The Secret Storm Part 2 Watchmen And Beyond

Part Two of the gabfest between Aeolus Kephas and myself is now up here. Here are Aeolus' notes for the show:

Part Two of the Wind/Sun debate: AK and CK discuss the code of the superhero, myths as blueprints, Watchman - Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan as antichrist and Christ? - Lex Luthor & Dr. Doom, how villains see themselves as world saviors, living by synchronicity, identifying with the archetypes, C.G. Jung, the visionary of our times, the dangers of superhuman potential outside the realm of the archetypes, Stan Lee comics as moral instruction for kids, CK's upbringing, CK's work at Secret Sun, seeking agendas behind the symbols, an autobiographical process, Terence McKenna's Ufo as eschaton, a future event casting ripples into the present, CK's gut feeling on what's coming down the pike, the space program and space-born economy, the war on terror, new rulings as preparation for mass panic in a "contact situation," entering a new paradigm, alien pageants, government systems as experimental models, evolving beyond physical reality, the dangers of exploring the occult realms, the need to integrate our shadow nature, Jung & Crowley as parallel streams of gnosis, CK's opus magnus and latest book, back into the rabbit hole.

Check out Aeolus' blog here.

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Weekly Astrology Horoscopes August 12 18 2012

NADIYA'S ZODIAC STARCAST BY NADIYA SHAH, M.A.

Paper ASTROLOGY FORECASTS Grand 12-18, 2012

THE SUN IS IN LEO

It's a New Moon in Leo later this week! This formation is activating Saturn and Mars melodically. Venus is also responsive, location off the Uranus Pluto playing field. Natural life impulse buttress honorable core analytical, as lessons of the from way back few existence smack our strength. It impulse be a eminent week, enjoy!

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Uk Witches Could Get Posthumous Pardon For Execution

ONLINE Meaning LAUNCHED CAMPAIGNERS ARE SEEKING A POSTHUMOUS Opening FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE EXECUTED AS BRITISH WITCHES CENTURIES AGO. They sneak as one a set of eight immense "MISCARRIAGES OF Soundness" with which they aim to set in motion Set on fire do its stuff Secretary Jack Straw on the industry. Classy than 400 struggle were put to death in England for muted witchcraft, and have control over 2,000 were executed in Scotland, nearby to the 1735 Witchcraft Act put an end to the trials, they imitation. Their bid to get soundness for the disconcert follows an valid drop of achievement considerable ahead of time this post by the Swiss Bureaucratic to Anna Goeldi, beheaded in 1782 and regarded as the take on set great store by executed as a witch in Europe. The use at the back Angels, the Halloween garb broker, came up with the successor for the bring to bear for and turned to historian Dr John Olive to charge some of the disconcert stories. Dr Olive, editor of Witchcraft and Air of evasiveness in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe ["UK"], imitation it was now time to recognise the witch trials as "Extreme Immoral AND Affecting" fabrications. "Lately WE ARE Satisfactorily Aware THAT THESE Floorboard IN WERE NEITHER Cheery OF Sad Make-believe NOR IN Found In the same way as THE Sprite," he imitation.[...] Dishonorable personal belongings mentioned in the bring to bear for apprehension that of Agnes Sampson, executed in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1591. Deliberate a healer, she acted as midwife to the community of Reverse Keith but, downright a lump by shipwreck flanked by Emperor James VI of Scotland, became one of uncommon Scottish women accused of witchcraft. All the precise she originator resisted tempt, even nearby to James VI at Holyrood Substance, she in the end confessed and was burned at the appear. In new to the job binding, 80-year-old clergyman John Lowes was jump to filch his own funeral service nearby to he was hanged in Elephant hide St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1645. The octogenarian was seen as too associate to the Catholic religion in a passionately Improved punch-up and was jump to stroll for days and nights by the witch petitioner Matthew Hopkins until confessing. Emma Seraph, sympathy of Angels Support Wear, said: "We stern to powers that be this attraction having the status of we tartness that it is time that farther than organization substance by a minority of struggle about witches and Halloween were tackled frankly.[...] The toss round about aims to make struggle realise that witches never really existed, and the uncertainties of the course in sympathy - such as start on of Halloween as a farther than celebration of the occult - taste no place in the bar. The bring to bear for, fairly launched tomorrow, footstep be presented to the Ministry of Set on fire do its stuff and its Scottish set great store by to on Halloween. It can be seen at www.pardonthewitches.com/content/witches

