What is the Earth Ritual?

Before providing an explanation of the Earth Ritual from a Tibetan Buddhist viewpoint, it is imperative to set the record straight from the beginning.  What those on the ground in Washington, DC are witnessing is a physical religious rite of possession to establish the Shambhala Empire. It is a well known strategm that before a general fights a battle, he fights it in his mind many times. Like the Olympian who imagines a perfect performance in a gymnastic routine in his or her mind first, the same happens in the Kalachakra ceremony from the Earth Ritual to the very end. It is an elaborate ceremony taking many days and many ceremonies.

After reading the following explanation, it is important to take time to reflect on what exactly is being done.  Rather than giving you a Christian orientation or commentary up front on this ceremony, first take the time to read it and then write your own reflection. We’d like to see your comment on our blog comment section in the upper right corner of the website or at the end of each blog. Thanks. Then we should react and actively discuss, even debate the meaning and legality of such a ritual occuring on American soil. Fair enough? As Christians we will add a couple of prayer requests following the item from our religious conviction.

Sincerely,

James C. Stephens

EARTH RITUAL.

He starts by prostrating himself and invoking their god, Kalachakra. For the next three days, the specially trained lamas (Tibetan Buddhist monks) ritually purify the site. “Monks investigate the ground, measurements are taken,” magic mantras are chanted.  “Subsequently, it comes to a highly provocative scene, in which the local spirits and the earth goddess are violently forced to agree with the construction of the mandala.”

“For this purpose one of the lamas takes on the appearance of Vajravega, that is, he visualizes himself as this deity. Vajravega is blue in color, has three necks and 24 hands. As clothing he wears a tigerskin skirt, decorated with snakes and bones. He is considered to be the terrifying emanation of the time god Kalachakra. He can evoke sixty wrathful protective deities from out of his inscrutable heart, who then storm out through his ears, nostrils, eyes, mouth, uretha, anus, and from an opening in the top of his skull. Among these are found zombies, vampires and dakinins with the heads of animals.”

“This monster now drags in the impeding local spirits with iron hooks and, once they have been bound in chains, nails them down in the ten directions with ritual daggers. A further ten wrathful deities are projected into each of these daggers (phurbas). There are indications which must be regarded seriously that in the performance of the Kalachakra rituals it is not just the local spirits, but likewise the earth mother (Srinmo) who embody nailed down victims.”

After the tantra masters demonstration of power, he sits down in the center of the mandala space, faces the East and says , “I shall build on this place a mandala in the manner I have imagined it.” This is his act of territorial occupation.

“The tantra master evokes the terrifying deity, Vajravega, anew, and once again drives potential disruptive spirits out of the mandala grounds. He is so filled with wrathful deities that horror figures who are supposed to protect the mandala even emanate out of the soles of his feet…On the table top, the lama lays a lotus, a sword, a wish-granting jewel, a wheel, and in the middle a vajra (thunderbolt). This centrally placed “thunderbolt” demonstrates yet again the masculine control of the earth.”

In that the earth is transformed into a diamond by the tantric gesture of the Buddha, nature is symbolically transformed into pure spirit and woman into a man.” 

 PRAYERS.

O, YHWH, All Principalities & Powers flee at YOUR PRESENCE. Release the Fear of the YHWH on this nation that they may know that YOU are ALONE worthy of Praise, Adoration, and worship. That You are the rightful owner as CREATOR of Heaven and Earth. Give your people the Courage of the LION of the TRIBE OF JUDAH.

 “You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD Your God.”  Leviticus 26:1.

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples.  (Deuteronomy 32:8)

Gatekeepers confession.  We come to You YHWH, and confess our negligence in protecting the land from the defilement of invoking gods our fathers did not know.

“Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to Me, that I may let them hear My words, so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ Deuteronomy 4:10.

Woke up this morning in war mode. Anger boiled in my spirit. The Buddhists are doing exactly what they’ve been programmed to do. The Church is AWOL. The Hand of  YHWH is justly poised, ready to chasten. It is a day for sackcloth and ashes. Blessed is the NAME above all names.
 
We’ve warned thoroughly. It is a long written indictment against the soiled and disobedient Church.  
 

A First Nations believer hears from the LORD and writes what she sees.  We are in perilous times (see her writing below my signature).
His Word is confirmation. As priests, we enter into sackcloth, mourning. As warriors into the breach. As gatekeepers we fiercely contend for the faith delivered to the remnant saints. Our eyes are like the eagles awaiting the orders of our Commander-in-Chief who rides on a white horse in control of time. Our spiritual ears are open to Master Yeshua’s call.
  
A pawn in the hand of THE KING of kings, awaiting  His next Masterful move.
 
