THE BOOK
THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND CELIBACY
Headline after headline --- paedophile Priests and the sexual abuse of the “faithful in their care”. The teachings of two great spiritual leaders that “the Church” ostensibly emulates -– the Apostles, Peter and Paul --- feature most strongly in Catholic Church doctrine. Peter, the “Rock”, upon which “the Church” was supposedly built; and the great scholar, Paul, from whom “the Church” derives its “Pauline philosophy”, seem to comprise the primary ethos of Catholic teaching, doctrine, and perhaps even ritual.
All that “Catholic authority” is supposedly the singular preserve of the Pope to begin with, and thence to numerous Cardinals and a multitude of priests. Proudly, and ostensibly-reverentially, “the Church”, over centuries of such “authority”, is now the object of adulation by over a billion “unthinking sheep”. That is how Catholicism displays itself to the world!
This is the question we ask: --- ”Have any of those more than one billion Catholic adherents --- including the Pope and his minions --- ever actually read the writings of Paul”? And can then say they really understand what he enjoined upon his followers?
On the subject of the “Catholic requirement” for a celibate Priesthood; clearly not; for if any of them had so read, there would never have arisen the notion that in order to serve God, priests had to be celibate. Why? Simple: Because Paul very pointedly told his followers not to emulate him, but to live a normal life. Serving God in the “right way” --- as Paul surely did --- is one thing; serving “the Church” --- as priests do today --- is an entirely different matter. So, reader: What does Paul actually say?
From the Fenton Bible: 1 Corinthians, 7-9; Under the Sub-Heading: The Law of Marriage and Divorce. ---------- (Emphases are mine.)
“Yet I wish all men to be even like myself; but each has his own gift from God --- one this way, and another that.
But for the unmarried men and the widows, it were well for them if they could remain as I myself; but if they have not self-restraint, they should marry; for to marry is better than to be feverish.”
Surely that is so simple that even a fool would have no trouble understanding Paul’s clear and very unequivocal “directive”. Being “feverish” is simply the very natural desire of the human body to seek expression in sexual intimacy in the fulfilment of Mother Nature’s “directive”. But, of course; right reason and right partner!
Over what must surely be centuries of abuse, we wonder how many of those “so abused” by paedophile priests committed suicide through feelings of “shame”! How many are “recorded to eternity” on the Catholic Church’s “Book of Life”?
If we connect Paul’s advice to the Book of Leviticus and its “lawful” condemnation of such practices, the history of Catholic paedophile priests clearly transgresses every single aspect of Divine Creation-Law. Yet “the Church” believes it possesses the highest degree of “religious authority”. Actually, that’s true. Religious “authority”, yes; but not Divine Authority!
It is nothing less than blatant, hypocritical hypocrisy when Catholic Church authorities protect paedophile priests, and/or hamper Police investigations into such heinous, totally aspiritual, practices. Man’s “inhumanity to man” has a counterpart here in Catholic Priests’ “inhumanity to children”. It is certainly not a case of the admonition of Jesus to: “Suffer the little children to come unto me.”
Do you know, reader; taking into account all the so-called “Bible study” that these kinds of people obviously undertake, and marrying that to the Laws of Life in the Book of Leviticus; what is very obviously lost on them are the clear warnings in the very Book they are supposed to take their behaviour from. Warnings such as:
“Nothing can be remitted you until you have atoned fully”; --- and this
one:
“Their works shall follow them.”
Oh dear; more “religion”? No: More of “The Law”! Surely some serious “stuff” is yet “waiting in the wings” for all such “good” Catholic priests.
The religion of Islam can at least pride itself on the fact that it would never countenance such practices --- from any person or group.
Everything has its time of ascendency, its plateau of power, but then its inexorable collapse. Now is the time of collapse of all that refuses to bow to the True Divine Laws of Creation. Reader, there you have it, in the real-time surfeit of daily news.
What does The Spirit of Truth say about our attitude to The ALMIGHTY in His All-Truth? And how should we human beings of earth down here in this World of Matter really relate to HIM?
From just one Lecture of The “All-Truth”, this is how it is in its Sublime Divinity!
