history – Towards the Divine Nature/ نحو الطبيعة الإلهية

The Immaculate Conception

This post will show that the Roman Catholic Dogma of the Immaculate Conception was actually articulated by our Lord Himself and scripture. The proof presented here is not complete. There are other proofs, some perhaps yet to be sifted out. Scripture breathes across time. And the title of the Immaculate Conception articulated by the Roman Church in the 19th Century is quite appropriate an answer for the propagation of errors that has plagued societies in the terrains of the Roman Catholic Church since the great schism. The See of Peter had to respond. In fact it was the Mother of God herself who announced the title to Bernadette Soubirou in 1858 in France. Also the eastern titles such as All-Pure and Holy of Holies were common and understood by all before the schism as appropriate for her who is Mother of the Holy Eucharist that fed the baptized.

The story of Adam and Eve is not an option to believe or not by a Christian. The point of the story is that sin was introduced into the world from the choices they made. So before Adam and Eve: no sin and no death. After: sin and death. It is at this moment in time that God revealed her who would crush the head of Satan, the author of sin (Genesis 3:15). The woman who would do this did not receive a name and was not born in the flesh yet but was conceived by God in anticipation of the fall of man from sin. She was conceived by God without sin.

Amazingly our Lord continues with not giving her a name who we know to be Mary His mother (Matthew 1:16). See for example John 2:4 and 19:26. To directly remind us of her who was conceived before the fall of man, before sin was introduced into the world. Conceived without sin. And when specifically asked who His mother was, our Lord is even more explicit:

Luke 11:27-28. As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.” He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Luke 8:19-21. Now Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

Mark 3:31-34. Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 12:46-50. While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Reminding us that she is perfect and without sin. The Immaculate Conception. Sorry Evangelicals. Repent and believe the Gospel.

COVID Relief

The truth about the COVID saga that was briefly addressed in this blog has is being addressed by many now more informed than me. In the interim, I like many have accumulated information on remedies for the post vaccination/COVID/shedding world. I present an incomplete but potentially sufficient list of practical remedies that one can take, many of which can be incorporated into one’s diet. This is presented below and can be downloaded. The vaccine industry’s days are numbered.

The sinister enterprise that was/is the DoD COVID operation is however only timidly documented. Just like the demonic elements that destroyed WTC Building 7 after the unnatural destruction of the twin towers was for hiding evidence, so was the USAF destruction of the Ukrainian bioweapon labs. The first to cover a false flag against New Yorkers and the native population of the middle east; the second to cover a false flag against humanity’s very DNA. The preference is to blame Wuhan and China in keeping with the sequencing of wars. These demonic forces with unnatural, utilitarian, and inhuman financial orders are working on getting to the point where they can say “We have Iran!” like when they announced “We have Poland!” in the 1990’s. Using the cover of “negotiations”, “ceasefires”, and “deals”.

Here is the list. It is especially useful for symptoms that are blood clot related. Many of these protect from the cancers that come from the shot and cancers in general. As stated, some can be used in cooking. In no particular order and with no monopoly over other lists.

Vitamin E.
Lemon juice: Regularly drink lemon water, preferably unsweetened, as it provides natural antioxidants to help reduce inflammation.
Honey: Add a spoonful of honey to your daily regimen to combat potential blood clots and promote overall health.
Vitamin D-rich foods or taking supplements. This will help reduce inflammation and promote better overall health.
Turmeric Root Powder
Ginger
Nattokinase especially helps with vaccine related clotting. A supplement.
Organic Dandelion Leaf. Grows everywhere. Easy to stew. Can get a Root Liquid Extract
Garlic. Low maintenance plant to grow.
Ivermectin to protect from the shedding. Veterinary grade is fine.
Lions mane mushroom is an anti-coagulant. Also heals nerve injuries, prevents brain degeneration.
Intermittent fasting also dissolves blood clots. Needs at least 14 hours so if you skip dinner or breakfast will work. Once a week will work.
Quercetin/Bromelain combination. A supplement.
For cancer protection, maintain your immune system through regular exercise and consumption of nutrient-rich foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes, which contain essential vitamins and minerals that help support a healthy immune system.

Blood thinner Download

More than People of the Book

Feast day fo Saint Papias
Sat Feb 22nd

“Whenever anyone came my way, who had been a follower of my seniors, I would ask for the accounts of our seniors: What did Andrew or Peter say? Or Phillip or Thomas or James or John, or Matthew, or any of the Lord’s disciples? I also asked: What did Aristion and John the Presbyter, disciples of the Lord say? For, as I see it, it is not so much from books as from the living and permanent voice that I must draw profit.”

Saint Papias, quote from Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, Book 3, Chapter 39
3rd Century

Ancient iconostasis of St Peter

Feast Day of Our Holy Fathers Athanasios and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria

Holy Fathers Athanasios and Cyril
Sat Jan 18th

Troparion of Saints Athanasios and Cyril

You became illustrious by your defense of the True Faith. You abolished all doctrinal error and stood victorious in your fight. By your devotion, you brought wealth and glory to the Church. Therefore you were judged worthy to find Christ God who grants us His great Mercy.

A reminder that Christianity existed before Bible only christian philosophies. Before the printing press. Before widespread literacy of the 20th Century.

“May the life of Mary, who gave birth to God, be for all of you as instructive as if it were written down. Come to know yourselves in her and carry out the good works that you have neglected in the past.”

Saint Athanasios of Alexandria (3rd Century)

From The Last Book of the Old Order

A prophecy from the last book of the old order, on the prophet’s feast day:

Malachy 1:10 I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord Omnipotent, and I will not accept sacrifice at your hands. For from the rising of the sun, unto the going down, My name is glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice; for great is My name among the Gentiles, said the Lord Omnipotent.”

A reminder to all that the books of the Old and New Testament were chosen based on their use in the Divine Liturgy in the 3-4th Century. For those that are “Bible only” philosophers, therein lies your only link to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Later, certain books were dropped to meet the philosophical “needs” of neo-christians. And if you are Jewish, consider how you are supposed to celebrate Hanukkah, but the book wherein the story comes from, the Book of Macabbies, was dropped by Jews and neo-christians centuries ago. Only Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles tell the story of the Jewish Hanukkah.

For the Innocents

On the Feast day of the Holy Innocents, we can invoke this prayer for the aborted. And in our time, those innocent that die in war, especially in the genocide of Gaza.

Prayer for an Aborted Child

Most Merciful Lord, the Giver of Life; we entreat You, look with compassion and tender mercy upon Your children who have been condemned to death by abortion and genocide. You, who said, “Suffer the little children to come to me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven,” do now we humbly pray, grant the inheritance of Your Kingdom to the multitude of innocents who have perished in their mother’s wombs by the unjust judgement of men. We beseech you to soften the hearts of people who seek to destroy Your little ones. Pour out upon them Your Divine grace that they may be convicted in their hearts and turn from their evil ways to embrace the True Faith. Upon those that have committed this cruelty: render not unto them according to their deeds, but rather have mercy on them. Pierce their hearts with compunction and make their eyes stream with tears of repentance, joining their weeping with that of Rachel and her beloved children. For You are a merciful God, the Giver of Life and the Lover of Mankind, and to You we render glory, with Your eternal Father and Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever.

Amen

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EASTERN APOSTOLIC SUCCESSIONS

1 Corinthians 15 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

Examine this text. Paul had spent part of his ministry exhorting his brethren on Christ the King but was realizing he was meant to become apostle to the Gentiles instead (Acts 13:46). In the above passage, we see a clearer distinction of a third James, as we discuss in a prior blog post, and contrary to the belief in the Latin tradition. In this narrative of the sequence of the Risen Lord appearing to many, there is His appearance first to the 12, that we know includes James the son of Zebedee and James (the Lesser) the son of Alphaeus (Luke 6:12-14). Paul then clearly makes mention of another James before ending with himself. Why would this distinction be made if this were not truly a third James who he also calls “the Lord’s brother” (Galatians 1:19)? And if the James he mentions in 1 Corinthians 15:7 is one of the 12, why is he not specifying which one? There IS a third James. This James in the eastern tradition is called James the Just and was martyred by being thrown from the temple before its destruction in 70 AD. He is the half-first-born brother of Jesus from Joseph before he became a widow.

