magician and alchemist, as he was regarded both in Egypt and in Renaissance Europe.

Mediterranean Hermes

One admirable quality of the ancient Greeks was the universality of their theological vision. Unlike their Semitic counterparts, the Greeks claimed no uniqueness for their deities but freely acknowledged that the Olympians often had exact analogues in the gods of other nations.

This was particularly true of Egypt, whose gods the Greeks revered as the prototypes of their own. It was a truth frequently recognized by the cultured elite of Greek society that some of the Egyptian gods, such as Isis, were of such great stature that they united within themselves a host of Greek deities.

The Romans, who were fully aware of the fact that their gods were but rebaptized Greek deities, followed the example of their mentors. As the Roman Empire extended itself to occupy the various Mediterranean lands, including Egypt, the ascendancy of the archetypes of some of the more prominent Egyptian gods became evident. Here we are faced with the controversial phenomenon of syncretism, which plays a vital role in the new manifestation of Hermes in the last centuries before Christ and in the early centuries of the Christian era.

During this period, the Mediterranean world was undergoing a remarkable religious development. The old state religions had lost their hold on many people. In their stead a large number of often-interrelated religions, philosophies, and rites had arisen, facilitated by the political unity imposed by the Roman Empire.

This new ecumenism of the spirit was one that we might justly admire. Though often derided as mere syncretism by later writers, it possessed many features to which various ecumenicists aspire even today. It is by no means impossible that the Mediterranean region of the late Hellenistic period was in fact on its way toward a certain kind of religious unity. The world religion that might conceivably have emerged would have been much more sophisticated than the accusation of syncretism would have us believe. Far from being a patchwork of incompatible elements, this emerging Mediterranean spirituality bore the hallmarks of a profound mysticism, possessing a psychological wisdom still admired in our own day by such figures as C.G. Jung and Mircea Eliade.

An important feature of this era was the rise of a new worship of Hermes. Proceeding from the three principal Egyptian archetypes of divinity, we find three great forms of initiatory religion spreading along the shores of the Mediterranean: the cults of the Mother Goddess Isis, the Victim God Osiris, and the Wisdom God Hermes, all of which appeared under various guises.

Of these three we shall concern ourselves here with Hermes. It was during this period that the swift god of consciousness took his legendary winged sandals and crossed the sea to Egypt in order to become the Greco-Egyptian Thrice-Greatest Hermes.

Hermes of Egypt

The Egyptian god Thoth, or Tehuti, in the form of an ibis. With him is his associate, the ape, proferring the Eye of Horus. From E.A. Wallis Budge's Gods of the Egyptians.

The Greek Hermes found his analogue in Egypt as the ancient Wisdom God Thoth (sometimes spelled Thouth or Tahuti). This god was worshiped in his principal cult location, Chmun, known also as the "City of the Eight," called Greek Hermopolis. There is evidence that this location was a center for the worship of this deity at least as early as 3000 B.C.

Thoth played a part in many of the myths of Pharaonic Egypt: he played a role in the creation myth, he was recorder of the gods, and he was the principal pleader for the soul at the judgment of the dead. It was he who invented writing. He wrote all the ancient texts, including the most esoteric ones, including The Book of Breathings, which taught humans how to become gods. He was connected with the moon and thus was considered ruler of the night. Thoth was also the teacher and helper of the ancient Egyptian trinity of Isis, Osiris, and Horus; it was under his instructions that Isis worked her sacred love magic whereby she brought the slain Osiris back to life.

Most importantly, perhaps, for our purposes, Thoth acted as an emissary between the contending armies of Horus and Seth and eventually came to negotiate the peace treaty between these two gods. His role as a mediator between the opposites is thus made evident, perhaps prefiguring the role of the alchemical Mercury as the "medium of the conjunction."

Thoth's animal form is that of the ibis, with its long, slightly curved beak: statues of Thoth often portray a majestic human wearing the mask of head of this bird; others simply display the ibis itself.

It was to this powerful god that the Egyptian Hermeticists of the second and third centuries A.D. joined the image and especially the name of the Greek Hermes. From this time onward the name "Hermes" came to denote neither Thoth nor Hermes proper, but a new archetypal figure, Hermes Trismegistus, who combined the features of both.

By the time his Egyptian followers came to establish their highly secretive communities, this Hermes underwent yet another modification, this time from the Jewish tradition. The presence of large numbers of Jews in Egypt in this period, many of whom were oriented toward Hellenistic thought, accounts for this additional element. In many of the Hermetic writings, Hermes appears less as an Egyptian or Greek god and more as a mysterious prophet of the kind one finds in Jewish prophetic literature, notably the Apocalypse of Baruch, 4 Esdras, and 2 Enoch. Still, when all is said and done, the Jewish element in the Hermetic writings is not very pronounced. The Hermes that concerns us is primarily Egyptian, to a lesser degree Greek, and to a very slight extent Jewish in character.

Hermetic Communities

A Renaissance portraite of Hermes Trismegistus, from the floor of the cathedral at Siena, 1488; attributed to Giovanni di Maestro Stefano. The legend beneath the central figure reads "Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, the contemporary of Moses."

Who, then, actually wrote the "books of Hermes," which, since their rediscovery in the fifteenth century, have played such a significant role in our culture? The writings are all anonymous: their mythic author is considered to be Hermes himself. The reasoning behind this pseudonymous approach is simple. Hermes is Wisdom, and thus anything written through the inspiration of true wisdom is in actuality written by Hermes. The human scribe does not matter; certainly his name is of no significance.

Customs of this sort have not been uncommon in mystical literature. The Kabbalistic text known as the Zohar, currently believed to have been written in the medieval period, claims to be the work of Shimon bar Yohai, a rabbi of the second century A.D. Two of the best-known Christian mystical classics, The Cloud of Unknowing and Theologia Germanica, were written anonymously.

The members of the Hermetic communities were people who, brought up in the immemorial Egyptian religious tradition, offered their own version of the religion of gnosis, which others propounded in a manner more appropriate to the psyches of other national backgrounds, notably Hebrew, Syrian, or Mesopotamian. Sir W.M.F. Petrie3 presents us with a study of such Pagan monks and hermits who gathered together in the deserts of Egypt and other lands. He tells us of the monks' attention to cleanliness, their silence during meals, their seclusion and meditative piety. It would seem that the Hermeticists were recluses of this kind. Unlike the Gnostics, who were mostly living secular lives in cities, the Hermeticists followed a lifestyle similar to the kind Josephus attributes to the Essenes.

When it came to beliefs, it is likely that the Hermeticists and Gnostics were close spiritual relatives. The two schools had a great deal in common, their principal difference being that the Hermeticists looked to the archetypal figure of Hermes as the embodiment of salvific teaching and initiation, while the Gnostics revered the more recent savior figure known as Jesus in a similar manner. Both groups were singularly devoted to gnosis, which they understood to be the experience of liberating interior knowledge; both looked upon embodiment as a limitation that led to unconsciousness, from which only gnosis can liberate the human spirit. Most of the Hermetic teachings closely correspond to fundamental ideas of the Gnostics. There were also some, mostly minor, divergences between the two, to which we shall refer later.

Judging by their writings and by the repute they enjoyed among their contemporaries, the members of the Hermetic communities were inspired persons who firmly believed that they were in touch with the Source of all truth, the very embodiment of divine Wisdom himself.

Indeed there are many passages in the Hermetic writings in which we can still perceive the vibrant inspiration, the exaltation of spirit, in the words whereby they attempt to describe the wonders disclosed to their mystic vision. Like the Gnostics, of whom Jung said that they worked with original, compelling images of the deep unconscious, the Hermeticists experienced powerful and extraordinary insights to which they tried to give expression in their writings. Intense feeling generated by personal spiritual experience pervades most of the Hermetic documents.

The Hermetic Curriculum

Until comparatively recently there was very little information available concerning the method of spiritual progress that the Hermeticists may have followed. The Nag Hammadi Library, discovered in 1945, contains at least one scripture whose content is unmistakably Hermetic. This is Tractate 6 of Codex VI, whose title is usually translated as The Discourse on the Eight and the Ninth. On the basis of this discourse, one of its early translators suggested a scheme of progress that was followed by some of the schools of Hermeticists.4

A Hermetic catechumen would begin with a process of conversion, induced by such activities as reading some of the less technical Hermetic literature or listening to a public discourse. A period of probation, including instruction received in a public setting, was required before progressing to the next stage.

This phase would be characterized by a period of philosophical and catechetical studies based on certain Hermetic works. (The Asclepius and the Kore Kosmou may be examples of such study material.) This instruction was imparted to small groups.

The next step entailed a progress through the Seven Spheres or Hebdomad, conducted in a tutorial format, one student at a time. This seems to have been a process of an experiential nature, aided by inspiring topical discourses. In this progression, the candidate is envisioned as beginning his journey from earth and ascending through the planets to a region of freedom from immediate cosmic influences. (The planets were regarded mostly as influences of restriction, which the ascending spirit must overcome.) One may note a close resemblance of this gradual ascent to similar ascensions outlined in various Gnostic sources, as well as to the later Kabbalistic patchwork on the Tree of Life.

The final step was what may be called the Mystery Liturgy of Hermes Trismegistus, of which The Discourse of the Eighth and the Ninth is often regarded as a good example. Here the Hermeticist is spiritually reborn in a transcendental region beyond the seven planets. His status is now that of a pneumatic, or man of the spirit. (Note once again the similarity with Gnosticism.) This level entails an experience of a very profound, initiatory change of consciousness wherein the initiate becomes one with the deeper self resident in his soul, which is a portion of the essence of God. This experience takes place in a totally private setting. The only persons present are the initiate and the initiator (called "son" and "father" in this text). The liturgy takes the form of a dialogue between these two.

The Hermeticists had their own sacraments as well. These appear to have consisted primarily of a form of baptism with water and an anointing resembling "a baptism and a chrism" as mentioned in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip. The Corpus Hermeticum mentions an anointing with "ambrosial water" and a self-administered baptism in a sacred vessel, the krater, sent down by Hermes from the heavenly realms.

The Hermetic Writings

The original number of Hermetic writings must have been considerable. A good many of these were lost during the systematic destruction of non-Christian literature that took place between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. Ancient writers often indicate the existence of such works: in the first century A.D., Plutarch refers to Hermes the Thrice-Greatest; the third-century Church Father Clement of Alexandria says that the books of Hermes treat of Egyptian religion;5 and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and Porphyry all seem to be acquainted with Hermetic literature. Scott shows how the ancient Middle Eastern city of Harran harbored both Hermeticists and Hermetic books into the Muslim period.6

A thousand years later, in 1460, the ruler of Florence, Cosimo de' Medici, acquired several previously lost Hermetic texts that had been found in the Byzantine Empire. These works were thought to be the work of a historical figure named Hermes Trismegistus who was considered to be a contemporary of Moses. Translated by the learned and enthusiastic Marsilio Ficino and others, the Hermetic books soon gained the attention of an intelligentsia that was starved for a more creative approach to spirituality than had been hitherto available.

The most extensive collection of Hermetic writings is the Corpus Hermeticum, a set of about seventeen short Greek texts. Another collection as made by a scholar named John Stobaeus in the firth century A.D. Two other, longer texts stand alone. The first is the Asclepius, preserved in a Latin translation dating probably from the third century A.D. The second takes the form of a dialogue between Isis and Horus and has the unusual title of Kore Kosmou, which means "daughter of the world."

The reaction of the Christian establishment to these writings was ambivalent. It is true that they were never condemned and were even revered by many prominent ecclesiastics. An authoritative volume of the Hermetic books was printed in Ferrara in 1593, for example. It was edited by one Cardinal Patrizzi, who recommended that these works should replace Aristotle as the basis for Christian philosophy and should be diligently studied in schools and monasteries. The mind boggles at the turn Western culture might have taken had Hermetic teachings replaced Aristotelian theology of Thomas Aquinas as the normative doctrine of the Catholic Church!

Such, however, was not to be. One of the chief propagandists of Hermeticism, the brilliant friar Giordano Bruno, was burnt at the stake as a heretic in 1600, and although others continued with their enthusiasm for the fascinating teachings of the books of Hermes, the suspicions and doubts of the narrow-minded continued to dampen any general ardor.

By the seventeenth century, the Hermetic books had enjoyed intermittent popularity in Europe for some 150 years. The coming of the Protestant Reformation and the ensuing religious strife, however, stimulated a tendency toward rationalistic orthodoxy in all quarter. Another factor was the work of the scholar Isaac Casaubon, who used internal evidence in the texts to prove that they had been written, not by a contemporary of Moses, but early in the Christian era.7

By the eighteenth century, the Hermetic teachings were totally eclipsed, and the new scholarship, which prided itself on its opposition to everything it called "superstition," took a dim view of this ancient fountainhead of mystical and occult lore. There wasn't even a critical, academically respectable edition of the Corpus Hermeticum until Walter Scott's Hermetica appeared in 1924.

If one needs an example of how egregiously academic scholarship can err and then persist in its errors, one need only contemplate the "official" scholarly views of the Hermetic books over the 150-year period up to the middle of the twentieth century. The general view was that these writings were Neoplatonic or anti-Christian forgeries, of no value to the study of religion. By the middle of the nineteenth century, such scholars as Gustave Parthey8 and Louis Menard9 began to raise objections to the forgery theory, but it took another 50 years for their views to gain a hearing.

The Occult Connection and the Hermetic Renaissance

Hermes Trismegistus and the creative fire that unite the polarities. D. Stolcius vn Stolcenbeerg, Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624

Although the Hermetic system has undeniably influenced much of the best of Christian thought, the most abiding impact of Hermeticism on Western culture came about by way of the heterodox mystical, or occult, tradition. Renaissance occultism, with its alchemy, astrology, ceremonial magic, and occult medicine, became saturated with the teachings of the Hermetic books. This content has remained a permanent part of the occult transmissions of the West, and, along with Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, represents the foundation of all the major Western occult currents. Hermetic elements are demonstrably present in the school of Jacob Boehme and in the Rosicrucian and Masonic movements, for example.

It was not long before this tradition, wedded to secret orders of initiates and their arcane truths, gave way to a more public transmission of their teachings. This occurred initially by way of the work of H.P. Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society in the late nineteenth century.

G.R.S. Mead, a young, educated English Theosophist who became a close associate of Mme. Blavatsky in the last years of her life, was the main agent of the revival of Gnostic and Hermetic wisdom among the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century occultists. Mead first became known for his translation of the great Gnostic work Pistis Sophia, which appeared in 1890-91. In 1906 he published the three volumes of Thrice Greatest Hermes, in which he collected all the then-available Hermetic documents while adding insightful commentaries of his own.10 This volume was followed by other, smaller works of a similar order. Mead's impact on the renewal of interest in Hermeticism and Gnosticism in our century should not be underestimated.

A half-century later, we find another seminal figure who effectively bridged the gap between the occult and the academic. The British scholar Dame Frances A. Yates may be considered the true inaugurator of the modern Hermetic renaissance. Beginning with a work on Giordano Bruno and continuing with a number of others, Yates not only proved the immense influence of Hermeticism on the medieval Renaissance but showed the connections between Hermetic currents and later developments, including the Rosicrucian Enlightenment - itself the title of one of her books.

