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"People often take the truths of a tradition on
faith accepting the testimony of others but find that
the inner kernel of the religion,
its luminous essence, remains
elusive." - Karen Armstrong
Throughout history sacred
text has been edited, corrected, redacted, combined, re-edited and
re-corrected by both foolish and
unscrupulous men.
A
sacred text interpreter attempting to clarify conceptual understanding may
corrupt sacred text by shifting perspective from
that of metaphorical allegory to that
of literal
interpretation.
Some
purposefully obscured sacred writings for personal gain.
A
literal reading of "sacred
text" is meant for children.
Mature adults understand "sacred text" as
metaphoric
allegory.
Our storehouse of
knowledge has been looted repeatedly over time.
The libraries of
the Egyptians,
Greeks,
Romans,
Venetians and countless others
have been destroyed by those that
prefer a different version of history.
In
China when a dynasty fell newly
empowered officials went back and rewrote the history of the past hundred or
more years to shine a favorable light on those currently in power.
"From the totalitarian
point of view history is something to be
fabricated.
A totalitarian state
is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its
position, has to be thought of as infallible so it is
frequently necessary to rearrange past
events in order to show this mistake was
not made or this imaginary
triumph actually happened." - George Orwell
Before
the School of Athens
partitioned reality into fields of study political affiliation was
synonymous with religious affiliation.
Men became gods and gods became
men so gods could die!
Tribal mergers took place with some elements of each tribal
tradition being incorporated into the merged tribal structure with the
predominant tribe largely dictating the new traditions of the social cultural
system.
In the Levant the god of creation,
El, went through
multiple name changes when the
gods of neighboring tribes kept being folded in.
A tribes god bound the tribe
together and as the empire
builders went to work in the Levant they quickly learned that
the best way to get a tribe
to submit was to adopt the gods of conquered tribes as lesser gods.
Roman Catholics adopted this method
by giving local gods
sainthood.
Within the closeted group individuals adhering to the
common political religious ideology become 'Chosen' while those outside remain 'Other'.
"You will mourn privately for all the evil you
have done." - Ezekiel 24:23
Three hundred years before the birth of
Jesus the Therapeutae the
Cult of Serapis, founded by
Ptolemy the Savior, required
believers to make a 'leap of faith' by adhering to
the professed mythological ritual
to attain an afterlife.
Before this period of time only rulers, such as Pharaoh Akhenaten, had
the magical ability to return to life from the heavens above (as
Tutankhamun).
All religious dogma requires believers to
suspend belief in their senses, their
experience and their
natural understanding of
reality to envision God.
No person in
a natural state of mind
can accept breaches to the Laws
of Physics which are also the Laws of
Creation.
People expect reality to
conform to their accepted worldview
but experience and knowledge
gained modify expected conditions into actual conditions.
and yet
understanding of reality must constantly be reevaluated as .
The
knowledge gained subconsciously is
generally unavailable to the ego, the
conscious thought
stream, unless you are Walking the
Thinspace.
"For the chosen people
racialism substitutes the chosen
race, selected as the instrument of destiny,
ultimately to inherit the
earth. In the case of racialism, this is thought of as a kind of natural
law; the biological superiority of
the blood of the chosen race explains
the course of history, past,
present, and future; it is nothing but the struggle of races for
mastery." - Karl Popper
Individuals seeking religious
succor as an aid in coping with the
tragedies of life may be bewitched
by a Snake, a Pharisee or a
Sadducee.
Snakes may take
advantage of those attempting to cope with the tragedies of life as they are
often malleable and open to
religious suggestion.
They will claim to have special training,
certification or academic credentials allowing them to
interpret scripture and
act as
intercessors.
Snakes concentrate on certain
thought forms,
concepts and
ideas in a deliberate intent to
excite intense emotional turmoil and
confusion.
Snakes
employing the power of
persuasion, the power of
deception, cold reading
techniques, Forer
effect/Barnum statements, shotgunning techniques and the
rainbow ruse have
victims trapped in the
transcendental temptation.
Snakes,
speaking in tongues,
promise healing through supernatural power if you
pray hard enough and speedy
release if you get arrested.
New Thought
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
1802 Phineas Parkhurst Quimby is born
in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
He is generally recognized as the "Father
of New Thought."
Phineas was a
philosopher, magnetizer,
mesmerist, healer, and 'scientist'.
New
Thought metaphysics
denies objective material
reality.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby transmitted his views to victims
Warren Felt Evans, Mary Baker Eddy, and Julius and Annetta
Dresser.
1864 Russell Herman Conwell is dismissed
from the military after being charged with deserting his post at Newport
Barracks, North Carolina.
1869 Warren Felt Evans
publishes the The Mental Cure.
1875 Mary
Baker Eddy published a book which she called "Science and Health," based
on the writings of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.
1881
Society of Christian Endeavor is organized as a youth
organization.
"Trusting in
the Lord Jesus Christ for strength,
I promise Him
that I will strive to do whatever He would like to have me do."
1882 Society of Christian
Endeavor grows quickly in the US and then spreads throughout the British
Empire - the benefactor remains unknown.
Mary Baker Eddy founds
Metaphysical College in Boston and Christian
Science.
Julius and Annetta Dresser compete with Mary Baker Eddy by
opening an office to practice Quimby's system of mental healing.
To heal
Julius Dresser "layed his
hands" on the patient.
