PART EIGHT: RIDERS OF THE WRECKING MACHINE

THE OCCULT CONNECTIONS OF WESTCOTT AND HORT We have seen  there is the possibility that there were 3rd and 4th century gnostic influences upon some verses in the Greek New Testament texts - Sianaticus and Vaticanus - used by Westcott and Hort for their 1881 Greek text. And - Westcott and Hort were interested in occult phenomena according to their sons who both wrote biographies of their fathers.  Gnosticism is a source for the 19th century English occult movement, which Westcott and Hort took part in.  Now we are seeing a revival of gnosticism and gnostic influences in the New Age Occult movement, which has seeped over into the Christian Church.  The DaVinci Code is just one example of gnosticism reborn in the early 21st century. The Merovingian blood line is supposedly linked to the DaVinci Code and to its origin in the Merovingian Jewish line and to Alexandria, Egypt where some claim the Egyptian goddes Isis became part of the Catholic Virgin Mary, as the co-reedemer. I came across one variant of a secret society called the Priory of Sion perhaps also connected (at least in fantasy) with the Merovingians. Some accounts on the Internet say this Priory of Sion is a hoax. It boasts of past grand masters such as Victor Hugo, Claude Debussy and Jean Cocteau. Cocteau was on the fringes of the Paris surrealists of the twenties and thirties, used drugs a lot and might have been into the occult. He was a poet, playwright, filmmaker and painter. Gnosticism was apparently an influence upon Victor Hugo, along with Gothic architecture. Alchemy and the occult sculptures on many Gothic Cathedrals had some influence on some of the surrealists. Gnosticism gets mixed in with all this too I suppose. I knew a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the sixties who took a lot of LSD, got into Jean Cocteau's version of the dark side of surrealism, and ended up sitting in the Rat (Rathskeller in the basement of the Student Union) trying to stare the University down. Shrinks classified him as a paranoid schizophrenic. I found this also: "H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of the Satanic New Age Movement believes this: "The King James Version, as it is translated, has no resemblance whatever to the originals." Westcott and Hort might have known Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)and so she could have had inside knowledge of what Westcott and Hort were up to in replacing the King Jamers Version. Blavatsky's books were used by the leaders of the contemporary New Age Occult movement. Helena Blavatsky  was an important figure in the 19th century occult movement in England. Several  Anglican Spiritualists were part of the occult revival that included Fenton John Anthony Hort and Brooke Foss Westcott. Westcott and Hort were active in the Ghost Society and in the Society for Psychical Research. They were interested in paranormal phenomena. These two Anglican theologians created a Greek text which disagrees in many verse wordings with the Textus Receptus Greek text, used for the King James Version of 1611. Close examination of the differences in New Testament verses on the deity and incarnation of Christ between the Westcott-Hort and Textus Receptus suggests a gnostic influence upon the Westcott-Hort verses which are different in wording. The loyal followers of Westcott and Hort - the Riders on their Wrecking Machine - will deny that the two Anglican theologians had anything to do with the 19th century English occult revival. This is why we should be more careful than Christians usually are in identifying our sources for the claim that Westcott and Hort were important figures within the Anglican Spiritualist movement. "Cambridge professor, Fenton John Antony Hort, Anglican clergyman, Brooke Foss Westcott . and the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, founded the Cambridge Ghost Society in 1851. 35. 35 Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, NY:Schocken Books, 1968, p. 66 "His devotion with ardour is indicated in a 'Ghostly Circular' authorized by him. 'The interest and importance of a serious and earnest inquiry into the nature of the phenomena which are vaguely called 'supernatural' will scarcely be questioned." 93. 93. Arthur Westcott, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, New York Macmillan and Co., 1896, Vol. I, p. 118, 119. "His" is Brook F. Westcott above. On page 118 Arthur Westcott writes that his father Brooke F. Wesctott said in the "Ghostly Circular" that "Many persons believe that all such apparently mysterious occurrences are due either to purely natural causes, or to delusions of the mind or senses, or to willful deception. But there are many others who believe it possible that the beings of the unseen world may manifest themselves in extraordinary ways...If the belief of the latter class should be ultimately confirmed, the limits which human knowledge respecting the spirit world has hitherto reached might be ascertained with some degree of accuracy." Brooke F. Westcott wanted to investigate occult phenomena to see if it could be shown to reliably exist. Yet at least 17 verses in the Bible warn against dealing with familiar spirits. Other texts say not to consult wizards, soothsayers, astrologers, or diviners. Many followers of Westcott and Hort will refuse to consider that these two were violating Biblical law by dealing with the occult. According to Ezekiel 13: 22 the promoters of Westcott and Hort have "...strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way..." Some may be caught in the Westcott-Hort trap, and are boxed in so that they will not see the problems of these two unbelieving Anglican churchmen. "The original objective of the Society for Psychical.Research (S.P.R,). was to conduct research into "that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical and spiritualistic." Committees were organized to examine telepathy, hypnotism, mesmeric trance, clairvoyance, ESP, apparitions, haunted houses, and to determine the laws of physical spiritualistic phenomena. In recognition of the important work accomplished by Benson, Westcott and Hort -- the leaders of its precursor, the Cambridge Ghost Society -- the S.P.R. Historical Outline posits, "It would hardly have been possible for the new Society to undertake an enquiry of such a kind or on such as scale if several of its leading members had not already gained previous experience of the difficulties attaching to that type of investigation." (51) 51 W.H. Salter, The Society For Psychical Research, An Outline of it's History, London, 1948, p. 8. "A contemporary of B.F. Westcott, Mme. Blavatsky classified Westcott with the Gnostic philosophers, even laughing him to scorn in her channeled work, Isis Unveiled, for his credulity of The Pastor of Hermas. It seems that Anglican scholars gave the weight of Scripture to apocryphal literature from the occult underground with which she was familiar: "In their immoderate desire to find evidence for the authenticity of the New Testament, the best men, the most