While some decades ago it might have appeared that the line of transmission extending from Greco-Egyptian wisdom might come to an end, today the picture appears more hopeful. The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi Library generated a great interest in matters Gnostic that does not seem to have abated with the passage of time. Because of the close affinity of the Hermetic writings to the Gnostic ones, the present interest in Gnosticism extends to Hermeticism as well. Most collections of Gnostic scriptures published today include some Hermetic material.

Gnosticism and Hermeticism flourished in the same period; they are equally concerned with personal knowledge of God and the soul, and equally emphatic that the soul can only escape from its bondage to material existence if it attains to true ecstatic understanding (gnosis). It was once fashionable to characterize Hermeticism as "optimistic" in contract to Gnostic "pessimism," but such differences are currently being stressed less than they had been. The Nag Hammadi scriptures have brought to light a side of Gnosticism that joins it more closely to Hermeticism than many would have thought possible.

There are apparent contradictions, not only between Hermetic and Gnostic writings, but within the Hermetic materials themselves. Such contradictions loom large when one contemplates these systems from the outside, but they can be much more easily reconciled by one who steps inside the systems and views them from within. One possible key to such paradoxes is the likelihood that the words in these scriptures were the results of transcendental states of consciousness experienced by their writers. Such words were never meant to define supernatural matters, but only to intimate their impact upon experience.

From a contemporary view, the figure of Hermes, both in its Greek and its Egyptian manifestations, stands as an archetype of transformation through reconciliation of the opposites. (Certainly Jung and other archetypally oriented psychologists viewed Hermes in this light.) If we are inclined to this view, we should rejoice over the renewed interest in Hermes and his timeless gnosis. If we conjure up the famed image of the swift god, replete with winged helmet, sandals, and caduceus, we might still be able to ask him to reconcile the divisions and contradictions of this lower realm in the embrace of enlightened consciousness. And since, like all gods, he is immortal, he might be able to fulfill our request as he did for his devotees of old!

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The article first appeared in Gnosis: A Journal of Western Inner Traditions (Vol. 40, Summer 1996),
and is reproduced here by permission of the author.

Notes

1. Walter Scott, ed., Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious and Philosophical Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (Boston: Shambhala, 1985 [1924]), vol. 1, p. 33. The demiurgus mentioned here is clearly of the Platonic rather than the Gnostic kind.
2. R.F. Willetts, "Hermes," entry in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1970), p. 1289.
3. Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie, Personal Religion in Egypt before Christianity (London: Rider & Co., 1900) pp. 50-65.
4. L.S. Keizer, ed. And trans., The Eighth Reveals the Ninth: A New Hermetic Initiation Discourse (Seaside, Calif.: Academy of Arts & Humanities, 1974), pp. 54-63.
5. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6:14.
6. Scott, vol. 1, p. 97.
7. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 42.
8. Gustav Parthey, Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin, 1854).
9. Louis Menard, Étude sur l'origine des livres hermetiques et translations d'Hermès Trismegistus (Paris, 1866).
10. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1992 [1906]).

On the Trail of the Winged God Hermes and Hermeticism Throughout the Ages, from: http://www.gnosis.org/hermes.htm

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The Knights of St. John (SMOM)

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صفيّة Safiyah said...

Salaamu Miko san,

"Hermes Trimegistus is the triple god of the ancient Greeks and closely embedded with Isis-Horus of the ancient Egyptians. In the Gréco-égyptienne religion of the Roman dominated (both political and in the syncretistic religious sense) Mediterranean cultural milieu of the first century these were central to both Gnosticism and Hermeticism - both of which shared the belief that Lucifer (Satan - Saturn) was truly god on earth. The North African form of Hermes Trimegistus was Priapus and was most depraved in the worst sense. These are the sources for the Gnostic opposition to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and biblical faith in Him as Redeemer. This is the magic of the Gnostics and Hermetics, condemned without reservation by God. This magical "secret knowledge" is the very ancient Hermetic proposition of calling God and the Devil two sides of the same coin. That is a lie from Satan. Those who listen to that lie will be condemned to hell eternally by Jesus Christ at His return from heaven at the end of this age to resurrect all men and judge the quick and the dead."

Quite true.

Then this - not true of course that Hermes ever professed the true God -

"The early twentieth-century scholar Walter Scott, in his classic edition of the Hermetic texts, writes of a legend preserved by the Renaissance writer Vergicius:

They say that this Hermes left his own country and traveled all over the world…; and that he tried to teach men to revere and worship one God alone, …the demiurgus and genetor [begetter] of all things; …and that he lived a very wise and pious life, occupied in intellectual contemplation…, and giving no heed to the gross things of the material world…; and that having returned to his own country, he wrote at the time many books of mystical theology and philosophy.1"

The only god other than himself that Hermes would have pointed to would have been Zeus who was a snake god, or Apollo who was a sun-god - both completely pagan abominations.

The Hermetic Monadic Pantheistic unity that the pagan systems resolved into, was in no way the same as the One True God. The pagan unity was only a materialistic worship of creation itself, shared by pagans, Gnostics and sorcerers. It is completely offensive to God.

That Hermetic Monadic Pantheistic unity is also the abominable false god that some "Muslim" exegetes try to make Allah (swt) into. Allah is not that, nor could He ever be that. He is the same True God that the old testament Jews worshipped and that Christians worship.

July 31, 2011 4:15 PM

We are to love God and our neighbor as ourselves.

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The Apocalypse is written from beginning to end of the history of the world by God Himself. It includes all the ages of the world. It also includes all people that have ever existed or will ever exist. God and His Christ are the only Judge of all people. We aren't. We are to love God with our whole heart and soul and depth of being and our neighbor as ourselves.

See here for the Book of the Apocalypse.

A brief explanation of the ages.

There are covenants and ages (biblical days), which by God's providence, all point to and are summed up in the pre-existent covenant of salvation given in Christ Himself on His Most Holy Cross. See here for a summation:

Seven Ages:

St. Isidore -- The First and Second ages of the World

St. Isidore -- The Third Age of the World and The Fourth Age of the World

St. Isidore -- The Fifth Age of the World and Sixth Age until St. John

St. Isidore -- The Sixth age of the World until St. Ambrose

St. Isidore -- The Sixth Age of the World until 616 A.D.

The Church Fathers, especially including St. Irenaeus (180 A.D.) and St. Augustine (d. 430 A.D.), and the Old Testament prophets, especially St. Ezekiel, by God's grace, saw the ages of the world in a literal and mystical sense at the exact same time. The following is a summation of what they taught. St. Isadore of Seville (d. 636 A.D.), above, based all of what he wrote about the ages of the world on what the Church Father's before him had taught. St. Isadore is the last of the Church Fathers in the West (Doctors of the Church are a different and mostly later grouping).

Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour in your true Gospel alone Holy God, the only author of covenant of salvation, of:

Adam’s covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a lion prefiguring the Gospel of John showing forth the royal power and authority of Christ the Immortal Son Word Wisdom and Power of God through whom God the Father by the Holy Spirit created all of creation Who became Incarnate for our redemption in the flesh as Adam had sinned in the flesh

Noah’s covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a calf prefiguring the Gospel of Luke showing forth the sacrifice of Christ who is our Holy Only Priest Victim Sacrifice Altar Temple Tabernacle Redeemer Salvation Immortal Immaculate Golden Ark of the covenant showing himself forth as the only begotten Redeemer in his Epiphany of fiery glory at his baptism in the Jordan

Abraham’s covenant shown forth by an Epiphany of the Lord and two angels prefiguring the Transfiguration of Christ with: Moses, a type of the faithful departed at the future resurrection, and Elijah, a type of the faithful living at the future resurrection, Christ condemning for all time the darkness of idolatry which has no communion with light - the grace of the Gospel of Christ

Moses’ covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a man prefiguring the Gospel of Matthew showing forth the God - man prophet, the Christ, who Moses and David and Isaiah and Habakkuk and Ezra foretold Israel would either heed or be destroyed by rejecting, he who is our only Lord and Saviour by his most Holy Cross by which he tread down Satan and cast him out of creation

David’s covenant shown forth by the gift of prophecy, especially of the resurrection of Christ

Daniel’s covenant shown forth by his vision of the ancient of days prefiguring the Gospel of Christ especially his Ascension

Christ Jesus Immortal Son most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel, Captain of the hosts of the Lord, the giver of all covenants with God shown forth by his promise of the keys of Himself the Messiah to Peter and to all who believe in Him - Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour, the final covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of an eagle and through him to the Father does all glory redound in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit, he given at Pentecost, especially proclaimed by the Gospel of Mark of the preaching of the salvation of Christ Jesus throughout the world, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour who descended from the third heaven from the Father's right hand and became flesh by the Holy Spirit, the immaculate conception and was truly born of the blessed virgin Mary on earth, 70 generations from Adam and your creation of all of creation, thus subsuming flesh of Adam and of all men to yourself to restore your Image and Likeness to all the saints from the first Adam to the last saint, by you Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only Immaculate Lamb of God who alone takes away the sin of the whole world of those who are saved, by your most Holy Cross and Holy Blood, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour and Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, covering the whole earth and cleansing the whole universe, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only first born from the dead in the flesh, the only one resurrected, ascended, assumed bodily in the flesh, seated at the right hand of God, Baruch Adonai Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete

Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator

and Who, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, shall return from the Father’s right hand in the same flesh with all the elect angels and raise, first, the saints in the flesh, our same spirits souls and bodies reunited and then all other men in the flesh, their same souls and bodies reunited, from throughout the whole world and all of time from the beginning of your creation until that time - known to you alone Holy Immortal undivided trinity, in the future at your Parousia Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, your saints to inherit paradise recreated then with all the elect angels worshipping you face to face in the glory of the Father and the union of the Holy Spirit unto the endless ages of ages - and the rest to be cast into the lake of fire forevermore unto the same endless ages of ages to come.

A Mystical prayer based on the Catholic Old Testament book of Wisdom.

Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth He Creator and Artificer of all our only
Teacher

He Spirit absolute intelligence Holy unique

manifold subtle agile

clear unstained certain

not baneful loving the good keen

unhampered beneficent kindly

firm secure tranquil

all-powerful all-seeing and pervading all spirits though they be intelligent pure
and very subtle seven holy elect blessed orders

of mighty Doxas holy Seraphim, Cherubim, Kuriotetes, Arches especially Saint
Michael and Saint Gabriel holy Archangelos

Exousias, Dunameis, Angelos

uncreated Wisdom mobile beyond all motion He penetrates and pervades all things by reason of His purity for He is an aura of the might of God and a pure effusion of the Glory of the Almighty therefore nought that is sullied enters into Him for

He is the refulgence of eternal light the

spotless mirror of the energy of God the image of his goodness he who is one can

do all things and renews everything while Himself perduing by His breath

passing into holy souls from

age to age he produces friends of God and prophets for there is not God loves be

it not one who dwells with wisdom for he is fairer than the sun and surpasses

every constellation of the stars compared to light he takes precedence for that

indeed night might supplant but wickedness prevails not over wisdom

indeed he reaches from end to end mightily and governs all

things well.

The virgin goddess of black magic

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The virgin goddess of black magic

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Traditional Catholic and Orthodox Churches are correct and Roman Catholicism is wrong about the blessed virgin Mary who is the Theotokos and the mother of Jesus Christ Who is God in the flesh. The virgin Mary is not the immaculate conception, she immaculately conceived by the Holy Spirit the only true God in the flesh Who is Jesus Christ and is therefore the mother of God (not of His divine nature but His human nature which is divinized by His divine nature in the enhypostasia of the communion of idioms or hypostatic union of His two natures of God and of man, in theological terms) for He is One Person – of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity One God. Mary is of course totally loyal to Jesus Christ and has nothing to do with the virgin goddess (Isis and others) of black magic, which was used by the ancient Gnostic apostates as a substitute for the real virgin Mary mother of the God-Man Jesus Christ. He, Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Holy Trinity and therefore is God. Mary is therefore in this sense the mother of God. It is in this sense that she always has been confessed by the Church to be the mother of God. She is not a goddess.

Meet the virgin goddess of black magic -- she is the “immaculate one” (A LIE) who is Satan and false god and temptress and the rehashed pagan mother goddess that the early Gnostics (who claimed they were the knowers of the unknown god) worshipped.See this short excerpt, to illustrate, from:

"Thunder, Perfect Mind" from the Nag Hammadi Library

ftp://d.armory.com/pub/user/leavitt/gnosis/thunder.html

I am ... within.I am ...of the natures.

I am the creation of the spirits.

I am control and the uncontrollable.

I am the union and the dissolution.

I am the abiding and I am the dissolving.

I am the one below, and they come up to me.

I am the judgement and the acquittal.

I, I am sinless, and the root of sin derives from me.

I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped.

I am a mute who does not speak, and great is my multitude of words. ( this is Sarasvati)

The Mother Goddess was the beginning (the mother) of all the gods and goddesses and all sorcery /magic in connection with them.

In India the mother goddess is Durga and takes the form of Kali.

The yogis, ajivika or sramana or sadhu, of India, worshipped the fire god Agni (the god called “The Knower” whose tongue is the goddess Kali the goddess of destruction, a hermaphrodite god-goddess) imported from ancient Assyria/Persia, and engaged in the practice of the magical incantations of the kashshaph (sorcery) and nachash (serpent black magic) practices, amongst others, of ancient Mesopotamia, which made their way there through ancient Assyria/Persia as well. This strange fire (Hebrew: esh) with the sorcery and magic and rest of the occult practices listed together therein are condemned by God in Deuteronomy 18:10, 11. The final abomination of this is listed first in Dt:18:10: Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire…. (DRV) That final abomination is human sacrifice by fire sacrifice (as in Agni) to false gods/goddesses in the hope of gaining preternatural power from fallen spirits; the apostate angel, Satan - the devil, is the chief fallen spirit of the rest and who Jesus Christ said was a murderer and a liar from the beginning. Jn:8:44: You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, andthe father thereof. (DRV)

Sorcery/magic and astrology began, in the post flood world, in Chaldaea Sumeria Assyro-Babylonian Mesopotamia.

For the Astral (known as Omina) connection to sorcery/magic (Hebrew Ashshaph/Kashshaph) see this excerpt from:

Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity

The doctoral dissertation of Lester Ness, Accepted by MiamiUniversity, 1990

http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss1.html

Chapter One
Astrology In Mesopotamia…

The Cult Of The Planet-Gods

Having introduced the chief gods, we shall now examine literary evidence demonstrating the cult of the planet-gods. We shall look at the Creation Epic (Enuma Elish) and at a variety of prayers and magical texts. I shall use simple and common definitions for prayer and magic here. In prayer, one makes a request of a god. The magician tries to coerce or even command a god. In practice, however, the distinction may break down. For example, knowing the habits of a god, his likes and dislikes, one might make a request in such a way that it would be unlikely, even impossible to reject. Certainly, there was no clear distinction between prayer and magic in Mesopotamia./35/ It is the modern scholars who have drawn it, and in many cases they have been force to "fudge," coining the term "Gebetsbeschwrungen," or"Prayer-spells"….

Magical ceremonies in Mesopotamia were private, small-scale,versions of the rituals performed publicly in the temples. Magical practitioners of different sorts were usually priests. References to the astral aspects of the various gods are common, although they do not crowd out other aspects./38/

[end of excerpt]

This commanding of gods even extended to making them speak (the statues and other images) by occult means. The magicians who engaged in such things generally did it for money. In Jesus Christ's time on earth before His Ascension into heaven (from whence He will come again to judge the quick and the dead), He warned about these fakirs.

