John Paul II' Reassessment of Vatican Council II
As a high ranking hierarch from the homeland of Copernicus, Bishop Karol Wojtyla wasn't enthralled by the final results of Vatican II. In the aftermath of the Counci, using his newly gained prestige as a “prince of the Church,”Card. K. Wojtyla had written book entitled Grounds of Renewal which was intended to be a "synthesis of the most important teachings of Vatican Council II. There is no Polish edition of The Documents of Vatican II comparable to the American edition of 1966. Card. Wojtyla's book published belatedly in 1972 presented the documents of Vatican II to the Polish laity in a censored, or should I say, distorted version, especially the documents relating to the Christian-Jewish relations. Commenting on the words of Rom 11:28 ("the Jews still remain most dear to God…") quoted in Lumen Gentium, Card. Wojtyla remarked sardonically, "These words apply to the Jews who received Christ not." It was a statement which one could expect from a member of the Polish Church.
Let me remind here what Malcom Hay wrote his Europe and the Jews: “German responsibility for these crimes, however, overwhelming it may be, is only a secondary responsibility which has grafted itself like a hideous parasite, upon a secular tradition, which is a Christian tradition. How can one forget, that Christianity, chiefly from the 11th century has employed against Jews a policy of degradation and of pogroms, which has extended – among certain Christian people into contemporary history, which can be observed still alive to-day in most Catholic Poland, and of which the Hitlerian system has been only a copy, atrociously perfected.”
Card. Wojtyla did not quote Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions which could inform his Polish readers that: "The Church recalls too that from the Jewish people sprang the apostles, her foundation stones and pillars, as well as most of the early disciples who proclaimed Christ to the world."
What Card. K. Wojtyla started, Pope John Paul II continued. In the above mentioned Declaration you can read: "In company with the prophets and the same Apostle, the Church awaits that day, known to God alone, on which all peoples will address the Lord in a single voice and ‘serve him with one accord”. This particular declaration of faith is a paraphrase of the verse of prophet Sophonias 3:9: 'For then will I turn to peoples a pure language. That they may call upon the name of the lord, to serve Him with one consent.” The quotations of the Hebrew Bible suggest that the Lord whom all peoples will address in a single voice is the God of the Hebrew Bible, not of the New Testament.
What is even more striking; a reference to "conversion" of the Jews was removed from an earlier version of this Declaration. And look how Pope John Paul II distorted this teaching of Vatican II in his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope: "The time when the people of the Old Covenant will be able to see themselves as part of the New is, naturally, a question to be left to the Holy Spirit. Following in the footsteps of John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI issued, a directive, authorizing expanded use of a prayer known as the Tridentine Mass. The phrase “perfidious Jews” was removed from the liturgy, however, the prayer recited on Good Friday, still includes a prayer for the conversion of the Jews. That explains his urgency in the canonization process of his predecessor.
A few facts from the long history of religious conflicts between Rome and Jerusalem will show the important role played by Syria and its solar religion in the endeavor of spiritual extermination of Jewish people.
” – In the reckoning of the Seleucid dynasty (that is, in the late Dec. of 167 B.C) – “the king set the Abomination of Desolation on the altar of holocausts”, according to the horrified chronicler of I Maccabees. This things was a statue of Olympian Zeus, king of the Greek gods (also known in Asia Minor as Baal, for the Greeks were happy to have their gods take local names), now given pride of place in the Temple of the Living God and defiling both the Temple and the Jewish people with unimaginable sacrilege. Whoever objected, whoever persisted in the old, exclusive ways, whoever had her children circumcised, whoever refused to perform his civic duty and make sacrifices in the customary manner to the pantheon of gods, was put to the sword – mothers with their circumcised infants “hung round their necks.”
