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MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT

CATHOLIC OR JEWISH?

And the woman was arrayed inpurple and scarlet colour, anddecked with gold and precious

stones and pearls, having a goldencup in her hand full of abominations

and filthiness of her fornication:And upon her forehead was a namewritten, MYSTERY, BABYLON

THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OFHARLOTS AND

ABOMINATIONS OF THEEARTH. Revelation 17:4-5

BY BARBARA AHO

INTRODUCTIONAs a rule, theories of a Jewish conspiracy for world domination condemn all Jews asmegalomaniac conspirators and the enemies of mankind. However, any treatment of aJewish conspiracy must take into account the ancient schism that divided the nation ofIsrael in Biblical times. This division was precipitated by the apostasy of KingSolomon, whose idolatry was afterward carried on by the northern tribes. This ancientschism has profoundly affected the subsequent history of the Jews and is the dynamicof the alleged Jewish conspiracy of the present day.

Following the death of King Solomon, the tribes of Israel separated into twoindependent kingdoms. The ten northern tribes formed the northern kingdom of Israeland the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin were thereafter called the kingdom ofJudah. The schism between Judah and Israel, from which the Israelites neverrecovered, is recorded in 1 Kings. The Daily Bible Studygives a brief overview:

One of the most misunderstood subjects of Bible study involves thetotal political division of Israel and Judah that occurred at the time ofKing Rehoboam. Before then, all twelve tribes of Israelites were aunited kingdom through the reigns of David and Solomon, but afterSolomons death they split into two completely separate and

independent kingdoms - the southern kingdom of Judah, consisting ofthe tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with part of Levi since the Leviteswere distributed among the other tribes (1 Kings 12:23) with theircapital at Jerusalem, and the northern kingdom of Israel, consisting ofthe other ten tribes (Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher,
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Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim and Manasseh (Joseph was divided intoEphraim and Manasseh), with part of Levi since the Levites weredistributed among the other tribes), with their capital up in Samaria. Israel and Judah were never united again... Surprisingly, they evenfought wars against each other from time to time... A very importantfact that many do not realize is that Judah, that is, the Jewish people oftoday, are only one of the tribes of Israel - while all Jews are Israelites,not all Israelites are Jews.

Because of their forsaking of Him, God permitted the two kingdomsto be destroyed. First, the northern kingdom of Israel was graduallyconquered by the Assyrians, and by 721 B.C. they had practically all

been taken into exile to Assyria (2 Kings 17:1-23). The vast majority ofthem never returned, and have become known as the Lost Ten Tribesof Israel. Then, about 135 years later, by 586 B.C., the southern kingdom ofJudah was completely conquered by the Babylonians,... and the peopleof Judah were taken into captivity to Babylon. The original Temple ofGod in Jerusalem was destroyed at that time... The people of the

southern kingdom of Judah however did return after the Babyloniansfell to the Persians..., and their descendants have become the Jewishpeople of today - but that return in the time of Nehemiah, or thefounding of the modern state of Israel in 1948, were not the fulfillmentof the many prophecies dealing with the future (as the context of the

prophecies clearly show) gathering of all of Israel, Israel and Judah.

The designation Jew belonged exclusively to the southern kingdom of Judah, thevery word Jew having been derived from Judah. And so technically, only thekingdom of Judah was Jewish and the other tribes of Israel have no right to callthemselves Jews. That this distinction was understood in the Old Testament is seen inII Kings 16:5-6 (KJV) where the people of Israel and the King of Syria fought againstthe Jews of the southern kingdom.In the New Testament, in His message to the Church at Smyrna, the Lord Jesus Christreferred to a synagogue of Satan as them which say they are Jews, and are not. Inother words, there was a synagogue of Israel that was not Jewish:

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and Iknow the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, butare the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt

suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye maybe tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful untodeath, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Rev. 2:9-10)

The Synagogue of Satan which is the subject of this series must not be confused withthe Remnant of Jews, who will receive the Lord Jesus Christ at His Second Comingand be saved by Him. The Synagogue of Satan are an occult power elite which, havingrejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel, conspire to substitute another messiahmade in the image of their master, Satan, and to establish a world kingdom underSatan. The Synagogue of Satan claims Jewish descent, but does not fit God's definition

of a Jew, either in the Old Testament or the New: But he is a Jew, which is oneinwardly and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter whosepraise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2:29)

The Synagogue of Satan have contempt, not only for Jesus Christ, His Church and the


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Gentile masses, but for the Jewish Remnant who are Torah-observant and anti-Zionist and are, therefore, awaiting the kingdom of Israel to be restored when theMessiah appears, and not before. As well, the Synagogue of Satan have conspired toeliminate all people, whether Jew or Gentile, who stand in the way of their worldkingdom. To this end they have developed a staggering number of fronts, as well as thecapacity to create blinds and diversions, to obscure the fact that they are Cabalist Jewswith an anti-Christ agenda. Through the centuries, the Synagogue of Satan have, bymeans of false identities, infiltrated Gentile institutions where they act as agents

provocateursundercover agents who provoke violence and beget scandals, which areused to bring reproach upon Jesus Christ and His Church.

The division within Jewry is no longer neatly delineated along tribal boundaries ratherthe lines have been spiritually drawn between the Synagogue of Satan and the Remnantof Israel

I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee I will surely gather theremnant of Israel I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as theflock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of

the multitude ofmen. (Micah 2:12)The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies neither shalla deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and liedown, and none shall make them afraid. (Zeph. 3:13 see also 2 Chron.34:9, Isaiah 10:20, Jer. 6:9, 31:7, Ezek. 11:13)

Scripture is clear that the plans of the Synagogue of Satan shall utterly fail, and thatthey will ultimately be destroyed. What fraction of all Israel does the Synagogue ofSatan represent? The Old Testament prophets foretold their proportions at the timethey attack Jerusalem, whose rescue and restoration will be accomplished by the LordHimself:

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory ofthe house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do notmagnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the LORD defendthe inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at thatday shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God, as theangel of the LORD before them. And it shall come to pass in that day,that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem... And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, twoparts therein shall be cut off and die but the third shall be lefttherein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refinethem as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shallcall on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: andthey shall say, The LORD is my God. (Zech. 12:7-10 13:8,9)In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I willgather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted And I willmake her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strongnation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from

henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the firstdominion the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. (Mic.4:1,2,6-8)


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INDEXPART I

The CabalaThe PhariseesThe EssenesThe Alexandrian GnosticsJewish Community in Rome

The JudaizersRoman Catholicism

PART IICrypto-JewryThe MerovingiansMount SionMonasticismThe Prieur de SionThe Knights TemplarsThe Albigenses

The Avignon PapacyPART IIIThe IlluminatiThe Six-Pointed StarThe JesuitsThe MediciThe SabbateansThe FrankistsThe House of RothschildThe Zionists

PART IVThe VaticanThe Jewish ConspiracyThe Synagogue of SatanZionism: of God or Satan

THE CABALAFollowing the division of Israel and the Assyrian captivity of the northern tribes, the

southern kingdom of Judah adopted the pagan traditions of the heathen nation ofancient Babylon. These traditions, with their associated rituals which included humansacrifice, provoked God to judge the southern kingdom, of which judgment the prophetJeremiah forewarned the Jews for a period of forty years, to no avail. The Babyloniansdestroyed Jerusalem in three stages, from 605 to 586 B.C., in which year the Temple ofSolomon was demolished and the remaining Jews were carried into captivity. Duringthe Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel continued to reprove Judah for itsapostasy from the God of Israel and their love affair with Babylon. Note, in thefollowing passage, the Jews admiration for the images of rich, brightly attiredBabylonian princes, which evoke visual images of the elegant processions of the

princes of the Roman Catholic Church attired in their rich and colorful vestments:...[Jerusalem] increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men

pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed withvermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
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upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of theBabylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: And as soon as shesaw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers untothem into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed oflove, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was pollutedwith them, and her mind was alienated from them. So she discoveredher whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind wasalienated from her... (Ezek.23:14-18)

Moreover, as Matthew Henry noted in his commentary on this passage, the kingdom ofJudah patterned its own worship after the pomp and pageantry of the Babylonians withwhom they had become enamored:

Thus she increased her whoredoms she fell in love, fell in league, withthe Chaldeans. Hezekiah himself was faulty this way when he was

proud of the court which the king of Babylon made to him andcomplimented his ambassadors with the sight of all his treasures, Isa.39:2. And the humour increased (v. 14) she doted upon the pictures of

the Babylonian captains (v. 15, 16), joined in alliance with thatkingdom, invited them to come and settle in Jerusalem, that they mightrefine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite nay, theysent for patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use ofthem in their worship. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms (v.17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (v. 18), her ownstrong inclination to idolatry.

