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November 2020 - January 14th 2020
I
started this article in early November planning to make it a series of
Videos. I made the first Video below and the election battle took the
place of Volume Two. It is quite amazing the examples that have arrived
showing the handicap of a faulty or narrow worldview. Ignorance of
history, ignorance of the places in the world, the geographical
barriers, the cultural barriers, makes one a blank slate for the
"programmers" i.e., the Behaviorist Conditioners to write any story they
choose upon the very tables of your heart, make you love and hate at
will and cause you to accept the most ridiculous but coordinated lies
one would imagine. I recently quoted Saint John Chrysostom in one of my
videos, about people who don't have a clue of the nature of being, found
in the reality of the Christian Worldview. Sadly, the majority of
Americans, fit his description perfectly. He said, "Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts." I
would further suggest that ignorance will substitute whatever fits its
prejudices, without regard to objective reality. The Cultural Marxist
know this full well, and so since the last time I looked they actually
changed the meaning of Ecumenical to Global. Now, admittedly Pope
Francis' use of Ecumenicism, the foundations of Vatican II - a so-called
Ecumenical Council was ultimately all about Globalism. That's the
history of Vatican II played out in time, creating the lunacy, heresy
and apostasy of the Vatican and this latest Clown Pope. So when you go
to Wikipedia and it says:
"Derived from Greek (Ancient Greek: οἰκουμένη, romanized: oikouménē, lit.
'the inhabited one'), "ecumenical" means "worldwide" but generally is
assumed to be limited to the known inhabited Earth, and at this time in
history is synonymous with the Roman Empire; the
earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius' Life of
Constantine around 338AD, which states "he convoked an ecumenical
council" (Ancient Greek: σύνοδον οἰκουμενικὴν συνεκρότει, romanized: sýnodon oikoumenikḕn synekrótei) and the Letter in 382 to Pope Damasus I and the Latin bishops from the First Council of Constantinople.
It is little wonder that a Canadian a nominal Christian like the famed Q-head Amazing Polly would conclude the following:
So far she has not responded and I doubt she will. She is too prideful and popular to be bothered with facts.
Now to give a demonstration of stupid conservatives being misled by the NSA-Q-LARP, here is an example.
You see how naive you have to be to follow and believe in the trusty-planny Q BS, so maybe I had a too high view of Polly's basic intelligence. Like I say I was shocked by the ignorance of her worldview.
Now, I was a little harsh with Amazing Polly hoping to shock her enough that she take note. But putting her gaffe in context she comes by it honestly. You may remember me telling the story a few months ago, having mentioned the core part of John Wesley's theology that was Orthodox, and bemoaning that I had let my volumes of his complete works go some years ago, and like clockwork an anonymous person sent me the 14 volume set, very nice quality used books. I was enjoying the gift, and reading Wesley when I was struck by his very narrow worldview. I wrote about it then, early November.
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I said:
I
ran across something interesting when reading a sermon by John Wesley.
I was occasioned to read it by a famous and beloved Orthodox priest and
monk when he made the statement that Wesley came to an "orthodox
understanding of salvation" and I played the clip of the Priest
explaining that on a Bond Robin Channel (YouTube Video) as I was
examining the heresies created by "Reformed Theology" and I expressed
regret that I gave my "Works of Wesley" away, so some anonymous person
sent me a used copy, a 14 Volume Set - "The Complete Works of John
Wesley." What struck me about this particular passage is that without
realizing it Wesley exposed a "Worldview" that was at once sad, partly
true, grossly ignorant and more, in an offensive manner, he relegated
"True Christianity" solely to his understanding of "Biblical
Christianity" which he spent his life trying to define and few of the
people who followed him ever understood or followed, as is reflected in
the Apostate Methodist Movements of today. Wesley's assessment of "The
State of Christianity in the world" made me examine my own Worldview and
try to view "The State of Christianity" in the world today and in my
country, and in my Church.
What I discovered is that such a summation would be impossible for me; I do not believe in religious syncretism, (One God - many paths - the heresy of Vatican II and the subsequent Popes) however, I hold the humility to not judge the Holy Spirit's synergistic work in the world, or to limit it to the confines of Official Orthodoxy, (That is Orthodox Ecclesiology) as some Orthodox, quoting councils and saints out of context sorely do. On the question of Christendom as a whole I did look at some demographic information. I will share it.
His sermon was entitled: Causes of the Inefficacy of Christianity.
What caught my imagination is that I have used similar language, if not
the word "inefficacy" but its meaning calling out what I call "American
Christianism." You see, those self-identifying as "Christian"
represented ninety-percent of the American population in 1980 and forty
years later we see its effect upon the culture was to produced myriad
brands of Fake Christianity, and some of these brands are so vacuous and
clownish you can't speak of them charitably. There is the
Apostasy of the Roman Hierarchy and this very visible Pagan "Culture of
Death" and now a country on the brink of a Globalist/Marxist abyss. If
responsible Christians were not active producers of this Pagan Culture,
(some were,) others were actively carried away in it, in the Cultural
Marxist Luciferian Wave. Post Vatican II, it was a purposeful assault
on all things Christian and a marginalization of Christ to an area out
of public view. The Town Square was pronounced STRICTLY Secular,
(meaning Luciferian) a famous Evangelical Bible Scholar and Apostate
openly attacked Christianity in the public Square, creating the "Freedom
From Religion Foundation," education was pronounced Humanist, Creation
and Science was pronounced Radical Materialist and all things were
pronounced in a state of Advancing Evolution, including religion and
morals. Yet, some generic deity's name was on our paper and coin
currency and every politician paid lip service to the Creator God, until
they no longer did, ten years into the 21st century. Now Trump did
talk about God sometimes in a generic way, but he also purposefully
talked about Jesus Christ in very explicit and powerful ways that must
have made his Jewish son-in-law's skin crawl.
Here is what Wesley said about his time and the state of Christianity in the World, be prepared it's rough; it is anything BUT politically correct language.
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What a mystery is this, that Christianity should have done so little
good in the world! Can any account of this be given? Can any reasons be
assigned for it? Does it not seem that one reason it has done so
little good is this, - - because it is so little known?
Can
we still make that claim today, when at the fall of the Soviet Union,
the most powerful and singular super-power in the world had a population
of Eighty Percent plus (1990) that self-identified as Christian. What
people in the world were left with no inkling of THAT Christianity? If
today Christianity is seen to be in-efficacious we
cannot claim the reason for it is its obscurity. Add to that the
satellite Christian Stations broadcasting Pat Roberts and Jim and Tammy
Fay Bakker all around the world, even today that technological
foot-print is huge. It was till the 1990s we began to realize that most
of it was supported by the Mossad and the CIA.
Wesley Continues:
Certainly
it can do no good where it is not known. But it is not known at this
day to the far greater part of the inhabitants of the earth. In the
last century (1600s) our ingenious and laborious countryman, Mr. (Edward)
Brerewood, travelled over a great part of the known world on purpose to
inquire, so far as was possible, what proportion of Christians bear to
the Heathens and Mahometans. And, according to his computation
(probably the most accurate which has yet been made,) I suppose mankind
to be divided into thirty parts, nineteen parts of theses are still open
Heathens, having no more knowledge of Christianity than the beasts that
perish. And we may add to these the numerous nations which have been
discovered in the present century. Add to these such as profess the
Mohametan religion, and utterly scorn Christianity; and twenty-five
parts out of thirty of mankind are not so much as nominally Christian.
So then five parts of mankind out of six (*84 percent) are
totally ignorant of Christianity. It is, therefore, no wonder that five
in six of mankind, perhaps nine in ten, have no advantage from it.
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But why is it that so little advantage is derived from it to the
Christian world? Are Christians any better than other men? Are they
better than Mahometans or Heathens? In many respects they are abundantly
worse; but then they are not properly Christians.
I cannot
help but wonder what Christian England and Europe looked like to him
that he would judge it so harshly. The Christianity that came down to me
from my father was forged in Scotland, was hidden in Ireland and came
to America, and it was an understanding of Holiness, similar to Wesley,
tempered by Celtic Orthodoxy and a great love of Saint Patrick and the
Alexandrian and Early Celtic Saints. My father's name was William Joseph
Leonades Robinson, named after the Saint and Christian Martyr Leonades
of Alexandria, the father of the Early Church Scholar Origen. The
Christianity that came down to me through my mother was rebellious
french spiritualism fitting her maiden name Hughie, derived from the
French Huguenots, the Huguenot settlement in Alabama, today called
Hueytown. Her Grand-mother's father was a plantation owner, owned slaves
and founded over fifty churches in middle-West Georgia and Eastern
Alabama. He trained black lay-preachers for the slaves in each community
where he founded a church. All but one of his many sons became
ministers of the Gospel. That man who founded all those churches, was a
contemporary of John Wesley. I can't help wondering what his "worldview
was."
Wesley Continues:
The
generality of these, though they bear the Christian name, do not know
what Christianity is. They no more understand it than they do Greek or
Hebrew; therefore they can be no better for it.
Then Wesley started to get specific and anatomize the Christians around the world he knew or at least as he heard rumored.
What do the Christians, so called, of the Eastern Church dispersed throughout the Turkish dominions, (*the Ottoman Empire) know
of genuine Christianity? those of the Morea, (Part of present day
Greece) of Circassia, Mongrelia, Georgia? Are they not the very dregs
of mankind?
Now in my seventh decade, I
was rocked by this xenophobic and grossly ignorant language from my
beloved John Wesley, but found them not so shocking when I read them the
first time fifty years ago; then there was nothing shocking about it
and his words seem quite reasonable to me. I had had an experience with
Syrian Orthodoxy that left me believing they were ignorant and
primitive. My Christian consciousness was as ignorant of Christianity
in the world as an English clergyman preaching in the Summer of 1789, to
whom geography and demography were barely known, dependent upon the
observation of a single traveler! When he was preaching the ink was
barely dry on the new American Constitution, and those founders had no
better grasp of the world than did Wesley; they were totally ignorant of
the world and religion of the Mohametans, (spelled with a T as Wesley
did) and how could that be, considering they came from Europe and Europe
barely survived the Muslim Hordes?
(To understand the reason for the founder's ignorance of Islam, I suggest watch "Why are we Afraid: 1400 years of fear"
https://youtu.be/9aoYOnzev2Q This is 45 minutes long.
The Video Below is a shot recap of the Islamic Jihad in Europe compared to the horrible Crusades.
Wesley
was speaking just three years before the bloody French Revolution when
madness followed grievance and executions became entertainment in
"Christian" France. The French were as barbarous as Muslims and for a
period as blood soaked as the Islamic Jihad. Yet, there I was, nearly
fifty years ago, nearly two centuries later than when Wesley was
preaching and despite the so-called evolution of knowledge the
Enlightenment Claimed, the state of Christian consciousness had little
changed and in my culture I saw America as the Great Christian Bulwark
standing against the Roman and Orthodox Countries that had move from
"Mahometan
domination" to the "Marxist Domination" of the Cold War, while in
reality, at that time, in context, we were all being placed under
Luciferian/Globalist Domination and WE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS because of
our ignorant Worldview, didn't have a clue.
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Wesley continues:
And have we reason to think that those of the Southern Church, those inhabiting Abyssinia, have any more conception than they of "worshiping God in spirit and in truth?"
Do
you even now as an American Christian have a clue the ignorance that
Wesley was speaking? What was he dismissing with the title Abyssinia? Well, the
Ethiopian Orthodox, Alexandrian Orthodox, and the Great Coptic Church
and the Christian African Nations on the Southern West Coast Africa.
He could dismiss them as Abyssinia, never having worshiped "in spirit
and truth" when for two thousand years the monks and nuns still prayed
in the deserts, and the Ethiopian monks still guarded the Ark of the
Covenant. Do you even now understand that the sound of the Hours
Prayers, like Jesus and the Apostles prayed continued and echoed all
over the region of Northern and Central Africa, and also, all over the
region of the Ottoman Empire, in the Churches and monasteries and by the
Icon Corners in the homes of the faithful. Most of you even now have
no clue.
Wesley Continued:
Look we near home. See
the Northern Churches; those that are under the Patriarch of Moscow.
How exceedingly little do they know either of outward or inward
Christianity! (When Appophatic and Kataphatic worship and theology is a central understanding of Orthodoxy)
How many thousands, yea, myriads, of those poor savages know nothing of
Christianity but the name! How little more do they know than the
heathen Tartars on the one hand, or the heathen Chinese on the other!
Again
these words are shocking to me, now in my 7th decade, but were not the
least fifty years ago, when the Divine Liturgies of the East were akin
to pagan ritual to me, before I read the Way of the Pilgrim, before I
understood the writing of the great monastics and the simple faith of
the "peasants." I lived then (fifty years ago) just a few years after
the great Stalinist purging and only a few years past the Khrushchev
persecutions that together created many tens of millions of martyrs, and
story after story of Christian wonder in the face of Luciferian
Tyranny. I had not sung the words of a blessed Russian Orthodox priest,
locked away in a Gulag, given the task of burying the dead, composing
the most beautiful poetry to the Holy Trinity I have ever heard,
including all of the Psalms and Song of the Church, "Glory to God from
age to age." "I was born a weak defenseless child, but thine angel
spread his wings over my cradle to defend me." No, my understanding of
the Russians and Russian Orthodox came from the lying histories of
Harvard and Yale Universities and the abyss of Great Protestant
Ignorance now turned Luciferian/Marxist and the University of Chicago,
the Great Center of Jesuit Influence, now turned Luciferian/Marxist and
the brainwashing children's stories that villainized the Czar published
by a shell corporation adjunct to the University of Chicago. "My Book
House." There was no "evolving" in this knowledge as they claimed, only
brainwashing.
Wesley Continues:
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But is not Christianity well known, at least, to all the inhabitants of
the western world? a great part of which is eminently termed
Christendom, or the land of Christians. Part of these are still members
of the Church of Rome; part are termed Protestants. As to the former,
Portuguese, Spaniards, Italians, French, Germans, what do the bulk of
them know of scriptural Christianity? Having had frequent opportunity
of conversing with many of these, both at home and abroad, I am bold to
affirm, that they are in general totally ignorant, both as to the theory
and practice of Christianity; so that they are "perishing" by the
thousands "for lack of knowledge," -- for want of knowing the very
first principles of Christianity.
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"But surely this cannot be the case of the Protestants in France,
Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; much less in Denmark and Sweden."
Indeed I hope it is not altogether. I am persuaded, there are among them
many knowing Christians; but I fear we must not think that one in ten,
if one in fifty, is of this number; certainly not, if we may form a
judgment of them by those we find in Great Britain and Ireland. Let us
see how matters stand at our own door. Do the people of England, in
general, (not the highest or the lowest; for these usually know nothing
of the matter; but people of the middle rank,) understand Christianity?
Do they conceive what it is? Can they give an intelligible account,
either of the speculative or practical part of it? What know they of
the very first principles of it? - - of the natural and moral attributes
of God; (I would love to know what he means by the natural and moral aspects of God) of his particular providence; of the redemption of man; of
the offices of Christ; of the operations of the Holy Ghost; of
justification; of the new birth; of inward and outward sanctification?
Speak of any of these things to the first ten person you are in company
with; and will you not find nine out of the ten ignorant of the whole
affair?
How many of you know that the Philippines is vast majority a Christian Nation? How about the newest Nation, East Timor, have you heard of it. Did you know that in the 1970s the U.S. backed a Muslim Invasion of East Timor and that led to a Christian Genocide of nearly a quarter of a million Christians there. YOUR TAX DOLLARS, and your MASSIVE NATIONAL debt paid for it. This genocide was widely reported around the world, but not here, some articles in Christianity Today and the like but the Central Intelligence Agency and the United State Department that created the Genocide, made sure that the American so-called free press never published a word about it, or if they did they used obscure tribal or ethnic names to hide the fact we were financing Jihadis to kill Christians.
What do you think your guilt should be, when you have been praying for pagan Israel, the LGBTXYZ center of the Middle East, while financing and supporting the slaughter of Christians in multiple countries. How could it happen? How could it be? Because the Luciferians created in us, the Worldview that Amazing Polly expressed, that she as some sort of Evangelical or whatever Protestant Christian is a REAL Christian conversant and compliant with "God's Law", I'm quoting her, and those "other" Christians are just created by ill intended men, by the "laws of men" to quote her. Since Canada has been in lockstep with every genocide created by the U.S. as has been Great Britain, it is seen that SHE is the dupe, duped by the Globalist, supporting Genocide and in her ignorant worldview being oblivious to it.
How Blinding is Your Worldview, and why does it matter? It matters not just because it has victimized Christian Nations abroad, but because it has created a culture of death, here and now, and unless we witness a miracle of mercy, a full Marxist revolution here is America, that sad to say, for Polly is COMPLETE in her great Maple Leaf fantasy.
In my last video I featured a truly beautiful Icon of the Blessed Theotokos (which means the God Bearer) an Icon showing her as the God Bearer, and said, "Hail Mary, Full of Grace the Lord is With Thee, Blessed art thou among women and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." I literally had a stupid Bible fundamentalist comment while cursing Mary as nothing, telling me that any old gunny sack would have sufficed for his abode, like Christ gestating in the womb of a whore would have been just fine, cause after all, the manner of Jesus birth and indeed his teaching mean little, only the fact that he was "the lamb of God" who came to shed his magic blood which that stupid fundamentalist antinomian thinks protects him from his blasphemy and ignorant Worldview. What Christians in the world could expect such ignorance to STAND IN SOLIDARITY with them against Lucifer, when in FACT their worldview IS LUCIFERIAN, totally compromised and created by the Enlightenment Movement and the Truncation of Christianity by countless lying Protestant teachers.
Yes, Rome has apostatized, and YES, The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate has apostatized, but ninety-nine percent of Protestantism beat them to it, and fat and happy they played their secular-luciferian-enlighten-radical-materialist game believing more in Darwin than Genesis, more in Gnosticism or Neo-Arianism than in Jesus the Christ of History, the head of his suffering Body the Church, to which they had for centuries turned a blind eye and dismissed as Wesley did as some inferiority, what was it he said? "those poor savages (who) know nothing of Christianity but the name! Who know little more . . . than the heathen Tartars on the one hand, or the heathen Chinese on the other!" and "Who are the dregs of the earth."
Some of these ignorant people claim to have read Solzhenitsyn, because for a long time, in our anti-communist conditioning of the Cold War, reading the Volumes of the Gulag Archipelago was the COOL, Intellectual thing to do, and if you hadn't done it, just claim to have done it, while dismissing Solzhenitsyn's Christianity, his Russian Orthodoxy, as strange and foreign. And for the one who did read him they could accept his portrayal of the cruelty and inhuman reality of the Soviet era, but when it came to Solzhenitsyn's assessment of the West after living here and being shocked by the Culture of Death they never bothered to read those words. I'm going to read an extended portion of what he had to say in Volume Three, but not print it here. I'm also going to open up one single Russian Orthodox Heart to you and see if you cannot feel God's presence in his words of praise as he languished in a Soviet Prison Camp, locked away for being a priest. (Go to the Videos below to hear the rest of the presentation.)
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NOTE: YouTube
took this video down and slandered me calling the video "hate speech"
and it is NOT. What is exposes is a foundational ways that the CIA uses
to Brainwash you. Too much TRUTH for YouTube.
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0024 Bond Video on Bitchute
The truth is, I should have made my last video (below) Volume Four of this "Worldview" Series.
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What Does the Biden Regime Hold in Store for Us - although it was a
little dry and pedantic, it is a VIEW you need to learn or a great deal
of Luciferian Foreign Policy of the New Regime will be without context.
Your
Worldview has been formed, not by Christianity as some of you believe,
but by the Luciferian Press, the Luciferian History Book printers,
Marxist Academia etc., etc. that have one thing in common. They hate
Christ.
Deboroah Lipstadt, PhD Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory (Tam Institute) One of the nation's foremost experts on Holocaust denial and modern anti-Semitism, said in an article yesterday on Holocaust Remembrance day that the Holocaust was a "watershed moment" in history. This is driven into our consciousness from an early age. Is it because America is filled with Jews? Well no, there are roughly seven million Jews in America, the Jewish population in America represents less that 1.5 percent of our overall population, a tiny minority. The American Indians are nearly 10 million in population and we rarely hear anything about them, nor their sad history. Why? Why the media focus on Jews and the Holocaust over the slaughter and purposeful starvation of many times the number of Christians in the same time period?
Some of the people who hate Christ have gone to great lengths to cover up the slaughter of Christians in the world, especially in the CIA/Luciferian Psyops Publication Complex.
Some of the people cooperating with the Whitewash of Christian suffering in the latter 19th century, the terrible 20th century and the suffering continues into the 21st century . . some of those people cooperating in the coverup were on the surface nominal Christians, some are WASPS, (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), some are Globalist Catholics, mostly Jesuits, some are Jews, the majority are Jews, when we are talking about the Publication/Media/Entertainment and News Complex. But all these groups have been involved in BLINDING YOU.
