The Assumption of Mary was once again on everyone’s Catholic lips. A solemn celebration in honor and memory of the defined “Mother of God” and “Our Lady”. A fantasy story, celebrated anew every year.
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Every year on August 15th refresher
In mid-August, the Catholic world was once again filled with the great story of Mary’s Assumption. “Every year,” says the Roman Catholic Church calendar (Info). August 15th of each year is one of the most important celebrations of the Roman Catholic Church and also the Orthodox Churches of the East. According to the stories, Mary left her earthly life and went up to heaven with her “body and soul” alive.
One searched in vain in the Bible
Anyone who wants to search the Bible for the details of this event will be disappointed. The Gospel mentions Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, in several places, but her death, let alone her ascension, are not even mentioned in a single verse. Jesus Christ, already hanging on the cross, asked John to take care of Mary. In Acts 1:14, Mary is described as a member of the believers. That’s it.
As is already tradition in the Roman Catholic Church, the story of Mary’s Assumption was explained as a mystical process that could not be understood with normal human sense. This mystical, Catholic career of Mary begins with her “immaculateness”, i.e. her miraculous cleansing of Catholic original sin. A story that finds an enthusiastic following even in modern and “enlightened” times. Evidenced by the record numbers of paying fan bases for “Lord of the Rings”, “Harry Potter” and also “The Chosen”(Info). It seems to be true that the bigger, even more gigantic, a lie is, the more likely it is to be believed.
History of the creation of this fantasy story
Mary couldn’t have gone to heaven just like that. There has to be some explanation behind it. There is no evidence in the gospel. The Catholic News Agency launched such an attempt at an explanation (CNA). The experts of this Catholic magazine also speak of the complete absence of any references in the Bible. Instead, the legend of Mary’s Ascension arose in the “earliest centuries of the Christian faith.” However, it would have been correct to speak of Catholicism and not Christianity at this point.
The magazine consistently describes Mary’s Assumption as a teaching of the Catholic Church and not as a statement of the Gospel. Just as Jesus, defined by this church, was awarded a “birth grotto” in Bethlehem, the Roman clergy “recognized” a grave outside Jerusalem for Mary. There was no one there, there were no witnesses, but what the Church establishes must be treated as truth. Incidentally, treating something that does not actually exist as existing is the definition of fiction.
In the year 451, according to legend, a (Catholic) “saint” entered the stage of history. John of Damascus requested the body of Mary, “Mother of God”, from the Roman Emperor Marcian at the Council of Chalcedon. Bishop of Rome at that time was Leo I. Another “saint”, the Bishop of Jerusalem, Juvenal, claimed to have known in his time that Mary died in the presence of all the apostles. “Saint” Thomas caused Mary’s grave to be opened. But lo and behold, the tomb was empty. The only, at least from a Catholic perspective, and no alternative explanation is that Mary’s body must have been taken into heaven.
It took almost 1,500 years until the Assumption of Mary was declared an official dogma of the church. It was only in 1950 that Pope Pius XII raised the story of the Ascension, which had previously been kept as a tradition, into a doctrine via “ex cathedra”, i.e. in the mystical state of incapacity for error. That simply has to be true, since the Roman Catholic Church, with its Pope at the helm, cannot be wrong. The Chruch is infallible. Pius XII expressed this “modesty” in his corresponding apostolic exhortation “Munificentissimus Deus”:
“By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory“.
The full package. “Own authority”, explanation and own definition, “Immaculateness”, “Mother of God”, “Eternal Virgin” and then the heavenly reception in its entirety.
A common thread of tradition
Matthew Bunson, theologian and vice president and editorial director of EWTN News, said the church has had “almost universal affirmation” of the Assumption of Mary throughout its history. Just “almost”. The dogma of the Ascension is supported by this red thread that runs through the entire history. This is important, Bunson said, because it supports the tradition of the church and also provides a deeper understanding of the church’s teachings.
The “deeper understanding” about the Catholic figure of this Mary comes to an end in the dregs of ancient Egyptian mythology. The Egyptian “goddess” Isis, wife of the sun god Osiris and also mother of the “light bringer” Horus, represents a blueprint for all the attributes attached to the Catholic Mary(Info).
Egyptian mythology in Eucharist
It is no surprise that the Catholic theologian also associates the “Assumption of the Mother of God” and the view of her Son with the Eucharist. This Catholic mass, which has the wafer in the circular shape of the sun, clamped to the lunula (small crescent moon) inside the monstrance, bathed in rays of sunshine, is an image of the secret worship of the “deities” of Egyptian origin. Egypt, “the source of wisdom,” is the phrase used by these occult circles. Eucharist is the veneration of Osiris and Isis, the Bishop of Rome as the “light figure” of Horus, with complete mockery of Jesus Christ (Info).
It’s always amazing how big the following of such early medieval fantasy stories can be. None of this is in the gospel. But everyone is free to choose the authority of the papacy or the authority of Jesus Christ. The papacy consisting of church (whore) and state (beast), a construct of the “prince of this world”, but already before its creation was clearly identified as “man of sin, son of perdition, abomination of the earth and whore of Babylon”. (Info).
The origins, work and even the final end of this institution are no secret.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Revelation 18:21
Bible verses from King James Version (1611)
