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Part 2 How Ancient Christian Writings Were Altered, Bishops Were Shielded from Accusation, and Counterfeit Papal Authority Entered the Medieval Church The documentary evidence concealed inside the manuscripts: Clement, Anacletus, Stephen I, the bishops of Tours, the eleventh-century papal reformers, and the extraordinary laws protecting the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The Forgery Did Not End When the Document Was Written There is something even more disturbing than discovering

Part 1 How Medieval Churchmen Invented Ancient Papal Letters, Fabricated Divine Sanctions, and Built Ecclesiastical Power Upon Documents the Apostles Never Wrote An investigation into Charlemagne, the Pseudo-Isidorian False Decretals, counterfeit papal correspondence, the manipulation of Scripture, and the transmission of forged authority into medieval canon law. The Dead Popes Who Were Made to Speak Imagine opening an ancient Christian document and discovering that it contai

The Invisible Kingdom: Demonic Princes, Planetary Angels and the Forbidden Rites of Medieval Christianity “For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.” — Revelation 18:23 (KJV) “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” — Matthew 28:18 (KJV) Who gave medieval necromancers the authority to command spirits in the name of Jesus Christ? Who authorised the construction of magical circles invoking the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the conjuration of planetary rulers, o

Baptised Images, Child Mediums and the Forbidden Conjuration of Spirits “For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.” — Revelation 18:23 (KJV) “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” — Revelation 18:4 (KJV) In the first part of this investigation, we examined the disturbing evidence presented by medieval historian Richard Kieckhefer in Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. We d

“For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.” — Revelation 18:23 (KJV)“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” — Revelation 9:21 (KJV) Part 1 The Book of Revelation does not describe sorcery as an innocent curiosity, an alternative form of spirituality or a harmless collection of ancient "traditions". It identifies sorcery as an instrument of deception through which the nations are led astray. Even un

An investigation into medieval ecclesiastical rituals, sacred objects, supernatural powers and their relationship to ceremonial magic What happens when we look beyond the familiar ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church and examine the actual Latin instructions given to its clergy centuries ago? Where did its exorcisms of material objects, consecrated candles, invocations of saints and "angels", and elaborate rituals of spiritual protection originate? More importantly, which

A historical and biblical exposé examining William Durandus, Johannes Trithemius, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, the development of medieval church rituals and their connections with monastic magic, papal authority and imperial courts. The Lord Jesus Christ made a declaration which ought to stand at the beginning of every investigation into the nature of Christian worship. Speaking to the Samaritan woman, who had questioned whether God should be worshipped upon Mount Gerizim or

Chapter XIV of Michael Müller’s The Holy Mass, “Mass the Renewal of Christ’s Life in the Womb of Mary,” deserves far more scrutiny than its seven pages might suggest. It is not merely a sentimental meditation on the Incarnation. Müller is constructing an argument about sacrifice. He begins with Scripture, moves almost imperceptibly into imaginative dialogue, imports an eighteenth-century Redemptorist meditation, reaches backwards into late-medieval visionary literature, draws

An investigation of Trithemius, Maximilian I, Agrippa and William Lilly—with Peter of Abano, Albertus Magnus, Aquinas and the King James Bible as tests of the evidence In 1508, a Benedictine abbot addressed Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (whom Agrippa calls Maximilian Caesar) with an extraordinary account of world history. Beneath God, seven intelligences associated with the seven planets supposedly took turns governing the world. Each government lasted 354 years and four mo

Johannes Trithemius is troubling precisely because he cannot honestly be dismissed as an eccentric magician standing outside Christianity. He was inside the institutional Church. He was a Benedictine monk, a priest, an abbot, a monastic reformer, a writer on Scripture, saints, repentance, priestly life and Benedictine discipline, a correspondent of bishops and princes, and a man whose library and scholarship attracted some of the most important intellectual figures of his gen

There is a point in Michael Müller’s The Holy Mass at which the investigation changes character. The question is no longer simply whether one agrees with Catholic teaching about the Eucharist. Nor is it merely whether words such as altar, sacrifice and priest can be found in early Christian literature. From Chapters X onward another question becomes impossible to avoid: are the witnesses Müller summons actually saying what he tells his readers they say? That question matters

There comes a point in Michael Müller’s The Holy Mass *Chapter IX when the issue can no longer be reduced to a disagreement between Roman Catholic and non-Catholic interpretations of the Eucharist. In his chapter on “The Sacrifice of the New Law,” a more fundamental problem repeatedly presents itself: Müller describes events, words, intentions and ceremonies as though they belonged to the biblical narrative when the inspired writers never record them. He begins with genuine p

Agrippa, Apollo, Egypt, Constantine, the Mass, and the Celestial Religion Scripture Condemns What happens when a single Latin word opens onto an entire celestial system? In Agrippa’s occult philosophy, the letters H-O-C correspond to the Spirit of the World, the Sun, and Taurus. His Sun bears the names Apollo, Horus and Osiris; his demonology links Apollo’s Pythian title to Pytho, prince of lying spirits; and his wider system joins words, numbers, celestial signs, consecrated

Part three Michael Müller, Nicola Aubry, and the extraordinary attempt to prove doctrine by demonic testimony Chapter V marks a disturbing escalation in Michael Müller’s method. In the previous chapters he attempted to establish transubstantiation by expanding Christ’s words, attributing unrecorded beliefs to the apostles, appealing to later Catholic ceremonies and treating theological inference as though it were apostolic testimony. Here, however, Müller introduces something

Part two Michael Müller, Corpus Christi, Luther, and the circular argument for the Real Presence Part One exposed a recurring problem in Michael Müller’s argument: he repeatedly moved beyond the words of Scripture, supplied explanations Christ never gave, attributed beliefs to the apostles that they never recorded, and then treated those additions as though they belonged to the Gospel itself. Chapter IV does not correct that problem. It enlarges it. Müller now begins using la

Part One After reading Michael Müller’s later claims about the power of the Mass—including language about effectively “binding the hand of God”—I realised that The Holy Mass could not be treated merely as a devotional work. Claims of that magnitude demand more than reverence; they demand evidence. If the Mass truly possesses the powers Müller attributes to it, then the foundations of those claims must be traceable to Christ and the apostles rather than assumed from later theo

Part Two The Character, the Wicked Priest, and the Power Behind the Altar Paul warned that men would depart from the faith, “giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1, KJV). Such a warning leaves the Christian no permission to assume that a doctrine comes from God merely because it is ancient, ecclesiastical, sacramental, administered at an altar or defended by generations of theologians. Part One established the biblical test and need not be re

PART ONE of the Doctrine of Devils NB: Before reading further, it is important to know that Agrippa later turned against much of the occult learning he had spent his youth studying, describing the pursuit of such arts as a deception not inspired by the Spirit of God but by the devil. He said that he had “for the most part” retracted his youthful work on magic—although he continued to distinguish what he regarded as corrupt or demonic magic from a purified “true” magic. This a

This investigation begins with two works that, at first sight, have almost nothing to do with one another. The first was written by J. Dwight Pentecost, an American Bible teacher and theologian who spent most of his academic life at Dallas Theological Seminary. Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology grew out of his doctoral research and became one of his best-known works on biblical prophecy. The edition before us carries its original 1958 copyright—a date that will

The story has been repeated for centuries. Constantine marched toward Rome, saw a Christian cross blazing above the sun, received the promise of victory from Christ, placed the divine sign upon his army, defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, and emerged as the emperor through whom Christianity would triumph over pagan Rome. There is only one serious problem with beginning the story there. The earliest surviving account of Constantine’s great vision does not name Jesus Chr