PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
THE MONSTRANCE and the WAFER GOD
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: ...
Acts 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at
Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned
away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Note that the commandment of God forbids making and bowing
down to images. Among pagans, perhaps the most common form of idolatry is sun
worship, and the above prohibition would clearly exclude bowing down before
images of the sun or moon (things in the heaven above). But then God gets even
more explicit:
Deu 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy
gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either
the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deu 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
Deu 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman,
and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Jer 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out
the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones
of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jer 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the
host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after
whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have
worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for
dung upon the face of the earth.
Jer 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of
them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither
I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
With that in mind, lets look at solar and lunar images
directly associated with the Catholic Mass.
From the "Be Not Afraid" series of
videos, Copyright © 1992,
Apostolate
for Family Consecration
Here is Pope John Paul II holding what is called a Monstrance or
Ostensorium. It is used to display a round wafer of bread, called the
host, which is used in what is called the Mass, Lord's Supper, Communion
or Eucharistic meal. The Catholic believes this wafer of bread turns
into the actual body of Christ when consecrated during the Mass.
The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a sunburst:
"During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance
with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays."
Source: The Dictionary of the Liturgy by Rev. Jovian P.
Lang, OFM., published and copyrighted © 1989 by Catholic Book Publishing Co.,
New York, ISBN 0-89942-273-X, page 436.
Photo of a Monstrance in the Vatican
Museum
From the book "The New Illustrated Great Controversy"
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In fact, according to the
1913 edition of the
Catholic Encyclopedia-
The most appropriate form (for the monstrance) is that of the sun
emitting its rays to all sides (Instructio Clement., 5). [See Altar Vessels:
Ostensorium]
Notice the letters SFS in the small sunburst blaze on the large close up of
a Monstrance above? Each of the letters is a universal symbol for the number 6
in the pagan mysteries, so to the pagan it reads 666! The
number 666 is also associated with what is called the "magic square of the
sun". The practice of equating names and letters with numbers is called
gematria.
The letter F:
The Hebrew letter Vau (V) has a value of 6. The English letter F is a
descendant of Vau and retains the same value. The letter F is also the 6th
letter of the English alphabet. In pagan numerology the letters F, O, and X
have the value of 6.
The Greek symbol Digamma also looks like the letter F and has a value of
6.
The letter S:
The Greek equivalent of Vau is the letter Stau, which looks like an S,
and it also has the value of 6.
Sources: The Modern Numerology by John King, published by
Blandford, Copyright © 1996, ISBN 0-7137-2560-5, page 121 / Behind
Numerology, by Shirley Blackwell Lawrence, published by Newcastle
Publishing Co., Inc., Copyright © 1989, ISBN 0-87877-145-X, page 93 /
Jesus Christ Sun of God, by David Fideler, Copyright © 1993, published
by Quest Books of Wheaton Illinois and Madras India, ISBN 0-8356-0696-1,
page 27.
And the flaming Sacred Heart located just below the SFS is actually
symbolic of Baal / Tammuz!
(SeeConsecration to Flaming
Sacred Hearts)
The priest (here the Pope) sometimes holds up the sunburst monstrance
with the host encased for the congregation to adore and venerate.
Virtually any time the monstrance, a pagan sun symbol, is viewed by the
congregation, they kneel in submission. A Catholic cannot walk past this
sun symbol without acknowledging it by kneeling and or making the sign of
the cross with their hands.
From the "Be Not Afraid" series of
videos,
Copyright © 1992,
Apostolate for
Family Consecration
Remember God's commandment forbidding bowing down to images? How
can the Catholic justify bowing down before a sun image in veneration?
They will tell you that they are paying homage to the host, bread they
believe has actually turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus
after being consecrated by a priest. Since the wafer, they believe,
has been transformed into God Himself, it is the round wafer god
inside the sunburst monstrance that they bow down to in worship,
not the sunburst monstrance. However, the round wafer of bread
itself is also a sun symbol, which is sometimes made quite obvious
in Catholic representations of the host in various forms of artwork.
