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 moving corpses = zombies = mindless
human automatons = corporately conditioned consumer clones
theology
Only theology verified by personal experience has
any
validity as one man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
"The best theology would need no advocates: it
would prove itself." - Karl Barth
"When a well-packaged web of
lies has been sold gradually to the
masses over generations,
the truth will seem utterly
preposterous and its speaker a
raving lunatic." - Dresden
James
"The social world
that shapes theologians' thought patterns also
shapes them as believers, not just as
intellectuals. The
social setting is thus the most crucial aspect
in shaping patterns of thought." - Jon Sobrino
Jesus the Liberator
"A society of
packaged fulfillment,
administered desire, managerialized politics and
consumerist economics is unlikely to cut to the
depth where theological questions can ever be properly raised. " - Terry
Eagleton
"I can tell you as an insider that you don't want
to invest too much in the spoutings of theologians. You might think that there
must be some secret knowledge that
theologians learn, that gives them a special kind of authority not available to
normal people. But I spent seven years in graduate school, and if there had
been that kind of secret knowledge, I
would have found it. The truth is, theologians have no
secret knowledge about life, because
their courses aren't about life. Theologians are academics, and their courses
are restricted to thinking about life from the perspective
of their
religion. But wisdom comes from living through life experiences and being able
to reflect on them in ways that shed light – and that's not what
theologians do." - Davidson Loehr
Nation of Islam -
white humans originated through genetic
experiments.
Jehovah's
Witness - blood transfusion will contaminate the soul and 3 does not equal
1.
Kabbalah - red string wards off the
Evil Eye, the Torah is the name of
YHVH.
Kabbalah,
descended from the tradition of
the Sadducees, is the ‘secret doctrine' of ‘elect' Jews. Those
deemed worthy comprehend hidden teachings in the written
Torah and, through
mystical techniques, make direct contact with
YHVH. Among these
mystical techniques are rapid recitation of the
‘Holy Name of God' (YHVH, or
Tetragrammaton), meditation on the 11 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life which
are believed to be emanations of
YHVH, learning to use the 22 letters of
the Hebrew alphabet as force-carrying energy
patterns which serve as the
building blocks of the cosmos, and, finally, by
ascending on the Chariot Throne through
the use of the Merkabah actually transcending
the space/time
limitations of the physical world to attain physical immortality along with the
ability to physically modify reality through telekinesis.
"The most
hidden, secretive part of Kabbalah, commonly known as "practical Kabbalah",
involves use of hidden knowledge to
affect the world in ways that could be described as
magic. The Talmud and other sources ascribe supernatural
activities to many great rabbis. Some rabbis pronounced a name of
YHVH and ascended into heaven to consult
with YHVH and the angels on issues of
great public concern. One scholar is said to have created
an artificial man by reciting various
names of YHVH. Much later stories tell of
a rabbi who created a man out of clay and
brought it to life by putting in its mouth a piece of paper with a name of
YHVH on it." - Mechon Mamre
Scientology
- After spending years and tens of thousands of dollars sycophants reach
Theological Level III were they learn about Xenu the galactic warlord, who 75 million
years ago was in charge of 76 overpopulated planets. Xenu brought trillions of
these alien beings, Teegeeack, to Earth on spaceships and placed them in select
volcanoes. Xenu then vaporized the Teegeeack
with hydrogen bombs scattering to the winds thetans which were then rounded up
in electronic traps and implanted with false ideas. Corrupted thetans attach
themselves to people thus corrupting them and leading them to drug and alcohol
abuse, addiction, depression and other psychological and social ailments that
only Scientology
"classes" and "auditing" employing "e-meters" can cure.
L. Ron Hubbard
founded the Church of
Scientology after a break with Anton Szandor LaVey, Howard Stanton Levey,
founder of the Church of Satan.
2009 Paris, France court convicts the
Church of
Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of
organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying
large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used ''commercial
harassment'' against recruits. Belgium, Germany and other European countries
have been criticized by the US State Department for labeling
Scientology
as a cult or sect and enacting laws to restrict its operations. If there was
any question as to the alignment of the federal government this pretty much
answers that question.
