"Whosoever
possess this Spear and understands the powers it serves holds in his
hands the destiny of the world for good or evil." Old Prophecy.
There
is a legend in Christianity that had once captured the collective
imagination of Christendom but has fallen, like the Christian religion
itself, into decline. All true Christians knew of it and was regarded by
them as proof of both the Providential nature of existence and God's unbounded power and ineffable wisdom. The legend is that of the Holy Lance also known as the Spear of Destiny.
In the Gospel according to John the Apostle immediately after the Jesus' death "… one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water" (19:34). This act both sanctified the weapon and elevated the soldier who wielded it to a great Christian hero.
The
commonly held view of this curious event is this. Ancient Rome employed
crucifixion as a humiliating form of punishment and execution for
barbarians, slaves and people considered beneath the dignity of Roman
citizenship. Thus, a Roman citizen was never crucified no matter what
the offence. Crucifixion was a very slow and agonising death and its
victims often languished in agony on the cross for several days.
However, death could be quickened by breaking the legs (a practice known
as crurifragium) so that the victim could no longer push up with their feet for gasps of air.
The
Romans thus planned to break Jesus' legs, which was a routine method of
hastening death during a crucifixion. Hence, as evening approached they
planned to perform this gruesome task upon the three dying bodies
pinned to the crosses at Calvary. The Roman soldiers duly broke the legs
of the two thieves crucified alongside Jesus Christ.
"Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him" (John 19:32)
However, when they reached Jesus, they realised that Jesus was already dead and that there was no reason to break his legs.
"But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs" (John 19:32)
To prove that He was dead, a Roman Centurion named in extra-Biblical tradition as Caius Cassius Longinus stabbed Him in the side with a spear out of which poured blood and water.
Such is the common view of one of the most curious events occurring at the Cross at Calvary. However, as most things associated with the Mystery of Golgotha, this event has far, far more significance than that accorded it in the familiar version.
The
Roman Catholic interpretation of this event is that the gushing blood
and water represents their Roman Church (more specifically, the
sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist), just as Eve was taken from the
side of Adam. However, the orthodox Christian view (employing an
allegorical interpretation) is now this: that the Roman Centurion used a
spear and pierced Jesus' right side out of compassion to Jesus Christ,
and also to determine whether He was dead. By doing this, the soldier
followed the dictates of divine Providence. His act of spite tempered
with compassion acted to remove any doubt that He had really died, and
was not taken down alive from the cross. Thus, when the spear pierced
Messiah's side proving physical death there could be no doubt of the
truth of the Resurrection, when He appeared alive again.
The
flowing water and blood can also signify two mystical events: the act
of baptism and the Lord's Supper. Both are of Christ's appointing, both
arise from Him, and both refer to His sufferings and death. The blood
and water that flowed from the pierced side of the Redeemer also
signifies the two great benefits all believers partake of through
Christ: the blessings of sanctification and justification. The grace of
the "sanctification" represented by the water, as it frequently is in Scripture and the "justification"
by the blood: the water for purification, the blood for atonement, and
both from Christ. The great sacrifice of Christ, of Christ crucified,
humanity owes merit for its justification, and Spirit and grace for its
sanctification. That is, there came both water and blood out of Jesus'
pierced side, both to justify and sanctify all those who believe in Him.
The orthodox Christian view of the most curious event occurring at the Cross at Calvary
is thus that by mans' sins the Son of God sacrificed Himself and shed
from His wounded side both water and blood, that all who believe might
be justified and sanctified in His name. Furthermore, that Longinus' act
of compassion ensured Scripture was fulfilled by not allowing His legs to be broken:
"He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken" (Psalms 34:20).
The
early Christian community at Jerusalem understood that because Jesus'
bones had not been broken and His side was pierced as further proofs
that He was who He said He was; the Messiah prophesied in Scripture by the Old Testament prophets: That the Messiah shall be pierced and His bones shall not be broken.
The
Centurion's spear had made such a wound no human body could survive.
However, that the Apostle John so solemnly attested to the act hints at
something peculiar, something supernatural in it, something of great
historical significance. Hence, the reason why the early Christians
understood the Spear used at the Crucifixion to wound the side of Christ
to be a holy relic possessed of phenomenal talismanic power.
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"Then Longinus, a certain soldier, taking a spear, pierced his side, and presently there came forth blood and water" (Nicodemus 7:8). The
apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus is a duplicate composition in two parts,
which are The Acts of Pilate and The Descent of Christ to the Lower
World. The author is unknown but was obviously a Jewish Christian of the
first century AD since he wrote for this class and was anxious to
establish his authority by providing evidence from the mouths of the
enemies of Jesus Christ, and especially, those of the Sanhedrin
connected with the events before and after the death of Jesus.
