Lesson Nine: Notes on the Three Paths

Lesson Nine: Notes on the Three Paths

 

 Like Saint (Mother) Maria of Paris, opened up so much understanding and wisdom, contrasting the two loves, which truthfully we could state as anti-christ love vs Christ Love. We see that a great portion of the world, in fact the culture itself functions on “false” or better-stated “anti-christ” love.  It is the reason why the greatest portion of the wealthiest families who have bonded together, the Globalist families who have created genocide after genocide, war after war, are majority Jewish and/or of Luciferian sects, like Skull and Bones, and her sister organizations. These things can no longer be hidden under cover of “conspiracy theory” this is just the history and fact of our present world. Most of them believe that they are “acting to save the world.”  They believe they are the “good guys.” So they act out of love for the world. I think this explains a lot of killing in the world, always the people are deluded into believing “they are the good guys” and they are killing the “bad guys.”  All the hellish death cult of Islam holds this delusion, as do the Cultural Marxists, and the doctrinaire Marxists and Communists, and other cultists.

The take away from the last lesson, is that even the most fundamental natural human affections, a mother’s love for her own child and all the other natural familiar loves, are subject to degradation caused by sin, and unless purified and restored in Christ, can and will become to greater and lesser degrees, damaging, and even killing. Without the purifying presence of the Holy Spirit in mercy, all families grow estranged, or they unite in delusion and deception, as we have just stated of the Jewish and Luciferian Elite.  It would be very difficult and maybe impossible to find a real person of The Way among them. 

The previous success of the extended families and nuclear families in the West, which was a very powerful thing, and strong political power, in our former Constitutional Republic was due to the degree to which Western Culture was Christian.  The horrible degradation of the “just love and be nice” culture, the toll paid in moral relativism, hedonism, death and destruction, is the direct result of the Cultural Marxist insurgency into the Churches, the destruction of the family and a massive mind war against all things Christian, operated by our Psychological Operations Media, all of it, all the media. If you don’t believe the media is anti-christ, take time to read this link (http://lettersfromthegulag.blogspot.com/2016/07/shadow-governmentjewish-controlled-media.html) So at this point all the family owned small press is gone, the Luciferians control everything that is aired on T.V., movies, video games, published in News Papers, Books, Magazines.  It is a rushing river of Luciferian Propaganda in which the Flame of Jesus Christ, that he promised would burn, is submerged, gurgling underwater. 

How do we stop being part of the great river of Chaos, consumed and destroyed by the great river of Propaganda?  No time in the history of the Church have the words of Saint Paul had more immediate, life and death meaning, “Be not conformed to this culture, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your NOUS (heart-mind), so that you will know, (instead of the psy-opts herding of the Luciferians, who are herding you to illusion, delusion, confusion, deception and death; selling you Hedonism as “just love and be nice”) . . . so instead you will know what is God’s Way, THE WAY, to healing health, truth and LIFE.

So adding tools to our understanding capable of withstanding not just the slings and arrows, and the fiery darts of the Devil, the apostles were privileged to battle, while wearing the full armor of God, but the flame throwers, and howitzers and a sea of mind altering drugs, hypnotic electronics called “psychotronic manipulations” and subliminal hypnotic suggestions of consciousness that cause the implantation of autonomic triggers, common with the 24/7 connection to the Matrix, and a host of other weaponry being deployed against us:  We are going to talk about “Three Paths” two of which are erroneous. The path of received “religion.” The path of emotional spirituality and the path of rational theology vs the Royal Path, The Way, which is genuine surrender to God’s good, acceptable and perfect will, by DOING Righteousness, DOING Love, Breathing in, bathing in the Holy Spirit, etc.  

A friend who was asking me to teach him about The Way, said to me the other day when I hesitated in prescribing a regimen of spiritual discipline and prayer,  “A goal without a plan is merely a wish.”  That is profound.  So, I gave him a simple prayer rule and a course of study, a plan of action as it were. But really, before we can plan an action upon this battlefield, we have to KNOW IT.  We have to reconnoiter, firstly by identifying the enemy, next by examining his weaponry, and strength of his forces.  We have to understand every weapon of deception he owns, (all his methods of psychological warfare) most especially the false weapons he places in our hands as genuine. What a great strategy! To provide for your enemy fearsome looking FAKE weapons.  Any general would laugh and be proud of that ruse.  And that is exactly what the Luciferians have done with Christianity, provided it with a boat load of FAKE weapons.  They look like they are “of the faith” they make noise like they are “of the faith” but they are impotent show weapons, powerless.  (Having a form of Godliness but devoid of POWER.) God’s word is not powerless. When we speak truth, it cuts through the web of the matrix and exposes the Luciferian core.

