Life Denied, Heart & Soul Aborted

 

Society has been morally debauched. In an “anything goes,” sex-for-pleasure world, promiscuity long ago became normal. There is no guilt, no sense that there is anything wrong in seeking pleasure-as-you-please. Chastity and virginity have been marginalized as being medieval and quaint. Our eyes see all manner of prurient images. We touch ourselves. There is little or no sense of purity of mind and soul. Instead, mindless fucking rules; masturbation’s become quite OK. How did we become a people-with-no-consciences? How did we get here?

 

In fact, playboy Hugh Hefner made sex cool beginning in the 1950s. Since the 1960s the mantra of “sexual liberation” has been preached non-stop from all quarters. Everyone wanted to be hip, not square. In the 1970s sexually explicit magazines like Penthouse and Hustler were introduced and normalized, as was abortion beginning with Roe v. Wade in 1973. The 1980s saw the Hollywood and TV glamorization of sex, money, and the pursuit of narcissism. And by the 1990s the Internet took over the porn industry and people were further enslaved as hypnotized screen gazers—passive consumers of anything and everything that made them “feel better.”

 

Since then, pornography, homosexuality, moral relativism, gender confusion, arrogant feminism, sado-masochism and bondage, pedophilia, and Satanism have steadily gained “mainstream acceptance.” Even though the USA has a strong, Puritanical streak, its religions were long ago corrupted and compromised; it is a place in which freedom of speech and expression have been parlayed into a mechanism for allowing all manner of debased ideas and bestial norms to gain momentum. Complain or take a moral stand and you are labeled a “prude” or a “geek.”

 

Our society has relentlessly been conditioned to be anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-child and anti-gun. Children are to be avoided because they only prevent you from pursuing a self-absorbed career and a hedonistic, "multi-cultural," lifestyle. These anti-value choices have now become more cherished. In fact, children are voided via birth control and abortion. “Planned Parenthood” is really a Satanic killing machine and a baby-parts mill. Elitist sickos line up to get their fetus smoothie fixes, made from the adrenalized meat of raped and terrorized child-sacrifices to Mammon. Really. Societal sickness is at an all-time record high and morals at a rock-bottom low. 

  

 

Hypocritical leftist dingbats have a mania for voiding the 2^nd Amendment and taking away guns because they kill defenseless children in schools across the country. (Forget that these are all orchestrated black ops involving medicated and mind-controlled perps.)  But they have no qualms about already having aborted millions of fetuses to cleanse society of our children. I don’t get it. Who in their right minds do?

There has now been a normalization of evil, perversion, and ignorance thereof. Instead we are supposed to hate and fear, hate and fear. Meaningfully stupid phrases enter our lexicon: “Orange is the new black”; “A thousand shades of gray”—how much crap do we need before we wake up to the fact that we have been morally and spiritually vanquished? Look around for healthy and happy beings. Look around for someone competent and caring. They have mostly been corporatized into the impersonal; they don’t give a hoot about the common man and woman—they are not allowed to do so by their controllers and handlers. It’s now a reptile-blood CIA-society.

 

There are pockets of old believers and morally upright folks left. However, these are being targeted. Beware. That’s what uncontrolled immigration and all mind control is for: destroy the culture, brainwash the masses, make them dependent, put them on opiates and provide all manner of depravity; kill them with chemicals, nutrient-depleted food, and provide nothing for their minds and souls. Lord God Almighty, protect us!

 

The most vile scourge of all is birth prevention and abortion of the unborn. We can apprehend the root cause: secularization has turned pro-creation into recreation. Once the sacred is removed from the life cycle it can allow for such a holocaustic cleansing of generations of human beings. Birth control and abortion are symptomatic of a whole society that has lost touch with its humanity. Our essence as spirit-beings has been replaced by secular-consumerist-drivel-driven schlock. Once the sacred is turned out from the houses of the holy all manner of evil lurks. In new and subtle ways it undermines us as a people, as souls worthy of evolution toward manifesting the Divine plan for our species. It has been wrecking our planet and now has wreaked havoc on our minds and consciousness, of ourselves as soulful creatures. May God have mercy on us!