From Jesus Christ:

Mk:13:22:

22 For there will rise upfalse Christs and false prophets: and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect. (DRV)

Mt:7:15:

15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (DRV)

From St. Paul:

Gal:1:8:

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. (DRV)

From St. Peter:

2Pt:1:20

20 Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. (DRV)

From St. John:

Rv:13:15, 16:

15 And it was given him (the Antichrist) to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain.

16 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads: (DRV)

Rather than take the Mark then, the early saints were martyred for their faith. Something that we must not hesitate to do when confronted with that choice. One of the early martyrs was St. Irenaeus of Lyons author of Against Heresies. For the creed of the early church which he recorded for posterity (which is also the original Apostles creed) see:

For the true Christian confession of faith see:

Eternal Faith and Beliefs Page 3

http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/eternal-faith-beliefs/

True to the Faith

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True to the Faith

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the Churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the apostolic faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the faith? The true faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle -- the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the faith? "True, the premises are good when the apostolic faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ... "You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the faith which has come down to you from apostolic tradition, and if an execrable jealously has tried to shake it in a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. "No one, ever, will prevail against your faith, beloved brothers, and we believe that God will give us our Churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church but in reality they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. "Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. (Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum. Caillu and Guillou, Vol. 32, pp 411-412)."

A true upholder of tradition

St Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, suffered many persecutions and injustices because he refused to tolerate Arianism, the reigning heresy of the 4th Century which denied the divinity of Christ. He died in 373 A.D., and his feast day is kept on the 2nd of May, the anniversary of his death.

St Athanasius was one of the very few bishops in the world who, during the Arian heresy, openly defended the Catholic teaching. He suffered slander, exile and even unjustified excommunication for his almost lone stand in defence of the Faith.

It was a time when the Faith was more upheld by the laity who remained true to their baptism than by the vast majority of the episcopate who failed to remain faithful to their divine commission. Only when we realise this stupendous fact can the full extent of the heroism of St. Athanasius be appreciated (together with a few other heroic bishops such as St. Hilary, who supported him faithfully).

Cardinal Newman cites numerous Patristic testimonies to the abysmal state of the Church at that time. In Appendix V to the third edition of his "Arians of the Fourth Century", we read:

A. D. 360. St. Gregory Nazianzen says, about this date: "Surely the pastors have done foolishly; for, excepting a very few, who either on account of their insignificance were passed over, or who by reason of their virtue resisted, and who were to be left as a seed and root for the springing up again and revival of Israel [Israel - only the faithful are meant, nothing at all to do with Jews or land covenants] by the influence of the Spirit, all temporised, only differing from each other in this, that some succumbed earlier, and others later; some were foremost champions and leaders in the impiety, and others joined the second rank of the battle, being overcome by fear, or by interest, or by flattery, or, what was the most excusable, by their own ignorance." (Orat. xxi. 24).

St. Basil says, about the year 372: "Religious people keep silence, but every blaspheming tongue is let loose. Sacred things are profaned; those of the laity who are sound in faith avoid the places of worship as schools of impiety, and raise their hands in solitude, with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven." Ep. 92. Four years after he writes: "Matters have come to this pass: the people have left their houses of prayer, and assemble in deserts, - a pitiable sight; women and children, old men, and men otherwise infirm, wretchedly faring in the open air, amid most profuse rains and snow-storms and winds and frosts of winter; and again in summer under a scorching sun. To this they submit, because they will have no part in the wicked Arian leaven." Ep. 242. Again: "Only one offence is now vigorously punished, - an accurate observance of our fathers' traditions. For this cause the pious are driven from their countries, and transported into deserts." Ep. 243.

WE CAN SEE A PARALLEL IN WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CHURCH OF TODAY:

What happened over 1600 years ago is repeating itself today, but with two or three differences: Alexandria is the whole Universal Church, the stability of which is being shaken, and what was undertaken at that time by means of physical force and cruelty is now being transferred to a different level. Exile is replaced by banishment into the silence of being ignored; killing, by assassination of character.

(Mgr. Rudolf Graber, Bishop of Regensburg, Athanasius and the Church of Our Times, p. 23)

From: Archbishop Lefebvre

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Any who are truly baptized in Christ will have the witness of the Holy Spirit telling them to have utterly and absolutely nothing to do with Vatican II apostasy. I wonder how many baptized by Novus Ordonarians are truly baptized or did they just have water poured on them? The Holy Spirit is the Consoler. He won't tolerate what He always forbade.

BY WATER AND BLOOD ARE WE DELIVERED
1Jn:5:6¶ This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth. (DRV)

IN THE FOLLOWING ST. IRENAEUS TEACHES US THAT WE ARE BAPTISED IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THEREBY WE ARE REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST IN OUR BAPTISM IN THE WATER AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; AND THAT THE REAL PRESENCE OF OUR LORD IS IN THE EUCHARIST. ST. IRENAEUS EMPHATICALLY REJECTS THE GNOSTIC IDEA THAT THE GODS OF EGYPT (HORUS SON OF ISIS) OR ANY OF THE PAGAN GODS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SALVATION BUT ARE ABSOLUTELY REJECTED AND FORBIDDEN BY GOD TO CHRISTIANS HEREIN AND THROUGHOUT ALL OF HIS WORK “AGAINST HERESIES”.

ST. IRENAEUS: AGAINST HERESIES, BOOK III - CHAP. XVII.--THE APOSTLES TEACH THAT IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO DID DESCEND UPON JESUS AT HIS BAPTISM IN THE JORDAN ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF THE APOSTLES:

1. ... that the Spirit of God as a dove descended upon Him; this Spirit, of whom it was declared by Isaiah, "And the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him,"(7) …. And again: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me."(8) That is the Spirit of whom the Lord declares, "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."(9) And again, giving to the disciples the power of regeneration into God,(10) He said to them," Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."(11) For [God] promised, that in the last times He would pour Him [the Spirit] upon [His] servants and handmaids, that they might prophesy; wherefore He did also descend upon the Son of God, made the Son of man, becoming accustomed in fellowship with Him to dwell in the human race, to rest with human beings, and to dwell in the workmanship of God, working the will of the Father in them, and renewing them from their old habits into the newness of Christ.

2. This Spirit did David ask for the human race, saying, "And stablish me with Thine all-governing Spirit;"(12) who also, as Luke says, descended at the day of Pentecost upon the disciples after the Lord's ascension, having power to admit all nations to the entrance of life, and to the opening of the new covenant; from whence also, with one accord in all languages, they uttered praise to God, the Spirit bringing distant tribes to unity , and offering to the Father the first-fruits of all nations. Wherefore also the Lord promised to send the Comforter,(13) who should join us to God. For as a compacted lump of dough cannot be formed of dry wheat without fluid matter, nor can a loaf possess unity, so, in like manner, neither could we, being many, be made one in Christ Jesus without the water from heaven. And as dry earth does not bring forth unless it receive moisture, in like manner we also, being originally a dry tree, could never have brought forth fruit unto life without the voluntary rain from above. For our bodies have received unity among themselves by means of that laverwhich leads to incorruption; but our souls, by means of the Spirit. Wherefore both are necessary, since both contribute towards the life of God, our Lord compassionating that erring Samaritan woman(1)--who did not remain with one husband, but committed fornication by [contracting] many marriages--by pointing out, and promising to her living water, so that she should thirst no more, nor occupy herself in acquiring the refreshing water obtained by labour, having in herself water springing up to eternal life. The Lord, receiving this as a gift from His Father, does Himself also confer it upon those who are partakers of Himself, sending the Holy Spirit upon all the earth.

BOOK III - CHAP. XVIII.--CONTINUATION OF THE FOREGOING. PROOFS FROM THE WRITINGS OF ST. PAUL

Then he continues, "If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved."(3) And he renders the reason why the Son of God did these things, saying, "For to this end Christ both lived, and died, and rose again that He might rule over theliving and the dead."(4) And again, writing to the Corinthians, he declares, "But we preach Christ Jesus crucified;"(5) and adds, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?"(6)

3. But who is it that has had fellowship with us in the matter of food? Whether is it he who is conceived of by them (the Gnostics) as the Christ above, who extended himself through Horus, and imparted a form to their mother (Isis); or is it He who is from the Virgin (Mary), Emmanuel, who did eat butter and honey,(7) of whom the prophet declared, "He is also a man, and who shall know him?"(8) He was likewise preached by Paul: "For I delivered," he says, "unto you first of all, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures."(9) It is plain, then, that Paul knew no other Christ besides Him alone, who both suffered, and was buried, and rose gain, who was also born, and whom he speaks of as man. For after remarking, "But if Christ be preached, that He rose from the dead,"(10) he continues, rendering the reason of His incarnation, "For since by man came death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead." And everywhere, when [referring to] the passion of our Lord, and to His human nature, and His subjection to death, he employs the name of Christ, as in that passage: "Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died."(11) And again: "But now, in Christ, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."(12) And again: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree."(13) And again: "And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died;"(14) indicating that the impassible Christ did not descend upon Jesus, but that He Himself, because He was Jesus Christ, suffered for us; He, who lay in the tomb, and rose again, who descended and ascended,--the Son of God having been made the Son of man, as the very name itself doth declare. For in the name of Christ is implied, He that anoints, He that is anointed, and the unction itself with which He is anointed. And it is the Father who anoints, but the Son who is anointed by the Spirit, who is the unction, as the Word declares by Isaiah, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me,"(15)--pointing out both the anointing Father, the anointed Son, and the unction, which is the Spirit.

Pope St. Damasus I
Born about 304; died 11 December, 384. His father, Antonius, was probably a Spaniards ; the name of his mother, Laurentia, was not known until quite recently. Damasus seems to have been born at Rome ; it is certain that he grew up there in the service of the church of the martyr St. Laurence. He was elected pope in October, 366, by a large majority, but a number of over-zealous adherents of the deceased Liberius rejected him, chose the deacon Ursinus (or Ursicinus), had the latter irregularly consecrated, and resorted to much violence and bloodshed in order to seat him in the Chair of Peter. Many details of this scandalous conflict are related in the highly prejudiced "Libellus Precum" (P.L., XIII, 83-107), a petition to the civil authority on the part of Faustinus and Marcellinus, two anti-Damasan presbyters (cf. also Ammianus Marcellinus, Rer. Gest., XXVII, c. iii). Valentinian recognized Damasus and banished (367) Ursinus to Cologne, whence he was later allowed to return to Milan, but was forbidden to come to Rome or its vicinity. The party of the antipope (later at Milan an adherent of the Arians and to the end a contentious pretender) did not cease to persecute Damasus. An accusation of adultery was laid against him (378) in the imperial court, but he was exonerated by Emperor Gratian himself ( Mansi, Coll. Conc., III, 628) and soon after by a Roman synod of forty-four bishops (Liber Pontificalis, ed. Duchesne, s.v.; Mansi, op. cit., III, 419) which also excommunicated his accusers.
Damasus defended with vigour the Catholic Faith in a time of dire and varied perils.
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From :
http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3634
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Concerning the Great Apostasy led by the Jews and Vatican II, we are warned:

The Fall of Babylon
Rv:18:
1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2

2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!

3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!; Rev.: 18:9, 15

Her Sins and Punishment
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!; Eph.: 5:7!; 1 Tim.: 5:22

5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9

6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6

7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. … Scripture reference – Isaiah: 47:8

8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.
Dirge of the Kings

9 ¶ [1] And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18

10 Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17

Dirge of the Merchants
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27;32!

12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:

13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts [2] and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls of men.

14 And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee: and all fat and goodly things are perished from thee. And they shall find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10

16 And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4

17 For in one hour are so great riches come to nought.
Dirge of the Mariners
And every shipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many as work in the sea, stood afar off, … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:10

18 And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: What city is like to this great city? … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:9

19 And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!, 32, 33!

20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12

The Angel’s Promise
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64

22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman [3] of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: … Scripture reference – Ezek.:26:13!; Jer.: 25:10!

23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6! (DRV)

[1] -Ver. 9-19. This passage is not an account of a vision but rather a direct prophecy, after. the manner of the prophecies of Isaias and Ezechiel concerning Tyre. Tyre furnishes a type of the vengeance of God upon satanic pride and luxury. [2] -Ver.13. Beasts [of burden]: the Greek has “cattle.” [3] –Ver. 22 The city had boasted previously of her craftsmen, skilled in every craft.

From:
http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/the-testimony-of-the-lord-jesus-christ/

Too many people anymore, on purpose, confuse whether or not a church or a teaching or a profession of faith is Catholic or Orthodox, with whether or not it is a pedigreed OFFICIAL church. Jesus Christ doesn't care how many OFFICIAL degrees you claim, if you lie against Him, you are none of His. It does not matter how many Popes, Patriarchs etc. ad nauseam you have with you (or you are with them) on your broad way to hell. Since the mania of Vatican II Ecumenism the biggest single coverup of apostasy is the claim to OFFICIAL church approval.

St. Athanasius contra-mundum was beset by practically the whole OFFICIAL church. They were Arian heretics. St. Athanasius was right and the OFFICIAL church was wrong. As C.S. Lewis said "The glory of St. Athanasius is that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, like all others, have passed away."

We are warned of the "operation of error", literally the "energian planes" or energy of delusion. Diabolic delusion is meant. That is made abundantly clear in the Church Fathers. In the ancient pagan world that was always part of idolatry and polytheism.

2Thes:2:
9 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders:
10 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.11 Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
12 That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.

During the time of Photius and the dating of all subsequent Orthodox Church theology, at about the same time as Photius, from the 'victory' of the "theology of the icon", the actual theology of that so-called church has disintegrated into complete paganism. Photius' teaching on Christ is simply an old heresy trying to divide Christ into two persons. The teaching on the hypostasis of the icon is nothing other than sophist idolatry. The teaching on created energy divinising men is nothing other than polytheism. The idea, present in the Orthodox and the Oriental Churches, that the gods and goddesses of Egypt and Greece are types of the true God and His revelation of Himself is a lie from Satan and complete apostasy from the true God. It was the Orthodox Church that originally proposed Ecumenism in the last few centuries, despite a few in their ranks claiming it was the Protestants. The Orthodox Church has been the leader of Ecumenism including Demetrios I and his nonsense, on the island of Patmos of all places, provoking the Antipope and Chief Roman Rabbinic Sophist John Paul II to the kind of nonsense that later with Bartholomew I, John Paul II perpetrated at Assisi. It is the Ecumenical Orthodox Church that claims the ecological Patriarch Bartholomew I (Gaia mother goddess of earth is the patroness of the ecologists). It was the Antipope John Paul II and the Heresiarch Bartholomew I that assembled in Assisi with about forty other Patriarchs and Metropolitans etc. of the Eastern 'Church' on January 24, 2002 for the totally apostate synchretist prayer meeting with leaders of every imaginable form of paganism including voodoo witchdoctors. It was Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who dared to call the apostasy of the Assisi offence against God, "blessed are the peacemakers". It is the Ecumenical Orthodox 'Church' that is is the self willed source of the energy of diabolic delusion that is marking men with the image of the beast.