Let me quote here what has become known as Tacitus Fragment 2, preserved by the Christian historian Sulpicius Severus in his Chronica 2.30.6-7 (ca. 400-403 CE). This fragment gives the details of the debate within a high-level military council of war called by the Roman army commander Titus just prior to the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in Jerusalem in 70, near the end of the first Jewish revolt against Rome. The debate was over whether or not the Roman army should destroy the Temple. For our purposes here, the last half of frag. 2 (= Severus' Chronica 2.30.7) is the most relevant because it specifically mentions "Christiani":(2.30.6) It is reported that Titus first deliberated, by summoning a council of war, as to whether to destroy a Temple of such workmanship. For it seemed proper to some that a consecrated Temple, distinguished above all that is human, should not be destroyed, as it would serve as a witness to Roman moderation; whereas its destruction would represent a perpetual brand of cruelty. (2.30.7) But others, on the contrary, disagreed--including Titus himself. They argued that the destruction of the Temple was a number one priority in order to destroy completely the Jewish religion.
Rome's Slogan:“A new covenant has made the first obsolete.” Heb 8:13
The scholars never want us to forget that Luke wrote Acts with a purpose that is, to reconcile the two factions in early Christianity – Jerusalem and Antioch, those who thought that the Jesus-movement was always to be contained within the parent of Judaism, and those who believed that the gentile believers were the new Israel, that 'Judaism' had been supplanted by 'Christianity'.
Luke's accurate and relatively abundant knowledge about the Herod family may be due to his acquaintance with certain people who had close contact with the family. He mentions Joanna the wife of one of Antipas's stewards, among the well-to-do women who supported Jesus and his disciples during their itinerant ministry, and his reference to Manaen (in Persian Manaem or Menahem, means Paraclete or Comforter) 'companion' or 'courtier' of Herod, the tetrarch who became one of the leading teachers and prophets in the church of Syrian Antioch about AD 47 is also of interest. Luke must have found in Manaen a valuable informant on the contacts of Antipas and his relatives with the early Christian story.
“And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him. And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward (Chuza was King Herod’s business manager and was in charge of his palace and domestic affairs), and Susanna, and many others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs. “ (Lk. 8:1-3). Interestingly, some early Christian mosaics depict Jesus in uniform of a Roman legionary.
With Philo's close connection to the house of Herod, one might reasonably expect that the miraculous escape from a royal prison of a gang of apostles (Acts 5.18,40), or the second, angel-assisted, flight of Peter, even though chained between soldiers and guarded by four squads of troops (acts 12.2,7) are not real miracles after all. They knew that they were being arrested to make them popular among the oppressed Jews.
Now you will grasp the full meaning of Luke 16:17: “The law and prophets were in force until John's day, from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached.”
Heliocentrism wasn't discovered by Copernicus. It was introduced from Syria to Europe when emperor Hadrian after destroying Jerusalem and its Temple founded in Rome the school of philosophy, oratory and literature which he called Athenaeum, and which waged the merciless psychological war against the Jews and their Holy Scriptures. Philosophy always saw “the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.” The Greek goddess Athena is usually depicted with swastikas on her dress.
http://www.theoi.com/image/img_athena.jpg
http://eternallycool.net/2009/10/archaeologists-uncover-the-athenaeum-of-hadrian/
According to a 4th century historian Eusebius, emperor Hadrian made Plutarch governor of Greece. Delphic inscription reveals that he possessed (like Paul) Roman citizenship; his nomen of family name, Nestrius, was no doubt adopted from his friend Lucius Mestrius Florus, a Roman consul.
Plutarch believed in in the superiority of Greek heliocentric culture and in the meritoriousness and providential character of the Roman Empire. In De facie in orbe lunae, wrote that the heliocentric system of Aristarchus was “proved” (apodeiknumi) by the Syrian astrologer Seleucus of Seleukia. Seleucus's heliocentric was put into the mouth of the juvenile Jesus when he lectured the rabbis in the Jerusalem Temple. But this lecture is reported only in the Syrian Version of the New Testament Pashitta. It was ignored in the Greek Canon of the New Testament.
