Louis Markos on the Aeneid (with some insights on the famous Christian angles)

This is an interview with Louis Markos on the Aeneid. He has always struck me as a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher, and that shows in this podcast.

Tracking the ideology and tactics of the Devil's children: Sabbatean-Frankism, and Intersectionality

Here are three links describing what we are seeing today:

Here is a short Wikipedia overview.

Here is a more conspiratorial treatment, though sober.

And here is the cream of the crop, a very well-written and insightful treatment of the subject. (The same author has a short yet insightful article on 'intersectionality' which has taken over leftist ideology and tactics.)

Remember Satan's children wear different hats, spout different political language, yet have the same goal. Today, though, we are in a culmination of their evil design:

4. The Inexplicable Left

To show that the Frankist Paradigm explains the startling rise of the Left in the 20th century, it is implicit to show that conventional theories are unsatisfactory. To quote Sherlock Holmes, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The Left of 2017 is raw demonic madness: roving savages of Antifa [this describes the Euro variety more than the still comical American currently], unlimited and unqualified Islamic immigration, 9-year old transgendered children, decriminalization of Jihadi rape of teenage white girls, etc. This is self-evidently not a rationalist movement, and therefore it must be a quasi-theological one, rooted in radical anti-nomianism (inversion of moral rules).

Again, the third link above is exceptional.

None of this describes common notions of anti-semitism. Read the links to see why. Or don't and remain old style ignorant.

Fear of the world will make you recoil at these posts; fear of God alone is the beginning of wisdom

These 6 posts give deep biblical understanding of our situation here in this time, in this world:

Here.

The challenge of what is happening today

We're living in a unique time for those who have been alive since the middle of the last century or so, in western culture and civilization. We're currently experiencing a manifesting of the Kingdom of Satan into the material world. It is always acting through people, but it normally stays in darkness and certainly never manifests in the mainstream.

It's manifesting not just in the criminal heirarchies but in the sort of physical hieroglyphics that get scoffed at when elucidated by conspiracy theorist types.

This has probably happened in past historical times, probably mostly where darkness has blatantly ruled and really owned the environment, but not so much in the English speaking countries and western Europe.

Today it is also unique that there is a means to expose and comment on all this phenomena. In the past evil has been careful to control all public communication, but the Internet has proven to be a new animal out of their control.

So we are currently seeing a mixture of spiritual world and physical world phenomena. You have to realize something can be half spiritual and half physical which gives it the sense of being not believable yet still happening. It also takes things out of the human realm solely so that explanations don't have to hinge solely on what is possible or expected from experience in the human, physical realm.

The publication of Diana West's book American Betrayal was an unlikely (or surprising) harbinger of what is happening now. She brought some of the history of spiritual evil of the last century regarding communist influence (and into this century regarding Islamic influence) tied to American government and other institutions, and the book received an unprecedented wild rebuke from the intellectual gatekeepers. A fierce storm of backlash. You're not to bring the esoteric history of the times into the mainstream, and Ms. West is a mainstream figure. Her book is a mainstream book published by a mainstream publisher. The shock could be felt beyond the electronic font of the outraged reviews and condemnations. The spiritual world throwing a shoulder into the physical world.

Now we have all the attributes of Satanic behavior being exposed to the light. How they need to defile and use innocence in their ritual behavior for instance. The extent of the use of murder and lies (two of the primary attributes of their spiritual father from the Garden). The empty quest for wealth on top of wealth.

People are being challenged today. Do you stay asleep to the ever more exposed Satanic show, or do you face reality and don the armour of God to confront it?

Bavinck gets close, but the mainstream is not supposed to get too close

Here is a Reformed theologian, a good one, who brushes close to the esoteric understanding of the law:

"It is truly not Scripture alone that judges humans harshly. It is human beings who have pronounced the harshest and most severe judgment on themselves. And it is always better to fall into the hands of the Lord than into those of people, for his mercy is great. For when God condemns us, he at the same time offers his forgiving love in Christ, but when people condemn people, they frequently cast them out and make them the object of scorn. When God condemns us, he has this judgment brought to us by people—prophets and apostles and ministers—who do not elevate themselves to a level high above us but include themselves with us in a common confession of guilt. By contrast, philosophers and moralists, in despising people, usually forget that they themselves are human." - Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics

Truly seeing sin in us is a big subject for a believer

Because the heart of Christianity, of our reality as human beings here in this physical environment, is sin and salvation we obviously have to truly see our sinful nature. This is not just a stumbling block for unbelievers (who famously mock the notion that they might be 'sinners' and who justify any act to make themselves out as being innocent), but it is also a problem for believers because of some of the same reasons that don't go away once regenerated by the word and the Spirit.

That last statement might sound wrong. I.e. one might say before one is regenerated one is convicted of their own sin in some way, to some degree. Maybe, maybe not. We don't all live lifestyles involving overt sinful behavior, which gets to the main point of this post.

Much of the sin we as fallen humans are guilty of and polluted with is of the nature of being baked in from birth. I.e. it is so much a part of us, constitutionally, that we can't see it. When it manifests it doesn't clash with anything to alert us to it (other than conscience, once conscience begins to get unburied and become tender).

This is a very big subject because until we can truly see and accept that sin is in us we won't see the value of the Gospel, or Jesus' work on the cross, or God's plan of redemption overall.

We will still call ourselves believers, but it will be weak and shallow.

There are two things Christians have to see and accept the existence of: the supernatural, and sin.

So I'm saying many Christians might be unknowingly weak on seeing sin in themselves simply because they've never really confronted the subject and the reality of their situation.

