"The arrest of several Jewish activists for trying to smuggle in a kid and conduct a sacrifice on the Temple Mount is a timely reminder that before the Passover seder was invented, the festival was all about the killing and eating of baby goats and sheep."
Are we saved by -
1. Sacrificing a goat?
2. OR, by being unselfish and kind and tuning into the heaven within us?
Paul taught that Christians are freed from sin by Jesus' death and resurrection.
"By Christ's blood, peace is made between God and man." [146]
According to E.P. Sanders, Paul's belief ties in with "ancient sacrificial theology."[155]
'Paul was successful at spreading the Christian relion.'
But Paul's 'Christian' religion adopted the old Jewish myths?
...
However, "Saint Paul apparently wrote:
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."
Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Timothy.
...
Saint Paul is controversial.
Among the critics of Paul the Apostle was Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, who wrote that Paul was the "first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."
A bishop's book pictures Paul as a homosexual.
Some people wonder if Paul is an invention.
"St Paul, appears nowhere in the secular histories of his age (not in Tacitus, not in Pliny, not in Josephus, etc.)
"Though Paul, we are told, mingled in the company of provincial governors and had audiences before kings and emperors, no scribe thought it worthwhile to record these events.
"The popular image of the saint is selectively crafted from two sources: the Book of Acts and the Epistles which bear his name. Yet the two sources actually present two radically different individuals and two wildly divergent stories."
Two Different Pauls – A Fabricated Apostle?
Saint Paul takes part in the murder of Saint Stephen.
Saint Paul 'founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe'.
He was was both a Jew and a Roman citizen.
According to Acts, Paul was dedicated to persecuting the early disciples of Jesus.
Paul took an active part in the martyrdom of Stephen.
[Acts 7:58–60; 22:20]
Paul confesses that "beyond measure" he persecuted the church of God prior to his conversion.
[Gal. 1:13–14] [Phil. 3:6] [Acts 8:1–3]
According to Acts, Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to "arrest the disciples and bring them back to Jerusalem" when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light.
"He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus and Paul began to preach that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God." [22]
Conversion of Paul the Apostle
Thirteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul.[23]
Seven of the Pauline epistles are seen by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder.
Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles
Paul's writings are 'vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Christian churches'.
Paul was from a devout Jewish family[45] in the city of Tarsus, one of the largest trade centers on the Mediterranean coast.[46]
Paul referred to himself as being "of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee". [Phil. 3:5]
Professor Robert Eisenman of California State University, Long Beach argues that Paul was a member of the family of Herod the Great.[48]
While he was still fairly young, he was sent to Jerusalem to receive his education at the school of Gamaliel,[Acts 22:3] one of the most noted rabbis in history.
In Antioch,Paul reviews Israelite history from life in Egypt to King David. He introduces Jesus as a descendant of David brought to Israel by God.
Jesus Christ 'was GREEK not Jewish'?
In The Four Gospels, Emile Victor Rieu refers to the Gospel writers.
Thomas Sheehan, Loyola philosophy professor and author of The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity, maintains that "Jesus did not think he was divine," nor did he "assert any of the messianic claims that the New Testament attributes to him."
Jesus' Followers
"He was meek, and merciful.
Early Christian authors "took an extremely negative view of Mithraism" and saw their practices "as evil copies of Christian practices."[209]
Stanley porter notes that "Mithraism only reached Asia minor in the latter part of the first century, after the basic elements of the gospels were in place, and hence could not have influenced the essential elements of the gospels."[211]
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David Strauss (1808–1874), a German theologian, believed that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and that the encounter had influenced the views of Jesus.
However, Strauss believed that "the additional elements of the sky opening, the dove descending on Jesus as the Holy Spirit, etc. were subsequent miraculous embellishments by the authors of the gospels intended to emphasize the importance of a key event in the life of Jesus."[220] [225]
Strauss believed that the divine spirit was embedded in all of humanity.
In 1890, Sir James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough which showed "the shared elements of religious belief."
Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed.[235]
William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934) argued for a symbolic interpretation of the stories about Jesus.
Smith argues that in the parable of the Jesus and the rich young man there never was a young man, and the young man symbolizes the nation of Israel.[254]
Dying and rising gods
What evidence is there that Jesus was (A) an opponent of the Establishment, or (B) a tool of the establisment?
1. Jesus shared meals with outcasts, which annoyed the Pharisees, strong supporters of the laws and traditions of the Jewish people.
Jesus said: "Be on your guard against the Doctors of the Law, who like to walk about in robes and be saluted in the streets... who devour the livelihood of widows..."
2. Jesus talked of 'good people' being his 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
3. Jesus urged people to 'renounce self'.
Jesus said: "If anyone wishes to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one but God is good."
4. Jesus said: "How difficult it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God."
What about Quantum Physics, Jesus and Intuition?
"Free will allows us to choose to continue to influence reality with our memories (Ego)
Or we can choose to accept our identity as projections of the Father and consciously co-create with the Father...
"Quantum physics has proven that the belief of the observer is translated in the test tube.
"Each energy packet can become particle or remain as energy depending on the expectation of the observer.
"This is known as the observer effect.
"Positive Thinking is Merely Scratching the Surface of Truth: We must be attentive to intuition
"As the Quantum physicist has discovered, our beliefs come true.
"This is the key to the kingdom which we forgot shortly after birth.
