THE ORIGIN OF THE STAR OF DAVID: Not occultic after all

I did some posts some time ago on occultic symbols such as the symbol at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul that had some kind of strange effect on me from just seeing it, also the Triquetra which has a similarly strange effect, and also the Star of David, which interestingly does not have that kind of effect on me although I understood at the time that it has a similarly occultic origin. The lack of such an effect on me is interesting -- to my mind anyway -- since it turns out it may not have an occultic origin after all. (I'm sure others think my having any kind of identifiable feeling in response to a mere symbol is crazy or evidence of theological error, but oh well. I'm just reporting on my experience for whatever it's worth. I think it could be the supernatural gift of discerning of spirits, but I realize that such gifts are not supposed to be given to us these days and for the most part I've accepted that idea.)

Now today Chris Pinto on today's radio show has uncovered another way of understanding the Star of David that is far more satisfying (since I'd really rather not think of Israel as flying a flag with an occultic symbol on it).

This explanation goes back to Prague in the year 1648 when they came up with the symbol as a way of honoring the Jewish people for their service to the nation in fending off an attack by the Swedes. It was Jesuits whose research established the symbol and it's based on the Hebrew letter "D" for "David" which was in its archaic form a triangle. It's made up of two "D"s for the first and last letter of the name David. It was originally called the Shield of David, rather than the Star of David, and when and how it became the Star of David is apparently unknown. All this is according to the research of historian Israel Shahak.

This makes a lot of sense it seems to me and is simply a lot more satisfying explanation than the notion that it had an occultic origin.

Are you an Extra-Terrestrial waking up to your Mission?

How is it possible for people to come to believe that human beings were originally extra-terrestrials? I've just found another version of this rather popular New Age idea. There seem to be many versions but they share many similarities. One version has "ancient astronauts" having come to this planet in ancient times to "seed" it with life including human beings, coming back in recent times to see how we're doing and offer us their superior wisdom for dealing with our problems.

This one I just became aware of addresses people as if they believe that they were originally extra-terrestrials themselves. Now the planet is "evolving" away from its problems and the awakening or awakened ones are being addressed by "Mission Control" concerning their mission, which supposedly they signed up for back when, although they've forgotten that as well as everything else about their origins. The mission involves "birthing" the planet "into the light," and "becoming your own Messiah."

The mission isn't all that clear to me, kind of rambles around a number of vaguely related concepts, nor am I able to digest the implication that ALL human beings are unawakened extra-terrestrials although only some are "evolving" or awakening to their mission. Not that it matters really. The whole thing is a fiction designed to lure vulnerable souls into some sort of demonic trap. There are always those who are flattered as the ones "in the know" in such a scenario as opposed to those outside, poor stupid unevolved unenlightened unawakened things, like Muggles. Obviously anyone who is attracted to this kind of story is someone they want to reach for purposes of deepening the indoctrination, the rest aren't accessible to them anyway.

Here is a video that apparently presents the gist of a book titled ET 101 that purports to be an instruction manual for people who have discovered they are really extra-terrestrials on a mission. It's written by Diana Luppi with an "entity" called Zoev Jho, who on one website I found she says is really just herself under another name, and "Mission Control." The book is described as having a lot of humor, which is unusual for this kind of thing. There is a bit of this in the video, but there are of course people who will find the whole thing laughable anyway.

Toward the end of the video there is a picture, with no explanation given, of a typical New-Age sort of mandala thing with a spiral in the middle, reminiscent both of the yin-yang symbol and two sixes intertwined (instead of the usual three), which reminds me of the Seoul Korea figure among other things. At the end of the video the reader is whimsically told to prepare for the Second Coming, because "you're it," and "you are the Second Coming." News to me of course and any of the rest of us who are waiting for Christ's soon return (or the Rapture, followed by the short-lived reign of the Antichrist whom the deluded will accept as the Christ).

Then goes on to say:

Mission Control does not wish to stay on this topic very long because we are aware of the charge that surrounds it due to 2,000 years of organized denial.

Hm. "Organized denial." Righto, poison the well any way you can. Wouldn't want to stay on this topic TOO long because the truth might penetrate the misty clouds in the head of some wannabe ET that Jesus Christ is coming back and blow the delusion to bits. The only "organized denial" here is this statement that implies our expectation of 2,000 years is false. Denial, anyway, whether "organized" or not.

For this reason we will give you only one more helpful hint: Become your own Messiah -- why wait?

Yeah, that's going to do you a LOT of good, to usurp the position of the true Messiah who alone has the power to save you from this very sort of lying demonic seduction with its sweet-sounding music and its pretty images.

