RED ALERT_FORTY DAY INITIATIVE FOR TURTLE ISLAND GATEKEEPERS
June 10-July 20, 2011
By James C. Stephens
Day Six~Thursday, June 16, 2011_IDOLATRY AND THE BUDDHIST ARTS
“O YHWH, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge,
In the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.
Would a man make mighty ones for himself,
Which are not mighty ones?
Therefore see, I am causing them to know,
This time I cause them to know My hand and My might.
And they shall know that My Name is YHWH.”
~Jeremiah 16:20-21
Countdown…19 days before the Kalachakra. Very important for gatekeepers to sign up for the worldviews101 course on the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism. Don’t wait. You can sign up today for $1 trial for seven days to get the first installment of critical materials.
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Twenty years ago, during the International Year of Tibet in 1991, there were a host of art museums throughout the United States which sponsored exhibits of Tibetan objects of worship, wherein we saw idolatry openly displayed and lifted up as fine art. Personally, I observed Tibetan monks teaching young impressionable American children (now in their college years), how to make religious sand paintings, called mandalas. Obviously, the children were altogether unaware of the deeper significance of the mandala which is designed according to ancient magic tantric rituals as Tibetan lamas chant protective rituals to keep themselves from being possessed by demons as they channel up to 722 deities (we would call demons) into these magic circles.
In July 2000, in Washington, DC, the US taxpayers funded “Tibet, Land Beyond the Snows, a $6,500,000 Smithsonian exhibition on Tibetan Buddhist culture and religion, replete with giant prayer wheels, a Tibetan temple, pornographic tantric art, Tibetan lamas constructing a Kalachakra sand mandala, ritual dances and Monlam Chenmo, Grand Prayer Festival lead by the XIV on the National Mall.
All of these activities observed over time by an estimated two million visitors. (Note: We had serious prayer teams on the ground praying against these ancient rituals which occurred under the veil of culture between the White House and US Capitol). The Kalachakra Mandala had been built in 1993 in Tower One in New York.
Then in 2003, through the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation, a consortium of nearly fifty entities, from art museums, scholars, performers, artists, cultural communities, and critics met at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in New York to plan a major collaborative art project called The Buddhism Project. On the West Coast, another component decidedly to independently pursue its own goals and establish Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness to “explore the relationship between Buddhist practice and art in America and design a meditation curriculum for secondary schools in America.
One of the major platforms occurred on the San Francisco-Los Angeles corridor where over 28 exhibits were staged at 28 museums and universities. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art funded by the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation in New York and the County of LA was designed to ‘offer a clear experience of the stages of Buddhist meditation.’
These exhibitions visually demonstrate the dangerous seduction of idolatry that has been allowed into America utilizing the guise of “art.”
The late Dr. Mas Toyotomi, a Japanese-American missionary with the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society, wrote,
When idolatry is camouflaged in fine art, three things happen:
1) Intellectuals come to respect, accept and appreciate it and idolatry becomes tolerated in the upper class.
2) Money becomes available for ever growing idolatry. Wealthy patrons will sponsor creation of idols in the name of culture (and I might add, government funding under “preservation of culture).
3) The masses are encouraged to indulge in idolatry since the last two factors have made idolatry respectable and idols abundant.
Consequently, not even Christians today are seeing idolatry as the most grievous sin that can be committed by man. Because there is practically no preaching against idolatry in America, they are vulnerable to the temptations of modern, sophisticated idolatry.
YHWH warns us that He abandoned Israel because it was filled “with idols” and “influences from the east.” Rather than serving God and loving Him, they “mingled with the nations and learned their practices” which were detestable to the YHWH, so He then “gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them” (Psalm 106:40b NASV).
This morning, my short study of the iconography of the Kalachakra Mandala being constructed during the upcoming ten day event in Washington, DC from July 6-16, 2011 was deeply disturbing. While it takes years of study to comprehend its spiritual meaning, there are troubling dimensions present on the surface. Suffice it to say, that from a Christian perspective, it is as if an ancient Pandora’s box were being brought to the heart of your nation. It is a three-dimensional blueprint of the Tibetan Buddhist’s Shambhala Kingdom, laying out the mandalization of Turtle Island.