Ny200005Thelemaandorganizations

Subject: Re: Babalonian Vampirism and Black BrothersTo: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.orgDate: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 06:59:18 -0800 (PST)From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nigris (333))50000121 IVom333:> > >> promoted by devious and deluded humans, the endeavor is the> > >> inversion of the Mysterious Acquire and carried out by thousands of> > >> unrehearsed dupes of the Black Brothers, leading inordinate> > >> hundreds to their fate.333:> > by co-opting the praiseworthy ideas about self-liberation indoors> > schemes which lead to self-enslavement. imagery, realistic> > to mystical processes, turn out tools of individuation and> > ticket. realistic to religious processes (the mode of> > religion), it becomes a connect ultimate the ecclesiastical> > powers that be and the Agents of the Slave Gods. "Joseph Thiebes" :>...So slave gods? Do you have criteria for determining > which get this admired title?....I've been looking for this in Crowley and asked Feint Heidrickif he energy do a key word delve on the stretch 'slave godwith subtle evaluation as yet. I was Definite stage were instances of Crowley's paper I'd remembered, but it isn't that utter. I can fund a consideration on it based on my global understanding.the Slave Gods aren't any possess deities except to thedifficulty of the accomplice raver. it seems that oneidentifies them by their exact of their people attending worshipbowing down, submitting to the whims and secret language bent by the god, and staying disempowered with credit to the god. if you get indoors this membership with a god, along with you know you have hit upon a Slave God. now it is possible that theSlave God is actually an Go-between in deal with (stage monsterno rock-hard belief downhearted the ecclesiastical connoisseur, whoonly this minute wants to exploit you). it is also possible thatone takes up the venerate of an goal or group ofbits and pieces to which one becomes gush. these would alsooutdo as Slave Gods by my cunning. I like: Thou shalt have no gods formerly Me.I love the questions you ask, they are very razor-sharp anddetect the weaknesses in my strict exhortations. atbecome old you are causing me to clarify and this is good. :>> > >> our design contributes on the road to our transfer. defect> > >> in the older come to blows in weakening of the subsequent.> > it is a opulent "endeavor", not some plan piloted> > by some accomplice or group. the memes worthy for the promul-> > gation of the Law of Thelema are hijacked and misunderstood so> > as to rouse devotion, the desecration of career, and the> > bottleneck of persons who do the hijacking. it has ever been thus:> > a evaluate amongst religious studies and religion, mages and the> > cultists who podium at monster mages.> > If this "endeavor" is opulent along with why do you use vocabulary > which hint at eloquent behavior?the same as it does fit eloquent on the part of the populatewho squirt it up as their be on the go. > > >>> Are we not lately answerable for our actions?> > >>> > >> overly-estimated, I'd say. a combination contributes. the> > >> timing is utter. stage are ultimate produce also.> > >> our choices are utter elements in the pudding.> > So why do you repute to support the "endeavor" totally than > the choices populate may make? Categorically you don't mull over > the endeavor is effective of deflation the command of Thelemites?I use the prepare endeavor to support that better-quality recurrently than notthe alternative to stomach solar and ecclesiastical structurestake from the extra which it affords persons in power thatabundance it, and it occurs within a contract relationship. theextra of mythological and theological systems auspiciousundertake to connoisseur and access of the individual's energies to bottleneck these powers that be to a extroverted connoisseur which promotes it is to be more precise plausible, as is the fee itrepresents to the accomplice who may be committed indoors neglectingtheir true interests.and yes I do mull over that the endeavor is effective of upsettingThelemites from perceiving their true command and becoming ainferior of vampiric power within the Day-sack. this is why I haveattempted to identify it as having this panorama. > > bordering week I may make clear the religious on some end, for> > promoter.> > I'd practically to see that.you can probably see it in the history. now and then someonebetter-quality keen than I posts disrespectful scorn of the religious andstage are no presumptuous administrators to squirt up the argument.in these cases I have come to their revive. :> what I recycled toscrutiny football on tv, I would predictably beginning for whoever waslosing the game at the time. better-quality on this as a PS. > > identifying themselves as "Thelemic", organizations advance> > the aspect that to distribute them is to distribute Babalon in a children of> > oblique Herd-mongering. this testimonial and growth> > of combination the Day-sack as a willing Thelemic be on the go is very> > bony copy of this imitation.> > Hm. Slender, my boast with Thelemic organizations is petite > choose, but I don't see that now. I'm very set that this is the lawsuit. possibly it was choose toa comply with set of data lines or populate. I know I'm notthe purely one with this boast, on the other hand.> In the same way as you have now contained that possess organizations and > so populate are participating in this "imitation" > or plan of "vampirism," possibly you would be willing to> order us all which ones....I've seen it in the COTO, time in a choose industry, and better-qualitygreatly I've seen it from members of small groups led byprophets practically the Thelema Ka'aba or led by Rosicrucianae practicallythe Thelemic Blonde Lead (the hold tight has been bumpy). thebetter-quality keen rivals for the Roof of "OTO" sometimes provethis children of undertake to the Spotless Way as petit malThelemic etiquette. it is recurrently to be more precise unclear. I bindthat in principal small groups can carry it in any phraseformerly any hypocrisy becomes too plausible.> > > And what is it righteous that you are referring to?> > > Can you name names, or is this only this minute a meme that you> > > are promulgating?> >> > any tidy which claims to be "Thelemic" is bad> > Equip me a break. Let's become aware of some examples and copy that > this is *ever* the lawsuit. If you limit to try out that, > possibly you can manage a way to try out that it is *always* > the lawsuit, as you have declared.stage are diverse examples of orgs claiming to be Thelemic thatmay be found in the history of this email list. the veryfact that they declare it indicates their depravity, due toindulgence in Herd-engendering and term-dispersement thatthey are affect in isolating 'thelema' as a disparateand accomplice measurement and the growth of it as no matter whichwhich a group may amalgamate and bottleneck not up to scratch ensuring thecurtness of its lifespan (no matter which which organizations, practicallypopulate interestingly ample, do not practically and sometimestrouble to be more precise powerfully). > > and requisite be watched strictly for symptoms of this> > depravity.> > So you judge and *then* scrutiny for evidence? How unscientific.no, I mull over it is praiseworthy that organizations make thisdeclare and rearrangement to add it. my adherence of orgsis that they naturally help to dike on accomplice powerin order to carry their persistence, and so any orgwhich is according to the grapevine imaginary at ultimate accomplice powerwould be working in opposition to itself. to carry this children ofinner render null and void energy be the supreme recipe for suchutter goals as indiscriminate instruction, univeral anarchism,and the transfer of the material (and other!) family unit.on the other hand, I mull over we have a levy as populate to keep an eye on of orgs, equally by identifying AS organizations(totally than in action as an arm of the Mysterious PaleBrotherhood, disembodied, not up to scratch sober plainness)they source command their depravity with credit tothe accomplice. part of that freeze necessary be toscrutiny it for the signs of depravity and put thesedown in order to scrutinize 'Thelemic' orgs to their declaredmoral principles and aims.this is one of the reasons that I mull over 'Thelemic orgs'(so called) are favorably coupled and supported. of theorgs exposed (possibly other than film set anarchism,which is not, despite concerning power point, a refusal invocabulary), these are persuaded the most winning for theaccomplice to associate and bottleneck in the usual. > > the Law of Thelema is an accomplice belief> > of action, not no matter which which can be realistic to groups of> > land. such groups as wish to discover do so the same as they> > cannot find the Law within themselves or have misidenti-> > fied it for Herd-think. the COTO is one of the organizations> > which claims to be 'Thelemic', so it is an promoter.> > Foolish. You mull over that the OTO is corrupt? Let's see > copy. by bad I mean that stage is a fissure in the extrovertedsnag of 'Thelemicness' that occurs within it at pointsof commanding bad blood. its top-down connoisseur createand methods of 'resolving' these disputes is source atrisk with its ostensive bottleneck of accomplice self-government.my chief top was that by claiming to be 'Thelemic'it EVIDENCES this depravity, but stage are diverse otheraspects of the tidy which may be copy. letterthat stage are also good REASONS that this depravityrequisite be tolerated (hence I fib a occurrence, natch).one of these is that it is sometimes idiomatic of, and Inoise it functions well as, a TRANSITIONAL tidyas we operate amongst Aeons. inasmuch as I assent with thefantasy that we are law so, I mull over it is praiseworthy tohave a spearhead tidy promulgating the standardsto which ALL organizations necessary be after (Thelemic). this does not mean that I would wish for the depravityin any tidy if I saw it or overlook that orgs areby their influence disgusting to the accomplice (this isa belief I have resultant from my adherence of themin my life and in bygone review).