Starting On The Royal Path

from Joanna's notepad

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Biden has stepped out of his usual modus operandi.  For the first time he has done something paternal for our country, instead of his usual relentless sabotage on every aspect of our country's well-being.

Recently, Biden has taken steps to slow down CCP takeover of the USA. 

July 5, 2024 

US Increases Scrutiny Over Chinese Land Purchases Near Military Bases

State and federal governments are increasingly concerned over real estate purchases made by foreign nationals from adversarial countries.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/us-states-increase-scrutiny-over-chinese-land-purchases-near-military-bases-5679619

So what gives?  Is it possible to believe that Biden has suddenly shifted from being evil to being good?  No.  Could I believe that maybe Biden really had some good in him all along, and now  it is finally coming out?  No.  With Biden being a servant of Antichrist, I can only believe that somehow this is self-serving.  But how?

Evil people often do turn on each other, distrust each other, lie to each other.  We see it in the old westerns where the band of robbers is brought to its demise because of infighting among themselves.  Maybe, here, CCP has not been forthcoming enough with their fellow-globalist pal Biden about their US land purchases... I can imagine CCP saying to Biden, "but we didn't think it was important enough to tell you... we meant no ill... we are just trying to insure our own food supply... etc."  But now, maybe Biden isn't buying excuses, his suspicions have been aroused, he feels a threat.

I think it's interesting, it says at the very beginning of the article, it was the public that alerted Biden to problem.  Exactly what that means is not clear, but probably it was not a specifically republican or democrat person or group.  It was the public, and Biden, in his conceit, assumes the public loves him.  Biden has to take the alert seriously if he is going to pretend to be American, he can't just brush it off, or else he could lose the respect of the public.  But first, I think he was caught off guard, I think he was not forewarned that this land take-over was happening and that someday somebody would notice.  Could he have known all along and just be pretending to be surprised?  That's a possibility — he could have had a plan, but it turned out that his plan was not strong enough, so Plan B would be to feign shock/surprise.  

Somewhere in our more recent Church teachings about Antichrist and end times, I recall it says that all the wealth in the world will be in the hands of a few.  We see that happening clearly.  Something else said is about the preparations for the advent of Antichrist, which is the times we are in right now.  Vl. Agafangel calls our times, "pre-apolcalyptic."  The world will prepare for the advent of Antichrist, like setting up dominos.  And before Antichrist sets foot on the world stage, all the dominos will be ready to fall into place.  The one world government, the one world church, the global money system -- everything will all fall into place at the same time.  Antichrist's servants are preparing for this day, which will be the first day of Antichrist's 7-year reign.

Antichrist's servants who are preparing for his advent are not all aware of whom they serve.  A few are surely aware that Satan is their god, but most of Antichrist's servants do not realize they are working for Antichrist -- most of them think they are serving themselves.  The elite, for example — who are now gathering all the wealth in the world — they think they are gathering up the world's wealth for themselves.  But in the end, to their surprise, all the gatherers will hand it all over to Antichrist, willingly.

I think what we have here is Biden suddenly seeing Xi Jinping not so palsy-walsy and more of a rival or adversary.  All the evil world leaders all want the one world government, but, they each want to be the ruler of it.  Their common goal of globalism only goes so far — who gets to sit at the top is where they stop agreeing with each other and cooperating with each other.

excerpt from Epoch Times article 6/11/24

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/terminal-lucidity-many-patients-experience-an-unexplained-return-of-mental-acuity-in-their-final-days-5648005

Terminal Lucidity: 

Many Patients Experience an Unexplained Return of Mental Acuity in Their Final Days

instances have been recorded in medical literature going back to the 19th century. 

The case study of Anna Katherina Ehmer is one of the most famous studies of terminal lucidity, a phenomenon that continues to baffle researchers.  [Researchers are baffled, but, for us there is nothing mysterious about this.  We understand the difference between the brain and the soul.] 

Ms. Ehmer, known as Käthe, was a German woman born severely disabled in 1895. At 6 years of age, she was sent to a mental institution where she would live until she died at the age of 26.

