Welcome readers, I know that I said that this would be Part VIIII of Zion vs the Beast, but after I began researching this topic I found a mountain of information impossible to cover in one blog post. So this post will inaugurate a new series, one that will reveal what is going on in the back yard of those of us who live in the Mormon Corridor. The sobering truth is that the Beast system is coming to Utah first (upon my house will it begin), the infrastructure of which has been built quietly in the background as Utahns have been distracted with Covid, inflation, and the LDS Church's latest knavery under its current First Presidential regime.
In the past few months some interesting, and terrifying, intel has leaked out from a book that is now out of print. The book, an autobiography, discloses some concerning information about the current President of the LDS Church. By his own admission, he was initiated into the Order of Skull and Bones at the University of Utah in 1944 (also concerning is the fact that there is another chapter of Skull and Bones in Utah). I won't belabor this startling new discovery, as others have already reported on it (see this blog post if this is the first you're hearing about it or watch this video).
What I will do, however, is connect some dots that now make perfect sense in light of this new information. These dots have to do with what the LDS Church has been up to since Nelson has been handed the reigns of the Corporation Sole. Think about the following: The thirty-three minute meeting with "his holiness" Pope Francis on March 9 of 2019, the active participation of LDS general authorities at recent G20 Interfaith Forums, the encouragement of the Covid jab in a First Presidency Statement, talks given at General Conference lauding "sustainable societies," a musical dedication to the UN performed by the Tabernacle Choir, the defacing and gutting of the Salt Lake temple, and constant deference during the pandemic to our "wise" overlords in government and medicine. Just exactly what have our friends in Salt Lake City been up to?
With a Bonesman at the helm of the Church, the last few years have been the perfect opportunity for the Brethren to secure for themselves a guaranteed position of authority in the coming new hegemony, of which Utah is becoming the model. A model green with envy and red with enthusiasm. The political watermelon model, feigning environmental green on the outside to buy votes, while being a red communist wolf on the inside. While Nelson has been distracting the lay members of the Church with tales of receiving "revelations" in his room, a silent infrastructure has been constructed in Utah, slowly and steadily cementing in place a western hub for globalism.
The lip service the LDS Church has recently given to the United Nations and its Agenda 2030, is not just lip service, it is a partnership. They have, like the ancient Nephites, united themselves to the secret band of Gadianton, and are working with globalists to make Utah a model for the dystopian future. Before I get into what that model looks like, I need to remind you that Moroni saw our day, and was shown a specific group, i.e. the Gentiles who are members of the LDS Church. And within that group, Moroni begins speaking directly to the leaders of the Church, revealing exactly what they have been up to:
...why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick, and the afflicted to pass by you and notice them not? Yea, why do ye build up your secret combinations to get gain? (Mormon, 4:5 RE, emphasis added)
Here is an exercise in logic: Moroni cannot be talking to the average Joe Mormon layman in that last sentence. Why? Because Mr. Average Joe is not profiting from secret combinations, but rather, is being extorted by them unknowingly. In his hapless state, Average Joe may be unwittingly helping to "build up" said combinations by voting for conspirators or espousing various forms of socialism, but he is absolutely not "gaining" anything from them.
But the Brethren who control the single wealthiest Church on the globe absolutely have something to gain by building up secret combinations. And what do they have to gain? Obviously not money, as $100 billion of net worth is more than most countries have. No, they covet something much more sinister than money, they want power. They want the ability to control others, not just through correlated propaganda, but through the iron reigns of state control. Moroni's next line is chilling, he claims that they are even willing to murder the innocent to secure this gain:
And cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground for vengeance upon your heads. Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you, and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer.
During the last few years, lawmakers in Utah have been very busy little bees. A slew of legislative bills have made their way into both the Utah House and Senate, and some have already passed. Bills that are laying the groundwork for Klaus Schwab's pipe dream for the 4th Industrial Revolution. What is the 4th Industrial Revolution? In a word it is the merging of human beings with technology and artificial intelligence, otherwise known as Transhumanism.
We have come a long way from the First Industrial Revolution, when steam engines transformed the way goods were shipped across state lines, and from the second, when electricity gave us light, and from the third, when computers were condensed into a single tower with a user-friendly screen, to the present: the digitization of everything and the internet of things. It is only now, at this time in history, that the Beast system finally has the potential to be implemented, but is it really going to be inaugurated in the conservative Mormon capital of the world? Things definitely appear to be trending that way.
The series you're about to read will be sobering, it will be aggravating, it will be terrifying; and shocking to say the least. If you love freedom, and you live in Utah, it is imperative that you read this blog series. This may be our last chance to stand up for our God-given rights before they are stripped away for good by the United Nations.
Americans have long been the proverbial frog basking in the warm pot of water on the verge of being boiled, comfortable in our hapless and apathetic state, as a digital prison is literally being constructed all around us. And once in place, it will be too late to get out without the intervention of God, who will be slow to hear our cries because we have ignored His decrees on this land for so long.
Please get comfortable, and read this entire blog series, share it with others, and do your part to wake up the sleeping giant that could crush this conspiracy in a single blow. That sleeping giant is you and I, it is the American people, most of which are living in a matrix of oblivion.
This land is My..., I mean, Uh, Their Land
When I was a teenager one of my favorite recreational activities was to go trials biking with my dad. Trial bikes are not like conventional dirt bikes, they are lighter weight and lower-geared and designed to take the rider anywhere you want to go, and I mean any... where. We used to love to ride in a vast playground of wilderness out in an Idaho oasis called Leadore. Because of the arid climate and lack of shrubbery, trails were not needed. We could ride up any mountain we wanted to while dodging the sage brush and rock outcroppings, and because of the low-gearing of the bikes, they left no trace of our presence.
The area was also a favorite hunting ground of ours, and we had access to every square mile of it. Until one day in the early 2000s, we pulled up to one of our favorite spots only to see a makeshift fence and a sign that read "Designated Wilderness Study Area: No Motorized Vehicles." Of course, being the red-blooded Americans we were, we weren't detoured, and continued apace in our now "illegal" trials biking escapades. But even in my young age, my intuition told me that this was more than just some EPA whacko lobbyists attempting to keep Idaho residents off their own public lands. Something perfidious was afoot, and I've since learned that behind the federal bureaucracy that was seizing these lands was a foreign entity operating under the auspices of the United Nations.
In 1964, LBJ signed the Wilderness Act into law. It allocated 9.1 million acres in 54 separate areas to be protected by federal bureaucracies against human encroachment. Today that number is well above 100 million acres of land that has been taken out of state control and annexed by the federal government. In 1976, this law grew a few more teeth. The Federal Land Policy Management Act was passed in that year, which directed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct wilderness studies on all public lands under its purview that possessed "wilderness characteristics."
The directives given to the BLM included "a long-term study process for additional designations," which is coded language giving them the power to designate any new area they deemed "potential wilderness." This power was granted without a moratorium, and it took them twenty years to get around to studying my little oasis outside of Leadore, Idaho.
The word "study" as used by the BLM, does not mean what you think it does. The word, in this context, conjures up images of hoards of white-coated scientists scampering around the landscape holding clipboards and collecting data. But that is not what "study" means to these people. "Study" means shutting down the land, by limiting human use as much as possible. Beginning with shutting off the roads and trails to motorized vehicles, and then disallowing horse travel, until ultimately, forbidding anyone to set foot on it. They want you and I off the land. Period. And it is not to preserve any wilderness. It is to cut human beings off from natural resources and to force us to live in mega-city "reservations" like cattle.
In 1992, a conference was held in Rio de Janeiro where UN Agenda 21 was revealed and surreptitiously foisted upon the American people in the form of three treaties. One of which, the Biodiversity Treaty, yet to be ratified, gave birth to the Wildlands Project, the goals of which are to return over 50% of America's forests, mountains, and wilderness to its pre-Columbian condition. This returning of the past will include the reintroduction of native predators which has already happened in Yellowstone Park and other areas of the West. Wolves, mountain lions, wolverines, and bears will have more rights than humans if these sycophants get their way.
Here in Idaho where I live, we are seeing more and more grizzly bears where they have not previously been since the 1800s. And shooting a grizzly bear, even if it is to save your life, is now a federal crime and grounds for prison. Of course, these elites don't really care about animals, restoring the land to its pristine condition, or the environment, they only want two things: depopulation and absolute control of who's left. Make no mistake, this is a war against humanity, conducted under the guise of "conservation."
The map below was created by Dr. Michael Coffman, who used it to persuade Congress to take the Biodiversity Treaty off the ratification table in 1994.
As you can see, the ultimate goal is to force all humans into the green areas, where we would live like sardines packed into cities. Throughout the entire West there is hardly any green at all, I'll let you use your imagination to determine what would happen to those of us who live out here. Dr. Michael Coffman and an army of protestors pummeled Capital Hill with emails and calls, and as a result the Senate Majority Leader took the treaty off the calendar just one hour before the ratification vote. Dr. Coffman passed away in 2017, but he has written books and given lectures on the dangers of progressivism and Agenda 21. Here is a good one to start with:
Unable to implement their draconian measures of forcing Americans out of rural areas, the UN went underground and returned to its standard modus operandi, the slow and steady process of Fabianism. Since 1974 a Trojan Horse had been dangled in front of American land owners, a scheme that would tempt them to partner with the government in exchange for sizable income tax deductions. This scheme is known as Conservation Easements, in which a land trust pays a land-owner to promise not to develop anything on said land, in perpetuity. That means forever. Nothing can be built, not even a barn or a shed. Read this article for more information on conservation easements, which have been the primary mode of land accumulation and control the conspiracy has used to wrap its tentacles around American rural lands.
When a land-owner signs up for this "benefit," the government, and other non-governmental organizations become silent partners on the land. They can prohibit other activities on the land other than construction, such as grazing and farming. If you scroll back up and look at the map Dr. Coffman created, you'll notice that the red areas are called "corridors." These corridors can be created when groups of "unsuspecting ranchers join their property together under conservation easement to form vast landscapes and corridors connecting existing grasslands and large blocks of federal lands." Slowly, over time, more and more restrictions can be placed on the land until the ranchers have lost all rights to the property.
Destroying property rights is key to destroying freedom and liberty. If the government can take land out of productive use, they can limit goods and services, and necessities like food and farming. They can use this process to starve subjects into submission. It is nothing new. Stalin attempted it during the 1920s and 30s when he nationalized massive tracts of farmland from a group of Russian husbandmen dubbed the “Kulaks.” He did it all at once using the brutal force of the secret police (the Cheka), and as a result millions of Russians starved to death during his Five-Year Plan. But here in America the process is slow and steady, and almost unnoticeable, as the land is incrementally neutralized acre by acre. This has been the plan of the UN all along, as detailed in a meeting held in Vancouver in 1976:
Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent-dwellings and healthy conditions for people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole. (The Preamble to The Vancouver Action Plan approved at Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (31 May to 11 June 1976)
In direct opposition is the Book of Mormon, which asserts that prosperity is based upon the land, not the lack of it:
And the people of Nephi began to prosper in the land, and began to multiply and to wax exceeding strong again in the land. (Alma 29:20, RE)
Notice that the UN asserts that one cause of social injustice is "private land ownership," however, shutting off the land and/or placing restrictions upon it also implies that the governmental organization doing so is exercising property rights. Thus, their entire premise is based upon a glaring dichotomous hypocrisy, because, if they control the land and its resources, they become the de facto owners of it. Ironically, what they are proposing will accomplish the very thing they are railing against: accumulation and concentration of wealth into the hands of the ruling class, which is of course, them. And once you are off their land, they will be free to do whatever they want with it, and as I will show later, they don't care about environmentalism or conservation, they just want you gone, even if it means killing you.