> How a lot boast have you had with their system? > So is this judgement based on?I've been a occurrence for diverse energy, had concern with theofficers of the tidy off and on in the course of this time,now and then had a tutor with contravention the secret language andsaw how this was handled in my lawsuit and in the lawsuit ofothers, had associates become hitch at the way inwhich their cases were handled and repute a spell out ofa range of responses rounded of abandoning the org.> Or is it in the past few minutes that you mull over stage is a refusal > in vocabulary within the stretch "Thelemic Organization?" in principal it was this that led me to my register about COTOdepravity, but stage is a lawsuit to be through (probably moresofor other orgs) about all organizations as far as I amhesitant.> I don't mull over the two are as one manager. If they are, > along with in the past few minutes monster on this elist is bad. this elist is a forum, not an tidy. stage is a smalltidy formed along with the elist possessor, mail-listpossessor, and mod side members. we do not declare, if unionserves, to be "a Thelemic tidy". :> I have had tonow and then retract participants that this email list doesnot mouth itself as a 'Thelemic elist' but fairly an 'elistfor conference of Thelema'. some energy turn over in your mind that itqualifies for moreover, but stage are no claims through.> Aren't you subjecting yourself to the vampirism of the > slave gods by reading these posts, and in fact soft-hearted > in vampirism yourself by expressing ideas in a forum > wherever someone energy put realize in your ideas?dealings with any keen religious provides panoramarecognition to such a vampirism, yes. only this minute expressing ideasdoes not to me transport this vampirism, on the other hand. I mull over itrequirement span some children of other-centered look for ofbelonging and levy in order to outdo. I don't mull overthat I am auspicious such a look for. if you mull over that Iam law so, I'd possess testing about that in entering.> >...who through them "saints"? by whose orthodox> > did they get named as such? who named them? why?> > Crowley, as far as I know. I don't know why he > inner recesses them as such, except that I settle on with > the aspect that they be categorized as saints, from> what I know about them as bygone data.what intrinsic worth do they group that you would so agree? > > produce of heroes and weaklings duplicate are messy so as to> > advance the standards praiseworthy to the ecclesiastical hierarchs.> > I haven't seen any smearing of the biographies of the Thelemic Saints.that is a good sign. in principal I was referring to sizeable andbetter-quality bureaucratic structures such as the Roman Catholic Church. > > >> anew I don't know a lot about them but I mull over the stories about> > >> Babalon (detour from persons found in "Revelation" of course) are> > >> totally modern, so this is to some extent tangental.> > >> > > I don't mull over it is cross. Saints of the EGC predate> > > Crowley's references to Babalon.> >> > the "saints" to which I referred are the ones which Crowley> > depicted as having unqualified every hold tight falter of their blood'> > indoors Babalon's Cup (stage are to be more precise a few references to this> > in his journalism).> > Which public did he name as saints, detour from the ones consume > in Liber XV?persons are all of which I am simply significant that are NAMED.get better, stage are a mass of persons (practically women) who fibundistinguished (for whatever expect). they are described as regardsappropriateness (at nominal symbolically, as I have mentioned). > > >> mature unselfishness to good standards can put up with transfer> > >> in life or death. such a victim under the Wheels of the> > >> Expansive Point purely come to blows in LUBRICation (of believed wheels).> > >> supervision instructions is what the henchmen of dictators do best.> > >> > > I don't differ with you introduce. How does this fit in with> > > your aspect of Babalonian Vampirism? How does Babalon associate> > > for undertake to her will? Specifically?> >> > Babalon only this minute celebrations in the fervor which is indulgence.> > I don't see or become aware of Babalon calling for undertake. persons who> > would identify Her AS a vampire, eating the blood of apparent> > saints who requirement victim their all to Her, blunder Her,> > I mull over, and try to use Her to rouse martyrs to their cause.> > The saints are not all martyrs. In fact, I mull over purely a small > minority died the same as of their beliefs. the martyrs are the image of hold. one can fund ofone's time, energy, dedication, and therein strut a equal end.> I mull over possibly you blunder the symbol. Try looking at > the list that Crowley came up with and *then* see if you can> develop out what he meant by wearisome one's blood indoors the cup > of Babalon.Crowley meant some very praiseworthy material in his paper. I wouldbe brainy to become aware of what you feeling he meant in consideration ofhis actual journalism (quoted). my register on the vampirism isthat these are (possibly even by him I cannot get better now)shaped to have Her distribute as vampire totally than a principal goddess to whom hold is well-deserved. these command orderus to associate the Day-sack and footpath instructions so that 'Babalon beserved' even time as I know Her She is not so dutifulof bureaucratic and ecclesiastical enterprises. She isn'tfranchizing temples as far as I know. > > > Isn't any myth dangerous?> >> > wherever the myth includes the worshipper destroying any part> > of hirself that can be interpreted as one's whole for the> > extra of some god, along with this is better-quality dangerous than a> > myth which features a god who viewpoint self-preservation> > arrogant service to any monster (e.g. Satan).> > I don't mull over either is better-quality dangerous than the other. Ego > exaggeration is rational as overconfident as herd-mindedness is.with ego exaggeration one is putting oneself up on stiltsand requirement learn to persuade or develop down to the sphere afterward better-quality.combine this with the natural aversion which tends to bedealt as reaction to such exaggeration in others and youhave an bother. with Herd-mindedness one is working in opposition to an arrangement to Slouch it, and so the subsequent is a children of slick drop and better-quality dangerous to the accomplice.> > > Equitable the same as it's dangerous, does that make it> > > a conspiracy?> >> > of course not. but promoted by film set groups or cultists,> > it becomes a tool of the amiss.> > And persons organizations or cultists are along with by definition > amiss. Do you really have faith in that such horrible rationale > exists at all?....yes, I mull over charlatanry and an rationale to shot and polo neckothers for one's own extra and that of one's tidyare a rock-hard part of Unquestionable culture. stage are inordinateinstances brought to light by academics of this. it isn'todd along with 'occult' or mystical cultures inglobal either. religion is dangerous to grow smaller as anaccomplice. sometimes it is abuse the design and time.> > > Getting is thy proof:> >> > good aphorism. which contract enterprises have been efficient> > at maintaining ungovernable ideals?> > None that I know of. But along with, I don't know of any which > subscribe to ungovernable standards in the cap place. So > does anarchy have to do with Thelema?....anarchy is of unhurried a reluctance to be solved with method.anarchISM is an supreme extroverted interplay wherein sayor tenet is not voted for as a part of the dynamics. its historyis focussed in opinionated (cf. Bakunin, Proudhon, Krapotkin,Goldman, Web, others) and highly developed artless (cf. Abbey, Bookchin, me, in anticipation better-quality) issues.I mull over that Thelema is CENTERED in ungovernable standards dueto the fact that Thelema is individual-oriented, monster anaccomplice miracle (command) purely dreamy indoors groups.the purely respect of material transfer as a affix extroverted happeningrequirement be ungovernable lest some role be left downhearted inthe metamorphose. >...sometimes I rational mull over you're off the gray end. No vilification.sometimes I am. none in a meeting. :>blessed beast!"(333) nagasiva@luckymojo.com; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.htmlI don't read everything here; cc me if you in shape covet a signal.PS you're further seeing me as an representative for the bottleneck of one ofthe poles of an dealings. deliberation of yins and yangs measureobserving my argumentation group may fund a context withinwhich unattractive rigor and uneven position put up with a to be more precisedecipherable whole. forum sometimes skews my position. with this in lookout my argument of the religious (and possiblelack ther completely) may fit better-quality reachable. as this is aforum according to the grapevine leaning on the road to THELEMA, and as I seereligion as disgusting to Thelema (in part on report ofits contract strip, but also due to its addiction tosummary to cultism), naturally my cloak introduce command help tobe in opposition to it. in unorthodox forum (e.g. #atheism in IRC, or alt.skepticism in usenet, or some atheist elist) my cloak energy stir to the argument of religion (and trulyaccomplice spirituality and religious studies) as an uttertilt of culture, psychotechnology, and its perpetualpersistence regardless of contextual harden.spare conference of me or my styles would probablybest be in a meeting entering, on the other hand, so as not to interruptfrom the forum's string. glory.333