“Käthe was among the patients with the most severe mental disabilities who have ever lived in our institution. From birth on, she was seriously retarded. She had never learned to speak a single word. She stared for hours on a particular spot, then she fidgeted for hours without a break. She gorged her food, fouled herself day and at night, uttered an animal-like sound, and slept. In all the time she lived with us, we have never seen that she had taken notice of her environment even for a second,” recounted Dr. Friedrich Happich, who ran the institution.

Käthe suffered from several episodes of meningitis, which were thought to have “destroyed much of the brain tissue required for intelligent reasoning.” She also had tuberculosis, which led to the amputation of her leg and was the eventual cause of her death. She had never spoken a single word.

But, as she lay dying, something unexpected happened. She began singing to herself.

She sang—clearly and in perfect German—a funeral hymn. She sang to herself for a full half hour until she passed away.

‘Come immediately to Käthe, she is dying!’

“When we entered the room together, we did not believe our eyes and ears. Käthe, who had never spoken a single word, being entirely mentally disabled from birth on, sang dying songs to herself. Specifically, she sang over and over again ‘Where does the soul find its home, its peace? Peace, peace, heavenly peace!’ For half an hour she sang. Her face, up to then so stultified, was transfigured and spiritualized. Then, she quietly passed away. Like myself and the nurse who had cared for her, the physician had tears in his eyes.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDA6cIWp1do&t=97s

Duo Transeamus Wo findet die Seele     5 minutes

I was reminded of Fr. Seraphim's favorite classical piece, also German, "Ich Have Genug."  Here is an excerpt from Not of This World, p.47.

Remember that Eugene, at his young age, was already aware that his lifespan would be shortened.  Old people face the coming of their death more naturally.  A young person is seldom given much time to spiritually prepare for his death.   It very well could be that this premature-facing his impending death was an important ingredient in the making of his Orthodox Life.  Of course the prayers of St. John were the core of the miracle of Fr. Seraphim, but this also was likely a very important necessary ingredient.  •

     2024Jul2 

     UPDATE 

Part V of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography is uploaded to Shared Library

https://app.box.com/s/q86n9mwffp3tm5doyws9oufrso36bwr6

Her contribution to literature includes some of her poems.

Hello folks!  2024Jun23

     To celebrate the feast today of Pentecost, I buckled down to finish making a pdf of the out-of-print book of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography. 

It took me all day.  Some of the pages I scanned myself from the book (original 1989 edition) and some pages I took from scans from Orthodox Word magazines (after 1982)  wherein the book was serialized after Fr. Seraphim's death and before it was published.  I included a favorite photo of my own at the end.

     When Platina published this book, they added parts 2,3,4,5.  -- interesting history, funeral orations and some of the abbess' poetry. 

   This pdf I made is only part 1 — the autobiography that St. John of Kronstadt asked her to write.  I included the preface/introduction composed by Platina book, because it is helpful, and by itself nothing harmful.  We can thank Platina for making this book available to us in English.  But — even in those earlier years when Platina was showing evidences that they were no longer on the same path as Fr. Seraphim. 

The OW magazines after Fr. Seraphims death soon started to contain what Fr. Gregory Williams called, "landmines."   

     Starting with issue #144 (which contains a part of the serialization of Abbess Thaisia's Autobiography), Platina starts introducing false elders.  This is just the beginning of their shenanigans.  In this issue Platina introduces false elder Sophrony.  This NEVER would have happened if Fr. Seraphim had still been alive... 

     I've collected some evidence against this pseudo-elder and inserted it at the top of the pdf of the issue in question.  Box might force you to download the file before they let you see it.  I am able to view it in Firefox without downloading it, but not so in Safari.

   The file of this OW magazine is 81MB

  attached caveat updated 2024Jul2

   https://app.box.com/s/hdp4z5313x0x8y6j8dqh6b6272mh7zfa

folder added to Shared Library:

KGB

https://app.box.com/s/rlnlx0tz9xohiux2t7xcqumnz78rd3t8

If using Safari you can't view without downloading.