Zoroastrian -
everything that exists is either male or
female, dark or light, good or evil,
black or white.
Lifespring Inc - modification of self-image through
deep cathartic psychological insight by experiencing completely every feeling
and living only in the present
moment which brings lasting happiness and
self-realization through
the grandiose delusion of
the ultimate limitlessness of an individual's power.
University
Network - exceedingly complex mythology incorporating numerology, astrology and
William Eugene Scottism that includes the
Pyramids, Atlantis, Roswell UFO's, Stonehenge, Amityville poltergeists, Nikola
Tesla, the Bermuda Triangle, The Spear of Destiny and even the Philadelphia
Experiment while preaching that a adherent's path to heaven and position in heaven is dependent upon the amount of
money contributed to
William Eugene Scott, Incorporated.
Mormon
- Jesus appeared in America after his
death
on the cross; God is made of flesh and blood, is
married to a heavenly Mother and is fully comprehensible; 3 does not equal 1;
there is a secret handshake and everybody gets to wear itchy underwear. There
are three levels in heaven and the "chosen" become as God.(see
transcendental
temptation)
Swedenborgianism - There is one God = Christ = Holy
Spirit = Divine Trinity.
Saving faith is to believe in
the redemptive powers of Christ and to live a life of charity.
All evil originates in mankind and is to be
shunned. Good actions are encouraged by Christ, necessary for life and should
be done. Good acts shoul be credited to Christ.
In Swedenborgianism
one's fate after
death
is according to the character one has acquired in life; specifically that those
governed by the compassion of the Lord or
the compassion of being useful to others are
in heaven, and that those governed by compassion of self or the
compassion of worldly things are in
hell.
Danish
philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
asserted that the best theology was the most ridiculous. Søren Kierkegaard believed
one cannot have true faith unless one
is capable of transcending rationality.
Søren Kierkegaard believed that the individuals betray religion when
they try to make rational sense of it, such as
‘creation
scientists' who assert that the Bible is a
scientific
theory.
"Søren Kierkegaard was
convinced that Christianity
must be life centered
and so resisted passionately any tendencies that might
make it thought centered." - Vernard Eller
"Søren Kierkegaard understood that the purpose of
thinking outside the proscribed culturally conditioned limits of thought was
what was necessary to propel an individual into a greater understanding and
awareness of reality. Interesting enough this is also precisely what a Zen
Koan, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation
discipline (thought problem), sets out to accomplish." -
Morning Star Athbhreith
Athbheochan Kwisatz Haderach Druid
theocratic absolutism Theocratic absolutism
has been around longer than theory, and its
effects have been far more deadly.
You do not need to believe in God to
have a theocracy; some theocracies are atheist.
A
system based on theocratic
absolutism has these
characteristics:
In theocratic absolutism there are 'sacred writings', a scripture whose
word is inerrant and may not be doubted, which has such absolute
authority that it trumps all other authority. It may be the
Septuagint, the
Babylonian Talmud or the
Code of Hammurabi.
Everything,
even the discoveries of science , must be judged against what
sacred scripture says, and if there
is a contradiction, scripture wins. This sacred scripture might be the
Bible, it might be the
Q'uran, it might be the works of
Karl Marx, it might be
the ideology of neoconservatism or it
might be "words" of the "apostles" of the "Apostolic
Culmination".
There are 'Doctors of
Theology', theocratic absolutists,
"apostles", "prophets",
"think tank experts" like Henry
Kissinger who interpret the 'sacred writings', the 'holy book' or the current
up-to-date-cutting-edge market data needed
to make decisions in the fast paced volatile market of ever changing "real world
conditions" and make pronouncements on what it all means - I meant predictions!
It might be Saint Augustine, it
might be Saddam
Hussein, it might be Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov -
"Lenin" or it might be
Milton
Freidman.
There is a priesthood
with special powers and privileges, there is close control of the
news media
through manipulative press releases, frenetic condemnation of ideas not fitting
neatly within the parameters of the accepted dogma and new initiates are "sold
on the product" fanatics.
