MYSTERY BABYLON: THE ILLUMINATI, MASONIC, AND CATHOLIC CONNECTION
Masonic Symbols in Catholic Churches and Subliminal Messages
Mystery Babylon – The Great Harlot and the Illuminati / Masonic / Catholic Connection
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters
Mystery Babylon and the Tower of Babel
The name, Mystery Babylon carries with it a sense of wonderment and intrigue. What is the “mystery” of Mystery Babylon? Babylon was an ancient city located some miles from Baghdad in modern Iraq. It later became an extensive empire that controlled the Middle East and beyond, but, what is this “Mystery Babylon”?
The land of Mesopotamia is called the “Cradle of Civilization”. It was here, in the land of Shinar, or Babylon, that Nimrod set up the tallest tower in the ancient world: the Tower of Babel. Babel, a city founded by Nimrod, according to Genesis 10:10, was the center of a world government that served Nimrod, the mighty hunter. This kingdom centered in Babel was started sometime after Noah, his wife, and Noah’s three sons and their wives arrived with enough animals to repopulate the world. Nimrod was the great-grandson of Noah and the son of Cush (see Genesis 10). He started a religion of sun-worship that led people away from the true God, the Creator, to serve and worship the creature (the sun, the moon, stars, etc.).
According to the writings of many ancient historians, traditions, and numerous facts, we have learned that Nimrod started a religion that spread throughout the whole world, as a result of the division of tongues (or languages) that happened at the tower of Babel, when God confused the languages. Prior to this dispersion, people everywhere had the same language.
Genesis 11:5-9
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
These scattered peoples, spread across the Earth, but they all remembered what Nimrod had taught them about the worship of nature as opposed to worshipping God the Creator.
Sometime after this dispersion, or at the time of the dispersion, Nimrod was caught and killed. His body was chopped to pieces and dispersed to various places as a warning to the followers of Nimrod. His wife, who also happened to be his mother, the evil woman Semiramis, claimed that Nimrod was reincarnated in the form of their son, Tammuz. She claimed that Tammuz was a god and that she was the woman whose seed would bruise the serpent’s head. God had told Eve, the first woman, about this very thing. In Genesis 3, we read that because Eve disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she would have sorrow in childbearing and she would die of old age.
Genesis 3:13-15
13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Adam and Eve had told their children all these words. A little more than a dozen generations had passed since Adam, and mankind (which includes women) was very familiar with the knowledge that the seed of a woman shall bruise the serpent’s head. Who is the serpent? The serpent was a symbol of Satan, the deceiver. Satan, once an angel of God, became God’s enemy. He rebelled against the Most High God and led a third of the angels in rebellion against God (Revelation 12:4). Satan is the one who told the first lie and he still tells that lie today. What was the first lie?
Genesis 3:1-6
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
“Ye shall not surely die,” whispered the serpent. That is the first lie. If we disobey God, that is sin. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Sin produces death, spiritual and physical. Spiritual death is being cut off from God. Physical death is being cut off from the land of the living.
The next lie Satan told the Earth as recorded in the Scriptures can be said as, “You are all gods, so is it bad that some of you should be worshipped as gods?” The truth is, we have an ability to discern the difference between good and evil, but we will die like men.
Psalm 82:6-7
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
We are still human and mortal and not to be worshipped. God forbids the worship of anyone and anything but Himself. God told the children of Israel these words, which are the Ten Commandments that apply to all.
Exodus 20:1-3
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
God takes this serious. Those who broke this commandment (who didn’t repent) were to be stoned to death according to Old Testament law. Of course, this law has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ, who died for our sins on the cross of Calvary (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
The Structure of Mystery Religion
God was not pleased with Nimrod and Semiramis’ idolatry. According to the research of Alexander Hislop and others, Nimrod’s grand-uncle, Shem, and a group of patriarchs felt called by God to put to death the wicked Nimrod. They cut up his body into pieces and sent the pieces to various places as a warning to others (see Hislop, pp. 62-64). After this, the worshippers of Nimrod and Semiramis made their religion more secretive and mysterious. Thus, it was known as mystery religion. This religion was arranged in a pyramidal design with the “Pontifex Maximus” (Hislop) as the top. The next level included other “pontiffs”. Then, down the pyramid were various clergy–including “priests”– and finally the common people. The common people were never allowed to understand what the priests knew unless they went through the training to become a priest. This pyramidal system can be found in the structure of the Catholics, Masons, and other “Mystery” organizations.
