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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

4:19 PM - Never Argue with a Woman
Category: Life

One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.

Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?"

"Reading a book," she replies, (thinking, "Isn't that obvious?")
"You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her.
"I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."

"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.

"But I haven't even touched you," says the game warden.
"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."
"Have a nice day ma'am," and he left.

MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It's likely she can also think.

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

8:33 PM - The 48 Laws of Power

Law 1
Never Outshine the Master

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.

Law 2
Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies

Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Law 3
Conceal your Intentions

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

Law 4
Always Say Less than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

Law 5
So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once you slip, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

Law 6
Court Attention at all Cost

Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.

Law 7
Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit

Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.

Law 8
Make other People come to you – use Bait if Necessary

When you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process. Lure him with fabulous gains – then attack. You hold the cards.

Law 9
Win through your Actions, Never through Argument

Any momentary triumph you think gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

Law 10
Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

You can die from someone else's misery – emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Law 11
Learn to Keep People Dependent on You

To maintain your independence you must always be needed and wanted. The more you are relied on, the more freedom you have. Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear. Never teach them enough so that they can do without you.

Law 12
Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim

One sincere and honest move will cover over dozens of dishonest ones. Open-hearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people. Once your selective honesty opens a hole in their armor, you can deceive and manipulate them at will. A timely gift – a Trojan horse – will serve the same purpose.

Law 13
When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest,
Never to their Mercy or Gratitude

If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds. He will find a way to ignore you. Instead, uncover something in your request, or in your alliance with him, that will benefit him, and emphasize it out of all proportion. He will respond enthusiastically when he sees something to be gained for himself.

Law 14
Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy

Knowing about your rival is critical. Use spies to gather valuable information that will keep you a step ahead. Better still: Play the spy yourself. In polite social encounters, learn to probe. Ask indirect questions to get people to reveal their weaknesses and intentions. There is no occasion that is not an opportunity for artful spying.

Law 15
Crush your Enemy Totally

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

Law 16
Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor

Too much circulation makes the price go down: The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear. If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.

Law 17
Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability

Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people's actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.

Law 18
Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous

The world is dangerous and enemies are everywhere – everyone has to protect themselves. A fortress seems the safest. But isolation exposes you to more dangers than it protects you from – it cuts you off from valuable information, it makes you conspicuous and an easy target. Better to circulate among people find allies, mingle. You are shielded from your enemies by the crowd.

Law 19
Know Who You're Dealing with – Do Not Offend the Wrong Person

There are many different kinds of people in the world, and you can never assume that everyone will react to your strategies in the same way. Deceive or outmaneuver some people and they will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge. They are wolves in lambs' clothing. Choose your victims and opponents carefully, then – never offend or deceive the wrong person.

Law 20
Do Not Commit to Anyone

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others – playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Law 21
Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker – Seem Dumber than your Mark

No one likes feeling stupider than the next persons. The trick, is to make your victims feel smart – and not just smart, but smarter than you are. Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.

Law 22
Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power

When you are weaker, never fight for honor's sake; choose surrender instead. Surrender gives you time to recover, time to torment and irritate your conqueror, time to wait for his power to wane. Do not give him the satisfaction of fighting and defeating you – surrender first. By turning the other check you infuriate and unsettle him. Make surrender a tool of power.

Law 23
Concentrate Your Forces

Conserve your forces and energies by keeping them concentrated at their strongest point. You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another – intensity defeats extensity every time. When looking for sources of power to elevate you, find the one key patron, the fat cow who will give you milk for a long time to come.

Law 24
Play the Perfect Courtier

The perfect courtier thrives in a world where everything revolves around power and political dexterity. He has mastered the art of indirection; he flatters, yields to superiors, and asserts power over others in the mot oblique and graceful manner. Learn and apply the laws of courtiership and there will be no limit to how far you can rise in the court.

Law 25
Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

Law 26
Keep Your Hands Clean

You must seem a paragon of civility and efficiency: Your hands are never soiled by mistakes and nasty deeds. Maintain such a spotless appearance by using others as scapegoats and cat's-paws to disguise your involvement.

Law 27
Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following

People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power.

Law 28
Enter Action with Boldness

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Law 29

Plan All the Way to the End
The ending is everything. Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible consequences, obstacles, and twists of fortune that might reverse your hard work and give the glory to others. By planning to the end you will not be overwhelmed by circumstances and you will know when to stop. Gently guide fortune and help determine the future by thinking far ahead.

Law 30
Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless

Your actions must seem natural and executed with ease. All the toil and practice that go into them, and also all the clever tricks, must be concealed. When you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do much more. Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work – it only raises questions. Teach no one your tricks or they will be used against you.

Law 31
Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal

The best deceptions are the ones that seem to give the other person a choice: Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma: They are gored wherever they turn.

Law 32
Play to People's Fantasies

The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes for disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.

Law 33
Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew

Everyone has a weakness, a gap in the castle wall. That weakness is usual y an insecurity, an uncontrollable emotion or need; it can also be a small secret pleasure. Either way, once found, it is a thumbscrew you can turn to your advantage.

Law 34
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one

The way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated; In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others. By acting regally and confident of your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.

Law 35
Master the Art of Timing

Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.

Law 36
Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge

By acknowledging a petty problem you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him; and a small mistake is often made worse and more visible when you try to fix it. It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.

Law 37
Create Compelling Spectacles

Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power – everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, then full of arresting visuals and radiant symbols that heighten your presence. Dazzled by appearances, no one will notice what you are really doing.

Law 38
Think as you like but Behave like others

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

Law 39
Stir up Waters to Catch Fish

Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective. But if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decided advantage. Put your enemies off-balance: Find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.

Law 40
Despise the Free Lunch

What is offered for free is dangerous – it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit. It is also often wise to pay the full price – there is no cutting corners with excellence. Be lavish with your money and keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a magnet for power.

Law 41
Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after. If you succeed a great man or have a famous parent, you will have to accomplish double their achievements to outshine them. Do not get lost in their shadow, or stuck in a past not of your own making: Establish your own name and identity by changing course. Slay the overbearing father, disparage his legacy, and gain power by shining in your own way.

Law 42
Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual – the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoned of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them – they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

Law 43
Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others

Coercion creates a reaction that will eventually work against you. You must seduce others into wanting to move in your direction. A person you have seduced becomes your loyal pawn. And the way to seduce others is to operate on their individual psychologies and weaknesses. Soften up the resistant by working on their emotions, playing on what they hold dear and what they fear. Ignore the hearts and minds of others and they will grow to hate you.

Law 44
Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect

The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool for deception: When you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy. The Mirror Effect mocks and humiliates them, making them overreact. By holding up a mirror to their psyches, you seduce them with the illusion that you share their values; by holding up a mirror to their actions, you teach them a lesson. Few can resist the power of Mirror Effect.

Law 45
Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once

Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic, and will lead to revolt. If you are new to a position of power, or an outsider trying to build a power base, make a show of respecting the old way of doing things. If change is necessary, make it feel like a gentle improvement on the past.

Law 46
Never appear too Perfect

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

Law 47
Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop

The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance and overconfidence can push you past the goal you had aimed for, and by going too far, you make more enemies than you defeat. Do not allow success to go to your head. There is no substitute for strategy and careful planning. Set a goal, and when you reach it, stop.