 

Reflection.—With what floods of tears can we sufficiently bewail so grievous a misfortune, and implore the divine mercy in behalf of so many souls! How ought we to be alarmed at the consideration of so many dreadful examples of God’s inscrutable judgments, and tremble for ourselves! “Let him who stands beware lest he fall.” “Hold fast what thou hast,” says the oracle of the Holy Ghost to every one of us, “lest another bear away thy crown.” Father Butler, Lives of the Saints (Benziger Bros., Inc., 1955) from the February 21 reflection on the life of St. Severianus, Martyr, Bishop., p.82.

 

“Unlearning”—What Is It?

 

To unlearn one must first learn.

 

What we first learn, the formative core of our being, is the earliest imprinting that we undergo as infants and toddlers in order to apprehend the reality into which we are born. Learning is a type of conditioning, a way of coping, a groping of our way toward what we accept as real, i.e., toward whatever helps us to live and to thrive.

 

As babes we are helpless. We are at the sole mercy of our immediate surroundings. (Even while in our mothers’ wombs we begin a primitive, bio-psychic sort of learning.) At the outset, then, it can be said that humans have a “lust for life,” i.e., for self-preservation. We crave our mothers’ milk and the embrace of love, touch, human warmth and affection. This is our first lesson. And, repeatedly being bathed in these life-sustaining infusions reinforces our incarnated desire to preserve ourselves in this state.

 

From here, after this basic reinforcement training in self-preservation, learning is a process of inculcation; what we learn is a function of our immediate environment and, crucially, of those other human beings around us. These others are, themselves, creatures born and bred via generations of previous inculcations. And, if learning is a conditioning and a groping toward what we apprehend and accept as real, as having meaning and value to us, then from here we are conditioned in as many multiple and diverse ways as there are other human beings.

 

Humans have a natural tendency to band themselves together into communities according to commonalities  with which they then identify. They agree on certain values and meanings outside of their immediate family unit. This “enlargement of self-identification” is known as culture. Culture has practices, beliefs, rituals, and lifeways that expand upon the inculcation that individuals receive as simple family members. And so, once we are part of a society, we’re off to the races, learning (i.e., being conditioned to) all manner of things.

 

To unlearn, then, we must first have learned something. And to unlearn that something it must have proven, over time, that it was not of value—not real—in fact, either less meaningful than we initially thought it to be or just meaningless and useless altogether. Still, we do not usually reject something outright; instead there is a period, perhaps a long period, during which we question and hold certain things we had learned in abeyance. But what sort of something might have been learned that later led us to wanting to unlearn? When does learning end and unlearning begin?

 

We might take as a good example the questioning of moral and religious lessons inculcated in us early in life. Suppose we begin to get suspicious, wondering if these core values and beliefs are real (perhaps only metaphors?) and we lump morality and religion in with all of our normative, socio-cultural conditioning—as being an indistinguishable part of the consensual reality and culture trance that we have previously “bought into.” Suppose further that we are then assaulted by various false doctrines, scientific/secular/mental-rational materialism; modernist-corporate-consumerist-celebrity Tavistock/CIA/Mossad sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll propaganda; esoteric occultism; or possibly atheistic narcissism and/or the pure evil of Luciferian waywardness.  

 

Does unlearning mean to accept, even conditionally, whatever it was that came along to fill in the emptiness of what was initially learned and then unlearned (in the sense of being held in abeyance)? Perhaps.

 

And if so, does “unlearning” also mean to “question/condition, then recall, reclaim and re-learn” in a continuous loop pattern of “conditioning/ deconditioning/ reconditioning” oneself? In this particular example of morals and religion, that is how this author sees “unlearning”; as falling into sin, recognizing the error of one’s ways, and then resolving to rectify things: to have contrition, to make restitution, to purify oneself, to polish the mirror of the soul, and to relentlessly carry on, doing (as best we can figure it) what is right and just.