Consider for one moment how lame your reasoning is when you say to yourself that the vicious hatred of Donald Trump was all about him exposing corruption, or taking away the cash-flow of the Oligarchs. Were that the case, they would have merely "played the game" but instead they went INSANE and nuclear, and so filled with hate that after driving him from office cannot stop their curses, their blood hot for revenge.
Why? Because he represented something they HATE, decency, and in the American Model, most of you till recently thought was real, fairness for ALL; he wished EVERYONE well, wanted to see ALL succeed and prosper, but the fatal flaw is not that he gave God credit, after all in her demonic cynicism Nancy Pelosi does that, no he publicly mentioned Jesus Christ, he put Christ back in Christmas, and whether or not you noticed, he on more than one occasion confessed faith in Jesus Christ in public, again, not just a generic God, but specifically Jesus Christ and the demons howled and screamed because they were sure that they had previously watered down Christianity, rigged the system, raised up their Luciferian Puppets, spent hundreds of millions of dollars degrading Jesus on the History Channel, and National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel, feeding you FAKE history and FAKE archeology and FAKE science. Yet, there he was filling the House Chambers with LOVE and celebrating the Prosperity with which God in Christ had blessed us, comforting wounded people and honoring REAL heroes, and the demon that possessed the dirty-harlot-white-dress crowd and their Luciferian Leader, Nancy Pelosi, demonically demonstrated throughout the entire event; she was literally in torment, ripping up his speech at the end. They hated Trump not because of his policies that created mass-prosperity, but because he honored Jesus Christ in public, and did more for the individual Christian in this country than all the American clergy combined. He was empowering Christians, while the American Clergy were taking their Homeland Security "Crisis Management Classes" so they could herd you for the MARXISTS Luciferians -and we have seen a parade of it these last three months.
The famous Roman Catholic, and sincere man, sadly a misguided Papist, last evening in a live-stream suggested that it was time that we recognized our enemies as our enemies and to stop praying for their salvation but to instead pray for God's mercy to defeat them, to use the method I and some friends have been using since January of 2012, 9 months before Benghazi and all history broke loose before us and the extent of the Lying Luciferian mechanism has unfolded event after event forcing these criminals into the open. My Papist friend, the great writer and producer of the movie "The Principle" of course referenced the prayers in the Psalms, which is the Orthodox Church's hymn book and what the Latins call "imprecatory prayer." And NO, King David praying down God's wrath upon God's enemies, and the enemies of God's people was NOT as some hesycasts claim, removed from the arena of spiritual and earthly battle, and place solely inside the spiritual struggling Christians with their own demons, so that the enemy is our bad thoughts, and our own passions, and actual demonic tempters, etc., etc. Surely it is true that we pray for deliverance and to make conquest of every artifact of the enemy that has possessed us, wounded us, warped us, weakened us; not just to free ourselves from the oppression of the demonic world but to be healed of the damage they have done and to somehow in the synergistic work of the Holy Spirit, see those wounds, that damage turned to healing in others; that healing is first as King David said. Read Psalms 51, that is where you start, but that is not where you end, because the mandates of Pure and True Religion includes protection of the innocent as Jesus' Brother, Saint James said so clearly, "Jas_1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." And nowhere in the teachings and ministry of Jesus Christ were we relieved of the religious duty of Isaiah Chapter 58, "Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" The spiritualizing of this mandate, to make it the internal and zen-like work of the monk alone, and not the goal and motive of the actions of EVERY Christian in the world, is a false teaching. We have work IN the world to do, and we cannot do it if our worldview is warped, distorted, confused, ignorant and turned into a danger to the Truth, a danger to the Good and a danger to the Beautiful and a danger to other Christians in the world!
Now, I'm going to teach you one of the most important lessons you have ever experienced, if you will listen to me closely, (go read the transcript - follow along - Bond Robin Channel Blog - link in the program notes).
This is the lesson of Death, even Deaths, even Tragic Deaths vs Atrocities.
Do you understand the difference between mere death or deaths vs atrocities as defined by the Luciferian/Secularists?
For
the Luciferian/Secularists most deaths suit their purpose, since they
are in league with Satan and Satan's Peleo-Hebrew name is "He who chews
up mankind". But the Luciferian/Secularists will turn any death that
they deem helpful to their cause into an Atrocity. Now I'm going to
make up a word, and I hope you never forget it, the word is
"atrocitize" to atrocitize a death or event. The process of turning a
death or deaths into Atrocity.
For the Christian every death is twofold: Natural or unnatural, hopeful or tragic, peaceful or violent. The slaughter of the innocent is always an atrocity for the Christian, in the natural non-weaponized use of the word. The nearly two billion abortions in the world since 1990 - thirty-years of an abortion holocaust and is indeed an atrocity. But this is "natural think." For true Christians this holocaust of the unborn of humanity is indeed an atrocity, BUT, for the secularist, who is the dupe of the Luciferians, and the Luciferians themselves those two billion deaths are a moral good and should not be "atrocitized."
Over and against those two billion victims of abortion we see interposed the atrocitization of the deaths of six million people in the Jewish Holocaust. For the person of good will to admit that the Jewish Holocaust was an Atrocity WRIT LARGE is no feat of reasoning or leap of emotion, it rather seems obvious. And since the death of six million Jews fits the agenda of the luciferians and their dupes the Secularists, they have participated in a generational psychological operation to eternally "atrocitize" those deaths. They gave it a name, put tens of thousands of stories and faces to it.
A death is a death is a death but it becomes an atrocity ONLY if that death can be used for political purposes, (by political I mean psycho-manipulative purposes) to benefit a cause, to drive an agenda.
For
the Luciferian/Secularist the justice or injustice, banality or tragedy
of a death has nothing to do with whether or not the death or deaths
become an atrocity. The atrocitization of a death for them is
political, psychological and a currency to be used for control.
Again,
if you cannot grasp the concept that for the Luciferian/Secularists no
death or deaths is an atrocity unless it furthers their goals. If you
can't grasp that concept it will always remain a mystery, will not even
stick in your memory why people yawn, and possibly you yawn and even if
you acknowledge the incongruity of the atrocitization of 6 million
victims of the Jewish Holocaust, but not really the Christian victims of
the Holodomor (which is 15 to 30 million mostly Christians killed by
Stalin via forced starvation, or some call it artificial famine). One
hits you in the gut, the other not so much.
Really, is it any
wonder that we feel removed from those deaths? It is part of the Western
Mindset, a worldview with centuries of creation. John
Wesley called the Orthodox Christians of the World, in the East, in the
Middle East, in Asia Minor, in the Balkins, in Russia, "the dregs of
humanity" and "savages." A lot has happened in the intervening 2.4
centuries since he made that sermon. Christians are all over the world
now, and through faithfulness under the Islamic States, and under the
Soviet Communist boot-heel have proven who they are; and they are
suffering, and we Americans live in a country that has turned
Luciferian, has been Luciferian as we have extolled the wonders of Uncle
Sam, Mom, Apple Pie, USA! USA! USA! And grieved the Holocaust. In
fact, the MAGA movement was their last best hope of turning the tide and
removing the Luciferians from power, and as I said in a previous video,
the MAGA Movement choked. WHY?
And
here is how brainwashed you are: even though you can mentally assent to
the idea that Stalin intentionally exterminated 15 to 30 million
Ukrainian Christians, for you it is tragic but it stirs little if any
sympathy in you. Those are those OTHER people as John Wesley called
them, "the dregs of Humanity and savages." It is a mindset and mindsets
create worldviews.
Another measure of your brainwashing, your
gut wrenching conditioning, I bet at this moment, if you have not
already turned off and/or stopped reading, in your gut you feel like I
am trampling upon something sacred, doing something unseemly by daring
to compare and contrast the two: The Holocaust vs the Holodomor. Why is
this? Are not human beings, human beings? That unease you feel is
because in your soul, in your gut, in your psyche the Holocaust has been
thoroughly ATROCITIZED and the Holodomor has not. The Holocaust has
been weaponized as a psychological/political weapon and the Holodomor
has not.
Becuse of the massive media atrocitization of the Holocaust you feel it, it is a gut memory and you are regularly given emotional booster shots, a continual atrocitizing of the Holocaust.
Yet the Holodomor, with three to six times the victims, you are likely not even to remember the name.
Isn't
that strange, just on the face of it? Can you grasp how out of
proportion that is? Six million Jews exterminated and American
Christians get teary-eyed. Yet, in the same era, in the same time frame
thirty million Christians exterminated and NOTHING!, You feel nothing.
Did you know the name Holodomor? Will you remember it? Can you spell it?
Did you ever hear the name before now?
For the Pagans and
Christian Secularist in this society, they can be exempted, but for
people claiming a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ such a state is
a real deformation of that professed Christianity. Really?
Can you grasp how crooked that is?
how askew
how awry
how warped
how twisted that is?
Now it would take extreme humility to admit but that crookedness, warpness, twistedness IS IN YOUR OWN SOUL. It is ingrained in your psyche because the massive power of the CIA/Luciferian Publication-Propaganda Complex where daily you have flipped on the T.V. for TRUTH or clicked on the Web, the Internet for TRUTH, those sources have Atrocitized the one and hidden the other. I don't mean hidden it, like NEVER-EVER mentioning it, but when it is mentioned, it is mentioned in a sterile fact-of-history way. They make sure not to evoke emotions in you, not to create sympathy for the actual victims, not to memorialize the pain, pathos, and personal tragedies, not to parade an image, a suffering face a wounded survivor. For the 30 million Holodomor's Christian victims they are nameless, faceless, story-less.
Now
reverse the meaning of that last paragraph and you will witness the
Atrocitization of the Holocaust victims; they are anything but faceless,
nameless, story-less and we have been treated to seventy years of their
atrocitization.
Now try to paint what I am saying as
anti-sematic, when I fully accept the story of the Holocaust and the
story of its victims. When the TAM Institute started on the Emory
University Campus it was part of the "Holocaust Remembrance Project." I
was friends with one of the people collecting the stories and met many
Holocaust survivors. They appreciated my stories of Corrie Ten Boom and
my understanding of the shock and trauma they lived through, and nothing
I'm saying is intended to remove or minimize that reality.
THINK
For the Armenian Genocide - silence.
For the Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Eastern Roman Orthodox Christians from Anatolia (modern day Turkey) - silence.
The
now 60 million victims of Soviet Communism - mostly Christians they are
rarely mentioned except when a conservative makes a point in an
anti-socialist argument.
How about the seventy to one hundred-twenty
million victims of the three Holocausts in China? BUT WAIT, those
mass murders are not called "Holocausts" but mere "purgings." Have you
thought about that and what it means? What is it that is purged?
Infections, poisons, toxins, and WHY? For the overall health of the
body.
Non-anticeptic, i.e., diseased people who are purged are never Atrocitized. Why? Remember deaths that are beneficial to the goals of the Luciferian/Secularist are NEVER Atrocitized. The concept of Atrocity is used ONLY to further their purpose.
Go
back a few hundred years when the anti-cathohlic northern European
press managed to atrocitize something call the Dreaded Spanish
Inquisition, which has been forensically disproved. In Spain there was
no Spanish Inquisition, as it had been Atrocitized by the Northern
European lying Protestant press. Think about it, there wasn't even a tragedy and the lying early press managed to make an atrocity.
Ruby Ridge was a tragedy, but was not allowed to be viewed as an atrocity.
Waco
was a tragedy, but was not allowed to be viewed as an atrocity. Both
were sanitized because their victims were Christian. Pearl Harbor and
911, are purposely Atrocitized for political purposes for brainwashing
purposes, look at the 19 years of ridiculous ceremonies and incessant
bell ringing.
I
just ran a torrent of challenging ideas by you. If you can get over
your emotions back the video up and listen again and see if it is
possible that your world view has been created for you, warped and
skewed to fit someone else's purpose.
Warped and skewed as compared to simple truth.
Warped and skewed as compared to simple fairness and equity.
Warped and skewed as compared to justice.
The
level of Brainwashing is so complete that the CIA/Information/Complex
was able to Atrocitize the Patriots Gathered merely asking for the
restoration of our Republic on January 6th, 2020. 
What
we discovered is that many of the populations around the world have a
stronger self-respect than do Americans, with their belief that somehow
some secret plan is going to save them from the Marxist onslaught that
is HERE.
They have allowed the Luciferians to take complete
control under the name secular, and have stood on the left side of
Christ as GOATS as the power of their nation, the ingenuity of their
ancestors, the yankey-knowhow of their grand-parents, the amazing
inventiveness of their parents, was subverted by Satan and used to
slaughter Christians in the world. If you claim to be a Christian and
you don't hold more in common with the Christians of say, Comoros, a
country most have never heard of
.
. . if you don't share more in common with the Suffering Christians of
Comoros than you do with our new, but insane Assistant Secretary of
Health,
. . . then you share his insanity and are sadly deluded, and part of the Luciferian Marxist Culture.
If you don't share more in common with the Christians of Kenya
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, Archbishop Elpidophoros, marching with the Marxists of Black-Lives Matter
If you don't hold more in common with the Christians of Kuwait
"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."
The entire American Academic System has been removed from the highest divine concepts, and year after year it teaches greater levels of strange absurdities. They have brainwashed you to believe many so-called facts, that are in fact Political Scientism, NOT Science, and those strange absurdities go unquestioned by 99.99% of Academia, furthered by the Luciferian Psychological professions, accepted by Courts, legislated upon in our FAKE Congress, and at every twist, sanity is assaulted, our people are weakened, our economy is destroyed, our enterprise stymied, rights destroyed, and INSTEAD of being a SANE member of the Body of Christ, we are scattered across a national sickness, that yawns at the persecution and slaughter of Christians across the globe, celebrates Apostate Marxist, and weeps over the Holocaust, but not the Holodomor or any of the other Christian ATROCITIES.
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0024 Volume Five How Blinding is Your Worldview.
The
CIA psyops herders in their constant cowing U.S. Citizens in fear, they
have oft pressed the meme of FEMA camps. Why does the CIA know that
the image of "concentration camps" is a very effective weapon to cow
Americans and especially American patriots? They know because when even
now I write "Concentration Camps" images of the Holocaust arrive in
your mind. I Googled "First Concentration Camp" and this is the image
that was served up.
Few of you know the history of other concentration camps even in the U.S. Usually when you think of "prisoner of war" camps you think of enemy soldiers being captured and housed in "camps" with some type of dorm structures, bunk-beds, maybe a camp dinning hall, fences, bobbed-wire, bright lights, guard towers, no go land barriers outside the camps so people cannot come up to the fences from outside and so on. During World War One and World War Two, the majority of people kept in American Concentration Camps were not enemy soldiers, but mostly civilian foreign nationals and many American citizens. People are usually very surprised when they learn that the prisoners were segregated by class, wealthy German and Italian Civilians and officers not required to work, but all others put to hard labor, a great many sent to satellite camps to work. Camp Gordon (Today Fort Gordon) just south of Interstate 20, near Augusta, Georgia, had satellite camps as far away as North Carolina and Florida. Workers harvested cotton, tomato, and peanut crops, and they worked in numerous industries, including pulpwood and lumber. It was a common scene to see the PW emblazoned on the close of workers, from Labor Camps in the state of Georgia. During WWI at the Concentration Camp called Fort Oglethorpe, south of Chattanooga, (a mile square of what is today and was previously the Civil War Battle Grounds), that camp housed Count Albrecht von Montgelas, whose crime was being a journalist suspected but not proved to be a spy, Dr. Karl Muck, a Swiss Citizen, and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his crime? He chose not to play the Star Spangled Banner, but when there arose an uproar created by the American Media and Teddy Roosevelt, he ended every subsequent concert with the National Anthem, he was still arrested without charges and place in Fort Oglethorpe for three years. Dr. Ernst Kunwald, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, here he is being escorted into custody at the Federal Court House in Cincinnati, on his way to the Concentration Camp.
Dr. Kunwald was arrested as being an "enemy alien" citizen of Austria. He was held at Fort Oglethorpe for a year before being deported to his home country. Another Oglethorpe Concentration Camp alumni was Professor Goldschmidt who was arrested merely for being a German citizen; he was not released until after the war. He was a geneticist before they called them geneticist and as a Zoologist did pioneering in "chromosome research" spoke seven different languages and ended up in America at the wrong time. His family was allowed to join him, and after the war he never left, but did research and taught in California.
Now some of these people were dangerous, Dr. Isaac Strauss was a German spy who was arrested at the beginning of the war. He was part of a German Jewish spy organization. History has proved the Jewish spy organizations have been a problem for America, long before the State of Israel was formed, and doubly so since, need I mention the Rosenbergs.
(Bendersky, Joseph W. (January 7, 2008). The Jewish Threat. Basic Books. p. 56.)
Now I want to digress from the ideal of the deep fear caused by the CIA wagging "FEMA CAMPS" in our faces, and talk about "the control of the flow of information." The most frighten paragraph in the CIA/Time Magazine Propaganda piece about the Luciferian Cabal banishing US and our President Donald Trump from political power reads like this:
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
"Steer Media Coverage and CONTROL the flow of information"! Even though we knew this was a fact and have been saying it for decades, reading it in cold black and white letters from Time Magazine, them speaking it allowed, surrendering any hint of the "fair and balanced" lie, or any semblance of journalistic honesty - which have always been false faces of the various "information control mechanisms" they are at a point that they believe people to be so dumbed-down that they would read that chilling statement of the destruction of Free Speech, destruction of the rough and tumble competition of ideas in the public square, which is the purpose of Free Speech, and people would see that as a good thing. The powerful Jewish Organizations in the U.S. and Britain, together with their Marxist and Globalist allies, have sought through political pressure groups to destroy anyone who dare to even suggest a narrative outside of the prescribed and acceptable version of reality they have chosen for you, and have carefully formed in you, you own worldview, you believe to be your own thoughts and concerns. Those people who can believe for instance that this Fascist Cabal of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the marxist/mafia of the AFL-CIO, and all the other NeoCon (traitor Globalist Republicans) and Leftist Organizations that joined together to subvert the 2020 election for the purpose of robbing the MAJORITY of American Voters their voice and the expression of their will, to reelect the most popular President in MY many decades, those people who can believe that this is a good thing, are robbed of the own power of survival, and have instilled in them a "spirit" (and yes it is a spirit) of their own destruction; it is death in their members; it is darkness in their souls, it is blindness in their eyes, it is lie and anti-TRUTH, and anti-Truth and anti-Christ was absolutely synonymous. So the "control of the flow of information" is beyond evil, it is the operation of evil itself.
So to repeat, "The powerful Jewish Organizations in the U.S. and Britain, together with their Marxist and Globalist allies, have sought through political pressure groups to destroy anyone who dare to even suggest a narrative outside of the prescribed and acceptable version of reality they have chosen for you" Most of you know nothing of the history of Concentration Camps, except the story of the Holocaust camps. When you Google it you will find articles that say "The First Concentration Camp was Dachau.
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This is very similar to Google and Wikipedia saying (as we covered in a previous video) that Ecumenical means "Global."
There
were Concentration Camps in Cuba, in the late 1800s where the Spanish
held upwards of 200,000 women, children and old men, mostly farmers and
people from small villages, tens of thousands died there. The Turks of
the Ottoman Empire held 200,000 Armenians a concentration camp in the
Syrian desert where most died, in the same time period. There were
Concentration camps run by the British during the Boer War, late 1800s
early 1900s, where more died in the camps than in the War Proper, there
was an extermination camp in Namibia run by the Germans where they
exterminated 170,000 people. In the next 50 Consentration camps appeared
all across the globe, in France, Russia, Turkey, Austro-Hungary,
Brazil, Japan, China, India, Haiti, Singapore, Siam, New Zealand . . .
and this is no where an exhaustive list. Yet, in you controlled flow of
information, when you think of Concentration Camps, you think of the
Holocust. Maybe if you are a little more aware you think of Stalin's
camps, the average American knows nothing of this weapon of population
and idea suppression. But they are right to bristle with cold anger at
the thought of FEMA Camps, they are wrong to fear them.
Again
let us examine the "controlled flow of information" that has created a
truncated worldview in so many, making the easily lead by lies. This
video is in a mechanical voice, I did it mostly to make it available to
the sight impaired, but the construction of that Luciferian Information
Control Apparatus has a history and you need to know it, so you can stop
thinking childish thoughts about the "naughty American Media" and
recognize it for the BEAST of Darkness it is.
As a native of Atlanta, Georgia (I left there more than 50 years ago) I am acutely aware of the slander of Georgia, her society and people at the hands of the Jewish Propagandists, like the Anti-Defamation Society, of late the Cultural Marxist Southern Poverty Law Center, and other solely and primarily Jewish institutions. I watched them for all the decades of my life, try to exonerate a Jewish Sexual pervert, rapist and murderer, called Leo Frank.
