Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Satan's Synagogue
It was July and in the searing heat perhaps one heard the bloodcurdling screams before one saw the actual ruins of the city. Jerusalem smoked and flamed as Titus’ legions, V Macedonica, X Fretensis, XII Fulminata, and XV Apollinaris proved to its inhabitants that this time they would not be passed over (the siege had begun in April during Passover)! Some 20,000 Roman soldiers and their auxiliaries were reducing the Temple to rubble and slaughtering all those who opposed them. Perhaps this was Hell on Earth! Only those whom the Romans smiled upon among the Jews would prosper. And Satan would begin the building his synagogue.
Yah Shua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) was born seventy years before. His followers, the Talmidei Yah Shua HaMashiach (“disciples of Jesus Christ“, the term “Christian” would not be common outside of the Greek world nor even be used among His disciples to describe themselves for almost a century), still observed the Holy Days as He had commanded them to and so the loss of the Temple was almost as grave to them as to the non-believing Jews. But unlike the non-believers, they had the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit) to comfort them.
The Foundation
When the second Temple was destroyed by the Romans the center of both Jewish politics and religion shifted to the synagogue. The Sadducees, priests, and Levites found themselves displaced and rapidly waning in influence and power. Akiba ben Joseph was impressed by the knowledge of the Pharisees and decided to study at the only Jewish university that the Romans then allowed.
This university was established by Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai who earned the right to establish and maintain the only Roman approved Jewish college after the Jewish revolt of A. D. 66 through 72. He earned this right by having himself smuggled out of the besieged Jerusalem to the Roman General Vespasian and accurately predicting that Vespasian would soon be chosen Roman Emperor. In gratitude, Vespasian allowed Zakkai to establish a university when all other institutions of Jewish learning were forbidden and closed down or destroyed. Zakkai was both a Pharisee and a teacher of Kabbalah (Jewish witchcraft). Thus in a single act, the Pharisees gained control of Jewish higher education.
The final rift between Jews and Christians occurred during the Bar Kokhba Revolt against Rome about A. D. 132. Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph declared Simeon ben Kosiba to be the Messiah and King of Israel (Akiba changed ben Kosiba’s name to bar Kokhba - meaning “son of the star“). The Talmidei Yah Shua HaMashiach refused to join the revolt for obvious reasons and were branded traitors. As such, they were persecuted (and executed) in those areas under the rebels’ control. It took the Romans four years and the loss of an entire legion (the XXII) to destroy the rebels, but the Jewish losses were perhaps even greater than that of the Holocaust some 1810 years later. After such losses on both the Messianic (Christian) and non-Messianic Jewish sides, emotions were so high and deep that they would barely associate with each other or even acknowledge that they shared a common heritage. The Messianic Jews faded into the background (but never disappeared completely) to be overshadowed by their gentile brethren. The surviving non-Messianic Jews ignored the fact that Rabbi Akiba was a false prophet and Kokhba a false messiah. So who was Rabbi Akiba and Simeon ben Kosiba?
Akiba ben Joseph had not only impressed his teachers at the university with his intelligence but with his stubbornness as well. In spite of being flogged five times, he refused to be silenced. He surpassed his teachers in learning and gradually exceeded them in influence and power. He set his mind to creating a new position to replace the priests and prophets. The casual title of “Rabbi” (“master/teacher”) was to become an office whose holders could sentence people to death. Indeed, not only were the priests and prophets to be replaced by the Rabbis, but the supremacy of the Torah (the “law” = the books of Moses) as well. Akiba would make the requirement that a true Rabbi must be able to reverse the meaning of a scripture and use it to justify any action.
Akiba propagated the lie of a secret “oral torah“ (supposedly handed down from Moses himself) to supplement the written one. After all, it would be difficult to control the masses if they believed that they had access to all of the Word. Now they would believe that only the Rabbis had such knowledge. Within three decades, Akiba had succeeded in bringing many Jews into his fold and needed only an excuse to eliminate all of the others.
