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Knights Templar to use latest imaging in search for Grail
New Zealand Herald ^ | 01/06/03 | The Independent (?)

Posted on 01/06/2003 2:11:30 PM PST by mgstarr

For centuries the intricately carved stones of Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh have tantalised historians, archaeologists and devoted Christians.

A labyrinth of vaults beneath the 15th-century home of the Knights Templar is reputed to contain dozens of holy relics, including early gospels, the Ark of the Covenant, the fabled Holy Grail - and even the mummified head of Christ.

More than 550 years after the first foundation stones were laid, modern technology is about to put the legend to the test.

A group of Knights Templar, successors to the warrior monks who sought asylum from the Pope by fleeing to Scotland in the early 14th century and fought for Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, are to make a "non-invasive" survey of the land around the chapel.

They will use the latest ultrasound and thermal imaging technology in the hope of finding evidence of the existence of the vaults.

"The plan is to investigate the land around the chapel to a depth of at least 20ft," said John Ritchie, Grand Herald and spokesman for the Knights Templar.

"The machine we are using is the most sophisticated anywhere and is capable of taking readings from the ground up to a mile deep without disturbing any of the land.

"We know many of the Knights are buried in the grounds and there are many references to buried vaults, which we hope this project will finally uncover."Rosslyn Chapel, or the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew as it was to have been, was founded in 1446 by Sir William St Clair, third and last Prince of Orkney.

Built as a celebration of Christ, it is also a monument to craftsmanship.

Bristling with flying buttresses and gargoyles in the highest Gothic style on the outside, the interior is carved with scenes from the Bible, the fall of man, the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the birth of Christ, the crucifixion and the resurrection.

"Rosslyn is an amazing building.

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To: ET(end tyranny)
When the Christian bible was translated to Latin, the mistake was intentionally kept in, even though the original Hebrew text was still available!

Was it the 5th century when it was translated to Latin or ealier? I thought the "pagan language" was there first and was mostly edited out when translated to Latin....do I have that backwards?

281 posted on 01/09/2003 7:14:32 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Xenalyte
If you're not presenting facts, no, darling, you are NOT teaching.

Did Socrates present facts?

Was Socrates a teacher?

282 posted on 01/09/2003 7:37:43 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: ET(end tyranny)
St. Irenaeus had certain historical information available to him, we don't know how much.

Based on the data he had before him he seems to have thought that Christ's ministry lasted twenty years.

I never claimed that St. Irenaeus was inerrant. I never even made the lesser claim that he was infallible.

283 posted on 01/10/2003 5:22:01 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Velveeta
Pagan 'language' is only one aspect. Paganism and items relating to Sun worship are others. They were brought into the church. Mixed with christianity. I realize this was done to entice the pagans to accept christianity, but the question IS... is this bringing pagans to christianity OR bringing christians to paganism/sun worship???

I also realize that Paul wanted to be 'all things to all people, that to the Jews he behaved in Jewish ways, following their rituals and traditions, and to the gentiles he acted as a gentile, but does this mean he also acted pagan to appease the pagans and is this why paganism was allowed into christianity?

A the left is a sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini decorating the tomb of Pope Alexander VII. At the four corners surrounding the enthroned Pope, are the four virtues, Charity, Prudence, Justice and Truth. Charity is on the front left side and "La Verita", which means "The Truth" is on the right front side. On the right is a close up of "La Verita". Notice that the woman is embracing a 'sun-burst'. Clicking on the large image will take you to an art gallery where you can click on the image and zoom for a closer look.

Pagan Babylon worshipped the sun as a deity, and pagan Rome also worshipped the sun. The Roman Catholic Church, with the assistance of Constantine, changed the day of worship from the Sabbath (Saturday) to the Sun Day and commonly used images and symbols of the sun.

Constantine placed no Christian appellation upon the worship on the first day of the week, referring it to it as the "venerable day of the sun."