He
managed a Jewish owned pencil factory in Atlanta, he was convicted, and
sentenced to life in prison for his crime. The 13 year old girl he
killed was friends with my aunt (same age and worked together.) In fact
they favored in appearance and when they found the victim, Mary Phagan's
body in the Basement of the Pencil Factory on Confederate Memorial Day
(the fourth Monday in April) some of the young witnesses thought it was
my aunt, and ran to my Grand Mother's house telling her that her
daughter Pearl had been murdered. The Jews in that era along with others
capitalized on child labor. Few of you can grasp that world, you are
ignorant of it, you idealize the period or maybe don't think about it at
all. My father, when he was laid off the Georgia Railroad in his late
twenties, had almost twenty years of service first as an apprentice Pipe
Fitter then Pipe Fitter working on Steam Locomotives 12 hour days all
those years. The abuse of the young workers was not something that was
by any means exclusively Jewish, certainly not, but they have tried to
wipe it from their history and to mention it is an evil thing, inside
the paradigm of their control over the flow of information. So we saw
the same things happen with Leo Frank the rapist and murder of the 13
year old Mary Phagan that we have seen with the attempted exoneration of
the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Not so much Pollard for some reason.
But prior to the fall of the Soviet Union the Jewish whitewash lobby in
the U.S. has pretty much succeeded in creating the narrative that the
Rosenbergs were really not spies, that they held some Marxist ideology
but so did a lot of other people. But upon the opening of the KGB files,
they were found to indeed be spies for Stalin and indeed they had
turned over nuclear missile secrets that allowed the Soviets to create a
Nuclear Weapon possibly decades before they would have otherwise. My
point is not to grind my heels into the fact that Leo Frank was a sick
child rapist and murderer and deserved the execution he got, even though
it was messy, or to grind my heels into the fact that the Rosenbergs
were indeed Communist Spies who did our country great damage and
deserved their fate. My point is that the "controllers of information"
who created false narratives in each case, and in many more cases,
including this last atrositization of the 1.5 million patriots that
gathered in D.C. on January the 6th . . . these "controllers of
information" are far more evil and dangerous than Franks or the
Rosenbergs. The Cabal that is described by Molly Ball in the Times
article, is an enemy of every person of good will in America. They have
proved themselves our enemy.
0024 Volume SIX - How Blinding is Your Worldview
I
pulled out my first edition of Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago"
because of this series an my friend Dean Arnold serendipitously invited a
group to meet together in a sort of book club, in person, and examine
the volumes, chapter by chapter. If he keeps doing these updates he has
made my life a lot easier. I'm going to follow Dean's work and
supplement it with information from the second most important book on
the subject "Gulag: A History" by the Historian Anne Applebaum, just to
see what the "History makers" say about it. (and I will start as soon
as I find my copy, if memory serves I read it around 2005, and I know I
did not let it go.)
Why is this exercise so important? So that
the actual information can become part of your worldview and you will
have a historic example of Marxist Experimentation in Russia and the
other nations of the Soviet Union and not have any doubts about the
violence of the evil there, the carnage, the lives ruined and the dumb
and stupid but evil people who were able to persecute people of good
will and slaughter millions of them. The Jewish/Luciferian/Marxist
media has so conditioned you via the "atrocitization" of the Holocaust,
they have emotionalized it for you, but you really don't have an
emotional tie to the much greater atrocities. At the same time the same
Luciferian Media has romanticized Marxism, and in many cases, in most
cases, instituted Marxist policies under other names. Finally, we are
so very close to history repeating here in America that we have to be
ARMED in more ways than firearms, that sadly, many will stand in line to
surrender, in an effort to show the powers that be that they are good
people and that the power structure has nothing to fear from them. They
will be the first to go.
Can this fate be avoided? Yes it can,
but it is going to take serious people who cannot be fooled by friendly
sounding rhetoric, people who flood their local political parties and
literally take them over. Rex and Trog did and excellent tutorial as to
how to learn to do this. (insert edited version of their instructions)
With
Solzhenitsyn in mind I made this humorous meme to place on Parler and
on Gab to test the limits of "Free Speech" they are touting. (There
will be more "experiments" to come). It may be humorous but it is very
real and so true that people have stopped complaining about it and
hundreds of thousands, probably millions of public employees and
corporate employees have bowed to the "re-educators" and taken the
variety of "sensitivity" classes and weekends offered by the Marxists
calling themselves, "Human Resources Specialists." Christians have gone
quitely into this darkness and they should have been screaming loudly
at the obvious insanity of it all.
Solzhenitsyn talked about how
easy it was to make excuses for any arrest, any incarceration, any
torture, any execution under the heading of "Social Prophylaxis",
meaning that the people eliminated by whatever measure had to be removed
to save SOCIETY from the damage their ideas would surely cause. We just
saw a like power structure save us from our non-antiseptic votes, and
the same power structure telling us that by destroying our votes, they
saved the nation and are guiding it back to civility and morality. It
is the exact same lying spirit at work.
Of course at present the level of brutality is very different but the philosophical principles are exactly the same. If you doubt the level of insanity here is both a beautiful and an ugly graphic to disabuse you of your ignorance.
Dean W. Arnold
Notes from week one of our book study for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's “Gulag Archipelago":
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His recounting of millions sent to concentration camps in the
Boshevik/Soviet era is sourced from the documents of 227 eyewitnesses,
along with "books long since removed from libraries and destroyed."
Sounds similar to our times.
-
Prisoners are referred to as “insects” and “rabbits,” making it easier
to dehumanize them, and ultimately execute most of them.
(
Bond
Note: Relate the bureaucrats in D.C., thinking they had lured good
people into a trap, moms, dads, grand parents and so on, innocent people
who just wanted to restore the Republic, they had set a very violent
terroristic plot in place to kill many. I'm speaking about the January
6th Bogus Banner, and all the pipe bombs strategically placed to do
maximum damage, as related by several eye witnesses. As Rex Christi has
observed, "This was the reason that cell phone signals were totally
jammed around the capitol for hours." Obviously the pipe bombs were
rigged to detonate via cell phone. The report I got from several
patriots who were there, was that the federal bureaucrats were looking
out their windows at the "insects" who were about to be terrorized with
multiple bomb blasts, and were laughing and mocking them. One person
said, "It was bone chilling to watch them mock patriots, and that was
without knowing anything about the bomb plot." You see that is the
exact same spirit. Insects and rodents are non-antiseptic and of little
worth. Bombing them is no big deal.)
-
Chapter 3 begins with the following description of certain practices.
(Torture was very common in the Gulag.) Prisoners had “their skulls
squeezed within iron rings.” They were “lowered into an acid bath”
“trussed up naked to be eaten by ants and bedbugs” “a ramrod heated over
[a] stove would be thrust up their anal canal” “a man’s genitals would
be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot . . .”
-
That’s all I will provide of the many, many pages of detailed
descriptions of torture (52 methods, he said). S. seems to provide way
more detail than necessary to make his point, but we may fail to
appreciate that in his day (book printed in 1973) there was not much
awareness of Communist/Soviet cruelty, and he needed to provide
documentation upon documentation to be taken seriously.
- While
waiting to be interrogated (tortured), prisoners might find themselves
packed 15 tight into a solitary confinement cell meant for one prisoner.
They might be swarming with lice. They may be told their cell is also
their latrine, and, if allowed to go outside, guards might force them on
their knees and urinate on their face.
- The interrogations were
mad efforts to get the prisoners to confess (to things they did not do)
and to rat out others. As S. details abundantly, it became more and
more clear that the authorities and the interrogators cared not at all
for the truth. They were simply filling quotas: the leader (Stalin) and
his brass wanted so many thousand people arrested and killed every month
in order to show the rest of the populace the need to obey.
-
As the number tortured and killed is in the millions, one must wonder:
how could so many sadists be found and employed for such cruelty?
Perhaps one person in 500 could have such evil predilections, but that
doesn’t seem like enough! Our conclusion: like sexual debauchery,
violence has its own progression from shock to the need for a greater
stimulus, to acquiring a taste for the next level and then actually
enjoying and craving it. The presence of demons empowering the process
helps a good bit.
- In hindsight, it became obvious that
resistance should have taken place at the very beginning. “Maybe it will
all blow over” he thought. However, “A submissive sheep is a find for a
wolf.” This is a famous quote from the book:
“And how we burned in
the camps later, thinking: ‘What would things have been like if every
Security operative, when he went out to make an arrest, had been
uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his
family?” What if we understood that we “had nothing to lose and had
boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people
with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . . If … if …
We didn’t love freedom enough . . . we HURRIED to submit. We submitted
with PLEASURE! . . . We purely and simply deserved everything that
happened afterward.”
“Others, like Andrew Parvel, who found
themselves in a trap or an ambushed apartment by accident, and who were
bold enough to escape immediately, before they could be questioned, were
never caught and never charged; while those who stayed behind to await
justice got a term in prison. And the overwhelming majority—almost
all—behaved just like that: without any spirit, helplessly, with a sense
of doom.”
- These stories make a Christian man think very
seriously and soberly regarding his duty to protect but also his duty to
follow Christ. How does it work? When do we fight like David and
Constantine, or do we escape the city in a basket like the Apostle Paul,
or demand our rights as a Roman citizen like Paul, or rejoice in being
tortured like Paul?
- There were a number of places in the first
three chapters where I wrote the note: “It is better to die early.” For
instance, when the communists “began to ransack the churches and throw
out the relics of the saints . . . true Orthodox believers rushed forth,
some of them with clubs, Naturally, some had to be ‘expended’ right on
the spot and others arrested.” I would have preferred to be expended
rather than arrested. And for a good cause.
- Some were killed
and arrested for refusing to work on Sunday. Priests were killed for
refusing to share what they forgave in the confessional. Engineers who
refused to acknowledge the “new math” that sped up construction (that
would not work for bridges and other structures lacking proper
supplies)—they were executed for being “limiters.”
- Many were arrested for the following:
VAT: Praise of American Technology
VAD: Praise of American Democracy
PZ: Lauding the West
Are these not things we may be arrested for in the future (but replace America with “Russia”)?
-
There were a few wonderful and positive stories laced in with the
horror: One grandmother had allowed the head of her Church (the
Metropolitan) to stay at her house on his way to escaping to Finland.
“They kept on interrogating her every night:
‘To whom did he go when he left Moscow?’
‘I know but I won’t tell you!’
"At
first the interrogators took turns, and then they went after her in
groups. They shook their fists in the little old woman’s face, and she
replied: ‘There is nothing you can do with me, even if you cut me into
pieces. After all, you are afraid of your bosses, and you are afraid of
each other, and you are even afraid of killing me [they would lose their
ability to catch the Metropolitan]. But I am not afraid of anything. I
would gladly be judged by God right this minute.’”
S. does not disclose her fate.
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Compared to the gulag, prisoners who remembered the Tsar’s jails called
them “a prison of blessed memory” which we “recall with a feeling
almost of gladness.” When the Bolsheviks put the Tsar’s jailer on trial
in 1918 “the MOST EXTREME measure of his cruelty that was cited . . . in
one case he had struck a political prisoner with such force that his
eardrum had burst.”
- Even more irony from S.: “It is hard to see
why we are so down on serfdom. After all, no one forbade the peasants
to work every day [it was common to prohibit Soviet farmers from
working]. And they could sing carols at Christmas too. And for Trinity
Day the girls wove wreaths . . . "
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0024 Volume Seven How Blinding is Your Worldview.
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Did you know that Two Hundred and Fifty Million Farmers and workers are today on Strike in India? I was impressed, I mean really, really impressed when in Egypt 33 Million people stood in the streets for weeks to throw off the Muslim Brotherhood masters that Barrack Obama had foisted upon them. It was glorious! But that pales in comparison to a quarter of a Billion People acting in lockstep, the largest action by humans ever on the face of the earth and because of the CIA/Luciferian Psyops Press in America, you know nothing about it. Now I hedged the truth a little saying it is happening now, it actually happened two months ago and you heard NOTHING about it.
I bet all those same ignorant Americans know that Rush Limbaugh died. Right? And I bet you have an opinion on it. I even bet that many of you are emotionally involved in his passing.
I
want to challenge people to see what is real instead of being carried
along by the culture to merely "be nice" and get along. That inability
to find the hard edge to turn back the sweet and comfortable lies is the
greatest weakness of the American Character, it destroys the
possibility of having a meaningful much less accurate Worldview. So in
this video I want to discuss on a deeper level where we presently are,
so that my next video about the "multiple perceptions" of Alexsandr
Solzhenitsyn and his message, and how important it is to get him right,
may have a little more weight in your mind.
This is the weirdness we are presented as the state of our present governance. Something is very wrong with it.
Now
there is this incessant theme that Biden is not really president and
indeed there is something unreal about what is presented to us. But let
us not be foolish, we are ALL in the Dark. Is it the Marxist Takeover
it appears to me to be? For that part it will take months to fully grasp
the reality, as impositions are imposed upon us.
Rex Christi in his hopefulness posted the following memory on Facebook:
This theme that Rex shared perfectly fits this lesson. Understand please that I am not criticizing Rex or even saying he is wrong, there is a very good chance that both of us are right, and my goal here, with these series of Videos on the "Blindness of Your Worldview" is to increase Rex's chances of being right. There is no denying the fact that more people know more of the reality of the challenge of Marxism today in America than they did even a few years ago. For me, I will take no prisoners in my pressing of what is REAL and WHAT is TRUE. No sugarcoating or niceness to be found here, only the cold reality of the choice before us.
It is absolutely true that Candidate and then President Donald Trump represented and still represents the greatest challenge to the New World Order which is a combination of "Stake Holder Capitalism for the MEGA WEALTHY Elites and their elite thought manufactures, herders and the like and slavery in some form of pernitious Marxism for the rest of us. I've just described the reality of the Great Reset, that Rex labelled "Hell on Earth." Speaking of elite herders, Rush Limbaugh who in the early eighties was bankrupt, reposed this week with a net worth of over Six-Hundred Million Dollars. What does that mean? We are going to look at what Rush paid for that wealth. So back to Rex's statement I say:
If I had a nickel for every time that Rush Limbaugh uttered the word "Constitution" in all its forms, "Constitutionally" "UN-Constitutional" etc, just that single word, while he KNEW that the Constitution had been abrogated by bodies of National Emergency law, acts, codes, schemes, I would be a very rich man.
Patrice de Bergeracpas, (a well known anti-government -anti-corporate - small government Libertarian) writing about the China Virus reaction not being "health driven" but rather an active coup d'etat, via continuity of Government, emergency action, defines
Octagon, Freejack, Zodiac & Granite Shadow as follows:
It should be remembered that the principle of "continuity of government" (I will add, which abrogated the U.S. Constitution and literally replaced it) was forged at the beginning of the Cold War. It was designed to protect the United States in the event of a nuclear war against the Soviet Union and the death or incapacity of the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives. According to a written directive from President Dwight Eisenhower, a replacement military government was to provide immediate continuity of command during the war until democratic procedures were restored [2].
This replacement government was never requested, except on September 11, 2001, by the National Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Richard Clarke [3] However, if the country was undergoing a terrible attack, neither the President, the Vice-President nor the Speaker of the House of Representatives had died or been prevented from doing so, which led me to conclude that it was a coup d’état. In any case, President George Bush Jr. regained his prerogatives the same day in the evening and no explanation was ever given of what happened during the ten hours of suspension of his authority [4].
According to the best Pentagon expert, William Arkin, in Newsweek [5], there are now seven separate plans:
- Rescue & Evacuation of the Occupants of the Executive Mansion (RESEM) to protect the President, the Vice President and their families.
- Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan (JEEP) to protect the Secretary of Defense and key military leaders.
- Atlas Plan to protect members of Congress and the Supreme Court.
- Octagon, about which nothing is known.
- Freejack, also unknown.
- Zodiac, still unknown.
- Granite Shadow, which provides for the deployment of special units in Washington and stipulates the conditions for the use of force and the passage of places under military authority [6].
Note that RESEM is intended to protect the president and vice-president, but can only be applied once they are dead or incapacitated.
In any event, the implementation of these seven plans would be the responsibility of the United States Military Command for North America (NorthCom) under the responsibility of an illustrious unknown, General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy.
It should be remembered that under US law, this man is required to become the dictator of the United States only in the event of the death or incapacity of the three principal elected officials of the federal state, but in practice, his predecessor, General Ralph Eberhart, has sometimes exercised this power without this condition being met. Eberhart, now 73 years old, is the head of the major US military avionics companies.
Now to update what Patrice de Bergeracpas has written. Last August 20th, 2020. A new commander of NorthCom was installed by President Trump and Secretary Esper. And this may be very significant, because I can't find a hint of Elitism in this man's story. And at present as you will see it is entirely possible that he is the single dictator of the United States under Continuation of Government (National Security) laws.
General
O’Shaughnessy told the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 13
(2020) that NorthCom was preparing for the worst. To this end, it
liaises on a daily basis with the ten other US Central Commands for the
World [7].
NorthCom has authority not only over the United
States, but also over Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. Under
international agreements, it can, on its own initiative, deploy US
troops to these three countries.
In 2016, President Barack Obama
signed the top-secret Presidential Policy Directive 40 on "National
Continuity Policy". FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate signed Federal
Continuity Directive 1 two days before President Donald Trump took
office, specifying some of the details at lower levels.
They’ve
thought of everything, and are prepared for the worst. The outbreak
provides them with the motive to act. So the questions asked by Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian about a possible deliberate
release of the virus by the US military make sense.
It makes
sense to Patrice de Bergeracpas and since we are in the dark, we have to
admit that we do not know. It could be that the benevolent God is
shining blessing upon us, and the motivation of the military to take
control, to present Trump's banishment and China Joe's comical and sad
rise to power and the massive LARPING we have seen at work, has very
good reason and is the most peaceful solution at present, and it also
may be the biggest and most massive false flag operation in the history
of man. Where does all this leave The Chinese Communist Party?
Answers:
(1) Pissing in their pants unable to put a handle on what is coming next.
(2) Talking with Kamala on the phone and not believing a word.
(3) Fearing that Trump is somehow without anyway of discovering hidden but yet still in control
(4) or That the military has decided not to let America become either the victim of Chinese economic and social aggression.
(5)
or that the military understands that the only way to battle a
fifty-two thousand strong Chinese Communist Army of Chinese Party
members that reside in the U.S., is via confusing the hell out of
everyone, making them have no idea who to attack and where.
(6) Or the American Government has made pact with the ChiComs and this is the confusion of their Marxist Partnership.
While
a Quarter of a Billion People protest in India, and our President and
government seem to be Computer Generated Magic, and we rest in the Dark
not even knowing the sort of Government that is governing us. You are
all grieved about Rush Limbaugh. If you don't find that more than odd
and the result of your own hypnosis, you are still asleep.
You
see one person believes that Rush Limbaugh woke him up, when the only
thing Rush Limbaugh ever did, as I say, until his reluctant and late
support of Trump was to provide a FAKE Opposition Alternative. He
paraded before you every LARP, every purposeful Marxist Outrage. He
provided the "antithesis" to the "thesis" is a masterful Hegelian
Dialectic Control mechanism that lasted nearly 40 years. That is who and
what Rush Limbaugh was, and in the process, because the Elite Thought
Manufacturers and Mind Manipulators are so valuable, he amassed a
fortune that upon his death was a net worth of more than HALF A BILLION
DOLLARS. That is an amazing level of patriotism and self-sacrifice. I
speak and people simply do not understand what I am saying. ALL of the
PSYOPS MEDIA, all of it, is CIA Controlled, CIA Compliant, CIA
Sanctioned, and as a result Americans are some of the Dumbest People on
Earth. It is forty years of Deliberate Dumbing Down of the American
People, just ask Charlotte Iserbyt who exposed it and explained it in a
well documented book and followed up with decades of confirming work,
but her voice and the voice of other ACTUAL truth tellers was drowned
out by the GRAND HEGELIAN GAME and the blowhard FAKE opposition from
people like Mann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and
on and on across the CIA/Salem network.
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I
ended the last video wondering why I had never heard of the book,
Solzhenitsyn's last book, and speculated correctly that I believed that
Solzhenitsyn would be faithful to the truth to the end and that the only
reason only few have heard of his last works is because it was
something the CIA and Zionist did not want told. I could not have been
more right. The book is so suppressed that Guardian Newspaper reviewed
it and never names the book. Have you ever heard of a book review that
didn't name the book it was reviewing? My God, they still do reviews of
Hitler's tome and worldview, Mein Kampf, and never fail to name the
book. Think about the level of suppression, the level of control over
the flow of information that they would criticize a book by an author
and never name the book. Why? They know that they have you so
hypnotized that your memory is the lenght of that of a gnat, or at last
only as long as today's FAKE NEWS cycle and they don't want you looking
up the title. Now in all fairness, the book his son was talking about
in the little lecture I related was not Solzhenitsyn's last work; his
son was talking about "The Red Wheel", I am speaking of "200 Years
Together" which I have discovered is the most banned book in its English
addition. When you look it up on Amazon what you find are reviews but
no books. It has been reviewed thousands of times, and the reviews run
from honest and scholarly to rants that people interested are all
anti-semites. It is quite amazing how suppressed this book is.
Here is the first paragraph of a review by a fellow named Patton:
I
have finally read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s remarkable two volume
historical essay Two Hundred Years Together after buying the Russian,
French, and German editions from amazon. What an adventure it has been.