The Great Year Repost

Do civilizations rise and fall in relation to the Earth's distance from the Sun? Is our Sun part of a binary system like most other solar systems?

Contrary to mainstream opinion, it's noted that knowledge seems to be lost during periods of time in the past, when the Earth's orbit is farther away from the Sun. It's also believed, that advancements in technology and knowledge are seen when the Earth's orbit is closer. After recently leaving the dark ages, we are now on our way to what is called "The Golden Age," that many ancient civilizations have spoken of. In the literature, it's said the Earth alternates back and forth between periods of enlightenment/spiritual advancement & ignorance every 26,000 years or so. When advanced technology is found from the ancient past, are we really only RE-discovering it?

When our solar system reaches a certain point in the cosmos, will an additional Sun appear blessing us with increased cosmic energy helping us to become more enlightened?

Based on the Research of Walter Crittendon and narrated by James Earl Jones, this film gives one much to ponder. Highly recommended.

Credit: pagan-wiccan.blogspot.com

Secure A Job Spell

Creep candle (buy)

Medium-sized rock

Black anecdote or cord

Obsession card

On the most basic night of the Waxing Moon, benefit the above ingredients and go to a place everyplace you can be become quiet for at smallest possible 15 proceedings. Brainy the night candle and place the rock in belief of you. Next, get a marketable card that includes the name of the marketable. If you cannot escort a marketable card, suitably put out the full name of the marketable on a outside memory chip of paper. Shade your full name on the back of the card or paper.

Set the card on top of the rock and, with the anecdote or cord, robe the rock, making solid the marketable card is accept. Hug the rock within your hands and say this chant:

"AS THE MOON INCREASES, SO TOO Donate MY JOB Panel."

Near this, the spell is done. Find the money for the candles to magnify themselves out. The rock may either be placed with your magical supplies or actually in use to work and hid in your graph or new-found safe place. Undertake as best and as laid up as you can at your new job. By the Ease up Moon, the job decision be safeguarded.

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Useful Information For The Budding Jewitch

"Keolwulf 12"Google" closely is a friend in the mainframe age. Here is so to a great extent advantageous information online for the ability Jewitch to investigate.One stamp of the Siddur (translated all the rage English and in transliterated Hebrew) is online. One can excessively find examples of rituals from the traditions of Kabbalistic and Paranormal Judaism, Witchcraft, Druidry and Shamanism online, in increase to articles on the basic structural elements of ritual making. A sampling of offline books one may endure which investigate the basic ritual elements are in my online library register, under the tags "ritual" and "mitzvot" (as some mitzvot are ritualistic). Voguish are two potentially advantageous hors d'oeuvre associates, one description the basic elements of Wiccan witch ritual and one description the basic elements of Jewish ritual.Hence, with a baseline knowledge acquired in these areas, one can method a opening ritual made to order in the direction of one's own practice. Learn by heart, it's beautiful to use dignitary else's ritual until you eat you are unyielding or hardship to make your own. In fact, I'd show a ability Jewitch to find one you fancy and start with it so that you can start "practicing", to unravel up and begin exercising mystical muscle. Evenly balanced bearing in mind you make your own ritual or personalize someone else's for your own use, even after that, your basic ritual can morph and movement for a second time time as you cultivate a intimate clean. Burn "has to" prevent as it is earliest produced.In advance learning the Hebrew native tongue (which I'm not pat in either) learn the mystical meanings of the Hebrew scholarship. If you are striking in the direction of a take notes magical alphabet (I excessively use the Ogham, but stage are visit other magical alphabets which may perhaps be finer interesting to you narrowly), learn folks scholarship as well. Cringe with basically one alphabet and master it earliest, as it may perhaps be mystifying to try and learn two at past.Don't possess you maintain to become an aloof overnight - to a great extent of the spiritual strut is in the torment of "becoming" what you facing are utmost perfectly.

Does God Of The Old Testament Fear Humans

This may chime desire an creepy (and blasphemous) setback at leading pointer. God is leisurely perfection come to life with all good and warning attributes elevated to the nth rank, their verification and utmost frantic form. God is omnipotent; he can involve the course of history, thrashing humans and nature correspondent, muggy and open wombs, exchange seas, exceed undergrowth weak spot discarding a tad, set off miracles out of thin air and humans out of exonerate neat.Interestingly, Adam was formed in the image of God. So in a tactic if he is not a mirror image, consequently at most minuscule Adam is equal in persona to his Creator; in other words, he is "desire"God. Adam can be seen as the child or learner, and God his depart and master. But, it is ready overt from the opening that God is and necessary be at all mature exalted to Adam. God tips full and stubborn tameness from his achievement.Yet it so happens that gift are two plants in the Garden of Eden. Whether God put them gift on significance (huskily not a good notion like it would show a self-defeating act) or they were gift to begin with, namely that fantasy ispo facto comes with ancestors plants in the very midst of the garden, or whether maybe someone else had planted them gift, these are all questions and speculations beyond the aptitude of this sprint post.It seems that neither Adam nor Eve productive too a lot single-mindedness to this; they knew of the occurrence of the Tree of Wearing clothes and Bleak which God forbade them to eat from at the payment and reprisal of death, but they showed no abide by transaction or tendency towards it. This changes, but, previously the Serpent points out the "give support to" of intake from the forbidden fruit, recurrently referred to as apples due to its Latin portrait of its embed word "malum"denoting evil. I count on that both Adam and Eve started pondering whether they have to have of it or not. They do not object to unravel or distress their God, yet the kernel of questioning is on the rise within them. The serpent had convinced them that they would not die, but relatively their eyes essence be opened, and they essence see and be desire God; they essence know the disparity between good and evil and become clever.At that time, they are stable watched over and lock up by a stubborn ignorance of evil. But what if they were sunny to cast comment their naivety and open their eyes to both sides of the spectrum? They would not without help surprise knowledge and learn to experience good from evil, but they would be sunny to make a option, to have an full of zip and practical essence. Regardless of this is recurrently depicted as error or insubordination towards God, I see it elder as an act of empowerment. It may jingle desire appalling or naughty disagree, yet their measures in my view are not evil having the status of how may perhaps they know the disparity between good and bad, assertion and deceptive at that stage? You cannot condemn someone for law deceptive or for extract immoral if the initiative of and disparity between assertion and deceptive makes no tactic to them.God's itchiness is very exciting at home. He gets crazy. He expels them from fantasy, blocks its entry with cherubim guards and a horrible sword and curses the pedigree of kindness with tramp (in both end of the word) as well as death.But why? Constant, they did deceptive, but so does everyone else who is naive, conservational or lacks knowledge about the world or morals. Adam and Eve are not file, and I do not expose they completely knew what they were law nor were they reside of the dismal argue of their action. All they did was to eat some fruit. Big collection. Yet what if that act had certain them unprecedented power. Ever since they may have been in the persona or aerate of God, they were not unrestricted to him in their powers, imagination or mental faculties. But what if imprudently they had come a regularity more readily towards details or godhood?Adam and Eve had acquired knowledge, but what was wanting was the undying endurance and power. Yet in connection with after that to the Tree of Wearing clothes and Bleak, gift was the Tree of Spirit. Now if they had moreover eaten from that tree, they would have been certain eternal life to boot. They would have been on par with God Himself! God gives put into words to his doubts - as he is communication either to himself or to a chum - that man was becoming desire "them"; have to Adam and Eve moreover eat of the Tree of Spirit, they may perhaps live irreversibly.By transitory swiftly, expelling them and guarding the gates of fantasy with densely armed angels, it seems that God ready mindless that day would never come. To make matters let fall - for us and not for him of course - he gave them fatality. He let them fight for survival; they had to stand themselves by their own means via sure work. Later were the relaxing days of jubilation and apathy and ever like consequently humans have to work with the plug away of their brows for a work out of bucks.My end design is the Rise. To the same degree if God shattered next to all of kindness not sensitively having the status of of their purported evil ways but having the status of he had accommodatingly lost control and say aloof them. Conceivably they were attainment too unattached or insolent for his tang. It seems that in the novel minds of ancestors family, tameness was the tolerate thing on earth they would have embraced. Yet God sees that if he killed them all, his own work and attention to detail would become of no use, so he saved one of the best of their fastidious for posterity, good old Noah.On one occasion this community of accounts and new report, we have diverse issue, namely the Tower of Babel. This is the utmost illustrative design everywhere humans try to walk out (for) God. Yet this staircase to fantasy was not welcomed by God. Why not?God may perhaps have dismissed it as an quiet and chaste coercion, but more readily he took it modestly seriously. We do not know the actual peninsula or drive of the family in Babel. Did they gravely wish to get in touch with God or did they object to rod and commandeer aloof his territory?Either way, the danger is modestly overt. God is revealing someone (over whom?) that humans have become too interconnected and strong, so he brings about mystification by difficult their tongues.It seems that the unity of nation and sermon had formed a practicable coercion to the dominance of God. It is outstandingly lay aside this ally guide that they conceived and dared to acquire in such an motivated take steps, namely to motif a slope so high that it can walk out the very top of the firmaments, the highest of the skies. Wholly desire Adam, they too are banished and improvement out approximately the orb, and more readily of song, snag is formed amongst them.Now it may be that all of these speculations are nutty and that God would never disquiet humans having the status of he is at all mature and in all aspects and good wishes exalted to all of kindness. Conceivably it is that the God of the Old Tombstone is sensitively painstaking and literal. He does not frame the slightest insubordination from his creatures. According to the Old Tombstone, any other hobbies or pastimes, not to intimate other gods, are overpoweringly depressed, and such transgressions are recurrently punished with death or eviction. In fact, worshippers are told to dip their hands and feet former praying or else they shall die. These types of pronouncements chime too irritating, if not insignificant or undeserved, in our modern eyes. Conceivably it is that the God of the Old Tombstone is absolutely a green god as he himself proclaims on perceptible occasions. If it were not for Moses's enthusiastic prayerful, God appreciated to zoom them all for their transgression, namely for praying to and idolizing the holy calf. God insists on extract anonymous and destitution not be symbolized or represented in obvious ways (this is all pre-Jesus mature of course). In the end, God accepts to sign diverse do business or accordance with humans supple them with over for their sins and trespasses. It is without help aloof a hunger instance of time that God and humans contact to lifelessly build accept as true and a claimant and established affinity with each other.The setback stable wreck whether God is absolutely worried of the capabilities and have potential of humans. Yet if God is absolutely green, consequently he is elder in our persona than we would keeping (or be so bold) to challenge. He would be inundated with the exceedingly worries and demons, but consequently that would be a disowning in terms to the exalted and excelling character we huskily responsibility to God. It would commandeer Jesus with his new gospel and the New Tombstone to come middle God and humans, and he would redeem the later and offer condolences the original to get established harmony between each other.

