Monday, September 8, 2025

Good Reason for Me NOT to Be a Nazi in Sweden


Slaget vid Breitenfeld
https://nordfront.se/slaget-vid-breitenfeld.smr


They sometimes do tell fairly interesting stories in what seems to be decent journalism. Like Swedish military ammunition in the hands of criminal gangs. The story as such in above article is arguably very correctly told, it was decades since I read up on it, and I found no fault in my memory of what happened.

But, the caption:

Dagens datum 7 september: Denna dag år 1631 besegrade en svenskledd armé under Gustav II Adolf den papistiska hären vid Breitenfeld.


Today's date, 7 Sept.: this day in 1631 a Swedish led army under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Papist host at Breitenfeld.

Those on the German Emperor's side (yes, this was when the German Emperor was Austrian), were Catholics. Nordfront for some reason has to call them "Papists" ... the nickname given by Reformers and by Protestant Imperialists like Gustavus Adolphus. And preserved in the 19th and 20th C. among the more virulently anti-Catholics.

If the whole world can be wrong about religion, so can one country. I do not have a duty to detest the Church that God founded on His disciple Peter, just because it is impopular in some corners of Swedish society. I'm also born in Vienna, so, I have a South German view of Swedish soldiers in the Thirty Years' War. In the time of Queen Christina, before her abdication, they came down to near Vienna and lost a battle because they were too drunk since the evening before.

National Socialists would obviously not require members to adher to Lutheran tenets such as Christ is risen or the Bible is true. But they would want members to adher to Lutheran prejudice against Catholicism. Or especially against certain Catholic tenets, like the equality of human persons independently of race:

Debatten mellan Jared Taylor och E. Michael Jones
https://nordfront.se/debatten-mellan-jared-taylor-och-e-michael-jones


Jared Taylor is not a Catholic, he's upheld by the National Socialist journalist and his colleagues, E. Michael Jones is a Catholic, and they dislike his saying that as a Catholic he has a loyalty to all Catholics, but not as a white to all white people. I agree with E. Michael Jones, obviously.

Meanwhile, I see no problems of this degree with supporting Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco. I may prefer Carlism, especially before the split in 1976, and after it both the portions of Carlism, but if one of the problems with the Franco régime was (and probably the biggest one) sometimes not acting as if the peace had already been won in 1939, this seems to be a thing he made up for on his deathbed:

Pido perdón a todos, como de todo corazón perdono a cuantos se declararon mis enemigos, sin que yo los tuviera como tales.


I ask forgiveness of all, as of all heart I forgive a howsomany have declared themselves my enemies, without me having held them as such.

Último mensaje del Jefe del Estado, D. Francisco Franco Bahamonde
https://fnff.es/francisco-franco/ultimo-mensaje/


As per my own ill fortunes, I'd be happier to follow his example if I knew I were dying or going to get executed. I could forgive an enemy if death parted me from me in less than a week, or if he had ceased to hurt, but it's less easy if I foresee he will hurt me years from now. Franco had no ethnic or racial group he was cracking down on. He also was not loyal to Russia or England just because they are white nations. If immigrants could be a problem, which I have not wanted to make a major issue of my writing, it would at least not be because of their racial characteristics as such.

That said, I'd appreciate fewer expropriations from Boers, or none at all, in South Africa. And fewer murders.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady's Nativity
8.IX.2025

Nativitas beatissimae semper Virginis Genitricis Dei Mariae. Sancti Hadriani Martyris; cujus dies natalis quarto Nonas Martii recensetur, sed festivitas hac die, qua sacrum ejus corpus Romam translatum fuit, potissime celebratur.

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Certains ont une horreur de l'idée que Caïn et Seth aient épousé chacun une des sœurs


Doit-on conclure que la position traditionnelle et consentanée avec le droit naturel soit qu'il y ait eu d'autres personnes humaines qui ne descendaient pas d'Adam et Ève ?

Écoutons l'Abbé Fulcran Vigouroux*, qui se charge de l'erreur de La Peyrère :







Citons les propos sur les pages 529 et 530.

