Tuesday, October 21, 2014

More confusion from Pope Francis as the Diabolical Disorientation spreads


"So often [people ask]: 'But do you believe?': 'Yes! Yes! '; 'What do you believe in?'; 'In God!'; 'But what is God for you?'; 'God, God'. But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds ... This God spray does not exist!" - Pope Francis; See here.


In his powerful classic entitled, "The Flight from God," the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard writes: "In every age man has been in flight from God. What distinguishes the Flight to-day from every other flight is this: once Faith was the universal, and prior to the individual; there was an objective world of Faith, while the Flight was only accomplished subjectively, within the individual man. It came into being through the individual man's separating himself from the world of Faith by an act of decision. A man who wanted to flee had first to make his own flight. The opposite is true to-day. The objective and external world of Faith is no more; it is Faith which has to be remade moment by moment through the individual's act of decision, that is to say, through the individual's cutting himself off from the world of the Flight. For to-day it is no longer Faith which exists as an objective world, but rather the Flight; for every situation into which man comes is from the beginning, without his making it so, plainly a situation of flight, since everything in this world exists only in the form of the Flight." (The Flight from God, Gateway Editions, 1951, pp.1-2).

Picard goes on to explain in this critically important work that, "The man of the Flight cannot bear the feeling that there is one thing and one thing only: the Flight. He needs something wholly other, something, now threatening, now friendly, which is above him, like a heaven beneath which he can make his journey...This is Art...The very existence of Art in a sphere of its own already means that it is 'wholly other,' and from the beginning it is other than reality itself. The strange thing about Art is that a work of art is indeed made by man, but that once it is made it stands there independently of man. This gives it a semblance of otherness." (The Flight from God, pp. 138-139).

This is of the utmost importance for "modern man" as he flees from his God Who is Wholly Other. Nature abhors a vacuum after all. And so, in his flight from the Divine Other, man in the flight substitutes "Art" for the Divine Being as the Wholly Other." Picard explains that the cinema "..is the perfect Flight" and that here is where "men may learn how best to flee." For this reason, "..cinemas are everywhere erected, examples of the Flight. The figures on the screen are fashioned only for the Flight, they are disembodied. Like one in a hurry who drops his luggage, the figures have laid down their bodily substance somewhere in the background, while they themselves make off in the foreground of the screen, outlines only of their bodies. Sometimes they are still for a moment, looking backwards fearfully, as if there was one who pursued them. Alas, it is only a game, they do but pretend to be afraid. No one can reach them, these things without being. And now, as if they want to fool the one who pursues them, they move more slowly, they even translate a movement which ought o be fast into a slow one; they demonstrate slowness in the Flight, so sure are they that nothing can reach them, these things without being. Here in the cinema it is as if there were no more men, as if the real men were somewhere in safety, had for long been in safety, and as if these shadows had been left behind simply to flee in place of the real men. They only pretend to be in flight and even the men who sit in front of the screen in order to gaze at the shadows there seem nothing but dummies, arranged to complete the illusion,while the real men have long since departed." (pp. 8-9).

Dr. Von Hildebrand was right when he said that, "Modern man has lost that consciousness of being a creature which even the pagan possessed, and he lives in the illusion that by his own powers he can transform the world into a terrestrial paradise." (The New Tower of Babel, Sophia Institute Press, 1994, p. 21).

Having decided against God, "modern man" has embraced the Flight. This flight from the Divine Other has led to the decline of man's confidence in the powers of human reason to attain reality and truth. Man in the Flight has concluded today that all truth is relative. In the same way that Pilate asked Our Lord, "What is truth?" and hastened in his flight to the judgment-hall without waiting for an answer (John 18:38), so "modern man," in his embrace of relativism, joins the flight without any thought of inquiring for the truth. Instead, he settles for illusion, rejecting the permanent authority of truth as founded by the Divine Other in reality, reason and revelation while setting himself up as the autonomous source of all truth:"Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 675).

The Antichrist is behind the Flight, urging "modern man" to hasten in his Flight and not to look back. How will this Flight end? In the words of Romano Guardini:"One day the Antichrist will come: a human being who introduces an order of things in which rebellion against God will attain its ultimate power. He will be filled with enlightenment and strength. The ultimate aim of all aims will be to prove that existence without Christ is possible - nay rather, that Christ is the enemy of existence, which can be fully realized only when all Christian values have been destroyed. His arguments will be so impressive, supported by means of such tremendous power - violent and diplomatic, material and intellectual - that to reject them will result in almost insurmountable scandal, and everyone whose eyes are not opened by grace will be lost. Then it will be clear what the Christian essence really is: that which stems not from the world, but from the heart of God; victory of grace over the world; redemption of the world, for her true essence is not to be found in herself, but in God, from whom she has received it. When God becomes all in all, the world will finally burst into flower." (The Lord, p. 513).