 
James C. Stephens
http://www.worldviews101.com.

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Bowl of Blood           July 4, 2011
Cup of Firey Iniquity

I saw over SF a large bowl of blood.

I saw over the eastern seaboard the golden cup full to the brim of iniquity
with a fire on the surface.

I saw an old man in the fields with a huge bundle of sheaves over his
shoulder.
He is the Ancient of Days.
The harvest is being carried in out of the fields.

Fires!
Destruction is coming
Because there is an appointed time for harvest.
Whatsoever a man sows he shall reap.

The harvest of the earth is ripe
With the mystery of iniquity.
The mysteries of the judgments of God,
Mysteries of the kingdom,
Mysteries of the King and the Lamb and the Lion.
The mysteries of Zion the eternal city.
The mysteries of the purposes of God.

I see a huge book with a leather strap around it.
I heard the leather strap snap and open.
I then saw the pages open.
It is an old book ancient ancient old book.
It is an old book.
I see the pages fluttering.
It is upside down.

I see the winds, winds, winds of the spirit.
I see the sins of men.
I see them catalogued.

I see another book.
It is the book of rememberance.
Writing, writing, writing, writing, writing, writing
Words, words, words, words,
Many many words
Words, words, word,
I see words flying all over off the pages,
Flying into the air,
Flying all over the place.

The word manifest;
The prophetic word;
The Word Jesus;
The walking flesh;
The word of flesh;
The word made flesh.

I see the Lord
He has a pen in His hand.
He is tapping the book
When he taps the book the letters fall out onto the floor.

I see a wind coming out of His mouth.
It is blowing the letters all about.
The letters are coming out like in a whirlwind,
Then they turn into fire,
The word of fire,
The word of power,
The word of the spirit.
God spoke.
It is the sword of the Lord
Out of His own mouth.
It is the word of power.

I see another book.
There are two leather straps on it,
Both snap open.
The pages open.
This book is facing up.
Fire comes off the pages.
It is gold all around.
It is an ancient, ancient, ancient book
.

I see the Lord take His finger.
He is tapping it in the middle of the fire.
He is taking His finger.
He is writing with it.
He is writing with His finger.
He is writing, writing, writing, writing
the words.

I see Him looking into a basin.
It is square filled with water.
He washes His face with the water.
He throws water on His face.
The water is dripping all over Him
Down His hair all over His garments
On His face.
It is the word.
It is the sanctifying word.
It is the word of fire.
The word of power.

There is another book.
It has three straps.
He has unloosed the straps with His hand.
He turns the book around and He shows it to the earth.
He shows it to all mankind.

He is not a man that He should lie
Nor the son of man that He should repent.
If He has spoken it
It will come to past.

Confrontation with the Word of God!

He is getting up out of His chair.
He is shaking out His garments.
All this gold falls out of His garments
It’s like gold leaves,
Leaves like on a tree.
It is the leaves of faith and healing.

He turns to Me, puts His fingers on His lips
Says, “Shhh, don’t speak when He says not to speak.
He puts His hand over His mouth.
He says, “When I say speak speak.”

He goes to the door.
He opens the door and says, “Come follow Me.”
He points out the door outside the door.
It is a very rustic door.
Outside is a wilderness, a desert, a high desert.
I see a black raven coming.
It’s death and destruction.
Death is coming over the land.

The shadow of death is going to come over the land.
It will be a desert.
It will be a wilderness.
The fruitful places will be turned into deserts.

Many are going to perish.
They are going around and they think their life will never change.
They don’t know that sudden destruction is coming upon them.
And this is just the way it is.

Coming desolation-wilderness is coming-
And the shadow of death is coming over the land.

I see a whirlwind coming over the desert.
Winds of destruction coming more over the mid-west.
Many people are going to die pretty soon.

Only the Lord saves!
Stand and Deliver.

I see the scroll with a red ribbon and seal.
He hands me the scroll.
The message is for the appointed time.

The foundations of the earth;
The foundations of the universe;
Unusual and terrible.

I see in the sky Holy.
He is writing in the sky “Kadosh” with the finger of God.

I hear the lightning and thunder from heaven.
The judgment is being unleashed on the earth
Because He is a holy God.

He says He is going to uncover more
At the highest levels.
He has been uncovering the puppets at the highest level.
The things done in secret and those cabbals of secret.
He is going to show the Emperors that they have no clothes.

It is the next stage of stripping and shaming.
Naked and ashamed they will be before the whole earth.
What they have conspired in secret behind closed doors
Is going to be opened up even in a greater way.

They will be without shame
Without conscience.
They will be given over to the despicable people they are
Unfeeling, unhuman, without sentiments, or natural affections,
lovers of money, lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God,

They will take my name upon their lips (that is God’s name)
But what right do they have to take my covenant when they have
broken it? Every word of my covenant has been broken.

