”LONG BEFORE CHRISTIANITY’ ??? -how was anything ”long before christianity”? Christ was there in the beginning. He created all things. John 1:1 ”Any Biblical truth can be taken and twisted. That is what Satan does.” Oh my Gawd, I’m dealing with the mentally challenged here. First of all, my ignorant friend. You blindly cite John 1:1, not knowing that the ”Logos” concept of which John is ”borrowing” from Philo of Alexandria actually originated with the Stoic philosopher Heraclitis --- about 500 years before Christ. And yet, by the time the ”logos” doctrine reaches us today, as it ...
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That’s right, reincarnation was openly taught in the church until 553 A.D . when it was forbidden in the Second Council of Contantinople. Emperor Justinian bullied the church into abandoning Origen’s teachings regarding "primordial souls." Hell, Purgatory, and the concepts of Original Sin were part of political expediency. It was easier to control people if they believed that this was their only time around the Wheel of Fortune. So very few realize that major doctrinal beliefs were dictated to the church as a means of political control. http://reluctant-messenger.com/ori ...
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God forbid that you should actually use the brain that sits dormant above your shoulders. And then, when all rational progress is lost, one can always revert back to fear-tactics surrounding the false concepts of hell. ---NeroLight   [End]
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Since I know that batchman and others here will avoid actually addressing the information in my previous post, I will reiterate it: concepts such as the "hypostatic union" were "borrowed" from people like the Persian magi who taught such things in texts such as the Chaldean Oracles LONG BEFORE CHRISTIANITY: 26. When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated. 27. And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things, and to order everything not ordered. 28. The Mind of the Father said that all things should ...
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”nothing new under the sun. if baal be your god then cling to him. but if jehovah be your god, listen to and obey him. there is but one god - there is no other.” Your ”if-then” statement does not exhaust the totality of possibilities. There are ways of thinking about God other than that which you are familiar with. Take, for example, a Druid perspective. Ian Corrigan says: ”That’s the first lesson I draw from Nature as model of the Divine. In nature there is no unique or single thing. Nowhere in nature is there a category of things of which there is only one. Snowflakes are indivi ...
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For what Christian is educated enough to recognize the Chaldean Oracles? 26. When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated. 27. And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things, and to order everything not ordered. 28. The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided. 29. The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind. 30. The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad. 31. All things are supplied from the bosom o ...
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RE: Hypostatic Union: Again, yet another concept borrowed from the pagans and spouted off by Christians without the proper education enabling an understanding of what they’re saying. Thanks again for reinforcing the fact that Christianity is singlehandedly responsible for dumbing down Western Civilization. Cro maat, NeroLight   [End]
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Again, we see more evidence here that Christianity is a social disease that infuses minds with Alzheimer’s-like conditions. Once the brain is ravaged with Christianity it is incapable of generating intelligent thought or conversation. At any rate, Christianity was borrowed from the ”pagan” sun god cults. That is why Jesus was referred as ”Light and Life,” because THE SUN gave life and light. Face it oh ye Neanderthals, JESUS WAS PRESENTED AS HELIOS. The entire story of the life of Jesus is but an allegory, the SAME allegory as was used for thousands of years in the Mystery Schools. The ...
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Jesus is but another version of the so-called Sun-Gods. That is a fact. A fact that cannot be disputed ... only avoided. http://www.theosophical.ca/sungods.htm   [End]
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Every moment is a moment of creation. You are co-creator of that moment. Do not anesthetize your mind (through bogus religion) and shirk your duty to envision a better world. A world without hollowed-out slogan-spewing churches is a beautiful place. Envision that utopia. Imagine. --NeroLight   [End]
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In a fit of histrionics, puppies4 wrote: ”social ills and social disease... the ”dumbing down” of the western world... all because of a group of people’s religious beliefs? wow! so you are a social reformer? what about rape, murder, crimes against children? are you out trying to do something about those attrocities? i’m going to venture that your hatred for everything christian pervades your being and controls your life, not your concern for society as a whole. why is that?” To murder minds is an egregious crime. Christianity is a mass murderer of intelligence. It is the great ch ...