But where did this idea of environmentalism and conservation come from in the first place? It is actually a blend of ancient paganism with the modern green movement, and these people have no qualms about admitting who they worship. One of their propaganda masters, Al Gore, in his book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, surmised, citing archeologists and anthropologists, that:
The prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship of a single mother goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things. Much of the evidence for the existence of this primitive religion comes from many thousands of artifacts uncovered in ceremonial sites. These sites are so widespread that they seem to confirm the notion that a goddess religion was ubiquitous throughout much of the world until the antecedents of today's religions... almost obliterating belief in the goddess. The last vestiges or organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity as late as the fifteenth century in Lithuania. (p. 260)
Mr. Gore's longing to resurrect past Gaia worship is not as far as off as he implies. Gaia is alive and well today, emanating from the UN headquarters in New York City, and oozing out of its every policy, program, and soft law. Included among them are Agenda 21, which is now Agenda 2030, and its plan for "sustainable development." Every god demands sacrifice, and this mother goddess is no different. Her oblationary demands include giving up cars, individual family homes, natural gas, and any other carbon-emitting miscreant.
And ultimately, if you are unwilling to give up your lifestyle and move to a Smart City where you can be constantly monitored under state surveillance, well then you will just have to be killed - offered on the altar of Gaia, the obstinate individual purged for the good of the collective.
"Sustainable development" was a term coined in the 1980s by a think-tank that was heavily influenced by none other than Steven Rockefeller. Yes, the beginnings of the green movement has its financial roots in the bounteous coffers of the Rockefeller dynasty. Steven is the son of former vice president Nelson Rockefeller, and a direct descendent of John D. Rockefeller, old Standard Oil himself. Steven's uncle, Laurance Rockefeller, was an advisor to five different presidents, and formed the Rockefeller Brother's Fund (RBF) to push the conservation movement, which was instrumental in wrangling away state lands into Federal control like the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and the Redwood Forest in California. The RBF also established the American Conservation Association, the Conservation Foundation, and the Nature Conservatory, among others.
On April 22 of 1970 an official holy day was set aside for Gaia, known as the Earth Day celebration, and in 1972 the UN held its first international meeting to discuss the "impending" global environmental crisis, in Stockholm. April 22 just happens to be former Bolshevik dictator V.I. Lenin's birthday, and the year 1970 would have been his 100th birthday. I do not think this was a coincidence. In 1974, the Environmental Program was born, which channeled RBF donations into organizations that focused on "the way in which population, resources, food, capital, pollution, and values interact." Thus, Gaia worship was infesting the global milieu with ever-increasing waves of momentum. And the next one came in 1980.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was established in 1948 shortly after the UN itself was formed. But after 32 years of obscurity Steven Rockefeller gave it new life. In 1980, a report called the World Conservation Strategy was published, detailing a plan to curb societal "sins" by implementing "sustainable development," a concept that was the brainchild of Rockefeller himself. In 1982, the UN General Assembly adopted the World Charter for Nature in the wake of the report, and the IUCN has had its filthy hands on every environmental movement since. It has been one of the primary players in pushing the goals for Agenda 21 and 2030, silently laying the groundwork for the implementation of the Beast system; a diabolical scheme for world totalitarianism cloaked in the sanctimony of "saving the planet." Here is the stated purpose of the IUCN:
[To] promote alternative models for sustainable communities and lifestyles, based in ecospiritual practices and principles... to accelerate our transition to a just and sustainable future... Humanity must undergo a radical change in its attitudes, values, and behavior... In response to this situation, a new global ethics is taking form, and it is finding expression in international law. (IUCN's Ethics Working Group's publication, Earth Ethics, 1996, as quoted by Dr. Coffman in this video)
The term Ecospiritual is an allusion to Gaia worship, and radical change means that we will be expected to sacrifice our modern luxuries to appease her. This sacrifice will reach into every aspect of our lives, as admitted by Steven Rockefeller in his published definition of what the elites mean by "sustainable." Steven has a PhD in the philosophy of religion, is a professor emeritus at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he served as dean and chairman of the religion department. He is a proponent of Planned Parenthood, and wrote a book praising John Dewey and his "Democratic Humanism." He is also a trustee of the Rockefeller Brother's Fund, and one of the oldest members of the Rockefeller family. Here is how he describes the phrase "sustainable development":
Sustainable by definition, means not only indefinitely prolonged, but nourishing, as the earth is nourishing to life and the self-actualizing of persons and communities. The word development need not be restricted to economic activity, but can mean the evolution, unfolding growth and fulfillment of any and all aspects of life. (Steven Rockefeller, Spirit and Nature (Boston Beacon, 1992), page 8, emphasis added)
Another major player in all of this was Maurice Strong. An impoverished Canadian born in 1929, Strong became a multi-millionaire in the oil industry in his twenties. He was offered his first job as a clerk at the UN in 1947 where he met and befriended David Rockefeller. He would go on to eventually become the head of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a member of the 1001 Nature Trust, the Bilderbergers, and the secretive Club of Rome. In 1988, he was instrumental in forming the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global organization dedicated to fomenting financial collapse in industrialized nations.
Strong asserted, "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" It was Strong who was one of the principal organizers of the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit held in 1992, where his brainchild, Agenda 21, was introduced. He made it clear that our American way of life that many of us cherish has to be scrapped, an impossible task without destroying our God-given property rights. These were his opening remarks at Rio Earth Summit held in 2002:
It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class--involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air conditioning, and suburban housing--are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns. (February 21-23, 2002 Lyon, France)
This is a perfect match with what the original document detailing Agenda 21 actually states. It is as if both statements came from the same author:
Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced... a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of... human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level. (Agenda 21, Source)
Every human action means controlling literally everything we do: where we live and work, how we get around, what we eat, what we wear, where we are allowed to go, what gets injected into us, who we can assemble with, and on and on. This is coming down the pike, elites are pushing right now to get these types of draconian laws passed in Utah, as the LDS Church encourages its members to be "good global citizens."
Everything is moving in this direction, and everything is connected, whether it's one-world health, one-world religion (ecumenism), one-world geopolitics, or one-world eco-spiritualism (environmentalism). Since the inception of the United States of America, nearly all secret societies, conspiracies, deep state henchmen, high-level Freemasons, Luciferian elitist families, and in-the-know front politicians have pushed for this very agenda, they have just called it by different names. It has been their goal for centuries, from as early as when Francis Bacon wrote his novel The New Atlantis.
If you're not aware of this agenda, or what is coming, please take this opportunity to wake up. I'm going to lay everything out in this blog series, to the best of my knowledge and ability. There will be links, videos, and documents to study. Although it is too late to save this nation, it is not too late to personally wake up. And once awake, you can begin to repent and call upon the Lord, because only He can get you out of what is coming.
Remember, the scriptures are full of one story after another of God leading His people out of bondage and destruction, albeit usually a very small remnant. All we can do is prepare ourselves to be worthy of being led away by God, and only He can lead us, as no group of religious leaders will tell you to get out of Dodge. They will tell you to trust in them while they rob, extort, and enslave you. But you will have to be able to listen to and discern God's own voice when it is time to escape Babylon, any other voice will lead you astray.
You will have to live by every word that proceeds out of God's mouth, or face being swept off with the rest of the intransigent. God has declared His decrees upon this land in the Book of Mormon, and we have ignored them. This land is not mine, ours, or theirs, it is God's, and it is not the Russians or the Chinese we should fear, it is Him. If the UN is finally able to implement Agenda 2030, it will be because God is no longer protecting this land, and we will all be compelled to be humble. But even then we can still repent and call upon His name, because while Satan is setting up his empire, God will be leading His people to Zion.
With all that said, let me get back to some basics of the history behind this sinister agenda. As I have said before on this blog, an organization's logos and symbols can be a dead give away of the god it serves, and the UN loves to waft its occult logos in plain sight.
Raiders of the Lost... Hope?
Have you ever wondered why George Lucas had Indiana Jones looking for the lost Ark of the Covenant in Egypt? As much as the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark is an American adventure classic, it is also a blasphemous and sacrilegious parody. It leaves Christianity out of the history of the Ark of the Covenant, softly pushing the agenda that Christianity was a copy-cat of other sun-worshipping religions. Judaism is also left out of the equation and not even referenced once in the movie, even though a French archeologist is portrayed in Hebrew garb (described in Exodus 28) officiating in an Israelite ritual surrounded by anti-Semitic Nazis. Yet the only religious reference to the Ark is denounced by Indy as "superstitious hocus-pocus."
Strange indeed.
The Nazis were performing the ritual to use the Ark to access its magical and occult powers, which ended in their chagrin when skeletal ghosts melted their faces off. The moral of the story? Don't look inside the magical box; a test that Indy and Marion passed with flying colors. So what exactly was Lucas' point? All religion is the same, based on myth and superstition.
In Egypt the worship of a mother goddess equaled in importance to the sun-gods Ra, Osiris and Horus. Isis was the mother protector and goddess of fertility, but her mother, Neith, was the Mother Goddess, the forerunner of Mother Earth, and thus, one of the equivalents to the Greek Gaia. She was said to have been the first primordial creator, the original former of the universe and all things in it, as well as the "goddess of the cosmos, fate, wisdom, water, rivers, mothers, childbirth, hunting, weaving, and war" (see Wikipedia). This begs the question: was Lucas pushing a deeper agenda?
We know, for example, that he is familiar with concept of Regionalism as ensconced in the goals of Agenda 21. I will get into Regionalism later in this series but for now just know that it is a plan to replace representative government with regions subjected to unelected globalists leaders (like Districts as portrayed in The Hunger Games).
Lucas revealed the plan in Star Wars, when he wrote into the story that the Republican form of government in the galaxy was threatened with being replaced with regional dictators loyal to the Emperor. It is sometimes downright eerie how the agenda of the globalists is written into movies and entertainment; hidden in plain sight for all to see.
Was Lucas' portrayal of the Ark in Egypt a subtle appeal to ancient paganism? Like Al Gore, was he somehow lending credence to the idea that a mother goddess created this universe and deserves our worship and adulation, while simultaneously denouncing all other religion as "superstitious hocus-pocus?" It is possible, but more important to consider is that fact that a new Ark was created on September 9th of 2001, just two days before 911.
This one is called the Ark of Hope, and instead of housing the Ten Commandments, nestled within its wooden chambers lies the Earth Charter, handwritten on papyrus and containing the new "commandments" of global climate repentance. Its four walls are garnished with murals of esoteric symbolism, with Gaia being at the forefront. Have a look:
The carrying poles are supposed to be unicorn horns, touted for their ability to ward off evil (you can't make this stuff up). On September 11, upon news of the terrorist attack, the Ark left its birthplace in Vermont and was carried 350 miles through four states, right into downtown New York to its final resting place, the United Nations Interfaith Center. Dr. Coffman explained the esoteric symbolism of the panel below in this video(start at the 13 minute mark):
The other panels portray the circle of life as espoused in pantheistic religions, where everything is part of a community of animals, plants, trees, and even rocks. The doctrine of reincarnation is represented, where the idea that all things, even rocks and dirt, have rights, and that we could all come back as any element after we die and are reincarnated into our next life. The panel above is showing mixed animals in the form of a pyramid, with two crocodiles on either side.