Words smooth as butter and inside there hearts are drawn swords,
armaments, and weapons of war.
It will be obvious who these people are.
It will be proclaimed over the whole earth.

Those who have eyes to see will see
And ears to hear will hear.
They will know the Lord is a just and righteous God.
His judgments are pure.

Woe to those who blaspheme His holy name
And speak ungodly things about His holiness
The Lord God of the Universe.
Woe to them!

They are filling up the cups of their own wrath
And it is going to be poured out on their heads.
They were appointed for this destruction.
Woe! Woe! woe! to the inhabitants of the earth.

As the eagle is crying woe! woe! woe!
to the inhabitants of the earth for the judgments
that are about to be unleashed.

Rev 15:   “Great and marvelous are Your works,
   Lord God Almighty!
   Just and true are Your ways,
   O King of the £saints!
4    Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
   For You alone are holy.
   For all nations shall come and worship before You,
   For Your judgments have been manifested.”

I see people in the mountains.
I see people going into the desert somewhat
like the hebrews coming out of Egypt.
I sense people being called out and gathered together now.
They are praying.
I see long brass trumpets in the midst of them.
The trumpet for Rosh Hashana, trumpets of judgment.
I hear the trumpets blasting.
It is the sound of war, war, war.

I see the LOrd over the earth as His hand comes
over certain peoples. He is hiding them in groups and in designated
places.

Because of their own lusts they war against each other and kill each other.

I am a righteous God.
I have a destiny for the wicked and their end.
It is a just end.
Who should not fear Me?

I am manifesting my judgments on the earth now.

I hear worship of God in heaven with the thunders of heaven.
I hear them crying out, “How long o Lord?”
I hear the Lord saying, “Not long.”

I heard the Lord say, “I am coming soon now.”
I am the Lord of War.
I heard the war horses in heaven.

I saw the sceptre of the Lord.
I saw the orb of the Lord.
I heard the trumpets blasting again.
The trumpets are blasting releasing the judgments
on the enemies of God.
He is Coming!
His judgments are preparing the way, preparing the way,
For His holiness.
He has eyes of fire.
The Master is coming to take back His vineyard.

USA
Hosea 7: 8    “Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;
   Ephraim is a cake unturned.
9    Aliens have devoured his strength,
   But he does not know it;
   Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
   Yet he does not know it.
10    And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,
   But they do not return to the Lord their God,
   Nor seek Him for all this.

But I will discipline my rebellious children that have become
full of witchcrafter and idolatry.
I will take a severe rod of discipline to correct them.
They will learn obedience through the things they are to suffer.

I will watch over my word to perform it.

In His Yeshua’s love,
Kathleen Pirl
www.kdpirlministries.org

An Exhortation to the American Church Regarding the Washington, DC Visit of the Dalai Lama  

July 6-16, 2011

“A blind man cannot guide a blind man can he? Will they both not fall into a pit?” (Luke 6:39)

By James C. Stephens

Monday, July 4, 2011

Day after tomorrow, an ancient tantric Buddhist ritual attended by 100,000 zealous Buddhist devotees of the Dalai Lama will be initiated within the gates of Washington, DC, the capital of the free world to which much of the world looks for inspiration.

The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet and his Tantric shamans will perform ceremonies from July 6-16 which they believe will transform the designated area into the Kalachakra Palace  initiating disciples into Tibet’s global Shambhala Empire and indoctrinating them into the mysteries of their kingdom including the prophecies of a Buddhist war against the followers of Mohammed, Abraham, Mani and Jesus, the evil snake religions according to their faith.

In 1970, I was a young naïve and idealistic student who began to practice Buddhism. For fourteen years, I was radically committed to establishing Buddhism in America. During that time, I rose in the leadership ranks of the youth division within the Beverly Hills chapter of the No. 1 Headquarters of a Japanese Buddhist Sect, known at the time as Nichiren Shoshu Soka Gakkai. We were as close to the center of the radical student movement as you could possibly get. During my college days, I converted over 54 Americans into Buddhism and was actively involved in propagating Buddhism seven days a week. I was a member of the TCD and later the Soka Group dedicated to protecting the President and General Director, as well as the members of the organization. I also was a member of Daisaku Ikeda’s pride and joy, The Brass Band weekly reciting late President’s Toda’s Precepts for Youth which included the determination “to march over the bodies of your taiten (fallen away) members.”  After many study exams, I graduated the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Study Academy.

