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On the powers and limitations of illusionists.

And the value of working and praying for deeper discernment of the differences between things as they appear and things as they are.

Katherine Watt
Dec 19, 2022
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Reader comment on Biomedical security state and state-run bioterrorism programs: six American statutory frameworks

…You used the word "apparently" a lot. Is that because there are still other documents to read?

"Public health emergencies joined wars, natural disasters and other emergency circumstances apparently capable of subordinating or federalizing state, local and tribal government authorities."

My reply

I used “apparently” and “seemingly” partly to soften the delivery of the information a little bit for new readers.

For older readers, all of this is well-understood by now; I’ve been writing it in different forms since the end of January 2022. But for new readers, it’s a bitter drink to try to choke down.

But I used those words more because I believe that much of what’s happening is based on people treating an illusion as if it were reality, which has the effect of making the lies operable in peoples’ earthly lives, but doesn’t have the effect of converting the lies to truth.

In other words, I truly believe that a “falling of the scales” that are clouding the vision of so many people, by the Grace of God, can open the doors to a kind of moral re-set (the opposite of the corrupt, Luciferian Great Reset lie we’re being told by TPTB) in which some of the fundamental truths about legitimate human governance can be restored, including sovereign subordination to God, and sovereign accountability to God for supporting or interfering with the salvation of individual souls as people work their salvation out through their lives through exercise of free will.

I really enjoyed Archbishop Vigano’s recent meditation on these issues.

  • Non serviam: A history of revolutions from Herod to Davos.

In other words, things “appear” or “seem” to be the way the illusionists are projecting their distorted vision onto the world stage. And to the extent people accept those illusions and act in response to them, they are sickening and lethal.

To try to head off the ‘communicable diseases don’t exist’ crowd, I’m not saying human physical fragility, disease and death are illusions. They’ve been with us since the beginning. And those things are just as real as human healing capacity, health and longevity.

I’m also not saying we can make the people doing evil things, and the corrupt systems they’ve built around us, disappear or lose their effectiveness just by looking at them differently or turning away from them or closing our eyes.

I am saying there’s a different truth and way and light underneath the suffering and joys we live through on earth, and that Way, Truth and Light is being hidden by those appearances of centralized earthly power exercised pseudo-legitimately in pursuit of degraded, hate-filled aims like greed, immortality of the body (through drugs and devices), and destruction of human souls.

Things are not as they seem. They seem as they seem. But they are not as they seem.

That’s about as clearly as I can put it right now. I mull these things a lot but they’re hard to put into words.

And thank you for asking. Replying helped me clarify things that had just been simmering on the edge of my mind for quite some time.


Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda. Painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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baba_gbb
Dec 20, 2022Pinned

I keep saying ... all they’ve actually got is a Potemkin village of cardboard cutouts (with smoke and lights and mirrors and lotsa fear-porn talking heads talkin’ fear porn 24/7). We just gotta keep kicking down and punching through the cutouts to reveal the criminals on the other side.

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Aaron Ferguson
Dec 19, 2022

“Things are not as they seem. They seem as they seem. But they are not as they seem” We know against whom we wrestle!!

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