‘Why Israel Matters’

A new documentary praising Israel has been made by Evangelicals (Christians in Defense of Israel, to be precise): Why Israel Matters.  Here is what one of the main people behind the series, Mat Staver, had to say regarding this project:

There are three critical reasons Israel matters to every one of us. Two of them are temporal. The third and most important is spiritual. And it is time for our voices to be heard.

•First, Israel matters because it is the only stable democratic nation in the Middle East. This is more important than ever as we watch regimes totter and fall across the region. And Israel has long been a faithful friend and ally of the United States.

•Second, Israel matters because of the enormous economic and scientific contributions it makes. Though Israel is a tiny nation with just a few million people, it is a world leader in developing new technology. Some of the most important advances we now take for granted — the flash drive, the pill camera, and robotic technology — were birthed in Israel.

•But the most important reason Israel matters is because it matters to God! The promises of God to the Jewish people have never been revoked. Israel is at the very center of God’s plans for our world today … and tomorrow.

Source:  http://libertycounsel.com/why-israel-matters-cidi/, opened 30 March 2017

Let us look briefly at this list.

First, the praise of democracy.  This is based on a faulty metaphysical notion that the free, autonomous individual actually exists, and that he is the foundation of good civil society.  But he is neither.  The extended family would make for a better floor on which to build.  Thus, a government made up of the heads of the various clans/extended families of the country would be a better model than a democracy of atomized individuals with no allegiance to anything other than their own narrow self-interest (ironically, this is also close to the model Israel followed in the Old Testament, but secular, Enlightenment Modernity is her rule nowadays). 

These patriarchs would have a natural tendency to work for the good of their families as opposed to the representatives of invented, make-believe districts whose duty to uphold abstract ‘constitutional values’ withers quickly before the heat applied by corporate lobbyists, deep state operatives, and such.

So, hierarchy, not democracy, is to be preferred.  This is something the South understood in her better days, and hopefully will once again.

Second, technology.  Here are some of the benefits of the ‘robotic technology’ Israel has given the world:

When one or more robots was introduced into the workforce between 1990 and 2007, it led to the elimination of an average of six jobs.

During those years, robots accounted for the loss of about 670,000 manufacturing jobs, and this is expected to rise in the coming years as robots continue to take over tasks previously performed by people.

The report, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimated that one more robot per thousand workers reduces wages by 0.25-0.5 per cent.

Between 1993 and 2007, the authors of the report wrote that ‘the stock of robots in the United States and Western Europe increased fourfold’.

It explains that industrial robots are ‘fully autonomous machines that do not need a human operator and that can be programmed to perform several manual tasks such as welding, painting, assembling, handling materials or packaging’.

 . . .

Source:  https://www.prisonplanet.com/six-jobs-are-eliminated-for-every-robot-introduced-into-the-workforce-new-report-reveals.html, opened 30 March 2017

Third, God’s supposed continuing covenant with Old Israel.  This is the Dispensationalist heresy.  Listen to what St John Chrysostom (+407), one of the Orthodox Church’s greatest teachers, had to say about the Jews.  His words will seem harsh to some, but they are necessary to help the misguided get back onto the right path:

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(4) And so I wanted again today to engage in that contest. For if the enemies of the truth never have enough of blaspheming our Benefactor, we must be all the more tireless in praising the God of all. But what am I to do? Another very serious illness calls for any cure my words can bring, an illness which has become implanted in the body of the Church. We must first root this ailment out and then take thought for matters outside; we must first cure our own and then be concerned for others who are strangers.

(5) What is this disease? The festivals of the pitiful and miserable Jews are soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts. There are many in our ranks who say they think as we do. Yet some of these are going to watch the festivals and others will join the Jews in keeping their feasts and observing their fasts. I wish to drive this perverse custom from the Church right now. My homilies against the Anomians can be put off to another time, and the postponement would cause no harm. But now that the Jewish festivals are close by and at the very door, if I should fail to cure those who are sick with the Judaizing disease. I am afraid that, because of their ill-suited association and deep ignorance, some Christians may partake in the Jews' transgressions; once they have done so, I fear my homilies on these transgressions will be in vain. For if they hear no word from me today, they will then join the Jews in their fasts; once they have committed this sin it will be useless for me to apply the remedy.

 . . .