Simeon ben Kosiba was both a man of action and a Jewish ultra-nationalist. He chafed at the Roman yoke and longed to rebuild the Temple as both the center of Jewish religion and the symbol of Jewish nationalism. He found a ready ally in Akiba and they began preparing the Jewish nation for a full scale revolt against the Roman Empire. Once the hostilities began to spread, Akiba galvanized the rebellion in Judea by declaring Simeon “King Messiah“.
Akiba’s declaration had the opposite effect in Galilee. The Talmidei Yah Shua HaMashiach knew that Bar Kokhba was not the Messiah and recognized Akiba as a false prophet. The Talmidei Yah Shua convinced thousands of other Jews of these facts. Whatever actions had begun against the Romans in Galilee quickly ceased. Bar Kokhba was livid and Akiba declared the followers of Yah Shua to be heretics and traitors. While Judea would be devastated and depopulated as a result of the rebellion, with a few notable exceptions Galilee would see relative peace.
When the Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Talmidei Yah Shua HaMashiach were supplanted by the “Church”. As a creature of the state, the “Church” and the Bible were molded to serve the interests of the state. Innumerable true believers were exiled and/or martyred by the “Church” resisting the suppressing of its Jewish roots and the adoption of pagan beliefs and rituals. Descendants of these (the Coptic and Nestorian Christians) survive to this day! Thus the gentile Christians lost their Jewish roots and an indespensible part of their true religion. Remember, the gentile Christians are a graft onto the olive tree of Israel! No graft can survive without the roots of the tree it has been grafted onto!
The Edifice is Built
With the destruction of the second Temple and the demise of all of the rituals directly associated with it, the way was paved for Satan to fill the vacuum created. He succeeded in supplanting the Talmidei Yah Shua HaMashiach and now worked to undermine the remainder of Elohim’s (God’s) chosen people. To this end, he enslaved them with their pride!
The roots of Kabbalah are deep indeed! Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה) is the mystical aspect of Judaism. It refers to a set of cryptic teachings now meant to define the inner meaning of both the Old Testament Bible and the Talmud and to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances. Kabbalah literally means "receiving", and is sometimes transliterated as “Cabala“, “Kabbala“, “Kabala“, “Kabalah“, “Qabalah“, or other renderings. It is called “receiving” and “tradition” because the studying of the works without a teacher is considered useless. It is important to note that in all religious Jewish mysticism the catchphrase "those who know don't tell, and those who tell don't know" is one of its foundations.
That it is the most potent form of magick is evidenced by the many elements adopted from it by all other forms of magick. Furthermore, many elements of Kabbalah are found in Freemasonry, Golden Dawn, Renaissance Theurgy, Rosicruianism, and Theosophy! Though the first prominent Kabbalistic work was the Zohar, its roots are traced back to ancient Egypt when Israel was captive there. In fact, its true beginning are older still!
Abraham was from Ur. Ur was one of the most important cities in the world’s oldest civilization. Five hundred years before the first Egyptian learned to write or use metals, the Sumerians had fine poetry, great cities, monumental architecture, and extensive knowledge of the heavens. Most of the book of Genesis may be traced to Sumeria! No doubt this and other knowledge was passed down from Abraham to his descendents.
In Egypt, Abraham’s seed both taught and learned from the Egyptians. The so called “Star of David” (David had nothing to do with it!) is first evidenced in the Pharaoh Akhenaton’s royal seal (over 300 years before David!). Akhenaton was contemporary enough to have been well acquainted with the Hebrews and their exodus, and he promoted the worship of one god (Aton-Ra » Yah Veh?) at the expense of the traditional Egyptian gods.
