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The Northeast Corner and the Corner Stone
Why is, or ought to be, the first stone of any building laid in the northeast corner A. The ancients believed that the movements, conjunctions, and position of the heavenly bodies influenced not only the destiny of nations, but of individuals, and regulated all the affairs of life. Their temples were dedicated to the worship of the sun, and the whole process of their erection, from the laying of the first stone up to their completion, as well as all the details of the architecture, had...
What does if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast if from thee mean
Opinions are divided among Christians as to whether Jesus is speaking literally or figuratively here, but nothing is to be gained by changing the literal meaning. It would be more profitable to do this literally and enter into eternal life with one eye if our eyes caused us to sin, than to be cast down to hell as a result of that sin, with two eyes. And to further emphasize the seriousness of sin Jesus went on in V30 to include the right hand, and in chapter 18 and Mark 9, He also included the...
The Origin Of The Worship Team
In many contemporary churches, whether charismatic or noncharis-matic, the choir has been replaced by the worship team. Such churches have sanctuaries that boast few religious symbols except possibly banners . At the front of the stage is a simple podium, some plants, amplifiers, speakers, and lots of wires. The dress is usually casual. Folding chairs or theater seats typically are used in place of pews. The standard worship team includes an amplified guitar, drums, keyboard, possibly a bass...
Whoever Financed Russell Had Big Plans For His Society
Russell's WT Society was financed by some heavyweights. The history of the WT Society gives evidence that the power to bring in a one-world-government financed Russell. The WT Society has been a proxy for the One-World New Order to accomplish certain goals. Unfortunately, the JWs in the trenches, have not known how they have been used. JWs brought upon themselves all kinds of persecution when Rutherford announced to them that the angels had revealed that all national flags were the devil's...
Models of the Trinity
Does the doctrine of the Trinity make sense Enlightenment thinkers denounced the doctrine as incoherent, but during the twentieth century many theologians came to a fresh appreciation of trinitarian theology, and in recent decades a number of Christian philosophers have sought to formulate philosophically defensible versions of the doctrine of the Trinity. Two broad models or approaches are typically identified social trinitarianism, which lays greater emphasis on the diversity of the persons,...
Archaeology and the Book of Exodus Exit From Egypt
In earlier issues, The Good News examined archaeological finds that illuminate portions of the books of Genesis and Exodus. In this issue we continue our exploration of discoveries that help us understand other aspects of the Exodus account, beginning with the incident of the Israelites' worship of the golden calf. After crossing the Red Sea see The Red Sea or the Reed Sea , p. 24 , the Israelites made their way to Mount Sinai. The account of Israel's appropriation of a golden calf to worship...
Bill Somers Prophetic Vision
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel (1 Ki 22 39 KJV) This is an attempt to relate a very unusual word from the Lord. I will include the reasoning behind it and the dramatic way in which He confirmed it at the conclusion. It is my common habit to listen to the bible on cassette tape when I am driving. Often the Lord will quicken a...
How To Prepare For Your Child's Confirmation Ceremony
Your son or daughter has been baptized, had their Christening, and has received Eucharist for the first time as part of communion. Now they are entering their teen years, and it is customary to receive their Confirmation. So what does that mean for you as the parent Before you start sending out the confirmation party invitations, you will want to read our suggestions below on how you can help your child prepare for such an important event in their life. With the Sacrament of the Confirmation,...
The Second Authorship Kierkegaards Authorship from 1846 to 1855
With the publication of Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Two Ages, Kierkegaard brought to a close a five-year period of remarkable literary productivity. He now intended to wind up his writing and seek ordination. Troubled, however, about doubts concerning his fitness for the ministry and increasingly concerned at the unchristian nature of contemporary Christianity, he abandoned this plan and returned to writing. From 1846 onward, however, his writing takes on a different quality. He...