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From: Si Si No No

July 1997 No. 22

During his recent pastoral visit to France, John Paul II said; We have no other intention than to serve mankind in a spirit of universal brotherhood. This statement, which repeats a concept expressed so often by the present pope, perfectly summarizes the spirit that has animated the Catholic Church since Vatican Council II: to serve mankind.

But shouldn’t the Catholic Church founded by our Lord, serve God first? And to serve God does not mean to serve mankind. Is man to be served instead of God? By never speaking of the service that it must render to God, but only of what it wants to render to man, the Conciliar Church has put man in the place of God, rendering to him divine honor.

The only service the Church can render to man is to convert him to the true Faith – or rather to Christ for the salvation of his soul. But of this service, however, it is no longer spoken. The clergy have allowed themselves to be seduced by a completely erroneous idea of man, since they no longer concern themselves about his conversation and the salvation of his soul. In fact, they no longer know how to recognize sinners; from considering their simple differences, they come to accept them in their “diversity”. Dialogue with the erring, in order to lead them to repentance and conversion, has become dialogue with error. It is simply prohibited to speak of Original Sin and its consequences.

This concept of a lay universal brotherhood which is but a myth derived from the French Revolution and a rancid substitute for Christian charity is the wide and broad way in which the present hierarchy is so concerned to follow, anxious as they are to earn the world’s applause. But they should not preoccupy themselves with the world, but rather with the Words of Christ, Who has commanded them to convert the world:

Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you…(Mt. 28:19-20).

The Church of today doesn’t want to remember this teaching any longer, which expresses its very reason for being. If it were remembered, the worship of man would no longer be practiced. The Church would no longer bow before mankind, whom it has the duty to convert, in order to draw him from sin to eternal life.

Picture of the inter-religious World Day of Prayer at Assisi, 1986 with Antipope John Paul II, Orthodox Church Patriarch and idolatrous pagans.

But these clergy do not repent, do not mend their ways, do not change. God is punishing them for this, permitting a secular humanism to run rampant inside the Church. It is this secular humanism which corrupts vocations and the Faith, and which demands, with growing arrogance, the final dissolution of the Holy Catholic Church through the marriage of priests, the institution of woman priests, and the annihilation of what still remains under the authority of the Supreme Pontiff.

This cult of man and of woman, professed with enthusiasm by the priest hierarchy, is the worship of idols, of Isis and of Osiris.1 And what happened to those who forgot the one and true God to Whom they owed everything in order to worship idols?

Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon (Acts, 7:42-23).

But in this hierarchy’s Church, in this desert of Faith, does anyone remember this any longer?

Aegidius

(From SISINONO, Nov., 1996)

1 Osiris, an Egyptian god, ruler of the underworld, and his nature-goddess wife, Isis. Their cult gradually extended from Egypt throughout the Roman Empire to become one of the chief religions. The worship of Osiris and Isis resisted the rise of Christianity and lasted until the sixth century AD.

Neoplatonism and magic - Anti-Gospel

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Neoplatonism and magic - Anti-Gospel

Unfortunately, throughout the history of the Church, especially in the East, the ancient world’s fascination with magic and sophist philosophy was a severe temptation to churchmen. Many succumbed to it. The author quoted below (Dr. Robert O'Neill) is not a Christian. He is, however, a precise and accurate writer on the details and overall perspective of magic and ancient pagan philosophies and metaphysics. OK, what does that have to do with anything? Just this, in the below he very clearly shows the relationship of magical practices and Neoplatonic based Christian mysticism (refered to many times in theological writings under the rubric of mystagogy) and Christian visionaries and certain theologies and certain private prophecies. This relationship is not good. This relationship is not Christian. This relationship is not Catholic. Unfortunately, it is very “Eastern Orthodox Church”, it is very ecumenical, it is very much a prime base for the prophets and prophetesses who try to change Canonical Prophecy - especially the Book of the Revelation, it is very much the base for those who introduce all sorts of pagan demonic beliefs, influences and Diabolic presences and practices into the Church, it is the base for the OTO which is one of the absolutely worst forms of Freemasonry. The Early Church Fathers utterly condemned this Satanic garbage in the strictest of terms. It is the base for the magical practices that are the demonic changes in prophetic Scripture by self appointed seers who dare to try to alter the prophecies of the Book of the Revelation and the connected prophecies in the rest of the Bible. Those prophecies have already been exegeted properly and truly by the Church Fathers and it is blasphemous and Satanic to try to change that. In Scripture, the Book of the Revelation warns:

Rv:22:18:
18 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. (DRV)

And

Rv:22:19:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book. (DRV)

The Bible forbids categorically and completely anything to do with magic and pagan beliefs. As noted above those are the basis for introducing changes in Canonical Prophecy and Christian belief and practice. Begin with Exodus:

Ex:20:
1 ¶ And the Lord spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God

Then Deuteronomy:

Dt:18:
9 ¶ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.
10 Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,
11 Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
12 For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.

The Prophets all echo this.

Then see the New Testament:

Mt:24:24:
24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. (DRV)

Acts:8:9:
9 There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon who before had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one: (DRV)
Acts:8:11:
11 And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had bewitched them with his magical practices. (DRV)

Acts:13:8:
8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. (DRV)

Acts:13:6:
6 And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesu: (DRV)

Rv:2:20:
20 But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols. (DRV)

Rv:9:21:
21 Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts. (DRV)

Rv:21:8:
8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (DRV)

Rv:22:15:
15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. (DRV)

Paganism, magic, sorcery and false prophecy have always been linked together and have as their father, the father of lies - Satan, and ALWAYS are against God and offend and blaspheme Him. God will eternally destroy those who do such things.

From:

http://www.tarot.com/about-tarot/library/boneill/

NEOPLATONISM AND THE TAROT
by Dr. Robert O'Neill

http://www.tarot.com/about-tarot/library/boneill/bio

The Abomination of Assisi

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The Abomination of Assisi

[the pictures above are not from the same source as the Photo Gallery below but are of the same event]

OFFICE OF PAPAL LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS

PHOTO GALLERY
DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD ASSISI, 24 January 2002
foto: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/index_photo_assisi_en.html

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Rv:18:
1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory.
2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:
3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.
7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.
8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.
…
23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.
(DRV)

1Thes:5:3:
3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. (DRV)

2Cor:6:
14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:
18 And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(DRV)

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From:

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/assisi_letter.aspx

On January 24th [2002], Buddhist chants and Christian hymns resounded inside a huge plastic tent decorated with an olive tree. Representatives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, Confucianism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and followers of Tenrikyo and African tribal religions including (Voodoo) joined their prayers so that, with one voice, they could ask their respective deities to grant peace to the world.

Crosses and other religious objects were removed by Vatican officials so that non-Christian religious leaders would be free to pray in the manner in which they are accustomed. One by one, religious leaders holding small, glass oil lamps lined up at the podium and read each of the 10 points of a communal commitment. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was the first of 11 religious leaders to speak. Chief Amadou Gasseto, who described himself as the high priest of followers of Avelekete Vodoo in Benin, echoed the patriarch's point about personal behavior and its decisive role in creating peace or conflict.

After sharing their "testimonies for peace," Pope John Paul and Patriarch Bartholomew led the Christians from 17 Orthodox churches and 14 Anglican and Protestant communities into the lower basilica for an ecumenical prayer service. There were 3 Orthodox Patriarchs taking part. Not to be outdone by Constantinople, the Russian Patriarch Alexy [ Ed. note: Moscow Patriarch Alexei II - Drozdov by his KGB name] led a delegation from Russia. It is noteworthy that the largest delegation to respond to the Pope's invitation was made up of Orthodox clergy, who apparently no longer believe that our Saviour is the only hope for the "peace of the world."

Maurice Pinay Blog: Rama Coomaraswamy and the Great Game

2008-12-09T14:47:00.000-08:00

Maurice Pinay Blog: Rama Coomaraswamy and the Great Game

Monday, December 8, 2008

Rama Coomaraswamy and the Great Game

Carrie Tomko has written on a topic I've been researching for a while but haven't mentioned so far due to a few research difficulties.

Rama Coomaraswamy, son of alleged Aleister Crowley associate Ananda Coomaraswamy, was at the center of the splintering of the traditional Catholic movement into warring factions at the time when it's leverage was the strongest. He was quite similar to his friend Malachi Martin in the depth of his deception and subversion, his skill as a masquerader, the damage he caused, and how he was able to pull it off with many of the victims of his swindle regarding him as a saint. He was a true "Kim:" Freemason Rudyard Kipling's character in his book by the same name. Please read Carrie Tomko's blog posting and especially the comments section which I've added to here:

http://carrietomko.blogspot.com/2008/12/dangers-of-far-right-some-of-you-may.html

Anyone who can help fill in some of the blanks in this story please email me:

mauricepinay@yahoo.com

I'm particularly interested in Rama's grandfather Muthu Coomaraswamy who was a politician in Columbo Sri Lanka, knighted by Queen Victoria (as were two of Ananda Coomaraswamy's cousins). Also of interest is Jose Ramon Lopez-Gaston who presided over the strange ordination ritual involving Rama Coomaraswamy and Malachi Martin documented here:

http://www.the-pope.com/validity.html

Also of interest is Rama Coomaraswamy's 38 yr. affiliation with Yeshiva University where he was an assistant professor of cardiology and psychology. This is not too remarkable given that his mother was of Judaic descent (Luisa Runstein) which would qualify him in the eyes of the yidden as a "Jew" (Malachi Martin also claimed Judaic descent):

Rama P. Coomaraswamy, born in 1929, received his early education in an orthodox Hindu school in India. He then lived in England (where he obtained his Oxford Matriculation) and in the USA (where he graduated in geology from Harvard University). Then he studied medicine, graduating in 1959, and spent eight years in medical training, and then thirty years as a heart surgeon and assistant professor at the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Because of his own heart ailment, he retired from surgery but retained his position as assistant professor in psychiatry in the same college.

http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102008/394.pdf

In the audio interview with fellow Sophia Perennis traveller, William Kennedy, linked to below, Rama Coomaraswamy speaks of his association with Malachi Martin. He also randomly offers a tale about Aleister Crowley calling for a Catholic priest on his deathbed(!?!) There are many tales circulating regarding strange phenomenon related to Crowley's death; that he cursed his doctor for withholding heroin and caused his death, etc., but this is the wildest I've heard--Aleister Crowley died repentant in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church! (and was subsequently cremated). Rama Coomaraswamy has said it! Rama also describes the change of the words of consecration in the new Mass with the curious phrase, "chutzpah." He has described the change in the same way in other interviews:

http://www.lulu.com/content/180832

Like Malachi Martin, Rama Coomaraswamy was a prankster who preyed on the credulous.

Seven Kingdoms and then the Eighth One, Prior to Christ's Return

2008-07-03T20:00:00.000-07:00

SEVEN MOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

1] BUYUK AGRI DAGI (ARARAT WHERE THE ARK IS TODAY) 16946 FEET EL.
2] HAMA DAGI 10640 FEET ELEV.
3] TENDUREK DAGI 11621 FEET ELEV.
4] ALA DAG 10994 FEET ELEV.
5] MENGENE DAGI 11811 FEET ELEV.
6] MOR DAG 12500 FEET ELEV.
7] CILO DAG 13675 FEET ELEV.

PARADISE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM MAN BY GOD WHEN ADAM FELL AND WILL BE RETURNED TO EARTH AFTER CHRIST RETURNS AND JUDGES ALL MEN. SINCE THE TIME OF PARADISE BEING TAKEN AWAY BY GOD AND THE CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHS HIDDEN BY THE FLOOD THAT GOD SENT DURING THE LIFETIME OF NOAH, SIX NATURALISTIC EMPIRES HAVE BEEN MADE IN IMITATION OF PARADISE AND A SEVENTH, ISRAEL WITH JERUSALEM, SUBVERTED BY THE APOSTASY OF THE JEWS.

THE EIGHTH IS PLANNED, BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER, TO BE BUILT AROUND A FALSE ZIONIST "ISRAEL." Without the apostasy of people in general it can never happen.

GOD is the Truth.

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING HAD A DIVINE GOD KING TO RULE THEM. SIX OF THE FOLLOWING HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS WHICH WERE SELECTED AS THE MAIN CENTERS OF THE NATURALISTIC RELIGION OF THAT AREA; ONE, JERUSALEM, HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS DEDICATED TO THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, BUT THEY CRUCIFIED THE MESSIAH WHEN HE CAME IN THE FLESH (JESUS CHRIST). ONLY ONE, JERUSALEM, SAW THE FIRST ADVENT OF THE ONLY TRUE DIVINE GOD KING, THE BLESSED AND ONLY SOVEREIGN KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS JESUS CHRIST (THEY CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE HE ALLOWED IT FOR OUR SALVATION). ALL WILL SEE HIS SECOND ADVENT FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS IN FLAMING FIRE TAKING VENGEANCE ON THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND WHO DO NOT OBEY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

SEVEN 7 MOUNTAIN KINGDOMS AFTER PARADISE

KINGDOM MOUNTAINS

1ST - BABEL (MESOPOTAMIA) 1] TELL EL OBEID (TOWER OF BABEL), 2] TELL UQUAIR, 3] TELL AGRAB, 4] TELL ASMAR, 5] TELL
MATARRAH, 6] QAL’AH SHERGAT (ASHUR),
7] CALAH (NIMRUD) NEAR NINEVEH

2ND - EGYPT PYRAMIDS – 1] ZAWAIYET EL ARYAN,
2] SEKHEMKHET (AT SAKKARA – KING IMHOTEP - EARLIEST), 3] MEDUM (NEAR GHIZA), 4] BENT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, 5] STRAIGHT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, 6] GREAT PYRAMID AT GHIZA (KHUFU’S), 7] SECOND PYRAMID AT GHIZA – KHAFRE’S, CHEPHREN)

3RD - CRETE (RE: GREECE) 1] PETSOFAS, 2] KOUFINAS, 3] IOUKTAS,
4] PHILIORIMOS, 5] VRYSINAS, 6] IDA, 7] DICTE

4TH - PERSIA (RE: INDIA) THE ELBURZ (ALBURZ) MOUNTAINS; RESHTEH-YE ALBORZ, ELEVATIONS (IN FEET) – 1] 12201,
2] 12657, 3] 15817 TAKHT-E SOLEYMAN, 4] 13339,
5] 18934 MT. DEMAVAND (QOLLEH-YE DAMAVAND), 6] 12828, 7] 8332

5TH - JERUSALEM 1] THE CITADEL, 2] ACRA, 3] TEMPLE MOUNT
4] MOUNT OF OLIVES, 5] MT. SCOPUS, 6] MT. ZION
7] GOLGOTHA (HEROD WAS STRUCK DOWN FOR CLAIMING THE HONOR OF BEING A GOD KING SEE THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES)

6TH - ROME 1] JANICULUM (THE VATICAN IS ON THE LOWER SLOPE), 2] AVENTINE, 3] PALATINE (WITH THE CAPITOLINE HILL AND THE TIBURTINE ORACLE; THE TIBURTINE, THE CUMAEAN AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE WERE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT SIBYLS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE),
4] CAELIAN, 5] ESQUILINE, 6] VIMINAL,
7] QUIRINAL

7TH - CHINA 1] TAI SHAN (THE OLDEST PLACE OF WORSHIP IN CHINA CLOSELY CONNECTED TO THE EMPEROR AS THE “SON OF HEAVEN”), 2] TIEN T’AI SHAN (THE MOST IMPORTANT IN BUDDHIST HISTORY IN CHINA), 3] P’U–T’O SHAN, 4] CHIU-HU SHAN,
5] WU-T’AI SHAN, 6] O-MEI SHAN, 7] SANWEI SHAN NEAR TUN-HUANG (DUNHUANG) SHAN MEANS MOUNTAIN IN CHINESE.

