Ang panalanging ito ay salin pa sa mga ninuno ng mga hebrew bilang pangbakod sa sarili sa anumang mga kapahamakan. Nagpapalakas din ito ng ating "esoteric consciousness" kung saan lalo tayong napapalapit sa Panginoon kasama ng kanyang mga banal na espirito.

The Great Invocation                                

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men - 
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the center which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

Ang Katangian ng Isang Tunay Na Kabalistiko

      

Ang nakasulat sa ibaba ay mga paala-ala ni Eliphas Levi sa mga taong nagsusumikap na makamtan at maintindihan ang kapayapaan, kasaganaan at karunungan ng Diyos.

Every idle word is a fault.

Show your learning by your actions.

The Word is Life, and the First Principle of Life.

The quality of a life is shown by its actions.

An idle word is either without meaning or is of the nature of a lie.

An idle word in religious matters is a sin.

He who is content with idle words is as if he were dead.

He who does not make his worship manifest has no religion.

Better is superstition than impiety.

God judges actions rather than vain thoughts.

He who is religious will do works which accord with the Word of his religion;

He who has no religion and believes not in any word, yet he also must be judged by his actions, for to every man shall it be according to his works.

              True religion is that which showeth a form of worship which is pure and living; the perfection of worship, however, lieth in self−sacrifice, which is complete and enduring.

            The beauty of self−sacrifice is taught in the Church of Christ, Catholic and Roman; and it is an article of faith, that any one who denies himself and takes up this cross,and follows the Mediator to the Altar, assumes at once the offices both of Priest and Victim.

            No man ever saw God at any time.

      

Before the dawn of the Microcosm, Azoth was the Flying Eagle and the Royal Lion;it was the Mastodon of the Earth and the Leviathan of the Sea. When the human−headed Sphynx appeared−−−Azoth became Man among men, and Spirits among Elementals. Every substance can and should become Azoth by adaptation. In Azoth is the Principle of the Light, which is the Quintessence of Splendour and Gold. This is the grandSecret of universal Transmutation.

No man has ever seen the Light; but we see by reason of it those objects which reflect the light.There is nothing occult which shall not be known: there is nothing concealed which shall not be revealed.

The Kingdom of God is within us.

HOW CAN THE CHILDREN MAKE AN ACT OF FAITH BEFORE RECEIVING BAPTISM

      In order to answer this doubt, we should know that ‘faith’ is God’s gift, not something that we get when we study some doctrines. Here, the Catholic Church follows the example of Jesus, who forgave sins because of the faith of others: Mk 2:2-5”after they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Jesus healed the paralyzed servant because of the faith of a Centurion. (Mt 8:13) “Amen, I say to you, in no one of the Israel have I found such faith.”…And Jesus said to the Centurion, “You may go; as you have believed, let it be done for you.” At that very hour his servant was healed.

            

CHURCH MADE THE BIBLE

It was Melito, Bishop of Sardis (170 AD) who first tried to have an Old Testament Canon but many of the inspired books were not seen in his list.

            The council of Laodicea (360 AD), with the permission of the Pope in Rome, produced the first canon of the Bible. But it is only in the year of Pope Damasus (367 AD) a great effort was done to form a bible. This Holy Pope complied the books which he felt genuine and ordered St. Jerome to translate them into Latin, which was the official language of the Church. St. Jerome went to Jerusalem and lived 30 years in a cave to do the job. At 397 AD, he finished his works and presented it to Pope. This is known as the “Latin Vulgate”. Pope Sirius called it the “Bible,”which means ‘Collection of Books.’



“In fact the term ‘Bible’ has a pagan origin. The greek word ‘biblia’ is coming from the Phenition city of ‘Byblos’ that was atrading port for papyrus. For the Greeks, ‘biblos’ meant those books ‘an invocation of the goddess or muse’ (daughters of Zeus who inspired poets, speakers and artist). Remember, critics always accuse Catholic feats, such as Christmas for its pagan background. Even the bible itself has a pagan background.)



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Although Luke was not an apostle of Jesus, the Pope accepted his gospel because it clarified all doubts and doctrines of Mary – as it was believed in the early Church that Luke got ideas about infancy of Jesus from Mary.

Luke was also famous for his paintings of Mary and Child Jesus (One of these pictures is still kept in the Basilica of Mary Major in Rome). Mathew gives very clear idea about the Primacy of Peter and the Church Jesus founded on him.

John’s  gospel was used by the early Christian’s to defend the real presence of Jesus, as one whole chapter of this gospel deals with that subject “my flesh is true food and my blood true drink.”