Brotherhood Of The Great White Lodge
Hall, the Great Masonic leader wrote, Through the labyrinth of diversity only the illumined mind can, and must lead the soul into the perfect light of unity.1 The Freemasons have promoted the illuminated minds of the New Age movement. New Age leaders who have been illuminated by the Brotherhood of the Great White Lodge have been helped by and promoted by the Freemasons. Most New Age channellers are not Masons, nor are they expected to be to receive Masonic sympathy. The leaders of the...
All Under The Authority Of The Great White Brotherhood
Elizabeth Clare Prophet has emphatically made a big issue that she is following orders from the Great White Brotherhood. The Great White Brotherhood is the same group that Bailey, H.P.B., the Rosicrucians and the Esoteric Masons follow. Note, they are following the same authority. The Masonic Book Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry, 1907 written based on information from the highest Masonic authorities, states on pg. 79, THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE. 114 The Ancient Wisdom Religion is the Thread-soul'...
Why did Jesus allow the demons to go into the pigs causing them to drown
To better understand why Jesus allowed the demons to go into the pigs, causing them to drown, we need first to study Mark's and Luke's account of this incident. In Matthew's account there are two demoniacs mentioned, whereas both Mark and Luke only mention one. That is not to say that there were not two demoniacs involved, but that only the most prominent one was mentioned CP Mk 5 1-20 Lu 8 26-39 . Jesus' purpose was to save the man. His wellbeing is the issue here, not the pigs. What happened...
The Pre Adamic Age the Age from the Creation of the Universe to the Creation of Adam
Time Period Unknown, but likely to be many millions of years in duration, as confirmed by star distances. Key Events The First Age began with the creation of the heavens and the earth (i.e. the universe), which marked the beginning of time and the beginning of God's Plan of the Ages. (Genesis 1 1) All of the angels sang together and shouted for joy over the creation of the earth. It follows, therefore, that the angels were created before the earth was created. (Job 38 4-7) Also, the earth must...
Masons Have Played Prominent Roles In The Presbyterian Church
This section must be prefaced by saying that the United Presbyterian church is very close to Freemasonry. There are more United Presbyterians than all the other 7 major Presbyterian denominations put together. There is in excess of 2 million American United Presbyterians in 9,000 churches. In contrast, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church had only 16,590 members in the 1982 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches and the Presbyterian Church of North America was listed having but 4,878.5 The...
The Christian Calling Winning Souls To Christ
It is the responsibility of every believer in the New Testament Church to win souls to Christ. That is the Christian calling. It is not an option for believers, but a command that has to obeyed Christ has commanded it (CP Mt 28 18-20 Mk 16 15-16 Ac 1 6-8 10 42-43). Christ's directive to His followers in Mt 28 and Mk 16 has been termed the Great Commission in the contemporary Church, but that term is a misnomer. Christ's directive is more than a commission - it is a command. A commission can be...
This Book Is Dedicated
TO ALL THE MEN amp WOMEN WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN OPPOSITION TO THE 1-WORLD-CONSPIRACY THIS DEDICATION amp LIST WILL MAKE MORE SENSE AFTER YOU READ THE BOOK AND ITS DOCUMENTATION. The deaths of some of these people have been described as accidents and suicides, in some cases the circumstances of these supposed suicides, make suicide the last possibility. I will not give their murderers the consolation of downplaying their martyrdom. It is time to recognize these heros for truth and freedom....
Questions For Personal Application
These questions at the end of each chapter focus on application to life. Because I think doctrine is to be felt at the emotional level as well as understood at the intellectual level, in many chapters I have included some questions about how a reader feels regarding a point of doctrine. I think these questions will prove quite valuable for those who take the time to reflect on them. 1. In what ways (if any) has this chapter changed your understanding of what systematic theology is What was your...
The Canons of the Coptic Church
Only fifteen years after its foundation, the church was already faced with the need to enact certain regulations for the Gentile converts to Christianity. These enactments, made at the Council of the Apostles at Jerusalem in 48 (Acts 15), may be regarded as the beginning of what was known later as canon law, and, in the centuries that followed, the church was forced on many occasions to enact such laws to establish correct belief, to regulate the performance of the Divine Liturgy and the...
