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Sunday, 3 August 2008
Biblical Rapture and 2012 prophecy
Several Christian movements have adopted their own version of this end time and within this interpretation they have included a specific understanding of a phenomenon called the RAPTURE.
What is the rapture ?
Basically it is a moment in time when the true disciples of Christ, according to Rapture theory, are taken out of the material body and risen to the spiritual world at the side of their understood saviour. Those who are not spiritually ready, again according to rapture theory are left behind to face the events of the apocalypse.
The rapture theory is mostly formulated from bible scripture such as the following from Matthew 24: 40 - 41
Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
and Acts 1: 9-11
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
Rapture Theorists use several other biblical passages to convince themselves and others that they have interpreted the word of God according to the Bible properly. Such passages might include :
Matthew 24: 30-36- John 14: 1-3
- 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52
- 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17
- Phillipians 3: 20-21
- and others
Where does the Rapture Theory come from?
In the 19th Century an Irish Christian evangelist named John Nelson Darby taught the message of the rapture to a group a believers in the United States. The message continued to gain prominence among evangelicals under the guidance of William Eugene Blackstone who used the printing press as a propaganda tool through a highly popular book called "Jesus is Coming".
On a side note it is interesting to mention that as this is happening in the early to mid 1800's the Mormon Church of the Latter Day Saints is newly founded by Joseph Smith in the same generation. The Mormon however do not believe in the Rapture as the Evangelicals do.
We move passed the 1950's and there are new Evangelicals such has Hal Lindsey and Russell Doughten who are teaching those who want to believe them about this concept of magical ascension into a metaphysical realm. ( On a side note...and making a fortune in the process). These people and the rapture theory is supported by song writers and actors who agree to again use the media as a propaganda tool to extend their message.
Further into the new millenium the Rapture believers are still at it. Hal Lindsey is still at it and now we here a new name playing the same old fiddle. Here we have the good ole TV ministers Jack Van Impe and his beautiful wife Rexella who are convinced that they are schedualed for a trip into the ethereal realm of the spiritual just before the great tribulation is about to unfold. ( Now i feel a little cheated by this act of grandeur...how dare you take all the money and run when the kettle is about to boil over....). The Van Impe's are right into this 2012 prophecy stuff. Good old Jack can't put a date on it since that would go against the teachings of St. Matthew where no one knows the hour, yet you need only to watch is program once to see him grinning at the very possibility that those dang gone pagan mayans might have been onto something.
In fact they have mastered what they believe to be another great video in their endless series of videos that should keep them in the money until they disappear from the scene, a scene they describe as an horrific time that the rest of us will need to deal with from our earthly material body. I haven't personally seen the 2012 Van Impe video but i imagine it takes every Mayan concept of spiritual ascension or end time concept and turns it into a Christian issue. (Isn't that just a continuation of the original Mayan idea burning that the Spaniards started in the 16th century ? ).
Other names associated with current rapture theory spiritual ascension include Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins (not to be mistaken for John Major Jenkins, the galactic alignment theorist) who brought us the film and book "Left Behind". I did see that film and it was as stupid to me as the recent 2012 Doomsday film that i recently viewed. 2012 Doomsday also pretty much raped the crap out of the reality of the Mayan legends of 2012 and turned it into a Christian festival that includes the rapture.
However this rapture concept is not a phenom that is agreed about by all branches of Christianity. The Catholic Church for instance deny the rapture. As mentioned before the Church of the Latter Saints or Mormons don't support the rapture concept. Even some evangelicals question the merits of the Rapture Theory.
To remain a generalist i am telling you that it might be true and the again it might not be true. What i can say is that i wish i was making a fraction of the money that some of these evangelicals make on selling religion while they wait to get scooped away before the @#%# hits the fan.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Who is Carl Johan Calleman ?
His early readings of Michael Coe's work ( author of The Maya, Breaking the Maya Code, From the Olmecs to the Aztecs ) pointing to 2011 as the end date of this Mayan time keeping system added fuel to his passion.
Calleman found work in the USA and for some years worked in the field of toxicology. While in the USA he continued to study the Mayan calendars and found correlations to it and harmonic convergences which was another interest of his.
Calleman returned to live in Sweden in 1993 and remains there today.
Meanwhile he has written some books and lectured on the subjects of Maya and of consciousness enlightenment according to the harmonic frequencies that he believes influence humanity and the process of evolution.
Calleman is of the school that believes the end date of the Mayan Calendrical system coincides with baktun 13 and not with baktun 4 which certain archeogists have pinpointed (adamantly) to December 21, 2012. This puts him at odds with scholars of the Mayan Calendar such as John Major Jenkins ( cosmic alignment apocalypse theorist) , Terrence McKenna (deceased TimeWave Zero I Ching theorist), and others but he finds support with names like Don Alejandro Oxlaj (13th generation Quiche high priest spiritual ascension and cosmic festival theorist) and others.
Calleman is a believer in the spiritual forces that drive men and refers to them sometimes as Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. The one energy is a negative force that drives humanity to the brink of extinction through a spiral of destructive leadership while the other is a positive energy which forces the balance of existence back and forth through the ages. That cosmic energy is the Yin and Yang that humanity and all cosmic energy goes through while evolving through ages that present themselves in ever increasing velocity and increasing harmonic frequencies.