Alexander Hislop, the author of the well-known work, The Two Babylons, wrote: “The College of Cardinals, with the Pope at its head, is just the counterpart of the Pagan College of Pontiffs, with its “Pontifex Maximus,” or “Sovereign Pontiff,” which had existed in Rome from the earliest times, and which is known to have been framed on the model of the grand original Council of Pontiffs at Babylon.”
This “Council of Pontiffs at Babylon” is the system set up by Semiramis after the death of Nimrod. In this system, the bottom-of-the-barrel commoners went to a priest to make a confession of his or her sins, exactly the way Catholics do today. This practice has its roots in Baal worship and is found in nearly all the Mystery Religions.
Hislop writes that:
“…a mysterious power was attributed to the clergy, which gave them “dominion over the faith” of the people–a dominion directly disclaimed by apostolic men (2 Cor 1:24), but which, in connection with the confessional, has become at least as absolute and complete as was ever possessed by Babylonian priest over those initiated in the ancient Mysteries. The clerical power of the Roman priesthood culminated in the erection of the confessional. That confessional was itself borrowed from Babylon.”
Babylon held its power by getting people to confess their sins to priests who never confessed their sins to the people. This is unbiblical and wrong. James 5:16 says, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” We confess our faults to those we have wronged and we need to repent before God. In Babylon and in Catholicism, the priest does not confess his sins to the people, but they confess their sins to him, putting them under his control.
Having the fear of the priest knowing one’s secret sins holds people under his power. The next method of control involved the area of seeking God, or not seeking God. The priests told the people in Babylon that they had the answers from God, and so also Catholic priests do the same. But, the people were never encouraged to seek God and find out what God had to tell them. In Jeremiah 29:13, God says, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Amos 5:4
For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
But, the Catholics and the Babylonian Baal worshippers did not encourage people to seek God. They could not hold sway over the people if the people were seeking God for themselves. Rituals, mass gatherings (masses), repetitive prayers to “the queen of heaven”, and going to confessionals were what Babylonians, and other Mystery religions performed in order to know they were going to Heaven.
“Queen of Heaven” or “Queen of Deception”
Now, who was the “queen of heaven”? Many ancient cultures have a goddess who they call “the queen of heaven”. In Babylon, the woman and her son were called Ishtar and Tammuz. In India, they were named Isi and Iswara. The Chinese called her Shing-moo with child. The Scandinavians named the mother and child Frigga and Balder. The Greeks called them Ceres or Irene and Plutus. The Phoenicians named them Ashtoreth and Baal. Babylonians gave them the nomenclature Ishtar and Tammuz. Egyptians worshipped the mother and child as Isis and Horus (Veith).
Semiramis took her son, the son of Nimron, and called him a god. She also called herself a god and men worshipped her. Her religious system of Baal worship embraced all kinds of sin, including orgies, pagan revelry, and other perversions, not to mention idolatry. The very fact that she married her own son, Nimrod, shows her depravity.
The Catholic Church and Paganism
As the tribes of mankind spread out through the Earth, the pagans brought Baal-worship with them. This system was in place during the time of the Roman Empire and after it. When Constantine, one of the last Emperors of Rome, came into power, Christianity had grown tremendously and had spread across his empire. Paganism was still firmly entrenched. To solidify his power base, Constantine, a sun-worshipper, needed to have a single religion to preside as head over.
The German historian Heggtveit writes:
“Constantine labored at his time untiringly to unite the worshippers of the old and the new faith in one religion. All his laws and contrivances are aimed at promoting this amalgamation of religions. He would by all means melt together a purified heathenism and a moderate Christianity…His injunction that the ‘Day of the Sun’ should be a general rest day was characteristic of his standpoint…Of all his blending and melting together of Christianity and heathenism, none is more easy to see through than this making of his Sunday law. The Christians worshipped their Christ, the heathen their sun god; according to the opinion of the Emperor, the objects for worship in both religions were essentially the same” (Edwardson).
This can be argued to be the foundation for the Roman Catholic Church. It was from this point forward that lukewarm “Christians” compromised with the pagans to form a new conjoined religion. But, as many researchers have shown, it was merely Babylonian-based paganism dressed up to look somewhat like “Christianity”. For instance, “Pontifex Maximus”, the title used by popes today was also used by Roman Emperors long before Constantine’s reign (Hislop, pg. 206).