Many, I know, respect the Jews and think that their present way of life is a venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly opinion. I said that the synagogue is no better than a theater and I bring forward a prophet as my witness. Surely the Jews are not more deserving of belief than their prophets. "You had a harlot's brow; you became shameless before all". Where a harlot has set herself up, that place is a brothel. But the synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it also is a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. Jeremiah said: "Your house has become for me the den of a hyena". He does not simply say "of wild beast", but "of a filthy wild beast", and again: "I have abandoned my house, I have cast off my inheritance". But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons.

(2) But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said: "If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know me nor do you know my Father". Could I produce a witness more trustworthy than the Son of God?

(3) If, then, the Jews fail to know the Father, if they crucified the Son, if they thrust off the help of the Spirit, who should not make bold to declare plainly that the synagogue is a dwelling of demons? God is not worshipped there. Heaven forbid! From now on it remains a place of idolatry. But still some people pay it honor as a holy place.

 . . .

I could have said more than this, but to keep you from forgetting what I have said, I shall bring my homily to an end here with the words of Moses: "I call heaven and earth to witness against you". If any of you, whether you are here present or not, shall go to the spectacle of the Trumpets, or rush off to the synagogue, or go up to the shrine of Matrona, or take part in fasting, or share in the Sabbath, or observe any other Jewish ritual great or small, I call heaven and earth as my witnesses that I am guiltless of the blood of all of you.

(2) These words will stand by your side and mine on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you heed them, they will bring you great confidence; if you heed them not or conceal anyone who dares to do those things, my words shall stand against you as bitter accusations. "For I have not shrunk from declaring to you the whole counsel of God".

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(4) Do not think, then, that you are doing your brothers a favor if you should see them pursuing some absurdity and should fail to accuse them with all zeal. If you lose a cloak, do you not consider as your foe not only the one who stole it but also the man who knew of the theft and refused to denounce the thief? Our common Mother (the Church) has lost not a cloak but a brother. The devil stole him and now holds him in Judaism. You know who stole him; you know him who was stolen. Do you see me lighting, as it were, the lamp of my instruction and searching everywhere in my grief? And do you stand silent, refusing to denounce him? What excuse will you have? Will the Church not reckon you among her worst enemies? Will she not consider you a foe and destroyer?

 . . .

Source:  Against the Jews, Homily 1, http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_adversus_judaeos_01_homily1.htm, opened 25 Feb. 2017

But Evangelicals are going straight in the opposite direction expressed by St John:  They are mixing with all kinds of Jewish customs, and their hero, Donald Trump, and those close to him are falling right in line:

(JTA) -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was gifted a traditional Jewish prayer shawl by a pastor during a visit to a black church in Detroit.

Bishop Wayne Jackson of the Great Faith Ministries in Detroit draped the tallit around Trump’s shoulders after the candidate finished addressing the congregation.

“Let me just put this on you,” Jackson said as the congregation burst into applause.

 . . .

Source:  forward.com, via Julia Duin, https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/9/8/donald-trump-and-the-telltale-tallit-jewish-media-shed-lots-of-heat-but-little-light?rq=donald%20trump%20prayer%20shawl, opened 31 March 2017

The Yom Kippur appeal was not White’s [Prosperity Gospel preacher Paula White, Pres Trump’s main ‘spiritual advisor’--W.G.] first foray into mixing Jewish symbols with evangelical Christianity. In a 2012 episode of her nationally syndicated TV talk show, “Paula White Today,” preserved on YouTube, White allowed herself to be wrapped in a Torah scroll by a Messianic “rabbi” named Ralph Messer, a “coronation” ceremony that she explained embodied being “wrapped in the Word of God.”

Source:  forward.com, via Julia Duin, https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/10/27/does-megachurch-pastor-paula-white-deserve-to-be-trashed-yes-says-the-forward, opened 31 March 2017

There is a realpolitik dimension to all this as well:

 . . .

The release of the email followed a March visit to the United States by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He addressed a joint session of Congress on the supposed nuclear threat posed by Iran. Netanyahu was invited to speak by Republicans who did not consult with the White House.

“Let me be frank. The speech by Netanyahu was the speech of a demagogue. And from the outset he spoke of Persians attacking Jews millennia ago. This is a sort of a religious fanaticism that is a parallel with the religious fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalists who engage in terrorism. In fact Israel has bombed many neighbors in the Middle East,” Norman Solomon, the Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, told RT on March 4.

Not only has Israel bombed its neighbors, it has also used its nuclear arsenal to blackmail the United States.