Here's the website for ET 101. And here's its self-identifying statement:

“The Old World's systems are in collapse. Those who wish to continue in those systems will be graciously asked to leave, because their motivator, fear, is being relocated to another planet where its subdivisions are still welcome.

In fulfillment of Native American prophecies, intergalactic and interdimensional forces have gathered on this planet at this time to liberate her in the name of Spirit.

The Earth has elected to evolve beyond limitation; however, anyone who opts to explore that process further is free to do so — just not on this planet. Such people will be allowed to continue their experiments with limitation on some other piece of planetary property that is at a less advanced stage in its evolution.

This is the most critical moment of change in this planet's history, and your assistance in that change is vital.”

Get right to the point, don't they? If we don't agree with them, off with us! Who's in charge here? THEM! Whoever they are. THEY want to "liberate" "this planet" from US, it looks like to me. "The Earth has elected..." to evolve beyond "limitation." The Earth itself can "elect" something? Of course those of us who are addicted to "limitation," whatever that is -- us poor unevolved Muggle sorts you know -- and those of us who experience fear (of what? Them perhaps?) are no longer welcome here. But we are merely being "graciously asked" to leave, not forced -- so I recommend a rebellion. Prayer for starters.

Of course Christians in particular are targeted by such a devil-inspired message -- clearly there is no God in this scenario, just wise ones from outer space -- but there are countless others who aren't interested in their program either. Christians MIGHT be taken away in the Rapture -- I'm still not convinced one way or the other about this -- and that would require all these demonic entities and their human followers to have an explanation. So they could explain our disappearance as a necessary -- graciously requested -- relocation due to the fact that we are so much less "evolved" than this planet deserves.

There seem to be quite a few of these demon-inspired notions of taking some people off the planet going around these days, mostly in connection with this sort of New Age or UFO-inspired drama. Suggests that perhaps THEY believe in the Rapture, or are at least hedging their bets just in case. But what about the nonChristians who don't accept this demonic nonsense but won't be raptured? If anything like this scenario does start unfolding THEY are going to have plenty of fear, but they'll still be here although fear is supposed to be a disqualifier. (How clever of them to smear their opponents with the accusation of "fear.")

They have a handy Census Form so you can identify yourself according to your extraterrestrial level or something like that:

ET CENSUS FORM - English
1a. I AM:

An Extraterrestrial Master
A member of the Angelic Hosts
A Council, Federation, Alliance and/or Command member
An Interdimensional Adept, Master or Lord
A member of the Special Forces
A Group Soul posing as many human beings
All of the above
All of the above except
Other (please specify below)

Do note: They invite the person to identify as "I AM" in all caps, the name of God Himself. This is also a popular blasphemy these days. There is no God, it's just us -- and Them, whoever they are, but we know they are on our side, they are really the source of all the God ideas, but stupid people misidentified them, you know, us Muggle types, unevolved types, unawakened, unenlightened, whatever.

If you read on you will find a section of humorous comments on the claims of this website, apparently submitted by various readers, that they allow you to check -- in case you are of that turn of mind, meaning you aren't one of Them, who are the only ones they want to reach anyway:

Feel free to beam me up. There really isn’t any intelligent life down here.

This planet is in no shape for an evolutionary leap. It couldn’t even withstand an evolutionary hop, and I advise immediate reconsideration of the entire plan.

I don’t remember signing up for this mission. If I did, is there any such thing as a discharge? Dishonorable is fine with me.

I believe I have struck upon a better planetary transition plan which does not require my direct participation. Can we talk?

I live in Wilton, Connecticut and have mistaken my portfolio for my identity. Is there any possibility of me and my portfolio being restationed at this point?

It's very tempting to dismiss this sort of thing with humorous remarks (and they are cute, aren't they?), as just another crackpot delusion, but I have to say that there's enough of this out there now, and enough people who take it seriously, as well as Christian exposes on versions of it, that it's foolish just to dismiss it as a delusion. It IS a delusion but it's a demon-orchestrated delusion and demons are very real.

So all this must be part of the End Times drama the devil is setting up behind the scenes these days, trying out this and that perhaps, seeing what will float. The purpose has to be among other things to bring his demonic hordes onto the planet in huge numbers.

People ARE asleep about these things, including Christians who ought to know better.

The video says that "they" aren't permitted to invade, they must earn their right to alter this planet. Apparently they are succeeding. Simply gaining the consent of people they've deceived acts as an invitation and the conferring of the right they seek.