2° Pour réfuter l'opinion de la Peyrère, il suffit de remarquer : — 1° que c'est fausser le sens du texte sacré que de supposer que l'homme, créé le sixième jour, Adam en hébreu [Gen. 1:27] , n'est pas le même que l'Adam placé dans le paradis terrestre [Gen. 2:7,13] : tous les commentateurs sont unanimes à reconnaître l'identité de ces deux Adam. — 2° Caïn pouvait facilement prévoir que le nombre des hommes qui descendrait d'Adam serait bientôt assez considérable pour qu'il eût à craindre d'être tué par l'un deux. — 3° Caïn, comme Seth, épousa une de ses sœurs, de l'aveu de tous les interprètes. — 4° À la difficulté tirée de l'invraisemblance que Caïn ait bâti une ville lorsqu'il n'y avait, dit la Peyrère, personne pour l'habiter, S. Augustin avait répondu à l'avance que les hommes s'étaient rapidement multipliés et que la Genèse n'avait pas énuméré tout les descendant d'Adam. Il exista certainement bientôt assez d'hommes pour que Caïn bâtit non pas sans doute une grande ville, mais un groupe d'habitations fixes et stables, qui pouvait porter en hébreu le nom de ville, 'ir "lieu où l'on est à l'abri". — 5° Les Préadamites ont le tort de vouloir s'appuyer sur la Bible, d'une part, et de la contredire de l'autre. S'ils acceptent son autorité, ils doivent admettre l'unité de l'espèce humaine, puisqu'il est évident qu'elle l'enseigne [Actes 17:26, 1 Cor 15:45, 1 Tim 2:13]. S'ils ne l'acceptaient pas, comment peuvent-ils soutenir qu'il a existé des hommes avant Adam et même qu'il y a eu un Adam, puisque son existence ne nous est connue que par l'Écriture?


Aucune trace d'une répugnance contre le prétendu inceste entre frère et sœur dans la première génération après Adam et Ève. Pas non plus, sans doute, de discussion d'une éventuelle répugnance derrière l'idée de la Peyrère, si une telle chose se trouve dans son livre, contrairement au résumé.

Dans une note en bas de page, Vigouroux cite St. Augustine dans le latin pour le nombre d'hommes quand Caïn fonde la cité de Hénoch. Cité de Dieu, livre XV, chapitre 8. Pour le propos dans le titre, allons plutôt à l'argument du chapitre 16.

Je le résume ainsi, avec observations supplémentaires : — 1° l'inceste (entre frère et sœur) est abhorré comme posant une coalescence entre relations qui diminue le nombre de personnes avec qui on est dans une relation amicale. (Il ne parle même pas de toute un autre problème encore plus grave entre parent et progéniture, puisque ce n'est pas du tout dans le texte, Genèse 4 et 5 n'ai rién de la tragédie de Thèbes). Idéalement, donc, deux fonctions de relations doivent vous unir à deux personnes différentes. — 2° Mais la génération après Adam et Ève, il y avait juste deux fonctions qui coïncidèrent : père et beau-père, la relation d'Adam à Caïn et à sa femme (mère et belle-mère pour Ève) et à l'inverse fils et beau-fils pour Caïn, fille et belle-fille pour sa femme. Et ce n'était pas évitable. — 3° Par contre, la génération prochaine, c'était déjà évitable, on pouvait épouser une cousine germaine, et la coïncidence aurait été de trois relations : Caïn aurait été à la fois père et beau-père de Hénoch et encore l'oncle maternel aussi, si Hénoch avait épousé sa sœur; donc, si Hénoch a épousé une cousine, Caïn n'était que juste père et oncle, mais pas encore beau-père au-dessus du marché. — 4° Dès la génération d'Irad, c'était possible d'avoir Hénoch uniquement comme père, quelqu'un d'autre comme beaupère et quelqu'un d'autre comme oncle maternel. Depuis, on ne fait même pas coïncider deux relations. C'est à dire, licitement. — 5° Avant de répondre que l'affaire entre un frère et une sœur de nos jours ferait juste coïncider deux relations, puisque leur père et mère ne sont pas frère et sœur comme Adam et Ève ne l'étaient pas, les relations licitent doive se pouvoir répéter sans trop d'inconvénient, et là on aurait dans la génération suivante une coïncidance entre trois relations. Et ce qui est dit de Caïn, Hénoch, Irad doit s'entendre aussi de Seth, Énos, Caïnan.

