Third Sunday After Epiphany

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) Glory be to the Father, etc.

COLLECT Almighty everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmity, and stretch forth the right hand of Thy majesty for our protection. Through our protection. Through our etc.

EPISTLE (Rom. XII. 16-21.) Brethren, be not wise in your own conceits. To no man rendering evil for evil: providing good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as is in you, having peace with all men; not revenging yourselves, my dearly beloved but give place unto wrath; for it is written: Revenge is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink; for doing this, thou shaft heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

When are we overcome by evil?

When we wish to take revenge. "Revenge is no sign of courage," says St. Ambrose, "but rather of weakness and cowardice. As it is the sign of a very weak stomach to be unable to digest food, so it is the mark of a very weak mind to be unable to bear a harsh word." "Are you impatient," says the same saint, "you are overcome; are you patient, you have overcome."

What should we do if our reputation is injured?

We should leave its revenge, or its defence and protection to God, who has retained that for Himself. "But as a good name," says St. Francis de Sales, "is the main support of human society, and as without it we could not be useful to that society, but even hurtful to it on account of scandal, we should feel bound, for love of our neighbor, to aim after a good reputation, and to preserve it." We should not be too sensitive about this, however, for too great a sensitiveness makes one obstinate, eccentric, and intolerable, and only tends to excite and increase the malice of the detractors. The silence and contempt with which we meet a slander or an injustice, is generally a more efficacious antidote than sensitiveness, anger, or revenge. The contempt of a slander at once disperses it, but anger shows a weakness, and gives the accusation an appearance of probability. If this does not suffice, and the slander continues, let us persevere in humility' and lay our honor and our soul into the hands of God, according to the admonitions of the Apostle.

How do we "heap coals of fire on the head of our enemy?"

When we return him good for evil, for seeing our well meaning towards him, the flush of shame reddens his face for the wrongs he has done us. St. Augustine explains these words thus: "By giving food and drink or doing other kindnesses to your enemy, you will heap coals, not of anger, but of love, upon his head, which will inflame him to return love for love." Learn therefore, from the example of Christ and His saints, not to allow yourself to be overcome by evil, but do good to those that hate and persecute you.

ASPIRATION Ah, that I might, according to the words of St. Paul, so live that I may be a child of the Heavenly Father, who lets His sun shine on the just and the unjust!

GOSPEL (Matt. VIII. 1-13.) At that time, when Jesus was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him; and behold, a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, stretching forth his hand,  touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus saith to him, See thou tell no man: but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying: Lord, my servant Beth at home sick of the palsy, and is grievously tormented. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this man: Go, and he goeth; and to another: Come, and he cometh; and to my servant: Do this, and he doeth it. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. And I sad to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee; and the servant was healed at the same hour.

Why did the leper say: “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean"?

He believed Christ to be the promised Messiah, who as true God had the power to heal him. From this we learn to have confidence in the omnipotence of God, who is a helper in all need, (Ps. CVI. 6. 73. 19.) and to leave all to the will of God, saying: Lord, if it be pleasing to Thee, and well for me, grant my petition.

Why did Jesus stretch forth His hand and touch the leper?

To show that He was not subject to the law which forbade the touching of a leper through fear of infection, which could not affect Jesus; to reveal the health-giving, curative power of His flesh, which dispelled leprosy by the simple touch of His hand; to give us an example of humility and of love for the poor sick, that we may learn from Him to have no aversion to the infirm, but lovingly to assist the unfortunate sick for the sake of Jesus who took upon Himself the leprosy of our sins. The saints have faithfully imitated Him in their tender care for those suffering from the most disgusting diseases. Oh, how hard it will be for those to stand before the Tribunal of God at the Last Day, who cannot even bear to look at the poor and sick!

Why did Christ command the leper to tell no man?

To instruct us that we should not make known our good works in order to obtain frivolous praise, (Matt. VI 1.) which deprives us of our heavenly reward.

