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“HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM. FOR IT IS SHAMEFUL EVEN TO SPEAK OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE DONE BY THEM IN SECRET.” (Eph. 5:11-12.)
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One of Blake’s masonic paintings, depicting many emblems of freemasonry.
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The Lord’s people are robbed and plundered; they are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, and none delivers, for a spoil, and no one says: Restore them! Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? [Who will stand up and say: Give back the bound, abused, blood-bought nation of the Lord Jesus Christ!] (Isa. 42:22-23.) |
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“As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, [or keep certain parts of the OT’s ceremonial or ritual law,] only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised, [or turn away from Christ to go back to the OT covenant, the law,] that they may boast in your flesh. But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new [BORN AGAIN] creation. And as many as walk according to THIS rule, peace and mercy be upon then, and upon the [spiritual] Israel of God.” (Gal. 6:12-15.) |
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· OAC continued: Freemasonry follows the ‘Elitist Atlantism’ of Plato: The Masonic Fraternity is seated in the doctrines of Plato’s ‘geometry’ and astrology. As a result, masonic dogma and the masonic emblem, (the square and compass,) as well as the outlay of the ‘celestial lodge,’ were based on the uses of triangles, squares, and circles. The freemason fraternity as we know it, began in the 15th century with the infamous Christian Crusaders, the Knights Templar of the Roman Catholic Church, [‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History Channel, 13/3/2010.] The Knights Templar was the first masonic secret society to confess that they worship the god Baphomet. The Knights Templar added to the story of the highly intelligent ‘Atlantean elite’ the fallacy of the ‘Merovingian-bloodline.’ Supposedly, the Merovingian race are the ‘physical descendants’ of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, who “married French and German royalty to produce the mystical Merovingian Dynasty.” As descendants of the ‘superior’ Atlanteans and of Jesus Christ Himself, the Knights Templar believed that they and all their masonic descendants would be an elite race of ‘divine’ supermen, called “The Merovingian Kings.” The masonic doctrine of the ‘Atlantean bloodline’ is closely linked to Eastern Mystics, (Hindus and Buddhists,) as well as to Hitler’s ‘Aryan’ race. This royal, holy ‘bloodline’ is supposed to produce ‘chosen,’ ‘purified,’ divine ‘god men’ – who become incarnations of the governing spiritual, (or actually, the demonic) rulers of the world, the ‘Tibetan Masters of the Universe.’ ‘Saint’ Augustine also followed Plato: Christian Roman Catholic godfather, ‘Saint’ Augustine, built many of the Catholic Church’s philosophies on Plato’s ‘invisible world of goodness,’ and stated that “Plato was Christianity for the masses.” Although Catholic ‘saint’ Augustine completely rejected Jesus’ Biblical invitation to all the poor, deprived, sick, and suffering of this world to be saved by attested faith in Jesus and by willing acceptance of His atoning work for them, this Catholic ‘saint’ still remains one of the greatest ‘church fathers’ for Catholics and Protestants alike. In reality, Augustine turned Plato’s Gnostic ‘Theory of Forms,’ (or so-called ‘knowledge’ and intellectual reason,) into the new ‘gospel’ of the church. Neo-Platonism’s imperfect ‘mind-god,’ versus ‘The One,’ the perfect ‘mind-god:’ Plotinus began building his Neo-Platonism teachings on the philosophies of Plato, continually adding Gnostic views to this basis. In this way, ‘pantheism,’ (god is in everything, thus we are gods,’) became the basis for Plotinus’ perception that the ‘natural’ human mind was created by the ‘imperfect’ creator-god, The Demiurge. To put a very lengthy and complicated Gnostic philosophy into plain words, The Demiurge is also known as ‘The Fool,’ therefore he had created the human mind ‘natural,’ ‘foolish,’ and ‘dark’ - although the ‘natural’ mind has the capability to aspire to some level of intelligent thought. As The Demiurge ‘resides’ in the mind, The Demiurge himself had ‘become’ the consciousness of the soul, or the god of the ‘natural’ mind. As such, this ‘mind-god’ had ‘turned’ the ‘natural’ human mind into The Demiurge itself. Thus the ‘natural’ mind of man itself had ‘become’ ‘Darkness,’ or the foolish god The Demiurge; always imploding in on itself as it focuses inwards on its own ‘dark’ imperfection. Mankind would have been in the grip of The Darkness, The Demiurge, (The Fool,) forever, if he did not realize that, through his capable intelligence, he is able to connect with the highest Greek god, called ‘The One.’ (The One was known as ‘Pan,’ a few millennia before Plato.) The One is also called ‘Monad,’ ‘The Good,’ and ‘The Light.’ Monad is the perfect creator-god. So, when the ‘natural’ mind of man connects with ‘The One’ through intelligent ‘Reason,’ the supreme god, ‘The Light,’ ‘descends’ into The Demiurge, overriding ‘The Darkness’. Monad, or ‘The Light’ then actually ‘resides’ in the Nous, (or intelligent, enlightened soul of man,) and the whole mind of man itself ‘becomes’ enlightened.’ The Nous then actually ‘becomes’ spirit; becomes angelic; becomes ‘god;’ becomes ‘The One’ or ‘The Light’ himself. Being ‘pure spirit,’ ‘pure light,’ and even ‘pure god’ itself, this ‘spiritual’ mind-god of man, (The Nous,) is able to view everything ‘spiritually’ by focusing outward – thus connecting not only with the entire universe ‘out there,’ but with everything in the cosmos itself. The Masonic “spiritualization” of Emmanuel Swedenborg and William Blake, (1827:) The great ‘intellect,’ philosopher, and painter, William Blake, (1827,) built his ‘spiritualization’ of the entire Bible on Plato’s ‘Theory of Forms,’ but especially on the teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg, (1785.) Emmanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist and philosopher who viewed himself as a ‘spirit;’ an Angel, “God’s connection between heaven and earth,” or actually, God’s connection between heaven and hell, and he grounded this strange gospel on the belief that he must accomplish the “Marriage between Heaven and Earth (or hell,)” in the ‘enlightened’ human mind, or soul of humanity. To accomplish this, Swedenborg taught that the Biblical teachings on heaven and hell, (as all other Biblical teachings,) must be ‘spiritualized’ to a ‘state of mind,’ or a mere ‘perception’ of the human mind. And so, Swedenborg’s radical ‘New Jerusalem Church’ taught that “a spiritual enlightenment was now available for those who would open their eyes to this gospel”; a ‘new’ gospel; ‘new’ (Gnostic) knowledge, which can turn the Bible into ‘pure spirit’ – even factual, historically documented events, such as Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension. Swedenborg criticized Christian leaders as follows, “They have misled the Christians to ‘blindly’ believe that being born to a ‘natural’ world, they cannot perceive anything ‘separate from what is natural...’ [They] have conned their subjects into believing that the ‘spiritual’ world ‘transcends’ the Understanding.” In reality, he meant that Christianity deceived people into believing that they need Jesus the Savior to perceive the spiritual world, while humanity is able to perceive the spiritual world by the power of their minds, which would then ‘turn into’ or actually ‘become’ spiritual minds! This, of course, is the basis of Plato’s doctrine, ‘essence precedes existence,’ which means that reality is seated in the spiritual realm; it is not found in the material world. The real world is ‘spirit,’ the material world is ‘a darkened illusion,’ and both these worlds, [as illustrated in the metaphor of the carriage, drawn by a white horse, (The Light,) and the black horse, (The Darkness,)] are contained by the human mind. The Illuminati of Swedenborg: Both Blake and his idol, Swedenborg, were Illuminati freemason ‘elitists,’ belonging to a secret society called “The Illuminati of Swedenborg.” [Samuel Beswick, ‘The Swedenborg Rite,’ p. 1.] All of Swedenborg’s religious teachings resided in the masonic dogma of international freemasonry, which had its headquarters in London. Consequently, most of Blake’s paintings portray the