Law 48
Assume Formlessness

By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.

by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers

OKAY...DO YOU THINK THEY INCORPORATED GOD IN ANY OF THIS?
GIVE ME YOUR THOUGHTS...

COTRICE

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

8:27 PM - If You Get to Know Me Better...
Current mood: touched
Category: Romance and Relationships

You will fall DEEPER in LOVE with me.

These are the words that the LORD just spoke to me:

Spend more time with me
Give me more of YOU - in a QUIET PLACE
Use your gifts and I will BLESS YOU
Tithe more
WORSHIP ME MORE
PRAISE ME in SONG
Write me a LOVE letter
Exemplify PATIENCE
KEEP your focus on ME as I focus on YOU
Bring EVERYTHING to ME in PRAYER and SUPPLICATION
FAST in your suffering and KNOW that I will PROTECT you from the enemy
FAITH is built through MY WORD
Get FED by EATING MY WORD DAILY

GIVING, LOVING, and RELEASING these things will bring ME great JOY...
and I, the LORD GOD will ANSWER ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS AND OVERFLOW YOUR CUP.

I AM MERCIFUL
GLORIOUS
I WOULD NEVER and have NEVER LIED TO YOU
I TOLD YOU I WOULD TAKE CARE OF YOU, didn't I?
I LOVE YOU - YOU ARE MY CHILD - YOU ARE MINE

YOU ARE ROYALTY

Currently listening :
Praise & Worship
By Daryl Coley
Release date: 13 June, 2006

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7:16 AM - THE COMPANY YOU KEEP - from Katrina
Current mood: artistic
Category: Productive Friends

It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company.
Tell me who your best friends are, and I will tell you who you are.
If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl.
But, if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.
A mirror reflects a mans face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses. The simple but true fact of life is that you
become like those with whom you closely associate for the good and the bad.
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.
An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with
negative thinking and negative acting people.

As you grow, your associates will change.
Some of your friends will not want you to go on.
They will want you to stay where they are.
Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl.
Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream.
Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

CONSIDER THIS:

Never receive counsel from unproductive people.

Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing
to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are
always first to tell you how.

Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.

You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with
the wrong person.

Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere.

With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it.

Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life.

Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.

In your Happy moments, Praise God
Difficult moments, Seek God
Quiet moments, Worship God
Painful moments, Trust God
For Every moment, Thank God

If you see people without a smile today, give them one of yours.
Choose to rise...Don't settle...and go for your dreams!!!
And most of all, let God lead you in everything you do.

Currently listening :
2nd Chance
By Karen Clark-Sheard
Release date: 17 October, 2002

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

3:57 PM - Spiritual DEPOSITS...
Category: Religion and Philosophy

When we go to the bank - or the refridgerator we either take something out of, or put something into it.
When we put something into it, it better be good, not spoiled.
Why would you deposit something that is not worth putting away to have later?
You definitely don't need to waste that precious space...
whether it is in your memory bank
your spiritual bank
your ears
your heart
your financial institution
or your fridge.

Take a moment to notice what things are settling in your mind from conversations with different individuals. Not all that they say is true, no matter how much you may want to believe it. Some things we listen to are actually the enemies way of starting bits of 'junk' to clutter your mind. It will usually happen with those who you allow to be close to you.
Even at work. When you hear something negative, no matter how much you may want to have a little part of it, or have a comment to say, RUN!
Run far away...in your mind...your heart, keep it guarded from all of the nasty little deposits that could be trying to settle down within your private parts.
Your mind, your heart, your ears, and your spirit are all PERSONAL AND PRIVATE.
PUT UP A DO NOT DISTURB SIGN - AT ALL TIMES.
So, the next time you see it coming...(and this takes practice) let someone know what you would prefer in a kind manner of speech.

If you have to drop them, drop them like a hot potato.

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

6:38 PM - WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT DEATH
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Religion and Philosophy

> Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death! Make a personal
> reflection about this.

> It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): "Be not deceived; God is not
> mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

> Here are some men and women who mocked God:

> JOHN LENNON: Some years before, during his interview with an American
> Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have
> to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too
> simple, today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying
> that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

> TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil ): During the Presidential campaign, he
> said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him
> from Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being
> made President, then he died.

> CAZUZA (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet): During a show in
> Canecïo ( Rio de Janeiro ), whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out
> some smoke into the air and said: "God, that's for you." He died at the age
> of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner.

> THE MAN WHO BUILT THE TITANIC: After the construction of the Titanic, a
> reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he
> said: "Not even God can sink it" The result: I think you all know what
> happened to the Titanic.
>
> MARILYN MONROE: She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a
> show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After
> hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: "I don't need your Jesus".
> A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.
>
> BON SCOTT: The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:
> "Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell". On
> the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by
> his own vomit.

> CAMPINAS/SP IN 2005: In Campinas, Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to
> pick up a friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried
> about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter - holding
> her hand, who was already seated in the car: "MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND
> MAY HE PROTECT YOU."

> She responded: "ONLY IF HE
> (GOD) TRAVELS IN THE TRUNK, CAUSE INSIDE HERE IT'S ALREADY FULL". Hours
> later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident,
> everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had
> been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no
> way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the
> trunk was a crate of eggs, none were broken.

> Christine Hewitt: A Jamaican Journalist and entertainer, said the Bible
> (Word of God) was the worst book ever written, in June 2006 she was found
> burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.

> Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that
> was given so much authority as the name of Jesus. Many have died, but only
> Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

HE IS COMING BACK SOON.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

5:11 PM - Words to the Wise
Current mood: contemplative
Category: accomplished Blogging

DO NOT date out of neediness. Date because you want to.
Marry because he FOUND YOU....and because he is a GODLY man.

KNOW THY SELF and BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF

BE DIPLOMATIC and please, USE TOUGH LOVE...when needed.

NEVER SELL YOURSELF SHORT...no matter what the circumstance.

BE STILL WHEN NEEDED...yet, know when TO MAKE A MOVE

LEARN to LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND YOU & NEVER LOOK BACK...
if there was something left that was any good, you left it long ago. TRUST ME, it is GONE.

STAY FOCUSED when it comes to your GOALS

LIFE IS A RACING COMPETITION WITHIN YOURSELF..so PURSUE YOUR DREAMS, not someone elses - and PACE YOURSELF accordingly.

REMEMBER, MONEY IS JUST A TOOL
it cannot fix your tires or buy you love, but it CAN fix your credit. USE IT WISELY.

LEARN HOW TO SAY NO...it comes in handy just when you need it.

Jenine Cotrice Addison
Words to the Wise ©2007

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

6:00 AM - EVERY Woman should have...
Current mood: contemplative
Category: HAPPY to be so BLESSED Life

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...

enough money to move out and rent a place of her own even if she never wants or needs to...

something perfect to wear if the employer or date of your dreams wants to see you in an hour...

a past juicy enough that you are looking forward to telling in your old age...

a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and pretty new underwear...

one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who lets her cry...

a great piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone...

eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal that will make guests feel honored...

a feeling of CONTROL over your destiny...

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing yourself...

HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER....
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...

when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...

that you can't change the length of your calves, the width of your hips, or the nature of your parents..