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"Our parents probably forgot that we are connected, just as they are connected to the One.
"In this same way, Herod of Judea forgot that he and Jesus were both born of the Creator/Father/One.
"Herod attempted to kill Jesus by ordering all the newborn children of Bethlehem to be slain.
"But, since Joseph was attentive to his intuition, (for intuitive training go to Andrea Hess...) he was warned by the One/Creator/Father to flee to Egypt.
"Jesus was safe during His childhood. They only returned to Israel after they were told of the death of Herod.
"When Jesus was grown, he fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before beginning His ministry... a month of fasting will cause an altered state of reality.
"When Jesus was tempted by His Ego to turn the stones into bread, He reminded the tempter that 'man does not live by bread alone.' Thus He determined to finish his vision quest...
"Jesus told the Ego to get behind Him because it is only the One/Source/Creator who would be served.
"To accept our identity as co-Creators with the One, we must put our finite Egos behind us.
"Our Subconscious mind is connected to our Higher Mind and to the Creator/One/Source.
"The Ego is only connected to our conscious minds and helps keep us involved in this physical world.
"But, at the same time, we must learn to influence our Subconscious Minds in order to create our reality..."
He was was both a Jew and a Roman citizen.
According to Acts, Paul was dedicated to persecuting the early disciples of Jesus.
Paul took an active part in the martyrdom of Stephen.
[Acts 7:58–60; 22:20]
Paul confesses that "beyond measure" he persecuted the church of God prior to his conversion.
[Gal. 1:13–14] [Phil. 3:6] [Acts 8:1–3]
According to Acts, Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to "arrest the disciples and bring them back to Jerusalem" when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light.
"He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus and Paul began to preach that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God." [22]
Conversion of Paul the Apostle
Thirteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul.[23]
Seven of the Pauline epistles are seen by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder.
Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles
Paul's writings are 'vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Christian churches'.
Paul was from a devout Jewish family[45] in the city of Tarsus, one of the largest trade centers on the Mediterranean coast.[46]
Paul referred to himself as being "of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee". [Phil. 3:5]
Professor Robert Eisenman of California State University, Long Beach argues that Paul was a member of the family of Herod the Great.[48]
While he was still fairly young, he was sent to Jerusalem to receive his education at the school of Gamaliel,[Acts 22:3] one of the most noted rabbis in history.
In Antioch,Paul reviews Israelite history from life in Egypt to King David. He introduces Jesus as a descendant of David brought to Israel by God.
Jesus Christ 'was GREEK not Jewish'?
In The Four Gospels, Emile Victor Rieu refers to the Gospel writers.
According to Rieu:
St Mark's Gospel is thought to have been written about A.D. 65 and was probably the earliest of the four Gospels.
Mark makes no mention of the Nativity story.
John makes no mention of the Nativity story.
Some people wonder how many of the Gospel stories were 'invented by zealous teachers' to teach 'some locally needed lesson.'
Matthew's Gospel was written about A.D. 85 for the use of the 'Jewish-Christian' community in his area.
Luke's Gospel was written about A.D. 85 for the Greek world.
John's Gospel was written about A.D. 100.
The Gospel writers, who all were apparently Jewish in origin, insisted on the Jewish origins of Christianity.
"He was meek, and merciful.
"He was criticized for associating with sinners.
"He celebrated a last supper.
"He forgave his enemies."
That was Krishna, born in 3228 BC in India.
Jesus was a Jewish Communist?
Communists do not generally believe in the Divine.
However, Jesus appears to be a bit Socialist.
Matthew 6:24.
Jesus said: "You cannot serve both God and Money."
Jesus is an important figure in the Koran.
Luke 18:18–25
Jesus said: 'Sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven.'
Galatians 3:28
In Christianity, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Which is more important - the person of Jesus or the ideas of Jesus?
"Do not return evil to your adversary.
"Requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, Maintain justice for your enemy, Be friendly to your enemy."
Jesus was not the first to teach 'Love Your Enemy'.
According to Buddhist wisdom (written centuries before Jesus was born)
"Shame on him who strikes, greater shame on him who strikes back.
...
"Return love for hatred.
Jesus was not the first to teach 'Love Your Enemy' / 'love your enemy'
"But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body...
"It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul."
THE REAL JESUS?
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The early Christians had various theories about Jesus.
Jesus did not become 'officially' divine until 325 AD.
This was when the Council of Nicaea, set up by the Roman emperor Constantine, decided that Jesus, like many Roman Emperors, was divine.
Most scholars agree that Jesus did actually exist.
"Amy-Jill Levine states that ... 'there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life' in that most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, debated Jewish authorities on the subject of God, performed some healings, gathered followers...."[68]
Christ myth theory - Wikipedia
In The Historical Jesus; Five Views, Robert Price suggests that the story of Jesus in the Gospels contains borrowings from pagan mythology.
In the same book, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson lists all the things historians can know with 'a very high degree of probability' about Jesus - Jesus taught in parables, Jesus healed people, Jesus taught about God's Kingdom.
The Recliner Commentaries: Five views of the historical Jesus
Osiris's resurrection is celebrated on the third day
Does the story of Jesus show strong parallels to myths of dying and rising gods?
Apparently not.