Above is the huge processional monstrance of the
Cathedral of
Toledo, Spain, made of gilded solid silver and solid gold, being
paraded through the streets for public display on the festival of Corpus
Christi. It is said to contain 18 kg (40 pounds) of gold, and 183 kg (400
pounds) of silver, for a total weight nearing 1/4 ton of precious metals.
The great monstrance of the cathedral of Toledo, which is
more than twelve feet high, and the construction of which occupied in all
more than 100 years, is adorned with 260 statuettes, one of the largest of
which is said to be made of the gold brought by Columbus from the New World.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia Online,
Ostensorium
(Monstrance).
Another very large monstrance has recently been made for St.
Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago that stands 9 feet tall. It depicts the
Ark of the Covenant, 2 Cherubim on either side with wings overspread, and
Mary in place on the Ark's mercy seat! On
her chest is the sunburst symbol that contains a one foot wide wafer host.
This is blasphemy and idolatry, depicting Mary on the throne of God in the
Holy of Holies of the Sanctuary!
At right is the general sunburst pattern used to symbolize the host,
the supposed "true body" of Christ. This design has also been adopted by
the Jesuits as their symbol. The IHS is thought by some to represent the
first letters of each word in the Latin phrase Iesus Hominum Salvator
(Jesus Saviour of Men), although according to the Catholics themselves
they actually represent the first three letters of the name "Jesus" in
Greek (spelled in Greek iota-eta-sigma-omicron-upsilon-sigma). The pagan
though, would quickly see the same sun disk symbol associated with many
pagan deities of Egypt, among them Isis, Horus, and Seb. In Egyptian
mythology Seb (Geb) was the father of the goddess Isis (Aset), the
mother and protectress of her divine son Horus (Harpocrates). Horus (the
younger) is frequently depicted on Egyptian temples as a winged sun
disk, representing the rays of the rising sun.
The British Museum.
At left is a statuette of the Egyptian
goddess Isis. Her headdress shows the sun disk within the horns of an
Apis bull, symbology which is virtually identical to that of the
sunburst monstrance. Also of note, in Isis lap is her infant son, Horus.
In this one image you have the symbology of the Catholic
monstrance and Mother / child worship which is so prominent in
Catholicism.
The Egyptian pharaoh also claimed to be the embodiment
of Horus on earth, much like the pope claims to be the infallible Vicar
of Christ on earth.
The Apis bull, as depicted in this Egyptian statuette,
is likely to be the pattern used for the golden calf the Israelites made
at Mount Sinai (Exo. 32), since they were undoubtedly quite familiar
with it as a result of their long captivity in Egypt. Note that in front
of the sun disk and horns, which looks virtually identical to some
Catholic monstrances, there is the serpent poised to strike. In
Scripture the serpent is symbolic of Satan. (Gen 3, Rev. 12:9)
UBI PETRUS - IBI ECCLESIA
Where Peter is, there is the Church
At left is the reverse side of a medal commemorating the
Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Chicago in 1926 (On the front
there is a bust of Pope Pius XI). Note that the round wafer host above
the golden cup is portrayed as a radiant sunburst.
The Worship of Baal is Sun Worship
Below is an artifact unearthed in the holy of holies of the pagan temple in
the Canaanite city of Hatzor / Hazor, in northern Israel. It is described as
follows:
"Of special interest is a square basalt altar for
burning incense. On one of its sides, a circle with a cross in the
center – the divine symbol of the Canaanite storm god – is carved in low
relief."
"... a basalt offering table, pillar-shaped, with a carved symbol of
the storm god Baal on its side. That symbol was a circle with a cross in
the center"
2 Ki 23:3 And the king [Josiah] stood by a pillar, and made a covenant
before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and
his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to
perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all
the people stood to the covenant.
2 Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of
the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the
temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem
in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
2 Ki 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah
had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and
in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host
of heaven.
2 Ki 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and
stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of
the children of the people.