According to two authoritative sources, H.P. Blavatsky and the Jewish Encyclopedia,the Jews also acquired from the Chaldeans their doctrines of Eastern mysticism. Thesewere later developed into a written compendium of esoteric literature known as theJewish Qabbalah or Kabalah, and in the Middle Ages as the Latin Cabala.

Kabalah (Heb.) The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of themiddle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divinethings and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after thetime of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fallunder the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic. (Blavatsky,Theosophical Glossary, p. 168)

The Pythagorean idea of the creative powers of numbers and letters,

upon which the Sefer Yetzirah is founded, and which was known intannaitic timesis here proved to be an old cabalistic conception. Infact, the belief in the magic power of the letters of the Tetragrammatonand other names of the Deityseems to have originated in Chaldea(see Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, pp. 29, 43). Whatever, then, thetheurgic Cabala was , the very fact that Abraham, and not aTalmudical hero like Akiba, is introduced in the Sefer Yetzirah, at theclose, as possessor of the Wisdom of the Alphabet, indicates an oldtradition, if not the antiquity of the book itself

The whole dualistic system of good and of evil powers, which goes

back to Zoroastrianism and ultimately to old Chaldea, can be tracedthrough Gnosticism having influenced the cosmology of the ancientCabala before it reached the medieval one

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conception of the primal ocean, known to the Babylonians as Apsu(compare Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia), and called by the Gnostics = (Anz, Die Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus, p.98).

The Chaldean religious tradition that was embraced by apostate Jews during theircaptivity in Babylon was delivered to subsequent generations by word of mouth.According to Blavatsky, these disseminators of the Chaldean tradition in the few

centuries before Christ were known as Tanaim:Kabalist. From Q B L H, Kabala, an unwritten or oral tradition. Thekabalist is a student of secret science, one who interprets the hiddenmeaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala TheTanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews they appeared atJerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christianera This secret doctrine is identical with the Persian wisdom, ormagic. (Ibid. p.167)

The dictionary defines the Medieval Latin cabalaas derived from the Hebrew wordqabb l which means received doctrine, tradition, from qibb l, to receive.According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cabalists claimed to have received these oraltraditions, not from ancient Chaldeans, but from the Patriarchs and Prophets by the

power of the Holy Spirit.

Cabala comprised originally the entire traditional lore, incontradistinction to the written law (Torah), and therefore included the

prophetic and hagiographic books of the Bible, which were supposed tohave been received by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than as

writings from Gods hand... Each received doctrine was claimed astradition from the Fathers...to be traced back to the Prophets or to Moseson Sinai... The chief characteristic of the Cabala is that, unlike theScriptures, it was entrusted only to the few elect ones

Because of its heretical nature, the Cabala was not generally promulgated among theJews but remained the secret doctrine of elect Jews. That is to say, certain Jewswho were deemed worthy could comprehend hidden teachings in the written Torahand, through mystical techniques, make direct contact with God. Among these

practices are rapid recitation of the Holy Name of God (YHVH, or Tetragrammaton),meditation on the 11 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life which are believed to be emanationsof God, learning to use the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as force-carrying energy

patterns which serve as the building blocks of the cosmos, and, finally, transcendingthe space/time limitations of the physical world to realize ones inner divinity. Thissecret doctrine has been preserved throughout the ages to the present time by aspiritual brotherhood who progress individually to various stages of enlightenment and

proficiency in the hidden wisdomfrom elect to adepts to wise men to adeptsin grace:

Cabala... The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrineconcerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a

revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by aprivileged few. At first consisting only of empirical lore, it assumed,under the influence of Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean philosophy, aspeculative character. In the geonic period it is connected with aMishnah-like text-book, the Sefer Yetzirah, and forms the object of


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the systematic study of the elect, called mekubbalim or baale ha-kabbalah (possessors of, or adepts in, the Cabala). These receiveafterward the name of maskilim (the wise), after Dan. xii. 10 and

because the Cabala is called (Hokmah nistarah = the hidden wisdom),the initials of which are , they receive also the name of (adepts ingrace) (Eccl. ix. 11, Hebr.). (Ibid.)

THE PHARISEES

The Tanaim, which meant teacher of the law, were the Scribes, the rabbis whomBlavatsky identified as the first Kabalists. From the ranks of the Scribes evolved thesect of the Pharisees. According to Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller, thecreators of the Cabala were the Pharisees, who had formed their sect in Babylon duringthe captivity and functioned as a secret society after the Jews returned to Israel. Thesecret doctrine of Babylon remained the oral tradition of the Pharisees until theycommitted it to written form:

In his bookNicholas II et les Juifs,Netchvolodow explains that the

Chaldean science acquired by many of the Jewish priests, during thecaptivity of Babylon, gave birth to the sect of the Pharisees whose nameonly appears in the Holy Scriptures and in the writings of the Jewishhistorians after the captivity (606 B.C.). The works of the celebratedscientist Munk leaves no doubt on the point that the sect appearedduring the period of the captivity.

From then dates the Cabala or Tradition of the Pharisees.For a long time their precepts were only transmitted orally

but later they formed the Talmud and received their finalform in the book called the Sepher ha Zohar.

The Pharisees were, as it were, a class whose tendency was to form

a kind of intellectual aristocracy among the Jews. At first, they formed asort of brotherhood, a haburah, the members being called haburimor

brothers. They were a subversive element, aiming at the overthrow ofthe Sadducean High-priesthood, whose members prided themselves ontheir aristocracy of blood and birth, to which the Pharisees opposed anaristocracy of learning. The war raged by the latter extends over a long

period of time, and the rivalry was bitter... The power of the Sadducees fell with the destruction of the Temple

by Titus and thenceforth the Pharisaic element held supremacy amongthe Jews. Quoting an acknowledged authority on Judaism, Mr. FlavienBrenier, Lt. Gen. Netchvolodow further describes the policy of the sectas follows:

Before appearing proudly as the expression of Jewishaspirations, The Tradition of the Pharisees had seriousdifficulties to surmount, the chief of which was the revivalof the orthodox faith stimulated in the Jewish people by theCaptivity. To the exiles, bemoaning the fall of the Temple

of Jerusalem and begging Jehovah to end the misfortunes oftheir homeland, the revelation that Jehovah was only aphantom, entailed not only a certain defeat, but also theirown exposure to perils the least of which would have beenthe loss of all authority over Israel.