Where Did The Protestant Order Of Worship Come From
Pastors who routinely tell their congregations that we do everything by the Book and still perform this ironclad liturgy are simply not correct. In their defense, the lack of truthfulness is due to ignorance rather than overt deception. You can scour your Bible from beginning to end, and you will never find anything that remotely resembles our order of worship. This is because the first-century Christians knew no such thing. In fact, the Protestant order of worship has about as much biblical...
How The Prieure De Sion Started The Scottish Rite
Charles Radclyffe was the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion from 1727-1746.1 It is probable that Scottish Rite Freemasonry was originally promulgated, if not indeed devised, by Charles Radclyffe.17 It seems also most likely that Charles Radclyffe was one of the unknown superiors likely the head one of a German nobleman Baron Karl Gottheif von Hund18 1722-1776 who is well known to have created the Rite of Strict Observance.19 According to von Hund a Grand Master of a super secret order...
Edward Irving 17921834 The Rapture and the Rupture Between Israel and the Church
Irving and the Revival of 19th Century Premillennialism The development of premillennialism in the nineteenth century, and the revolution in prophetic and apocalyptic speculation concerning the 'rapture' and the return of Christ can be largely attributed to the Scottish, Edward Irving1, also the forerunner of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.2 Having accepted a call in 1822 to pastor the Church of Scotland congregation at the Caledonian Chapel, Iriving soon became a popular if...
The Apocalypse and Armageddon
We may speak of the Apocalypse in terms of a radical leap in human evolution on psychic and spiritual levels, and perhaps even in terms of a radical leap in material development and evolution. According to Sophian teachings, what this evolution actually represents is an acceleration in the consciousness of humanity, sparked by an influx of supernal light and the corresponding activation of a fiery intelligence the incarnation of the light-bearer in humanity. The aim of this acceleration of...
Classical Theories Of Atonement
Before turning to these writings, however, let us briefly review the Christian doctrine of atonement concerning God's redeeming and reconciling activity in and through the suffering and death of Christ. Several types of atonement theory have emerged in the Christian tradition to explain how and why Christ's atonement took place and what it accomplished. The earliest type, known as the classic or dramatic theory, was first worked out by the Greek church father Irenaeus, whose interpretation...
Mystics and Troubadours
While Bernard was extolling the love of God that ultimately leads to love of oneself for the sake of God, poets were extolling the love of woman for the ennoblement of man. What is notable from the twelfth century on is that Christian theological and mystical conceptions of love on the one hand and secular courtly love on the other hand intertwine. We can see this development in relation to medieval interpretations of the relationship of the bridegroom and bride in the Song of Songs. In the...
Caritas The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape and Hellenistic Eros
The person in the West who more than any other synthesized the Hellenistic heritage of eros with the biblical proclamation of agape was St. Augustine 354-430 . His intellectual and spiritual journey from pagan philosopher and rhetorician to Christian priest and then bishop entailed profound reflection and writing upon his Greco-Roman heritage and the religious options of his day. His writings - autobiographical reflection, biblical studies, polemical works against rival religions and perceived...
Why The New World Order Created Billy Graham
The New World Order doesn't feel they can fail when they can create men like Billy Graham. The New World Order has made him the most respected man in America. And he is their man consciously working for them. If he lives long enough he will be one of their most powerful assets to bring in a false Christ. Adam Weishaupt, organizer of the Bavarian llluminati, said in German, The most admirable thing of all is that great Protestant and reformed theologians who belong to our Order really believe...
Sir John Dee Introduces Enochian Magic
Esoteric knowledge spread to England before Ireland. A famous Welchman, Dr. John Dee, created a center for estoteric studies. Sir John Dee, was the court astrologer for Queen Elizabeth. He also was a brilliant magician, physician, philosopher, alchemist, Cabbalist, mathematician, scientist, and diplomatic emissary. This model of the Renaissance man lay the groundwork for modern speculative Freemasonry. He lectured on the Continent to the great European universities on Geometry. Sir John Dee was...