We have so far, identified a few false weapons, but the last lesson was profound, identifying false/anti-christ love, expressed in “just love and be nice.” Think! that is the answer to everything, “just love and be nice.” But they are calling on anti-christ love, a false weapon exposed in the last lesson.  

So now we are going to expose more false weapons the Luciferians have sold us under the banner of “enlightenment”; theologies to keep us harmless excepting, “just love and be nice.”  Just like there is anti-christ love, parading as Christian, there are anti-christ theologies parading as Christian as well.  WE have to face these head on; we have to learn to recognize Satan’s tools, and where those tools have wounded US, where we are foolish enough to depend upon them.

The Three Paths of Theology/Spirituality

David Richard Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York City in the 1970s received his theology/spirituality from his dog, Sam. He called himself, "the son of Sam."  At least he was honest. 

To understand Jesus' words, the words of the Apostles, the New and Old Testaments, in fact to understand the Gospels one must always distinguish between the "secular/rational" theology of the West, which is base in philosophy and science, and the reality of "sacred" theology, which is not opposed to either philosophy or science, but is not defined by either. We also have to recognize the lying spirit, the anti-christ spirit of a great portion of this so-called science.  Some of it is carnival like and easy to recognize.  For instance, when a birth Muslim Apostate, turned Evangelical Christian Apostate, who re-embraces his “Muslim Roots” and immediately writes a book financed by the Jewish Press, claiming to be a scholarly work by a “International Religion Scholar” who owns a Masters of Theology from anti-christ central, Harvard Divinity School; a book entitled “Zealot: The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth” you don’t have to read the book, it is a no brainer, you know what is in it. And of course I wasted my time reading Zealot by Reza Aslan, and he did not disappoint; it is anti-christ drivel, wrapped in faux scholastic intellectualism.  Should anyone be surprised when his previous book was “No God but Allah God” which of course confirmed his birth Muslim Theism.  And of course what is his reference for a supposed history of Jesus of Nazareth, two pagan sources, which affirm that Jesus was born a Jew, lead a popular movement and was crucified by the Romans.  He ends up writing such stupid statements as this, “It is difficult to place Jesus of Nazareth squarely within any of the known religiopolitical movements of his time.”  <smile> There is a reason for that idiot; it is because he started his own movement that has huge historic record of which you pretend does not exist.  Can it get anymore absurd than this? And this in modern times passes for “scholarly offering.”

Sadly a lot of other “theology” produced by so-called Hermeneutical experts is a lot more sophisticatedly deceptive. Most of it in fact, from the good ole, “Abingdon Bible Commentary,” to the Jesus Seminar, to “The New Bible Dictionary,” to the “Oxford Companion to the Bible (Metzger/Coogan)” and many, many more are written from . . .  and the whole school of theology is based upon, the presumptions of “Naturalism” which is the Closed Circle of Materialism I noted in Lesson Three: “For them as insane as it is, matter and time created all things. 

“What is the insane part?  They never ask, "From whence comes Matter?"  Or if they do they answer, "From pent up energy." (The Big Bang Theory) But they never ask, "From whence comes this energy?" or if they do they answer, "From highly condensed and compress matter." You see it is a closed circle, no more sophisticated than the imagination of ancient pagans, since in fact, with all its scientific pretensions, it is just that, perennial paganism.” This is the total demythologizing of sacred scripture and filtering every story through a materialist sieve. It is always a great ‘truncation’ as with the Abingdon Commentary, and/or a complete denial of the Scriptural Revelation as was the Jesus Seminar.  The Jesus Seminar one of the strangest events in my life, which actually sponsored the world’s greatest textural critics, hermeneutical experts to meet together, a few hundred of them, to then vote on what Jesus actually said and what he actually didn’t say. Again, it is a no brainer, since they produced a Culturally Marxist, Politically Correct Jesus who denied his own Divinity.  I’ve never researched it, but you can bet the money behind the project was Jewish and Muslim. Since it denied Jesus’ Divinity, we know it was anti-christ.   