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The Pharisees, then, judging it wiser to capture theconfidence of their compatriots by taking the lead in thereligious movement, affected a scrupulous observance ofthe slightest prescriptions of the lawand instituted the

practice of complicated rituals, simultaneously howevercultivating the new doctrine [i.e. secret doctrine] in their

secret sanctuaries. These were regular secret societies,composed during the captivity of a few hundred adepts. At

the time of Flavius Josephus which was that of their greatestprosperity, they numbered only some 6,000 members.(Occult Theocrasy, pp. 76-78)

To these hypocrites, Jesus reserved His most scathing condemnations:

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like untowhited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but arewithin full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye alsooutwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of

hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt. 23:27-28)And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God,that ye may keep your own tradition... Making the word of God of noneeffect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many suchlike things do ye. (Mark 7:9,13)

According to Occult Theocrasy, the Pharisees assumed the outward appearance ofreligious scrupulosity all the while they were conducting pagan rites in secret, as didtheir antecedents, the elders of Judah, in the Temple of Solomon, as the Lord revealedto the prophet Ezekiel.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the waytoward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and

behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in theentry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what theydo? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committethhere, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again,and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the doorof the court and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said heunto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the

wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wickedabominations that they do here. So I went in and saw and behold everyform of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of thehouse of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood

before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and inthe midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every manhis censer in his hand and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then saidhe unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the houseof Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? forthey say, The LORD seeth us not the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greaterabominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gateof the LORD'S house which was toward the north and, behold, there satwomen weeping for Tammuz. (Ezekiel 8: 5-14)


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Netchvolodow likens the Pharisees to our modern Freemasons, whose Gnostic anddominionist agenda were subversive of society. Compare Netchvolodowscharacterization of the Pharisees to our modern Zionists, i.e. the Judeo-Freemasons,who are secret practitioners of the Kabalah, while affecting to hold to the traditional

beliefs of Judaism as set forth in the Old Testament.

This group of intellectual pantheists was soon to acquire a directinginfluence over the Jewish nation. Nothing, moreover, likely to offend

national sentiment ever appeared in their doctrines. However saturatedwith pantheistic Chaldeism they might have been, the Pharisees

preserved their ethnic pride intact. This religion of Man divinised,which they had absorbed at Babylon, they conceived solely as applyingto the profit of the Jew, the superior and predestined being. The

promises of universal dominion which the orthodox Jew found in theLaw, the Pharisees did not interpret in the sense of the reign of the Godof Moses over the nations, but in that of a material domination to beimposed on the universe by the Jews. The awaited Messiah was nolonger the Redeemer of original Sin, a spiritual victor who would lead

the world, it was a temporal king, bloody with battle, who would makeIsrael master of the world and drag all peoples under the wheels ofhis chariot. The Pharisees did not ask this enslavement of the nationsof a mystical Jehovah, which they continued worshipping in public,only as a concession to popular opinion, for they expected its eventualconsummation to be achieved by the secular patience of Israel and

the use of human means. Monstrously different from the ancient law were such principles asthese, but they had nothing one could see, which might have renderedunpopular those who let them filter, drop by drop, among the Jews. The admirably conceived organization of the Pharisees did not failsoon to bear fruit. One cannot better define its action in the midst of Jewish society

before Jesus Christ, said Mr. Flavien Brenier, than in comparing itwith that of the Freemasons in modern society. A carefully restricted membership tightly bound, imposing on theirmembers the religion of the secret, the Pharisees pursued relentlesslytheir double aim which was: 1. The seizure of political power, by the possession of the great

political offices (the influence of which was tremendous in thereconstituted Jewish nation) and the conquest of the Sanhedrin (Jewish

parliament). 2. To modify gradually the conceptions of the people in thedirection of their secret doctrine... The second of these aims and its method of attainment is exposed inthe so-called Protocols of the Wise Men of Zionso loudly denounced

by the descendants of those who devised The Secret Doctrine in Israel,Israel here meaning the Jews as a religious community, most of whomremain quite ignorant of the intricate subversive schemes imputed tothem. The attitude of Jesus Christ to this sect is definitely expressed in the

New Testament (see Luke XI and John VIII (Ibid. pp.76-80)Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are as graveswhich appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware ofthem. (Luke 11:44)
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Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father yewill do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not inthe truth because there is no truth in him (John 8:44)

Here is confirmation of a long-standing division within Jewry that is in evidence todaybetween the Zionist High Cabal and the non-Zionist, Torah Jews, as well as thecommon Jew who knows nothing of the Cabalists diabolical schemes perpetrated

upon the Gentile world and even upon their own race.

THE ESSENES

Another faction within Jewry associated with the Kabalah were the Essenes, amonastic community which lived in the desert of Qumran, the area near the Dead Seawhich had formerly been Gomorrah. The Jewish Encyclopedia describes the cabalistic

practices of the Essenes, which were Judaized elements of Eastern mystical traditions:So, too, were the Essenes familiar with the idea of the journey to

heavenand they were also masters of angelology. The practise ofmagic and incantation, the angelology and demonology, were borrowedfrom Babylonia, Persia, and Egypt but these foreign elements wereJudaized in the process, and took the form of the mystical adoration ofthe name of God and of speculations regarding the mysterious power ofthe Hebrew alphabet , the name of God creates and destroysworlds), to become, finally, foundations of the philosophy of the SeferYetzirah. (Jewish Encyclopedia)

According to the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, as cited in the Jewish Encyclopedia, theEssenes were guardians of the secret writings of the Cabala:

In fact, the apocalyptic literature belonging to the second and first pre-Christian centuries contained the chief elements of the Cabala and as,according to Josephus (l.c.), such writings were in the possession of theEssenes, and were jealously guarded by them against disclosure, forwhich they claimed a hoary antiquity (see Philo, De VitaContemplativa, iii., and Hippolytus, Refutation of all Heresies, ix. 27)(Ibid.)

The Essenes claimed to be the legitimate sons of Zadok, or Temple priesthood. They

are credited with writing the Dead Sea Scrolls which were discovered in 1945 and arenow being promoted as the oldest known copies of Jewish scripture. According to aCoptic-Orthodoxsource, Gnosis is a key word in the scrolls of the Jewish Essenesect found at Qumran. H.P. Blavatsky noted that the Essenes were pagan priests of theGreek goddess, Diana of Ephesus, where the Tanaim had established a college forinstruction in the Chaldean mystery religion:

Essenes... They had many Buddhistic ideas and practices and it isnoteworthy that the priests of the Great Motherat Ephesus, Diana-Bhavani with many breasts, were also denominated... It was at Ephesus

where was the great College of the Essenes and all the lore the Tanaimhad brought from the Chaldees... Essenes, believed in reincarnation.(Theosophical Glossary, pp. 113-14 The Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p.111n)
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The Masonic writers, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, are part of a greatcampaign to legitimize the Dead Sea Scrolls as the true scriptures and the Essenes asthe rightful priesthood of Israel (based on personal sanctity rather than lineage). Theyfurther misrepresent Jesus and John the Baptist as high-ranking Essenes and theQumran Community as the original Jerusalem Church:

That the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, who we know call theQumran Community, were Essenes is now beyond doubt and that these

people were the Nasoreans or the original Jerusalem ChurchTo us it seems inescapable that the man who was Jesus the Christ

must have been a leading Qumranian figure during the crucial years ofthe third and fourth decades of the first century. The communitysnumbers were tiny at that time, possibly no more than two hundred

people, and perhaps there were little more than around four thousandEssenes in total. Theysaw imminent salvation from their problemsthrough holiness and, although they were not hereditary priests, throughliving a monastic existence. This involved a society that was extremelyhierarchical, from the Guardian or Grand Master downwards

Initiation into the higher echelons required vows of secrecy thatcarried threat of horrible punishments should the secrets of thebrotherhood be revealed to the outside world. This sounds like a highlyMasonic practice They wore white robes, took vows of poverty,swore to secrecy under threat of terrible punishment and claimed to

possess secret knowledgeFinally the imagination of Ezekiel establishes the rules for the

priesthood that would become the landmarks of the Essenes of Qumran.The legitimate priests of the sanctuary are to be the sons of Zadok, theerstwhile chief priest. Known to the people of Qumran as Zadokites,these sons of Zadok would wear white linen garments when theyentered the inner court. (The Hiram Key, pp. 54-58, 181)

Knight and Lomas also inadvertently reveal that an Essene monk will be the FalseProphet who rises to power during the Tribulation period. Acclaimed as a Teacher ofRighteousness and an Interpreter of the Law, this Cabalist will re-institute the

proper worship in the Temple of Jerusalem:

Whoever the Teacher of Righteousness was, he must have been apious, holy man and apparently was a priestly descendant of Zadok,who revealed to his Community that they were living in a time that

would be the end of days as predicted by the old prophets. Soon, hetold them, God would crush His enemies in a final cosmic battleandusher in the new age of righteousness, and as the Community was thelast remnant of true Israelthe people of Yahweh's covenantit would

be they who would fight the battle and would return to Jerusalem topurify the Templeand re-institute proper worship. ...God, however, will save His people by the hands of two messianicfigureswho will arise at the end of time one from the Branch ofDavid and the other the Interpreter of the Law. (Ibid., p. 201-2)