Let all judges and all city people and all tradesmen rest upon the venerable day of the sun. But let those dwelling in the country freely and with full liberty attend to the culture of their field; since it frequently happens that no other day is so fit for the sowing of grain or the planting of vines; hence, the favorable time should not be allowed to pass, lest the provisions of heaven be lost. Quoted in Blakely, p. 269

Or if you prefer the Codex Justinianus:

On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost. (Given the 7th day of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls each of them for the second time [A.D. 321].) Source: Codex Justinianus, lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3 (5th ed.; New York: Scribner, 1902), p. 380, note 1.

Below on the left is a Neo-Assyrian standing stone (stele/stela) dating from about 824-811 B.C., which depicts King Shamshi-Adad V.   Note the necklace the King is wearing. On it is what today is called a Maltese cross. Twenty-eight hundred years ago that shape was symbolic of pagan sun worship.

Clicking on the above stele will take you to the British Museum. Today the Pope wears a similar symbol around his neck, on the Pallium, which the Pope also confers on selected bishops as an ornamental token of his favor, and it is also worn by archbishops and patriarchs as a symbol of their authority as a metropolitan, derived from unity with the Pope. The Pope also has a ring and staff of authority, remarkably similar to the depiction of the sun god Shamash on the Babylonian tablet shown below.


 

At the left is a tablet from the early 9th century B.C. which depicts the Babylonian sun-god Shamash seated on the right, holding emblems of his authority, a staff and ring, and the king with two attendants on the left. In the center, on an altar, is a large 4-point sun image, with additional small wavy rays between the points. Clicking on the image will take you to the British Museum, where you can see and read about this tablet depicting the sun god, Shamash.
 
     

Note the lower hand of King Ashur-nasir-pal II in the above stele. On the wrist is the sunburst symbol. On the right, the pagan sunburst is on the glove of Pope John XXIII. Clicking on the image of the stele will take you to the British Museum.


 


 
 

The depictions of the pagan kings on the ancient standing stones (stela) above, show a strip of cloth (lappet) hanging from the rear of the headgear. These lappets are also present on the papal mitre and tiara, shown at left, and partially visible in the photos of popes above and to the left.
 
 
 

Deu 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deu 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Deu 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

Here is Pope John Paul II holding what is called a Monstrance or Ostensorium. It is used to display a round wafer of bread, called the host, which is used in what is called the Mass, Lord's Supper, Communion or Eucharistic meal. The Catholic believes this wafer of bread turns into the actual body of Christ when consecrated during the Mass.

The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a sunburst:
 

"During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays."
Source:  The Dictionary of the Liturgy by Rev. Jovian P. Lang, OFM., published and copyrighted © 1989 by Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-89942-273-X, page 436.

The ostensorium (ostensory, monstrance) is a glass-framed shrine in which the Blessed Sacrament is publicly exposed. It may be of gold, silver, brass, or copper gilt (Cong. Sac. Rit., 31 August, 1867). The most appropriate form is that of the sun emitting its rays to all sides (Instructio Clement., 5).

I think you can see how pagan 'language' is only a part of it, and how pagan symbolism was brought into, and resides in co-existence with christianity.

284 posted on 01/10/2003 6:31:30 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: wideawake
Ireneaus seems to be quite certain of his statements. At the very least, it opens the door to the possibility that Jesus' ministry lasted longer than three years and that Jesus lived longer than we are led to believe.
285 posted on 01/10/2003 6:35:32 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Anyone is capable of being quite certain of anything.

No one ever claimed that St. Irenaeus was inerrant or even infallible.

What are you trying to argue - that St. Irenaeus' theology as a whole is useless because of this particular error?

Or are you arguing that Jesus' earthly ministry lasted substantially longer than most people think?

286 posted on 01/10/2003 7:38:59 AM PST by wideawake
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Paganism and items relating to Sun worship are others. They were brought into the church. Mixed with christianity.

Are the terms paganism and gnosticism interchangeable here?