"Early in the 20th century, Gerald Massey argued that there are similarities between the Egyptian dying-and-rising god myths and Jesus.[22]
"Massey stated that the biblical references to Herod the Great were based on the myth of 'Herrut' the evil hydra serpent."
However, the existence of Herod the Great "can be well established without reliance on Christian sources."[23]
In other words, Herod was not Herrut.
"The overall scholarly consensus is that while the examples provided often involve death of the deity, they do not generally involve resurrection of the same deity.[2]
"Eddy and Boyd state that upon careful analysis, it turns out that there is often either no death, no resurrection or no god in the examples used to construct each of the examples in the category.[17]
That was Krishna, born in 3228 BC in India.
Jesus was a Jewish Communist?
Communists do not generally believe in the Divine.
However, Jesus appears to be a bit Socialist.
According to Acts 2: 44, 45:
"All that believed had all things in common.
"All that believed had all things in common.
"And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need."
Acts 4:34
Acts 4:34
"For as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them ... and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need."
Matthew 6:24.
Jesus said: "You cannot serve both God and Money."
Jesus is an important figure in the Koran.
Luke 18:18–25
Jesus said: 'Sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven.'
In Christianity, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
The History of Jesus is disputed.
The ideas of Jesus may not all be unique to Jesus.
According to the Akkadian Councils of Wisdom (Babylonian civilization that existed two millennia before Jesus was born):
"Do not return evil to your adversary.
"Requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, Maintain justice for your enemy, Be friendly to your enemy."
Jesus was not the first to teach 'Love Your Enemy'.
According to Buddhist wisdom (written centuries before Jesus was born)
"Shame on him who strikes, greater shame on him who strikes back.
"Let us live happily, not hating those who hate us. Let us therefore overcome anger by kindness, evil by good, falsehood by truth. Do not hurt others in ways that would be hurtful to yourself."
...
According to Taoist wisdom (written centuries before Jesus was born):
"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own and your neighborʼs loss as your own loss.
"Whoever is self-centered cannot have the love of others."
Jesus was not the first to teach 'Love Your Enemy' / 'love your enemy'
According to the Koran (Qur'an 41.34-35):
"The good deed and the evil deed are not alike.
"Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo!, he between whom and you there was enmity shall become as though he were a bosom friend."
...
The 'official' History of Jesus is suspect?
Among the 10 Christ-like Figures Who Pre-Date Jesus are:
Zoroaster/Zarathustra
"Zoroaster was born of a virgin and 'immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason.'
"He was baptized in a river.
"In his youth he astounded wise men with his wisdom.
"He was tempted in the wilderness by the devil.
"He began his ministry at age 30.
"Zoroaster baptized with water, fire and 'holy wind.'
"He cast out demons and restored the sight to a blind man.
"He taught about heaven and hell, and revealed mysteries, including resurrection, judgment, salvation and the apocalypse.
"He had a sacred cup or grail.
"He was slain.
"His religion had a eucharist.
"He was the 'Word made flesh.'
Zoroaster’s followers expected a 'second coming' in the virgin-born Saoshynt or Savior, who is to come in 2341 AD and begin his ministry at age 30, ushering in a golden age.
Attis of Phrygia
Attis was born on December 25 of the Virgin Nana.
He was considered the savior who was slain for the salvation of mankind.
His body as bread was eaten by his worshippers.
He was both the Divine Son and the Father.
On 'Black Friday,' he was crucified on a tree, from which his holy blood ran down to redeem the earth.
He descended into the underworld.
After three days, Attis was resurrected.
How odd of God to choose the Jews.
JESUS AND JUNG
Carl Jung and family
According to Carl Jung: "We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment.
"We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life.
"And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live."
The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance.
According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to all our personalities.
Think of anger, greed, fear and lust.
This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'.
The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always 'evil'.
For example, there would be no marriages or children without there being a little 'lust'.
It is extreme or out-of-control lust that is evil.
If we get angry about injustice, that is no bad thing, so long as we remain rational and do not go berserk.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Jesus appears to have had his 'shadow'.
Jesus faced temptations in the desert.
He cursed the fig tree.
The Psychology of Jesus — Chapter 3 — David McKenna
Our rulers want us to be excessively angry, greedy, frightened and lustful so as to control us.
However, there is also a 'good side' to all of us.
Fr. John A. Sanford, in his 1970 book The Kingdom Within, sees Jesus's instruction "love your enemies" as an attempt to help us deal with all the parts of the whole, the 'dark side' and the 'good side', without hurting anyone.
Professor Wallace Clift has looked at Jung's view of humanity as "a story of developing consciousness".
Clift sees this as being similar to Jesus's idea of the 'Holy Spirit' working to improve us.
Jung called the 'dark side' the 'Shadow' and he reckoned that it comes from our animal ancestors.
Jung wrote: ‘"The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors and so comprise the whole historical aspect of the unconscious."
When the 'dark side' emerges, for example in a War I or in a divorce, many people look for scapegoats.
We demonise our enemy.
There is a tendency to blame everything that goes wrong on Moslems or Jews or Blacks or Gays or Gypsies.
Most people deny their 'shadow', unconsciously 'projecting' it onto others so as to avoid confronting it in oneself.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Each of us should accept that we have a 'dark side' or 'shadow'.
The shadow is most dangerous when it is repressed and projected onto others.
When we will not acknowledge our dark side, we are at risk of becoming mentally ill and starting a war.