The crocodiles represent the wise ones, or guardians of knowledge, much like the serpent associated with Lucifer in the garden of Eden. And on the top of the pyramid sits on owl, which represents wisdom, or one who sees in the dark. Dr. Coffman explains that if you look closer, you see the form of an ancient goddess within the globular circle, who sits on top of the pyramid that does not have a capstone.
Are you paying attention?
The goddess (mother earth) is the all-seeing eye of Lucifer as portrayed on the back of a one-dollar bill. This is the same old symbol of the Illuminati. If you look at the owl again you will see a mini pair of wings in the middle of the circle, not unlike the image below of this Egyptian mother goddess:
This one even has a mini-globe on the top of her head. Can you see how they are just repackaging the same old myths and lies? Gaia worship is just another form of Luciferianism, the UN is just rubbing it in your face. The Ark was created for a celebration in Vermont called "For Love of Earth," an event sponsored and attended by guess who? Steven Rockefeller. Is it a coincidence that this event was held on September 9th, just two days prior to 911? Seems curious to me.
911 represented the doing away with and replacing the existing economic system with the New World Order's system, which is in its final stages of digitization now. Did it also represent the inauguration of a new world religion, with new commandments based on pantheism?
Maybe that question is best left unanswered until we cover what the Earth Charter is, the “sacred” document housed within the Ark's four walls. It was created by a trifecta of green-bleeding "environmentalists": Steven Rockefeller, Maurice Strong, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Rockefeller and Strong enjoyed their wealth from the oil industry, one not so friendly to the environmental movement. And Gorbachev, who oversaw the most horrific environmental disaster in history at Chernobyl, is not exactly the idyllic model of the green movement. Yet these three opportunists are somehow the shining knights of environmentalism? I'm not buying it.
The stated purpose of the Earth Charter as displayed on its website in the late 1990s is as follows:
The Earth Charter "is the articulation of a spiritual vision that reflects universal spiritual values" whose objective is to implement "a radical change in humanities attitudes and values." It is "a people's charter that serves as a universal code of conduct for ordinary citizens, educators, business executives, scientists, [and] religious leaders..." (Quoted in this video at the 8 minute mark)
Sound like a religion? It gets worse. In 1992, at the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment, part of the report stated the following:
Traditional societies tend to view themselves as members of a community that not only includes other humans, but also plants and animals as well as rocks, springs, and pools. People are then members of a community of beings--living and non-living. Thus rivers may be viewed as mothers. Animals may be treated as kin. (Section 12.2.3, pp. 838)
Now animals, rocks, rivers, streams and pools have equal rights with humans? Eat your heart out Adam, your dominion over the earth has been revoked. This rhetorical idiocy has now been put into practice. In November of 2022, faith leaders met from all over the world to participate in a climate repentance ceremony. The climate conference, known as COP 27, was held on the Sinai Peninsula, where deference was given to Gaia in the form of the new ten commandments. You can read them here.
Although they refer to "God" in a general way, when you read between lines you realize that they can only be deferring to Mother Earth or Gaia. Nowhere in the ceremony or the commandments is Jesus Christ mentioned. And the fact that they held this sacrilege near Mt. Sinai and made up new commandments means that their intention was to officially announce the New World Order religion as pantheistic earth-worship. Of course, this is the exoteric religion given to the masses, the esoteric religion is Luciferianism, or the worship of the Beast that John wrote about.
For those of you who might still be in denial about the LDS Church's willful participation in this blasphemy, here is a roster of faith leaders who attended. Among them is Mr. Scripture himself, Elder David A. Bednar. You need to realize the seriousness of his actions. He participated in a religious ritual that was both humanistic and anti-Christ. Remember that anti does mean "against," but rather means to replace. They have officially replaced the Ten Commandments with their own humanistic and pantheistic version, what transpired was no small thing.
Any intellectually honest member of the Church should ask the question: what in the world is an "apostle" of Jesus Christ doing giving public deference to a false god? However, if you have been following what LDS leaders have been saying in speeches given at UN conferences, then this shouldn't come as a surprise. Sharon Eubanks frankly admitted the Church's support of sustainable development and Agenda 2030 in an address given at the 2018 G20 Interfaith Forum. Her words would've made President Benson turn over in his grave:
Part of the look forward is in recognizing the importance of mobilizing women of faith to work on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) issues and to acknowledge their faith not as a barrier but the key to progress and success. The 2030 agenda won't happen without religion, and religion won't happen without women. They are the movers. The way forward is to do just what this forum has as its goals. Invite and respect as many faith actors as possible, build understanding among them, and integrate them into every aspect of the 2030 SDG agenda. It will lead to the greatest success possible for equity, justice, and peace. (Source from the LDS Church's website, emphasis added)
Obviously, the Church is not hiding its open support for the UN and Agenda 2030, or the fact that is not above participation in pagan rituals. But rest assured that what they are up to is much more than just deference and lip service to the United Nations. This is not just another PR campaign to gain more popularity with the world.
They have actually joined the secret combination that is set up to destroy the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries, as Moroni so forthrightly and prophetically declared. They have become the very conspirators that Ezra Taft Benson so boldly warned us against.
How do we know? You have to follow the money. Rebekah Griffin did a great job of making a few financial connections in her video entitled Global LDS Church. It apparently ruffled some feathers because it has been taken down from YouTube, but thankfully she has reloaded it on Rumble:
Below are a few screenshots I took from the video. In this first one you can see that the LDS Church donated millions to the global vaccine effort, one that we now know has brought untold suffering and death to countless people (See this blog post for a list of tragic victims who died suddenly).
GAVI is a public-private organization dedicated to increasing vaccination availability to poor countries and has Bill Gates' name written all over it. These vaccine programs were more of a sterilization effort than anything else, as Bill admitted in this Ted Talk. UNICEF is the United Nation's Children Fund, and it is sickening that the LDS Church donated $20 million toward vaccinating children with this deadly injection, proven now to be unsafe and not effective. By the way, have you ever taken a look at the UNICEF logo? Here it is:
Looks benign enough right? What could be more innocent than a caring parent holding up a baby? This image is the inverse of a well-known symbol of Nimrod's Mystery Religion. See the image below:
What you are seeing is Nimrod's wife Semiramis holding the child Tammuz, the reincarnation of Nimrod himself. I don't have time to get into this here, but I wrote a piece on this subject last year if you want to know the full story. Inversion is something Luciferians use to hide their beliefs in plain sight. The adult in the UNICEF logo is bald, we don't know if the person is male or female, and the baby, representing Nimrod, is being held up, as if in some form of adoration or worship.
This logo is a symbol for deference to a pagan king, who Nimrod represents, ultimately, the future Anti-Christ or false prophet. The genderless adult represents the masses who have lost their identity in this modern sea of transgenderism, who will be required to worship this king or face death.
Now, this is my opinion, which I have deduced from the study of the occult, and should not be taken as authoritative. But regardless of the meaning of the symbols, one has to ask why "the Lord's Church" is donating millions to such an organization? I will have a little more to say on inversion in part II, but for now consider this other screenshot from Rebekah's video showing the LDS Church as part of a global task force for "sustainable development":
The phrase task force literally means the following: "a temporary grouping of individuals and resources for the accomplishment of a specific objective." This is why I say the Church's rhetorical support for Agenda 2030 is more than rhetorical. They have become actors on the scene, donating both financial and laborious support for the implementation of this agenda.
And if you're wondering if the UN might still be a good organization that is trying to do the right thing but is impeded by bloated bureaucracy, the video below will destroy that paradigm. This gentleman, Calin Georgescu, was a former UN executive director turned whistleblower. He spills all the beans here, explaining that whatever palatable talking point they use to push their ideas, they mean the exact opposite. For instance, equity means that everyone is poor but them, and own nothing and be happy really means that they own it all. As you watch this video, ask yourself again what the hell the LDS Church is doing supporting this diabolical institution:
Final Thoughts
Now that you have a historical background of what Agenda 2030 is based on, we are ready to dive into part II of this series. There we will probe further into the significance of Russel Nelson being a member of the Skull and Bones, as well as the corrupt politicians in Utah, local secret societies, and some of the laws that have been passed in the Utah state legislature.
It is hard to dwell on such difficult concepts, it is not comfortable to study out secret combinations and the grossly evil acts they commit. But it is necessary, and it is noble, and sometimes the good guys win.
In the Book of Mormon, there was a rooting out of secret combinations that happened just prior to the crucifixion of Christ. If you remember, Lachoneus and his people defeated the Gadianton robbers in a brutal stand off that forced the latter to flee into the mountains. After a few years, a new leader rose up named Zemnarihah, and a new strategy was attempted, not unlike what modern Gadiantons are doing now:
But in the twenty and first year, they did not come up to battle, but they came up on all sides to lay siege round about the people of Nephi; for they did suppose that if they should cut off the people of Nephi from their lands and should hem them on every side, and if they should cut them off from their outward privileges, that they could cause them to yield themselves up according to their wishes. (3 Nephi 2:12,RE)
They tried to cut off the Nephites from their lands, by hemming them in, and cutting them off from their outward privileges, hoping they would give in and yield themselves up to the robbers.
Do you see the parallels?
Today's Gadiantons don't have us surrounded by a physical army, but they are slowly taking our lands away, and through legislation hemming us into regions, and ultimately hoping we will give in and yield ourselves up to Agenda 2030.
Do you know what happened?
Because of the Nephites' food storage (provisions) and preparedness, the robbers ran out of food first, and had to withdraw their plans before attacking. The Nephites took advantage and pursued them, capturing and executing their leader:
... Zemnarihah, was taken and hanged upon a tree, yea, even upon the top thereof until he was dead. And when they hanged him until he was dead, they did fall the tree to the earth and did cry with a loud voice, saying, May the Lord preserve his people in righteousness and in holiness of heart, that he may cause to be fell to the earth all who shall seek to slay them because of power and secret combinations, even as this man hath been fell to the earth! (3 Nephi 2:14 RE)
They beat the Gadiantons, and we can too. If you live in Utah and you love freedom you should be enraged at what is going on in the capital building. I strongly encourage you to get involved in the protestation and nullification process. Bombard your representatives with angry emails and phone calls. Organize protests at the capital building, let them know they can't get away with such unconstitutional nonsense.
Defer to Jefferson and Madison when they wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in which they defined the right of nullification. We DO NOT have to consent to any state or federal unconstitutional law. Remember, even though God has decreed that we will be swept off when we are ripe in iniquity, we still need to stand up and fight for our liberties, until every last one of them is gone. We and our children need more time to prepare for the Lord's coming.
Ask yourself, are you like Captain Moroni, who sought not for power but to pull it down? Are you fearless like he was? So fearless that he threatened to march on his own governor Pahoran if he did not send supplies to his famished soldiers. You see, Moroni thought Pahoran was a conspirator, which he had no tolerance for. We should be like Moroni, we should have no tolerance for secret combinations. Mormon had this to say about this incredible man:
Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be like unto Moroni, behold, the powers of hell would have been shaken for ever; yea, the Devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men. (Alma 21:34, RE)
Do you feel the power of that statement? Do you feel the Spirit testifying to you of what kind of men we ought to be? Moroni was attempting to emulate Christ. His cause was the "cause of Christians." Christ came to preach "deliverance to the captives," and " to set at liberty them who are bruised." He is the Author of liberty. We should be like Him and stand up for freedom. If you feel inspired by Captain Moroni, listen to the song below.