Emperor Septimus Severus's doctrine of limited Sovereignty proposed to bring all his subjects together under the worship of Sol Invictus – the Unconquered Sun – and to subsume under that worship all the various religions and philosophies then current. All gods were to be accepted, as long as one acknowledged the Sun. Emperor Severus's mother was Julia, a daughter of the Syrian High Priest of the sun god Surya/Baal. Let me remind here that when persecution of the Christians was undertaken by Diocletian (303-311), it was because he wanted to establish a church-state in the worship of the sun-god, according to Emperor Septimus Severus's policy line. This solar religion was supposed to become the belief cementing various religious traditions of the conquered peoples, including the Jews.
The Roman Juggernaut called the Church
Instead of the faith of Jesus we have a faith derived from sun myths moulded around him. With the later creation of documents bearing the Apostle's names it is a small miracle than anyone could find the truth about such a matter when the deception has been so extensive. It becomes almost a certainty that Eusebius was right in surmising that Essenic writings have been used by Paul and others who would later write the “gospels” and later apply the Apostles' names to them. The sun myths were later applied to a Jewish rabbi and authority was given to them through various writings proposing such beliefs by competing sects to which final authority was later to be given by attaching the names of Matthew, Mark Luke, and John to them. Http://essenecx.netfirms.com/influence_alexandria_on_trans_lxx.htm
The Emperor Hadrian could see no difference between the early Christians and the followers of the ancient Egyptian god Serapis, who was the Sun. In a letter to the Consul Servianus, the Emperor says: "There are there [in Egypt] Christians who worship Serapis and devoted to Serapis are those who call themselves 'Bishops of Christ'" (Giles, Hebrew and Christian Records, vol. ii. p. 86. London: 1877).
Early Church Father Tertullian (160-220 C.E.), an "ex-Pagan" and Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of the Christ story and of all other such god-men by stating in refutation of his critics, "You say we worship the sun; so do you" (Wheless, Forgery in Christianity, p. 147). Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced Christianity. (Wheless, Forgery in Christianity, p. 147).
Ammonius Saccus, a Greek philosopher, founder of the Neoplatonic school, taught that Christianity and Paganism when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same religion" (Taylor, Diegesis, p. 329).
Rome's Slogan: “Judaism is a corrupted and dying Religion”
The story of temptation of Christ on an “exeedingly High Mountian” (Mt 4:8) is a typical example of smuggling the perennial Roman heliocentrism into Christian lore. In Plutarch’s De Iside and Osiride we find a story that Akhenaten in his childhood had a dream: a god resembling the sun god Ra took him by his hand and from an exceeding high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world and then said to him: All these things will I give to you, if you restore my rule. And Akhenaten, in a bloody revolution, did restore the rule of the sun god (heliocentrism). He built for his new god and for himself a new capital Akhetaton (presently known as El Amarna) and proclaimed the new divine rule Aton – a god of “social justice.”
Egyptologists paid particular attention to giving pharaoh Akhenaten and his new religion (monotheism based on the sun disc ‘itn) Aryan credentials. Some writers even believed that worship of Aten was superior to Judaism: “By no other religion in the world is Christianity so closely approached as by the faith of Akhenaten.” Thus Christianity, either spiritually or historically, could be ultimately derived not from the Semites but from an actual or honorary Aryan, because Akhenaten's Aten is the same as Nordic Wotan.
Hadrian not only replaced the destroyed Jerusalem by Aelia Capitolina, but, on top of that, he abolished the name Judea and replaced it with Palestina and added it to Syria. In the course of time, the Latin name Philistia was further bastardized into Palistina or Palestine thus aryanizing it, because Philistines were Greek invaders into Egypt and Gaza region. During the next 2,000 years Palestine was never an independent state belonging to any people, nor did a Palestinian people distinct from other Arabs appear during 1,300 years of Muslim hegemony in Palestine under Arab and Ottoman rule. During that rule, local Arabs were actually considered part of, and subject to, the authority of Greater Syria ( Suriyya al-Kubra).
