A protestant (and Orthodox) Guide to using Roman Catholic Sacramentals

Sacramentals are what RC (Roman Catholic) Church calls lesser sacraments. in the
Orthodox world, we would call them (Holy Water for instance) lesser mysteries,
there are seven great Mysteries and then the lesser ones. RC however has some we
don't have.

medals - stamped metal disks honoring various saints, some with a reputation
for having effects. most don't have such a reputation and most require a priestly
blessing to work. Many of these relate to dubious saints and heretical doctrines,
such as the miraculous medal and the green scapular which are about the
immaculate conception of Mary.

However, the St. Benedict Medal (which an Orthodox priest told me he was willing
to bless since it is an icon of a pre schism saint) has a great reputation against evil.
It has letters on it, the first letters of Latin words meaning "begone satan! show me not
your vain things, your cup is full of poison, drink your own poison." and "Let the Cross be my light let not the dragon be my guide."

St. Benedict is depicted with a cup, which shattered when he made the sign of the
Cross over it, not knowing it contained poison meant for him. And a raven, which
came and took away a loaf of poisoned bread someone gave him.

Blessed salt - extremely powerful exorcistic thing, which can be added to food or
placed on doorsteps, windowsills, corners of rooms and around a house.

Oil of Exorcism - I think this is the same as Oil of Catechumens, and it is difficult to
get I think. Best to be had from a traditionalist RC priest, I have no idea of the blessing
used to make it in Novus Ordo, whose Eucharist is okay but maybe problems in lesser
things. In Orthodoxy, instead of the original rite of smearing this all over the
catechumen or at least placing it on the orifices of the head the five senses and on the
heart, hands and feet, as described in early church writings, it has become used in
baptism by pouring it into the baptismal water itself.

Holy Water - has a reputation for driving away evil. some springs and rivers have what
I call Natural Holy Water or NHW, often connected to volcanic locations and may
be an effect of magnesium sulfate in the water. Lake Shasta Dam City has this coming
out the taps, because they get water from Lake Shasta which is NHW. The Adriatic
Sea is another example,  making an entity free zone of about 1/4 mile from the coast.
NHW at least from Lake Shasta will repel evil, but not add good necessarily.  When I
was a wreck and very sensitive, I could tell the difference between this and Church
Holy Water or CHW, the latter added a sanity.

Roman Catholic Holy Water is good,  but Eastern Orthodox Holy Water seems
stronger and tolerates dilution more, and when both were put on a quaternion disinfectant
which breaks up all influences or charges, the RC faded while the EO remained.
Coptic Holy Water is dubious.  The sample I had was apparently blessed on the fly
by the priest in a bottle of standard bottled water, assuming it was blessed at all. Not
the epiphany water or from the Holy Water font as far as I know. It had a slightly
unwholesome glow and the entity I used it against laughed at it, as he did the type
of hypericum fake st. john's wort that is not hypericum perforatum, but sold in CA
for those who like the st. John's Wort look. (hypericum perforatum is considered
invasive and stamped out here in CA. It is hazardous for long term grazing, but this
is opposed even where there is no grazing. I wonder if the "native species" laws
didn't have an occultist agenda with an environmentalist excuse back of them on
this one.)  The ROCOR Holy Water was midway between OCA GOA etc. and
the Coptic, ROCOR Holy Water from the Sunnyvale mission church I went to good but not that good.  A different ROCOR church I got a sample from
after the reunion with MP was up to OCA/GOA/Antiochian snuff but I didn't test
the Holy Water from the original ROCOR church I got it from pre reunion. At
that reunion, the Cathedral bells in SF rang at night no one there, it was figured
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, whose relics are there, was applauding this
event. And he used to commemorate the Moscow Patriarch until told not to do so.

Beyond these things, I wouldn't bother with RC sacramentals. the Brown Scapular
maybe. the story back of it has changed a lot been added to etc., but might be
legitimate. Supposedly it started when the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) appeared to
Simon Stock, who took the monks in that the crusaders brought back from Mt. Carmel,
and whose legacy may go back to Elijah and Elisha.  I had some good effects with
the Brown Scapular when I was experimenting with RC and EO before I settled on
EO.