In The White Goddess, Robert Graves associated the Essenes with the apostate tribe ofDan, the tribe of Samson, the Nazarite who judged Israel: I also suggest inKing Jesusthat the two mysterious Orders of the Essenes, Sampsonians and Helicaeans, wereadepts in the calendar mysteries and were named after Samson...and the Helix, orcosmic circle. (p. 150) It is possible that Samsons riddle was a prophecy that, at a
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future time, the tribe of Dan would try to usurp the messianic lineage of the tribe ofJudah and inaugurate a pagan messianic kingdom. [See: The Lost Tribe of Dan]Graves states previously, Though Jews... they believed in the Western Paradisewhich is a reference to Atlantis Isles of the Blest (p.149).The Essenes, which appeared in Judea during the Hasmonean dynasty (the Maccabeanrevolt against the Greeks) and continued through the Herodian dynasty, abruptlydisappeared after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Robert Graves stated in TheWhite Goddessthat the Alexandrian Gnostics...were the spiritual heirs of the Essenesafter Hadrian had suppressed the Order in 132 A.D. (p.150)

THE ALEXANDRIAN GNOSTICS

Alexandria, Egypt was a center of interchange of religious ideas as well as theintellectual meeting point between the Jews and the Greeks. After the fall of Jerusalem,Alexandria would become the epicenter from which the Cabalist Jews, who hadsynthesized their Chaldean witchcraft with Neo-Platonic philosophy, would cloak thenew Cabalism in Christian terminology and attempt to penetrate the fledgling Church

with heresy. As the origins of the Cabala were documented in the Chaldean mysteryreligion, the Jewish Encyclopedia locates the source of Gnosticism in Jewish Cabalism:

But especially does Gnosticism testify to the antiquity of the Cabala.Of Chaldean origin... Gnosticism was Jewish in character long

before it became Christian... Gnosticismthat is, the cabalisticHokmah (wisdom)seems to have been the first attempt on the partof the Jewish sages to give the empirical mystic lore, with the help ofPlatonic and Pythagorean or Stoic ideas, a speculative turn hence thedanger of heresyof which the systems of Philo, an adept inCabala...show many pitfalls... Jewish gnosticism unquestionably antedates Christianity, forBiblical exegesis had already reached an age of five hundred years bythe first century C.E. Judaism had been in close contact withBabylonian-Persian ideas for at least that length of time, and fornearly as long a period with Hellenistic ideas. Magic, also, which,...wasa not unimportant part of the doctrines and manifestations ofgnosticism, largely occupied Jewish thinkers. There is, in general, nocircle of ideas to which elements of gnosticism have been traced, andwith which the Jews were not acquainted. (Jewish Encyclopedia)

Since the secret doctrine of the Alexandrian Gnostics was simply a Christianizedversion of that found in the Cabala, we are not surprised to find many correspondences.In a nutshell, the Gnostic gospel is based on the Cabalistic quest for liberation fromthe material world, with the assistance of angels, of course.

Closely connected herewith is the doctrine that the pious are enabled toascend toward God even in this life, if they know how to freethemselves from the trammels that bind the soul to the body (seeAscension). Thus were the first mystics enabled to disclose themysteries of the world beyond. According to Anz, l.c., and Bousset,

the central doctrine of Gnosticisma movement closely connectedwith Jewish mysticismwas nothing else than the attempt to

liberate the soul and unite it with God. This conception explains thegreat prominence of angels and spirits in both the earlier and the laterJewish mysticism. Through the employment of mysteries, incantations,
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names of angels, etc., the mystic assures for himself the passage to God,and learns the holy words and formulas with which he overpowers theevil spirits that try to thwart and destroy him. Gaining thereby themastery over them, he naturally wishes to exercise it even while still onearth, and tries to make the spirits serviceable to him. (JewishEncyclopedia)

Contemporary with Jesus Christ was Philo Judaeus (c. 30 BC-45 AD), a Hellenized

Jew of Alexandria who is credited with first allegorizing Scripture and applying themystical method to the Mosaic writings. Unrivaled in esoteric knowledge, according toBlavatsky, Philo was a member of the elitist Alexandrian society called theTherapeutae, also called an esoteric circle of illuminati of wise men.

Therapeutae. (Gr.) or Therapeutes. A school of Esotericists, which wasan inner group within Alexandrian Judaism... They were healers in thesense that some Christian and Mental Scientists, members of the[Theosophical Society], are healers, while they are at the same timegood Theosophists and students of the esoteric sciences. Philo Judeaus

calls them servants of god...an esoteric circle of illuminati, of wisemen... They were contemplative Hellenistic Jews. (TheosophicalGlossary, p.329)

The Jewish Encyclopedia states concerning the Therapeutae, The members of the sectseem to have branched off from the Essene brotherhood. Both of these Gnostic orderswere Jewish ascetics who practiced celibacy based on the Gnostic belief that, since thematerial world is was created by an evil Demiurge, to reproduce is to merely to

populate and perpetuate Satans evil world system. Professor Constantine Scouteris ofthe University of Athens describes the differences between the strict celibacy of theTherapeutae and less rigid Essene community:

In hisDe Vita Contemplativathe Alexandrian Philo makes an extremelyremarkable description of an ascetic community with which he wasfamiliar and which was settled not far from Alexandria, namely aboveLake Mareotis. Philo's intention in this treatise is...to sketch the way of lifeof a specific monastic communityof Egyptian Jewish ascetics. At thevery beginning of his treatise, Philo notes the substantial contrast betweenthe Therapeutaeand another Jewish ascetic sect, the Essenes. TheEssenes led a more practical and active life, while the Therapeutae werededicated to contemplative life. One could observe also other differences

between the two ascetic traditions. The Essenes were exclusively malecommunities while women participated in the communal gatherings of theTherapeutae communities. Although the Essenes highly organizedcommunal life involved great frugality, there is no conclusive evidencethat it denied the lawfulness of marriage. The ascetic tradition of theTherapeutae, on the other hand, insisted on absolute sexual abstinence.The Therapeutae did not practice the Essene communistic way of life butlived separately as anchorites. They practiced renunciation of property,living a life of severe discipline, fasting and praying daily according to anestablished horarium. (The Therapeutae of Philo)

After Philos death in 45 A.D., there arose in Alexandria the Society of Ormus, whichmeant Sages of Light. The founder of this society was Ormesuis, a Seraphic monk /Egyptian magus who was reportedly converted by St. Mark (a likely story) and

proceeded to blend the mystery teachings and rites of the Egyptian priests with
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Christianity. According to Albert MackeysEncyclopedia of Freemasonry, this societymerged with the Cabalist school of the Essenes and other Jews, presumably theTherapeutae. The Essenes who belonged to the Society of Ormus were part of theEssene Brotherhood based in Alexandria. The insignia of the Society of Ormus was ared cross.