In a response published in the wake of the UN 1947 resolution to split Palestine in half, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party ( a counterpart of the German Nazi party) declared in the spirit of the American King-Crane Commission: “Neither Britain, the Soviet Union, America; nor, indeed, Egypt or Arabia has any title to determine Palestine’s future. The whole General Assembly of the United Nations can have no right to impose on the Syrian nation resolutions that divest the Syrian national sovereignty over its homeland or its right over its own territory. The whole General Assembly of the United Nation can have no right to intentionally abrogate the right of free nations to determine their destinies by themselves. Palestine was always a southern part of Syria” They forgot that it was called Judea before it was raped by the Roman Empire.
In the Roman mythology we find also striking parallel to the story of temptation: Jupiter was led by Pan (the Devil) to the top of a mountain called the Pillar of Heaven whence he could see the countries of the world. Keep in mind that the Latin term orbis, actually means what Germans call Kreisscheibe i.e. a circle, a disk. (Urbi et Orbi)
Cicero writes: “ In the starry belt that the Greeks call the Zodiac, there is a certain force of such a nature that every part of that belt affects and changes the heavens in a different way, according to the stars that are in this or an adjoining locality at a given time.” These signs of the Zodiac, “Houses of the Sun”, were the 12 Constellations to which the most potent influence over destiny was ascribed. They are linked by artists not only with Time, Mother Earth, and the Seasons, but also with the traditional Olympian gods, by their appearance as a circular ring with Jupiter, Lord of All in their midst. On large bronze commemorative medallions of 2nd century emperors from Hadrian onwards, we see them as children disposed around a globe beside Mother Earth, sometimes with the signs of the Zodiac displayed above; on the medallions of Commodus – under which such ideas especially flourished – they emerge from a circular frame held by Jupiter. In this sort of representation Jupiter is synonymous with Time, just as time is actually identified with a number of other gods such as the sun, and Serapis.
Jupiter was the god of Virgil's heliocentric system presented in his Georgica:
Quid faciat laetas segetes, quo sidere terram vertere- Maecenas, ulmisque vitis conveniat
(Virgil Georgica, 1-2;1-4)
The Roman “Christianity” of Emperor Constantine
“When I, Constantine Augustus, as well as I, Licinius Augustus, fortunately met near Mediolanurn (Milan), and were considering everything that pertained to the public welfare and security, we thought, among other things which we saw would be for the good of many, those regulations pertaining to the reverence of the Divinity ought certainly to be made first, so that we might grant to the Christians and others full authority to observe that religion which each preferred; whence any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens may be propitious and kindly disposed to us and all who are placed under our rule. And thus by this wholesome counsel and most upright provision we thought to arrange that no one whatsoever should be denied the opportunity to give his heart to the observance of the Christian religion, of that religion which he should think best for himself, so that the Supreme Deity,* to whose worship we freely yield our hearts) may show in all things His usual favor and benevolence.”
Who is the Supreme Deity? - Julius Caesar had been enrolled in the pantheon of Roman gods in 42 BC, and the comet, as described in Octavian’s memoires, was considered the soul of the divine Julius Caesar approving of his heir. Octavian took the title son of god (DF, on coins) and when he had secured the empire for himself in 27 BC took the title Augustus, effectively, “the Most High”! It was a divine title, and altars were set up to Augustus the God in some Roman provinces. The Title “The Most High” was borrowed from the cult of Jupiter OPTIMUS MAXIMUS THE SAME AS Ζεὺς, κύδιστος, μέγιστος, Zeus, Best and Greatest. The original Ζεὺς was Called by the Greeks the Son of Time, or SON OF THE SUN (Logos).
In his Oration to the Assembly of the Saints Emperor Constantine claimed that "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour, Cross" was the one pointed in a Prophetic Acrostic of the Erythrean Sibyl, because “he wanted to have nothing in common with this odious people (meaning Jews).” The same Sibyl appears on the cover of John Paul II's collection of poems titled The Roman Triptych.