Research and writing the two volumes occupied the last decade of his
life; the books were published in 2001 and 2003, but are still not
available in English translation. They were apparently translated by
Columbus Falco and appeared listed along with a color picture of the
book by several booksellers, but suddenly disappeared without
explanation. It is simply “no longer available.” A few chapters have
been translated and now appear in various scholarly blogs on the
Internet, and two foreign language translations are available from
amazon. Also, on the Internet one can find two partial English
translations which are helpful but not authoritative . . .
Here is the review from "The Guardian" that never names the book:
Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges.
In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia.
But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it, accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-semitism in Russia.
Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary period "consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians" as being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the Jewish experience.
In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: "If I would care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of others."
Yet he added: "But it is impossible to find the answer to the eternal question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain the actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that two thirds were Jews, is certainly incorrect."
Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when he wrote about his experiences. He is currently in frail health, but in an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to terms with the Stalinist and revolutionary genocides - and that its Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them.
"My book was directed to empathise with the thoughts, feelings and the psychology of the Jews - their spiritual component," he said. "I have never made general conclusions about a people. I will always differentiate between layers of Jews. One layer rushed headfirst to the revolution. Another, to the contrary, was trying to stand back. The Jewish subject for a long time was considered prohibited. Zhabotinsky [a Jewish writer] once said that the best service our Russian friends give to us is never to speak aloud about us."
But Solzhenitsyn's book has caused controversy in Russia, where one Jewish leader said it was "not of any merit".
"This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes," said Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress. "Richard Wagner did not like the Jews, but was a great composer. Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer, but had a very sceptical attitude towards the Jews.
"This is not a book about how the Jews and Russians lived together for 200 years, but one about how they lived apart after finding themselves on the same territory. This book is a weak one professionally. Factually, it is so bad as to be beyond criticism. As literature, it is not of any merit."
But DM Thomas, one of Solzhenitsyn's biographers, said that he did not think the book was fuelled by anti-semitism. "I would not doubt his sincerity. He says that he firmly supports the state of Israel. In his fiction and factual writing there are Jewish characters that he writes about who are bright, decent, anti-Stalinist people."
Professor Robert Service of Oxford University, an expert on 20th century Russian history, said that from what he had read about the book, Solzhenitsyn was "absolutely right".
Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of how Trotsky, who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919 to ensure that Jews were enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said that Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet civil bureaucracy, including the cheka.
"Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-semitism was [partly down to] objections about their entrance into the civil service. There is something in this; that they were not just passive spectators of the revolution. They were part-victims and part-perpetrators.
"It is not a question that anyone can write about without a huge amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia because the Jews are quite often written about by fanatics. Mr Solzhenitsyn's book seems much more measured than that."
Yet others failed to see the need for Solzhenitsyn's pursuit of this particular subject at present. Vassili Berezhkov, a retired KGB colonel and historian of the secret services and the NKVD (the precursor of the KGB), said: "The question of ethnicity did not have any importance either in the revolution or the story of the NKVD. This was a social revolution and those who served in the NKVD and cheka were serving ideas of social change.
"If Solzhenitsyn writes that there were many
Jews in the NKVD, it will increase the passions of anti-semitism, which
has deep roots in Russian history. I think it is better not to discuss
such a question now."
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200 Years Together - Wikispooks
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| Type | book |
| Author(s) | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Subjects | History of the Jews in the Soviet Union |
| Original language | Russian |
| Local copy | Broken Link: [[{{{local}}}]] |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's work on the relationship between Russians and Jews inside the Russian and Soviet Empires. | |
Two Hundred Years Together is a monumental work of historical scholarship by Soviet dissident and 1970 Nobel literature laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dealing with the relationship between Russians and Jews inside the Russian and Soviet Empires. Solzhenitsyn authored it in Russian and the original work was published in Russian in 2001/2, with published translations in German and French following soon after. However, for reasons that will be obvious to those who have read it, it has never found an English language publisher.
Historical revision
It is a work of quintessential historical revisionism by an author of towering reputation and authority on Russia and the Soviet Union. The carefully nurtured global Jewish self-image as history's eternal victim is seriously dented by revelations of extensive high-level Jewish complicity in - not-to-say responsibility for - vast Soviet atrocities against its own populations; complicity which remains well hidden and largely unknown in the West. The book is thus anathema to orthodox Jewish and Zionist Establishments and this is amply reflected in its extended wikipedia article which categorises it as "Antisemitism" and is replete with obfuscation of the major issues involved. In classic Wikipedia style on sensitive/taboo issues, the article is dominated by multiple hostile critical reviews - in this case from largely Jewish sources with the first from arch-Zionist Daniel Pipes - and excludes ANY references to major dissenting authorities - most notably to extensive reviews by Professor Kevin MacDonald.
The work is in two volumes; the first sub-titled "Russian-Jewish History 1795 to 1916" (512 pages), the second sub-titled "The Jews in the Soviet Union" (600 pages), which deals with the period from the Bolshevik revolution to the demise of the Soviet Union in the late 1990's.
Samizdat English translations
(Samizdat means, underground or clandestine publications)
From 2008 through to September 2010 a project
to translate the book into English published various chapters as they
became available. They have since been referenced and reviewed on
various websites, notably in The Barnes Review and The Oxidental Review
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The massive suppression and the atrositization of this last book by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn is real time actual proof of everything I have said about the Jewish domination of the "Flow of Information", as they go to Herculean efforts to control and mold OUR worldview according to their dictates. They are suppressing the book in other languages as well, but it is non-existent in English except in Digital copies, that frankly I don't trust. There is an English Abridged addition, and you can bet who abridged it.
The importance of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn just rose monumentally in my book.
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In this video I want to share with you how narrow worldviews constrict one from sometimes understanding what one has read. I'm going to use a very sincere book reviewer, who reviews Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago from what is an obviously secular understanding, from a base of humanism, refusing to recognize God in any way. Such people are more mesmerized by Solzhenitsyn's work than enlightened by it. If they actually examine the carnage of the Gulag system and the insanity of the Communist Society they are at a lost to explain it in any cohesive or convincing way. They also ignore Solzhenitsyn's own explications for it, for the insanity. When Solzhenitsyn uses the word evil, these humanist read "bad," not the real spiritual entity Lucifer, Satan and all the other fallen diabolical creatures that are in rebellion to God and hate human beings. In fact that pantheon of "gods" Lucifer and his hordes seek to destroy the human race, or debauch it out of recognition of God's image, or transmute it into a techno-diabolical monstrosity. After we let this young man demonstrate what I am telling you, and understand I like him, I am please that he is taking the effort and doing the research, but after he speaks, we are going to examine what Solzhenitsyn, himself, said about his own work and the period of time he analyzed in his work.
How
very different Solzhenitsyn's understanding of his own work was,
compared to what this young man gained from it. He hasn't dropped the
subject and is examining more and more of Solzhenitsyn's thoughts, and
if he keeps it up he will gain more than his understanding of "goodness
in the higher self" he will discover not a God of his own making, but
the God of True Christianity, the God of Eternity, the Creator of all
things Visible and Invisible and it will shatter everything he
previously thought.
0024 Volume TEN How Blinding is Your Worldview
‘Men Have Forgotten God’: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Address
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Editor’s Note: This article, which originally ran in the July 22, 1983, issue of National Review, is adapted from the address Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave on the occasion of his acceptance, in London on May 10, 1983, of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
Solzhenitsyn's words will be signified by beginning and ending with this sign
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Your Royal Highness: Permit me to express my appreciation to you for taking part in this ceremony. Your participation lends special dignity to these proceedings.
This is the first time that the Templeton Prize has been awarded to
an Orthodox Christian. With gratitude that our share in the religious
life of the world has now been accorded notice, I remain acutely
conscious of my personal unworthiness to receive this award as I look
back upon the venerable line of outstanding Orthodox churchmen and of
Orthodox thinkers from Aleksey Khomyakov to Sergei Bulgakov. And I am
very much aware that Eastern Slavic Orthodoxy, which, during the 65
years of Communist rule, has been subjected to persecution even fiercer
and more extensive than that of early Christian times, has had—and still
has today—many hands worthier than mine to accept it. Beginning with
Vladimir Bogoyavlensky, metropolitan of Kiev, shot by the Communists
before the walls of the Kievo-Pechersky Monastery at the dawn of the
Lenin era, the list would extend to the intrepid priest Gleb Yakunin,
who is enduring torments today, under Andropov: Forcibly deprived of all
outward symbols of his priesthood, and even of the right to have the
Gospels, Father Yakunin+++
(We will do a video about Father Yakunin and the Marxist reality of the World Council of Churches)
+++ Yakunin has many times for months at a time been held in a freezing stone cubicle, without bed, clothes, or food.+++
(I
met a Russian citizen who was a prison official that found Christ. He
testified that they would leave Fr Yakunin naked in the concrete like
bunker in sub-zero temperatures (I don't know if he meant below freezing
as in Celsius measure where Freezing is Zero, or our understanding of
below Zero) and when they would open the doors he would be praying or
singing psalms and the tomb would be warm and he would be glowing.)
+++ In this persecution-filled age, it is appropriate that my own very
first memory should be of Chekists (The Chekists became the GPU/KGB) in pointed caps entering St.
Panteleimon’s Church in Kislovodsk, interrupting the service, and
crashing their way into the sanctuary in order to loot. And later, when I
started going to school in Rostov-on-Don — passing on my way a
kilometer-long compound of the Cheka-GPU and a glittering sign of the
League of Militant Atheists — schoolchildren egged on by Komsomol
members taunted me for accompanying my mother to the last remaining
church in town and tore the cross from around my neck.
Orthodox churches were stripped of their valuables in 1922 at the instigation of Lenin and Trotsky. In subsequent years, including both the Stalin and the Khrushchev periods, tens of thousands of churches were torn down or desecrated, leaving behind a disfigured wasteland that bore no resemblance to Russia such as it had stood for centuries. Entire districts and cities of half a million inhabitants were left without a single church. Our people were condemned to live in this dark and mute wilderness for decades, groping their way to God and keeping to this course by trial and error. The grip of oppression that we have lived under, and continue to live under, has been so great that religion, instead of leading to a free blossoming of the spirit, has been manifested in asserting the faith on the brink of destruction, or else on the seductive frontiers of Marxist rhetoric, where so many souls have come to grief.
The statement of the Templeton Foundation shows an understanding of how the Orthodox spiritual tradition has maintained its vitality in our land despite the forcible promotion of atheism. If even a fraction of those words should find their way to my motherland past the jamming devices, this will bolster the spirits of our believers, assuring them that they have not been forgotten, and that their steadfastness inspires courage even here.
The centralized atheism before whose armed might the whole world trembles still hates and fears this unarmed faith as much today as it did 60 years ago. Yes! All the savage persecutions loosed upon our people by a murderous state atheism, coupled with the corroding effect of its lies, and an avalanche of stultifying propaganda — all of these together have proven weaker than the thousand-year-old faith of our nation. This faith has not been destroyed; it remains the most sublime, the most cherished gift to which our lives and consciousness can attain.
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.” The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century. The first of these was World War I, and much of our present predicament can be traced back to it. It was a war (the memory of which seems to be fading) when Europe, bursting with health and abundance, fell into a rage of self-mutilation which could not but sap its strength for a century or more, and perhaps forever. The only possible explanation for this war is a mental eclipse among the leaders of Europe due to their lost awareness of a Supreme Power above them. Only a godless embitterment could have moved ostensibly Christian states to employ poison gas, a weapon so obviously beyond the limits of humanity.
The same kind of defect, the flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension, was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic temptation of the “nuclear umbrella.” It was equivalent to saying: Let’s cast off worries, let’s free the younger generation from their duties and obligations, let’s make no effort to defend ourselves, to say nothing of defending others — let’s stop our ears to the groans emanating from the East, and let us live instead in the pursuit of happiness. If danger should threaten us, we shall be protected by the nuclear bomb; if not, then let the world burn in Hell for all we care. The pitifully helpless state to which the contemporary West has sunk is in large measure due to this fatal error: the belief that the defense of peace depends not on stout hearts and steadfast men, but solely on the nuclear bomb.
Only the loss of that higher intuition that comes from God could have allowed the West to accept calmly, after World War I, the protracted agony of Russia as she was being torn apart by a band of cannibals, or to accept, after World War II, the similar dismemberment of Eastern Europe. The West did not perceive that this was in fact the beginning of a lengthy process that spells disaster for the whole world; indeed, the West has done a good deal to help the process along. Only once in this century did the West gather strength — for the battle against Hitler. But the fruits of that victory have long since been lost. Faced with cannibalism, our godless age has discovered the perfect anesthetic — trade! Such is the pathetic pinnacle of contemporary wisdom.
Today’ s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding centuries, would have called forth the cry: “This is the Apocalypse!”
Yet we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it.
Dostoevsky warned that “great events could come upon us and catch us intellectually unprepared.” This is precisely what has happened. And he predicted that “the world will be saved only after it has been possessed by the demon of evil.” Whether it really will be saved we shall have to wait and see: this will depend on our conscience, on our spiritual lucidity, on our individual and combined efforts in the face of catastrophic circumstances. But it has already come to pass that the demon of evil, like a whirlwind, triumphantly circles all five continents of the earth.
We are witnesses to the devastation of the world, be it imposed or voluntarily undergone. The entire 20th century is being sucked into the vortex of atheism and self-destruction. This plunge into the abyss has aspects that are unquestionably global, dependent neither on political systems, nor on levels of economic and cultural development, nor yet on national peculiarities. And present-day Europe, seemingly so unlike the Russia of 1913, is today on the verge of the same collapse, for all that it has been reached by a different route. Different parts of the world have followed different paths, but today they are all approaching the threshold of a common ruin.
In its past, Russia did know a time when the social ideal was not fame, or riches, or material success, but a pious way of life. Russia was then steeped in an Orthodox Christianity which remained true to the Church of the first centuries. The Orthodoxy of that time knew how to safeguard its people under the yoke of a foreign occupation that lasted more than two centuries, while at the same time fending off iniquitous blows from the swords of Western crusaders. During those centuries the Orthodox faith in our country became part of the very pattern of thought and the personality of our people, the forms of daily life, the work calendar, the priorities in every undertaking, the organization of the week and of the year. Faith was the shaping and unifying force of the nation.
But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter’s forcibly imposed transformations, which favored the economy, the state, and the military at the expense of the religious spirit and national life. And along with this lopsided Petrine enlightenment, Russia felt the first whiff of secularism; its subtle poisons permeated the educated classes in the course of the 19th century and opened the path to Marxism. By the time of the Revolution, faith had virtually disappeared in Russian educated circles; and amongst the uneducated, its health was threatened.
It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that “revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.” That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. To achieve its diabolical ends. Communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails the destruction of faith and nationhood. Communists proclaim both of these objectives openly, and just as openly go about carrying them out. The degree to which the atheistic world longs to annihilate religion, the extent to which religion sticks in its throat, was demonstrated by the web of intrigue surrounding the recent attempts on the life of the Pope.
The 1920’s in the USSR witnessed an uninterrupted procession of victims and martyrs amongst the Orthodox clergy. Two metropolitans were shot, one of whom, Veniamin of Petrograd, had been elected by the popular vote of his diocese. Patriarch Tikhon himself passed through the hands of the Cheka-GPU and then died under suspicious circumstances. Scores of archbishops and bishops perished. Tens of thousands of priests, monks, and nuns, pressured by the Chekists to renounce the Word of God, were tortured, shot in cellars, sent to camps, exiled to the desolate tundra of the far North, or turned out into the streets in their old age without food or shelter. All these Christian martyrs went unswervingly to their deaths for the faith; instances of apostasy were few and far between.
For tens of millions of laymen access to the Church was blocked, and they were forbidden to bring up their children in the Faith: religious parents were wrenched from their children and thrown into prison, while the children were turned from the faith by threats and lies. One could argue that the pointless destruction of Russia’s rural economy in the 1930s — the so-called de-kulakization and collectivization, which brought death to 15 million peasants while making no economic sense at all — was enforced with such cruelty, first and foremost, for the purpose of destroying our national way of life and of extirpating religion from the countryside. The same policy of spiritual perversion operated throughout the brutal world of the Gulag Archipelago, where men were encouraged to survive at the cost of the lives of others. And only atheists bereft of reason could have decided upon the ultimate brutality — against the Russian land itself — that is being planned in the USSR today: The Russian north is to be flooded, the flow of the northern rivers reversed, the life of the Arctic Ocean disrupted, and the water channeled southward, toward lands already devastated by earlier, equally foolhardy “feats of Communist construction.”
For a short period of time, when he needed to gather strength for the struggle against Hitler, Stalin cynically adopted a friendly posture toward the Church. This deceptive game, continued in later years by Brezhnev with the help of showcase publications and other window dressing, has unfortunately tended to be taken at its face value in the West. Yet the tenacity with which hatred of religion is rooted in Communism may be judged by the example of their most liberal leader, Khrushchev: for though he undertook a number of significant steps to extend freedom, Khrushchev simultaneously rekindled the frenzied Leninist obsession with destroying religion.
But there is something they did not expect: that in a land where churches have been leveled, where a triumphant atheism has rampaged uncontrolled for two-thirds of a century, where the clergy is utterly humiliated and deprived of all independence, where what remains of the Church as an institution is tolerated only for the sake of propaganda directed at the West, where even today people are sent to the labor camps for their faith, and where, within the camps themselves, those who gather to pray at Easter are clapped in punishment cells–they could not suppose that beneath this Communist steamroller the Christian tradition would survive in Russia. It is true that millions of our countrymen have been corrupted and spiritually devastated by an officially imposed atheism, yet there remain many millions of believers: it is only external pressures that keep them from speaking out, but, as is always the case in times of persecution and suffering, the awareness of God in my country has attained great acuteness and profundity.
It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.
The West has yet to experience a Communist invasion; religion here remains free. But the West’s own historical evolution has been such that today it too is experiencing a drying up of religious consciousness. It too has witnessed racking schisms, bloody religious wars, and rancor, to say nothing of the tide of secularism that, from the late Middle Ages onward, has progressively inundated the West. This gradual sapping of strength from within is a threat to faith that is perhaps even more dangerous than any attempt to assault religion violently from without.
Imperceptibly, through decades of gradual erosion, the meaning of life in the West has ceased to be seen as anything more lofty than the “pursuit of happiness, “a goal that has even been solemnly guaranteed by constitutions. The concepts of good and evil have been ridiculed for several centuries; banished from common use, they have been replaced by political or class considerations of short-lived value. It has become embarrassing to state that evil makes its home in the individual human heart before it enters a political system. Yet it is not considered shameful to make daily concessions to an integral evil. Judging by the continuing landslide of concessions made before the eyes of our very own generation, the West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. Western societies are losing more and more of their religious essence as they thoughtlessly yield up their younger generation to atheism. If a blasphemous film about Jesus is shown throughout the United States, reputedly one of the most religious countries in the world, or a major newspaper publishes a shameless caricature of the Virgin Mary, what further evidence of godlessness does one need? When external rights are completely unrestricted, why should one make an inner effort to restrain oneself from ignoble acts?
Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis ― race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts today. Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society. Amid all the vituperation we forget that the defects of capitalism represent the basic flaws of human nature, allowed unlimited freedom together with the various human rights; we forget that under Communism (and Communism is breathing down the neck of all moderate forms of socialism, which are unstable) the identical flaws run riot in any person with the least degree of authority; while everyone else under that system does indeed attain “equality”― the equality of destitute slaves.
This eager fanning of the flames of hatred is becoming the mark of today’s free world. Indeed, the broader the personal freedoms are, the higher the level of prosperity or even of abundance – the more vehement, paradoxically, does this blind hatred become. The contemporary developed West thus demonstrates by its own example that human salvation can be found neither in the profusion of material goods nor in merely making money.
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the 20th century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
Confronted by the onslaught of worldwide atheism, believers are
disunited and frequently bewildered. And yet the Christian (or
post-Christian) world would do well to note the example of the Far East.
I have recently had an opportunity to observe in Free China and in
Japan how, despite their apparently less clearly defined religious
concepts, and despite the same unassailable “freedom of choice” that
exists in the West, both the younger generation and society as a whole
have preserved their moral sensibility to a greater degree than the West
has, and have been less affected by the destructive spirit of
secularism.
0024 Video Vol XI How Blinding is Your World View - Solzhenitsyn's Templeton Prize Speech continued.
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Volume XI on RUMBLE
We
ended Video X with an observation Solzhenitsyn made about the "better
morals" of the Asian youths, which in the intervening 37 years, with the
power of internet, the invention of robotics, and the associated
brainwashing of pornography, video games and auto erotic machines, is
provably no longer the case. In the next paragraph Solzhenitsyn again
speaks of a subject of which he could have had no idea how quickly
things would turn. Remember as we have stated before in this series, in
1980, just three years before this speech, almost 90 percent of the
American People self-identified as Christian. He could have had little
idea of the speed of the Great Apostasy and so he actually speaks with a
little naïveté about the idea of Christian Churches uniting. Yet he
speaks about the "uniting of religions" which shows he was an excellent
writer, a true Christian, but was not a theologian. I'll explain and
give examples.