1888 Russell Herman
Conwell, ministerial graduate of Yale Law is hired by Newport, Rhode Island
aristocracy to spread his Acres of
Diamonds lecture.
1908 Mary Baker Eddy
founds The Christian Science Monitor, a global journal that has won
seven Pulitzer
Prizes.
1909
Oxford University Press prints the
Scofield Reference Bible.
Essek William Kenyon
1892 Essek William Kenyon desired to be an
actor and attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston.
1898 Essek William Kenyon opens Bethel Bible Institute.
All the religious movements arising from New Thought preach the
supremacy of the spiritual over the material claiming the
material reality is a fantastic
"Matrix" like construct and that
true reality exists only in the
spiritual realm.
New Thought preaches the
human spirit creates
physical health;
the human mind through
positive mental attitude and
positive confession has
the supernatural power to create
its own reality - health,
wealth and dominion.
By using
the precepts of New Thought spiritual forces can be manipulated by
the will of the individual.
"I know that I am healed
because He said that I am healed and it
makes no difference what the symptoms may be in my body. I laugh at them, and
in the Name of Jesus I command the author of the disease to leave my body." -
Essek William Kenyon
Many future American
neoevangelists followed in the footsteps of Essek William Kenyon including
Kenneth E. Hagin, founder of Word of
Faith movement, and his acolyte Kenneth
Copeland.
Norman Vincent Peale,
Robert H. Schuller and many others
including Bill Hybels of
Willow Creek jumped on the Word of Faith
bandwagon.
William Marrion Branham
1933
William reports
supernatural visitations at ages 3 and 7.
William Marrion Branham preaches to three thousand
people in a tent revival in
Jeffersonville, Indiana and later builds Branham Tabernacle.
Branham basically births the entire
Healing
Revival and its offshoot Signs and Wonders which
television
neoevangelists have capitalized on ever since.
1947
William Marrion Branham, Percy Hunt and George
Hawtin codify Latter Rain mythology as the
"New Order of the Latter
Rain."
early sixties
Branham claims
he is " Elijah" - the "Messenger of the
Covenant".
Branham, an original Kansas City "prophet", becomes a
Charismatic Pentecostal
legend by filling the worlds
largest auditoriums and stadiums.
William Marrion Branham claims he
is guided by an angel who is
scientifically revealed in a photo image as "Cloven Tongues of Fire".
William Marrion Branham taught:
"Two Seed";
mentored
Oral Roberts;
proclaimed himself the "angel of revelation";
preached Manifest
Sons dogma;
claimed to have witnessed a resurrection due to his
intercession;
synthesized Positive Confession/Word of Faith with
Manifest Sons/Latter Rain dogma creating
a new Healing Revival to
pick up were Aimee left off.
1965
William Marrion Branham
ascends.
His followers
expect him to be resurrected.
They are still waiting.
"In Bible Days, there were men
of God who were Prophets and
Seers. But in all the Sacred
records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of Brother Branham." -
1961 Voice, Full Gospel Business Men International
Kenneth E. Hagin, founder of RHEMA (utterance) Bible Training
Center, borrowed from William Marrion Branham's positive confession teachings
who borrowed from Essek William Kenyon's New Thought literature.
Kenneth
E. Hagin, never received any formal theological training, although he received
an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University, a non-profit 501c3, in the
1970s.
You Tube - Brother William Branham: 20th Century
Prophet
"Those who do evil get rich." - Malachi
3:15
"Our moral code is a product of gradual
social evolution, like language, or manners, or the
common law, and that, like them, it
has grown and evolved to meet the need for
peace,
order and
social coöperation.
Imagine a society in which
no moral code existed, or in which it were the exact opposite of the codes we
customarily find.
Imagine how long a society could
prosper or even continue to exist in which
ill manners, promise-breaking,
lying,
cheating,
stealing, assault,
rape,
robbery,
murder,
ingratitude,
disloyalty,
treachery,
violence, and
chaos were the rule - more
highly regarded than their opposites - good manners,
promise-keeping,
truth-telling,
honesty,
fairness, loyalty and
empathy." - Henry Hazlitt
2006 Robert H. Schuller turns
over his Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit 501c3 empire to his son
Robert A. Schuller.
2008 Due to declining
membership Robert H. Schuller removes his son, Robert A. Schuller, from the
Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit 501c3 leadership.
Robert H.
Schuller promises to replace his son's lectern position on the "Hour Of Power"
television show with the "greatest preachers in the world."
2012 After filing for bankruptcy, the
ministry sold the Crystal Cathedral building and adjacent campus to the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Orange.
July 17, 2019 The
building is consecrated and formally renamed "Christ Cathedral", the seat of
the Diocese of Orange.
The Christ Cathedral campus, among other
enterprises, includes: Christ Cathedral Academy, serving children in grades
preK-8; the Diocese Pastoral Center, home to the Bishop of Orange; the Freed
Performing Arts Theatre; world-class art and spiritual exhibits; Crean Tower
and its 52-bell carillon; Cathedral Memorial Gardens, the final resting place
for Rev. Robert and Arvella Schuller, restaurateur Marie Callender and pianist
Roger Williams; and the Tower of Hope, home to the New Hope Ministries 14-hour
telephone counseling service and KCEO Radio, the Diocese's station featuring
content from Immaculate Heart Radio network reaching 6.8 million
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