Here are the words of Constantine from his Oration: “It is evident that the virgin uttered these verses under the influence of Divine inspiration. And I cannot but esteem her blessed, whom the Saviour thus selected to unfold his gracious purpose towards us. That this Prophecy respecting our Saviour was not the Fiction of any Member of the Christian Church, but the Testimony of the Erythraean Sibyl, whose Books were translated into Latin by Cicero before the coming of Christ. Also that Virgil makes mention of the same, and of the Birth of the Virgin's Child: though he spoke obscurely of this Mystery from Fear of the Ruling Powers.”
A passage introduced into the Sybilline Oracles declares of the ultimate Jewish ruler: “And then shall God send from the sun a king who shall make all the earth cease from ruinous war…And the Temple of the most high God shall be loaded with rich adornments, the gold and silver furnishings of purple, and the fruitful earth and sea shall abound in good things.” (…) “This Beliar will raise high mountains. Will calm the waves of the sea, will make the shining sun stand still, He will raise the dead and many miracles will he perform.” A Polish saying says about Copernicus that “He stopped the sun and moved the earth.” Like a real avatar of the Buddha.
Let me remind here that, like his famous predecessor Thomas Aquinas's, Voltaire's focus was on nature conceived of as God, exacltly like Spinoza's deus sive nature worshipped as Substance. It was believed also by Voltaire that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest God" (Etre Supreme, summus deus), who was the principle behind the universe. This god was thought to be the companion (Socius) of the Roman emperors. Constantine's adherence to this faith is evident from his claim of having had a vision of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul. Julian the Apostate praised by Voltaire as “the greatest man that ever was” and who was proclaimed Emperor in Paris at the Thermes de Cluny, standing on a shield in the Frankish manner in 360, wanted to replace the recently recognized Christianity with the religion of the solar “Highest God” also worshipped by Emperor Elagabalus (lit. “the Highest god”).
Magnus ab integro saeculorum nascitur ordo (Virgil, IV Eclogue)
The translation: „The great march of the centuries begins anew” misses the beef of the philosophical abiogenesis: ab integro...nascitur ordo” The Latin term integer denotes 'the whole thing' or 'number of whole things.'
"... all things are one, and the One is all things, seeing that all things were in the Creator before he created them all. And rightly has it been said of Him that He is all things, for all things are parts of Him. And this being so, all things are linked together, and connected one with another in a chain extending from the lowest to the highest; so that we see that they are not many, or rather, that all are one." Asclepius I, 2a. (cp. The Mystical Body of Christ) The heliocentric pharaoh Akhenaten called the sun 'One'
The scarab was linked to Khepri ("he who has come into being"), the god of the rising sun. The ancients believed that the dung beetle was only male in gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into a dung ball. The supposed self-creation of the beetle resembles that of Khepri, who creates himself out of nothing. Moreover, the dung ball rolled by a dung beetle resembles the sun. Plutarch wrote:
“The race of beetles has no female, but all the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of material (like the pellet of Big Bang?)> which they roll up by pushing it from the opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the heavens in the direction opposite to its own course, which is from west to east."
The Key Passage from Copernicus's Book (I,10)
In the center of all rests the Sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place than this from which it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern, others, the mind, and still others, the Leader of the World. Trismegistus calls it ‘visible God’*; Sophocles’ Electra, ‘that which gazes upon all things.’ And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars (like Zeu pater) which wheel around.” Early man, as we find in the Assyrian Triad, had as its center the "perfect circle," representing to them God who is the center of all things.
*The Stoics held that the heavenly bodies and the cosmos itself were living divine beings: “The cosmos is a god; the stars are gods; the earth is a goddess (Gaia).” The role of Kosmokrator was attributed in Greco-Roman antiquity to the sun. Cicero speaks of the sun as 'the Lord, chief ruler of other lights, and the mind and guiding principle of the universe.”