Although the Gospel of John
does not name the soldier who pierced Christ's side it is given in the
oldest known references to the legend. These references are in the
apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century called Acts of Pilate.
Here, the soldier is identified as a Roman Centurion called Logginus or
Longinus. The name also appears on a miniature in the so-called Rabula
Gospels produced in AD 586 and conserved in the Laurentian Library,
Florence. In the miniature, the name "Loginos" is written in Greek above the head of the soldier who is thrusting his lance into Christ's side.
Gaius
Cassius, later called Longinus, was nearly blind due to cataracts in
both eyes, which affected his usefulness as an active soldier.
Therefore, he was assigned less arduous duties including reporting upon
the political and religious scene in Jerusalem and observing the
crucifixion of Rome's enemies. It was in this capacity that for two
years he followed the activities of one Jesus from Nazareth. A man who
declared himself Messiah and by that appeared to cause such unrest it
threatened the power of Rome in Palestine. It was also the reason why he
attended the Crucifixion as witness to the execution of one of Rome's
enemies.
However, as the aged, almost
blind veteran soldier watched the unfolding scene he, like the
Legionnaires carrying out the execution of "the Nazarene,"
was deeply impressed by the courage, majesty and bearing of the man who
declared himself Messiah. Such that when the Temple Guard began to
carry out its gruesome task, and the Legionnaires turned away in
disgust, the aged soldier stood witness as the bodies and bones of the
two thieves, Gestas and Dismas nailed to the crosses on either side of
Jesus Christ, were shattered. The aged warrior was repelled by what he
saw and was so touched by Jesus' great humility and courage he was
suddenly seized by a compulsion to protect the body of the Nazarene.
Thus,
as the Temple Guard readied to break the bones of Jesus Christ the old
soldier reined his horse and charged towards the high central cross.
Bursting through the group, he snatched the Captain's symbol of
authority, the Spear of Antipas, and thrust it into the right side of
Jesus Christ. The spear point pierced the chest between the fourth and
fifth ribs. The old warrior had done what was the custom of Roman
soldiers on the field of battle when they sought to determine that a
wounded enemy was truly dead. He stabbed Christ's body between the
fourth and fifth ribs: for the blood does not flow from a dead, lifeless
body. Yet, "forthwith came there out blood and water" (19:34).
When Gaius Cassius carried out his magnificent part that Fate
allotted him to perfection his blindness was miraculously cured after
he thrust the Spear into the side of Christ and some of the redemptive
blood fell into his eyes. It was then he exclaimed: "Truly this man was the Son of God" (Mark 15:39).
Gaius
Cassius, the old Roman Centurion who carried out a martial deed out of
great and sudden compassion to protect Jesus Christ's body, was
converted to Christianity and became known as Longinus the Spearman.
Moreover, within Jerusalem's first Christian community he became a great
hero and revered as almost a saint. For, he was both witness and prime
actor in the shedding of the Blood of the New Covenant and the
Spear, the ancient lance forged by Phineas, became its symbol. Further,
and most significant, it was said that for a brief moment in Time he had
held the destiny of the whole of mankind in his hands.
Gaius
Cassius, later called Longinus, the Roman Centurion who used a Spear to
pierce the side of Christ as He hung on the cross later become an early
convert to Christianity. His seemingly rash act, motivated by a sudden
compassion for the suffering Nazarene, played a crucial role in the
completion of ancient prophecy as well as the consummation of mythology.
For, the Spear wielded by Longinus, bathed in the blood of the Lamb
played a significant role in the fulfilment of Old Testament
prophecy. Consequently, the Spear bathed in Messiah's divine-human blood
was believed by early Christians to have acquired tremendous mystical
power as the healing of Gaius Cassius's failing eyesight by blood from
the wound gives clarion testament.
The
Spear, in which one of the nails from the Cross was later embedded,
became one of the greatest treasures of Christendom. The remarkable
history of the lance and its singular use at Golgotha nurtured a unique
legend, which gained strength in the subsequent centuries. Especially,
the idea that whoever possessed it and understood the powers it served
held the destiny of the world in his hands for Good or Evil. That is, the idea that the Spear was a great, mystic talisman of World-Historic Destiny and so was verily the Spear of Destiny.
Hagiography associated with the Legend of Longinus, especially the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus,
fleshes out the brief mentions of him in the synoptic Gospels. It tells
of how Longinus received a spear (supposedly used by him at Golgotha)
as a gift from his grandfather, whom had received it from Julius Caesar
(100-44 BC) the conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy. Caesar's gift to
Longinus' grandfather was for his outstanding military service in the
conquest of Gaul.
The Legend of Longinus
tells how he become an early convert, left the army and studied under
the Apostles, and ultimately became a cleric in the First Church,
ministering at Caesarea in Cappodocia.
