Showing posts with label purging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purging. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Trump's Christian nationalists: Ziklag exposed

Jesus is Republican, right? And a paid member of the NRA?

Ziklag exposed: Secretive Christian nationalist network tries to purge voters in battleground states
(Democracy Now!) July 30, 2024: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines this week after suggesting the 2024 election could be the last U.S. election if he wins in November.
This is our country. We will not be replaced!
DN! looks at a secret organization of wealthy Christians called "Ziklag" that is backing Trump's efforts by working to purge more than a million voters from the rolls in battleground states and mobilize Republican voters to back Trump.

The news outlets ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag's internal files and found the group has divided its 2024 activities into three different operations:
  1. Steeplechase, which uses churches to get out the vote;
  2. Watchtower, which aims to rally voters around opposition to transgender rights; and
  3. Checkmate, which is focused on funding so-called election integrity groups,
explains ProPublica investigative reporter Andy Kroll. MoreZiklag exposed

Monday, July 8, 2024

Jewish-Christian God is the Devil


World's first Bible reveals God is the DEVIL
(MorgueOfficial) The Gnostics (those interested in wisdom and what the Bible actually says in its original languages -- Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac) tell it like it is, whereas standard Protestant and Catholic Christians have insanely obedient and fear-based beliefs and tenets they cannot justify unless they change the meaning of words, leave out many facts and incidents, and just play along pretending to be asleep as they are told what to do by church officials, pedophiles, rapists and, worst of all, hypocrites. There must be true Christians out there who care enough about Jesus, good, salvation, and Truth to read the apocrypha, study the Bible as interpreted by scholars dedicating their lives to making sense of the ancient texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi texts, and the uncomfortable truths of the religion, rather than just the sugarcoated nonsense of one interpretation of one poor translation (namely the King James Version, with its complicated footnotes and explications left out to simply the propaganda, slogans, and messaging of a war-based religion that claims it teaches peace, love, and acceptance of all.  #pagan #gnosticism #ancientknowledge


This one verse proves God is the Devil
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COMMENTS
  • (@KarenDUlrich) 1 month ago To show you how indoctrinated I was as an evangelical Christian, I was conditioned to believe Jephthah's daughter was so submissive and obedient to God that she was doing his will. Her sacrificial death was pleasing to God. This is how domestic violence, child molestation, and out of control pastors are so prevalent in the church.
  • (@TrishMcCabe77) 1 year ago A jealous God cannot be a good God.
  • (@BlackyListon) 1 year ago I question everything. I too was raised Christian, converted to Islam, then came back to Christian. Then became a Hebrew Israelite. Now I’m just a free smooth PISSED OFF Spirit looking for answers.

Friday, March 29, 2024

Holy Week Good Friday: Jesus goes to hell

Jesus had a harrowing time in hell, was happy to get out, yet many disbelieve in the abyss
Jesus as a Buddhist monk during his missing years in India (Nicolas Notovitch/Holger Kersten)
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Mahayana Savior Ksitigarbha
Rumor has it, with textual support, that Jesus went to hell. What was He doing there, as the GO TO ("God of the Omniverse)? Was He by any chance engaged in the sort of good works bodhisattvas (buddhas-to-be) engage in in hell?

One of the most famous Buddhists in all of Mahayana is a bodhisattva ("savior") figure named Ksitigarbha, who has vowed to empty all the hells (and there are many more than one divided into 9 planes, eight terrible worlds including Avici, the lowest and most torturous of the infernos, plus one that may be even worse, the interstitial hell not everyone is aware of).

All hail the Bodhisattva in hell
Was good Saint Issa engaged in this important spiritual work of acting as the "
guardian of souls"? Or is it just that Christianity borrowed and stole so much of its message from the many religions and spiritual traditions of the world it tried and continues to try to conquer?

The historical Buddha, after all, is a Catholic saint. If that's not cultural appropriation, what is?

Jesus is Caesar's Messiah before he's the good rabbi of Nazareth or the traveler who ventured to India during his "lost years" to study as a Buddhist monk in Hemis Gompa, Tibet (now Ladakh, India).