Firefox works fine  (today July 1, 2024)

inside the folder:

St. Philaret of New York  †1985 

St. Basil the Great is a strict, demanding hierarch with a firm hand, an inspired defender and keeper of Church truth and Church canons.  However, when it came to those who had fallen into schism and afterwards returned, the strict Luminary would open the gates of the Church enclosure to them, attenuating in every way the requirements for those wishing to return. St. Basil would modify every strictness if only it would bring the lost sheep home.

But his tone decisively changes when those who had split off persisted and remained in that state.  Then St. Basil states: "A schism which persists stubbornly and at length should be viewed as approaching real heresy; therefore such schismatics must be viewed as heretics, i.e., there should be no interaction with them."  Here is the judgment of St. John Chrysostom: "Nothing offends God greater than division of the church, for even if you perform a thousand good deeds, you will be subject to no lesser judgment than those who scourged the body of Christ.  If we sever the wholeness of the Church, such a sin cannot be expiated even by martyric blood.  What I have spoken is directed at those who indiscriminately join those who separate themselves from the Church."  How difficult and sorrowful it is to hear: "I attend any church I please.  It does not matter that the hierarchs and priests don't get along; it makes no difference to me since there is One God and One Church."  But look what Chrysostom says: "What I have spoken is directed at those who indiscriminately join those people who have separated themselves from the Church.  If those who have become separate adhere to dogmas contrary to ours, i.e., they have distorted the faith itself, then it is clear that we must no longer have any interaction with them."  In some cases they say that these churches teach as we do, that we have everything in common and all of it is correct.  "But if they think the same as do we, then we must avoid them all the more!" said Chrysostom.  Why is this so?  Because this is the infirmity of vainglory.

This was the case, for instance, in both of out schisms: Metropolitan Platon and Metropolitan Evlogy did not wish to submit to the Synod of Bishops.  They say they have the same faith and according to that faith they are as Orthodox as we.  If this is so, then why are they not with us?  The Lord is One, there is one faith, one baptism, one truth — not two graces, not two truths: if they are in the right, then we are in the wrong; but if we are in the right, then they are in the wrong.  There are not two graces, Christ did not divide the Church.  If they have left us and become separate because they consider us to be incorrect, then there must be one of two outcomes: either they have lost grace by separating from us and therefore have none, or they have taken it with them and away from us in which case we are without grace.  How can people not understand this?  The service appears to be the same, it all looks the same, and they say: "God is One, so to us there is no difference: the service is the same as over there."  Once in Harbin, someone said to a priest: "Batiushka, why shouldn't I go there?  They serve the same as we do.  I can pray there as well, they have absolutely the same prayers and order, and everything in general."  Then the priest took two 50 cent coins from his pocket and says: "Look, they are exactly the same, but one is real and the other is counterfeit.  According to you if a peasant becomes literate, he can make his own church, sew his own vestments, and begin serving the same way we do, then does that mean that those will be genuine prayers and genuine mysteries?"  To this Chrysostom says: "If we are in the right, that means they are in the wrong, but if they are in the right, then we are in the wrong."

You have probably read Metropolitan Iriney's response to our address in the newspapers.  This is the response of the American Metropolia to the Sobor's letter.  Previously, the American Metropolia had still called itself Russian, but now they even refuse to do this, stating, "We are NOT part of the Russian Church."  Metropolitan Iriney writes that we are on different paths that we have too many differences, and therefore we should just pray together, that the spirit of Christian love calls us to concelebrate and pray together.  When I read all these flowery phrases it was very depressing and unpleasant — for we know the true state of affairs, while all along they have been attempting to clamber up onto a position of benefit for themselves.  We are speaking about the real state of affairs, for there are still too many essential differences of opinion preventing an instant union without first resolving the differences!  Yet, they say, set the differences aside and let's just concelebrate and pray together since we are of one faith!  Undoubtedly many are comfortable with this, not among the faithful children of the Church Abroad since they fully understand the issue at hand, but among the silent majority.