Baal Worship in Canaan Baal worship revolved
around two themes that represented the conception of Baal his worshipers
held. Baal was both the sun-god and storm-god. He was worshiped as sun-god
when the people wished to express thanks and gratitude for light and warmth
and fertility.
Source: Holman Bible Dictionary, Computer version, entry on Baal
by James Newell.
BAAL AS A DEITY
... in many Chanaanite, Phoenician, or Palmyrene shrines,
the sun was the Baal worshipped, ...
Source:
The Catholic
Encyclopedia Online, entry on Baal, Baalim.
Here the Eucharistic host, as Catholics call it, has actually been
made as a sunburst (note the flames around the edge). This sun symbol,
after consecration, is called the true body of God, to be adored and
bowed down to and worshipped by the laity, especially when displayed
inside a sunburst monstrance.
Note the similarity to the symbol of Baal from Hatzor: a cross within
a circle.
From the video "This is my Body, This
is my Blood,
Miracles of the Holy Eucharist" by
Bob and Penny Lord
Copyright © 1988.
At left is a pagan Canaanite cultic pillar or
"matstsebah", also found in excavations of the city of Hatzor,
showing hands raised in praise to the sun disk, portrayed within the
crescent moon.
Deu 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image (matstsebah); which
the LORD thy God hateth.
On the cover of the Jan/Feb 2000 edition of
Magazine, a Catholic publication, an elevated consecrated host of
the Eucharist is unmistakably depicted as a bright yellow sun disk against
the background of a cloudy blue sky!
videos, Copyright © 1993,
Apostolate for Family Consecration,
P.O. Box 151, Bloomingdale Ohio, 43910.
At left is pope John Paul II celebrating Mass, elevating a
large host for adoration. Note the similarity with the pagan Canaanite
pillar!
Do you think this is what Jesus had in mind at the Last Supper? No, when He
"broke bread" He handed His disciples a torn fragment of unleavened
bread, that symbolized His sinless broken body on the cross, but this is NOT
what is conveyed with a pressed, round, intact and unbroken wafer that has
been so commonly used.
Now, a Catholic might respond: the manna that fell from heaven was ROUND:
Exo 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of
the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on
the ground.
Voila! The round disk-like wafer host of the Mass is a copy of God's
manna!
No. Not, so fast. Note that scripture give us a description of manna in
size, shape, color and taste:
Exo 16:14 And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the
wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground. [NKJV]
Exo 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
was like coriander seed [in size and shape], white [color]; and the taste of
it was like wafers made with honey. [KJV]
Num 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed [in size and shape], and the
colour thereof as the colour of bdellium [white].
Num 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills,
or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the
taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. [KJV]
Psa 78:24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the
grain of heaven. [NIV]
Psa 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of
the corn of heaven. [KJV]
The size and shape of manna
Exodus 16:14 tells us manna was small, small like the frost on the ground.
We are also told in Exodus and Numbers that manna was like Coriander seed.
Coriander is common today, and is used in brewing beer. It is round like a
ball, and quite small. Eight to ten Coriander seeds might fit in
the space of a pea. A picture of one ounce (hundreds) of
Coriander Seeds.
So Coriander is a miniscule round seed.
In Psalm 78 manna is further described as the grain or corn
of heaven. In Strong's the word in Psalm 78 is:
H1715. dagan, daw-gawn'; from H1711; prop. increase, i.e. grain:--corn
([floor]), wheat.
Manna, therefore, was small and round like a ball, similar to a small seed
grain.
The color of manna
The meaning of bdellium is somewhat uncertain, however, similar words in
other languages favor identification with a resinous gum. In droplet form, the
gum may have the appearance of a pearl, white. Exodus 16:31 confirms that
manna was white in color by plainly stating it.
The taste of manna
Exo 16:31 ... the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Num 11:8 ... the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
As described in the Bible, manna resembled Coriander in size and shape: it
was like a grain, like a small white round ball-like seed which was collected,
ground up, and baked to make cakes, like wheat is ground to make bread. So,
no, the Catholic wafer host does not imitate manna in either size
or shape.