The Roman Catholic Church of the Counter
Reformation invented the word 'propaganda'.
Imperial
Christianity
"Hitler has a deep respect for the Catholic church
and the Jesuit order; not because of their Christian doctrine, but because of
the 'machinery' they have elaborated and controlled, their hierarchical system,
their extremely clever
tactics, their knowledge of human
nature and their wise use of human weaknesses in ruling over believers." -
Hermann Rauschning State religion must sanction war or
it will be quickly replaced with another that does.
Constantine cobbled together the
prevalent mythological thought (political thought) of the
Roman Empire to produce
the State religion of Roman
Catholicism.
Students of history who question the disappearance of the
Jewish congregations at that time fail to understand that the
Hellenized Hebrew Saul of
Tarsus created the Imperial
State religion of Christianity. Through his writing the
Hellenized Hebrew Saul of
Tarsus converted the Hellenized Jews into
Pauline
Christians.
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall
be called sons of
God."
Matthew 5:9
Roman Catholicism has been one of the most
barbaric religions.
Roman Catholicism got
its biggest break with Constantine
never looked back, slaughtering all non-conformers by blade, fire, crucifixion,
impalement, iron maidens and devices made strictly to kill in as agonizing a
fashion as possible.
Ancient scientific pioneers were
ruthlessly exterminated.
Giordana
Bruno was burned at the stake in 1586 for claiming the Earth revolved
around the sun.
Nicholas Copernicus and
Galileo Galilei were branded
heretics.
The dogma that traps a man's
mind is used by unscrupulous
leaders to destroy critical
thinking.
 
After many
renditions, renewels, remakes,
reformations and revivals a
beautiful and wonderful way of living based on
Jesus' Words has been
defiled, debased and corrupted into
Imperial Christianity, known as
Roman Catholicism,
an evolved religion of Hellenism
based on
a literal belief in fantastic
supernatural happenings centered on the glorification of
the individual ego which is
physically embarked upon a journey to conquer the
supernatural evil penetrating natural reality, this world, as seen in the
Kingdom Now/Dominion/Joel's Army,
British Israel,
Christain Zionist and
Manifest Sons
movements.
Imperial Christianity is closely aligned
ideologically with the
Talmud and
Zionism. Both
wish to create
heaven on Earth for sycophants at the point of the
sword. Both intend to cause all non-conforming
ideology, religion,
social culture and political
expression to be exterminated.
"Jews are
the real liars and bloodhounds, who have perverted and falsified the entire
Scriptures from beginning to end without
ceasing with their interpretations. The
sun never did shine on a more bloodthirsty and revengeful people as the
followers of the Talmud, who
imagine to be the people of
YHVH, and who desire to and think they
must murder and crush the heathen. And the
foremost undertaking which they expect of their messiah is that he should slay and
murder the whole world with the sword." - Martin Luther
The Imperial Christian emphasis on
individual
ego calls on the
individual to do nothing more than
believe and spread the dogma - the mark of all
cults.
A true religion calls upon the individual to
critically examine the
possible consequences of planned actions,
both long and short term, and to refrain from taking those actions if any of
extensions of the Creation will suffer grievous harm due to those
actions.
God's
Creation being identified as the fragile perishable ecosystems, plant and
animal life, humans included, that the Creator so
graciously bestowed upon the Earth.
A true religion frees the disciple of detrimental
emotional baggage, teaches the disciple how to live life in a way that is
beneficial to both the disciple and to every other
individual that comes into contact
with the disciple.
 RELIGION that
FAILS to do this is
FALSE ! 
"Our
whole purpose is to has hasten
the End times" - Bill McCartney
co-founder of the charismatic Promise Keepers movement
"We are the generation that will probably see
the rapture of the church. In Christian
theology, the first thing that happens when Christ returns to Earth is the judgement of
nations. Twenty-five years ago, I called a meeting of
neoevangelists to discuss such
an effort, and the conversation didn't last an hour. This time, I called and
they all came and they all agreed to speak up for
Israel." -
neoevangelist
John C. Hagee,
founder of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, President and
CEO
"Christ commissioned his
disciples to go to the ends of the Earth and
tell everyone how they could achieve eternal life. As we advance around
the Earth we'll be shortening the time needed to fulfill that Great Commission.