In 1991 the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh published The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal an American Foreign Policy. The book reveals how a nuclear warhead was developed in an underground facility in the Negev Desert in the 1960s with technology acquired from France. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel blackmailed Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. It threatened to use a nuclear weapon against Egypt and Syria during the war if the United States did not ship ammunition and spare parts.

“It was nuclear blackmail, but it worked,” writes Daniel Goldstein. “President Richard Nixon was enraged by the Israeli atomic ultimatum, and at Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s strategy, described by then–U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger as allowing Israel to come out ahead but making sure it bled. ‘By the evening of October 9th,’ Kissinger wrote in his memoir, ‘Israel had been assured [by the U.S.] that its war losses would be made up. Relying on this assurance, it stepped up its consumption of war materiel,’ as dozens of U.S. C-5 and C-141 cargo planes began roaring into Tel Aviv’s airport with replacement tanks, missiles and spares.”

Israel has routinely betrayed the United States. The Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the FBI and the National Counterintelligence Directorate held classified briefings that revealed “Israel spies on the United States more than any other ally does and these activities have reached an alarming level…The main targets are US industrial and technical secrets.”

In 1967 Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters with aircraft and torpedo boats, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171. “Instead of determining whether the attack was deliberate, the Navy blocked all testimony about Israeli actions,” writes James M. Ennes Jr. Congress has all but ignored demands the attack be investigated and the Israelis punished.

 . . .

Source:  Kurt Nimmo, http://anotherdayintheempire.com/state-department-establishment-media-silent-israels-200-nukes/, opened 31 March 2017

Christopher Pisarenko wrote a good passage that shows just how deeply the mania over Israel has rooted itself in the Evangelical heart:

If we consider the evangelicals, support for Israel is the central tenet of their religion – it is not Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit, and it is certainly not any of the teachings of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Support for Israel is the most fundamental idea behind evangelical Christianity or what could also be called Christian Zionism. And evangelicals will continue their support for Israel no matter what heinous atrocities that that illegal terrorist state continues to perpetrate against the indigenous non-Jewish peoples of the region. Evangelicals and Christian Zionists in general simply do not care. They evaluate the righteousness or unrighteousness of someone by the degree to which that person supports Israel.  . . .

Source:  http://katehon.com/article/roots-american-christian-zionism-part-2, opened 31 March 2017

May they wake up soon.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

A Warning to Southern Nationalists from Constantine Leontiev

(Thanks to Mr C. for pulling together these quotes by Leontiev.)

«... A state grouping according to tribes and nations [11] is.. nothing other than the preparation - striking in its force and vividness - for the transition to a cosmopolitan state, first a pan-European one, and then, perhaps, a global one, too! This is terrible! But still more terrible, in my opinion, is that fact that so far in Russia nobody has seen this or wants to understand it...»[12] «A grouping of states according to pure nationalities will lead European man very quickly to the dominion of internationalism.» [13]

Leontiev based his apparently paradoxical thought on the fact that the very striving of the nations for «liberation» within the bounds of national states was dictated by their striving to be like everyone else: «... having become politically liberated, they are very glad, whether in everyday life or in ideas, to be like everyone else». He produced an example: for a man who has been released from prison, it is not a matter of indifference at what time they released him. If there is an epidemic raging at that time, it would be safer for him to remain in prison. And so, too, «the political nationalism of our time does not give national isolation, because the overwhelming influence of cosmopolitan tastes is too strong. The epidemic has not yet come to an end.» [14]

http://vertograd-eng.blogspot.ro/1998_11_01_archive.html

Although they appear to be opposites, there is in fact a close kinship between ecumenism and nationalism. This kinship was elucidated by the Russian diplomat and publicist Constantine Leontiev, who, though an ardent philhellene, was strongly critical of the nationalism of the Greek revolution. He also thought that the Serbian and Bulgarian nationalisms that motivated the other Balkan revolutions were very similar in their aims and psychology to the Greek – that is, sadly lacking in that "universalist nationalism" that he called Byzantinism. These petty nationalisms, argued Leontiev, were closely related to liberalism. They were all rooted in the French revolution: just as liberalism insisted on the essential equality of all men and their "human rights", so these nationalisms insisted on the essential equality of all nations and their "national rights". But this common striving for "national rights" made the nations very similar in their essential egoism.^[2] It replaced individuality with individualism, hierarchy with egalitarianism, right faith with indifferentism (ecumenism)^[3].