This is not a matter necessary for salvation. Christians do not have to believe either way. But let us examine why this could be important. As explained earlier (1,2,3,4), there is a symmetry from the transgression of the 8th commandment that lead to the lineage of the Messiah through Isaac’s son Jacob, his and his mother Rebecca’s deception to steal the first-born birth right, and the new Jacob the father of Joseph (Matthew 1 genealogy). There is an undoing here of the temporal effect of this sin, even though it produced the Messiah (Remember the words of our Lord in Luke 8:17-“For all that is secret will eventually be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to light and made known to all.” May God have mercy on us all!). This undoing became the crowning of James the Just from the genealogy, the first born of Joseph, to become the first Bishop of Jerusalem. It is the replacement of the reign of lineage of the people of God but with an Apostolic continuity sealed with blood of the Messiah. Could this be related to Paul’s realization that he was called to be the Apostle of the Gentiles and had to abandon his zeal to evangelize his people who he loved so much? This former disciple of Gamaliel would have been a reasonable candidate for Bishop of Jerusalem. Here the eastern apostolic churches originated and evolved in the east, separate from the traditions in Rome. They are the apostolic continuity of the genealogy, keeping the ancestral prophets and patriarchs in the Liturgical calendar.

We have then in the eastern apostolic traditions a type of familial order at work from this perspective that has nothing to do with denying the primacy of the See of Peter, the Holder of the Keys. We have apostolic succession but with a national or regional character. These apostolic traditions were granted an autonomy in propagating their own apostolic lineage at the Council of Nicea while defending the faith and morality. Recall that after the persecutions under the Roman Emperor Diocletian ended, all the apostolic churches emerged intact. There was no direct interventions from the Pope during the period. Administrative jurisdiction from the Bishop of Rome is unnatural in this scheme.

Think of the Roman Church as a large tree with new trees emerging around it from dropped seed. These are the eastern churches. This is the Spirit at work in the Book of Acts. All are unified by the same Spirit, Sacraments, and Love for the Theotokos. Similar to how each organic family is a domestic church. How unnatural it is then for the Holy See to demand administrative jurisdiction over all the apostolic churches. To return the apostolic administrative independence would not have altered God’s work in the Latin Church since the complete schism at the turn of the first millennium. Look at our world. The middle east could soon have no Sacramental presence, something that never happened under Moslem rule. This clinging to administrative authority is even replacing the faith, ethics and morals. Even attacking the Latin tradition itself.

With Compass and Square

To Distribute for the August 15 Feast Day of the Assumption (Dormition)

No Feast Day?

Today is the Feast Day of St. Joseph in the Latin Tradition, the Holy and Fatherly Guardian of Christ the Messiah, Son of the Living of God, in His early years in human flesh. Also appropriately considered Spiritual Father of the Church. So where is the feast day in the Eastern or Orthodox Church? Are the eastern churches guilty of what the evangelicals do by perpetually ignoring the Virgin Mary, the closest human that will ever be to God?

The answer is no. There is a feast day of St. Joseph. But not alone:

December 2*. SUNDAY AFTER THE NATIVITY, Commemoration of Saint Joseph Spouse of the Theotokos, Saint James, Brother of Our Lord, and King David.

Here the commemoration of St. Joseph as father of the church is ACTUALIZED as James the first born son of Joseph in David’s line, as explained in the last three posts. Proceeding from Jacob and Joseph and ending with Jacob and Joseph, James became the first Bishop of the Church of Jerusalem with the Temple still intact. Resulting in a perpetual liturgical tradition, validated at the Council of Niceae, and further codified by Sts. Chrysostom and Basil.

Kontakion of Joseph, David and James

Today, David the holy one is filled with joy. Joseph and James offer their hymns of praise, for the crown of glory of their relationship with Christ fills them with joy. They offer their hymns of praise to the One born on earth in a manner beyond description, and they cry out: “O Merciful One, save those who honor You!”