C'est aussi le mobile pourquoi la loi canonique de l'Église catholique extend les relations interdites aussi aux cousins germains, il faut aller au-delà des quatre degrés de consanguinité pour pouvoir se marier, quoique pour les infidèles convertis, seuls les consanguins en premier degré sont obligés de se séparer. Je parle bien entendu en terre de missions, puisque en Occident, les règles de l'Église sont plus ou moins réfléchies dans les législations.

Certains prétendent que la science moderne aurait prouvé que la consanguinité en soi soit malsaine, que les fils de Seth et Caïn auraient donc obligatoirement dû être viciés. Notons ici, l'exemple qu'on donne tellement souvent d'une dynastie viciée par consanguinté, les Habsbourg**, dépendait très de dispenses papales mais uniquement sur les degrés acceptés dans la loi mosaïque (le pape ne prétendait pas délier là où la loi avait interdit un degré). Pourtant, les enfants de Philippe IV d'Espagne avec sa nièce Marianne d'Autriche, soit meurent vite, soit pour un est totalement débile (Charles II d'Espagne), soit pour une autre, Marguerite-Thérèse d'Autriche, aligne les fausses couches et les enfants vite morts, et aura une fille, Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, qui aura un enfant vivant jusqu'à l'âge de presque sept ans, Joseph-Ferdinand de Bavière.

Mais regardons les générations entre Adam et Ève et Joseph-Ferdinand de Bavière. Entre nos premiers parents et Notre Seigneur, il y a selon Luc 3 72 générations. Entre lui et Joseph-Ferdinand de Bavière, comptons 3 ou 4 générations par siècle, et il se trouve ... entre 51 et 68 générations de plus, donc, entre 123 et 140 générations qui ont pu accumuler des mutations nocives, dont certaines surtout en combinaison avec la gène identique dans le chromosome homologue. Et si on compte qu'après le Déluge, la lignée de Jésus comporte pas mal de générations espacées, ce serait plutôt peut-être même 200 ou 250 générations après Adam et Ève pour le pauvre. Qui ne l'est plus, il est baptisé, il est mort avant de pouvoir commettre un péché, il est donc au Ciel. Mais je parle de la génétique. Ces mutations nocives étaient encore absentes chez Adam et Ève et leurs enfants. Ce qui change la donne génétique radicalement.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
XIIIe dim. après Pentecôte
7.IX.2025

* Clicquer les images pour élargir, si vous voulez lire in extenso. Ou consultez le texte :

Manuel Biblique ou Cours d'Écriture Sainte à l'usage des séminaristes
ANCIEN TESTAMENT
Par F. Vigouroux, prêtre de Saint-Sulpice
http://areopage.net/PDF/VigourouxBacuez_ManuelBiblique.pdf


** Ceci ne concerne qu'une épisode de leur dynastie, certes la raison derrière la Guerre de Succession d'Espagne. Les Habsbourg-Lothringen n'ont pas ce problème.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Our Lady of The Good Event, Genuine Revelation or Masonic Defector Giving a Warning?


We have no reason to doubt there is a holy person, an incorrupt nun involved. She is a natural mummy.

The question is, did she receive certain revelations or were they later attributed to her? It's not like with St. Bridget of Sweden, who became famous all over Sweden and then all over Spain through her revelations, and whose Father confessor wrote them down (or actually two fathers confessor, Father Matthias, from Jönköping or Linköping, I think the latter, and Alfonso Pecha of Jaén, he became her confessor only after retiring from the See of Jaén: on discussing his case, that of abdicating his episcopate, a Lutheran considered certain phrases about him as "typical hagiographical fiorituras" — "floskler", I replied it looked like a burnout). In this case, her canonisation was discussing her revelations, on two criteria: no deviation from dogma allowed, no predictions that were both unconditional and unfulfilled allowed. Even an atheist who studied them, my professor of Latin back then, Birger Bergh, considered it spooky how accurate her predictions were.

