O Come, O Come Emmanuel
by Jennifer Woodruff Tait / End Of The Age Blogspot
The story behind the season’s most somber hymn
It was December 21 in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and writer Kathleen Norris was hunting in the most unlikely place for nuns.
For over twelve centuries, monasteries and convents throughout Christendom have, during the final week of Advent, chanted a series of verses at vesper services before the Magnificat or Song of Mary from Luke 1:46-55 (“My soul magnifies the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior”). These verses, known as the “Great O Antiphons,” each name Christ by a different biblical title: Wisdom, Adonai, Root of Jesse, Key of David, Dayspring or Radiant Dawn, King of Nations (or of the Gentiles), Emmanuel.
Norris (a Presbyterian laywoman, poet, and Benedictine oblate) had spent much of the year in a writing residency at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and had hoped that she might be able to sing the O Antiphons with the community of monks there before returning to Hawaii to spend Christmas with her family.
A Wild Antiphon Chase
Instead, her publisher insisted she make a stop in Los Angeles to do publicity for her bestsellerDakota. As she wrote in her memoir The Cloister Walk, the publisher’s publicist was no help in finding a monastic community for her to sing vespers with; his job was “arranging interviews and putting me in a tony hotel in Beverly Hills, thinking, as he cheerfully put it, that it would make a nice contrast with the monastery.”
Leads from a friend of a friend led her to Mount St. Mary’s College, high above the city with a view of “the snow capped peaks of mountains to the east and the breadth of the Pacific to the west.” On her way, she stopped to do a scheduled radio interview and told the talk show host how she had “schemed for months to find the O Antiphons in the city. I doubt that it was the looniest interview the woman had all day, but it had its moments.”
The O Antiphons which Norris searched so hard to find are to this day sung between December 17 and 23 by Roman Catholic and Anglican religious communities around the world. They are also the source of the Advent hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” one of the few hymns and carols for that season known to low-church Protestants. Sometime around 1100, an unknown author took these antiphons and turned them into a metrical Latin poem. Shortly after 1700, an unknown editor printed this metrical version in the collection Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum.
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Matthew 1:23 ‘Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’
Notice the word Em-Manu-EL, it can also be rendered, Im-Manu-EL, which is the more proper form. Im means “of” or “from.’ Mary’s father was “of” Ran. This can be interpreted to mean he was a descendant of Ab-Ram. She was told that her son would called, Im-Manu-EL. Notice that the early writers wanted to make sure you interpreted this correctly — their interpretation. They say Im-Manu-EL means “God with us.’ Im, when found in a name, designates From or Of, not with. So, let’s look at his name closer. El is the easiest part, it means ‘deity.’ So, Jesus is from, or of, a certain deity. Manu is the deity designator. If you ask any theologian if Immanuel could mean ‘son of the God Manu, ‘ they will say ‘no.’ Why? Because there is no male Hebrew or Christian name for God corresponding to Manu. And they are absolutely right. Manu is not male, nor it is Hebrew. Just like the term ‘Moses, ‘ it is Egyptian. It is Ma-Nu, the great Goddess who’s symbol is the Nu, or Nun, the fish. Jesus, son of the Goddess Ma-Nu. Joshua son of NUN. Let’s look again at the term ‘Im.’ I want to show you that there is more of a connection between Christianity and Islam, than you ever knew.
‘imam’ [Arab. , = leader], in ISLAM, a recognized leader or a religious teacher. Any pious Muslim may function as imam. The term is also used as a synonym for caliph, God’s vice-regent. Among SHIITES the belief arose that a hidden or unrecognized imam, or true caliph (the MAHDI) , would return at the end of the world to restore the true CALIPHATE.
Do you see the connection to IMANuel? What I have tried to show you with theses verses are three main facts. 1) We have identified the father of Mary as Imran. 2) We have given further proof that Jesus was connected with the Goddesses of Egypt, and therefore the DOMA. 3) There is a relationship between Mary’s father and the Imams of Islam. If then the Muslims supported the birth of Jesus by Mary, why would the Christians not use this information? What made them murder the very people that believed Jesus was a prophet of the One God? Because the Christians claimed that Jesus was not just a prophet, but was actually the son of God. They said that God’s work therefore, was completed on Earth and anyone who should come after would have to be from Satan. When the Hebrews and Muslims refused to renounce their faiths and acknowledge Jesus as the son of God, the merciful, they were summarily tortured and murdered. The good Christians had made themselves judge, jury and executioner. The Hebrews had refused to acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah. They considered him to be one of the great prophets and teachers of Israel, but not the son of God. But what really upset them was the concept of the Trinity, or threefold God.
