0:00 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Catholic reform, power, and persecution

[music] [music] Well, there was a reformation in the Catholic Church uh in particular, but it it didn't do much good. Um I don't think that I don't think that there's any active sort of push to get the the the regions of the world to um to begin killing heretics. I think if anything, Christians, even innocent Christians are under attack right now. It's kind of the inverse. >> But [clears throat] you really see it, you really see it with with just power in general. You see it with power in

0:43 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Heresiologists and early Christian doctrine

general. And it's been the story of the Catholic Church of the church in general after, you know, after Christ and the apostles, this power struggle has been an issue. I mean it's debatable right because in in early Christianities you even saw it in like the heresiologists like uh Irenaeus and Hippolitus and >> what's a heresiologist? >> Uh is that like a heresy heresy? >> Yes. These were the men these were the men who railed against heresy. So heresy comes from the the Greek word hieris

1:22 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Heresiologists and early Christian doctrine

which means school of thought. That's all it means. It's like like you know in the original Greek the context they were using it in was saying this school of thought is wrong you know and we derived like oh they're heretics because they're hyasis um but what they did was they basically attempted to systematize uh Christian teachings and Christian doctrine Christian dogma and uh they were we have their writings whereas we don't we didn't have a lot of the writings of the people that they kind of you know uh

2:02 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Heresiologists and early Christian doctrine

had these pmics against. So we based a lot of our understanding of the early Christian schools of thought off of basically you know uh the propaganda of their opponents who just so happened to have their works preserved >> um like Irenaeus Hippolitus Justin Martyr etc so on and so forth um Epipanius uh [clears throat] Clement of Alexandria was a little bit more um he was a little bit more amunable to you know particularly the Gnostic schools But there was that power struggle from the beginning pretty much

2:36 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Vatican history, papacy, and Roman context

immediately after Christ, you know. Um, one of the interesting things that people don't really have a very firm understanding of the history of particularly when when you talk about things like the Vatican and you talk about things about the papacy, it's very confused, you know, because a lot of the information we're getting is from people who didn't bother to learn any of this [ __ ] you know? They're just like, "Oh, well, you know, I'll go as far back as the 1500s, but after that, [ __ ] it. I

3:02 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Vatican history, papacy, and Roman context

found You know, it's like, you know, you got you got to go and that's the trouble with me. I've got to go as far back as I can to figure out what all what all this stuff means, you know? Um, that's just what it is because then you don't have context. You you might have like a gotcha moment on paper, but it's like that's not context. You know, you're going to run into somebody who knows more about this [ __ ] than you do and he's going to pull your pants down, you

3:26 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Vatican history, papacy, and Roman context

know? So, it's you you've you've got, you know, you've got to go back. But really the thing is the the so the Vatican again is the seat of is is the the the physical headquarters for the Holy Sea which is the political or or the I mean let's face it he's political uh political and and religious power of the bishop of Rome that we call the pope but that is the western church That's not the Eastern Church. So, and [clears throat] that's not the Protestant church, right? Those the

4:09 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Vatican history, papacy, and Roman context

Protestant church were are a group of, you know, clerics and and and things like that, kings and stuff. you the Anglican church they rebelled against the dictates for one reason or another and and they kind of reorganized Christianity their own uh dogma which is just you know it's only different from Catholicism because Catholicism changed their doctrines very slowly over time whereas like Protestants changed their doctrine immediately um and had like a a a very very um quick a very very rapid

4:45 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Constantine, Christianity, and the Roman Empire

break with with the main church. But it, you know, all of this stuff really starts not only with Christ, but with Rome, right? Because he was Christ was born during, you know, uh, the Roman Empire really. And so what I found really interesting, I used to read a lot of science fiction. I love Philip K. Dick and I loved his his vast trilogy. And one thing that that he really pointed I think you really hit on something in this even though it was kind of fiction. He says um in in one of the books of this trilogy that Rome was

5:20 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Constantine, Christianity, and the Roman Empire

the empire that never ended. M >> and I was scratched my head for a little while thinking about that and then I really understood what he meant because you have essentially the Roman Empire under Constantine the great Constantine the first in three 313 CE he releases something called the edict of Milan basically saying look we're not going to just randomly arrest these people and kill them for fun at the coliseum we're not going to feed them to lions anymore more um just because they're Christians, men,