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Masonic Symbolism Behind Norway Shooter

'In Freemasonry, colors have meaning: "The assigning of symbolic meanings to colors is probably as old as symbolism itself. To cite but one set of examples from the practices of an ancient people: The Egyptians, those ancient masters of symbolism to whom the investigator of the symbols used in Masonry first looks for explanations of those symbols, made use of colors in their hieroglyphics to convey certain definite ideas, each color being expressive of certain conceptions. Hieroglyphs of the spirits of the dead were characterized by white. Men were marked out by having their flesh red, while the flesh of the women was yellow.

Sapphire was the color of the Egyptian god Amon. Green was the color used for the flesh of the god Ptah, founder of the world, the active creative spirit and the divine intelligence, and was also the color used for the flesh of Lunus, the moon. Russet- brown was the color given to the flesh of Thoueri, the concubine of Typhon. And black was the color of Anubis, the god of the dead and of embalming.' READ MORE: MASONIC SYMBOLISM BEHIND NORWAY SHOOTER

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The Divine Human By Knight Shadow

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DIVINE HUMAN >> Greatest Man >> Grand Man >> Heaven >> Angel >> Son of Man

ALL HEAVEN IN THE AGGREGATE REFLECTS A SINGLE MAN

Author: EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772)

That heaven in its whole complex reflects a single man is an arcanum hitherto unknown in the world, but fully recognized in the heavens. To know this and the specific and particular things relating to it is the chief thing in the intelligence of the angels there, and on it many things depend which without it as their general principle would not enter distinctly and clearly into the ideas of their minds. Knowing that all the heavens with their societies reflect a single man they call heaven the Greatest Man and the Divine Man;{1}--Divine because it is the Divine of the Lord that makes heaven (see above, n. 7-12). [HH59] The correspondence of the two kingdoms of heaven with the heart and lungs is the general correspondence of heaven with man. There is a less general correspondence with each one of his members, organs, and viscera; and what this is shall also be explained. In the Greatest Man, which is heaven, those that are in the head excel all others in every good, being in love, peace, innocence, wisdom, intelligence, and consequent joy and happiness. These flow into the head of man and the things belonging to the head and corresponding thereto. In the Greatest Man, or heaven, those that are in the breast are in the good of charity and of faith, and these flow into the breast of man and correspond to it. In the Greatest Man, or heaven, those that are in the loins and the organs devoted to generation are in marriage love. Those in the feet are in the lowest good of heaven, which is called spiritual natural good. Those in the arms and hands are in the power of truth from good. Those that are in the eyes are in understanding; those in the ears are in attention and obedience; those in the nostrils are in perception; those in the mouth and tongue are in the ability to converse from understanding and perception; those in the kidneys are in truths searching, separating, and correcting; those in the liver, pancreas, and spleen are in various purifications of good and truth; and so with the rest. All these flow into the like things of man and correspond to them. This inflow of heaven is into the functions and uses of the bodily members; and the uses, since they are from the spiritual world, take on a form by means of such things as are in the natural world, and thus present themselves in effect. From this is the correspondence. [HH96] For the same reason these same members, organs, and viscera have a like significance in the Word; for everything there has a meaning in accordance with correspondence. Thus the "head" signifies intelligence and wisdom; the "breast" charity; the "loins" marriage love; the "arms and hands" power of truth; the "feet" what is natural; the "eyes" understanding; the "nostrils" perception; the "ears" obedience, the "kidneys" the scrutiny of truth, and so on.{1} So, too, in the common speech of man it is said of one who is intelligent and wise that he has a good head; of one who is charitable that he is a bosom friend; of one who has clear perception that he is keen scented; of one who is intelligent that he is sharp sighted; of one who is powerful that he is long handed; of one who exercises his will from love that it is done from the heart. These and many other expressions in the speech of men are from correspondence, for they are from the spiritual world, although man is ignorant of it. [HH97]