There is another kind of Biblical research that has been most beneficial to anyone who loves the sacred scriptures, and that is the work by the conservative Christian (Protestant) Biblical Scholars, of the 19^th century, who honored the Bible to such an extent they have done such a complete analysis of it, it is quite amazing, and in the process they created for us a number of tools that have improved the depth of scriptural knowledge for anyone willing to take the time to use their tools. Of course this includes the work, and the work built upon the likes of the Anglicans Milton Terry, Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton, H.G. Liddel, Dr James Strong’s Greek and Hebrew Concordance of the Protestant Bible, with the Plymouth Brotherhood, Englishman’s Greek Concordance of the New Testament, being the grand daddies of them all.  There are a host of others and with the explosion of technology and the digital age, all these resources given the power of computer speed. Any person today has instant free access to Biblical and Church resources that an expert would not have had, had he keys to the libraries of Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford one hundred years ago.  These resources are not without problems, especially the Darby school and the subsequent fruit of error produced in the Schofield Reference Bible that created Christian Zionism. I’m thinking that was not an accident. But still the biblical research tools these people produced are a great boon to English speaking Christianity.  The problem is you cannot depend on their “conclusions” in many cases, when they start to teach theology from their scriptural anatomizing. They became hyper literalist, AND myth makers, a really strange combination. The common core, fostering attacks on the Church, like the ole saw, “Didn’t Jesus say, ‘call no man Father.’”  Be philosophically consistent, Jesus said in the same passage not to call any man your teacher.  So forget about Father’s day, and Teacher’s day, and what are you going to call Dear Male Progenitor, the Paterfamilias now? If you plan to go to heaven (he said mockingly).

It is a simple statement but it will take a while for Westerners to grasp the meaning and truth of the following sentence. Sacred theology is defined not by theory, but by practice, it is Worship & Work – both are actions.

In the West most “theologians” are theorists and technicians, schooled in secular/rational theology, something invented in the scholastic era of the Roman Catholic Church, and do not understand, or it seems have simply forgotten that Jesus and the Apostles and the early Church Fathers, knew nothing of this, so of course they did not see through the prism of rational and secular theology, as modern fundamentalist and liberal rational theologians do. What Jesus, the Apostles and their successors were trying to share was an organic experience of the healing presence of God, not a theory. 

They were, or at least some of them were experts in the Old Testament Scriptures, because it did not take the Church very long to start preaching about all the prophecies and the Archetypes of Jesus Christ, that were obvious in the Old Testament Scriptures, what some have called, “Types of Christ”, “Types and Shadows,” like Saint Paul explained how Jesus was the Second but far superior Adam, the first of a new creation and by implication, how Mary was the second Eve. Then there was all the symbolism of Christ in the Tabernacle, and the later Temple. So they were theologians, but when they looked at the Old Testament, they neither interpreted it rationally and literally, or simply as mythology, yet they never demythologized the Old Testament and interpreted it “in the light of Christ” and better stated, in the LIFE of Christ they were already experiencing and living.  They realized the depth and richness of God’s revelation over time was so clearly Holy Spirit inspired that it contained layers of meaning, sometimes multiple layers that addressed the “then” current situation, yet created meanings, symbols, prophecies, and archetypes of Jesus Christ. In fact, from the first verse in Genesis to the last stories of Jewish history, it was all about HIM, Jesus Christ; everything pointed to HIM.

Now speaking of Biblical Hyper Literalism:  The sermon preached by the first Martyr Stephen (now if I were properly Orthodox, you would know it because I would say, “Proto-Martyr” which of course means FIRST Martyr) anyway, as that sermon is recorded he got some stuff wrong, as Luke recorded it in Acts 7:2-53, also noting that Saint Stephen was speaking by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. You would not believe the linguistic hoops that the Hyper Literalist biblical scholars go through to explain how this error is not an error.  If you are interested you can read for yourself at this link – (https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/ntesources/ntarticles/gtj-nt/koivisto-acts7stephen-gtj-87.pdf )

Without “rational theology” we would note this and not care. As a Sacred Theologian, I don’t care. That little tidbit is interesting but means, what?  Now, if I were a Biblical literalist, another form of rational theology that would be a conundrum, after all they believe scripture to be “literally” inerrant and there is an error and an error (more than one) in the longest sermon recorded in the New Testament. On common sense grounds, they have to ask (1) Did Stephen preach it correctly and Luke recorded it wrongly? Guess what?  ERROR. (2) Did Stephen get it wrong and Luke recorded it right? Guess what? ERROR. (3) Did Stephen say it right, Luke record it right and it is actually the Old Testament and not the New that contains the error? Even if this unlikely scenario were fact, it is still . . Guess what? ERROR. Of course this exercise is foolishness. I walked you down this little rabbit hole as an example of Rational Secular Theology, to show you just one example of how totally ridiculous hyper-literalism is.  The Bible is Inerrant, because it contains exactly what the Holy Spirit, who is present in the Church intended it to contain. No more, no less. It is perfect in its wholeness. This is its only measure. Its wholeness is Jesus Christ. Every verse in Scripture is interpreted, Catholically, that is “of the whole.” 

The Way is not about Scripture; it is about experiencing the Healing Reality of The Faith, which was once and for all, delivered unto the saints. It was delivered in oral form and in Ortho-praxis, in other words, according to what the Apostles SAID and DID – Correct worship and practice, which reflected Ortho-Doxia – rendering correct Glory. This ACTION saying and doing was happening AS part of what was said and done was being rendered in written form.  The Correct worship and practice in correct Glory, existed before the written New Testament, and the New Testament Scriptures are a product of that Ortho-praxis and Ortho-doxia, but do not contain it. It is “contained” in the active worship in the Tradition of Christ’s Church, in the Saying and Doing.