     Leontiev believed, as Andrzej Walicki writes, that "nations were a creative force only when they represented a specific culture: 'naked' or purely 'tribal' nationalism was a corrosive force destroying both culture and the state, a leveling process that was, in the last resort, cosmopolitan; in fact, nationalism was only a mask for liberal and egalitarian tendencies, a specific metamorphosis of the universal process of disintegration".^[4] According to Leontiev, the nations' striving to be independent was based precisely on their desire to be like every other nation: "Having become politically liberated, they are very glad, whether in everyday life or in ideas, to be like everyone else". Therefore nationalism, freed from the universalist idea of Christianity, leads in the end to a soulless, secular cosmopolitanism. "In the whole of Europe the purely national, that is, ethnic principle, once released from its religious fetters, will at its triumph give fruits that are by no means national, but, on the contrary, in the highest degree cosmopolitan, or, more precisely, revolutionary."^[5] The revolution consisted in the fact that state nationalism would lead to the internationalist abolition or merging of states. "A grouping of states according to pure nationalities will lead European man very quickly to the dominion of internationalism"^[6] - a European Union or even a Global United Nations. "A state grouping according to tribes and nations is… nothing other than the preparation - striking in its force and vividness - for the transition to a cosmopolitan state, first a pan-European one, and then, perhaps, a global one, too!..."^[7]

^{http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/481/ecumenism-nationalism/}

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

Welcoming Lengtentima (Lententime/Spring) - 2017

‘First Leaves’

By Fyodor Tyutchev

The youthful leaf is greening,

See how the birches swaying

With youthful leaves stand tall,

Their gossamer green translucent,

Pellucid, transparent, like smoke.

Long were they dreaming of spring,

Of spring and golden summer,

And now these vivid dreams

Burst sudden into light

Beneath the first blue sky.

O beauty of first leaves,

Bathed in the rays of the sun,

With their shadows newly born!

Their movements let us know

That in this myriad darkness

Not one dead leaf exists.

Source:  Poems & Political Letters of F. I. Tyutchev, trans. Zeldin, U. of Tenn. Press, 1973, p. 82

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

‘Holy Chad, the Herald of Spring’

Holy Chad, well you learned

The Apostles’ ways

From Aidan Saint.

A life of quiet you sought,

But spread the Gospel tidings

At Theodore’s behest.

Your bare feet hallowed

Middle England as you walked

From town to town to teach.

Lightning and thunder,

Wind and rain to you were

Words of God to heed.

Angelic hosts your final days

On earth announced.  And with St Cedd

They welcomed you to Heaven.

Blessed Bishop, wealth of virtues,

Your relics heal the sick.

Help us who cry now to you with faith:

Holy Chad of Lichfield,

Deliver from the Foe all Dixie-folk,

O man dear to God, by your prayers!

St Chad, who went to his rest in the Lord on 2 March 672 A.D.  Ikon from http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/101836.htm, 21 March 2017.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

The Legend of Zelda: You Are Being Initiated

(In light of the arrival of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Nintendo’s new Switch console, here are some initial thoughts on the series as a whole.)

Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series is defined by the idea of the labyrinth.  Both the overworld and the various temples, dungeons, etc. serve as labyrinths.  But a labyrinth has a specific purpose:  to initiate those who are worthy into the inner mysteries or beliefs or ways of a group of people, usually a religious group.

‘Which way to go?’  From https://www.zeldadungeon.net/the-legend-of-zelda-walkthrough/level-1-the-eagle/, 17 March 2017

On its surface, Legend of Zelda is an adventure game wherein the player saves a princess and her kingdom from an evil usurper and his minions.  Beneath this outer layer, it seems more than likely that this series of games (particularly those in the main canon of the games where Zelda, Ganon, Link, and the Triforce are involved) is Gnostic theology dressed up in fictional form.

Let us run through some of the basics of the heresy of Gnosticism first and then see how they are presented in LoZ. 

In many Gnostic systems (and heresiologies), God is known as the Monad, the One.^{[note 13]} God is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of God are called æons. According to Hippolytus, this view was inspired by the Pythagoreans, who called the first thing that came into existence the Monad, which begat the dyad, which begat the numbers, which begat the point, begetting lines, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#Concepts, 13 March 2017

Almost all Gnostic systems of the Syrian or Egyptian type taught that the universe began with an original, unknowable God, referred to as the Parent or Bythos, or as the Monad by Monoimus. From this initial unitary beginning, the One spontaneously emanated further Aeons, being pairs of progressively 'lesser' beings in sequence. Together with the source from which they emanate they form the Pleroma, or fullness, of God, and thus should not be seen as distinct from the divine, but symbolic abstractions of the divine nature. The transition from the immaterial to the material, from the noumenal to the sensible, is brought about by a flaw, or a passion, or a sin, in one of the Aeons.