However, my objective for this particular blog is not to speak of my 14 year pilgrimage as a radical Buddhist to the Christian faith. My desire presently is to disclose my credentials as a Buddhist insider so that you know where I’m coming from. I stand as a Christian who was formerly an American Buddhist who does sincerely repent of my complicity as a student leader who conscientiously helped establish the foundation for the present explosion of Buddhism in America. A faith I have come to believe is an idolatrous and dangerous path that leads to eternal death and damnation.

I bear no malice towards Buddhists. Nonetheless, I stand as a witness against the Buddhist system that keeps them in bondage and against those Christians from various streams that seem to believe that you can incorporate Buddhist elements of meditation into our Christian praxis.

In 1984, my Buddhist wife and I were both saved after an intense pilgrimage which earnestly began after the Jonestown massacre which coincided at around the same time as San Francisco Mayor Diane Feinstein opened the Golden Gate to the relatively unknown god-king of Tibet. Shortly after she awarded the Key to the City of San Francisco to the Dalai Lama, Mayor Tom Bradley in Los Angeles followed suit.

As a Buddhist, I had worked as a summer intern for Mayor Bradley’s Office and our Japanese American Buddhist sect already had a working history with the Mayoral office. Prior to Bradley’s election, we performed as a Brass Band for LA Mayor Sam Yorty at the LA County Museum of Art and also dressed up in Santa Claus uniforms to play Christmas Carols for various institutions caring for underprivileged children.

Fast Forward to 2011.  Over the last several years, it came to my attention that a number of my old Buddhist compatriots have passed away, while some of my members have risen in leadership. One of my members, Danny Nagashima is now the General Director of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect in America comprised by some 500,000 members.

Over the years, I have shared my faith with many of the members including Danny during one of the outreaches we ventured on at the Anaheim Convention Center. In 1989, we first began reaching out to Tibetan Buddhists when the XIV Dalai Lama came to Los Angeles to conduct the Kalachakra Ceremony in Santa Monica, California. At that time, there were no security stations, no apparent secret service. I heard him speak at the Shrine Auditorium across the street from the University of Southern California. It was the first time I’d heard him. As a former Buddhist leader, I understood his well developed peace rhetoric and followed his broken Indian English. I was not taken by his message. However, I could understand how Americans who had not been exposed to Eastern religion could be taken in by his charismatic personality and message of peace. Indeed “distance lends enchantment to the view.”  He is a masterful communicator and like a good guest did not at the time offend his hosts.

But, he has an agenda and unbeknownst to me at the time, was funded by the CIA and paid an annual stipend of $100,000 as part of its special PsyOps (Psychological Operations) warfare against Communist China which was recently disclosed through documents obtained  under the Freedom of Information Act and posted on Shugden Dorje’s website, an adversarial Tibetan sect opposed by the Dalai Lama.  At the time, President Kennedy’s annual salary was $25,000.

Our government has long been allied with the Dalai Lama in a shadow war with China providing him open doors into innumerable university arenas and into our hallowed halls of government.

So why is their silence on the Hill? In the press? More particularly, why little critical reflection? Can we blame it on our naiveté about foreign affairs? A Shangri-La Enchantment?  Are the clever manipulations of the Dalai Lama alone to blame? Frankly, he’s doing exactly as he has been trained to do for centuries by the Tibetan Buddhist doctrine of upaya, or “skillful means” (roughly the Tibetan equivalent to the West’s Machiavellian principles).

Empires come and go. We are young, as many civilizations go. We’ve grown fat, like Jeshrun in the Old Testament and forgotten God who enabled us to become a great nation. We’ve grown greedy, lazy in our thinking, watered down our founding values. We’ve forgotten our Fathers and Mothers. We’ve forgotten to think critically.

Although all has not been lost, we are at a juncture requiring a critical re-examination of our foundations. If we cross this pluralist “Rubicon” without engaging in a Great Debate, many fear that the speed of our decline as a nation will only accelerate.

I personally do not savor the study of Buddhism as I did in my days as a young Buddhist radical. I would much rather be delving deeper into the study of God’s Holy Scriptures which have given me so much comfort and joy. At the same time, I see the danger as only a physician who sees the signs of a degenerative disease. I have seen many Christians, missionaries and academics included who have been enamoured by Buddhism. Some have fallen. By God’s grace, I have seen through years of assiduous Buddhist practice that “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end leads to death.” I’ve seen too many of my Buddhist friends die lately. Friends I loved dearly.

Let’s pray that out of the 100,000 initiates attending the Kalachakra Ceremony in Washington, DC that many will come to the realization as I did, that we cannot save ourselves through following the Buddha. Even the Dalai Lama has said, “I am not perfect.”  And yet, we follow One who is the Complete Perfection. One who has no sin in His mouth. No sin in His heart. One that provided the Perfect Sacrifice on our behalf. Yeshua Ha’Moshiach.