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that your childhood may not have been perfect...but it, along with the pain, is finally over...

what you would and wouldn't do for love...

how to live alone... even if you don't like it...

whom one can trust, who you can't, and why you shouldn't take it personally...

KNOW...
where to go...be it to your best friend's kitchen table...or to a charming inn in the woods when your soul needs soothing.....

what you can and can't accomplish in a day...a month...or a year...

SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS.

Currently listening :
For The Hearing
By SDoun
Release date: 04 November, 2004

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Monday, January 15, 2007

8:16 PM - What They DON"T Want YOU to KNOW...(THANKS Nana)
Current mood: contemplative
Category: IN DEEP THOUGHT Religion and Philosophy

(ONE MUST MAKE the time to READ this)
A Harrowing Brush With the Powers of Darkness

Based on an Interview with Roger J Morneau, with
Supplementary details added from his Autobiography.
(Preface, condensation, minor grammatical/textual editing, and some explanations
edited by: Raymond Obomsawin)

For the Complete Story & Autobiography Obtain the Book Under the Same Title

Abridged version by Bryan Bissell is available by pressing link.

Prefacing Comments:

There sits today in rulership of this fallen world order one who has grown ancient in evil, cunning in subtlety, and cruel in deceit. He waged the first war of the universe in the distant planet called heaven, and subsequently brought conflict to this little world we call earth as it spins on the outer edges of the milky-way galaxy. He filled all heaven with discord and the earth with death, and both with great sorrow. He deceptively challenged every transparent purpose of the Creator, and even coveted the throne of the Eternal, planning to either assume rule of the universe or if not, then to plunge it into chaos and ruin.

This menacing figure who has hijacked our planet well explains the presence of every conflict that disturbs our world today, every pestilence that afflicts humanity, every sorrow and pain and death that tortures the children of earth. Lucifer, the former covering cherub and one-time honorable prime minister of the angelic intelligences in Heaven, has become Satan, the great adversary of our smitten world. This powerful angel heads a vast army of unseen intelligences, the hosts of darkness who oppose in this world, every beneficent purpose of our Creator the Almighty God of the universe. He especially hates the Holy One who in great condescension assumed our human nature that He might by divine power destroy the works of Satan, conquer evil and lift the terrible sentence of eternal death from our fallen race.

To speak of a throne of evil controlling this world system is no mere figure of speech, it is a grim reality. And the occupant of that throne is no figment of anyone's imagination. Jesus Christ ascribes to him the title of "prince of this world." John 14: 30. The famed Christian apostle Paul describes him as "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience." Eph. 2: 2. Paul also warns us that "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood , but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness…" Eph 6:12 John the Revelator describes this foe as "the great dragon," "that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan who deceives the whole world." Rev. 12:9.

When the leader of revolt against the Eternal Creator was expelled from heaven, expelled along with him were many other angel intelligences who had yielded to his cunning sophistries and had joined in his unworthy rebellion. This world is today their singular abode. This is because that tremendous event, which rid heaven of the fallen hosts, was followed by the tragic fall of our first parents under Satan's lies. This historic fall let loose legions of fallen angels to bend all of their efforts and genius over many thousands of years in the work of spoiling, corrupting and ruining the once noble human family, originally created to be the crown of God's handiwork. A key element of the strategy to ruin humanity has been to lead man to blight and degrade the fair earth that was intended to be our perfect and eternal home.

The apostle Peter warns us "Be sober, be vigilant: because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8 Finally, the inspired revelator says " Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time." Rev. 12:12.



My Early Years

I was born in the year1925 in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. My parents were devout French Roman Catholics. Two of my aunts were nuns, and my father's brother a priest and monseigneur of the Catholic Church. Our family practiced many types of bodily humiliations in order to gain favor before God. For instance, it was customary at certain times of the year for the members of our family to hold an all-night vigil. Each of us took turns kneeling for one hour before a statue and saying the rosary, or other prayers.

One Sunday in winter, on our way home from church in horse drawn sleighs, speaking above the sound of the bells I asked my mother "Why was Jesus was so kind to people when He walked on earth, and became so mean after He went to heaven?" She replied "What makes you ask that?" I then reasoned "Why would a good God burn people in purgatory for hundreds of years over some small offenses? He certainly doesn't practice what He taught. You and dad practice what you teach us. You teach us to forgive one another's offenses. Shouldn't God also forgive completely?" I felt that God should be at least as kind and compassionate toward human beings, as He expected them to be toward each other.

At a later time, I was impressed with the evident kindness and devout nature of a Protestant mechanic from Edmunston who worked on my fathers Model A Ford. Unlike many Catholics I knew, he never used profanities when he pinched his finger or skinned his knuckles. When my father along with us children recited the Angelus at noon in his presence, he bowed his head, closed his eyes, and folded his hands. We never closed our eyes, and rushed through the Angelus as fast as possible. This troubled me greatly as I had already memorized from the catechism "Hors de L'eglise Catholique Apostolique et Romaine il n'y a point de Salut." Translated this said "Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, there is no salvation".

In response to my sincere question as to "where do the good Protestants go when they die," my father suggested that Saint Peter couldn't personally welcome them at the gates, but they probably still got into Heaven through the back door. However, when my uncle the priest visited a few months later he made things clear to all of us when he said "according to the church no Protestant whether good or bad, will go to heaven or will ever see God." This placed another big question mark in my mind about God's goodness and justice.

A couple of years later the matter of God's justice came up again. A neighbor died suddenly, a few miles from home, without the priest having given him the sacrament of the church. Before too long we saw a dilapidated horse-drawn wagon moving slowly down the road. A blanket covered the body, and the driver's face reflected despair. My mother commented, "If only he could have had a priest to forgive his mortal sins so that he would not find himself going into hell fire. Lets hope he had only venial sins on his soul. That alone represents years of burning in the flames of purgatory". My father then said, "We'll need to get some money together and have masses celebrated for the peace of his soul, as I can't see how his widow and the kids will be able to do so."

One of the neighbors spoke up "I feel like telling you to save your money. I am inclined to think that his soul is now in hell fire." He then explained that he had seen a certain item in the man's barn that was stolen from my father. Father appeared shocked for a moment or two. And then emphatically said that in God's sight, anything that the dead man had ever taken of his, was being given to him, and should be considered as gifts and not stolen property. "In this way his soul is freed from any condemnation he may have brought upon Himself in the sight of God". The neighbor than said to my father, "Right now I feel that you are being kinder than God is. In fact you may be the first human being ever to force God to take a soul out of hell fire and place him in purgatory till he is purified enough to enter heaven". I had to agree with the neighbor that my father was being more kind than God.

Another matter that greatly troubled me was that God was most unkind and unjust in forcing souls to suffer in purgatory because the relatives had no money to have masses celebrated. At the age of 12 when my mother died my father was able to put up what in today's money would be about $3,000 to have 300 Gregorian masses celebrated on the same day in various parishes, convents and monasteries. According to Pope Gregory they have a redeeming power sufficient to take a soul directly to heaven, so that it would not even see the flames of purgatory. I thought how fortunate it was that my father could afford to help our mother get to heaven so nicely. Then I recalled a woman who had died six months earlier in our parish. Because the family was too poor to have any masses celebrated she would have to suffer many years in the flames of purgatory. My father commented at the time, "It's a sad, sad thing to be poor in this day and age, especially when it comes to dying".

As I thought on these things I couldn't help feeling that God was most unjust. Then in my early teenage years I attended a boarding academy operated by the nuns of L'Hotel Dieu de St. Basil. I there received a great deal more religious instruction, that served to only further harden my heart, and as time went on I lost all confidence in both God and the Church, and I was determined to have nothing more to do with either, as soon as I would be old enough to be on my own. Step by step the teachings of Roman Catholicism had turned me away from God in disgust, and hate. Finally I came to doubt His very existence. Not many years later World War II came along, and with it a call to serve my country. I joined the Canadian Merchant Navy where during the war I worked - mostly as a fireman - in the engine rooms of the various ships I was assigned to. A number of the men that I came to know personally, perished at sea.



My Trip into the Supernatural Begins

When I came out of the Canadian Merchant Navy after the war, I was looking into taking up a trade in Montreal, Canada and at that time I ran across an old friend by the name of Roland. He had served on a particular ship with me early in the war and said, "Hey, Morneau, you're still alive! How nice to meet you again, let's have dinner tonight?" So I later went to my boss and asked, "Can I have the evening off?" I did manage to get the evening off, and I went out to have dinner with this former shipmate.

He told me, "Hey, I've got something fantastic to tell you, I'm affiliated with some people who speak with the spirits of the dead. How would you like to talk with the spirit of your dead mother?" And I was shocked! He said, "You wouldn't be afraid of talking to the spirit of your dead mother, would you?" "Well", I said, I'll tell you what, I would have to give that some thought, it's something that I never thought about before in my life!"

Well, he said, "It's written all over your face, you're afraid of going to a séance. But", he said, "I know you, you're going to come." And then he started telling me how brave I was when I was aboard ship, you know and different things. He then said, "You're not the same man, you've changed; you're chicken!" That's all I needed to hear, I said, "When do we go to the séance?"



Going To The Séance

So the next Saturday evening I went with Roland to the place where he attended the séances for the very first time. It was truly a first class setting. The medium was a lady who owned a gorgeous new home in Montreal, and I'd say that there were about twenty invited guests there. She communicated with the spirits on behalf of different people who were there and in turn conveyed to them what the spirits said.

During the séance one man made the request, "I'd like to talk to my friend that died six months ago. But I don't want him to appear, I just want to speak to him, because", he said, "I don't trust your talking to my friend for me." So the medium said, "Let me inquire of the spirits; Yes, the spirit will talk with you." And immediately a deep masculine voice was heard in the place, saying, "Hi, Frank, it's nice of you to ask for me to talk with you." and they had a little chat and after it was over, Frank said, "This is the greatest thing on earth, to be able to talk with the spirits of the dead!"

I also recall there was one lady present named Mary who had been talking and talking almost continually before the séance started, and she didn't believe in the dead appearing. She said, "Well, I would have to see my dead sister to believe it." The medium commented, "We have a very special surprise tonight for you people, a spirit will manifest itself openly here in a few minutes." And it was then like a big gust of wind hit the building and came right through the wall, the lights weren't terribly bright, (you know they were like living room lights) and a translucent being seemed to come right out of the wall. It's almost like my heart stopped beating for a little bit, and I experienced a very weird feeling! It appeared as a lady in a beautiful evening gown, floor length and she said to Mary, "My dear sister, you are so wonderful to have asked for me." And Mary fainted and fell right off her chair on the floor. A couple guys jumped up and picked her up and the spirit was gone. That was the beginning of it. You know something that is interesting about the human mind, is that you can adjust to almost anything! Things that would terrify you to begin with, after a while become common and ordinary.

This in turn set the stage for me becoming involved with a very secret and elite society that actually worshipped the spirits. As things turned out when you are invited there by the direction of the high up entities in the spirit world, you can never get out of the society alive. And that's exactly what my friend and I were to face. Let me explain.



Invited By The Spirits

There was a nationally famous and wealthy big band (jazz) musician, who played a lot in Montreal and Vancouver the big cities, and the night that we went to this séance, he was there with his wife. Now the spirits had instructed him in advance what he was to do. The spirit told him "There's two young men that we are interested in", he then gave him our names, "and we'll make it so that your wife will want to stay longer and talk to the medium, it is then you are to say that you want to go home because you're tired. You are to say this when you see that these two men are getting ready to leave. You are then leave with them at the same time and when you all get outdoors, you are to ask them if they are driving, and they'll say no, that they're going to take the tramway a couple blocks away. You are then to invite them to get into your car with you, and explain that you're inviting them to a high class restaurant to treat them to some good food, and to talk about the merchant navy."

And that's exactly what the guy did; and there we were in this posh restaurant, he pulled his deluxe Lincoln into a little alley, just enough room to pass a car, I can still see it like it was yesterday. The restaurant was on St. Catherine's Street West, which is the main street in Montreal. It was quite an evening. On entering the restaurant, we found the place packed, but there were a couple of tables against the wall with 'reserved' signs on them, and the owner of the place recognized the band leader and came over and said "Good evening", and led us to one of the reserved tables. We sat down and ordered our favorite alcoholic beverages, and as we talked the bandleader said, "How long have you fellows been involved with sorcery?" It shocked us a little bit; and I said, "exactly what do you mean?"

"Well", he said, "You know, what you people are doing, talking to the supposed spirits of the dead", he says, "This is silly. You see, my wife, goes to the séances because she gets comfort and she gets a good feeling out of it and she lives for what the spirits are going to say that the future's going to be like. To me, I can't bother with that stuff. He then said, "I want power, I go right to the source of power. How do you think I became famous the way that I am?"

I said, "You must have had some good luck." Well he said, "There's no such thing as 'good luck', there's either some power working for you somewhere, or you don't get ahead in this world, not in my type of occupation. You see for years it seemed I was a failure in organizing and maintaining my own jazz band. But then I was fortunate enough to be introduced to spirit worship. And by that great power I have obtained everything I had always wanted. His face lit up with a big smile, from that day on, it was instant success for me and my band. Recognition came to us overnight. Without any effort on our part we were discovered and heralded as one of the great bands in our filed. The news media got all excited about us, and we became the talk of the town. In no time we reached the top.

George took another sip from his glass, a puff from his cigarette, and continued. "We have been in constant demand ever since. Money flows in. Our fees are the highest in the industry. People like to dance to our music. In reality, the spirits take control of us - or in other words, possess us, energize us – and in turn we pass the influence on to the people. They like what they get and keep returning for more of the same.

Leaning back he chuckled a little and said I had an interview on the radio (this was before TV became king) with six of the top people in the radio world from Montreal and Toronto interviewing me. Everything I said seemed to fascinate them. In fact, I was amazed at my instant responses. Never had I been so witty in my life. And I enjoyed the attention they gave me. It almost reached a state of worship. This success of mine is easy to figure out once a person understands the mighty power of the spirits, and how to get that power working for you.



Spirit Worship

At this point we begin talking about spirit worship, and he said, "the 'supposed spirits of the dead' that you think you are talking with are actually demon spirits, they're fallen angels who impersonate the dead, they're beautiful beings" He said, "You guys got a great future ahead of you, because we've been told, the high priest of our secret society has been instructed that the master has very special plans for you both." We were then interested to hear more about it.

He told us, "We worship spirits, we worship Lucifer and all his angels, and they're just a beautiful as before they were cast out of heaven. There was a misunderstanding in the whole thing in heaven, in the galaxies, our master was misunderstood and God did not bear with him like He does with people who make mistakes today. So we're in the warfare, good against evil and we happen to be the evil ones. But we're not that bad." He said, "I look at this business between the forces of good and evil, one person believes in God another believes in Lucifer, it's like politics." This famous musician then said, "Listen guys, I'd like to have you meet some of our people. What about next week on Wednesday evening? I'll pick you up at your place and you're invited to one of our services. It's going to be a testimonial to the spirits of how they have blessed our lives." When we left there I said to myself, "This guy's half drunk, I'm not going to hear from him again."



First Meeting with "Elite" Spirit Worshippers

But his word was indeed true, for when Wednesday night rolled around, and he arrived outside with his big Lincoln. So we obligingly stepped inside and were taken to one of the most beautiful areas of Montreal, the place that we entered was a mansion. It was a most beautiful place. This was really a big surprise for me, as I had already made up my mind they were going to be rough looking characters. However, as we entered the place I was amazed to see that they were all superbly dressed, well mannered and that a lot of the people that we were being introduced to were the great and highly successful people of the city. They included prominent professionals, doctors, attorneys, and a lot of high placed business people.

As the high priest welcomed the arrivals he gradually made his way to toward us. George made the introduction. "Reverend, I would like you to meet a couple of fine gentlemen." He then engaged us in discussion and mentioned some details about our past that was known to no else but us. This made quite an impression on us. Not only his word but also his very presence reflected an air of mysterious secrecy. He had piercing eyes, a baldhead, and a deep low voice, which he accompanied by an occasional chuckle as he talked. His physical size was overwhelming. I would say that he was equal in size to the late general Charles de Gaulle.

I recall that at a later time the high priest informed us that some time back while he was in Chicago a spirit appeared to him and said, "About Roger Morneau and his buddy Roland, George has invited them to the service, and the one that's in charge while you're away is not cooperating. He's going to wreck all the groundwork that the spirits have done for the last few years to get these two people into the society." So the high priest immediately picked up the phone and called Montreal to straighten things out. He told me that the angel that appeared to him was so bright that he could not look upon him. After he picked up the phone to dial, he couldn't even dial the phone number because of the fact that his vision was so terribly blurred by the brightness of this angelic being, so he dialed 0 and the operator came on, and she was asked to dial for him.

About 15 minutes after we had arrived they begin what is called a "praise session to the gods", which are the spirit counselors who are in charge of legions of lesser spirits. The worshippers individually gave testimonials about what the 'lord of their lives' had done for them. In this they would refer to particular spirits as being "lord god" of their life, such as the god Nehushtan, which you can read about in the Biblical book of 2nd Kings.

These people spent about two hours telling of the fantastic accomplishments and successes that they had attained through the workings of the spirits. They spoke mostly about major business transactions in which they had successfully used clairvoyance and mental telepathy to influence the outcomes. This all resulted in great profits to them.

I recall a one lumber dealer who was bragging that he had half a dozen business operations in different parts of Quebec, and everything that he touched seemed to turn to money. Then there was a physician who was explaining to us how he was now able to conduct surgical operations that had never been done before. By the spirits power, as he would make his incisions, miraculously the patients would experience neither pain and nor any loss of blood. He was also given great hypnotic powers.

One investment counselor after raving about his many successes was asked whether he ever worried about being cheated on his share of the returns. He responded, "not at all. My familiar spirit looks out for me. For instance, one couple tried to deprive me of my fair share of one profitable industrial real estate transaction. They presented me with a check making up quite a bundle, and I felt satisfied, until my familiar spirit told me to ask them when they were going to give me the additional $1,700 that made up my correct share of the profits. When I did ask, the wife fainted and the husband was terrified. He quickly explained that they had no intentions to cheat me and the money would be in my hands within 24 hours."



The Worship Room of the "gods"

We attended these session on the upper level of the mansion maybe half a dozen times; and it was then that the high priest told us after the meeting was over that he wanted to talk to us, that is my friend and I. So after most of the people had already left he said, "The master of my life has revealed to me that it is time for you people to become acquainted with the worship room of the gods." Well, following him we then moved toward a striking grand staircase. It was truly stunning. The banister was massive and the wrought iron work that had been done was super. There were attractive decorations on the wall, and a huge chandelier on the first landing. You would go down about 8 or 10 steps and then you had the first landing which was large and truly beautiful.

Upon entering the spacious sanctuary I was literally struck with awe. An air of mystery and secrecy filled the place, giving the impression that great intelligence had been at work to so fascinate the human mind that it would respond in reverence and submission without asking questions. The light arrangement was the nicest I'd ever seen in my life. The beauty of certain things that were gold-plated, or gold trimmed was magnified by the special lighting. There were various little altars, above which different spirits had materialized. They were then photographed and roughly 30 by 48 inch paintings made of these materialized spirit beings. I'd say that there were about 75 of these striking oil paintings hanging on the walls of the place. Underneath each there was a small altar to burn incense and there were other paraphernalia that they would use in their prayer sessions and devotions to certain spirits.

The High Priest explained that some of the objects were made of solid gold. It was a unique experience to see all of this. There was also a massive, polished white Carrara marble high alter weighing several tons, above which hung the largest portrait in the room. The high priest explained that the massive and finely cut solid marble altar was lifted and placed into its position supernaturally by the power of the spirits, just as the druids did at Stonehenge more than 28 centuries ago. The levitated blocks of gray sandstone, some weighing as much as 46,000 pounds, were put into precise position for the Druid places of worship.

When my friend asked him who was portrayed in this largest painting above the great marble alter, the high priest readily replied that "it is a materialized representation of the supreme master of us all". "What do you call him", I asked. His face took on an expression of deep pride, as he answered "God with us." Today, as I recall that majestic painting, having many times admired it, the individual portrayed had features that reflected a superior intellect. He had a high forehead, highly perceptive and piercing eyes, and a posture that gave one the impression of his being very intelligent and powerful. He also appeared as person of action, possessing great dignity.

A big surprise to me later on was when they had a song service in the worship room. What do you think they passed around? Christian church hymnals, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I then said, "What's this business"? The priest answered, "Well now for those of you that are new, let me tell you that this best way to please the spirits. For we do this to deride Christ, His people, and His church and all that." So they sang out of Christian hymnals. They change a lot of the words to suit their purpose, and it becomes a form of sacrilege or blasphemy. Interestingly, today we see in the rock music world, singers wearing crosses and ladies with earrings that are small crosses. This is a similar form of blasphemy, an intended derision or mockery of Christ. Fallen spirits inspire the rock musicians to find pleasure in wearing this kind of emblem. However, to Christians the cross represents a sacred emblem of the great sufferings of Christ for the lost.

I felt that these people had power, and they surely had a lot of it. However, I experienced a lot of mixed feelings about it all, because to a certain extent things sounded and looked just too good. You see, I'd been brought up with the wise counsel of my parents who had told us, (there were eight children in the family) and especially the older ones, "Well you know, if you get involved in wrong doing, you're going to have to pay the price. There's always a cost for everything in this world." So this thought kept creeping into my mind, just how far do you go with these spirits before you start paying the price?

