Holy Spirit Watch

'Veni Vidi Vici'

The Eternal Word
EWTN Founder Sister Angelica

In Rome, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood, called the removal of the feeding tube 'an attack against God'.

Guardian
March 31, 2005

October 2005
Calvi Trial Begins
The end of the Masonic Road?

The Thames, the Seine, the Bosphorus, and the Danube
The Grand Orient vs The Grand Lodge
A Viennese Waltz to the Tiber...

"Republicans are good at wielding power, but they're not so wonderful when it comes to the more idealistic motives of liberal internationalism. The Democrats are better at liberal internationalism, but they're not so good at wielding power. I would say that if there were a Joe Lieberman/John McCain party, I'm in the Joe Lieberman/John McCain party."

- Robert Kagan

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald

No New Age for the Scottish Rite...

5 to 4
Half Full...

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The Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon's teaching on Satan and Lucifer

Satan is not an evil fallen angel in rebellion against God, he is his servent, doing his will

"The word "satan" is from a Hebrew word, "sathane", meaning adversary or calumniator; in original Jewish usage (see the book of Job), the satan is the adversary, not of God, but of mankind; i.e., the angel charged by God with the task of proving that mankind is an unworthy creation."

Satan protects the righteous, such as Masons, while punishing the unrighteous, such as Catholics

"Note though, that Balaam’s satan (Numbers 22:23-33) protects him from harm"

Amazing Masonic Discovery #6,547, #6,548, #6,549, #6,550, & #6,551!

"Later, as Judaism absorbed such ideas as Zoroastrian dualism and concepts about angels during the Exile, and then as Christianity echoed various concepts from earlier religions, the concept of an evil power ruling an underground domain of punishment for the wicked became fixed in Christian doctrine."

We know what he really meant. Lodge Night at the Upper Room with Grand Master Jesus

"From a supposed reference to this passage in our Lord’s words. 'I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven' (Lk 10:18), in connexion with Rev 9:1-11"

Defends reputation of Lucifer, blames Church for his bad rep

"Lucifer came in the Middle Ages to be a common appellation of Satan."

Unenlightened Church Clods misinterpret the Book of Revelation, unlike Superior Masons

"But this angel is not actually identified with Satan by the writer of the Apocalypse."

Church Fathers Schmurch Fathers

"While some authors referred to Lucifer as Satan’s name before his expulsion from Heaven,"

A Thousand Points of Masonic Light!

"others referred to Lucifer and Satan as two distinct entities."

Masonic Mastermind notes lack of agreement between The Vicar of Christ and Masonic 'Scholarship'

"Both as a literary convention and as Christian teachings or belief, historically there would appear to be little consensus."

So Mope It Be

"Regardless, it should be clear that an author may use the terms Lucifer or luciferian and not be referring to Satan."

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The Church's teaching on Satan and Lucifer

"Devil(Greek diabolos; Lat. diabolus): The name commonly given to the fallen angels, who are also known as demons (see DEMONOLOGY). With the article it denotes Lucifer, their chief, as in Matthew 25:41, "the Devil and his angels".

"It is clearly taught that the Devil and the other demons are spiritual or angelic creatures created by God in a state of innocence, and that they became evil by their own act."

"And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels: and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. (Apocalypse 12:7-9)"

"As may be gathered from the language of the Lateran definition, the Devil and the other demons are but a part of the angelic creation, and their natural powers do not differ from those of the angels who remained faithful. Like the other angels, they are pure spiritual beings without any body, and in their original state they are endowed with supernatural grace and placed in a condition of probation. It was only by their fall that they became devils. This was before the sin of our first parents, since this sin itself is ascribed to the instigation of the Devil: "By the envy of the Devil, death came into the world" (Wisdom 2:24). "

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High. But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15)

"This parable of the prophet is expressly directed against the King of Babylon, but both the early Fathers and later Catholic commentators agree in understanding it as applying with deeper significance to the fall of the rebel angel. And the older commentators generally consider that this interpretation is confirmed by the words of Our Lord to his disciples: "I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven" (Luke 10:18)."

"It might be inferred, moreover, from the swiftness with which punishment followed on the offense in the case of our first parents, although man's mind moves more slowly than that of the angels, and he had more excuse in his own weakness and in the power of his tempter. It was partly for this reason, indeed, that man found mercy, whereas there was no redemption for the angels. For, as St. Peter says, "God spared not the angels that sinned" (2 Peter 2:4)."

Jesus Tempted Thrice: Additional proofs of the egregious theological folly and error of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon