Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Justice of God: The Beast $$$

See these (keep seeing the older entries in each link until finished):

666

Mark of the Beast

Vatican

_________________________________

See this for what is the formation and far reaching consequences of the United Nations:

The Justice of God: The United Nations - Satan's empire building

And see this, go here -

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations - UNITED NATIONS, Twelfth Edition. Timothy L. Gall and Jeneen M. Hobby, Editors

Or Here

The United Nations core essence is about Money. It was founded upon Pan European World Trade Treaties, culminating in the 1956 Treaty of Rome. That governs GATT, NAFTA and a huge raft of other treaties that control ALL trade on earth. That operates through three centers: 1) Rome, Italy (the Aeur and the Vatican) and 2) Davos, Switzerland (the Central European Bank has more money and Gold and reach than any other financial institution on earth by far) and 3) Brussells, Belgium (see below article on the Beast).

Fort Knox was never more than a little Freemason outlier of European Central Banking that was reeled in by Kuhn Loeb and the Federal Reserve a century ago to serve the European Central Bank. The last of the Fort Knox gold was shipped out of Fort Knox by the Federal Reserve banks and sent to the World Trade Center building 7 vault and from there to Switzerland JUST before 911 and the destruction of WTC 7. 911 was also one of the last of the biggest bank robberies - the banks did the robbing.

______________________________________

Thirst for Justice — The beast of the Apocalypse

The Beast of the Apocalypse: 666

A gigantic self-programming computer

One will need the number of the Beast to buy and sell [and one will be eternally damned for taking it]

by Gilberte Côté Mercier

The beast of the Apocalypse is already set up in Brussels, Belgium: It is a gigantic computer that makes its own programs. "By using three entries of six digits each, each citizen of the whole world will be given a distinct credit card number." Three entries of six digits each: 666.

Saint John's Apocalypse speaks of two Beast of the sea and the Beast of the earth, that will make up the "Antichrist" couple at the end of times. The commentators say that the Beast comming from the sea is the political power, Satan's fearsome ally. And the Beast coming from the earth is the power of money. The Beast of the earth, the financial power,

"shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to receive a mark on their right hands, or on their foreheads, and that none might buy or sell, unless he carried this mark, which was the beast's name, or the number that stands for his name. Here is wisdom. He that has 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 and sixty-six."

(Apoc. 13:16-18)

Well! The number 666 is no longer a mystery. We know that it refers to the gigantic computer that will be the great controller of all the men of the earth for their purchases and sales.

Following is a text from Moody Magazine, that reveals to us where the International Financiers have led the peoples so far, and in what slavery they propose to chain them.

From moody Magazine

Dr. Hanrick Eldeman, Chief Analyst of the Common Market Confederacy in Brussels, has revealed that a computerized restoration plan is already under way to straighten out world chaos. A crisis meeting in early 1974 brought together Common Market leaders, advisers and scientists at which time Dr. Eldeman unveiled "the Beast".

The Beast is a gigantic three story computer located in the administrative building of the headquarters of the Common Market.

That monster is a self-programming computer that has more than one hundred sources distributing entries. Experts in programming have perfected a plan that will handle by computer all of the world's trade.

This master plan would imply a system of digital enumeration of each human being of the earth. Thus the computer would give each inhabitant of the world a number to be used for each purchase or sale, removing the problem of present credit cards. This number would be invisibly tatooed by laser, either on the forehead or on the back of the hand. This would establish a walking credit card system. And the number could be seen only through infrared scanners, installed in special verification counters or in business places.666

Dr.Eldeman pointed out that by using three entries of six digits each, every inhabitant of the world would be given a distinct credit card number.

World Money

Other officials of the Common Market believe that present chaos and disorder, due to a mysterious cause, show the need of a world money, of an international print that would possibly put an end to paper money and coins. In their place, credit notes would be exchanged by the means of a world bank's clearing house.

No member could buy or sell without first being given such a numbered imprint.

The directors of the Common Market are now convinced that world order demands, on the allegiance of peace and politics, a new world system of trade and numbering.

A single individual would have, within reach, the number of any hinabitan instrument of peace or a weapon of dictatorship.

When one of the leading heads of the Common Market was asked what would happen if someone objected to the system and refused to cooperate, he answered rather bluntly: "We would be obliged to have recourse to force to bring him to conform to the new requirements."

Henry Spaak, who was the founder of the European Common Market, and General Secretary of NATO, said, in one of his speeches:

"We don't want another committee, we already have enough of them. What we want is a man of such stature that he be capable to gain the allegiance of peace and politics to pull us out of the economic chaos into which we are sinking. Send us this man, and, be he god or demon, we will welcome him."