By contrast, those of Sr. Mariana de Jesús Torres, it seems the first now known printed edition is from 1790.

Could an older manuscript or forgotten edition be there? Could be. That would confirm they are absolutely from her. Meanwhile ... as the predictions mention "Masonic Sects" I think we should take a historic look at these. God is certainly capable of exact prediction, all times are laid out before Him, even as they are connected and involve free choices that we make one moment at a time. So, if something is suspicious about mentioning someone or something directly by name in a prophecy, it's because previous direct knowledge of the name could hinder or otherwise unduly influence the outcome. Prophecies are also not self fulfilling. Let's take a look at Isaias and Cyrus:

Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.
[Isaias (Isaiah) 44:28]

Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.
[Isaias (Isaiah) 45:1]


Why is this allowed? Because Isaias who certainly lived before Cyrus, wrote in Hebrew, a language which the parents of Cyrus did not speak. Anshan or Tall-e Malyan is three days walking distance from Shiraz, which is 2000 km from Jerusalem.* Cyrus' parents had no way possible to know naming their son would be a luck charm, and rival claimants to power had no way to know the name boded ill for their own keeping of it. This is why the Antichrist is NOT named by name in the Apocalypse, but only his gematria is given. I'd argue God knowing all of today as much in the day of Patmos as today, could very well have given his gematria in ASCII, and he** could have been born before that was a thing. If end times wait 4 decades more, this will with current lifespans not be possible. But as he is arguably an Apostate from Christianity, naming him directly would have been too clear, he could have been eliminated by someone who had read too many books about going back in time and eliminating Hitler before he came to power. Also, it would have been too clear in another way, since he was going to seduce "if it were possible even the elect" ...

We'll see how this applies to Masonic sects if the revelation is from 1590.

Lodges of Free Masons started out as a simple somewhat unusual type of guild. An artisan guild would usually in the Middle Ages be not just attached to a specific city, but even allowed to perform their craft only inside it. A baker from Paris could not set up a shop in Lyons. A butcher from Lyons could not set up a shop in Marseille. A potter from Marseille could not sell his ceramics (directly, except through merchants) in Bordeaux. A cooper from Bordeaux could not come to Paris to make barrells. But a builder of Cathedrals or Castles needed to be able to move to where a Cathedral or a Castle was being built. These Masons were called Free, because they were not tied to a specific city (unlike a normal house mason, making private houses in it). Instead of a guild hall, outside where they came from, they had a lodge, a kind of wooden room that was hoisted unto the scaffolding of a building. I think, but could be wrong, when a Cathedral was built, several lodges were at work at the same time, even if only one of them provided the architect. In the jargon of freemasonry, such lodges are retrospectively called "operative lodges" and their members "operative masons" ... an operative mason is simply one who exercises the craft of building stone buildings.

These things existed all over Europe. However, a specific event in England was going to change their nature there. Elisabeth I made England a Capitalist country, where guilds were forbidden. Each craftsman became his contractor on any terms the law allowed, there was no guild to tell him "you can't build that cheap" or "you can't work that late at night" ... two craftsmen of the same trade were supposed to be rivals, not comrades with a common code. The one type of guilds that survived this (or somewhat better than the rest) were Lodges of Masons.

From the Deformation to 1688, England was in turmoil. Ireland and Scotland even longer. Many rich men were persecuted, and many of them paid to be members of an also persecuted, but less so, Masons' lodge. In some cases, the new members were Catholics, persecuted for Catholicism. And they were not always well catechised. In some cases, they were trying to restore Stuarts, succeeding with Charles II and failing with James III, perhaps failing, perhaps betraying with Charles III (not meaning the present ruler). Some of them were Catholics. Some of them were other religions persecuted by Anglicans or Puritans, and some of these may even have included witches and warlocks. In other words, the lodges did not always help Catholics to stay Catholics, they sometimes helped a Catholic veneer (more or less thin) to veil heterodoxy. When a Catholic or Catholic leaning was allergic to the available Protestant "orthodoxy" and cut off from actual orthodox Catechisms and priests, like Penny Catechism, like a priest martyred in Tyburn, he sometimes turned into something very heterodox.

