Religions.

Haven't you noticed?

It's re-LEGIONS?

Anyway, here's the post as I've stated in the post: Life.

This is from a post from a forum in vigilant citizen message boards:

credits to chainmaker:

The floor in every Masonic lodge is covered in a checkerboard pattern. Please let that image marinate your brain. The Masons believe morality is subjective.

The Taoists agree. The Wiccans agree.

For most Wiccans, the God and Goddess are seen as complementary polarities in the universe that balance one another out, and in this manner they have been compared to the concept of yin and yang found in Taoism.

The Buddhists agree.

The Middle Way 3.An explanation of Nirvana (perfect enlightenment), a state wherein it becomes clear that all dualities apparent in the world are delusory (see Seongcheol)

All the pagan religions love to make excuses for evil, they promote the idea that evil either does not exist, or that it is necessary to the "balance". And the mother of all this is Kabbalah:

That Seal of Solomon, often falsely referred to as the Star of David, is used as another symbol of the duality of good and evil, the balance of good and evil, the delusion of good and evil, with the opposing triangles overlapping each other in opposite directions. Wiccan pentagram incorporating the yinyang and Seal of Solomon.

The symbol of the occult New Age Theosophists:

truth..which truth? the devil's truth?

it's Jesus Christ.

The Kabbalah takes this doctrine and applies it to the Jewish Scriptures, known to Christians as the Old Testament.

amne1984 wrote:

The Zohar presents the Torah as a literary text only insofar as it houses the secret wisdom of God, often allegorized as a verbal shell containing a wealth of mystical and metaphysical meaning within its core.

The Kabbalist view is that the Scripture cannot be properly understood by reading it literally, there are hidden secret meanings to every verse. In light of the Kabbalist doctrine that evil and good are necessary and complementary, that means that Kabbalists are trying to find secret evil meanings of verses.

amne1984 wrote:

For instance, the Zohar repeatedly uses 'garments' as a metaphor for the literal Torah, the words and stories which clothe the inner meaning of the Torah. The first chapter of the Zohar explicitly asserts that “there is a garment visible to all./ When those fools see someone in a good-looking garment/ they look no further./ But the essence of the garment is the body;/ the essence of the body is the soul!/ So it is with Torah.”

And here we see that the Kabbalists say that a literal interpretation of the Bible is for fools. That makes me a fool according to them.

amne1984 wrote:

God’s omnipresence, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence in the face of evil, therefore, relates to the harmony inherent in the totality of the Ultimate Reality.
In order to resolve the paradox of an omnibenevolent God with the existence of evil, the zohar absorbs evil into the Divine Will, appropriating it as a necessity to produce a positive end result, seen as the righteousness produced when judgment and compassion are harmonized. While God’s compassion comprises the positivist aspect of the Divine, the ultimate good manifested in his mercy toward the Israelites, his judgment composes the evil aspect of God, the driving force behind the punishments the Israelites face in the Torah.

Now first of all, I would like to point out that the Kabbalists share Artful Revealer's view of YHWH's judgements as being evil. Artful Revealer claims that Kabbalah is a corruption of Gnosticism, but this is not so. I referred earlier to the Gnostic Gospel of Judas, which twists morality around, making Judas into a good guy for betraying Jesus. This is easily understood in the Kabbalist mindset of evil being necessary and part of God's Will.

My view of course, which is the literal Biblical view (without looking for hidden evil meanings) is that when a parent justly punishes their child the parent is not being evil, the parent is trying to teach the child to be good by giving the child negative consequences for doing evil.

Quote:

Proverbs 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children,
but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

So if we take the Kabbalist view and try to find the opposite hidden meaning, then that verse would mean that it is hateful to discipline your child.

Now let's go back to the first quote again.

amne1984 wrote:

For the mystic intent on transcending through the various levels of the sefirot, the metaphysical world depends primarily on a delicate balance between the opposing, but mutually reliant forces of good and evil, which compose the Divine realm.

Only when the balance becomes askew does evil pervade and human suffering persist. However, the Zohar maintains that the precarious balance exists primarily as a result of evil dwelling within the Divine essence itself as a core characteristic of God’s nature, and not his antagonist.

This makes no sense at all.

The balance of good and evil is necessary for the very existence of reality. That means equal parts good and evil. That means half joy, half pain, half happiness, half sadness.

So evil already pervades, evil is everywhere balancing out good, for every loving parent there is a child molestor, for every doctor there is a murderer.

That sounds like the reality we live in, there's suffering coming as a result of the actions of the evil half, there's suffering coming as a result of child molestation and murder.

But according to the Kabbalists, and Star Wars, somehow, when the balance between good and evil becomes askew, then suffering persists.

It's absolute nonsense.

If evil exists, then suffering persists. If you upset this balance of good and evil and weigh it toward the evil side, then even more suffering would persist, but as long as evil exists, then suffering is going to persist.

It's so friggin simple to understand.

I realized it as a child watching Star Wars. Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance are fighting Darth Vader and the Empire, good against evil, but they keep talking about how there has to be a balance in the force between Good and Evil. Balance would be compromise with evil, balance would be the Rebel Alliance controlling half the galaxy, and the Empire controlling the other half of the galaxy.

But what happens in the Return of the Jedi?

They defeat the Empire.

That's not balance, that's the balance being upset and weighted toward good.

So Yoda and Luke and all these Jedi Masters are just a bunch of idiots talking about how they need balance, but then they go and upset the balance.

This mindset is so ridiculous it's almost unbelievable.

Simple basic logic that a child can understand disproves it.

But how many people are following the various religions I listed at the beginning?

They are all blinded by Satanic lies.

amne1984 wrote:

Keter, as the highest level of the sefirot, translates into ‘nothingness,’ that state of being where one has absorbed the totality of divine wisdom, and therefore has been absorbed in the Ultimate Reality itself, and can no longer be distinguished from it. In order to reach this level of nothingness, the mystic must suffer the tribulations of evil, for judgment and compassion are both incorporated in the sefirot, as the left and right hands of God respectively. Only through a spiritual catharsis through conquering the dark side can a mystic emerge purified and closer to the Ultimate Reality.

Where have we heard that before?

Hexa_404 wrote:

That is the duality of the universe for you.

"Nothing is not the opposite of everything. Dark is not the opposite of light. Good is not the opposite of bad. They are all the same coin, the head is inseparable from the tail. Yin is entirely dependant on Yang to exist. All opposites arise and fall away together. So, running away is also running toward. Silence is sound, stillness movement. Nothing is everything.

Here's a link on false religions:
False religions

I've also thought of having a mix on belief on religions (you know, one of that and one of the other) just to be safe, but this is what the Bible says on it:

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. -Rev ----

Basically, you have to choose who would you follow..it's either God or Satan..and that's the truth.

Searching for these things is just a google away (just use multiple sourcing).

As for libraries, not much, since most are published by those who don't know better.

If you've got questions, you could contact me on my email (on my profile).