Feel the desires for freedom well up deep inside your soul. Know that this fight, which is now in Utah, in your backyard, on your front doorstep, is being waged to imprison your body, your mind, and ultimately, your soul. Just remember, we outnumber them by 99%. If just 2% of us stand up against tyranny, we would outnumber them 2 to 1, just think what 4% would do? Like the grasshoppers in A Bug's Life, it is the masses they fear.
This song is called Liberty by Jordan Page:
Stay tuned for part II, and in the meantime here is a video for further study:
Also this series of articles is also a great resource to learn the history of Agenda 21:
Modern Luciferians have a modus operandi, they create chaos in order to profit from it. But monetary gain is only the icing on the proverbial cake--their real goal is create order in the wake of havoc. To rebuild society in their own image from the ashes of war, economic disparity, racial inequality, social upheaval, and, as the last three years have proven, planned pandemics. They engineer the problems and then create the solutions. They are both the good guys and the bad guys, the terrorists and the heroes, the totalitarians and the champions of society, the dictators and the benevolent statesmen. Their motto is ordo ab chao, or "order out of chaos." This is how they control and enslave us, and it has worked for thousands of years.
The conspirators behind the chaos and its ensuing order are participating in a system that is ancient. The first secret combination began with Cain, who established the first city. Cities were originally military centers, designed to keep people in close quarters under surveillance and control. In contrast, the righteous posterity of Adam lived an agrarian lifestyle in the more rural areas. According to the apocryphal Book of Enoch, it was the fallen angels who taught men the arts of war, blacksmithing, weapons manufacturing, alchemy, sorcery (using herbs for hallucination), and music, which they used to lure Adam's righteous posterity into their civilizations. I also believe that the Babylonian system we live under today originated with Cain and his posterity. That system includes the concept of monetary currency and central banking, market manipulation and crony capitalism, the deification of kings and governmental leaders, and our modern concept of totalitarianism. Hugh Nibley, in his book Enoch The Prophet, draws from the Zohar (the foundational work of the Jewish Kabbalah) to summarize the depth of knowledge the fallen angels had:
The Zohar states the general principle: whenever the Holy One has allowed the deep mysteries of wisdom to be brought down into the world of mankind, they have become corrupted, and men have attempted to declare war on God. The only redeeming feature of the thing was that the fallen angels who had perverted the human race had not learned all the mysteries in their heavenly condition (we're told in a Gizeh fragment), and so were not able to give away everything. As it was, their power for evil was almost unlimited. (Enoch The Prophet, p. 12, Kindle version)
These angel's knowledge fell short of revealing the full mysteries of God to the wicked, but they possessed enough to make themselves gods among men, and to introduce unlimited amounts of evil in this fallen world. Is this why the rites, ceremonies, rituals, and initiations of the Mystery Schools seem very similar to the true rituals introduced to Adam by God? Have you ever wondered why Masonic rituals are almost identical to the LDS Temple ceremony? The origin of this copy-cat-ism could be ancient, and go all the way back to the time of the First Patriarchs. Did the fallen angels introduce their version of these rituals to the posterity of Cain, which was perpetuated all the way up to the flood, through ancient Egypt, and down to the present day? I think they did, and in this post I'll be getting into some of the initiation ceremonies that are currently used by the Skull and Bones at Yale University, and how they seem to be a corrupted form of the Egyptian rites.
But first, let's dive into this concept, introduced by Denver Snuffer, that Satan attempted to capture this creation through Cain's murder of his brother Able. The plot behind the murder was to gain control over the Holy Order by changing the seed lines through which it was passed down. In many Christian circles there is a lot of discussion about what they call the "serpent seed." They actually believe that part of Satan's beguilement of Eve in the garden involved sexual intercourse, through which Cain was conceived as the literal son of Satan. There is no scriptural evidence to support this hypothesis, and it seems a very unlikely scenario that God would allow such a debauchery to happen in the Garden of Eden. Furthermore, Cain and Able were not the first children of Adam and Eve, as they had many generations of sons and daughters beforehand who remain un-named. Remember that Eve rejoiced when they finally got Cain, saying that she had "gotten a man from the Lord," which according to Denver, meant that they finally had a righteous candidate for passing down the Holy Order. At one point during his life, Cain exercised faith and was on the path to be the righteous heir, but his ambitions for the Order were tainted with desires for power and authority. Denver explains the temptation that Cain faced and the threat it posed to the Plan of Salvation:
Satan put it into the heart of Cain to view the inheritance that he was going to receive of the Holy Order as an opportunity to gratify his pride, and to satisfy his ambition, and to exert control and compulsion, because if he were the one in the line then the Messiah would descend through him and he would have a patriarchal position superior to the Messiah himself. This was an important part of the plot of the adversary. If the adversary could gain control over the inheritor under Adam of the Holy Order, then... before the Savior returns, when dominion was given to Adam, it was by God's word and God cannot break his word. The right of dominion had been conferred. It has to be returned to Him. If Cain were the one in the position to exercise control then he could exert whatever conditions Satan put into his heart before he would return the right of dominion back to the Savior. Thus, if a disciple of Satan were to be in possession of that Holy Order in that line holding dominion, all of the conditions that Satan had demanded in the preexistence, which were rejected by the Father and created the war in heaven designed to destroy the agency of man, could become the condition for the redemption of this creation. Therefore, Cain's apostasy represented an enormous threat to the salvation of everyone who would live thereafter.
As a consequence of that, the offering by the younger brother was approved and the older brother Cain was told, "You need to stop what you're doing, you need to repent and return, and if you do not, sine lieth at the door. The adversary is ready to enter into your house." This represented a serious frustration or threat to the second great conspiracy to destroy the souls of men and to capture this creation. Therefore, Satan put it into the heart of Cain to murder his brother and Abel was slain so that, the theory was, by controlling the position that necessarily meant that the Messiah would be a descendent of Cain's, the line would come through him, and he would have the authority, the control, the dominion, and the right to change the plan or the conditions for the salvation of the souls of men in this world. (The Holy Order Fireside, transcript, p. 5-6, emphasis added)
Knowledge about the Holy Order can be misused. Even understanding its rights has inspired envy, jealousy, and anger. Cain murdered Abel because Cain understood the importance of standing at the head of the Holy Order. As he contemplated the possibility of it slipping away from him, Satan tempted him to usurp the right by murdering the more worthy heir...
[Denver quotes Genesis 3:9, RE, and then offers the following commentary]:
The "flocks of my brother" were not sheep; they were posterity. Abel was to become Adam's successor and stand as the Father of many nations. By displacing Abel, Cain hope to be the next in line of Patriarchal Fathers. (transcript, p. 31)
Because God gave His word to Adam that the right of dominion had been conferred upon Adam's seed, He would've been bound to honor Cain's lineage and rights to the Holy Order. Denver expounds on this a little further in Eight Essays, He writes:
Desperate ambitions lead to desperate acts, and the solution Satan inspired was for Cain to murder his brother. This was an attempt to get control over the entire creation by overthrowing the government of God and confiscate the birthright and associated Holy Order that accompanied it. The "flocks of my brother" Cain wanted to control as his "gain" was the lineage through whom the Messiah would descend.
This is an important part of the plot of the adversary because if he can control any position under Adam involving the Holy Order, this creation can be compromised. God has a house of order. When the world was created it belonged to God. By His word He gave dominion over His creation to Adam and Eve. It become theirs and Adam holds the right to preside over it, as Joseph Smith explained. That right must be returned to Jesus Christ before His return. If anyone who has held a position in the Holy Order refuses to return dominion back to Christ, it can create a conflict that continues the same war that began in heaven. If Cain were to hold dominion over this creation, he could impose conditions Satan put into his heart before returning the right of dominion back to the Savior. By extension, if any disciple of Satan were ever to obtain the Holy Order with the right of dominion the conditions Satan demanded in the preexistence, which were designed to destroy the agency of man, could become the condition for redeeming this creation. Cain's apostasy was a continuation of the war in heaven and a threat to the salvation of everyone who would live thereafter. Threatening salvation of mankind has been the aim of our adversary since the beginning. There is still a great conspiracy to destroy the souls of men and to capture this creation. The Holy Order is guarded by carefully qualifying those who receive it. It is under God's control and supervised by Adam and Eve. (Eight Essays, pp. 209-
Denver's insights here are quite illuminating, however, this still brings up the question as to what is meant in Genesis by the seed of the serpent. It seems to me that the seed lines are adoptive and not literal (we all are, after all, the physical progeny of Adam and Eve). It makes more sense that one can be adopted into God's Family and become a Son or Daughter of God (i.e., be initiated into the Holy Order), or one could become adopted into Satan's organization (initiation into Mystery Babylon). Perhaps this is a deeper meaning of the church of the Lamb of God and the church of the Devil. At any rate, here is the verse:
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you head, and you shall bruise his heel... (Genesis 2:18, RE, emphasis added)
The Book of Mormon seems to concur that it is possible for the wicked to become the sons of Satan. Again, it makes more sense that this process is adoptive, and not literal. Alma writes:
And thus we see that the Devil will not support his children at the last day... (Alma 16:15, RE, emphasis added)
This begs the question: how does one become a child of the Devil? There seems to be a clue in Genesis 3:9 of the RE that Denver quoted in the talk referenced above. This involves the phrase MasterMahon. This phrase appears twice in the Restoration Edition of the scriptures in Genesis 3: once in reference to Cain, and once in reference to Lamech, and appears to be some sort of title. The etymology of the word master goes back to the Latin word magister, which means "chief, head, director, teacher." It also means, a "man eminently or perfectly skilled in something," or one who is "chief teacher of another (in philosophy or religion etc.), religious instructor, spiritual guide." It is also associated with one who is a "master craftsman," or "workman who is qualified to teach apprentices and carry on a trade on his own account." Also, it includes "one who has power to control, use, or dispose at will," and the "owner of a living creature," whether animal or human, as in slavery.
In an academic sense, it is associated with a Master's Degree, an authoritative position to teach in a university, as "one who has received a specific degree." But also has reference to one who has been initiated into a specific degree of the mysteries, where a "master-key" could be given to unlock a number of doors that were previously unavailable to the aspiring adept. Do you see where this is going? When Cain lost his chance to seize the rights to the Holy Order it seems as though Satan granted him a new opportunity to begin another order, one that mimicked the true Order, replete with degrees of initiation that allowed one access to "hidden" or occult knowledge. These "secret plans" were passed down in ancient cultures from that time forward, and Mormon tells us that they are "had among all people." This is the great Satanic substitute for God's Order and His mysteries, as well as the substitute for God's government, as these societies desire to "reign with blood and horror" on this earth.