Solomon is both known for his wisdom and his folly. Though he built the first Temple, he allowed his many foreign wives to keep chapels for their false gods. He is also recognized as a master (if not THE master) of alchemy and magick! The use of Elohim’s holy names are indispensable to the successful summoning, controlling, and banishing of spirits. Solomon’s seal (incorporating the “Star of David”) is considered more potent than the pentagram in magick rituals. And Hebrew script is considered more potent in written incantations than any other language. The division of Israel after Solomon’s death was a direct result of his straying from his father’s path and violating the Torah. Only Yah Veh’s great love for, and promises to, David saved Solomon’s reign.
In spite of the exodus and rise of Israel as a great nation under Moses, David, and Solomon, Egyptian influence never fully left it (as evidenced by Jezebel’s seal). Perhaps the hundreds of years that Israel spent in captivity there had left a permanent affectation. As Israel wandered from Elohim’s path, it often adopted Egyptian occultism and found its way into Kabbalah.
Thus Akiba’s “oral law” was nothing less than Kabbalah! Until fairly recently, only some well-educated Rabbis and those people well-versed in some form of magick had access to any of this knowledge. The Zohar is the first known text to explore and explain Kabbalistic concepts.
The Zohar was supposedly written about the time of, or shortly thereafter, Yah Shua (by a Pharisee? - Akiba himself?), but the first know publication came out in the late 1200’s in Castile (now Spain) and is often credited to Moses deLeon. It is without a doubt the most important work of Kabbalah in existance. According to the Zohar, Torah study is divided into four levels:
Peshat, the simple meaning of the text;
Remez, literally "hint[s]"—biblical allusion and allegory;
Derash, i.e. midrash, Rabbinic scriptural exegesis; and
Sod, which is the Kabbalah, the secret inner meaning of the Torah. Kabbalah is considered, by its followers, as a necessary part of the study of the Torah - the study of Torah being an inherent duty of all Jews. Its main theme is humanity’s ability to shape Elohim’s creation to its liking. It is an “enchanting” volume in every sense of the word! As with all witchcraft, Kabbalah glorifies the practitioner and reduces our Elohim to a mere mechanism. In essence, it teaches the practitioner how to use Elohim’s own universal laws against Him! This is why the Torah prohibits the practice of witchcraft whether for “good“ or “evil“.
Following the Zohar, John Dee (1527-1608), Isaac Luria "Ari" (1534-1572), Chayim Vital (1543-1620), Shabbetai Zvi (1626-1676), Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797), Rabbi Ashlag (1886-1955), Yehuda Berg, and many others have developed and revealed what has become modern Kabbalah. As our knowledge of the universe increases Kabbalah evolves. As our world “shrinks”, Kabbalah expands.
Note that Zionism adopted the “Star of David” as its national symbol. Now the flag of Israel is burdened by that image (at least its national crest has its true symbols - the menorah and the olive tree!). Imagine if any nation had adopted the pentagram as its national symbol! Imagine the U. S. flag with a pentagram at its center!
Just as “Christianity” adopted many pagan beliefs and rituals to be acceptable to non Jews, modern Kabbalah itself is also adapting to be palatable to people of all beliefs. The “Tree of Life”, for example, (a central part of Kabbalah) is being translated into many different beliefs and is the basis for a “one-world religion“.
Kabbalah has been disseminated worldwide through the Jewish Renewal Movement. Religious cooperation has been established by Rabbi Zalman Schachter. A founder of the international Jewish Renewal Movement, Schachter is among the best known Jewish intellectuals and writers of the past 75 years. Schachter moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Boulder, Colorado sometime around 1997. He led Naropa Institute’s World Wisdom Foundation. Rabbi Shelly Moss said in a Boulder Planet newspaper article, “His presence is just one factor that brings Jews and Buddhists to town and successfully bridges the two spiritualities.”
For decades, Buddhists have had a strong presence in Boulder, Colorado – home of the Naropa Institute and about a dozen established Buddhist congregations. The Naropa Institute teaches all forms of pagan religions! Look it up for yourself on the internet! The Jewish Renewal Movement has brought in the occult teachings of Kabbalah to the Rabbi’s internationally and to their congregations. They persist in teaching their ancient occultism and deny the crucified and risen messiah Yah Shua.