Longinus, because of his new faith, soon conflicted with Roman law and Jewish religious authority ("the Jews")
and was involved with yet another miraculous cure. The legend records
how the authorities arrested and tortured him by pulling all his teeth
from his mouth and cutting off his tongue. However, despite these
tortures, Longinus continued to speak clearly. He then, as the Roman
governor watched, picked up an axe, smashed several pagan idols, and as
these symbols shattered, the demons that had resided in them attacked
the governor, depriving him of his sight and driving him mad.
The
hagiography then gives account of another miraculous healing involving
Longinus. The legend tells of how the centurion-turned-cleric told the
distraught governor he would regain his sight immediately upon his
(Longinus) death. Therefore, not unnaturally, the governor ordered
Longinus' immediate death. Longinus was beheaded but some of his blood
splashed into the governor's eyes, restoring his sight; a miracle
representing a faint echo of the Mystery at Golgotha. The hagiography associated with the Legend of Longinus
ends with this miracle involving the governor, who soon converted to
the Christian faith. Relics and antiquities said to be associated with
Gaius Cassius, later called Longinus, now known as "St Longinus,"
are kept in the church of St Augustine in Rome. The Catholic Church
celebrates the feast of Longinus on the Ides of March, the March 15,
which is the date his namesake, Gaius Cassius Longinus the Roman
Senator, instigated the assassination of Julius Cesar.
The
Spear used by Longinus, seemingly in a spontaneous act born of a sudden
compassion, at the most critical point in human history has garnered
not only great mystical powers but also various names. It is variously
called the Spear of Longinus, the Lance of Longinus, the Holy Spear, the Holy Lance (the Heilige Lance), the Spear of Christ and the Spear of Destiny.
The
fateful Spear that pierce the side of Christ as He hung on the cross
subsequently passed through a multitude of hands, eventually becoming
the possession of certain medieval kings. These kings and their
immediate circle helped greatly to shape and mould Europe
in ways that would prepare the way for the consummation of History
itself. However, as Christendom suffered ceaseless and remorseless
assault by the Powers of Darkness, the Christian religion became riven with internal dissent, and the individual sunk ever deeper in the miasma of materialism, the significance of Longinus's act, and of the Spear, and of the Legend of Longinus became devalued and almost lost.
The Powers of Darkness, the true Lords of Power on Earth, have worked to bring the Ahrimanic Deception
to its fullest expression at the very time it would be its most potent.
They have largely succeeded such that today at the most fateful and
terrible times in human history, a time when wisdom and understanding is
most needed, the vast majority are rendered ignorant and blind. The Lords of Power on Earth, who are verily the Masters of Illusion, seek to blind the masses to the dark agendas unfolding in the Arena of History
and lull them into a false sense of security. They seek to swathe a
veil of secrecy over their wicked activities so that the public cannot
comprehend the enormity of the Evil involved. In other words, the Masters of Illusion use the Ahrimanic Deception
to veil Truth and Wisdom and foist spiritual deceptions upon humanity.
That is, weave a web of subtle deceits and delusions that trap the
unwary in the superficialities and distractions of corrupt civilisation
thereby making them indolent and oblivious to their pitiful condition.
The Ahrimanic Deception
is vast and its effects truly enormous. It operates throughout all and
every level of human society and organisation and in certain aspects of
the human psyche and soul in all mortal men. It is one of the main
mechanisms used by the hierarchies of Evil to usurp creation, that is,
the wholesale corruption of man. This is the fallen human condition
personified in the tragic figure of Judas Iscariot who during the Mystery of Golgotha became possessed by a certain Evil. The Grail Knights in the Holy Grail Sagas called the personification of this type of Evil, Klingsor: the Ancient Persians called it Ahriman while the Christians called it Satan.
Another telling example of the Ahrimanic Deception
is how the great significance of Longinus' act has been concealed. How
the common view, the orthodox Christian view, of one of the most curious
events occurring at the Cross at Calvary has removed its most
significant components. Recognition of these most significant components
is the reason why the Spear that pierced the side of Jesus Christ is
also called the Spear of Phineas.
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The
Spear of Longinus is the ancient, mystical lance used by the Roman
Centurion Caius Cassius Longinus to pierce the side of Christ on the
cross to prevent the mutilation intended for Him by the human agents of Evil. It is a great talisman that is also known as the Holy Spear, the Holy Lance and the Spear of Christ. It is also called the Spear of Destiny and because of this, the Spear of Phineas.
The first Christians knew (as did their spiritual enemies) that the Messianic Inheritance would have been thwarted if the bones of Christ had been shattered contrary to the mysterious prophecy of Isaiah that "a bone of him shall not be broken" and another scripture "They shall look on him whom they pierced" (John 19:36-37).
During His Earthly Ministry, Organised Evil continually confronted Jesus Christ. The human agents of Evil who orchestrated this opposition sat in the Sanhedrin and were influential members in the Sadducee and Pharisee cults.
