Riders of the Wrecking Machine: The Occult Connections of Westcott and Hort - 4:10 PM, 9/9/2008

Part Eight: Riders of the Wrecking Machine

THE OCCULT CONNECTIONS OF WESTCOTT AND HORT

Bernard Pyron

We have seen there is the possibility that there were 3rd and 4th

century gnostic influences upon some verses in the Greek New Testament

texts - Sianaticus and Vaticanus - used by Westcott

and Hort for their 1881 Greek text. And - Westcott and Hort were interested

in occult phenomena according to their sons who both wrote biographies

of their fathers. Gnosticism is a source for the 19th century English

occult movement, which Westcott and Hort took part in. Now we are

seeing a revival of gnosticism and

gnostic influences in the New Age Occult movement, which has seeped

over into the Christian Church. The DaVinci Code is just one example of

gnosticism reborn in the early 21st century.

The Merovingian blood line is supposedly linked to the DaVinci Code

and to its origin in the Merovingian Jewish line and to Alexandria,

Egypt where some claim the Egyptian goddes Isis became part of the

Catholic Virgin Mary, as the co-reedemer.

I came across one variant of a secret society called the Priory of

Sion

perhaps also connected (at least in fantasy) with the Merovingians.

Some accounts on the Internet say this

Priory of Sion is a hoax. It boasts of past grand masters such as

Victor Hugo, Claude Debussy and

Jean Cocteau. Cocteau was on the fringes of the Paris surrealists of

the twenties and thirties, used drugs a lot

and might have been into the occult. He was a poet, playwright,

filmmaker and painter. Gnosticism was apparently an influence upon

Victor Hugo,

along with Gothic architecture. Alchemy and the occult sculptures on

many Gothic Cathedrals had some

influence on some of the surrealists. Gnosticism gets mixed in with

all this too I suppose. I knew a graduate student at the University

of Wisconsin in Madison in the

sixties who took a lot of LSD, got into Jean Cocteau's

version of the

dark side of surrealism, and ended up sitting in the Rat (Rathskeller

in the basement of the Student Union) trying to stare the University

down. Shrinks classified him as a paranoid schizophrenic.

I found this also:

"H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of the Satanic New Age Movement believes

this:

"The King James Version, as it is translated, has no resemblance

whatever to the originals."

Westcott and Hort might have known Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)and so

she could have had inside knowledge of what Westcott and Hort were up

to in replacing the King James Version. Blavatsky's books were used

by the leaders of the contemporary New Age Occult movement.

Helena Blavatsky was an important figure in the 19th century occult

movement in England. Several Anglican Spiritualists were part of the

occult revival

that included Fenton John Anthony Hort and Brooke Foss Westcott.

Westcott and Hort were active in the Ghost Society and in the Society

for Psychical Research. They were interested in paranormal phenomena.

These two

Anglican theologians created a Greek text which disagrees in many verse

wordings with the Textus Receptus Greek text, used for the King James

Version of 1611. Close examination of the differences in New Testament

verses on the deity and incarnation of Christ between the

Westcott-Hort and Textus Receptus suggests a gnostic influence upon

the Westcott-Hort verses which are different in wording.

The loyal followers of Westcott and Hort - the Riders on their

Wrecking Machine - will deny that the two Anglican theologians had

anything to do with the 19th century English occult revival. This

is why we should be more careful than Christians usually are in

identifying our sources for

the claim that Westcott and Hort were important figures within the

Anglican Spiritualist movement.

"Cambridge professor, Fenton John Antony

Hort, Anglican clergyman, Brooke Foss Westcott . and the future

Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, founded the Cambridge

Ghost Society in 1851. 35.

35 Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, NY:Schocken Books,

1968, p. 66

"His devotion with ardour is indicated in a 'Ghostly Circular'

authorized by him. 'The interest and importance of a serious and

earnest inquiry into the nature of the phenomena which are vaguely

called 'supernatural' will scarcely be questioned."

93.

93. Arthur Westcott, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, New

York Macmillan and Co., 1896, Vol. I, p. 118, 119.