Other examples of the pagan roots of the Catholic Church can be found in their buildings. The all-seeing-eye of Horus, found in masonic lodges, and on the back of the dollar bill, can be found in the masonry and imagery of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches (which are really Catholic churches formed after the Roman Empire was divided in two). You will even find masonic imagery on the walls of Catholic Churches. Phoenix birds, satanic pentagrams (five-pointed upside down stars), masonic square and compass symbols, and pagan tridents can be seen in some Cathedrals throughout Europe and even in South America.
The halo, or nimbus, that sits behind the heads of many statues and paintings in the Catholic Church can be found on the statues of Greek and Roman gods. Apollo is depicted with a halo around his head. Circe, another Roman god, has a halo, as does the Catholic Mary. What is the significance of a halo or nimbus?
George Clarke, author of Pompeii, writes: “This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by Servius to be ‘the luminous fluid which encircles the heads of the gods. It belongs with peculiar propriety to Circe, as the daughter of the Sun. The emperors, with their usual modesty, assumed it as the mark of their divinity; and under this respectable patronage it passed, like many other Pagan superstitions and customs, into the use of the [Catholic] Church.” (Click to SEE MORE INFO ABOUT the ILLUMINATI, the MASONS, and the CATHOLIC CHURCH).
Christmas, Yule-day, and Saturnalia
Other pagan associations are found in the holidays, such as Christmas. How can Christmas be pagan? After all, isn’t it about the birth of Jesus? Or, is it?
Christmas is sometimes called “Yule-day.” Yule, is the Chaldean word for an “infant” or “little child” (Hislop). Pagan Anglo-Saxons celebrated Yule-day long before Christian influences came to England. The day called “Christmas Eve” was called “Mother-night”. They worshipped the female sun goddess and a male moon god during the December 25th period (Hislop, pg. 94). This was the celebration of the winter solstice and the worship of the Babylonian sun god Baal, who was considered to be an incarnation of the sun (Hislop, pg. 96). The Roman’s celebrated this same festival as the feast of Saturn, or Saturnalia (Hislop).
Some similarities to how Christmas is celebrated today include candles, the yule log in the hearth, a Christmas tree, wreaths, red and green colors, and the date (25 of December). The burning yule log symbolized the dying god (Nimrod / Baal) before he was to rise from the dead reincarnated in the form of his son, Tammuz. The standing Christmas tree symbolized this reincarnation and coming back to life (Hislop).
During this sun-worshipping feast, drunkenness and immorality were prevalent in ancient Rome and elsewhere. People sacrificed geese and pigs to Baal (or the equivalent deity). These same animals are found in many European dishes on Christmas Day (Veith, Festivals).
What is more, Santa Claus has some attributes of pagan deities. Santa is said to ride across the sky in a sleigh. The Egyptian sun god Osiris was born on the winter solstice (identical to Baal). He was said to ride on a chariot through the heavens, and Helios, the Greek sun god, rode in a chariot across the sky. In more northern cultures, reindeer pulled the chariot. The East is not to be left out. The Hindus had a god called Sûrya, who also rode across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot (Veith, Festivals). (Christmas is said to be about Jesus Christ, but it is not. CLICK HERE to see what the Bible has to say about Jesus Christ.)
Easter and Ishtar
Like Christmas, Easter comes from pagan origins, as should be no surprise. Easter is the same as Astarte, Ishtar, Beltis, the “queen of heaven” (Hislop). Ishtar is a name found on Assyrian monuments (Hislop), proving that Ishtar is Assyrian.
The feast called Ishtar or Easter occurred each spring on a Sunday, near the time of the vernal equinox. With the pagan influences surrounding them, compromising Christians moved the time of the Passover (as recorded in the Bible) to the time Easter was celebrated, (Goubej) and linked the two together.
One powerful symbol of paganism is stamped over Easter, the Easter egg. How could an egg be pagan?
Hyginus, the “keeper of the Palatine library at Rome” (Hislop) writes in his book called Fabulae: “An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian Goddess” (Hyginus). Venus, as we’ve seen, is the same as Ishtar (or Semiramis).