This is a great grace given to the See of Peter, severed at the end of the first millennium and one could say compensated for with the creation of the College of Cardinals. An institution now stacked for the continuity of corruption and even immorality.

Undoing the Boast of Lineage

In the last two posts we see how the pride of lineage, represented by the artful deception of Jacob and his mother for the Messianic promise was interrupted with the struggle between Jacob and the angel of God in Genesis. With a new name and limp, Jacob (Israel) has a vision of Heaven opened and angels ascending and descending. With a direct reference to this vision while reintroducing a context of duplicity, Jesus the Messiah calls on the charitable heart of Nathaniel:

JOHN 1:47 Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”48 Nathaniel said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”49 Nathaniel answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.” 51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

Christ the Messiah with His Mother have the remedy for all things presented to them by the converted heart of mankind. Now how could the knot of a boastful messianic lineage that began with warring first-borns in the womb of Rebekah be undone? If Jesus the Messiah had a brother, then maybe that would be a way.

Scripture describes three James’ specifically. There is James the brother of John, the two sons of Zebedee, and James son of Alphaeus, distinctly mentioned together when Jesus chose His apostles (Luke 6:12-14). Tradition has it that Alphaeus was an uncle to Jesus, so this James (also called the Lesser in tradition) a first cousin. Not a brother but close. There is a third James with the “brother” descriptor mentioned by Paul in Galatians:

Galations 19: I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord’s brother.

The use of the term brother for relatives is common in the middle east but if this were a first born brother of Jesus, he would be of Joseph from his former marriage.

Various traditions, including that of the Latin Church believe that there are only two James’, and that James of Alphaeus (the Lesser) are the same as this brother of our Lord that Paul found in Jerusalem. The Eastern Orthodox churches believe that there are three. If this sounds unbelievable witness what Paul says in Galatians in his next sentence:

Galatians 19: I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.

Unless he frequently makes a point of saying he is not lying, it sounds like Paul himself was surprised to find out that Jesus had an actual brother.

A discussion on the James’ in the New Testament can be researched from the works of the first Church historian Eusebius and related commentaries. There are also apocryphal works that describe this third James.

But do we need these?

What should be more convincing is that the Eastern Liturgical calendar has three separate feast days for each of these James’ including for “Holy Apostle James, Brother of God, First Bishop of Jerusalem” (October 23). Thrown from the Temple at Jerusalem, this James was also martyred for the faith. He was called James the Just, known for his humility, maybe a cutout of his father.

But we rightly call the first two James’ apostles because Jesus appointed them among the twelve. Why is the third James an apostle? This is answered in a prayer from his feast day:

Kontakion of Saint James

When at the completion of time, God the Word, the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, came down to us, He established you, admirable James, as the first Shepherd and Teacher at Jerusalem, a faithful steward of the Mysteries of Faith; wherefore we honor you as an Apostle.

There is a surety here because the Divine Liturgy or Mass is an eternal event. A Liturgy from that time is as real to God now as it was then. It is a building block of the future resurrection to Eternal Glory. This is why attempts to “retire” a Liturgical form such as the Latin Mass are senseless. New liturgies may be started but to do away with a Liturgy is impossible.

In the genealogy of Matthew Chapter 1 we see the lineage from Jacob to Joseph and end with a new Jacob to Joseph. At this point the Messiah of all races offers the title of Bishop of Jerusalem to His race in the first-born son of Joseph. Maybe a suggestion from His Mother. The knot of Rebecca is undone.

This is why orthodox churches even up to the 20th Century looked like synagogues. Could this be why the Orthodox liturgical traditions have more national identities and less emphasis on priestly celibacy? Here also the heroes from the lineage of the Messiah are saints in the Liturgical calendar. Prayers for self-government and their armed forces are included in the Liturgy.

There is a reminder of all this in the story of how God found a home in the charitable heart of Edith Stein, who became a Carmelite, a tradition rooted in the prophet Elijah. She was martyred by an evil whose only defeat will be through Christ. She was canonized by miracles witnessed by a Melkite priest, descendants of the same orthodox apostolic lineage from Bishop James of Jerusalem, but now in union with Rome.