The Spirits' Book

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Avonlea Est. 1908, Anne of Green Gables Shirt, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Literary Gift, Book Worm Apparel, Anne with an E Fr. Andrew: It’s not about people, right. You can’t just read this as being about sort of theosis, because it’s “in the heavens.” There’s not a way to get around the fact that he says he will bring him to the gods. In the Hebrew, there’s a definite article, the word “the.” So you can’t say, “Bring him to God.” It’s “the gods.” And St. Jerome translated this just woodenly literally. If you look in the Vulgate, he has dei; it’s just the plural of god: “bring him to the gods.” He just translated it directly from the Hebrew. The Greek is interesting, because the Greek says that you should “bring him before the court of God.” Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Fr. Stephen: It’s not the word “judgment-seat.” It’s where we get the word “criterion,” actually; it’s “criterion,” and it means a law court; it means an actual court.

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Some of you are probably familiar with the work that I’ve done with Ancient Faith Radio, and I’m sure that many of you are familiar with my co-host, Fr. Stephen De Young’s podcast and blog, which are both titled, The Whole Counsel of God. But especially for those of you who are totally new, I thought we’d begin by each telling a little bit about ourselves and especially why we’re doing this new show. Fr. Stephen, why don’t you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them what you hope to accomplish with this program. Chapter 10 (Occupations and Missions of the Spirits) is an essay by Kardec on the different reasons why high spirits interfere with the world. My grandson, John Cassian (What a great name for a kid!), who is six years old, is going to be listening to your podcast on angels tonight from Scottsdale, Arizona. He is very interested in angels right now and wants to ask if good angels are able to be killed by bad angels. He’s curious about whether they can die or not.Book Three (Moral Laws) contains what Kardec regarded as the kernel of his doctrine, the special and fair (in his view) moral laws that provided explanations and consoled people in moments of anger or grief. Such laws were actually the following: Fr. Stephen: If you’re in your Orthodox Study Bible. This is when Saul, near the end of his reign as king, in his disobedience goes to consult with the witch or the medium at Endor, not the one with the Ewoks. a b c d The Book of Oberon, eds. Daniel Harms and Joseph Peterson, Llewllyn Publications, 2015, p.1-30

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Fr. Andrew: Yes, well, we’re probably going to do a whole lot of debunking! [Laughter] Thank you for that, Michael. We’ve got another good angelic name next: Raphael, who has a question or a comment about guardian angels. Raphael, are you there on the line? Fr. Stephen: The city in Palestine. And [he] asks her to summon up the spirit of Samuel. There’s this moment in verse 13 where she’s kind of seemingly a little surprised at how well it worked, because she starts freaking out. Verse 13 says: Fr. Andrew:“Um, actually…” Exactly! Everyone, get out your animated gifs for that! We today, Christians today, we are monotheists. That’s the way we talk about it, and we’re not polytheists. So there’s the idea that we worship the one, true God, and those pagans, they worshiped many gods. But that, if you listen to the beginning of what we were talking about tonight, you know that that’s not the image that the Bible depicts. It uses the word “gods” to refer to all kinds of beings and doesn’t see a problem with using that same word to refer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the one true God. “The one true God,” the phrase that we use, that doesn’t mean that that’s the only being we use the word “god” to refer to, because the Bible doesn’t do that. There are giants in the Bible. Many Christians have tried to explain them away, ignore them, or treat them as mere metaphors. But the Orthodox Church takes giants seriously. Join… Fr. Andrew: Yeah, right, sure! Let’s roll on with some more. Let’s just leave that question hanging…I’m super interested in this show because I think that there’s so much about spiritual life that it’s easy for us, not just to miss, but to have kind of endless struggles with that we don’t necessarily have to have. We’re going to talk about this a lot as we go, and of course not just in this episode, but it’s going to be a perennial issue: the sense that we have that the 3D world that we experience is kind of like all we feel we can access most of the time, but as Christians we want to access something beyond this, and it’s very frustrating when you maybe reach out for God and the saints and you’re like: Where are you? What’s going on? Serving as a pastor for 11 years, this is a perennial issue, and I think any pastors that are out there listening to this, I’m sure you’ve had the same experience, but even just Christians, we all have this difficulty because we’re modern people living in a way of thinking and looking at the world that makes it difficult to access spiritual reality. Fr. Stephen: [Laughter] Not really correct it. I’ll fill in blanks. I don’t have to “Um, actually” you yet. Pisces Mug, Perfect Birthday Gift, Astrology Ceramic Mug, Fun Zodiac Sign Coffee Cup, Ideal For Book Lovers, Free Spirits & Deep Thinkers Fr. Andrew: You don’t want to be. You don’t want to be superstitious. That’s not the same. We’re not teaching people how to be superstitious well. [Laughter] That’s not what we’re doing. It’s interesting, and it also comes in if you’ve ever gone to Great Compline, which we especially serve during—at least in our tradition—Great Lent. But it shows up, of course, at other times of the liturgical year. There is a hymn in there called “Lord of hosts”: “O Lord of hosts, be with us, for we have no other help in times of sorrow but thee.” Which in the Byzantine tradition is just a wonderful, big, throaty kind of manly hymn. But what’s interesting is that in Greek it’s: “ Kyrie [ton] dynamaeon, Lord of powers,” but it means the same thing. I mean, isn’t that just simply the Septuagint translation of “Lord Sabaoth,” right?

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Johannes Trithemius mentions two separate works ( Liber quoque Officiorum, and De Officiis Spirituum), [3] [5] indicating that the text may have branched off by his time. Weyer, in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, lists his source as Liber officiorum spirituum. [3] [6] [7] Thomas Rudd titles his copy of the Ars Goetia as Liber Malorum Spirituum. [8] Chapter 1 (Earthly Joys and Sorrows) is about the meaning of the experiences we have on Earth, both good and bad. Fr. Andrew: Because, I mean, he’s the expert, but I do have a couple things I want to throw in here, if only so we can hear him correct me. [Laughter] Chapter 1 (Spirits) explains what spirits are, where they come from, what they are like, how they manifest, the purpose of their existence, and how people perceive them.Fr. Stephen: Like the court of a king. So it’s talking about the council of God, basically, and people on the council. The Star of Bethlehem has long been seen as a sign of Christ’s birth, but was it just an astronomical event such as one might observe with a telescope?… These spells are interrupted by a short treatise on the role of angels, demons, and magic in theodicy, before continuing with more spells to see spirits, [20] a collection of talismans, [21] and a selection of names of God, planetary seals and spirits, geomantic figures, fumigations, and notes on the Lunar mansions openly taken from Agrippa. [22] Following this are more instructions on ritual magic, and more spells to acquire unspecified desired items, and identify thieves. The additional spirits in this section include: Bilgal, Annabath, Ascariell, Satan, Baron, Romulon, Mosacus, and Orobas. [23] The instructions on summoning spirits continue with Oberyon and his followers: Storax, Carmelyon, Severion, Caberyon, Aozol, Restun, Ramalath, Zaseres, Castriel, Saziel, and Ydial. [24] Fr. Stephen: It gets complicated, because the Septuagint does it different ways, but, yes, it’s the same kind of idea: God of the powers. The hymn, the trisagion there, the “Holy, holy, holy, Lord Sabaoth,” is being sung by the angels, and it’s a way of the angels expressing and worshiping him as their God. That’s a way we don’t always think about it, and that’s why there’s a similar phrase also in our memorial prayers, which is actually taken directly from the Book of Jubilees, a different piece of Enochic literature, where the prayer begins, “O God of spirits and of all flesh…”