I have to assume that people can still be saved out of this kind of demonic delusion. Sometimes I just pray that people learn that "Whosoever calls on the Name of the LORD shall be saved." Of course they have to believe in that Name.

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Mon 4/18: Another New Age concept related to the above is the "walk-in." This is a term I encountered as far back as the 80s or maybe even 70s as people advertised themselves by it in New Age tabloids. After I became a Christian in the mid-eighties I recognized that there was only one way to understand it: demon-possessed people -- IF of course they weren't just pretending to be something they weren't.

I looked it up this morning and found a Wikipedia article on it that traces it to the Seth books that became cult favorites in the 70s, books that were "channeled" by spirits through Jane Roberts, and goes on to discuss many popular versions of the idea.

The whole thing is about demon possession, the channeling of the concept, the concept itself.

How did America get demon-possessed? There were always such phenomena in the West, though in isolated pockets for the most part, and the Wikipedia article mentions earlier versions of it. There was a rather large movement in the 19th century in the theosophists and other spiritualists which seem to have come out of the degeneration of Christianity in formerly Puritan New England, with their seances and sometimes a sort of Christianized spirit talk. Henry James' novel, The Bostonians, has such phenomena as the background for the feminist movement -- in the character of a girl whose "faith healer" father induces a trance in her and invites the "spirit" to come to her in order for her to speak her feminist message. James also wrote The Turn of the Screw which is frankly about demonic manifestations (only people who refuse to believe in such things could interpret it any other way) and was generally fascinated with this sort of theme.

I had an aunt who dabbled in versions of spiritualism, for a while very involved in the teachings of Edgar Cayce who was known as a healer -- no doubt in my mind that he heard from spirits; she was also interested in the earlier gurus who came to America, Swami Vivekananda for instance, Paramahansa Yogananda for instance, later got very involved in a spiritualist movement called Subud. She also loved the Antichrist poet, Khalil Gibran. She eventually became a born-again Christian. So I had some awareness of this sort of thing from her before I encountered it in other forms later.

It all seems to have multiplied enormously in the 70s. There was a massive influx of Eastern religions during that time, and religions with a shamanistic background which invites demon possession. Various channeled teachings became popular. Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan became big then. The earlier Beatniks had embraced Buddhism and that was continuing to grow in popularity -- a friend of mine began to practice Zen during the 70s and went on to become a priestess. The Beatles had brought in Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his pseudo-scientific Transcendental Meditation, and two couples of my acquaintance went on to become TM adepts and leaders. Various other Hindu gurus had their followings.

This no doubt deserves a post of its own when I can get around to it.

Later: Adding This link for further pondering.

And one on earlier Hindu influences in America.

And here's Christian researcher Caryl Matrisciana on Eastern religions and the New Age. And here's another part of the same interview..

Ai yi yi yi yi: I wonder how many are involved in this sort of thing already? Here's a video of what seems to be a little club of channelers of messages from the spirit world, treating it as quite commonplace, none of the old spooky stuff or hocus pocus about it. They get these messages from demonic spirits and accept them utterly uncritically, apparently just because they come from spirits, blind to any danger to themselves or any possibility that they are being deceived. The Delusion just keeps growing and spreading.

"Star of David" occultic symbol -- also American dollar bill occultic?

I REALLY REALLY REALLY didn't want to get as deep into certain facets of end times possible scenarios as I've been doing lately, but perhaps I should. Perhaps more of it is necessary information in these last days than I've supposed. I continue to listen to Scott Johnson these days, mostly older talks I hadn't heard before, and I continue to be persuaded by him. I was very put out at him over the Bohemian Grove and similar topics, and still am -- the evidence for claims about particular US leaders in those contexts is just not there. If he'd seen through Alex Jones and Cathy O'Brien I'd have taken him more seriously, but apparently he uncritically accepted what both of them say.  {Feb 6, 2013 update:  Since I wrote this I've heard others on the Bohemian Grove who are more convincing, such as Chris Pinto and Charlotte Iserbyt, and have to take back what I said here.  Apparently the Bohemian Grove IS connected with the One World Order people, and so is Skull and Bones.  At times Scott Johnson has a way of emotionally asserting things without supplying convincing enough evidence for me.}

Yet there does seem to be some pretty good evidence for some kind of conspiracy of wealthy leaders, and I have to decide if I should get into all that or not. I really really don't WANT to, I hate the idea, but if it's about what I SHOULD do, well, that's going to need some thinking. I've found some books on aspects of this question to consider buying, to keep on reserve while I think about it. I would hope to find the very best documented source. One reviewer claims that it's possible for the people to defeat such plots if we know about them. It's hard to turn your back on a claim like that.