And yet there was no way out, because that's what we had been told. At this time the priest had sworn us to secrecy concerning what we had seen and heard. He stressed that we must maintain complete silence on the outside to avoid the spirits great displeasure. We repeated part of the incantation after him, and sealed the pact by depositing a pinch of powdered incense slowly above the flame of a black candle. The high priest had said that the master had special plans for our lives, and that no one ever went into this highly secret and elite spirit worship society unless they were first invited by the spirits. So this was all made very clear to us.

He also made very clear the danger of going against the will of the spirits. He mentioned about this particular man and his wife who had lived in a fireproof building in Montreal. They had displeased the spirits and the place burned right down with them in it. What happened is that he had decided that he wanted to think things over before being initiated. In other words, he hesitated to get initiated at the time when the spirits made it clear that he was to join the society. For this delay, they swiftly paid with their lives. Another time the spirits spent an hour terrorizing an unfaithful member in his home. They tossed everything in the house against the walls with great force, even shattering large pieces of furniture. Hospitalized in a state of shock after his neighbors found him in his home, the man almost lost his sanity.

The high priest in Montreal mentioned, that there are thousands of elite spirit worshippers in different societies throughout the world. He went on to explain, "We are the elite, we know the real truth about the master and his angels, and they are not hideous looking beings, they are gorgeous creatures." And from the paintings that they had on the walls of that worship room, they were all truly beautiful beings to behold.



I Start Gambling

It wasn't too long that the priest mentioned to my friend and I that the time had arrived for us to start trusting the spirits and to give the spirits a chance to work for us. And there were a number of gifts that you could choose from. I used to play the horses, but was not really knowledgeable at all. I then said, "Hey, I'd like for a spirit to instruct me on the numbers and the name of the horses that are going to win at Belmont, or some other racetrack. I'd like to make myself a little money."

The priest said, "It will be given you." and sure enough one night, whether I fell into a trance or dreamed the thing, I don't exactly know what happened, but I saw three races that were really going to pay big. And these horses were dummies, i.e. they were not really good horses. One horse paid twenty-one to one because he was that poor, right? I saw the board at the bookie and the number. They said the race was going to be on the following Saturday, it was then as I recall mid-week on a Wednesday. A few days later on Saturday, I was at the track, and sure enough there the numbers I had seen were posted on the boards. I went to the wicket and handed some money in, and got myself a winner. Then I said, I'm crazy; I should put more money on the bet, so I put twenty dollars on the next horse, and that paid 21-1. I left there with maybe four to five hundred dollars in my hands. After the races, I went right down to the finest men's shop on St. Catherine's street, and bought myself a $200 Suit. In those days the average wage earner was bringing home $18 a week, and the high-income earners maybe $75 a week.

Then I went to some other bookies and had the same kind of success. A day finally came when I'm told by the man at the cage, where you place your bets, "Hey my boss would like to talk to you, go right through that door over there." I knocked, the man said, "Come on in." He was sitting behind a large desk smoking a big cigar, and he said, "So you're Roger." I responded, "Yes." He got up and walked around me, and then said, "You don't look that smart." I said, "What sir?" "You don't look smart enough to pick horses that are winners when they're supposed to be losers. Where do you get your help?" I said, "What do you mean help? I'm not getting any help. I just happen to…" "Awe no, we've been watching you here for a number of weeks, and you always leave here with some of our good money. Now I'll tell you buddy, if you want a list of all the bookies in Montreal, I'll give you a list of them, but I want you out of here, and don't show up again because somebody's going to put a …you know what I mean." "So I said, "Ok sir, I won't be back again." It's a tough business to be in, gambling.



Two Sides at War: Good and Evil

The high priest spoke to us of a 'Great Controversy' going on between the forces of good and evil, i.e. between Christ and Satan. At times he would instead use the name, Lucifer. In fact he mentioned Lucifer a lot of times, but there were other times when he used the name of Satan in referring to the master. However, in most cases the high priest preferred to refer to this supernatural being as "the master, or great master". These people always praised Lucifer, for he is a super-intelligent being who is beautiful to behold, and if he ever appears to you, you won't be able to look upon him because he'd be too bright, he'd just ruin your vision. [Note: Lucifer was this angel's name before he and his angelic co-conspirators fell. This name was originally given by the Creator to this powerful angel, and has the beautiful meaning of "light bearer – a son of the morning". Scripture identifies Lucifer as a former covering Cherub, meaning he was the highest of the entire host of angels. Satan is the post-fall name now ascribed to the same being; it simply means "adversary" or "enemy".]

The high priest affirmed that deception is like politics, you believe in one candidate, the other person believes in the other candidate, and they're fighting to get the position, it's just a matter of being the smarter of the two to win. With Lucifer the fallen cherubim, well he's very smart, he's going to win. In fact they talk about many things with regard to who's going to win in this great conflict.

They said, the 'Bible people' (referring to Christians) read in their Bible that we're all going to end up in the 'lake of fire' and this and that, but that's baloney! The conflict is going to end peacefully. Christ is going to realize that He might as well abdicate the rights to this planet since He knows that it is lawfully Lucifer's anyway, and take His few people along with Him to His planet in the center of the galaxies. We will then be left with a master who will resurrect all his people that will be as numerous as the sands of the sea, and the master will then rule forever and ever a happy people." And he named some of the people that are going to be there. I won't mention any names, however they're quite well known in history. Indeed, these worshipers of Lucifer are sold to believing that Christ will not return to this planet with power and great glory, instead He's going to simply abdicate all claims to planet earth. This explanation of things made quite an impression on my mind.

They also maintain that God will never destroy them, because they believe that it would be against the Creator's beneficent nature to destroy Lucifer and his angelic and human followers by fire. Furthermore, he and his angels have mastered the secret of how to remain unharmed by the powers of fire. He said, if you don't believe this, then just go to India or some other countries where they have firewalkers. This ability is given by the power of his angels, wherein these spirits energize the people so that they can walk on those hot coals without burning themselves. He said, if God is going to use fire, then He can use it, but it's not going to burn him or his followers. That's exactly the way they believe. This high priest had it all figured out, that he was going to be one of the higher ups in the great coming Luciferian kingdom.

[Ezekiel describes Lucifer's end in these prophetic words "I brought fire from your midst; it devoured you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all… All who knew you are astonished at you. You have become a horror, and shall be no more forever." (Ezek. 28: 18 & 19) and Revelation 20:9 speaks of the wicked being devoured by fire, with verse 10 stating, "The Devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire."]

I was only about twenty years old at this time, and I had a sort of awe in the fact of having been chosen by the Master to join this elite group. They actually believed that they were telling the truth, and they really had things down straight, but still I was not satisfied with the answers. At the time I was thinking, when am I going to have to pay the price, the cost? As I said earlier, my parents had brought me up to think this way. They had warned me, if you get involved with evil, then you're going to reap just what you sow. So if you want to be upright in your life, but instead you associate with evildoers, then they'll probably land you in jail, or somewhere else that you wouldn't want to be. So there's always a price to be paid. There was something, and I understand now that it was the Spirit of God, saying, "Hold back fellow! Hold back." And the priest had by now talked about us thinking seriously of being initiated into the society. By this time there was really no turning back. It's not a matter of whether you're going to be initiated or not, it's a question of when.



