Friday, April 22, 2005
PROPHECY
The prophecy of St. Malachy is making the rounds on the web. Even Yahoo News has a segment on prophecy surrounding Pope Benedict. The prophecy of St. John Bosco describing the pope's anchoring of the Ship of Church between the twin pillars of the Blessed Virgin and the Consecrated Host has been brought out in some news reports as well. Fatima is never far from the thoughts of many Catholics.
There were more Catholic prophecies down through the centuries. Yves DuPont's book Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement is a collection of many of them. Rev. R. Gerald Culleton's The Prophets and Our Times includes some of DuPont's and adds others. Prophecy is very much a part of Catholicism.
Many of the prophecies concern the time we are now living through. A website out of the UK has gathered up a grouping of these. It includes a more extensive prophecy of St. John Bosco regarding the rescue of the Church. This portion of it almost seems to fit the current death and election:
In blind fury, the enemy takes to hand-to-hand combat, cursing and blaspheming. Suddenly the Pope falls, seriously wounded. He is instantly helped up, but struck a second time, dies. A shout of victory rises from the enemy, and wild rejoicing sweeps their ships. But no sooner is the Pope dead than another takes his place. The captains of the auxiliary ships elected him so quickly that the news of the Pope's death coincides with that of his successor’s election. The enemy's self-assurance wanes.
There is another very curious prophecy on the web, attributed to the "lost diary" of Pope John XXIII which was supposedly found by a cleaning woman. The material is said to have been distributed in Catholic churches in Manilla, and has the backing of a Father DeAngelo. Art Bell is said to have provided an introduction and a closing summary to the prophecies at this website.
In reading through them it would appear they predicted the Viet Nam War, the difficulties in Israel and the rise of Islamic terrorism, the fall of communism, AIDS and other diseases such as the Marburg virus, and the Tsunami. They also predict UFO's which is an incongruous addition. The July 2, 1962 prophecy almost sounds like a description of John Paul II's "New Springtime."
If this prophecy were actually written when it is said to have been written, there would be accuracy up to a point. Another possibility is that it was written at the point in time when it begins to deviate from accuracy. Therefore, it actually reports on past events, though claiming to have been written before they occurred. If this is the case, someone who distributed it has an agenda.
Art Bell is a promoter of UFO activity and UFO activity is part of these prophecies.
Fr. Seraphim Rose has included a chapter on UFOs in his book Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. In that chapter he writes: "Serious scientists in the Soviet Union speculate that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was due to a nuclear explosion, that "extraterrestrial" beings visited earth centuries ago, that Jesus Christ may have been a "cosmonaut," and that today "we may be on the threshold of a 'second coming' of intelligent beings from outer space." (p. 73-74) Rose attributes this to a belief in science fiction and comments further:
In a word, the science-fiction literature of the 20th century is itself a clear sign of the loss of Christian values and the Christian interpretation of the world; it has become a powerful vehicle for the dissemination of a non-Christian philosophy of life and history, largely under open or concealed occult and Eastern influence; and in a crucial time of crisis and transition in human civilization it has been a prime force in creating the hope for and actual expectation of "visitors from outer space" who will solve mankind's problems and conduct man to a new "cosmic" age of its history. While appearing to be scientific and non-religious, science-fiction literature is in actuality a leading propagator (in secular form) of the "new religious consciousness" which is sweeping mankind as Christianity retreats. (p. 77)
Those quotes come from a chapter entitled "Signs from Heaven" which is what the UFOs appear to be to some people. He offers this as the counter opinion:
In a recent bibliography of UFO phenomena prepared by the Library of Congress for the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the introduction states that "Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists." Most UFO researchers are now turning to the occult realm and to demonology for insight into the phenomena they are studying. (p. 102)
Even the secular investigators of UFO phenomena have seen fit to warn people against their dangers. John Keel, for example, writes: "Dabbling with UFOs can be as dangerous as dabbling with black magic." (p. 112)
An investigation of the Newsday.com article, blogged yesterday, describing the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue that was founded by Neil Bush, Cdl. Ratzinger, and Jordan's Prince Hassan, among others, led to the following information.