My usual feeling is defeatist, which is the main reason I don't want to get into the subject. I can pray against such things but practical resistance against them doesn't seem feasible. They've got all the money and if they also have a malevolent will, if they want to bring down governments and set up a One World Socialist Government and Pagan Religion and have the financial clout to manipulate things in that direction, all I can think is that it will be very interesting to see what the LORD says to them on Judgment Day, but between now and then they rule. It might not have to be so, if we Christians were living in the power we surely have been given, but generally speaking we aren't.

A bit of a cockeyed preamble there, I suppose, to a completely different topic, the Six-Pointed "Star of David." I listened to Johnson's two talks on that subject and I'm convinced, it's an ancient pagan symbol associated with occultic powers and ought to be avoided like the plague. It certainly never had anything to do with King David; it MIGHT have been used by Solomon in his apostasy due to his many pagan wives; but it was never associated with Judaism until the late Middle Ages, through a teacher of the occultic Kabbalah.

There is, however, a history to it that the Bible touches on, as it is what is indicated by the "star of Remphan" that is mentioned in the Book of Acts, reported by Stephen in recounting the wilderness wanderings of the Israelites, when they went astray into idolatry.

Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

The Jews adopted it as their national symbol in all innocence but they need to wake up. The menorah should be on their flag, not this star of witchcraft that goes back to the worship of pagan gods like Moloch and is used in Kabbalistic and modern witchcraft as well. On the other hand, perhaps it is the most appropriate symbol for their current apostate situation whether they are aware of its connotations or not.

[August 17, 2012: Whole different explanation of the Star of David has come out as reported by Chris Pinto on his radio show today, which I posted on as well.]
I haven't yet convinced myself about the question of whether there is such a thing as "cursed objects" of which a Christian should be aware. It's easy to get a sort of superstitious feeling about this but I really would like to know if it's something to be concerned about. I don't even want a copy of The Watchtower in my place, which one of my neighbors goes around handing out. If there is such a thing as a cursed object that's certain to be, but my feeling is mostly superstitiousness, not a sense of certainty about it. There are, however, some hair-raising online stories about cursed objects. It's definitely something to think about.

But it may be another question whether a symbol like this star is in the same category, anyway. Does it exert any power over those who wear it or revere it? As I wrote in an earlier post I've had some definitely strange reactions to a couple of occultic symbols so I believe there's more to them than lines on paper, but I'm not sure exactly what. I've never had that reaction to the six-pointed star, however, although I can't say I LIKE it either.

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Here's an example of its use in occult practices. This represents the two sides of the Talisman of Saturn.

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P.S. Drat. He goes on from a pretty good study of the hexagram, with good evidence, into the familiar highly questionable analysis of the dollar bill as festooned with Masonic occultic symbology. I'm not going to say it's all wrong, I don't know (I mean I don't know how intentional all the aspects of it are -- it's possible for images to have unintended meanings), and it can certainly be shown that there was a lot of Masonic influence in the founding of the nation, but the usual explanations for the dollar bill in this case are just as compelling: The nation was founded when there were thirteen colonies, which became the first thirteen states of the union. That explains quite well enough why that number appears in the Great Seal in so many forms. The original flag had thirteen stars and thirteen stripes as well for the same reason. The thirteen stripes are still there to commemorate the founding states.

Also, the New World Order reference, Novus Ordo Seclorum, or however that goes, DOES refer to the founding of this unique nation among nations, an intentional nation not based on dynasties and kings. It's a fair rendering of its meaning. And I'd add, does the US look like it's clamoring to be part of a One World Order? Seems to me most of us fight that idea more strenuously than any people anywhere else. We have some misguided leaders who don't mind the idea, traitors that they are, but not the people.

One very far-fetched claim, it seems to me, is that you can draw a hexagram over the pyramid and get letters that refer to things Masonic. It's a pretty bad hexagram, though, very unsymmetrical. You'd think if that was intentional they'd have designed it better.

So does this imagery represent the wickedest of the wicked as he claims, or perhaps just a bunch of symbology that mostly refers to the founding of the USA but also happens to have some Masonic influence in it?

I do have to add that I really don't like that pyramid and that eye and would rather they'd left that off. That part is most certainly Masonic in conception, no matter how they try to rationalize it away.