Calleman is also less likely to use the Mayan Calendars as an apocalyptic end time measurement as his version is more of a spiritual ascension theory where man learns to live somewhat according to the Gaia theory of James Lovelock.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Saturday, 2 August 2008
An Introduction to 2012 prophecy according to Cordell Svengalis
Is the world going to end in 2012?
Are we facing catastrophe in 2012?
Cordell Svengalis attempts to answer these questions by turning to the Mayan calendar, especially the Long Count which is a combination of a number of time keeping methods developed in past meso american ages. From the Long Count Svengalis explains that the Mayan were able to decipher the patterns of the cosmos and predict how the creation of the world and the universe is, as, and will continue to develop through a series of ages which are termed as Underworlds.
There are Nine of these Underworlds as described by these Mayan Calendar interpreters.
The Nine Underworlds of the Mayan
- The Cellular Underworld
- The Mamallian Underworld
- The Familial Underworld
- The Tribal Underworld
- The Regional Underworld
- The National Underworld
- The Planetary Underworld
- The Galactic Underworld
- The Universal Underworld
According to Cordell Svengalis we are in the middle of the eight underworld at this time but our psyche is a composition of all levels of advancing consciousness that is a process of these ages.
This proposition of Nine underworlds is not a concept solely professed by Cordell Svengalis, several mayan scholars have delved into this concept of time and the material and spiritual worlds including Barbara Hand Clow.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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A Guide to 2012 and the Mayan Calendar
Today he earns his living as a teacher of several subjects and consultant in internet and computer related subjects.
He is a self professed speculator of the future of existance and he uses trend studies to
Svengalis states that the Mayan history is vague other than for recent discoveries of pyramids and monuments but they seem to have known a great deal about mathematics but how they learned this knowledge is a mystery.
The Mayan Glyphs also indicate some highly advanced spiritual trends according to Svengalis.
Again according to Svengalis the Mayan calendars are predicting major catastrophies such as floods and earthquakes but they do not prophesy the end of the world in any way. Awareness of what the Mayan were prophesying is a cautionary way to prepare ourselves and others against the elements of nature and the power of man to corrupt the minds of other fellow humans with false results through religious or other end time scenarios.
So Cordell Svengalis used his understanding of the Mayan calendrical system to attempt to teach those interested in the subject. His approach includes a system of underworlds or ages that humanity and existence has gone through since the creation of time began.
The Mayan calender prophecies, unlike the Biblical Book of Revelation, or the Edgar Cayce prophecies, are not specific in what is to come of the world. It is a guide that predicts what the future will be like and it is based on a broad awareness of human consciousness and from that state of advancing consciousness the ability of man to move with the trending waves that make up the future results.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Friday, 1 August 2008
2012 Doomsday - yet another religious attempt to steal the moment
The entire film is about evangelical christianity and the supposed rapture and the coming of Christ. It wasn't enough for these Christians to rip off the entire beauty behind the mesoamerican calendrical legends that surround 2012 when Hernandez Cortes and the Spaniards presented themselves has the ultimate lord Quetzalcoatl in the 1500's and continued on at that time to corrupt and destroy a civilization.
Now there is a new breed of Evangelical's in town taking hold of the great possibilities that can be part of the 2012 legacy and turning it into a Christian religious festival.
There are several moments where i got really turned off during this film. The first was when the preacher with his cross his explaining to another person about the Mayan Long Count....DOH!!!! The film is about the last 24 hours or so leading up to December 21, 2012 therefore i would imagine that his buddy would have to have been living under a rock not to have heard of the Long Count. Then they have to bring in the birth of a Christ-like child in the Chechen pyramid of all places. Of course there isn't a Mayan priest or should i say pagan priest or priestess involved in the whole process.
The whole show is a cheap sales pitch for the evangelical Christian fallacy of faith which in their mind includes a rapture moment where they get saved and the rest of us go to hell.
This movie called 2012 Doomsday is the biggest insult to the Winter Solstice event of 2012. There may be a spiritual ascension which involves the consciousness somehow and this may come about on December 21, 2012 but i highly doubt that it will come about as the wantabee movie depicts it. This is more likely a first step shift of consciousness which will involve generations of humans in what has been referred to as the age of Aquarius.
Then again this is only a review of what i found to be a sick piece of work by some very desperate soul thieves. If you like the Evangelical rapture believers then by all means keep filling their pockets with your tithes.
We can all use another laugh and we will get it once 2012 passes and you find some other event to sound your trumpet.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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KRANIUM – Rakt in i döden 7”
KRANIUM – Rakt in i döden 7”
(Dis before ishonour)
Kranium från Luleå har hållit på ett bra tag men detta är det första jag hör med bandet. Sålde ett ex av Doomsday #1 till trummisen Nils på Kamikazepunken i Mariestad -96 eller när det nu var, kul med folk som hänger i. På Rakt in i döden finner jag ganska ordinär svensk 80-tals råpunk, det låter som detta är inspelat live, vilket det säkert också är. Ljudet är inte det bästa, lite torrt och så men det funkar, låter ju trots allt 80-tal. Bästa låten är helt klart titelspåret Rakt In I Döden. Annars låter det väl så där, inget som jag går i gång på svinmycket på det låter väl okej. Diggar du ohipp och obrydd råpunk ska du spana in det här, innehåller inga medlemmar från överskattade (umeå)band (mig veterligen). Dom verkar inte ha så bra kommunikation i bandet för jag fick 2 ex av den här skivan, av olika medlemmar, kanske är dags för en liten tävling snart så att ett av exen inte bara ligger och skräpar.
1 Augusti 2008
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