Their founder was a seraphic priest of Alexandria, a magus of Egyptnamed Ormesius, or ORMUS, who with six of his companions was

converted in the year 96 by Saint Mark. He purified the doctrine of theEgyptians according to the precepts of Christianity, and founded theSociety of ORMUS, that is to say, the Sages of Light, to the members ofwhich he gave a red crossas a decoration. ABOUT THE SAME TIMETHE ESSENES and other Jews founded a school of SOLOMONICWISDOM, to which the disciples of ORMUS attached themselves.Then the society was divided into various Orders known as theConservators of Mosaic Secrets, of Hermetic Secrets, etc. (45) (46).(illumiGnosis, quoting Mackey II, p. 636)

Two centuries later, Philos method of allegorical interpretation of Scripture was taughtby Clement and Origen in their catechetical school of Alexandria where theysynthesized Neo-Platonism with Christianity to produce a Christianized version ofGnosticism. These misnamed Church fathers were ascetics, whose harsh treatment ofthe body is rejected by Scripture: Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in willworship, and humility, and neglecting of the body not in any honour to the satisfyingof the flesh. (Col. 2:23) In hisHistory of the Christian Church, Philip Schaffdescribed the basis of the false doctrine of asceticism as spiritual elitism akin toGnosticism:

The Alexandrian fathers furnished a theoretical basis for thisasceticism in the distinction of a lower and higher morality,which corresponds to the Platonic or Pythagorean distinction

between the life according to nature and the life above nature orthe practical and contemplative life. It was previously suggested

by Hermas about the middle of the second century. Tertullianmade a corresponding opposite distinction of mortal and venialsins. Here was a source of serious practical errors, and anencouragement both to moral laxity and ascetic extravagance.The ascetics, and afterwards the monks, formed or claimed to bea moral nobility, a spiritual aristocracy, above the common

Christian people as the clergy stood in a separate caste ofinviolable dignity above the laity, who were content with alower grade of virtue. Clement of Alexandria, otherwiseremarkable for his elevated ethical views, requires of the sage orgnostic, that he excel the plain Christian not only by higherknowledge, but also by higher, emotionless virtue, and stoicalsuperiority to all bodily conditions and he inclines to regard the

body, with Plato, as the grave and fetter of the soul. How littlehe understood the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith,may be inferred from a passage in the Stromata, where be

explains the word of Christ: Thy faith hath saved thee, asreferring, not to faith simply, but to the Jews only, who livedaccording to the law as if faith was something to be added to

the good works, instead of being the source and principle of

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distinctly the catholic doctrine of two kinds of morality andpiety, a lower for all Christians, and a higher for saints or theselect few. He includes in the higher morality works ofsupererogation, i.e. works not enjoined indeed in the gospel,yet recommended as counsels of perfection, which weresupposed to establish a peculiar merit and secure a higher degreeof blessedness. He who does only what is required of all is anunprofitable servant but he who does more, who performs, for

example, what Paul, in 1 Cor. 7:25, merely recommends,concerning the single state, or like him, resigns his just claim totemporal remuneration for spiritual service, is called a good andfaithful servant. Among these works were reckoned martyrdom,voluntary poverty, and voluntary celibacy. (Heretical andCatholic Asceticism)

Here we see that the false doctrine of the so-called Christian Gnostics resembled thesalvation by works taught by the Gnostic Jews at the Platonic schools in Alexandria.It is worth noting here that the Gnostic heresiarchs were Jews, a fact well-known to the

true Church Fathers who were their contemporaries. This huge piece of the puzzle hasbeen missing in the sanitized accounts of the Gnostics disseminated to the Gentileworld, but is readily available in the Jewish Encyclopedia:

It is a noteworthy fact that heads of gnostic schools andfounders of gnostic systems are designated as Jews by theChurch Fathers. Some derive all heresies, including those ofgnosticism, from Judaism ... It must furthermore be noted thatHebrew words and names of God provide the skeleton forseveral gnostic systems... This fact proves at least that the

principal elements of gnosticism were derived from Jewishspeculation, while it does not preclude the possibility of newwine having been poured into old bottles. (Gnosticism)

Irenaeus, whose treatise,Against Heresies, was directed against the Gnostics, indictedapostate Jews as the inventors of this heresy:

Arising among these men, Saturninus (who was of that Antioch whichis near Daphne) and Basilides laid hold of some favourableopportunities, and promulgated different systems of doctrinethe onein Syria, the other at Alexandria These men, moreover, practise

magic and use images, incantations, invocations, and every other kindof curious art They declare that they are no longer Jews, and thatthey are not yet Christians and that it is not at all fitting to speak openlyof their mysteries, but right to keep them secret by preserving silence.(Against Heresies, Book I, Ch. XXIV)

The Plot Against the Church, a history of Jewish infiltration of the Catholic Church byMaurice Pinay (a pseudonym for a team of Catholic priests), documents from varioussources the foundation of Gnosticism to be the Jewish Cabala, and the AlexandrianGnostics to be Jewish Cabalists.

Matter, the renowned historian of Gnosticism reports to us that theleading Jewish personages, the Alexandrian philosophers Filon andAristobulus, who were completely and utterly true to the religion oftheir fathers, resolved to deck themselves out with the remains of other
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systems and make a way clear to Jewry for enormous conquests bothwere also leaders of Gnosticism and Cabbalists

The said author explains: that The Cabbala existed beforeGnosticism, is an opinion which the Christian writers little understand,

but which the scholars of Judaism admit with true certainty they alsoassert, that Gnosticism was not exactly a falling away from Christianity

but a compilation of systems, in which several Christian elements weretaken up

In his confirmation that Cabbalists founded Gnosticism, the famoushistorian of Freemasonry, Ragon, reports that: The Cabbala is the keyof the secret sciences. The Gnostics emanated from the Cabbalists.The Jewish Encyclopedia asserts that Gnosticism had a Jewishcharacter, before it was transformed into the Christian

On the other hand, the Encyclopedia Judaica Castellana alludesto the fact, that:

The original Gnosticism, both the Christian as well as the Jewish,used Hebrew names in its system and that it even based its oppositionupon Biblical ideas, points to Jewish origin. It says in addition that it

influenced the later development of the Cabala 525:262-3Perhaps the most influential of the arch heretics was Valentinus, whose Gnostic schoolendured for over 600 years and whose belief system exists even today. Valentinus, aJew born in Egypt around 100 A.D., was educated in Alexandria where he became adisciple of one Theudas who claimed to have been a disciple of the apostle Paul who

privately taught the hidden wisdom to his inner circle. Typical of the early Gnostics,Valentinus also claimed to have had a vision of the risen Christ, after which hecommenced his career as a teacher at Alexandria (c. 120 AD). The truth aboutValentinus conversion is more available in historical accounts of the Romans brutalsuppression of Jewish sedition in Egypt in 118 A.D.

Decimated by Roman troops deployed in the Jewish quarters, withtheir urban and religious organisation shattered, remnants of EgyptianJewry metamorphosed into embryonic Christians(... in the eyes ofthe local Greeks, Christianity was just another brand of Judaism. Irshai.) Notable among them was a young man he would have beenabout eighteen at the time of the insurrection studying in the very cityof Alexandria and witness to the carnage: Valentinus. Another wasBasilides. Following in the tradition of synthesis and syncretism oflong-standing in Alexandria (e.g. Philo a generation earlier), these

proto-Christian theorists, Valentinus and Basilides competed againsteach other, had their own cult followings, and produced their owngospels.

Valentinian Gnosticism attracted a large number of adherents in Egypt and Syria. In136 AD, Valentinus relocated to Rome where he founded another school and rose to

prominence throughout Europe. Maurice Pinay recounted the powerful refutation ofthis adversary of the Christian faith by Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202):

The evidence of the Church Fathers completes the total picture of

proofsin order to show that Gnosticism was the work of Jewry forthey name several of the leaders of the Gnostic schools as JewsSaint Ireneus, described Valentinus, a Jew from Alexandria, as

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directed by the crypto-Jew Valentinus, who was the type of classicalmember of the Fifth Column. For he was outwardly active as trueChristian and spread disintegration in Holy Church, by spreading out hisdisastrous sect. At first he had the city of Alexandria as chief bulwark,

but towards the middle of the second century he went to Rome with theintention of undermining Christianity in the capital of the Empire itself.The Valentinians seriously threatened to disintegrate Holy Church fromwithin, which finally in order to nullify the disastrous work of this false

Christian, a true Jew of the Fifth Column, cast him out of its bosomThe Gnostics had mystery plays and initiations. Tertullian assures

us, that the sects of the Valentinians destroyed the Mystery plays inEleusis and made a sanctuary of prostitution out of them. And wemust not forget, that Valentine, the false Christ and crypto-Jew fromAlexandria was revealed by the Saint Irenaeus as leader of the Gnostics,whose sects according to several people were directed by one and thesame power