+++What can one say about the lack of unity among the various religions,
if Christianity has itself become so fragmented? In recent years the
major Christian churches have taken steps toward reconciliation. But
these measures are far too slow; the world is perishing a hundred times
more quickly. No one expects the churches to merge or to revise all
their doctrines, but only to present a common front against atheism. Yet
even for such a purpose the steps taken are much too slow. +++
There
is no unity between Christ and the fake-Christianity, none whatsoever.
When he was earlier explaining the drive of secularism that started in
the West in the 1600s he could not fully see how secularized even
segments of Orthodoxy had already become, in the early 1980s. He could
not speak as he did and really have a clue about the pure apostasy that
would arise in the Roman Catholic Church under the banner of the very
thing he is suggesting, trying to create "unity among the religions."
What it has created is a Luciferian Religion, and over arching idol
above Christ, literally above God.
+++There does exist an organized movement for the unification of the
churches, but it presents an odd picture. The World Council of Churches
seems to care more for the success of revolutionary movements in the
Third World, all the while remaining blind and deaf to the persecution
of religion where this is carried through most consistently — in the
USSR. No one can fail to see the facts; must one conclude, then, that it
is deemed expedient not to see, not to get involved? But if that is the
case, what remains of Christianity?+++
Indeed, my spiritual mentor and confessor wrote:
“The
great heresy of our age seems clearly to be Ecumenism. It would no
doubt be nice and convenient if Ecumenism were only true, just that
thing that Pope and Patriarch and prudent statesmen of every sort have
been looking for these many years, and many now think they have found.
But how could that be true and Christianity not be wrong? If Ecumenism
is right, then it alone is the one great overarching Truth that stands
above everything, not Buddha, not Muhammad, not Jesus, but something
higher than any of these individual teachers. Such is not the doctrine
of Jesus Christ, Who taught that He Himself is Truth, that He is the
Way. He never said that He had found the Truth; he said that He is Truth
and that He and the Father are One. Ecumenism is necessarily a
Unitarian religion THIS is true, even when Ecumenism begins as
ostensibly Christian. If a Christian cannot be Ecumenical, what then can
a person do? Obviously, we must follow Christ."
I
would suggest that a very great portion of what was formerly Christian
has stopped following Christ. How many Orthodox Patriarchs of
Constantinople in the last 100 years were closet Free Masons, and had
long ago bowed to the Idol of "Universalism." That is the core dogma of
the modern Roman Catholic Church, it has turned not only "Ecumenical"
but Unitarian and Universalist and Globalist and Marxist. The present
pope sees himself as some sort of Universalist Christ - yes an
anti-Christ.
There are some in the Archeology world who believe this Ziggurat of Ur, is actually the base of the Tower of Babel, which represents the rebellious spirit, the pride of man, and action that quickly brought the wrath of God, and laid the heavy burden of multiple languages upon the human race. Why do I say this man is acting now like an Anti-Christ? He has organized a "prayer meeting" with the worshippers of the Moon Goddess, Al-Alah, whose moon rock inhabits the Kabbah in Mecca. That's bad right? But Roman Catholic Popes have been kissing Korans and praying in Mosque for decades now. The second one is more than scandalous, who is the god of the Yazidis? None other than Moloch. What does scripture say about their god? The Mandaen-Sabean Religion is an ancient Gnostic Religion, and other Luciferian and Pagan groups will be with him as they "join in prayer." To whom? For what?
This act on the part of the Pope of Rome is not the first time such "prayer meetings" have been called. The Ecumenical meetings of all religions hosted by past popes at Assisi, and other locations were always attended by "Bart" the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox, and these meetings proved Abbot Damian's words, "If Ecumenism is right, then it alone is the one great overarching Truth that stands above everything, not Buddha, not Muhammad, not Jesus, but something higher than any of these individual teachers."
This is simply a demonstration of the New World Order Religion and the fact that what ever unity is expressed in such events, it is not God in any sense that is being honored but the "lord of this world" Lucifer himself, and how poetic that it will happen this time at Babel, that is really just beyond poetic.
One observer noting that the interfaith prayer is "to be held on the site of the ancient Babylonian temple dedicated to the moon god Nanna," Abbott excoriates: "I look forward to Francis doing an 'ancient gods' tour where he offers alms and prayers at the temples of Baal, Asherah, Dagon, and Molech!"
Now before you non-Roman Catholic and non-Orthodox get the big head and think your "denominations" and your "great men" have faired any better, listen to what Solzhenitsyn exposes next.
+++
It is with profound regret that I must note here something which I cannot pass over in silence. My predecessor in the receipt of this prize last year — in the very month that the award was made — lent public support to Communist lies by his deplorable statement that he had not noticed the persecution of religion in the USSR. Before the multitude of those who have perished and who are oppressed today, may God be his judge.+++
(Do you know who that Templeton Prize winner was who went to the Soviet Union where Christians were being persecuted and imprisoned for their faith, who not only ignored the stories of persecution, but denied they were real. The KGB gave him the opportunity to "preach his brand of the Gospel" in a couple of large arenas, then he came home to America spouting communist/KGB propaganda and refused to witness the reality of the persecution of Christians in the old Soviet Union, which was VERY REAL. All Solzhenitsyn's volumes are a testimony against him, as is the work of Anne Applebaum, a secular Jew whose grasp of the reality was better. Do you know who that was? Before I share who this dunderhead was who claimed there was no persecutions of Christians in the Soviet Union while at that very moment Fr Yukinun was being tortured, I want to explain a mindset, and of course that is the capitulation to the liar, to accept the big lie. Just like now they are using the Big Lie to tell us that we didn't elect Donald Trump by a huge majority in the millions. The Soviet leaders were consistently telling the West that there was no religious persecution in the Soviet Union. The Soviet leaders were stating that they were not dominating Eastern Europe. We know they were people of the BIG LIE, but who else was telling these lies, none other than Pope John Paul II, a great Ecumenist Heretic and LIAR, and also the President of the United States.
Pope John Paul II spent four years kissing Jimmy Carter's privates, then made pact with Reagan to take down the Soviet Union.
Here he is with Bubba Clinton as Clinton's "coalition of the willing" were slaughtering Christians in Kosovo and the Jesuits were fighting right along with the Mossad and the Muslim Terrorists, the KLA.
Who was our mystery man, that Solzhenitsyn rebuked?
It was none other than this guy:)
Library of Congress Print of Evangelist Billy Graham )
+++ It seems more and more apparent that even with the most sophisticated of political maneuvers, the noose around the neck of mankind draws tighter and more hopeless with every passing decade, and there seems to be no way out for anyone — neither nuclear, nor political, nor economic, nor ecological. That is indeed the way things appear to be.
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end. The free people of the West could reasonably have been expected to realize that they are beset by numerous freely nurtured falsehoods, and not to allow lies to be foisted upon them so easily. All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today’s world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness, in repentance, to the Creator of all: without this, no exit will be illumined, and we shall seek it in vain. The resources we have set aside for ourselves are too impoverished for the task. We must first recognize the horror perpetrated not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually, and within every society. This is especially true of a free and highly developed society, for here in particular we have surely brought everything upon ourselves, of our own free will. We ourselves, in our daily unthinking selfishness, are pulling tight that noose.
Let us ask ourselves: Are not the ideals of our century false? And is not our glib and fashionable terminology just as unsound, a terminology that offers superficial remedies for every difficulty? Each of them, in whatever sphere, must be subjected to a clear-eyed scrutiny while there is still time. The solution to the crisis will not be found along the well-trodden paths of conventional thinking.
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we linger fruitlessly on one rung of the ladder. Material laws alone do not explain our life or give it direction. The laws of physics and physiology will never reveal the indisputable manner in which the Creator constantly, day in and day out, participates in the life of each of us, unfailingly granting us the energy of existence; when this assistance leaves us, we die. And in the life of our entire planet, the Divine Spirit surely moves with no less force: this we must grasp in our dark and terrible hour.
To the ill-considered hopes of the last two centuries, which have reduced us to insignificance and brought us to the brink of nuclear and non-nuclear death, we can propose only a determined quest for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently spurned. Only in this way can our eyes be opened to the errors of this unfortunate 20th century and our bands be directed to setting them right. There is nothing else to cling to in the landslide: the combined vision of all the thinkers of the Enlightenment amounts to nothing.
Our five continents are caught in a whirlwind. But it is during
trials such as these that the highest gifts of the human spirit are
manifested. If we perish and lose this world, the fault will be ours
alone. +++
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I took more than a little flak from some offended that I dare explain Rush Limbaugh's status and purpose in the so-called "Culture War" and even more were incensed that I dare expose Billy Graham spouting the big lie for the KGB. Some have openly suggested that Graham was blackmailed, I don't want to go there, but he did what he did and he helped create KGB cover for the torture and persecution of many Christians, including Father Gleb Yakunin. So for my critics I'm going to explain Billy Graham's cheap grace, in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. My sister who is an Evangelical/Pentecostal just wrote something true about the cheap grace offered by the churches she had attended and the T.V. ministries she had watch. I enjoyed the truth in the little article.
Cheap Grace - by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (In case you live in a cave and don't know, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a protestant minister who at first openly opposed Hitler in Germany, and was persecuted, forbidden to preach or teach. He continued to covertly preach and teach, and just when he thought he was going to be arrested and escorted to the NAZI prison camp, he was recruited into the resistance movement inside Germany, actually inside the SS. He he campaigned to get assisstance from the Americans for their resistance but Allen Dullas who was camped out in Northern Europe blocked his actions. Rev. Bonhoeffer was later executed for his part in a failed assassination of Hitler. We are not talking about a lightweight here.) He said:
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack’s wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church’s inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! …
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the Cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods…
Costly grace is the Gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.
Above all, it is costly because it costs God the life of His Son: “ye were bought at a price,” and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon His Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered Him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.
Costly grace is the sanctuary of God; it has to be protected from the world, and not thrown to the dogs…
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906-April 9, 1945)
Bonhoeffer
participated in a plot to blow up Hitler, the leader of his country.
Was he rebellious? Did he suffer oppositional defiance disorder?
What
is the difference between resistance and rebellion? Resistance, resists
against abusive and evil authority. Rebellion cannot distinguish
between good and bad authority. Resistance seeks mental, emotional,
physical and spiritual health. Rebellion seeks chaos and insanity, in
fact Rebellion seeks absolute freedom, which is the domain of Lucifer.
One sees this dynamic played-out in the common actions of true
conservatives and libertarians who resist the overreach of
totalitarianism. The resistance may appear identical but the goal is
very different. When authority is evil the resisters and the rebellious
seem locked in league, but they are not, they are controlled by two
diametrically opposed spirits. Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn was a Resistor,
Father Yakunin was a Rebel. Do you understand that God uses both
Resisters and Rebels?
And for the record, those who suck up to
evil authority for their own benefit are called quislings. Here is a
picture of a quisling.
The life of Father Gleb Yakunin
09 January 2015
Canon Michael Bordeaux founder of the Keston
Institute writes:
FR GLEB YAKUNIN, who died on 25 December, aged 80, was an inspiring figure for thousands in the West for a quarter of a century. From him they learned of the relentless persecution of the Church and his ceaseless bravery in opposing it.
In 1976, he instigated one of the most scandalous episodes in the history of the World Council of Churches. In the early 1970s, the Soviet authorities were systematically imprisoning dissidents, including religious leaders. The previous year, the Soviet government had co-signed the Helsinki Accords, which gave the countries of Europe and North America the right to monitor each other's human-rights performance. Yakunin, a veteran campaigner then in his forties, responded by establishing a Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers' Rights. Many Christians and the Jewish community collaborated with him, sending information, which he systematically collected.
He sent an appeal to the Fifth General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Nairobi, begging the worldwide ecumenical fellowship to act on behalf of the persecuted Church. The African editors of the assembly's daily newspaper, perhaps unaware of the censorship that the Russian delegates exercised over the assembly's agenda, caused a furor by printing the text of Yakunin's appeal. A rushed resolution expressed solidarity with the persecuted, but, reacting in horror, the organisers forced the assembly to rescind it, promising to instigate a full inquiry into the facts that Yakunin had presented; but, of course, later communist pressure prevented this from happening.
Wrongly believing that he now had world Christian opinion behind him, Yakunin increased his efforts. His energy was prodigious. He collected more than 400 samizdat appeals, totalling some 3000 pages, from the whole religious spectrum, most of which he sent abroad, to be systematically collected and many published by Keston College, the organisation in Kent that was informing the world about Soviet anti-religious policies.
The KGB arrested Yakunin on 1 November 1979. At his trial, the sentence was ten years, five to be served in a camp, the rest in exile. Eight years into this, when Mikhail Gorbachev was at the height of his perestroika policy, he was released.
Gleb Yakunin was initially disadvantaged, since his father came from an aristocratic background and died of starvation during the Second World War, when the boy was ten. Gleb inherited something of his father's musical talent, and learned the clarinet and the saxophone. His mother inculcated the Christian faith in him, but he abandoned it when he was 15, only to rediscover it while a biology student in Irkutsk, Siberia, under the influence of Alexander Men, who was to become the leading theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church until his murder in 1990.
Fr Yakunin's life followed a different course. Whereas Fr Men graduated from the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and developed a low-profile teaching ministry, concentrating on a small inner circle of disciples (until becoming a national figure during the Gorbachev reforms), Yakunin was always more confrontational.
He attended the Moscow Theological Seminary, but did not stay the course. He had borrowed a book by the philosopher Berdyaev from the library when the KGB came to extirpate such works from the shelves; Yakunin refused to give it up, saying that he had lost it, after which he was expelled. He went on to study privately, secured his ordination, and served in a church near Moscow.
Here, at the height of Nikita Khrushchev's new anti-religious campaign, he began to collect information from around the regions, documents handed to him by visitors who came to Moscow, often seeking defence against the local officials who were closing down their churches.
In 1965, with a colleague, Fr Nikolai Eshliman, Yakunin weaved this information systematically into two lengthy and detailed open letters, one to the Soviet government, the other calling on Patriarch Alexi I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, to be more active in protecting it. They furnished hundreds of examples, and wrote: "The mass closure of churches, a campaign instigated from above, has created an atmosphere of anti-religious fanaticism which has led to the barbaric destruction of a large number of superb and unique works of art." To this day, these documents remain an unsurpassed record of a shameful period in Russian history, not least because senior clerics sought to conceal the persecution.
Smuggled out, this information resounded around the world, and undoubtedly persuaded Khrushchev's successors to discontinue the church closures. Yakunin, however, became an isolated figure. The punishment meted out to him came not from the KGB, but from Patriarch Alexi (doubtless at the state's instigation), who barred him from exercising his priesthood.
This gave Yakunin all the more time to develop his human-rights work; so the punishment aided and abetted the "crime". He remained free, however, until his arrest in 1979. From prison, he smuggled out letters, particularly asserting his legal right to keep his Bible, which had been confiscated. Ultimately Gorbachev sought to correct the mistakes of the past by releasing imprisoned dissidents, including Yakunin, in 1987.
The year 1988 was remarkable, with the nationwide celebrations marking the millennium of the conversion of ancient Rus' in 988. During these June weeks, Yakunin and his wife, Iraida, whom he had married in 1961, held open house for religious dissidents, inviting foreign Christian leaders in Moscow for the events to visit his flat and learn the real truth about the persecution of the past 60 years, not the sanitised version as presented by the Moscow Patriarchate. Meeting him face to face for the first time, after having written about him for more than 20 years, was a humbling experience for me.
Yakunin at this point might have expected a triumphal reinstatement into the ranks of the Russian Church, or an award of the Nobel Peace Prize, but neither was forthcoming. Ill-advisedly, the Church failed to find a ministry for him. Had it done so, this would have absorbed some of his considerable energies. By contrast, he began to follow a more overtly political line, and was elected to the Duma, the parliament, representing the Democratic Russia party.
Yakunin headed a short-lived commission investigating KGB infiltration into the life of the Church. This gave him a brief, restricted access to the state archives. Here, he found in the records of the Council for Religious Affairs, the body that controlled the life of the Church, incontrovertible evidence that exposed the collaboration of church leaders with the KGB, including that of the new Patriarch, Alexi II. He was not permitted to take photocopies, but made handwritten notes, which he subsequently copied and passed to Jane Ellis, a researcher at Keston College, who published them in its journal, Religion in Communist Lands.
This was a bridge too far for the Moscow Patriarchate, which wrought vengeance on Yakunin by un-frocking him, on the grounds that clergy were not permitted to stand for election to political office. There was supreme hypocrisy in this, as the previous Patriarch, Pimen, had been a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and his successor would be a deputy also.
As the Moscow Patriarchate regained its leading position in Russian society, Yakunin's influence declined, but he continued to subject the leading hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church to his scrutiny. Late in life, he became the severest critic of the new "symphony" of Church and State as established between President Putin and the current Patriarch, Kirill. He supported the feminist group Pussy Riot, when they demonstrated against this symbiosis and received a prison sentence. He became a priest in the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, later transferring to the uncanonical Apostolic Orthodox Church.
Mental toughness predominated in his personal relationships, but he relaxed with friends and, when able to travel in 1989, enjoyed playing truant from a conference in Manila to go white-water rafting. Here was a man freed from constraint, who was excellent company, and revelling in his freedom.
He is survived by Iraida and their three children, Maria, Alexander, and Anna. He died on (Gregorian) Christmas Day and was buried two days later.
Canon Michael Bourdeaux is the President of Keston
Institute, Oxford.
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Now this is how Father
Yakunin is remembered by the "Liberal Establishment" in the West. He
was praised by the Daily Beast and the only possible reason for that was
Yakunin's grave mistake in backing the George Soros financed attack on
Russian Orthodoxy via the "Pussy Riot" movement. We here in America at
the exact same time experienced a very public attack on both Orthodoxy
and Roman Catholicism by the LGBT movement, costumed Trans-clowns, and
women mocking and desecrating the Divine Liturgy and Mass, and accosting
priests dressed as nuns with barebreasts and other vulgarities. What
appeared at the altars of Churches in Russia appeared far more
heterosexual, but equally as barebreasted and brutish.
Remembering the Russian Priest Who Fought the Orthodox Church: Father Gleb Yakunin
Fr Gleb Yakunin
Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty
Source: The Daily Beast
He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism. (Notice the pretended spiritual judgment of this writer) With Father Gleb Yakunin’s death on Christmas, Russia has lost a liberal voice of conscience. On Christmas Day, the world lost an extraordinary man of faith who once went to prison for his Christian beliefs under an atheist state and later challenged both his church and the repressive entanglement of church and state under a regime that claims to celebrate religious values. When the Russian dissident and priest Father Gleb Yakunin died, outside the small circle of the liberal opposition and its sympathizers, he was almost as unknown in his homeland as in the West. His journey, which ended at the age of 80 after a long illness, is not only the story of one man’s lifelong battle; it is also the story of the complicated relationship between religion and power in 20th and 21st-century Russia, with all its ironic twists.
Raised in the Soviet Union, where atheism was a part of the communist civil religion, Yakunin converted to Christianity in college under the influence of the charismatic pastor and theologian Alexander Men and entered a Russian Orthodox seminary in 1958; only a year later, however, he was expelled, apparently having run afoul of the KGB. It was not a good time for the Russian church, restored from the brink of extinction in 1941 when Josef Stalin decided he needed God (or at least the faithful) on his side to rally the populace against the German invasion. While Nikita Khrushchev’s turn against Stalinism in the mid-1950s was the start of the Soviet “thaw,” Khrushchev’s quest for the restoration of “true Leninism” also meant a big chill for religion. There were mass closures of churches, mosques, and monasteries, and new taxes on religious facilities. A ban on the ringing of church bells, lifted in 1941, was reimposed. In 1961, Khrushchev publicly declared that soon the Soviet Union’s last priest would be shown on television. Yakunin was ordained the following year.
The anti-religion campaign slackened after Khrushchev’s removal from office in 1964, but Soviet citizens who were practicing Orthodox Christians still faced pervasive discrimination and harassment, and members of most other faiths fared even worse. People who baptized their children, got married in church, or attended religious celebrations were routinely singled out for retaliation in the workplace and in school, as well as public shaming and ridicule in “educational” meetings and in local newspapers.
In 1965, Yakunin and fellow priest Nikolai Eshliman sent an open letter to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei, decrying not only the persecution of believers but de facto church collusion in this persecution. Among other things, churches routinely complied with a requirement that all baptisms, church weddings, communions, and religious funerals be reported to the communist authorities—often with dire consequences for the participants. The letter, drafted by several lay writers, was originally meant to be a collective statement by as many as two dozen clergymen, including an archbishop. But everyone except Yakunin and Eshliman backed out. Copies of the letter were sent to senior members of the church hierarchy and to the Soviet government.
The reaction was predictable. In May 1966, Yakunin and Eshliman were defrocked by the Moscow patriarchate until they repented their criticism of church leadership; their appeal to the Synod was rejected.
Married like other Orthodox priests and a father of three, Yakunin found himself unemployable and forced to live on donations from sympathetic (and brave) believers. Undeterred, he threw himself into the Soviet Union’s then-burgeoning human rights movement, with a particular focus on the suppression of religious freedom—championing not only his fellow Orthodox, but also other faiths and sects. In 1979, he was convicted of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” and spent five years in prison and Siberian labor camps—followed by two years in internal exile in the Far Eastern region of Yakutia.