But what of the word Mahon? What does it really mean? Curiously, if you change the h to an s than you get the word Mason. This is pure conjecture on my part, but is nevertheless intriguing. If you look up the word on a google search, you don't really get a definition, but rather the meaning of a name. The name Mahon means "bear," or one who has "the strength of a bear." Its numerological number is 6, signifying the male upward triangle and female downward triangle, which is occultic symbol for the "as above, so below" philosophy. I wrote about that here. Remember, St. John tells us that six is the number of a man (God created man on the sixth day), and the two triangles pointed up and down and merged into a six-pointed star is also the numerological symbol for 666. Interestingly, Mahon is spelled differently in the standard LDS Edition of the Book of Moses, with an a, not an o. I'm not sure why the group who put the Restoration Edition of the scriptures together chose to make this change, but I find it curious that their spelling renders it closer to the word Mason. Furthermore, the word "bear" is associated with an animal, or beast, and also means "to carry something," as in a burden, or a secret. When Lamech became the new Master Mahon, the text describes him as "master of that great secret." Hugh Nibley, in his book Approaching Zion, explains that the title of Master Mahan (LDS Edition spelling) is a kind of Satanic degree that teaches one how to convert life into property:
He [Satan] boasts just how he plans to put the world under his bloody and horrible misrule: He will control the world economy by claiming possession of the earth's resources; and by manipulation of its currency--gold and silver--he will buy up the political, military, and ecclesiastical complex and run everything his way. We see him putting his plan into operation when he lays legal claim to the whole earth as his estate, accusing others of trespass, but putting everything up for sale for anyone who has the money.
And how will they get the money? By going to work for him. He not only offers employment but a course of instruction in how the whole thing works, teaching the ultimate secret: "That great secret" (Moses 5:49-50) of converting life into property. Cain got the degree of Master Mahan, tried the system out on his brother, and gloried in its brilliant success, declaring that at last he could be free, as only property makes free, and that Abel had been a loser in a free competition.
The discipline was handed down through Lamech and finally became the pattern of the world's economy (Moses 5:55-56)... Cain slew "his brother Abel for the sake of getting gain" (Moses 5:50)--not in a fit of pique but by careful business planning, "by the conspiracy (D&C 84:16). The great secret he learned from Satan was the art of converting life into property--all life, even eternal life! The exchange of eternal life for worldly success is in fact the essence of the classic Pact with the Devil... (Approaching Zion, Excerpted from There are Save Two ChurchesOnly, Volume I, p. 34, emphasis added)
Did you catch that last part? Satan desires to convert all life into property, even eternal life. According to Denver, the "flocks" of Cain's brother were his posterity. The exoteric meaning is that Cain wanted Abel's sheep, the esoteric meaning is that he wanted to control the seed line through which the Messiah would come, hence the meaning of converting "eternal life" into property. Secret societies today still employ this two-tiered system (as above, so below). You can see by their works that they steal and kill to get worldly gain, but they also want your soul. They want your adoration and emulation, they want your worship, just like their master Satan. They want you to believe that Lucifer is the good guy and Jesus is the bad guy. In fact, when they finally achieve their New World Order, they will force you to worship Lucifer or kill you, as John's sobering prophecies reveal.
In the book I introduced in my last few posts, The Writings of Abraham, it is revealed that Nimrod himself held the title of Master Mahan, which begs the question: did this title get passed down to the present day? After explaining that his father Terah was the "Prime Minister" to Nimrod, Abraham reveals that Nimrod "reigned in Ur of the Chaldeans," and added the following:
Moreover, Nimrod, was a man of mighty power for he was Master Mahan and had in his hands the secrets of the ancients as they had come down from Cain wherein he knew the words of power and the signs for using them and he had the holy garments which had been given unto Adam in the garden in which was great power.
All of this power did Nimrod use to get gain after the manner of the secret combination.
With this power he had set out to build a tower which would reach to heaven, even the city of my father Enoch which had been taken up, that he, Nimrod, might depose God from his throne for God had taken up his abode among the people of Enoch.
But God frustrated the plans of Nimrod by confounding the language of him and his people that they could no longer remember the sacred words and they scattered forth over the face of the earth.
At that time Nimrod came and established the city of Ur which is the City of Light, for he yet retained his determination to build a city to rival the city of God that the light and power might center in him.
And through the ministration of Satan he did receive again some of the words of power and did reorganize the secret combination among his people; but he had not power as at the first for the fullness of the pure language was not restored to him according to the decree of the Most High God. (Chapter 2:3-8, emphases added)
There is power in language. The language of Adam was pure and undefiled, and apparently was used for both good and evil. Remember that Enoch's words were so powerful that mountains fled at his utterance:
And all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him. (Genesis 4:13, RE, emphasis added)
Cain also used this pure language for evil. He knew "words of power and the signs for using them,” which he could’ve learned during his candidacy for the Holy Order. When God confounded the languages at the tower of Babel, perhaps He did so to protect these sacred words from being used for evil. As the record of Abraham reveals, Nimrod received some of the sacred words back from Satan, but not all. Also recall that the Brother of Jared cried unto the Lord to not confound his people's language. What were they trying to preserve? When we think of the story of the tower of Babel we assume that God created all these different languages and made people forget the original one, but that was not the case. The word confound does not mean to change a language, it means to lose the original meanings of words, or to become "confused, perplexed," or to "mix up." We have confounded our own English language, to see that all you have to do is look at Webster's 1828 Dictionary. Languages change over time, and meanings of words are lost. This is also how we lose truth and light. Was the confounding of language at the tower of Babel an act of mercy on the Lord's part, to protect us from people like Nimrod and his secret combinations who would use that language for evil? I think this is definitely a possibility. I also believe that the restoration of all things to come in the future will include the return of the pure language of Adam. There was a talk given on the subject of language confounding that blew my mind when I listened to it last year. It was given by McKay Platt at a Restoration Conference. Click here to listen to the talk, or here to read it.
Here is another question to ponder: did Satan attempt to copy God's power by using language and signs? Is this where the secret combinations got their rituals from, and is that why they seem very similar to God's rituals revealed in temples? Remember the Book of Mormon tells us that the secret plans of the Gadiatons are of ancient date, and those who adhere to them believe they are "good." Abraham tells us that Nimrod was jealous of Enoch's powers, and built ancient Babylon and the tower of Babel to rival Zion. We know that Satan is jealous of God's powers, and I believe he is trying to create an imitation of the Holy Order through the title of Master Mahon and the secret combinations formed under that leadership. Nimrod was also attempting to dethrone God, just as Satan attempted to do in the Council in Heaven. Satan wants to be God. God who also creates "order out of chaos," but does so for the salvation and immortality of His children.
God takes unorganized matter and transforms it into creations that consist of order and harmony. The Book of Abraham tells us that the Gods ordered matter to organize, and they waited and watched until it obeyed Them. They began the creative process that inaugurated the natural events and cycles that were conducive to life on earth. Satan seeks to imitate this process, but he can't create anything. So he deliberately incites chaos into society through hatred and fear, and then offers the "solution" to the chaos by dressing up his post-mortal plan to destroy free agency in fancy words like communism, socialism, collectivism, social justice (now wokism), and the concept of the greater social good. These humanistic philosophies are taught to society by the highest initiates of the Satanic mysteries and degrees, i.e., the secret combinations and societies. One that has received considerable attention lately in conspiracy circles and independent news outlets (in Utah) is the Order of the Skull and Bones. This group uses language and ritual that is based on Egyptian ceremony, and is in my view a corrupted imitation of God's Holy Order, a perversion of Priesthood, government, and the true religion of the Fathers.
America's Secret Establishment
Antony C. Sutton, former economics professor at California State University, and research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute, was the author of twenty books. He was born in London in 1925 and emigrated to the United States in 1957, where he became a citizen in 1962. He died mysteriously in 2002, after the latest reprinting of the book that blew the lid off the Skull and Bones. Sutton laid the groundwork for the conspiratorial view that Wall Street and corporations operating within the United States were the financiers behind Communism in Russia and Nazism in Germany. He carefully catalogued how Lenin and Trotsky had received U.S. money to bolster the Bolshevik Revolution in 1919, and how Hitler's rise to power was bankrolled by American financial institutions and corporations like IBM, with its German subsidiary I.G. Farben. He wrote about the Federal Reserve, FDR's connection to Wall Street, and how the Cold War was manufactured by the U.S. government. In the three-volume treatise he wrote while at the Hoover Institute, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, he details how the West not only aided the Soviet Union through Lend-Lease, built actually built it.
By the early 1980s, Sutton thought he had "heard it all," but he never understood why the West engaged in what seem like counterintuitive economic behavior, i.e., building up of its enemies. It wasn't until he "received an eight-inch batch of documents--nothing less than the membership lists of an American secret society," that Sutton finally knew why the West did what it did. He discovered the Order of the Skull and Bones, the pejorative name given to the Brotherhood of Death, a secret cult with ancient roots, and many chapters, operating in different parts of the world. The English chapter of the cult was called the Group, and along with the American branch made up the Anglo-American Establishment that Carroll Quigley so proudly venerated in his book Tragedy and Hope. Sutton soon discovered what the Order wanted, a one-world government they called the New World Order, and the methodology they were using to eventually obtain it: managed conflict. This conflict is introduced into society through seemingly contradictory political philosophies emanating from members of the Order, who are buddies behind the scenes. Two examples are George W. Bush and John Kerry, who are cousins and both members of the Skull and Bones, who pretended to have divergent political views in the 2004 election campaign.
Sutton discovered that the real goal of this political divisiveness is to bring about absolute Statism, i.e., the goals of the self-appointed elite who run the State. He explains it succinctly in his own words:
In the dialectical process a clash of opposites brings about a synthesis. For example, a clash of political left and political right brings about another political system, a synthesis of the two, neither left nor right. This conflict of opposites is essential to bring about change...
In the Hegelian system conflict is essential. Furthermore, for Hegel and systems based on Hegel, the State is absolute. The State requires complete obedience from the individual citizen. An individual does not exist for himself in these so-called organic systems but only to perform a role in the operation of the State...
Sutton declared in his Author's Preface that, "if I have a magnum opus, this is it." I totally agree, it is his best work, and probably what ultimately got him killed. Sutton, along with Murray Rothbard, is another one of my academic heroes, and has given us volumes of documented evidence that a massive conspiracy exists that "seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries." Like Sutton, Rothbard was also a professor of economics, and I'm not talking about Keynesian economics, I'm talking about free market (Laissez-Faire) economics as espoused by the Austrian School. It seems that those who understand real economics have a more fundamental grasp of human liberty and freedom... and history. Both Sutton and Rothbard were economists, and historians, and one could spend years just reading their works. Although Rothbard didn't venture as far as Sutton did into conspiracy, his writings inexorably lead the reader in the same direction--this piece especially. I recommend both scholars to get a firm grasp on conspiracy and the social conditions that have been created in this country as a result of these secret societies.
The Skull and Bones is the American "chapter" of the world-wide conspiracy that Moroni relates in the Book of Ether--to Bonesmen it is known as chapter 322. Some believe the number has to do with the year of the Order's founding in 1832 by William H. Russel. Russel had spent some time at a university in Germany where he was in contact with the leading member of another chapter of the Order known as "Bones." Unsatisfied with the more benign fraternity called Phi Beta Kappa (founded in 1776), he thereafter founded the Brotherhood of Death at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, as the second chapter of the German Bones Order, in 32', with the other 2 signifying chapter two. Others opine that 322 has more do with an ancient order (an old Greek patriot society) founded by Demosthenes, in 322 BC. In all reality, the number was probably a combination of both. Each year 15 seniors are "tapped" or invited into the Order, where, if they accept, are initiated and become "Knights." They take blood oaths and swear solemnly to never divulge the secrets of the Order, upon pains of death. After they are "re-born" through the initiatory process, they face the prospect of eventually becoming "Patriarchs" in the Order, enjoying wealth, power, prestige, and careful insertion into political, corporate, and religious hierarchies. With their yes men strategically placed in these leadership positions, they can be sure that the interests of the Order are subtly foisted on society, with the long awaited goal of one-world government as a distant but attainable prospect.