The most obvious were, of course, Annas and Caiaphas, the aged advisor
to the Sanhedrin and the high priest of the Temple, who were the
spiritual leaders of "the Jews." These two men were the public face of Organised Evil that sought to extinguish the Christ Impulse at its birth by thwarting the consummation of the Passion of Christ.
To do this they knew they had to prove to the masses that Jesus Christ
was not the Messiah and was merely a heretic and potential usurper of
their (the Sadducees and the Pharisees) power. They also knew that the simple expedient to achieve this was the mutilation of Christ's body on the Cross at Calvary and thus the denying of prophecy.
As the chief human agents of Evil, Annas, Caiaphas and other Jewish leaders also understood that the Messianic Inheritance
would be thwarted if the bones of Christ had been shattered contrary to
the mysterious prophecy of Isaiah. Consequently, they conspired to have
Jesus' body mutilated.
As the great drama unfolded and the hours passed Annas, who was an authority on Jewish Law, knew that "the Law"
decreed that no man should be executed on the Sabbath Day (i.e.
Saturday). It was a Friday afternoon (5th April 33 AD) and evening
approached as the leaders of "the Jews"
petitioned the Roman procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate for the
authority to break the legs of the crucified men so that they would die
before dusk. Thus, we read:
"The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away" (John 19:31).
The Ahrimanically-inspired conspirators who had engineered the Crucifixion also contrived to pre-empt the Messianic Inheritance
by mutilating the body of Jesus Christ. They thought they could do this
by convincing Pontius Pilate that since the next day was not only the
Sabbath, but also a very special Sabbath because it was the Passover, it
would be blasphemous to have bodies still pinned to crosses. Thus, they
told Pilate, they did not want the victims hanging there the next day,
which to them, "the Jews,"
was a very holy day and asked him to hasten their deaths by ordering
that their legs be broken so that their bodies could be taken down.
Governor Pilate granted their wish and ordered the ritual breaking of
legs.
The Captain of the Temple
guard, under orders from his high priests, proceeded up the hill, which
in Hebrew is called Golgotha, on whose summit were the three crosses
upon which hung Jesus and the two thieves. He carried with him a certain
Spear as symbol of his authority to oversee the mutilation of Jesus'
body. As the gruesome ritual began, the Roman soldiers turned away as
the Temple guards broke the legs of the two thieves. Then as they
readied themselves to break Jesus' legs, the Roman Centurion observing
the crucifixions suddenly snatched the Spear from the grip of the
Captain of the Temple guard and plunged it into the side of Christ. An
act by which the pagan Roman Centurion unwittingly fulfilled the
prophecy of Ezekiel: "They shall look upon Him whom they have pierced" (Zech. 12:10).
The Roman Centurion's seemingly rash act, motivated by a sudden, overwhelming compassion, had thwarted the dark ambition of "the Jews" who had sought to deny both Christ's divinity and his Messianic Inheritance.
The Roman Centurion's martial act had not only frustrated the high
priests' plan to pre-empt ancient prophecy by breaking Jesus' bones but
also it had, with the piercing of Messiah's side, fulfilled prophecy and
consummated mythology in its entirety.
The
Spear wielded by Longinus, which became bathed in the divine-human
blood of the Lamb, was seized from Captain of the Temple guard. That is,
it was not an ordinary Roman spear or indeed an ordinary weapon since
it was brandished as a symbol of great authority. The spear held by the
Captain of the Temple guard as symbol of his authority was a very
ancient weapon. It was at the time the Spear of Herod Antipas, King of
the Jews, and used at Calvary as symbol of the Captain of the Temple
guard's authority to carry out the act of mutilation. If he did not have
the Spear, the Legionnaires would not have allowed him to perform crurifragium: the ritual breaking of legs.
The
Spear of Herod Antipas was an ancient lance of great talismanic power
and prime symbol of authority. Antipas' father Herod the Great, the King
of Judaea, held the Spear as insignia of his power to order the death
of all children under age two in Bethlehem in an attempt to slay the
Christ child, who it was prophesied would grow up and be called the "King of the Jews."
Therefore, it was the very same Spear carried by the Captain of the
Temple guard on behalf of Herod the Great's son as symbol of his
authority to break the bones of Jesus Christ.
The Spear used by the Edomite kings (the two Herods calling themselves the "Kings of Judaea")
for evil purposes was an ancient lance, which had been used as a
magical talisman of power since its conception. It was the Spear Joshua
raised when he signalled to his soldiers to shout the great shout, which
crumbled the walls of Jericho (Josh. 6). Moreover, it was the very same
javelin Saul, the first King of the Israelites, used in jealous rage in
his attempt to kill David (1 Sam. 19:9-10).