All that changed with Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms. In 1987, Yakunin was amnestied (his conviction was officially vacated four years later), allowed to return to Moscow, and restored to the priesthood in a newly unshackled church. Yet his passion for political change remained undiminished. A founding father of the Russian pro-democracy movement, he became a member of the first genuinely elected Soviet Council of People’s Deputies in 1990—where he helped draft landmark legislation protecting religious freedom—and then of the first parliament of the new independent Russia. In 1992, while serving as head of a parliamentary commission investigating the short-lived 1991 coup by Soviet hardliners, Yakunin undertook the dramatic step of making public KGB files that exposed extensive collaboration between the church and the KGB in the Soviet era. The reality turned out to be worse than even the most cynical of dissidents had suspected: In the upper echelons of the church, nine out of 10 clerics worked for the KGB. While the identities of these clerics were obscured by code names, it is virtually certain that the current church leader, Patriarch Kirill, was one of them.
The church was not pleased. In 1993, Yakunin was defrocked yet again—this time for defying a newly imposed church ban on members of the clergy holding political office—and then, in 1997, excommunicated and anathematized for the continued defiance of wearing priestly vestments despite being defrocked. He joined a schismatic “movement for the revival of Russian Orthodoxy,” which later took the name of the Apostolic Orthodox Church. In failing health, he continued both to attend opposition rallies and, until just six weeks before his death, to serve the liturgy. “He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email. “The only space he could get was in the basement of the office of For Human Rights,” a Moscow group that has faced its own share of harassment.
The Russia in which Yakunin died was one of the church triumphant. A 1997 law, while ostensibly protecting religious freedom, recognized the “special role of Orthodoxy” in its preamble (while also extending official recognition to Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism) and imposed multiple restrictions on more marginal religious groups. Under Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime, Orthodox Christianity has become, as Kommersant newspaper columnist Konstantin Eggertwrote a few years ago, “a new ideology to replace ‘the moral code of the builder of communism.’” Putin and other top Kremlin officials engage in ostentatious displays of public worship; Patriarch Kirill publicly calls Putin’s rule “a miracle of God.” Works of art deemed “sacrilegious” are vandalized and the exhibitorsprosecuted for offending religious sensibilities. In this new Russia where belonging to the church has become a badge of loyalty to the state, Yakunin remained as much of a rebel as he had been under the Soviet regime in which loyal citizenship required militant atheism. In a country with little history of religious liberalism, he called for a Christian democratic movement founded on the principles of freedom and tolerance.
This rebellion also led Yakunin not only to defend the women of Pussy Riot, the trio imprisoned in 2012 for a widely publicized anti-Putin song-and-dance protest in Moscow’s main cathedral, but also to embrace them as heroines for a new Christian age. Yakunin wrote a poem hailing the women as “guerrillas in a spiritual war,” as “punk-rock prophets” who spoke the truth at the altar—not only about Putin, but about churchmen who had chosen to serve Putin instead of God. In a long interview last January, Yakunin told the independent newspaperNovaya Gazeta that “Pussy Riot has a great, truly extraordinary mission”—spearheading a pro-freedom Christian reform movement—and went so far as to say, “As a priest, I can see that they have been given the gift of grace, special divine help.”
During the Pussy Riot controversy, some Western conservatives such as Baylor University historian Philip Jenkins criticized international support for the women as tone-deaf to the history of religious persecution in Russia: Russian Christians who had endured decades of militant atheism, Jenkins wrote, were understandably sensitive to sacrilege. Yet by and large, Christians like Yakunin, who had challenged and defied such persecution under Soviet rule, were the ones most sympathetic to Pussy Riot’s cause. Lined up on the other side were church hierarchs like Patriarch Kirill, who had enjoyed privileged status in Soviet times—and helped the Kremlin maintain the window-dressing of religious freedom for the benefit of the world. (Kirill represented the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches in the early 1970s.)
“Father Gleb’s death, in addition to being a personal tragedy for us, marks the end of a beautiful era when there were still former prisoners in the church,” another dissident priest, Yakov Krotov, noted in a discussion of Yakunin’s life and death on Radio Liberty’s Russian service. “Now the church consists of people who only talk about how ‘we were persecuted’—even though they never were.”
As Yakunin’s admirers in Russia say their farewells, his dream of a Christian democratic movement in Russia seems more distant than ever. Twenty-five years ago, the world lost the great dissident Andrei Sakharov, one of the pillars of Russian secular liberalism; there is, perhaps, a bitter symbolism that almost exactly a quarter-century later, one of its leading voices of religious liberalism has been extinguished as well.
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What
is the lesson I draw from the life and work of Fr. Yakunin? Politics
and Religion are inexorably bound together. Just as Religion and
Sociology are inexorably bound together. The idea of the so-called
separation of Church and State in the U.S. has led to nothing but the
Ascendancy of Scientistic Totalitarianism, in the control of
Luciferians. I've already quoted Saint John Chrysostom a few times in
this series where he said, "
"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts." That
so-called separation of Church and state in the U.S. has merely led to
the paralyzing and conquest of the various Churches for use by the Deep
State Intelligence establishment. Some bodies are more conquered than
others, but they are all conquered by the Deep State, or if not
conquered then monitored and subtly suppressed. The recruiting of
almost all of American Clergy as Crisis Managers in the Department of
Homeland Security has accomplished nothing whatsoever for the safety and
freedom of Americans. Rather it has created an army of influencers for
the homosexual agenda and the Cultural Marxist takeover of our society
and the recent very visible Coup d'etat, which was accomplished by the
Deep State in cooperation with NorthCom and the instillation of a
"theatrical" government in D.C., where all functions of opposition are
mere theatre and nothing but the wishes of the Dark State Generals are
pressed into law. On top of that there is a level of gaslighting
insanity that is completely over the top as they rub our servitude and
powerlessness in our faces.
I don't think that Father Yakunin had
a clue about the evil of the CIA that supported him in his opposition
to the Russian Church and Putin in modern Russia. I shared very much
his opinion of Patriarch Alexii I and Patriarch Alexii II, both these
men were communist party quislings. But Patriarch Kirill has publicly
denounced the Sodomite culture of America, and the CIA/Globalist
takeover of the Greek Patriarchate. He and the Russian Synod of Bishops
stood together to denounce the Cultural Marxist agenda of the so-called
Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church, which was a Cultural
Marxist exercise to flood Orthodoxy with all the Heresies of Vatican
II. Yakunin's support of the George Soros "Pussy Riot" movement was
more than a mistake, it was a grave sin and blasphemy not just against
the Orthodox Church but against decency everywhere.
The person who created the meme added this footnote so I'm going to honor him and re-produce it, typo and all.
With
that quote above not actually by Solzhenitsyn but something very
similar by another Russian writer, who quoted it as an old Russian
saying. It reminded me of a saying shared by a Soviet Era Concert
Pianist whose recordings were on fire in the West, and the State
Cultural Committee took all the royalties, he didn't make a penny from
all his work. He said, "They pretend to pay me, I pretend to cash the
imaginary checks, the Rubles are rubble, I smile and keep pretending
that I work for them." He added, "Could I afford it, I would pay them to
travel and concertize. And they think I work for them."
The quote is actually by Elena Gorokhova in her book "A Mountain of Crumbs" and goes:
"They
lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but
the keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them."
It
absolutely demands the question why? As for our situation the words of
Rick Higgins who was for a short time a member of the National Security
Council, but he was fired for a seven page memo he wrote that totally
exposed the nature of the psychological war that was being waged against
Trump. He said that the aim wasn't just to get Trump:
End State.
Attacks on President Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that lead to his election. Those individuals and groups seeking the destruction of President Trump actually seek to suffocate the vision of America that made him president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized, destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a demoralized movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a president that subsequently become self-aware of its own disenfranchisement.
CONCLUSION.
The recent turn of events give rise to the observation that the defense of President Trump is the defense of America. In the same way President Lincoln was surrounded by political opposition both inside and outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms, so too is President Trump. Had Lincoln failed, so too would have the Republic. The administration has been maneuvered into a constant back-pedal by relentless political warfare attacks structured to force him to assume a reactive posture that assures inadequate responses. The president can either drive or be driven by events; it's time for him to drive them.
What can we say except the Republic has fallen, but it fell long ago.
0024 Vol XIII How Blinding is Your World View
(Place Video Here)
I
ended the last video rather abruptly after exposing the fact that the
psyops operators are doing all in their power to dispirit us. It is
very important to them to try to make us feel helpless. For some of us
of faith that goal of their is impossible. Let's start with the program
notes that accompanied the last video, Volume XII.
The chances of actual and real
comprehensive election reform are as possible as me giving birth. A
corrupt system cannot poop a diamond, bad tree, bad fruit. I refuse to
participate in the illusion that Jesus' words are relative.
Mat_7:17ff
"Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."
The
chances of actual and real comprehensive election reform are as
possible as me giving birth. A corrupt system cannot poop a diamond, bad
tree, bad fruit. I refuse to participate in the illusion that Jesus'
words are relative.
Mat_7:17ff "Even so every good tree bringeth
forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good
tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire."
This concept was viewed as so
important to the apostle that Jesus is recorded saying this three
different places in Mathew's Gospel.
The restoration of the diseased
system is possible, but it requires death and resurrection through much
pain and sacrifice. The old corpse is deadly now, murderous in its death
throes. Any so-called election reform inside the next few years will be
illusion that will fool many.
I'm doing the series on Solzhenitsyn
to remind myself and others of the illusion of invincible power and
control that was the Soviet system, that came crashing down in an
instant. Others predicted it, I could not believe it, yet it came
crashing down, and it took a decade of plunder and looting before it
began to pick itself up from the ashes. What we are seeing here looks
much weaker, and we are armed."
"Hewn down and cast into the
fire" Most people really don't have a reference to understand the
suffering of the Russian people following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The system blew apart, it just blew apart, it was hewn down and cast
into the fire. The first decade of "freedom" was a trial that made a
huge percentage of the population long for the communist days, Gulags
and all. Friends have described it like living in purgatory every
institution was a shell, retirees paid in Rubles that were worthless,
like having a trunk full of Confederate Bills in 1866, worthless.
Nothing functioned, everything was crumbling, breaking down, their
entire navy rusted to nothing, and only ruthless criminals could do
business, because the only real law was the code of the jungle. So they
think they will demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, frustrate,
unnerve and unman us? Thank God Almighty, literally, thank the power of
God's Holy Spirit given us in humility to Christ, we will not be
defeated. No rather, they are so very deluded in their arrogance.
End State.
Attacks on President Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that lead to his election. Those individuals and groups seeking the destruction of President Trump actually seek to suffocate the vision of America that made him president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized, destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a demoralized movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a president that subsequently become self-aware of its own disenfranchisement.
Now
I know it will be frustrating to hear, but even that bit of insight is
CIA slanted, so much so that it qualifies as a limited hangout. So let
us examine the whole article and expose the part that is carefully left
out, so that then we have a complete picture.
(I
recommend Rich Higgins book by the same name "THE MEMO". I just
finished reading it. Quote taken from the Appendix of that book)
I want to make note that Mr Higgins book closely parallels the book "American Betrayal" by Diana West, when she gets to the post 911 period. Her recap of the infiltration of communists/Marxist in Government going back to the 1930s is a must read. Here is a little bit of the introduction.
This
seven page memo was written by Rich Higgins, who was at the time
Director of strategic planning at the NSC. It sound like it was written
by Bond Robin. Rich Higgins was fired for making sure Trump saw it, by
making it public since General McMasters already had Trump sequestered
and Higgins could not get the information to him through normal
channels. This MEMO was given to Trump the week that Trump fired James
Comey, the second week of May, 2017. Did Trump heed this warning? By
everything apparent, he did not. Reading the last two paragraphs we see
that the writer was literally prophetic in explaining the events as
they unfolded. This was a remarkable piece of insight. The question is
for me, at any time in Trump's presidency did he have the actual power
to act to destroy what seems by the wisdom of this article an
inextricable Deep State and "extra-governmental" Oligarchical power
structure and inevitable outcome.
POTUS & POLITICAL WARFARE May 2017 BACKGROUND.
The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then de legitimize and ultimately remove the President. Possibly confusing these attacks with an elevated interplay of otherwise normal D.C. partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the White House response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously inadequate to the threat. If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and subsequent early departure from the White House. This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be recognized on its own terms so that immediate action can be taken. At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes. The campaigns operate through narratives. Because the hard left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local (ANTI FA working with Muslim Brotherhood doing business as MSA and CAIR), national (ACLU and BLM working with CAIR and MPAC) and international levels (OIC working with OSCE and the UN), recognition must given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate at the narrative level as well. In candidate Trump, the opposition saw a threat to the "politically correct" enforcement narratives they've meticulously laid in over the past few decades. In President Trump, they see a latent threat to continue that effort to ruinous effect and their retaliatory response reflects this fear.
INTRODUCTION.
Responding to relentless personal assaults on his character, candidate Trump identified the players and the strategy:
• "The establishment and their media enablers will control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed." - President Trump, Oct 2016
Culturally conditioned to limit responses to such attacks as yet another round in the on-going drone from diversity and multicultural malcontents, these broadsides are discounted as political correctness run amuck. However, political correctness is a weapon against reason and critical thinking. This weapon functions as the enforcement mechanism of diversity narratives that seek to implement cultural Marxism. Candidate Trump's rhetoric in the campaign not only cut through the Marxist narrative, he did so in ways that were viscerally comprehensible to a voting bloc that then made candidate Trump the president; making that bloc self-aware in the process. President Trump is either the candidate he ran as, or he is nothing. Recognizing in candidate Trump an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative, those that benefit recognize the threat he poses and seek his destruction. For this cabal, Trump must be destroyed. Far from politics as usual, this is a political warfare effort that seeks the destruction of a sitting president. Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified to crisis level proportions. For those engaged in the effort, especially those from within the "deep state" or permanent government apparatus, this raises clear Title 18 (legal) concerns
DISCUSSION.
The Opposition.
While opposition to President Trump manifests itself through political warfare memes centered on cultural Marxist narratives, this hardly means that opposition is limited to Marxists as conventionally understood. Having become the dominant cultural meme, some benefit from it while others are captured by it; including "deep state" actors, globalists, bankers, lslamists, and establishment Republicans. Through the campaign, candidate Trump tapped into a deep vein of concern among many citizens that America is at risk and is slipping away. Globalists and lslamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed. Atomization of society must also occur at the individual level; with attacks directed against all levels of group and personal identity. Hence the sexism, racism and xenophobia memes. As a Judea-Christian culture, forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance is designed to induce nihilistic contradictions that reduce all thought, all faith, all loyalties to meaninglessness. Group rights based on sex or ethnicity are a direct assault on the very idea of individual human rights and natural law around which the Constitution was framed. "Transgender acceptance" memes attack at the most basic level by denying a person the right to declare the biological fact of one's sex. When a population has 2 + 2 = 5 imposed on it, there are many that benefit:
• Mainstream Media -The principle mechanism for implementing narratives.
• The Academy-Academia has served as a principle counter-state node for some time and remains a key conduit for creating future adherents to cultural Marxist narratives and their derivative worldview.
• The Deep State -The successful outcome of cultural Marxism is a bureaucratic state beholden to no one, certainly not the American people. With no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
• Global Corporatists & Bankers -Exploitation of populations, unfettered by national protections and notions of personal morality and piety.
• Democratic Leadership -The democratic leadership has been a counter-state enabler that executes, sustains, and protects cultural Marxist programs of action and facilitates the relentless expansion of the deep state.
• Republican Leadership -More afraid of being accused of being called a racist, sexist, homophobe or lslamophobe than of failing to enforce their oaths to "support and defend the Constitution," the Republican Establishment accepts and enforces cultural Marxist memes within its own sphere of operations. In doing so, knowingly or not, it becomes an agent of that. These "conservatives" become increasingly indistinguishable from their democratic counter-parts save that they misrepresent themselves to their constituents. Lacking the discernment to recognize their situation, they will work with globalists, corporatists, and the international financial interests and will likewise service the deep state. These establishment Republicans are the hard left's designated defeat mechanism in the destruction of the old regime as well as the American ideal.1 Because candidate Trump publicly exposed them for their duplicitous activities, they are at risk as long as Trump can turn on them and are, therefore, bitter foes. Candidate Trump's success remains an ongoing existential threat to establishment Republicans. 1 For more information on how influence operations of the former Soviet Union targeted leading conservative groups and individuals in order to bring them into line with cultural Marxist narratives. See Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZhqeLRIMo
• lslamists -Islamists ally with cultural Marxist because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the hard left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists deploy these narrative to strategically blind and then control US decision makers. This is by design and purposeful. "By their own hands!" has been the declared strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood since 1991. This strategy seeks to divide American society against itself with the forced imposition of Isla mist objectives on one half of American society by the other half. Once a society has been effectively atomized, the population will have lost its faith in the old order, detest those who reduced it, and divide along the lines of narrative adherence. This is the intended outcome of hostile information cum political warfare campaigns and today we see their effects on American society. Complicating the current situation, many close to the president have pushed him off his message when he was candidate Trump thus alienating him from his base thereby isolating him in the process. When President Trump is not candidate Trump, he becomes dangerously exposed. While the base that elected candidate Trump identified with his vision, they are only Trump's insofar as he holds to the vision that made him president. Political Warfare Attacks -A Primer. As used here, "political warfare" does not concern activities associated with the American political process but rather exclusively refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency model.2 Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies employ synchronized violent and non-violent actions that focus on mobilization of individuals and groups to action. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent operational arts and tactics as elements of combat power. In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power. Functioning as a hostile competing state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the "counter-state" and is primarily focused on the resourcing and mobilization of the counter state or the exhaustion and demobilization of the targeted political movement. Political warfare methods can be implemented at strategic, operational, or tactical levels of operation. Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives. Cultural Marxism -A Primer. While the attacks on President Trump arise out of political warfare considerations based on non-kinetic lines of effort (as discussed below), they operate in a battle-space prepared, informed and conditioned by cultural Marxist drivers. In practical terms, the political warfare assault on President Trump cannot be separated from the cultural Marxist narratives that drive them. From an operational preparation of the environment perspective, President Trump is operating in a battle-space that reflects the left's vision. 2 This discussion relies on Thomas A. Marks' treatment of the Maoist model as discussed in Maoist People's War in Post-Vietnam Asia (Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus Press, 2007), 1-14. Hereafter "Thomas A. Marks, Maoist People's War."
As used in this discussion, cultural Marxism relates to programs and activities that arise out of Gramsci Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most directly from the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory. The result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that is actually the belief in nothing. That post-modern (diversity/multiculturalism) narratives seeks to implement cultural Marxist objectives can be demonstrated by reference to founding Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse's repurposing of the term tolerance. In a 1965 ~ Marcuse defined tolerance as intolerance; said it can be implemented through undemocratic means to stop chauvinism (xenophobia), racism, discrimination; and should be extended to the left while denied to the right:
• "The
realization of the objective of tolerance would call for
intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed."
0024 Vol XIV - How Blinding is Your World View
(place video here)
We continue the reading of Rich Higgins' Memo that he sent to Trump in May of 2017 outlining the psychological asymetrical war that was being waged against Trump AND his supporters.
• "Surely,
no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but
in a democracy such a right is vested in the people
(i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the
ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could
develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and
indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements
which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism,
discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc." (8-9)
• "Liberating
tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from
the Right and toleration of movements from the
Left. As to the scope of this tolerance and intolerance: ... it
would extend to the stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda, of deed as well as of word." (12) It is through such post-modern constructs that interoperable narratives are established among various left-wing groups as well as between them and Isla mist groups at all levels. For example, from the 2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako, Mali, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to fight racism and xenophobia and then declared lslamophobia a "contemporary form of racism": • In
this context, the World Conference urges all states ... take all
necessary measures to combat hatred, discrimination, intolerance and
acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance particularly against Islam
• Racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
which display an increasing trend, in their most subtle and contemporary
forms, constitute a violation of human rights. 3.
Contemporary forms of racism are based on discrimination and disparagement
on a cultural, rather than biological basis. In this content,
the increasing trend of lslamophobia, as a distinct form of xenophobia in non-Muslim societies is very alarming. That the OIC made these claims as part of its planned inputs to the United Nation's "Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" further demonstrates the coordinated and interoperable nature of these narratives at international levels in international forums. As cultural Marxist narratives intensify, they are to be further operationalized in the form of hate speech narratives. Hate speech narratives are non-random, coordinated, and fully interoperable escalations of cultural Marxist memes. Key international players include the European Union, the UN, and the OSCE, the OIC and the International Muslim Brotherhood. Hate speech memes are structured, coordinated, and implemented through these same international forums. They involve close coordination with media and social media and include the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) narratives. David Shipler's book Freedom of Speech provides a road map for how hate speech narratives are to be structured, deployed and enforced.
Battlespace.