Sutton includes a copy of their yearly rosters in his book, from 1832-1985; many of the names are familiar: Robert A. Taft (Mr. Republican), W. Averell Harriman (secretary of commerce in the Truman Administration), Henry L. Stimson (secretory of war under FDR), Prescott Sheldon Bush, George H. W. Bush, G. W. Bush, and John Kerry. However, most of the names are relatively unknown men; a silent cadre of Luciferians clandestinely inserting their influence on all aspects of society. Sutton shows how the Order subtly influences its front groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, groups that he points out are NOT secret societies, simply because they have a public roster. He writes:
The order is represented in these organizations but does not always dominate... We can represent the relationship between the Order and the larger groups as a series of concentric circles. The CFR, etc. form an outer circle, i.e., a penumbra. They exist in a shadow cast by an inner organization... The Order is the inner circle and Chapter 322 is a part of this inner circle... (Sutton, America's Secret Establishment, p. 36)
Skull and Bones meets in secluded areas of the Yale campus. Many students and late-night passersby have reported strange sounds and eerie shrieks coming from within the hidden tombs where initiation takes place. The main Bones tomb door, made of iron and triple-padlocked, is never opened for outsiders. Author Ron Rosenbaum, a former student of Yale during the late sixties, published an article in the magazine Esquire in September of 1977, detailing his sleuthing escapades in investigating the Order. He claimed to have had in his "possession a set of annotated floor plans of the interior of the tomb, giving the exact location of the sanctum sanctorum, the room called 322." Sanctum sanctorum means "holy of holies," and signifies a temple. Yes, Skull and Bones has a sacred temple on the Yale campus where rituals are performed. Rosembaum, Sutton, and others have exposed some of the details of these rituals and they are imitative of rituals performed in the ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome; in other words, they are nothing new. Remember the words of the late D. Christian Markham, God Creates, Satan Imitates.
Intertwined Initiation
The ceremonies that fledgling Bonesmen are made to endure are reminiscent of some ancient Egyptian ceremonies that we have records of. Although they are much easier and take less time, the esoteric concepts seemed to have survived over the centuries. In what follows I'll lay out the details of the Skull and Bones initiation, at least what has been leaked, and then compare them to the fuller account of the Egyptian rites. You'll find the similarities striking.
The aspiring Bonesman must be "reborn," they must also become a "new man," a yes man if you will, one who can keep a secret. In the tombs that underlie the Yale campus, the neophyte is made to lye naked in a sarcophagus, or coffin. There he is made to confess his sexual encounters and darkest secrets to the "Patriarchs" and other aspiring "Knights." This is not an act of contrition as in the Christian concept of confession (confessing to God and those who you have wronged), but is meant to deliberately humiliate the aspirant, with the juicy details being used in the future for blackmail insurance to keep the new adept loyal to the Order. During "confession" the Patriarchs are dressed as skeletons, and prance around howling and making blood-curdling shrieking sounds at the new initiate. One of them is dressed like the devil, and others in robes. The aspirant hears the following chant: "the hangman equals death, the devil equals death, death equals death," as he dies symbolically.
With the young man still inside the coffin, it is carried into a deeper area of the tomb where he will "rise again." Here he is "reborn" into society a new man (or woman; women are now permitted into the Order), as a member of the "elect." The aspirant is given a robe with symbols one it, and a bone with his name on it that is tossed into a bone heap. He is then made to plunge naked into a mud pile with other initiates. These rituals usually go on for hours, late into the night, and last for multiple sessions occurring on different days. Senior Bonesmen meet twice a week throughout the duration of the their senior year, and probably experience many other rituals as they progress further into the Order. One of these rituals is described as follows by an anonymous blogger (most likely Ron Rosenbaum) who attempted to catch parts of it on camera:
Two hours later, after all 15 initiates had burst out to be harangued and scared, I approached the rendezvous point with the night-vision camera team... The footage was ghostly--it was grainy--but from the angles of the night-vision cams, we were able to piece together a narrative of what happened when the initiates emerged one at a time from the preliminaries inside the Tomb.
First they were led forward by a figure in a devil costume. Not really a sinister, Satanic-looking figure but, as one of the team put it, "More like Satan's Little Helper." A shrill, menacing and sometimes blood-curdling chorus of cries and screams and imprecations accompanied the emergence:
"Hurry neophyte! Run neophyte!"
"Find the femur, neophyte!"...
The devil figure pulled them into a white tent in the courtyard where, we think, they found their femurs and emerged with that looked like a thigh bone, although it was impossible to tell whether it once belonged to a human or not.
When they reemerged from the tent, they were led to the centerpiece of this part of the ritual.
They were forced face-to-face with a shocking tableau: a guy holding what seemed like a butcher knife, wearing a kind of animal-skin "barbarian" look, stood over what seemed to be a woman covered in fake blood and not much else. The neophyte then approached a skull a few feet away from the knife-wielder-and-victim tableau. The neophyte knelt and kissed the skull, at which point the guy with the knife knelt and cut the throat of the prone figure. (Well, pretended to cut the throat). (Source)
The skull used in this ritual is real. It is rumored to have been the skull of the famous Apache Indian Geronimo. In fact, his descendant's attempts to recover the remains, specifically his grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, have been in vain, even after requesting help from the White House. As far as we know, Bones still have this skull in their possession today.
D. Christian Markham, in volume one of Two Churches Only, includes the initiation ceremonies of the Egyptian Mystery Schools from a book called A History of Secret Societies, published in 1961 by the pseudonym Arkon Daraul. There were seven grueling degrees. The neophyte was made to undergo a harrowing and arduous ordeal, often lasting months or years. The Skull and Bones initiation is much easier than what the ancients experienced, but we can see remnants of those ceremonies reenacted in the tombs at Yale. Space won't permit me to quote the entire initiation ritual, so I will summarize.
The source for this Egyptian initiation came from a German document published in 1785, called the Crata Repoa. Arkon Darual, who Markham suspects is really Idries Shah, summarizes the ritual in the book Markham is quoting from. Shah clarifies that the German document "was republished in a French translation thirty years later, purporting to be the ritual of the Master degree in Freemasonry. The French editor claims that it is a composite ritual, derived from the works of some fifteen Greek and Roman writers." The neophytes were sought out by the Pharaoh, and only the priestly class was offered the initiation. He was made to sit in a cave for several months in reflection and introspection, and at length would then pass through the "pillars of Hermes," where he would meet his handler/introducer, who blindfolded him and bound him with cords. He was led to the "Gate of Men," where he was touched on the shoulder, a signal for him to knock on the gate, which opened for him.
Similarly, Seniors at Yale are "tapped" on the shoulder as an invitation to be initiated, they are blindfolded and led to the iron door that leads to the tomb, where they knock and are let in. The Egyptian hierophant, once inside the Gate of Men, is made to pass through an artificial but torrential storm of wind and rain, thunder and lightening. If he shows no fear, he is taught the laws of the Crata Repoa, and is made to kneel and vow his allegiance as a sword is pressing against his throat. His oath is witnessed by the "sun, moon, and stars." The blindfolds are taken off his eyes, and he his shown a ladder with seven steps, signifying the seven degrees, "the work of Celestial investigation," and the "wanderings of the soul." He was given a password for this degree, which is the First Degree, "taught a grip," and "given a pyramidal cap and an apron called a Xylon." He was now ready to assume his duty of guarding the "Gate of Men."
The neophyte prepares for the Second Degree with a prolonged fast, and when he begins, is fed "dainty food" from the wives of the Egyptian priests, who also try to seduce him. If he resists their advances, he is lectured to by the "Master of Ceremonies" and led to an assembly room, where water is poured over him and snakes are thrown at him. After this test of courage, he is "instructed in geometry and architecture... told the story of the fall of man," and given a rod entwined by two serpents (this is the caduceus, the staff of Hermes, used as a symbol in the Medical Industry today). He is now ready for the Third Degree.
He is led to the "Gate of Death," a room full of "embalmed bodies and coffins," in the center of which was the coffin of Osiris. The aspirant is asked if he "had a hand in the assassination of his master," which he denies in the presence of the king/Pharaoh. The king pleads with him to accept a golden crown and cease the initiation ceremony, appealing to his lack of courage. To this the neophyte had been previously instructed to deny, and to "refuse the crown and tread it underfoot." The king, becoming angry and enacting his revenge on the neophyte, touches his head with a sword, symbolically killing him. He is thrown to the ground, wrapped in mummy bandages, and led to the gate of the "Sanctuary of Spirits." Once inside a boat takes him to the "judges of Hades," where he is questioned as to his former life and thrown into a prison deep within "subterranean vaults." Here he remained for months or even years as part of his initiation. These were called the "Days of Wrath," and "he was kept in these underground chambers until thought fit to proceed to a higher degree."
We can see similarities in the Bonesmen being placed naked in coffins and confessing their sexual history. This is their symbolic death of the old "profane" man, and subsequent rebirth into the Order of the elite. Once the Bonesman is symbolically raised back to life and emerges out of the coffin, what follows next is akin to the Fourth Degree of the ancient Egyptians. The Bonesman is chased through the tombs by Patriarchs dressed up as ghostly and devilish figures, shrieking and howling at him as he rushes towards the iron door that opens to the outside. The Egyptian neophyte, symbolically resurrected as he begins the Fourth Degree, is handed a sword and a shield and "taking through dark passages." He is met by "persons... presenting frightful appearances, carrying torches and serpents." He is attacked and made to defend himself, but seized upon by his aggressors, with blindfolds being reapplied and a cord being placed around his neck (Nephi talked about how the Devil leads his victims by the neck with a flaxen cord, I wrote about that here, this is also part of the ceremony of the Masonic Blue Lodge).
He is led to another room, where bandages are taken off, and the king was present again. He hears a speech, is given something to drink called "Cyce" (probably a hypnotic drug), puts on the "boots of Anubis," takes up "the shield of Isis," and "put on the cloak and cap of Orcus" (not unlike temple clothing). With sword in hand he is told to enter the next portion of the cave and cut off the head of the first person he meets. To his surprise he encounters a model of a beautiful woman, who he immediately seize by the hair and severs the head. After passing this test, he is brought back to the king, who, after congratulating him, reveals to him that he has just "won the head of the Gorgon, wife of Typhon, who had caused the death of Osiris." Similarly, and according to what Rosenbaum witnessed, the Bonesmens, after being chased through the tombs and emerging into the outside world, are led to a tent where they witness a woman (another model I assume) having her throat slit as they kiss Geronimo's skull.
