Abomination: Vatican Issues Stamp Of Heretic Martin Luther!

[San Bernardino]

 

[Paranoia Daily]

I don't see anything wrong with it...He became sort of a heretic simple because when he nailed his 95 thesis to the church door it failed to turn the Jews...Luther became enraged at that point. And his vendetta against the Jews began.

 

[Vytas]

The only heretics are roman catholic church with their satanist pope and MLK did good work exposing them...

 

[Rec]

The only heretics are roman catholic church with their satanist pope and MLK did good work exposing them...

Martin Luther King was a black civil rights leader of the last century: not the same guy. I think the point here is that OP agrees that the RCC is in apostasy which is highlighted by such actions as these, and most significantly Vatican II. There are what are termed "Traditionalist" or "Sedevacantist" Catholics which believe the last several popes are illegitimate or "antipopes". However, this generally goes back about a century and no earlier: they still believe in the Fatima apparitions etc.

Also, do you say "the only heretics are the Roman Catholic Church" to the exclusion of everyone else, such as Jehovah's Witnesses? I think that the Roman Catholic Church and their spiritual heirs (Protestants) could collectively be termed heretics.

 

[Vytas]

Martin Luther King was a black civil rights leader of the last century: not the same guy. I think the point here is that OP agrees that the RCC is in apostasy which is highlighted by such actions as these, and most significantly Vatican II. There are what are termed "Traditionalist" or "Sedevacantist" Catholics which believe the last several popes are illegitimate or "antipopes". However, this generally goes back about a century and no earlier: they still believe in the Fatima apparitions etc.

Also, do you say "the only heretics are the Roman Catholic Church" to the exclusion of everyone else, such as Jehovah's Witnesses? I think that the Roman Catholic Church and their spiritual heirs (Protestants) could collectively be termed heretics.

Yeah right lol i know they are not the same...Messed up
I meant heretics in light of this thread RCC vs Luther... Heretics are RCC, Luther dared to translate bible, dared to question authority..In those times it was equal to signing death sentence for yourself... He had some nerve. He will be hated forever by some..Lots of money lost, lots of brain didn't got properly brainwashed because of him...
And i don't see at all how protestants are "spiritual heirs" of rcc. No idea...

 

[Lisa]

Maybe it’s because the pope is trying to bring the “lost brethren” back to catholocism?

 

[San Bernardino]

I don't see anything wrong with it...He became sort of a heretic simple because when he nailed his 95 thesis to the church door it failed to turn the Jews...Luther became enraged at that point. And his vendetta against the Jews began.

Not even close to being close. With all due respect you have no idea what you're talking about.

When Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, HE WASN'T EVEN A PROTESTANT YET.

Luther acknowledges the existence of Purgatory, although he departs from Catholic teaching in what he says about it. Luther also declares his belief in Indulgences, although he contradicts traditional Catholic doctrine on the issue. The following is typical of the contradictions exhibited by Luther.


#71 of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, Oct. 31, 1517: "Let him be anathema and accursed who denies the apostolic character of the indulgences."

The point here is that even on Oct. 31, 1517, the Protestant "faith" was still unknown to Martin Luther and indeed to the rest of the Christian world. There was no statement about justification by faith alone or Scripture alone; there was as yet no repudiation of the papal office or many other Catholic dogmas which Protestants today would reject. What you have, at this point, is a confused and convoluted priest who, while claiming to be Catholic, was clearly falling from the traditional Catholic faith into his own wild version of it (especially with regard to Indulgences). He was no Protestant. Even at this point, the so called biblical "faith" was unknown to its eventual founder.

The true faith of Jesus Christ is a deposit. It does not fall out of the sky to a man who lives 15 centuries after Christ. It was revealed by Jesus Christ to His Apostles 2000 years ago, and it was passed on by the Apostles to the Church.

St.Jude 1:3- "... it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

The true faith thus has a historical link to the apostolic Church; and it can be shown to have been believed by those who came before in the Church. It is passed on from generation to generation. Martin Luther grew up with the Catholic faith. Protestantism was unknown to him as a child; it was unknown to him as a priest; it was unknown to him when he posted his 95 Theses, and even when he first called the pope the Antichrist and was appealing to a general council.