The Spear used by its possessors at fateful times for either good or evil, and used by Longinus for infinite good at the Cross at Calvary, was a talisman of power from the beginning. It was from its very inception a talisman of World-Historic Destiny.
For, the ancient Hebrew prophet Phineas had ordered the Spear forged as
symbol of the magical powers inherent in the blood of the Israelites
who were verily "God's Chosen People."
Phineas (or Phinehas: meaning "bold aspect," "face of trust" or "protection")
was the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron and an ancestor of Ezra.
He was chief of the Korahite Levites (1 Chron. 9:20), and succeeded his
father as high priest and while he was in that office it was he who
delivered the oracle's decision to fight Benjamin that precipitated the
civil war with the Benjaminites (Judges 20:28).
To the modern man drenched in materialism whose thoughts and opinions are fashioned by the Thought Tyranny of Politically Correctness,
Phineas would be considered a zealot and bigot. They would judge his
passion and intense religious feeling as pietism at best, barbarism at
worst. They would look to his leading part in the cleansing of Israel
from whoredom at Shittim and his punishment of the brazen licentiousness
of Zimri, prince of Sirecon, by slaying both him and the Midianite
woman he had brought into camp as acts of extreme bigotry (Num.
25:6-18). Moreover, these modern minds emptied of all inspired thought
would also condemn Phineas's god, Yahweh
for not only condoning these acts of barbarism but also by rewarding
them by giving Phineas a covenant of peace, an everlasting priesthood
(Num. 25; Psalm. 106:30-31).
The
modern mind drained of the last vestige of spiritual sight cannot see
that in such acts by such men Divine Will is made manifest on Earth.
That when Phineas, in old age, stood before the Ark of the Covenant and
inquired of Yahweh for Israel, "shall I go yet again ... against Benjamin my brother?"
(Judges 20:23; 28) he was the representative of the purity and
brotherhood of Israel. Such mundane minds cannot comprehend that his
zeal in protecting the precious blood of "God's Chosen People"
served a high and noble purpose. That the same zeal for the purity and
brotherhood of Israel, held by him in old age as it had in his youth,
served Divine Will. That it served to preserve the special blood of the Israelites, but especially the Judahites,
so that it would eventually course through the veins of a body that
would be the earthly vessel of the cosmic Christ. That is, Phineas was a
major influence in the successful completion of the Yahweh's Eugenic Imperative to provide the perfect human body for the Incarnation of Christ.
Phineas ordered the Spear forged to symbolise the magical powers inherent in the blood, a bloodline free of Luciferic contamination, of God's Chosen People, but especially the Judahites - the people who were destined through descending generations of their blood to prepare the ideal human body for the coming Messiah.
The symbol
of the Israelite's purity of blood was thus the spear Phineas, under
divine guidance, had forged. The same spear brandished by the Captain of
the Temple guard on Golgotha and the same spear snatched by Longinus
who plunged it into Christ's side. Phineas had used it to slay an
Israelite and a Midianite who had fornicated together and so threatened
the purity of the precious Hebrew blood (Num. 25:6-18). Thus, by this
act the spear became symbol of the purity of the blood of God's Chosen People.
The
spear forged by Phineas was from its beginning a symbol of the purity
of a special blood –the blood of the Israelites, but especially the Judahites. He used it to slay an Israelite and a Midianite who had laid together, an act of apparent hate but in truth, a high symbol of Yahweh's Eugenic Imperative to ensure blood purity such that the Judahites could provide the perfect human body for the Incarnation of Christ.
However, since Good and Evil motives existed together in this act, the
Spear took on a dual nature: that is, its mystic powers could be used by
those who understood for both Good and Evil.
A hint of this Manichean duality
is given in the episode before the Apostle Paul's conversion. Here the
Pharisee and persecutor of early Christians (whose circumcision-name was
Saul, a native of Tarsus and a Roman citizen) alludes to the story of
Phineas. Saul, on the road to Damascus and before his conversion and
becoming Paul, alludes to this story of apparent violence and hate when
speaking of his hatred of Jesus and the vehemence of his persecution of
the Early Church. As far as Saul was concerned, "the Jews"
who followed Jesus Christ were abandoning the religion of their fathers
and should suffer the fate of the licentiousness of Zimri, prince of
Sirecon (Num. 25:6-18).
The first
Christians understood that if Evil (represented by Caiaphas and his
cohorts) had succeeded in breaking the bones of Jesus Christ the Resurrection,
as we know it, could not have been accomplished. Consequently, the
Roman Centurion who had been seized by the momentous moment and snatched
the Spear from the grip of the Captain of the Temple guard who carried
it as symbol of his authority to oversee the mutilation of Jesus' body,
had for a moment in time held the destiny of the whole of mankind in his
hands. It was for this reason that the ancient lance, forged by the
prophet Phineas as symbol of the magical powers inherent in the blood of
"God's Chosen People," became known as the Holy Lance and later the Spear of Destiny.