The "woman" is symbolic of something very significant to Christians. The "wife of Typhon" is none other than Nephthys, an Egyptian goddess associated with evil. Typhon is another name for Set, who is said to have killed Osiris, cut his body up into 14 pieces, and spread it out over the four corners of Egypt, i.e., the world. If you want the full details read this piece I wrote in 2021, but for now you should know that Nephthys represents the Lord's church. Recall that John saw two women in his vision, one travailing in the wilderness and the other dressed in scarlet and riding on the Beast. The woman in the wilderness is the bride of Christ, the church of His humble saints spread out all over the earth (not a corporation or earthly institution). The woman in scarlet represents the Mystery Schools. Remember they believe Jesus is the bad guy, and associate Him with Typhon or Set. In Greek mythology, Nephthys is the Gorgon (monster) Medusa, whose head was severed by Perseus, the demigod son of Poseidon. Through her powers, i.e., the Priesthood/Holy Order, the destruction of many wicked civilizations has been facilitated. Remember that in Sodom and Gomorrah it rained down fire and brimstone from heaven, and when Lot's wife turned back she "became a pillar of salt"? Likewise Medusa's victims turn into stone when they "turn back" to look at her, and salt and stone are essentially the same elements but in different forms. The Mystery Schools are terrified of this power, they fear the Holy Order and its Priesthood, insomuch that they have created myths to tell the stories of their battles with the Sons of God.
As an interesting side note, there is a lecture from Hugh Nibley called "The Heavenly Prologue," uploaded by the Maxwell Institute on YouTube, that sheds some light on the meanings of the name Satan.
Starting at the 18 minute-mark, Nibley explains that the name Satan means accuser. He is the accuser of his brethren, which is how the war in heaven began. One of the definitions of prologue is "a poem recited to introduce a play," and Nibley shows how multiple scriptural accounts of heavenly visitations and theophanies are introducing a play portraying the history of the war in heaven. God is telling us a story through ascension visitations and visions to prophets like Adam, Enoch, Moses, Job, Lehi, and others. Then Nibley really blows your mind, by showing this prologue in "pagan" poetry like Homer's Iliad and other works; it is the same story, told over and over again in slightly different versions. In addition to being the accuser, Nibley explains that Satan is also the destroyer, which in Greek is the name Apollyon. He is not an actor, but a reactor, and is "always against something." Beginning at the 30 minute-mark, Nibley talks about how the Greek Odyssey is also an account of the grand council in heaven. Homer begins by describing a meeting of the gods on Mount Olympus. All were in attendance except Poseidon, who "holds back." Nibley reveals that another meaning of the name Satan is "one who holds back," or "one who lies in ambush." At the 35 minute-mark, Nibley gives multiple meanings of the name Poseidon, they include: "the possessor of the underworld, ruler of the earth, and earth-shaker" (he is both the earth-shaker and the earth-holder). Remember that when Moses refused to worship Satan he ranted and made the earth shake? (see Genesis 1:4, RE)
Now let's make a few more connections. Poseidon, according to Plato, is also the god of the ancient Atlanteans. It was him and his demigod children who set up the government in Atlantis, a one-world socialistic totalitarian State. Of course, according to high-ranking Masons like Manly P. Hall and Francis Bacon, Atlantis was the ideal "democracy," ruled by ten kings. But trust me, it was no democracy, it was an oligarchy, and those kings had power over their subjects in all matters, including life and death. Earlier in this series I wrote about how John's Beast of Revelation is a description of ancient Atlantis, figuratively "rising out of the sea" (See The Atlantean Leviathan). In Greek mythology the demigod son of Poseidon who kills Medusa is Perseus, as I pointed out above. Consider this: a demigod is a half-human offspring of a god, or one who is conceived miraculously. Could Perseus be the mythological embodiment of the Anti-Christ/false prophet, who kills Medusa (the Lord's church, the humble followers of Christ), and becomes the last-days dictator of the New World Order? Could the story of the future, as well as the past, be told in ancient mythological lore? Ironically, the storytellers get it wrong, because as Nephi foretold, they will be unable to kill all the Saints, Zion will be protected from them, and their New World Order will collapse into an oblivion as the earth is cleansed and prepared for its True King.
Returning back to the Egyptian initiations, the last three degrees are as follows: In the Fifth, the aspirant witnesses the death of Typhon (Christ Himself, probably in reference to the Crucifixion). In the Sixth, he becomes an "Astronomer at the Gate of the God" (the "gate of the gods" is the actual meaning of the word Babel, as in the tower of Babel). He is taught about "heavenly bodies" and shown a list of the members of the Order. In the Seventh Degree, he becomes a prophet, and learns all the secrets of the Order, is allowed to peruse all the books containing sacred knowledge and can cast his vote in the election of the king.
Abraham in Egypt
As you can see, the Skull and Bones initiation ceremony is based upon something ancient--but where did the Egyptians get it? In all likelihood they got it from Abraham, that is the true temple ceremony, subsequently corrupted and morphed into something used by Satan and his Mystery Schools. This is what I believe anyway, and there are small traces of evidence in the Book of Abraham and some apocryphal writings ascribed to him that point to my hypothesis. According to High Nibley, the Egyptians had their own temple ordinances and endowment ceremony (he even wrote a whole other book about that), which at first were much like the original revealed to Adam (or Atum to the Egyptians). Nibley writes:
The Egyptian ordinances also always had one purpose--to go back to the sp tpy--the First time, the time of the first man, who was Adam. The Egyptians didn't have it, and they knew it. So they sought to imitate it. Interestingly, Pharaoh was worried sick about this problem. Pharaoh spent his days in the archives in the House of Life, searching through the genealogical records with the nobles of the court turning over the records, looking for some genealogical proof that he really had authority. He never found it, and it broke his heart... [Pharaoh] made a very good imitation, seeking very earnestly to imitate that order which went back to the beginning. (Temple and Cosmos, pp. 26-27)
Pharaoh did not have the right to the Priesthood and the Holy Order, but made a claim to it anyway. The Book of Abraham tells us that Pharaoh was a "righteous" man, who sought "earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations." It is my opinion that the Egyptians were in possession of a form of the true Gospel, replete with temple rites and rituals. But through the centuries, as the dynastic Pharaohs dwindled in unbelief and began to revel in witchcraft, sorcery, mesmerism, etc., those ceremonies morphed into what became the initiation rites of the Egyptian Mystery Schools, reserved only for Pharaoh and his priestly class. The elites became the incarnations of the "gods" of antiquity: Thoth, Ra, Osiris, Isis, and Horus. They ruled Egypt with an iron first, cloaked in the pretentious garb of false divinity. Class distinctions arose, separating the initiated from the "profane," the ordinary peasants subject to their rulers. At times God sent messengers to reclaim the Egyptians (Joseph being enslaved by them and used for interpreting Pharaoh's dreams). But ultimately, God would overthrow their gods by using Moses and the Priesthood of the Holy Order to bring plagues upon Egypt. In addition to freeing the Israelites, perhaps this was to also show the Pharaonic dynasties that their pretended authority could not stand up to the true initiates of the Holy Order (Denver spoke about this overthrowing of Egyptian deities on page 59 of this talk).
There is an entire story told about Abraham's time in Egypt that was left out of the Old Testament and the Book of Abraham. Both accounts of Abraham end just as he was entering Egypt, but some apocryphal writings pick up the story where these leave off. It is a fascinating tale to say the least, and it makes much more sense when read in conjunction with the Facsimiles taken from the Joseph Smith Papyri. Ancient Egypt is not just fascinating, it is a typology of the modern-day United States. This is an important key in helping us to understand the prophecies of Isaiah, which we have been commanded to "search" by the Savior. I believe the following prophecy was meant for us, not for the ancient Egyptians:
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians and they shall fight, every one against his brother and every one against his neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the council thereof; and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hands of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts. (Isaiah 6:15, RE)
A coming civil war, the end of American Exceptionalism (the spirit of Egypt), the breaking down of civil society and government (destroy the council thereof), and invasion and subjugation from a foreign power (fierce king, or as Isaiah has also called him the "king of Assyria"). I believe all these things are coming to this land, as a consequence of us Gentiles rejecting Christ and serving other gods.
Getting back to Pharaoh, the order he was attempting to imitate was the Holy Order. But the problem for Pharaoh was that he was of the wrong lineage, therefore he did not have a right to it:
Now Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain claim it from Noah through Ham... (Abraham 2:3, RE)
Ham was not the righteous heir, according to the Book of Jasher, he stole the sacred garments of Adam and Eve before he left Noah after the ark had landed and passed them down to Cush, who passed them to Nimrod. According to the Writings of Abraham,Ham had a different mother than Shem and Japeth. Her name was Naamah, and she was of the seed of Cain. Abraham tells us that although she was righteous, it was through her that God would preserve the seed of Cain through the flood. Naamah has an interesting story. She was the daughter of Zillah, one of the two wives of Lamech, who was a descendent of Cain and also held the title of Master Mahan. Zillah was barren into her old age but ended up having two children before she died: Tubal Cain and Naamah. When Lamech murdered Irad, the son of Enoch (not the righteous Enoch), for the oath's sake, Abraham tells us that Tubal Cain was an eye-witness to the crime. He immediately told his mother Zillah, and both Lamech's wives rebelled against him. Tubal Cain was the first whistleblower, and this is how the sons of Adam (the Patriarchs) learned of this murder and probably why it is in the scriptural record (both the Pearl of Great Price and the Writings of Abraham tell this story but the latter includes more details). Namaah and her mother fled the house of Lamech and came and lived with the righteous sons of Adam, but no one would have her because she was of the "forbidden race." No one until Noah that is (maybe this was one of those rare instances when God commanded polygamy to raise up seed, or perhaps Noah's first wife died and he married Namaah later, in the JST translation of Genesis we are told Noah only had one wife on the ark).
Even though Shem and Japeth had the same mother, only Shem received the birthright to the Holy Order. He became Melchizedek, the high priest to whom Abraham paid tithes. It was Shem who conferred the "blessings of the fathers" upon Abraham. In the Book of Jasher, the story of Abraham's youth is told. Nimrod tried to kill him as a baby, but his father Terah switched children at the last minute and sent Abraham to live in a cave with his mother. After a decade or so, the Spirit led him to find Noah and Shem and he spent the next 39 years with them. When he returned to Ur, which I believe was Shinar, he was reunited with his parents and tried to convince them to give up their idolatry. His mother repented, but not his father Terah. He was so angry with Abraham (still known as Abram then) for destroying his gods made of wood and stone, that he turned him over to king Nimrod, who threw him into a fiery furnace. Abram was miraculously preserved and managed to escape Ur, but not until he had converted many of Nimrod's subjects to the Gospel, his wife Sarai was one of them. Terah softened his heart and went with Abram, along with his Abram's brother Haran, who died in the famine that followed (in the Book of Jasher Haran is burned to death in the furnace with Abraham, in the Book of Abraham he died in the famine). After he died they named the place in the desert after him, and it was there that Terah remained and returned to his idolatry.
