Tackling Tradition 82: Acts 19:1 - 7

Those who make much of New Testament baptism have been known to assert that one must be baptized in the name of Christ in order to have received the Holy Spirit.       Some go so far to say that one must be baptized in order to do so.   One of their major prooftexts is Acts 19: 1 - 7. 19 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spiritwhen you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied. 4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophe...

The Aesthetics & Alchemy of Apostasy

Apostasy

Aesthetic

Alchemy

Moral Declension

Enfeeblement

Parasitic

Moral Stupidity

(False) Devotion

Correspondence

Moral Rebellion

Plague

Contagion

(Moral) Death

Expiration

Parody

Apostasy both comprises & embraces 4 evils: moral declension, moral stupidity, moral rebellion, & ultimately moral death.  


Moral Declension presents itself/manifests itself as that which glories in the rise & fall of moral empire’s imperial structures (Principles of Faith & Practice).  Its Aesthetic (defining characteristic) is the enfeeblement of moral empire/government.    It expresses itself in Black Magick/Sorcery via the the principle of parasitism insofar as it grafts, bonds, joins, unites, &/or merges or seeks to merge or attach itself to one or more targets in order to redefine & conquer them. (Romans 7 & 8)


Moral Stupidity presents itself/manifests itself as that which glories in  conflict & conflict resolution that more often than not theologically, philosophically, &/or ethically destroys in order to either pave the way for the new imperial order or glory in destruction for its own sake.   Moral Stupidity seeks to strategically deconstruct/destroy the correspondence/relationships relative to the simultaneous moral unity & unanimity of the created order & ultimately the Moral Imago Dei itself — and — supplant these relationships &/or the Imago Dei with any number of alternatives all of which result in (false) devotion to God, &/or any number of moral/ethical principles, & /or any number of pagan pseudodeities. (Romans 1:18 - 32),


Its aesthetic (ie defining characteristic) centers on (false) devotion.  It expresses itself in Black Majick/Sorcery via the principle of contagion, insofar as it seeks to erode &/or destroy the correspondence between truth & falsity, righteousness & sin/iniquity, reality & unreality in general, & that which is & that which ought to be in particular. 


Moral Rebellion presents/manifests itself as that which glories in moral & material gluttony (licentiousness) & poverty (legalism),  resulting in moral sickness/infirmity.  Its aesthetic (defining characteristic) is plague.      The Bible describes apostasy as the road to destruction plagued with a lack of morally righteous theological, philosophical, & moral/ethical knowledge.   (Romans 1:18 - 32)


Moral Death - Reliance on Works Righteousness, like Apocalypse, encompasses all of these evils & centers on works righteousness, resulting in Death.  Its aesthetic is expiration insofar as works righteousness is sorcery’s answer to the Gospel of Grace & faith, and works righteousness results in Death.   In sorcery/Satanic witchcraft, the Enemy seeks to parody what it perceives as a source &/o the  source of righteousness & redemption.  (Romans 6:23, Romans 9:30 - 33)

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