Then, the Bible says,
The End will come."- James Davis,
Global Pastors Network
"The neoevangelists don't pay much
attention to New Testament teachings
such as those found in Matthew that focus
on social justice. Instead they rummage around
in the Old Testament for passages
that support their political agenda, which is out of sync with New Testament
principles." - John Rossmann
"Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will
do. Mormons believe the Jewish people are the chosen people, just like the Old
Testament says. I feel sorry I'm not Jewish sometimes." - Senator Orin
Hatch
"Mr. Hatch unbuttons his white dress shirt to
expose the golden mezuzah necklace he wears every day. Mezuzahs also adorn the
doorways of his homes in Washington and Utah. Mr. Hatch keeps a
Torah in his Senate office." - Mark
Leibovich, December 8, 200
"I usually started by taking them to the Hatikva
Quarter and showed them the shabby living quarters where Sephardic Jews are
forced to live - as many as 18 living in a two-room apartment. Sharing the
apartments would be cockroaches, mice, rats, ants and lizards. While in the
Hatikva Quarter, I would show them Hagana Street with its small shops where
Sephardic Jews tried to eke out a living. The 6 block area on Hayarkon between
Allenby Street and Frishman Street would shock those on my tour. They would see
Sephardic prostitutes as young as age 14 hustling customers on the streets. I
wanted to show as many people from America as possible that
Israel is far from being the
wonderful country the American people have been led to believe through
Zionist
propaganda." - Jack Berstein on giving
Christian Zionists the tour of IsraelGlobal Evangelism Television broadcasts on 120 full
power television stations, 110 radio
stations and three networks" - has helped 12,000
Russian Jews move to
Israel, has donated several million dollars to Israeli and wears
a Jewish prayer shawl.
"Twenty
goyim will cling to each thread of our prayer shawls, pleading to serve us as
protection against our divine judgement." - Yossi Klein Halevi
With John
C. Hagee's help the United States guaranteed $10 billion in loans for Israel's
resettlement of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet
Union. The Russians émigrés made it possible to build the wall
between the Palestinians and the Israelis as the new immigrants were willing to
provide the physical unskilled labor that the Palestinians once provided.
"I truly believe John Hagee is at once a daring, beautiful person - and
quite dangerous." - Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
"I'm
grateful for all the wonderful Christian
neoevangelists wanting to help
us. Christians are now Israel's best
lobbyists in America." - Gershon
Solomon, spokesman for Jerusalem's
Temple Institute
The International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem (ICEJ) is the largest Christian Zionist organization but other
influential Christian Zionist organizations form a broad coalition:
The American Messianic
Fellowship; Bridges for
Peace;the Evangelical Sisterhood of
Mary; the Council of Christians and
Jews;Christian Friends of
Israel; the Church's Ministry Among Jewish
People, also known as The Israel Trust of the Anglican Church within
Israel; Intercessors For
Britain; Jews for Jesus ; The
Messianic Jewish Alliance
America; and Prayer Friends of Israel.
Leading contemporary
Christian Zionists include Charles Dyer, John C. Hagee,
Mike Evans, Jerry Falwell, Dave Hunt,
Hal Lindsey,
Pat Robertson and John Walvoord.
"The
Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the
Catholic or Protestant faith, he
provokes indifference but he
imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he
ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of
Christ."- Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard*
"We should examine
our faith constantly in the sweet light of
human reason rather than believing, as the White Queen said to Alice, "six
impossible things before breakfast." Faith is only an approximation, like
memory; I am never sure I have the real
thing in my grasp. If I could, I'd
return to early
Christianity, before it became
a state religion under
Constantine; before its connection to the state, when it was a company of friends whose
inspired leader once said that the one
without sin should pick up the first stone." - Nora
Gallagher
The concept of a Holy War or Jihad is common to
Imperial Christianity, Zionism and
Wahhabism.