In 1717, a few lodges were started into a united lodge that were explicitly denying the necessity of being a Christian in order to be part of their guild. Anderson's Constitutions. Desaguyliers. The latter was part of the persecuted Huguenots as a child and young man. When he noticed Newton had (to his satisfaction, not mine) proven Heliocentrism, and therefore put the Inquisitors of Galileo in the wrong, he made sure Bruno and Galileo were ever after part of the Masonic ideals, or "Great Men" ... their reply to both Plutarch and the Catholic hagiography. Anderson was a Scottish Calvinist.

However, a Stuartite lodge in 1688 or a Williamite one (there were lodges on both sides) or Anderson and Desaguyliers were not reading Spanish. Still less a nun from Quito. IF God chose to reveal the name "Masonic lodges" that would have no more effect on their doings than Isaias revealing Cyrus could have at Shiraz or more precisely at Anshan.

Meanwhile, for most of this time, the preparation of the fulfilment would have been very obscure over in Quito, where her texts are accessed. By 1790, this was not so. This could have been a reason if the revelations were genuine, to decide to publish them then.

On the other hand, by 1790, anyone could write the words "Masonic Sects" and even the idea of them trying to dominate society. Revd. Barruel (who gives another origin for Freemasons, which may or may not be true in complement to the one I gave, namely Templar origins) could not have written the whole history of Jacobins in 1790, since they were only coming into power later and were still a thing, but he could probably already have given his views of Masons, as found, presumably, in that work.

And if certain conspiracy theories are true, Masons could already have known what they were going to do in the 19th and 20th C. However, even that kind of conspirers doesn't control everything, so, they could not have known where they were going to be successful.

A shortage of baptisms and confirmations has certainly been the case in the 20th C. in USSR and in Albania. Perhaps less so in Ecuador. Girls remaining virgins until they marry have a shortage in Sweden and in the US. Again, perhaps less so in Ecuador. However, Ecuador has had Masonic governments. José María Velasco Ibarra was a Mason. His two successors are not explicitly stated as Masons, but also not as Catholics. Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, Jaime Roldós Aguilera. If the latter was a Catholic, that could be why he was assassinated, if the air plane crash was an assassination. Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea is however a (Novus Ordo, presumably) Catholic. León Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra probably too. But Rodrigo Borja Cevallos is an Agnostic.*** Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez probably a Catholic. Abdalá Bucaram, nothing noted. Rosalía Arteaga, a lady by definition can't be Mason. She also went to the Pontifical University. Fabián Ernesto Alarcón Rivera is a Catholic. Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt is a Maronite, so a Catholic. Gustavo José Joaquín Noboa Bejarano was a Catholic. Lucio Gutiérrez is a Catholic. Alfredo Palacio was a Catholic, he died this year. Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is possibly a Catholic and a Boy Scout. Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés is a Socialist. But even so a Catholic. Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza is as Catholic as you can expect from Opus Dei and bankers ... Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín is a Catholic, born arguably among Catholic exile Cubans in Miami. He is the current president.

I can understand the viewpoint that the predictions didn't come true if "these lands" refer to Ecuador. A best case scenario could be for them to refer to the US where the revelations have become popular. Some who are very rejecting of Vatican II could also pretend that any Catholic accepting it were ipso facto a Freemason, which I think is over the top. I think the late Pope Michael I did not think so.

If a Freemason in 1790 wanted to reveal secret plans of the Lodges (by then meaning Speculative Lodges or what the Popes call Masonic Sects, having left the trade of Masons aside from 1717 if not earlier) why would he plant a text purporting to be a revelation in the previous centuries? Why would his superiors or pastors allow him to do so? Well, those damned Sects have a kind of Oath, which I have not taken and do not intend to take, of secrecy. Revealing the real source would have put a defector from Freemasonry at danger.

This would explain why much of the prophecies did occur, pretty much when expected, but not in "these lands" if that means Ecuador.

A third option would be, no, the source for the info is neither the Blessed Virgin, nor a defector, but a man like Barruel.

Both of these alternatives share the feature of Freemasonry (or what was labelled so in 1790, perhaps later more often labelled Socialist) being predictable on lines pretty closely resembling those of Barruel.

