Author Topic: THE EARTHMOVERS (Read 119061 times)

cantatedomino · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:26:16 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: The cult of the sun as master of ‘planet-earth’ originated in the main from the occult convictions of the post Noachian-flood Egyptians (2,941BC). It arises within the religion of Phallicism, the bond that unites all forms of idolatry into one great system. It stems directly from sun worship, heliolatry or light worship, e.g., Mithraism. It is evident that the learned of the heliolaters viewed the sun as the life source to all terrestrial creatures, the cause of all life and therefore divine.

Accordingly, this paganism literally strove to regulate all places (a heliocentric order,) politics and religion in the image of their sun-deity. This priest-led cult included alchemy and magic, that is, a gnosis, an esoteric knowledge, a mode of indoctrination designed to overcome man’s fallen state and restore knowledge of all things enjoyed by Adam before the fall so that we can become like gods.

A little later, under the auspices of astronomy and astrology, the heliocentric belief surfaced again. In the 6th century BC, the Egyptian-trained Pythagoras reintroduced the sun-centred world and followers such as Philolaus, the teacher of Plato, and Plato himself, according to Aristotle, accepted a solar system. After him, in the 4th century BC, it was Heracleides who promoted the idea that the earth moves around a central fire. A century later, Aristarchus of Samos (240BC) also advocated a heliocentric world. He was accused of impiety so gained few converts.

Throughout all the centuries after Christ, the reality of the senses remained and geocentrism prevailed. Nevertheless, the pagan cult of a sun-centred world with its ‘illuminated priests’ never died; the seeds of the belief system, this gnosis, having been inserted into the occult writings of men, now best known as the Hermetic, Gnostic and cabbalistic texts. Thus, in the second century AD, there came into existence a ‘Holy Grail,’ protected over the centuries by many organisations and secret societies, for they knew there would come a time and generations more favourable to their cause. And so it was that with the re-emergence of the Hermetic books in the fifteenth century in Florence, the heliocentric doctrine began to attract and fascinate new recruits. This magic then spread like wildfire, becoming an integral part of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:28:57 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: We could say the development of the doctrine of geocentrism had its origins with the well-known Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322BC). It was he who built a mode of thinking he called metaphysics wherein the earth’s apparent immobile centrality in the universe was chosen as the core around which many other branches of knowledge should defer. Thus astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, physics, geography, botany, zoology, psychology, music, the arts etc., found their deferential point.

In the religious or sacred world, both Scripture and Tradition adhered literally to a geocentric world. Throughout the Bible are many references to a moving sun and fixed earth, but not one to a fixed sun and moving earth in any way. Of all biblical references linking heaven and a fixed earth, none is more significant than the reference to the Lord’s footstool:

Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is My throne and the earth My footstool: what is this house that you will build M? And what is this place of My rest? My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 66:1-2.)

But I say to you not to swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool. (Matthew 5:34.)

[The term footstool, far from being considered as incidental to the Holy Throne, is best considered as a key component of the DAIS of the Melchisedech Holy Throne, fashioned for One who is seated (in contradistinction to movement). 'In the Prophets and Apostles' visions of God, the Father is always found seated on His throne. This is important. God is always at rest. There is nothing that disturbs Him. Even in the Book of Revelation, where violent events taking place on earth are foretold, you'll find God seated on His throne.’ - - - Love’sArk.net.]

cantatedomino · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:30:44 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: As time went by, this geocentric doctrine was developed further to satisfy the insatiable curiosity of man and the infinite theology of God, a synthesis of thought found in the reasoning refined and articulated in a Christian way over the centuries by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, especially Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century AD); St Clement of Alexandria (150-215AD) - who established that the altar in the Jєωιѕн tabernacle was ‘a symbol of the earth placed in the middle of the universe;’ Peter Lombard (12th century); and then St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). ‘With great power and clearness,’ wrote Andrew White, ‘Saint Thomas Aquinas, the sainted theologian, the glory of the mediaeval Church, the ‘Angelic Doctor,’ brought the whole vast system, material and spiritual, into its relation to God and man,’ a composite of theology, philosophy and metaphysics that resulted in ‘a sacred system of cosmology, one of the great treasures of the universal Church.’ (Andrew D. White: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, New York, Appleton, 1870 and updated 1896, p.116.)