That great leader, who appeared in the Church, in order to combatGnosticism and to triumph over it, was in fact Saint Irenaeus, who

thoroughly studied its disastrous sects and their dark teachings andmercilessly fought them in word and deed. Simultaneously heattackedthe Jews, whom he described as leaders of this disintegrating

underground movement, [28] whose strongest and most dangeroussect for Christianity was that of the Valentinians, which was led byValentinius, behind whose false Christianity Saint Ireneus

discovered the Jewish identity.Thanks to the manly and ceaseless labour of Saint Ireneus, Holy

Church was successful in triumphing over the Gnosis, which for risingChristianity was a more threatening internal danger than the graveexternal intrigues which were then represented through the frontalattacks of the synagogue and its intrigues Naturally, the existence of adevout and very combative clergy, to whom indulgence was disguisedwith the cloak of peaceful coexistence or of diplomacy was not known,had the effect that Holy Church emerged victorious from this terriblestruggle, in which it completely overcame its foes: Jewry, JewishGnosticism and Roman paganism

[28] His work Adversus Haereses is especially important. (ThePlot Against the Church,pp. 262-8)

In 143 A.D. Valentinus was a candidate for the office of bishop of Rome, but upon

being passed over for that position he left the Christian community. About the time ofValentinus, another arch heretic, Marcion, arrived in Rome. Irenaeus wrote of hisofficial rejection by the Church at Rome, which was under the oversight of bishops(not popes):

For Valentinus came to Rome in the time of Hyginus, flourished underPius, and remained until Anicetus. Cerdon, too, Marcion's predecessor,himself arrived in the time of Hyginus, who was the ninth bishop.Coming frequently into the Church, and making public confession, hethus remained, one time teaching in secret, and then again making

public confession but at last, having been denounced for corruptteaching, he was excommunicated from the assembly of the brethren.After Valentinus death, his disciples developed his ideas into a system which theyspread throughout the Roman Empire. In his work, Valentinus: A Gnostic for All
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Seasons, Stephan A. Hoeller theorizes as to the course of Christendom, hadValentinus become Pope:

It is certainly a question of some interest what the course of Christiantheology might have been had Valentinus been elected to the office of

bishop of Rome. His hermeneutic vision combined with his superbsense of the mythical would have probably resulted in a generalflowering of the Gnosis within the very fabric of the Church of Rome,

and might have created an authoritative paradigm of GnosticChristianity that could not have been easily exorcised for centuries, if atall. (The Almost Pope)

THE JUDAIZERS

During the first century, the apostle Paul had valiantly contended against the Judaizingheresy, giving no place to the unbelieving Jews who stalked him from city to cityagitating the crowds as he preached the Gospel. Serving the Lord with all humility ofmind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of

the Jews... (Acts 20:19)The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament (Textus Receptus) translates the last

phrase of verse 19 plots of the Jews. Verse 3 of this chapter mentions that the Jewswho were involved in the uproar at Ephesus continued to plot against the disciples.And having continued three months, having been made against them a plot by theJews, being about to sail into Syria, arose a purpose to return through Macedonia. Theword plot suggests that the continual attacks on the Gospel were planned, as in aconspiracy: Plot, n. [Abbrev. from complot.] 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design,or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose,usually a treacherous and mischievous one a conspiracy an intrigue...cabal(Websters)

It seems that Jews were also infiltrating the churches, bringing their false doctrineswith them as Paul stated, these Jews were false brethren unawares brought in, whocame in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might

bring us into bondage. (Gal. 2:4) It is likely Paul anticipated that the Judaizingheresy, which had appeared in Corinth and Galatia, would eventually manifest in otherchurches, and especially in Rome, the center and seat of earthly power andgovernment. For this reason, the doctrinal position of the Christian community inRome, whose power and influence was destined only to increase, would carry great

weight in deciding the Judaizing controversy. This may explain why Pauls epistle tothe Romans was a defense of the fundamental doctrine of the righteousness which isof faith as contrasted with the Jewish concept of righteousness which is of the law.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not accordingto knowledge. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, andgoing about to establish their own righteousness, have not submittedthemselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of thelaw for righteousness to every one that believeth... That if thou shaltconfess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart

that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.(Rom.10:2-4,9)Tragically, before his departure from Ephesus to Jerusalem, whence he would appeal toappear before Caesar in Rome, Paul prophesied that the Christian churches would be
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infiltrated by heretics, chief among whom were the Judaizers.

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter inamong you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall menarise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years Iceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:20)

Before departing on his final journey to Rome, Paul also commended the believers tothe word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritanceamong all them which are sanctified (v.30) as opposed to the works of the law bywhich no flesh is justified. (Gal.2:16)

JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ROME

During the time of Christ and the early Church period there was a sizeable Jewishcommunity in Rome, estimated at 40,000 Jews. Josephus mentioned a lawsuit thatinvolved 8,000 Jews in Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus (44 BC-14.AD),

presumably adult men each with a family of at least four or five members. (JewishAntiquities, Vol. II, p. 80) The number of Jews in Rome increased considerably afterthe mass deportation of captives from Jerusalem following its destruction in 70 A.D.There was also a thriving Jewish community in the area which became the Vatican.According to The Vatican & Rome as elements of apocalyptic discourse: Theorigins of the Citt del Vaticano are as an unpleasant neighborhood outside the citywalls populated by Jews and beginning in the first century by (Jewish) Christians andstill later by the persecuted Gentile converts to the Christian sect. The Latin wordVatican means divining serpent (see Papal Crest Dragon):

The word Vatican literally means Divining Serpent, and is derivedfrom Vatis=Diviner and Can=Serpent. Vatican City and St. PetersBasilica were built on the ancient pagan site called in Latin vaticanusmonsor vaticanus collis, which means hill or mountain of prophecy.Coins minted in Vatican City often bear the inscription CITT DELVATICANO, which means City of Prophecy. (The Wine of Babylon)

The Jewish community in Rome dates at least as far back as the Maccabees, who hadcordial relations with Rome and received pledges of Roman friendship and protection.(See: Jews become allies of Rome) Jewish culture prospered in Rome during the early

centuries of first millennium, even to the extent that Jews held government positionsand received favored treatment from the Caesars. It was not until Constantine theGreat, who reigned as emperor from 306 to 336, that Jews were proscribed fromholding state offices, owning slaves or testifying in court against Christians, amongother restrictions. The Jewish Virtual Libraryreveals the influence and status of theJewish community in Rome.

The Jewish community in Rome is known to be the oldest Jewishcommunity in Europe and also one of the oldest continuous Jewishsettlements in the world, dating back to 161 B.C.E.when Jason ben

Eleazar and Eupolemus ben Johanan came as envoys of JudahMaccabee. Other delegations were sent by the Hasmonean rulers in 150and 139 B.C.E. After the Romans invaded Judea in 63 B.C.E., Jewish

prisoners of war were brought to Rome as slaves, Jewish delegates cameto Rome on diplomatic missions and Jewish merchants traveled to
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Rome seeking business opportunities. Many of those who visited Romestayed and the Jewish population began to grow. While the treatment of Jews by the Romans in Palestine was oftenharsh, relations with the rulers in Rome were generally much better.Julius Caesar, for example, was known to be a friend of the Jews heallowed them to settle anywhere in the Roman Empire. According tohistorians, when Caesar was assassinated by Brutus in 44 B.C.E.,Roman Jews spent day and night at Caesars tomb, weeping over his

death. His successor, Augustus, also acted favorably toward the Jewsand even scheduled his grain distribution so that it would not interferewith the Jewish Sabbath. Two synagogues were founded by slaves whohad been freed by Augustus (14 C.E.) and by Agrippa (12 B.C.E.)... From the second half of the first century C.E., the Roman Jewishcommunity became firmly established. A majority of the communitywere shopkeepers, craftsman and peddlers, but other Jews became

poets, physicians and actors... Evidence has been found that twelvesynagogues were functioning during this period.