"His" is Brook F. Westcott above.

On page 118 Arthur Westcott writes that his father Brooke F. Wesctott

said in the "Ghostly Circular" that "Many persons believe that all

such apparently mysterious occurrences are due either to purely

natural causes, or to delusions of the mind or senses, or to willful

deception. But there are many others who believe it possible that the

beings of the unseen world may manifest themselves in

extraordinary ways...If the belief of the latter class should be

ultimately confirmed, the limits which human knowledge respecting the

spirit world has hitherto reached might be ascertained with some

degree of accuracy."

Brooke F. Westcott wanted to investigate occult phenomena to see if it

could be shown to reliably exist.

Yet at least 17 verses in the Bible warn against dealing with familiar

spirits. Other texts say not to consult wizards,

soothsayers, astrologers, or diviners. Many followers of

Westcott and Hort will refuse to consider that these two

were violating Biblical law by dealing with the occult. According to

Ezekiel 13: 22 the promoters of Westcott and Hort have

"...strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return

from his wicked way..." Some may be caught in the Westcott-Hort trap,

and are boxed in so that they will not see the problems of these two unbelieving

Anglican churchmen.

"The original objective of the Society for Psychical.Research

(S.P.R,). was to conduct research into

"that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as

mesmeric, psychical and spiritualistic." Committees were organized to

examine telepathy, hypnotism, mesmeric trance, clairvoyance, ESP,

apparitions, haunted houses, and to determine the laws of physical

spiritualistic phenomena. In recognition of the important work

accomplished by Benson, Westcott and Hort -- the leaders of its

precursor, the Cambridge Ghost Society -- the S.P.R. Historical

Outline posits,

"It would hardly have been possible for the new Society to undertake

an enquiry of such a kind or on such as scale if several of its

leading members had not already gained previous experience of the

difficulties attaching to that type of investigation." (51)

51 W.H. Salter, The Society For Psychical Research, An Outline of

it's History, London, 1948, p. 8.

"A contemporary of B.F. Westcott, Mme. Blavatsky classified Westcott

with the Gnostic philosophers, even laughing him to scorn in her

channeled work, Isis Unveiled, for his credulity of The Pastor of

Hermas. It seems that Anglican scholars gave the weight of Scripture

to apocryphal literature from the occult underground with which she

was familiar:

"In their immoderate desire to find evidence for the authenticity of

the New Testament, the best men, the most erudite scholars even among

Protestant divines, but too often fall into deplorable traps. We

cannot believe that such a learned commentator as Canon Westcott could

have left himself in ignorance as to Talmudistic and purely kabalistic

writings. How then is it that we find him quoting, with such serene

assurance as presenting 'striking analogies to the Gospel of St.

John,' passages from the work of The Pastor of Hermas, which are

complete sentences from kabalistic literature?" (29)

29 H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Vol. II, Theosophical University

Press, Pasadena, California, p. 243.

THE FABIAN SOCIETY AND TOTALITARIANISM

The socialist Fabian Society also grew out of the same 19th century

circle of elite English people who gave us the occult revival.

There were several connections between the Westcott, Hort, Edwin White Benson,

and Henry Sidgwick Society for Psychical Research group and the Fabian

socialists. Henry Sidgwick married Eleanor Balfour, the sister of

Arthur Balfour, who became a future Prime Minister of England. (24)

24 Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, Schocken Books,

New York: 1968, p 116

"As of 1886, the Fabian executive committee was

comprised of Pease, Podmore, Besant (Anne Besant), Shaw (George

Bernard Shaw) and Webb. However in 1889,

Annie Besant was converted to the cult of Theosophy by Madame

Blavatsky, whom she succeeded in 1891 as president of the Theosophical

Society."