So who belongs to Satan’s synagogue? Not the “Satanists”! HaSatan has his own church whose members openly delight in doing evil. No, the members of his synagogue all see themselves as spiritual beings exploring their “Jewishness” through Kabbalah. They are not evil, merely deluded (and damned!)! Just as most practitioners of “good” or “white” magick see themselves as being beneficial, so most Kabbalahists see themselves as helpful (and very powerful) Jews. Their pride grows with their power. Power corrupts as it grows. But as Revelation predicts, it is they who shall come and to worship before our feet and to know that Elohim loves us!
We are to exalt Yah Veh Sabaoth and Yah Shua ben Elohim. This is an eternal holy calling as we will glorify our heavenly Father for all time. We are the ministers of the circumcision of the truth of Elohim, as Yah Shua is - “Now I say that Yah Shua HaMashiach became a minister of the circumcision of the truth of Elohim, to confirm the promises made unto our fathers. And that the Gentiles (nations) might glorify King Sovereign Yah Veh Sabaoth for His mercy; exactly as it is written. For this cause I shall avow to thee among the Gentiles and psalm unto thy name.” (Romans 15:8-9)
Prayer: O’ Yah Veh Sabaoth, sever these unholy roots of Kabbalah from the olive tree of Israel. Let the graft of Your gentiles be restored to that olive tree and let that tree flourish as You have promised. Let all of Your saints come together in the knowledge of Yah Shua ben Elohim HaMashiach in peace and unity. And let Your Shekinah glory return to all of Your people. I claim this by my baptism of water into HaMashiach and by my baptism of the Ruach HaKodesh. I plead the blood of Yah Shua HaMashiach and in Yah Shua HaMashiach’s name, amen.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tattoos - The New Blood Sacrifice
In ancient Egypt, tattoos were almost always connected with the spirits. Priests, priestesses, and devotees were the most frequent wearers of tattoos. Depictions of their gods and goddesses, and the symbols related to worship, graced their bodies. Those whose skin was too dark to sport a tattoo made scarifications (though not really tattooing, it is related to tattooing by making scar tissue in the same patterns). Thus Leviticus reads: ‘ye shall not make any cuttings on your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you’. (19:28) - Yahu’ah didn’t want His chosen people to bear any connections with other spirits.
On the other side of the world, the Maori also recognized the spiritual significance of tattoos. They, and all of the other Polynesian peoples, believed that one’s spirit(s) was displayed through the tattoo(s) on one’s body. They too saw the connection between tattoos and other spirits - those that could more easily enter and exit one’s body.
Since today most people get tattoos merely to decorate their body, they tend to ignore the spiritual aspect of the tattoos they get! As Rae Schwarz points out, “The modern body art renaissance has been the saving grace for many tribal tattoo styles, now being worn by people with no attachment to the symbolic histories of many of these patterns. Nonetheless, this fascination with mixed cultural tattoo styles has saved certain styles of skin art from extinction.” All too often these styles are nothing more than “welcome” signs for tribal spirits! People tend to ignore the fact that many of these styles comes with “baggage” that profoundly affects their lives!
In some cases, trouble seems to follow an individual or that individual’s friends or family after a new tattoo is completed. In some extreme cases, fatalities result! Don’t believe its coincidence - coincidences rarely happen!
Even modern styles carry a risk. Styles inspired by evil themes welcome spirits that one may wish would simply go away - but they refuse to and won‘t go until the sign is removed (exorcisms are merely temporary because the “welcome” sign is still there!)! Getting a tattoo is still recognized by most people as a “rite of passage“, but most people in this materialistic society have forgotten the significance of such a rite. The pain inflicted and the blood lost in the process is truly a sacrifice being made.
Research with due diligence the design you wish to permanently implant in your body. Make sure that the one you choose (or create for yourself) doesn’t carry any unwelcome “baggage”. Beware of graven images! If you are truly drawn to a design it should be a pleasure to find all about its history and meaning and of the symbols it incorporates. Remember that humanity didn’t create the meanings of these styles and symbols - humanity discovered them!