But if we were a Christian nation wouldn't the imagery have incorporated SOMETHING even just a little bit Christian instead of all this other stuff? I guess a cross is the only truly Christian symbol, though I wish I could think of another. An open Bible would have been nice on there, perhaps praying hands, or a picture of the Pilgrims with the Indians at the first Thanksgiving? How about Soli Deo Gloria for the motto? Solus Christus would make the cross unnecessary. THEN "In God we trust" would have some real meaning. But of course we couldn't put holy things on money, it would profane them. But the Seal should have something like that, shouldn't it? OK, how about a picture of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria on one side (oy, already I see problems with this one) and the Mayflower on the other along with the Thanksgiving feast and praying hands -- that's not too holy.

[November edit: Hey, of course! Put one of the paintings of the Constitutional Convention or a picture of the Constitution itself, or the Declaration of Independence, on the bill! Of course!]

Oh well, maybe the nation really is occultically Masonically compromised.

I guess that shouldn't be too surprising after all, though it is disappointing. The whole world is occultically saturated. The planets are all named after demon gods, as are the days of the week, while the months are named after various Caesars and other evil men. We name our space probes after such things too.

Maranatha, Lord Jesus.

Power in Occult Symbols

I commented in a recent post at Faith's Corner that I have a sensitivity to some symbols, that I experience as abrasive and repellent. It's the sort of information that belongs here better.

Actually, it's two symbols that have definitely affected me this way, the Triquetra:




and the symbol of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, which looks like this:




The Triquetra is called a Christian symbol and I first encountered it on the cover and front page of my New King James Bible. It always gave me a strange unpleasant sensation whenever I looked at it. Eventually I found out that it has occultic associations, which explained its effect on me, but because it's accepted as a Christian symbol, a representation of the Trinity, I tried to ignore its effect. We aren't to take our feelings as any kind of standard for truth, of course, so I criticized the feeling instead of the symbol. It was only in the last couple years when I came to recognize the falseness of all the Bibles that have come down from the Westcott and Hort revision of 1881 that I started to think this was about the Bible itself. Although the New King James Bible is based on the Greek Textus Receptus rather than the Westcott and Hort Greek text, it has thousands of translational changes in the English that do ultimately derive from W&H. Now I recognize that the sensation is actually a judgment of the Bible itself, probably an expression of the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits.

The other symbol, from the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, I first encountered while watching those games on TV that year. I hadn't been a Christian very long at that time, hadn't even been to a church as I had come to believe in Christ by reading books and was still reading even at that time. It was another year before I ventured to visit a church. I had a fairly good understanding of basic Christian theology because I'd done a LOT of reading, but I didn't have any notion about spiritual gifts at that point.

There are only a few events of the Olympics I enjoy watching but for some reason I had a boxing match on the screen some of the time, perhaps occasionally while flipping channels or waiting for some other event to come on. I don't remember, but the point is I wouldn't have been actually watching a boxing match, it had to be something that came up on the way to something else. Anyway, while the boxing event was going on and my eye was on the screen I would occasionally have the strangest sensation hit me. The words that occur to describe it are abrasive, ugly, loud, strutting or egomaniacal, angry, evil. It would come and go but I only experienced it with the boxing match. I started looking more intently at the screen to see what was causing it. The viewpoint moved around a lot, from one boxer to the other, from close shots to more distant shots, etc., and I soon recognized that I had that sensation only when the floor of the boxing ring was visible, and eventually I made out the image. I couldn't get a clear idea of it from the floor of the boxing ring so I looked for it on other events but oddly enough it wasn't easy to find, although it was the logo for the entire Olympics. Eventually I did get to see it fully. Whenever I saw it anywhere I got the same sensation from it.

What is this all about? I remember telling someone about it who simply flatly said symbols don't do that, but that it might be Satan playing with my mind. It was said in relation to the triquetra on the NKJV and the man was partial to the NKJV. I never got around to telling him about the Seoul symbol where his explanation makes no sense at all. The sensation was ONLY associated with the symbol when it was visible, and always then, however fleeting the image as the camera shots skipped around -- how would Satan pull that off? And what would be Satan's motive anyway to cause me to experience something like that toward what is probably a symbol from a demonic Korean religion? I now believe this sensation I get is because of the Holy Spirit in me.

It's interesting of course to think about the symbol in itself. It's like three sixes lying on their backs. It IS loud and sort of presumptuous in its design in a way too. There's something about the way the tails are drawn as if to trail off that's particularly unpleasant too -- not sure how to interpret that. Oh, maybe to give the impression of movement into the curled-up position?

The triquetra is also made up of three sixes.

I'm impressed with the ability of a mere symbol to radiate some kind of occultic power, and I have no doubt that's what this is. Whether the symbol itself has any power to INFLUENCE someone is another question. These don't influence me except to repel me.

But that's all I wanted to do with this post. Make of it what you will.