There's a book (fiction) by author Dan Brown called "Angels and Demons" which is a great read, featuring secrets of Templars, Illuminati and a great lesson on the art of Bernini. I only mention this, because I have a hunch you'd enjoy it. His next book, titled the DaVinci Code is due out in March.

287 posted on 01/10/2003 7:56:55 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: wideawake
I didn't insinuate that Irenaeus was useless. In fact, I haven't even said that he was wrong. You have!
288 posted on 01/10/2003 8:03:11 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
I didn't insinuate that Irenaeus was useless. In fact, I haven't even said that he was wrong. You have!

Then please declare - for the very first time - exactly what your position is.

You have been disingenuously avoiding stating your case for a long time. Out with it.

289 posted on 01/10/2003 8:23:38 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Velveeta
Are the terms paganism and gnosticism interchangeable here?

I doubt it. In fact, I am always hesitant in using the word. Here's the definition of pagan from my Webster's New World Dictionary.

pagan - n. [paganus, a peasant] 1. anyone not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew; heathen 2. one who has no religion - adj. 1. of pagans 2. not religious

That ought to really confuse things! See, while 'pagans' may not be Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, the definition also says , one who has no religion. It is obvious that those so called 'pagans' that worshiped the sun god had a religious belief system. So, in a way, referring to the sun worshippers as 'pagan' is kind of a mis-nomer. Yet most people would consider them pagan because of their belief in a sun god. Know what I mean?

I looked that book up at Barnes and Noble, I might keep it in mind for light reading some time. I'm kind of interested in reading something by Father Malachi Martin:

This is the last interview with Father Malachi Martin

Spiritual Wickedness in High Places
Malachi Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It)
by Uri Dowbenko

(Note: The following was one of the last interviews by Malachi Martin before his death in 1999.)

Ever since Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, the Power Elite have never given up on their feverish dream of a One World Government.

Former Jesuit Malachi Martin's novel, Windswept House (Doubleday/ Main Street Books), offers a lurid behind the scenes look at a cabal of Vatican insiders who want to use the Roman Catholic Church as a foundation for a politico-religious New World Order.

The plot of the novel involves a group of Church officials who scheme with a group of like-minded corporate executives to manipulate the Church into a ready-made infrastructure for a One World Religion -- a universal umbrella for everybody from Episcopalians to voodoo practitioners.

The new ecumenicalism is clothed in Globalist garb. The agenda includes promoting issues like population control, environmentalism and secular humanism, which the plotters hope will eventually lead to the complete secularization of religion.

The most outrageous and controversial premise of the novel -- described in great detail in the prologue -- is that a ceremony was performed in the Vatican in 1963 -- an occult ritual which enthroned the fallen archangel Lucifer as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Does Dr. Martin believe that this enthronement actually took place in his novel, which could liberally be described as a roman a clef?

"Yes, it did," he says emphatically. "Beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind. But now the place, time, hour etc., are all obfuscated to protect the guilty and save the innocent."

Was it common knowledge in the Vatican at the time? "Not common knowledge," explains Martin. "But I found out about it by being a member of the Vatican circles that learned these things. It's like everything else. I'm sure there are people floating around Washington, and they know an awful lot about what's going on. Someone says, 'how do you know that'? Well, it's just... we know it."

The story of Windswept House continues in present day Europe as an international group of conspirators spanning Church and State, plots a one world government on behalf of Lucifer. So are readers to infer that no matter what happens, the Pope and the Church hierarchy are bound to serve the fallen angel?

"No," explains Dr. Martin. "What it means is that for the moment, Lucifer the biggest archangel, the leader of the revolt against God, has a big in with certain Vatican officials. Enthronement doesn't mean that he rules. It means that they did their best to put him there. The ideal would be to have their man as Pope. In that case then Satan would be enthroned."

The book goes on to describe how two brothers, one a priest and the other an investment banker, grapple with these awesome consequences as pawns in the game. Meanwhile the cabal of Globalist-oriented Vatican officials and European-based internationalists try to corner the Pope into voluntary resignation so that they can get their man in the Chair of Peter.