Those who truly profess faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Yeshua Ha’Moshiach are not on trial here. However, those who profess faith and naively think they can have it both ways, are standing on a precipice.

Jesus said, “Why do you call Me, Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Everyone who comes to Me, and hears My words, and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house could not shake it, because it had been well built.

But the one who has heard, and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house upon the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed and the ruin of that house was great.” (Luke 6:46-49).

 Our nation is at risk. While I have great faith in YHWH, I also believe that His judgments are righteous altogether and true. I have heard politicians of late confess that their personal morals and values are not of account when considering same sex marriage. Rather, they believe that it behooves them to follow the will of the people. This is a grievous mistake they make.

America was not founded as a democracy, but a Republic whose “scheme of representation takes place” in order “to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens” “whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations” of a cabal of a few individuals or the tyranny of the majority rule. “Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves (pure democracy), convened for the purpose.”   (http://lexrex.com/enlightened/Federalist/fed10.htm paraphrased Federalist Paper #10).

 On May 9, 2011, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Hart Foundation Award for Global Leadership at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. At the end of his acceptance speech before a select crowd of 2,500 including former US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, he made a bold statement which he repeated three times. “I am a Marxist and proud to say it in a capitalist country.” Immediately, the entire crowd applauded. There was no explanation, no refinement. Pure and simple, “I’m a Marxist.”  Almost immediately, the emcee for the event, stood up and abruptly, but tactfully interrupted saying, “We promised to get all the students back to class before the end of the day, so we want to thank the Dalai Lama for speaking today. Thank you very much.”  

In The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith by Os Guiness, he asked, “Has some more acceptable source of faith taken their (Judaeo-Christianity’s) place or is no faith necessary now because Americanism has assumed a religious character of its own and become the unspoken religion of the American people?”

 Denis Brogan wrote that if God was to be replaced in American experience, “what was to replace Him? Could anything replace Him but ‘Democracy” made into an object of worship, or business, or success! Nobody knew; nobody knows yet.”

I recall speaking to Gideon, the student leader of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Hong Kong in 1995 as he faced the 1997 Hong Kong Handover. I asked him, “Do you fear persecution?”

His response was unexpected, “No. Persecution is the sign of a healthy church. What I fear is materialism.”

America’s days as a proud materialistic peacock are over. It is something we must come to terms with. We cannot however, just bury our heads in the sand like the ostrich who tramples her young. We also cannot replace our faith with the goddess of democracy which the Dalai Lama so often refers to. What is democracy without faith in God?

Guiness wonders if “the result, at best, is a confused and undiscriminating America that in area after area has exchanged excellence for eclecticism, serious questing for truth for an endless stockpiling of uncertain perspectives.”

His conclusion? As political scientist Glenn Tinder has noted, “A nation that does not dare to make moral judgments is surely living under the shadow of nihilism.”

We are facing “a crisis of cultural authority.”  Guiness contends that “every generation must cultivate and guard the sources of its cultural authority because no free republic is more than two or three generations away from the possibility of such a decline.”

He suggests that “American self-reliance without God cannot be sufficient without God…A realistic view of history and American society suggests that not even the United States can defy gravity. Every great nation is also a nation within time and under the sentence of death.”

G.K. Chesterton called America’s “ultimate test”—a crisis of reality. “Men will more and more realize that there is no meaning in democracy if there is no meaning in anything; and that there is no meaning in anything if the universe has not a centre of significance and an authority that is the author of our rights.” Above all, it points beyond itself toward the biblical insistence on the empty nothingness of idols and on the glory (or weight) of God as the only “real reality: in all the universe.”

Guiness argues, “Respecting the right to believe anything is a matter of freedom of conscience; believing anything anyone believes is right is plain stupidity.”   

The Williamsburg Charter seems to have at least provided the ground rules for discussion, dialogue and debate in our pluralistic society. It states,

 “The right to argue for any public policy is a fundamental right for every citizen; respecting that right is a fundamental responsibility for all other citizens. When any view is expressed, all must uphold as constitutionally protected its advocates rights to express it. But others are free to challenge that view as politically pernicious, philosophically false, ethically evil, theologically idolatrous, or simply absurd, as the case may seem to be. Unless this tension between peace and truth is respected, civility cannot be sustained.”

The civil public square does not aim at the harmony promulgated by Confucian ideals, but one of mutual respect, wherein each faith may argue its ideals without threat of force. Tragically, in our present society, our government seems to be supporting the Dalai Lama’s agenda and fiscally acting as his herald, which is contrary to the separation of Church and State. The playing field is not even.

So “what happens when the body politic no longer lives up to the Republic’s founding standards?”  Senate Chaplain Barry Black said something towards the end of his article that struck me as I’ve wrestled with the implications of those who profess Marxism as an ideology which has historically ended up persecuting anyone who practices a religion contrary to its tenets.