These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media, and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies and within the foreign policy establishment. They inform the entertainment industry from late night monologues, to situation comedies, to television series memes, to movie themes. The effort required to direct this capacity at President Trump is little more than a programming decision to do so. The cultural Marxist narrative is fully deployed, pervasive, full spectrum and ongoing. Regarding the president, attacks have become a relentless 24/7 effort. While there is certainly a Marxist agenda and even lslamist motivations that must be seriously addressed in their own right, these motivations alone seem inadequate to explain the scope and magnitude of the effort directed against the president. The economic drivers behind the Marxist and Isla mist ideologues are enormously influential and seek to leverage these ideological movements for their own self interests. While beyond the actual scope of this document, the benefactors of these political movements include; Urban Real Estate who depend greatly on immigrant tenants, International Banking who seeks to maintain US debtor status so as to control the application of American power, and elements of the business sector that depend upon immigrant labor or government infrastructure. The overall objective of these economic forces is the forced urbanization of the populace, thereby necessitating a larger, more powerful government. In summary, this is a form of population control by certain business cartels in league with cultural Marxists/corporatists/lslamists who will leverage Islamic terrorism threats to justify the creation of a police state. Adversary Campaign Plan. Political Warfare has been described as "propaganda in battledress."3 The effort directed at President Trump is executed along one overt, as well as two covert, lines of effort:
• The overt line of effort is PUBLICITY. Publicity is the straightforward projection of a case that builds a picture in the audience's mind designed to garner support. It is facts without context and information the adversary wants the audience to possess that creates an impression and sets conditions. It seeks to establish good will and receptiveness to additional inputs.
• There are two covert lines of effort: PROPOGANDA and INFILTRATION/SUBVERSION. o Propaganda is the deliberate direction, even manipulation, of information to secure a definite outcome. It is an attempt to direct the thinking of the recipient, without his conscious collaboration, into predetermined channels that are established in the Publicity line of effort. It is the unwitting conditioning of the recipient by devious methods with an ulterior motive that seeks to move them incrementally over time into greater belief and acceptance of message transmitted in the Publicity line of effort. o Infiltration and subversion operate internal to the targeted organization in order to inform, target, coordinate, and amplify the effects of the publicity and propaganda. Both operate to gather intelligence, obstruct legitimate courses of action, provide inside information, and leak sensitive information that undermines the leadership and suppresses the morale of friendly elements. 3 "Political Warfare Executive -The Meaning, Techniques and Methods of Political Warfare," His Britannic Majesty's Government, London, 1942, 5.
o Infiltration of political and social groups within a target state is done for the purpose of extending counter-state influence and control. The endgame is concealed and may involve illicit activities.
o Subversion undermines or detaches the loyalties of significant political and social groups within the target state and transfers political and/or ideological loyalties to the counter-state. As the counter-state forms, a counter-elite
of influential individual and key leaders within the target
state will later facilitate the legitimacy and permanency of the new regime. Political warfare employs both publicity and propaganda. It recognizes no intrinsic virtue in the news but rather envisions it as a mechanism to exploit and build up support. From a political warfare perspective, control of the news cycle is the most potent means of attracting and building up a favorable audience. As it relates to the news cycle, publicity and propaganda can be merged to form a "pseudo-publicity" that is presented as news in furtherance of sustaining pseudo-realities maintained by cultural Marxist memes. Pseudo-publicity treatment of President Trump dominates the news cycle. The current campaign against President Trump operates in the following manner: The Meta Narrative. Meta narratives seeks to delegitimize President Trump, his administration, and the vision of America he projected as a candidate. With cultural Marxist memes serving as the backdrop, President Trump is to be relentlessly characterized as unfit through the use of supporting narratives acting to move unwitting populations to belief in the meta narrative. Hence:
• "President Trump is illegitimate"
• "President Trump is corrupt"
• "President Trump is dishonest"
Note that the twitter accounts and mainstream media personalities pushing this narrative have seen their audience numbers rise greatly in the past 6 months. This is a direct result of the supporting and backdrop narratives channeling individuals to this meta-narrative. Supporting Narratives. Meta-narratives are supported by an ongoing series supporting-narratives that can be swapped out as circumstances warrant. It is important to recognize that these stories do not have to be true, valid or accurate to serve their purpose. Over time, deserved or not, the cumulative effect of these supporting narratives will result in a Trump fatigue. From a political warfare perspective, President Trump's inability to meet this challenge will cast him as a weak failed leader. The current list of supporting narratives include:
• "Russia hacked the election" -illegitimate
• "Obstruction of Justice" -corrupt
• "Hiding Collusion" -dishonest
• "Putin Puppet" -treasonous Backdrop Narratives. The backdrop to the meta and supporting narratives are cultural Marxist memes designed to sustain a general sense of loathing of President Trump and the America that elected him. Hence:
• "[meta] President Trump is illegitimate, [supporting] he was elected because of Russian hacking, [backdrop] and besides, he a racist, sexist xenophobe."
Adversaries utilize these interlocking narratives as a defensive political and information warfare screen that silences critics and smears supporters of President Trump. When people in the media question the behavior, actions and decisions of the Trump Administration's opponents, they are immediately said to be "working for the Russians" or "supporting Russian propaganda." Individual Americans who support the President are deemed "deplorable" and "racist."
End State.
Attacks on President Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that lead to his election. Those individuals and groups seeking the destruction of President Trump actually seek to suffocate the vision of America that made him president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized, destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a demoralized movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a president that subsequently become self-aware of its own disenfranchisement.
CONCLUSION.
The recent turn of events give rise to the observation that the defense of President Trump is the defense of America. In the same way President Lincoln was surrounded by political opposition both inside and outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms, so too is President Trump. Had Lincoln failed, so too would have the Republic. The administration has been maneuvered into a constant back-pedal by relentless political warfare attacks structured to force him to assume a reactive posture that assures inadequate responses. The president can either drive or be driven by events; it's time for him to drive them."
My meme and many like words and Higgins memo were prophetic. I have a different take than Higgins who has been part of the Luciferian Deep State system most of his adult life. You see, we have been disenfranchised for the better part of the last 70 years, and most people were blind to it. Now 80 or 90 million Americans understand it. That is going to create hell to pay.
Trump did gain an amazing control of the Shallow State though it cooperated with the Deep State Propagandists to try and destroy him, every moment of every day. But the Deep State exposed itself as an enemy of the American People to the point of exposing the Cabal that subverted the election and count in 2020. There is now no place for them to hide.
One man took on a Totalitarian System, hoping that he would create enough raw political power in a "cult of personality" to rob the Deep State of the power it had stolen and return that power to the people. The question is, who is now actually in control? As we asked in Video VII in this series. We don't know.
Now don't take the above statement to Maria Bartoromo as in any way, defeatism. Saying the Republic has fallen and that voting is exposed as purely sham and a con process, a lying LARP, only frees us to look at the reality and the power that Trump and others may have or come to have, in this new reality. One man, Fr. Gleb Yakunin destroyed the image of the World Council of Churches as a Christian body, as we showed in a previous video, exposing its Marxist roots and agenda. Some say, that Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn one man ripping the scab of the cesspool of the Soviet's massive persecution of Christians and the Soviet prison system exposed them as a failed system and sealed their fate. I believe that, or something like that because individuals have been used in remarkable ways. And this system has now been exposed as the anti-American reality it is and an enemy of the American People, and at present is under military conservatorship and the wings are shaking just like a plane just before stalling.
"Please tell me in history when a totalitarian government surrendered power because peaceful people voted for it." The first time I wrote that sentence was upon the election of Ronald Reagan, my brothers were elated that Carter was out, I was too. Carter was too wrapped up in some sick psychology that caused him to micromanage and over think everything to the point that he could not make a decision. He took indecisive to a whole new understanding. I think he was an accidental president, the Cabal never intended, the result of the blowback from the atrositization of Joseph McCarthy, Nixon's rebellion against his CIA handlers and resultant atrositization of Richard Nixon, the idiocy of having a member of the Warren Commission appointed president after Agnew and Nixon Resigned, the exposure of MKUltra, the CIA LSD experiments on innocent American Citizens, the Vietnam vets returning talking about the CIA's terror campaign on innocent Vietnam Villagers, the resultant "Church Committee" investigation of the CIA in the Senate and the "Pike Committee" in the House, the exposure of Operation CHAOS and Operation COINTELPRO, public calls from prominent and popular senators calling for the CIA to be abolished, the naive American public awakened a little bit from the Nuclear Shield nirvana, stared just a little bit in the evil abyss that had become their government (the Deep State) and were so relieved when Jimmy Carter said with his permanent smile and twinkling eye, "I will never lie to you." Well, like I say, I was glad he was gone but I knew where my brothers didn't that Reagan was a member of the Club, that is the Cabal and that government and evil would have a free reign while he shucked and jived and regurgitated his Uncle Sam, Mom and Apple Pie sham, as the CIA recouped and determined not to be challenged again.
(Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency domestic espionage project targeting the American people from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon, whose mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war and other protest movements. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms by chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober.[1][2] The "MH" designation is to signify the program had a worldwide area of operations.[3])
What the nice little sanitized Wikipedia article leaves out is that these programs included purposely hooking hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of young people on drugs. The inner-cities were devastated, the black family destroyed, and white young people turned hippies then drugged-out-zombies by the age of 30. The CIA created the "dropout counter-culture" sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Too many of big names and big groups had CIA, Military Intelligence and/or FBI connections. What was the reason for this purposeful devastation of a generation? To stop the sincere people who had sincere concerns for the missteps of the Cold War, and the needless foreign interventions, war for political and not defense purposes.
0024 Vol XV How Blinding is Your Worldview
Section on Essential Books (under construction.)
The Scientific Dictatorship and the Future of Humanity |
from the Christian Observer
with additions and commentary by Bond Robin.
Aldous Huxley:“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries.
Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work…with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown (Huxley, Brave New WORLD Revisited, p. 116, 1958).”
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech is often cited in
condemnation of the Military Industrial Complex, which is intimately
connected to the subject at hand. However, there is another little
discussed yet vital topic in the latter half of his speech. “The
prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment,
project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is
gravely to be regarded,” warned Eisenhower. “Yet, in holding scientific
research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be
alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself
become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
(When Rod Rosenstein's sister
Dr Fauci head of infectious diseases at the National Institute of Health
stepped into the Oval Office and demanded that President Trump immediately shut down the country we saw the true power of the Scientistic {not Scientific} Dictatorship Elite at work. At that point, Trump worked at their pleasure and could have been removed via the 25th amendment for failing to "believe the science" which is considered by the Scientistic Dictatorship Elite a mental disorder and is recognized as such by the Government in submission to them. Had he not danced to there tune it would have been a boot up his ass as they kicked him out the door. At that point his presidency was over.
To fully understand the "Scientistic/Scientific Dictatorship Elite, and the philosophy behind it, the two best books on the subject are written by the Collins brothers Paul and Phillip. The first book pictured below is almost five hundred pages, like a stream of consciousness without paragraphs. The second book I picture later the title is: "INVOKING the BEYOND: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man" it is eleven-hundred and seventy pages in nine or ten pica lettering, also without any breaks except chapter heading and no paragraphs. It's not literature it is as the first book a conscious stream of FACTS with thoroughly documented ascriptions. So what the Collins brothers have detailed we are going to dance over not even by outline of their monumental work, just the merest introduction with the help of Daniel Taylor. So:
Who Are “They”?
I firmly believe that in the absence of historical background and full spectrum context, present day and future issues cannot be fully understood. This report will attempt to clarify the essence of the term “Scientific Dictatorship” by providing historical context and stories of the individuals involved in its modern manifestation.
The ideological roots of the Scientific Dictatorship can be traced to the works of Plato some 2,000 years ago. In truth, humanity has been battling the formation of this tyranny for much of known history. The formation of the United States Constitution created a barrier that H. G. Wells wrote in 1901, had “…to be modified or shelved at some stage…” The focus here is on the modern forms of scientific power that began in the 20th Century and are blossoming in the 21st Century. The Scientific Dictatorship is composed of unelected individuals that have access to the reigns of power. These individuals have access to undisclosed future technology, classified intelligence, and the ability to steer scientific research that impacts our entire society.
The works of Bertrand Russel,
Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, 
Charles Galton Darwin,
H.G. Wells 
and
many others provide the mental framework from which this modern tyranny
is based upon. The following are several examples of men who helped
form the Scientific Dictatorship of the 21st Century. For readers who
are new to this information, what you see here is a small portion of the
full kaleidoscope of information available. This will give you a start
for any in-depth research that you should decide to do.
Vannevar Bush: First Science Advisor, Founder of Raytheon
Born in 1890, Vannevar Bush would become the first Science Advisor to the United States government during World War II under President Franklin Roosevelt. Bush played a vital role in the creation of what we know today as the Military Industrial Complex. Specifically, the method of scientific research of this gargantuan organization – beginning with the Office of Scientific Research and Development – was devised by Vannevar.
The roots of the internet can be traced to Bush’s ideas in 1945. The forerunner to the computer itself can also be attributed to his early designs. With the help of the large foundations, Vennevar Bush pioneered many of the modern instruments of the Scientific Dictatorship. Bush’s most notable accomplishment was serving as the organizer of the Manhattan Project which produced the Atomic bomb.
Bush’s work with the Manhattan Project helped to
cement the centralization of scientific research under the U.S.
Military. This combine of research and development has since then
developed into a network of contractors and various agencies. One of the
world’s largest defense contractors of today is the Raytheon Company,
founded by Vannevar in 1922. Much of the technology that is
initially
developed by the military is inevitably released into society. (I Bond
Robin do not believe this to be true. I think there are light years of
technological advances held from us.)
One such example is the internet. Vannevar Bush’s initial ideas are considered to be the ideological roots of the internet. In a 1945 paper titled “As We May Think” Bush writes on his “memex” concept,
“The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds an interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected on his screen… Occasionally he inserts a comment of his own, either linking it into the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item… Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials available to him.”
DARPA would eventually develop the internet and bring it to reality. While the internet is being used today as an unprecedented tool for surveillance, it is at the same time serving as an unmatched medium for activism.
From 1935 to 1946 the Rockefeller Foundation funded Vannevar Bush’s development of the mechanical differential analyzer at
MIT for a total of $230,500. 
This device, along with the Hollerith
machine, is considered to be one of the forerunners of the desktop
computer that we all know and use today.
The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, specializing in punched card data processing equipment.
A
key idea was that a datum could be recorded by the presence or absence
of a hole at a specific location on a card. For example, if a specific
hole location indicates marital status, then a hole there can indicate
married while not having a hole indicates single. Hollerith determined
that data in specified locations on a card, arranged in rows and
columns, could be counted or sorted electromechanically. A description
of this system, An Electric Tabulating System (1889), was submitted by
Hollerith to Columbia University as his doctoral thesis,[8] and is reprinted in Randell's book.[9] On January 8, 1889, Hollerith was issued U.S. Patent 395,782,[10] claim 2 of which reads:
The herein-described method of compiling statistics, which consists in
recording separate statistical items pertaining to the individual by
holes or combinations of holes punched in sheets of electrically
non-conducting material, and bearing a specific relation to each other
and to a standard, and then counting or tallying such statistical items
separately or in combination by means of mechanical counters operated by
electro-magnets the circuits through which are controlled by the
perforated sheets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. +++
Bush also served as
president of the Carnegie Institution from 1939 to 1955, where he helped
shift the organization’s focus away from old-style eugenics to
population control. In A social history of anthropology in the United States, Thomas
Carl Patterson writes that as President, “…Vannevar… ended its support
for Davenport’s projects [The Eugenics Records Office]. The eugenics
movement was transformed with Rockefeller support as its focus shifted
from heredity to population control and to birth-control experiments on
an international scale.”
As G. Pascal Zachary documents in his book Endless Frontier, Bush gave lip service to the importance of the individual, but he was an advocate of a type of technocracy in which society is ruled “…by the well-to-do and highly educated.” He also saw “…populism and the widening participation of citizens in the machinery of government as a recipe for decline.” Zachary comments that “Bush’s fear of the ‘blind mass’ was widely shared in his circle of senior scientists and engineers.” Also documented in Endless Frontier,
“As the years went on, the prevailing respect for experts emboldened Bush to advocate technocracy even more unabashedly. In the mid 1950s, he made headlines by calling for a “natural aristocracy” that would govern “the climate of opinion” in the country out of which politics and values arise.”
Much of what Vannevar Bush set in motion led directly to the explosion of technological advancement that we are witnessing today. While technology itself is neutral, the elites that are directing its development are doing so with specific agendas in mind, and we are not being asked to debate it.
Herman Kahn: Father of Scenario Planning
“Herman
Kahn has been a major figure in one of the most fascinating shifts of
power in U.S. History: from identifiable public leaders to the ‘action
intellectuals.’” – Life Magazine, December 6, 1968
Herman Kahn is known as one of the founding fathers of future studies. After working for the RAND Corporation, Kahn founded the Hudson Institute in 1961. The satirical film Dr. Strangelove is largely based on real documents and ideas that came from RAND. The December 6, 1968 edition of Life Magazine details Kahn’s career, and the larger implications of an unprecedented shift of power to unelected “action intellectuals.” As Life Magainze reports,
“…Herman Kahn has been a major figure in one of the most fascinating shifts of power in U.S. History: from identifiable public leaders to the ‘action intellectuals.’ As counselors to the decision-makers, men such as Kahn often have access to future technology (what is known, but not yet disclosed) and official intelligence (what is known, but not yet revealed, about the capacities and plans of other nations).
Thus, decisions – based on private knowledge, analyzed by private consultants and debated in private – can become public policy. This is a process of invisible power.
Covid-19 was planned in advance.The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.
In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.
At its extreme this influence can commit a nation to social programs and military actions which have neither been fully explained nor publicly debated. One day, as that power pervades and grows more sophisticated, it may so affect the course of government that any nation’s policies may be locked in, as if by automatic pilot, years before the men who are elected to govern ever take office.”
(We
have just seen the reality of this happen in real time. First the
pandemic, all the chaos and gaslighting, the Cabal as Molly Ball
expressed it of Business Leaders, Clergy, Local Officials etc.,
coordinating together to subvert the election process, fake the count
and now a power that we cannot see is actually governing, and Washington
has become window dressing an operation to make dullards believe "the
gubmutt is functioning." )
This
process of invisible power is further enabled by the annual secret
gatherings of the Bilderberg Group – founded in 1954 – which consist of
international bankers, CEO’s of major tech corporations, editors of
major news outlets, and other power brokers.
An historical example of this process in action is the formation of the European Union’s common market, which was developed behind closed doors at a 1955 Bilderberg conference in Germany.
Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays: Modern public relations and perception management
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Ivy
Lee is considered to be the first public relations man. Lee was hired
by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to recast the family’s image after the
infamous Ludlow massacre. A more widely recognized figure in PR is
Edward L. Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who helped to
significantly advance the study of propaganda into the 20th Century.
(The Ludlow Massacre was a massacre perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. The Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado,
on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire
into the colony. Approximately 21 people, including miners' wives and
children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely excoriated for having orchestrated the massacre.[5][6])
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of
the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such
as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the
inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and
economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal
working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing
my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
―
Memoirs
In his 1928 book Propaganda, Bernays informs readers about the true ruling class in our society.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
In 1953 Bernays aided the United States government in its overthrow of Guatemala. As Mark Crispin Miller notes in the introduction of Propaganda, “Bernays was… employed by the United Fruit Company, at whose behest the Eisenhower administration used the CIA to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz.”
This clip form the documentary Century of the Self details the incident:
Water Fluoridation was also sold to America with the help of Bernays. As detailed in The Fluoride Deception, Christopher Bryson explains Bernays’ connection with the National Institute of Dental Research.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4127471896206528068
The study of the mind of man has enabled advanced forms of subtle influence, of “manufacturing consent.” The U.S. Army War College noted in 1998 that the “Mind has no firewall,” and that “We are on the threshold of an era in which these data processors of the human body may be manipulated or debilitated.”
Much of the Scientific Dictatorship’s agenda would stop dead in its tracks in response to the simple act of the people becoming aware that there are attempts to manipulate our minds.
How does the Scientific Dictatorship operate?
Eisenhower’s warning is especially prescient here. “The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded,” he warned. Tax-exempt foundations have played a critical role in directing society and technological development. For example, as president of the Carnegie Institution, Vannevar Bush “…was able to influence research in the U.S. towards military objectives and could informally advise the government on scientific matters.”
As Dr. Lily E. Kay has documented in her book The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, large foundations effectively set in motion the entire scientific technological agenda for the 20th Century. Under the “Science of Man” agenda, the physical makeup of human beings was studied, and methods to alter various biological processes were devised. This inertia rippled throughout society and impacted the minds of the intelligentsia that were totally unconnected to the core group responsible for organizing the central project.
The Scientific Dictatorship often operates under the cover of darkness, under national security, private contractors, and deep levels of government secrecy.
One area of operations for this group is in bio weapons laboratories across the globe. As revealed by The Age, Nobel prize winning Australian microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet secretly urged the Australian government in 1947 to develop bio weapons for use against the “overpopulated countries of South-East Asia.” In a 1947 meeting with the New Weapons and Equipment Development Committee, the group recommended that “the possibilities of an attack on the food supplies of S-E Asia and Indonesia using B.W. agents should be considered by a small study group.”