This theme coincidentally is also the basis, albeit in non-fiction form, of Martin's book The Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order.

The upshot? A One World Government is a fait accompli, he infers. What Dr. Martin calls the "millennium endgame" is a competition for a new global hegemony by the key Globalist players. What's interesting is that the novel appears to be a seamless transition from his previous non-fiction work. The reader then is put in the position of concluding that the New World Order is a done deal, that a One World Government is here and now and, as the expression goes, it's all over but the crying.

But you wouldn't expect Globalist agit-prop from a former Jesuit. Or would you?

And Who Is Malachi Martin?

Author of 15 books on religious and geo-political topics, Malachi Martin is highly regarded and respected as a world renowned scholar.

Trained in theology at Louvain, he received his doctorates in Semitic Languages, Archaeology and Oriental History. He subsequently studied at Oxford and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1958 to 1964, he served in Rome, where he was a close associate of the Jesuit cardinal Augustin Bea and Pope John XXIII, as well as a professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Malachi Martin is the author of many best-selling books including Vatican, Hostage to the Devil, The Jesuits, The Final Conclave, and The Keys of This Blood. Also he was a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus until 1964 when he left the Jesuits. Why?

"It was a grave decision," he says. "I could see the way the Church was going, the way churchmen were going in their decisions and all the anchors I had for morality and zeal were being undone. Then when the Vatican Council started in 1962, I could see the way the flow of opinion was going in the Vatican by a group of cardinals from Belgium, Germany and France. They were maneuvering the Church into totally new ecclesiology. I couldn't accept this."

As an advisor to three Popes, Dr. Martin has had his fair share of romanita, that uniquely Roman methodology of connivance and power politicking. "I started off as an advisor on Judaism," he continues. "I was trained in Semitic languages and I spent a year and a half studying the Talmud... Then my superiors in Rome also found that I understood Judaism very well. They wanted someone to explain it, since they were studying the whole question of Jewish-Christian relations. So I was drafted into helping with that."

And the outcome? "They produced a document in which they sort of absolved the Jewish people of the death of Christ."

Based on his research? "No, not on my research," argues Martin. "I was only a cog in the wheel. I didn't agree with the final document either. It went too far. And then there were conclusions about the need for Catholics to study Judaism and get to know them better."

So this was the ecumenicalization of the Church that was going on?

"That's it in one word," concurs Martin. "And I couldn't agree with the total effect of all that because I thought they went too far."

Dr. Martin was also involved with Vatican intelligence. What did he do? "Just assessing things in Israel, whatever anti-Christianity there was amongst the Israelis. There was and still is. And what was the position of the Arabs. I used to live in Jordan and Lebanon and Egypt. I knew those places very well and could assess the position of the Church and the various Christian communities."

The many-talented Dr. Martin is also known as a practicing exorcist and has even written a book about the subject called Hostage to the Devil.

He says he came up against evil as a force in the world in an uncontrovertible undeniable way in his first exorcism.

"I was in Cairo and it was evil," Dr. Martin recalls.

"You know you only have to enter its presence, or for it to enter your presence to know that you are in the presence of something which is summarily evil."

"It's invisible. You can't see it. But you know it wants you dead. Dead. Dead. And in a horrible way," he repeats in a hypnotic voice. "It's touching your very bones by its presence."

So how does he explain the phenomenon of demonic possession? "Free will", says Dr. Martin. "For the first time in the work we have been doing for thirty-one years in this corner of the globe, during the last ten years or so, we have found young men and women thirty-somethings or twenty-somethings coming forward and saying, 'Listen I made a pact with the devil. I wanted this woman. I wanted this man. I wanted this job. I wanted this money. I wanted this, this, this, and I made a pact and he gave it to me and now I can't get free of him. He dominates my will. Please liberate me. And then people get to it by means of things like a ouija board or by spiritual seances or channeling."