5:55 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Constantine, Christianity, and the Roman Empire

women, and children. Right? So that's I mean that's the persecution the early Christians had to had to deal with. You could be a woman at the market with your child and be pulled off the street because you're a Christian and then you could be fed the next day to lions in front of the populace. Um again, power, right? [laughter] It's the it's the it's the prevailing uh power structure that's doing that. So, um, whoever's at the bottom is always the food for the people that's at

6:20 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Constantine, Christianity, and the Roman Empire

the top. That's just the way it is in all systems. And, um, it's that's never going to change. But he basically released this edict that said, "We're not going to do that no more." And in 10 years from that time, Ro, uh, Christianity was the official religion of Rome. And there's like all sorts of stories about why he did it. His mother was secretly a Christian and all this stuff. And uh there's a story that I think um one of the bishops Ucius relates about him getting a message from

6:52 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Constantine, Christianity, and the Roman Empire

from God or Christ. you know that whole inh except it was in Greek uh and I think it was like um dtoona with this you you win you conquer you're victorious and it's that you know they call it the hero the x and that the the p they're Greek letters he and row and they're the first two >> they're the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek you know not notus but Christos meaning the anointed did and he sees that and he you know whatever whatever he does he the legends

7:29 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Council of Nicaea and Christian orthodoxy

vary but he puts it on all the shields of his men etc and he wins the battle so there's all these stories about why he decided to to do this because it's a pretty drastic thing but regardless it's now the official religion of Rome he convenes the council of Nika in 325 he invites all the bishops the episcopo of uh of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire and only a very small number show up so I And there's that. But the reason why he he called this council was to systematize the dogma, right? Because

7:59 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Council of Nicaea and Christian orthodoxy

again, like I was saying before, it's not early Christianity. It's early Christianities. They were all fighting based off of the biggest thing really that they had to iron out was the main thing was the nature of the Christ. Was he fully man? Was he fully God? Was it an analogy? Did he die on the cross? Was he resurre? They had to figure that out. This is this was the the source of a lot of strife among early Christian communities. What that's essentially what the council of Nika uh tried to you

8:31 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Council of Nicaea and Christian orthodoxy

know and to a degree successfully um they did they systematized uh essentially they came up with the Nikian creed you know um we believe in in uh we believe in one god the father of heaven earth and uh that whole rigomearroll that that's a lot of people take for brainwashing really it's that is the essential distillation of Christian thought, the foundation of our theology and our beliefs in this uh creed credo, right? I believe and um and so they establish that and from that they walk away and from that despite

9:15 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Council of Nicaea and Christian orthodoxy

their various disagreements they've got this thing. Now this is the Nikian creed. We all believe. We all agree. From that they kind of used it as a legal precedent like the way we do in court. They used it as a precedent for for the bishops at the regional local levels to begin you know figuring out different um I guess their regionalized way they were going to do things and their regionalized doctrines and things like that. And then the and then the other thing that they that they accomplished

9:43 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Roman Christianity and the liturgy of the mass

there was they settled on this wacky calculation for the date of Easter and also um they figured out like basic standard practices of like administrative stuff how the hierarchy is going to work what the duties are etc. So they walk away from that and uh [clears throat] they basically have Roman Christianity now. This didn't exist before this this council, you know. Um, and what happens when the little guy, the independent band gets, you know, you become Coca-Cola, your state funed, right? Now you

10:21 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Roman Christianity and the liturgy of the mass

>> right. Well, the thing is, yeah, I mean, it's just that's just But it's in a different way because it's not like they did it for renumeration. They did it because Constantine probably would have had their head heads cut off, you know, if like they didn't if if this didn't happen. So, uh, so you know, it's it kind of it starts out it starts out like that. Um, and then they they they sort of progress and they get to uh settle on on their lit their liturgy, right? What

10:50 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Roman Christianity and the liturgy of the mass

is what is our mass going to be? And the thing about Christianity, at least in terms of Catholic, Orthodox, the main, you know, the meat and potatoes, uh, denominations, it's all about the mass, you know, it that's all about the mass. And the mass is, you know, technically the main service that we are in in a way that that they mediate the physical substance of of the Christ to the congregation, at least in the in the Catholic kind of um view of it all. And uh so it's magic. It really is magic. The mass the mass is