At some point, indeed, Martin Luther came up with Protestantism, and his conclusions had no link with his predecessors or even with what he had said or believed before. They were truly the inventions and "discoveries" of a man, Martin Luther.

Protestants have thus submitted themselves to a system which Martin Luther came up with among the rest of his contradictory and ever-changing views. These "discoveries" include the idea that man is justified by faith alone, which word for word contradicts the teaching of the Bible (St.James 2:24) – a contradiction so blatant that Luther felt compelled to criticize the book of James because it contradicted him. In fact, Luther wanted to throw James out of the Bible and into the stove (i.e., the fire), until his friends persuaded him that such a move would be too radical.

Catholicism is the only Biblical and historical Christian religion.

Please see also the following video on Luther:

 

[UnderAlienControl]

INSIDE THE POPE’S REPTILIAN AUDIENCE HALL IN VATICAN CITY
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/01/29/inside-popes-reptilian-audience-hall-vatican-city/


Here's a thought: a lot of theories have The Jesuits as a major player in the NWO. Question: who's the ONLY Jesuit Pope to ever be appointed? Right. The current Pope. St. Malachi's prophecies of who the future Popes would be until the second coming ends on this Pope. So, superstition or not, it might be safe to say that the Jesuits got their man in right at the end when it might really matter, even if just as a safe bet. After all, 15,000 scientists just signed a letter that stated that humanity was heading toward an imminent apocalypse. And to that all I can think to say is, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..."

 

[_Armageddon_]

Martin Luther wasnt a Heretic-He just wanted to REFORM THe Rcc fallen in the Devils Hands..
At His time,the RCC HAD NOTHING to do with Christ-Inquisiton.idolatry,sunday worship,sacraments..
Nonsense-Such people were needed at the time-
Unfortunately,
Looks like Reformation is Dead-Which protestants CANNOT ALLOW

 

[elsbet]

...
Protestants have thus submitted themselves to a system which Martin Luther came up with among the rest of his contradictory and ever-changing views. These "discoveries" include the idea that man is justified by faith alone, which word for word contradicts the teaching of the Bible (St.James 2:24) – a contradiction so blatant that Luther felt compelled to criticize the book of James because it contradicted him. In fact, Luther wanted to throw James out of the Bible and into the stove (i.e., the fire), until his friends persuaded him that such a move would be too radical.

Catholicism is the only Biblical and historical Christian religion.

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only.. James 2:24 YLT

There is no contradiction. Works serve as the evidence of true Faith. Any man can claim a belief in the salvation that reconciles us to God through Jesus Christ-- but it means little if his life does not reflect that Faith.

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St. Paul, in the Epistle to the Philippians (Ephesians 3:12-13), uses the well-known paradox, "Work out your own salvation . . . , for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Both truths--God's preordination and man's responsible freedom--are emphasised. For the reconcilement of the two we must wait till we "know even as we are known."​

Ellicott​

Martin Luther on the book of James

 

[elsbet]

Catholicism is the only Biblical and historical Christian religion.

No, it is not.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

Catholicism is the religion of the Roman Empire ( so are Protestants though they will not admit it, they worship the Bible of the Roman Emperors ) but the truest Christians in recent memory are the catholics, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, the Berrigans etc. As an institution the Catholic Church is not to be trusted, its clergy is largely made up of sexual deviants because of its archaic repression of human sexuality, and is notoriously corrupt.

That said Martin Luther is the definition of evil. He started a Peasant revolt and then encouraged the aristocracy to slaughter them in the name of God. His version of Germanic Protestant was the ancestor of religious justifications for Nazism. While he lived in gluttony MILLIONS of peasants died because of his actions.

 

[JoChris]

Catholicism is the religion of the Roman Empire ( so are Protestants though they will not admit it, they worship the Bible of the Roman Emperors ) but the truest Christians in recent memory are the catholics, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, the Berrigans etc. As an institution the Catholic Church is not to be trusted, its clergy is largely made up of sexual deviants because of its archaic repression of human sexuality, and is notoriously corrupt.