Malachi Martin is also known as a serious scholar of apocryphal writings, having authored a book called The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

(As an impressive mark of his erudition, Malachi Martin even knew about the alternative Abraham and Isaac story in one of the so-called Pseudepigrapha, the Book of Jubilees. In this unsanctioned version of Genesis, Abraham is commanded to kill his son, but not by God. Instead it is Mastema, a fallen angel known as "the accusing angel" as well as the Tempter and Executioner, who tells the Hebrew patriarch to do the dirty deed. To his credit, of course, Abraham doesn't slaughter his firstborn. When asked why the Genesis version omits details of the fallen angel Mastema as the instigator of Abraham's test, however, even Malachi Martin admits ignorance.)

The Globalist Imperative

Like the prissy intellectuals of the 1930s enamored by National Socialism (as well as Fabian Socialism), the current fin de siecle version of internationalists are likewise paving their own road to a Globalist hell with good intentions.

Using the Hegelian model of history, first there was Capitalism (thesis), then Communism (antithesis), and now there's the New World Order (synthesis), risen from the ashes of the Cold War and the formerly 'competing' ideologies.

International socialism or corporate fascism (aka Globalism) is, in fact, the trendy philosophy for the end of the millennium. In his book Megatrends 2000, Olympian futurist John Naisbitt calls it "free market socialism," a hybrid economic system that combines welfare state policies with multinational corporate business on a global level.

Globalism, however, as a secular religion, has a dogma all its own. Its primary belief system is based on the notion that the usefulness of the nation-state is over. In other words, national sovereignty is a thing of the past and a One World Government is inevitable. But... this effort, at least for now, must be couched in cryptic language for the unwashed masses. Otherwise they'd get too upset.

Globalist spokesman Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Columbia University professor, President Carter's former National Security advisor, and founder of the Trilateral Commission spoke at the Gorbachev Foundation's State of the World Forum in 1995, "We cannot leap into world government in one quick step," he said. "(It) requires a process of gradually expanding the range of democratic cooperation." In plain language, that means people must be further indoctrinated.

Eurocrat Jean-Marie Guehenno hints at this global hegemony or one world totalitarianism calling it an "empire without an emperor." Guehenno wrote The End of the Nation-State (1995) which was called La fin de la democratie (The End of Democracy) in the original French version. Since nation states are obsolete, he claims, "'wise men' capable of thinking through the finite world that has become our common lot" must be entrusted to guide us into what he calls an 'Imperial Age'." Presumably Guehenno counts himself as one of the ranks of "The Wise Men."

Most striking though is a chapter in Guehenno's book called "Religions without God", which evokes the image of the humanist shaking his fist at an empty sky. The ultimate reduction of this conundrum for the internationalists is to hint at a "global politburo" to run the world as posited by Paul Mazur in Unfinished Business (1979).

According to Dr. Martin's nomenclature, Guehenno is one of the Transnationalists -- bureaucrats who believe that Globalism is based on "the development of new and ever wider interrelationships between the governments of the world".

On the other hand, the Internationalists are "individuals who operate from a power base of finance, industry and technology". Together these groups are the Globalists, the social engineers conniving for the convergence of East and West in the so-called New World Order.

Luciferian Geo-Politics

For a Churchman, Malachi Martin shows a remarkable familiarity and understanding of Luciferianism, a belief system which hold human wisdom, secular humanism if you will, as its paragon and the fallen archangel Lucifer as the Prince who will rule the world.

Readers of Windswept House are given the impression that the old traditional Catholic Church is good because the protagonists, Christian Gladstone and his mother are defending it, while we know that the Church has been dedicated to Lucifer. Faced with these two alternatives, the conclusion is that the Roman Catholic Church run by Lucifer is good -- a classic (and incredibly sophisticated) double bind, which is constantly reinforced in the reader's mind throughout the 646 pages of the novel.

