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Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by Leuan
What do those wacky-a@@ hip-hop stars like Jay-Z, beyounce, lady gaga, lil wayne, kanye west, and the rest - have in common with the catholic church? Why do they love to display the same symbols? How about the freemasons?
Why are their symbols all the same? Because they all think they look soooo cool?
It's coming people. Jerusalem will be their capital in the rebuilt soloman's temple.
Originally posted by tadaman
reply to post by FreedomEntered
no.
As Catholics we are to NOT be worldly. We are to be humble and spiritual.
Also it is against church dogma to be involved in earthly affairs. The sole purpose of the church is the salvation of souls. Ask a priest. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school my whole life under mostly clergy teachers.
You are wrong.
edit on 1-3-2013 by tadaman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by cavtrooper7
reply to post by gosseyn
If I'm wrong in my faith I alienate people like you,no loss.If I'm right you burn in hell.
Might want to start hedging bets there ace. Thank you however for your opinion,it seems many have them.
Though insults are petty and ineffective in swaying a faith I've been raised in and have been comforted by when I was in a war
Originally posted by tadaman
reply to post by Leuan
am I ? I was raised a devout Roman Catholic. It stands to reason that we are speaking about Roman Catholics, we are talking about the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church no?
EDIT TO ADD:
Also the divide with the eastern church has been healed by Benedict. We are again one church. Though with what ever puppet that is placed in power following him, they will probably go their separate ways again after the new pope reverts everything Benedict did.
The only reason why Benedict was able to strengthen the church was because he went back to basics. He took up the traditions and ceremonies as well as philosophies that were ALWAYS Catholic that were lost with Vatican 2 reforms. All the groups that broke away after seeing the church in schism by violating dogma with Vatican 2 reforms will now NEVER come back even though they were considering it. All because we all know that the new guy will be a new age holy man with all those "great" (/not) ideas about how the church of tomorrow will be today.
They in so doing will finishing burying the church of always for the New age BS of today that has RUINED the church in the last decades. Lower attendance, lower membership, lower enrollment to the ranks of the cloth, watered down ceremonies that are not respectful or solemn, lax discipline which leads to the sort of priests we see today, meaningless state of prayer and scripture by tweaking the words to be progressive, all of it....BS....
edit on 1-3-2013 by tadaman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AtticusRye
In his 2011 essay, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority,” Turkson calls for an end to the Westphalian order and the creation of a world government (“global public authority”). While Cardinal Turkson’s thoughts are vague about the exact form such a regime should take, he lays out three basic principles that would guide formation. It should, he explains, be:
www.parapolitical.com...
Not only that, it is the duty of every Christian, he says, to support a world government. I'm unclear what that means. Does it mean, if you do not support a world government, you are in violation of church doctrine? Would it be an excommunicable offense if Turkson were Pope?
And yet scripture clearly shows Jesus saying that PETER is the rock and that PETER is the first leader of Christ's church .. appointed by Christ Himself.
The triangle surrounding the eye represents the Holy Trinity.
its been a christian symbol for a very long time
The Blazing Star (Pentagram) has been regarded as an emblem of Omniscience, or the All-Seeing Eye, which to the Egyptian Initiates was the emblem of Osiris, the Creator."
Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma", p. 16
On page 332 of her related work, Blavatsky explains that “Osiris” is this Lord of Justice who rules over the “Seven Luminous Ones” or seven stars that Wallace would later speak of and under which the United States would serve following the inauguration of the New World Order and the resurrection of Osiris/Apollo.[162] The other phrase, “Yes, the Chalice is filling” corresponds to Holy Grail teachings by Roerich concerning a mystical cup, called the “Chalice of Buddha” or sometimes “the Blessed One” which was (at least metaphorically) a vessel of knowledge to those who honored the messianic figure and which would be filled by the appearance of the King of the New World Order—Osiris/Apollo to Masons.
Horn, Thomas R.; Putnam, Cris D. (2012-04-15). Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here (Kindle Locations 2380-2386).