Constantine And Roman Hierarchy
The hierarchical leadership structure first emerged in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia. It was later carried over into the Greek and Roman culture where it was perfected. Historian D. C. Trueman writes, The Persians made two outstanding contributions to the ancient world The organization of their empire and their religion. Both of these contributions have had considerable influence on our western world. The system of imperial administration was inherited by Alexander the Great, adopted by...
Natsarim and Nazirite
ARE THESE RELATED WORDS Natsar & Nazir -- A Crash Study THE WORD NATSAR There is usually some initial confusion with the words Natsar and Nazir. The original Hebrew for Nazarene is based on the root natsar, and means to watch -- this is because the area around the burg Natsareth was named for it, hence the word Gennetsaret (vale of Netsar) -- referring to the whole district. Natsarith as it is sometimes transliterated, was a community with a view. It was built on a hilltop. Natsarith's root...
Gnosis Secret Knowledge
Through our brief contemplation of the name Yeshua and the name Yahweh, we have come into contact with esoteric knowledge'' or gnosis, which would be called outer knowledge among Gnostics. If a - -r-son were to meditate upon the teachings given, look deeper into the names of Yeshua and Yahweh and have a direct and personal spiritual experience of the mystery symbolized by these names, he or she would acquire what Gnostics call inner knowledge. Outer knowledge and inner knowledge among Gnostics...
What About The Good Billy Graham Does
God does work good through all circumstances, and can exercise His will in spite of Satan. Christians recognize that He created Satan, and certainly knows how Satan thinks. Some readers may wonder whether it isn't just as well to allow Billy Graham to continue his crusades, even though behind the scenes he might be something else. This Author would like to suggest that Christians reevalute what is really happening at the Crusades. Marshall Frady has written perhaps the best book making an...
Romanticism Spinozism and Pantheism
Pantheism is a third way. (Novalis)59 Because you can see no third alternative, and because you will not deify nature, you deify human consciousness. (Schleiermacher to Jacobi)60 The Romantics were not Spinozists in the sense that they carried out Spinoza's philosophy in its details. The content of Spinoza's thought inspired and guided them in four, very general, ways. His idea of God as immanent cause provided them with a new way of understanding the relation between God (the infinite) and the...
Origin Meaning Morality Destiny
Anyone can claim to be the only path to God. In fact, quite a few crackpots have made that assertion throughout history. The real issue is why anybody should believe Jesus was telling the truth when he said it. On what basis do you believe this claim by Jesus is true I asked Zacharias. Ah, yes, that is the heart of the question, he replied, his head nodding. On one hand, you can say that the resurrection of Jesus established him as being the son of God. If that's true, then all other faith...
The Sacrificial Victim
The two paths we have followed until now the documentary evidence on the one, back through the centuries from the start of the Christian era, the Egyptian historical evidence on the other, down through the centuries have both brought us to the same point in history, the fourteenth century B.C. This was the time of Moses receiving the Lord's commandments and appointing Joshua to be his successor, on the one hand, and Akhenaten leading the Amarna religious revolution and appointing Tutankhamun to...
The Masonic Holy Trinity
But if the Caballists believe in a Holy Trinity doesn't that make them Christians The Cabala is Occult Science itself. It is the secret theology of the initiates, theology essentially Satanic. In a word counter-theology. Our God, the God of the Christians, is the power of evil in the eyes of the Cabalists and for them the power of good, the real God, is Lucifer. One cannot be a convinced Cabalist without soon becoming a magician and devoting oneself to the practices of occultism.5 This explains...
The Beautiful Virgin Of The Third Degree
Season when the sun enters that sign. This figure of the goddess Rhea, it will be seen, resembles somewhat the virgin of Cross, standing by the broken column, holding in her hand a sprig of acacia instead of the spikes of wheat. Rhea was the daughter of Sky and Earth Coelus and Terra . She was also the mother of Jupiter and wife of Saturn, also known as Kro-nos, or Time. This would quite naturally permit the association of the figure of Saturn and his scythe or Time with that of the virgin. In...