John Calvin began his Institutes with the observation that it is hard to see sin in ourselves because we tend to compare ourselves to other human beings, and when we do that we tend to see ourselves as being pretty much better than other human beings; so he says we need to compare ourselves to God to see our true nature as it is: fallen, sinful, guilty, full of pollution, and with all the attributes that follow from that such as ingratitude to God Himself.

So what is 'baked in' sin? It is sin we are not even conscious we are manifesting. Take adultery. Adultery is not just sexual, it is spiritual. All our lives, when we have shown favor and given allegiance to one degree or another to various idols, we have engaged in the sin of adultery. We think of it as innocent. Just learning. Developing. And it may be, but it is spiritual adultery nevertheless. That New Age period. That flirting with Hinduism, or Buddhism. An atheist period when we gave ourselves over to a political ideology that involved worship of the state, perhaps. And less obvious, more subtle adulteries. Our will and desire for such things is baked in to us. We don't realize we're sinning as we're doing it.

And one sin convicts, remember. One sin puts us behind the eight ball, so to speak. One sin make us reliant on a Savior to save us. Even if we could be perfect we still have original sin to deal with. We are sunk from birth. If we don't see that, truly, we won't truly value the Gospel, or good news of the Savior.

Spiritual but not religious

[an email]

That Wikipedia article on Spiritual but not Religious overall is a good summation that defines much of the seemingly disparate non-Christian beliefs we encounter around us.

I go back to saying they can't, or they refuse, to see sin and evil in themselves and in the world.

Much of the sin in us is of the nature of 'baked in' from birth, so we have to think about it to see it. I.e. original sin as being our very constitution. Like the Work [Fourth Way - Ouspensky] teaching that some lies or lying are integral, like thinking we're awake when we clearly are not. Or thinking we can do things when things just happen. Our lack of will and our sequestered will are part of our fallen nature (we have will to choose an apple or an orange but not to choose to recognize our Creator, that requires the Spirit and the word of God acting on and in us).

This is why the 'spiritual but not religious' people are naive. They don't know what they don't know. They need the language of the Bible to be able to begin to see things in themselves and in the world they currently can't see. - C.

Ietsism

[originally an email]

Somebody asked Elisabeth of the YouTube channel Elisabeth's Philosophy what her beliefs were. Not her but somebody else replied that she believed in Ietsism, which is a popular belief in the Netherlands.

I'd never heard of it, so I thought you guys might be interested in reading a short description too. Here's one I read.

It's easy to see the capital 'I' and mentally see it as an 'L.' I did. But it's ietsism.

Wikipedia article on it.

Basically I'd say such people may believe in the supernatural, but they don't believe in sin (and probably are if not blind to evil at least are asleep to its existence).

They are naive. Their view of themselves is naive. If you don't see sin then you don't see the necessity for a solution to sin, which is the heart of Christianity.

- C.

Two categories of conspiracy theorists

There really are two broad categories of so-called conspiracy theorists.

1. The ones who see only 'parts' and can't see the whole. They are focused on many parts, flitting about from one to another, until they might begin to have a special pet peeve and so reduce everything into a box called by the name of that pet peeve (Jews, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, etc.). I.e. they engage in reductionist thinking where anything that doesn't fit into their box then becomes sort of non-existent. Confirmation bias is the leading fallacy.

2. Then you have the ones who can see the parts in relation to the whole (which is a classic definition of understanding in itself). These by definition are going to be Christians. Real Christians. Not church Christians, for the most part, but real Christians. Christians who can see the spiritual battlefield. The 'whole' they are able to see and to reconcile all the myriad parts into is God's plan of redemption as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. They can see that the Devil goes by many names and wears many different hats (all those 'parts' type 1 sees) but nevertheless is still the Devil manifesting Satanic spirit, attributes, and deeds. They may have a more difficult time defining the good (some will say liberty, being in covenant with God, prosperity, and obviously if Christian evangelism and sanctification, etc.).

So category 2 is able to have the bigger vision and truer vision, potentially.

Hard truth, should be obvious

http://electofgod.blogspot.com/2009/07/churchians-are-not-christians.html

The Walter Lippmann Brigade

Related, on the JQ (Jewish Question), I've never been focused on Jews or Israel, never a hater of all things Israel or Jewish (like some people hate Jesuits or Masons or what have you); but lately have found a way to frame it: The Walter Lippmann Brigade.

Walter Lippmann was a Jew in the early part of the 20th century who began the whole "we are the elites that must lead the stupid masses" thing.

This is when manipulation of public opinion (techniques) was developed.

I see him and his (mainly) Jewish progeny in politics, media, entertainment, academia like this: they got off the boat at New York, were deloused at Ellis Island (they've never forgiven this), then stood in the middle of the vast metropolis of New York City and said to themselves: how do I see myself as bigger than all this? I.e., all this that these worthless goyim have achieved, have produced, have created, built, invented, discovered, grown, fixed, adapted, organized, fought for, conquered, pioneered across the vast landscape, all the blood, sweat, tears, all the native ingenuity, all that they've founded, developed. How, how can I as their superior be above all this? (Muslims within Christian culture and civilization have a similar moronic arrogance, ingratitude, and treachery.)

Thus he attends one of our Christian founded universities (Harvard), writes his 1922 book on public opinion and how to control it; establishes the notion of an elite class; and here we are. Narcissistic parasites insinuating their presence into something they had nothing to do with and can only destroy ultimately with their incompetence and Spiritless, unrooted, demonic existence. (Without faith in Christ one is Spiritless and easily given over to the demonic realm).

Thanks, Walter Lippmann Brigade.