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To: TXnMA

Oh OK then, since no division exists there is only one true reality reflecting our worldviews, ala we must be in complete and total agreement, the Bible is the inspired word of God and it is absolute truth.


79 posted on 05/01/2014 4:47:49 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

When evolutionists claim that science affirms transformation of one kind of lower thing over vast periods of time into another kind of higher thing, the questions that need asking are these: What kind of science affirms evolution and exactly what is evolution?

The first question is answered by James Herrick,CS Lewis and the Catholic historian Dr. Thomas Molnar.

In the impeccably researched, “The Making of the New Spirituality,” James Herrick observes that the scientific tradition in Renaissance Europe developed around three basic approaches: the organic, the mechanical and the magical. It was magical and/or occult science that provided the greatest impetus for scientific exploration. (p. 45)

C.S. Lewis underscores this point in “The Abolition of Man:”

“You will even find people who write about the sixteenth century as if Magic were a medieval survival and Science the new thing that came in to sweep it away. Those who have studied the period know better. There was very little magic in the Middle Ages: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the high noon of magic. The serious magical endeavour and the serious scientific endeavour are twins: one was sickly and died, the other strong and throve. But they were twins. They were born of the same impulse. I allow that some (certainly not all) of the early scientists were actuated by a pure love of knowledge. But if we consider the temper of that age as a whole we can discern the impulse of which I speak.”

In “God and the Knowledge of Reality,” the Catholic philosopher and historian, Thomas Molnar (1921–2010), reveals the ‘temper of that age’ as a spirit of rebellion against the Christian God, and this is why occult science and evolutionary transformism provided the greatest impetus.

During the Renaissance, certain Christian theologians, mystics and scholars such as Emanuel Swedenborg had discovered Hermetic magic and occult Jewish Kabbalah texts which they studied and translated resulting in Hermetic Kabbalah. Then like Pico della Mirandola, they argued that occult hermetic science – the divine technology or Magic Way of reaching divine status and powers through ritual procedures (spiritual evolution) is the best proof of the divinity of Christ. In other words said Molnar,

“.....by the time of the Renaissance the esoteric texts of the first centuries A.D. had acquired in scholarly and humanist circles an unparalleled prestige, confronting as equals the texts held sacred by the church. In Pico’s estimation, ‘nulla est scientia que nos magis certificet de divinitate Christ quam magia et Cabala’ (there is no science that would prove for us Christ’s divinity better than magic and the Cabala.)” (pp. 78-79)

Hermetic magic and Jewish Kabbalah are ancient Mystery Religion traditions, as affirmed by G. H. Pember in his classic work, “Earth’s Earliest Ages.” Pember thoroughly examines the role of fallen angels in connection with the magic (occult transformism) they taught to pre-flood generations and compares them to the explosion of spiritism (open intercourse with evil spirits), astrology, the Mysteries and other occult traditions sweeping over Christendom.

Pember writes that the Mysteries are no longer veiled in mystery but boldly presented by the powerful occult brotherhood that emerged out of the Renaissance as the fruit of modern science, especially evolutionary philosophy, which the brotherhood assert was included in the instructions given,

“...to the initiates of the Hermetic, Orphic, Eleusinian, and Cabbalistic mysteries, and were familiar to Chaldean Magi, Egyptian Priests, Hindu Occultists, Essenes, Therapeutae Gnostics, and Theurgic Neo-Platonists.” (Pember, pp.243-244)

Both ancient Egyptian Hermetic magic and esoteric Cabala imply evolutionary transformism from lower kinds of things into higher kinds of things over vast periods of time. Cabala is directly traceable to Chaldea (Babylon).

What this means is that evolutionary science is occult Hermetic-Cabala transformism traceable to Chaldean sorcery, Mysteries, etc. revised and revamped for modern Western appetites.

Either the living Word Incarnate (John 1:1) spoke everything into existence in six spontaneous acts (days) of creation or everything came into existence as a result of evolutionary transformation of primordial matter over billions of years.

If you affirm the former you’ll be accused of being unscientific, anti-evolution, and stupid but you’ll have a firm foundation for your inner person and eternal life unlike your accusers.


80 posted on 05/01/2014 11:28:11 AM PDT by spirited irish
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