Mark, being a close associate of Peter in Rome defends the selections of Peter, and his authority.

IF YOU HAVE A BIBLE, YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN CHURCH, WITH YOUR OWN INTERPRETATIONS! YOU CAN CHEAT MANY POOR PEOPLE BY PROCLAIMING YOURSELF AS AN ANGEL OR PROPHET

WHY CHRISTIANS BAPTIZE INFANTS?

It was Black Saturday of 2010 when I attend the christening of son of my friend and actually also his husband is my uncle who works now in Korea. The mass started on the dusk of that day in St. Rita of Cassia Parish in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental.

Baptism as one of the Holy Sacraments creates an issue on other sects. “Don’t baptize children” is also a new dogma that the world heard from them, 1500 years after the beginning of Christianity, which was not demanded by Jesus nor practiced by His apostles in the early Church”. Baptism is an external sign of an internal grace that we received by the acceptance of Jesus as the Lord and Saviour. The Bible says, it was given to children, adults and old ones alike by the apostles. The children were  never denied baptism. No early documents of Christianity, supports that.

Acts2:38-39 Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call”.

At the time of Jesus, circumcision was the way to be consecrated to God. Apostles replaced baptism for circumcision. Circumcision was administered to children eight days after birth.

Col 2:11-12- “In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand , by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism.

In the New Testament,  Baptism was administered to the whole family  including children and adults. Baptism was never denied to children: Paul baptized the household of Stephanas (I Cor. 1:26) “After she and her household had been baptized’ (Acts 11:13-14) “Believe in Lord Jesus you and your household will be saved. (Acts 16:30) “Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord, alone with his entire household”(Acts18:8) Here the Greek usage of “whole household” was a normal usage at that time which included children and adults in a house.

Jesus commanded baptism as a necessity for everyone to enter into the kingdom of God. (Jn 3:5) Jesus answered Nicodemus, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit. Jesus didn’t say “except children,” but he said ‘no one can enter’. Children should not be banned from entering into the kingdom of God as Jesus wished.

Mk 10:13-16-“Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belong to such as these.”…Denying baptism to children is just preventing them from entering His Kingdom. So, it becomes the duty and responsibility of parents to give the child the most urgent thing that they have to give—‘Grace of God!’

SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

I. We are bound to know and to believe that:

            1. There is one supreme, eternal, infinite God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth;  and that the good will be rewarded by Him for ever in heaven, and the wicked, who die unrepentant, will be punished for ever in hell. We believe in heaven and hell equally on the simple word of Christ.

            2. In the Holy Trinity there are three Persons, co-eternal, co-equal; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

            3. God the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, was made Man, and died upon the cross to save us.

II. We are bound to know and believe the Apostle’s Creed; and to have knowledge of the Commandments of God and of the Church, and of the Holy Sacraments; especially of the necessity of Baptism and that the Eucharist is a pledge of our future glory. We must believe that Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of God, which is committed to the Church. We should know the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary.

III. We are bound, moreover, to believe whatever God teaches us by His holy Church, who in her teaching cannot deceive us nor be deceived. Her teaching is, among other ways, infallibly made known to us by the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra---that is, when discharging the office of the Pastor and teacher of all Christians, he defines, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, a doctrine regarding faith or morals, to be held by the universal Church. Infallibility resides also in the body of Bishops when that body exercises supreme teaching authority with the Pope, the successor of St. Peter, as, for example, when gathered together in an Ecumenical Council.

WHY THE BIBLE WAS FORMED

            In early traditions of the church, there appeared more than 50 gospels, which include 4 gospels that we see in New Testament and other gospels such as gospels of James, Thomas, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Hebrews, etc.. There were 22 Book of Acts, Acts of  Apostles, Acts of Paul, and Acts of Thecla etc… There were numerous Epistles that we see in New Testament and others such as Paul’s letter to Laodiceans, Epistle of Barnabas, Epistle of Jude Escariote, etc…

It created total confusion among early Christians because some of the books and letters were ‘spurious’ and others genuine. Some of them contained even superstitions and funny stories of miracles of Jesus and apostles. Many false prophets appeared with different theologies contrary to the apostolic teaching.         

For Arius, Jesus was not God. For Apolinarius, Jesus was not a man. Macedonius preached Holy Spirit is not Go. For Maricionites, all the gospels are false. All of them started to quote the scriptures available at that time.

To defend the true Church and its doctrines from the apostasies, the Catholic church decided to select some books that seemed genuine and inspired; it is known as the canon of Bible (Greek ‘Kanon’ means something serving to determine, rule). Thus, the bible came from the church! The Church is not coming from the Bible