Another Easter symbol was the rabbit (Goubej). The rabbit is known for producing a lot of offspring in a short amount of time and can be thought of as a fertility symbol. These fertility symbols were to celebrate the goddess of fertility, Ishtar, Ashtaroth, Isis, Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, who called herself the “queen of heaven”. This same person is adored by the Catholics as “Mary, the queen of heaven.” This is blasphemy against God, for God the Creator alone is to be worshipped (see Exodus 20:4-5). God does not want us to worship graven images (such as statues of Mary or Saints) (see Exodus 20:4-5).
Exodus 20:4-5
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Catholics and Protestants both accept Christmas and Easter as legitimate festivals to celebrate Jesus Christ. Knowing now that they were based on pagan festivals, a follower of Christ needs to evaluate why he or she celebrates them. (I took a long time to change my beliefs, but after looking into it more, I realized how pagan these celebrations really are. I encourage you to seek God and to see what God’s Word has to say about all of this.).
If you, the reader, are a Catholic, I encourage you to take time away from the Church and seek God with all your heart and get a copy of the Bible and read it (I encourage you to read the King James Version). God wants to have a relationship with you through His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, God the Son. The priests of medieval Europe kept the common people from reading the word of God. They read it in Latin, but not in the common language. They kept people from reading the scriptures or having it translated into their own languages. Why? You may find out if you seek God and read the Bible. The Bible tells us how to be saved through Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9-10, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23), how to know God’s name (Psalm 9:10), how to experience true peace, and so on.
If you are a Protestant Christian, I encourage you to seek God with all your heart and read the Bible. In it are the words of life. God wants to have a relationship with you. Seek him fervently, seek to know God. Jesus Christ has died to pay for your sins and has risen from the dead. Seek to know him better and He will reveal Himself to you. If you have sins you need to repent from, repent from them. They keep us from seeking God. Seek God and God will give you a heart after His heart. God said this of King David: “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will” (Acts 13:22).
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Q&A
Q: What is Freemasonry?
A: Manly P. Hall, a 33rd degree freemason, writes:
” Freemasonry is a fraternity within a fraternity — an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect … it is necessary to establish the existence of these two separate and yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of ‘free and accepted’ men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. The invisible society is a secret and most August [defined as ‘of majestic dignity, grandeur’] fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcannum arcandrum [defined as ‘a secret, a mystery’].” [Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, p. 433]
Albert Mackey, 33rd Degree Mason writes this in his “Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry”, 1873:
“Visible Masonry: In a circular published March 18, 1775, by the Grand Orient of France, reference is made to two divisions of the Order, namely, Visible and Invisible Masonry … by ‘Invisible Masonry’ they denoted that body of intelligent and virtuous Masons who, irrespective of any connection with dogmatic authorities, constituted a ‘Mysterious and Invisible Society of the True Sons of Light’, who, scattered over the two hemisphere, were engaged, with one heart and soul in doing everything for the glory of the Great Architect and for the good of their fellow-men.”
Q: What is the All-Seeing-Eye?
A:
“This ubiquitous image is most often referred to as the all-seeing eye or ‘eye of providence.’ The eye, usually depicted in the sky looking out upon the earth, is an ancient symbol of the sun, and historically has been used as a symbol of omniscience. The idea of the solar eye comes to us from the Egyptians, who equated the eye with the deity Osiris; the human eye in its ability to perceive light was viewed as a miniature sun.” (From “All Seeing Eye” definition at SymbolDicionary.net) (Emphasis Added)
“The eye plays a most important part in occult symbolism and probably owes its origin in western magical designs to the Eye of Horus, which was one of the most frequently used of Egyptian magical symbols.” (Fredrick Goodman, Magical Symbols p. 101, 1989) (Emphasis Added)
Alice Bailey, an occultist and author of 24 books wrote:
“The Masonic Movement … is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries, and the seat of initiation. … The methods of Deity are demonstrated in its Temples, and under the All-seeing Eye the work can go forward. It [Masonry] is a far more occult organisation than can be realized, and it is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists.” (Alice Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 511) (Emphasis Added)
Q: What is the Phoenix?
A:
“The Phoenix, of Bunnu is believed to be a divine bird going back to Egypt… This Phoenix destroys itself in flames and then rises from the ashes. Most occultists believe that the Phoenix is a symbol of Lucifer who was cast down in flames and who… will one day rise…. This [idea] also relates to the raising of Hiram Abiff, the Masonic [false] ‘Christ’.” (William Schnoebelen, Satan’s Door Revisited, p. 4)(Emphasis added)
Manly P. Hall writes:
“These were the immortals to whom the term ‘phoenix’ was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle, a familiar and little understood Masonic emblem.” (Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 108)(Emphasis added)
Q: Is Freemasonry Part of the Illuminati?
