HOLY SPIRIT: "The Holy Spirit draws us to pray."
DEMONS: "Demons hinder all true prayer."
ROMAN CATHOLICISM: Emphasis on mantra type prayers "hinder all true prayer". The R/C prayer is a pagan prayer, and God will not hear it. This parallel is again very striking in the way in which it demonstrates that R/C is disguised Satanism.
FORMER CATHOLIC: Many of the prayers said in the Catholic Church are addressed to Mary, saints or angels which are not omnipresent, and therefore cannot hear your prayers. Even the angel that was sent to Daniel was detained and could not not get there for 21 days. If the angel were omnipresent, he could have been there with Daniel and fighting angelic beings as well. Only God is omnipresent and able to hear all prayers. By equating a human being with the same attributes that pertain to God alone, Rome insults his Creator and lies against the scriptures that clearly state no one is equal with God. (see Isa.40:25; 46:5) Rome also claims that all graces flow through Mary. This means that no sacrament Rome does is without �Mary�s� Spirit present to dispense the graces. This is indeed pagan in its purest form. All the pagan religions before Roman Catholicism worshipped, prayed and offered sacrifices to a �Queen of Heaven� (see Jeremiah 7 and 44). Msgr. John Sullivan, in The Externals of the Catholic Church (page 257) admits:
"Repetition in prayer is a very ancient custom. This usually leads to a resolution to say a certain number of prayers daily; and then the utility of having some counting device suggests itself at once. Hence comes the string of beads which we call a Rosary. The use of some means of counting prayers is not restricted to Catholics. The Buddhist of India has his long strong of beads which he uses to measure his eternal repetitions of the praises of Buddha."
HOLY SPIRIT: "The Holy Spirit is NOT a show-off."
DEMONS: "Demons LOVE to make a show."
ROMAN CATHOLICISM: Is there any other religion in the world that creates such a show in their services as R/C?
FORMER CATHOLIC: Roman Catholicism is the mother of pomp with her processions, candles, incense, idols, Babylonish garments, etc. copied from their pagan predecessors. In describing the pagan practices of Egypt and Rome, Hislop, in his book The Two Babylons, says:
�The Pope has not merely a chair to sit in; but he has a chair to be carried in, in pomp and state, on men's shoulders, when he pays a visit to St. Peter's, or any of the churches of Rome. Thus does an eye-witness describe such a pageant on the Lord's Day, in the head-quarters of Papal idolatry . The drums were heard beating without. The guns of the soldiers run on the atone pavement of the house of God, as, at the bidding of their officer, they grounded, shouldered, and presented arms. How unlike the Sabbath-how unlike religion how unlike the suitable preparation to receive a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus! Now, moving slowly up, between the two armed lines of soldiers, appeared a long procession of ecclesiastics, bishops, canons, and cardinals, preceding the Roman pontiff, who was borne on a gilded chair, clad in vestments resplendent as the sun. His bearers were twelve men clad in crimson, being immediately preceded by several persons carrying a cross, his mitre, his triple crown, and other insignia of his office. As he was borne along on the shoulders of men, amid the gaping crowds, his head was shaded or canopied by two immense fans, made of peacocks' feathers, which were borne by two attendants.� Thus it is with the Sovereign Pontiff of Rome at this day; only that, frequently, over and above being shaded by the fan, which is just the �Mystic fan of Bacchus,� his chair of state is also covered with a regular canopy. Now, look back through the vista of three thousand years, and see how the �Sovereign Pontiff of Egypt used to pay a visit to the temple of his god. �Having reached the precincts of the temple� says Wilkinson, �the guards and royal attendants elected to be the representatives of the whole army entered the courts...Military bands played the favourite airs of the country; and the numerous standards of the different regiments, the banners floating on the wind, the bright lustre of arms, the immense concourse of people, and the imposing majesty of the lofty towers of the propylaea, decked with their bright-coloured flags, streaming above the cornice, presented a scene seldom, we may say, equalled on any occasion, in any country. The most striking feature of this pompous ceremony was the brilliant cortege of the monarch, who was either borne in his chair of state by the principal officers of state, under a rich canopy, or walked on foot, overshadowed with rich flabella and fans of waving plumes.� We give, as a woodcut, from Wilkinson (Fig. 47), the central portion of one of his plates devoted to such an Egyptian procession, that the reader may see with his own eyes how exactly the Pagan agrees with the well-known account of the Papal ceremonial.� (213-14)
HOLY SPIRIT: �The Holy Spirit is a spirit of truth. He NEVER lies.�
DEMONS: "All demons are liars, so are the people they indwell."
ROMAN CATHOLICISM: All their pagan doctrines are lies. This seems another good parallel to demonstrate that R/C is disguised demonism.