The anthrax attacks that occurred shortly after 9/11 have exposed the underbelly of this system, along with the murder of Dr. David Kelly in 2003. Investigative journalist and film maker Bob Coen examined the anthrax case and concluded that an “international biological weapons mafia” is operating in total secrecy.
How can such a vast project go seemingly un-noticed? Why don’t I know about this?
The professional classes of society have largely been schooled and specialized to a degree that limits their perspective on the full spectrum view of society; That is, until they are “brought into the fold.” This is not by accident or happenstance. Just as Vannevar Bush desired rule by the “…well-to-do and highly educated,” Bertrand Russel, in his 1954 book The Scientific Outlook writes,
“…the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented.”
To a great extent we are facing an open conspiracy, which H. G. Wells aptly named one of his many books. Herein lies one of our greatest challenges. We are not facing a clear and present danger that would normally trigger natural human instinct to fight back. It is a creeping death that is subtly eroding the human species.
(Name of Video above) Totalitarianism: How Christians Can Resist the New Cultural Religion, with Rod Dreher)
I want you to actually watch the video above, and if YouTube ever takes it down I will upload it by other means. What I want you to grasp from it is what is absolutely the fact, we ARE living in a Totalitarian System, to buck it always costs. Like I'm hanging by one strike from having my YouTube Channel deleted by the Cultural Marxist masters. Now beyond this description of Totalitarianism, I want you to realize how milk toast and banal this "academic" assessment of the present insanity really is. This spikey-headed fellow is an Orthodox Christian who actually has some videos on YouTube teaching aspects of Orthodoxy, maybe it is my age, but I have a hard time taking some spikey-headed fellow seriously, absent mousse would he collapse in a heap? I had a hard enough time ignoring Trump's bouffant. I want you to listen to his academic speak and next watch the video below (recorded 2.25.21) of Rand Paul asking a simple question of the soon to be Under Secretary of Health and Human Services, a Transgender freak who answered like a robot, exposing his Satanic heart where he will not commit to protect the innocent from breast and genital mutilation. We are speaking of children from 3years old to 10 years old, and this monster is operating with the Malthusian Monsters on the part of Trans-Human Eugenics, robbing the young generation of fertility, family and sanity. Any fool who honestly believes that the American People actually voted for this, are beyond fools, they are thoroughly insane.My favorite hymn begins, "I was born a weak, defenseless child, but Thine angel spread his wings over my cradle to defend me." If it were not for the fact that the author of that line was suffering privation in a Soviet Gulag when he wrote it, I would think it "fluff", some nice sounding poetic words.
America has sunk so far lower than the Soviet Union, where our young are born with demons and monsters surrounding, ready to shoot them up with poison and mutilate their genitals. You think we deserve "prosperity"? Jesus said "what you do to the least of these you do also to me." None of us are innocent in this. What a HELLISH SHAME!
"We cannot give what we do not ourselves possess. We cannot bear the unbearable unless our hearts are filled with grace. We cannot weep tears with the sorrowing and comfort them in their pain unless we have suffered brokenness ourselves and have turned to God in our darkness and asked Him for help like a small child full of trust.+++ - Archpriest Symeon Elias.
The Akathist Hymn: "Glory to God for All Things"
This Akathist, also called the "Akathist of Thanksgiving," was composed by Protopresbyter Gregory Petrov as he suffered in a Gulag in the old Soviet Union. His job was to bury the dead. The title is from the words of Saint John Chrysostom as he was dying in exile. It is a song of praise from amidst the most terrible sufferings.
(Chanting Key: / = re me fa ; \ fa me re ; _ = do do re ' ~ = re me do re : ^ la re re re re etc.
Kontakion 1: /Everlasting King, Thy will for our salvation is \ full of power. /Thy right arm controls the whole course _ of human life. / We give Thee thanks for all Thy mercies, seen and \ unseen. ~ For eternal life, /for the heavenly joys of the Kingdom which \ is to be. /Grant mercy to us who sing Thy \ praise, ~both now and in the time to come.
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age.
Ikos 1: /I was born a weak, defenseless \child, /but Thine angel spread his wings over my cradle _ to defend me. /From birth until now Thy love has illumined my \path, ~and has wondrously guided me ~towards the light of eternity; /from birth until now the generous gifts of Thy providence have been marvelously showered \upon me. ~I give Thee thanks, ~with all who have come to know Thee, ~who call upon Thy name.
/Glory to Thee for calling me \into being
/Glory to Thee, for showing me the beauty \of the universe
/Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and \earth
~Like the pages in a book ~of eternal wisdom
/Glory to Thee for Thine eternity in this fleeting \world
/Glory to Thee for Thy mercies, _seen and unseen
/Glory to Thee through every sigh \of my sorrow
/Glory to Thee for every step _of my life's journey
~For every moment of glory
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 2: ^O Lord, how lovely it is to ~be Thy guest. ^Breeze full of scents; mountains reaching ~to the skies; ^waters like boundless mirrors, reflecting the sun's golden rays and ~the scudding clouds. /All nature murmurs mysteriously, breathing the \depth of tenderness. /Birds and beasts of the forest bear the _imprint of Thy love. /Blessed art thou, mother earth, in thy \fleeting loveliness, ~which wakens our yearning ~for happiness that will last for ever, ~in the land where, amid beauty that grows not old, ~the cry rings out: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 2: ^Thou hast brought me into life as into an enchanted paradise. ^We have seen the sky like a chalice of deepest blue, /where in the azure heights the _birds are singing. ^We have listened to the soothing murmur of the forest and ~the melodious music of the streams. ^We have tasted fruit of fine flavour and the ~sweet scented honey. ^We can live very well on Thine earth. ^It is a pleasure to ~be Thy guest.
/Glory to Thee for the Feast \Day of life
/Glory to Thee for the perfume _of lilies and roses
/Glory to Thee for each different taste of \berry and fruit
/Glory to Thee for the sparkling silver ~of early morning dew
/Glory to Thee for the joy of \dawn's awakening
/Glory to Thee for the new life _each day brings
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 3 ^It is the Holy Spirit who makes us find ~joy in each flower, ^the exquisite scent, ~the delicate colour, /the beauty of the Most High in the _tiniest of things. /Glory and honour to the Spirit, the \Giver of Life, /who covers the fields with their \carpet of flowers, /crowns the harvest with gold, and gives to us the joy of gazing at it _with our eyes. /O be joyful and sing to Him: \Alleluia!
Ikos 3 /How glorious art Thou in the \springtime, /when every creature awakes to new life and joyfully sings Thy praises _with a thousand tongues. /Thou art the Source of Life, the \Destroyer of Death. ~By the light of the moon, _nightingales sing, /and the valleys and hills lie like \wedding garments, _white as snow. /All the earth is Thy promised bride awaiting her \spotless husband. /If the grass of the field is like this, how gloriously shall we be transfigured in the \Second Coming /after the Resurrection! How splendid our bodies, _how spotless our souls!
/Glory to Thee, bringing from the depth of the earth an endless \variety of colours,
~tastes and scents
/Glory to Thee for the warmth and tenderness of the \world of nature
/Glory to Thee for the numberless _creatures around us
/Glory to Thee for the depths of \Thy wisdom, ~the whole world ~a living sign of it
/Glory to Thee; on my knees, I kiss the traces of Thine \unseen hand
/Glory to Thee, enlightening us with the clearness _of eternal life
/Glory to Thee for the hope of the unutterable, imperishable beauty of \immortality
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 4 ^How filled with sweetness are those whose thoughts dwell on Thee; ^how life giving Thy holy Word. ^To speak with Thee is more soothing than anointing with oil; ^sweeter than the honeycomb. /To pray to Thee lifts the \spirit, ~refreshes the soul. /Where Thou art not, there is on_ly emptiness; /hearts are smitten with sadness; nature, and life itself, become \sorrowful; /where Thou art, the soul is _filled with abundance, ~and its song resounds ~like a torrent of life: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 4 /When the sun is setting, when quietness falls like the peace of \eternal sleep, /and the silence of the _spent day reigns, /then in the splendour of its \declining rays, /filtering through the clouds, _I see Thy dwelling place: ~fiery and purple, gold and blue, /they speak prophet like of the ineffable beauty \of Thy presence, ~and call to us in their majesty. ~We turn to the Father.
/Glory to Thee at the hushed hour \of nightfall
/Glory to Thee, covering the earth _with peace
/Glory to Thee for the last ray of the sun \as it sets
/Glory to Thee for sleep's repose _that restores us
/Glory to Thee for Thy goodness even in the \time of darkness
~When all the world ~is hidden from our eyes
/Glory to Thee for the prayers offered by a \trembling soul
/Glory to Thee for the pledge _of our reawakening
~On that glorious last day, ~that day which has no evening
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 5 ^The dark storm clouds of life bring no terror to those in whose hearts Thy fire is burning brightly. ^Outside is the darkness of the whirlwind, the terror and howling of the storm, ^but in the heart, in the presence of Christ, ~there is light and peace, silence: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 5 /I see Thine heavens re\splendent with stars. /How glorious art Thou _radiant with light! /Eternity watches me by the rays of the \distant stars. ~I am small, insignificant, _but the Lord is at my side. /Thy right arm guides me _wherever I go.
/Glory to Thee, ceaselessly \watching over me
/Glory to Thee for the encounters _Thou dost arrange for me
/Glory to Thee for the love of parents, for the \faithfulness of friends
/Glory to Thee for the humbleness ~of the animals which serve me
/Glory to Thee for the unforgettable \moments of life
/Glory to Thee _for the heart's innocent joy
/Glory to Thee for the \joy of living
/Moving and being able _to return Thy love
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 6 ^How great and how close art Thou in the powerful track of the storm! ^How mighty Thy right arm in the blinding flash of the lightning! ^How awesome Thy majesty! /The voice of the Lord fills the fields, it speaks in the \rustling of the trees. /The voice of the Lord is in the thunder _and the downpour. /The voice of the Lord is heard a\bove the waters. ~Praise be to Thee ~in the roar of mountains ablaze. /Thou dost shake the earth _like a garment; /Thou dost pile up to the sky the _waves of the sea. /Praise be to Thee, bringing low _the pride of man. ~Thou dost bring from his heart ~a cry of Penitence: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 6 /When the lightning flash has lit up the \camp dining hall, ~how feeble seems the light from the lamp. /Thus do You, like the lightning, unexpectedly \light up my heart ~with flashes of intense joy. /After Thy blinding light, how drab, how colourless, how illusory _all else seems. ~My souls clings to Thee.
/Glory to Thee, the highest peak of \men's dreaming
/Glory to Thee for our unquenchable thirst _for communion with God
/Glory to Thee, making us dissatisfied with \earthly things
/Glory to Thee, turning on us _Thine healing rays
/Glory to Thee, subduing the power of the \spirits of darkness
_And dooming to death _every evil
/Glory to Thee for the signs \of Thy presence
~For the joy of hearing Thy voice ~and living in Thy love
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 7 ^In the wondrous blending of sounds it is Thy call we hear; ^in the harmony of many voices, ^in the sublime beauty of music, ^in the glory of the works of great composers: /Thou leadest us to the threshold of \paradise to come, ~and to the choirs of angels. /All true beauty has the power to draw the soul \towards Thee, ~and to make it sing ~in ecstasy: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 7 /The breath of Thine Holy Spirit inspires artists, poets and \scientists. /The power of Thy supreme knowledge makes them prophets and interpreters _of Thy laws, /who reveal the depths of Thy cre\ative wisdom. ~Their works speak unwittingly of Thee. ~How great art Thou in Thy creation! ~How great art Thou in man!
/Glory to Thee, showing Thine unsurpassable power in the \laws of the universe
/Glory to Thee, for all nature is _filled with Thy laws
/Glory to Thee for what Thou hast revealed to us \in Thy mercy
/Glory to Thee for what Thou hast hidden from us \in Thy wisdom
/Glory to Thee for the inventiveness _of the human mind
/Glory to Thee for the dignity \of man's labour
/Glory to Thee for the tongues of fire that \bring inspiration
/Glory to Thee, O God, _from age to age
Kontakion 8 ^How near Thou art in the day of sickness. ^You Yourself visit the sick; ^You Yourself bend over the sufferer's bed. ^His heart speaks to You. /In the throes of sorrow and suffering Thou bringest peace and unexpected \consolation. ~Thou art the comforter. /Thou art the love which watches over \and heals us. ~To Thee we sing the song: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 8 /When in childhood I called upon Thee consciously \for the first time, /Thou didst hear my prayer, and Thou didst fill my heart with the \blessing of peace. /At that moment I knew Thy goodness and knew how blessed are those who \turn to Thee. /I started to call upon Thee _night and day; /and now even now _I call upon Thy name.
/Glory to Thee, satisfying my desires \with good things
/Glory to Thee, watching over me _day and night
/Glory to Thee, curing affliction and emptiness with the healing \flow of time
/Glory to Thee, no loss is irreparable \in Thee, ~giver of eternal life to all
/Glory to Thee, making immortal all that is \lofty and good
/Glory to Thee, _promising us the longed for meeting ~with our loved ones who have died
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 9 ^Why is it that on a Feast Day the whole of nature mysteriously smiles? ^Why is it that then a heavenly gladness fills our hearts; ^a gladness far beyond that of earth and the very air in church ~and in the altar becomes luminous? /It is the breath _of Thy gracious love. /It is the reflection of the glory \of Mount Tabor. ~Then do heaven and earth sing Thy praise: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 9 /When Thou did call me to serve my brothers and filled my soul \with humility, /one of Thy deep, piercing rays _shone into my heart; /it became luminous, full of light like iron glowing \in the furnace. ~I have seen Thy face, ~face of mystery and of unapproachable glory. /Glory to Thee, transfiguring our lives with \deeds of love
/Glory to Thee, making wonderfully Sweet the \keeping of Thy commandments
/Glory to Thee, making Thyself known where man shows mercy \on his neighbour
/Glory to Thee, sending us failure and misfortune that we may understand the \sorrows of others /Glory to Thee, rewarding us so well _for the good we do
/Glory to Thee, welcoming the impulse \of our heart's love
/Glory to Thee, raising to the heights of heaven every act of love in \earth and sky
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 10 ^No one can put together what has crumbled into dust, ^but Thou canst restore a conscience turned to ashes. ^Thou canst restore to its former beauty a soul lost and without hope. /With Thee, there is nothing that \cannot be redeemed. _Thou art love; ~Thou art Creator and Redeemer. ~We praise Thee, singing: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 10 /Remember, my God, the fall of Lucifer \full of pride, /keep me safe with the power \of Thy Grace; /save me from falling _away from Thee. /Save me from doubt. Incline my heart to hear Thy mysterious voice every moment \of my life. /Incline my heart to call upon Thee, present in \everything.
/Glory to Thee for \every happening
~Every condition Thy providence has put me in
/Glory to Thee for what Thou speakest to me \in my heart
/Glory to Thee for what Thou revealest to me, _asleep or awake
/Glory to Thee for scattering our vain i\maginations
/Glory to Thee for raising us \from the slough _of our passions through suffering
/Glory to Thee for curing our pride of heart by hu\miliation
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 11 ^Across the cold chains of the centuries, ^I feel the warmth of Thy breath, ^I feel Thy blood pulsing in my veins. /Part of time has already gone, but now \Thou art the present. ~I stand by Thy Cross; ~I was the cause of it. /I cast myself down in the \dust before it. ~Here is the triumph of love,
~the victory of salvation. /Here the centuries themselves cannot re\main silent, _singing Thy praises: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 11 ^Blessed are they that will share in the King's Banquet: ^but already on earth Thou givest me a foretaste of this blessedness. ^How many times with Thine own hand hast Thou held out to me Thy Body and Thy Blood, ^and I, though a miserable sinner, have received this Mystery, ^and have tasted Thy love, ~so ineffable, ~so heavenly.
/Glory to Thee for the unquenchable fire \of Thy Grace
/Glory to Thee, _building Thy Church, ~a haven of peace ~in a tortured world
/Glory to Thee for the life giving \water of Baptism ~in which we find new birth
/Glory to Thee, restoring to the penitent purity \white as the lily
_Glory to Thee ~for the cup of salvation ~and the bread of eternal joy
/Glory to Thee for exalting us to the \highest heaven
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 12 ^How often have I seen the reflection of Thy glory in the faces of the dead. ^How resplendent they were, with beauty and heavenly joy. ^How ethereal, how translucent their faces. ^How triumphant over suffering and death, their felicity and peace. /Even in the silence _they were calling upon Thee. /In the hour of my death, enlighten my soul, too, that it may \cry out to Thee: ~Alleluia!
Ikos 12 ^What sort of praise can I give Thee? ^I have never heard the song of the Cherubim, a joy reserved for the spirits above. /But I know the praises that \nature sings to Thee. /In winter, I have beheld how silently in the moonlight the whole earth \offers Thee prayer, ~clad in its white mantle of snow, ~sparkling like diamonds. /I have seen how the rising sun re\joices in Thee, /how the song of the birds is a chorus of \praise to Thee. /I have heard the mysterious mutterings of the forests \about Thee, /and the winds singing Thy praise as they \stir the waters. /I have understood how the choirs of stars pro\claim Thy glory /as they move forever in the depths _of infinite space. ~What is my poor worship! ~All nature obeys Thee, _I do not. /Yet while I live, I \see Thy love, ~I long to thank Thee, ~and call upon Thy name.
/Glory to Thee, \giving us light
/Glory to Thee, loving us with love so deep, di\vine and infinite
/Glory to Thee, blessing us with light, and with the host of \angels and saints
/Glory to Thee, Father all holy, promising us a share_ in Thy Kingdom
/Glory to Thee, Holy Spirit, life giving \Sun of the world to come
/Glory to Thee for all things, _Holy and most merciful Trinity
~Glory to Thee, O God, ~from age to age
Kontakion 13 ^Life giving and merciful Trinity, ^receive my thanksgiving for all Thy goodness. ~Make us worthy of Thy blessings, /so that, when we have brought to fruit the talents Thou hast en\trusted to us, ~we may enter into the joy of our Lord, ~forever exulting in the shout of victory: ~Alleluia!
(repeat
Kontakion 13 and Alleluia three times * Then repeat Ikos 1 and then
Kontakion 1)
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Author Dean Arnold's recap of Chapter 4 and 5 of Gulag Archipelago
Firstly, the Bluecaps (the interrogator/torturers wore blue hats) were not "educated people of broad culture" and did not "think logically." They were required only to "carry out orders exactly and be impervious to suffering." They had quotas to reach, and if they did, they lived a fairly cush life.
He described the feeling these not-so-exceptional people gained from sudden notoriety as "intoxication."
"You are still young, a sniveling youth. Only a little while ago your parents were deeply concerned about you and didn't know where to turn to launch you in life. . . and then you took off and flew! . . . The learned council of the scientific institution is in session. You enter and everyone notices you and trembles . . . you sit off to one side, but everyone understands that you are head man there . . . you will raise your eyebrows, or, better still, purse your lips and say to the rector: 'You can't do that. There are 'special considerations' involved [perhaps today's American Nazi might call it National Security. Or maybe homeland security.]."
"From the moment you don that heavenly blue service cap, you stand higher than the publicly acknowledged power."
He details several examples of sexual favors gained, but these are the least of their cruelties.
Why didn't they fear becoming themselves those arrested and tortured, which happened quite often? "These men were slow to sense the lessons of the past . . . due to their having no higher powers of reason."
S. then flips the script and asks the question if he himself could have turned into a Bluecap. "If my life had turned out differently, might I myself not have become just such an executioner? It is a dreadful question if one really answers it honestly."
He had overlooked the chatter he heard of injustice, execution and torture while he was a military officer. "How could we know anything about those arrests or why should we think about them? [Perhaps we could say the same the past few years regarding those being censored--or about the millions killed in the womb in decades past.] Twenty-year olds, we marched [as] the brightest of futures lay ahead."
S. looked back and was "horrified." He said it was simple because he was a military man simply following orders.
"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were only necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
This is perhaps the most famous paragraph in the book (I've seen it quoted many times.) I'm not even sure I completely agree with it. It certainly makes one think.
He cites a man named Terekhov who sentenced his first man to death and said, "'I was sorry for him.'" . . . But after that first one, he forgot many and no longer kept count any more." This reminds me of a doctor who gave testimony at a "Meet the Abortion Providers" conference I attended in Chicago 30 years ago. During his first procedure his colleague asked him if "it's all there?". The young doctor had taken out each limb and the head of the child and laid it out to make sure the entire body had been extracted. "Yes, I guess it's all there" he said slowly. The moment seared his concience "like a hot poker," he said, but after the first one, he learned to forget.
Like our questions of how to deal with our own murderous society, S. had the same questions for his mid 20th Century Russia: "What are we to do? Someday our descendents will describe our several generations as generations of driveling do-nothings. First we allowed them to massacre us by the millions, and then with devoted concern we tended the murderers in their prosperous old age . . . They are [now] fifty to eighty years old. They have lived the best years of their lives prosperously."
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