Theological Proposition 2.1

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one.” – Abraham Lincoln, Address at a Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, Maryland, 18 April 1864.

“And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.” – Genesis 30:35, ASV.

An apostle is one who offers both milk and meat. The milky teaching tells us that Christ is our liberator. But the meaty teaching instructs us concerning what kind of liberator Christ is.

A Lament?

Christ calls Cain to virtue, but Cain desires it not. For Cain, virtue is a yoke even less bearable than the yoke of self-love. Cain desires filth. Cain loves filth, and he hates himself for loving filth. Christ says: love one another, and ye have loved the Father. But can Cain love the very one who condemns him for what he cannot help but love? And Cain thinks: the internal battle is between Lupus and Agnus, between wolf and lamb. But the Spirit teaches inwardly: there is no struggle between flesh and spirit, for the covenant between YHWH and Father Cain availeth much. May the Father of lights have mercy upon Cain, whose eyes have let in much darkness.

“Wherefore a lion, a wolf, and a leopard”: Reflections on the Adamic & the Cainite

In the fifth chapter of Jeremiah, the prophet has already spoken of the events passing before our eyes today. In verse 7, he reveals the tripartite unfolding of history.

1) “Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them…” Holy scripture speaks consistently of the lion as possessing a twofold nature: the lion is both the Messiah, the Anointed (the lion of Judah) and the Satan, the Accuser (who walketh about as a roaring lion). In both senses, we can affirm that the son of Adam is destroyed by the ravenous lion. First, uncorrupted Adamic nature (represented by First Adam) is corrupted by the lion-cum-serpent in Eden, ravenous for meaningless destruction. Yet 4,000 years later, corrupted Adamic nature (represented by Second Adam) is reclaimed by the lion-cum-lamb, ravenous to fulfill his Father’s will, on Golgotha.

2) “…and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them…” Yet when the Messiah redeems adamic flesh, he redeems only Adamic, and not Cainite humanity. (Please see our teachings regarding the Cainite covenant, found elsewhere in this journal.) After the lion’s twofold work is finished during this life (i.e., the ordination of both fall and redemption, carried out by YHWH’s two obedient lions), Cainite humanity yet remains, under the determination of Lupus–the wolf. Indeed, during the day Adamic humanity displays its redeemed nature, like the Nicodemus who appeals to the law to justify the savior before the Sanhedrin (John 7:50-51), using its wiles to fulfill all righteousness. Yet during the night, Adamic humanity reverts ineluctably to its lupine nature, like the other Nicodemus, who comes to the savior under the cover of night, that very time when “man loves darkness rather than light, because his deeds are evil” (John 3:19).

3) “…and a leopard shall watch over their cities.” As we’ve seen, scripture has clearly interpreted itself for us in the case of lion and wolf. Yet the meaning of the leopard remains elusive, even to the spiritual reader. (Let the wise reader interpret subtly!) In the book of Isaiah, we are told of three pairs: the lion who lies with the lamb (referring to the peaceful, if strained, coexistence of christos and cain within redeemed humanity); the lion who lies with the fat calf (referring to the congress of the Satan with human communities of unparalleled economic prosperity) ; and the leopard who lies with the young male goat. Much work remains for subtle hearers of the Word to rightly divide this word of truth! We know that the young male goat is primarily used, by the author of scripture, to refer to a peace offering made by an offender to the offended (See esp. Gen 27:9; Gen 38:17-23; Judg 6:19; Judg 13:15-19; Judg 15:1; 1 Sam 10:3; 1 Sam 16:20). But what is the spiritual meaning of this peace offering? Why would the leopard lay down with it? And who is the leopard who comes after the lion and wolf, to “watch over [our] cities”?

Will no one be found worthy to open this scroll and look? (Rev 5:1-5)
(We kindly entreat our readers to help us in rightly dividing this word.)

Behold, I show you a Mystery

Then the voice I had heard from heaven spoke to me again. It said, “Go and listen to the words from the wolf standing on the river and on the steppes. His mouth, it lies open.”

So I went to the wolf and asked him to speak to me those words. He said to me, “Take them and listen. They will become sour in your heart-of-hearts. But in your ears they will taste as sweet as honey.” I then listened to the words from the mouth of the wolf, and I contemplated them. In my ears they tasted as sweet as honey. But when I had contemplated them, they became sour in my heart-of-hearts.

Then I was told, “You must listen again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

Gospel of Thaddeus

From the Gospel of one Thaddeus, called by Goliath as an apostle of Yeshua,
“to the Cretans first, and also to the Parthians.”

As it was written:
Lucifer, slowly-begotten son of the Most High,
born before time, along with the divine Word, his twin.

But who fell from his throne,
dragging down with him a third of all spiritual principles
in a fateful trip to the terrestrial level.

There, they went unto the “daughters of men.”
Indeed, Lucifer went unto Ur-Sarai.
The most comely of all daughters of men.

She lived upon the plain of Zoar.

Ur-Sarai became heavy with child.
But 40 days before the appointed time, the foetus died,
becoming an abortion, a thing abhorrent unto the LORD.

And the people of Zoar cast this abomination outside the city gates,
upon gehenna,
the refuse pile.

Now around this time,
a new race was appointed amongst the sons and daughters of men;
they were called the nephilim.

And, contrary to both nature and law, a young man of the nephilim
–that race produced by the unnatural copulation
of the sons of God and daughters of man–
the strongest man-child of them all,
crawled to the refuse pile, to Gehenna.

And there he feasted upon* the remains of Ur-Sarai’s child.