Tattoos can be a portal giving instant access to a particular spirit or group of spirits. Names and incantations need not be spoken to conjure a spirit when that spirit’s name(s), symbol(s), and a call to visit are already permanently implanted on one’s body! Sorcerers , witches, and even some evangelists use tattoos to maintain continual communication with daemons and other spirits. Yes, even some so-called “Christians" and "Jews” use tattoos for satanic purposes!
Tattoos can be removed. Such removal is also a painful process. But that is not a bad thing because the sacrifice is an atonement and removes that which is unwanted!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Kabbalah is Witchcraft!
Kabbalah = Witchcraft!
Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה) is the mystical aspect of Judaism. It refers to a set of cryptic teachings meant to define the inner meaning of both the Old Testament Bible and the Talmud, and to explain the significance of Jewish religious practices. Kabbalah literally means "receiving", and is sometimes transliterated as “Cabala“, “Kabbala“, “Kabala“, “Kabalah“, “Qabalah“, or other renderings. It is called “receiving” because the studying of the works without a teacher is considered useless. It is important to note that in all religious Jewish mysticism the catchphrase "those who know don't tell, and those who tell don't know" is one of its foundations.
The Zohar is generally considered the foremost Kabbalistic text. According to the Zohar, Torah (Moses’ books of the Bible) study is divided into four levels:
Peshat, the simple meaning of the text;
Remez, literally "hint[s]" - biblical allusion and allegory;
Derash, i.e. midrash, Rabbinic scriptural exegesis; and
Sod, which is the kabbalah, the secret inner meaning of the Torah. Kabbalah is considered, by its followers, as a necessary part of the study of the Torah - the study of Torah being an inherent duty of all Jews. Though many, if not most, elements of kabbalah were created by King Solomon, this final level of Torah study was created by Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph. Under him, the casual title of “Rabbi” (“master/teacher”) was to become an office whose holders could sentence people to death. Indeed, not only were the priests and prophets to be replaced by the Rabbis, but the supremacy of the Torah as well. Akiba would make the requirement that a true Rabbi must be able to reverse the meaning of a scripture and use it to justify any action. He invented the lie of a secret “oral Torah“(supposedly handed down from Moses) to supplement the written one. Kabbalah teaches doctrines that are accepted by some Jews as the true meaning of Judaism while most other Jews have rejected these doctrines as heretical to Judaism.
The origins of the term “kabbalah” are unknown and believed to belong to either Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021 - 1058) or to the 13th century A. D. Spanish kabbalist Bahya ben Asher. While other terms have been used in many religious documents from the 2nd century A. D. up to the present day, the term “kabbalah” has become the main indicative of Jewish esoteric knowledge and practices. Main kabbalistic literature which served as the basis for most of the development of kabbalistic thought divides between early works such as Bahir and Heichalot (1st Century A. D. ?) and later works dated to the 13th century A. D., of which the main book is the Zohar representing the main source for the meditative kabbalah ("Kabbalah Iyunit").
To fully understand kabbalah and to be able to practice kabbalistic magic the first requirement is to recognize the astral framework within which the kabbalist operates. The basic tenet of kabbalah is that there is but one God. There is no pantheon of gods and goddesses - there is just one God. Any apparent evidence to the contrary is because we are not able to clearly see the intrinsic harmony exhibited in all of creation (Gaea, goddess of the Earth, has no real existence. She is only a manifestation of the nurturing aspects of the One God).
God existed before the physical universe was created. He had no need to create the universe. Creation was an act of giving on the part of God. Within the created universe humanity has a special place and a special purpose. According to kabbalah mankind is the only species that has free will. The result of humanity's uniqueness is that it has responsibilities that other creatures - both physical and spiritual - do not have.
