Friday, January 13, 2006
CONNECTING MORE DOTS - NOAHIDES
G-d gave Noah and all his descendants (B'nei Noach or "children of Noah") seven commandments that we are to obey. These Seven Universal Laws (also known as the "Seven Noahide Laws") were reaffirmed with Moses and the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai, so that modern observance of these laws is done according to the specifics provided in the Oral Torah (the revelation at Sinai). These Seven Commandments (mitzvos) are not arbitrary laws, but rather G-d's plan for mankind. (To the Jewish people G-d gave the entire Torah [teaching] as their Law. They therefore have a special responsibility—with special commandments—to be the priesthood of the world, a "light unto the nations.")
Non-Jews who (1) reject all idolatrous ideas and accept the kingship of the One G-d, (2) accept the priesthood of the Jewish people as the guardians and teachers of Torah, and (3) commit to following the Seven Universal Laws as revealed in the Oral Torah revealed at Mt. Sinai are often called "Hasidic gentiles" or "Noahides."
Israel National News reports:
A group of non-Jewish delegates have come to Jerusalem to pledge their loyalty to the Laws of Noah. They appeared before the nascent Sanhedrin, which established a High Council for B'nai Noach.
The ten delegates appeared before a special session of the Jewish High Court of 71 Rabbis led by its Nassi (President) Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. B'nai Noach, literally "Children of Noah," also known as Noahides, are non-Jews who take upon themselves the Torah's obligations for all members of the human race. The seven such laws were passed on via Noah following the Flood, as documented in Genesis (see below).
The gathering took place under a banner quoting the Biblical passage in Tzefania 3:9which refers to "all the nations... speak[ing] a pure language... proclaim[ing] the name of G-d."
The Noahide delegates stood before the nascent Sanhedrin, which was reestablished over a year ago in Tiberias, following the renewal of Biblical ordination, and has met regularly since then. "Each one [of the B'nai Noach] comes with a name he has made in the world, as a teacher and example in his community of observance of the seven laws of Noah," said Rabbi Michael Bar-Ron, the Sanhedrin's emissary who facilitated the council's organization, introducing the delegates. "At great physical and financial expense, they have flown across the world to Jerusalem, the holy city, to pledge before the court and all mankind, their allegiance to the Seven Laws of Noah, the laws of the Creator."
In another article reported by the same source:
In a dramatic speech at a special session of the developing Sanhedrin to appoint a B'nai Noah Council, Rabbi Dov Levanoni publicly revealed the steps leading up to reinstitution of Semikha – Biblical ordination, renewed through a consensus among the rabbis of a generation living in the Land of Israel.
Levanoni explained that Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, a senior rabbi on Jerusalem's Eda Hareidis, became the first samukh [ordained one] after none of the hundreds of rabbis consulted via written letters expressed objections and after receiving approval by the leading rabbis followed by most of Israel's religious Jews. These rabbis, Levanoni said, included Hareidi-Religious Rabbi Shalom Elyashiv and former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
There have not been Jewish priests since the first century AD.
Or have there?
Grail Christianity
WHAT IS GRAIL CHRISTIAINITY?
The Grail Religion can be described as a composite religion of Christianity, Judaism, and Paganism (paganism in its most positive form).
The Grail Church is Christian in the sense that it uses Christian symbols to express its doctrines and uses the Bible as its guide to faith and life. It teaches that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world and that everlasting life is imparted to all who believe in His sacrificial death. We stand with traditional Christian doctrine and embrace the Ecumenical Creeds of the Church: namely, the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. These Creeds teach the basic tenets of Christianity: Christ's Incarnation, His Virgin Birth, the Holy Trinity, the Resurrection, and so on. We believe in the miraculous origins of Christianity.
The Grail Church is Jewish in the sense that it believes Jesus Christ is the Messiah of Israel. He rules from Heaven in His resurrected body. The mediators of His Messianic Kingdom are not the leaders of Christianity but rather His kinsmen according to the flesh - called the Desposyni - and all those in fellowship with them. We accept the validity of the Mosaic Law as it was interpreted and applied by the New Testament Church which was led by James, the brother of Jesus. There are no longer any ritual or ceremonial laws from that law system which are still binding upon Israel, except for the Noahide laws as enunciated by James in Acts 15.
You can read the teachings of the Grail Church at the website.
Where does one find this Grail Christianity? It's the very organizations that I've been blogging about for the past couple of years.
The Order of the Grail - Esoteric Christian Chivalry
It should be explained that our Order is the fraternal section of the International College of Esoteric Studies (ICES), which was formerly known as the International College of Martinist Studies (ICOMS). The ICES curriculum is the basic educational substance of our work. Beyond this, each Commandery may draw from the vast wealth of material disseminated through what has become known as the western mystery tradition, although the majority of our members concentrate their studies in the areas of Gnosticism, Martinism, Rosicrucianism, the Grail and General Hermetica.
If you want to learn more about the Desposyni, read William H. Kennedy's book LUCIFER'S LODGE, where you can learn more about the ritual abuse of the laity's children by Catholic priests.
You can gain further knowledge about the Grail Christians from Tracy Twyman's website and her Ordo Lapsit Exillis. Twyman wrote the Introduction to Kennedy's book.
You can also learn more about esotericists and the political activities they are engaged in from Lee Penn's book FALSE DAWN.
And lastly, you can learn about Martinism and other esoteric groups at the Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research, No. 1798, the first Masonic research lodge of Royal Arch Masonry. (There is a nice labyrinth and ouroboros at this link.) This is the upper degree(s) system of English Masonry discussed in the books of W. L. Wilmshurst and John Hammill, both acknowledged Masonic experts. The officers link indicates that the top officer is called the "Excellent High Priest."
There you can read about the symbolism of "The Holy Royal Ark", a paper written by Piers Vaughn, which tells you about the Jewish mystical numbers used by the Hebrew Kabbalists, the Book of Thoth and the Tarot, the Golden Dawn, the Tetragrammaton, reintegration, and the third covenant. You can read about Martinism, and their symbolic number 8 which implies the Cosmic Christ, and the number 5 which is "a number of evil omen to Martinists."
There's another paper in the website titled "Notes on the 'Ark of Testimony' also Called the 'Ark of the Covenant'", written by Robert Ambelain in 1946. He describes the force inside the Ark, and the reason why Moses had two tablets instead of one. You can read about theurgy and magical equilibrium. You can read about a psychomanteum, although they call it "Gadania" and indicate it was a magical tradition of old Russia, which includes a demon that inhabits the mirrors. Ambelain applies the Gadania to the Ark. It's a fascinating paper on this upper Masonic degree.
I doubt this website will remain active for long. The webmaster has indicated that it may be only temporary.
When you're finished, give some thought to the activities of our leaders in Rome, and to the popularity of Dan Brown's novel and Harry Potter.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
