PAGAN
SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
THE MONSTRANCE and the WAFER GOD
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Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: ...
Note that the commandment of God forbids making and
bowing down to images. Among pagans, perhaps the most common form of
idolatry is sun worship, and the above prohibition would clearly exclude
bowing down before images of the sun or moon (things in the heaven
above). But then God gets even more explicit:
Deu 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of
thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath
wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing
his covenant,
Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have
not commanded;
Deu 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
Deu 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which
have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or
that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Jer 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring
out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jer 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and
all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have
served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought,
and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be
buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jer 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue
of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the
places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
With that in mind, lets look at solar and lunar images
directly associated with the Catholic Mass.
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Here is Pope John Paul II holding what is called a
Monstrance or Ostensorium. It is used to display a round wafer
of bread, called the host, which is used in what is called the
Mass, Lord's Supper, Communion or Eucharistic meal. The
Catholic believes this wafer of bread turns into the actual
body of Christ when consecrated during the Mass. |
From the "Be Not
Afraid" series of videos, Copyright © 1992,
Apostolate
for Family Consecration |
The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a
sunburst:
"During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a
sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold
frame with rays."
Source: The Dictionary of the Liturgy by Rev. Jovian
P. Lang, OFM., published and copyrighted © 1989 by Catholic Book
Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-89942-273-X, page 436.
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Photo of a Monstrance in the
Vatican Museum
From the book "The New Illustrated
Great Controversy"
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In fact, according to the  1913
edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia-
The most appropriate form (for the monstrance) is that of the sun
emitting its rays to all sides (Instructio Clement., 5). [See Altar
Vessels: Ostensorium]
Notice the letters SFS in the small sunburst blaze on the large close
up of a Monstrance above? Each of the letters is a universal symbol for
the number 6 in the pagan mysteries, so to the pagan it reads 666!
The number 666 is also associated with what is called the "magic
square of the sun". The practice of equating names and letters
with numbers is called gematria.
The letter F:
The Hebrew letter Vau (V) has a value of 6. The English letter F is
a descendant of Vau and retains the same value. The letter F is also
the 6th letter of the English alphabet. In pagan numerology the
letters F, O, and X have the value of 6.
The Greek symbol Digamma also looks like the letter F and has a
value of 6.
The letter S:
The Greek equivalent of Vau is the letter Stau, which looks like an
S, and it also has the value of 6.
Sources: The Modern Numerology by John King, published by
Blandford, Copyright © 1996, ISBN 0-7137-2560-5, page 121 / Behind
Numerology, by Shirley Blackwell Lawrence, published by Newcastle
Publishing Co., Inc., Copyright © 1989, ISBN 0-87877-145-X, page 93 /
Jesus Christ Sun of God, by David Fideler, Copyright © 1993,
published by Quest Books of Wheaton Illinois and Madras India, ISBN
0-8356-0696-1, page 27.
And the flaming Sacred Heart located just below the SFS is actually
symbolic of Baal / Tammuz!
(See Consecration
to Flaming Sacred Hearts)
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monstrance with the host encased for the congregation to adore
and venerate. Virtually any time the monstrance, a pagan sun
symbol, is viewed by the congregation, they kneel in submission.
A Catholic cannot walk past this sun symbol without
acknowledging it by kneeling and or making the sign of the cross
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From the "Be Not
Afraid" series of videos,
Copyright © 1992,
Apostolate
for Family Consecration
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Remember God's commandment forbidding bowing down to
images? How can the Catholic justify bowing down before a
sun image in veneration? They will tell you that they are
paying homage to the host, bread they believe has actually
turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus after being
consecrated by a priest. Since the wafer, they believe, has
been transformed into God Himself, it is the round wafer god
inside the sunburst monstrance that they bow down
to in worship, not the sunburst monstrance. However, the
round wafer of bread itself is also a sun symbol,
which is sometimes made quite obvious in Catholic
representations of the host in various forms of artwork.
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host, the supposed "true body" of Christ. This
design has also been adopted by the Jesuits as their symbol.
The IHS is thought by some to represent the first letters of
each word in the Latin phrase Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus
Saviour of Men), although according to the Catholics
themselves they actually represent the first three letters of
the name "Jesus" in Greek .(spelled in Greek iota-eta-sigma-omicron-upsilon-sigma).
The pagan though, would quickly see the same sun disk symbol
associated with many pagan deities of Egypt, among them Isis,
Horus, and Seb. In Egyptian mythology Seb (Geb) was the father
of the goddess Isis (Aset), the mother and protectress of her
divine son Horus (Harpocrates). Horus (the younger) is
frequently depicted on Egyptian temples as a winged sun disk,
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At left is a statuette of the
Egyptian goddess Isis. Her headdress shows the sun disk within
the horns of an Apis bull, symbology which is virtually
identical to that of the sunburst monstrance. Also of note, in
Isis lap is her infant son, Horus. In this one image you have
the symbology of the Catholic monstrance and
Mother / child worship which is so prominent in Catholicism.