masonic emblem of the compass and square. These emblems openly declared the Illuminati’s agenda of worldwide communist revolution, which, in the early 1800s, was pursued through these so-called ‘new, spiritual revelations’ from the Bible! The real goal of these masonic revolutionaries, (in conjunction with their most radical branch, ‘The Society at Avignon,’) was totalitarian, global control under the reign of Emmanuel Swedenborg, which began in the churches first. In fact, the fundamental significance of their doctrine of so-called “spiritual regeneration” was “to sweep from the earth every prince and every king, that the God of Swedenborg [EMMANUEL SWEDENBORG,] may reign uncontrolled over the whole globe.” [‘William Blake and the Radical Swedenborgians,’ Robert Rix; ‘Wikipedia Online Encyclopaedia.’] They used New Age visualization to ‘spiritualize’ the Bible: The early 19th century philosophies of William Blake, birthed from the masonic teachings of Swedenborg and the Gnosticism of Plato, described the occult techniques of ‘creative energy’ (‘intelligent spirituality,’) and ‘active imagination,’ (the visualizing power of the mind,) as the essence, (the ‘spiritual’ existence) of humanity. Well known in religions such as New Ageism and Buddhism, this means, by using the power of our ‘natural’ mind to ‘actively visualize’ the ‘spirituality’ of our mind, we can ‘transform’ the ‘natural, darkened’ mind, (The Demiurge,) into ‘light and spirit;’ (‘The Light,’ or the highest Greek creator-god Monad.) This occult principle of ‘active imagination’ can then be applied to ‘recreate’ all material matter into spiritual matter, which results in the notion that the material world is a mere ‘illusion,’ while the ‘spiritual world’ if this ‘divine,’ ’spiritual’ mind of man becomes reality. [This is also the Buddhist/Hinduist teaching of ‘Maya:’ all suffering, etc. in this material world is only an ‘illusion.’] “Emmanuel Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at Jesus’ tomb…” Seated in the doctrines of ‘creative energy and active imagination,’ Blake taught that, when reading the Bible, his followers have to ‘recreate’ the teachings and commandments of Jesus, and even well documented, historical facts like Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, into pure ‘spirit.’ By visualizing the entire Bible as ‘spirit,’ (or by placing the ‘power’ of their own intelligent understanding above ‘mindless’ or ‘darkened’ acceptance of Scripture as the stated value,) the human mind itself ‘becomes’ spirit. Blake then ‘intellectually visualized’ or ‘spiritualized’ the entire Bible according to the following example, “[Emmanuel] Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at Jesus’ tomb. His [MASONIC] writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the [ILLUMINATI’S] dominion of Edom, [THE MASONIC RULE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD,] and the return of Adam into Paradise… [THE TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST PARADISE OF MAYHEM AND DESTRUCTION.] “Good is Heaven. [NOT BIBLICAL HEAVEN, BUT THE ‘THE GOOD’ OR ‘THE LIGHT’ OF THE MIND-GOD OF THE ENLIGHTENED MIND or SOUL, (THE NOUS,) WHICH BECOMES PARADISE, OR THE ULTIMATE HEAVENLY STATE OF MIND.] “Evil is Hell. [THE DARKENED MIND OF HUMANITY ITSELF, THE DEMIURGE, IS HELL, OR A HELLISH STATE OF MIND.] “Man has no Body distinct from his Soul. [MAN DOES NOT EXIST IF HIS SOUL, ‘THE DARKNESS,’ DOES NOT BECOME ‘THE LIGHT’ OR ‘THE ONE.’] “Energy [OR SPIRIT] is the only life, and it is from the body, [THE MIND; THE SOUL.] “‘Reason’ is the circumference of Energy. [INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE OR ‘REASON’ LEADS TO ‘THE LIGHT;’ THE GOD MONAD, THEREFORE ‘REASON’ BECOMES THE ‘SAVIOR’ OR ‘THE CHRIST’ OF THE DARKENED MIND.] “‘Desire,’ [OR THE ‘NATURAL’ MIND, PLATO’S ‘BLACK HORSE,’ WHICH USES NOT INTELLECTUALISM,] is weak and of the body… [OR OF THE ‘DARK’ SOUL/MIND.]” Of great significance in Blake’s ‘spiritualization’ of Scripture, is the fact that “Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at Jesus’ tomb…” The meaning of this is that the ‘god-man’ Illuminist Swedenborg, actually became ‘spirit;’ became an Angel, and not just ‘any’ angel, but The Chief Angel or ‘Reason:’ the mediator between God and man, or ‘the christ;’ the savior of the world!