In most versions of the Gnostic mythos, it is Sophia who brings about this instability in the Pleroma, in turn bringing about the creation of materiality. According to some Gnostic texts, the crisis occurs as a result of Sophia trying to emanate without her syzygy or, in another tradition, because she tries to breach the barrier between herself and the unknowable Bythos. After cataclysmically falling from the Pleroma, Sophia's fear and anguish of losing her life (just as she lost the light of the One) causes confusion and longing to return to it. Because of these longings, matter (Greek: hylē, ὕλη) and soul (Greek: psychē, ψυχή) accidentally come into existence. The creation of the Demiurge (also known as Yaldabaoth, "Son of Chaos") is also a mistake made during this exile. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless manages to infuse some spiritual spark or pneuma into his creation.

In the Pistis Sophia, Christ is sent from the Godhead in order to bring Sophia back into the fullness (Pleroma). Christ enables her to again see the light, bringing her knowledge of the spirit (Greek: pneuma, πνευμα). Christ is then sent to earth in the form of the man Jesus to give men the Gnosis needed to rescue themselves from the physical world and return to the spiritual world. In Gnosticism, the Gospel story of Jesus is itself allegorical: it is the Outer Mystery, used as an introduction to Gnosis, rather than being literally true in a historical context. For the Gnostics, the drama of the redemption of the Sophia through Christ or the Logos is the central drama of the universe. The Sophia resides in all of us as the Divine Spark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(Gnosticism)#Gnostic_mythos, 13 March 2017

From the initial unitary beginning, the One spontaneously emanated further Aeons, pairs of progressively "lesser" beings in sequence. The lowest of these pairs were Sophia and Christ. The Aeons together make up the Pleroma, or fullness of divinity and thus should not be seen as identical with God nor as distinct from the divine, but as embodied divine emanations.^{[citation needed]}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#Emanation, 13 March 2017

The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves. They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully. The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.

One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.

http://gnosis.org/gnintro.htm, 13 March 2017

Gnosticism commonly held that "salvation is to escape from the bondage of the material existence and travel back to the home from which souls/spirits have fallen." God initiates salvation because he wants to draw back the stray bits and pieces of himself, and so he sends forth an emanation of himself - "a spiritual redeemer" - who comes down from heaven and gives an attempt to teach some of the "divine sparks of Spirit" what their true identity is and where their real home lies. Once they are awakened by this redeemer they can then begin their journey back home. "Salvation is by knowledge - self-knowledge."

https://www.theopedia.com/gnosticism, 13 March 2017

Condensing this down further, we see these main ideas:

-A single god who dwells in a region of light.

-A pair of emanated beings from this god, Sophia and her consort.  Sophia is the inner life of the cosmos.

-From Sophia comes the Demiurge, who, thinking he his god, with the help of the divine essence, tries to fashion worlds, people, etc. from the material made by Sophia according to his own plans.

-Pieces of the one divine god have become trapped in material bodies and must be freed from them to be reunited with the monad.

-The other person in the aeonial pair who existed with Sophia in the pleroma of the monad comes, undoes the work of the Demiurge, and reunites Sophia and the other scattered divine sparks with the monad, thus bringing salvation to the world.

In the LoZ, these are presented in the following way.

-The Triforce, the essence of the goddesses who created the world, is left behind in the Golden Land, a land of light, to be the ruling power in the world.  It is the monad.

The Triforce-monad, from http://www.kasuto.net/zelda3.php?main=zelda3/z3graphical_manual.html, 15 March 2017

-Princess Zelda, the ruler of Hyrule, like Sophia, is a symbol of the world-soul, the one who gives life to the world.

-Ganon is the Demiurge, who, with the essence of the goddesses in the Triforce, attempts to remake and rule the world.

-Part of the Triforce is shattered, its pieces being scattered throughout the world (the Gnostic ‘sparks of divinity’), in the hopes of being found and reunited by a worthy hero.

-Link, Zelda/Sophia’s syzygy or consort, appears, reunites the Triforce shards, overthrows Ganon, and returns Zelda and her kingdom to their rightful order.