11:32 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Mass as alchemical magic and “hocus pocus”

magic and it's an alchemical magic, right? because they're taking bread and wine and they're turning it into the body and blood of Christ. And the priest stands up there, officiating priest stands up there in what's called persona Christi, which is basically if anybody's done like any golden dawn work, it's the God form of Jesus Christ and, you know, supplicates that God, you know, ratify and sanctify these the hosts um as true vessels, you know, of of uh of Christ's

12:04 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Mass as alchemical magic and “hocus pocus”

body and blood. Actually, as as a funny aside, that's where we get the term uh hocus pocus. >> Oh, wow. Really? Um they yeah the so the trident mass you're talking about the council of Trent that's where they figured out that they were going to have this mass in Latin and it was like the Latin mass until the 1960s that was like the the one in most usage and the part where he the where the priest says in persona Christi this is my body the line in Latin is hest corpus and so that gets kind of translated by a

12:40 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Mass as alchemical magic and “hocus pocus”

ley that's always hearing that every Sunday but doesn't know Latin as hocus pocus [laughter] >> it's hocus corpus this is my body and um so they decide on the liturgy and it's and it and it's it that's one of the things they decide on but what a lot of people also don't realize is the empires the Roman Empire is about to collapse Um it again right talking about the church everything getting so big right we'll see this again throughout the history of the church Rome gets so big that it ends

13:20 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Fall of Rome and the rise of the Middle Ages

up administratively being bro uh sort of partitioned into an eastern empire and a western empire and each one has their own emperor and um it's [clears throat] in the 400s I forget I think I might I might have it But in the 400s 476 476 CE um [clears throat] the western empire falls and there's no more Rome of the of the west. >> There's a Rome of the east and we call that we call that Bantium the Byzantine Empire. That's just they didn't call themselves the Byzantines. They called

14:04 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Fall of Rome and the rise of the Middle Ages

themselves Romans, but they were just Eastern Romans. They were of the Roman the Roman uh uh the the Eastern Roman Empire that had its own emperor. >> Right? So what happens is then that's when the Middle Ages start, right? All of the administration gets wiped out. The state administration, the all those countries that were under Roman rule gone. Now the thing is like Rome the same way Rome wasn't built in a day it didn't fall in a day. So it had been gradually going this way little by little and really

14:38 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Fall of Rome and the rise of the Middle Ages

they say it was like oh Rome fell at the hands of the Goths and uh you know uh the Franks and the Vandals and reality it's like those guys were the vultures that came in when they were weak because Rome had been declining for for you know several centuries at this point. >> Wow. >> The Eastern Empire. So then the middle ages happen and all that all that sort of um municipal administration gets wiped out and a lot of people think that like oh yeah scholars termed it the dark ages not really a great not really a

15:09 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Fall of Rome and the rise of the Middle Ages

great way to conceptualize that for instance like all the the witch burning and stuff that we we think happened in the Middle Ages that happened in the Renaissance. It didn't happen in the Middle Ages. It happened in the Renaissance. Most of that stuff, you know. It It blows my mind how [ __ ] twisted everything is constantly, you know. [laughter] >> But um >> that's a good point. >> But so so Rome Rome falls and it into two empires. But what happens is in 800 um one of the popes, I think Pope Leo,

15:41 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Holy Roman Empire and transfer of power

he crowns Charlemagne, right? Charlemag meaning Charles the Great. Uh he's a a Frankish king. one of the Franks that invaded, you know, invaded Rome and took a bunch of their their territory in Germany and Belgium and France. They're primarily a Germanic people. Germanic being Germanic is the same as as Greek. It's they're not they're not unified ethnically. They're unified by language because they're tribes. The same way Greeks had like citystates, you know, Germanic is a language uh at that point.

16:12 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Holy Roman Empire and transfer of power

Um, but there were one of the Germanic tribes that came in and so Pope Leo kind of does this weird thing where there's no we don't have an emperor in Rome in in the the Eastern uh in the Western Empire. So he he crowns um Charlemagne Charlemagne and uh he becomes what's called the Holy Emperor of Rome and and right there you see that Rome had a backup. There was a transfer of power. Roman state power at some point was vested was vested in uh Christianity in the Catholic Church, you know, because for

16:51 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Holy Roman Empire and transfer of power

the for the pope to be able to to go and say you the bishop of Rome, Leo III to go and say you're the guy now, you know, um again, divine right of of uh of kingships. And we have we have the Holy Roman emperors through the Hapsburgs and Germanic lines up until the 1830s, which is crazy. There were Holy Roman Emperors in the 1800s. And um but but going back just a little bit, I won't belabor the point too much longer, but I just want to get some historical context for what's going on.