"Well, the Church itself has not been given to Lucifer," argues Dr. Martin. "He was enthroned in the Vatican by Vatican officials. That doesn't mean he possesses the Church yet. The Church anyway is an ambiguous term because it either means the actual physical bloc of churches, convents, libraries, academies, parish houses and cathedrals, the physical plant. Or it means the group of faithful in the state of grace whether they are alive in Purgatory or in Heaven. That is the body of Christ."

"There has always been, since the fourth century, this organization set up by the Emperor Constantine. But that is not essential for the Church. The Church can exist without it. So that mystical body of Christ has not fallen into Lucifer's hands. The organization to some degree has. That's the difficulty."

What about the book putting his readers in a double bind? You're presented with two choices. Either A. The Luciferian-controlled Roman Catholic Church. Or B. The Luciferian-controlled New World Order. So where does Malachi Martin find himself?

"The New World Order is definitely won by Luciferian believers," says Dr. Martin. "There's no doubt about that."

And then he starts to rationalize their modus operandi.

"But these are men who came to be and are in their actions at least, humanitarian and philanthropic. They want to wipe out hunger and disease. They want to limit the population of the world. They believe the world is headed for mass starvation. They also want to enter into education. They would like to have an alliance with the Roman Catholic Church and with another pope. This one -- they know would stand in their way in regards to population control because he is deadstart against abortion, contraceptives, genetic engineering."

And what about "The Process" he refers to in his book?

Dr. Martin replies that it's the "Luciferian Process" of secularizing every religious mind so that the common mind today would be one which regarded the earth as a planned paradise to be built up. There is no God above the skies, no heaven, and there is no hell beneath the earth. It's complete secularization."

(John Lennon's classic rock anthem "Imagine" comes to mind. "Imagine there's no country," he sang. "It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too.")

But do the Luciferians have a timetable?

"We are now according to the official doctrine of the Luciferians in what they call "the Availing Time". They have a tradition that in these years they can avail of the time to install the Prince, who is Lucifer, as the greatest power on earth in charge of human civilization and adored by men."

And to what end?

"To exalt the power of Lucifer. That is the end in itself. It's the Luciferian purpose. If they don't do it in these years, then it is put off sine die, without resolution. They are very keen on getting it done."

And what are the next steps in this "Process"?

"The purpose is to secularize education completely," continues Dr. Martin. "And to eliminate from considerations of life and death -- medicine, sociality, finance, birth, development etc., to free that of any religious presumption whatever. To free it from the superstition of religion so that man is dealt with scientifically and humanly. And that is 'the Process'. 'The Process' is to make the human mind accept that... 'The Process' is whereby all education, primary, secondary and higher, college university and all public activity is completely rid of all religious presumptions."

"There is a layer of satanism, of satanist ritual which prepares people for perfect Luciferian adoption. They have covens and sacrifices and rites. The Luciferians have no rites, you know."

So dabbling with satanism in these rituals leads to a different form of "commitment" which is Luciferianism?

"It is a preparation for Luciferianism and there are reversals sometimes," claims Dr. Martin. "You will find a crowd of Luciferians having a satanic ritual as a reminder of things. But they have all passed through in a sense and that involves three things: the infliction of pain without flinching, the infliction of death without flinching, and the use of fire."

Windswept House — Message and Subtext

In Windswept House, Christians and Luciferians clash over the remains of the Roman Catholic Church. It's a controversial and provocative story, a political thriller with metaphysical implications. It delves into the depths of treachery, intrigue and Machiavellian politics at the highest levels of the Church. As a fact-based novel with frequent lengthy asides on real historical, geopolitical events like the fall of the Soviet Empire and the Helsinki Accords, Windswept House is a vehicle for one simple message -- the New World Order is here and now.

While a group of cardinals scheme to force the Pope to resign his office so they'll be able to install a man who will do the Luciferians' bidding, a priest, Christian Gladstone is called to Rome. Cardinal Maestroianni, a power player and one of the leaders of the cabal, enlists the priest to poll bishops regarding closer ties with the European Economic Community. In fact, however, the Cardinal is assessing the timing for a conclave in which the Slavic Pope would be forced to resign because he has become a stumbling block in the Luciferians' plans.