The Financiers: supreme masters

Today, through their economic control, the Financiers prepare an absolute world political control.

They will rule universally and totally, raised at the top of both civil powers united: politics and economics.

Europe's Common Market seems to be the first step towards the world political government. And the electronic computer will be that "man of such stature" that he may command, watch, register, check, censor, punish all the men of all the nations, "each human being of the earth". This computer is really much more than a man, it is a heartless superman, with diabolic intelligence.

And the International Financiers, who know well that they themselves control the money of the whole world, have the nerve to talk about the "mysterious cause of actual chaos and disorder". They make believe that they are looking for a means to pull the peoples from the "economic chaos into which they are sinking," when it is they, the bankers, who are the authors of the chaos, by the control of money and by their plays with the currencies, a play that makes countries tremble. The Canadian dollar goes down. The American dollar too, in respect to the Asian and European currencies. But the Canadian dollar is even lower than the American dollar. The Bank of Canada comes to the rescue of the Canadian dollar. But that is not enough, etc., etc.

All of that is International Bankers' games, games of speculating financiers, games of swindlers. And worst yet, they are games of controllers of human lives, games of dictators, of tyrants of the peoples.

The swindling financiers are liars. They have for a long time hidden the mystery of their scheme. And they would want us to continue to swallow up their lies. Blessed are the Social Crediters who see clearly through all of these diabolic manipulations, leading the whole world to a slavery as was never seen in history.

And the true Social Crediters know, furthermore, that if they place their trust in the Eternal Father, this all powerful God will free the world from the snares of Satan.

Trust in God and in the Rosary of the Immaculate. The light of Social Credit opens for us the door of that trust. And the apostolate of the "Michael" Journal gives us the strength to endure everything in the meantime, since we have hope.

Trust in God and in the Rosary of the Immaculate. Sounds good but any connection with the Vatican is immersed totally with the tentacles of the world banking consortium as well as total Apostasy from God!

It is Davos - Suisse (Switzerland) that day to day European Central Mega Bank business is centered on. There is a reason that Switzerland hasn't been invaded in centuries while the wars that are funded there rage all around it. It is by design.

Paul Taylor | Associate Editor | Reuters.com

JAN 25, 2012

BNP says no more ground to give in Greek talks

DAVOS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Financial markets’ sentiment towards the euro zone may have turned the corner, but banks will offer no more concessions in crucial talks to reduce Greece’s private sector debt, BNP Paribas chairman Baudouin Prot said on Wednesday.

He said the European Central Bank’s move to flood the banking sector with almost half a trillion euros in short-term loans had helped to change the mood.

“I am a cautious optimist,” Prot told Reuters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“We are starting to see signs of a shift in sentiment towards Europe. The ECB three-year financing facility was really a catalyst. We are on the right track, but we need to keep moving forward.”

Greece is hoping to wrap up tortuous negotiations this week on a bond swap that aims to knock 100 billion euros ($130 billion) off its debt burden when private creditors return to Athens for a fresh round of talks to avert a chaotic default.

After weeks of bargaining, deadlocks and an intervention by euro zone ministers, Greece and its bondholders find themselves back at the drawing board as they search for a compromise needed to clinch a bailout for Athens before it runs out of money.

The focus of a new round of talks is expected to be whether banks budge from what they have billed as their “final offer” of a 4 percent coupon on the new bonds that Greece will swap out for existing debt after euro zone finance ministers rejected that proposal.

JAN 25, 2012

As euro crisis fears ease, focus turns to growth

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) – There is a palpable sense of hope at the annual Davos World Economic Forum that the euro zone is edging away from the brink of catastrophe but business leaders say Europe’s woes are still holding back a global recovery.

A growth strategy is the missing ingredient in the policy cocktail that euro zone leaders are mixing to save the currency bloc from break-up. Without economic recovery, re-election will be tough for presidents in Europe and beyond this year.

The 2,600 political and business leaders attending the five-day Davos Forum meet against a backdrop of improved market sentiment driven by signs the euro zone may escape recession and that intense market pressure on Italy and Spain is easing.

Greece is clinging to hope of a bond swap agreement to avoid a starker default, although an agreement is far from assured. But markets seem relatively unconcerned at the prospect of an enforced Greek default, seeing the problem increasingly as a one-off event divorced from developments elsewhere in the euro zone.

“There is an increasing sense that Greece is different from the others and that the contagion elsewhere could be contained,” Giles Keating, head of private banking research at Credit Suisse, said ahead of the Forum’s first full day on Wednesday.

