ΙΧΘΥΣ (or ΙΧΘΥϹ, ἰχθύς, Ichthys) is the Koine (biblical) Greek word for fish and also an acronym for “Ίησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ”/“ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ, ΣΩΤΗΡ”, (Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr), which translates into English as “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior”.
Iota (i/ι/Ι) is the first letter of Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς/ΙΗΣΟΥΣ), Greek for Jesus (Greek being the language of the Septuagint and the first language to distinguish between the names Jesus and Joshua. Other names that are identical in the Hebrew go to include Mary and Miriam, Judas and Jude, Jacob and James [done in honor of King James; also Santiago in Spanish!]).
Chi (ch/χ/Χ) is the first letter of Christos (Χριστός/ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ), Greek for anointed.
Theta (th/θ/Θ) is the first letter of Theou (Θεου/ΘΕΟΥ), Greek for “God’s”, the genitive case of Θεóς, Theos, Greek for god or God (i.e. God’s)
Ypsilon (y/υ/Υ) is the first letter of (h)yios[4] (Υἱός/ΥΙΟΣ), Greek for son.
Sigma (s/σ-ς/Σ) is the first letter of sōtēr (Σωτήρ/ΣΩΤΗΡ), Greek for savior.
Did you know that “Jesus” (from the Greek) comes from “Joshua” which comes from “Yeshua” (ישווע), the Hebrew word for “savior”?
Did you know “Christ” is derived from the Greek word for the Hebrew “Messiah” (משיח), which means “anointed one,” i.e. “chosen one” or “designated one”?
So Jesus Christ (ישווע משיח) means Yeshua Messias (תשווע משיח)!
Just a little blogpost about Lewis, raw and unrevised. I just felt conscience-bound today to ensure that you had the benefit of these things on the chance that it could be helpful at some point.
On Orthodoxy:
“My model here is the behaviour of the congregation at a ‘Russian Orthodox’ service, where some sit, some lie on their faces, some stand, some kneel, some walk about, and no one takes the slightest idea of what anyone else is doing. That is good sense, good manners, and good Christianity” (C. S. Lewis in a letter to a Mrs. Johnson, 13 March 1956 [CLIII 720]).“What pleased me most about a Greek Orthodox Mass I once attended was that there seemed to be no prescribed behaviour for the congregation. Some stood, some knelt, some sat, some walked; one crawled about the floor like a caterpillar. And the beauty of it was that nobody took the slightest notice of what anyone else was doing. I wish we Anglicans would follow their example. One meets people who are perturbed because someone in the next pew does, or does not, cross himself. They oughn’t even to have seen, let alone censured. ‘Who art thou that judgest Another’s Servant?’” (C. S. Lewis, LM 19-20).
“Greek priests impress one very favourably at sight – much more so than most Protestant or R.C. clergy. And the peasants all refuse tips” (C. S. Lewis in a letter, 23 May 1960 [CLIII, 1154]).
On our times:
“Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the woods – they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air & later corn, and later still bread, really was in them.“We of course who live on a standardised international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges, & Australian wine to day) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours” (C. S. Lewis in a letter to Arthur Greeves, 22 June 1930).
Thirdly, a painfully relevant plus deeply cathartic video by Fr. Thomas Hopko drawing from C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man and other authors. (Shortest hour and a half of my life!)
For reference: the Greek word νους or nous (British: pron.: /ˈnaʊs/; US: /ˈnuːs/), sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, has served as a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real, similar in meaning to intuition. It is also often described as a form of perception which works within the mind (“the mind’s eye,” sometimes equated to the brain’s pineal gland since it appears to be an atrophied eye [which is of a pine cone shape, whencepineal]), rather than only through the physical senses. The three commonly used philosophical terms are from Greek, νοῦς or νόος, and Latin intellectus and intelligentia respectively. As you may have guessed, nous is where we get noetic, which means having to do with heavenly or higher matters (which in the East, unlike the West, is not quite coextensive with mortuary or eschatological [each of which also covers a different field] [since the point of mysticism, asceticism, liturgy and morality–actually everything the Church does-–is to tap into higher things by experiencing death here and now], though there is certainly overlap).