Why did Christ send the healed leper to the Priest?

That he might observe the law which required all the healed lepers to show themselves to the priests, to offer a sacrifice, to be examined and pronounced clean: that the priest if he beheld the miracle of the sudden cure of the leper, might know Him who had wrought the cure, to be the Messiah; and finally, to teach us that we must honor the priests because of their high position, even when they do not live in a manner worthy of their dignity, as was the case with the Jewish priests.

What it taught by the centurion's solicitude for his servant?

That masters should take care of their sick servants, see that they are attended to in their illness, and above all that they are provided with the Sacraments. It is unchristian, even cruel and barbarous, to drive from the house a poor, sick servant, or to leave him lying in his distress without assistance or care.

Why did Christ say: I wild come and heal him?

Because of His humility, by which He, although God and Lord of lords, did not hesitate to visit a sick servant. Here Christ's humility puts to shame many persons of position who think themselves too exalted to attend the wants of a poor servant.

Why did the centurion say: Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof?

Because he recognized Christ's divinity and his own nothingness, and therefore regarded himself as unworthy to receive Christ into his house.

From this we learn to humble ourselves, especially when we receive Christ into our hearts, hence the priest in giving holy Communion uses the centurion's words, exhorting those to humility who are about to receive.

Why did he add: But only say the word, and my servant shall be healed?

By this he publicly manifested his faith in Christ's divinity and omnipotence, because he believed that Christ, though absent, could heal the servant by a word.

If a Gentile centurion had such faith in Christ, and such confidence in His power, should not we Christians be ashamed that we have so little faith, and confidence in God?

What is meant by: Many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior darkness?

This was said by Christ in reference to the obdurate Jews who would not believe in Him. Many pagans who receive the gospel, and live in accordance with it, will enjoy heavenly bliss with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were the most faithful friends of God, while the Jews, God's chosen people, who as such, possessed the first claim to heaven, will, because of their unbelief and other sins, be cast into outer darkness, that is, into the deepest abyss of hell, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Thus it will be with those Christians who do not live in accordance with their faith. Therefore, fear lest you, for want of cooperation with God's grace, be eternally rejected, while others who have faithfully corresponded to the divine inspirations will enter into your place in the kingdom of heaven.

ASPIRATION O Jesus, rich in consolations! grant me the leper's faith and confidence, that in all things I may rely upon Thy omnipotence, and may resign myself to Thy divine will, and may ever honor Thy priests. Grant me, also, O most humble Jesus! the centurion's humility, that for Thy sake, I may compassionately assist my neighbor, and by doing so render myself worthy of Thy grace and mercy.

ON RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD

Lord, if thou wilt. (Matt. VIII. 2.)

Those who in adversity as well as in prosperity, perfectly resign themselves to the will of God, and accept whatever He sends them with joy and thanks, possess heaven, as St. Chrysostom says, while yet upon earth. Those who have attained this resignation, are saddened by no adversity, because they are satisfied with all that God, their best Father, sends them, be it honor or disgrace, wealth or poverty, life or death. All happens as they wish, because they know no will but God's, they desire nothing but that which He does and wills. God does the will of them that fear Him. (Ps. CXLIV. 10.) In the lives of the ancient Fathers we find the following: The fields and vineyards belonging to one farmer were much more fertile and yielding than were his neighbors'. They asked how it happened and he said: they should not wonder at it, because he always had the weather he wished. At this they wondered more than ever: How could that be? "I never desire other weather," he replied, "than God wills; and because my desires are conformable to His, He gives me the fruits I wish." This submission to the divine will is also the cause of that constant peace and undimmed joy of the saints of God, with which their hearts have overflowed here below, even in the midst of the greatest sufferings and afflictions. Who would not aspire to so happy a state? We will attain it if we believe that nothing in this world can happen to us except by the will and through the direction of God, sin and guilt excepted, for God can never be the cause of them. This the Holy Ghost inculcates by the mouth of the wise man: Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God, (Eccles. XI. 14.) that is, are permitted or sent by God; all that which comes from God, is for the best, for God doeth all things well. (Mark VII. 37.) Whoever keeps these two truths always in mind, will certainly be ever contented with the will of God, and always consoled; he will taste while yet on earth the undisturbed peace of mind and foretaste of happiness which the saints had while here, and which they now eternally enjoy in heaven, because of the union of their will with the divine will.