That said Martin Luther is the definition of evil. He started a Peasant revolt and then encouraged the aristocracy to slaughter them in the name of God. His version of Germanic Protestant was the ancestor of religious justifications for Nazism. While he lived in gluttony MILLIONS of peasants died because of his actions.

The New Testaments' books were written by the end of the 1st century AD. http://www.biblestudy.org/beginner/when-was-new-testament-written.html
The Roman emperors had nothing to do with Christianity (except persecutions/ causing martyrdom of Christians) until the early 4th century AD. https://www.gotquestions.org/origin-Catholic-church.html

Of course, according to the Roman Catholic church they are the original church, but anyone who looks at how they have changed doctrines (and departed from biblical Christianity) knows that can't be true.

The Baptist church has a lot in common with the Protestants and Lutherans doctrinally, but history has some conflict and persecution from the Protestants and Anglicans, especially RE baptism of converts not infants.

Wikipedia is pretty balanced I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

His reactions as he gained more power and his anti-Semitic writings were terrible. It must be uncomfortable for Lutherans to try and defend Luther; he never completely lost the effects of being a Roman Catholic.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

The New Testaments' books were written by the end of the 1st century AD. http://www.biblestudy.org/beginner/when-was-new-testament-written.html
The Roman emperors had nothing to do with Christianity (except persecutions/ causing martyrdom of Christians) until the early 4th century AD. https://www.gotquestions.org/origin-Catholic-church.html

Of course, according to the Roman Catholic church they are the original church, but anyone who looks at how they have changed doctrines (and departed from biblical Christianity) knows that can't be true.

The Baptist church has a lot in common with the Protestants and Lutherans doctrinally, but history has some conflict and persecution from the Protestants and Anglicans, especially RE baptism of converts not infants.

Wikipedia is pretty balanced I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

His reactions as he gained more power and his anti-Semitic writings were terrible. It must be uncomfortable for Lutherans to try and defend Luther; he never completely lost the effects of being a Roman Catholic.

It doesn't matter if the they were written earlier. The Order of the Bible and its modern construction even for Protestants has its origins in Rome. I really don't think that's up for debate. It is likely it has its origins of modern compilation in the 50 bibles of Constantine but was subject to debate for a long time. Still I think its undeniable that the Emperors had their influence over Bible structure.



I was raised from about 7-18 in a church that billed itself as an 'Independent Bible Believing Baptist Church', which is synonymous with the Christian Right ( Evangelical Fundamentalism) as expressed by the toxicity that flows out of Colorado Springs. Which is to say its a purely political movement with religious dressing, and the worst Christian Heresy that has ever existed.

Luther incited a peasant revolt and then later turned on them encouraging their slaughter. There is nothing redeeming in the man, and to write it off as his Catholic upbringing is nonsense, seeing as he became progressively worse the farther removed from Catholicism he became.

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

It doesn't matter if the they were written earlier. The Order of the Bible and its modern construction even for Protestants has its origins in Rome. I really don't think that's up for debate. It is likely it has its origins of modern compilation in the 50 bibles of Constantine but was subject to debate for a long time. Still I think its undeniable that the Emperors had their influence over Bible structure.



I was raised from about 7-18 in a church that billed itself as an 'Independent Bible Believing Baptist Church', which is synonymous with the Christian Right ( Evangelical Fundamentalism) as expressed by the toxicity that flows out of Colorado Springs. Which is to say its a purely political movement with religious dressing, and the worst Christian Heresy that has ever existed.

Luther incited a peasant revolt and then later turned on them encouraging their slaughter. There is nothing redeeming in the man, and to write it off as his Catholic upbringing is nonsense, seeing as he became progressively worse the farther removed from Catholicism he became.

I would be interested to hear what kind of toxicity you noted in the fellowship you attended. I only say that as I had an experience about the name age that caused (or became an excuse anyway) for me to leave the church for a season...