The traditionalists in Orthodoxy consider that RC has  lost grace, but apparently it is
a lessening not a loss. When the focus is on Jesus Christ, you always have some grace.

from lighthoustrails.com sample chapter of a book

Proponents of contemplative prayer would respond with, What about

Psalms 46:10? “Be still and know that I am God.” This verse is often used

by those promoting contemplative prayer. On the surface, this argument

can seem valid, but once the meaning of “still” is examined, any contemplative

connection is expelled. The Hebrew meaning of the word is

to slacken, cease, or abate. In other words, the context is to slow down

and trust God rather than get in a dither over things. Relax and watch

God work. Reading the two verses just before Psalms 46:10 puts it in an

entirely different light from that proposed by mystics:

 

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations

he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease

unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth

 

 

the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be

still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the

heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. (KJV)

 This isn’t talking about going into some altered state of consciousness!

 

 

http://www.lighthousetrails.com/atodchapter2.pdf 

 

  

 

Two examples of compromising influences

I listened recently to an audio of a pastor Begley interview
about CERN. The speaker used the term "architecht" to
describe God, so is obviously a mason. Now, thinking on
this, I realized "architecht" has implications. An architecht
doesn't build the building, workers do that. An architecht
merely designs the building. This designation for God
would fit the idea of angels doing the actual work of
Creation, but The Bible nowhere hints at this. It is clear
that ALL things were MADE BY GOD.

The speaker also totally confuses the ideas of antimatter
and dark matter, which are not the same. The idea of
contained anti matter once breaching containment and
beginning reaction means all other contained such start
reacting also is not sourced, neither is any other crazy
stuff.

Supposedly this "dark matter" is all chaos and when it
affects regular life it makes chaos and evil, and it is
what everything is made of and the signature of it and
of life is the same supposedly and we all have some of
it, and the New Age notion is then floated by the speaker
and Begley (a charismatic pastor) that how we think or
feel patches into either the evil that God supposedly
made everything out of, or the good which is God, and
then Begley gets into speaking things into existence
like God did and says that the difference between us
and the devil is that the devil can believe in God but
not confess Him while we CONFESS God. This is
obviously drawn from James 2:19

"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
the devils also believe and tremble."

ignored of course is the following verse and overall
context:

"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead?"

The problem is not that the devils don't confess God
but that they don't OBEY God, or not willingly out
of obedience but backing off in fear of God's
superior power.

NOTHING ABOUT CONFESSING GOD LIKE
CONFESSING WEALTH OR HEALTH OR
WHATEVER, on the contrary, the ones who believe
in one God are confessing just fine, THEY ARE NOT
OBEYING GOD.

Notice the subtle twist of Scripture here.

The interview then goes on to get into what adds up
to magic, and a concept of reality that would have
everything linked to and derived from "the dark" and
so forth, reminds me of a concept from Tani Jantsang's
brand of satanism decades ago on alt.satanism.
Also a basic primer on magic.

The second thing is a very different book, "What Witches
Don't Want You To Know," by Mary Lake. I read it on
kindle last night.

This is mostly a really good explanation of things that
happened to her especially as she got involved in
recognizing and fighting satanism in her community. 
But she had a weak point that remained unaddressed.
Pentecostalism. Mentioned praying under her breath and
then out loud what she figured the interpretation was,
so it was tongues.

Now, the deception of tongues is hindered by a heavy
focus on and loyalty to the Bible. Experience and the
Bible taught her to get rid of some nonsense notions
like a Christian can't have a demon. (flat out possession
is probably impossible for a Christian who is focused
on Jesus Christ in his or her life and obeying God and
turning to God about everything, but that doesn't mean
deception minor influence and other attacks can't
happen. especially when doors are opened. which issue
she deals with.)

Mostly the book is good. But in the process of closing
doors and getting more obedient to God, Who was
showing her a lot of things that she got independent
confirmation on, after she turned to Him in her extreme
depression (yes, the symptoms of depression and of
psychic attack strongly overlap), she got into two
errors. One was believing Alexander Hislop who is
one of the most absurd researchers who bases some of
his statements on nothing whatsoever and who equates
every mythological figure that is similar in any way,
ignoring differences. This resulted in not observing
Christmas and birthdays.