A:
Svali, an Illuminati Defector, said:
“My maternal grandparents were both high ranking Masons in the city of Pittsburgh, Pa. (president of the Eastern Star and 33rd degree Mason) and they both were also leaders in the Illuminati in that area.” (Henry Makow, Ph.D. “SVALI – Ex lluminati Top Programmer…” svaliiluminati.blogspot.com.) (Emphasis added)
Svali said that as a member of the Illuminati she was taken to a Masonic temple:
“The Freemasons and the Illuminati are hand in glove. I don’t care if this steps on any toes, it’s a fact. The Masonic temple at Alexandria, Virginia (the city itself was named after Alexandria, Egypt, and is a hotbed of Illuminati activity) is a centre in the Washington, DC area for Illuminati scholarship and teaching. I was taken there at intervals for testing, to step up a level, for scholarship, and high ceremonies. The leaders in this Masonic group were also Illuminists.” (Henry Makow, Ph.D. “SVALI – Ex lluminati Top Programmer…” svaliiluminati.blogspot.com.) (Emphasis added)
What about lower Masons? Are they part of the Illuminati?
Svali said:
“Are all Masons Illuminati? No, especially at the lower levels, I believe they know nothing of the practices that occur in the middle of the night in the larger temples. …the group [the Illuminati] helped create Freemasonry as a “front” for their activities.” ” (Henry Makow, Ph.D. “SVALI – Ex lluminati Top Programmer…” svaliiluminati.blogspot.com.) (Emphasis added)
Q: What is the “Supreme Pontiff” and how is this related to Catholicism and Masonry?
A:
In ancient Rome (before Catholicism existed), the Roman Emperor was called “Pontifex Maximus” or the “Supreme Pontiff” (Alexander Hislop. The Two Babylons. Pg. 169). The King of Egypt was known as the Supreme Pontiff also (ibid. Pg. 169). This is the same title held by the Pope today as can be seen on the monuments of popes and on the coins of popes.
Albert Pike, author of Morals and Dogma, was a mason of the 33rd degree. He wrote about masonic degrees, including the 19th degree, “XIX. GRAND PONTIFF” (Morals and Dogma, pg. 203).
So, Freemasons, Popes, and Roman Emperors are all given the title of Pontifex-Maximus, Grand Pontiff, or Supreme Pontiff.
The Crosier (or Lituus)
The Pontifex-Maximus of ancient Babylon, Egypt, and other countries following mystery religions were all equipped with “crosiers”. The crosier was a staff that was bent at the head, like a shepherds crook. (A. Hislop, The Two Babylons. pg. 172)
The lituus, a magic wand used by pagan ancient Roman priests (augurs), was adopted by the popes. (ibid. pg. 172)
Another object the popes adopted is their famous Papal mitre.
Historian Alexander Hislop writes this about the Papal mitre:
“The Papal mitre is entirely different from the mitre of Aaron and the Jewish high priests. That mitre was a turban. The two-horned mitre, which the Pope wears […] is the very mitre worn by Dagon, the fish-god of the Philistines and Babylonians. There were two ways in which Dagon was anciently represented. The one was when he was depicted as half-man half-fish; the upper part being entirely human, the under part ending in the tail of a fish. The other was, when, to use the words of Layard, “the head of the fish formed a mitre above that of the man, while its scaly, fan-like tail fell as a cloak behind, leaving the human limbs and feet exposed.” Of Dagon in this form Layard gives a representation in his last work […] The gaping jaws of the fish surmounting the head of the man at Nineveh are the unmistakable counterpart of the horns of the Pope’s mitre at Rome.” (ibid. pg. 171) (Emphasis added)
This same hat could be found in other pagan religions. (See below).