The Mark of the Beast
That the Power plans to cause all to take a Luciferian initiation. That the One World Order plans to tag and mark everyone so that they can be instantly identified by satellites, and so they must buy and sell through their controlled system. That the Watchtower Society is coordinating with these plans. Has the reader watched a TV show on India, or met with a Guru Perhaps you've seen how Hinduism, expecially the Hindu teachers mark their foreheads with a red, yellow, or white dot. This is the...
Penance from the Sixth Century
The sacrament of penance underwent a dramatic change from the end of the sixth century Irish and Anglo-Saxon monk-missionaries, who had not known the older system of public penance, began fanning out across Europe, founding or refounding Christian communities, and introducing the 'monastic' practice of penance. This involved private confession to a spiritual father or mother , reception of an appropriate penance which was aimed more at restoring the balance of the moral universe than at...
The Mysterious Oudendyke Report
Students of the Communist movement are bound to run across the story of how M. Oudendyke, Netherlands Minister in Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution, had warned the British and French governments that Communism is Jewish but that this warning had been carefully deleted from the official British papers on the subject. Oudendyke had taken over British affairs in Russia at the time. It may be asserted that such a report never existed. Yet here it is, printed in 1931 as part of the USA...
Thomas Aquinas on the Neoplatonic Hierarchy of Virtues
Like Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas directly addresses the Neoplatonic theory of a hierarchy of virtues. The theory makes an appearance in the Summa Theologiae, where Aquinas, like Bonaventure in the Collations, does not attribute the theory to Porphyry but to Macrobius.40 The fifth article of question 61 Iallae asks Are the cardinal virtues appropriately divided into political, purifying, purified, and exemplar virtues 41 After citing some Aristotelian and one Ciceronian objections that seem to...
Were the Ancient Egyptians of the Aryan Race
As it is a recognized fact that the Jews borrowed most of their laws from the Egyptians, let us examine who were the Egyptians. In our opinion which is but a poor authority, of course they were the ancient Indians, and in our first volume we have quoted passages from the historian Collouca-Batta that support such a theory. What we mean by ancient India is the following No region on the map except it be the ancient Scythia is more uncertainly defined than that which bore the designation of...
Sheaf Of Wheat Hanging By A River
When any of the fugitives attempted to cross over, they were commanded to say shibboleth, but, as they could not frame to pronounce it right, and said sibboleth, they were discovered and slain, to the number of forty-and-two thousand. This latter interpretation Dr. Oliver thinks to be the true one. He says, Such is the historical account of the warfare of Jephthah with the Ephraimites, and the reputed origin of the symbol and its interpretation, because the...
Terra Catacombe Meaning
FOR THE MOST PART, existing examples of Christian visual art come from Rome and date to the beginning of the third century c.e gt , a time when Roman Christians weTe enjoying a brief respite from the widespread but sporadic persecutions they had suffered during the reign of Marcus Aurelius 160-180 . During the relatively tolerant reign of Emperor Commodus ISO-192 , the church acquired land outside the city walls-, on the Via Appia Antica, for use as a burial ground, allowing them to inter...
No handle on the cross kosuke koyama
The Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama sums up his image of Christ in the sentence, No handle on the Cross and made it the title of a book.9 Koyama directs our attention toward the central event in the life of Jesus, his death on the cross, which in Christianity is accepted as a saving event for all humankind, unique in its offer and its effect. The impossibility of classifying Jesus is based upon an ultimately radically changed understanding of God. Koyama expresses the incomparabil-ity of...
Subalterns identity politics and Christian theology in India
Puzzles on the ground, remembering the context Let me start by stating how I have come to forge a relationship between subalternity, identity politics and Christian theology in India. In 2001 I took my class of twenty-four students to spend three days with a dalit Christian community in a Tamilnadu village in south India.1 I made this a requirement for my course on 'dalit theology', which I taught from 1996 to 2004 at the United Theological College, Bangalore. This pilgrimage was designed to...