“IF WE CRUCIFY OUR CARNAL THOUGHTS, WE ARE BORN AGAIN AS SPIRITUAL MEN:” These are some of the ‘SPIRITUAL’ words from an ‘ old apostle mouth’ who tried to convert us. He wrote, “The Word [Jesus] became flesh to become part of our lives. [I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT FEEBLE HUMANITY MUST BECOME PART OF CHRIST JESUS, WHO IS GOD HIMSELF!] This means we have to crucify our carnal thoughts, which make us into ‘carnal’ or ‘natural’ men. ‘The Word became flesh’ does not only relate to Jesus the Nazarene, but today, everyone who have accepted the Word, or Christ. Carnal man [or ‘natural’ man] won’t, or cannot see or understand the spiritual things of God. This is what Jn. 1:1-2 means. Because carnal man does not discern the Word Spiritually, he cannot become Spiritual or born again and so he cannot receive the Spirit of God.” [THIS IS A TYPICAL OAC OMISSION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, AS WELL AS THE SINFUL, CURSED STATE OF HUMANITY, FROM THE BIBLICAL EQUATION OF SALVATION, (1Ths. 5:23; Rom. chapters 2 & 3.) THE SUM OF OAC SALVATION: The ‘natural,’ ‘darkened’ mind of man + The knowledge that the Bible must be interpreted as ‘spirit’ = The spiritual rebirth of the mind, or soul. THE SUM OF BIBLICAL SALVATION: The dead, cursed human spirit of humanity + Faith in, and acceptance of Jesus’ complete atonement in their place = the rebirth of the human spirit, followed by the ‘day-by-day’ transformation of the human mind, or soul, (Rom. 2&3; Gal. 3:10-14; Jn. 1:12-13; Rom. 12:1-2.) AS THE MIND AND HUMAN SPIRIT ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENTITIES, IT IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE ‘NATURAL’ MIND TO BECOME ‘SPIRITUAL,’ OR TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE ‘SPIRITUALLY.’ JESUS HIMSELF DECLARED IN JN. 3:6, “THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH (or mind) IS FLESH, (of the mind,) AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT (the Holy Spirit) IS SPIRIT… (V.5:) UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF WATER, (the truth of Scripture, the Word of God, or through the atonement of Jesus Christ Himself, Jn. 1:1-4,) AND OF THE SPIRIT, (in the power of the Holy Spirit,) HE CANNOT ENTER [OR SEE] THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” THE CREATOR GOD COMMANDED THAT EVERYTHING ON EARTH MUST REPRODUCE ‘AFTER THEIR OWN KIND,’ I.E.: A THORN TREE CAN NEVER BECOME A PALM TREE! WHAT IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT, IS SPIRIT. WHAT IS BORN OF THE MIND IS OF THE MIND. ‘JESUS BECAME FLESH’ MEANS THAT JESUS, (GOD HIMSELF,) BECAME A HUMAN BEING TO ATONE FOR HUMANKIND’S STATE OF SIN AND CURSEDNESS AS A HUMAN BEING, THEREBY RECONCILING TRULY BORN AGAIN HUMANKIND TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIS COMPLETE ATONEMENT IN THEIR PLACE! (Jn. 1:1-14.) THE ONLY WAY TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO BE SPIRITUALLY BORN AGAIN BY FAITH IN, AND ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS AS OUR PERSONAL CHRIST OR SAVIOR, (Jn. 1:12-13; Gal. 4:4-6; 1 Cor. 6:17-20.) THIS IS WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE INSTRUCTED NICODEMUS IN JN. 3:3-5, ‘UNLESS YOUR SPIRIT IS SPIRITUALLY BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE OR IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH UNWAVERING FAITH IN, AND ACCEPTANCE OF MY COMPLETE ATONEMENT IN YOUR PLACE; AND UNLESS THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLS YOUR BORN AGAIN HUMAN SPIRIT AS A TEMPLE OF GOD, (1 COR. 6:17-20, Gal. 4:6-7, ROM. 8:9B,) YOU CANNOT SEE NOR ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” PLEASE NOTE THAT JESUS RELATED THE SPIRITUAL REBIRTH, WHICH OCCURS IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT OF HUMANKIND, TO THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD (‘WHICH IS WITHIN YOU;’ IN YOUR INNERMOST, BORN AGAIN SPIRIT,) AND NOT TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, (WHICH, OF COURSE, MUST BE OUR ULTIMATE GOAL.) Find more discussions on the Main Page
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