INSTRUCTION FOR MASTERS AND SERVANTS

The master of a house should be careful to have not only obedient, faithful, willing, and industrious servants in his home, as had the centurion in the gospel, but still more, pious and God-fearing ones, for God richly blesses the master because of pious servants. Thus God blessed Laban on account of the pious Jacob, (Gen. XXX. 30.) and the house of Putiphar because of the just Joseph. (Gen. XXXIX. 5.) The master should look to the morals and Christian conduct of his servants, and not suffer irreligious subjects in his house, for he must, after this life, give an account before the tribunal of God, and he makes himself unworthy of the blessing of God, often liable to the most terrible punishment by retaining such. Will not God punish those masters and mistresses who suffer those under them to seek the dangerous occasions of sin, keep sinful company, go about at night, and lead scandalous lives? Will not God, one day, demand the souls of servants from their masters? The same punishment which will befall those who deny their faith, will rest upon careless masters and mistresses, for St. Paul the Apostle writes:

But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (I. Tim. V. 8.)

Subjects should learn from the centurion's servants who obeyed his only word, that they also should willingly, faithfully, and quickly do every thing ordered by their masters, unless it be something contrary to the law of God. They should recollect that whatever they do in obedience to their superiors, is done for God Himself. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart as to the Lord, and not to men: knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ. (Col. III. 22-24.)

QUESTION: Who Are The Oath Keepers?

 January 22, 2022 This article was posted by TLB Staff COMMENTARY, FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT, Tyranny 1

Who are the Oath Keepers?

By: John Green

Hearing the Department of Justice describe them, one would think that the Oath Keepers are the scariest bunch of anti-American knuckleheads to come down the pike since the Ku Klux Klan. Given that a bunch of them were just arrested for plotting an insurrection — that the FBI assured us wasn’t an insurrection — this is a good time to get to know who they actually are.

Media coverage of the group is sprinkled with terms like “right-wing extremists,” “anti-government extremists,” and “far right militia.” Like any story, the reporting about the Oath Keepers can be spun to support a narrative, or to give an unbiased assessment. The MSM has chosen to go with the narrative. One has to look beyond the scare quotes, and assess what the organization has actually done to get a true sense of its nature.

The Oath Keepers was founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes. It is a national, but loosely knit organization, created to resist violations of civil liberties by the government. In 2009, that sounded like conspiracy nut thinking. But since the organization’s founding, we’ve been treated to Crossfire Hurricane, two impeachment show trials, COVID shutdowns, election 2020, and our own government targeting parents as domestic terrorists. What sounded crazy in 2009 sounds prescient in 2022.

Stewart Rhodes is an army veteran (a paratrooper) and a Yale law school graduate. He understands what our founders intended for America, and has served to defend it. He believes that the Democrats see illegal immigration as a way to get more votes — pay no attention to those canceled boarder wall contracts. He also believes the Democrats would like to confiscate everyone’s guns — because that’s exactly what they’ve said. He considers BLM to be a communist front organization — which isn’t a big leap given that its leaders are trained Marxists. Such crazy thinking can’t be tolerated — if you’re a Democrat or a deep state operative. In short, Rhodes is only an extremist if the ideas of freedom, limited government, and self-determination are now extreme.

The organization’s name is a reference to the oath that all soldiers and law enforcement officers swear — to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Although anyone can join, a large percentage of the membership is comprised of people who have taken that oath in either law enforcement or the military. Is that what the propaganda ministry calls “extremist”? Consider this: If all of our government officials complied with the oath they have sworn (looking at you Merrick Garland), would America be better or worse?