17:26 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Great Schism and Eastern vs Western Christianity

>> You get um in 1054, a great schism occurs, right? So you've got the Holy Roman Emperor in uh of the west and you have the Baantian uh uh the Byzantine Roman emperor in the east and his name around that time was uh Michael Cellularius and he was basically the patriarch of Constantinople right what is now modern Istanbul and and named after Constantine who who you know made it okay to be a Christian. Um, he basically gets excommunicated for, you know, your classic power struggle. You do this, you make me, I

18:11 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Great Schism and Eastern vs Western Christianity

will good. You know, like it's like that [laughter] kind of thing. Um, to the point where he becomes excommunicated and that at that point you now have the eastern and western churches. So over time through this administration and all these power struggles they slowly divide. First it's the empire then it's the Vatican church powers you know and we have Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian churches. Those are the Eastern Christian churches. But the church of the West continues to call itself the

18:47 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Great Schism and Eastern vs Western Christianity

Catholic Church. Catholicos in Greek meaning universal meaning like these are the teachings of Christ. They don't change. They never have changed. Yeah, I think that Michael Silio, how do you pronounce that last name? >> Cilarius or something like that. Serilarius. I know. >> I believe I heard that he was linked or he was one of the dudes that like originally initiated the first Knights Templars too if I'm not mistaken. >> And I don't know. But yeah. Wow. that the mass thing that you're describing I

19:18 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Great Schism and Eastern vs Western Christianity

thought was really like an kind of an important point too cuz it is a very hypnotic experience and like you said it's magic. Um uh I'm I'm going to go grab a drink real quick and I'll I'll come back and I'll respond. I'll be back in one second. >> Sure. >> Hello. >> All right. Okay. So um let's see couple responses on all that. I I think one of the really other important points that you made was bringing up the whole education aspect and the you know

19:55 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesuits and the “Black Pope”

the conversation about all this. It's so deep and so rich with history. And so I think just addressing all that confusion is super important. And I myself um is I'm just endlessly learning new and interesting things. And uh this conversation right here, I'm learning so much, which is why I wanted to talk about this with you so bad. And so in part, I'm kind of glad to expose my ignorance with a lot of a lot of this sort of stuff to elicit more informed responses um on all the subject matter.

20:30 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesuits and the “Black Pope”

So it's really good. Um, I wonder, have you heard of the I guess the the great or the superior general, the Jesuit order superior general? I guess some people refer to this individual as the black pope. Have you ever heard of this? >> I've heard of the term black pope, but I wasn't aware that it referred to anyone within the the Jesuits. >> Yeah, I don't really know a lot of details. I just figured I'd ask. Um, and then the other thing I want to ask you about >> was the because you were bringing up

21:03 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesus, Yeshua, and the meaning of Christos

those two symbols and the which basically meant like the Christos or the anointed and then so I was wondering between the name Jesus or Yeshua or Yode Shimbave and then the Christos was the Christos is this more in regard to the spirit that kind of descended down separating it from the the name of the man himself or how do you see that? >> Well, this is where we get into really interesting and important but hairy territory in historically in terms of the Christian argument, right? The argument between early Christianities

21:45 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesus, Yeshua, and the meaning of Christos

and the the struggle for orthodoxy which is um you know small o orthodoxy meaning what do we all agree in? Um, orthodoxy is a compound Greek word. Uh, basically um, orthos is like straight and and and uh, dox is like uh, opinion. >> So it's basically like them saying like of the right opinion. We're trying to get to right belief here. [gasps] [sighs] Now, the early quote unquote gnostic variants of Christianity, particularly in Marcenite and um Basilian uh Christianity, they there was a question there was a