Typewriters That Typed By Themselves!

Seeing my hesitancy, the high priest said, "Look, I'm not going to pressure you into anything, OK? But I want to show you what the spirits can do for a devoted servant." We then went downstairs, not through the impressive staircase that I talked about that leads to the worship room of the gods, but down a stairs located at the other end of the building. A number of times I had gone there to the men's room and I was mystified, as I always heard typewriters clicking like the dickens, in an adjoining room. I thought to myself, they must have a lot of people typing in that particular room. That evening when the high priest knocked on the door, someone responded, "come on in". There were all of these typewriters rapidly typing all by themselves and typing at a speed that I'd never seen before. And not only that, the high priest then said to us, "I want to show you something clever, follow me." So we went around the table, there were two long tables, on which there were about ten typewriters operating, and he said, "Now notice that the typewriter types to the right and then doesn't go back, it types back to the left. Isn't that something?" I had never heard of or seen anything like this before. He then said, "The spirits are doing all of the work. They type backward to show off their extraordinary intelligence"

He then introduced us to the man in this room, who it turned out was a prominent criminal lawyer. The high priest then asked him, "How much money did you make last year?" "Oh, he said, it's up in the six figures." All this person did was to put paper in each machine and different briefs for court cases came out, typed by the fallen spirits. He provided this service for the legal profession, and he would sell these briefs at a very high price to other criminal lawyers in both the United States and Canada. It was also explained to me that it was in the master's best strategic interests to keep certain criminals free from incarceration.



'Satan's Great General Counsel'

Now this society owns a famous and very beautiful resort, which is in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal, just above St Agate, Quebec. Well to do Montrealers all go north to this resort and many have summer homes in the area. Anyhow, this large resort is reserved at special times for their people. As a closed society, on October 31, (Halloween) they conduct what they refer to as "live animal sacrifices". I don't know all of the details this, for by the time God had miraculously pulled me out of there, I had not yet found this out. So there was this intrigue as to what is really goes on at that time. However, I did attend three very unique services at his resort which will stay in my mind forever. On one was entitled "Christian Idolatry". The second one was called the "Super Deception of a Glorious New Age" which I'd say applies to the 'New Age' today, and this all occurred way back in the year 1946! And the third one was entitled "Satan's Great General Counsel of the 1700s". I must say the things that I heard there at these sessions were real eye-openers.

First we'll look at the 'Great General Counsel': "At the beginning of the 1700s", said the high priest, "Lucifer and all his spirit counselors throughout the world held a Great General Counsel with one purpose in mind, it was to prepare for the great industrial age which was soon to break upon the world, and they also foresaw another age that was to follow the industrial age, where tremendous scientific discoveries would be made by people, and the world would enter into a unique age that would change the way that everyone lives.

Lucifer also understood that these changes would also usher in the end times and the close of the 'Great Controversy' between the forces of good and evil. The priest said that Lucifer had been studying the Bible and he found in Daniel 12:4 where we are told about the time of the end, 'Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.' He understood it to be that they were getting to that point, and he with all the spirit counselors, now needed to change their modes of operation in order to better ensnare people and devise a way whereby people would disqualify themselves from being members of Christ's coming kingdom.

By the time the Counsel came to a close they had settled upon three major policies that were going to be followed. First, they were to see to it that humans would be made to believe that Lucifer and his angels do not really exist. You see, up to that time in Europe for instance you could easily find a soothsayer or a fortune teller, and if you wanted to put a curse on someone you could go and see a witch, that's the way it was, but now this all needed to change. Lucifer said that we have to make sure that people come to believe that he and his angels do not really exist. (Note: a recent survey shows that over 75% of people today do not believe in a real, tangible devil!)

The next step in the three part strategic policy adopted at the Council, was to find a way to be able to obtain total control of people's minds, and this would be done by taking hypnotism out of the realm of the occult and introducing it into the field of medicine as a new "science", for the supposed great benefit of mankind. They strategized that by taking hypnotism out of the realm of the occult and mainstreaming it as a science, they could regress people and flatter them to actually believe that they were in an earlier life someone of renown, maybe Alexander the Great or one of his generals, educators, or other historical figures of influence that did great things. These supposed regressions of people to so-called former lives would become a popular belief. Of course, after the session is over the person wouldn't know a thing about ancient history and the particular person that she or he had just talked about, lets say three or four thousand years ago. Now what this would do is to create in the minds of the general public, an unwavering trust in this great deception. In other words, people would believe that this person who was hypnotized actually regressed in time to former lives and remember having done this or that.



Scientific Hypnotism?

They discussed how hypnotism would prove to be a powerful tool to de-Christianize the Western World through the avenue of mysticism. Later the time did come when Lucifer decided that he had to choose a person to initiate this masterly deception. Franz Mesmer, who was a prominent Austrian physician, was chosen because he was considered the most capable. Mesmer originated a theory called 'animal magnetism', later on called "Mesmerism". According to the high priest, Mesmer was led by the spirits to believe that certain persons have a magnetic influence within themselves, so to speak, that would cause them to have great power over other persons, even to the point of placing them into a trance. People readily accepted this theory in general, at the time Mesmer lived. Now, by the time of his death in 1815, a lot of the physicians in Europe were already using hypnotism as a means of anesthesia. Hypnotism is a simply a form of "Mesmerism" that has been developed to a higher degree of refinement.

The priest went on to explain how this the plan of the master to deceive the human family, is most intriguing to his mind, as it was used by the master to launch a truly monumental deception that would literally capture the minds of millions. The priest explained that a fellow by the name of Charles Darwin, and another by the name of Thomas Henry Huxley, could be effectively used and controlled by the spirits because in their childhood, medical doctors had hypnotized them. The spirits concluded that they would be very good tools in their hands to lead large numbers of people to fall for another major deception, thus fulfilling their third policy. The third point in the plan of Lucifer and his spirit counselors was to destroy the Bible, without burning it.



Evolution

It was all very interesting to hear about this, as I was informed that after the great General Counsel, it was decided that Lucifer would tutor Charles Darwin personally. So in setting up the principles of his theories of evolution, Darwin was tutored by Satan himself, the master fallen angel. And at that time it was well understood, by this mastermind and his spirit counselors that if a person were led to believe in the theory of evolution, it would in his mind and heart destroy completely any confidence in the Biblical record of creation week, as detailed in the book of Genesis. This would also effectively destroy all belief in the fall of human kind, and in God's plan of redemption. Thus in one master stroke they could do away with all of the foundational historical realities which point to the reality of man's rebellion against his Maker and his desperate need for salvation.

Now the high priest made a unique statement, he said that according to the spirit intelligences, anyone who teaches other persons the theory of evolution is considered to be a minister of a great religious system. You see they actually understood it to be a religious system, this theory of evolution. This is because it was ingeniously devised by the master himself, as a system of schooling people to disqualify themselves - by making a spiritual choice - to reject the reality of the Creator and of Christ's future eternal kingdom.