All of the following facts are taken directly out of the Circle of Bliss Catalogue publically available at the LA County Museum of Art in 2003. It is not the usual one mandala, but an ancient design of the Kalachakra palace for the Chakravartin, the Adi Buddha, the Universal Religious Emperor and is designed on multiple levels each with a special mandala.
The Kalachakra system is composed of five mandalas: 1)The Great Bliss Mandala, 2) the Wisdom Mandala, 3)the Mind Mandala, 4)the Speech Mandala, and 5)the Body Mandala. The presence of the Nine ancient Shambhala Kings are invoked along with all the Kalachakra masters, the ChakraVartin(Wheel Rolling King), Chakravartin’s wife, Wrathful Gatekeepers for the Four Directions, the General, and a retinue of 722 deities (we’d call demons).
This is one of the rituals: “Eight Buddhas are surrounded by a railing, creating sixteen spaces. Thus the remaining eight spaces contain eight vases of Tantric substances that are alternated with the Buddhas. The two vases in the east contain purified marrow. The two in the south are filled with purified blood. The two in the north contain purified urine and the two in the west are filled with purified excrement. “Above and below are vases filled with purified semen and menses respectively.”
During the ceremony, participants are initiated into the Shambhala Kingdom and are taught Deity-yoga, to be yoked with Tantric Buddhist deities and to visualize themselves in the realm, becoming one with the Kalachakra Deity under the direction of the XIV Dalai Lama who has initiated hundreds of thousands of followers in this ritual.
WHAT TO PRAY
While respecting the freedom of religion that we as Christians have defended and promoted for many centuries, we are also called to be gatekeepers in the spirit of Ezekiel 33:4 to warn the Church of the incursion of practices of Buddhism that affect the flock and specific activities which may threaten the spiritual well-being of our nation, families, and neighbors.
Pray fervently for spiritual wisdom, health, power, compassion and resources for Gatekeepers in the face of this dangerous ceremony being held in Washington, DC. And for all the other unseen ceremonies leading up to this climax in this tantric ritual. Pray that all things that are hidden be revealed to the shame of those who are involved in these rituals. (Isaiah 28:5-6; Psalm 19:14, 20:1-2).
The first of the Ten Commandments is “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Deu. 5:7).
Pray that Christians would be alerted to the dangers of idolatry disguised in the arts and be educated to address it wisely via the internet, articles, books, radio shows, and sermons (I Corinthians 6:9-11; 2 Chronicles 20).
Expose the dangers of the Kalachakra Ceremony in Washington, DC. (Matthew 21:13; John 10:1-10).
Conviction of sin, repentance for the burial of 253 vile tantric vases imported from Bhutan where they were ritually created, buried in all of fifty of our state capitols, major lakes, rivers, national parks, mountain peaks, and sacred places. Not included are those buried in Canada, Mexico, and other territories and countries associated with Turtle Island.
Ask for forgiveness for the Apostasy of Church Leaders who have allowed the Dalai Lama and his lamas (priests) to conduct rituals in Christian sanctuaries and institutions including the National Cathedral, to Catholic Churches, Episcopal, Prebyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Moravian, and other churches (Jeremiah 7:1-34; 22:7-9).
While it has been proper protocol to welcome foreign statesman as guests, we are constrained to issue a warning against this ceremony and call for serious public examination of the rituals about to be conducted in light of their long term consequences for the citizens of Turtle Island.
Pray that the LORD sends godly instruction and wise counsel to the Nation’s leadership both governmental and ecclesiastical.
Pray for the Salvation of Buddhists that they would find the True Refuge in Yeshua, Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Psalm 2:10-12; Jer.10:11; 18:1-17;26:13).
Pray for President Obama’s wisdom and diplomacy, and for his eyes to be open to the danger of this alliance with the XIV Dalai Lama (1 John 10-11; Is. 43:10-13).
PRAYER FOR GATEKEEPERS
Pray for the IMMEDIATE call of Gatekeepers to their watch of the Gates of Turtle Island. That YHWH would undergird those who are gatekeepers and raise up more who will chose to stand in the gap to expose unrighteousness and earnestly contend for the faith delivered to the saints.
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