 

“Unlearning” then, is really a process of staying in a state of continual learning (or, more accurately: learning/ unlearning/ relearning); learning from error, from making mistakes; learning the hard way; testing our beliefs—experiencing life, communing with nature, paying attention to our feelings, listening to the intuitive murmurings of the heart and listening to others; seeing and using all of our other senses, thinking, reading, studying; often failing but occasionally succeeding.

In short, does unlearning mean to never give up searching for the real, for the truth? And, might one add as corollaries aspiring toward goodness and appreciating beauty along the way in this search for truth?

Because, as some people maintain, we can never fully know the Truth, does such a supposition necessarily render useless or nullify our search for the truth? It does not dampen this author’s desire to search for the truth, to seek out what is real. Such a search is driven not so much by the logic of the mind as it is by the soul, by an unquenchable thirst of the heart for communion with the Divine: the "I am" within myself and the "I am" as cosmic interconnection.

 

The True, the Good and the Beautiful are the classic Platonic forms. But is the search merely Platonic? Or is there an ever-present spiritual component inhering in our human nature that transcends even Platonic forms? What of love, grace, the inspiration of poetic moments—faith, hope, and charity—God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—the empathy of the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you? What of purity, sanctity, humor? Chastity, poverty, and obedience?

 

Why is suffering seen as so onerous? Can we not go beyond suffering by ignoring our suffering as a slight, irritating inconvenience that is none-the-less bearable? Can we not offer it up? Are we so frail we cannot humbly bear the load of our humanity?

 

Unlearning is remembering that we are more than bodies in need of self-preservation, in need of prepping against the End Times; that we are more than members of a culture, a community; that we are as fiercely independent and liberty-loving as our immortal souls—indeed, that we are souls, connected to God, intent upon Thy Will being done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Soul Enticed: Essays in Unlearning



Published on January 22, 2018

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Genre: Christian/Religion/ Spirituality

110 Pages

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With the publishing of Soul Enticed I have attempted to reconcile the darker side, Wyman Wicket, with the lighter side, Jack Suss. (Mr. Wicket—“Why man wicked?”—wrote the Foreword to this book by Suss.) I'm not sure how people will react to the pen-name-me essentially "in dialogue with" the-"real"-me. I don't even know if what I am attempting here is novel or not. But I like what I've done in this respect: it is as if I've balanced or merged my id and my ego. (It might be compared to trying to resolve a kind of Wilbur/Mr. Ed displacement conundrum.)

 

In Soul Enticed I have tried to express the conundrum Catholics face during this time of absolute corruption of the Church’s upper hierarchy and society; the devastation of the Mass, etc., cinched by the perfidies of Vatican II; and the difficulties in finding a priest ordained prior to 1965 who (notwithstanding the Church of Rome’s 500 years of usury) has more of the real “spiritual juice” and from whom one might receive something closer to the full vigor of the sacraments. In reality, today’s Catholics are adrift and on their own, i.e., separated from rock-solid institutional guidance and support, and from the grace regularly available via receiving the sacraments. Fortunately, as a perennial outsider, I have had lots of experience toughing things out.

 

I am writing here as a "non-denominational Catholic." A non-denominational Catholic just means a real Catholic without the corruption from the top and who does not identify and practice among any established group of "traditional Catholics." (Although quite "wordy," the following site does a good job of explaining what I might adopt as my own stance: http://ourladysresistance.org/about-us.html Also, do a search for, and learn about, "the third secret of Fatima.”) Go here if you wish to survey the numerous traditional Catholic groups: http://www.trusaint.com/traditional-catholic-issues-and-groups/  Among them are the SSPX (Society of St. Pius X), SSPV (Society of St. Pius V), CMRI (Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen), and the FSSP (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter).

 

Regardless, as one who never fit in anyway, it is not very surprising that I would form my own “group of one” that seeks to suss out authentic Roman Catholicism. And the ultimate objective of Soul Enticed may just be to “drain the Vatican and bishopric swamp” of all apostates who subscribe to the corrupted Church of St. Peter—viz., the usury, Talmudic/Kabbalist/Pharisaic occultism, modernism, and mindless ecumenism and indifferentism.