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GOD
But I say to you that all Creation testifies that it is a necessary condition that you should draw near to God! Therefore he who evades this is not showing humility but, on the contrary, boundless presumption! It is equivalent to demanding that God should approach man, instead of man trying to approach God in order to recognise Him.
Wherever you look, wherever you listen, there is hypocrisy and indolence, all under the cloak of a false humility!
You, however, who no longer wish to sleep, who are fervently seeking and striving for the Truth, take note of this and seek to grasp it properly....
There is but one God, but one Power! What then is the Trinity? God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit?
When mankind shut themselves out of Paradise by no longer heeding the guidance of the intuitive perception, which is spiritual and therefore near to God, but freely chose to cultivate the intellect, subjecting themselves to it and thus becoming slaves of the tool given them to use, they naturally fell further away from God.
The cleavage occurred when humanity gave preference to worldly matters, which are unconditionally bound to space and time. This is alien to the nature of God, and therefore makes it impossible to comprehend Him.
The gulf became wider with each generation, and men chained themselves more and more exclusively to the earth. They became the earthbound intellectuals who call themselves materialists. They even do so with pride because they have not the faintest idea of how they are chained. Through being firmly bound to space and time it was natural that their horizons simultaneously became narrowed.
How could the way to God be found in such conditions?
It was impossible, unless help came from God! And He was merciful! God in His Purity could no longer reveal Himself to the debased intellectual human beings, because they were no longer capable of sensing, seeing or hearing His Messengers. Those few still able to do so were ridiculed because the materialists, with their limited horizon bound to space and time, rejected as impossible all thoughts of any expanse beyond that. Such a thing was quite inconceivable to them.
Therefore the prophets whose penetrative power was too weak, no longer sufficed, because even the fundamental thoughts of all religious movements had finally become purely materialistic.
Thus it was necessary that a Mediator between the Godhead and humanity should come, One endowed with greater power than all the others had possessed, so that He would be able to penetrate. Shall one say for the sake of the few, who in the midst of utter materialism, still longed for God? This would be right, but the adversaries would prefer to call it presumption on the part of the believers, instead of realising the Love of God as well as the strict Justice in it, offering redemption equally through reward and punishment.
For this reason God in His Love, through an act of His Will, severed a part of Himself and incarnated It in flesh and blood, in a physical body of male sex --- Jesus of Nazareth, who thus became the Incarnate Word, the Incarnate Love of God, the Son of God.
This was a process of radiation which will receive further explanation later.
Through this act, the severed but nevertheless closely- linked part became personal! Even after laying aside the physical body and re-uniting closely with God the Father, He still remained personal.
God the Father and God the Son are two, yet in reality only one!
And the “Holy Spirit”? Christ Himself said that sins against the God the Father and God the Son could be forgiven, but never against those committed against the “Holy Spirit”!
Does the “Holy Spirit” then stand higher or is It more than God the Father and God the Son? This question has occupied and worried many a soul and confused many a child.
The “Holy Spirit” is the Will of God the Father, the Spirit of Truth which, severed from Him, works separately in all Creation, and yet like the Love, in the form of the Son, remains closely connected with the Father and one with Him.
The inexorable Laws of Creation which spread through the whole Universe like a network of nerves and brings about the unconditional reciprocal action forming man’s fate or karma ... are of the “Holy Spirit” or, more explicitly, are the activity of the “Holy Spirit”!
That is why the Saviour said that no one may sin against the “Holy Spirit” unpunished, because through Its inexorable and immovable reciprocal action the retribution falls back on the originator, on the starting point, whether it be good or evil.
As the Son of God, Jesus, is of the Father, so also is the “Holy Spirit”. Both are parts of Him, belonging completely to Him, and inseparable from Him. They are like the arms of a body which can act independently, but still belong to the body if this is to be complete. Yet they can only carry out independent actions as a part of the whole.
Such is God the Father, in His Omnipotence and Wisdom! At His right hand, as a part of Himself, is God the Son Love; and on His left is God the “Holy Spirit”, Justice. They have both emanated from God the Father and belong to Him as a unity. This is the Trinity of the One God! ---------------
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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That is how it must be for us here on earth, if we are ever to have any possibility of reaching our true home! Reader, also especially note:
“...because the materialists, with their limited horizon bound to space and time, rejected as impossible all thoughts of any expanse beyond that. Such a thing was quite inconceivable to them.”