THE EIGHTH - WILL BE A WORLD WIDE RECAPITULATION OF NATURALISTIC RELIGION OFFERED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WORSHIPPING THE TRUE GOD. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT WILL BE BUILT. IT HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED BEFORE, AND IT IS NOW BEING ATTEMPTED AGAIN. ONLY GOD KNOWS WHEN SUCH A PLAN WILL SUCCEED FOR A SHORT TIME. WE ARE ALWAYS TO RESIST SUCH A THING TO THE UTTERMOST. IT IS OUR DUTY TO GOD.

Satan prevaricated and fell three times. 1) From heaven when he lied before God and gloried in himself and left his place and the service due to God and which would have been also by aiding man, but rebelled against God and then became the tempter instead (God knew this and therefore did He warn Adam). 2) In the garden of Eden when he lied to Adam and Eve. 3) When he tempted Jesus Christ in the desert and claimed that the world belonged to him and was his to give. The world and all of creation belongs to God alone, for He is the One who created all that has been created.

Gospel of John, 1st Chapter.
1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.
4 In him was life: and the life was the light of men.
5 ¶ And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.
9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.
10 He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own: and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.
13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only engendered of the Father), full of grace and truth.
15 ¶ John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.
16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only engendered one, the Son, who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Notice Verse 9, all people are conceived and born in the light and of the light and pure before God and with the knowledge of God.

Verse 9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

Genocide and the Beast will be destroyed by Christ

2008-07-03T19:20:00.000-07:00

The Catholic Creed: The Creed of the Whole and Undivided Church as Given by the Apostles stands unalterably OPPOSED to: The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism.

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism

Genocide and the Beast will be destroyed by Christ at His Second Advent from Heaven in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God and who do not obey the Lord Jesus Christ.

Starting at the beginning and through to the present.

Seven Covenants of the Holy and Only True God

1 ADAM’S COVENANT

2 NOAH’S COVENANT

3 ABRAHAM’S COVENANT

4 MOSES’ COVENANT

5 DAVID’S COVENANT

6 DANIEL’S COVENANT

7 CHRIST JESUS IMMORTAL SON MOST HOLY ANGEL OF ALMIGHTY COUNSEL CAPTAIN OF THE HOSTS OF THE LORD THE GIVER OF ALL COVENANTS WITH GOD SHOWN FORTH BY HIS PROMISE OF THE KEYS OF HIMSELF THE MESSIAH TO PETER AND TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM - CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR THE FINAL COVENANT

Seven False Prophets

1 The Devil in the Garden of Eden. Opposing Adam’s Covenant.
2 Nimrod at the Tower of Babel. Opposing Noah’s Covenant.
3 Pharaoh and his magicians and sorcerers. Opposing Abraham’s and Moses’s Covenants. Gn:50:24(50-23) After which he (Joseph) told his brethren: God will visit you after my death [by Moses], and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (DRV)
4 Saul conversing with the Witch of Endor. Opposing David’s Covenant.
5 At Babylon (origin of Babylonian Talmudic Pharisaism) in the time of Daniel. Opposing Daniel’s Covenant.
6 Judas Iscariot, the son of Perdition; hireling of the Chief Priests and Pharisees
{Jn:18: 1 ¶ When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples.
2 And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples.
3 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. (DRV)}.
Opposing The Ultimate Covenant Who is the giver of the former covenants – Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
7 The armour bearer of the Antichrist which is the False Prophet of the Antichrist, the final son of Perdition.

The Seventh False Prophet sums up the deceit of the first six and the total recapitulation of all the deceit of the Devil and is the False Prophet of the Great Apostasy and the Great Tribulation.

This one and his master the Antichrist will be witnessed against by St. Enoch and St. Elijah. St. Enoch is of Adam’s Covenant and was translated by God to be, and is witness to the nations of all ages on earth at the end of the Age of Grace. St. Elijah who was translated by God and appeared with St. Moses at the Transfiguration of Christ is of Moses’ Covenant to which the corresponding age was Abraham’s and is now future – The Great Tribulation.

The Seventh False Prophet and the Beast and the Devil will all be cast into the lake of fire by the Lord Jesus Christ at His Return.

Seven Kingdoms

The Devil has sought from the beginning to impress men with the Devil’s own mark of diabolic rebellion against God. One of the prime methods the Devil uses is idolatry. The Tower of Babel is the prime example of this. Satan’s aim is summed up in the Devil’s final subversion of men wherein those men who choose to will take the The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast in concert with the final idolatrous version of Babel. The final idolatrous version of Babel is the universal revival of idolatrous paganism throughout the earth culminating in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem with the Antichrist sitting inside proclaiming himself god and demanding worship of himself from men. The means to all of this is the ultimate heresy which is Ecumenism. Ecumenism is the Great Apostasy.

Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist 95 A.D.

Rv:17:
1 ¶ And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: (DRV)

Rv:17:10 Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he is come, he must remain a short time.
11 And the beast which was and is not - JERUSALEM: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.

1 BABEL Opposing Noah’s Covenant.
2 EGYPT Opposing Abraham’s Covenant.
3 CRETE Opposing Moses’s Covenant.
4 PERSIA Opposing David’s Covenant.
5 JERUSALEM of the Babylonian Talmudic Pharisees from Daniel’s time to and including the First Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ Opposing Daniel’s Covenant and Christ.
6 ROME Opposing Christ’s Covenant.
7 CHINA, part of Eurasian Communism Opposing all Covenants.
8 JERUSALEM OF THE ANTICHRIST’S WORLDWIDE KINGDOM Opposing Adam’s Covenant and all Covenants especially Christ Himself.

Seven Ages

1 Creation – Flood – Adam’s Covenant
2 Flood – Abraham – Noah’s Covenant
3 Abraham – David – Abraham’s Covenant
4 David - Babylonian Captivity – David’s Covenant
5 Babylonian Captivity - Jesus Christ the Messiah – Daniel’s Covenant
6 Jesus Christ the Messiah – to consummation of the Age of Grace – Christ’s Covenant
7 The Great Tribulation and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ – part of Christ’s Covenant
The Great Tribulation will see the return of the two Prophets St. Enoch and St. Elijah - St. Enoch is of Adam’s Covenant and was translated by God to be, and is witness to the nations of all ages on earth at the end of the Age of Grace. St. Elijah who was translated by God and appeared with St. Moses at the Transfiguration of Christ is of Moses’ Covenant to which the corresponding age was Abraham’s and is now future – The Great Tribulation.

Mt:17:11:
11 But he answering, said to them: Elijah indeed shall come, and restore all things.

Rv:11:4:
4 These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks [the two Prophets, St. Enoch and St. Elijah] that stand before the Lord of the earth. (DRV)
The eighth age is the eternal reign visibly of Christ with all His saints and elect angels in this recreated universe. Had Moses’ Covenant not been abrogated by Israel’s apostasy, there would be no necessity of the seventh age (the Great Tribulation) and the covenants and ages would be the same:

i.e.
Age
1 Creation –Adam’s Covenant
2 Flood –Noah’s Covenant
3 Abraham –Abraham’s Covenant
4 Moses – Moses’ Covenant
5 David - Babylonian Captivity – David’s Covenant
6 Babylonian Captivity - Jesus Christ the Messiah – Daniel’s Covenant
7 Jesus Christ the Messiah – to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and His eternal reign in His recreated universe.

SEVEN COVENANTS OF GOD

2008-07-03T19:19:00.000-07:00

SEVEN COVENANTS OF GOD

GOD is the Truth

GOD is the Truth. The Most Holy Trinity is God and none other is God. The Most Holy Trinity is Three Persons Who are One God. These Three Persons are The Father and the Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. This God alone has Aseity, that He is immortal without beginning and without end, self sustained in existence, which is infinite. This God is above all that He has created and transcendent in all that He has created. There is nothing apart from nor outside of God that He has not created. He created all that has been created ex nihilo, that is from nothing by His infinite power. Nothing that is created has aseity. Time is only an aspect of that which has been created by God. Time is therefore part of God's creation. God is not limited by His creation, this includes that God is not limited by time. God is Omnipotent and Omniscient and Ubiquitos: Almighty and All seeing and knowing and equally present everywhere. There is no way to God but through the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom alone there is salvation by His Most Holy Cross and Resurrection.

Just as there are 7 days of creation, so are there 7 days of covenant of salvation with God in Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour Holy God in His true Gospel alone, the Only Author of Covenant of Salvation; there are 6 days (ages) of covenant of salvation and then the 7th, the last which is the first encompassing all of them for it is Jesus Christ come in the flesh as He promised Adam in the garden ( the first 6 are Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Daniel. The 7th is the Incarnation and Kenosis-Sacrifice and Transfiguration and Cross (the ultimate Kenosis) and Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Jesus and the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the Parousia of Christ Jesus in the future (the Parousia is the 7th day which heralds in the eighth day of the eternal reign of Jesus Christ visibly in His recreated universe). The seven are:

ADAM’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A LION PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF JOHN SHOWING FORTH THE ROYAL POWER AND AUTHORITY OF CHRIST THE IMMORTAL SON WORD WISDOM AND POWER OF GOD THROUGH WHOM GOD THE FATHER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT CREATED ALL OF CREATION WHO BECAME INCARNATE FOR OUR REDEMPTION IN THE FLESH AS ADAM HAD SINNED IN THE FLESH

NOAH’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A CALF PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF LUKE SHOWING FORTH THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST WHO IS OUR HOLY ONLY PRIEST VICTIM SACRIFICE ALTAR TEMPLE TABERNACLE REDEEMER SALVATION IMMORTAL IMMACULATE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT SHOWING HIMSELF FORTH AS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN REDEEMER IN HIS EPIPHANY OF FIREY GLORY AT HIS BAPTISM IN THE JORDAN

ABRAHAM’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY AN EPIPHANY OF THE LORD AND TWO ANGELS PREFIGURING THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST WITH: MOSES, A TYPE OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED AT THE FUTURE RESURRECTION, AND ELIJAH, A TYPE OF THE FAITHFUL LIVING AT THE FUTURE RESURRECTION, CHRIST CONDEMNING FOR ALL TIME THE DARKNESS OF IDOLATRY WHICH HAS NO COMMUNION WITH LIGHT - THE GRACE OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST

MOSES’ COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A MAN PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW SHOWING FORTH THE GOD - MAN PROPHET, THE CHRIST, WHO MOSES AND DAVID AND ISAIAH AND HABBAKUK AND EZRA FORETOLD ISRAEL WOULD EITHER HEED OR BE DESTROYED BY REJECTING, HE WHO IS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR BY HIS MOST HOLY CROSS BY WHICH HE TREAD DOWN SATAN AND CAST HIM OUT OF CREATION

DAVID’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, ESPECIALLY OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

DANIEL’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY HIS VISION OF THE ANCIENT OF DAYS PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ESPECIALLY HIS ASCENSION

Christ Jesus Immortal Son most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel, Captain of the hosts of the Lord, the giver of all covenants with God shown forth by his promise of the keys of Himself the Messiah to Peter and to all who believe in Him - Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour, the final covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of an eagle and through him to the Father does all glory redound in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit, he given at Pentecost, especially proclaimed by the Gospel of Mark of the preaching of the salvation of Christ Jesus throughout the world, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour who descended from the third heaven from the Father's right hand and became flesh by the Holy Spirit, the immaculate conception and was truly born of the blessed virgin Mary on earth, 70 generations from Adam and your creation of all of creation, thus subsuming flesh of Adam and of all men to yourself to restore your Image and Likeness to all the saints from the first Adam to the last saint, by you Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only Immaculate Lamb of God who alone takes away the sin of the whole world of those who are saved, by your most Holy Cross and Holy Blood, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour and Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, covering the whole earth and cleansing the whole universe, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only first born from the dead in the flesh, the only one resurrected, ascended, assumed bodily in the flesh, seated at the right hand of God, Baruch Adonai Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete

Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator

and Who, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, shall return from the Father’s right hand in the same flesh with all the elect angels and raise, first, the saints in the flesh, our same spirits souls and bodies reunited and then all other men in the flesh, their same souls and bodies reunited, from throughout the whole world and all of time from the beginning of your creation until that time - known to you alone Holy Immortal undivided trinity, in the future at your Parousia Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, your saints to inherit paradise recreated then with all the elect angels worshipping you face to face in the glory of the Father and the union of the Holy Spirit unto the endless ages of ages - and the rest to be cast into the lake of fire forevermore unto the same endless ages of ages to come.

The covenants of Adam, Abraham, David and Daniel are general pertaining to all of mankind who turn to Christ Jesus for salvation.

Noah’s covenant shows the Kenosis-Sacrifice of Christ to bring man back to God. Only the infinitely pure and powerful Sacrifice of Christ can do this. This is applied only to believers in Jesus Christ, in Whom alone is salvation by faith.

Moses’ covenant is very particular, for by this one alone does God send death upon the Egyptians and send his people to conquer Canaan by the sword. The people of Canaan had in their time there degenerated into such idolatrous and diabolic depraved murderous cruelty that God sent judgment upon them by His people just as God Himself by supernatural means judged the Egyptians for the same utter apostasy from Himself.

Christ is the only Eternal Priest of God, so that it is He Who will send this kind of judgement again upon the Diabolic and Apostate at the end of this age of Grace (this age of Grace is the sixth day: of the Sacrifice of Christ upon His Most Holy Cross and His Resurrection and His Ascension and the Gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost).

Satan prevaricated and fell three times. 1) From heaven when he lied to God and said he would hold to his place and serve God by aiding man (God knew this and therefore did He warn Adam). 2) In the garden of Eden when he lied to man. 3) When he tempted Jesus Christ in the desert and claimed that the world belonged to him and was his to give. The world and all of creation belongs to God the Father Who gave it to His Son Jesus Christ. The Antichrist will sum up in himself the triple prevarication and malice of the Devil, for the Antichrist is the counterfeit by Satan of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Only Supernatural Messiah. The Antichrist will be sent by God for the eternal destruction of all of those who like the ancient Egyptians and Canaanites –and the crowd who said at the Crucifixion of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that they will not have God’s Christ to rule over them; see:

Jn:19:

12 And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

13 Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

14 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

15 But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

16 ¶ Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him forth.

17 And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

Had there been no fall of our first parents in the garden of Eden then:

Age and Covenant

1 Creation –Adam’s Covenant Would have been completed at the end of 1,000 years of Adam’s life and everyone on earth would have entered into immortality with God. The 1,000 years would have been the preparation by God for that. Equal to the New Jerusalem.

2 Flood –Noah’s Covenant Would then have been the fruit of the Tree of Life (Who is Jesus Christ) given all men at the end of age/covenant 1 and would be eternal. Equal to the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Life given to men.

3 Abraham –Abraham’s Covenant Would have been the gifts given men in the heavenly kingdom which St. Paul alluded to in 2Cor:12:1 ¶ If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven.

3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth):

4 That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter. (DRV)

Equal to communion with God face to face in heaven.