The 'saint' should acknowledge his or her 'dark side'.
Jekyll was saintly, but he hid and did not acknowledge his other side, Hyde, who was evil.
Jekyll's personality was split rather than whole.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
When the CIA and its friends use their Monarch mind-control programme to brainwash children, they create in the children more than one personality.
One personality may the 'normal' personality and another may be the 'assassin' or sex slave'.
As mentioned above, the 'shadow' or 'dark side' contains positive some qualities.
Fear can be useful, if it keeps us safe.
Jung believed that most of us have lost touch with certain parts of our selves.
Jung believed that we should not try to be 'normal' because that means suppressing our real self, including the 'shadow'.
The healing of the disturbed person comes when they stop trying to be 'normal' and conformist.
We need to accept our 'shadow' and see that it involves some normal instincts and creative impulses.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer Verlag, 2009) / Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (SUNY Press, 1996) / Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Putnam, 1991) - all by Stephen A. Diamond,
To be a good Christian you have to be fully aware of the 'shadow'.
Jesus asked us to consider our own faults, before we look at the faults of others.
Jesus had dinner with tax collectors and sinners.
Jesus had his difficult moments.
"And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave the house or town. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town...
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...woe to you, blind guides...You blind fools!...You blind men!...You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Jesus was not necessarily kind to pigs or Greeks.
"The moment the evil spirits were cast into the pigs, they rushed headlong from the steep bank onto the lake and were drowned."
"The woman was a Greek ... she begged Jesus to drive the demons out of her daughter. 'First let the children eat all they want,' he told her, 'for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs.'"
Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Personality of Jesus
Jesus did not claim to be perfect.
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone."
Carl Jung said: "On the cross his mission deserted him.
"The good deed and the evil deed are not alike.
"Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo!, he between whom and you there was enmity shall become as though he were a bosom friend."
The 'official' History of Jesus is suspect?
Among the 10 Christ-like Figures Who Pre-Date Jesus are:
Zoroaster/Zarathustra
"Zoroaster was born of a virgin and 'immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason.'
"He was baptized in a river.
"In his youth he astounded wise men with his wisdom.
"He was tempted in the wilderness by the devil.
"He began his ministry at age 30.
"Zoroaster baptized with water, fire and 'holy wind.'
"He cast out demons and restored the sight to a blind man.
"He taught about heaven and hell, and revealed mysteries, including resurrection, judgment, salvation and the apocalypse.
"He had a sacred cup or grail.
"He was slain.
"His religion had a eucharist.
"He was the 'Word made flesh.'
Zoroaster’s followers expected a 'second coming' in the virgin-born Saoshynt or Savior, who is to come in 2341 AD and begin his ministry at age 30, ushering in a golden age.
Attis of Phrygia
Attis was born on December 25 of the Virgin Nana.
He was considered the savior who was slain for the salvation of mankind.
His body as bread was eaten by his worshippers.
He was both the Divine Son and the Father.
On 'Black Friday,' he was crucified on a tree, from which his holy blood ran down to redeem the earth.
He descended into the underworld.
After three days, Attis was resurrected.
How odd of God to choose the Jews.
JESUS AND JUNG
Carl Jung and family
According to Carl Jung: "We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment.
"We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life.
"And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live."
The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance.
According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to all our personalities.
Think of anger, greed, fear and lust.
This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'.
The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always 'evil'.
For example, there would be no marriages or children without there being a little 'lust'.
It is extreme or out-of-control lust that is evil.
If we get angry about injustice, that is no bad thing, so long as we remain rational and do not go berserk.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Jesus appears to have had his 'shadow'.
Jesus faced temptations in the desert.
He cursed the fig tree.
The Psychology of Jesus — Chapter 3 — David McKenna
Our rulers want us to be excessively angry, greedy, frightened and lustful so as to control us.
However, there is also a 'good side' to all of us.
Fr. John A. Sanford, in his 1970 book The Kingdom Within, sees Jesus's instruction "love your enemies" as an attempt to help us deal with all the parts of the whole, the 'dark side' and the 'good side', without hurting anyone.
Professor Wallace Clift has looked at Jung's view of humanity as "a story of developing consciousness".
Clift sees this as being similar to Jesus's idea of the 'Holy Spirit' working to improve us.
Jung called the 'dark side' the 'Shadow' and he reckoned that it comes from our animal ancestors.
Jung wrote: ‘"The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors and so comprise the whole historical aspect of the unconscious."
When the 'dark side' emerges, for example in a War I or in a divorce, many people look for scapegoats.
We demonise our enemy.
There is a tendency to blame everything that goes wrong on Moslems or Jews or Blacks or Gays or Gypsies.
Most people deny their 'shadow', unconsciously 'projecting' it onto others so as to avoid confronting it in oneself.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
Each of us should accept that we have a 'dark side' or 'shadow'.
The shadow is most dangerous when it is repressed and projected onto others.
When we will not acknowledge our dark side, we are at risk of becoming mentally ill and starting a war.
The 'saint' should acknowledge his or her 'dark side'.
Jekyll was saintly, but he hid and did not acknowledge his other side, Hyde, who was evil.
Jekyll's personality was split rather than whole.
Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow" by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.
When the CIA and its friends use their Monarch mind-control programme to brainwash children, they create in the children more than one personality.
One personality may the 'normal' personality and another may be the 'assassin' or sex slave'.
