Franz Stuck, Luzifer, 1890.
Paul McGuire, a lunatic lost in conspiracies is at it again, still flogging away on the whole Pharaoh God Kings business, but with added Luciferian Advanced Beings! Ooooh.
“The unprecedented attacks against President Trump and his administration are something that we’ve never seen before in all of human history,” he said. “These unprecedented attacks on Donald Trump are part of the greatest spiritual battle in the history of mankind.”
Sigh. Investigation does not equal attack. I always find it interesting that so many christians are adept at self-brainwashing, but that is part and parcel of Abrahamaic religions. It really wasn’t long ago that we had an actual president, who came under vicious attacks for eight long years. Not long ago at all, but it does feel a lifetime. The religious reich conveniently forgets all that, and happily acts as though no previous president ever was attacked, no. Just the Tiny Tyrant. If the narcissistic asshole sitting in the white house wasn’t a criminal, there wouldn’t be an investigation. That’s how these things work.
“The physical battles that we see in our world and nation right now are a direct manifestation of the spiritual battles going on in the invisible realm,” McGuire added. “There are people very high up in what is called the globalist occult or globalist Luciferian rulership system, and this rulership system consists of what used to be called the Pharaoh-God Kings, it’s what Aldous Huxley called ‘The Scientific Dictatorship,’ and these are advanced beings who know how to tap into supernatural multidimensional power and integrate it with science, technology, and economics.”
It’s interesting, the determination to keep hold of all the old bugbears, while trying to put a modern spin on them. Oh yeah, it’s Lucifer and Pharaoh God Kings, but with Science, Supernatural Multidimensional Power, technology, and economics! Got to try and make it interesting, I suppose. There’s a problem with the whole Lucifer business though – there is no Lucifer in the bible. Lucifer is yet another bad translation in the KJV. There is Hêlêl ben Šāḥar, that would be your bad guy. Granted, that’s a bit more of a mouthful than Lucifer, but practice makes perfect! As for Aldous Huxley and “the scientific dictatorship”, he never said that. That didn’t stop someone from plastering all over the net, unfortunately.
“They are people at the highest level of the pyramidic organizational structure in which the highest ranking officers, if you will, of the New World Order and Mystery Babylon are ruling the earth through an organizational structure that looks like the pyramid on the back of the U.S. dollar,” he stated. “And they control the world because they understand that the true control of the world is done through supernatural mechanisms.”
“Mystery Babylon”? What in the fuck is that? A pyramid. Hmmm. I haven’t noticed any gigantic pyramids anywhere. Perhaps I’m just not looking hard enough. Or maybe it’s in the earth’s core. Who the hell knows. Okay, so they know control is managed through supernatural ooogaboooga. What happened to Jehovah then? That’s supposed to be his demesne, is it not? How about that lazy, ineffectual god do something for a change. Light a bush on fire, something.
Via RWW.
I don’t know about Mystery, Babylon but I recommend Mystery, Alaska as a really good film.
Heh. And Babylon 5 was good too.
And speaking of pyramid power, I bet he’s no more than a handshake away from someone who will sell you makeup, cleaning supplies, or herbal supplements. And oh, could you come over to our place Tuesday and discuss a business opportunity?
Shane Street, you’re closer than you think -- he’s been shilling on Jim Bakker’s show. :D
I haven’t noticed any gigantic pyramids anywhere.
Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas but the devil should be Mammon not Lucfer.
https://www.luxor.com/en.html.
I’m pretty sure they don’t have sin city in mind, as they tend to be obsessed with Washington D.C., and Hollywood, but who knows? As for Mammon (2nd image), if anything, he’s a lesser demon. He’s not listed in the Ars Goetia, nor most classifications of demons. In 1410, The Lanterne of Light, an anonymous English tract attributed to Wycliffe, included Mammon (Greed) as one of the seven deadly sins, and that’s where most of the Mammon stuff comes from. In all the classifications of demons, he rarely makes the list of those who count.
Well then, clearly Mammon is more appropriate for McGuire. Do you really think he should aspire to discussing anyone in Ars Goetia? Hubris!
Mystery Babylon is part of what is written on the forehead of some tart on a dragon in the book of Revelations --
Rev 5: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
She must have had a big forehead.
As for me, I’ve never been able to get over the appropriation of the name ‘Lucifer’ for the devil. Especially as it’s often the Morning Star, aka Venus, aka often (but not always) a symbol associated with the feminine (the Latvian Auseklis, incidentally, is also a masculine name for the morning star, while Ausma, the dawn itself, is feminine). I just don’t understand the association -- does every dawn bring new evil, then? Is the morning light actually a vehicle for the Devil rather than a sign of god’s love and charity shining upon the earth?