Kshitigarbha has been saving sentient beings — including beings suffering in the “hell realms” — for countless years. Upon hearing the voice of the Buddha, the elder’s son made a great vow: “I vow to rescue all suffering sentient beings across uncountable eons and the six paths [places of rebirth] of samsara [wandering and cycling through the Wheel of Death and Rebirth] by establishing convenient methods [expedient means]. When all have been saved, only then will I attain Buddhahood [when they are freed, then I will take my leave from this otherwise Endless Round]” (Buddha Weekly).

To help those in hell(s), there is a mantra

Sid had a white pony, so why did Jess ride a donkey?

Can we truth the Bible on the Historical Jesus?
Holy Week (Greek Agia ké Megale Evdomas, lit. "Holy and Great Week") is the most sacred week of the for Christians [1, 2]. So it's not Xmas? For all Christian traditions, Holy Week is a moveable observance.

In the older tradition called Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which also calls it Great Week, it is the week following Great Lent and Lazarus Saturday, starting on the evening of Palm Sunday and concluding on the evening of Great Saturday [3].

In Western Christianity [Note A], Holy Week is the sixth and last week of Lent, beginning with Palm Sunday and concluding on Holy Saturday [1, 2, 5, 6].

Holy Week begins with the commemoration of Jesus Christ's triumphalist entry into Jerusalem on a white donkey on Palm Sunday, marks the betrayal of Jesus by a Jewish guy named Judas on Spy Wednesday (Holy Wednesday), climaxing with the commemoration of the Mystical or Last Dinner on Holy Thursday, and the Passion Suffering of Jesus on Good Friday. That would be today.

Holy Week concludes with Christ's pseudo-death and literal descent into hell on Holy Saturday [5, 6].
  • Roman psyops made this myth
    [So Jesus, who made hell and cast millions or billions of beings into it (as part of the Trinity), had never visited? Wait, he is the creator of the all and everything, but he didn't create hell, such a big place in the universe? Oh, he did create it, and he does throw countless living beings into it when they seem to die but still move around without this body and have thoughts and memories of a past life or lives? But he's simultaneously all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful only not powerful or knowledgeable enough to know what to tell his creations so they can avoid unimaginable suffering? Right. Good story, very consistent.]
Christians believe that Jesus died, was resting as a corpse from the ninth hour (3:00 pm) on Good Friday until just before dawn on Sunday morning, the day of his rebirth or resurrection from death, commonly known as Easter Sunday.

However, in 1 Peter 3:19, there may be a clue as to a task Jesus performed during this period between death and rebirth or resurrection: "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison."

This marks the beginning of the season of Eastertide, with its first week being known as Easter Week (Bright Week) now that all the holiness is set aside until next year. More

Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
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Forgery (Joseph Wheless)
There are a lot of curious things about Holy Week its themes that are relevant to Buddhist themes. Could it be a coincidence? That's doubtful. Christianity, particular its Universalism branch (called catholic that gave its name to Catholicism), is an aggregate tradition, collecting points of dogma from the world's smorgasbord of religion and spirituality. It took a great deal from Buddhism and Hinduism, just as Judaism took as much as it could get from Sumerian culture. Christianity is syncretism, which is why it may not always make sense. The rationalizations of the Church Fathers found a way to make sense of everything, but often this was hammered out by mere reasoning as if they did not know the origins of the doctrines. Moreover, there's a weird kind of Universalism already existing. Who knows if it's a recent development or a remnant from the time when the world had a single enforced religion. That time is coming again when we'll all be bullied to believe in just ONE thing, one teaching, one savior to come, one set of rules for everyone, one explanation. That will probably not be a good day because it will not likely be the true and correct thing. That religion will not be called, although it should, Syncretianity.
  • Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY, Wiki edit; Asking, What does Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman have to teach us?

Kishitigarbha saves (beings from hell)


Kṣitigarbha is in Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ, Chinese 地藏, pinyin Dìzàng, Japanese 地蔵, rōmaji Jizō, Korean 지장 (地藏), romaja Jijang, Vietnamese Địa Tạng (地藏), Standard Tibetan ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་, Wylie sa yi snying po.

This name translates as "Earth Treasury," "Earth Store," "Earth Matrix," or "Earth Womb."

He is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism (rather than the Theravada of South and Southeast Asia) and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk.
Overview
Kwan Yin is the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Kṣitigarbha is one of the four principal bodhisattvas along with Samantabhadra, Manjusri, and Avalokiteśvara (transformed into Kwan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of compassion) in East Asian Mahayana Buddhism.