Having received our response in which we essentially are insisting on our previous proposal to meet and deliberate the differences fundamentally, Metropolitan Iriney wrote me the following:

Yet, in the holy canons, which he circumvents with pious meekness, it states that if you pray with those of incorrect dogma, you will be excommunicated from the Church.  But this is not mentioned.  He then continues:

As I was reading, I recall that finally I figured it out: the constant use of flowery phrases about how good it is to be together and close saying that's where we should being, yet stubbornly not wishing to recognize that he want to begin at the end.  This is what was written in the newspapers.  I respond to him:

When I spoke on this subject with His Eminence, the wise and peace-loving Archbishop Andrew of Rockland, he spoke so vividly and persuasively on this matter that I would like to quote his words in their entirely.  Vladyka Andrey says: 

My rhetoric follows:

Translated by Eugenia Chisholm from The Sermons of Teachings of his Eminence Metropolitan Philaret First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad  Volume II. 265ff.

Published by the Committee for Russian Orthdoox Youth, Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, 1989

  for Living Orthodoxy magazine #156 Vol. XXXVI #3, Nov-Dec 2006.  Archpriest Gregory Williams of ROCA (Agafangel), SJKP in Liberty Tennessee

  pdf copy of magazine found in the LO folder in Joanna's Shared Library

note from Joanna:

it helps to understand that the American Metropolia is known today as the OCA.  A full, unbiased, and carefully researched history is found in Joanna's Shared Library titled "ROCOR History HTM."  In brief, the OCA originally was part of the ROCOR.  In the 70s they decided they were ready for autocephaly.  The Synod denied their request because they were too young.  Proof of that came soon enough; after Metropolia got their autocephaly they promptly fell into renovationism and modernism.  It will forever be in disobedience to the ROCOR Synod that they sought autocephaly from ROCOR's adversary: Moscow — which, with typical cold-heartedness and shrewdness, used the opportunity for its own advantage.  Today the OCA remains beholden to Moscow, and Moscow remains under the leadership of KGB hierarchs.

As far as I know ROCOR (Agafangel) no longer mourns the fall of Metropolia.  This generation is not even aware of what really happened,  Read the history.

According to Scientific Studies 

Best Diet for Cancer Patients  6 minutes

     https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-cancer-patients/

Our lifetime risk of developing an invasive cancer, not some superficial skin cancer or ductal carcinoma of the breast, but serious cancer, is about 40 percent. Two in five of us are going to get a cancer diagnosis in our lifetimes. What can we do to reduce our risk? Only about 5 percent of cancers are caused by problem genes we inherited from our parents. The other 95 percent are caused by mutations in our DNA we acquire in our lifetimes. For example, based on a genetic analysis of lung cancer, smokers may acquire an average of one DNA mutation for every 15 cigarettes smoked. Smoking is bad, but the number one cause of these mutations is our diet––and that’s not even including the cancers attributed to obesity.

I’ve got tons of videos on dietary approaches to prevent cancer. But what if you already have it? Well-meaning professionals sometimes counsel cancer patients to “Eat whatever you want.” Given the time constraints that doctors face, it may be understandable that the treating oncologist––the treating cancer doctor––may be reluctant to engage in a conversation about nutrition. But given the critical role that diet may play, perhaps it should be “a critical part of [their] job to be able to answer patients’ questions about nutrition before and after cancer treatment and not default to the unhelpful ‘it doesn’t really matter, eat what you want’ which may not be in the best interest of the patient.”

The official recommendation of the American Institute for Cancer Research, a leading authority on diet and cancer, is that those with cancer should follow the same diet that helps prevent cancer from taking root in the first place. That means more whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, while limiting fast food, processed food, meat, soda, and alcohol. Similar recommendations have been put forth by other cancer authorities: more fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and beans, and less salt, sugar, meat, and alcohol.