FORMER CATHOLIC: As the scriptures say:
�I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.� (1 John 2:21)
Rome is founded on forgeries and lies. In 1 Timothy 4:2, Paul speaks of false teachers who lead men away from the faith, who speak �lies in hypocrisy�, and of the "lying wonders" (2Thess.2:9) of the man of sin. The surprising thing concerning Roman Catholic writers is their lack of reticence in applying that sort of characterization to the Catholic Church by using practically every synonym for forgery and lying in the language, to describe their own literature. I have noted a few different expressions, all of which have this general meaning. Keep in mind that the following quotes are all from Catholic writers describing their own history and documentation.
�Forgery quite a trade with Catholics� (Cath. Ency., VII, 136; V, 780; XII, 768; XIV, 378.
�Spurious� (Catholic Dictionary, 43, 522; Catholic Ency., VII, 644, 645; IX, 234-5; XV, 485).
�Fraud� (De Montor, I, 197).
�Legal fiction� (Inquisition, 128-130).
�Fable� (Short History, 82; Cath. Ency., VII, 539).
�Ficticious� (Cath. Ency., I, 636).
�False� (Catholic Dictionary, 105).
�Highly debatable� (Cath. Ency., IX, 743.
�Unlikely tale...myth...not authetic...Fable...not history� (Explanation of Catholic Morals, 115-116).
�Exaggeration�, (Question Box, 520, 521).
�Pure works of imagination...pious fancy...editorial manipulations...unreliable� (Cath. Ency., IX, 743).
�Historically untenable� (Cath. Ency., IX, 224).
�Falsely attributed� (Cath. Ency, XIV, 666).
�Full of errors� (Cath. Ency., IX, 224).
�Doubtful Value� (Externals of the Catholic Church, 131).
�Whitewash� (Question Box, 176; Catholic World, Oct. 1925).
�Unauthentic� (Cath. Ency., IX, 225; De Montor, I, 36).
�Utterly False� (Cath. Dict., 338).
�Far-fetched...superstition� (Lives And Times Of The Roman Pontiffs, I, 197).
�Legend� (Cath. Dict., 9).
�Quasi-historical testimonies� (Cath. Ency., VII, 326, 341, 342).
�Manipulations...Purports to be� (Cath. Ency., I, 36).
�Compiler Supposes� (Cath. Ency, I, 72).
�Substituting False Documents� (Cath. Ency., VI, 136).
�Tampering with Genuine Ones� (Cath. Ency., VI, 136).
�Very Good Poetry, Very Poor History�(Catholic World, Oct. 1925).
�Pretended to be� (Cath. Dict., 41, 42).
�Little or no historical value� (Cath. Dict., 9-10).
Rome�s list of forgeries are endless. One of the most famous is the Donation of Constantine. Pope Stephen III took this fabrication �probably concocted by a Lateran priest� to Pepin, king of the Franks to persuade him to use his armies to protect the Roman church. The Donation was supposedly a gift from Constantine (�in the name of the Senate and the entire Roman people�) to pope Sylvester and all �his successors�. The Donation stated:
�Inasmuch as our imperial power is earthly, we have decreed that it shall venerate and honour his most holy Roman Church and that the sacred See of Blessed Peter shall be gloriously exalted even above our Empire and earthly throne.He shall rule over the four principal Sees, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Jerusalem, as over all churches of God in all the world...Finally, lo, we convey to Sylvester, universal Pope, both our palace and likewise all provinces and palaces and districts of the city of Rome and Italy and of the regions of the west� (Vicars of Christ, De Rosa, 41).
Pepin fell for the deception, and secured Rome as the headquarters for the Catholic hierarchy. The Donation continued to be influential and Rome used it whenever it was convenient. It wasn�t until 1440 A.D. that it was taken apart line by line by a papal aide named Lorenzo Valla. He proved it to be a fraud in a hundred irrefutable ways. It was not written in classical Latin �but in a later bastardized form�. Sylvester was not �pope� at that time, Miltiades was, and the text refers to Constantinople whereas Constantine�s city in the East still retained its original name of Byzantium. Rome suppressed the information and it was not until 1517 that Valla�s book was published. Even after the world saw the fraudulent workings of Rome, she still did not concede but went on asserting the Donation was authentic for centuries. Now she admits it. She has no choice!
HOLY SPIRIT: "The Holy Spirit demands that we actively use our minds to learn. He is never willing to serve as an information bank independent from our minds."
DEMONS: "Demon spirit guides are quite willing to serve as an information bank so that the person they indwell does not need to actually learn the information with their minds."
ROMAN CATHOLICISM: Insists that the priests serve as the "spiritual information banks" for their parishioners, do they not?
FORMER CATHOLIC: Yes David, like I said before Rome fears men reading for themselves and learning. The Council of Trent (as recorded in Decrees of the Council of Trent, Schroeder) states:
"...if the sacred books are permitted everywhere...in the vernacular, there will, by reason of the boldness of men, arise there from, more harm than good" (273-278).
It is Rome�s stand that God uses the teaching magesterium alone to interpret the word of God.
HOLY SPIRIT: "The Holy Spirit is NOT a fortune teller. Neither does he give us divination ability [Matt 6:34].
DEMONS: "One of the most common deceptions of demon spirit guides is to give the person many false 'words of knowledge' which is really simple divination. Demons also give many individual 'prophecies' which is really fortune telling. Prophecy in the Scriptures is usually for the whole body of Christ, rarely for individuals, and certainly not on a frequent basis."
ROMAN CATHOLICISM: It seems to me that the apparitions phenomenon has given rise to much divination. Each apparition also gives false 'words of knowledge' or 'words of prophecy' which is nothing more than divination or attempts at such.
FORMER CATHOLIC: Yes, �Mary� has appeared and given many false words of knowledge, but she also has given some true prophecies. Deut.13:1-3 says:
�If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.�
Although �Mary� foretold future events, she also asked that devotion to her heart be established. Remember, "...no lie is of the truth." (1John 2:21)
�The second part of the secret concerned devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the words the Blessed Mother spoke to Lucia: 'God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not stop offending God, a worse war will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given to you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father.' Let it be noted that the Second World War began during the reign of Pius XI, just as Mary had predicted. In addition, on the night of January 26, 1938, strange and spectacular lights were reported in the skies in many parts of Europe. The war followed shortly after� (Visions of Mary, Eicher, 214).
Do you agree that Rebecca Brown, former Satanist, has given us some unique insight into the fact that Roman Catholicism is nothing more than disguised Satanism? Please advise, as I am anxious to begin a series of articles on this subject. It seems to me that your background of Roman Catholicism would be able to provide much in-depth information about most of all these points. This type of article(s) could be a powerful catalyst in convincing many individual Catholics to come out of this powerfully evil and deceptive system.
May God Richly Bless You,
David Bay, Director
Cutting Edge Ministry, Inc.
FORMER CATHOLIC: Yes David, I agree totally with you. It would make a great article. The Bible tells us that the lie would be so close to the truth that even the elect would be deceived if that were possible. But those in whom the Holy Spirit dwells are given the discernment to see through the thin veneer of �Christianity� that Rome has painted over her crass and unscriptural heathen hodge-podge of lies and half-truths. Your article would be one more refreshing oasis in the midst of the desert. May God use you to open spiritual eyes and ears. We pray Catholic everywhere will honestly search out the truth of the matter as we are commanded to �...study to show thyself approved unto God.� But if they won�t look listen for fear we are biased, then perhaps they should look at their own Catholic leaders who have also warned others of the Luciferic connection.
�Catholic scholar Dr. Malachi Martin, formerly a Jesuit professor at Georgetown University and a confidant of Vatican insiders, flatly declared in a recent New York City interview: �Yes, it�s true, Lucifer is enthroned in the Catholic Church�� (Flashpoint, Texe Marr, July 1997).
When confronted about Satanists in Rome, Dr. Malachi Martin replied:
�Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.�
Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo also stunned an international audience of bishops, priests, nuns, and laity in Rome by exposing Satanic worship by the Catholic hierarchy. As far back as 1976, Pope Paul VI shocked a papal audience by confiding:
�The smoke of Satan has entered the very sanctuary of St. Peter�s Cathedral� (Flashpoint, Marrs, July 1997).
Peter De Rosa, in his book Vicars of Christ: the Dark Side of the Papacy, speaking of Pope John XII, states:
�He had invented sins, they said, not known since the beginning of the world, including sleeping with his mother.In front of the high altar of the mother church of christendom, he even toasted the Devil� (51).
Otto of Saxony, emporer of in St. Peter�s in 961, wrote a letter to Pope John XII that read:
�Everyone, clergy as well as laity, accuses you, Holiness, of homicide, perjury, sacrilege, incest with your relatives, including two of your sisters, and with having, like a pagan, invoked Jupiter, Venus and other demons� (51).
Roman Catholicism and Demonism indeed have the same spirit. There is no pagan religion or society that has done more damage to the word "truth" as she has. She is the very seat of Satan, and demonism pales in comparison to her atrocities. We can only pray that God have mercy on those who are blinded by the god of this world, that they may come to the glorious gospel of grace.
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matt.11:28-30)
Because of Calvary,
Rebecca A. Sexton (a former Catholic)