4 Moses – Moses’ Covenant Would have been the return to earth and the establishment of heaven on earth by men under the close supervision of God Himself.

5 David - Babylonian Captivity – David’s Covenant Would have been the establishment of the heavenly kingdom throughout the universe.

6 Babylonian Captivity - Jesus Christ the Messiah – Daniel’s Covenant Would have been the fruition of the heavenly kingdom throughout the universe.

7 Jesus Christ the Messiah – to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and His eternal reign in His recreated universe. Would have been the eternal aeons of the heavenly kingdom after the fruition of it that will now take place after whatever time of preparation by God in Christ is necessary for men before entering into. This preparation will take place for the elect after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the General Resurrection and Judgement.

See: 1Cor:15:1 – 58

The Catholic Creed: The Creed of the Whole and Undivided Church as Given by the Apostles stands unalterably OPPOSED to: The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism.

GOD IS THE TRUTH

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GOD IS THE TRUTH

Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth He Creator and Artificer of all our only Teacher

He Spirit Absolute Intelligence Holy Unique

Manifold Subtle Agile

Clear Unstained Certain

Not baneful Loving the Good Keen

Unhampered Beneficient Kindly

Firm Secure Tranquil

All-Powerful All-Seeing and Pervading all spirits though they be intelligent pure and very subtle seven holy elect blessed orders

of mighty doxas holy Serafim Cherubim Kuriotetes Arches especially Saint Michael and Saint Gabriel holy Archangelos

Exousias Dunameis Angelos

Uncreated Wisdom mobile beyond all motion He penetrates and pervades all things by reason of His purity for He is an Aura of the Might of GOD and a pure Effusion of the glory of the Almighty therefore nought that is sullied enters into Him for

He is the Refulgence of Eternal Light the

Spotless Mirror of the Energy of GOD the Image of His Goodness He Who is One can do all things and renews everything while Himself perduing by His Breath passing into holy souls from

age to age He produces friends of GOD and prophets for there is not GOD loves be it not one who dwells with Wisdom for He is Fairer than the sun and surpasses every constellation of the stars compared to light He takes precedence for that indeed night might supplant but wickedness prevails not over Wisdom

Indeed He reaches from end to end mightily and governs all

things well.

Holy Holy Holy Lord God of hosts Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour who will return in glory and in flaming fire taking vengeance upon those who know not God and who obey not Thou Lord Jesus Christ

Heb:5:

1 ¶ For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

5 So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him thatwas able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

10 ¶ Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.

11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

(DRV)

St. Paul explains this same thing with different wording in Philippians.

Phil:2:
5 For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
9 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names:
10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
11 And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
(DRV)

This is crucial to our understanding of Christ's mission to save us. In the above "emptied" is kenosis in the Greek. Christ's kenosis (He Who is the Immortal Son of God and has always existed from before He created anything, His emptying out of Himself for us and to us) consists of "taking the form of a servant" at His incarnation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit, "being made in the likeness of men" extremely important -- His incarnation in the flesh, "in habit found as a man" this part explains phrases like "learned obedience". Jesus never had to learn anything for Himself since He is God and Omniscient - All Knowing. But He willed to be born and grow up and be taught by Joseph and Mary. Think about it, it was the Blessed Virgin who taught Him the Psalms that He was the Mediator for David to receive by inspiration of the Holy Spirit and record for us. In simple terms He taught David the Psalms and willed that Mary would teach Him on earth the same psalms, though, of course He knew them already. So all references to His learning and growing and being perfected are only those things that He willed to go through for two basic reasons for our sakes. Number two first: to show us what our attitude and efforts should be on His behalf as His ambassadors to the rest of mankind. He "learned" but is actually teaching us. Number one in importance: "being made in the likeness of men" extremely important -- His incarnation in the flesh. St. Athanasius Contra Mundum (against the world [opposing heresy]) addresses this when he explains that had Christ the Immortal Son of the Father in the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit simply have erased Adam's sin then the natural debt we all inherited to die from that sin would have meant that all men would die forever and be lost since God doesn't lie and He pronounced that the separation of man from God due to sin would by the natural property of human nature make anything else impossible. In other words if God simply erased the sin He would have erased men as well thereby. Worst yet, St. Athanasius tells us, the devil would thereby have won that round. But what God did, the Son, Who because of His Divine substance/essence - nature cannot die, is to take upon himself the real human nature of all men subsumed from Mary -- and therefore of Adam (see the genealogies in St. Matthew's, Chapter 1, and St. Luke's, Chapter 3, Gospels; in St. Luke's Gospel all the way back to Adam). Since of Adam, then, of all men. Since He had and has that nature in total union with His divine nature, when he suffered and died (it is in this sense that St. Paul says "learned obedience") in our place as the ransom from death then we become sons and daughters by adoption unto real eternal life at the future Return of Christ and the General Resurrection of the flesh, each of us, our bodies reunited with our same soul and same spirit. Therefore death, which insured that God's law would be obeyed, was originally God's way to insure that man would not become a diabolic creature totally in bondage to the devil, incapable of being in union with the Holy God, Himself. Christ took death, merited by all men, upon Himself preserving what God had said to Adam and Eve "upon that day (of disobedience) you will die". Therefore, Christ's death, then becomes the ransom to bring us out of thralldom to the devil and into union with God in Christ. Christ's Resurrection then becomes the guarantor of our resurrection -- which will absolutely happen. This is a brief description of Christ's kenosis. Christ's kenosis is the weightiest subject in the whole Bible. Christ's obedience loosed the debt of Adam's disobedience as Mary's obedience undid the knot of Eve's disobedience (that last is from St. Irenaeus). A note of warning: those who retie the knot of Eve's disobedience and who bind themselves again in the debt of Adam's disobedience by becoming part of pagan religions, who profess atheism or agnosticism, who follow after the Antichrist or who walk not in God's commandments though they pretend to be Christ's, will certainly be resurrected, but to eternal undying destruction in the lake of fire with the devil and all the fallen angels and all of the demons. Only the saints will inherit paradise with the elect angels in this universe recreated by God at the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of this age of grace.

SEVEN FALSE PROPHETS

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SEVEN FALSE PROPHETS

GOD is the Truth

Seven false prophets.

1) The Devil in the Garden of Eden.

Gn:3:

1 ¶ Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.

5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

14 ¶ And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat allthe days of thy life.

15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her Seed [Jesus Christ]: He shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for His [Jesus Christ] heel.

17 ¶ And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to thevoice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thoushouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

21 ¶ And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

22 ¶ And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

24 And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

(DRV)

Vs. 17 VOICE OF THY WIFE signifies the spirit of false prophecy of the Marian (actually Freemason) Apparitions of the base of the final False Prophet.

2) Nimrod at the Tower of Babel.

Gn:10:

8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

9 And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon [Tower of Babel, Tel El Obeid is the modern day ruins thereof] , and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.

3) Pharaoh and his magicians and sorcerers.

Ex:7:11:

11 And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner. (DRV)

See above –

Practices forbidden by God:

4) Saul conversing with the Witch of Endor.

1Sm:28:7:

7 ¶ And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a divining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. And his servants said to him: There is a woman that hath a divining spirit at Endor. (DRV)

This is a type of the Antitheotokos – the Marian Apparitions.

5) At Babylon in the time of Daniel.

Dn:5:

3 Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

4 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

5 In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.

6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

7 And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.

8 Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

30 ¶ The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.(DRV)

This is a type of the False Eucharist of the Novus Ordo, which is of the Antichrist – the Mark of the Beast.

6) Judas Iscariot, the son of Perdition.

Jn:12:

1 ¶ Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

2 And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped hisfeet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

(DRV)

Judas Iscariot is a type of the greed and Simony of the Antichrist.

Therefore did St. Peter say:

Acts:1:

16 Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:

17 Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

18 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out.

19 And it became known toall the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

20 For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his bishopric let another take.(DRV)

7) The armour bearer of the Antichrist which is the False Prophet of the Antichrist, the final son of Perdition.

The Seventh False Prophet sums up the deceit of the first six and the total recapitulation of all the deceit of the Devil and is the False Prophet of the Great Apostasy and the Great Tribulation.

Rv:13:

11 ¶ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had two horns, like a lamb: and he spoke as a dragon.

12 And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight. And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed.

13 And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the earth, in the sight of men.

14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.

15 And it was given him to give life to the image of thebeast: and that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain.

16 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.

(DRV)

SEVEN KINGDOMS

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SEVEN KINGDOMS

Only in Christ is there salvation. Idolatry is damned.

I: DOCTRINAL
THE GOSPEL: THE POWER OF GOD FOR THE SALVATION OF
ALL WHO BELIEVE

I. Humanity Without Christ

The Pagans Adore Idols

18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those men who in wickedness hold back the truth of God, 19. seeing that what may be known about God is manifest to them. For God has manifested it to them. 20. For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen - his everlasting power also and divinity-being understood through the things that are made. And so they are without excuse, 21. seeing that, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless minds have been darkened. 22. For while professing to be wise, they have become fools, 23. and they have changed the glory of the incorruptible for an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things.

Punishment of Idolaters

24. Therefore God has given them up in the lustful desires of their heart to uncleanness, so that they dishonor their own bodies among themselves- 25. they who exchange the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, amen.
26. For this cause God has given them upto shameful lusts; for their women have exchanged the natural use for that which is against nature 27.and in like manner the men also having abandoned the natural use of the woman, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men doing shameless things and receiving in themselves the fitting recompense of their perversity. 28. And as they have resolved against possessing the knowledge of God, God has given them up to a reprobate sense, so that they do what is not fitting, 29. being filled with all iniquity, malice, immorality, avarice, wickedness; being full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity being whisperers, 30. detractors, hateful to God, irreverent, proud, haughty, plotters of evil disobedient to parents, 31. foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. 32. Although they have known the ordinance of God, they have not understood that those who practise such things are deserving of death. And not only do they do these things, but they applaud others doing them.

St. Mark 13
2 Thess. 1
Romans 1

St. Paul wrote of spiritual marks in his person that made him a bondservant of Christ. He gloried is this and not in himself.

The Devil has sought from the beginning to impress men with the Devil’s own mark of diabolic rebellion against God. One of the prime methods the Devil uses is idolatry. The Tower of Babel is the prime example of this. Satan’s aim is summed up in the Devil’s final subversion of men wherein those men who choose to will take the The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast in concert with the final idolatrous version of Babel. The final idolatrous version of Babel is the universal revival of idolatrous paganism throughout the earth culminating in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem with the Antichrist sitting inside proclaiming himself god and demanding worship of himself from men. The means to all of this is the ultimate heresy which is Ecumenism. Ecumenism is the Great Apostasy.

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING HAD A DIVINE GOD KING TO RULE THEM. SIX OF THE FOLLOWING HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS WHICH WERE SELECTED AS THE MAIN CENTERS OF THE DEVIL’S PAGAN RELIGION OF THAT AREA; ONE, JERUSALEM, HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS DEDICATED TO THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, BUT THEY CRUCIFIED HIM WHEN HE CAME IN THE FLESH (JESUS CHRIST). ONLY ONE, JERUSALEM, SAW THE FIRST ADVENT OF THE ONLY TRUE DIVINE GOD KING, THE BLESSED AND ONLY SOVEREIGN KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS JESUS CHRIST (THEY CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE HE ALLOWED IT FOR OUR SALVATION). ALL WILL SEE HIS SECOND ADVENT FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS IN FLAMING FIRE TAKING VENGEANCE ON THOSE WHO KNOW NOT GOD (PAGANS) AND WHO DO NOT OBEY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (FALSE CHRISTIANS).

SEVEN 7 MOUNTAIN KINGDOMS
KINGDOM MOUNTAINS

BABEL (MESOPOTAMIA) 1] TELL EL OBEID (TOWER OF BABEL), 2] TELL UQUAIR, 3] TELL AGRAB, 4] TELL ASMAR, 5] TELL
MATARRAH, 6] QAL’AH SHERGAT (ASHUR),
7] CALAH (NIMRUD) NEAR NINEVEH

EGYPT PYRAMIDS – 1] ZAWAIYET EL ARYAN,
2] SEKHEMKHET (AT SAKKARA – KING IMHOTEP - EARLIEST), 3] MEDUM (NEAR GHIZA), 4] BENT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, 5] STRAIGHT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, 6] GREAT PYRAMID AT GHIZA (KHUFU’S), 7] SECOND PYRAMID AT GHIZA – KHAFRE’S, CHEPHREN)

CRETE (RE: GREECE) 1] PETSOFAS, 2] KOUFINAS, 3] IOUKTAS,
4] PHILIORIMOS, 5] VRYSINAS, 6] IDA, 7] DICTE

PERSIA (RE: INDIA) THE ELBURZ (ALBURZ) MOUNTAINS; RESHTEH-YE ALBORZ, ELEVATIONS (IN FEET) – 1] 12201,
2] 12657, 3] 15817 TAKHT-E SOLEYMAN, 4] 13339,
5] 18934 MT. DEMAVAND (QOLLEH-YE DAMAVAND), 6] 12828, 7] 8332

JERUSALEM 1] THE CITADEL, 2] ACRA, 3] TEMPLE MOUNT
4] MOUNT OF OLIVES, 5] MT. SCOPUS, 6] MT. ZION
7] GOLGOTHA (HEROD WAS STRUCK DOWN FOR CLAIMING THE HONOR OF BEING A GOD KING SEE THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES)

ROME 1] JANICULUM (THE VATICAN IS ON THE LOWER SLOPE), 2] AVENTINE, 3] PALATINE (WITH THE CAPITOLINE HILL AND THE TIBURTINE ORACLE; THE TIBURTINE, THE CUMAEAN AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE WERE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT SIBYLS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE),
4] CAELIAN, 5] ESQUILINE, 6] VIMINAL,
7] QUIRINAL

CHINA 1] TAI SHAN (THE OLDEST PLACE OF WORSHIP IN CHINA CLOSELY CONNECTED TO THE EMPEROR AS THE “SON OF HEAVEN”), 2] TIEN T’AI SHAN (THE MOST IMPORTANT IN BUDDHIST HISTORY IN CHINA), 3] P’U–T’O SHAN, 4] CHIU-HU SHAN,
5] WU-T’AISHAN, 6] O-MEI SHAN, 7] SANWEI SHAN NEAR TUN-HUANG (DUNHUANG) SHAN MEANS MOUNTAIN IN CHINESE.