As mentioned above, the 'shadow' or 'dark side' contains positive some qualities.
Fear can be useful, if it keeps us safe.
Jung believed that most of us have lost touch with certain parts of our selves.
Jung believed that we should not try to be 'normal' because that means suppressing our real self, including the 'shadow'.
The healing of the disturbed person comes when they stop trying to be 'normal' and conformist.
We need to accept our 'shadow' and see that it involves some normal instincts and creative impulses.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (Springer Verlag, 2009) / Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity (SUNY Press, 1996) / Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Putnam, 1991) - all by Stephen A. Diamond,
To be a good Christian you have to be fully aware of the 'shadow'.
Jesus asked us to consider our own faults, before we look at the faults of others.
Jesus had dinner with tax collectors and sinners.
Jesus had his difficult moments.
"And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave the house or town. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town...
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...woe to you, blind guides...You blind fools!...You blind men!...You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Jesus was not necessarily kind to pigs or Greeks.
"The moment the evil spirits were cast into the pigs, they rushed headlong from the steep bank onto the lake and were drowned."
"The woman was a Greek ... she begged Jesus to drive the demons out of her daughter. 'First let the children eat all they want,' he told her, 'for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs.'"
Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Personality of Jesus
Jesus did not claim to be perfect.
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one is good - except God alone."
Carl Jung said: "On the cross his mission deserted him.
"But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body...
"It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul."
THE REAL JESUS?
www.smc-mb.net
The early Christians had various theories about Jesus.
Jesus did not become 'officially' divine until 325 AD.
This was when the Council of Nicaea, set up by the Roman emperor Constantine, decided that Jesus, like many Roman Emperors, was divine.
Most scholars agree that Jesus did actually exist.
"Amy-Jill Levine states that ... 'there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life' in that most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, debated Jewish authorities on the subject of God, performed some healings, gathered followers...."[68]
Christ myth theory - Wikipedia
In The Historical Jesus; Five Views, Robert Price suggests that the story of Jesus in the Gospels contains borrowings from pagan mythology.
In the same book, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson lists all the things historians can know with 'a very high degree of probability' about Jesus - Jesus taught in parables, Jesus healed people, Jesus taught about God's Kingdom.
The Recliner Commentaries: Five views of the historical Jesus
Osiris's resurrection is celebrated on the third day
Does the story of Jesus show strong parallels to myths of dying and rising gods?
Apparently not.
"Early in the 20th century, Gerald Massey argued that there are similarities between the Egyptian dying-and-rising god myths and Jesus.[22]
"Massey stated that the biblical references to Herod the Great were based on the myth of 'Herrut' the evil hydra serpent."
However, the existence of Herod the Great "can be well established without reliance on Christian sources."[23]
In other words, Herod was not Herrut.
"The overall scholarly consensus is that while the examples provided often involve death of the deity, they do not generally involve resurrection of the same deity.[2]
"Eddy and Boyd state that upon careful analysis, it turns out that there is often either no death, no resurrection or no god in the examples used to construct each of the examples in the category.[17]
"Jonathan Z. Smith, a scholar of comparative religions, writes the category is 'largely a misnomer based on imaginative reconstructions and exceedingly late or highly ambiguous texts.'[1][37]
Mithraism
Is Christianity similar to the Roman religion Mithraism?Mithraism
Early Christian authors "took an extremely negative view of Mithraism" and saw their practices "as evil copies of Christian practices."[209]
Stanley porter notes that "Mithraism only reached Asia minor in the latter part of the first century, after the basic elements of the gospels were in place, and hence could not have influenced the essential elements of the gospels."[211]
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David Strauss (1808–1874), a German theologian, believed that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and that the encounter had influenced the views of Jesus.
However, Strauss believed that "the additional elements of the sky opening, the dove descending on Jesus as the Holy Spirit, etc. were subsequent miraculous embellishments by the authors of the gospels intended to emphasize the importance of a key event in the life of Jesus."[220] [225]
Strauss believed that the divine spirit was embedded in all of humanity.
In 1890, Sir James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough which showed "the shared elements of religious belief."
Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed.[235]
William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934) argued for a symbolic interpretation of the stories about Jesus.
Smith argues that in the parable of the Jesus and the rich young man there never was a young man, and the young man symbolizes the nation of Israel.[254]
Dying and rising gods
What evidence is there that Jesus was (A) an opponent of the Establishment, or (B) a tool of the establisment?
1. Jesus shared meals with outcasts, which annoyed the Pharisees, strong supporters of the laws and traditions of the Jewish people.
Jesus said: "Be on your guard against the Doctors of the Law, who like to walk about in robes and be saluted in the streets... who devour the livelihood of widows..."
2. Jesus talked of 'good people' being his 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
3. Jesus urged people to 'renounce self'.
Jesus said: "If anyone wishes to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one but God is good."
4. Jesus said: "How difficult it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God."
What about Quantum Physics, Jesus and Intuition?
"Free will allows us to choose to continue to influence reality with our memories (Ego)
Or we can choose to accept our identity as projections of the Father and consciously co-create with the Father...
"Quantum physics has proven that the belief of the observer is translated in the test tube.
"Each energy packet can become particle or remain as energy depending on the expectation of the observer.
"This is known as the observer effect.