Cancer survivors adhering to these guidelines do seem to live significantly longer––or at least older female cancer survivors, the only group in which it’s been looked at so far.

They add that that are certain foods that may be beneficial in cancer care including: beans, berries, cruciferous vegetables, flax seed, garlic, green tea, tomatoes, and others, but emphasize it’s not about a single magic bullet food or component, but the combination of foods in a predominantly plant-based diet.

Here’s how some popular diets used by cancer patients stack up. The so-called alkaline diet gets high marks for being vegetable-focused, and encouraging people to cut down on animal foods. The keto diet does the worst, though they get points for keeping people away from refined grains, alcohol, and soft drinks. Macrobiotic diets win the day, being closest to a whole food, plant-based diet, centered around whole grains, vegetables, and beans, though may not be advising enough fruit. Paleo diets are a mixed bag, with insufficient whole grains, beans, and too much meat. The vegan diet starts out strong, but doesn’t necessarily preclude all manner of vegan junk food. Have any of these diets been put to the test?

I’ve done a video Is Keto an Effective Cancer-Fighting Diet? on the abject failure of the keto diet. The alkaline diet was tried on eleven lung cancer patients. They lived an average of 28 and a half months, which is about 40 percent longer than most patients have historically lived, but there was no direct control group. The only diet proven in a randomized controlled trial to reverse the progression of cancer was Dr. Dean Ornish’s whole food plant-based lifestyle program, which I’ve covered before in my video How Not to Die from Cancer. 

Most randomized controlled trials to date on diet and cancer are like this: feasibility studies just to see if we can even get cancer patients to eat healthier, period. Otherwise, what’s the point of even running the study? In one study, researchers did find they could get patients with head and neck cancer to ramp up green leafy and cruciferous vegetable intake to nine cups a week. So, it’s at least something you could test. But we don’t yet have outcome data. But why wait? What’s the downside of trying to eat healthier? It may even save your life another way. 

Cardiovascular disease competes with breast cancer as the leading cause of death for older women diagnosed with breast cancer. Researchers followed more than 60,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer over the age of 65 for an average of nine years, by which time half had died. And the number one cause of death was actually cardiovascular disease, edging out the breast cancer. And so, choosing a healthy diet centered around whole plant foods––the only diet ever proven to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients––may save your life, whether you have cancer or not.

more...

Diet for Cancer Prevention & Survival 5 minutes

     https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-lifestyle-for-cancer-prevention-and-survival/

How Effectiive is Chemotherapy  6 minutes

     https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-effective-is-chemotherapy/

Prostate Cancer Survival  4 minutes

     https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-survival-the-av-ratio/

Changing a Man's Diet After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis  4 minutes

     https://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-mans-diet-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/

There is more to Ukraine War than we realize.

Timberdoodle shares this:

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     According the the Church prophecies, USA will be eventually be forced to join the Antichrist's One World Government.  It has been said different ways, but America will be in trouble for a long time before eventually it falls for financial reasons, — it is believed to be because that will be the only way for USA to claim "bankruptcy."  The Nuclear War option (minute 30:30) is not predicted to happen.  There will be some major world disaster or threat which could be a war (or some terrible worldwide utter chaos) during which Antichrist will appear on the world stage and magically end the problem.  And then overnight Antichrist becomes such a hero that the world compels him to be the world President, King, Ruler, whatever title they will give him.   My understanding and memory of this prophecy is that America will join the One World Government after the advent of Antichrist.  Whether that timeline is accurate or not, Russia will be the last hold out for joining the One World Government.  I wish I had saved these prophecies, since now I am relying on memory, but I'm pretty sure I remember it was said that Russia could be finally forced to join the One World Government by means of war. 

     There is one place on earth that remains untouchable by Antichrist's One World Government and One World Church: Diveevo Convent.  Unknown saints buried there will resurrect, St. Seraphim being one of them who is known.  This part of the prophecy is still on record.  Other saints in Jerusalem also will resurrect along with the return of Sts. Elijah & Enoch.