FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

ON THE 39 ARTICLES

 

CHAPTER FIVE

Of the Holy Ghost.

 

God had not only to perfect His Uncreated Son. His sons, from different creations, had to be perfected also. God saw Death face to face and shut in Himself until the day of the son of Man. Then He opened the eyes of His Uncreated son to the fact of Death as an uncreated force. Being by His Divine Nature Indestructible as His Father this took as occasion the Cross.

I said before that the going of Christ to Hell is a question beyond our competence. From an intellectual point of view that question required an answer from Father to Son. How the Father did proceed to attack this matter belong to the dimension of the Incarnation. It is not of my concern how God does turn water into wine.

Only a fool ask for a level to move the universe with, only a fool is stupid enough to declare that if he had been there, when God created the Universe, he could had given Him some advice about it.

The frontier of the Intelligence of the Creature is the Omniscience of God Himself, but this road is limited on both sides by Nature. The sole idea of comprehending the Nature of God is foolish.

We can’t break into God’s Mind but through God’s Creation. This fact not taken as platform of motion the adventure fails and ruin is the answer.

Ergo, how the Father showed to the Son the nature of Hell is not of our concern, we concern with the Fact of the Incarnation, not with the How God made possible the coming into Flesh of His Uncreated Son.

This said, this Fact accomplished, God had to proceed with His House. Theory has failed. It was the hour of Experience, learning the hard way. To show Death as an uncreated force to the sons of God, all of them create, creatures of clay as we are, sons of God by adoption, God had to open the eyes to the fact of Death as the Force behind the enemies of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, Mankind was made the background of the Scenario where the sons of God, not of this Earth, had to see with their own eyes : DEATH.

To record this Fact, in order that we could open the Book and read I, we see in the first place, (Book of Revelations), God throwing the Devil out of Heaven and down to the Earth. It was the time for the Duel to death between the son of Man, son of Eve, and the Old Snake, Satan, the leader of the rebellion of “the gods” against the Law of the Holy Spirit. Because the time had come the Devil began the searching for the Son of Man, the Avenger of the Blood of his father Adam, and the Christ Messiah under whose flag of Salvation the Nations would be won to the Kingdom of God. We know what happened. Satan thought that by killing Jesus he would made fun of God. He killed Him. Immediately God ordered the imprisonment of the Killer, a time to last One Thousand Years.

This done, the Birth of Christianity, the War of Israel and the Empire upon the Catholic Church, Eastern and Western, called the entire attention of those sons of God who God sent to hunt the Beast.

It was a mystery to all why the Father and the Son had led Christ to the Cross. And this mystery came wider and wider as the imprisonment of the Devil, origin of the War on Christ of the Jews, not only did not cool down but became higher and higher. What was going on?

From the very beginning, right after the Fall, the sons of God had related the falling of men and their keeping on falling lower and lower to the actions of that faction of the House of God devoted to put down the Law of the Holy Spirit. Men were not bad, men were ignorants. They did not know that the gods they worshipped were the gods that had sworn to destroy mankind. As a matter of fact the destruction of the human race was the door to salvation of Satan and his allies. The destruction of Adam’s killer related to the birth of a son of the dead man, what if there were not mankind at all to bring forth anymore children? God had to put down His decree and forget about the Blood of his human child, probably. The more happy Satan was as his victory seemed to him at hand given the way God had had to turn His back on men. Playing with the ignorance of men the Rebels led the nations to blow away from Nature the Laws of Creation, and giving themselves to the realm of a law heinous to God in extreme, Satan kindled the fire by whose flames the word was destroyed by a Flood.

This flooding victory of the enemies of the Holy Spirit caused a tremendous disturbance in the soul of the sons of God who felt the tragedy of Mankind as their own.

So and so, Noah came around, and Abraham too. The Sentence against the Rebel was alive. God hadn’t given up His Law after all. You know? a War is not won in a single battle. Sometimes does happen, but to this you got to destroy your enemy to the last man. In this case, destruction of the enemy was impossible. God cannot be destroyed. He could sit easy and calm waiting for the time to counter attack. And so we see Him in the Book of Job. In the hope of obliging God to cause a Second Flood, or something alike, Satan kept making a mess of Mankind.

God sent Moses and David, and the Prophets, and Daniel too. All that time the wars of men were related to Satan and his allies. If they were only alone probably men would change their ways.