St Thomas brought about a universal change in emphasis. Up to his time philosophy had been the centre of knowledge since the Greek thinkers, but with the application of Christian Revelation and infused wisdom, theology found its place in the intellectual world, with all the other disciplines, including metaphysics, ethics, logic, politics, economics etc., subservient to it. Thomism then, became the vehicle for a system of learning and education. Hence with the scholastics, the primacy of a teleological explanation for the existence of man, his nature, place, purpose and destiny was established more fully. Finally, but not least, there was the geocentrism of St Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) in his 1614 book De Ascensione Mentis in Deum - The Mind’s Ascent to God by the Ladder of Created Things.

Having reconciled Aristotle’s geocentric metaphysics with Christianity, it was then time to cleanse other alien ideas of the Greek scholar’s in the light of Christian Revelation and teaching of the Catholic Church, arising from the dogma that everything presupposes the Creation by God. This occurred in 1277AD, when Bishop Étienne Tempier of Paris banned 219 propositions of Aristotle’s from the University at Sorbonne, the leading school of learning at the time. For example, the Greek, thinking ‘it is impossible to make something out of nothing,’ reasoned that the universe must always have existed. The Old Testament however, reveals that the world had a beginning in time when God created it out of nothing. Here then, in 1277, the theology of the Church began to assert itself over the rational ideas of man.

Other metaphysical beliefs shared by all the major pagan cultures including the Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, as well as the Greeks, were then eliminated from the Sorbonne, myths like Animism (that all matter moves itself); Pantheism (that the world and God are the same thing); Astrology (that the movements of the stars influence happenings and people on the earth), and Cyclic History (that all events in history repeat themselves exactly in time).

Nearly three centuries later, on December 13, 1545, the Church convened the Council of Trent. This was done to counter the Protestant rebellion that could be dated from 1517.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:33:13 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Of importance to the historic 1616-1633 censure of earthmoving and sun-fixing by the Church as formal heresy, are the methods prescribed for the interpretation of Sacred Scripture decreed on April 8, 1546:

Furthermore, in order to curb imprudent clever persons, the synod decrees that no one who relies on his own judgement in matters of faith and morals, which pertain to the building up of Christian doctrine, and that no one who distorts the Sacred Scripture according to his own opinions, shall dare to interpret the said Sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which is held by Holy Mother Church, whose duty it is to judge regarding the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, or even contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers, even though interpretations of this kind were never intended to be brought to light. Let those who shall oppose this be reported by their ordinaries and be punished with the penalties prescribed by law. -- (Denz - 786)

Around the same time as the Protestant rebellion, Pythagoras’s heliocentrism began to resurface. For example, Cardinal Nicholaus of Cusa (1301-1464) in his philosophical writings proposed ‘the earth is a star like other stars, is not the centre of the universe, is not at rest, nor are its poles fixed. The celestial bodies are not strictly spherical, nor are their orbits circular. The difference between theory and appearance is explained by relative motion.’ (Catholic Encyclopaedia 1913).

A century later, in 1543, the long held heliocentrism of the Polish Catholic canon Nicolaus Copernicus was finally made public. Influenced somewhat by the rediscovered Hermetic books that advocated heliolatry, Copernicus had responded by giving the fixed sun-moving earth scheme a geometric and mathematical structure as presented in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. The heliocentrism inherent in Copernicus’s work however, over three hundred pages of drawings, geometry, calculations, longitudes, latitudes and endless data, was not considered a threat to the Catholic Church’s reading of Scripture because in its opening preface - To the Reader Concerning the Hypothesis of this Work - it states:

And if [this book] constructs and thinks up causes - and it has certainly thought up many – nevertheless it does not think them up in order to persuade anyone of their truth, but only in order that they may provide a correct basis for calculation. … Maybe the philosopher demands probability instead; but neither of them will grasp anything certain or hand it on, unless it has been divinely revealed to him.