 

[JoChris]

It doesn't matter if the they were written earlier. The Order of the Bible and its modern construction even for Protestants has its origins in Rome. I really don't think that's up for debate. It is likely it has its origins of modern compilation in the 50 bibles of Constantine but was subject to debate for a long time. Still I think its undeniable that the Emperors had their influence over Bible structure.



I was raised from about 7-18 in a church that billed itself as an 'Independent Bible Believing Baptist Church', which is synonymous with the Christian Right ( Evangelical Fundamentalism) as expressed by the toxicity that flows out of Colorado Springs. Which is to say its a purely political movement with religious dressing, and the worst Christian Heresy that has ever existed.

Luther incited a peasant revolt and then later turned on them encouraging their slaughter. There is nothing redeeming in the man, and to write it off as his Catholic upbringing is nonsense, seeing as he became progressively worse the farther removed from Catholicism he became.

I currently am a member of an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church here. KJV only, women skirts, pre-millennial, very traditional families etc. A bit of a shock to a more worldly-minded woman like myself alright!!!!

A few years back now there were a few southern states (could tell by accent) Americans who attended. They left a few months after I had arrived, so I never got to know the wife. Apparently we were a lot less legalistic (paraphrased by an Australian older woman) than their church back home.

We don't get told who to vote for ever. We are expected to go by personal conscience. I have never been told what NOT to do, everything is just follow what the bible says. Then the tail follows the dog, not the dog chasing its tail and looking like fools to outsiders as well as wasting time and energy. (The pastor didn't say that, it was the image that came to mind while typing.... I have lived in regional areas for too long now I fear.)

I really get the impression from multiple blogs and forums that it is your USA cultural fundamentalism that is your problem, not Christianity itself.

And I agree with you about Luther. It was a criticism of him, my typing that the RCC hadn't left him despite his doctrines contradicting a lot of RCC doctrine.
Power corrupts, and religious power can be very dangerous. Luther certainly caused both short and long term damage by not keeping to what the bible said. He certainly did not show much love to his enemies.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

I would be interested to hear what kind of toxicity you noted in the fellowship you attended. I only say that as I had an experience about the name age that caused (or became an excuse anyway) for me to leave the church for a season...

No trauma or abuse or anything like that, most members of the church were at least polite, and a lot of members were actually sweet souls, but Sunday School is Bible stories presented as scientific fact, and as an inquisitive lad having an interest in science, understood that this is not truth. The actual church service was usually a thinly veiled socio-political statement, filled with fiery come-to-Jesus rhetoric and healthy dose of end times paranoia, while the plate for a years long building fund project goes round. Eventually Chick tracts showed up by the time I was old enough to say I choose to no longer attend. I see it for what it is, a theocratic political agenda that is basically one giant anti-labor front. To be Anti-Labor is to be Anti-Christian.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

I currently am a member of an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church here. KJV only, women skirts, pre-millennial, very traditional families etc. A bit of a shock to a more worldly-minded woman like myself alright!!!!



We don't get told who to vote for ever. We are expected to go by personal conscience. I have never been told what NOT to do, everything is just follow what the bible says. Then the tail follows the dog, not the dog chasing its tail and looking like fools to outsiders as well as wasting time and energy. (The pastor didn't say that, it was the image that came to mind while typing.... I have lived in regional areas for too long now I fear.)

Yeah that's the type you describe. Yeah well the doctrines of this type of Christianity align you with a certain political cause automatically. You are conditioned into it over time. They usually don't say, at least from the pulpit, vote for Individual 1, but the worldview is so emphasized that acting any other way becomes impossible. Its a brainwashing technique. In fact one weird thing I remember is a out of town guest pastor who gave some weird talk on brainwashing using stealing bases in baseball as some kind of demonstration, he literally told us "you have just been brainwashed". I was always in and out of my own head during church but still remember that one.

Well its good you see him that way. In my opinion he is as dangerous as any Pope and he's been dead for a long time. His legacy is not a positive one overall.

 

[elsbet]

It doesn't matter if the they were written earlier. The Order of the Bible and its modern construction even for Protestants has its origins in Rome. I really don't think that's up for debate. It is likely it has its origins of modern compilation in the 50 bibles of Constantine but was subject to debate for a long time. Still I think its undeniable that the Emperors had their influence over Bible structure.