"Positive Thinking is Merely Scratching the Surface of Truth: We must be attentive to intuition
"As the Quantum physicist has discovered, our beliefs come true.
"This is the key to the kingdom which we forgot shortly after birth.
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"Our parents probably forgot that we are connected, just as they are connected to the One.
"In this same way, Herod of Judea forgot that he and Jesus were both born of the Creator/Father/One.
"Herod attempted to kill Jesus by ordering all the newborn children of Bethlehem to be slain.
"But, since Joseph was attentive to his intuition, (for intuitive training go to Andrea Hess...) he was warned by the One/Creator/Father to flee to Egypt.
"Jesus was safe during His childhood. They only returned to Israel after they were told of the death of Herod.
"When Jesus was grown, he fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before beginning His ministry... a month of fasting will cause an altered state of reality.
"When Jesus was tempted by His Ego to turn the stones into bread, He reminded the tempter that 'man does not live by bread alone.' Thus He determined to finish his vision quest...
"Jesus told the Ego to get behind Him because it is only the One/Source/Creator who would be served.
"To accept our identity as co-Creators with the One, we must put our finite Egos behind us.
"Our Subconscious mind is connected to our Higher Mind and to the Creator/One/Source.
"The Ego is only connected to our conscious minds and helps keep us involved in this physical world.
"But, at the same time, we must learn to influence our Subconscious Minds in order to create our reality..."
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Aangirfan: JESUS, CAESAR'S MESSIAH, REAL CHRISTIANITY
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1 Aug 2016 - The biblical scholar Joseph Atwill claims that the story of Jesus Christ is a HOAX designed to control the people. Joseph Atwill's Blog | Discussing "Caesar's Messiah". Atwill says that theJesus story was designed by the Roman empire to justify slavery and to pacify the citizens. Atwill writes: "Christianity was ...aangirfan: Jesus and humility
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Jesus and humility. The following is fiction: James: How was your trip to India to meet the great guru? Peter: I enjoyed India. But I've come to the conclusion that the only good guru is a humble guru. The guru I met in India was sitting on a throne and claiming to understand everything about the universe. He did not look in ...aangirfan: CROSSAN ON JESUS
aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/11/crossan-on-jesus.html
Who was Jesus? John Dominic Crossan, professor emeritus at De Paul University Chicago, is an Irish-American religious scholar. (John Dominic Crossan Web Site) Crossan "believes that less than 20 percent of what we read in the Gospels are original sayings of Jesus." (http://www.y-jesus.com/bornid_4.Aangirfan: THE REAL JESUS
aanirfan.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-real-jesus.html
14 Apr 2015 - The Talpiot tomb, in the Talpiot area of Jerusalem, is said to contain the bones of 'Aangirfan: JESUS - MYTH AND REALITY
aanirfan.blogspot.com/2016/08/jesus-myth-and-reality.html
1 Sep 2016 - However, the letters of Paul, only some of which were written by Paul, see Jesus as being in some way divine. The letters of Paul do not refer to Jesus's criticism of the rich and praise of the poor. Paul was a conservative Jew. The letters of Paul "
At a moment of severe pain, near death, an acute defining sutuation who calls out to politics or prays to nothingness. There are no real atheists they all starting praying when it comes to crunch. We are at the most ignorant period this really is the time of kali yoga...
ReplyDelete"Rights groups urge Cyprus to drop false rape case against Briton"
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'Jewish' barrister Michael Polak, who represents the British teenager, graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE).
Previously, Michael Polak has been assigned to at least one case by the British Government (Foreign & Commonwealth Office). Indeed, he has previously been selected to sit on the FCO's Pro Bono Panel.
I have been unable to establish if the British Government assigned Mr Polak to represent the British teenager in the current 'Cyprus case' - but this would seem to be a reasonable assumption.
Michael Polak's criminal law specialisms reportedly include "sex" and "violence".
Michael Polak sits on the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association, whose Patrons include Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, and the high-profile Jewish barrister Lord Pannick QC.
Lord Pannick has represented Sir Philip Green and Gina Miller.
Lord Pannick "helped in making representations to the DPP that Lord Janner should NOT be prosecuted because of his mental state".
Lord Pannick said: "Janner is unable to defend himself. No criminal trial could possibly be fair in such circumstances."
Lord Pannick strongly insists that the UK Child Abuse Inquiry is unfair to all those accused.
In 2016 Lord Pannick "acting for ... MISHCON DE REYA ... said that [antisemitic] abuse had already been directed at staff [coordinating Mishcon de Reya's efforts to challenge the legality of Brexit]".
Michael Polak set up Justice Abroad Ltd. with David Walters, a retired FCO diplomat.
David Walters and his family were evacuated from 9/11.
David Walters said: "I knew as soon as the planes hit the Towers, there would be an evacuation and it was, 'HERE WE GO AGAIN'."
In 2010 David Walters was awarded the IRAQ Reconstruction Service Medal in BAGHDAD.
Mr Walters was awarded membership of the Royal Victorian Order for "personal services to the Queen"
CONCLUSION:
With the possible exception of Lord Pannick QC, BARRISTER MICHAEL POLAK IS THE LAST LAWYER ON EARTH an informed person would choose to represent their traumatised mother, daughter, sister or female friend in a high-profile criminal case involving alleged rapists who are Jewish ISRAELI citizens, and who are deemed by Israel to be 'national heroes'.