At the pre-Tang dynasty grottos in Dunhuang and Longmen, this figure is depicted in classical bodhisattva form. After the Tang, he became increasingly depicted as a monk, carrying Buddhist meditation prayer beads and a staff.

Goddess of Compassion
Kṣitigarbha is famous and revered for his vow to take responsibility for the instruction of all beings in the six worlds [a Mahayana condensation of the 31 Planes of Existence the historical Buddha outlines] between the final nirvana of the Buddha Gautama and the eventual rise of Maitreya Buddha.

Moreover, he made a vow refrain from achieving supreme buddhahood until all hells are emptied. He is therefore often regarded as the bodhisattva of hell-beings, as well as the guardian of children and patron deity of deceased children and aborted fetuses in Japanese culture.

Usually depicted as a monk with a halo around his shaved head, he carries a staff to force open the gates of hell and a wish-fulfilling jewel to light up the darkness.

The Ksistigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra
  • CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Time traveler from 2671 warns of real 'Purge'

Rachel Hagan, Mirror.co.uk, 8/29/23 UPDATED 8/20/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

'Time traveller' comes back from the year 2671 to warn 'real-life Purge' is coming

Peekaboo, now we're here, too. Earth is ours
The self-professed time-traveler's latest baffling claim is that he has a list of catastrophic events coming in October of this year [2023]: He warns it will be a month that "makes history."

A TikToker who previously claimed to be a "time traveler from the Year 2671" has now warned that a real-life "Purge" will take place in October of this year, following a global power outage.

Eno Alaric, who is also known as @radianttimetraveller on TikTok, has gained more than 26,000 followers for posting warnings about supposed future events.

The social media user has previously issued warnings about twin planets colliding with Earth, alien visitors, and even the start of World War III. [Stay afraid because fear, a form of hate (dosa or aversion), is a motivation for self-defeating karma.]


The self-professed time-warper's latest baffling claim is that he has a list of catastrophic events coming in October this year: He warns it will be a month that "makes history."

In the video, which has gained more than 2,200 likes, Alaric explained:

"ATTENTION! Yes, I am a real-time traveler. These are the major events to come in October 2023. October is considered one of the most impactful months in history, due to many of these events.
  • "October 3: An alien ship falls to Earth during a large meteor shower, containing hostile species. This alien escapes the pod as soon as it lands and begins to wreak havoc on large cities.
  • "October 7: The James Webb Telescope sees a giant space creature eating stars. It will come to our solar system and eat the Sun next, and it could eliminate all life near it.
  • "October 15: A human-like species is discovered inside of Mount Everest, with an entire civilization. They have telepathic abilities and want to control humans, they'll do anything for power.
  • "October 29: A very powerful solar flare hits Earth, causing a global power outage. No machines work, and it turns into the 'Purge' for weeks, crime increases by 12,000%, and is very hard to get under control."
(Moon) Why are we so weak now? Freud's nephew: Edward "PR" Bernays

TikTok viewers took to the comments to debate over whether the warning could become a reality or not. One user wrote: "Halloween this year is going to be a doozie."

Another argued: "No time traveler prediction has ever come true." [Yeah, but he's so specific. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." I'm sure it'll all be alright.]


How Americans got so weak
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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Cody's alchemy: inner “purge” seeking insight

Cody Lowry (substack.com, 2/18/22), Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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The inner “purge” seeking insight
Maybe I'll read Alchemy & Mysticism
The Purge is a terrible trilogy about people using violence, channeling collective anxiety to slaughter each other. It's their way of attempting to burn through rising tensions between clans, tribes, neighbors, and so on, in a nearby town.

Perhaps the writers intended the film’s message to be a wake up call for how we need to work to remember the value of being neighborly (as modeled by Mister Rogers’ decades-long testament showing the usefulness of uplifting TV programming).

Wiktionary says the Latin root of the word “purge” is purgo, “to make clean” or “purify.” Unfortunately, the Purge perpetuates ultraviolent fantasies propagated on TV and in Hollywood since the 1980s. It might even be older than that.

Purgatory is a terrible series of purifications
During a recent caffeinated conversation, Dante’s Divine Comedy came up: It's a classic, a three-part work consisting of Paradiso (“Paradise”), Purgatorio (“Purgatory”), and Inferno (“Hell”).