(Other communicators he might easily have sourced on the key points certainly include Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and a contemporary intellectual heir apparentto them, one Alex E. Jones [who, be warned, is without question “a voice crying out”].)
Like a lot of you, I have a couple of friends with whom I can talk about government differently than with my other friends. You know what I mean…the one who doesn’t look at you funny when you mention the “grassy knoll.” The type of friend we can say what we really think.
One of my “truth-friends” is Steve. Steve and I have the most insightful discussions right in our living room. At least we think so. The other day we got to talking about public schools. We both had definitive opinions. The Founding Fathers came up. Specifically the “shot heard ’round the world.” Steve is a little older than I and can remember going to school and saying the Lord’s Prayer and learning about the American Revolutionary War. He most certainly knew the “shot” was fired in Lexington/Concord when the British soldiers came to disarm the Americans (“colonists”) in 1775. It was the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
(Rudyard Kipling, Hymn sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836).
This discussion turned animated when I told him that I didn’t learn much of anything like that when I went to school. He was shocked.
Pretty soon it turned to a friendly wager. I told him I believed that if he was to ask his teenage and young adult children what happened at Lexington and Concord they wouldn’t have the first idea. He couldn’t comprehend such a thought. This went back and forth and soon lunch was wagered on the question.
He called his high school daughter…after daddy/daughter pleasantries it went something like this:
Steve: Have you ever heard of the “shot heard ‘round the world?”
Daughter: No. (awkward pause) Should I have?
Steve: (The wrinkles of his forehead burrowed in perplexity) Do you know what happened at Lexington and Concord that is significant for America?
Daughter: No. (more awkward pauses and more burrowing)
After a hurried explanation and a “We’ll talk more about this later”, the conversation was over. He called his other daughter. Similar results: you could hear crickets. He had one more kid he could call but he didn’t bother. He put his phone down on the couch and sat back in the seat. He let out one of those sighs of parental disappointment and asked; “Where would you like to go for lunch”?
We both shook our heads. Steve said a couple curse words. Later we found out his high school daughter has a United Nations multi-week program every year in school. The kids are given different countries to represent and learn about United Nations government. Now we were really concerned. Not only are schools neglecting basic and important information about the founding of our Nation they are promoting the loss of sovereignty through a United Nations educational program. Wow!
The moral of this story is to never overestimate the educational accuracy of our public schools. That being said, we must understand that if we want our children to learn history and value the foundation of this Country then you might have to be the one who takes the bull by the horns. It is becoming more obvious our schools can no longer be trusted with such an important task. If our children don’t know about the foundation of our Country, then how can it be expected to endure for future generations?
I purpose before God, man, and also before everything that pretends to be either, that I shall never see another beaten down physically, verbally or systemically without that I shall act swiftly and decisively in behalf of the oppressed.
The élite did not birth me, nourish me, strengthen me or prepare me.
I owe the élite and their low masters nothing.
I owe every earthly institution, establishment and organization nothing.
For, when all is said and done, I have no earthly nesting place or resting place.
I love all men, least of all myself, and trust no man, least of all myself, upon whom may God show the radicality of his mercy, amen.
My principles are spiritual, deep and lasting and as such cannot be purchased with silver or gold, much less diabolical cotton cash.
I shall speak up when I—when I—deem it appropriate and for as long as I feel it is needed.
Death before servility.
Death before banality.
Death before passive complicity with that which is evil or twisted.
Eternal incarceration and shame to the thugs.
Eternal liberty and praise to the honestmen.
That future generations may, through the shedding of my blood if necessary, enjoy as total a clarity of truth and an empowerment to do good as possible.
I do not negotiate with traitors to life.
I do not belong to the children of usurpers, the spawn of exploiters or the offspring of usurers.
I am possessed only of the legitimate, just and mercy-full “God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 1:3b) who also sent us his Holy Spirit to set the record straight “of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (John 16:8b). I am possessed only of Him who alone is Love, and of my unquenchable love for those who are yet slaves and the fools.
I shall vanquish with love and conquer with kindness or die trying.