From the business side, Paul Gladstone, Christian's brother and an expert in international relations working at a Globalist law firm, is also unknowingly recruited to bring the Luciferian plan to fruition. When the brothers find out they are both being unwittingly used in the schemes of the Luciferians, they join forces. Christian then must reach the Pope to tell him that he is being manipulated to abdicate the Chair of Peter.

Will the Pope resign? And will he exorcise the Church in time?

The subtext? It doesn't really make a hell of a lot of a difference.

The Future of the Church Militant

In his novel Windswept House Malachi Martin expostulates his readers regarding the reasons why the "Slavic Pope" (Pope John Paul II) is so ineffectual. But what is the Pope's agenda as he sees it?

"I think that from the very start John Paul II for whatever reasons, has sought after one thing and one thing only," says Dr. Martin. The formation of what now appears to be in his mind, a universal assemblage of Catholics at the core; grouped with them the Protestant denominations, sects and churches; grouped around them believing Jews, believing Muslims, believing Hindus, believing Buddhists. And that would be a universal religious assembly that could have a powerful dynamic kick in civilization and in solving the problems of men and women today. That is the only thing you can really say this man has sought heart and soul and body with all his travelling. When he went to churches all over the world, member churches of the Catholic Church in all the countries, he was bolstering the reputation of the papacy and he was speaking Catholic dogma, Catholic belief, Catholic morals. But in reality he was reaching out to everybody. He wanted to make friends with everybody."

And what about the widespread homosexuality, pedophilia and satanic rituals in the Church, common knowledge he avers known to all Vatican insiders? Since as he wrote Christ is no longer honored in the tabernacle, what does he think will happen?

"Once the tabernacle is emptied of Christ's real presence, then the Church ceases to be holy and therefore it's going to be entered by the opposite power, Lucifer," says Martin. "And this is taking place now. Not widespread, but it is taking place. There's no doubt about that."

So will the Church fall on its own? "It's disintegrating slowly," says Martin. "As an organization, it's being marginalized sociopolitically and culturally. And religiously, it's weakening and decaying, obsolescing..."

"If you look at any country today there are three identifiable components of that State. One, the government. Two, there is industry. Third, there are what we call NGOs, the non-governmental organizations. That's everything from Mothers Against Drunk Drivers to the Catholic Church. And they're just simply lumped together, voluntary associations with as much power as they can grasp but of no special importance. Now fifty or seventy years ago, when an ethical or moral question arose, people and governments looked to the churches. Now they don't any longer."

And yet another sensitive question. Something doesn't add up. Malachi Martin's a priest. He's supposed to fight evil. Yet his book Windswept House is clear evidence that he's thrown in the towel.

"Well I don't see evidence of having thrown in the towel," protests Dr. Martin. "Because there's a lot I'm being made to pay for, in the sense that the writer obviously likes and reveres this Pope even though he disagrees with him. The writer also believes in the blessed sacrament. He believes in the Pope's infallibility. He believes in salvation. He believes in hell. He believes in the evil of the devil."

So why doesn't Windswept House end with Christ victorious in the book?

Does Dr. Martin believe that the Luciferian forces have won already?

"No. No. No," insists Dr. Martin. "This is an interim book. It ends in a big doubt -- everybody waiting." This must be what they call the European ending -- as opposed to the American ending where all the loose ends are tied up.

Then the story shifts into "The Devil, Er, I Mean the Editor Made Me Do It". "The publisher said, 'listen the story isn't finished yet,'" says Dr. Martin. "I had a lovely glorious ending. I had a vision. I had a marvellous thing over the Alps. He cut it out."

This is an actual editorial decision? "Yes," says Dr. Martin.

But with all due respect, it almost sounds like Luciferian tampering. Not that anyone wants a saccharine ending. So are readers to conclude that the Luciferians won because of the passivity of the Pope in defending the Church?

