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"We have only to recognize the victory of Jesus, and to claim this power as our own."
(That also applies btw to victory over any and all criminal spirit people.)
The same with His peace.
Amen!
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* N. B. NOT to be confused with the Holy Hooligan (spirit person.) How then does one tell real from fake? By way and means of the Spirit of honest Love and Truthfulness.
[ch. 16]
...And people affirm that Plato says, that some things are without a mean, that others have a mean, that others are a mean. (For example, that) waking and sleep, and such like, are conditions without an intermediate state; but that there are things that had means, for instance virtue and vice; and there are means (between extremes), for instance grey between white and black, or some other colour. And they say, that he affirms that the things pertaining to the soul are absolutely alone good, but that the things pertaining to the body, and those external (to it), are not any longer absolutely good, but reputed blessings. And that frequently he names these means also, for that it is possible to use them both well and ill. Some virtues, therefore, he says, are extremes in regard of intrinsic worth, but in regard of their essential nature means, for nothing is more estimable than virtue. But whatever excels or falls short of these terminates in vice. For instance, he says that there are four virtues— prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude— and that on each of these is attendant two vices, according to excess and defect: for example, on prudence, recklessness according to defect, and knavery according to excess; and on temperance, licentiousness according to defect, stupidity according to excess; and on justice, foregoing a claim according to defect, unduly pressing it according to excess; and on fortitude, cowardice according to defect, foolhardiness according to excess. And that these virtues, when inherent in a man, render him perfect, and afford him happiness. And happiness, he says, is assimilation to the Deity, as far as this is possible; and that assimilation to God takes place when any one combines holiness and justice with prudence. For this he supposes the end of supreme wisdom and virtue. And he affirms that the virtues follow one another in turn, and are uniform, and are never antagonistic to each other; whereas that vices are multiform, and sometimes follow one the other, and sometimes are antagonistic to each other. He asserts that fate exists; not, to be sure, that all things are produced according to fate, but that there is even something in our power, as in the passages where he says, "The fault is his who chooses, God is blameless; "and "the following law of Adrasteia." And thus some (contend for his upholding) a system of fate, whereas others one of free-will. He asserts, however, that sins are involuntary. For into what is most glorious of the things in our power, which is the soul, no one would (deliberately) admit what is vicious, that is, transgression, but that from ignorance and an erroneous conception of virtue, supposing that they were achieving something honourable, they pass into vice...
~ Hippolytus (c. 170–235 A.D.), Refutation of All Heresies, Book I
It's Hip to be Hip...in 1966
Although it certainly had it's share of "bad," like any era, including a sometimes mediocre and bad taste culture, I never cease otherwise to delight and in go time traveling to the sixties. It was that colorful, daring, and mind-altering transition period bookended by the relatively conservative late 50s and the wild out of control (yet, all in all, not so bad as recent decades) early 70s. For one thing there is so much and so much variety to take in, whether for children, young people, or adults -- just name the medium. Take television for example. Thanks to DVD I can now see TV series which as a child growing up then I never even knew existed. Two I want to take the opportunity to mention, and that I recently acquired as collections, are "Run for Your Life" (1965–1968) with Ben Gazzara and "The Name of the Game"(1968-1971) with (as off and on regulars) Gene Barry, Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa. Again, don't get me wrong, such tv series as these are not without flaws, nor are they without a heaping helping of what now seems very corny. Yet the magic, outdated social commentary, and no little interesting guest star performances -- they're all there! I don't need to say more at the moment, but else check out the pilot movie for "Name of the Game." Watching it now is, well, not unlike visiting a different universe. Definitely worth viewing if you haven't already seen it and are just a little curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkomUr41YhU
["FAME IS THE NAME OF THE GAME - TONY FRANCIOSA -JILL ST JOHN" -- (1966) also with a very young Susan St. James, and Robert Duvall.]
...And he [Plato] admits natures (such as those) of demons, and says that some of them are good, but others worthless. And some affirm that he states the soul to be uncreated and immortal, when he uses the following words, "Every soul is immortal, for that which is always moved is immortal;" and when he demonstrates that the soul is self-moved, and capable of originating motion. Others, however, (say that Plato asserted that the soul was) created, but rendered imperishable through the will of God. But some (will have it that he considered the soul) a composite (essence), and generable and corruptible; for even he supposes that there is a receptacle for it, and that it possesses a luminous body, but that everything generated involves a necessity of corruption. Those, however, who assert the immortality of the soul are especially strengthened in their opinion by those passages (in Plato's writings), where he says, that both there are judgments after death, and tribunals of justice in Hades, and that the virtuous (souls) receive a good reward, while the wicked (ones) suitable punishment. Some notwithstanding assert, that he also acknowledges a transition of souls from one body to another, and that different souls, those that were marked out for such a purpose, pass into different bodies, according to the desert of each, and that after certain definite periods they are sent up into this world to furnish once more a proof of their choice. Others, however, (do not admit this to be his doctrine, but will have it that Plato affirms that the souls) obtain a place according to the desert of each; and they employ as a testimony the saying of his, that some good men are with Jove, and that others are ranging abroad (through heaven) with other gods; whereas that others are involved in eternal punishments, as many as during this life have committed wicked and unjust deeds.
~ Hippolytus (c. 170–235 A.D.), Refutation of All Heresies, Book I
["Handel's Messiah -- And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed"- London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Tenebrae Choir]
On Scaring People and Faking Them Out as Means and End to Empire
Few or no one realizes it was NOT all fraud and trickery. Rather what makes some indignant is that we won't accept fraud and trickery as legitimate means to an end.
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It is not them. They, or rather and indeed a tiny few of them, are merely the host, and even then it is the malignant disease they are carrying, not themselves, that is the problem.
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Almighty God or Devil?
"Well, for cryin' out loud, HOW do you expect ME to know or tell the difference?"
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It is well to be reminded (myself included) that oftentimes we fuss or unduly bother over something without sufficiently realizing that there are or may be multiple alternative choices and or solutions to the given problem or dilemma.
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If it is faked means it isn't real. And ANYTHING can be faked if a person is unwise and or timid enough to be fooled.
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The wonders of criminal spirit people are elaborate, clever, and manifold. But then so by its nature is advanced technology. I for example discovered recently that images spirit people use in visions are based on recorded images or impressions; though the illusion is created that they are impromptu or spontaneous.
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Don't you see what has happened? He has turned you into a zombie; in order that you might torture, abuse, and hound others, and this for purposes of serving the aims of an envying, narcissistic, self-pitying master (whose days, in truth, are numbered.)
["John Taverner - Slava tebie kontakion (Akhatist of Thanksgiving)" - note the author of this Eastern orthodox church based choral work is actually modern English composer Sir John Kenneth Tavener (1944–2013), NOT John Taverner (c. 1490–1545), Renaissance English composer named in the YouTube description; and from the 1994 CD "Tavener: Akathist of Thanksgiving."]