I'm of course presuming that the predictions are there in the first known edition from 1790.

But I cannot exclude the possibility that "these lands" means something other than Ecuador, and so also not that the predictions are really supernatural. I only know a few quotes of the revelations.°

However, that Pius IX did two things and suffered a third, whcih nails it for some, is also possible by accurate predictions about how freemasons would interact with him ... up to 80 years before it happened. He proclaimed the Immaculate Conception, as he should. A lodge started a campaign impugning it by contesting his authority to do so, he proclaimed Papal infallibility too ... by signing the vote of a council ... and the next step was easy enough. Garibaldi was already in action. He was indeed a Freemason and a Carbonaro. And a few decades later, in Romagna, a certain Alessandro Serenelli was finding a certain Maria Goretti too quaint for not relinquishing her virginity even when some pressure gave her an excuse. Garibaldi in 1870 obviously had raised the marital age from 12 to 18 for girls, from 14 to 18 for boys. And in many cases that extra waiting time proves difficult.

Does Italy count as "these lands"?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady's Assumption
15.VIII.2025

Assumptio sanctissimae Dei Genitricis Virginis Mariae.

PS, if it had been "our lands" one could have made a case that it was those lands dedicated to Our Lord and Our Lady and in that case a large swathe of them actually did suffer what was said. "These lands"? Is the Spanish pronoun one which has different meanings in Spain and Latin America?/HGL

* On main roads, like shorter as the bird flies. ** My word "he" means the Antichrist, of course. Clumsy sentence, I know. *** Borja is the Spanish spelling for Borgia. ° From Are The Apparitions Of Our Lady Of Good Success Authentic? and from Chilling Prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success and I quoted the phrase "these lands" and cited specific predictions from memory.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Gematria of CSL vs Interests


822, Dewey:

What is the Dewey Decimal number 822?

822 would be English drama and 824 indicates English essays. As you can see and as mentioned before, the more specific the number gets, the more specific a topic is.


Source:
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
https://library.nicc.edu/c.php?g=1238185


The delicious thing is, C. S. Lewis was as a professor in Cambridge doing English Medieval and Renaissance Literature, specifically EXCLUDING drama. He hated Ben Johnson and some ...

But he knew them.

Meanwhile, C. S. Lewis is 822.

C  67
S  83  140  10
L  76  210  16
E  69  270  25
W  87  350  32
I  73  420  35
S  83  500  38


OK, but 538 isn't 822? No, but that was just the upper case actual letters. Each lower case (there are four) as well as each space (two) is 32 (more than the uppercase or simply), while each full stop is 46.

6 * 32 + 2 * 46 = 284
284 + 538 = 822

Recall, when he was a boy, he wanted to write (in English) a Greek drama called Loki bound ... all of it with stasima and the other typical parts of an Attic drama. Expressing a very English agreement with Epicure's dilemma. In a sense he spent lots of his adult life replying to what Loki would have said in that drama./HGL

Thursday, July 24, 2025

"Do You Speak Jewish?"


By an US American to a couple speaking Portuguese.

Pretty obviously, the person asking wasn't referring to Yiddish, which can be described as Ashkenaz Jewish Medieval German.

She was pretty certainly referring to Djudezmo, which can be described as Sephardic Jewish Medieval Spanish.

One thing which it shares with Portuguese rather than Spanish is, no diphthongs. Perhaps not "non at all" but not the ones in PUEDO and TIEMPO, those are "podo" and "tempo" in Djudezmo.

Again, DJ is closer to Portuguese and French J, than to Spanish "J is actually ACH-Laut".

SH is still distinguished and so that's closer to Portuguese than to Spanish "X is also actually ACH-Laut, but we spell it J now" (¿verdad, Méjico?).

DZ is Z, Ç is S. More Latin American than European Spanish but distinguishing Z from S is more Portuguese than Latin American Spanish.

Also B and D and "hard" G are closer to English or Italian letters than to Spanish ones. Again, not unlike Portuguese.

And it's definitely NOT like Latin American Spanish where CALLE is sometimes KASHE, nope, it's KALYE.