“There is a sense of political will and mechanical capability to do so,” he added.

Markets have rallied on promising signs from Europe — the broad MSCI world equity index is up some 5 percent for the year so far — but this rally appears to be losing steam and masks underlying concerns about growth.

JAN 23, 2012

History repeats itself in euro crisis debt spat

PARIS (Reuters) – There are weeks when it can sound as if the European sovereign debt crisis is going round in circles.

Barbed exchanges between Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and German Chancellor Angela Merkel carry echoes of a prolonged dialogue of the deaf between Greece and Germany two years ago when Berlin was resisting calls to bail out Athens.

Then as now, a debt-stricken government pushing through spending cuts, tax rises and economic reforms pleaded for lower interest rates and stronger European (read German) support to convince citizens the pain is worthwhile.

Now as then, a chancellor constrained by public hostility to bailouts and convinced only market pressure can keep profligate nations on a path of righteousness is turning a deaf ear, saying there is no need to act since no one is requesting aid.

The delay in acting to help Greece in early 2010 undermined financial market confidence in the 17-nation single European currency, which has still not been wholly restored, and raised the cost of the eventual rescue.

But it’s not all deja vu, because Germany has far more confidence in Monti’s Italy than it ever had in Greece.

As a result, EU officials expect Merkel to relent and agree to a bigger European financial firewall in March once euro zone leaders have signed two key treaties sought by Berlin on budget discipline and the rules of a permanent rescue fund.

JAN 23, 2012

Analysis: History repeats itself in euro crisis debt spat

PARIS (Reuters) – There are weeks when it can sound as if the European sovereign debt crisis is going round in circles.

But it’s not all deja vu, because Germany has far more confidence in Monti’s Italy than it ever had in Greece.

DEC 14, 2011

Pressure for more ECB action after summit falls short

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Pressure mounted on Wednesday for the European Central Bank to intervene more decisively after financial markets judged that yet another EU summit had failed to resolve the euro zone’s debt crisis.

But Germany’s powerful central bank chief, Jens Weidmann, an influential voice in the ECB, made clear his opposition to ramping up the ECB’s purchases of euro zone government bonds.

He also said the Bundesbank would only provide fresh funds for the International Monetary Fund to help fight the euro zone crisis if countries beyond Europe did so too.

The euro sank to an 11-month low against the dollar, stocks slid and Italy had to pay a euro era record yield to sell 5-year bonds as nervous investors awaited a possible credit rating downgrade for one or more euro zone countries.

Rome had to pay 6.47 percent to sell 3 billion euros of bonds, up from a record 6.29 percent a month ago, highlighting fierce market pressure ahead of a year in which Italy has a gross funding goal of 440 billion euros starting in late January.

Ireland’s European Affairs Minister, Lucinda Creighton, said last week’s summit agreement among 26 European Union states, with Britain dissenting, to negotiate a new fiscal pact to enforce EU budget rules more strictly was not going to stop the crisis.

“Having the fiscal compact in place by March is desirable but I don’t think it’s going to save the euro,” she told reporters on a visit to Paris.

DEC 11, 2011

Analysis: Cameron puts Britain offside and offshore in Europe

LONDON (Reuters) – David Cameron has put Britain offside and offshore in Europe.

In his failed last-minute quest for special treatment over financial regulation, the prime minister has taken Britain out of the room where decisions on the future of Europe will be shaped.

The consequence could well be a prolonged, bitter parting of the ways between the British and the rest of the European Union, culminating in an acrimonious divorce in which both sides lose.

The cheers of British Eurosceptics for Cameron’s veto of EU treaty changes to allow the countries that share the euro single currency to pursue closer fiscal union were echoed by cries of “good riddance” in much of mainland Europe.

How this can safeguard the interests of the City of London financial centre is a mystery, not least to some of the bankers and executives whose much criticized sector accounts for 10 percent of the British economy.

“No matter what happens now, the UK has isolated itself and lost critical influence for no gain whatsoever,” said Sony Kapoor, head of the Brussels economic think-tank Re-Define.

Britain is already seen by many as a free-rider, enjoying the benefits of being the euro zone’s principal financial centre without the responsibilities of membership, while refusing to contribute to rescue packages for indebted countries.

DEC 11, 2011

Cameron puts Britain offside and offshore in Europe

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – .David Cameron has put Britain offside and offshore in Europe.

In his failed last-minute quest for special treatment over financial regulation, the prime minister has taken Britain out of the room where decisions on the future of Europe will be shaped.

The consequence could well be a prolonged, bitter parting of the ways between the British and the rest of the European Union, culminating in an acrimonious divorce in which both sides lose.