The Keys of Janus and Cybele
Helena Blavatsky, an occultist, wrote in her book Isis Unveiled:
“The very apostolic designation, Peter, is from the Mysteries. The hierophant or supreme pontiff bore the Chaldean title peter, or interpreter. The names Phtah, Peth’r, the residence of Balaam, Patara, and Patras, the names of oracles-cities, pateres or pateras and, perhaps, Buddha, all come from the same root […] No apostle Peter was ever at Rome; but the Pope, seizing the scepter of the Pontifex Maximus, the keys of Janus and Kubelé [Cybele], and adorning his Christian head with the cap of the Magna Mater, copied from that of the tiara of Brahmâtma, the Supreme Pontiff of the Initiates of old India, became the successor of the Pagan high priest, the real Peter-Roma, or Petroma (the tiara of the Pope is also a perfect copy of that of the Dalai-Lama of Thibet)” [sic] (Pg. 30). (Emphasis added)
The Pope still carries these same keys of Janus and Cybele. And as Peter-Roma, the interpreter, he leads Catholics to worship the pagan trinity (Osiris, Isis, Horus).
So, wearing the hat of Magna Mater (or Dagon), carrying the pagan Roman lituus (or crosier), and possessing the keys of Janus and Cybele, the popes have all followed in the footsteps of the pagans before them, adding pseudo-Christian labels to their pagan adornments.
Q: Is Masonry a Mystery Religion?
A:
Albert Pike, a 33rd degree mason, wrote:
“Masonry, successor of the mysteries, still follows the ancient manner of teaching. Her ceremonies are like the ancient mystic shows,…” (Albert Pike. Morals and Dogma. pg. 22) (Emphasis added)
There you have it. Pike tells us that Masonry is a mystery religion.
Pike states in Morals and Dogma (pg. 23) that:
“After leaving Egypt, the mysteries were modified by the habits of the different nations among whom they were introduced, and especially by the religious systems of the countries into which they were transplanted.” (Emphasis added)
Pike has informed us that ancient Egyptian religion is part of the ancient mystery religions and that these were taken to many countries.
He states further:
“To maintain the established government, laws, and religion, was the obligation of the initiate [of the Mystery religion or Masonry] everywhere; and everywhere they were the heritage of the priests [of the mysteries], who were nowhere willing to make the common people co-proprietors with themselves of philosophical [beliefs].” (Albert Pike. Morals and Dogma. pg. 23) (Emphasis added)
In order for mystery religions to have power, the common people could not be told everything that the priests (or high officials) knew. This is the same for the Catholic Church, which has borrowed nearly everything from the ancient mystery religions Albert Pike speaks of.
The Roman Catholic Church has pagan symbols from ancient Mystery religions (including Masonry).
Q: Are the Catholic Religious Processions Pagan?
A:
Hislop quotes from the London Times:
‘“The historic idea [of religious processions],” says that journal, “is simple enough, and as old as old can be. We have it in Homer–the procession of Hecuba and the ladies of Troy to the shrine of Minerva, in the Acropolis of that city.” It was a time of terror and dismay in Troy, when Diomede, with resistless might, was driving everything before him, and the overthrow of the proud city seemed at hand. To avert the apparently inevitable doom, the Trojan Queen was divinely directed.
“To lead the assembled train Of Troy’s chief matron’s to Minerva’s fane.”’ (Hislop. The Two Babylons. pg. 143.) (Emphasis added)
Pagan processions carrying idols on their shoulders can also be found in ancient Nineveh and ancient Egypt.
Hislop writes:
‘In the sculptures of Nineveh these processions of idols, borne on men’s shoulders, are forcibly represented, and form at once a striking illustration of the prophetic language, and of the real origin of the Popish processions. In Egypt, the same practice was observed. In “the procession of shrines,” says Wilkinson, “it was usual to carry the statue of the principal deity, in whose honour the procession took place, together with that of the king, and the figures of his ancestors, borne in the same manner, on men’s shoulders.”’ (Hislop. The Two Babylons. pg. 144.) (Emphasis added)
Catholics bring forth images of Mary and “saints” and carry them in religious processions exactly as the ancient pagans did.
The Bible, God’s written word says this about the worship of idols:
Isaiah 46:6-7 (Emphasis added)
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
God, in The Ten Commandments, says this:
Exodus 20:1-5 (Emphasis added)
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Q: Is the Catholic Mass Pagan?
A:
Historian Alexander Hislop writes this in his book, The Two Babylons: “The Paeonians of Thrace were sun-worshippers; and in their worship they adored an image of the sun in the form of a disk at the top of a long pole.” [Pg. 135].
That was pagan worship in which a pole holding an image to represent the sun sat before an altar to Baal (Hislop).