 

Michael Hoffman's criticism of "traditional Catholic" groups is that they are pre-Vatican II believers who are oblivious to the scandalous 500-year usury issue; the very popes they look to as standard bearers of traditional Catholicism were in fact illegitimate in the sense that they never renounced and seriously sought to rid the Church of the practice of usury, accepted since Pope Leo X. And, according to Hoffman, along with the mortal sin of usury comes sodomy and moral relativism. Oh wonder of wonders!

 

Of course it can be argued that if usury had already long corrupted the Roman Catholic Church, then you (if you were reared Catholic) and I never really got the real thing in the first place. In a sense this is true. For example, compare our “post-modernist” fat-cat-folk-mass Faith to the pure Faith of, say, a Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604), often considered to be the first medieval pope (as mentioned in the Foreword). 

 

However, in its purity the Catholic Faith can be apprehended, as it should be, from studying the Bible, esp. the gospel of Jesus, and a rigorous review of the theology, dogma, catechism, and all time-tested ecclesiastical teachings and traditions of the Church. Upon that rationale I go forth to find my own way, though I must confess that it has only been about three months since I have reclaimed the full vigor of my Catholic faith convictions. At present I am separated from the conventions, viz., the Mass and the sacraments while I search for a priest through whom I can repose my Faith (preferably, though not necessarily, a priest who was ordained before 1965, i.e., before the heresies of Vatican II fatally infiltrated Roman Catholicism).

 

Today there are a host of “traditional Catholic” groups. Again, for me, a "non-denominational Catholic" means a real Catholic, without the corruption from the top, who does not identify and practice within any of these traditionalist groups. These groupings are nothing short of a new Reformation, though instead of a Protestant revolution, it is a Traditionalist revolution. Thus, by calling myself a “non-denominational Catholic,” I mean to remain staunchly Roman Catholic, albeit according to my less-formal-but-studied discernment of truth according to the Faith.

 

In times such as these the Faith remains in the People, similar to the situation in which today’s real patriots find themselves when faced with the vagaries of the Cryptocracy. Maybe I come off as too vain, too big for my layman's britches, and not cognizant enough of humility. But doggone it, I can't sit still and “take it” anymore. So I will speak my mind. And although I have in the past referred to myself as “Rev. Gumpus” I remain just a lowly lay Brother who has intuited his own “Weird Task ministry” and who aims to stay true to the gospel of Jesus.

Truth Decay



The catchy title of this post, “Truth Decay,”— an obvious pun on “tooth decay”— is not new. As a cursory search of the phrase indicates, it has been in use for a good long while.

 

Tracing it back to 1974, a book entitled “Truth Decay” refers to the dangers of fluoridation in our water supply. Fluoridation and Truth Decay, Gladys Caldwell (1974). Since then, a number of titles use the phrase “Truth Decay” in referring to various, eyebrow-raising aspects revolving around dentistry or dental issues:

 

·        Toxic Bite: An Investigation into Truth Decay, Bill Kellner-Read (2002)

·        Truth Decay: How Mainstream Dentists Are Lying Through Their Teeth!, Robert and Kerrie Broe (2002)

·        Truth Decay: How Government Corruption Caused a Political Scandal Victimizing Texas Dentists and How It Could Happen to You!, Juan D. Villarreal (2017)

 

The phrase, “Truth Decay,” has also been a popular expression among those of the Christian publishing genre:

 

·        Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism, Douglas Groothius (2000)

·        Truth Decay, Vol.1, Frank Savoy (2 Ed., 2014); Truth Decay, Vol. 2: St. Patrick and the Culdees (2015)

·        Fighting Truth Decay: The Message of Jude (Truth for Today, 3), Sam Gordon (2002)

·        Preventing Truth Decay, Barry Shafer (1998)

 

Similarly, the phrase is used in reference to a socio-cultural phenomenon:

