The Sword of the Lord
I know everyone’s all upset right now over the “Imprecatory Prayer” flap involving Mike Huckabee and Rev. Wiley S. Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, California. I had to laugh! He called for their “children to be fatherless and their wives to be widows.” How quaint.
Check out the malicious little ditty thousands of members of Church Universal and Triumphant used to shout (144 times or more in unison at top voice level) against its critics and enemies:
Smash, blast, annihilate, shatter, dissolve and consume!
Smash, blast, annihilate, shatter, dissolve and consume!
Smash, blast, annihilate, shatter, dissolve and consume!To the last atom…
This little diabolical ‘prayer’ came from the Ballards and their “I AM” activity circa 1940 and was passed down through the various ascended master splinter organizations until my parents picked it up. When we were kids, we used to think it was great fun. Later, when I became a minister, it was much more serious. There was a battle of light and darkness to fight, after all. A hand-motion went with it in rhythm: First it was a sign of the cross, then an X over the cross, then two finger-jabs in the middle. Like this:
This went on for years until someone got the idea it wasn’t good P.R.–which happened about the same time some local folks in Montana got copies of the church’s prayer “hit list”–which had their names on it! From then on, the hit lists were renamed “Fact sheets on burdens we share.” And the “blasting” decree was only given in private sessions.
Many CUT members also swung stainless steel prayer swords (pictured above–yes I kept mine) in the air during the 80’s and 90’s–I think they probably still do it to this day, but I wouldn’t know. To make sure god and archangel michael got the point, I suppose. Or to lend an extra dimension of fantasy and fetishism to decree sessions [prayer services]. They justified it based on a Blavatsky teaching from “Isis Unveiled” about cutting themselves free from evil spirits (”discarnate entities”). But it was also great for battling the Church’s invisible enemies (black magicians, aliens, UFO’s). Or presumably to imagine cutting up its real ones (critics, state officials, people who didn’t espouse arch-conservative politics, or anyone who thwarted its plans). The image below is the inscription on the sword.
There was also this:
Bolts of blue lightning into the cause and core of (insert enemy name here)________.
Blue-Lightning bombs descend!
Blue-Lightning bombs descend!
Blue-Lightning bombs descend!
And this from “Archangel Michael’s Rosary:”
Blaze the light through! Blaze the light through! Blaze the light through! We demand the Final Judgment [caps in original] of their specific lifestreams [emphasis added] in this hour, O God–and of all those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life: (insert enemy or situation name here)______________________.
These prayers were given daily, sometimes several times a day. Well, here’s the believer psychology behind this type of twisted prayer: Can’t win by argument or achievement? World’s not going your way? Abortion’s still legal? People still like sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Can’t understand why no matter how hard you believe or worship, things don’t seem to change? Break the law and get caught? It’s those damn fallen ones fault: ‘Smash, blast and annihilate them! Blue-Lightning bombs descend! Blaze the light through! Judge their specific lifestreams this hour! You’ll see, you fallen ones, you’ll see. You’ll face your final judgment at the court of the sacred fire. Then you’ll be sorry. Mwahahahaha.’
Over the years when I was in CUT, I often wondered why nothing ever happened to any of the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people we decreed against, which included U.S. presidents, other world leaders, and a “who’s-who” of corporate executives. I guess, thankfully, we can conclude “imprecatory prayer” didn’t work then, and doesn’t work now. But that doesn’t excuse the malice. Believers will retort that only god can judge, so there’s nothing to worry about–people will be “taken out” only if it’s god’s will.
Sorry, that doesn’t wash. If there were a god, and he were to be deciding whose ‘lifestream’ to remove, he certainly wouldn’t need a bunch of people shouting at him. Kill! Kill! Smash! Blast! Something about a god of mercy and love…
“God’s will” being invoked to produce death or ‘judgment’ is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed and self-righteous excuse for emotional weaklings, hucksters and weasels to take out frustrations and spew their hatred and blame for a less-than perfect world and their less-than perfect lives onto others. A grown-up version of “I’m telling mom!” And a desperate hiding from their own misdeeds, powerlessness, poor decisions, non-accountability, shadow-denial and folly by pretending to invoke the wrath of the ‘enforcer’ in the sky.