You might call this the perpetual worshipping of "God in (of ?) the
Sunburst Monstrance".
Here are additional pictures of monstrances online-
Museum of Monte Cassino, Italy.
The
Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano.
The last item is quite extraordinary. In the 8th century, it is
alleged that the host and wine turned into actual living flesh and blood
during a Mass, which it is said, remain well preserved in a monstrance
in Italy to this day.
On the right is a photo of a stele from Ur of the
Chaldees, with the symbol of the Babylonian sun god Shamash within the
crescent of the moon goddess Nanna.
At right is a close-up of a monstrance, and inside the glass
enclosure is a crescent, upon which the round wafer god host is placed,
a virtual duplication of the symbology of the Canaanite and Chaldean
stele shown above. Many monstrances use this crescent, which is
officially called a "lunette" or "luna" (moon), to hold the round wafer
host. The sun disk in the crescent moon is a quite common symbol for
pagan religions, to include Babylon, Syria, and India.
From the video "666 and the Mark" by
James Arrabito,
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Worshipping the Eucharist as God
Images from the video "666 and the Mark"
by James Arrabito,
Copyright ©
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- Used by Permission
Above on the left you see the pagan sunburst wafer god, inscribed with IHS
and the cross, is portrayed above the cup of wine. This is the door to a place
where the wine and wafers are stored. Above on the right, you see a similar
carving depicting angels kneeling in idolatrous adoration or worship of the
wafer god and wine.
In case you think the word "worship" is an exaggeration on my part, please
note this paragraph from the new Vatican Catechism of the Catholic Church:
(Italics present in the original text)
1378 Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we
express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread
and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of
adoration of the Lord. "The Catholic church has always offered and still
offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only
during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated host with the
utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and
carrying them in procession."
Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, published by Ligouri
Publications, English translation © 1994 by the United States Catholic
Conference, Inc.--Libreria Editrice Vaticana, bearing the Imprimi Potest of
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, page 347.
And note this decree concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist
from the thirteenth session of the Council of Trent, October 11th, 1551:
Chapter V
THE WORSHIP AND VENERATION TO BE SHOWN TO
THIS MOST HOLY SACRAMENT
There is, therefore, no room for doubt that all the faithful of Christ
may, in accordance with a custom always received in the Catholic Church,
give to this most holy sacrament in veneration the worship of latria,
which is due to the true God.
Source: The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Translated
and introduced by Rev. H. J. Schroeder, O.P., Published by
Tan Books and Publishers, INC.,
Rockford Illinois, 61105, © 1978, ISBN: 0-89555-074-1, page 76.
Here is the
Thirteenth Session
of Trent online. See Chapter V.
Dominicae
Cenae - On the Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist, promulgated by
John Paul II On February 24, 1980 To All the Bishops of the Church.
Conclusion
So the Catholic Church describes itself in its documents as engaged in the act of
worshipping the Eucharist, which is also called adoration or
veneration. Isn't it amazing how the Catholic Church justifies bowing down
before images of the sun, as depicted by the monstrance and a round wafer, by
claiming the bread has actually become God! God's commandment is
cleverly made of no effect by the Traditions of men, by mixing error and
truth.
Note these 100 Lire coins issued by the Vatican for nearly 10 years. (Click
on a coin for a closer look.)
Pope Pius the 12th - 1958
Pope John the 23rd - 1959
Pope Paul the 6th - 1963
Incredibly enough, the woman representing faith (the Catholic Church) on
the reverse side of the coins holds up a cup in her right hand, in which you
see pagan sunburst wafer god, which recalls these verses in Revelation:
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.
The cup of wine of the apostate woman (church) represents spiritual and
doctrinal fornication, a mixing of truth and error, Christianity and paganism,
which she has taught to the world (made the nations drink).
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
There is only one self-proclaimed "Mother" church, The Universal (Catholic)
Church.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities.
1 comment:
"This is my body" - Jesus, God
It really is that simple. Christians have understood this for 2,000 years. Only recently have these conspiracy theories started.
Peace.
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