The Oath Keepers has local chapters across the country which operate with great autonomy. The national organization will sometimes support local chapter initiatives. However, sometimes the national organization also steps in to tell a local chapter to “knock it off” if they stray off course. In other words, the organization grants its chapters great latitude to serve their communities, but polices them to ensure they don’t become radicalized.

What have the Oath Keepers done to earn the “far right militia” label? In 2014, members of the Oath Keepers participated in a standoff with federal authorities at the Bundy ranch in Nevada. Cliven Bundy was in a conflict with the government over grazing rights for his cattle. He was eventually arrested and held in jail for nearly two years. In 2018, a federal judge declared a mistrial with prejudice — meaning Bundy could never be retried. The judge reached that decision because of what she called “flagrant prosecutorial misconduct.” The case was never decided on its merits, but in Bundy’s prosecution, the government displayed the very tyranny which the Oath Keepers have sworn to resist — and which their critics claim doesn’t exist.

In 2015, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO triggered widespread rioting. The Oath Keepers provided protection to store owners from vandals and looters, after the police refused to do so. They were doing exactly what Asian shop owners did in 1992 after the Rodney King incident. Extensive news reporting claims that their presence alarmed the rioters. There’s no word on how the property owners felt about their presence. Apparently in 21st century America, the notion that people have a right to protect private property has become “extreme.”

In 2016, the Oath Keepers proved just how subversive they were — they endorsed Donald Trump for President. In his campaign, Trump pledged to fight against the corrupt elite, so it was a birds of a feather thing. But siding with the hated Trump against the corrupt elite, made Rhodes an enemy — at least of the corrupt elite.

After the election in 2020, Rhodes questioned the legitimacy of the election. His embrace of the “big lie” moved him and his organization firmly into the “threat to America” category, as judged by the Democrat party. He’s in good company. Over half of all Americans believe the election was affected by fraud.

Rhodes has also accused Joe Biden of being in the pocket of the Chinese government. Where could he have gotten that idea? Could it be because Joe shared an office with a Chinese businessman? Could it be that his son, Hunter, has had lucrative business dealings with the Chinese — and Hunter’s laptop has evidence that the “big guy” was getting 10 percent of the take? Could the fact that Hunter launched a new money for influence business after President Asterisk was inaugurated have given Rhodes that idea?

When one looks beyond the scare quotes, there has been nothing out of the mainstream about the opinions or actions of the Oath Keepers. Unfortunately, to our leftist dictator wannabes, “mainstream” has come to mean “extreme.”

As for the indictment of Stewart Rhodes and his fellow travelers: the DoJ claims that they intended to conduct an armed paramilitary operation on January 6, 2021 to interfere with official congressional business. There are a couple of hurdles the government will need to overcome in prosecuting that case:

• None of the Oath Keepers were armed on January 6

• No paramilitary operation was conducted on January 6

The Feds are going to need to answer a couple of tricky questions for the jury. How do they know what the Oath Keepers intended to do? If they intended to conduct an armed insurrection, why didn’t they? Given the FBI’s lost credibility, and the DoJ evolution to being a political enforcer, whatever evidence they have will not be presumed accurate, but will be subjected to extensive vetting.

As the financial guys say: Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior. So, what have the Oath Keepers done in the past? They’ve defended the property rights of private citizens, protested an election that half of America thinks was stolen, and accused Biden of being a Chinese puppet. Stewart Rhodes must have learned a thing or two about the Constitution at Yale Law. All of his organization’s past activities have been entirely consistent with the Constitution — freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, property rights, and government by the people. Unfortunately, we live in an America in which one of the two political parties believes those positions are extreme. The issue isn’t the Oath Keepers. The issue is our current political environment.