I was raised from about 7-18 in a church that billed itself as an 'Independent Bible Believing Baptist Church', which is synonymous with the Christian Right ( Evangelical Fundamentalism) as expressed by the toxicity that flows out of Colorado Springs. Which is to say its a purely political movement with religious dressing, and the worst Christian Heresy that has ever existed.

Luther incited a peasant revolt and then later turned on them encouraging their slaughter. There is nothing redeeming in the man, and to write it off as his Catholic upbringing is nonsense, seeing as he became progressively worse the farther removed from Catholicism he became.

Wow...
I didn't think there were Independent Baptist churches, West of the Mississippi-- certainly not in Colorado.

 

[Helioform]

Was Luther a Rosicrucian or a Freemason? Plenty of evidence to suggest he was. And it is well known that Freemasonry has infiltrated the Catholic Church since a while ago. The scandals that are constantly being shown on the news are part of that.

https://watch.pairsite.com/reformation.html

• Luther was an Augustinian monk of the Strict Observance in a German monastery.

“A member of Martin Luther’s order appointed, in accordance with the ‘Rule of Saint Augustine’, to read while the other monks eat in order that the monks may focus upon their spiritual hunger for the word of God as well as their physical hunger. . .
“Attempts to head off laxity in the Order led to the establishment of the ‘Observant’ wing to which Luther belonged by virtue of joining the Erfurt house. His fellow German Augustinians showed sympathy in 1518 with Luther’s theological stand, but in that same year his Augustinian superior, Staupitz, released him from his monk’s vows.
“Johann von Staupitz, Vicar General of the Augustinian Order (c.1460-1524): Monk, spiritual adviser. Staupitz was the senior figure in Luther’s Augustinian Order in Germany and the leading light in the strict or ‘Observant’ wing of it. Luther frequently praised the spiritual comfort Staupitz had given him, though the older man did not join Luther’s movement.” - John Osborne, “Luther,” Royal National Theatre)​

• “Strict Observance” was the name given by Baron von Hund, a German Templar, to the 33rd degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

“1743...Baron von Hund said he had been commissioned to set up lodges of Strict Observance in Germany and to promulgate ‘true’ Freemasonry under a system known as ‘Strict Observance’ because the oath of the Apprentice Mason included a vow of absolute obedience to ‘unknown superiors.’ The idea of a chivalric order, strict obedience, and a secret grand master must have had great appeal in Germany, because over the next twenty years, the new order promoted by von Hund spread like wild fire, and extended from Germany to almost every country of continental Europe.” - A Dialectical Chronography of Humankind and Our Universe

“. . .the text of the Protocols (of Sion) ends with a single statement, ‘Signed by the representatives of Sion of the 33rd degree.’... And the thirty-third degree in Freemasonry is that of the so-called Strict Observance—the system of Freemasonry introduced by (Baron von) Hund at the behest of his ‘unknown superiors,’ one of whom appears to have been Charles Radclyffe.” (Holy Blood, Holy Grail) 31:193​

• Luther’s personal seal was the Rosicrucian rose symbolizing the lost tribes of Israel.

“...Luther used as his personal seal the symbol of a rose and a cross...” 25:56

“It may be stated, with a certain degree of probability, that much of the popularity of the Rosicrucian mythos was due to the beautiful though simple device in the early 17th century manifestos of the order, namely the symbol of the cross in conjunction with the rose (or roses).” - Early Symbolism of the Rosy Cross