erudite scholars even among Protestant divines, but too often fall into deplorable traps. We cannot believe that such a learned commentator as Canon Westcott could have left himself in ignorance as to Talmudistic and purely kabalistic writings. How then is it that we find him quoting, with such serene assurance as presenting 'striking analogies to the Gospel of St. John,' passages from the work of The Pastor of Hermas, which are complete sentences from kabalistic literature?" (29) 29 H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Vol. II, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, California, p. 243. THE FABIAN SOCIETY AND TOTALITARIANISM The socialist Fabian Society also grew out of the same 19th century circle of elite English people who gave us the occult revival. There were several connections between the Westcott, Hort, Edwin White Benson, and Henry Sidgwick Society for Psychical Research group and the Fabian socialists. Henry Sidgwick married Eleanor Balfour, the sister of Arthur Balfour, who became a future Prime Minister of England. (24) 24 Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, Schocken Books, New York: 1968, p116 "As of 1886, the Fabian executive committee was comprised of Pease, Podmore, Besant (Anne Besant), Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) and Webb. However in 1889, Annie Besant was converted to the cult of Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, whom she succeeded in 1891 as president of the Theosophical Society." This is from: http://www.watch.pair.com/occult.html "…the first Fabians…had almost all been lapsed Anglicans from Evangelical homes. There was a Christian fringe to the London socialism of the eighties, but this too was Anglican. The Christian Socialists came together in Stewart Headlam's Guild of St. Matthew and the Land Reform Union; and the more respectable Christian Social Union, formed in 1889 -- seeking in Fabian style to permeate the Anglican Church -- soon attracted more than two thousand clerical members. Dissenting clergymen too began to find a place in the Fabian Society and the London Progressives, while Unitarian churches and centres like Stanton Coit's Ethical Church provided a meeting place for believers and idealist agnostics . . . Socialism was for all of them, the new Evangelism." (65) 65 Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Fabians, Simon & Schuster, 1977, pp. 183-184. TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE, BEATLES, DRUGS AND DIAPRAX Although the Tavistock Institute did not begin until the early twenties, it too was a creation of this same British elite culture of the late 19th century. Some say that the Tavistock Institute gave us the Beatles, rock and roll music, the drug movement, the encounter group movement and what Dean Gotcher has described as Diaprax, a deceptive attitude and belief changing method which has come to be used widely, and is used in the apostate churches. Diaprax uses the threat of group rejection plus emotional appeals to move people out of absolute morality and truth into whatever the Diapraxer wants them to believe or whatever immoral behavior is desired. Tavistock began doing studies on shell-shocked British veterans of World War I in the early twenties. http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm The Tavistock Clinic was part of the Tavistock Institute, which was the psychological warfare agency for the British Secret Intelligence Service. The quote below is from: http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=WorldCh07-4 "The English control of this world movement is demonstrated by the ideology of American foundations, which is created by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London." (My comment: "This world movement" was the movement to restore oligarchic control over America and Europe. In order to restore control by a very small group of the ruling elite for them it was necessary to defeat the popular republican forms of government, true Christianity and the strong family "A single common denominator identifies the common Tavistock strategy -- the use of drugs. The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA, directed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, in which unsuspecting CIA officials were given LSD, and their reaction studied like guinea pigs, resulted in several deaths. The U.S. Government had to pay millions in damages to the families of the victims, but the culprits were never indicted. The program originated when Sandoz AG, a Swiss drug firm, owned by S.G. Warburg Co. of London, developed lycergic acid. Roosevelt's advisor, James Paul Warburg, son of Paul Warburg who wrote the Federal Reserve Act, and nephew of Max Warburg who had financed Hitler, set up the Institute for Policy Studies to promote the drug. The result was the LSD "counter-culture" of the 1960s, the "student revolution", which was financed by $25 million from the CIA." Quotes below come from: http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm "When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have imagined the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a living organism which sprang From "THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No. 4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director, Professor Willis Harmon. "The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the Beatles." (Note: "SRI" above is Stanford Research Institute, part of Stanford University. The SRI Center for the Study of Social Policy is an arm of Tavistock Institute in London. Stanford Research Institute does research and development for government agencies, large corporations and private foundations) On http://www.newtotalitarians.com/WhatIsSensitivityTraining.html it says: " "Tavistock-style centers soon started cropping up in America; at Stanford's Research Institute's Center for the Behavioral Sciences, at the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the various National Training Laboratories (NTLs), where concepts popularly known as 'T-Groups' (therapy groups) and 'sensitivity training' were developed. It was 'brainwashing,' utilizing the small-group approach." Eakman describes the way it works. "A controlled stress situation is created by a group leader ('facilitator') with the ostensible goal of achieving a consensus or agreement which has, in reality, been predetermined. By using peer pressure in gradually increasing increments, up to and including yelling at, cursing at, and isolating the holdouts, weaker individuals are intimidated into caving in. They emerge, facilitators hope, with a new value structure in place, and the goal is achieved. The method was refined and later popularized by other schools of behavioral science, such as Ensalen Institute, the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and the Western Training Laboratories in Group Development." Eakman, B.K., "Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education," pp. 193, Huntington House, 1998.

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