Dec. 25 was
calculated based on the courses the priests worked
and John the Baptist being 6 months older than
Jesus, and what course his father worked. Also
figuring in date selection was HAnnukkah not a
Mosaic Law celebration.

http://www.sabbath.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/ARTB/k/568/When-Was-Jesus-Born.htm This argues Jesus was born
Sept. 11, which of course puts His conception in mid
to late December. A matter ignored by the writer.

Now the next thing she gets into is reviving Mosaic
food laws. Having felt "conviction" out of the blue
when eating bacon sandwich and other times she
starts getting into the Leviticus food laws, and dismisses
the vision to Peter, and notes that Jesus came to fulfill
not end the Law.

Trouble with that one is that having fulfilled it the LAw
then ends, for Jesus said not a jot or tittle would pass
until it was all fulfilled. And since He fulfilled it, He
ended it, because it would pass once fulfilled.

(and "the Law" isn't just the rules it is the whole Torah incl.
prophecies in it about the Messiah, such as that He
would come when a non Judaean would be on the
throne of Judah, Genesis 49:10)

Hebrews 7:12 "For the priesthood being changed, there
is made of necessity a change also of the law." and goes
on to point out that Jesus Christ, a priest forever after
the order (meaning "manner") of Melchizedec, is not
of the tribe of Aaron so cannot be a priest under the Mosaic
LAw.

Finally, the Apostolic Council in Acts chapter 15
specified that nothing would be kept from the Mosaic
Law that was originally required to keep one on track
with God through externals, only don't fornicate,
don't murder, don't eat things sacrificed to idols and
don't eat things strangled (no exsanguination at all).
This don't eat blood or at least pour some out during
death of the animal goes back to Noah, not Moses.

That and Paul's reiterations against Mosaic ritual law,
incl. Sabbath keeping, should have settled it.

I think that because she keeps the tongues talking, and
frequents the charismatic scene, she has something else
piggybacking. she is too loyal to God and too inclined
to the Bible for it to take over, but it can give deception
and this is what has happened.

Of interest is that she notes that the people she was
fighting in Missouri were such as a KKK person who
was friends with a homosexual, and "the whole scenario
resembled a boiling brew of different pagan sects with a
particular emphasis on Druidism." Two critical towns
were Dixon Mo and Fort Leonard Wood Mo.

Some years ago I was told of just such a group networked
across the country which had exactly such a peculiar mix,
and those two towns were confirmed when I asked about
it. "Traditional Druidism" is what its called now I think.

So her family dumped Christmas and Easter and birthdays
and went for the Mosaic holy days with Christian focus.
The purpose being to break free of any links through
shared time of celebrations, this did her some good. So did
the food thing apparently, BUT BEING TOO SLACK
BECAUSE OF THINKING ONE IS SAFE DURING A
HOLY TIME OF YEAR WOULD BE THE REAL PROBLEM,
AND PORK BEING THE SAME TASTE AS HUMAN FLESH,
IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THIS IS IN  USE AS A
SUBSTITUTE WHEN THE REAL THING CAN'T BE HAD.

Given her own background of ritual abuse and attempts to
train her for something, it is possible she had eaten human
flesh, and this was the real origin of the "conviction" when
eating bacon. Subconscious recognition. God may have allowed
these semi heretic developments because they did distance her
from a compromised situation.

But if she had not been Pentecostal, I think she would not
have been blinded to the plain word of God, that the food laws
are not to be followed. A closer examination of herself would
have shown that ONLY pork got this "conviction" sense not
the other prohibited foods like shellfish, which were only
dumped after research in Leviticus. And this might have led to
digging up more memories and information that might have
been of use to her.

how to argue with a new ager, common core promoter and/or sustainable growth advocate

here is an argument to try to weaken a new ager's stance and anyone's determination in all this.

the educational system in play [common core but this applies to other stuff as well] came (under a similar name) from that guy Muller who channeled it
from some entity.
The whole New Age thing is about changing your consciousness and sooner or later we get to hear
about spiritual beings without bodies.