PATHS TO WORLD GOVERNMENT
I would not expect UFOs to be of interest to the movers and shakers of our planet. Apparently I could be wrong. Donald Ware writes:
I was invited, as a Director of the International UFO Congress, to be one of the 150 people invited to participate in the 16-18 June, 2003 conference in Brussels. I will try to briefly explain why. The full title was “National Sovereignty and World Challenges: Choices for the World After Iraq.” It was chaired by Georges Berthoin, European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (1975-1992). Patricipants were from three categories; world leaders, think-tank leaders working on issues of interest to the Trilateral Commission, and leaders of international organizations. There were 10 round table discussions and 32 plenary presenters that included:
Pat Cox; President of the European Parliament
Anders Wijkman; Minister of the European Parliament, VP of GLOBE International, Deputy Secretary General UN (1995-1997)
Garth Evans; President of International Crisis Group, Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-1996)
Lloyd Axworthy; Liu Center at University of British Colombia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada (1996-2000)
Jean-Francois Rischard; Vice-President for Europe of the World Bank, Paris
David Sandalow; Executive VP of World Wildlife Fund, former Asst. Sec. of State for Oceans, Environment and Science, USA
His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan
Air Marshall Sir Timothy Garden; former Director of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
James Garrison; President, State of the World Forum and author of America as Empire
Bob D’Amico; Special Assistant to the Chairman of Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon
R. James Woolsey, Director of the CIA (1993-1995), Partner and VP of Booze Allen Hamilton, Inc.
My invitation, as a Director of the IUFOC with an expanded worldview, probably resulted from the following sequence of events. In June 2000 while on a birding expedition on Attu Island, Alaska I told a fellow birder from California that I had been interested in attending a State of the World Forum ever since the first one was held in 1995 in San Francisco. This interest was sparked when, through studying telepathically acquired information, I thought I knew more about the alien presence than I did about those people representing our planet, some of whom worked on joint programs with aliens. By some miracle, the birder found in his mailbox when he got home an invitation for “Forum 2000” held in conjunction with the UN Millennium Summit in September. It was the last of the series.
He forwarded it to me and suggested that I go in his stead.
Further along in the website is Donald M. Ware’s bio. He has an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and retired from the U.S. Air Force at the end of 1982. “He has observed alien vehicles nine times starting with the famous sighting over Washington D.C. on 26 Jul 52. He and his human companions initiated two of these encounters. Since 1989 he has received guidance from some higher intelligence, often through other people with more highly developed paranormal abilities.”
In other words, he uses a channeler.
There is a long section on Freemasonry that includes all of the standard conspiracy theory names and organizations. And there is this:
POPE JOHN, XXIII’s diary
An article about Pope John, XXIII’s diary was published in the “Manila Bulletin” and reprinted in the “Philippine News” on 10 Mar 93. The Pope died on 3 Jun 63, and his dusty leather-bound diary containing handwritten predictions was found by a Vatican cleaning woman who was sorting through boxes stored in a little-used storage room. According to the Reverend Guiseppi D’Angelo, who studied the diary, “Pope John had periodic visits from both Jesus and the Virgin Mary.”
There is a lot more in the website. It sounds like someone is off his Prozac, but…
I found this website while attempting to research a current Board Member of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue, founded by Neil Bush and Cdl. Ratzinger, and Prince Hassan of Jordan. Prince Hassan is a member of the Club of Rome. He’s a member of a lot more. And he is a member of that list of people at the State of the World Forum above.
One more bit of the website:
Gorbachev and his staff are reported to have been visited by two Ascended Masters in 1985 which resulted in a rapid reduction in the nuclear threat to the planet and an end to the cold war. They predicted an “accident” at Chernobyl. A report by Vladimir Rubstov in the 1994 MUFON Symposium Proceedings adds support to this story by describing an alien vehicle that reduced the radiation levels from the core reactor #4 by 73% three hours after the explosion.”
I'd like to be able to explain all of this. I really have no explanation. These are dots that connect. Why they connect is the real question. Conspiracy theory? Yes, maybe it is. But there is the Book of Revelation, and there is Fr. Rose's considerably more sinister explanation. And there is Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal's book The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture which she concludes with:
In present-day Russia, the anti-empirical, antirational mentality that occultism encourages can once again help ensure that political and economic problems remain unsolved. Indeed, as the year 2000 looms ever closer, the occult threatens to fuse with apocalyptic fears in extremist political ideologies. Politically, the occult is dangerous.
Dangerous it is, but there is little doubt that it is catching on, and this is a battle that must be won spiritually, since the combatants are lodged in the spiritual realm.
"If my requests are not heeded, Russia will spread her errors around the world."
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