Although he knew it not it at the time, he ate unto his own magnification,
for this eating brought upon him a mighty spiritual power.

And all the people of Zoar, and the ten cities surrounding it,
were full of fear for this mighty man.
His name was Goliath.

After the LORD separated the nations,
Goliath became a mighty man of Philistia.

One of the books of the Jews contains a tale of the very same Goliath,
during his 1,212th year.

The books of the Jews claim that a mighty king among them slew this Goliath.
But in fact, Goliath was not dead,
but was sleeping.

For on the third day, he arose and fled to the desert.
Goliath wandered the wilderness for countless years.

Because he did not grow old, like a mere mortal,
he remained in the noonday of strength even in his 3,636th year.

In the eighth month of his 3,636th year,
Goliath enlisted in the Roman army which was occupying Judea.

He abandoned his Philistine name,
trading the truth for a falsehood,
and became known throughout Judea as “Pantheros,” the panther.
Pantheros the Centurion terrorized the Jewish people.

The men among the Jews, in particular, hated Pantheros.
But their women cherished him in their hearts,
for he possessed a strength unknown amongst their peoples.

One night Pantheros went unto a young woman named Miriam,
who had been betrothed to Joseph of Nazareth.

And a child was conceived,
and he was named Yeshua bar Pantheros.

Yeshua was a mighty man who performed miraculous signs and wonders.
These works are recorded in the books known as “gospel.”

In his 33rd year, Yeshua was arrested by the Romans, and taken outside the city gates.

There was he crucified, and pierced in the side by his very own father,
Pantheros the Centurion.

The father delighted in the death of his own son,
and gloried in the blood sacrifice thereby produced.

Upon piercing the side of his son, Pantheros exclaimed,
“Truly this is the son of [a] god.”

Yeshua was taken for dead, and cast upon gehenna,
that refuse pile of old.

There his spiritual substance was mingled
with the spiritual substance of that very abortion
conceived by Lucifer and Ur-Sarai,
and which his father, Pantheros the Centurion,
had eaten nearly four millenia before.

After three days of troubled sleep,
the LORD appointed a great earthquake.
and woke Yeshua from his nap.

Leaving gehenna, Goliath was appointed
to wander in the wilderness for forty aeons,
and was thus declared immortal, like his father before him.

As medieval legends developed about this “wandering Jew,”
he became a source of terror to the men, and pleasure to their women.
But one day, Goliath the Centurion will once more slay his son, Yeshua,
in a sacrifice of atonement for the entire world.

* Other mss. read “knew” here.

Lupus-Cain, A Squalid Piece of Shit

The Lord of Lords spoke: “Lupus-Cain, do not taste. Lupus-Cain, do not see. Remain blind, you dog, when you behold worldly forms.”

But Lupus-Cain did not heed the word of the Lord of Lords. Lupus-Cain lifted his eyes unto the hills and desired only to taste that which he saw. And the nose of the Lord burned against Lupus-Cain that day.

The Law, The Warlock, and the Inward Mark

There is a disobedience that is not of the flesh, but of the spirit. This is the rebellion of the intentions of the mind. As the LORD spake through his prophet in condemnation of First Saul, “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,” and internal rebellion indubitably constitutes a form of such abomination.

Let the wise reader attend to the facts. Second Saul was strictly forbade and duly prevented by the Spirit-Dove to visit Spain. And yet the intent of his heart was nonetheless to visit Spain, in open rebellion against the desires of the Spirit-Dove. According to the Word taught by the LORD’s prophet, we must conclude that Second Saul fell into precisely the same form of internal witchcraft as did First Saul, when he first intended to spare Agag, sheep, and oxen.

What then is this, O Nations? Would you heed unto the mad ravings of a Warlock? A male witch? Turn aside from your folly, and be ye faithful unto the Law, which is as a lamp unto your (inward) feet and a light unto your (inner) path. For we must conclude that a true and full spiritual observation of the LORD’s Law is the only thing that will keep the external ragings of Lupus from doing spiritual damage to one’s soul. The Law is a hedge around the inner sanctity of all those who would allow Second Adam fully to redeem First Adam, while fulfilling all righteousness, and respecting the mark of Inner Cain, who has reign over the Outer Man until he wastes away at the Last Day.

The Reality of the Rulers of the Present Day

Because of the reality of the authorities, we write to all who will read. Your inquiry is inspired by the spirit of the lie found first in Cain, the great messenger, who planted the question in your inner-heart. Know one thing: it was not Cain who, referring to the authorities of darkness, told us that ‘our contest is not against flesh and blood, but rather against the authorities of the universe and the spirits of wickedness’ (Eph. 6:12). The one who spoke these words is hidden. We tell you the truth, these powers are present before your very face and you cannot resist them. As with the writers of old, we send you this because you inquire about the reality of the authorities. But you bow down to them while they are in the throes of idiocy. They vomit, then eat their vomit, and you laugh at the authorities.

Their demiurge, Samael (or Sammaelim, for one must remain singular in order to be plural), is blind. Because of his power and his ignorance and his arrogance he said, with his power, ‘I am god; there is no other but me.’ His vomit pours out like honey mixed with sweet wine, and the nations devour it. The nations then heave forth the refuse of Samael, and their mess is Samael’s daily bread.

When he said ‘I am god; there is no other but me,’ he sinned against all. This speech rose up to divine forethought. Then there was a voice that came forth from divine forethought, saying, ‘You are wrong, Samael,’ that is, god of the blind.

A reflection based on “The Reality of Ruler’s: Samael’s Sin,” in The Gnostic Bible, ed. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer (Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2009), 168.