There are realms that are not ordinarily perceptible to mankind. These are the spiritual realms. These realms are inhabited by beings commonly known as angels, archangels, demons, and other spirits. There is a close, but usually unrecognized relationship, between these spirits and man. To the kabbalist, from a physical standpoint God is unknowable. God is so different from the physical reality that surrounds us that any direct contact would destroy us. But God wants us to experience Him. The reason God created the physical universe and mankind was so that we would have the opportunity to draw closer to Him. God's influence constantly flows in and around us, but for the most part we ignore it. The influence is there - we just have to look for it.
The kabbalist believes that the way God provides His influence is through the sephiroth of the “Tree of Life”. The sephiroth act as attenuators between the reality of God and that of our physical existence. If the sephiroth did not exist then physical universe would not exist - it would be absorbed into God and thus be an intrinsic part of God [though kabbalists say they cannot conceive of God as being composed of "parts" (like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?)]. The sephiroth provide us with a tree stretching down from the infinity of God to the finite restriction of the physical universe. If we face away from the illusory attractions of our physical world we will see this Tree, this pathway, stretching away from us into infinity.
According to kabbalah, God created the sephiroth for two reasons:
to protect us from the overwhelming power of His glory; and
to provide us with a way of returning to Him (the ultimate goal of mankind's existence. Each of the sephiroth have specific functions in this two-fold process. They act in similar ways to the roundabouts, one-way streets and traffic lights used in road traffic control. Each of the sephiroth has a specific name that is also descriptive of its function.
Though the basic traditional structure remains the same, diagrammatical representations of the sephiroth are as varied as the many mystic/occult movements that have adopted it! The highest sephiroth is "nearest" to God. The lowest is "nearest" to the physical and the most "distant" from God. In the spiritual realm they are considering, "nearness" actually equates with similarity and "distance" with dissimilarity. The progression up the Tree, along the path of the sephiroth, is one of becoming more like God. Today, almost every Western mystical/occult belief system incorporates some form of the “Tree of Life”!
God created mankind in His image. We were formed to be similar to God. This similarity extended to us, like God, being invested with free-will. God is omnipotent and thus has ultimate freedom of will and expression. At the lower level of our physical existence we have the freedom to choose whether we attach ourselves to the physical world or realize our spiritual inheritance. The story of Adam and Eve's fall and expulsion from the garden of Eden describes the process by which mankind chose the physical realm. But the path is still there - the sephiroth still exist. We can still choose to pursue the spiritual path by using the tools we have been given. We can also choose to imitate the fallen angels!
Unfortunately, the kabbalists ignore the very laws they claim to study. The Torah forbids the use of sorcery or witchcraft. The use of magic is condemned throughout the Old Testament. Kabbalistic practices have been adopted by Western magick because they work. Spirits are summoned and dismissed using the holy names of God! Ancient practices of marginal value are now replaced with those of kabbalah.
Magic angers God because it uses the immutable laws He established to do Satan’s will. We use it to glorify ourselves when we use it for good. We use it to empower ourselves when we use it for evil. God is left out of the equation! Being righteous and just, God refuses to break His own laws. He must feel like the honest District Attorney who must watch the guilty go free because of a loophole they discovered in the law. But judgment day comes for every soul. Having left the physical realm, we must all answer for our transgressions during this life. If we have violated God’s law by intruding upon the spiritual realm in matters beyond our maturity, we shall be punished like the adolescent child who willfully broke open the gun cabinet and used a gun to rob a convenience store - only a lot more severely!
Very few kabbalists deny that kabbalah is magical in nature. It is here that this author warns all who use it to beware. Its enormous power is indeed a great temptation to all those intelligent enough to comprehend it and fortunate enough to have an able teacher. But it is only one more of the many temptations that are set before us in our life-times to test us. Compared to basking in the shekinah glory of God we experience because of the blood spilled by Yah Shua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) through the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit); and the power that shall be granted to those of us who successfully resist this life’s temptations, kabbalah is indeed child’s-play. It is far wiser to resist kabbalah’s temptation now than to suffer the consequences later.