Hislop writes further (Emphasis added):
“And here, in a so-called Christian Church, a brilliant plate of silver, “in the form of a SUN,” is so placed on the altar, that every one who adores at that altar must bow down in lowly reverence before that image of the “Sun.” Whence, I ask, could that have come, but from the ancient sun-worship, or the worship of Baal? And when the wafer is so placed that the silver “SUN” is fronting the “round” wafer, whose “roundness” is so important an element in the Romish Mystery, what can be the meaning of it, but just to show to those who have eyes to see, that the “Wafer” itself is only another symbol of Baal, or the Sun.” (Hislop). (The Two Babylons)(The Sacrifice of the Mass. Pg. 135).
The official Catholic doctrine declares that the round wafer, “the eucharist”, is: “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” [sic] (Article 1374)
This is blasphemy to say that a wafer is Jesus Christ in the form of a wafer. This wafer-worship is really the same as what the ancient pagans did.
The first and second of The Ten Commandments forbids this.
Exodus 20:1-5 says (Emphasis added) :
“And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;”
But, Catholics are to bow before the “host”, or wafer-god.
Furthermore, Jesus Christ is not ever incarnated in a wafer. This is the teaching of Baal worship. Catholics believe that Jesus Christ is offered as a sacrifice every time they attend the mass.
What does the Bible say?
Romans 6:9-10 says (Emphasis added):
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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Also, the wafer that Catholics eat is identical to that ate by ancient pagans. It was a small, round wafer.
Hislop writes: ‘ “The thin, round cake,” says Wilkinson, “occurs on all altars.” Almost every jot or tittle in the Egyptian worship had a symbolical meaning. The round disk, so frequent in the sacred emblems of Egypt, symbolised the sun. ‘ (The Two Babylons, pg. 134).
Altars to Baal can be found with sun-disc images in the Middle East.
Notice the sun-symbol on the image of the “queen of heaven”? This is sun-worship (and idolatry) and is blasphemy against the Creator God. He is not a “she.” This woman is none other than Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, who set up Baal worship. She proclaimed herself god and her son, Tammuz, a god to be worshiped.
We need to Emphasize This!
God said in Exodus 20:3-5:
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
God said this in Revelation:
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
The worship of idols includes anything that keeps you from putting God first in your life.
Q: Is the Worship of Mary (“the queen of heaven”) really the worship of Isis (Ishtar)?
A:
“One of Isis’ many epithets is Theotokos or Mother of God (Horus)’ which is one of the most popular of titles attributed to Mary.” [“The Virgin Mary – Isis of the Third Millennium?”, Aurilus Creative Paganism] (Bold added)So, Isis is called the “Mother of God.” And, Mary is also called “the Mother of God” by the Catholics.
“The Virgin Mary is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God … Mart, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church [sic].” [“Catechism of the Catholic Church”, Liguori Publications, Imprimi Potest, + Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Interdicasterial Commission for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 963, p. 251]. (Emphasis and Italics added)
Thus, Mary and Isis are identical.
“Mary is also known as Stella Maris or ‘Star of the Sea’ while Isis was given a similar title of Pelagia meaning ‘of the ocean’.” [Aurilus, Ibid]
Mary is Isis. Isis is the mother of Horus. Horus is the sun god whose eye appears above the unfinished pyramid on the back of the dollar bill. The Masons worship this sun god (a.k.a. Baal) and so do the Illuminati. Images of the all seeing eye can be seen everywhere: in advertisements, in company logos, in Catholic Churches, in ancient Egypt, in movies, music videos, video games, government logos, and in mainstream media. Our world is really under the control of men and women who worship Baal (Horus, Tammuz, Nimrod).
It was said of Baal that he was called the “savior.” But, the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the only way (1 Timothy 2:5, Acts 4:12, and John 14:6. Click to read.).
Mary is not our mediator between God and man. The Bible says that there is only one God and one mediator, Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
The Bible says that worship of the “queen of heaven” is rebellion against God (Judges 2:11-13). God has no mother. John chapter 1 says that Jesus Christ (the Word) was made flesh and that Jesus Christ (the Word) created all things (John 1:3). The first and second commandments of the Ten Commandments forbid the worship of other gods and the worship of idols (Exodus 20:1-6).
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Judges 2:11-13
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.
13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
The Bible says in Jeremiah 44 that the Israelites of ancient Judah worshipped “the queen of heaven.” Catholics do the same. Baal and Ashtaroth are none other than the Ishtar and Tammuz of Babylon.
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
God created man. Jesus Christ (the Word) created Mary. She was not God’s mother.
John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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