The Cyprus rape case scandal is a tragedy for the British teenager, and a travesty of justice.
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http://churchcourtchambers.co.uk/barrister/michael-polak/
https://belarusdigest.com/story/foreign-experience-of-belarusian-judiciary-shock-and-hunger-strikes/
https://www.hrla.org.uk/executive-committee-patrons/
https://www.justiceabroad.co.uk/justiceabroad/people
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-diplomat-lifts-lid-reality-18820361
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/15/cps-decision-not-prosecute-lord-janner-under-review
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-the-dpp-was-right-not-to-prosecute-lord-janner-t2z628wc3g6
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/28/lord-janner-alleged-victims-formal-review-dpp-decision-not-to-prosecute-child-abuse-claims
https://twitter.com/timeslaw/status/712957425964486656
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/lawyers-acting-on-brexit-subjected-to-anti-semitic-abuse/
Why does Aangirfan seem intent on running down Christianity....the whole of Western civilisation is based around it.
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Every year in Washington the Jews erect a giant Menorah outside the Whitehouse.YET symbols of Christianity are BANNED.
They do allow a Christmas tree to be put up....BUT NOT THE CROSS.Christmas trees are of pagan origin.
Christianity is under siege....and so is Western Civilization...
So it is Christianity once again confronting its traditional enemy....infact the Jews killed the founder of it.
What about the passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead finding that they reappear in the Old Testament word for word.....worthy of Aangirfans attention SURELY??.
Aangirfan is a huge fan of Christian teachings - such as 1. believe in the after life, 2. turn the other cheek, 3. feed the hungry, 4. be totally unselfish and kind...
DeleteAngirfan has pointed out that the 'official' stories on Mohammed, St Paul, Jesus etc may contain errors.
Apparently, Mohammed had nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.
Apparently the original Jewish tribe originated with Saudi Arabia.
There is no proof whatsover that ‘ jesus’ ever existed. Just a myth of the jews to brainwash the roman people. This trick was concocted by jewish princesses of the house of Herodes etc with intermarrying of roman aristocracy, the later roman emperors. The ‘ roman’ emperors were not that roman as us is told!
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Delete"What if Jesus was black? What if all the people spoken of in the Bible were black? This is a question that a Swedish artist has brought to life?"
16 febr. 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QPE37IATtqo
The Ethiopian Hebrews, said to be from the tribe of Dan, never heard of the Talmud when they came to what is since 1948 called israel.
DeleteRoman historian Tacitus (about C.E. 90): Many assert that the Hebrews are a race of Ethiopian origins.
The Roman Emperor, Justinian the Great, who ruled from 527 - 564 C.E., 500 years after the time of Yahshuah, later known as Jesus, had engraved on a coin, the image of him with woolly / kinky hair and black features. On the obverse side of the coin there is an image of Justinian but with straight hair.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia has this particular listing about that image on the coin.
"Whatever the fact, this coin, with the straight haired Justinian on the obverse side, places beyond doubt the belief that "Jesus" was a Negro (black-skinned)."
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A no main stream news wall painting, “Healing of the Paralytic”. One of the earliest known representations of Black Jesus (Yahushua). This mural dates from 235 A.D.
Found in 1921 at Dura-Europos on the Euphrates River in modern day Syria / Dura-Europos Collection at the Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts.
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http://www.angelfire.com/ill/hebrewisrael/physicalapp.htm
Main stream tv program `The complete Jesus´ featured
Marc Goodacre who stated, it would have been hard for him to hide among the Egyptians, if he didn’t look like the Egyptians.
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A picture is worth a thousand words:
http://ancient.egyptian.over-blog.com/
Most probably run judging the inserted picture by Robert Bauvall. I am a fan of his work.
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Buddham saranam gachami
Dhammam saranam gachami
Sangam saranam gachami
Intro TXT by Nipun Aggarwal(MD):
`At some point of life, we all feel entangled in its complexities.
The only way to free yourself is to take refuge in the arms of Inner Divinity:
I go to the Buddha (Inner Enlightenment) for refuge.
I go to the Dhamma (Knowledge) for refuge.
I go to the Sangha (Community) for refuge.
The 3 Jewels of Buddhism. See Aggarwals further explanation of the meaning in the beginning of this vid.
CO2 (Check Out 2), we need to update ouirselves, education permanente:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04ZFeIpTPU
The Bible a black book febr. 2019
Stephen Henderson talks to the book’s author, Dr. Theron Williams.
Henderson, black American, was raised in Detroit, as a catholic. When the city got populated with more black Americans, the white pastor invited a black artist to paint a mural behind the altar according to the way he saw JC. It was in the late sixties and raised a lot of dust. The Washington Post wrote an article on it.
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The National Geographic socirty along with IBM put together genome graphic project, heade by dr. Spencer Wales and it concluded in 2005 – it was a 10 year study and they collected DNA evidence from indigenous communities worldwide. They wanted to find: Who is the father of modern humans?
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The first modern human was a black man, whom the Bible idetifies as Adam. So we now that through NNA evidence. The descendants of Adam would have been black people.
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“The traditional notion that the people of the Bible from Adam all the way to Jesus were people of European descent and that´s just not true. That´s just not factual.”
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JC was not a Scandinivian, beause he is depicted as a Scandinivian, he is depñicted as a European in the traditional images of Jesus, and we know that he did not look like that.