Are we not approaching the Reign of Antichrist? "Modern man" strives to build a godless world where he is subject to no one but himself. Having eliminated God from this world, "modern man" deifies and absolutizes himself. Having rejected his place as a creature dependent upon God, "modern man" is moving, "..not toward divinity, but toward dehumanizing, toward the destruction of being itself through through the destruction of truth. The Jacobin variant of the idea of liberation...is a rebellion against being human in itself, rebellion against truth, and that is why it leads people - as Sartre percipiently observed - into a self-contradictory existence that we call hell." (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance, p. 248).





5 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.harvestingthefruit.com/surprise/

It's just a matter of time before Francis' "God of surprises" tells us that gay sex is beautiful, He's not real, and we should worship the dark man who proclaims himself "God."
Bizarre.

Unknown said...

JESUS IS GOD, GOD IS LOVE


LOVE has been everything but loved
In this world He persistently is being shoved
His very own creatures brush Him aside
so do many apostles of His Bride

He is being betrayed over and over
being scourged even by the Herd’s drover
Gethsemane’s blood sweating anxiety
does not even bring us back to piety

My Jesus, You suffered for us, for me
the most terrible, bitterest agony
to reopen the Gate of Your Kingdom
which for us still is an unearned income

My children, offer Me all your worries
calm down, get rid of all your flurries
leave the world for what he’s worth
give your soul a new virgin birth

Come sit with Me in the Silence of My Home
let go, escape from this world’s pressure dome
know that I am the most Lonely Daddy
I wait for you My children, are you ready ?

Father, may Thy Kingdom come SOON
on earth as it is in Heaven
Rita Biesemans, August 2 2014

Unknown said...

We pray the Rosary daily, my parents daily prayed the Rosary with us kids.
One day the Lord told me via a messenger of His, a spiritual child of Padre Pio, to teach my little kid to pray the Rosary and promised He would be present together with His Holy Mother. Years later, while I was at my (elderly) parents' house doing their ironing, I was thinking (wile praying !) "Jesus You said that you would be present together with Your Holy Mother when we pray the Rosary, but how do we really know that?"
(- Come on Rita, pray and iron, stop thinking like that I said to and in myself -)
At a certain moment I hear a beautiful young man's voice coming out of my father's mouth praying together with him. I thought : what's that ? Am I crazy ? But I couldn't deny what I heard and couldn't stop hearing that voice for the rest of the Rosary.
When the Rosary was done, my mother said : "We had a visitor" I said : " Ma, did you also hear that beautiful young man's voice coming out of papa's mouth praying with and thru him ?" My mother said : "No that was not a man's voice coming out of opa's mouth (opa is Dutch for grandpa) it was a most beautiful young woman's voice coming out of your mouth. !!! " My son was scared - he confessed he heard both voices praying - and left the living room out to the yard, immediately after the prayers were done.
Wow I'm still in awe. God has revealed Himself often in many many ways as an answer to my secret thoughts. I will never speak about thoughts like that to nobody so that if I get an answer to what I'm asking in the secrecy of my heart and soul, I know it comes from the Lord and not from the one deep down under.
I will never forget that catechism question : "Does God see and know everything ? "Yes, God sees everything, He also knows everything even our most secret thoughts."
Riki

Peter said...

It really troubles me that Pope Francis criticises those little ones who seek doctrinal security and who want to be safe. Holy Mother Church IS safe. It is that secure sheepfold where the sheep are safe from the wolves. I want to be safe in that Faith. My Catholic Faith is not rigid and small and closed. It is expansive and beautiful and good and true. I am little and selfish but the good God calls me forward IN faith.

TLM said...

Yes, Peter, I agree. The Church of Christ is THE ROCK. It is SOLID and does not change, the way God Himself does not change. The Church is our refuge that we can count on, which this Holy Father seems determined to make into an 'evolving' Church, a 'changing' Church. The 'God of SURPRISES' as in SURPRISE, the Church has decided that God has ordained 'irregular unions' as beautiful and worthy of being in FULL COMMUNION with HIS Church!! I am sorry, but this is false theology. This is of Satan. We have to call a spade a spade here.

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