Once one understands the importance that these mystical keys hold in Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonic mysticism, and other mystery traditions, there can be (and is) but one reasonable interpretation for the connection in the Vatican and the seventy-two pentagrams at the base of the Apotheosis of Washington. These are there to bind and control the demons over the nations to honor the dedication made by early American Freemasons and certain Roman devotees for a New Atlantis and New World Order under the coming antichrist deity Osiris/Apollo.
Horn, Thomas R.; Putnam, Cris D. (2012-04-15). Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here (Kindle Locations 3136-3140)
The all-seeing eye on the Great Seal is fashioned after the Eye of Horus, the offspring of Osiris (or Osiris resurrected), as both men surely understood. Aliester Crowley, 33rd-Degree Freemason (the “wickedest man on earth”) and a Roerich occult contemporary, often spoke of this as the “New Age of Horus” and the breaking dawn of the rebirth of Osiris. That such mystics and Freemasons simultaneously used such identical language is telling, given that the Great Seal’s mottoes and symbolism relate to both Osiris and Apollo specifically, yet as one. Osiris is the dominant theme of the Egyptian symbols, his resurrection and return, while the mottoes of the seal point directly to Apollo, and the eagle, a pagan emblem of Jupiter, to Apollo’s father.
Horn, Thomas R.; Putnam, Cris D. (2012-04-15). Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here (Kindle Locations 2478-2483).
By the time I reached Bou Saâda and came to the twentieth Aethyr, I began to understand that these visions were, so to speak, cosmopolitan. They brought all systems of magical doctrine into harmonious relation. The symbolism of Asiatic cults; the ideas of the Cabbalists, Jewish and Greek; the arcana of the gnostics; the pagan pantheon, from Mithras to Mars; the mysteries of ancient Egypt; the initiations of Eleusis; Scandinavian saga; Celtic and Druidical ritual; Mexican and Polynesian traditions; the mysticism of Molinos no less than that of Islam, fell into their proper places without the slightest tendency to quarrel. The whole of the past Aeon appeared in perspective and each element thereof surrendered its sovereignty to Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Lord of the Aeon announced in The Book of the Law.
These visions thus crystallized in dramatic form the theoretical conclusion which my studies of comparative religion had led me to adumbrate. The complexity of the whole vast subject resolved itself into shining simplicity, I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears the truth in terms of Time. I understood directly that the formula of Osiris necessarily assumed all sorts of apparently incompatible forms as it was applied to different conditions of race, climate and similar conditions. I saw also that Horus might reconcile all religions, it being possible now to bring all countries to agree on a few fundamental principles.
Aliester Crowley 'Confessions' chapter 66. p.617, 618
It is through this weakness that the perfected man, the Sun, is of dual nature, and his evil twin slays him in his glory. So the triumphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection!...She is Isis and Mary, Istar and Bhavani, Artemis and Diana. source: p. 635, chapter 67 Confessions by Aleister Crowley)
Satan! Cry Aloud! Though Exalted Most High! Oh Me Father Satan! The Eye!" (Aleister Crowley, Magnum Opus, Book Four)
Therefore, the All-Seeing Eye is the symbol of the Omniscience of the Sun God, Lucifer, whom they worship. These All-Seeing Eyes represents the Omniscience of Horus, who is Lucifer in the Egyptian Satanic Mysteries. Masonic author, Carl Claudy writes: "This is one of the oldest and most widespread symbols denoting God. We find it in Egypt, in India ... The Open Eye of Egypt represented Osiris. In India, Siva is represented by an eye." [Carl Claudy, "Introduction To Freemasonry: Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master mason Complete In One Volume", The Temple Publishers, 1931, p. 148, quoted by Dr. Cathy Burns, "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated", p. 357]
This symbolism as an amulet is probably the reason this type of All-Seeing Eye was used on this sign; whoever drew this picture knew Satanism very well, and used exactly the type of All-Seeing Eye occultists use as a protective amulet. A Satanist believes great protective power is in an amulet, and they do come in so many different shapes. An amulet is "a charm (as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to protect the wearer against evil or to aid him. A charmer is called an enchanter or magician." [Dr. Cathy Burns, "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated", p. 57