There is the clear indictment for all “materialists”, particularly those whose works lead many astray. So, reader; the prime question here is: Where did our narrowing human perceptions to the Truth of God actually begin and/or stem from?
We know that there must always be a correct answer to every question --- even if we might foolishly determine that there cannot be such. Thus, is it so in this case! What we will give you here is just the pointer to why.
Firstly, it has everything to do with the medically-puzzling phenomena of “enlarging baby crania” where ---- at least in the West –-- increasing numbers of births must be performed by caesarean, simply because the baby’s head will not fit through the particular mother’s pelvic girdle. Clearly, “mother nature’s evolutionism” ordinarily would not bring about such an aberrant development, so something else must have caused it.
Despite the actual reason being the oddest paradox, nonetheless, that is precisely so. Our clue to that lies in the following excerpt; here repeated from the earlier Lecture CONFLICT, featured in the Introductory Dissertation: A “Secondary” Mandate.
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
All the wonderful advances in neurology and “brain-mapping” that have so-improved the quality of human “earth-life” have resulted from the correct application of the very necessary human attribute of our intellect. It produces those things necessary for life on earth; cities in which to live, bridges, roads, transportation etc. etc. That is its purpose and its job, but in the end is directed “to purely earthly matters, and thus to the minutest part of real existence”.
And that is why in the case of the “enlarging baby cranium”, the intellectual approach to it provides no answers for the medical “experts”. That is the paradox! For the very thing that prevents medical “science” from recognising what “life” really is, is the very same thing that, over millennia, has incrementally caused the babies heads to grow inordinately larger than they are supposed to be at birth. The percentage mass of a baby’s head, as opposed to the percentage mass of an adult’s head, provides the clue for you, reader!
In that singular “mathematical” relationship lies the exact prime mechanism which has wrought the over-development of a completely non- empathetic part of us; our much-lauded and much-vaunted intellect. It is precisely that which has been the dominating contributing factor in our long and blood-soaked history of our ultimately inexcusable, yet still ongoing, legacy of our “Man’s Inhumanity to Man”!
Now, reader, in concert with that unfortunate and non-God-Willed “development”; earlier we looked at the primary errors and distortions that the “big three” of monotheism for over a thousand years constantly promoted as the correct teaching of Divine Truth. As a result, the bloodshed that ensued from an endless parade of religious wars to force belief to one “version” or another could never be calculated in its collective and immense blood-volume --- and in the end for what? Was it supposed to prove that “might is right”, when all “three” taught just distortion after distortion --- and still do to this day?
To that end, for the religion of Islam and the 1.5 + billion Muslims of the earth; the following words from the actual Spirit of Truth should seed, at the very least, deep concern. For here, in these words of Absolute Power, is Divine confirmation of the absolute “Sonship of God” --- the very denial of which, and upon which, Islam and all Muslims have staked their very belief and reason for “religious life” in His Creation! It thus becomes, in the final analysis for them therefore, the “end position”.
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
But, do you know what, reader; such is the believed “righteous rightness” of Muslims for “their religion”, that the notion of possible “deep concern” amongst them probably won’t even be considered. Thankfully, however, from the illuminating knowledge of The All-Truth, the detail of all facets of the sure outworking of Creation-Law on our human affairs and notions --- and of course transgressions against Perfect Divine Law --- can be found in the many Discourses of the main Work. Thus, much, much more is waiting to be revealed.
Of course, the confirmation that you have now been privileged to know is, in the end, not just for the “big three”. No: The same indictment hangs over the heads of all the religions of the world; those that believe “they possess” the highest Truth, and those who have hundreds of gods --- one for “every season”.
Now, whilst we have looked at the primary transgressions against Perfect Divine Law by the “big three”, and the narrow, constricted view of Creation by the cosmologists of primarily Western science, there is one other scientific discipline that we must examine in this Text, and that is anthropology --- early- man “stuff”.