Anyway, I would have loved to name one of my kids some form of Latvianized Lucifer, but Husband would never agree (and neither would the Naming Commission, probably).
Picture looks like Putin.
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just sayin’
@ ^ rq : There’s a naming commission that won’t allow you to call your children whatever name you want?!
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Could be mistaken but I think it may be tied up with the Left Behind Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins weird “prophecy” / ideology and their notion of a
postmid Apocalypse, post-“Rapture” artificial religion the ridiculous “Enigma Babylon One World Faith” which is discussed in a bit more detail by Fred Clark on Slacktivist here (Scrolldown -quite a way down) :http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2011/07/19/tf-ebowf/
Now L&J use “enigma” whereas Paul McGuire uses “Mystery Babylon” but the words are similar enough in meaning and mystery is referred to in the (english -- wonder what the original Aramaic meaning was closer too?) verse cherry-picked and twisted here that I suspect its connected, variant nonsense from that.
& here I thought going back to the old teh Commiez!!1ty! Redscare Bircher stuff was absurdly behind the times.
God Kings & Pharoahs also remind me of Trump and his bottomless ego and the followers who call him the God-Emperor too.
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@2. Caine : “And Babylon 5 was good too.”
Loved Babylon-5 and its still my all-time favourite TV Sf series.
rq,
I guess it’s because Venus/Aphrodite/Ishtar/Astarte was major deity in ancient world, and rival to Yahweh? That’d explain literal demonisation in Judeo-Christian tradition. Was there a similar Satanic association with Latvian Auseklis?
You mean Auseklis, or some other traditional male personification of Morning Star? Do these names carry a Satanic association in modern Christian/postchristian culture?
No, Auseklis doesn’t, it’s a very patriotic name -- there’s a famous Latvian poet who wrote patriotic epic poems that are choir favourites who chose that for his pseudonym. But also I would have wanted specifically Lucifer in a more Latvian spelling. I don’t like the look of Lusifers but something like Lukifers might have worked for me. Either way, that boat has sailed. :D
Auseklis never had the Satanic association, he’s still a very recognized pagan figure but no one’s ever made the connection to Lucifer, Lucifer is his own entity in the christian religion and the two have managed to remain separate. The traditional devil (Velns) took on the role of Satan/Lucifer, though traditionally he is more of a foolish figure (and participated in the creation of humans, incidentally, creating half, which is why humans are not completely good and not completely evil); I’d always thought that the more evil/dark-seeming Jods (yu-ods) would have taken up that mantle, but apparently the two concepts are synonymous, so with the advent of christianity, you can see the usually easily-fooled Velns (not always capitalized) becoming a far more sinister figure, becoming equivalent to the local ruling baron or church priest in folk stories.
I bet there’s someone who’s had that tatooed on their forehead!
BTW, can anyone work out what Lucifer’s holding under his right arm? A skateboard?
rq:
I’m with you, I love the name, and wish christians hadn’t utterly ruined it.
KG:
It’s one of his wings.
I was leaning towards “giant pair of slippers”, but okay.
KG I can’t tell what it is, but it’s bulkier than a skateboard, more like saddle bags maybe?
I forgot to mention earlier that Jesus is also called Lucifer in early Christianity before it had established Satan as Lucifer.
“In Latin, the word is applied to John the Baptist and is used as a title of Jesus himself in several early Christian hymns. The morning hymn Lucis largitor splendide of Hilary contains the line: “Tu verus mundi lucifer” (you are the true light bringer of the world).[53] Some interpreted the mention of the morning star (lucifer) in Ambrose’s hymn Aeterne rerum conditor as referring allegorically to Jesus and the mention of the cock, the herald of the day (praeco) in the same hymn as referring to John the Baptist.[54] Likewise, in the medieval hymn Christe qui lux es et dies, some manuscripts have the line “Lucifer lucem proferens”.[55]
The Latin word lucifer is also used of Jesus in the Easter Proclamation prayer to God regarding the paschal candle: Flammas eius lucifer matutinus inveniat: ille, inquam, lucifer, qui nescit occasum. Christus Filius tuus, qui, regressus ab inferis, humano generi serenus illuxit, et vivit et regnat in saecula saeculorum (“May this flame be found still burning by the Morning Star: the one Morning Star who never sets, Christ your Son, who, coming back from death’s domain, has shed his peaceful light on humanity, and lives and reigns for ever and ever”). In the works of Latin grammarians, Lucifer, like Daniel, was discussed as an example of a personal name.[56]”