"There is no such thing as 'Christian' soldiers.
They may call themselves 'Christian', but those who follow the teachings of
Jesus strive to compassion their neighbor and do not kill." - Barbara
AquinKingdom Now/Dominion/Joel's Army
mythology is a resurrection of the cult of
Yahweh.
Basic premise: Man lost dominion over the Earth when
Adam and Eve succumbed to Satan's
temptation in the Garden of Eden.
The Father "lost control" of the Earth to
Satan at that time, ("serpent seed" occurs - Cain spawn of Satan)
and has since been looking for a "covenant people" who will be an "extension,"
or "expression," on Earth of the Father and take dominion back from
Satan.
According to
Jesus the Kingdom of God is
within (or among) people unlike Kingdom Now / Dominion / Joel's Army and
Christian Zionism mythology. Jesus' Kingdom
of God is approached through understanding and is entered into through the
acceptance of Law of God as reality with
the awe of a child - this is
spiritual rebirth
within the will of
God.
The proponents of Kingdom Now / Dominion /
Joel's Army and Christian Zionism mythology expect every human in the world to
conform to a vision of impossible
perfection. They will and have resorted to the same methods that the
Spanish Inquisition,
New Spain's Inquisition and the
Roman Inquisition adhered to in the attempt
to assure conformity of
thought.
Kingdom Now / Dominion / Joel's
Army and Christian Zionism mythologies are based on
Manifest Sons
mythology which was carried over from the time of
William Marrion Branham by
Earl Pearly
Paulk - adherents are "little gods" exercising autonomous sovereignty
within their spheres of dominion.
Earl
Pearly Paulk1960
Earl Pearly
Paulk founded "Harvester Ministry", a non-profit corporation, with his
wife, his brother Donald, and his sister-in-law Clareice in an area of Atlanta
called "Little Five Points."
1972 The
fellowship became known as Cathedral of the
Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester famed for combining
visual arts, particularly the dance team, with a
liturgical style.
Earl Pearly Paulk
neoevangelist television and
radio programs were seen and heard on Trinity Broadcasting
Network. Earl Pearly Paulk was a semi-regular guest on Trinity
Broadcasting Network's "Praise the Lord."
1982 Earl Pearly Paulk is ordained a bishop in the
International Communion of Charismatic Churches, a non-profit 501c3.
Earl Pearly Paulk has been involved in many sex scandals spanning several years.
Donnie
Earl (D.E.) Paulk, nephew of Earl Pearly Paulk and senior pastor of the
Cathedral at Chapel Hill, informed the congregation that he is actually the
biological son of Earl Pearly Paulk, and not the son of Donald Paulk.
A
court-ordered DNA test confirmed this and Earl Pearly Paulk is forced to resign
as archbishop of the International Communion of Charismatic Churches
(ICCC).
2006 Earl Pearly Paulk swears in a
deposition that the only woman he ever had sex with outside of marriage was
Monica Manning Brewer. As part of the same lawsuit 8 women testified they had
sex under duress with Earl Pearly
Paulk.
2008 Earl Pearly Paulk is found guilty of
lying under oath, a felony, his Bible College is closed and his
television show canceled.
"I doubt Jesus
would support the violent invasions of
sovereign nations, resulting in the death and wounding of hundreds of thousands of innocent
people; the arrest, torture and imprisonment
of innocent people; tax cuts
favoring the
wealthiest among us; the largest
debt in America's history;
not supporting the military with proper
equipment; cutting veterans'
benefits; higher costs for education, healthcare and housing; more
environmental pollution, bribery scandals,
lying, crony-ism, greed or corruption. Why do so
many (neo)evangelists Christians
believe their preachers instead of the facts?" - Greg Garcia
"Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.
Thy .50-caliber and 240, they comfort me."
-
Captain David Burris, chaplain
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall
be called sons of God."
