Battle in the Catholic Church: Christian Worldview of God's Will be Done vs. Occult Worldview of my will be done
That "will to power" is the heart and soul of occultism. There is a reason why so many of the women religious talk about "empowerment" and seek ordination. Once you throw out God, all that is left is you. Answering to no one puts you totally in control. What does a person want when they are totally in control but that their own will be done. The person becomes a sort of mini god in their own mini universe. The occult magician's mindset was coined by Aleister Crowley: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." It's a short hop from the desire to the deed, and the deed is accomplished, or at least attempted, in magic rituals which intend to procure the will of the magician. The pinnacle magic ritual experience is evocation. The accomplished magician brings a spirit into materialization where the sensory response validates that the will has been accomplished. If a spirit is at your beck and call, you are a success. - Carrie Tomko
I found an insightful article on the dangers of the occult called
Therapeutic Religion by Carrie Tomko. Carrie's article is posted
below. She showed, using an article that I wrote on how secular
occult-like psychology lead to the Catholic sex abuse scandal, where the real battle in the Catholic Church is.
The real battle of our
epoch and every epoch is doing God's will vs. occultism's "magic rituals which intend to
procure the will [to power]" which is the battle of the Christian worldview vs. the occult worldview:
THERAPEUTIC RELIGION
Can the source of the sexual abuse scandal be traced to a shift in our spirituality? One writer, at least, believes it can.
Fred Martinez reports in "Nietzsche and the Church Scandals" at the Catholic Educator's Resource Center website that
Therapeutic
approaches have a basic assumption that is not Christian. Their
starting point is not the Christian worldview...The denial of original
sin and personal sin is, in large part, behind the headlines of the
Boston catastrophe and other dioceses. ...
One must remember that
whenever someone talks about values in modern America--family values or
religious values or place-the-blank-in-front-of values--they are saying
there is no real or objective right or wrong--only opinions of the self
and its will to power.
That "will to power" is the heart and
soul of occultism. There is a reason why so many of the women religious
talk about "empowerment" and seek ordination. Once you throw out God,
all that is left is you. Answering to no one puts you totally in
control. What does a person want when they are totally in control but
that their own will be done. The person becomes a sort of mini god in
their own mini universe. The occult magician's mindset was coined by
Aleister Crowley: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
It's a short hop from the desire to the deed, and the deed is
accomplished, or at least attempted, in magic rituals which intend to
procure the will of the magician. The pinnacle magic ritual experience
is evocation. The accomplished magician brings a spirit into
materialization where the sensory response validates that the will has
been accomplished. If a spirit is at your beck and call, you are a
success.
This thinking is contrary to the way God made us. It is
not unusual for the magician to be driven into insanity through this
process. Spirits tend to have a mind of their own and power over the
magician, as many have learned a little too late. The spirit the
magician intended to own ends up owning him.
As chaos magician Peter J. Carroll puts it:
Works
on the level of trance, vision, imagination and dream. It opens the
magician's subconscious by negating the psychic censor with various
techniques. The magician faces considerable danger on this level and may
have frequent recourse to sorcery techniques or banishing ritual if it
threatens to obsess or overwhelm him.
In spite of the danger,
Catholics are being taught at retreats to attempt a sort of trance state
by seeking to silence their mind in meditation. Guided meditation can
be found in Catholic courses on spirituality. Can Catholics be sure that
the benefits outweigh the risks?
The Martinez article continues,
quoting philosopher Allan Bloom's summation of Friedrich Nietzsche's
philosophy as it appears in Bloom's book THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN
MIND:
Commitment values the values and makes them valuable. Not
love of truth but intellectual honesty characterizes the proper state of
mind. Since there is no truth in the values, and what truth there is
about life is not lovable, the hallmark of the authentic will is
consulting one's oracle while facing up to what one is and what one
experiences. Decisions, not deliberations, are the movers of deeds. One
cannot know or plan the future. One must will it.
This is the
occult mindset--the thinking behind the occultism of Carl Jung and
Roberto Assagioli--the thinking that is derived from a source other than
the Trinitarian God. Martinez continues:
Unlike the Christian
worldview, the therapeutic starting point is that the individual must
overcome personal unconscious forces, in Freud, and in Carl Jung the
person must unite to the collective unconscious, which is shared by all
humans.