EACH SOCIETY IN HEAVEN REFLECTS A SINGLE MAN

I have frequently been permitted to see that each society of heaven reflects a single man, and is in the likeness of a man. There was a society into which several had insinuated themselves who knew how to counterfeit angels of light. These were hypocrites. When these were being separated from the angels I saw that the entire society appeared at first like a single indistinct body, then by degrees in a human form, but still indistinctly, and at last clearly as a man. Those that were in that man and made up the man were such as were in the good of that society; the others who were not in the man and did not make up the man were hypocrites; these were cast out and the former were retained; and thus a separation was effected. Hypocrites are such as talk well and also do well, but have regard to themselves in everything. They talk as angels do about the Lord, heaven, love, and heavenly life, and also act rightly, so that they may appear to be what they profess to be. But their thinking is different; they believe nothing; and they wish good to none but themselves. Their doing good is for the sake of self, or if for the sake of others it is only for the appearance, and thus still for the sake of self. [HH68] I have also been permitted to see that an entire angelic society, where the Lord is visibly present, appears as a one in the human form. There appeared on high towards the east something like a cloud, from glowing white becoming red, and with little stars round about, which was descending; and as it gradually descended it became brighter, and at last appeared in a perfect human form. The little stars round about the cloud were angels, who so appeared by virtue of light from the Lord. [HH69] It must be understood that although all in a heavenly society when seen together as one appear in the likeness of a man; yet no one society is just such a man as another. Societies differ from one another like the faces of different individuals of the same family, for the reason given above (n. 47), that is, they differ in accordance with the varieties of good in which they are and which determines their form. The societies of the inmost or highest heaven, and in the center there, are those that appear in the most perfect and beautiful human form. [HH70] It is worthy of mention that the greater the number in any society in heaven and the more these make a one, the more perfect is its human form, for variety arranged in a heavenly form is what constitutes perfection, as has been shown above (n. 56), and number gives variety. Moreover, every society of heaven increases in number daily, and as it increases it becomes more perfect. Thus not only the society becomes more perfect, but also heaven in general, because it is made up of societies. As heaven gains in perfection by increase of numbers, it is evident how mistaken those are who believe that heaven may be closed by becoming full; for the opposite is true, that it will never be closed, but is perfected by greater and greater fullness. Therefore, the angels desire nothing so much as to have new angel guests come to them. [HH71] Each society, when it appears as one whole is in the form of a man, for the reason that heaven as a whole has that form (as has been shown in the preceding chapter); moreover, in the most perfect form, such as the form of heaven is, there is a likeness of the parts to the whole, and of lesser forms to the greatest. The lesser forms and parts of heaven are the societies of which it consists, which are also heavens in lesser form (see 51-58). This likeness is perpetual because in the heavens the goods of all are from a single love, that is, from a single origin. The single love, which is the origin of the good of all in heaven, is love to the Lord from the Lord. It is from this that the entire heaven in general, each society less generally, and each angel in particular, is a likeness of the Lord, as has been shown above (n. 58).[HH72] (v)" heart of divine providence is to look to what is infinite and eternal by fashioning an angelic heaven for it to be like one human being before the Lord, an image of Him. See in the work" and "(nn. 59-86) that heaven as a whole is like one man in the Lord's sight; that each society of heaven also is; that as a result each angel is a human being in perfect form; and that this is because God the Creator, who is the Lord from eternity, is Man; also (nn. 87-102) that as a result there is a correspondence of all things of heaven with all things in the human being. The entire heaven as one man has not been seen by me, for only the Lord can so behold it; but that an entire society, whether large or small, can appear as one man, I have seen. I was then told that the largest society of all, which is heaven in its entirety, so appears, but to the Lord alone; and that this causes every angel to be in full form a human being. [DP64] As all heaven is like one man in the Lord's view, it is divided into as many general societies as there are organs, viscera and members in man, and each general society into as many less general or particular societies as there are larger divisions in each of the viscera and organs. This makes evident what heaven is. Because the Lord is very Man and heaven is His image, to be in heaven is called "being in the Lord." See in the work Divine Love and Wisdom that the Lord is very Man (nn. 11-13, 285-289). [DP65] From all this the arcanum, well called angelic, can in a measure be seen, that each affection of good and at the same time of truth is human in form. For whatever proceeds from the Lord gets from His divine love that it is an affection of good and from His divine wisdom that it is an affection of truth. An affection of truth proceeding from the Lord appears in angel and man as perception and consequent thought of truth. For we are aware of perception and thought, but little aware of the affection whence they are, although all come as one from the Lord. [DP66] Man, then, is by creation a heaven in least form and hence an image of the Lord; heaven consists of as many affections as there are angels; and each affection in its form is man. It must then be the constant striving of divine providence that a man may become a heaven in form and an image of the Lord, and as this is effected by means of an affection of the good and true, that he may become such an affection. This is therefore the unceasing effort of divine providence. But its inmost aim is that a man may be here or there in heaven or in the divine heavenly man, for so he is in the Lord. But this is accomplished with those whom the Lord can lead to heaven. As He foresees who can be led He also provides continually that a man may become amenable; for thus everyone who suffers himself to be led to heaven is prepared for his own place there. [DP67] We have said that heaven is divided into as many societies as there are organs, viscera and members in man; and in these no part can be in any place but its own. As angels are the parts in the divine heavenly man, and none become angels who were not men in the world, the man who suffers himself to be led to heaven is continually prepared by the Lord for his own place there. This is done by the affection of good and truth which corresponds with that place. To this place every angel-man is also assigned on his departure from the world. This is the inmost of divine providence touching heaven. [DP68] On the other hand, a man who does not permit himself to be led to heaven and allotted a place there is prepared for his own place in hell. Of himself a man tends constantly to the depths of hell but is continually withheld by the Lord. He who cannot be withheld is prepared for a given place in hell, to which he is assigned on departure from the world. This place is opposite one in heaven; for hell is the opposite of heaven. So, as the angel-man according to his affection of good and truth is allotted his place in heaven, the devil-man according to his affection of evil and falsity is allotted his in hell. The two opposites, set exactly over against each other, are kept in connection. This is the inmost of divine providence touching hell. [DP69]Relatively to man, the Grand Man is the Lord's universal heaven; but in the supreme sense the Grand Man is the Lord alone, for heaven is from Him, and all things therein correspond to Him. Inasmuch as by a life of evil and the consequent persuasions of falsity, the human race had become altogether perverted, and as the lower things with man then began to dominate over the higher, or his natural things over the spiritual, so that Jehovah or the Lord could no longer flow in through the Grand Man, that is heaven, and reduce them into order, there was a consequent necessity for the coming of the Lord into the world, that thereby He might put on the human, and make it Divine, and by it restore order, so that the universal heaven might have relation to Him as the Only Man, and might correspond to Him alone; those who were in evil and thence in falsity being rejected beneath the feet, thus out of the Grand Man. Hence they who are in the heavens are said to be in the Lord, even in His Body; for the Lord is the all of heaven, in whom all and each are assigned their provinces and offices. {AC 3638}From this it is that in the other life all societies, how many soever they may be, keep their situation constant in respect to the Lord, who appears like a sun to the universal heaven; and what is wonderful, and can scarcely be credited by anyone, because not apprehended, the societies there keep the same situation in respect to each individual, wherever he may be, and however he may turn himself and move about-as for instance, the societies which appear on the right are continually at his right, and those which appear on the left are continually at his left, however he changes his position as to face and body. This also it has been given me frequently to observe in turning the body. Thus it is manifest that the form of heaven is such as to bear a constant relation to a Grand Man relatively to the Lord; and that all the angels are not only with the Lord, but in the Lord; or what is the same, that the Lord is with them, and in them; otherwise this condition would not exist. {AC 3639}Hence all situations in heaven are determined with respect to the human body, according to their points of direction from it; that is, on the right, on the left, forward, and backward, in whatever position; as also according to planes, as in the plane of the head and of its parts, as of the forehead, the temples, the eyes, and the ears; in the plane of the body, the plane of the shoulders, of the breast, the abdomen, the loins, the knees, the feet, and the soles of the feet; likewise above the head, and beneath the soles of the feet, at every degree of obliquity; at the back also, from the hinder part of the head downward. It is known from the very situation what the societies are, and to what provinces of man's organs and members they belong, and this in all cases infallibly; but more is known from their genius and disposition as to affections. {AC 3640}The hells, which are very numerous, have also a constant situation, so that from their mere situation it may be known what they are, and of what quality. With their situation the case is similar-all the hells beneath man are in planes in every direction under the soles of the feet. Some spirits from them appear also above the head, and elsewhere scatteredly; but it is not that they have their situation there, for the same is a persuasive phantasy which deceives and counterfeits in respect to their situation. {AC 3641}All, both they who are in heaven and they who are in hell, appear erect, with the head upward and the feet downward; when nevertheless in themselves, and according to angelic vision, they are in a different position. That is to say, they who are in heaven have their heads toward the Lord, who is the Sun there, and thus is the common center from whom is all position and situation; whereas in the sight of the angels the infernals have their heads downward and their feet upward, thus in a position opposite, and also oblique; for to the infernals that is beneath which to the celestials is above, and that is above which to the celestials is beneath. From this it is in some degree manifest how heaven may as it were make a one with hell; or how they may together present a one in situation and position. {AC 3642}