- Matthew 5:9
"History's moral tragedies were
often accompanied by clergy who were timidly and quietly complicit with
the destructive government policies of their
day. Reasonable people no doubt differ on
how to identify and solve today's
moral issues. It is, however, unreasonable to claim that
Jesus and the other prophets do not have
something to say about a doomed, unjust,
immoral war; state sanctioned torture;
international silence in the face of genocide
and state sanctioned murder
through the death penalty."- Ed Bacon, Rector, All Saints Episcopal Church
Pasadena
Word of Faith consists of two distinct yet
closely related factions:
1) Norman Vincent Peale /
Robert H. Schuller Positive/Possibility
fellowships, with their roots in the New
Thought of Essek William Kenyon;
2)
Kenneth E. Hagin/Kenneth Copeland
Positive Confession
Word of Faith fellowships.
Both
have their roots in William Essek Kenyon's New
Thought and William Marrion
Branham Manifest Sons/Latter Rain dogma.
"High achievers spot rich
opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action
immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your
dreams come true." - Robert H. Schuller
Word of Faith dogma includes the following
ideologies:
Christians are "gods" who can use their own divinity to
"speak" things into existence, those that are
not healthy and wealthy lack 'faith', 'faith' is
a "supernatural
force" capable of being used for good or evil.
The use of negative words and
thoughts release the power of Satan, while positive words and thoughts release
the power of the Lord.
Kenneth Copeland,
Kenneth E. Hagin,
Benny Hinn,
Paul Crouch,
Oral Roberts,
Richard Roberts, John
Avanzini, Reinhard Bonnke, Rodney
Howard-Browne, Morris Cerullo, Robert Tilton and almost all the
celebrities on Trinity Broadcasting
Network practice Word of
Faith.
"You are as much the incarnation of god as Jesus Christ was."
- Kenneth E. Hagin
"Did you know that from the
beginning of time the whole purpose of god
was to reproduce himself?... And when we stand up here, brother, you're not
looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God." - Morris Cerullo*1990 Morris
Cerullo purchased the assets of Jim Bakker's bankrupt ministry, "Praise The
Lord" along with "Praise The Lord"
cable television
network, The Inspirational Network, which was renamed INSP - The
Inspiration Network.
2009
CEO David Cerullo, Morris' son, builds a
9,000-square-foot $4 million home on a
lot that overlooks Lake Keowee in . At the same time the "ministry" laid of
workers, froze wages and stopped making contributions to 401(k) retirement
accounts. The network's revenues are expected to approach $100 million, largely
donations from people who are told God favors those who donate. David Cerullo
defends his $1.5 million in compensation even though IRS rules bar nonprofits
from paying "unreasonable compensation."
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"Being poor is a sin.
The only time people
were poor in the Bible
is when they were under a curse."
Robert
Tilton
Robert Tilton bought 5,000 hours per month of
broadcast airtime for his Success-N-Life
television program which was broadcast in
all American broadcasting markets until it
was discovered Robert Tilton threw away prayer requests without reading them,
keeping only money and valuables sent to him by viewers which garnered him an
estimated $84 million per year.
"Remember television
neoevangelists
Jim Bakker,
Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton and
Oral Roberts? They’re all the same.
They offer up the comfort of the Lord and in return use threats of damnation if
donations slow down." - Diane Dimond
polytheistic religious thought in
Christianity
"In the so-called monotheism of today, in addition
to God there is also an acknowledgment of many transcendent beings capable of
influencing reality: The son of God, the mother of God, the devil, angels and
demons immediately come to mind." - R.H. Joseph
"Iblis can
enter a thousand beings
everyone that Iblis enters becomes like him.
Iblis is in whoever freezes your passion for
living
Iblis is hidden under his skin.
When Iblis doesn't find a physical
form,
he'll invade your imagination and make it drag you into evil:
from your thoughts Iblis' destruction
will stream,
from thoughts even of peace or work,
or the compassion of
knowledge or of home and family
no
thought is safe from his twisting!"