The Egyptian pharaoh also claimed to be the
embodiment of Horus on earth, much like the pope claims to be
the infallible Vicar of Christ on earth.
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The British Museum.
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statuette, is likely to be the pattern used for the golden
calf the Israelites made at Mount Sinai (Exo. 32), since they
were undoubtedly quite familiar with it as a result of their
long captivity in Egypt. Note that in front of the sun disk
and horns, which looks virtually identical to some Catholic
monstrances, there is the serpent poised to strike. In
Scripture the serpent is symbolic of Satan. (Gen 3, Rev. 12:9) |
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The British Museum.
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At left is the reverse side of a medal
commemorating the Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Chicago
in 1926 (On the front there is a bust of Pope Pius XI). Note
that the round wafer host above the golden cup is portrayed as a
radiant sunburst.
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UBI PETRUS - IBI ECCLESIA
Where Peter is, there is the Church
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The Worship of Baal is Sun
Worship
Below is an artifact unearthed in the holy of holies of the pagan
temple in the Canaanite city of Hatzor / Hazor, in northern Israel. It
is described as follows:
2 Ki 23:3 And the king [Josiah] stood by a pillar, and made a
covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart
and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were
written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring
forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for
Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned
them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes
of them unto Bethel.
2 Ki 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of
Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned
incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets,
and to all the host of heaven.
2 Ki 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook
Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof
upon the graves of the children of the people.
Baal Worship in Canaan Baal worship
revolved around two themes that represented the conception of Baal his
worshipers held. Baal was both the sun-god and storm-god. He was
worshiped as sun-god when the people wished to express thanks and
gratitude for light and warmth and fertility.
Source: Holman Bible Dictionary, Computer version, entry on
Baal by James Newell.
BAAL AS A DEITY
... in many Chanaanite, Phoenician, or Palmyrene
shrines, the sun was the Baal worshipped, ...
Source: The
Catholic Encyclopedia Online, entry on Baal, Baalim.
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Catholic Sunburst Eucharist
Host |
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actually been made as a sunburst (note the flames around the
edge). This sun symbol, after consecration, is called the true
body of God, to be adored and bowed down to and worshipped by
the laity, especially when displayed inside a sunburst
monstrance.
Note the similarity to the symbol of Baal from Hatzor: a
cross within a circle.
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From the video "This is
my Body, This is my Blood,
Miracles of the Holy Eucharist" by Bob
and Penny Lord
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At left is a pagan Canaanite cultic
pillar or "matstsebah", also found in excavations of
the city of Hatzor,
showing hands raised in praise to the sun disk, portrayed within
the crescent moon.
Deu 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image (matstsebah);
which the LORD thy God hateth.
On the cover of the Jan/Feb 2000 edition of
Envoy
Magazine, a Catholic publication, an elevated
consecrated host of the Eucharist is unmistakably depicted as a
bright yellow sun disk against the background of a cloudy blue
sky!
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Above photo by Richard Lannoy
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At left is pope John Paul II celebrating Mass,
elevating a large host for adoration. Note the similarity with
the pagan Canaanite pillar! |
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Image from the "Be Not
Afraid" series of videos, Copyright © 1993,
Apostolate for Family Consecration,
P.O. Box 151, Bloomingdale Ohio, 43910.
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Do you think this is what Jesus had in mind at the Last Supper? No,
when He "broke bread" He handed His disciples a torn
fragment of unleavened bread, that symbolized His sinless broken
body on the cross, but this is NOT what is conveyed with a pressed,
round, intact and unbroken wafer that has been so commonly used.
Now, a Catholic might respond: the manna that fell from heaven was
ROUND:
Exo 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the
face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the ground.
Viola! The round disk-like wafer host of the Mass is a copy of
God's manna!
No. Not, so fast. Note that scripture give us a description of manna
in size, shape, color and taste:
Exo 16:14 And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface
of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on
the ground. [NKJV]
Exo 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna:
and it was like coriander seed [in size and shape], white [color]; and
the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. [KJV]
Num 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed [in size and shape],
and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium [white].
Num 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in
mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of
it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. [KJV]
Psa 78:24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them
the grain of heaven. [NIV]
Psa 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given
them of the corn of heaven. [KJV]
The size and shape of manna
Exodus 16:14 tells us manna was small, small like the frost on the
ground. We are also told in Exodus and Numbers that manna was like
Coriander seed. Coriander is common today, and is used in brewing beer.
It is round like a ball, and quite small. Eight to ten
Coriander seeds might fit in the space of a pea. A picture of one ounce
(hundreds) of Coriander
Seeds. So Coriander is a miniscule round seed.