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The
ancient Hebrew prophet Phineas had ordered a lance made, which
centuries later pierced Jesus' side and became known as the Holy Lance,
as a talisman of the Yahweh Covenant and its inherent Eugenic Imperative.
That is, he had the lance made as a magical symbol of the mystical
process inherent in the blood of the Israelites chosen by Yahweh as the
people destined to prepare the perfect human body as the perfect vessel for the Incarnation of Christ
- which occurred when the thirty year old Jesus, the perfect human
vessel, was baptised in the River Jordan by John the Baptist (Matt.
3:13). When "the heavens were opened unto him" and he received the "Spirit of God" that descended "like a dove, and lighting upon him" (Matt. 3:16) and when "a voice from heaven" declared "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17). That is, the fateful time when the human Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph, became the divine-human Jesus Christ the true and only Saviour of men.
An epochal event to which John the Baptist give testimony:
"I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him [Jesus]. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God" (John 1:32-34).
Phineas' lance was a vital symbol that represented the Yahweh Imperative: that a people were destined through descending generations of their blood to prepare the perfect human body for the coming Messiah. It was a divine mandate of unfathomable wisdom beyond the ken of all mortal men. Nevertheless, the Yahweh Covenant represented a concrete example of the sublime working of Providence and the ineffable means that is the unfolding of human destiny in the historical process.
Phineas' lance, the Spear of Phineas, which became known as the Holy Lance and later the Spear of Destiny, was a talisman of great spiritual power ever since it was forged as the magical symbol of the blood of God's Chosen People.
Yet, however great its magical powers were at its inception they were
made infinitely more powerful after Longinus used it at Golgotha. Once
it had pierced Jesus Christ's side, it was instantly changed into the
most important resonator of human spiritual faculties. The crucial role
the lance played in the singular and mighty ritual of the Crucifixion had made it one of the most powerful magical talismans possessed by mortal man.
Phineas' lance forged as the magical symbol of the blood of God's Chosen People became known as the Spear of Destiny
after it was used to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross and draw
forth Messiah's own divine-human blood. The mysterious life-blood that
as soon as it splashed onto the ground beneath the cross had began the
mysterious process that heralded a new phase in human evolution.
Longinus
had not only used the Spear to thwart the Temple guards' dark ambition
to mutilate Messiah's body but had also caused the release of Christ's
blood that brought about the birth of the Cosmic Christ as the Earth Spirit. This slow descent of the Cosmic Christ from the highest celestial spheres and His becoming the Spirit of the Earth was the main concern of ancient mythology and part of the many great and weighty matters that is the Mystery of Golgotha.
The
instant the side of the divine-human called Jesus Christ was pierced
the sun darkened, the skies dimmed, the earth quaked. In the Temple
where Annas and Caiaphas eagerly awaited news of Messiah's mutilation
the Veil of the "Holy of Holies" in the Temple was rent from top to bottom (Matt. 27:51). As the veil of the Temple fell aside it exposed the black cube of the Old Covenant –the Yahweh Covenant- which at this most momentous time split along its sides and opened out in the form of a cross.
What had happened was this. Phineas's ancient lance, magical symbol of the blood of God's Chosen People, of the Israelites but especially the Judahites,
and used by Longinus to pierce Jesus Christ's side had become the
catalyst of momentous change in human history. Phineas's ancient lance
was not only a talisman of great spiritual power and symbol of the Yahweh Covenant but by Longinus' fateful use of it at the Cross at Calvary
it had become the most potent and important resonator of human
spiritual faculties. Moreover, it had now become a mystic catalyst that
had ended the imageless cult of Yahweh: a mystic catalyst that helped
complete the transition from the Yahweh Moon Phase to the Sun Phase of Christ.
That is, not only was the imageless cult of Yahweh ended but also
mythology in its entirety was consummated and the religion of the Open Heavens had begun.
The veiled mystery of the Old Covenant
with Yahweh (represented by the relationship between Yahweh and His
great prophet Moses) had exhausted itself. It has lost its vitality,
validity and power. With its great, fateful task completed, its
relevance had also ended. For now, a New Covenant
had superseded it and a new God had come to offer guidance and hope of
salvation to all of mankind. A new perspective presented itself to
humans, a new vista in the destiny of humanity had opened the heavens to
all mankind, and a new form of Christian initiation had been born: the Christianity of the Holy Grail.
The first man to publicly declare the new intuition of the Holy Grail was an old hermit living in a cave in the penal colony of Patmos and who wrote the last book of the Holy Bible. This, of course, was John the Apostle the author, under divine guidance, of the Book of Revelation, which the Catholics call Apocalypse.