There is a sentence in the Hindu Oupnek-hat, which runs thus:
"To know fire, the sun, the moon, and lightning, is three-fourths of the science of God.”
Deva, God, is derived from the root div, to shine.
"There is more RELIGION in men's SCIENCE than there is SCIENCE in their RELIGION."
- Henry David Thoreau ("A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers")
If our Sun must be the most important object in the universe for Copernicus, why then would there be stars so much larger than the material home of God, and why would this home be so small compared to the size of the entire universe? Copernicus and his followers had no answers to these questions.(Ronald C. Pine, Science and the Human Prospect)
Cardinal K. Wojtyla restores the religion of Jupiter, Best and Greatest
During the celebration commemorting 500th anniversary of birth of Copernicus, in Fromborg (Poland), an icon of Copernicus was displayed evoking features of Jesus Christ of the Shroud of Turin. The Polish caption is even more revealing of the intentions of the organizers of this celebration, which was also attended by the then cardinal K. Wojtyla. It read: “Truly this divine masterpiece of the Best and Greatest Being is immense”. (Zaprawde, ogromne jest to arcydzielo Istoty Najlepszej i Najwiekszej” See, Jan Pawel II, papiez z Polski. Ed Interpress. Warszawa 1979, p. 116). You can also see a picture of card. K. Wojtyla strolling with other priests beneath the banner with the Copernicus image).
The triangle bridging the caption and the icon of Copernicus is the Pythagorean triangle whose sum of powers has been appointed as the origin of the generation of the cosmic elements. Similar triangle was worn on God's head (cp. Napoleon's hat in the shape of a triangle) on the front page of the Vulgate published in Rome 1592
The Best and the Greatest Being mentioned on this banner is, of course the Roman god Jupiter to whom Constantine in his capacity as pontifex maximus sacrificed even after his conversion. Franz Boll (Sternglaube und Sterndeutung, p.31) recounts, as other sources do too, that Constantine also ordered a horoscope from an astrologer for himself, for this new city of his: Constantinople – many years after his “conversion” He also “sacrificed to Jupiter, Best and Greatest”, after his conversion. Even shortly before his death in 337 CE, he had a commemorative coin struck on which Constantine is represented as Jupiter, while one of his sons is represented in the guise of Bacchus.
“John Paul II lied saying, 'The Bible is a myth'” Sunday Visitor, Oct. 21, 1984
"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors." -Pope Leo X (http://platonism347.tripod.com/)
A person who was in school with Stalin, said of what they were taught: “…in order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with the geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in argument; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin’s teachings.” So, in plain words, the Church seminary J. Stalin attended labored to get the Bible’s explanation for origins out of kids’ hearts and fill those same with the evolutionary explanation for origins.
The Arab, atheist philosopher Averroes, for example, rejected the doctrine of creation out of nothing, because he thought that to affirm the kind of divine omnipotence which produces things out of nothing is to deny a regularity and predictability to the natural world.Obviously, Ch. Darwin is in debt to Averroes.
On this political premise, Averroës (1126-1198) based his criticism of the Ptolemaic system and of the Biblical geocentrism for that matter: “Therefore new research work is necessary in order to find the “true” astronomy, which can be derived from the true principles of physics. As a matter of fact, today there is no astronomy at all, and what we call astronomy is in agreement with our computations but not with the physical reality.” Th. Aquinas concurred, by embracing heliocentrism and abiogenesis.
John T. Pawlikowski, a professor at the Catholic Theological Union of Social Ethics, Chicago, observed: “It is now becoming increasingly apparent to biblical scholars that the lack of a deep immersion into the spirit and content of the Hebrew Scriptures leaves the contemporary Christian with a truncated version of Jesus' message. In effect, what remains is an emasculated version of biblical spirituality.” Conversion of Jews to the “truncated version of Jesus message” would mean a catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions for the whole world For thousands of years God did not allow that to happen. Will he allow it now? I sincerely doubt it
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