Conclu210 + neti/neti:
The Buddha imagery could in fact be anything / anyone a Mickey Mouse would equally do if individualy so desired emotionally.
The JC imagery used in the catholic churches is a diff. story altogether.
Recorded earlier: Rodrigo Borgia born in Xativa, in the province of Valencia, Spain became 11 august 1492 ceo of the Vatican, he instigated the whitewashing of the till up till then only darkskinned imagery of JC and his Hebrew crew.
Moors who occupied still large parts of Europe, although driven out of Borgia´s homecountry Spain, which they had infused with civilisation btw for 700+ years looked very much like the existing icons.
The Vatican was at war with them and the drastic makeover of very darkskinned JC icons was to tie customers to the catho toko.
In itself the move of Borgia (Alexander VI) shows very little respect (if any) to the message of JC or His Person. And up to to this day there has been no (needless to say, white) pope who has had the guts to even talk about this Xtremely dark topic.
Yet Ratzinger and Bergoogleo prayed at the Black Madonna a very present remnant relic in the churches (mainly in Europe) when the latter took office.
His whitewashing of JC together with the >Discovery Doctrine< has been instrumental in the "Conquista" (ordinary landtheft on a large scale) of the Spaniards in the "New World" and was copied by the north European Protestants in North America.
My code for it: Since 1492 we all do indeed live in Silly Icon times. Kali Yuga? Never heard of it:
Under the protective eye of the white Rio JC statue in Brasil Mother Earth Amazonia lungs get entirely destroyed.
`Apparently the original Jewish tribe originated with Saudi Arabia.´
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Check out:
http://ignca.gov.in/Asi_data/10621.pdf
Arabia Felix - across the empty quarter of Arabia
by Bertram Thomas
Watch the pics of the (black) people. If what you say is factual, which it is imv, it is another lead that the Hebrews (so, also JC and his crew) were black (olive) skinned.
The oldest original images of JC show him to be a black man, referred to earlier:
https://blackhistory.neocities.org/BlackChrist.html
The JC images Angriffan uses in JC related pieces are always all Rodrigo Borgia´s son Cesare based.
We know they are whitewashed versions , false images of how the carpenter´s son looked like. They are still in vogue worldwide in catholic and other churches.
These false images were tools used by the Europeans to colonise the Americas- 1492- and other parts of the world.
Europeans began painting themselves as Biblical characters.
The Jehova witnesses- anti Rome as they say they are - you see everywhere with their material are also selling a white Jesus.
No surprise: Rome is for a longtime jew/suit controlled. The founder of the Jehova witnesses, Charles Taze Russel is a Freemason which is jew at its core. Near his grave there is a mason pyramid.
The pic of the meek Jesus in black & white used in this thread by A. is Vatican approved and shows JC in the well known robes with red white and blue rays emitting from his hand as an apex of a pyramid.
Angriffan, these images play an important role in `their´ falscher (false) Bilderberg (litt. image mountain).
The essence also of JC is : look within, who are you, what are you?
There are a lot of elements that are part of Christianity that are also fabricated by the socalled churchfathers.
The Only Son, eat this bread my body, drink this wine, my blood.
But that is another story, false teachings enslaving the in essence already free humans following these tomtoms leading to nowhere, leading away from me-to-I-Now Here and Beyond.
`Me´ is an object, while JC essential techings are about the Kingdom of Heaven within, Pure Subjectivity , in Sanskrit called the Atma, the Self (no object at all, since mind & mine has ceased) atmen has come to Rest.
(And of course back again to todays Apocalypso dance floor as long as the body lasts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQ21nz5ims
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Secret Jesuit book , History of Loango Kakongo and N´Gyo.
Very telling that in the ultra catholic country Spain*, especially the city of Valencia, capital of the province Valencia in which the birth place, Xativa of Rodrigo Borgia who became ceo of the Vatican 11 august 1492 lies (yes the one who whitewashed the black JC icons and made the Doctrine of Discovery manifest concrete) the book written in 1776 by Abbe Proyart can´t be uploaded:
http://www.cabinda.net/PROYARTS_Cabin...
Here it is:
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/52397119/history-of-loango-kakongo-and-ngoyo-cabinda
The uploader hints to read the last pages.
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1776 The year Abbe Proyart wrote this secret book. The same year that RotSchild controlled jesuit priest Weishaupt founded the Illuminati in Bavaria. The same year that the United States was founded by Freemasonry.
* A lot of upheaval is indeed going on in Spain and Catalunya these last days again. Spain is put in the geopolitical karmic shredder?
They did not want to listen to the noble full blooded Spanish PM of Mexico lately, who asked for an official apology to the Madrid govt. (cq the King of Spain) for the Spanish conquista holidays in Mexico & consequently in the rest by the other EU countries who establish(ed) their 5 Gsus Order in the ´New World´.
5 Gsus, the crucifixion extra forte of human kind with the head downward, the pentagram - yes indeed that pic of the hue-man of Da Vinci who whitewashed JC- with its top directed downward.
No repentance? Than the Cosmic Serpent of Ma´s Kundalini will not and cannot rise, individually and or collectively. Instead: shows up Its Ugly Head.
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Remember, the writer of 1984, Sjors Oorbel aka George Orwell (real name btw Blair) fought and got wounded in the Spanish Civil War.