And the priest explained to us that every teacher of this theory is recognized in the spirit world, as a person of great value to the master's kingdom, and such teachers receive a very special unction from Lucifer himself who gives them great capacity and power to induce spiritual blindness, to totally convince and convert the mind. And that's not all; the high priest said that the master considers teachers of evolution to be so valuable to him that in the sight of all the inhabitants of the galaxies, he assigns a special retinue of his bright and beautiful angels to follow that educator throughout all the remainder of his/her life. He would thus have the billions of unfallen inhabitants of the galaxies to know that he is bestowing the greatest of honors upon his chosen workers among humankind, until the great controversy between he and the Creator is finished. Too say the least, this was all quite enlightening to hear.



Christian Idolatry

Now one of the things that really amazed me, shocked me and made me sick at heart is when the high priest talked about Christian Idolatry. He said that Christian idolatry is truly the greatest deception that has ever been brought upon the human family. And he boasted, that fallen spirits are continually defiling Christian churches through the avenue of necromancy, by using a form of spirit worship that has swept into its net hundreds of millions in Christians without their even being aware of it.

Necromancy is defined as the practice of conjuring up the spirits of the dead, so that you can communicate with someone who is dead. Now, the High Priest explained that this actually a super deception that is brought about in only one way, through the false belief that man has an immortal soul that lives on after death. And he said that the practice of necromancy is really a form of idolatry, and that there are unnumbered millions of professing Christians who actually believe in and practice it, while they think that they are glorifying God. [The scriptures are very clear "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything…" Ecclesiastes 9:5 and "His breath goes forth, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish". Psalm 146:4

Contrary to popular belief, just who is it then that they are they talking to when one seeks to communicate with the dead? The high priest explained that the friendly fallen spirits have always found over the centuries, great delight in their remarkable skills to impersonate departed loved ones, and especially persons of great renown.

There are three main divisions in Lucifer's spirit domain, and then there are further divisions within those divisions. From what I can gather, in the broadest terms, you first have the "friendly" fallen spirits that seem to have much finesse and apparent refinement, and they're not overly upset about what happened, i.e. their having been cast out of heaven. Then you have the warrior spirits who find their greatest pleasure in their efforts to bring misery and destruction into the lives of people. Finally, you have the oppressors and the oppressors are the most wicked of the fallen spirits in that they hold the greatest hatred for God, the Creator and all his creatures. The warrior and oppressive spirits take special delight in seeing the death of human beings, and greatly celebrate during times of war. In fact, I do recall the High Priest mentioning that the master was devoting a lot of his time and personal attention in trying to disrupt progress toward peace at the newly formed United Nations.

So the priest went on to explain that necromancy is in reality a belief, a religious belief. People falsely believe that the dead have entered into some kind of higher plane of existence then they had when they were alive, and thus the dead are in a position and have the capacity to help the living who are still here on earth. Then, he said, this is where things get really interesting. He said, according to the great master's explanation, a person does not have to call upon the so- called spirits of the dead to receive help, to be involved in necromancy. All he has to do is to believe that there really is no death, because, he said, necromancy is the belief that fallen man has an immortal soul. [The Scriptures are clear that "the King of Kings and Lord of Lords…alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light". 1 Tim. 6:15 & 16] So anyone who believes in inherent human immortality is involved in necromancy. It's that simple, that's how he explained it to us.

Now the priest also explained that when people believe in this business; they are actually opening themselves to be completely deceived by the fallen spirits, because it gives these spirits an opportunity to impersonate the dead, and for people to believe their deceptions. This practice actually brings to the great master the respect and the reverence due to his great name; and it makes all the other spirits exceedingly pleased for they are the ones who have successfully led people to believe that the dead are really living, and they rejoice together.

Indeed, there are today many millions of people who believe that they are actually talking to the dead saints, or the spirits of the dead, or a dead love one. Take for instance, Loretta Lynn, who speaking on national television, told how she was made highly successful in her singing career by a dear dead friend of hers, who was the same age that she was. Her friend's death occurred when they were both eighteen years of age. And Loretta then told how she was trying to break into the highly competitive singing world but she said, "I had no success at all; until one night I was sitting in bed reading a book and who walks right through the wall but my departed friend, the spirit of my friend! And she said, 'Loretta, I'm going to make you a very famous person in singing country music; and I will be with you all the time, trust me!'" After this experience she had a big concert scheduled at a time when she was coming down with a bad cold. She was certain that her singing voice was going to fail. So she immediately turned to her "spirit-friend" and felt that she was going to be helped. As Loretta got out on the stage and begin to sing, right where she really needed the vocal power there was no power in her voice at all! It was then that her "spirit-friend" tapped her on the shoulder and started to sing for her. She said, "Her voice went right through me, the power!" As I recall it was 1976, when this all took place.



Details on Demon Spirits Impersonating the Dead

As I said, it is the "friendly" spirits who specialize in impersonating the dead. I've seen this done many times, but one time in particular fascinated me. The high priest told us that there was a French historian, who was then affiliated with the University of Montreal, which is the French university (the English speaking university is McGill). This man was from Paris, and he wanted to have some details regarding Napoleon Bonaparte and one of his generals. As stated earlier, there are in many other parts of the world elite spirit worship societies like the group that I was privy to in Montreal. The priest said as my friend and I entered, you are both fortunate today, for you're right in time to see something very interesting. My friend from Paris is having his devotions in the worship room of the gods, and he will be using a trance-medium to converse with certain fallen spirits who will inform him regarding some ancient history, about Napoleon.

And sure enough, we went down there and someone came up to us and stated that he was now ready for the session to begin. He then asked for five people to volunteer to be a channel, after which three were actually selected by the spirits. After this had occurred, the man shook his head a little bit, his eyes glazed over, and he stayed like that for about a half hour as the spirits spoke through him. A different voice speaking through him said, "I'm a spirit counselor; what would you like to know?" The historian had his clipboard in hand and began to ask him some detailed questions about Napoleon Bonaparte and one of his generals. There was a certain question that was asked, and the spirit counselor responded with these words, "I will have lord Reamy and lord Alphonse duplicate the dialogue that then took place." The two other channels then engaged in a discussion giving the historian the very answers that he sought.

Another thing most interesting was with regard to the former mayor of Montreal, Camilean Houde, who at the outset of World War II was very controversial regarding the war effort. He would publicly admonish the French-speaking boys not to go into the armed services, because they would be going to shed their blood for the British, and we're thus acting as their servants so to speak. He didn't want them to go into the war. The higher authorities ended up putting him into prison, and he was actually jailed for the duration of the war. Now this man said, "I would like to have you tell me, " he said to the spirit, " to give me part of the speech that was given by Camilean Houde on the steps of the Montreal City Hall" and he then named a particular date. "There are different versions of what has taken place and you, lord, would know the correct one." (At this time Houde was still alive.)

The spirit counselor responded, "I'm sorry, but I can't help you, all of my activities and my agents were functioning in Europe. However, after our departure, other spirits will come and they will help you." And sure enough, the channel vibrates a little bit, and then he was back. "How long was I channeling?" he asked. For twenty minutes he was a channel. So then a different spirit entered into him, and said that he was a spirit counselor who could give him the information about Camilean Houde that he was looking for.

Again it was given verbally, and amazingly it was the exact voice of Camilean. I was a youngster in those days and just about ready to go into the army. We used to listen to the radio a lot, and all of the speeches of Camilean were being aired on the radio frequently. In those days they had no tape recorders, such as we have today. So Camilean would have to go the Canadian Broadcasting studio where they made a ph