 This is from: http://www.watch.pair.com/occult.html

"...the first Fabians...had almost all been lapsed Anglicans from

Evangelical homes. There was a Christian fringe to the London

socialism of the eighties, but this too was Anglican. The Christian

Socialists came together in Stewart Headlam's Guild of St. Matthew and

the Land Reform Union; and the more respectable Christian Social

Union, formed in 1889 -- seeking in Fabian style to permeate the

Anglican Church -- soon attracted more than two thousand clerical

members. Dissenting clergymen too began to find a place in the Fabian

Society and the London Progressives, while Unitarian churches and

centres like Stanton Coit's Ethical Church provided a meeting place

for believers and idealist agnostics . . . Socialism was for all of

them, the new Evangelism." (65)

65 Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Fabians, Simon & Schuster, 1977,

pp. 183-184.

TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE, BEATLES, DRUGS AND DIAPRAX

Although the Tavistock

Institute did not begin until the early twenties, it too was a

creation of this same

British elite culture of the late 19th century. Some say that the

Tavistock Institute

gave us the Beatles, rock and roll music, the drug movement, the

encounter group movement and what

Dean Gotcher has described as Diaprax, a deceptive attitude and

belief changing method which has come to be used widely, and is used

in the apostate churches. Diaprax uses the threat of group rejection

plus emotional appeals to move people out of absolute morality and

truth into whatever the Diapraxer wants them to believe or whatever

immoral behavior is desired.

Tavistock began

doing studies on shell-shocked British veterans of World War I in the

early twenties.

 http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm

The Tavistock Clinic was part of the Tavistock Institute,

which was the

psychological warfare agency for the British Secret Intelligence

Service.

The quote below is from:

http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=WorldCh07-4

"The English control of this world movement is demonstrated by the

ideology of American foundations, which is created by the Tavistock

Institute of Human Relations in London."

(My comment: "This world

movement" was the movement to

restore oligarchic control over America and Europe. In order to restore

control by a very small group of the ruling elite for them it was

necessary to defeat the popular republican forms of government, true

Christianity and

the strong family)

"A single common denominator identifies the common Tavistock strategy

-- the use of drugs. The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA,

directed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, in which unsuspecting CIA officials

were given LSD, and their reaction studied like guinea pigs, resulted

in several deaths. The U.S. Government had to pay millions in damages

to the families of the victims, but the culprits were never indicted.

The program originated when Sandoz AG, a Swiss drug firm, owned by

S.G. Warburg Co. of London, developed lycergic acid. Roosevelt's

advisor, James Paul Warburg, son of Paul Warburg who wrote the Federal

Reserve Act, and nephew of Max Warburg who had financed Hitler, set up

the Institute for Policy Studies to promote the drug. The result was

the LSD "counter-culture" of the 1960s, the "student revolution",

which was financed by $25 million from the CIA."

Quotes below come from: http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm

"When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could

have imagined the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake.

The Beatles were an integral part of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a

living organism which sprang From "THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH

(489)-2150-Policy Research Report No. 4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared

by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director, Professor

Willis Harmon.

"The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth

against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot

to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a

highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group

targeted for change against its will. New words and new

phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along

with the Beatles."

(Note: "SRI" above is Stanford Research Institute, part of Stanford University)

The SRI Center for the Study of Social Policy is an arm of Tavistock

Institute in London. Stanford Research Institute does research and

development for government agencies, large corporations and private

foundations)

On http://www.newtotalitarians.com/WhatIsSensitivityTraining.html

it says: "

"Tavistock-style centers soon started cropping up in America; at

Stanford's Research Institute's Center for the Behavioral Sciences, at

the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at

the various National Training Laboratories (NTLs), where concepts

popularly known as 'T-Groups' (therapy groups) and 'sensitivity

training' were developed. It was 'brainwashing,' utilizing the

small-group approach."

Eakman describes the way it works. "A controlled stress situation is

created by a group leader ('facilitator') with the ostensible goal of

achieving a consensus or agreement which has, in reality, been

predetermined. By using peer pressure in gradually increasing

increments, up to and including yelling at, cursing at, and isolating

the holdouts, weaker individuals are intimidated into caving in. They

emerge, facilitators hope, with a new value structure in place, and

the goal is achieved. The method was refined and later popularized by

other schools of behavioral science, such as Ensalen Institute, the

NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and the Western

Training Laboratories in Group Development."

Eakman, B.K., "Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality