Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

3. Apocalypse Now?
We are immediately, it seems, off to a bad start. For one thing, even
the most novice Bible student can tell you that the Antichrist is not
found in the Revelation of John, commonly called the Apocalypse.
The word is used to describe “false Christs” in the epistles of Paul and
the actual “antichrists” mentioned by John in 1 John 2,18; 2, 22; 4, 3
that are part of the New Testament canon. The Antichrist is a
conflation of the “man of lawlessness” or sin, described by Paul and
the “Beast” of the Revelation, in typical pop-theological fashion by the
authors of books which are the modern equivalent of the street-corner
“the End is nigh!” preachers of the 19 th C.. A small matter, perhaps,
but one that Tyson should have avoided, especially considering that it
is the lead-in to his next – and biggest – assertion, which is that the
Enochian Calls are in fact portions of a single “ritual” which, when
completed, will usher in the destruction of the World.
As Tyson says, Christian ideas of the End of Days have always rested
on the understanding that the actual events (presuming of course, that
the Apocalypse is in fact an earthly event at all) are foreordained by
God. This is a logical conclusion that can be drawn form the Scriptures
as in Matthew, 24 : 36 - But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not
even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only 53 . This
implies that God alone knows the “day and hour” because God is the
one who will decide when it will be. And of course, this is the
orthodox interpretation held today as it was in Dee’s time.
Tyson demonstrates, again from Dees’s own words, that the Angels
have a different idea of when the Apocalypse will be initiated. Dee
here is conversing (through Kelley as medium) with the angel Ave in
which he asks for an example of an invocation by which he may
petition the “good” angels. Ave informs the magicians that he can’t do
so and when asked why says Invocation proceedeth of the good will of
man, and of the heat and fervency of the spirit: And therefore is prayer
of such effect with God. What is interesting about this statement, apart
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