 

·        Truth Decay: The Erosion of Traditional Values in American Culture, Steve Hale (2011)

 

It has even proposed as the title of a CD:

 

·        Truth Decay—progressive jazz by Adam Holzman and his band (release date: March 30, 2018)

 

Most recently, on C-SPAN radio I heard a researcher from the Rand Corporation use “Truth Decay” as a way to characterize and critique “fake news,” viz., Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life (2018). The study is authored by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich. It may be worth quoting at length (what is essentially) the abstract of the study:

Over the past two decades, national political and civil discourse in the United States has been characterized by "Truth Decay," defined as a set of four interrelated trends: an increasing disagreement about facts and analytical interpretations of facts and data; a blurring of the line between opinion and fact; an increase in the relative volume, and resulting influence, of opinion and personal experience over fact; and lowered trust in formerly respected sources of factual information. These trends have many causes, but this report focuses on four: characteristics of human cognitive processing, such as cognitive bias; changes in the information system, including social media and the 24-hour news cycle; competing demands on the education system that diminish time spent on media literacy and critical thinking; and polarization, both political and demographic. The most damaging consequences of Truth Decay include the erosion of civil discourse, political paralysis, alienation and disengagement of individuals from political and civic institutions, and uncertainty over national policy.

This report explores the causes and consequences of Truth Decay and how they are interrelated, and examines past eras of U.S. history to identify evidence of Truth Decay's four trends and observe similarities with and differences from the current period. It also outlines a research agenda, a strategy for investigating the causes of Truth Decay and determining what can be done to address its causes and consequences.                    

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2314.html

 

That sounds terrific. But is it?

 

Could this be a ploy to neutralize the catchy phrase, "Truth Decay," by co-opting/subverting and re-assimilating it as an inverted mainstream idiom?

The first thing I wondered about is whether the researchers took into account a few things that conspiracy analysts would immediately ask themselves. Do they factor in the existence, infiltration by, and covert operations of various not-so-secret societies? These include:

 

·        the Vatican, the Jesuits, and associated, upper echelon “Knights" and Orders

·        the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” viz., the Judaic cabal identifying as "Jews"?

·        The Freemasons, Illuminati, Templars, neo-fascist mafias, et al.

·        the Marxists/Communists/Socialists, including the Democrat Party and the mainstream media and their surrogates on the web

·        rogue intelligence operatives (government, private, corporate, military—including government actors and contractors whose cyber and non-cyber actions are enabled via the “Patriot Act”)

·        oligarch-funded propaganda machines (e.g., George Soros organelles, think-tanks, NGOs, foundations and non-profits)

 

In fact, the list of players above presents an intertwined amalgam of the so-called Shadow Government (Senior Executive Service, et al.), the Deep State (the “corpocracy”), and the mostly unseen/unknown, Luciferian funder-handler-controllers. If we consider the existence and ongoing, inter-generational “Truth Decay” perpetrated by these dark forces since the days of Babylon, then we begin to comprehend the deep-rooted causes of the malaise of the common folk today.

 

And so, before I read this “non-partisan” Report by the (already suspect) Rand Corporation, I want to know whether this is the sort of mental-rational trance dance, intellectually articulated white-wash nonsense that may sound terrific but is instead more of the same, seemingly-incisive-but-really-only-a-survey-of-symptoms of our sick society.

 

Before I clutter my mind with the facts and figures oh-so-neatly collected, collated, and presented by these researchers with advanced degrees, that same inquiring mind wants to know why my teeth suddenly ache—why my internal anti-Christian radar alert mechanism has gone off—why I fear that I will be inundated by more evidence of Orwellian traditional-values-erosion—and how “Truth Decay” becomes a meme in the entertainment industry that only desensitizes us to truth and its meaninglessness in this, our insaniac 21^st Century.

Priestly Friends

Dear Fr. Dan,

 

Your friendship has been a wonderful gift. Think back on those Loyola days in N.O., LA and then fast forward through time like a movie; your life, my life, unfolding, as we intersect from time to time. And our friendship is the steady template that connects us like a thread. Space and time wither in the ever-present origin of our sharing bond.