Sophia, savior, and demiurge, from http://www.kasuto.net/zelda64.php?main=zelda64/oot_graphical_manual.html, 15 March 2017

The kinship between the Gnostic system and LoZ is further strengthened by Link’s ‘descending’ oftentimes into dungeons, etc. in his efforts to reunite the Triforce pieces, just as the Gnostic savior must ‘descend’ into the material world from the spiritual pleroma to free the trapped divine sparks.

Laying hands on a divine spark of the monad, from https://www.zeldadungeon.net/the-legend-of-zelda-walkthrough/level-1-the-eagle/, 17 March 2017

As we said at the outset, the labyrinth theme dominates throughout The Legend of Zelda.  And now we can say with some confidence what its deeper meaning is:  You are being initiated into Gnosticism.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

A Warning to Southern Nationalists from Alexander Dugin

Nationalism must be tempered by the overarching unity and authority of the Orthodox Christian Empire centered in Moscow, the Third Rome, under the reign of the re-established Tsar or else all the recent gains against globalism will come to nothing.

Fundamental failure of globalist version of liberalism is now evident. Brexit, Trump's victory and then elsewhere. But in its place comes the simplest solution: a return to national State (Etat-Nation) and to various forms of nationalism. That means we return - mutatis mutant - to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Realism in MO (+ mercantilism and protectionism in economy) is almost guaranteed and it will become soon the ideology of the political Centre (with some delay needed to cleanse the last Liberals). Welcome into a new era of nationalism.  . . . the essence of nationalism, not the name, will come back and will be established everywhere, as simplistic alternative to the liberal hegemony, that is falling apart before our very eyes.

But did we want that issue? If someone wanted this, then that where'n't certainly us.

First, nationalism - is a product of the Modernity. Exactly as the rest of political theory of Modernity - liberalism and communism. It is based on the denial of the spirit of Middle Ages and on the refuse of the traditions of the Empire and of Christ. It is bourgeois at its roots and in its essence. It may be a little better than liberalism and communism (that explicitly destroy identity of the people and religion), but nationalism is infected with the same poison - secularism, rationalism, atheism. It is other version of Westoxication (Occidentosis) --Gharbzadegi of person Heideggerian philosopher Ahmad Fardid called it.

Secondly, nationalism will revive inevitably dormant conflicts between nations, peoples and religions, aggravate them and lead to war. Maybe globalists just want that and prepare that secretly (as their plan B). They hope to outlast another civil war in Europe, and then they will come back with renewed vigor with its "pacifist" demagoguery. And having shed the ocean of blood, the peoples will take them up again. And from there it is a short step to the World Government. Such plan can easily be born in the brain of ​​the Antichrist.

Therefore, the collapse of the Liberals, we have to use it for own purposes and we should not fall into the trap of nationalism. Listen to the communist garbage is of no use at all. Hence, it is necessary to focus on the Fourth Political Theory.

It is based on the existential understanding of the people (as a whole - people as Dasein), but it ascend to the Logos, to the intellectual elite of the Fourth Way. And this elite of the Fourth Way can not be a nationalist - it should be imperial, great-continental, traditionalist, metaphysical and sacred. And it needs to understand Daseins of all peoples, and to take into account its fine core, to understand their Logos, to listen to the quiet voice hidden in the depths of people's Being. 

 . . .

We need to return to the Being, to the Logos, to the foundamental- ontology (of Heidegger), to the Sacred, to the New Middle Ages - and thus to the Empire, religion, and the institutions of traditional society (hierarchy, cult, domination of spirit over matter and so on). All content of Modernity - is Satanism and degeneration. Nothing is worth, everything is to be cleansed off. The Modernity is absolutely wrong -- science, values, philosophy, art, society, modes, patterns, "truths", understanding of Being, time and space. All is dead with Modernity. So it should end. We are going to end it.

Let us listen the words of Apollo to the defeated serpent Python (Πύθων,) - "you are to rot!" (πύθω!) The same can be said to Hillary Clinton and to European bureaucracy. Stay to rot there! Our battle is not with you - the main scene of titanomachy is moved to another front.

4PT versus 3PT.

Source:  Alexander Dugin, http://4pt.su/en/content/traps-and-dead-ends-new-nationalism, opened 22 Dec. 2016

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (NES) - Rebirth of the World in the Devil’s Image, Part 2nd

Continuing from last time:

There is also perhaps an interesting predictive programming moment, as most of the important action takes place in some ancient ruins in the Amazon River region, satellite photos of which (starting in 1999) have revealed that an ancient civilization of some sort really did exist there, although these games were made from about 1988-91:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100104-amazon-lost-civilization-circles/

One of the main enemies from Part II also deserves attention, Ashtar.  The name is a variant of Astarte, the same fertility goddess whom the Old Testament Jewish people were punished for worshipping, whose worship included human sacrifice (which makes an appearance in these games).  His appearance is even like hers (the horns):

Image from http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ninjagaiden/ninjagaiden3.htm, 6 March 2017

More significantly, perhaps, is the connection with the supposed ‘alien being’ of the same name:

In 1952 Van Tassel himself claimed to receive messages via telepathic communication from an extraterrestrial and interdimensional being named "Ashtar".^[1][2][3][5] This source became the "first metaphysical superstar of the flying saucer age".^[3] Van Tassel also interpreted the Christian Bible in terms of extraterrestrial intervention in the evolution of the human race, and claimed that Jesus was a being from space. The Ministry of Universal Wisdom taught that all humans have the power to tap into the "Universal Mind of God", which facilitates evolutionary progress such as that exemplified by Jesus and Ashtar. Van Tassel also claimed that by accessing the Universal Mind he could receive messages not only from Ashtar but from humans who had died, such as Nikola Tesla. From Tesla he claimed to receive instructions to build the "Integratron" machine, which could extend lifespan and access knowledge from the past and future.^[11][12] 

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtar_(extraterrestrial_being), opened 6 March 2017

Part III includes some of these threads.  Foster, the CIA agent from Part I who wants the light and dark statues for himself, reappears and has been conducting research and is now creating super humans called ‘bio-noids’ using the energy from between dimensions that opened after Ryu defeated the demon in Part II.

Man:  I'm Clancy.  I've been working on the 'Biohazard' plan with Foster.  I

can't work with him anymore.  He has secretly created a monster called a

BIO-NOID!

Ryu:  What's a BIO-NOID?

Clancy:  There's an open seam between dimensions that was created when the

Demon died.  An unlimited supply of LIFE ENERGY is flowing from the seam inside

the ruins of the fortress.  Foster has rebuilt the fortress and was doing

transformation experiments with life energy.  Bio-noids are super humans that

have been transformed with life energy.

Source:  http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/587490-ninja-gaiden-iii-the-ancient-ship-of-doom/faqs/25508?print=1, opened 9 Feb. 2017

This re-creation of fallen man into a ‘superman’ without God’s Grace, transhumanism, has been the dream of the satanic Elite for ages.  So here we get a look at the plan in fictional form.  Furthermore, we see the importance to them of bloodlines, which they consider to have magical powers:

Foster:  Well look who's here...It's Ryu.  Unfortunately, I'm going to have to

get rid of you.  Imagine the bio-noid I could make by blasting your tough

Dragon Clan body with life energy.

Instead I'll extract the secret of the Dragon Clan from your corpse, then I'll

make a superior bio-noid.  [as Double jumps in]  Let's get started!

Source:  Ibid.

Not being privy to pre-modern thinking, most of us don’t really understand the importance of bloodlines in the ancient world.  The ancient world was essentially a caste system, and many societies today, such as India still operate in this fashion.  Unless one is of a royal lineage of bloodline, one must accept a certain position within the strata of society.  Modernity is supposed to be egalitarian, but the class distinctions have merely been reorganized from lines of royalty to lines of wealth.  The Bible itself is concerned with bloodlines, since Jesus Christ is the promised seed, descended from Adam through Noah through Abraham through King David and his Mother from whom the Church professed He derived his humanity.  For the ancient world, bloodlines were thus everything. This is important, because the occult philosophy of the modern so-called rationalists still adhere to this ancient principle.  For the NWO occultists, there is “power in the blood,” as much as for the Christian, by which they mean magic power.  Thus, the top dynasty-families that run the world, like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Warburgs, etc., like the ancient royalties, all believe they must inter-marry in order to maintain bloodline purity.  Dan Brown’s silly DaVinci Code is a perfect example: while the book is certainly false, it evidences the occult world’s obsession with maintaining magical purity inherent in the family bloodlines.  In fact, some of these occultists believe themselves to be descendants of gods: an example of this is the Satanic philosophy of Nazism, by which Heinrich Himmler, through his SS, sought to breed a pure Aryan bloodline: a bloodline which had the power of the gods of Atlantis running through it, as Peter Levenda’s book Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult shows.

Source:  Jay Dyer, https://jaysanalysis.com/2014/02/25/what-is-the-new-world-order-and-why-does-it-matter/, opened 6 March 2017

The in-game script is more revealing at this point than analysis of it, so here are some more bits from it:

Clancy:  Ha-ha-ha.  Right!  I really should thank you. [more rumbling]

The subspace connection to the life energy is starting to open and I have to

go now.  The life energy and the secrets of the ruins will be mine!  So long!

 . . .

Clancy:  These super-dimensional ruins are the foundation upon which a new

world will be created.  It's the new source of ALL LIFE!  The time has come.

See for yourself!

 . . . 

[Ship rises from ground, blows away some land with a laser]

Ryu:  !!

Clancy:  Now do you understand the power of this dimensional warship?!  The new

age is about to begin.  And you get to stay behind.

The embryo-like dimensional warship that is to be ‘the new source of ALL LIFE’,

 http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ninjagaiden/ninjagaiden3.htm, 7 March 2017

 . . . 

Ryu:  Where is Clancy?  [as he sees a large monster] C-c-c-c-...You're Clancy!

Clancy:  Correct.  Look at this body full of super life power!  Listen

carefully, Ryu.  I want to protect the earth from humans.  Humans are weak and

disgusting little creatures who love to fight.  You know they should be wiped

out, don't you?  Ryu, join me!  I'll even let you bring a perfect human to

ride the ship with us.  Once the earth is cleansed of humans we can start a

new world!

Source:  Ibid.

A few things stand out.

The Clancy character of course reminds one of the late author Tom Clancy, whose books and films have made many wonder about his connections to the CIA:

http://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-075-secret-world-tom-clancy-part-ii-government-connections/

Clancy’s final morphing into some kind of giant killing machine at the end may be a hint of the Skynet future the Elite have in mind to ‘liquidate’ the (as they see it) unnecessary, parisitic humans that are a blight upon the earth.

The sci-fi concept of multiple dimensions/universes continues to generate interest:

https://home.cern/about/physics/extra-dimensions-gravitons-and-tiny-black-holes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12261-is-dark-energy-lurking-in-hidden-spatial-dimensions/

though this is just another way of destroying faith in the Holy Trinity, of trying to establish another scientistic pseudo-religion:

http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/679/-multiverse-theory/

The image of a cave, where the major action of the games takes place, is very important.  It is in the cave, according to many traditional views of that symbol, that re-birth takes place (Rene Guenon, Fundamental Symbols, p. 140, https://archive.org/stream/reneguenon/1962%20-%20Symbols%20of%20Sacred%20Science%20-%20Fundamental%20Symbols%20-%20The%20universal%20language%20of%20sacred%20science#page/n131/mode/1up).  This is the whole of the Elite’s plan, the re-birth of the world in the image of the devil (whether by the chaos caused by demonic attack or the cold, heartless precision of modern technology).  So it is not insignificant that so much time in this series is spent in caves and caverns of the mountains, as this reveals the intentions of the Elite.

The answer to this plan offered at the end of the series is a weak, watery faith in mankind’s innate goodness.  Ryu and Irene (the other CIA officer in the series, who befriends Ryu, whose place in Greek mythology is that of a peacemaker, http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/HoraEirene.html; thus she is the opposite of the war-like Foster - more dualism) offer these words:

Irene:  I'll never understand why people make and pursue evil plans until they

wind up dead.

Ryu:  Humans are always striving to achieve.

All of creatures on earth, in all worlds, can never be just a part of

someone's plans.  Fortunately, mankind is never foolish enough to wipe itself

out to achieve some ambitions.

Being with you like this, makes me want to thank all the living beings in this

world.  That's my one desire.  A new day is about to begin.

[Ryu and Irene stand as the sun rises]

Source:  http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/587490-ninja-gaiden-iii-the-ancient-ship-of-doom/faqs/25508?print=1, opened 9 Feb. 2017

Your faith in mankind ain’t enough.  From http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ninjagaiden/ninjagaiden3.htm, 9 March 2017

But the only force strong enough to withstand and defeat evil in the world is the Orthodox Church, particularly when the Christian Empire ruled by a Christian king is manifest in the world.  This is why we would all do well to pray for the healing of Russia, that she would be able to take up again that mantle as leader and protector of the Christian world which she dropped in the Revolution of 1917-8, and to rid ourselves of every delusion about heretical America and Western Europe being the saviors of the world.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!