Critique and Reconstruction
From the outset, the goal of liberating women had two aspects. First, feminists sought to identify the various forms of oppression that structured women's lives, and second, they imagined and sought to create an alternative future without oppression. What soon became apparent, however, was that oppression is not always easy to name. In fact, because oppression affects the very way one thinks about oneself and one's world, it is often quite difficult to even see, much less name. Oppression makes...
The Arrogance Of Christianity
Forgive me for being blunt, I said in prefacing my question, but isn't it grossly arrogant for Christians to claim Jesus is the one and only way to God Why do Christians think they're justified in asserting that they're right and that everybody else in the world is wrong While Zacharias' accent and conservative business attire-a starched white shirt and muted tie-gave him an air of formality, he was invariably enthusiastic, warm, and engaging in his answers. Lee, I hear that question so much,...
Redemption Righteousness Worship
Comedian Quentin Crisp once said When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe ' His humor was actually a sad commentary on the depth of sectarian strife in that land. Through the centuries, the world has seen plenty of acrimony and violence over differences in the way people view God. Disgusted by religious bickering, some people have...
Lutheran and Reformed Theology a Christological Comparison
Unlike Lutheranism, Reformed theology did not look to one single individual as its symbolic theological fountainhead. Instead, its origins and development lay with a number of highly significant theologians, of whom Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and Johannes Oecolampadius are probably the most significant of the first generation. In subsequent years, John Calvin, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Theodore Beza, Jerome Zanchius, Amandus Polanus, Franciscus Junius, and William Perkins...
Freemasonry Roman Catholicism
The Roman Catholic Church has always been the great foe of Freemasonry. In a speech made by the late Monseigneur Jouin, founder of the Revue International des Societes Secretes, entitled Papacy and Freemasonry, on December 8, 1930, it is noted that Papacy and Freemasonry, those are the two powers active throughout the world and each is seeking to dominate it. The solution of the struggle taking place between them is, at the present moment of the utmost importance for we are face to face not...
Everything You Need To Know About The Number 666
A Word from the Table Fulfilled Prophecy Must Match Behold, I Have Told You The Biblical Count of the 666 The Path to This is Not Time The Mountains are Errors in the Papal Table Table The Alignment of 34 Matching Elements of This Prophecy 49 A Matching Alignment Confirms the The Elements of the 666 Prophecy From Scripture, and Their Matching Elements of Fulfillment From the Historic Record 52 Rules of Interpretation of Table The Perfect The Identification of a Beast's Head From Daniel's...
The Origins Of The Choir
This all began to change with the rise of the clergy and the advent of the Christian choir, which dates back to the fourth century. Shortly after the Edict of Milan AD 313 , the persecution of Christians ceased. During Constantine's reign, choirs were developed and trained to help celebrate the Eucharist. The practice was borrowed from Roman custom, which began its imperial ceremonies with processional music. Special schools were established, and choir singers were given the status of a...
The Dalit theology of India
The 1970s also saw the emergence of this theology from among the Christian Dalits, that is, those broken, downtrodden, destroyed by the nefarious system of discrimination between the so-called high, low, and scheduled castes in India. Their weak self-identity as untouchables and outcastes is derived from centuries of cruel segregation religiously sanctioned by the Hindu canon law dharmasastra . Today all the backward castes the current euphemism for so-called low castes and outcastes , tribal...
The Infinite Qualitative Difference Between God And Human Beings
One reason Kierkegaard, via the persona of Johannes Climacus, so adamantly opposes the immanence or pantheism of ancient and modern speculation is that it does away with the infinite qualitative difference between God and human beings. As Kierkegaard sees it, the law governing the relation between God and human beings is that 'there is an infinite, radical, qualitative difference' between them JP ii. 1383 translation modified cf. CD 63 . Consequently, when a human being wants to speak about...