Always industrious and enterprising, the Jews used Rome as a base to gain influencethroughout Europe,. Their success was largely achieved through finance, andespecially usury, the charging of excessive interest on loans by means of whichwealthy Jews would eventually enslave the European monarchies. As the headquartersof the empire, Rome was strategic to the European operations of the Jewish elite. Thescheme employed in the takeover of Rome is revealed by the two Jewish converts toRoman Catholicism who became priests:

Usury for Power... The human causes of [the persecution of Jews], unique in history,are witnessed by the Jews insatiable appetite for turning to usury togain power through betrayal in order to dominate, and whenever

possible, to take over and overthrow the State. In every country, this immutable law of Hebrew prosperity in everycountry is always to the detriment of the well being and liberty of theinhabitants. Many years before Rome fell into the claws of history, thefamous Lemann brothers, who converted from Judaism and became

priests of the Catholic Church, in one of their works, which meritsmeditation, wrote: O Israelites of Rome, we understand the attitude of our people. Ifyou are conceded the right of possession which you invoke, we wager

that, within thirty to fifty years from now, Rome will be in your hands.(ff.Rome et les juives. Rome and the Jews) And so the prophecy came to pass. The city of Rome fell quicklyinto the abyss, and was economically and materially subjugated to theJews, as were all of the major cities of the great nations of Europe. (LaCivilta Cattolica)

It was into this prospering Jewish community at Rome that the Gospel of Jesus Christmade an entrance, for the it is recorded in Acts 18:2 that, while in Corinth, Paul founda certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife

Priscilla (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) andcame unto them. A Commentary on Romansby James R. Edwards alludes to thetensions between the Jews and Gentile converts in Rome who, at the council ofJerusalem, as recorded in Acts 15, had been officially released from the Mosaic Law.
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The Edict of Claudius. Claudius, who ruled Rome from AD 41 to54, found thePax Romanathreatened by Jewish disturbances fromRome to distant Egypt. In his first year of office he imposed arestraining order on the Jews, forbidding them to meet together inaccordance with their ancestral way of life. Eight years later, in AD 49,he cracked down on foreigners in general. The Roman historianSuetonius says, Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at theinstigation of Chrestus, (Claudius) expelled them from Rome....

The expulsion of Jews from Rome dramatically changed theconstituency of the fledgling Christian communities there. A movementthat from its inception had identified more or less with Judaism wasnow confronted with a predominantly, if not exclusively, GentileChristian membership. Freed from the influence of scrupulous JewishChristians, particularly in dietary matters, the Gentile Christiancommunities would have grown numerically stronger. But moreimportantly, they more than likely developed a distinctly antinomianconsciousness during the absence of their Jewish Christian counterparts.How long this situation lasted we cannot say, but the five years between

the proclamation of the edict in AD 49 and Claudius death in AD 54 isa reasonable guess. This changed when Claudius died and the edict lapsed. It is notdifficult to imagine the difficulties which must have ensued whenJewish Christians returning from exile tried to reestablish themselves inChristian communities that had since matured in Gentile character,especially regarding laxness toward the Torah. Pauls greetings at theend of Romans seem directed to several different (house) churches (see16:5,14,15), the existence of which may be evidence of tensions

between Jewish and Gentile Christians. If our dating of Romans iscorrect - and the date cannot have been more than a year or two awayfrom AD 57 - then Romans was written only a few years after theonset of this social and religious maelstrom. (pp. 8-11)

A maelstrom indeed ensued when Claudius was succeeded by the Emperor Nero who,in A.D. 64, launched the fierce persecutions of Christians that would continue for twohundred and fifty years. A World Historywebsite ascribes the Great Fire of Rome toJewish fanatics, who shifted the blame to the Christians:

An official investigation concluded that the fire had been started byJewish fanatics. This put the Jewish community in Rome in danger, and

Jewish leaders in Rome may have tried to avert this danger bydescribing to authorities the difference between themselves and theChristians. The leaders of Jews in Rome could reach the emperor, Nero,through his new wife, Sabina Poppaea. Nero learned of the separateidentity of those Jews who were followers of Jesus, and he put blame onthem for the fire.

It was Constantine the Great whose Edict of Milan in 313 ended the persecution ofChristians and legalized the worship of Jesus Christ. At the same time, Constantinealso obstructed Jewish ascendancy in the Roman Empire.

The Jewish position in Rome began to deteriorate during the reignof Constantine the Great (306-336), who enacted laws limiting therights of Jews as citizens... Some of the relevant decrees in these codesinclude prohibitions against making proselytes, intermarriage, owning
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slaves (slave labor was very common and this prohibition severelyrestricted the economic life of the Jews), holding any esteemed positionin the Roman state, building new synagogues and testifying againstOrthodox Christians in court. (Jewish Virtual Library)

Was there an inverse relationship between the two traditions Judaism andChristianity so that the expanding influence of one negatively affected thenumerical growth of the other? And can it be that Constantines conversion and

outlawing of Jewish operations against the Christians is the reason this Roman emperorconsistently receives bad press from the intellectual community?It is difficult to resist the suspicion that Jews, certain of whom held positions in theRoman state before Constantine, may have been behind the persecution of Christians,accusing them to the Roman emperors as the Jews accused Paul and Silas to the rulersof Thessalonica, ...these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there isanother king, one Jesus. (Acts 17:7) The issue of allegiance to Jesus Christ as God in

preference to Caesar also recalls the charge which the chief priests and scribes leveledagainst Jesus Himself when He stood before Pilate: We found this fellow perverting

the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ aKing. (Luke 23:2)Having failed to eradicate Christianity by way of extermination, is it possible the Jewsthen tried to destroy the Christian faith by other means? In very fact, this was the case,according to Maurice Pinay:

Gnosisfor rising Christianity was a more threatening internal dangerthan the grave external intrigues which were then represented throughthe frontal attacks of the synagogue and its intrigues. The latter attained,as we have already observed, that the whole power of the RomanEmpire was applied with its terrible persecutions, as a result of whichthere were so many martyrs for Christianity. These facts prove, thatfrom its first beginnings onwards the activity of the Jewish FifthColumn which had penetrated into its interior, was far more dangerousthan that of external foes. (The Plot Against the Church,p. 268)

Although Constantine restricted Jewish power and influence, the last of his directdescendants to become Roman Emperor favored the Jewish religion to the extent thathe made plans to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon. The deeds of Julianthe Apostate are favorably recorded by Jewish historians such as H. Graetz, whose

History of the Jewswas cited by Pinay:

In the year 360 Julian, a cousin of Constantine, was proclaimedRoman Emperor by the army. Constantine, who had prepared for battleagainst him, died on the way this made easier the final victory forJulian and his proclamation as Emperor of the Orient and Occident. The

policy of Julian had three principle aims: I. To renew the Pagan beliefand to again declare it a state religion of the Empire, so that Romewhich according to his view had declined through Christianity, mightreturn to its old glory. II. To destroy Christianity. III. To concede to

Jewry its old positions, from which it had been expelled by Constantineand his sons even the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon was to bearranged The famous Jewish historian says of Julian:...that Julian paid greatadmiration to the Jewish religion and confirms that the period of
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government by Julian...was a time of highest fortune for the Jews of theRoman Empire... Graetz likewise establishes that Julian called the leader of Jewry inthe Empire, the patriarch Hillel, literally his respected friend, and

promised him in a personal letter to make an end of the misdeedscommitted by the Christian Emperors against the Jews. Further, Julianmade all necessary preparations in order to begin the rebuilding of theTemple of Jerusalem. He addressed a letter to all Jewish congregations

of the Empire, in which he spoke in friendly way of the leader of Jewryin the Empire, the Patriarch Julos (Hillel), as his brother. He promisedthe abolition of the high taxes laid upon the Israelites by the Christians,guaranteed that in the future none should accuse them of blasphemy,

promised freedom and security and promised to have Jerusalem rebuiltat his expense, as soon as he returned victorious from the Persian war.For the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem Julian commissioned his

best friend, Alypius of Antioch, to whom he gave instructions to spareno expense, and commanded the governors of Palestine and Syria, toassist with everything necessary... (pp. 285-6)

The death of Julian in 363 A.D. curtailed plans for rebuilding Solomons Templehowever, the Jewish Virtual Libraryboasts of a Hebrew revival in Rome in thecenturies which followed:

During this period there was a revival of Hebrew studies in Rome,centered around the local yeshiva, Metivta de Mata Romi. A number ofwell-known scholars, Rabbi Kalonymus b. Moses and Rabbi JacobGaon and Rabbi Nathan b. Jehil (who wrote a great talmudicdictionary, the Arukh), contributed to Jewish learning and development.Roman Jewish traditions followed those practiced in the Land of Israeland the liturgical customs started in Rome spread throughout Italyand the rest of the world.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM

Did the abovementioned Jewish liturgical customs which started in Rome somehowfind their way into the Church at Rome? Were they little by little incorporated into itsworship, which gradually developed into the Roman Catholic Mass? It may come as asurprise to many Catholics that the Catholic Encyclopediaofficially defines theCatholic liturgy as a carryover from the Mosaic Law:

...the word liturgy...is used for the public service of the temple...thefunction of the priests, the ritual service of the temple... So in Christianuse liturgy meant the public official service of the Church, thatcorresponded to the official service of the Temple in the Old Law.