22:30 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesus, Yeshua, and the meaning of Christos

big question mark around um the nature of the Christ and and the resurrection and was it symbolic and was it you know was it historically factual. But what's most interesting because I had had if you really study if you really study um the gospels, you see that they're telling it it's Jesus's whole thing constantly is that this is a formula. This is not just for me to do. It's not just me. I die, you're forgiven. You get to go be a shitty person and have all the fun in the world and have three cars and get

23:11 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Jesus, Yeshua, and the meaning of Christos

your job. You know, it's not about that. He's giving you a formula. He says, you know, those who do not like basically walk away from their family, those who do not take up their cross and carry it in my way, meaning like I did, are not worthy of me. And when Christ chooses the cross, he's essentially rejecting all the knowledge of the world because he doesn't choose the world. He chooses death willingly. And that's how you transcend. That's the formula. But what what allowed him to

23:50 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

actually walk this path? What's really interesting is that Baselians uh Basalian gnostics did not celebrate the incarnation of the Lord on or around the winter solstice the way we do around Christmas time, December 25th. They celebrated the incarnation of the Lord either like on January 6th and January 8th, which is interesting because traditionally it's January 7th that in small o orthodoxy we celebrate the baptism of the Lord. >> And it's at the baptism of the Lord that the Holy Spirit descends into him. And

24:32 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

Jesus is no more. He is the Christ. Okay? And the the symbolism of baptism is so important because it relates to the word Christos. Christos means anointed. But anointed, some people conflate that with chosen, but what it really means is anointed with oil and they would anoint kings and they would anoint high priests and things like this, but it was symbolic because this was a time and place that did not have the widespread usage of soap. And so they used oil to clean their bodies. And so an an act of anointment is an act of

25:11 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

cleansing itself an act of purification. And that is supported by the idea of Christ being washed clean in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. And it's only at that point that the Holy Spirit descends upon him like a dove. The skies part and God himself says, "Behold, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." And then he goes forth and starts his ministry. Because he's not Jesus anymore. He's Christ. He was able to put himself, his ego, his false tainted perceptions,

25:49 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

tainted by materiality. Right? That's the whole Platonic thing that we've that I've been talking about since day one that Plato had been talking about for 2500 years is the contamination of the soul in the spiritual realms. It's it's perfectly summed up in the myth of Pphanany in the underworld. She tastes the fruit while she's down there. And so she's got to keep going back. And Jesus says, "I'm not tasting the fruit. I'm not eating this [ __ ] I don't

26:18 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

care how good it is. I don't care how starving I am. I'm not eating of it. And in that way he's able to create himself as a perfect vessel for the the aspect of his spiritual architecture which transcends his ego. The bornless part of himself enters into reality through him and does the will of the absolute which is live a life which transcends the material inclinations completely. And in doing so, be the image, be the blueprint, be the actual formula for how everyone else gets out of here.

27:00 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

How everyone else transcends and ascends. That's the importance of Christos to me. You know, Yeshua, Jesus, Yinb, it led me to that realization, which is important. It led me there. But ultimately my interest is with the idea of the Christos and even before I had even come to this interpretation. I happened to be you know clergy in an Gnostic church. I don't really talk about it all the time and I've spent you know several years now delivering homalies. It's it that was it's my job is to deliver the homaly

27:38 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Reading the gospels beyond church dogma

which is to get up and interpret scripture and and talk about these things. And uh and well before I even came to that kind of a conclusion, the having to sit down with the gospels themselves and read them. I mean the it's all there. You don't even need anything else because it's in there. The thing that the thing that that that [ __ ] a lot of people up is that there's so much dogma that the Christian church and people normal people kind of have imposed over that stuff, you know, but

28:10 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Reading the gospels beyond church dogma

it's all there if you read it. >> Wow. I I like that date of celebration of his baptism. Uh personally, um I think that's really cool. And there was a day that just passed recently. I saw a lot of Masonic uh people posting about the day of John the Baptist. >> Is that the same thing or is it >> Oh, okay. Yeah. >> It's um it's not the same thing uh in terms of it's not the it's not the feast day of the baptism of the Lord, but it's the feast day of St. John the Baptist

28:48 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · John the Baptist and the forerunner of Christ

who was known as the forerunner of Christ. So he held a very dignified position and still does um in esoteric circles and and Christian circles and even in the Abrahamic religions in general particularly you know um things like Islam and stuff like that. John the Baptist is also venerated to a degree um because you know he's a very important figure. He's he's very very radical. You know he's very radical. I mean, he is described as a man covered in the skin like pelts of animals