As for myself, I will never be a victim, prisoner or slave to any man’s whims nor even to my own passions, except, God help me, of my burning love of God, neighbor, and holy liberty.
I was born free, and I will die free, in which hour may Gracious God take my soul to Himself, Who alone is due ultimate glory and whose glory consists namely in a humanity abundantly alive, awake and alert*, amen and amen.
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* “The glory of God is man fully alive” (Irenaeus of Lyons, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of John the Theologian, the Beloved Apostle of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ).
Made this video awhile back, but it still seems to do the job (plus my equipment right now will not cooperate)!
“THE DEER’S CRY” by our father among the saints
P A T R I C K ∙ O F ∙ I R E L A N D
Bishop of Armagh and Enlightener of Ireland
I ARISE TODAY, through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness, of the Creator of Creation.
I arise today, through the strength of Christ’s birth with his baptism, through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension, through the strength of his descent for the judgment of Doom.
I arise today, through the strength of the love of the Cherubim, in obedience of angels, in the service of archangels, in the hope of the resurrection to meet with reward, in the prayers of patriarchs, in prediction of prophets, in preaching of apostles, in faith of confessors, in innocence of holy virgins, in deeds of righteous men.
I arise today, through the strength of heaven; light of sun, radiance of moon, splendor of fire, speed of lightning, swiftness of wind, depth of sea, stability of earth, firmness of rock.
I arise today, through God’s strength to pilot me: God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me, God’s eye to look before me, God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak to me, God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie before me, God’s shield to protect me, God’s host to save me, from the snares of devils, from temptations of vices, from every one who shall wish me ill, afar and anear, alone and in a multitude.
I summon today, all these powers between me and those evils, against every cruel merciless power that may oppose my body and soul, against incantations of false prophets, against black laws of pagandom, against false laws of heretics, against craft of idolatry, against spells of women and smiths and wizards, against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul.
Christ to shield me today, against poisoning, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, so there come to me abundance of reward. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks of me, Christ in the eye of every one that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today, through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness, of the Creator of Creation.
The Grand Canyon lines up with Orion, but what is it about the Pleiades that inspired the occult?
George Wiley Hunt, 1st governor of Arizona, is entombed with his wife in this pyramid before it had turned into state park overlooking the Phoenix, Arizona.
Alcyone
Pleiades? It may very well be there too. Hoover Dam commemorates the Seven Sisters with a terrazo tiled floor design featuring Alcyon, the brightest star in that system.
Many thanks goes to the University of Arizona’s main library for their extensive archive of maps and also the Planetary Sciences / LPL high definition image and archives department curator, Maria.
Knights Templar, the Illuminati, their museums and foundations & the matrix of secret societies all know
By the year 1936, a brand new Pyramid was built right before the eyes of 6 billion people. It was named after a president that few wanted it named after. Hoover Dam was the greatest engineering feat ever accomplished at that time in modern history.
Most think it was designed to be a hydro electric power plant, but the truth is, it was much more than met the eye. Nobody knew but for the circles of secrecy that this construct was destined to be a Stargate.
While researching utilizing many investigative approaches, I had to ascertain why this massive project was uniquely designed with overkill of occultic symbols from the design layout itself to the art and details as well as its location. What I discovered is that the Grand Canyon itself may…
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Join us for an evening with Frederica Mathewes-Green
Sunday, March 17, 2013, 4-6pm
Light refreshments will be offered
East, West, East:
A Personal Spiritual Journey
&
Is Orthodoxy Relevant in the Modern World?
Frederica Mathewes-Green is an author whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Times, First Things, Books & Culture, Sojourners, Touchstone, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been a regular commentator for National Public Radio (NPR), on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, a columnist for the Beliefnet.com, and Christianity Today. Her podcasts can be heard regularly on Ancient Faith Radio at AncientFaith.com.
Her books include The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God; Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy; and The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation.
She lives with her husband, the Rev. Gregory Mathewes-Green, in Baltimore, MD, where he is Pastor and she is Khouria (“Mother”) of Holy Cross Orthodox Church. They have 3 children and 11 grandchildren.
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