I miss connecting with you. And I miss my other priest friend too, Fr. Andrew J. Cassin, who wouldn't let me serve as altar boy because my shoes weren't shined. As we were set to go out on the altar, in the sacristy, he looked down at my shoes and sent me away. It was those shoes, always those shoes, that took me down the shabby road of my scruffy life; those highway shoes, whose muddy shoes? My muddy, old shoes that walked the line, that took me so far away from myself, from my larger Self.

 

In high school at Gonzaga, Fr. William P. Sampson, S.J. believed in me just enough to help me to believe in myself as a writer. Brusque and smiley, Bill Sampson also took this hippy-in-formation, this wayward Soldier of Christ, molding-me-without-molding-me in his detached yet strong and subtle way. 

I kept wandering in those shoes for over 45 years, often forgetting to polish them, just as I rarely washed my car. Yes, his admonition would become the metaphor for my wandering, a squandered life in the wilderness of separation from the goodness of the heavenly Father and from our blessed Mother.

Funny, I've been trying to polish my shoes ever since. And now that I have returned to the proper House from whence I came, back to the place wherein I began my desolate misadventures, you and these other two padre friends have now vanished—as has Fr. Ben Garrett, the non-Catholic convert-turned-priest/U.S. Navy Chaplain, who appeared at just the right moment to help me bury my WWII Navy veteran father, and then my sister.

And the work of an ex-padre has now intersected my life to help me shine those shoes: Douglas Gabriel. He tells me of Novalis: 

https://neoanthroposophy.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/spirit-awakening-through-novalis2.pdf ...and of "Anthroposophia": https://gospelofsophia.com/2017/01/14/anthroposophia-reveals-the-second-coming-perceiving-christ-in-the-etheric/

And if we live countless lives, as did the old soul (known in the 18th Century as "Novalis"), then how many more stops on the caravanserai are left as we journey onward, upward, toward Oneness-of-being with our dear Creator? I wonder. I Google caravanserai and click on "Images" and it turns me into a Homesick James.

Take care, Fr. Daniel Lackie, O.F.M., wherever you may be!

Your friend,

Jack aka Wyman aka Stubby aka Bro. Jack Gumpus, O.4B.

The Soul of Novalis

The polymath, Douglas Gabriel, has just released his freely accessible e-book of 136 pages entitled Spirit Awakening Through Novalis (2018)(https://neoanthroposophy.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/spirit-awakening-through-novalis2.pdf ).

"Novalis"—poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism—was born Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenburg on May 2, 1772, in Oberwiederstedt, Prussian Saxony. Gabriel relates that according to Rudolf Steiner, Novalis was the oldest of souls among us. He had lived countless lives. Previous incarnations include Elijah, Elias, Phineas, John the Baptist—even stretching back to Adam himself.

 

Gabriel writes:

 

According to Steiner, Novalis can write about the most profound foundations of life because he was there when those foundations were laid. The most important moments in Christian history can be understood through Novalis because of his central role in the enactment of the mysteries of Christianity. Of course, the reader is free to surmise what you will out of pure study of Novalis’ work, but it is often found that an inner question about the works of this author arises, “From what source can such wisdom flow?”

 

It is worth citing Gabriel's summary of Novalis' incredible significance for humanity today:

 

Novalis is also aware of the stupendous truth that since the Event of Golgotha the Being we call Christ has been the planetary Spirit of the Earth, the Spirit by whom the Earth's body will gradually be transformed. A wonderful vista of the future opens out before Novalis. He sees the Earth transfigured; he sees the present Earth in which the residue of ancient times is still contained, transformed into the Body of Christ; he sees the waters of the Earth permeated with Christ’s Blood, and he sees the solid rocks as Christ’s Flesh. He sees the body of the Earth gradually becoming the Body of Christ; he sees the Earth and Christ miraculously made one; he sees the Earth in future time as a great organism enshrining man, an organism whose soul is Christ. In this sense, and out of his deep insight into occult truths, Novalis speaks of Christ as the Son of Man. Just as in a certain sense men are the ‘Sons of the Gods,’ that is to say of the ancient Gods who through untold millions of years have molded and shaped our planet, who have built the bodies in which we live and the ground upon which we move, so, by overcoming earthly things, man's task is to build, through his own powers, an Earth that will be the body of the new God, the God of the future.