Now, I am not saying that some of the secular/rational concepts don't have instructive value; they do, but they can never be substituted for experience. The “concepts” are not the experience and reality of the thing. The outline or in artists terms the "cartoon" is not the object itself, even the most sophisticated portrait is not the person. Even if the New Testament were a perfect schematic of the Church, and perfectly defined it, which it does not, it would still be a schematic, a map, a design and not the thing in itself.

Remember from the previous lessons, we have one goal and that is to experience Christification. That’s it, nothing else matters.  With that in mind, let me state, that many come to the Church and rather than truly finding and experiencing Christ’s incarnational presence, settle for a mere description, a mere formula, the schematic, a mere cartoon of the Church. These are “first and second path people” who cling to “received tradition” as if that is an end of itself, or retreat to emotionalism and/or rationalism, the two sides of the same coin of “soulish” behavior, unregenerated, unrenewed, disconnected from Ancient and Real Christianity. Even though they may be perfectly following the cycles of services and prayers.  Please note these are not trivial mistakes. Just like the previous lesson about the two kinds of loves that in some elementary expressions seem so similar, they are not the same and have serious in the world consequences, so do the erroneous Paths of Traditionalism, Emotionalism and Rationalism. Each is and has been killing in examples played out in history. Not just robbing people of true healing but actually poisoning people, destroying morals and even taking LIVES. 

Until the Third Path (The Way) is warmly experienced a realistic view of Christianity is not possible, because one substitutes instead some formula, some cartoon, some institutionalize or clericalized stricture (Stricture not Structure) capable of pointing to, but incapable of capturing the experience of Christ’s incarnation. Those holding only the “cartoon” the “schematic” THINK they know what it represents; yet they only have a hollow concept and no experience of its reality. Ultimately the Church is “life in the Holy Spirit” or scripture and tradition are both liars, as is the witness of myriad saints. The Church is also and more primarily, collective and mutual communion in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ - a subject for another time. We have already touched on this communion in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and we will have much more to say about it in later lessons.

I don't want to suggest that God's Holy Spirit is limited by anything I say. There is a wonderful story in Greek orthodoxy about an Arab/Muslim whose son was very sick. After famed Muslim physicians had given up hope for the boy, a neighbor told the boy's father about the priests in Constantinople who continually healed people by baptizing them. He set out with his wife to take the boy to the Orthodox Christian priests, but on the way, the boy came very close to death. Stopping at a pool of water, the father took the boy and washed him in the pool saying, “Allah, I baptize my son, in the name and as the priests do in Constantinople.” They camped assuming the boy would die that night but he revived and became completely healthy. Seeing the wonder, they decided to continue to Constantinople and learn about this miraculous power that had saved their son. The Christians took them in, and enjoyed the story of their son's baptism and healing. They taught them the Christian faith (and if I were really Orthodox I would have said, “catechized them” which means instructing them in the faith) and when it came time to receive them into the church, the priest Baptized first the father then the mother, but when they attempted to baptize the son, no matter how they tried they could not submerge him in the water. After three priests tried to submerge him into the water without success, the elder turned to the people and said, ‘No priest can truly baptize, who God himself has already baptized.’”

The Orthodox Church knows, her history, Tradition and the healing life she possesses, where the Apostolic Church rests in objective continuity from the very Cross of Christ. She does not know the work of the Holy Spirit outside her purview. 

“Inasmuch as the earthly and visible Church is not the fullness and completeness of the whole Church which the Lord has appointed to appear at the final judgment of all creation, she acts and knows only within her own limits; and (according to the words of Paul the Apostle, to the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 5. 12) does not judge the rest of mankind, and only looks upon those as excluded, that is to say, not belonging to her, who exclude themselves. The rest of mankind, whether alien from the Church, or united to her by ties, which God has not willed to reveal to her, she leaves to the judgment of the great day. The Church on earth judges for herself only, according to the grace of the Spirit, and the freedom granted her through Christ, inviting also the rest of mankind to the unity and adoption of God in Christ; but upon those who do not hear her appeal she pronounces no sentence, knowing the command of her Saviour and Head, "not to judge another man's servant" (Rom. 14. 4).”

The Holy Spirit is not limited by the visible confines of Orthodox Christian ecclesiology. But rather she stands as a bulwark, against the sea of theological/spiritual errors that would destroy her healing reality. She was originally called, “The Way” and that is what this book is, one man's understanding and experience of “The Way.”

Archpriest Symeon Elias