"Well, they haven't won yet," says Dr. Martin on a slightly upbeat note. "We're waiting for this man to do something. He's the Vicar of Christ. I know I'm defending him but..."

"Readers who call me or write me say, what do we do now? I say, read my next book," he continues.

With Martin's death on July 28, 1999, his suggestion seems to be a moot point.

"So perhaps editorially," he concludes, "it was the right decision, but religiously it was the wrong decision. I don't know."

It's been said that "by their fruits, ye shall know them." Malachi Martin's assent to the so-called "process" is the tangible "fruit" of Windswept House.

Is the novel a prophecy? Or is it just a warning?

In any case, the New (Luciferian) World Order that Martin describes puts a religious spin to the whole "process" of history.

It's also clear -- the book is a Luciferian masterpiece.

Copyright © 1999 Uri Dowbenko
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Unfortunately he passed away before writing that next book.

290 posted on 01/10/2003 8:42:10 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
It does get confusing. I thought the Literalist Christians of the early days (1st, 2nd, 3rd centuries)of the Church referred to the Gnostics as pagans. Oh, well.

Malachi Martin's "Windswept House" was an eye opener!

291 posted on 01/10/2003 8:50:39 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: wideawake
Then please declare - for the very first time - exactly what your position is.

For the second time. I guess you missed it the first time.

To: wideawake

Ireneaus seems to be quite certain of his statements. At the very least, it opens the door to the possibility that Jesus' ministry lasted longer than three years and that Jesus lived longer than we are led to believe.

285 posted on 01/10/2003 9:35 AM EST by ET(end tyranny)
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You have been disingenuously avoiding stating your case for a long time. Out with it.

It is you who has been disingenuous with your Ireneaus is reputable EXCEPT for his comments about the length of Jesus' ministry and age!

He 'might' be correct. Yet, you are unwilling to even entertain that possibility. We do not know for a fact that he is wrong.

The very people that compiled the scriptures which you say are inerrant and thus valued over other writings, are the same group of people that kept changing WHICH books should be allowed into the bible. If they were so divinely inspired why did they place a book in, then later remove that book, then later still re-add the book? And if they all were divinely inspired they would have all agreed on the same books to be included. But instead disputes over various books went on for centuries and in some cases still continue. These FALLIBLE people that gathered what THEY wanted to decree as 'scripture' may have made errors.

Could Ireneaus be wrong? Sure. But, he could be correct, too. Perhaps he didn't 'opine' in error as you said in an earlier post.

292 posted on 01/10/2003 10:09:38 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

Yes, that would make much more sense..

It's still most likely a crock, but it's a much more believeable crock.

293 posted on 01/10/2003 1:57:00 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (LOTR out takes, Reel #2 Frodo to Sammy: "Yes! Kiss me you fool!")
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To: Jhoffa_
It's still most likely a crock, but it's a much more believeable crock.

And having more believable crock is the essence of a truly good global domination conspiracy theory.

294 posted on 01/11/2003 5:41:37 AM PST by FateAmenableToChange
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To: CCWoody
Hey Woody, I'm guessing you gave up on me here. Too bad, I was hoping for a reasoned argument.
295 posted on 01/12/2003 7:23:10 AM PST by Notforprophet (All rights reversed)
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To: Notforprophet; OrthodoxPresbyterian; Jerry_M; RnMomof7; the_doc; Jean Chauvin; gdebrae
Not given up--I'm dealing with a crisis, finishing up my post vacation work, dealing with my office PC that had it's semi-annual nervous breakdown, trading in my '95 conversion van for a '99 conversion van, etc....

I'm going to try and give an explaination of why it is blasphemous to say that Jesus was "married with children".
296 posted on 01/12/2003 7:28:10 AM PST by CCWoody
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To: CCWoody
Well, I'm sorry to hear about your crisis. I hope it all works out for you.

If the thread is dead when you have your response ready, feel free to Freepmail me.

297 posted on 01/13/2003 5:17:41 AM PST by Notforprophet (All rights reversed)
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