So, if someone confuses Djudezmo and Portuguese, it's probably not a nincompoop, ¿de akodro?

And calling Djudezmo "Jewish" is literally just translating.

So, no, they weren't speaking Sephardic Jewish, they were speaking Portuguese, but that's a kind of mix-up that happens./HGL

(I happen to be more than a Euro short of the kaviko in this cyber, I'm off).

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Does Sungenis Number St. Augustine Among Papias, Lactantius, Irenaeus, and, Not Quite a CF, Tertullian?


If I understood his live stream as it aired a few minutes ago and I just viewed with delay, his position is that the majority of Church Fathers who are NOT Pre-Millennialists did not believe in a Mass Conversion of Jews.

Now, St. Augustine is definitely not a Pre-Millennialist, and in City of God, he actually does not just believe in a Mass Conversion of Jews, but reports this as the common belief.

Here is City of God, Book XX, I'll excerpt chapter 29
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120120.htm


Chapter 29.— Of the Coming of Elias Before the Judgment, that the Jews May Be Converted to Christ by His Preaching and Explanation of Scripture.

After admonishing them to give heed to the law of Moses, as he foresaw that for a long time to come they would not understand it spiritually and rightly, he went on to say, And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Tishbite before the great and signal day of the Lord come: and he shall turn the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, lest I come and utterly smite the earth. Malachi 4:5-6 It is a familiar theme in the conversation and heart of the faithful, that in the last days before the judgment the Jews shall believe in the true Christ, that is, our Christ, by means of this great and admirable prophet Elias who shall expound the law to them. For not without reason do we hope that before the coming of our Judge and Saviour Elias shall come, because we have good reason to believe that he is now alive; for, as Scripture most distinctly informs us, 2 Kings 2:11 he was taken up from this life in a chariot of fire. When, therefore, he has come, he shall give a spiritual explanation of the law which the Jews at present understand carnally, and shall thus turn the heart of the father to the son, that is, the heart of fathers to their children; for the Septuagint translators have frequently put the singular for the plural number. And the meaning is, that the sons, that is, the Jews, shall understand the law as the fathers, that is, the prophets, and among them Moses himself, understood it. For the heart of the fathers shall be turned to their children when the children understand the law as their fathers did; and the heart of the children shall be turned to their fathers when they have the same sentiments as the fathers. The Septuagint used the expression, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, because fathers and children are eminently neighbors to one another. Another and a preferable sense can be found in the words of the Septuagint translators, who have translated Scripture with an eye to prophecy, the sense, viz., that Elias shall turn the heart of God the Father to the Son, not certainly as if he should bring about this love of the Father for the Son, but meaning that he should make it known, and that the Jews also, who had previously hated, should then love the Son who is our Christ. For so far as regards the Jews, God has His heart turned away from our Christ, this being their conception about God and Christ. But in their case the heart of God shall be turned to the Son when they themselves shall turn in heart, and learn the love of the Father towards the Son. The words following, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, — that is, Elias shall also turn the heart of a man to his next of kin — how can we understand this better than as the heart of a man to the man Christ? For though in the form of God He is our God, yet, taking the form of a servant, He condescended to become also our next of kin. It is this, then, which Elias will do, lest, he says, I come and smite the earth utterly. For they who mind earthly things are the earth. Such are the carnal Jews until this day; and hence these murmurs of theirs against God, The wicked are pleasing to Him, and It is a vain thing to serve God.


Just in case Sungenis might be tempted to consider this as following from a carnal reading of prophecy, the very previous chapter, St. Augustine condemns the carnal reading of the Law.

When Tertullian speaks of the Millennium, as upcoming after the Second Coming, he does mention an opposing school. But when St. Augustine speaks of the upcoming conversion of Jews, he quite frankly does not mention an opposing school. On a previous occasion, he argued against the return of Elias the Thishbite in Apoc. 11, on the ground that that is a Septuagint reading. But basically to the Church Fathers, unless you go as late as Sts. Gregory and Bede, even Latin and not just Greek ones, the Septuagint was the Bible. That's why a Vulgate only stance would contradict the "consensus patrum" stipulation.