THESE ABOVE WERE/ARE ALL PLACES OF IDOLATROUS WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS/GODDESSES AND ALL OF THE FALSE WORSHIP INVOLVED BLACK MAGIC AND SORCERY WHICH IS THE HALLMARK OF ALL PAGAN WORSHIP AND DIRECTLY VIOLATES DEUTERONOMY 18:10,11 AND IS DAMNED. FOR INSTANCE, ROME HAD ZEUS AND THE VIRGIN GODDESS OF BLACK MAGIC, FORTUNA OR TYCHE INCLUDING BY SYNCHRETISM HECATE, ISIS, MENE ETC., WORSHIPPED BY SORCERY, MAGICAL ENGRAVING, ENCHANTING TYING MAGIC SPELLS/KNOTS/CHARMS JOINED TO IDOLS OFFERING UNLAWFUL HUMAN AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES TO IDOLS AND THE FALSE GODS BEHIND THEM, ESPECIALLY FALSE PROPHECY: THE SIX ELEMENT DRAGON OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, ‘O DIABOLOS HERMAPHRODITE BEAST OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, THE FALSE PROPHET OF THE SATA-NAS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT

Sata apostate in Hebrew
Nas serpent in Hebrew
Sata+Nas = Satan, the Devil, Known in Rome, for instance, as the Dragon

ALL OF THIS IS, IN THE UNIVERSAL RECAPITULATION OF INIQUITY, SUMMED UP THE ANTICHRIST WHO SEEKS TO IMPRESS HIS MARK AND NAME AND NUMBER ON ALL MEN. THOSE MEN WHO TAKE THE MARK, NAME, NUMBER OF THE ANTICHRIST ARE DAMNED FOREVER. ECUMENISM IS THE MEANS BY WHICH THIS IS BROUGHT IN TO MEN. REJECT THE HERESY OF HERESIES WHICH IS ECUMENISM FOR IT IS ONLY THE ROAD TO ETERNAL DAMNATION.

Practices forbidden by God:

DT. 18:10,11 STRONGS BDB

VERSE 10
ESH 784 77b, 1083b
QECEM 7081 890c
ANAN 6049778a, 1107c
NACHASH 5172 638c
KASHAPH 3784 506c
(CHARTOM FROM EXODUS 7:22) 2748 355a
VERSE 11
CHABAR CHEBER 2266; 2267 251c, 287d, 1092a; 288c
SHA’AL 7592 981b, 1114a; (SHA’AL, DARASH) OWB 178 15a
(SHA’AL, DARASH) YIDDE’ONIY 3049 396b
DARASH; MUWTH 1875; 4191 201d, 205a; 559b, 607a,
1099d

BDB = BROWN DRIVER BRIGGS HEBREW ENGLISH LEXICON PAGE NUMBER REFERENCES

SEVEN MOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

1] BUYUK AGRI DAGI (ARARAT WHERE THE ARK IS TODAY) 16946 FEET EL.
2] HAMA DAGI 10640 FEET ELEV.
3] TENDUREK DAGI 11621 FEET ELEV.
4] ALA DAG 10994 FEET ELEV.
5] MENGENE DAGI 11811 FEET ELEV.
6] MOR DAG 12500 FEET ELEV.
7] CILO DAG 13675 FEET ELEV.

PARADISE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM MAN BY GOD WHEN ADAM FELL AND WILL BE RETURNED TO EARTH AFTER CHRIST RETURNS AND JUDGES ALL MEN. SINCE THE TIME OF PARADISE BEING TAKEN AWAY BY GOD AND THE CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHS HIDDEN BY THE FLOOD THAT GOD SENT DURING THE LIFETIME OF NOAH, THE DEVIL, WITH THE HELP OF MEN WILLING TO BOW TO THE DEVIL, HAS MADE SIX EMPIRES IN IMITATION OF PARADISE AND SUBVERTED A SEVENTH, ISRAEL WITH JERUSALEM. THESE ARE LISTED ABOVE WITH THEIR SEVEN MOUNTAINS EACH.

SEVEN AGES OF THE WORLD and the EIGHTH AGE

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SEVEN AGES OF THE WORLD

For the Seven Ages of the world, St. Isadore of Seville gives us the six up until his time which is the age of grace and lasts until the seventh which is Christ’s Parousia. The eighth is Christ’s eternal visible reign in His recreated creation in the future.

From St. Isadore's history.

2. Adam, at age 230, bore Seth, who was born in the place of Abel. Seth means "resurrection" because in him was resuscitated the first seed, that is, the seed of the sons of God. Seth, at age 205, bore Enosh, who was the first to begin invoking the name of God. Enosh, at age 190, bore Kenan, whose name means "the nature of God." At the same time, Cain became the first, before the flood [of Noah], to build a city, which he filled solely with the multitude of his own descendents.

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Notice that in this exegesis that Adam in his repentance goes on to bear good seed, this is Seth and he even bears more good fruit, namely Enosh (from which in the invoking of the Name of God is continued the worship of the True God – Yahweh Elohim, Yahweh the Father and the Son Yeshua (Jesus) and Ruach Yahweh the Holy Spirit); and then ‘Kenan, whose name means "the nature of God."’. The Nature of God is His Name “Yahweh”. Also, notice that Cain, the murderer of Abel was the one to establish the racism that the Talmudic Zionist antichrists continue to this day.

Tell El Obeid

Ubaid: Tell El-Ubaid

This is what is left of the Tower that had stood that God punished the people in the plain of Shinar for building and divided their language into many conflicting tongues to prevent them from accomplishing their aim of storming heaven and acting as gods over the whole earth.

Unfortunately, that false dream hasn’t ended, it resulted in the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and will be the eternal downfall of the Antichrist and all who follow him into the lake of fire damned in hell forever.

The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Lk:21:22:

22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written. (DRV)

In the below the judgement of the nation that did not receive Christ is shown. This resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem as Christ Himself said would happen in the above link.

Jn:8:44:

44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. (DRV)

Lk:19:

37 And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen,

38 Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory on high!

39 And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy disciples.

40 To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

41 ¶ And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

42 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

43 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,

44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

45 And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.

46 Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

48 And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

(DRV)

What we are to be doing in the meantime – Mt:25:34-40, the wise virgins. This is what the spiritually blind Pharisees and those who followed them DID NOT DO – Mt:25:41-46a, the foolish virgins. See: Mt:15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. (DRV)

An example of a “wise virgin” is St. Ephrem of Syria (4th century A.D.) who when persecution and heresy raged all about him was able to refute the heresy and compose and sing hymns praising Christ and withstand the persecution and still find time to build hospital facilities to help people in the Name of Christ. He is sure to inherit the world to come of the blessed when our Lord Jesus Christ returns from heaven and recreates the heavens and the earth.

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: SEVEN BOWL JUDGEMENTS - FIRST BOWL JUDGEMENT

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SEVEN BOWL JUDGEMENTS

Rv:16:1: 1 ¶ And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels: Go and pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. (DRV)

The bowl judgements of God will come when He so decrees.

Rv:16:2:

2 And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And there fell a sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of the beast: and upon them that adored the image thereof. (DRV)

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism, Which Will be Punished by God. We must NOW resolve to come out from among all of that and have nothing to do with it, ever.

But I say to you.

They had a big church building on the order of the size of Hagia Sophia or St. Peter's Basilica or the National Cathedral.

They had a God given liturgy.

They had a covenant with God.

They had direct revelation from God.

They were known as the children of God.

They had a commission from God to tell the world about salvation.

They had Jesus Christ in the very midst of their congregation.

They had miracles performed by God for their deliverance.

They claimed they could never fail.

They said they had the true, that is, the "Orthodox" religion.

They had a priesthood that offered the sacrifice and arrogated to themselves the forgiveness of sin.

They sacrificed their children to moloch, as if they could do such a thing with impunity, despite the horrific murder that it is.

They were judged by God and found wanting and their gifts were taken from them.

Sound like the children of Israel? Yes and today it is the Judeo-Ecumenical Apostate Antichurch.

Eternal hellfire and the Antipope Karol Wojtyla gone to his eternal non-reward

The Broken Cross The Hidden Hand in the Vatican by Piers Compton

Too many people anymore, on purpose, confuse whether or not a church or a teaching or a profession of faith is Catholic or Orthodox, with whether or not it is a pedigreed OFFICIAL church. Jesus Christ doesn't care how many OFFICIAL degrees you claim, if you lie against Him, you are none of His. It does not matter how many Popes, Patriarchs etc. ad nauseam you have with you (or you are with them) on your broad way to hell. Since the mania of Vatican II Ecumenism, the biggest single coverup of apostasy is the claim to OFFICIAL church approval.

St. Athanasius contra-mundum was beset by practically the whole OFFICIAL church. They were Arian heretics. St. Athanasius was right and the OFFICIAL church was wrong.

The Buddha is in Hell with his master the Devil

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The Buddha is in Hell with his master the Devil

Lk:4:5 “And the devil led him into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.” Jesus absolutely rejected this. Instead, to accept this false vision given by the devil as an indwelling of the divine, is exactly the same as the Buddhist teaching on attaining enlightenment in a moment of time encompassing past, present and future as Gotama was supposed to have done under the Banyan tree (the mahabodhi tree).

Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ totally rejected this temptation, and so must we. Notice what He said in vs. 8 And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. It is not enough to declaim power and wealth, in fact if they are from God there is no reason to, quite the opposite. The fact is that when the devil offers them it is a lie, and to accept or reject them in one's own name, as did the Buddha, is idolatry and sinful. Jesus showed us that the only correct answer is to tell the devil that these things are God's and do not belong to the devil and we will have nothing to do with the devil. The so-called Buddha is an example of those who embrace the temptation of the devil as leading, whether in an ascetical manner or not, to truth, which it won't and therefore they, like the Buddha go to hell.

WASHINGTON(February 10, 2005)—The third meeting of the Northern California Zen/Ch’an-Catholic Dialogue took place at San Francisco Zen Center from Thursday January 20 to Sunday January 23, 2005. Set in a framework of meditative stillness and liturgical prayer, the dialogue engaged the theme of “Practice: Means towards Transformation.” Co-conveners this year were Bishop John C. Wester, auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, and Abbot Paul Haller of Zen Center.

The opening presentation was an experience of “sacred reading” (lectio divina) from the Christian monastic tradition, using the great christological hymn in Ephesians 1: 3-14, allowing each participant to encounter the words, allowing the meaning to arise in silence.

Jan Chozen Bays Roshi and Fr. FrancisTiso of the USCCB Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs stood in for Sr. Mary Ann Donovan, who was ill, for the first session on the meaning of transformation in Christ. Sr. Donovan’s paper used Scripture and the biography of St. Anthony of Egypt by St. Athanasius. Discussion explored the meaning of transformation in several periods of Church history and compared the views of Zen and Ch’an on inherent Buddha nature. The determining role of Christ and the Buddha in shaping understanding and experience of transformation was examined in the light of contemplative and pastoral experience. Whether practice actually changes persons, or whether it is a matter of uncovering inherent goodness, or a liberation brought about by divine grace, was examined in depth.

The third presentation took up the controversial question of dual practice: Christians undergoing Zen training and Buddhists continuing to adhere in various ways to the Christian or Jewish practices into which they may have been born. Fr. James Fredericks examined the testimony of a number of Catholics grounded in the Ignatian spiritual tradition who have pursued Zen training. Respondents noted that there is religious content to Buddhist meditation practice and that one cannot easily segregate “just sitting” from the philosophical “view” within which sitting is fruitful in Buddhist practice. However, numerous instances of dual practice have been seen to give rise to exemplary lives among mature Christians and Buddhists, suggesting a “hidden wholeness” that is nurtured by such practice. Rev. Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Rev. Heng Shur and Chozen Jan Bays led an exploration of the culture and meaning of the practice of chanting the Heart Sutra. This practice embodies the unity of emptiness and compassion that characterizes the Mahayana philosophical viewpoint and the ideal of the Bodhisattva. Musical settings include ancient Chinese chant, contemporary East Asian pop music, and even Anglican plainchant.

Rev. Myo Denis Lahey explored the problematic dimensions of dual practice and the presence of the “other” in Christian and Buddhist spirituality. Discussion ranged over the sense of “belonging” in religious life and the sense of being guided by circumstances that are perfectly suited to growth and change.

Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton based his presentation on the insight of Dogen Zenji that “all space becomes charged with the Buddha’s enlightenment and each meditator can renew the quality of change” across the arc of time. The meditator is within the world-system and can take on the role of a protector, responsible for caring for the world. This is the basis for Buddhist social engagement. Fr. Robert Hale developed a response showing how the prophetic social critique of the Hebrew tradition takes on a new form in the universal mission of the Cosmic Christ. Discussion examined the risks of social engagement and co-optation, purity of motivation, and the limits of institutional bases for action. General discussion explored the use of a variety of metaphors, such as “a diamond with many facets,” to describe engagement as persons committed to spiritual practice with a world of contradictory voices.

One sign of authentic spiritual transformation was recognized in the ability to abide in and hold perplexity and opposition: contradictions can lead to a deeper awareness of self and others in relationship.

A public event at the Zen Center on Saturday evening allowed a variety of spiritual seekers to engage the dialogue experience. Questions having the character of shared spiritual guidance gave solidity to the sense of unity and trust that the dialogue participants had been experiencing.

The final discussion explored the challenges of karma, grace, free will, effort, and the spiritual teacher in the transformative process. The meditator is faithful to the effort, but unattached to the outcome. And any circumstance may embody the “spiritual teacher”.

The Cosmic Christ – Cosmocrator and the fruits of that bad tree:

P U N D A R I K A

80+ 400+50+ 4+ 1+ 100+10+ 20+ 1=666

English transliteration (of how the crowds in Italian used to chant antipope John Paul II’s name) to Greek (with the II added)

J O H A A N N E S

I O H A A N N E S

10+ 70+ 8+ 1+ 1+ 50+ 50+ 5+ 200 = 395

P A O L O II

80+ 1+ 70+ 30+ 70+ 10+10 = 271

= 666

English to Greek

B E N E D I C T

B E N E D I K T O S

2+ 5+ 50+ 5+ 4+ 10+ 20+ 300+ 70+ 200=666

Note: pundarika in Sanskrit (the above English and Greek are direct transliterations letter for letter from the Sanskrit) is literally “the great white dragon in the abyss” which is the core and basis of the whole esoteric tradition, priesthood, and the dainichi nyorai (the head of the diabolic trinity of the dragon in Buddhism). The dainichi nyorai is also the exact very basis for their magic/sorcery with it’s six elements they manipulate. Elements here are exactly the stoichea in Col. 2:8.

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: SECOND BOWL JUDGEMENT...blood as it were of a dead man

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Rv:16:3:

3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. (DRV)

These plagues will be revealed in their time.

Gog and Magog according to Ezechiel.

Gn:10:2:

2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras. (DRV)

1Chr:1:5:

5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, Thubal, Mosoch, Thiras. (DRV)

Ez:38:2:

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of him, (DRV)

Ez:38:6:

6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee. (DRV)

Ez:39:6:

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord. (DRV)

Magog is Akkadian mat-Gog meaning land of Gog. Gog is the tyrant King Gyges of Lydia (which was located in what is now modern day Turkey) or his successors.

Mosoch and Thubal and Gomer and Thogorma are lands around the Black Sea, known as Khazaria which is modern Khazakstan.

Obviously, Ezechiel is prophesying about the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the return of the captives to the Kingdom of Judah in the 6th century B.C.

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Rv:20:7:
7 And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. (DRV)

The idea that Zionists are supposed to return to the Holy Land to possess it as God’s will is the work of those who oppose the true Messiah Who is Jesus Christ, and who are therefore antichrists, and the Antichrist (who will be revealed in his time) that is part of the plotting by the Devil to have men take the Mark of the Beast.

The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: THIRD BOWL JUDGEMENT - Rv:16

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Rv:16:

4 And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters. And there was made blood.

5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things.

6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

7 And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments.

The Mark of the beast.

The Mark of the Beast is the Novus Ordo and ANY connection with it, especially the Lurianic Cabalistic ‘Magen Star of David’ which is actually the star of Rempham that St. Stephen condemned. Anyone who embraces the Novus Ordo takes the Mark of the Beast and the eternal damnation that goes with that. Amen.

