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Diary on Summer Vacation Reading from 2012

Productive 3 days at the lake

Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”
Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”
Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariots of Prophetic Fire”
Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding.”

RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha.

RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism, and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good

Shafarevich’s book is a must-read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book. He spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed to those who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.

Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the wormhole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in the US and World History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven-sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.

Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall describes for us how Liberty-minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book should be read in combination with Witte’s “The Reformation of Rights.”

This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least.  Hall has done us a real service with this work.

Quotes & Commentary from E. Michael Jones’ “Monsters from the Id”

Once morals disappear from the human equation, all human interaction is a function of force, which means that women come out on the short end of the stick because, according to feminist theory and the thought of the Marquis de Sade, they are weaker than men.

E. Michael Jones
Monsters from the Id — pg. 314

With the impact that existentialism and then postmodernism has brought on morals, we see the truth of Jone’s statement. Because of a lack of morals, we can routinely torture and murder the unborn. Because of a lack of morals, we can open the Church doors to side-b sodomites who desire to be known for their besetting sins. Because of a lack of morals, we now have a manosphere because both men and women are locked into individual and personal sexual politics. Mao captured succinctly what Jones is saying above when he said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“Modern critics can not understand the genre of Horror because they can’t understand the Enlightenment, and they can’t understand the Enlightenment because they are inside it so to speak, espousing its goals; the critics, virtually to a man, espouse its values so completely they can’t conceive of any alternative to it as the project which orders their lives.”

E. Michael Jones
Monsters from the Id — pg. 296
There is something in this quote that the modern Church needs to hear as a principle. The modern Church, like Jone’s critics, too often are of little use to Christians today because the modern Church has swallowed the Enlightenment core principle of Egalitarianism. The modern Church can not fight where the fight is of most import because the modern Church is inside the Enlightenment and holds as dear to God the Enlightenment’s most core principle. This does not mean that the modern Church can never give profitable counsel. It DOES mean that any counsel the modern Church gives pertaining to the most animating issue of our time (Egalitarianism) — an issue owned by the enemy — is counsel that smells of the sulfur that besots our enemy. In the words of Pogo, In the modern Church, “we have met the enemy and he is us.”

In time the modern Church will overwhelmingly fall on the sodomite marriage issue, on the Confederate flag issue, and on the Transgender issue because the modern Church owns as a principle of Christianity the core principles that drive those issues. Borrowing from Jone’s, “Egalitarianism is the project that orders their lives.”

Archetype and Ectype Exodus

The end of the Spiritual captivity, with the death of the Lord Christ, like the Exodus from Egypt, came in the context of a Passover celebration. As Jesus celebrates the Passover with his followers, He gives them a new meal and a new cup, and in the cup is the blood of the new covenant (Matthew 26:26-28). This blood and this cup is new because it is the fulfillment of all the typological anticipation in the old covenant, which could only ever be promissory though proleptic.

As the new Exodus takes place, like the first exodus, the new one comes with a covenant. Again … it is the covenant of Grace but now as fulfilled in Christ. As the new Exodus takes place, like the first exodus, it comes through the slaughter of a lamb, whose blood covers the people. The blood on the lintel is typologically fulfilled in the blood of the Lord Christ, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins

Serpent’s & Head Crushing

Now we have yet to look at similar themes consistent with Gen. 3:14-19 but what we have learned so far is that,

1.) God destroys His enemies and those who oppose His people.

We need to keep this in mind as we live in times that are increasingly characterized by a preponderance of God’s enemies. We need to remember the Genesis promise of God that He would crush His enemies. This promise extends beyond the Cross. While it is true that ultimately God’s enemies were crushed in and by Christ’s finished work on the Cross we still look for God’s enemies to continue to be crushed after the Cross.

Rmns. 16:20;  The God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet shortly….

Epoch by epoch God’s enemies arise and epoch by epoch God eventually crushes the seed of the Serpent under the feet of His seed. Time and again throughout history it has seemed that the seed of the Serpent was getting the upper hand, but then God hears the groanings of His people and arises to bring forth a champion to crush the enemy. Often the seed of the Serpent has been used as a cleansing judgment against the seed of the woman as just judgment against their rebellion against God but always God arises and crushes His and our enemies.

Of course, this gives us great hope. It should also give us patience, endurance, and optimism. God will arise. God will not let either His name or His people be continually trodden upon. God will not allow New World Order Babylons to arise in the 21st century any more than He allowed them to arise in the ancient world. Kingdoms that stand opposed to God’s Kingdom may arise but the Kingdom of God will extend over all the world and no enemy will halt its advance.

E. C. Vines on the History of Gender Confusion

Gender confusion was part of Ancient Paganism. It should be understood in that context today. In other words, where you find gender confusion there you find a “new” old pagan religion with pagan gods steering the ship. Gender confusion is a religious phenomenon.

“On the same ground rested the law, which enjoined, that; 

‘the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment.’

Maimonides§ found it commanded in the books of the idolaters, that men in the worship of Venus, the Astarte or Ashteroth of the Phenicians should wear the dress of women, and that women, in the worship of Mars, the Moloch of the east should put on the armor of men. Macrobius cites the old Greek author Philocorus, as saying, concerning the Asiatics, that, when they sacrificed to their Venus, the men were dressed in women’s apparel, and the women in men’s, to denote that she was esteemed by them both male and female. It was a common practice of idolatry to confound the sexes of the gods, making the same deity sometimes a god, and sometimes a goddess.
The Cyprians represented their Venus with a beard and scepter, and of masculine proportions, but dressed as a woman. The Syrians worshipped her under the form of a woman, attired as a man. At Rome, they had both a male and female Fortune; also, as Servius and Lactantius tell us, an armed Venus. This doctrine of a community of sexes in their gods led the idolaters to confound, as far as possible, their own sex, in their worship of them. Hence the custom, so widely diffused, of men and women wearing a habit different from that of their sex, in performing religious rites. Julius Firmicus describes this manner of worship as common among the Assyrians and Africans. From them, it passed into Europe. It was practiced in Cyprus, at Coos, at Argos, at Athens, and other places in Greece.* At Rome, it does not appear ever to have become a common practice, but we read of Clodius dressing himself as a woman, and mingling with the Roman ladies in the feast of the Bona Dealt.

Rev. E. C. Vines
The Roots of the American Republic — p. 78

Vines has a wonderful section here describing how many of God’s laws we take as archaic and strange were, in their original context, given so as to keep God’s people from the idolatry of the nations.