Now, check St. John of Damascus who died 749, well after Millennialism was laid aside.

An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV), I'll excerpt chapter 26:
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm


Chapter 26. Concerning the Antichrist.

It should be known that the Antichrist is bound to come. Every one, therefore, who confesses not that the Son of God came in the flesh and is perfect God and became perfect man, after being God, is Antichrist. 1 John 2:22 But in a peculiar and special sense he who comes at the consummation of the age is called Antichrist. First, then, it is requisite that the Gospel should be preached among all nations, as the Lord said Matthew 24:14, and then he will come to refute the impious Jews. For the Lord said to them: I have come in My Father's name and you receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. John 5:43 And the apostle says, Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. The Jews accordingly did not receive the Lord Jesus Christ who was the Son of God and God, but receive the impostor who calls himself God. For that he will assume the name of God, the angel teaches Daniel, saying these words, Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers. Daniel 11:37 And the apostle says: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 , showing himself that he is God; in the temple of God he said; not our temple, but the old Jewish temple. For he will come not to us but to the Jews: not for Christ or the things of Christ: wherefore he is called Antichrist.

First, therefore, it is necessary that the Gospel should be preached among all nations Matthew 25:14: And then shall that wicked one be revealed, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders , with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, whom the Lord shall consume with the word of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming. The devil himself , therefore does not become man in the way that the Lord was made man. God forbid! But he becomes man as the offspring of fornication and receives all the energy of Satan. For God, foreknowing the strangeness of the choice that he would make, allows the devil to take up his abode in him.

He is, therefore, as we said, the offspring of fornication and is nurtured in secret, and on a sudden he rises up and rebels and assumes rule. And in the beginning of his rule, or rather tyranny, he assumes the role of sanctity. But when he becomes master he persecutes the Church of God and displays all his wickedness. But he will come with signs and lying wonders 2 Thessalonians 2:9, fictitious and not real, and he will deceive and lead away from the living God those whose mind rests on an unsound and unstable foundation, so that even the elect shall, if it be possible, be made to stumble Matthew 24:24 .

But Enoch and Elias the Thesbite shall be sent and shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children , that is, the synagogue to our Lord Jesus Christ and the preaching of the apostles: and they will be destroyed by him. And the Lord shall come out of heaven, just as the holy apostles beheld Him going into heaven, perfect God and perfect man, with glory and power, and will destroy the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, with the breath of His mouth. Acts 1:11 Let no one, therefore, look for the Lord to come from earth, but out of Heaven, as He himself has made sure 2 Thessalonians 2:8 .


In other words, St. John of Damascus also says Elias will come, and also specifies, along with Henoch. But even more, he also says, they will convert such Jews as are not impious. I think the position of Sungenis against a Mass Conversion of Jews can be dismissed. I'm not Elias, I was not born under Ahab or Omri or their predecessors, in Samaria, I did not flee from Jezebel. I will not see the Mass Conversion of Jews unless my life overlaps with their arrival, but maybe I can persuade a smaller conversion of Jews, prior to their coming. Obviously, if they are right around the corner, that means there are 7 or 3 and 1/2 years until the Second Coming, so, it means there are small chances of earthly happiness. Whichever it is depends on whether their preaching is concurrent with Antichrist's persecution or precedes it.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
16.VII.2025

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Castelnuovo (Bosnia) and Lexington (Massachusetts)


The places are close to 90° apart from each other, so close that if you add exactly 90° W along the same equatorial parallel plane to the coordinates of Castelnuovo or Herceg Novi, you land between Acton and Bloomsbury, 11.9 miles being the distance between Lexington and Acton.

Now, each place was the place of a battle. The siege of Castelnuovo ended on Aug. 7th 1539. The battle of Lextington and Concord took place on April 19th 1775.

Date calculator allowed me to verify that, between these dates, there are 2828 months and 12 days.

In Castelnuovo, Machín de Munguía was killed by the Ottomans. The night before Lexington battle, Paul Revere was fortunately not killed by two English commissars.

Perhaps a reason to sing "El pendón estrellado"?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Feast of the Sacred Blood
1.VII.2025