“In ENGLAND BETWEEN THE YEARS 1450-1485 there was a series of civil wars known as ‘Wars of the Roses’ occurring between the rival Houses of York and Lancaster. Each side was represented by a rose, York by a white rose, and Lancaster by a red rose. At the end of the struggle a partly Welsh noble named Henry Tudor became king. Henry claimed to unify in his person the two rival sides. He chose as his symbol a rose with both red and white petals (i.e. a large white rose with a smaller red rose overlaid on it) and with five green leaves around it. Dr. Clifford Smyth of Ulster supplied Yair Davidiy with color photographs of pictures from the Tudor Period depicting the Tudor rose. These paintings show that there then existed in England a real breed of rose that looked like the Tudor Rose. This rose, unbeknown to Henry, was (says the above quoted Zohar) the symbol of Israel. Henceforth the red and white petal ‘Tudor Rose’ became the symbol of the English monarchs and therefore of England itself. It still is an official symbol of Britain. The Tudor Rose admittedly has only ten petals whereas the ‘Rose of Israel’ described in the Zohar has thirteen but then England being dominated by the tribe of Ephraim represents only ten out of the original thirteen Israelite Tribes.” (The Brit-Am & Tudor Roses)​

The Tudor Rose
Symbol of the Ten Lost Tribes and of Brit-Am Representing United Israel​

“Perhaps the most famous heraldic device connected with the hermetic tradition is that of the Rosy Cross... A...theory says it refers to the arms of Martin Luther of a rose surmounted with a cross of equal arms...”​

• Compare the equal-armed Rosicrucian cross with occult symbols on Luther’s wax seal and the sanitized Lutheran Church version.

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“Ancient wax seal, shown inverted, with the inscription ‘D: M. Luther’(?) and alchemical symbols (Pallas, Earth & Mercury or Salt, Sulfur & Mercury or spiritus, amimas & corpus, found in Rhone River, Germany” (Answers.com)​

Alchemical and Hermetic Emblems​

Luther Rose​

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod​

Evangelical Lutheran Cross​

Martin Luther’s Seal​

• The five petalled rose on Martin Luther’s seal was a pentagram, a symbol that represented the Goddess Astaroth.​

“The five-pointed star or pentagram is one of the most potent, powerful, and persistent symbols in human history. It has been important to almost every ancient culture, from the Mayans of Latin America, to India, China, Greece, and Egypt. It has been found scratched on the walls of Neolithic caves, and in Babylonian drawings, where it marks the pattern the planet Venus makes on its travels - a secret symbol of the Goddess Ishtar. Scriptures, especially Hebrew, are abundant with references to pentagrams...
“The pentacle as a symbol of the feminine principle was embodied by the rose. The small, five petalled roses found in many gothic cathedral ornamentation are not-so-secret pentagrams.” (The Pentagram in Depth)
The Rose & The Pentagram
“Decoration of a pentagram inside a rose, from the Knights Templar church Santa Maria do Olival, built around ca 1150AD in Portugal.

“Through all this the rose and the pentagram have strong ties to Christian Renaissance symbolism, Kabbalism and not least Martin Luther and the early Rosicrucians who were strongly associated with Lutheranism.”​

Astaroth’s Seal (according to The Lesser Key of Solomon)
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“Astaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot, and Asteroth), in demonology, is a Crowned Prince of Hell. He is a male figure named after the Canaanite goddess Ashtoreth. The name Astaroth was ultimately derived from that of 2nd millennium BC Phoenician goddess Astarte, an equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar, and the earlier Sumerian Inanna.” (Wikipedia: Astaroth)
“Hislop explains that ‘the ‘round’ wafer, whose ‘roundness’ is so important an element in the Romish Mystery, what can be the meaning of it, but just to show to those who have eyes to see, that the ‘Wafer’ itself is only another symbol of Baal, or the Sun.’ The Eucharist represents the heathen sun god. Further proof of this is the fact that the monstrance...used to contain the Eucharistic host always forms rays of the sun emanating from the Eucharist. All one need do is read the history of the Jews in the bible to find the source for this sun god worship. ‘And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.’ (Judges 2:13 AV) The Catholic Mass is a continuation of the apostasy of the Jews in their worship of the sun god, Baal, in the form of the Eucharist. Tif’eret is the sefirot god that was also known as the sun in the Jewish Kabbalah. Tif’eret would seem to be the very same heathen sun god, Baal, who was worshiped by the ancient Jews.” (Solving the Mystery of Babylon the Great, Edward Hendrie, p. 213)​

See also: Mystery Babylon: Catholic or Jewish?​

• Martin Luther commended the Hermetic science of alchemy which was man’s attempt to become divine by means of sorcery.