In Purgatorio, a “middle-place between heaven and hell,” people are trapped by their own devices, until whatever “impurities” or stains of their souls are expunged and they can move forward on their spiritual paths.

A few years ago, I had the unique opportunity to attend meetings, which usually included the same elixir, with a remarkable man. I’ll refer to him as "the Alchemist."

A master of many arts, such as motorcycle maintenance, he had resolved to devote his remaining time on earth to experimenting and researching mystery schools, Raja Yoga, soul-forms, astral travel and how to apply these ideas to everyday life.

Of the many meetings I remember sitting in on, one involved the Alchemist's commentary on the topic of purgatory. His reflections were derived from a Gnostic idea. (The Gnostic Gospels were edited out of the official Roman Catholic version of Christianity, leaving out the story of chief apostle Mary Magdalene and the surprising Gospel of Judas, where Judas plays a key role in the plan).

Civilizations exist INSIDE our hollow earth? We're unaware of Agartha

In India, as St. Issa, I learned the wisdom of the East.
The "Gnostic idea" is that the surface of earth is a reform school overseen by a group of stern superintendent-wardens who are responsible for maintaining the quarantine of all “embodied-humans” in this realm. This includes ensuring that no embodied human escapes until she or he has completed the necessary spiritual-schoolwork required for graduating from “Terra,” our surface world.

The Alchemist went on to clarify that a primary step in the process of “graduating” from this realm is to “purify” oneself from all illusory thoughts that keep us karmically entangled, that is, earthbound.

According to these claims and his own research, experiments, and observances, the Alchemist concluded that what we call “normal life” on the earth's surface is, in fact, the purgatory realm described by Dante.

Yazoo Kristos: Jewish Essene Gnostic mystic
During its nascent years (approximately 1682-1772), the Religious Society of Friends, now colloquially called the “Quakers,” testified to the necessity of individual purging as a requisite for mystical self-initiation.

This mysterious practice of purging among the early Quakers has maintained little to no how to instructions as far as I've discovered. However, the desired result of purging is allegedly related to a cleansing of one’s body, mind, and spirit so as to receive divine revelation.

Making sacred
Alchemy symbols (free download, vecteezy.com)
Another requisite the Alchemist shared with us was the necessity of internalizing and embodying the act of sacrifice (i.e., “making sacred”). 

Dating as far back in recorded history as the Olmec and Mayan cultures, humans have immortalized the act of sacrifice in drawings, writing, societal mores and traditions.

Instances of such traditions are evident in Chac Mool statues of ancient Mexico. A man holds a sacred fire offering bowl over his abdomen while laying in a strengthening supine position.
The Jewish and Christian traditions used bread and wine and made a symbol of the Christ (the Kristos or "Anointed One") as a sacrificial lamb.

There were tithings to the Jewish priestly caste rabbis, who slaughtered donated animals and turned them into "burnt offerings" to JHVH -- four letters commonly misinterpreted as “Jehovah.” which actually represent the anglicization of the Hebrew letters: יהוה or “Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey.”

Some Essene rabbis claim these letters symbolize “that which cannot be named,” which relates to the divine order.

Godfrey Higgins wrote Anacalypsis
According to Godfrey Higgins' Anacalypsis, “the surplus of the burnt-offering meats [was] regularly sold for profit by the [stewards] of the temple.”

The hidden profit motive behind requiring temple-goers to bring sacrificial livestock to appease a “god” exposes the gradual corruption of what was originally taught as a symbolic parable in the ancient mystery schools of the East.

As the Alchemist revealed, the original wisdom teaching of “sacre-fice” had everything to do with a human activity done alone by an individual seeker focused on cultivating conscious contact with his or her “Higher Self,” the “over soul,” “thinker,” “guardian angel,” “inner light,” “Christ/Krishna consciousness,” or “Nirvana.”

This self-discipline focused “sacrifice” was actually a number of daily practices that includes but is not limited to:
  • renouncing the consumption of animal flesh,
  • daily rigorous physical survival-training,
  • restraint in the use of one’s words and actions,
  • daily hour-by-hour contemplation of the spiritual principles of one’s religious upbringing
  • (with quarterly 17-85 hour solo commune-with-nature wilderness survival wanderings).
Anacalypsis: Pull Back the Veil
The list continues, but suffice it to say the archaic practice of animal sacrifice had absolutely nothing to do with capturing, raising in slavery, or ritualistically murdering innocent animals.