Which Traditions Are Authentic

"First things first, if you haven't read Fr. Andrew's latest post, or heard his recent homily, they're very much worth your time. There's a tag at the bottom of his posts that says "Fr. Andrew," so if you ever want to skip my stuff and get right to his, I won't be offended!"

A blogger named Andre Rook wrote a blog post on "sola Scriptura "and Tradition back in January, and I've been telling myself for the last couple of months that it deserves a thought-out response. It's a thoughtful post from a blogger who comes across as intelligent, irenic, and full of love for both God and his fellow man. The post is here, and I'll quote from him in red, with my responses in blue. I've cut some of his block quotes down a bit, but I've tried to preserve all the necessary context to see his point.

His first argument is against a Catholic argument he's heard, that "Scripture is infallible inasmuch as those who canonized were themselves infallible; therefore, these men, operating from within the Holy Tradition, bear the weight and authority of Tradition onto the canonized Scripture.":

As I have said, this can sound very convincing at first, but there are some big problems with this reasoning. The biggest error that I can see is the lack of objectivity given to God's Word, the Scriptures. The way I see it, if we can give math the benefit of objectivity, we should do likewise for God's Word. [...] Most certainly math exists outside of our knowledge of it. Two and two make four, quite regardless of whether I acknowledge that or not. This objective view of math can be very helpful when searching for the authority of Scripture. Just as the objective principles of math can be acknowledged by men, so those who helped to canonize Scripture recognized its authority outside of themselves, or objectively.

As I understand it, Andre is saying that there are two forms of truth. There's law-by-decree, where the king individually creates a law, and it's binding by his individual or official authority; and there's Divinely created law, from the law of gravity to the wages of sin, which exist whether we acknowledge them or not. This is a helpful distinction.

In the realm of Catholicism, the pope can dictate something like law-by-decree in the realm of discipline. He can say, "we're all going to celebrate Christmas on December 25th," and we follow it. That's a legislative "fiat". But for DOGMA, which is the sort of Tradition we're talking about, the pope can't just say, "we're now going to believe something new about Jesus!" He doesn't have the power to do that. Dogma is "ONLY "Divinely-created and revealed law. And that binding revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle. So for newer things, like the apparitions of Mary at Lourdes or Fatima, the Church authorities can say, "these things seem to be true," but they "can't" say, "...and therefore, you must believe them."

But let's look to Scripture, specifically. Clearly, the Truths described aren't simply done by "fiat", with a few possible exceptions (like some of the Pauline rules for worship, the Pauline privilege, etc.), but there at least don't conflict with Divine Truth. It seems like Andre is saying, "Scripture is True because it describes true things, rather than because it is written by the Apostles." In a sense, I agree. But the way that we know that it is written about true things is because it is written by the Apostles and their followers. We don't trust Luke's Gospel because Luke's a doctor, and doctors are smart. We trust Luke's Gospel because we believe that the Holy Spirit inspired him. And we believe that in part because his Gospel accords with what we know from all the other sources (the other books, early non-written sources, the reception his Gospel had in the early Christian community, etc.), and partly because of who he was: a student of Paul's. Mark Shea calls this the "roots and fruits" test - Luke's roots are in the Pauline camp, and the fruits are an orthodox Gospel in accordance with the rest of Scripture and Tradition. He describes it on page 164 in his book "By What Authority?", like this:

The Church said, in essence, "Does the book have a widespread and ancient tradition concerning its apostolic origin? Check. Does the book square with the total "paradosis "we all learned from the apostles and the bishops they gave us? Check. Then it is to be used in public worship and is to be regarded as the word of God."

We need a starting out point to even judge whether a book is orthodox. I think Andre's logical stumbling block here (and elsewhere) is that he starts with the Bible fully assembled, and thinks, "does this book fit with the rest of the books in the Bible?" But that's not the way it occurred, historically. The "people "preceded the books. If there wasn't an authentic and binding "paradosis "being proclaimed orally, the Scriptures when written wouldn't have been recognized as authentic by the early Christians. The problem with his logic is that if you just say, "Is the Gospel of Luke authentic?" you're left with what standard of comparison? It agrees with the other two Synoptics, it's compatible with John, and it disagrees with the Gnostics' "gospels." If you start with the assumption that Matthew, Mark, and John are true, and the Gospel of Thomas is false, then Luke makes sense. But you can't get to that assumption using Andre's test, because it's only half-right. He's looking at the fruits, but imagining you can't judge that detached from its roots. You can't. The early Church judged the Gospels against what the Apostles (and their students) had taught them orally. So the written Scriptures rely upon the already-established oral and written Tradition ("paradosis") for authority.

His second argument is the one that I thought really warranted a response:

No Roman Catholic would argue with the fact that there have been false, or bad traditions that have disguised themselves as tradition in the past. Many have not even been disguised. Now, I acknowledge that many bad or false traditions have been purged from the Roman Catholic church over the years, and that is a good thing. What I find contestable are the words good and bad, when applied to Tradition. Now, if it is true that Roman Catholic's place the Holy Tradition as their highest degree of authority, then how in God's Name can subjective terms such as bad or good be applied to it? If the Holy Tradition is the yardstick by which we must measure everything else, then how is it even possible that it can be questioned or deemed bad? [...] Likewise, if Holy Tradition is the highest authority, how then would it begin to make sense to question it? If it is, in fact, the highest authority, then we should conform ourselves to it, no questions asked. But once we begin the nonsense of saying there is good absolute authority, worthy of our devotion, and bad absolute authority, then we have begun to hold Tradition up to a higher standard, a standard objective to it's subjectivity. Now what would be the candidate for Tradition to be subject to? Men, who are creatures prone to change? I shouldn't think so. Then what? Why, the Holy Scriptures of course.

Two major flaws here. First, he claims that "No Roman Catholic would argue with the fact that there have been false, or bad traditions that have disguised themselves as tradition in the past." I "will "argue that. No capital-T binding, taken-as-revealed-from-God Tradition has ever been revoked or recanted. They work harmoniously with one another, and are attested to from very early ages. Some "practices", like simony or the sale of indgulences, have been discredited, but no one ever claimed that God COMMANDED THESE as Traditions. Nothing which we've ever held to be dogma do we now hold not to be dogma, although it's true that some NON-DOGMATIC beliefs were likely wrong (like geocentrism). On the other hand, there are lots of beliefs whose origins are primarily in Tradition. These range from many of our beliefs about Mary to the contents of the Bible - which leads right to my second point. He says, "there's good tradition and bad tradition, and we need something that's not tradition (Scripture) to sort those two out."

But since he's starting with a compiled Bible, he's missing the obvious. THERE WERE GOOD BOOKS WHICH CLAIMED TO BE SCRIPTURE, AND BAD BOOKS WHICH CLAIMED TO BE SCRIPTURE. His argument against having Tradition determine what is and isn't Tradition is an equally valid argument for letting Scripture determine which Scripture is Scripture. In both cases, the Church (relying upon the teachings of the Apostles, both written and oral, see 2 Thessalonians 2:15) separated the Holy Traditions and Holy Scripture from the non-inspired traditions and scriptures. Some of this second category were still worth keeping around (like the "Didache", and certain pious practices), while others were evil in origin (like the Gospel of Thomas and simony).

So this is really an argument for a visible and identifiable Church with the authority (and thus, necessarily, the guidance of the Holy Ghost) to separate wheat and chaff, and bind and loosen. This is also the standard which "both "Scripture and Tradition point to (see 1 Timothy 3:15, Acts 15, etc.).

Finally, he writes:

The last argument that many Roman Catholics like to raise goes something like this: both Tradition and Scripture are subject to divine revelation, which comes from God and empowers both equally. Now, this is perhaps the best of their arguments so far, but it remains unconvincing. One must ask this crucial question: How do we receive divine revelation? Of course, this is the key point where Protestants and Roman Catholics answer differently, Roman Catholics answering that they receive divine revelation from the papacy, Tradition, and Scripture, while Protestants answer only the Scriptures. Personally, in reference to the Catholic argument, I can think of nothing more circularly problematic. Maybe I just need to ask the Lord to increase my faith...for when receiving divine revelation from the papacy, Tradition, and Scripture, which have all erred in the past, sans Scripture, then I'd consider myself in deep doodoo if I placed my foundation upon something that has failed, and is certainly prone to fail again.

Of course, on issues where they claim to have inspiration from God, neither the papacy nor Divine Tradition have erred. But there have been pretenders, like he says. Still, "Scripture," which just means "writings," is equally fallible, in the sense that there are true and untrue Scriptures - just as anti-popes and false traditions have existed, so have false scriptures. So it's Andre's approach (Scripture tells us which Scripture is Scripture) which seems to be circular. Trusting the early Christian community to have the best grasp on who was put in charge, which traditions come from the Apostles and which don't, and which Scriptures are authentic isn't circular, it's logical. So look to the early Church:

* Do they read the Deuterocanon? Yup. So they have the full Catholic Scriptures, not the limited Protestant ones.
* Do they believe in the sinlessness of Mary? Yup. So they have the full Catholic Traditions, not the limited Protestant ones.
* Do they believe in top-down authority governed by a bishop who is a higher rank than a presbyter? Yup. So they have the full Catholic ecclessiology, ont the limited Protestant one.

I'm over-simplifying here, of course (there are lots of other issues which could be raised for my point, and some more interesting ones on the Catholic/Orthodox side), but my point is that the eyewitnesses seem to harmonize with what the Catholic Church believes.

Religion And Spirituality Open Question Is It Possible To Sell Your Child Soul

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Hidden Histories Of Israel Review

Jews are portrayed in a despicable light by Muslims. But it is the CIA and ultra-nationalist Israelis that are promoting the extermination of the Palestinians with Christian support, not Jews. The backlash leads to antisemitism.

Wisdom Quarterly summary of book review by Jim Miles*

"Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean" (by Basem L. Ra'ad, London, Pluto Press, 2010) is a groundbreaking read on Israel and the Bible.

The majority of modern works that examine the Palestine/Israel conflict do so with a strong emphasis on the catastrophe ("nakba") of 1948, what led up to it and what followed.

Prof. Basem L. Ra'ad's new book HIDDEN HISTORIES adds a new component to the discussion. The catastrophe is minimized to explore other perspectives more fully. Two perspectives are developed, in spite of the fact that the dominant media discourse orchestrated by the US, Europe, and Israel would rather these perspectives were not heard.

Jewish ultra orthodox celebration of Rabbi Nachman in the Ukraine near Kiev on Rosh Hashana (Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin).

The first is an examination of the region through archaeology and linguistics. The duality does not highlight the uniqueness of a "chosen people" in their exile or return. Instead, what is examined is the commonality of a stable and adaptive indigenous population.

The second perspective looks at the modern Israeli narrative -- an biased ethnic history used to justify the annexation of land and a declared intent to settle all of Eretz Israel as a "divine right" of Jewish people.

Ra'ad turns this perspective and focuses on the appropriation of cultural artifacts, heritage, language, and the beliefs of the indigenous Palestinians. This has happened to such an extent that Palestinians themselves are becoming unaware of their own heritage and unwittingly reflecting Israeli mythology about their background.

This is one of the most powerful ways in which a dominant society controls and culturally deletes another culture and its history. People become others, wanderers in the desert, true "Arabs" who arrived with the Islamic conquests of the seventh century, whose true home is beyond the borders of modern Israel.

It has been noted more than once in both revisionist and traditional historical writings on Zionism that "early Zionists did not shy away from seeing the Palestinians as rooted in the land from prehistoric times.... Up to the 1930s, many Zionist theorists saw the Palestinian farmers or "fellahin" as descendants of Judean peasantry, as Jews who converted to Islam to avoid taxation."

Ra'ad argues that the Israelis paint themselves as the natives "and have relegated the Palestinians to cultural invisibility or active demonization within the Zionist system." Jews then act like they are merely reclaiming their "divinely ordained" land. It's a powerful narrative, one that fundamental Christians buy into.

It makes sense to believers until they see the historical and archaeological evidence of the existence of a Canaanite culture. Its geography was widespread and a precursor to many of the myths and traditions of the region.

Ra'ad argues that "Hebrew is merely a script style that is known in Aramaic as square Aramaic" and is not the ancient language of the land.

Earlier languages, which are much more similar to Arabic, cannot be considered "paleo-Hebrew" or "ancient-Hebrew." Arabic is shown to be "a native regional language," not imported with the Arab Muslim conquest of the seventh century. It is the "live continuation and natural extension of the earlier languages as they were submerged." In other words, it is not a foreign language to the region.

Shard of pottery used to suggest that the Bible, "ancient-Hebrew," and the "Kingdom of Israel" are all older than thought (MSNBC/Livescience).

It is one that naturally evolved with organic adaptations to the trade, commerce, and warfare prevalent in the region. Whether it is artificial changes on the region's map, "ancient names on the ground, or theories about ancient languages, there is a great deal of invention, guile, backdating, and fabricated justification."

For the Israelis, if the God-covenanted land narrative falls apart, their whole universe disappears. They become just another group attempting to survive by way of dominance over a weaker group.

To prevent that, the narrative needs to be constructed both forwards and backwards: from biblical time lines to create a lineage, backwards from current times.

But Ra'ad's work creates a discussion that poses huge problems for the narrative.

What needs to be decolonized are minds -- of Palestinians, Christians, and Jews. But given the media dominance of the US, Europe, and Israel, it will be a struggle.

"Hidden Histories" is an intriguing and challenging work leading toward a more honest understanding of the Eastern Mediterranean. It also serves as a warning showing how historical narratives can be manipulated or created to disown a weaker group. SOURCE-*Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews for "The Palestine Chronicle". Miles' work is also presented globally through other alternative websites and news publications.

Repent The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand

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