I don’t find the past performance of the Oath Keepers to be particularly alarming. However, I find the past performance of our government to be extremely alarming. There have clearly been subversive activities going on in America, but the Oath Keepers aren’t the only suspects. We don’t know what the Oath Keepers actually did, or didn’t do, on January 6. Given the recent behavior of the FBI, the DoJ, and the propaganda ministry, I’ll withhold judgment until the evidence has been thoroughly vetted. I’m not taking the government’s word for anything.

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The Great Reset(s)

 
By Anna Von Reitz

Very briefly, no, I don’t think Joshua was ever a Baal priest. I think he was misrepresented as such, in much the same way that we have all been misrepresented as Wards of the State, as Cestui Que Vie Trusts, as Special Purpose Vehicles, Public Transmitting Utilities, and so on.

The responsibility for this is on the Liars Club, not him.

Those of you who have followed along also know that 1100 years were edited out of our history during or soon after the First Council of Nicea.

As a result our clock is off by more than a few minutes. This circumstance requires us to “Reset” everything and when we go digging, we find that the world is not going end in the legal sense. It’s going to reset, instead.

The economies of the Ancient World functioned according to the lunar calendar — and so, every seven years there is a Silver Jubilee of debt forgiveness, and a Golden Jubilee of Debt Forgiveness takes place after seven times seven (49 years) Silver Debt Jubilees.

And then, there is also a Great Reset once every 2160 years to mark the change of the Precessional Age.

The Fixed Stars were used by the Ancients as God’s clock—- a very different time system than what we use now, but still valid and accurate.

Because of Saint Jerome, we still know and can read the infinite selection of spatial time templates — we just have to add 1100 years and look at the fixed stars overhead.

Doing this reveals where we are.

So Jesus was teaching in the middle of the Age of Pisces, not the beginning or the end.

And then we just count backward to the Age of Sagittarius and discover that the Sons of Saturn that we are wrestling now, came here approximately 17,000 years ago.

And we also know, thanks to St. Jerome, that so far as the stars are concerned, we are advancing into the Age of Aquarius.

No matter what men do to mess things up, the Fixed Stars remain.

When a New Age begins, it’s important enough to have its own “reset” which is known as The Day of Reckoning. In Egyptian Magic, this is the day known as “the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord”.

Once every two thousand one hundred and sixty years The Book of Life is opened and The Book of the Dead is opened, too. The people are judged according to their Law and the persons are judged according to their law—— and a great deal of sifting and winnowing takes place.

This is also known as Judgment Day, but as it only happens once every two thousand years we humans don’t tend to think about it much. Our chances of being around on that particular day are pretty remote.

However, there are Gatekeepers on the Earth who calculate the times and the seasons and the “signs” of this phenomenon, and about 200 years prior to their Best Guess date they begin to prepare for—- you guessed it—- the Great Reset.

During a Great Reset, everything changes. The world stage we live on is changed, we are changed, and much is swept away, waiting to be reborn.

It is quite clear that the Day of Judgment tends to be disruptive and violent, with each one judged according to their ways. Only those who appear in the Book of Life remain and are allowed to stay.

Sometime around 1809 something happened, something so odd and universal that everyone “forgot” the front page story.

Preparation for the Great Reset began.

So don't let these Fakirs fool you when they talk about the "Great Reset". It has precious little to do with money, except for settling who owes what. The Great Reset is a reference to the Eternal Clock presented by the Fixed Stars. It is the necessary change to accommodate new energies, new values, new everything as the Precessional Age clicks backward into place.

The more open-minded, compassionate, humorous, and free-spirited you can be, the easier this change will be. Love, not grim discipline, is the keynote of this Age. Exploration, curiosity, and inventiveness reign supreme. Sudden inspiration, synchronicity, generosity, and joy are your inheritances.

Don't be afraid. Remember that perfect love drives out all fear, and if you love this planet and you love your country and you love other people with an open heart, this transition will be like coming home to you.

Remember when you were a kid and you'd come home from school and run to get out of your school clothes and into your play clothes? It's time to put on the play clothes, because what comes after this is happy and relaxed. Look forward to that and attune yourself to that vision of where we are meant to be, happy as children at play.