The Mark of the Beast is the Novus Ordo and ANY connection with it

Catholics faithful to Jesus Christ must, of course, have nothing to do with any connection to the mark, the name, the number of the beast – even if it means our martyrdom.

See the two Nicene canons for the real beginning of Roman See Primacy. Even if we assume that Canon XXXIX was as early as the first Nicene council in 325 A.D. it still is a decision of men and is therefore secondary to whatever God says through Jesus Christ. Even assuming that Canon XXXIX is as late an addition as would be at Chalcedon in 451 A.D. and was part of what alienated the Oriental Churches, it still governed a great deal of the Church for a very long time – centuries, and is therefore not to be taken lightly. Jesus Christ Himself instituted Church law in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 16 and Chapter 18. The prime example of how that governed of course is in the Acts.

See Acts Chapter 15 verses 28, 29

28For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

29 That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

See also:

St. Mark’s Gospel 3:29

29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin. (DRV)

It is utterly clear that Vatican II and the antipopes John XXIII and Paul VI and John Paul I and John Paul II and Benedict XVI have utterly violated this, especially when John Paul II blamed the utterly idolatrous Assisi meeting on Jan. 24, 2002 on the Holy Spirit, and can not be followed under penalty of Blaspheming the Holy Spirit and eternal damnation. In addition Guiseppe Siri was the real Pope of Rome – Gregory XVII, elected in 1958 until his death in 1988. He was forced to remain silent and in exile for that whole time by the Vatican II plotters who threatened to murder him and his family if he said anything. Shortly before his death he did speak.

All of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo and all and everyone connected with it are utterly contravened by God, His Christ and the Holy Spirit and Pius XI’s Mortalium Animus. Also, the fact that the See of Rome has been vacant since 1988 and no Pope reigned visibly since 1958 releases all the faithful from any obligation to the Vatican. Taken together and they MUST BE, the faithful are commanded by God in Rev. 18:1-6 and 2 Cor. 6:11-18 to come out now and be totally separate in every way from the Apostate and utterly evil Vatican dominion and every thing to do with it including the Novus Ordo and anyone claiming ANY allegiance with the Vatican of the present.

Rv:18:

1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power:and the earth was enlightened with his glory.

2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:

3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.

5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.

2Cor:6:

14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

18 And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

(DRV)

The Name and Number of the beast.

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The Name and Number of the beast.

Greek is in Isopsephia, Hebrew in Gematria, Italian and English names (JOHAANNES PAOLO II and BENEDICT) are with the Greek below them.

Pundarika is from Sanskrit and is transliterated exactly to the Greek with the exact English equivalent to the Sanskrit and Greek.

Pundarika is given in the Greek under the English. Hammelek el Israel (king of Israel), the name or title, that in all probability, the Antichrist will claim for himself, is given in Hebrew under the English.

The Cosmic Christ – Cosmocrator (the Gnostic name for the False-Christ the Gnostics worshipped and which was actually Satan as immanent god of the universe) and the fruits of that bad tree.

P U N D A R I K A

80+ 400+ 50+ 4+ 1+ 100+ 10+ 20+ 1=666

English transliteration (of how the crowds in Italian used to chant antipope John Paul II’s name) to Greek (with the II added).

J O H A A N N E S

I O H A A N N E S

10+ 70+ 8+ 1+ 1+ 50+ 50+ 5+ 200 = 395

P A O L O II

80+ 1+ 70+ 30+ 70+ 10+10 = 271

= 666

English to Greek

B E N E D I C T

B E N E D I K T O S

2+ 5+ 50+ 5+ 4+ 10+ 20+ 300+ 70+ 200=666

Below: Father Sloet of Holland’s solution to the final name of the Antichrist (who will be a Jew) with medial kaph so the reign of this false “ ‘king’ of Israel” will be temporary, i.e. short.

(Note in the below that the Hebrew characters read in reverse order than the English letters) Numbers are under the English equivalents.

Hammelek l Yisrael

H M L K L Y S R A L

ה מ ל כ ל י ש ר א ל

5+ 40+ 30+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 300+ 200+ 1+ 30 = 666

The Mark of the beast

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The Mark of the beast

"16. The followers of Antichrist will be marked with a character in imitation of the sign that St. John saw upon the foreheads of the servants of God. This indicates that Antichrist and his prophet will introduce ceremonies to imitate the Sacraments of the Church. In fact there will be a complete organization ―― a church of Satan set up in opposition to the Church of Christ. Satan will assume the part of God the Father; Antichrist will be honored as Saviour, and his prophet will usurp the role of Pope. Their ceremonies will counterfeit the Sacraments and their works of magic be heralded as miracles. A similar project was attempted in the fourth century when Julian the Apostate counterfeited Catholic worship with pagan ceremonies in honor of Mithras and Cybele. He established a priesthood and instituted ceremonies in imitation of Baptism and Confirmation."Rev. E. Sylvester Berry, D.D.
The Apocalypse of St. John
Discussion on Apoc: xiii, 16.
John W. Winterich, Columbus, Ohio, 1921

Originally there were in ancient religion four elements (fire spirit water earth) with spirit deleted by the pagans and air and then also and/or aether inserted. These were variously identified with the visible planets and gods/goddesses of the pagans. The order was also rearranged variously and finally a sixth element was added: universal mind (just as the heretical interpretation of Jesus Christ as the impersonal word of God, instead of enhypostasia which is correct that Jesus Christ is the Person-al Son and Word of God incarnate). Finally language was seen as the mystical means of connecting with the powers of the gods/goddesses (actually Satan and the other fallen angels and the demons [demons are, according to the Church Fathers, the non-human souls of the pre-flood nephilim]), and with that alpha-numeric theosophies, namely Hebrew Gematria (Greek and Roman variations are Isopsephia) were especially used. These connections were for the sorcery/magic astrological control over the elements (Greek – stoichea)and even other men. Trigrams, pentagrams, hexagramset al were symbols used in conjunction with this. The final Mark of the Beast will not be accidental or co-incidental. The final mark of the Antichrist (the Beast) will be willful knowingly on purpose representation of the damned individual’s name by gematria/isopsephia spelling of his name to equal 666. He will seek to impress this knowingly on all men. All who knowingly take it will be irrevocably damned. The Mark of the beast, now and then is also the so called ‘Magen Star of David’ which is actually the star of Rempham (Satan) that St. Stephen condemned in the book of the Acts (see below).

If one studies freemasonry one finds that it is the worst kept secret there is, on purpose. They intend to be more and more open about their aims until people openly join in their rebellion against God for that very reason. It is true that there are roots of Byzantine-Venetian banking -- Phnariot, Darius Socinus etc., and there is a stabilization of the power that was concentrated therein and in connection with Switzerland (including the powerful Warburgs and Rothschilds). It is also true that without the connivings of Cardinal Richelieu it would have been stopped a long time ago. It is also true that unscrupulous Jews were involved every step of the way as Bernard Lazare, himself a Jew tells us. There were Jews round Adam Weishaupt in the late 1700’s when Weishaupt added the very Lurianic Illuminism, overt Satanism, the final formulation in which (Weishaupt’s formula) “it will advance until its final conflict with Christianity must determine whether Christ or Satan shall reign on this earth to the end.” Weishaupt’s way is the way of the Masonic lodges today, to first seduce men into his organization through its lower degrees. To quote Monsignor Dillon from his Edinburgh lectures:

"A man, though in Masonry, may not be willing to become an atheist or a Socialist, for some time at least. He may have in his heart a profound conviction that God exists, and some hope left ofreturning to that God at or before his death. He may have entered Masonry for purposes of ambition, for motives of vanity, from mere lightness of character. He may continue hisprayers and refuse, if a Catholic, to give up theMother of God and some practice of piety loved by him from his youth. But Masonry is a capital system to wean a man gradually away from all these things. It does not at once deny the existence of God, nor at once attack the Christian dispensation. It commences by giving the Christian idea of God an easy and, under semblance of respect, an almost imperceptible shake. It swears by the name of God in all its oaths. It calls Him, however, not a Creator, only an architect — the great Architect of the universe. It carefully avoids all mention of Christ, of the Adorable Trinity, of the unity of Faith, or of any faith. It protests a respect for the convictions of every man, for the idolatrous Parsee, for the Mohammedan (which Dillon should refer to as Muslim), the heretic, the Jew, the schismatic, the Catholic. By and by, in higher degrees, it gives a ruder shock to the belief in the Deity, and a gradual inducement to favor Naturalism." In the above quote both the Mohammedan (which Dillon should refer to as Muslim) and the Catholic are not condemned since both worship the true God. What is condemned is the mixing of that with the idolaters.

It is Masonry that we find at the core of the Vatican II apostasy. The smoke of Satan is the Satanic black mass, as mentioned by Malachi Martin in his writings. Although the Antipope Paul VI mentioned the smoke of Satan, he was part and parcel of it. It is especially the black mass child sacrifice by murdering and offering this murdered child to Satan, it is that form, that is the core of the Novus Ordo and Vatican II and everyone that is connected with it and has lead and will lead to nothing but apostasy and that black mass that continues to this day; this Masonry with the Judeo-Freemason Cardinals of the Vatican who were and are the willing servants of Satan and the Antipopes who are the willing pawns of Satan. Those Antipopes are: John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

This prefigures the final abomination of desolation in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.

St. Stephen speaking:

Acts:7:

42 ¶ And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

43 And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (DRV)

The same apostasy exists today in Jerusalem:

"It is a known fact in Kabbala (Cabbalah or Cabala from Qabbala) that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity,' said a director of one of the most respected Kabbala yeshivot in Jerusalem...."

See below for the basic principle of Satanism governing Talmudic Kabbalistic Judaism. It is not about the holiness they pretend it to be. It is about willful apostasy to the Devil.

From:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/daa-der.htm

“Daemon Est Deus Inversus" (Latin) Daemon is divinity inverted; more commonly, the Devil is God inverted. An ancient Hermetic, and later Qabbalistic, aphorism referring to that polar power which is required by the equilibrium and harmony in nature. The One, when manifested, becomes Two, and from the Two are unfolded or evolved all the sequence of manifest existence. Spirit and matter, good and evil, as distinct conceptions exist only by their mutual contrast. There is no evil per se, but the human notion of essential evil arises from our inability to take in the whole at a single glance.

Daemon is applicable in general to all formative power, from the highest to the lowest; in this aphorism it denotes the formative rays in their manifestation in and on the lower planes of prakriti, called by contrast the nether pole. Western monotheism, having anthropomorphized the higher creative powers into a personal God, personified the lower powers into a Devil and demons. But Satan or the Adversary is only God's messenger, because what is below reflects what is above. This aphorism, then, states that all the manifested universe is the representation or material inversion or reflection of the divine essence and its emanations which in their aggregate compose the spiritual background and causal forces of the universe. Furthermore, a reflected image reverses.

Finally, the aphorism denotes the astral light, represented by a black triangle inverted on a white (SD 1:424).”

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This is the “Star of David” which is really the Star of the Solomonic temple and the Star of Rephaim which St. Stephen in the Acts condemned the Pharisees and their predecessor apostates in the time of Moses for, and has nothing to do with David. It is also the sign of Freemasonry and in the interpretation of those who embrace the Zohar and Lurianic Cabala is (though they don’t admit it to Christians who would be horrified by this) their symbol of service to Satan and not God.

"The HEXAGRAM [Lurianic Cabalistic Magen David 6-pointed star] was adopted by the Zionist Organization at the First Zionist Congress in 1897." (Cavendish, p. 1300)

Daemon Est Deus Inversus is pure Satanism and will be punished in hell by God for eternity. It is the absolute founding principle of Lurianic Cabbalism embodied in the Zohar as well, which is the essence of Talmudism and what is the belief of Talmudic Judaism. Therefore it is totally Antichrist and all people who have any part of it will go to hell for eternity.

Talmudism and Cabala are the basis for the Mark of the Beast

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The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today
by Elizabeth Dilling

http://www.come-and-hear.com/dilling/index.html

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The mystical Kabbalah

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/occult/kabbalah.htm

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THE CABALA

http://watch.pair.com/mystery-babylon.html#cabala

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And Qabalah continues in it’s Devil’s work. Note this concerning the below, in Islam, freemasonry and all connected to it, is considered heresy and not part of Muslim confession of God. The Muslims call freemasonry a "hawk" which means exactly that it is heresy and wrong. Traditional Catholics agree with Muslims on this. Both Catholics and Muslims worship the true God.

Qabalah, Freemasonry, the Tijaniyah Order, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and Sufism

http://freemasonrywatch.org/sufi.html

Warning from the early Church

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Warning from the early Church

APOSTATES -- ACCORDING TO St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Gaul (France) - 180 A.D.

Those nations however, who did not of themselves raise up their eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to their Maker, nor wished to behold the light of truth, but who were like blind mice concealed in the depths of ignorance, the word justly reckons “as waste water from a sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance—in fact, as nothing;”
That before the Lord’s appearance Satan never dared to blaspheme God, inasmuch as he did not yet know his own sentence, because it was contained in parables and allegories; but that after the Lord’s appearance, when he had clearly ascertained from the words of Christ and His apostles that eternal fire has been prepared for him as he apostatized from God of his own free-will, and likewise for all who unrepentant continue in the apostasy, he now blasphemes, by means of such men, the Lord who brings judgment [upon him] as being already condemned, and imputes the guilt of his apostasy to his Maker, not to his own voluntary disposition. Just as it is with those who break the laws, when punishment overtakes them: they throw the blame upon those who frame the laws, but not upon themselves. In like manner do those men, filled with a satanic spirit, bring innumerable accusations against our Creator, who has both given to us the spirit of life, and established a law adapted for all; and they will not admit that the judgment of God is just. Wherefore also they set about imagining some other Father who neither cares about nor exercises a providence; and there is therefore in this beast (the Antichrist), when he comes, a recapitulation made of all sorts of iniquity and of every deceit, in order that all apostate power, flowing into and being shut up in him, may be sent into the furnace of fire. Fittingly, therefore, shall his name possess the number six hundred and sixty-six [666], since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels. For Noah was six hundred years old when the deluge came upon the earth, sweeping away the rebellious world, for the sake of that most infamous generation which lived in the times of Noah. And [Antichrist] also sums up every error of devised idols since the flood, together with the slaying of the prophets and the cutting off of the just. For that image which was set up by Nebuchadnezzar had indeed a height of sixty cubits, while the breadth was six cubits; on account of which Ananias, Azarias, and Misaël, when they did not worship it, were cast into a furnace of fire, pointing out prophetically, by what happened to them, the wrath against the righteous which shall arise towards the [time of the] end. For that image, taken as a whole, was a prefiguring of this man’s coming, decreeing that he should undoubtedly himself alone be worshipped by all men. Thus, then, the six hundred years of Noah, in whose time the deluge occurred because of the apostasy, and the number of the cubits of the image for which these just men were sent into the fiery furnace, do indicate the number of the name of that man in whom is concentrated the whole apostasy of six thousand years, and unrighteousness, and wickedness, and false prophecy, and deception; for which things’ sake a cataclysm of fire shall also come [upon the earth].

St. Athanasius contra-mundum was beset by practically the whole OFFICIAL church. They were Arian heretics. St. Athanasius was right and the OFFICIAL church was wrong.