The Garb Of The Clergy
Let's now shift gears and look at the development of the clergy attire. Christian clergy did not dress differently from the common people until the coming of Constantine. Contrary to popular opinion, clergy apparel (including the ecclesiastical vestments of the high church tradition) did not originate with the priestly dress of the Old Testament. It rather has its origin in the secular dress of the Greco-Roman world. Here is the story Clement of Alexandria argued that the clergy should wear...
Bonaventure on the Neoplatonic Hierarchy of Virtues
Bonaventure is among those medieval Christian philosophers who specifically address this Neoplatonic theory of a hierarchy of virtues. He discusses it at length in Collationes in Hexaemeron 6, where he attributes the theory to Plotinus, apparently on the authority of Macrobius Collation 6 ends with a long excerpt from Macrobius's Dream of Scipio.2 Bonaventure begins the sixth Collation as a discussion of the passage at Genesis 1 4 God saw the light that it was good and he divided the light from...
Liberation theology in Asia
Liberation theology differs from other theologies in that it starts with an analysis of the context, as it wants to respond to the cries of the people arising from it. As contextual theology we can distinguish it by regions -Latin American, African, Asian, European - and by social groups such as the poor, women, blacks, Dalits, indigenous peoples. However, none of these social or geographical identities can be understood in isolation* Contexts and identities are multiple and overlapping. The...
Time as a Moving Image of Eternity
In what manner is Time a moving image of Eternity Proclus tells us that Eternity measures the intelligible, as a unity, while Time measures the things which are in becoming, as numbered. Eternity is a measure in the sense that the multiplicity of intelligibles in the autozoon are all beings, and as such they are all expressions of the unity which is the One-Being. Eternity is the principle which brings them forth into a permanent existence, and leads them back beyond itself to the One-Being,...
Nietzsche Derrida grammar and
In his Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche tells us of his 'fear that we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar',5 thereby expressing, perhaps seminally for much French interpretation of Nietzsche, its logophobia, its fear of language. For all his supreme wordiness, Nietzsche fears language - it torments him with theological paradox. Language, constructed internally from the formal constituents of grammar, divides. Not that language fails merely as expression - because it...
The Good News of the Bride
This is the early life story of the Holy Bride in the tradition. As mentioned above, i is an allegory of the soul ti.at becomes lost and wanders aimless in the cycles of transmigration. In fact, in the Sophian tradition, every aspect of the story of St. Mary Magdalene and everything said cf her relates directly to the relationship of our own consciousness to the Living Yeshua. In truth, our soul ic as a bride to the light-presence, and in unification with the light-presence, we enter into the...
What is Biblical Universalism
Origen of Alexandria (185-254 A.D.) is the earliest Christian theologian known to have written about Universalism that eventually everyone will be saved. However, we do not believe that Origen had the full revelation of true Biblical Universal Salvation. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world. God wills all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. God is the Saviour of ALL people and He will save ALL people. He is working out His plan of...
The Equinoctial Points
These are the points where the sun crosses the celestial equator, which he necessarily does twice in his yearly circuit of the zodiac, at two opposite points, distant from each other in space 180 , and in time six months. The point where the sun crosses in spring, coming north, is called the vernal or spring equinox and the other, where he crosses six months afterward, going south, is called the autumnal equinox. At these periods the days and nights are equal, and that is the reason why they...
Wotk er and Child lUordh
INE OF THE MOST outstanding examples of how _J Babylonian paganism has continued to our day may be seen in the way the Romish church invented Mary worship to replace the ancient worship of the mother goddess. The story of the mother and child was widely known in ancient Babylon and developed into an established worship. Numerous monuments of Babylon show the goddess mother Semiramis with her child Tammuz in her arms.1 When the people of Babylon were scattered to the various parts of the earth,...
The Exile and Redemption of Sophia
In most Gnostic traditions, the purpose of the divine incarnation of the Logos is not salvation of the world. Rather, it is the redemption of Sophia, who is fallen and exiled in the world. Essentially, divine wisdom is the true nature of consciousness, which is the foundation of creatures and creation, and she is bound within creatures and creation to the dominion of the demiurgos and arckons hence in bondage to cosmic ignorance. Thus, through the incarnation, Logos enters into the world to...