And whereas the men of old looked back to the primeval Gods, yearning to be united with them in death, Novalis recognizes the God who in time to come will have as his body all that is best in us and that we can offer to Him. In Christ, he sees the Being to whom humanity offers itself in order that this Being may have a body. He recognizes Christ as the ‘Son of Man’ in this higher, cosmological sense. He speaks of Christ as the ‘God of the future.’ All these experiences and perceptions are so pregnant with meaning that they are well able to kindle the true mood of Christmas in our souls.


…And so, we see how in the supremely gifted Novalis, feelings free of all denominational bias quicken to life at the portrayal of this holy Mystery which was enacted at the first Christmas and is repeated at every Christmastide. It is the
Mystery of the ancient Initiates, represented by the Magi, bringing their offerings to the new Mystery. The Wise Men, who are bearers of the wisdom of times past, make their offerings to that which is to go forward into the future, that which, in a human being, will one day harbor the power by which all worlds connected with the Earth are pervaded. Novalis experienced the Christ Mystery, the Mary Mystery, in relation to the Cosmic Mystery, the light of which shone before his eyes of soul as it had shone at the first Christmas, when Beings who had not descended to the physical plane proclaimed the union between a cosmic and an earthly Power, which can become a reality in human hearts and in the Cosmos itself when the human heart unites with Christ. The Egyptian proclamation: ‘The God with whom you must be united dwells in the world that can be reached only after death’, holds good no longer. For now, the God with whom man must be united lives among us here, between birth and death; and men can find Him when they unite their hearts and souls with Him in this world. Thus, in the first Holy Night of Christendom the strain resounded: Revelation in the Heights to God, Quiet and peace through all the Earth, Blessed joy in Men.

— Gabriel, D., Spirit Awakening Through Novalis (2018) pp.13-14

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"There is no religion that is not Christianity." — Novalis

 

Far from a conceit, like thunder this proclamation of Novalis blasts and echoes an unstoppable planetary truth. 

Proclamation, Sedevacantism

What is of crucial importance in the world today is the process of purification of one's self. On the physio-mental front, I aim to keep food from over-riding my higher self (with the tell-tale belly as evidence of failure). In order to keep myself in fighting form and in "ketosis" I do not eat until @ noon, even though I'm up each day @ 4 AM. (Of course fasting is easier/more efficient when one is actively engaging the muscles of the body, as in working in a physically demanding job.) I believe this causes the body to draw caloric energy from cellulite, while freeing the mind from the lead-weight, down-rushing blood caused from ingesting foodstuffs.

 

If I eat early in the day, my food-addicted stomach begs for more so that my mind and soul become totally distracted by this devouring monster. It makes me wonder about whether this is the real lesson of being tempted by an "apple" in the Garden of Eden—the apple representing all food. (The extreme obverse of this is that if you achieve pureness of spirit you can actually live without food and only on "prana," as in being a "breatharian.")

 

The point is this: that after enough time passes, when you actually do eat, after ketosis has already kicked-in, what you do eat isn't as damaging to your body/mind because it is not adding more bulk onto bulk, as it were—at least this is my take on it.

The rest is judicious mindfulness and prayer and avoidance of "sins of impurity." In this regard, I look back almost in horror now at my past guilty pleasures!

I had, for the longest time, a bias that favored esoteric practices such as meditation over prayer. While there is a therapeutic gain from quieting the mind, finding that still-point, prayer, especially praying the rosary, is as efficacious, perhaps more efficacious and "pleasing to God" than "yogic practices." To the modern mind this sounds quaint I'm sure. But I believe that prayer actuates tremendous benefits and imparts grace.

