Last Judgment: Only those whose beings remain rooted in Spirit may hope to negotiate the Great Transition.

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" Born early in the early years of this Millennium (1095 A.D.)

Malachy O'Morgair was a holy man, reputed to have had miraculous

powers of healing, levitation and clairvoyance. After being named

Archbishop of Armagh in 1137 A.D., he embarked upon a difficult

pilgrimage from his native Ireland to Rome to confer with Pope

Innocent II (See Note 4). When finally the seven hills of the

Eternal City appeared below him, Malachy fell into an ecstatic

trance, in which he beheld a line of Popes, beginning with Celestine

II, the successor to Innocent II, and extending to the last of the

line, identified as " Peter of Rome. " After emerging from this

trance, Malachy recorded a brief " motto " for each of the Popes he

had seen in his vision and presented them to Innocent II at their

meeting. While, after Malachy's death, the Church would affirm his

miraculous works and would canonize him as the first Irish saint,

his prophecies would lie neglected and forgotten in the Papal

archives for over 450 years before being rediscovered and published —

yet they would ultimately be dismissed as spurious by " official "

Vatican scholars.

 

Nonetheless, St. Malachy's descriptions have proven to be uncannily

appropriate for each of the Popes in the centuries since his death,

with each characterization simultaneously revealing something both

personal and archetypal about the corresponding Pontiff. Thus, the

first Pope of the 20th Century, Leo XIII was styled " Lumen in

Caelo " , or " Light in the Sky " , a fitting title for a man whose

family crest featured a comet, as well as for a papacy which

inaugurated the century prophesied to end with the Advent of Christ

as a great light appearing in the clouds of the heavens. Malachy

names the first of the final five Popes " Pastor et Nauta " ,

the " Pastor of the Sea " , which describes Pope John XXIII (1958-

1963), both as the former Patriarch of Venice, and as the Pontiff

whose reign would usher in the Time of Tribulation, in which Daniel

and John the Evangelist envisioned the four apocalyptic beasts

emerging from the sea (Dan.7:3,Rev.13:1). His successor Pope Paul VI

(1963-1978) was dubbed " Flors Florum " , or the " Flower of Flowers " , a

fitting appellation in view of both the fleur-de-lys motif of his

papal coat-of-arms, as well as the theme of his historic encyclical

Humanae Vitae, which defined the Church's position on procreation.

 

To the papacy of John Paul I, which ended in his mysterious death

after only a month, St. Malachy applies the most apt phrase " De

Medietate Lunae " , referring to the phases of the Moon, symbolic

emblem of the emerging post-Christian spirituality which promises to

supplant the solar archetype of postdiluvian religion. Indeed, the

dominant monotheistic concept of God in historical times clearly

derives from the Egyptian solar deity Amon-Ra, and the Sun has long

been metaphorically linked with Rome and the Roman Church. It is

therefore quite significant that Malachy denotes Pope John Paul II

as " De Labore Solis " , which means " the Eclipse of the Sun. " While

the ominous symbolic flavor of this descriptive is self-evident in

terms of the destiny of the Holy See, even more incredible is its

individual relevance to Karol Wojtyla, who was born during the solar

eclipse of May 18, 1920!

 

It bears noting that the eclipse of the Sun has frequently figured

as a " celestial sign " in apocalyptic prophecies, and such eclipses

were, judging by the astronomical orientation of Stonehenge and

other ancient megalithic sites, an evident preoccupation of

antediluvian humanity. Moreover, the metaphysics of pharaonic Egypt

linked the eclipse of the Sun to the " second death " — that most-

dreaded punishment of the unjustified dead condemned to spiritual

annihilation. This notion of the " second death " also finds its way

into the Scriptural scenario of the Last Judgment and the Lake of

Fire, in which are consumed the resurrected bodies of those who have

betrayed the HOLY SPIRIT and have accepted the mark of the Beast. In

all of this imagery we should comprehend the unfolding of

the " cleansing " foretold by Daniel — an utter transformation of the

material basis of the universe, quite literally a " new Heaven and a

new Earth " , in which only those whose beings remain rooted in the

Spirit may hope to negotiate the Great Transition. "

 

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