In both cases, the therapist assists his client to change
himself to 'become his real self.' Forgiveness and returning to God are
not needed. What is needed are not God and His Forgiveness, but a
therapist assisting a self to reach the fullness of its self.
Freud,
under the influence of Nietzsche, moved psychiatry away from the
mechanistic and biological to the previously "unscientific" model of the
"symbolic language of the unconscious."
Freud's pupil Carl Jung took the symbolic language of the unconscious a step further.
Whether
you call it the "collective unconscious" or the "Akashic Record," and
even if you seek knowledge by channeling a spirit, ultimately the
ability to remake yourself (or renew yourself) is contained within you.
Martinez says that
Christian
therapist Leanne Payne considers Jung "not a scientist, but a
post-modernist subjectivist. Jung's active imagination therapy is
hostile not only to the Judeo-Christian worldview, but to all systems
containing objective moral and spiritual value. Within this world the
unconscious urge becomes god. What the unconscious urge wants is what is
finally right or moral. These psychic personae [complexes] are
literally called 'gods' (archtypes); and so an overt idolatry of self
follows quickly."
Within the modern French Nietzschean schools of
thought, a type of Jungian unconscious urge is replacing the old
existential conscious self who chooses. The post-modernist is moving
from the idolatry of self to the idolatry of autonomous inner "beings"
that, according to Payne, are similar to pagan "gods."
Since Eden
nothing has changed. The serpent still whispers; and like Eve,
sometimes we listen. The conscience can be silenced so that the only
voice we hear is the voice of our own sinfulness. This voice of
sinfulness was let loose without brakes when psychology invaded
religion. Martinez writes:
By using Christian symbols and
terminology, Jungian spirituality has infiltrated to a large extent
Christian publishers, seminaries, even convents and monasteries.
There is little doubt that it has infiltrated the parish renewal programs. Martines continues:
Many
Christians are using Jung's active imagination as a method of prayer.
Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, D.D., thinks this is dangerous "because
this fantasy life has no moral underpinnings, because it helps to
reinforce an experience of autonomous inner 'beings' accessible via the
imagination, and because it is a defense against redemptive suffering,
it easily allies with and quickly becomes a Gnostic form of spirituality
with powerfully occult overtones.
The concept of
self-actualization or "will to power" that has become commonplace in the
retreats and renewal programs offered throughout Catholicdom are
precisely the opposite in concept from Christ's prayers in Gethsemene:
"Lord not my will but thine be done."
We all must choose
whether we will be in control or whether we will surrender to the One
who made us. This is the nature of free will which our Maker gave us. If
we choose to reject Him, there are other powers to seek; and those
powers are eager for our business. There is a reason why we are
repeatedly warned in Scripture to leave occult powers alone. God knew
the temptation to self-will would be hard to resist. His experience with
His first creation, the angels, demonstrated it. Today as the Christian
worldview fades into memory in many places, we are seeing it
demonstrated in our day to day encounters, and we have seen it
demonstrated in the Catholic priesthood with devastating results.
"Do not go to mediums or consult fortune-tellers, for you will be defiled by them. I, the Lord, am your God." Lev. 19:31
"Let
there not be found among you anyone who immolates his son or daughter
in the fire, nor a fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner, or
caster of spells, nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks
oracles from the dead. Anyone who does such things is an abomination to
the Lord, and because of such abominations the Lord, your God, is
driving these nations out of your way." Deut. 18:10-12
"For thus
says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who
are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to
the dreams which they dream. For they prophesy falsely to you in My
name; I have not sent them.' declares the Lord." Jer. 29:8-9
[Incidentally, this passage has been eliminated from the NAB. I checked
three different Bibles and it was not there. I had to turn to a
Protestant New American Standard Bible to find it even though it is
referenced in the CCC.]
"Now the Spirit explicitly says that in
the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to
deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of
liars with branded consciences." 1 Tim. 4:1
"Beloved, do not
trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to
God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is
how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus
Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not
acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the
antichrist that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the
world." 1 John 4:1-3
"I saw three unclean spirits like frogs
come from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from
the mouth of the false prophet. These were demonic spirits who
performed signs. They went out to the kings of the whole world to
assemble them for the battle on the great day of God the almighty." Rev.
16:13-14
If those passages do not convince, read Ezekiel 13.
We have been warned.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us![https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2007/10/father-sweenys-solution-to-crisis-of.html, ]
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He want you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
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- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
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