29:26 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · John the Baptist and the forerunner of Christ

in the wilderness. He didn't live among the villages. He lived in the wilderness. And he would go around dunking people in water, screaming about the coming Messiah. He would say, "I baptize you with water, but one is coming who will baptize with fire and the Holy Spirit. One comes after me whose shoes I am not fit to to wash." you know, it's I mean, this was the reverence that he had. And in some traditions, it might even be in one of the gospels, John the Baptist and Christ are cousins,

30:00 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · John the Baptist and the forerunner of Christ

like biological cousins. Um and so really to me that's that is it betrays this sense of very very very close relation very close relation and importance in the overall mythos you know now I use the word mythos not as in the modern context of myth something completely untrue but symbolic mythos as in retelling that's what that means in Greek it means like to to tell a tale you know in in ancient Greek, frankly. So, um it doesn't necessarily denote something that's false, but in the

30:39 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · John the Baptist and the forerunner of Christ

Christian mythos, uh you know, they're very very I mean, think about it, right? This is the person who is the quote unquote son of God. By all rights, by human logic, he should be baptizing John, >> but he doesn't. He submits himself and he kneels before him and he says, "You, you do it. You have to baptize me. I came to see you. >> Yeah. All right. Um, switching gears a little bit, but this sort of relates. Uh, I wanted to touch on Luciferianism. I guess there are there's some

31:14 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Luciferianism, Nephilim, and modern occult orders

correlation with the first article. We're running the gamut tonight, baby. [laughter] >> Yeah. Um, you know, might as well throw that in there. Um, >> yeah. So yeah, I guess there's a correlation with the first archon, Samuel or Yaldth Yayth. Um, I was poking through some documents of something called the order of phosphorus. It's kind of a fairly recent magical order established by a guy named Michael Ford, I guess, of the greater church of Lucifer. Uh, he calls it the magic of the Nephilim. Uh, a lot

31:53 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Luciferianism, Nephilim, and modern occult orders

of which seems to revolve around the spirits of liberation. uh utilizes a lot of like Otto similar seeming stuff it seems. >> Yeah, I I I could have guessed I could have guessed that. >> Yeah. But but what I find really interesting when you look at the conclusion of the strain of this strain of Luciferianism is that it associates Lucifer and Arammon as synonymous. Um, well, I'll get into that, but in a little bit, but first, I guess, what's your general overview of of what you

32:25 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Defining Luciferianism from an outside perspective

would call or consider Luciferianism? Like, what would you say that even is? >> Um, if you had a any >> Well, I mean, I'm going to I'm going to of necessity be commenting from an outsers's perspective because it's nothing that I have felt called to join. And from my current perspective, I pray to God that I never do have the inclination to join that. But again, I can't say anything conclusive because I don't know. But I do understand there to be a massive conflation

33:03 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Lucifer, Satan, and the morning star

in again uneducated, hysterical Christianity uh between Satan and Lucifer, the morning star. Um there is a correlation because uh I believe I believe Lucifer is mentioned in one of the psalms of the Old Testament and it's essentially the the connotation behind it is that it has fallen. It was once you know the brightest uh most beloved um shining of God, right? The word itself in in Latin, I don't know what the original Hebrew is. I don't I look into it, but the Latin translation, lucifer, is lightbearer.

33:51 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Lucifer, Satan, and the morning star

Literally, one who carries the the light. Um, it talks about it being in a fallen state. Now, there's a lot of ways you can interpret that. [clears throat] It could they could be talking about Sirius, the morning, you know, they could be talking about Venus. It could be a planetary body. I mean by all rights, right? Ancient civilizations did believe that planetary bodies were the terrestrial phys physical manifestations of the gods. They existed on many many on you multiple planes but that was their body particularly in like

34:26 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Lucifer, Satan, and the morning star

Sumerian um conceptions, astrological conceptions and things like that. But all sort of protosemitic related um especially because the Bible admits that Abraham was called to come out of Sumer, right? The first Jew lived in Sumer, you know, like that's what he was before there were any Jews, right? That's Abraham was called out of that civilization to start a new religion. Um, [clears throat] so a lot of that stuff could have would have crossed over in tradition and lore, but there's this