Like
all magical talismans, any discerning, willing and dedicated pupil who
seeks them out can also develop the powers associated with the Spear of Destiny.
Moreover, like all things in created Cosmos there is also a polarity
inherent within these powers, a duality, if you will. Therefore, there
is a polarity inherent in the powers of the Spear of Destiny. Such that
those who attempt to harness the Spear's absolute power can do so in the
service of both Good and Evil. Hence, the legend that has gained
strength with the passing centuries that says that whoever possesses the
Spear and understands the powers it serves has the destiny of the world
in his hands for Good or Evil. Just as had Centurion Longinus at the Cross at Calvary who for a moment in time held the destiny of the whole of mankind in his hands.
That is, those who understand the powers involved, and become active participants, are transformed into World-Historic figures whose lives represent a World-Historic Destiny. Such
towering figures in whose lives the fates of entire nations are
resolved are few in number. The great German philosopher Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) described such men as World-Historic-Heroes "who carry out the Will of the World Spirit, the very plan of Providence … World-Historic men –Heroes of the Epoch- [whose] deeds are the best of their time."
World-Historic-Heroes argued Hegel, cannot and should not be judged by mundane intellects or impeded by ordinary concerns. World-Historic-Heroes are not constrained by bourgeois morality or concerned with Christian principles:
"World history occupies a higher ground than one on which morality has properly its position, which is personal character and conscience of individuals. Moral claims which are irrelevant must not be brought into collision with world-historic deeds and their accomplishment. The litany of private virtues –modesty, humility, philanthropy and forbearance- must not be raised against them."
Put differently, Hegel's philosophy became drained of all morality when discussing the subject of World-Historic-Heroes. Hegel, the genius of Idealism, taught that World-Historic men, the Heroes of the Epoch,
are completely justified in all their actions. Moreover, that they are
far above censure or condemnation when they carry out such acts, even if
these acts contravene all moral and ethical standards, which fulfil
their personal destiny, and by that, World Destiny. Thus, World-Historic-Heroes who carry out World-Historic Deeds are justified in crushing all opposition to their actions or their Will.
It is, of course, a very persuasive and seductive variation of the
age-old argument used by tyrants and despots throughout history and a
precept of the Dark Empire of Secret Societies: that the end justifies the means.
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A Legend of World-Historic Destiny
arose around the Spear used by the Roman Centurion Caius Cassius
Longinus to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross at Calvary. This
legend give purpose and meaning to Christians in the early centuries but
its influence has waned in the last 500 years such that very few
understood the deep significance of the Spear in mankind's destiny. That
is, the fading collective memory of Christendom concerning the Lance
that pierced Christ's side, which had been associated with a Legend of World Destiny throughout its entire history.
However,
two men understood: one was Napoleon the other was Adolf Hitler. These
two men sought to bring the world under their direct control. They were
possessed of the same dark spirit that will take full possession of the
soul of the man who will be the World Dictator in the coming New World Order. In this context, the Napoleon and Hitler and their vaunting ambitions of conquest are precursors to the coming World Tyranny of the New World Order.
Thus, these two would-be World Dictators
knew of, and understood, the legend associated with the Holy Lance, the
ancient lance forged by Phineas, that whoever possessed it would be
able to conquer the world. For, these two tyrants understood that the Legend of World History, of World-Historic Destiny,
associated with the Spear had been fulfilled, century after century,
for good or evil, depending upon the inner motives of the man who
possessed it.
Napoleon demanded the
Holy Lance after the Battle of Austerlitz when he defeated the Russian
armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis
II. His ambition was thwarted when it was smuggled out of Nuremberg
before the start of the fight by an occult order called the Germenenorder.
Hitler
succeeded in taking possession of the Holy Lance and claimed it as his
own when he annexed Austria. When he was received in Vienna as a
conquering hero on 12th March 1938 and took possession of the Spear;
ordering it removed from the Hofburg Museum and sent to the St
Catherine's Church in the city of Nuremberg, the spiritual capital of
Nazi Germany.
The Spear of Phineas, which became known as the Holy Lance and the Spear of Destiny, seemed to have disappeared from history after its fateful use by Longinus when he used it to pierce Christ's side at the Crucifixion.
The
earliest mentioned of it is by a pilgrim, Antoninus of Piancenza, who
in AD 570 visited the Holy Land and the holy places of Jerusalem, who
tells us that in the basilica of Mount Zion he saw: "the crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side."
Next, it appears in a miniature of the famous Syriac manuscript
illuminated by one Rabulas in the year AD 586, in which the incident of
the opening of Christ's side is given prominence.