After which we find a startling admission, viz., that the Mass was a Christianizedsynagogue service conducted by learned elders:

The Eucharist was always celebrated at the end of a service of lessons,

psalms, prayers, and preaching, which was itself merely a continuationof the service of the synagogue. So we have everywhere this doublefunction first a synagogue service Christianized, in which the holy

books were read, psalms were sung, prayers said by the bishop in thename of all (the people answering Amen in Hebrew, as had their
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Jewish forefathers), and homilies, explanations of what had been read,were made by the bishop or priests,just as they had been made in thesynagogues by the learned men and elders(e. g., Luke, iv, 16-27)...The likeness between the prayers of thanksgiving (ix-x) and the Jewishforms for blessing bread and wine on the Sabbath (given in theBerakoth treatise of the Talmud cf. Sabatier, La Didache, Paris,1885, p. 99) points obviously to derivation from them.

Little wonder that one Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism made the astoundingstatement that entering the Catholic Church was not a conversion experience for him,

but rather a continuation of Judaism. Roy Schoeman, the author of Salvation is fromthe Jews, confirms as well that the Mass is based on the Jewish ceremonial worshipand that Catholic theology is based on the Old Testament!

As a Jew coming to the Catholic Church, it was natural for me tofind the relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church amongthe most interesting things in the world. It was obvious to me that for aJew to enter the Catholic Church wasnt a matter of conversion at

all, but was rather simply coming into the fullness of Judaism intothe form that Judaism took after the coming of the Jewish Messiah.Although Catholics are aware of this in principle, they often dont

think of the Catholic Church as the continuation of Judaismafter theMessiah... Its everywhere you look. Its obviously in the Sacrifice ofthe Mass and the way the Mass is prefigured in Jewish ceremonialworship. Its in the role that the Old Testament, Jewish Scripturehave in Catholic theology and the structure of the Catholic Faith.[Seattle Catholic]

A listing of parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, which have analoguesin the Eastern Orthodox Church as well, presented us with the startling prospect thatRoman Catholicism may have been a Judaized form of Christianity from its inception.In the list of traditions below, links to the Catholic Encyclopedia show that the RomanCatholic Church justifies most of its practices by appealing to the Old Testament. Evenin cases where the New Testament is cited as justification, these practices are notrequired under the New Covenant but have their basis in Judaism.Priesthood(cf. Levitical priesthood/mediators between God and men)Pope(cf. Jewish High Priest)College of Cardinals(70) (cf. seventy elders of Moses/Deut.17:8)

Confessionof sins to priest for forgiveness (cf. Lev.5:5)Daily sacrifice of the Mass(cf. Daily burnt offering / Heb.10:11)Altars for sacrificesAltar vesselsof gold and silverVestmentsfor priestsCardinals skullcap(cf. Jewish yarmulke)Offertory(cf. Offerings)Church buildingsfor worship (cf. Temple)Liturgy(cf. service of the Temple)Sunday obligation(cf. Sabbath observance)

Ecclesiastical Feasts(cf. Jewish feasts)Scapular/ Hairshirt(cf. Sackcloth)Works-based salvation(cf. Mosaic Law)Sacrament of infant baptism(cf. Rite of Circumcision / Talmud)Wafer-only Communion(cf. Manna/Shew Bread)
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Sacrament of Confirmation(cf. Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah)Burning of candlesand incense(cf. Exodus 30)Holy water font(cf. The Laver / Exodus 40)

No salvation outside the (Catholic) Church(Gentiles must convert to Judaism to besaved)The following Roman Catholic traditions were not part of the Mosaic Law but wereadopted by the Israelites in their apostasy:

Traditions of men(Mark 7:6-13)Vain repetitions(Lip service (Isa.29:13)Veneration of saints(Idolatry/pagan gods)Worship of Mary as Mother of God(Jews worshipped Queen of Heaven / Jer. 44)Statues/images(images on the walls of Solomons Temple) (Ezek 8:10)Demotion of Jesus to Co-Redeemer(cf. Jews denial of Jesus as Messiah)Preoccupation with Christs deathrather than resurrection (Jews denial of Jesusresurrection)

The above is only a partial catalog of Jewish traditions found in Roman Catholicism.The sacerdotal (priesthood) and daily sacrificial systems alone strongly implicate theRoman Catholic Church as, not only a front for apostate Judaism, but as a vehicle forconverting Christians, without their knowledge, to the very religious system thatrejected Jesus Christ. One commentarycompares the Roman Catholic teaching onsalvation to that preached in Judaism:

The Catholic perspective on salvation is largely judaized Christianity.In the days of the Apostles, many Jewish Christians believed thatChristians had to follow all the requirements of the Mosaic Law, e.g.,circumcision, the system of offerings, going to a priest to have sinsforgiven, making sacrifices as atonement for sins, etc. A system thatrequires some type of priest to act as an intercessor between thelayperson and God is known as a sacerdotal system (from the Latinword sacerdote, meaning priest.)

The Epistle to the Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians, probably to the Church inJerusalem, who professed the name of Jesus Christ but were still zealous to keep theLaw. They were greatly persecution by unbelieving Jews as Hebrews 10:33-34records:

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches andafflictions and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were soused. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully thespoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a

better and an enduring substance.

The author of Hebrews wrote to elucidate how Jesus Christ had fulfilled all of the Law,thereby doing away with the Old Testament system which merely foreshadowed Hiseffectual ministry as Savior. The writer strongly warned the Jewish Christians againstreturning to the Mosaic system, which would cause them to fall away from the true

faith. Today the Roman Catholic Church is Satans Exhibit A, a worldwide systemof paganized Judaism that is Christian by profession only. Arno GaebeleinsAnnotated Bible conveys the great abyss that lies between the Roman Catholicapostasy and the pure doctrine of Christ set forth in the New Testament:
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But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood ofgoats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once intothe holy place, having obtained eternal redemptionfor us.Hebrews 9:11-12

Christ is the perfect mediator. And therefore no earthlypriesthood is needed. The attempt to introduce priestlymediation of sinful men between Christ and His people, whomHe is not ashamed to call brethren is anti-Christian, theoffspring of Satan. Adolph Saphir, the author of an ableexposition of Hebrews has exposed the Romish blasphemy inaping the defunct Judaismin words, which are worthy to bequoted.

What a marvellous confusion of Jewish, pagan,and Christian elements do we see here! Jewishthings which have waxed old, and vanished away

preparatory and imperfect elements which theapostle does not scruple to call beggarly now thatthe fulness has come revived without divineauthority, and changed and perverted to suitcircumstances for which they were neverintended. Pagan things, appealing to the deep-seated and time-confirmed love of idolatry, and ofsensuous and mere outward performances theBabylonian worship of the Queen of Heaven theintercession of saints and angels, the mechanical

repetition of formulas, the superstitious regard ofplaces

mystery babylon_ catholic or jewish-parti

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