now, the question to ask them is, is this really a good idea? (we know it isn't but they don't.)

fitting us to deal with life on the terms of admittedly nonhuman beings, who are radically different
from us, means forcing us into a mold we were not designed (or evolved) to be in. If this were our
next step in evolution, it would happen on its own, not be forced like this. It doesn't seem to really be
useful for physical survival and dealing with objective reality, something that is an issue in
human survival, so what good is it?
If this is to prepare us for life after death, we can learn all that when we die.
Suiting us for living non physically with a different than normal physical brain state, is
ipso facto not suiting us for living
in the world we have to live in.

So everything about this is dysfunctional from the word go.

And if nature (or rather God) did not design these different types of beings to be together on the
non humans' terms if at all, then it is highly dubious to cultivate
such beings or the states of mind
that allegedly typify them.

(someone will scream "these are demons!" YES I KNOW THAT, BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT HOW TO UNDERMINE
THE WORLDVIEW OF THE NEW AGER,
AND DISENCHANT THE NOT FULLY COMMITTED POTENTIAL RECRUIT OR SEMI RECRUIT TO NEW AGEISM.)

these beings are then an invasive species. And consider, if PETA can argue that humans should
eventually have no contact with animals at all, then why should we have contact with nonhumans or they have contact with us?
it is inappropriate.

could pre trib rapture doctrine set you up for a fake rapture?

http://politicallyunclassifiable.blogspot.com/2015/04/could-pre-trib-rapture-doctrine-set.html

evolution and quantum physics

Every peculiar thing in science gets hijacked by occultism.
Now days it is quantum this and that. In the old days (1700s
to mid 1900s) it was magnetism and electricity.
Evolution always plays a big role in occult philosophy.

I am not going to get into the technical problems of the
theory of evolution, and they exist. problems with the
presuppositions of radiometric dating and how different
systems give different results from the same thing, or
a live clam is dated as two million years old.

Occult philosophy wants to take you to some supposed
next level of evolution. The fact is, that even Darwinian
evolution (and all versions of evolution) state that some
evolutionary directions dead end, and some are in fact
degenerate and DE-volve rather than E-volve.

This is never stated by evolutionary mystics, unless
discussing racial issues. The next level racial development
is explicitly considered to be what will replace the previous
or current race, either by the latter's demise of their own
fault, or by genocide.

The phenomenon of parasitism is also ignored in all this.

So how do you know some entities that seem all glowing
and peaceful aren't parasites who want to evolve you into
a spiritual and physical (eventually) dead end that is of
use only to their interests as slaves and food for them,
which might indeed for a while involve you feeling better
and being healthier just as a farmer wants to keep his
livestock healthy for slaughter later?

you don't know.

so best not to listen to them.

All "change" is assumed in the minds of the buzzword
thinkers to be "positive" or good. All "evolution" is
supposedly in the upward or better direction.

But is it? Cancer is a good example of "change," isn't it?

The evolutionary charts of the more complex sorts are
full of examples of species that supposedly degenerated
and died out.

Evolution by its own account of itself is not always for
the better. The huge dinosaurs probably superficially look
better than the smaller more vulnerable versions and
certainly more impressive. But where are they now?

Evolution and mysticism were at the basis of Nazi philosophy.
And for those of you who think only Jews were a target of
elimination to make room for the superior race, guess again.
"Racial hygiene" or "eugenic fitness" or some less problematic
sounding phrase targets the weak and sick among the so called
superior race. Nazis started by killing the "inferior" among
Aryans, and went on to kill Jews and OTHERS and had plans
for the slavs and blacks. Oh, yeah, after they got done
co-opting Christianity as much as they could, they were going
to eliminate us Christians too, that would take longer but the
goal was to install Germanic paganism eventually as the
official state religion. Hitler once expressed the opinion that
it was too bad the Germans and Europeans became Christian,
because islam with its warrior qualities was far more
suitable a religion. Maybe that has something to do with why
satanist David Myatt of the Order of Nine Angles in Britain
converted to islam.

anything written by or involved in by these people should be viewed with caution

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/influence-theosophy.html