It had absolutely everything to do with learning and reinforcing self-control over one’s own limbic-system-dominated “animal-nature” mind, clearly illustrated in Hindu and Jewish symbols of controlling the horses of our chariot and Ezekiel’s vision.

The Alchemist would often emphasize, “Any so-called preacher or so-called religious scholar who condones (a) the ritualistic murder of innocent animals or (b) eating the rotting carcass of murdered innocent animals* is -- at the very least -- untrustworthy and corrupted by “inimical thoughts” and at worst criminal and probably prone to violent predatory activities in their modus vivendi (“life outside the public eye”).
  • *The only exception being that an individual must capture, prepare, and eat a wild animal because no other foods (vegetable, root, fungi, or cacti) are available within a 17-mile radius, such as we find among the Inuit huddled up in igloos in a frozen wasteland.
The Alchemist taught me well.
The Alchemist would often add, “Any astute seeker who has chosen to listen to my “Dharma talk” up to this point would do well to trust-but-verify the truth behind these statements by deeply researching:
  • (a) the recorded history of religious clerical corruption (Eastern and Western) over the past 6,850 years,
  • (b) the plant-based lifestyle of Mahayana Buddhists, Hindus, and the (original Christian cult known as) Essenes, and
  • (c) the esoteric symbolism contained in Mayan, Hindu, and Jewish myths. More

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Pagan origin of Valentine's Day (Get the whip)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly, VD, Feb. 14th, 2023, Wiki edit Lupercalia; Thedilettantesociety.co.uk
I just want us to celebrate Lupercalia the traditional way, Dakota. - OK, Christian, okay.
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I'm down to be whipped.
"Be my bloody Valentine's," we say. What is the origin of Valentine's Day? It's the worship of wolves and purification by whipping called Lupercalia.

(TDS) Valentine's Day marks the "season of love" and courtship, but its ancient roots in the Roman festival of Lupercalia reveal a bloodier and wilder history.

It is no coincidence that across different cultures and religions there are festivals and holy days (or "holidays" as we now call them) that fall around similar dates.

Valentine's Day spanking? No, thanks.
Whether it be Samhain (pronounced \sao-win\) and Halloween, Yule and Christmas, or Lupercalia and St. Valentine's Day, a lineage of tradition can be traced back to these specific times of year.

Taking a look at the festivities of our ancient human ancestors tends to reveal the cultural twists and turns we have taken over the years and allows us to inspect our own modern traditions to see their irrationalities and idiosyncrasies more clearly. More

This was a pastoral festival that Ancient Rome observed annually on February 15th to purify the city, promoting health and fertility [1].

Lupercalia was also known as dies Februatus, after the "purification instruments" called februa, the reason for calling this month Februarius.

Name
Skull of Catholic Saint Valentine at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Dublin (TDS)
The worship of wolves and wolfmen/dogmen?
The festival was originally known as Februa ("Purifications" or "Purgings") after all the februum used on this day [2].

It was also known as Februatus and gave its name variously as an epithet to Juno Februalis, Februlis, or Februata in her role as patron deity of the month to a supposed purification deity called Februus [3], and to February (mensis Februarius), the month during which the festival occurred [2].

Women of Rome shrink back as men use purification whips to purge them (Museo del Prado)


Ovid connects februare to an Etruscan word for "purging" [4]. The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia, or wolf [and wolfman] festival (Greek λύκος, lýkos, Latin lupus), and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander [5].

Justin describes a cult image of "the Lycaean god, whom the Greeks call Pan and the Romans Lupercus," as nude except for a modest goatskin girdle [6].

Rome founded thanks to a she-wolf
Spank, OK, but whips and chains? I ain't Rihanna
The statue stood in the Lupercal, the cave where tradition held that Romulus and Remus were suckled by the she-wolf (Lupa). The cave lay at the foot of the Palatine Hill, on which Romulus was thought to have founded Rome [7].

The name of the festival most likely derives from lupus, "wolf," though both the etymology (the study of a word's origins) and its significance are obscure.

Despite Justin's assertion, no deity named "Lupercus" has ever been identified [8]. But the whipping of women in the public square is still on. Line up, ladies. More