How this can safeguard the interests of the City of London financial centre is a mystery, not least to some of the bankers and executives whose much criticised sector accounts for 10 percent of the British economy.

“No matter what happens now, the UK has isolated itself and lost critical influence for no gain whatsoever,” said Sony Kapoor, head of the Brussels economic think-tank Re-Define.

DEC 10, 2011

Sarkozy, Draghi winners in EU rift, Cameron loses

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Napoleon dreamed of it, De Gaulle fought for it, but Nicolas Sarkozy may have achieved it — a Europe of Nations with France in the cockpit and Britain on the sidelines.

The French president emerged as one of the big winners of a European Union summit on Friday which ended with up to 26 member states agreeing to move forward in economic integration around the euro zone, and Britain alone in staying out.

“Of course this is not just a long-standing desire, but a long-standing goal of French politics … because in the French tradition Britain never really belonged to the European Union, dating back to De Gaulle,” said a senior EU official who attended the summit, referring to the French president’s veto of British entry in 1963 and again in 1967.

By obstructing the wish of the other EU members to amend the bloc’s governing Lisbon treaty to allow closer fiscal union among the 17-nation single currency area, British Prime Minister David Cameron managed to unite Europe against him.

He may be feted by Eurosceptics at home, but he emerged as the biggest diplomatic loser of the summit, leading his country into an isolation that all his predecessors sought to avoid.

For centuries, a basic principle of British diplomacy was to maintain a balance of power on the European mainland forming shifting alliances with the main continental powers.

Cameron not only failed to win a blanket veto right over EU financial services legislation. The illusion of leading a group of 10 non-euro member states like Sweden and Poland, committed to a more liberal, open economy, crumbled as his supposed allies threw in their lot with the euro zone.

DEC 9, 2011

Analysis: Sarkozy, Draghi winners in EU rift, Cameron loses

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Napoleon dreamed of it, De Gaulle fought for it, but Nicolas Sarkozy may have achieved it — a Europe of Nations with France in the cockpit and Britain on the sidelines.

He may be feted by Eurosceptics at home, but he emerged as the biggest diplomatic loser of the summit, leading his country into an isolation that all his predecessors sought to avoid.

For centuries, a basic principle of British diplomacy was to maintain a balance of power on the European mainland forming shifting alliances with the main continental powers.

DEC 9, 2011

ECB limits bond buying, eurozone looks to banks

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is capping its weekly bond purchases at 20 billion euros and euro zone officials hope its new bumper liquidity provision will allow banks to buy more government debt and ease crisis-hit states’ borrowing costs, ECB sources said on Friday.

The bank has bought no more than 22 billion euros worth of bonds in any week since it reactivated its bond-buy programme in August. ECB sources said it would keep purchases to a maximum of 20 billion euros now and is not considering bigger action in response to an EU summit decision to create a fiscal union.

Twenty-three of the EU’s 27 leaders agreed to pursue tighter integration with stricter budget rules for the euro zone, though Britain said it could not accept proposed amendments to the EU treaty after failing to secure concessions for itself.

“We more or less anticipated what would come out,” one ECB source said. “We don’t see any need for new deliberation.”

The ECB bond-buy cap would remain at the level set weekly for the last few weeks by the Governing Council, a second source said. Weekly purchases have not topped 10 billion euros since September, less than half the limit.

“You will see some further purchases but not the huge bazooka that some people in the markets and the media are awaiting,” the second source said.

ECB President Mario Draghi had already dashed market expectations of increased bond buys in return for tougher budget rules a day earlier, when the central bank nonetheless agreed to boost its liquidity provision to banks.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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, Nuzul i Isa-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.

Changed to:

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

Original

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.

________________________________

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

[excerpt]

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

excerpt

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 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.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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

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.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Operatives

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

Judaizing operatives using Judaist pseudo Hebrew contacts, sources and fronts to mask their ON PURPOSE Vatican II sponsored return to paganism are not even worth bothering with see shoah bizness.

Look up, your redemption is at hand: Hermes Trimegistus

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.

___________________________________________________________________

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!

____________________________________________________________________

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

________________________________________________________________

Please see this for a connection of all of this to the medieval and Renaissance Knights of Malta:

The Knights of St. John (SMOM)

________________________________________________________________

All copyrighted sources are quoted and used for comment and education in accord with the nonprofit provisions of: Title 17 U.S.C., Section 107. These sites are in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C., Section 107 and are protected under: The First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, ….

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted by Miko at 12:50 PM

1 comments:

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

Thursday, July 28, 2011

We are to love God and our neighbor as ourselves.

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

Pages

My Blog List