The Hour of the Legendary Duel came about. Christ, the son of Man, and Satan, a son of God, were face to face. We don’t need to mind again and again about the results. The Empire died and the King of Kings resuscitated as Universal King. The Word of God had journeyed through four millennia, through hell and death to conquer the enemy of the Holy Spirit’s Law. As a result, God ordered the imprisonment of the Devil, head and body, and with it He called the attention of His House to what was going on in Earth.

What was happening here?

It was the son of God common thought that if men were left alone men would come to the Kingdom by themselves. Where was the Devil now? Did they or didn’t they imprison the Devil? Why then men kept running in the same direction?

The Jews, pushed by Satan’s force, were led to the edge of the Abyss, and gave death to the Christ they were fighting for so long. But now the Devil was nowhere to be found on Earth. What was the nature of the force that was it pushing the Jews to their doom? And where came from those monsters coming out of the shores? They could not say now that Satan and his generation were the Cause of the wars of men. Which was that Cause?

The way God has to show facts to His creatures is not the way of men. After having shown you the Need God had to open the eyes of His sons to the existence of Death as an uncreated force, and to insist on the fact of that this Need was for the Future of the Creation as much important as it was the Need of the Death of Christ for the Salvation of Mankind, I better stop here. I will get back to this subject somewhere along the line. By now let’s put our eyes on the next Article of the Anglican Creed :

 

 

The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory with the Father and the Son very and eternal God.

 

From which reading we come back again to the same conclusion : The Anglican Creed is a fake. The Reformation was supposed to be a departure from the Catholic Primitive Church. But here we have the Creed of the Medieval Roman Church. I mean, according to this Article, where is the difference between the Roman Creed and the Anglican Creed? “The father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God”. People called a Reformation what was nothing else but an Expropriation? If by this Article the Anglican faithful is a Roman Christian, why then rise High Treason against the conversion of the Anglican to the Romish Church? As a matter of fact, the Anglican, from this Article, is more popish than the pope.

Let’s remember, by the way, that with this Law of High Treason against the Conversion to Catholicism the Anglican Religion equaled the Law of the most Fascist of the Islam Nations, Saudi Arabia, where the conversion from Islam to Christianity is rewarded with death penalty. This high treason law of the Anglican Church is the daily bread of the Taliban Terrorist Organization. Why the Talibans are considered a Terrorist Organization for doing exactly what the Anglican Religion commanded during the past three centuries, it is a riddle. No wonder, neither, in seeing the Anglican Empire boasting on being the right successor to the Roman Empire. Both persecuted the Church using the same law, High Treason, and paying the Conversion to Catholicism with death penalty.

Here let’s point out that before the Reformation there was a first division of the churches, called the Schism of the East, and that before this schism and during the days of the Roman Empire’s Persecution, there existed no other but the Catholic Church, the so called Orthodox Church, as distinguished from the Western Roman Church, coming into being long after the days of Constantine.

To top the pie let’s say that this Article is not only popish to the bones, but bigot to the soul.

The Spanish Church, by the English recognized the cradle of the higher bigotry ever found, was the master mind in whom fires this Article was conceived. Probably the common English guy lives in the blue and beyond what his master tells him to think, believe and feel, the poor fellow can’t even dismiss himself from being what he is, a puppet in the hands of his masters. High treason pending on every neck daring to put on question the nature of the National Religion it is a very convincing argument, I guess. The fact is the fact, the Spanish bigots where the guys who took out of the magician hat this cup of cherry wine. You don’t have to remember, but if you do, remember the trouble this Article gave to both West and East in the days of old good Charlemagne.

Let me remind you. In those days the Iconoclast Emperors of the East Roman Empire were massacring, for the luxury of the feeling, the heirs of the most famous idols makers of the world, the Greeks. Islam was knocking on the door while the stupidity of the common Byzantine was reaching the clouds. The Byzantine was waking the flat line between Idolatry and true Adoration of the living God. Many left the religion byzantine and went to join the religion Islamic because that stupidity was bending to hell’s side. To cut short the iconomania the Isaurian emperors took the stand and began to massacre good and bad, equality being his flag.

A storm as such could not but reach the Roman Church, and the pros and cons were for very long, until finally Charlemagne played the Solomon of his days and gave an end to the question, at least to be observed in the West.

Around those days the Spanish Church added fuel to the burn bringing on stage the Coming of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son. The memoirs of the struggle are written. To break into the grave of a dead subject is insane. My point is, and I connect it to the Article on the table, that the same ignorance that was observed in the Byzantine Church it is the one observed in this Article. None of them knew or had a clue about who or what the Saint Spirit was or is.

The Anglican Church simply take the Creed of the Roman Church, add to it the tail by the Spanish Bigotry added to it, without rejecting it or accept it, and declare herself beyond good and evil. Twelve centuries blown off the History of Christianity without even give it a second thought. And how would they dare to do so? The axe was swinging across the hall and kissing the neck of “the divines”.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Wow, guys, what a Reformation! What a step farther! And all this without need of proving to be right to the common; after all the Roman Church had already implanted in the minds of the English Nation this Article.

Conclusion : All the Anglicans have been under High Treason against the Crown. They were Catholics, but not Romans, and yet, the Article is pure Romish. Why then the Crown did not let the axe loose?

Anyway, what means all this?

We observe how clever was the Anglican Reformer at the time to disentangle himself from any further thinking. The Divine Creed from the Saint Spirit to the Churches read : “Three different Persons and One God”.

But to return to the Anglican Bigotry, in which the Anglican came to surpass the famous Spanish bigotry, we read “proceeding from the Father and the Son”. It was this “proceeding” the cause of the discussion between the Churches. The West Roman had never thought about it. The Spanish Church made a point and was accepted. The Byzantine understood that with this “proceeding” they were lowered down a lot; from being in direct line with God Himself, suddenly they came to know that the guy on the other side of the line was the Son. What a humiliation, Lord! They would accept the Call but from God the Father alone.

The destruction of the Byzantine Empire was signed right there. And Why? Because the Spanish bigot came saying that being the Son the Head of Christ and the Church His Body, the Saint Spirit proceeds from the Son. Eternal Truth which in no way alienated the truth of the Father being the Head of the Son, and accordingly the Holy Spirit proceed from the Son and the Father, as very well says this Article.

Why then the accusation of bigotry from the English Church on the Spanish Church? The Roman Church, always very much entangled in Politics, tried hard as she could to stop this Spanish Article to be put on the table. The bigotry of the Spanish won the day, and the Roman Church accepted it as a matter of fact. As I said above, the Spanish theological Mind won the day from Hosius to this Article, which the English made his in all its extension.

However, the English rejected the Roman Part, Three Persons, and accepted the Spanish Part, “the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son”, this way avoiding entering into discussion upon the Nature of this Unity of the Three Persons in One God.

The unconscious played a tricky deal in doing so. Who is that Holy Spirit “proceeding from the Father and the Son, of one substance, majesty, and glory with the Father and the Son very and eternal God”?

The Universal Christian Creed coming from Heaven was precisely understood by the Fathers; by it the Church, the Body of Christ became Divine, ergo Indestructible and the Door to God.

We know the Name of the Father, Yahweh, and the Name of the Son, Jesus, and the Name of the Holy Spirit, Christ. We know also that Jesus is the Christ. We know that the Church is His Body. And we know, also, that the Head of Christ is God. Thence, if we separate from the Body of Christ, we separate ourselves from the Holy Spirit, this is to say, we have a Religion, but not the Religion of Christ.

God is in Christ, Christ is in the Church; the Church is His Body, the Body of Christ, and the Head of Christ is God, ergo, one more time, the rejection of the Orthodox Byzantine of the “proceeding” broke the contract between the Lord and the servants, and the rejection of the identification of the Person of Jesus as Christ, the case of the Anglican Religion, broke the Contract between the servants and the Lord.

You can’t reject the Body without rejecting the Head. And accordingly you have to give to your church a head. And if in this sincerity you are not a hypocrite of the kind of the Byzantine, you have declare yourself out of the Church of God, which is Christ, the Head of the Catholic Church. This Article of the recognition of God but not of the Persons in God is High Treason against the Crown of the Son of God, the turning of Religion into Politics, and the common in a mass of slaves.

Al those who are under this Article need to receive Catholic Baptism. They rejected the Son as the head of the English Church, but the body receives the spirit from his head, and once they gave themselves to the Crown of England as its body, they became the body of the English crown. Baptism is necessary.