He said, “I’ll take a rough Elijah who’s looking about the political scene and saying: “God, now they’re saying that Baal is the one who sends the rain. Show Yourself strong. Stand up and do something.

Chaplain Black continued, “James 5 says, “One man, just like us, shut up the heavens for three-and-one-half years.” That’s what we need in our pulpits. That’s what we need in our churches. That’s what we need in our legislative and executive branch.”

Guiness addresses the need for that one who stands in the gap.  “For the person who has faced the challenge of the hour, evasion is out of the question. If the task of the mind is to understand, and the task of the understanding is to help us engage with reality, then the man or woman who understands must set about reconciling ideas and reality.”

 “We should not take the word gap casually.” The LORD is looking for His people to stand in the gap. “As far as the human mind can see, only the presence of a person can break the chain of uninterrupted forces. Only because of us is there an interval in the ceaseless continuum of time. Only if we stand is there a space. Only as we fight is it held open. Only when we prevail can we break up the flow of history and direct its course with human significance. In short, the present moment is a gap in time that we work to shape even as it works to shape us. This means that, for human beings, time and history are always a battlefield and never a home.”

That’s who we need in our nation now. Gatekeepers standing in the gap in every arena of society. Earnestly, contending for the faith delivered to the saints.” That was my heart cry in the middle of the night when I wrote Trumpeter’s Lament. That’s been my call in the Red Alert on the Kalachakra Ceremony about to be conducted in Washington, DC. http://www.worldviews101.com/.

 If there was ever a moment in time when the nation needs a dissenting prophetic voice, it’s now.

As “knights of faith” we must always keep our eyes fixed on the Author and Finisher of our faith, Yeshua Ha’Moshiach, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, King of Kings, our Messiah and Master.

A research colleague at Centers For Apologetics Research (CFAR) just sent a Guardian article to me by Mary Finnigan on  Tantric  sexual abuse which I think is an important read in light of the upcoming Kalachakra Ceremony in Washington, DC July 6-16. I’ve posted a segment of the article and the link to the remainder of the article at the end.  But, before the article, I’d like to briefly relate two of my observations in relation to the article which underscore the dangers that loved ones who have ventured into tantric Buddhism may face.

A number of years ago, while visiting Seattle, I recall a young woman who had come to faith in Jesus Christ who had been a consort of a leading Tibetan lama. She said that it was nearly impossible for her to talk about and so she was reticent to even say much more than it was tantamount to spiritual rape and intimidation. It was so awful she desired to forget. Few can understand the horror.

During one summer course that we’d held years ago for Christians desiring to understand what Buddhists believed, we visited Dharmadhatu,  a Tibetan Buddhist Center in West Hollywood. They were very welcoming and subsequently, we had a very honest,  long and open dialogue about the differences between Christianity and Buddhism.

At one point they openly discussed their own trials and tribulations with their founder, Osel Tendzin who had died of AIDS as well as nine other Tibetan lamas in Boulder, Colorado. They were struggling with the fact that Tendzin didn’t tell his female consorts who he had performed tantric rituals with that he was infected with AIDS. It was something they said that they will struggle with for years.

The following article from the Guardian provides an important head’s up for those who have loved ones who may be headed down this horrific spiritual path. 

SEX ABUSE CLAIMS CALL BUDDHIST TABOOS INTO QUESTION

Allegations against Sogyal Rinpoche highlight the dangers

of Buddhist injunctions against gossip and insistence on loyalty.

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The Guardian

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by Mary Finnigan

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Friday 1 July 2011

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In November 1994 an American woman known as Janice Doe filed a $10m lawsuit against the Tibetan lama Sogyal Rinpoche, charging him with sexual, mental and physical abuse. The case was dealt with out of court and Janice Doe signed a non-disclosure agreement in return for a cash settlement.

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Sogyal denies allegations of abuse, but fresh evidence against him was recently aired in an investigative documentary called In the Name of Enlightenment, broadcast on Vision TV in Canada. A beautiful young woman identified as Mimi described an abusive sexual relationship. She was the first person claiming direct experience of Sogyal’s exploitative attentions to go public since the 1994 lawsuit.

Sogyal (surname Lakar – Rinpoche is a title that means “precious one”) is the frontman for a Tibetan Buddhist organisation called Rigpa, which has a worldwide reach with 130 centres in 41 countries. He has a bestselling book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, to his name and he starred alongside Keanu Reeves in the movie Little Buddha. Sogyal is a formidably successful guru – probably the best known Tibetan after the Dalai Lama.