It is clear from this preface – no matter who wrote it - that while its heliocentrism is called a ‘hypothesis,’ it was presented as a tool for calculation, and not as a truth or a potential truth awaiting science to prove it true. That said, the book did facilitate the idea that the immobile earth of the senses, the Lord’s footstool as the Bible calls it, just might not be the stable rest for God’s Holy Throne after all, nor the abode of hell and its demons, but could be instead, a planet in motion through space in homage, we could say, to the pagan god of wisdom, Sol-Om-On; a grouping of the Latin, Indian and Egyptian names for the sun.

A century later emerged Galileo Galilei. Few have achieved equal fame to this writer, philosopher, physicist and astronomer of Pisa, not those who Christianised nations, conquered peoples or discovered new lands. And for what is Galileo now remembered and celebrated? Why isn’t he the one, they tell us, who, using his telescope, showed the planets do move around the sun in the circles advocated by Copernicus and that this showed the earth must also orbit the sun while rotating daily? They add that Galileo’s Copernicanism did not meet with the approval of the Roman Catholic Church at the time because it threatened to expose the revered geocentrism of the Church as ill founded and false, a doctrine held as truly confirmed in the Scriptures by all the Fathers of the Church.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2014, 03:38:23 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: We could say the clash between Galileo and the Church began in 1613 when the Lincean Academy published his book Letters on Sunspots. In an appendix, for the first time, Galileo stated Copernicus’s heliocentrism was a reality. This contradicted the prevailing geocentrism held by natural philosophers and of course the Scriptures read literally. Unable to fault Galileo’s discoveries and interpretations using the scientific method, the Aristotelians tried to dismiss his heliocentrism on biblical grounds, generating discussion, argument, and anger between both sides. In time the problem came to the attention of Cardinal Bellarmine, Master of Controversial Questions and Consulter of the Holy Office. Bellarmine agreed in his 1615 Letter to Foscarini that if Galileo had proof for a fixed sun or moving earth, then of course the Scriptures would have to be interpreted accordingly. But, he said correctly, Galileo had no such proof, nor had anyone else, and indeed he doubted anyone would ever find proof, so no change in the Fathers interpretation, understanding or belief was warranted or permitted. Rejecting Bellarmine’s cautions, Galileo defended his heliocentric system in his 1613 Letter to Christina later expanded to his Letter to Christina in 1615. Obviously Galileo was afraid that the Bible would rob him of the scientific glory he felt was due to him as the one who discovered enough to claim a heliocentric order for the cosmos was true.

In late 1615, Galileo asked Cosimo permission to come to Rome to defend himself and his beliefs. The Grand Duke approved this and even provided lodgings for Galileo. Once in Rome, Galileo used his astronomical findings to demolish the Aristotelians’ Ptolemaic system; but not the geocentric cosmology of Tycho de Brahe (1546-1601). The theologians however, were unimpressed. Then, in 1616, Galileo produced his ‘theory of the tides,’ his ‘definitive proof for heliocentrism. That, he thought, should shake the theologians out of their dogmatic stance. He even managed to get Cardinal Orsini to approach Pope Paul V with his tidal ‘proof,’ hoping the Pope would concede to it. But the Pope had heard enough of Galileo’s crusade. He consulted with Cardinal Bellarmine, and with both agreeing that Galileo’s opinions were heretical, followed proper procedure and instructed the Holy Office to consider and confirm the status of heliocentrism in regard to Sacred Scripture and teaching of the Fathers.