Have failed he says But Aragorn says to him No You have conquered Few have gained such a victory Be at peace [LotR p405
Aragorn words are not just for Boromir's comfort before death, but they are the truth. Boromir, before he dies, sees his fault and asks forgiveness, he gains a victory over himself in seeing how the Ring tempted him he repents and dies in peace. This act of Boromir, through providence, is crucial in helping the Quest succeed. Frodo and Sam make for Mordor alone, Pippin and Merry come to Fangorn, and Aragorn, Gandalf and the others ride to the help of Rohan. Once again the lesson is that God can...
The Leadership Passes To Others
Fred Franz played a big role as the oracle of the Society. It was Governing Body member Karl F. Klein that perhaps first refered to Fred Franz as the WT's oracle. But he became a figure head to conceal that the real directing influence of the WT Society was outside of the Society. A big 6'2 Jewish man has gone everywhere with Fred Franz as his guide these last few decades. This man, Natheer Salih, was needed because Fred became blind. However, for many years people at Bethel found that Salih...
God Becomes Grand Master
On Tuesday, 23 November, 1954 a slim, reticent, kindly man took the stand in the Right Honorable James Latham Clyde's courtroom.1 The man's name was Frederick William Franz, who besides Russell and Rutherford, has contributed more leadership for the Jehovah's Witnesses than any other man. He was then Vice-President and later became the President of the Watchtower Society. When he got older, arrangements were taken to place the power in the hands of others. While Nathan Knorr was still...
The Patriarchs Identical with Zodiacal Signs
The above are the ten biblical patriarchs, identical with Hindu Pragapatis (Pradjapatis), and the Sephiroth of the Kabala. We say ten patriarchs, not twenty, for the Kenite line was devised for no other purpose than, 1, to carry out the idea of dualism, on which is founded the philosophy of every religion for these two genealogical tables represent simply the opposing powers or principles of good and evil and 2, as a blind for the uninitiated masses. Suppose we restore them to their primitive...
Mircea Eliade the Sacred and Islam
Mircea Eliade was certainly aware of the religious and political significance of the founder-Prophet of Islam, Muhammad c. 570-632 . Indeed, the subtitle of the third volume of his A History of Religious Ideas is From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms. It is in this work that he provides one of the closest and most extensive insights into his thinking about Islam and the sacred.506 His sources are varied but, by the date of publication in i9 5, already somewhat dated. They range from A. J....
The Tzaddik of the Messiah John the Baptist
Yeshua may have had any number of spiritual teachers, both incarnate and disincarnate. According to all authentic wisdom traditions, all who have attained full self-realization have, to one degree or another, relied upon a spiritual teacher. In the Sophian teachings, it is said that Yeshua had three principle spiritual teachers, though only one was his holy tzaddik, which is to say his true spiritual teacher. One taught him the law, I I Tzai ik. a Hebrew word literally meaning righteous one, is...
A Rainbow Of Dragons
some of the stock tools of the conspiracy the history of the Church Universal amp Triumphant, John Birch Society, amp the Theosophical Society the connections between the CUT, the JBS, amp the TS with Freemasonry. No wise person would knowingly choose to fight their opponent blind and deaf, yet that seems to be the choice which many nominal Christians are choosing. They would like to characterize this book as doomsdayer stuff and then dismiss and ignore this material. They want to eat, drink...
Ressurrection Palladium Lodge In Chicago
Perkins claim their books were inspired by spirits. Is 33 Mason Leadbeater talking about linking up with the Christian Christ The H.O.A.T.F. makes the actual links both with Himself and also through himself with that Mighty King This stage combines the wonderful love of Horus the Son with the ineffable life and strength of Osiris the divine Father and Isis the eternal Mother of the world. This initiation connects the Mason with the pagan egyptian trinity That's what he says....