The
Spear that pierced Christ's side was thus supposedly located and
venerated at Jerusalem at the close of the sixth century, and its
presence there is attested by Cassiodorus (c.485-c.585)
and after him by Gregory of Tours (c.538-94). However, the sacred relics
of the Passion fell into the hands of the pagans when in AD 615, the
Persian King Chosroes captured Jerusalem. It was during this time that
the supposed Spear of Phineas was broken and the point of the lance
separated from the shaft. It is at this time that the identity of the
Spear becomes even more confused. The Spear seems to disappear from view
and then later several spears reappear with seemingly genuine claims to
be the Spear that pierced Messiah's side.
Thus,
the apparent disappearance from history and consequent confusion has
give rise to several spearheads scattered throughout Europe in palaces,
cathedrals, churches and museums being called the "Holy Lance." The most prominent are the Vatican Lance, the Vienna Lance, the Cracow Lance and the Echmiadzin Lance. Although all have a colourful history, and some appear legitimate, there can only be one true Holy Lance.
A
spear exists that is traceable to at least the third century AD. It was
a spear that was the treasured possession of Saxon Kings before it
became the millennium-long symbol of power to the Holy Roman Emperors.
This is the so-called Vienna Lance, the lance belonging to the Holy
Roman Emperors and attested from the time of Otto I (912-73), and which
has a very singular and unique history indeed.
The so-called Vienna Lance (also called the Lance of St Maurice, the Holy Lance of Hapsburg and the Hofburg Spear) is preserved among the Reichkleinodien (Imperial Regalia) of the house of Hapsburg at the Treasure House (Schatzkammer)
of the Hofburg museum in Vienna. The spearhead consists of two parts
held together by a silver sheath. A nail has been inserted into the
blade and held in place by gold, copper and silver threads. The
enshrined nail is purported to be one of the nails of the Crucifixion that St Helena was reputed to have found at Calvary and brought to Milan. A silver band with the inscription "Nail of Our Lord" was later added based on the belief that this was the lance of Constantine the Great, which enshrined the nail used for the Crucifixion found by Helena, his mother.
Around 1350, by order of Charles IV, a golden sleeve inscribed with "Lancea et clavus Domini" ("Lance and nail of the Lord") was put over the silver one. The base of the spearhead is embossed with gold crosses.
According
to sceptics, the Vienna Lance has no greater claim to authenticity than
any of the other spearheads claiming to be the Holy Lance, even though
Napoleon and Hitler were firmly convinced that it had. The Proper Student of History who understands the way of the world and who carries out his own research concludes that the two would-be World Dictators are correct.
The
earliest record of the Holy Lance of Hapsburg was supposedly in 1273 AD
in the coronation ceremony of the Emperor of the West, the King of the
Germans and Holy Roman Emperor. However, its history is far, far older
than this.
The first mention of the Vienna Lance, the Hofburg Spear, is in the Saxon Chronicles
when it is the prized possession of Otto the Great, who carried it as a
talisman in the battle of Lech when his army defeated the Mongol horde.
It was mentioned again when Pope John XII used it to bless Otto,
touching his shoulder with it in a holy rite to establish Otto's claim
to be Holy Roman Emperor.
Although
the history of the Vienna Lance, the Hofburg Spear, appears sketchy and
incomplete, the diligent researcher can uncover a clear path back to its
creation by Phineas,
the ancient Hebrew prophet. Moreover, such diligent research would also
reveal the illustrious lives and powerful personalities involved with
the Spear as well as the dynasties of power who possessed it and used
its occult powers for Good or Evil. In other words, such research will
reveal that throughout the centuries the Legend of World-Historic Destiny of the Spear had been fulfilled for Good or Evil depending upon the inner motives of those who possessed the Spear.
The
diligent researcher will find that the Spear has changed hands from man
to man, from generation to generation, in a long chain of claimants who
held it with ever changing motives. They will also discover that it is
intimately associated with a particular family, a bloodline possessed of
innate clairvoyant powers, which because of this, is called the Grail Family.
The
diligent researcher will also discover how the mystical talisman was
used to satisfy both selfless and selfish acts. However, above all, they
will find that the passage of the Spear is intimately associated with
men, world-historic figures who Hegel called World-Historic-Heroes, the Heroes of the Epoch, involved in World-Historic events of World-Historic significance.
In other words, the alert researcher will sense that the Spear was the very pivot of World History.
Moreover, that the Spear somehow represents a great mystery. That this
mystery involves the idea that the Spear is a sort of resonator of
mystical power, which greatly influenced the men who possess it and the
times it passed through.
The sensitive will also sense that as the Holy Lance passed through history it appeared the very pointer of Fate itself. They will sense that the Spear at certain times, and repeatedly, had changed the course of European history and by this, the entire course of world history. Moreover, they will come to understand that the men who laid claim to the Spear, possessed it, and fulfilled its Legend of World-Historic Destiny were verily Heroes of the Epoch.
And to understand such things one must accept the reality of Fate, Providence, Karma, Reincarnation and the Christian concept of Grace.
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