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You say I don’t get it, lunari, and then you quote a passage about being ”born again,” not realizing that to be ”twice born” was the common parlance of the mystery schools. After all, Romans soldiers long before Christ were buried under the inscription, ”renatus en aeternum” --- born again in eternity. Clearly, if there’s someone ”not getting it” one should hold the mirror up attempt the mystic gaze. Cro maat, NeroLight   [End]
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Take your time, you who seek the portals of wisdom, to read this worthy essay by Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn: ”The Great Myth of the Sun-Gods.” It will repay your time spent with wisdom multiplied. http://www.theosophical.ca/sungods.htm Cro maat, NeroLight   [End]
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In truth, the only Crown of Thorns ever to exist in the annals of history is but the same circle of lies that now penetrates the softest skulls.   [End]
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Because Christianity has become an insidious drug that has hallucinated many in the general public making them LESS spiritual than when they began. It is dumbing down Western Civ. It has become a social disease that is dragging down Western Civilization. The more people sober up and come to their senses the more authentic forms of spirituality can flourish. --NeroLight   [End]
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To believe in only ”Christ and him crucified” is an exercise in putting your head in the sand. Virtually every page of the gospels were plagiarized from earlier pagan myths. By insisting on the literal historicism of the gospels, Christians botched the SPIRITUAL meaning of the more refined pagan myths. The christos, the Logos, and whatnot were taught by PAGANS centuries before the Christians --- and their thinking about them was a hell of a lot clearer. Simply put, The christos was an allegory of the Soul. The Sun was the natural symbol of the Soul. JESUS WAS ANOTHER VERSION OF HELIOS. ...
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British Israelism is an insidius form of religious fraud. I should know ... it was taught in the college I graduated with a degree in theology from. But then, 99.99 percent of so-called Christians are absolutely clueless when it comes to the book of Revelation. It is an initiatory text of the ancient Christian Mystery School, which emerged out of the Essene Brotherhood. The text has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with any kind of prediction for the future. The symbols are designed to illustrate the psycho-biology of humanity and what happens when that psycho-biology is awakened. Kundalini awa ...
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Zule said: ”Chakras etc are nothing but a bunch of deceptions to open doors to demons.” So, in other words, God created man with a series of nerve plexuses and a glandular system that serve as ”open doors to demons.” Perhaps you could explain why God somehow saw fit to hardwire humans with ”doors to the devil,” as you think of them? Maybe somehow this ”discussion” will find its way to the debate section when I find the time. ---NeroLight   [End]
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You will probably find this offensive, batchman555, but your quotation of the Book of Revelation belies the fact that you completely misunderstand the book. It was not written for the general public, like yourself. Originally, Christianity was one of many competing Mystery Schools of the day. Other ones were the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Hermetic Mysteries, the Mithraic Mysteries. The Apocalypse actually describes initation into the christian mysteries. It has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of prediction for the future. The symbolic content of the Apocalypse parallels other mystery ...
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I suppose a little excitement never hurt anyone. Cheers, NeroLight   [End]
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This will not sit well with most of you, but ... Christianity has lost its spiritual impetus. It no longer makes people better than they were when they started. Usually today Christians tend to be more bigoted and judgemental and nowhere near their full spiritual potential. What we don’t realize is that we’re coming in on the last few second of a movie that has been playing for like eight hours and somehow we think we understand what took place before we arrived. I realize that few here will accept criticism of any kind regarding Christianity. But for those very few who have not lost ...
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I lived through the whole Worldwide Church of God silliness. Unfortunately I see many here perpetuating the same silliness. Brainwashing is a lovely thing. Thankfully, what I thought I was seeking for in the WCG, I actually found in the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. http://www.rosicrucian.org. (And, unless you’ve got extensive experience in the subject matter, don’t bother to lecture me with your trite cliches and scare tactics.) Cro maat, NeroLight   [End]
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