(Now there's an odd-ball detour for this old horn-dog and all-around raconteur of all that's under the radar. Just giving you, the reader, heads up about where this old guy's intuition and interests are taking him these days.)

 

And one last observation: I mentioned in a previous post how I identify with the notion of sede vacante (sedevacantists are those who hold that the Chair of St. Peter is empty). Well, when there is an anti-Pope occupying that Chair it may as well be empty. Out of a total of 266 Popes there have been perhaps 50 anti-Popes over the past 2,000 years. However, if one holds that the "Chair is Empty" would that sever the chain of succession from (and to) Jesus Christ, similar to how, in real estate parlance, a break in a property's chain of ownership causes a cloud on title? 

 

Taking that analogy further, consider real property that is possessed despite some fraudulent acts by its occupants concerning the property, as opposed to it only having been abandoned for a short periods of time during its overall existence. Clearly, fraud adversely affects clear title, whereas abandonment may only cause the property to go into disrepair until re-occupied. Similarly, if the proper process of choosing a Pope is followed then whatever Pope is chosen by the Cardinals has been duly and properly installed; however, if most or all of the Church has been infiltrated and corrupted from within, affecting the judgment of even those at the highest levels of the Vatican, the judgment may be extremely flawed but not necessarily a fraud, per se.

 

Such thinking and analysis might be criticized as legalistic nit-picking that would only rationalize, only "paper-over" grave Ecclesiastical error and maybe it is. But, if "duly elected," I would favor begrudgingly "tolerating" an anti-Pope, however humanly flawed and dogmatically distasteful, as a bona fide occupant of the Chair of St. Peter, despite non-acceptance of his heretical pontifical teachings, i.e., rejecting his "modernist," "globalist," "mindless ecumenism and indifferentism"  as anathema. (You know, as in the political realm, you might deal like-wise with a McConnell or Pelosi or Mueller or Trump [name your political villain-of-the-moment.])

 

On the foregoing basis I conclude that the notion of sede vacante is a valid metaphor, though not a stance to be taken literally.        

The Rock-Ribbed Originalist

Speaking of those on "the other side," Breitbart writer, Delingpole, comments, "how snarky their comebacks are or how seemingly clever their analogies or how withering their contempt" (Breitbart, Dec. 31, 2017)

Add to the despised and loathsome list in the above cartoon graphic those wanna-be GI-Joe type cops who are too afraid of real combat to enlist. Constitutional advocate John W. Whitehead, in his end of year report, sums things up when he writes, "The predators of the police state wreaked havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives." https://www.sgtreport.com/articles/2018/1/2/apocalypse-now-2017-was-another-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year

 

If you carry a firearm "illegally," i.e., no "license," should you be worried you might get arrested if you use it to defend yourself or others? I'd defer to the old saying: "Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6."

 

In 2018 will we see the money changers being thrown out of the temple? The pedophilic elite tried and imprisoned? A public hanging of traitors? A perp walk (to compete with the Communist Chinese 1960s-style cultural revolution) wherein both corrupt Establishment/anti-Establishment figures wearing dunce caps, etc., are paraded through our streets?

 

Out in the alt-media there is lots of chest pounding going on about us having drubbed the swamp creatures and having mortally wounded the NWO globalists. It is during times of self-congratulatory over-confidence such as these that we should be most wary. It is easy to fool ourselves that the worst is behind us. Although solid progress is being made to uproot the Luciferian Communist infestation here and abroad, we have not yet seen the nightmare that is sure to be soon released upon us.

 

An occult Babylonian woe that has been entrenched for millennia will not go gently into that good night. These bloodline, Committee-of-300 families remain as the unseen,  invisible string-pullers behind those in the limelight. These dark forces will summon their light bearer, Lucifer, and rage against the dying of their cold light. Beware!

 

Be prepared to engage in spiritual warfare—and to stay alive long enough to do so (at least the "you" as currently configured in this present life).