 His trajectory into Buddhist superstardom suffered only a temporary setback following the Janice Doe lawsuit – despite the fact that lurid rumours about his sex life circulate on the internet with increasing volume and persistence.

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The allegations raise a wider question: why are victims of sexual exploitation by charismatic religious leaders reluctant to denounce their abusers?

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In the Canadian documentary, Mimi highlights the Stockholm syndrome – a term used to describe the paradoxical reactions of individuals who bond with their abusers. “The person beating us, she says, “is also the only one giving us affection – and food and a roof over our heads.”Sociologist Amanda van Eck is deputy director of Inform, the cult information resource at the London School of Economics.

She says fear is probably the main reason why women stay silent: “In some groups there has been fear of retribution,” she says, “which means they don’t want to speak publicly.

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In other cases, which may overlap with fear of retribution, they are fearful of negative consequences – damnation, of not being saved, of possession by evil spirits, of being attacked by negative forces and so on.”If the outside world has been demonised by cult leaders, Van Eck says, women may also be fearful that no one can be trusted.

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Many women who have described abusive sexual relationships anonymously on internet forums refuse to come out of hiding because they want to move on, rather than relive traumatic periods in their lives. Some also feel a need to protect their families.In my personal experience, there are two taboos in Buddhist organisations, both of which have merit and both of which can be used as manipulative tools.

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One of them is an injunction against gossip – useful when trying to establish a calm mental state, but also useful to prevent the circulation of critical comment.The second is samaya – the bond of loyalty that is one of the key tenets of Tibetan Buddhism. It supports the relationship between teacher and neophyte, but it can be deployed unscrupulously as a threat – break your samaya and attract dire consequences to yourself and your loved ones.

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You may find the complete article at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/01/lama-sex-abuse-sogyal-rinpoche-buddhist

For more on Tantric Ritual Abuse http://www.trimondi.de/EN/deba02.html. June Campbell’s story.

July 2, 2011

by James C. Stephens

The following information is to help prepare you to pray against the earth rituals which are slated to be started on July 6 in Washington, DC.   For those of you that are on vacation and are reading this, we’ve got an assignment for you.  Check out the details further in the blog. 

Last night, my mind was working overtime as I examined the calendar of events that accompany the Kalachakra event.  Many of these events are just now coming up online.  Very slick and professional advertising. While most of America is thinking about fireworks, hotdogs, baseball games and barbeques, a whole ‘nother agenda is being rolled out before the US Capitol building.

I’m taken back to July 4th, 2000 when I was on the front lawn of the steps of the US Capitol facing the majestic view of the National mall, the magnificent fireworks bursting in the air above the Washington monument and listening to the performance of the band of the Stars and Stripes Forever, the National Anthem. It was unforgettable. 

 In July in Washington, DC our teams had been prayerfully engaged in addressing the $6,500,000 Smithsonian Exhibit on Tibet, Land Beyond the Snows Exhibition on the National Mall complete with huge Prayer Wheels, a Tibetan Temple, a sand mandala, etc. We prayed for the salvation of Tibetan Buddhist peoples and against the rise of idolatry and against the impartation of 722 demons from the sand mandala which was constructed between the White House and the US Capitol and their attempt to initiate rites of possession.  Four Hundred youth who had been fasting for forty days led by Craig Lotz had been in confession for the sins of the nation and providentially ended up praying right before the capitol as the Dalai Lama was conducting the Monlam Chenmo “world peace prayer” session about two streets away on the National Mall. We prayed in the Capitol Building against any lasting memorial of Tibetan Buddhism and these foreign gods and also in the White House Oval Office.

Little did we know that earlier the Kalachakra mandala had been built in Tower One of the World Trade Center towers. Little did we know that soon, a major battle would be hitting the shores of America and that the WTC towers would be no more and that that other planes were to attack the White House and US Capitol. We never even thought of praying over the Pentagon, although we’d prayed for believers there. So when September 11 hit, we as everyone else were absolutely in shocked.

Strangely in 1997, while traveling the US, we’d been in New Jersey and while taking pictures of the WTC, we saw a hang glider, of all things, flying through the Two towers. While we were watching we saw three Moslems sitting not far from us and they were watching as well. For us it was just an unusual event. Time and looking back in retrospect is almost a mystery as we think about the invisible Hand of YHWH guiding us in life.

Now, three days before the event we live in a much more turbulent, changing and dangerous world. The US Congress is in an unusual session over the Fourth, days away from any agreement over raising the debt ceiling. The nation hangs in the balance and it may be by August 2, that the Nation in no longer able to pay its debt. We grieve. Two days after the Fourth,  Tibetan Earth Rituals, not disguised, will be conducted to begin to construct the tantric space to conduct their vile tantric rituals. And other events in the same space right before the US Capitol that I had viewed the fireworks from just eleven years ago. 