- Rumi
"Lucifer's Fall represents
the very beginnings of separation from God,
just as the technology of
fire was humanity's first abrogation and arrogation of nature's cycle of
energy flow, marking the beginning of our separation
from nature. Then in the figure of Satan, we have the further legend of the
Devil at war with Heaven, or
trying to set
himself above God, a theme echoed in the Babel story, the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, and countless other myths. This represents our campaign to becomes
the lords and
masters of nature; it is the domestication of the wild, the Technological
Program, the World Under Control.
Just as in myth, the war against Heaven is ultimately doomed, and the pain
endured in this losing campaign is proportional to the intensity with which it
is waged. The failure of the technological fix, the failure of the program to
bring all the world under control, we address by intensifying the effort to
control, sacrificing more and more of Life to War.
In the modern era, we have sold away our very lives to the
enslavement of time and
money." -
Charles
Eisenstein
Satan did not exist in the minds of
the ancient monotheistic Hebrews.
Valentinian
Gnosticism, best expressed in the Gospel
of Truth, names a heirarchy of beings called Aeons which are also named in
the The Apocryphon of John. Satan had a legion of demons and
Christ had the ability to call on a host of angels.
"For from the
indestructible
light, which is the Christ, through the
Will of God the four lights
(appeared) from the divine Autogenes (Christ). And the three (are) will,
thought, and life. And the four powers (are) understanding
grace,
perception, and
prudence. And there are three other aeons
with him: understanding, compassion, and idea. And the fourth aeon was placed
over the fourth light. And there are three other aeons with him:
perfection, peace, and wisdom. These are the
four lights which attend the divine Autogenes, (and) these are the twelve aeons
which attend the son of the mighty one, the Autogenes, the Christ, through the
Will of God." - Apocryphon
of John
Nearly all the converts to Gnostic Christianity were
Hellenized Hebrews with
an understanding of the evolving theologies of both the Saducees and the
Pharisees. In the Apocryphon of John a whole heirachy of demons and
angels is described.
"Yaltabaoth had a multitude of faces,
more than all of them, so that he could put a face before all of them,
according to his desire, when he is in the midst of Seraphim. He shared his fire with them; therefore
he became lord over them. Because of the power of the glory he possessed of his
mother's light, he called himself god. And he
did not obey the place from which he
came. And he united the seven powers in his thought with the authorities which
were with him. And the powers began: the first one, goodness, created a bone-soul; and the second,
foreknowledge, created a
sinew-soul; the third, divinity, created
a flesh-soul; and the fourth, the
lordship, created a marrow-soul; the
fifth, kingdom created a blood-soul; the
sixth, envy, created a
skin-soul; the seventh, understanding,
created a hair-soul.
The four chief demons are: Ephememphi, who belongs to
enchantment, Yoko, who belongs to desire, Nenentophni, who belongs to
grief, Blaomen, who belongs to
fear. And the mother of them all is Aesthesis
(sensuous perception). And
from the four demons passions came forth. And from
grief (came) envy, jealousy,
regret,
humilation,
callousness,
anxiety,
mourning, etc. And from enchantment much
wickedness arises, lust,
empty pride, and similar things.
And from desire (comes) anger,
wrath, frustration,
bitterness,
anguish, and similar things. And from
fear (comes)
dread, terror, suffering, and
shame. All of these are like useful
things as well as evil things. But the insight into their true (character) is
Anaro, who is the head of the material soul, for it belongs with the
seven senses, Aesthesis. " - The Apocryphon of
John
Traditional Christian fellowships find the behavioral
practices of the
Charismatic
Pentecostal revival movements - Healing, Latter Rain, Toronto, The Call, Charismatic, Apostolic
Culmination, , Manifested Sons
- disconcerting, unnerving and unsettling. Fits of uncontrollable "Holy Laughter" during a
Bible reading are rightfully seen as
mocking theWord of God.
Supernatural spiritual
"rewards" may come as "speaking in tongues, "prophecy", "slain in the spirit", "Holy Laughter",
barking like a dog,
shaking like a leaf in a
storm, visions of people and places described on live
television with outstanding skills of
oratory and rhetoric - these are manifestations, to be sure, but there
is no evidence that such behavior is an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.