Another interesting sidenote is that both the Book of Abraham and the Writings of Abraham relate the account of the Egyptian priests attempting to sacrifice Abraham (in the Book of Jasher the account differs; instead of an altar Abram is thrown into a fiery furnace). Nimrod, (or Pharaoh depending on which account you read) turned Abraham over to the Egyptian priests in Ur of Chaldea, who attempted to sacrifice him on Potipher's Hill. This begs the question: did Nimrod and the Pharoah have some kind of alliance? Why were there Egyptian priests operating in Ur of Chaldea, which the Writings of Abraham tell us is the same place Nimrod ruled (Shinar)? Or were Nimrod and Pharaoh the same person? Hugh Nibley makes an interesting connection between the two kings:
Even in the Jewish accounts, Pharaoh and Nimrod are like identical twins: both call themselves a Great Magician, try to pass themselves off as God, order all the male children put to death, study the heavens, and pit the knowledge and skill of their wise men against the powers of the prophet. The palace in which Nimrod shuts up the expectant mothers has conspicuous parallels in Egyptian literature... When the young Moses refuses to worship Pharaoh as the young Abraham refuses Nimrod, the idolatrous priests accuse both heroes of magic and trickery, the converts of both are put to death by the king, the subjects of both rulers offer up their children to idols, and Pharaoh, like Nimrod, finally declares wars on God and builds a great tower, which falls. (Abraham In Egypt, p. 201, Kindle Edition)
It is almost as if Nimrod and Pharaoh are scriptural types representing false priesthood, false authority, and false kingship. Perhaps the deeper meaning of the Book of Abraham (which I believe is more inspired and correct than any other account of Abraham) is to show how God distributed divine authority and how others, through Satan, tried to emulate it. Coming under the disdain of whoever this king was, Abraham found himself on a sacrificial alter with three virgins. After witnessing their murders and praying for deliverance, an earthquake killed the priest and saved Abraham's life. Both the Book of Abraham and the Writings of Abraham are witnesses of this. The later includes a few more interesting details:
When the king [Nimrod] awoke from his sleep, he was angry and he caused that I, with these three virgins, Zeptah, Lilith, and Nefritiri, should be seized and bound and carried to Potipher's hill at the head of the plain of Olishem to be sacrificed unto the god of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
And these three virgins did the priest of Pharaoh offer up upon the altar and they died singing praises to the Lord and bearing witness of the truth, wherefore, they shall be blessed forever for they have entered into the rest of the Lord.
And when these virgins were slain, the priests of Pharaoh took me also and laid me upon the altar to slay me. But I cried unto the Lord my God for I knew that my mission was not yet ended.
And the Lord heard my voice and sent His angel to loose the cords wherewith I was bound. And I saw the Lord seated upon His throne and He said to me, Abram, Abram, behold, my name is Jehovah, and I have heard thee and have come down to deliver to thee and to take thee away from thy father's house and from all they kindred into a land which is unknown to thee, a land which I have promised unto Noah should be an eternal inheritance unto the promised seed.
Behold, I will lead thee by mind hand and will put upon thee my name that thou shalt bear the priesthood of the fathers and the power thereof.
As it was with Noah, so shall it be with thee that through thy ministry and the ministry of thy seed bearing this priesthood, my name shall be known in the earth forever, for I am thy God.
And the Lord broke down the altar of the idol gods by and earthquake and smote their priests that they were all destroyed. (51:3-4, 52:1-6, see also Abraham 1:2-5, RE)
After several years of wandering in the desert Abraham would eventually be called to go to Egypt as a missionary. During this time he had received visions and had talked to the Lord face to face. In the Apocalypse of Abraham, he has a theophany similar to what Moses experienced, and he saw the plagues that would come upon us in the last days. You can read that here. He had learned about the cosmos and the order of planets and stars, as well as the ordinances, rites, and rituals of the temple and of the Holy Order. He was prepared in all things to teach the Gospel to the Egyptians. This is where the story ends in the Old Testament and the Book of Abraham. Remember when the Lord told Abraham to lie to the Egyptians about Sarai being his sister? The Book of Abraham stops there (after Abraham determines to go to Egypt for relief from the famine) and the OT says that after Pharaoh found out that Sarai was his wife he sent them away out of Egypt. However, the Writings of Abraham fill in a lot of details here, and when studied in conjunction with the facsimiles in the Book of Abraham, things begin to make a lot more sense.
The story continues with Pharaoh forcibly taking Sarai and finding out she was Abraham's wife. He took her to his bedchamber and was determined to sire a child with her but was stopped by an angel. He and all the males in Egypt would receive a plague that night rendering them impotent (Nibley points out in Abraham in Egypt that a similar myth about a princess and a king has circulated in many ancient cultures). Sarai told Pharaoh that Abraham could heal him and all his household on the condition that he return her back to her husband. Apparently, this was according to the design of God to open the way to preach the Gospel to the Egyptians. Abraham had a dream about this, the interpretation of which is as follows:
...for through the act of thy wife, thou shall be saved and the way will be opened for thee to preach the mysteries of godliness in the court of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, for these Egyptians are they kindred of the seed of Eber, and it is my will that the truths of the everlasting gospel should be brought to them. (Writings of Abraham 62:6)
Pharaoh was obedient to Sarai, and brought her back to Abraham (who had been locked up), and besought Abraham to heal him, which he immediately did by laying his hands upon him and blessing him. After that Pharaoh was baptized by Abraham, and he repented and praised the Lord. He told all of his people to "worship the Most High God who had healed them." According to Abraham, this is what happened afterward:
And the king clothed me in his own robes and seated me upon his throne, placing his own crown upon my head and his scepter in mine hand. And I did teach him and his people in all the mysteries of godliness from first to last.
For Pharaoh did introduce me into the temple which had been built by the fathers, commenced by Father Seth and completed by Father Shem after the great flood and therein I did officiate in the rites and ordinances of the house of the Lord.
And Pharaoh made all matters right with Sarai, and blessed her with the outpouring of his spirit and she was blessed in his presence. And he gave unto her Hagar, his own daughter, also, to be her companion and to Hagar he gave many gifts.
And I was seven years in the land of Egypt teaching the gospel and administering unto Pharaoh and his household and all the Egyptians the blessings, rites, and ordinances of the gospel with the power thereof.
And I established among them the order of the Fathers and the priesthood thereof until the name of Jehovah was glorified throughout the land of Egypt. And I taught the people the nature of the heavens and of the earth and the plan of salvation and the blessings of the Lord unto those who serve him in purity of heart and to believe on the Son of God who should come to make an atonement for their sins.
And so great was the power of God among us that in time all of the Egyptians had turned from their idolatry to the worship of the true God and I and my people had cause to rejoice in the fruits of labors. (Ibid, Chapter 76)
Facsimile three of the Book of Abraham is an Egyptian depiction of Abraham in the Pharaoh's court, "reasoning upon the principles of astronomy." Doesn't this make a whole lot more sense in light of the story told in the Writings of Abraham? Of course he stayed in Egypt for a time, of course he taught them the Gospel. Consider the description of Figure 1:
Abraham sitting upon Pharaoh's throne, by the politeness of the king, with a crown upon his head representing the Priesthood, as emblematical of the grand presidency in Heaven with the scepter of justice and judgment in his hand. (RE Facsimile No. 3)
A Final Word on the Book of Abraham
Hugh Nibley has done some great work defending the Book of Abraham. In my opinion, Nibley is one of the only LDS scholars to continually seek out truth for the sake of truth, not just as an apologist for the corporate Church. His post-mortem reputation has been tainted by one of his daughters, who wrote a book indicting him as a sexually abusive father and a liar who fabricated the information in his books. But the daughter's story doesn't add up. Her "memories" came much later in life and she admitted that she had only heard about her father's conjecture in his writings from another professor, never actually verifying his sources herself (an arduous task that would take years of research). Furthermore, none of her three other sisters have memories of sexual abuse, making it highly suspect that her memories came from another source. There is a phenomenon called "projection," in which false memories of sexual abuse or Satanic Ritual Abuse can enter a persons mind until they actually believe they experienced it. I have witnessed this happening from people I know personally. Just like SRA is real and does happen to people (I wrote about SRA in this post), so is projection and FMS (False Memory Syndrome).
You have to judge people by their works and not what others say about them (Joseph Smith being the ultimate example). And if you want to know if Nibley was a sincere truth seeker, you have to read his books and articles and compare them to what you have found in your own journey for truth. For me, Nibley's books resonate with truth, he showed how restoration scripture revealed through Joseph Smith actually lines up with apocryphal works coming from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. Joseph, a young and ignorant farm boy, had no way of knowing about these other records that would emerge a century later, yet his revelations actually verify what these other records say. Hugh Nibley alone is responsible for creating comparative analyses of restoration scripture and other ancient records of antiquity. This was his legacy, and he was both heralded and hated for it.
The Book of Abraham has been the Achilles heel for so many ex-Mormons who have lost their faith in the Restoration. It is very important, which is the reason it has come under such scrutiny and attack. Nibley took on the arguments coming from the Egyptologists that Joseph's "translation" was incorrect, specifically Samuel A. B. Mercer, who began attacking the Book of Abraham in 1912. The Joseph Smith Papyri was given back to the LDS Church in 1967 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hugh Nibley was the first to analyze them. He discovered that "Papyri X and XI were not copies of the Book of the Dead but a different document, known as the Book of Breathings." The Book of Breathings is a ritual text detailing a temple endowment that is similar to the one performed in Mormon temples, and the Book of the Dead is a funerary text. But the Book of Abraham is an autobiography, and has nothing to the do with the papyri that came into the Joseph's possession, and this is where people get hung up on it.
The word "translation" is an interesting one. The labor to take an ancient language and somehow bring it into context with a modern language is extremely difficult. How do you make the translation fit into the culture and semantic milieu of the modern language? How do you even know if the translation is correctly portraying the context of the ancient text? How do you know that you're not looking at a corrupted language that lost the original meaning of its words? Hugh Nibley discovered that when it comes to ancient Egyptian, almost no one knows how to read it. Egyptologists are all over the board on translations; Egyptian is very difficult to decipher. And when you combine that with the claim that Joseph received the Book of Abraham by the "gift and power of God," you get a recipe for skepticism, and understandably so. It sounds like a hoax. But when you study the apocryphal works of Abraham you begin to discover an emerging pattern, and things begin to line up. And just like the Book of Mormon, the only way to discover the truth of the Book of Abraham is by the Spirit of God. There is no other way. If you put your faith in scholars then you will end up believing what scholars believe. If you put your faith in God you can potentially know the truth, but it will not be "proven" to you through worldly evidence. You have to test the fruit of the Book of Abraham for yourself, just as Alma suggested we do with any truth we learn from God.
For me, the fruit is that the Book of Abraham teaches us how to reach back to the Patriarchal Fathers, and how to recognize that ancient Holy Order that we have been promised will return in our day as part of the restoration of all things. The only reason that the earth will not be utterly wasted at Christ's coming is because of the authority of the Holy Order. It is that Order that will exercise the sealing power which will stop the advancing armies that will attempt to come upon the New Jerusalem. God will continue to reveal more of His word to us as things ramp up toward the tribulation and the Second Coming. To be able to withstand the evil that is coming upon the earth will require more knowledge from the Lord. He will equip us if our hearts are open. And just like the Book of Abraham, it will be controversial, and will seem like a hoax, and will come through the most obscure and seemingly inconsequential people. God uses the weak things of the earth to accomplish His strange acts. Joseph Smith was one of those "weak things," and discounting his revelations is tantamount to discounting the words of God Himself. If the controversy of the Book of Abraham has proven anything, it is that people have always been the same: stiffnecked and slow to believe in the things of God.
If you have made this far in this series you will definitely not want to miss part VIIII. I'm going to dive into what lawmakers, nonprofit organizations, and the LDS Church have been up to over the last few years to further UN Agenda 2030 in Mormonland. Indeed, the Beast is coming to Utah, and the last vestiges of our freedoms are going by the wayside. Stay tuned. And in the meantime, I'll link some videos and books on the importance of the Book of Abraham.
And here is part one of Nibley's article series entitled A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price, written between 1968 and 1970. The rest of them can be found in the books Abraham in Egypt and An Approach to the Book of Abraham.
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