First of all they said, God is One, not three. Secondly if you say that Jesus is one third of the trinity, or Father, Son, Holy Ghost, then what you are really saying is that the man Jesus, is in fact, God. This, they claimed, is idolatry. The Muslims told them exactly the same thing, but added that Muhammad had been sent to teach man the final Word of God, by the same source that sent Jesus. The Christians of course deemed this blasphemy. Was it? Could Jesus be the Messiah, the son of God, God made flesh? After all if he really was the God of love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, then would they not be totally and divinely justified to cause so much pain, agony and death in his name? After all, were not these the very principals they were trying to spread as his message? Just in case, why don’t we look for ourselves, and see if indeed Jesus was God. Let’s examine Jesus’ birth, life and death. Let’s find out what the truth is here, once and for all.
When was Jesus born? We are told that he was born on the 25th of December, in the year ’0′. Nearly two thousand years ago. Was this is his actual birthdate? No one knows. In fact, most scholars now place his birth off, by at least four years. The simple fact is that the early writers of the Bible had no real idea of the exact date of Jesus’ birth. What’s that you say? But the writers of the New Testament, (Matthew, Mark, Luke,) weren’t they with Jesus? Shouldn’t they know? The fact is that the earliest date for the writing of the New Testament is estimated at a minimum, to be forty years after Jesus’ death. The writers were not present. So where did they get the date from? Simple. They took the date that was sacred to all those who served Isis, the birthdate of her son Horus, the 25th of December, and assigned it to her symbolic son on Earth, Jesus. Now let’s look at some verses for further clues into the mystery.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/theway/theway011.htm
But the writers of the New Testament, (Matthew, Mark, Luke,) weren’t they with Jesus? Shouldn’t they know?
The gospels of Matthew Mark Luke and John are all unsigned, by anonymous authors, in reality the church has no idea who wrote them or when. One fragment found in the Dead Sea Scrolls is much earlier than that biblical time line… oops. There isn’t so much as a single scrap of evidence that any of them existed in reality and shed loads of evidence it is plagiarised paganism.
Pix I agree and I’m 100% sure that the Piso family wrote most of the New Testament.
Pix,
While I have read and understood (and enjoyed) your very truthful description of myths of the usurping chrisitans, you have used some big words that I know the “average” ingrate, miscreant christian just will not understand.
Let me help, so the simpletons understand.
christians steal everything.
christians steal ideas.
christians steal holidays and call them their own.
christians steal words, and call them their own.
christians steal land, and call it theirs.
Example: The Holy Roman Catholic Pedophile Church has interfered in the past with the Federal government of the U.S.
Read the prejudicial doctrine that was created by the Catholic Pedophile Church, in 1823.
“The Indian Nations do not have title to their lands, they only have title of occupancy, because they were not christians when the Europeans first got here. The first christian Nations to discover an area of heathen and infidel lands has the ultimate dominion over those lands and the absolute title”.
christians kill on a whim.
christians follow orders to kill, like a well trained attack dog.
christians are dangerous and violent as a group.
christians hoard everything and think that god smiles upon them only.
christians think the afterlife will be a white-skinned country club, just for them.
christians think there is sex in the afterlife.
christians think that god as a sex organ.
christians love ‘freedom”, as long as you are christian.
christians root for death and destruction for all, except themselves, and “blame it on the book of babble”.
christians want a spiritual dictator to rule over them for 1,000 years on earth, but they love freedom.
christians demand 10% of your gross income every week, just to join them.
christians willingly turn over their children to known pedophiles in return for some vague promise about a good afterlife (after death).
CONCLUSION: christians are insane, violent, and dangerous, and will soon be the hunted minority on this planet they have ruled with an iron hand for the last 1,600 years! Re-education is in order, and like their previous re-education camps, China will “take the white-skinned“ man out of their savage religion!
Oh, and Happy Holidays to All!
Nice graphic of Mithra emerging from the cave. The 21st to 25th december is the winter solstice and rebirth of the sun, an extremely ancient pagan festival based on observation of reality. There is no such place as “Christendom”, how odiously arrogant can you get?
Why can’t you get your own festivals… oh yeah, you don’t have any because it’s plagiarised paganism.
Yea and you can see the halo around the childs head in the picture which signifies the Sun!!
LoL! Not to mention it adds sheep!! What this picture is really saying is that you people are as sheep worshipping a Jesus which in reality you are really worshipping the Sun!!!! And there is also the Jackass in the picture!!LOL!! The artist of this picture was actually making fun of Christians!!LOL!!!!