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The War of Light Against Darkness

Shrine of the Book Light and Darkness

The Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is built to symbolize the scroll – The shrine is built as a white dome symbolizing the Sons of Light, and a black basalt wall – symbolizing the Sons of Darkness.

The shrine holds one of the Dead Sea scrolls found near Qumran. The War Scroll is an apocalyptic work describing the conflict at the end of time between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness.

Although this war is said to extend over forty years, the writer of the scroll was particularly concerned with the details of the very final day of battle. After six bloody engagements during this last battle, the Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness are deadlocked in a 3-3 tie. In the seventh and final confrontation “the great hand of God shall overcome Belial and all the angels of his dominion, and all men of his forces shall be destroyed forever” (1QM 1:14-15).

In the end, all of Darkness is to be destroyed and Light will live in peace for all eternity.

I noticed that this war is hidden in the high priestess tarot. Adherents of the Mysteries have long held the idea that the Tarot has its origins in the arcane system of the Kabbalah. The job of the High Priestess, to offer secret knowledge, like the moon on a dark night, so that the querent can find their path. She sits between the pillars of dark and light, existance and negation, wax and wane. All secret knowledge is hers.

In The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Freemason Manly Hall (1901 – 1990) explained:

“Jachin–the white pillar of light…Boaz–the shadowy pillar of darkness. …These two pillars respectively connote also the active and the passive…the sun and the moon…good and bad, light and darkness.” iv

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Gulf Oil Spill is Red

Gulf Oil Spill Red

Rev 16:3. Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse. And everything in the sea died.

Fisherman Tom Young from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana summed up the thinking down in the Gulf. ” I was just sitting here thinking our way of life is over. It’s the end, the apocalypse, and no one outside of these few parishes really cares. They say they do, but they do nothing but talk”, said Young.

The crude oil is red largely from the highly toxic Corexit used to disperse the oil and keep it on the bottom of the ocean where BP won’t have to pay for clean up.

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Euphrates River Dries Up

Euphrates Dries Up

NYT caption: “A boy rested on the mud in a dried-up section of the Euphrates River near Jubaish, Iraq, in June.”

The front page of Tuesday morning’s New York Times had a stunning headline: “Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles.”

The drying up of this historic river in the land of ancient Babylon is so stunning, that even the Times had to note that Bible prophecy says this will happen in the “last days” of history, in the lead up to the apocalyptic battle of Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation.

Excerpts from the Times story: “Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry out to visitors in a passing boat. ‘Maaku mai!’ they shout, holding up their rusty sickles. ‘There is no water!’ The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now. The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.”