“The science of alchymy I like very well, and indeed, ‘tis the philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the profits it brings in melting metals, in decocting, preparing, extracting and distilling herbs, roots; I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day.” - Martin Luther, “Table Talk,” “Lyndy Abraham’s ‘Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery’,” Alchemy Web Site

“...Martin Luther is quoted for praising Alchemy, ‘not only for its practical utility but for its verification of church doctrines’...
“If Alchemy was indeed the quest for mystic communion with the essential archetypal process of nature then the adept sought to recapitulate this creative process with symbolically affective laboratory gestures and chemical manipulations and of course, with the indispensable cooperation of Providence. Just as all life evolves toward Divine Perfection, so too do metals evolve toward gold. It is this essential process of evolution that the alchemist accelerates with the product of his labor, the catalytic Philosopher’s Stone, the red powder that transmutes base metal into purest gold. The enigmatic reality behind such a magnum opus can not be explained but only demonstrated. In just such a manner religious gnosis demands direct personal experience rather than pedestrian faith.” - “Who Were the Alchemists?” Alchemy Web Site​

• Luther however repudiated the Kabbalah and the Rabbinic commentaries which rejected the Christological interpretations of the Old Testament Messianic prophecies.

“Luther interested himself for a time in the Kabbalah, perhaps under the stimulus of Reuchlin’s works, but found no great attraction therein. It served him for the most part with material for his attacks upon Rabbinical literature, though on one occasion he says that if he be permitted to submit to the Kabbalistic method, he would say the Tetragram was a symbol of the Holy Trinity, a statement which he deduced from the meanings and the sum of the numbers of the letters. But unlike Pico de Mirandola, instructed by Jochanan Aleman, or Reuchlin, instructed by Antionius Margarith, Luther was repelled by the Kabbalah, and turned to sterner stuff.

“He found this in the Rabbinical commentaries which, with the assistance of his Hebrew professors at Wittenberg, he employed for the explanation of the doubtful ‘Christological’ passages of the Bible... For the most part, he professed to take the very opposite of Rabbinical suggestions; only rarely does ‘his Rabbi Solomon’ (Rashi) please him; he heaps adjectives of villification upon the sayings of the Rabbis, calling them ‘dreams, fables, vagaries, absurdities, sophistries, vanities, gossip’ and so forth. He accuses the Jews of being responsible for errors in Jerome; he mocks as Judaistic any insistence upon the rules of grammar in the interpretation of debatable texts... Hence he accused the Jewish critics of his Bible translation of being under the spell of Rabbinic rationalism and literalism, and of desiring for a second time to obscure the text.” (Louis Israel Newman, Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements, pp. 643-645)​

• Luther’s seal appeared a century later on a Rosicrucian Manifesto, The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, authored by Johann Andrea who was Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1637-1654.

“Luther’s crest with a black cross on a red heart upon a white rose…set beside an expansion on the letters, F. R. C., Futurae Reformatio Catholicae, signifying a hope for a future Universal Reformation, similar to that heralded by the first Rosicrucian texts from Tübingen...
”Bureus in his vision set out a triad of reformers in his FaMa (Ms. Leiden UB, N 157B, 10r.) He begins with the names of J.H.P., M.L.T. and J.B.C. (that is with Johannes Hus, Martin Luther and Jacob Böhme), but then adds three new names: C. Ros., T. Par. and I. Arn (that is Christian Rosenkreutz, Theophrastus Paracelsus and Johann Arndt). All taken together, they yield the word ARI, the lion.” - The Da Vinci Code Rosicrucians​

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“F.R.C. or Frater Rosae Crucis is the title awarded to advanced members of the Rosicrucian Order. This title is awarded specifically to advanced members of the AMORC or Ancient Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis. Through years of study the Rosicrucian who has progressed to this level is understood to be at the master level of understanding the teachings presented by this organization. For this reason, only those who have been formally initiated into the 10th Degree of the order are allowed to attach F.R.C. to their name.” - Wikipedia​