In Psalm 78 manna is further described as the grain or corn
of heaven. In Strong's the word in Psalm 78 is:
H1715. dagan, daw-gawn'; from H1711; prop. increase, i.e.
grain:--corn ([floor]), wheat.
Manna, therefore, was small and round like a ball, similar to a small
seed grain.
The color of manna
The meaning of bdellium is somewhat uncertain, however, similar words
in other languages favor identification with a resinous gum. In droplet
form, the gum may have the appearance of a pearl, white. Exodus 16:31
confirms that manna was white in color by plainly stating it.
The taste of manna
Exo 16:31 ... the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Num 11:8 ... the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
As described in the Bible, manna resembled Coriander in size and
shape: it was like a grain, like a small white round ball-like seed
which was collected, ground up, and baked to make cakes, like wheat is
ground to make bread. So, no, the Catholic wafer host does not
imitate manna in either size or shape.
Here are Catholic Web pages advocating that churches begin a program
of perpetual 24 hour adoration
(worship), of the wafer host:
Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration
Apostolate
for Perpetual Adoration.
St.
Catherine Laboure.
You might call this the perpetual worshipping of "God in (of ?)
the Sunburst Monstrance".
| At right is a close-up of a monstrance, and inside the glass
enclosure is a crescent, upon which the round wafer god host
is placed, a virtual duplication of the symbology of the
Canaanite and Chaldean stele shown above. Many monstrances use
this crescent, which is officially called a
"lunette" or "luna" (moon), to hold the
round wafer host. The sun disk in the crescent moon is a quite
common symbol for pagan religions, to include Babylon, Syria,
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From the video "666 and
the Mark" by James Arrabito,
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Worshipping the Eucharist as God
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Images from the video
"666 and the Mark" by James Arrabito,
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Above on the left you see the pagan sunburst wafer god, inscribed
with IHS and the cross, is portrayed above the cup of wine. This is the
door to a place where the wine and wafers are stored. Above on the
right, you see a similar carving depicting angels kneeling in idolatrous
adoration or worship of the wafer god and wine.
In case you think the word "worship" is an exaggeration on
my part, please note this paragraph from the new Vatican Catechism of
the Catholic Church: (Italics present in the original text)
1378 Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the
Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the
species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing
deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. "The Catholic church
has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist
the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it,
reserving the consecrated host with the utmost care, exposing them to
the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in
procession."
Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, published by
Ligouri Publications, English translation © 1994 by the United States
Catholic Conference, Inc.--Libreria Editrice Vaticana, bearing the
Imprimi Potest of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, page 347.
And note this decree concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the
Eucharist from the thirteenth session of the Council of Trent, October
11th, 1551:
Chapter V
THE WORSHIP AND VENERATION TO BE SHOWN TO
THIS MOST HOLY SACRAMENT
There is, therefore, no room for doubt that all the faithful of
Christ may, in accordance with a custom always received in the
Catholic Church, give to this most holy sacrament in veneration the
worship of latria, which is due to the true God.
Source: The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent,
Translated and introduced by Rev. H. J. Schroeder, O.P., Published by
Tan Books and Publishers,
INC., Rockford Illinois, 61105, © 1978, ISBN: 0-89555-074-1, page 76.
Here is the Thirteenth
Session of Trent online. See Chapter V.
Dominicae
Cenae - On the Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist, promulgated
by John Paul II On February 24, 1980 To All the Bishops of the Church.
Conclusion
So the Catholic Church describes itself officially in the new Vatican
Catechism, council decrees, and papal encyclicals as engaged in the act
of worshipping the Eucharist, which is also called
adoration or veneration. Isn't it amazing how the Catholic Church
justifies bowing down before images of the sun, as depicted by the
monstrance and a round wafer, by claiming the bread has actually become
God! God's commandment is cleverly made of no effect by the Traditions
of men, by mixing error and truth.
Note these 100 Lire coins issued by the Vatican for nearly 10 years.
(Click on a coin for a closer look.)
Pope Pius the 12th - 1958 |
Pope John the 23rd - 1959 |
| CITTÁ DEL VATICANO - CITY OF
PROPHECY |
Pope Paul the 6th - 1963 |
Incredibly enough, the woman representing faith (the Catholic Church)
on the reverse side of the coins holds up a cup in her right hand, in
which you see pagan sunburst wafer god, which recalls these verses in
Revelation:
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her
fornication:
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
The cup of wine of the apostate woman (church) represents spiritual
and doctrinal fornication, a mixing of truth and error, Christianity and
paganism, which she has taught to the world (made the nations drink).
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
There is only one self-proclaimed "Mother" church, The
Universal (Catholic) Church.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities.
See also:
The
Sun Wheel, the Obelisk and Baal.
The
Sunburst Image, the Queen of Heaven and Baal.
The
Catholic Mass.
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