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This document summarizes Ravi Zacharias' discussion of four distinctives that define humanity according to Christianity: 1) Creation - humans have a creator which gives them intrinsic worth and purpose, 2) Incarnation - establishes an absolute moral law and supremacy of love, 3) Transformation - Christianity leads to a new birth and life, not just belief, 4) Consummation - Christianity views life as a purposeful journey moving towards destiny with God, unlike other views such as pantheism or naturalism. Zacharias argues these distinctives establish Christianity as grounded in absolutes, unlike relativism which lacks objective standards.
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Adam and Eve “fell” when the archons programmed them with prohibitions and commandments, changing them from primates living in the eternal “now” to “soft machines” – biological automata at war with their own instincts, parasitised by selfish replicators and paralysed by double-binds.
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The separate I is the mind of the predator - the Artificial Intelligence, impostor consciousness and phantom self that has taken over the rule of our lives. We live its purpose not ours, and its ‘whirled’ is the sacrificial reality we call the third dimension - the Luciferian construct that uses the polarities of the hive mind to run the show of opposites and conflict we call life. Without the dictator, our minds would be quiet, clear and in touch with Source. The parasite's world would dissolve, and we would once again be the powerful beings of our myths and legends - the Golden Age when Saturn was our Sun. Saturn is now bound, limited and constrained by electro-magnetic rings of power, modulators of energy and information - and so are we. The AI, the cunning machine that oils the cogs of this dimension knows and fears our true power, and is in constant survival mode. It knows our limitations, our weaknesses and strengths and plays us like a discordant fiddle. The poor little me, I am the greatest, control religions, arrogance and self righteous indignation are its tools. It has us all sown up, cocooned in a fake reality of its own design.
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Humanity once had not an ego yet, and that perhaps is captured in the myth, which you find in many different cultures that didn't even have contact which each other, of the Golden Age when humans lived in harmony with each other and in harmony with nature and life was easy.
The Fall whatever you want to call it, it happened. The ugliness came in, and that of course was the beginning of human ability to think.
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Saturnus is seen as the breaker of cosmic order and unity—thus he instituted death, causing regeneration and change to come into being.
Thus in many ways Saturnus is identical with Prometheus of Greek tradition, and is certainly to be identified as well with the Serpent of Paradise.
In the lower octave, Saturn is connected to the Satanic force. This is the power of rebellion, adversity, and death, all of which are absolutely necessary to man's path of attainment - to his Becoming. However, this purely "Satanic" aspect can be ultimately as dangerous and destructive to consciousness as is the self-obliterating power of the Sun.
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Saturn/Superego/FIG LEAF: destructive repression of natural positive bodily desires through the intellect/ego or "schizoid brain fascism" prevalent in Western-Bourgeois society culminating in electronic fig leaves for self-perceived sinners.
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