PREPARATORY TIBETAN EARTH RITUALS   Washington, DC. Wednesday, July 6 through Friday, July 8.

The master builder of the Kalachakra sand mandala may very well be the same one who lives in Madison, Wisconsin who built the Kalachakra mandala there thirty years ago in July 1981 and then also in Tower One of the WTC in New York,City.

He starts by prostrating himself to a false god, invoking their god, Kalachakra. For the next three days, the specially trained lamas ritually purify the site. “Monks investigate the ground, measurements are taken,” magic mantras are chanted.  “Subsequently, it comes to a highly provocative scene, in which the local spirits and the earth goddess are violently forced to agree with the construction of the mandala.”

“For this purpose one of the lamas takes on the appearance of Vajravega, that is, he visualizes himself as this deity. Vajravega is blue in color, has three necks and 24 hands. As clothing he wears a tigerskin skirt, decorated with snakes and bones. He is considered to be the terrifying emanation of the time god Kalachakra. He can evoke sixty wrathful protective deities from out of his inscrutable heart, who then storm out through his ears, nostrils, eyes, mouth, uretha, anus, and from an opening in the top of his skull. Among these are found zombies, vampires and dakinins with the heads of animals.”

“This monster now drags in the impeding local spirits with iron hooks and, once they have been bound in chains, nails them down in the ten directions with ritual daggers. A further ten wrathful deities are projected into each of these daggers (phurbas). There are indications which must be regarded seriously that in the performance of the Kalachakra rituals it is not just the local spirits, but likewise the earth mother (Srinmo) who embody nailed down victims.”

After the tantra masters demonstration of power, he sits down in the center of the mandala space, faces the East and says , “I shall build on this place a mandala in the manner I have imagined it.” This is his act of territorial occupation.

“The tantra master evokes the terrifying deity, Vajravega, anew, and once again drives potential disruptive spirits out of the mandala grounds. He is so filled with wrathful deities that horror figures who are supposed to protect the mandala even emanate out of the soles of his feet…On the table top, the lama lays a lotus, a sword, a wish-granting jewel, a wheel, and in the middle a vajra (thunderbolt). This centrally placed “thunderbolt” demonstrates yet again the masculine control of the earth.”

In that the earth is transformed into a diamond by the tantric gesture of the Buddha, nature is symbolically transformed into pure spirit and woman into a man.” 

 PRAYERS.

O, YHWH, All Principalities & Powers flee at YOUR PRESENCE. Release the Fear of the YHWH on this nation that they may know that YOU are ALONE worthy of Praise, Adoration, and worship. Courage.

O, YESHUA, Take the veil off the eyes of the American people and the church. Awaken us to the depth of our own sin and our complicity with the government. Forgive us for our sins of greed, ignorance, willful disobedience, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, & the pride of life. Give us courage (II Chronicles 20:12).

There is only one who is worthy of being called HOLY, that is YHWH (GOD), OUR KING YESHUA HA’MOSHIACH (Jesus Christ of Nazareth, KING of Kings), and the RUACH HAKODESH (HOLY SPIRIT).

O LORD, we call out for YOUR HOLY SPIRIT’s conviction of all pastors, educators and government officials in Seattle, Sun Valley, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, Irvine, Pasadena, Portland, San Diego, Tucson, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, (and unnamed cities) and many universities, whose leader’s silence allowed the busing in of countless youth groups to see and hear the Dalai Lama’s false teachings in unlawful assemblies across the nation in direct violation of the doctrine of separation of Church and State. Where were those fierce shepherds protecting their flock?

An Assignment of Repentance for nation on vacation. If you are traveling to any of the sites in the nation where a sand mandala has been constructed, a tantric vase has been buried, a ritual has been conducted, or the Dalai Lama has spoken, ask YHWH for His forgiveness for the defilement that has taken place and for not watching over our children and youth as gatekeepers in the church, government, education, and industry. Pray over those rivers, mountains, state capitals and state parks where 253 vile tantric vases have been buried in the name of “peace vases”asking forgiveness from Abba for all the defilement that has taken place. Pray for the healing of the land. II Chronicles 10:16; 14:2;16:9

Pray that Christians would be alerted to the dangers of idolatry disguised in the arts and be educated to address it wisely. Conviction of the Tibetan Buddhists for their defilement of our land through the burial of 253 vile Tantric vases in our state capitols, major lakes, rivers, national parks and sacred places. (Leviticus 18:24-30. http://www.siddharthasintent.org/peace/n_amarica/us.htm See where the 200+ vases are buried.

Take authority over your city, state and country, close the gates. Pray that deception is revealed (Ephesians 1:18-23).