Jesus the
Tannaim cast out "demons."
Jesus the Therapeutae
healed people that exhibited
erratic behaviors
that were attributed to "possession by demons."
Jesus healed individuals that exhibited the same types of behavior that is now
called an "outpouring of the Holy
Spirit."
Demons historically are related to
deviant behavior.
Deviant behavior due to brain
damage was attributed to unseen entities named demons.
Exorcism is an
attempt to change the behavior expressed by the individual. Today
most exorcists come in the form of
psychiatrists. Frontal lobotomies
were used to exorcize "demons" up until the 1986. Now neuroleptics like Thorazine are used to create
chemical frontal lobotomies thus dispelling those nasty demons.
"In proportion as
mind and heart are fixed upon the glorified Lord Jesus
Christ, we may count on the Holy Spirit's enabling. But if we make the Spirit
Himself the object of our aspirations and worship, some false spirit may counterfeit the true and take us for a
prey." - Sir Robert Anderson
| "If a man should conquer in
battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself,
his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the
victory over oneself; and neither the gods in heaven above nor the demons down
below can turn into defeat the victory of such a man." - Dhammapada |
"It was exhilarating,
thrilling, reviving, rewarding - everything an
angelic
warrior was made for!
The Host of Heaven had waited so long and had
built up such fervor that when the signal finally came, they broke over the
crests of the mountains on every side like a violent,
shimmering ocean wave and showered down
like hail upon the dark cloud of demons in the valley, scattering them like
dust before the wind, routing,
battling, swinging, and pushing down, down, down toward the Aspen Institute.
Tal, at the crest of the wave, dove like
a hawk, his wings straight back, his sword a needle
of light at the end of his outstretched arm. His war cry could be heard
above all the tumult, and his sword was the first to strike. They flew into the
heart of the black cloud, like piercing a black, boiling thunderhead.
The swords of spirits clashed, wings slapped and fluttered, red smoke
fogged the air.
Tal kicked, cut, spun like a scythe, and fought his way
downward, downward. He could hear the roar of Guilo, the Strength of Many, just
above and to the left, batting at demons and mowing them down, flipping them
sideways to meet other blades, kicking and grabbing what hides he could find,
cutting a widening swath, gutting the cloud at its core." - Frank E. Perretti -
author This Present Darkness
Strategic-level
spiritual warfare, popular in the
Apostolic
Culmination, often involves going to the highest place in a city or region,
like a mountain top, with attempts to bind "territorial spirits," the "high-ranking demons" that rule over
specific geographical regions. The idea is that - if their demonic grip is
broken - then the people who live in that region will respond en masse to the
Word of God, and they will be
freed of evil strongholds of lust,
greed, envy,
gluttony, sloth,
pride and wrath.
Many fellowships have eagerly adopted
strategic-level
spiritual warfare, believing it's the key to fulfilling the "Great
Commission" which will usher in the "Kingdom Age".
Adherents take part in showy ritualized ceremonies, where they seek to directly
confront territorial spirits by name.
Apostles of the
Apostolic
Culmination anoint adherents with specific
supernatural powers.
John Arnott anoint
adherents with a "new anointing" he
calls the "Sword of
the Lord" or "Warrior Anointing"
which brings "supernatural
power".
The apostles of the
Apostolic
Culmination sell a form of supernaturalism that is
suspiciously similar to fantasy video games. Just like the fantasy hero
adherents are anointed with
supernatural
powers so they may attack greater and larger demonic forces. Just like
video game manufactures charge consumers for their games,
Apostolic
Culmination adherents are charged a fee to receive the next new "anointing." (And if you
could not attend the "conference" you can
purchase a DVD of past events and past training sessions for a nominal fee. If
you have 'faith' then you too will receive the "anointing!")
Strategic-level
spiritual warfare comes dangerously close to
shamanism which may culminate in the
belief that an individual can control and be controlled or possessed by
supernatural entities - angels and
demons in polytheistic neoavangelic cults and
animal spirits in
shamanistic
cultures.
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