35:02 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Satan as adversary and tester

conflation with the with Lucifer, the lightbearer, and this idea of Satan, the adversary, Shatan, who originally appears as this kind of other god, you know, um, in in or other other entity that's kind of uh he's almost like a prosecutor in like a court. You know, it's it's very dualistic in in the early Hebrew conceptions and and writings of the appearance of Shayan, the adversary. You know, he's basically there to test to test people. Um, [clears throat] and it makes sense if you think about

35:43 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Satan as adversary and tester

what Dion Fortune had to say about quote unquote evil. It's a thrusting block for for good, you know, towards good. Um, it's, you know, she she used to say, "I'm not sure that I agree completely, but I understand what she's talking about. Uh, there is no such thing as quote unquote evil. It's just misplaced force." And, you know, I understand that the duality is this kind of like wash dry cycle of of of hopefully spiritual evolution, but I don't believe that the

36:10 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Theosophy, Steiner, and Lucifer as lightbearer

soul is impervious to dissolution while here. I don't think everyone gets out. Um [clears throat] but uh that my personal stuff aside, um I know that Lucifer was very very popular among the theosophical writings of the 1800s and in the writings I I believe of theosophically derived um authors and their sort of attendant uh or or They're splinter organizations. A really good one is uh Rudolph Steiner and anthroposophy, right? Started out as a >> Theosophist. >> Um so there's there was even a magazine

36:56 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Theosophy, Steiner, and Lucifer as lightbearer

called Lucifer. It was an occult magazine called Lucifer. And and the idea in that theosophical literature expounds is is that Lucifer is the lightbearer and not Satan. And um [clears throat] and it's actually like you hear the masons talking about light all the time, you know, uh light in masonry, >> [clears throat] >> etc. That's that's definitely um like one of the main verbiages uh or or things that they that they rely on part of their vernacular is what I mean to say. And then you have this whole idea

37:33 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Gnostic readings of the serpent and demiurge

of, you know, in in in the beginning of Genesis, uh, God said, "Let there be light." Things like that. Um, to me, I and and look, there are there are Gnostic schools that that kind of say that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was another form of Christ. It all depends on what we're talking about here. is the God of the Old Testament. Is that the, you know, the quote unquote demi urge? You know, the the blind kind of craftsman who can't really originate anything but has to imitate it and

38:10 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Gnostic readings of the serpent and demiurge

doesn't admit that there's like a higher power above him. Is that what we're talking about? Well, yeah, then yeah, that makes that kind of makes sense. But, uh, if that's not the ground we're working on, I see no reason than I see no other reason than to vest the formula of transcendence in what is sort of bountifully laid out in the New Testaments according to, you know, the the the writings of Christ. Even the apocrypha, you know, you can go and check those things out, too. A lot of

38:44 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Biblical canon, apocrypha, and misconceptions

people make the mistake. they think that the C because they've read the Dan Brown books and they've watched those movies and so you know >> if it's in a movie it's true right it's got to be true so uh he I think he he he conflated this whole idea with the Bible being as 66 separate books being sort of collated uh by the um the bishops at the council I see and it's not true it it happened slowly over time through like these theological interdep departmental memos and things like that you know and and

39:15 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Biblical canon, apocrypha, and misconceptions

and and gradual changes. The Bible, you know, people say, "Well, they took this book out." They didn't agree that it it was theologically consonant anymore. It's not necessarily, you know, you can't you can't definitively say that they took it out because it says this about, you know, uh Christ or or women or marriage. Like, first of all, who the [ __ ] are you? You know, [laughter] so it's it's you don't you just don't know enough to conclusively start saying

39:42 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Biblical canon, apocrypha, and misconceptions

these things. But it took a lot of time for them to agree on what but the major Christian traditions still you're not it's not like heresy to read the apocrypha. A lot of them hang on to that stuff and they say yeah go ahead read it. You're not sinning you know you're not going to be uh excommunicated but that's not like canon. That's not we don't we don't talk about it in liturgy. We don't sprinkle it in the homaly. It's not in our psalter you know. So it's

40:12 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · Biblical canon, apocrypha, and misconceptions

that's just the kind of um the general thing that uh that goes on with that. But you know again it's like to me to to talk about Lucifer falling and then correspond that to the Nephilim. You know the Nephilim