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The Truth About Atlantis and Atlanteans

 By Anna Von Reitz

The Atlanteans were an advanced slavery-based society that invaded the Mediterranean at about the same time as King David ruled in Israel, circa 10,000 BC.

Their original home was a volcanic atoll of islands strewn along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Today, the modern Azores are all that remains. The rest of the islands were destroyed by earthquakes and subsequent volcanic activity.

We know that they were related to and traded with the early Carthaginians and the Dwarka Civilization of India. We know that they had advanced metallurgy, ceramics, and polymers. They were also able to navigate and map the world using magnetic ley lines to establish east-west spatial parameters.

The ruins of their pyramids and great stone works scatter the sea floor from the coast of Nova Scotia to Cuba and beyond. Above ground, a series of distinctive round stone forts, all placed on ley lines, marked their outlying trading posts; a very few of these have continued to be used and have been built upon, so that you can still get a faint idea of their distinctive, odd, architecture.

For all their technological advancement, the Atlanteans violated the Law of Free Will, just like their modern counterparts. They were known to use deceit in their business dealings, and worst of all, had a habit of enslaving their neighbors.

When they invaded the Mediterranean, they enslaved and brutalized the people living there and carried many away to work on plantations and in mines. They were cruel masters and had no regard for life. The picture that emerges is of a piratical race enriching itself via violence, racketeering, theft, and trade.

The slaves created a large underclass similar to the Untouchables in India. Above them, were castes of merchants, military officials, and priests, with the priests occupying the pinnacle of the Atlantean social order--- again, similar to the Brahmins of India.

These similarities and various cultural artifacts in common with the Dwarka civilization suggest that there were cultural ties to India in distant ages. Deep and murky waters along the Atlantic Ridge, and lack of sufficient profit prospects have meant that comparatively little effort has been expended to explore the wreckage of their culture despite enduring popular interest.

Though we have been told that Atlantis was just a myth, in the same way that we have been told that King Arthur and Jesus (Joshua) are myths, the basic facts about Atlantis have been known since at least the 15th century, and probably never really "lost" at any time.

Rather than being lost, they weren't liked, and despite all their riches and technology, once their islands sank beneath the waves, there was little reason to make Herculean efforts to retrieve whatever riches may have remained.

In the end, Athens stood alone against the Atlantean invaders, and won; but, in a story reminiscent of the Hebrews crossing the Red Sea, their army was "swallowed up by the Earth" soon after the victory.

One has visions of a giant mudslide or cataclysmic liquefaction caused by a severe earthquake, or both: "and they were swallowed up by the Earth, both man and beast". It's clear that the Atlanteans were associated with black magic, bad luck, evil omens, and shifty practices, which again discouraged any would-be investigators who might otherwise poke around their fallen kingdom.

They seem to be a people who, during their time on Earth, served themselves and little else.

There are no surviving records or commentaries about their religion other than the fact that they had priests called "Soloms" ---- same root word as the name Solomon and "solemn" --- and nothing to explain their odd practice of keeping women sequestered together in large communal houses apart from the male population for most of the year.

There are a great many things about the Atlanteans that we may never know, but one thing we do know for a certainty is that they did exist. Whatever else, they do not belong to the realm of myth, and there have always been scholars, mostly Roman Catholic scholars, who have known that.

Why didn't they speak up?

Good question.

Was there some benefit to keeping quiet?

We regularly talk about and discover new Ancient Civilizations. We talk about the Babylonians, Sumerians, Akkadians, Hittites, Mycenaean Greeks, Persians, and so many, many more vanished peoples. What's one more? Why is the cloak of secrecy drawn over the fate of the Atlanteans? So much so that they have to be relegated to the realm of myth?

Given the fact that the Atlanteans prospered themselves by enslaving others, and that they had sophisticated means of managing large slave populations, it may simply be that the Roman Church adopted these methodologies to promote its own Slave Empire.

If so, the reason that we have been kept ignorant about Atlantis is easy enough to understand.

It's the same reason being used to Deep Six thousands of technology patents: they are regarded as trade secrets vital to National Security Interests --- never mind which "nation" is being referenced, nor how the Toadies are serving their own interests by suppressing new technologies.

Growing up in this weird world we live in, too many of us have been cowed down and shamed and subjected to guilt, by men whose moral compass went South centuries ago. We've been shamed into not asking questions, not pursuing answers, and told by those in positions of authority that it's not our business, that we are entertaining fantasies, that we are "Conspiracy Theorists" or whatever other label they attach to us.

Finally, the wall of silence is being breached. Things that can't be talked about are being talked about, anyway. And as we do this, we are here to witness the brittle lies all crumbling away.

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Dark Night or Misty Morning

 By Anna Von Reitz

This past week I have received all sorts of strange correspondence, including several letters from Satanists cackling with glee over the thought that my faith has been destroyed and taking great pleasure in the pain and damage they’ve caused by corrupting the churches.  

But wait….

Let me explain….

Soren Kierkegaard is a Danish philosopher most famous for mapping out what he called “the dark night of the soul” — the existential crisis and experience of the Abyss, that all those who truly love must face.  

I read Kierkegaard as a college Freshman. I sat in the back row and listened to my classmates as they struggled to comprehend what he was even talking about.  

They had never been in the Abyss, where all lights fail.  They had no context for his words. 

But I knew it all well-enough even then.  

As a young woman I watched my beloved Father die a day at a time, very slowly, very painfully, over the course of fifteen years.  The only certainty in my life was the inevitability of his death and all the questions I had to ask of our Creator were fundamentals: 

Why do you allow such suffering when you could end it?  

Why do you allow disease while you express perfection?  

Why should such a good man suffer and the wicked prosper?  

What is the use of living, if it only ends like this? 

I sat in the back of the classroom, hunched into my chair, swaddled in the Abyss.  It had become a familiar darkness.  I said nothing at all.  

There was no shoulder to cry on.  No security at all. I was fully cognizant of being alone in my own private despair being torn apart by unanswerable questions. 

At the end of the class I trudged wearily homeward through the dying landscape of autumn.  I listened, but there were no answers.  

Very well, then, I thought, I do not need a God with no answers.  I felt like a fool, caught believing in nonsense, asking the empty air for answers to unanswerable questions. 

Why did it have to be my Father stricken with this loathsome disease?  

Why not some venal, selfish, violent scum of a man instead?  

Is there some mathematical Quotient of Suffering that must be met and extracted like a tax from Mankind?  

And even when the suffering ends, the physical suffering, that is —- what then?  

Then all searing memories remain like a branding iron on your brain, marking you forever. 

I was eighteen.  I had, though I didn’t know it, seven more years of this dread and agony to endure, this numbness of emotion, this Abyss to cross through.  

Encased in its grip I had little care for earthly things.  All the niceties of conversation and the company of other young people, all of it seemed stilted, uncomfortable, and meaningless.  

I wanted to stop talking about mundane things and shout the news, “Hey, listen, you Dumb @$&/)$@s!  We are dying.  Every moment we live we are dying!” 

I didn’t even notice the sudden appearance of my College Mentor on the deserted Quadrangle. If I had looked up and seen him, I would have been grimly amused. 

He was a man who had it all, for he was healthy and handsome and rich, the perfect wife, the perfect house, the perfect life. Even perfect kids.  And all the other students he mentored that dark autumn were, more or less perfect, too.   

I never once imagined that he had anything of value to offer me, the Black Sheep, the Token German awash in a sea of healthy, happy Scandinavians, Ole and Lena jokes, and Team Spirit.  

Though I didn’t know it at the time, he had glanced out his office window and seen me making my slow and dismal progress across the vast expanse of dead soggy leaves and dying grass.  

I didn’t know that he had thrown on his coat, a great flapping British raincoat, and rushed down the stairs two at a time to intercept me. 

I almost walked into him, I was so lost in my own thought.  

When I did finally look up, he was within arm’s reach. My glance shot upward and to my amazement I saw tears running down his face, just before he caught me up in a bear hug. He cradled my head against his chest and wept hard enough that I could feel his sobs.  

“We have two kinds of students here,” he said hoarsely.  “All the innocent Norwegian farm kids, and those who are jaded early in life by the suffering they have already known.” 

No need to ask which group I belonged to. 

“Come on,” he said, “it’s cold and starting to rain. I’ll drive you home.” 

So began one of those friendships that you never can predict and which, from the outside, makes no earthly sense.  

Slowly, like an anchor dragging behind a ship, he brought me back to the normal world, up and out of the Abyss. 

That was my first plunge into existential crisis; it was hardly my last.  From time to time I have been taken away into the Primal Darkness and wondered how I could return again?  

Through it all, each and every time, I have been resurrected as someone new and made better by the experience.  

We are all on a hero’s quest to be the masters of our own lives.  I suppose the Satanists are, too, just approaching the Crux of Creation from a different point of view.  

This latest realization about Baal Worship embedded in the Church is another hammer blow among many, and yes, the familiar Abyss may gather round me, but remember that  I have traversed the Abyss many times. 

Always, I emerge from the Refiner’s fire, a stronger, wiser, and better version of myself, more at peace, more alive.  

No pain, no gain, they say—- all such knowledge comes with a price.  But I affirm that a faith built on falsehoods is no faith worth having.  And this bitter pill, too, shall pass. 

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Britain and Japan Both Nix The Narrative

 By Anna Von Reitz

People have been waiting for the domino to take down The Big Lie.

Britain's announcement that Mandates, Mask Mania, and Vax Passports are not going to be part of Britain's future came today, with Boris Johnson appearing briefly before Parliament to make the public disclosure ---and being met with applause.

Japan's action exiting the Weird World of Media-Caused Delusion came a couple weeks earlier and without much fanfare. They simply banned all the hoop-la and slapped a myocarditis warning on all remaining supplies.

Britain and Japan join Spain and several other countries, mostly small but wise African nations, that saw the light and smelled the rats much earlier on.

And now, it's just a matter of time before the rest of the world shakes awake and rejects the whole Pandemic Narrative.

That said, it's too little and too late.

Hundreds of thousands have already died and hundreds of thousands more will die because of this madness. Someone has to pay for that.

The politicians can't be allowed to shrug and pawn it off on their politicized "scientific" advisors. They all have cause to know that health, even Public Health, is a subject beyond the reach of any Constitution, or any private work-for-hire contract.

The courts have, on average, performed better than one might expect, having quashed many of the most oppressive over-reaches of the politicians. One might suspect that their fear of the Public has been aroused, which is a good thing.

The military, as usual, has insisted on viewing the world through a fish-eye lens, with everything distorted into endless arguments about the limits of military power and the rights of corporations to impose their private policies and "laws" on their employees in defiance of the Public Law of this country.

Does any such corporate omnipotence right exist? No, it does not. And that is another Big Question arising from The Big Lie that needs to be answered with a cannonade and 21-gun salvo right up the rumps of all the petty bureaucrats who stood by and took part in this horrifying debacle.

The military, at least the Marine Corps, seems to be genuinely confused about the rejection of their religious exemption claims. They should assign a few people to read my archives.

Then they would learn that when they join the military they waive their Constitutional guarantees and if they don't serve Notice of their return to their birthright political status after their Tour is done, they remain obligated to obey Federal Code and have no access to the Constitutional Guarantees they fought for.

Nice, huh?

But there is this much to say --- there is a silver lining to being abused as underpaid mercenaries and misidentified as British Territorials for 160 years.

Americans know how to fight and once we get a clear view of what motivated the Plandemic and who is responsible for it, the end of this sordid chapter of our history is sure.

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