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Call Bannerman, because this Bible study hinges on a single word, and Ammon Hillman argues the whole of Christian hope rests on a mistranslation. John 3:16 does not promise ‘eternal life,’ he says, but zoē aiōnios (ζωὴ αἰώνιος) — ‘aionic life’ — and the word aiōn (αἰών) means a lifetime, an age, a generation: a bounded span, personified in Greek myth as the child of Chronos. The episode walks the etymology, pointing to the Digamma in the oldest Mycenaean form, which he dates to 1600 BC and claims predates any Hebrew root.
As evidence, he reads Pindar’s Fourth Pythian Ode, where Hera, refusing to let the Argonauts sit home with their mothers, promises them an aion without danger — plainly a lifetime, not a never-ending eternity. From there the argument moves to the Orphic figure Aion-Phanes, shown as a winged, serpent-coiled, bi-gendered god, whom Hillman identifies with Saturn. His thesis follows naturally: the ‘aion of aions’ in Revelation is not heaven forever but the state of the initiate reborn through the mystery.
The closing turn is his most provocative. In Revelation, John’s ‘son of man’ wears a golden girdle around his mastois (μαστοῖς) — his breasts — which Hillman reads, alongside the seven stars and sword, not as metaphor but as the Sotera: the female savior of the older cult wearing the priestess’s breast-band. He frames the ‘eternal’ reading as a Latin overlay, Jerome’s avenue for turning a bounded aion into an endless eternitas. The episode names the claim plainly and leaves the texts open for the curious to check.
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Welcome back to Lady Babylon. It’s good to see you guys here tonight. We have a great, great short Bible study for you tonight. And we’re so privileged to have two guests, two special guests. Now, it didn’t it takes a lot to bring them. But tonight we’re going to have I’m pointing over here because I’ve got them both tied up on the floor. Tonight we’re going to have Billy Graham. Yes, welcome. Welcome the ghost of Billy Graham.
and of course as usual our friend uh dr jung who won’t be saying anything due to his ball gag um so
without any further ado in order to get to the ionic life let us now turn to billy graham billy
bring it oh come on billy oh i can feel you buddy i can feel you bring me bring me ionic life billy
the greatest problem in the world today is sin causes people to hate and lust and have greed
it’s sin it’s a disease that we all have the bible says all have sinned and come short of
the glory of god you’ve missed the mark you’ve broken the law on your way to spiritual death
and eternal death and to judgment but jesus said i can do something about that i can change your
life i can make you a new person jesus demanded that we make a choice he says there are truths
of life the broad road and the narrow road and you must choose there are two destinies heaven
and hell which road are you on which master are you serving to be judged i don’t have to go to
hell have to be lost soul has been redeemed i’m going to heaven first repent of my sin
and receive christ as my lord and my savior you have to repent of your sins that means to be
willing to change your way of living you may have no power to do it but if you surrender to christ
he’ll give you the power how many of you here tonight are broke fed up but you don’t know what
to do you give your life to christ tonight and you will have supernatural help in breaking those
chains that bind you god’s not waiting to judge you god’s not waiting to condemn you he’s waiting
to receive you with mercy with love with open arms and forgive all your sins you know they’re
only comes a few times in our lives when jesus of nazareth passes by and we have an opportunity like
we have tonight to receive him you may never have a tomorrow as far as god is concerned there are
people here tonight that may never be alive tomorrow you may never get gospel again like this
or your heart may not be this tender toward god come while you can and don’t put it off god is
waiting to welcome you with open arms to receive you as you come to him in repentance and faith
symbol and yet could be life-changing tonight and all of heaven will rejoice with such power
billy graham brought you eternal life eternal life can we see can we see john 3 16 please can we see
john 3 16. everybody together as our opening reading tonight in this bible study let’s look
at john 3 16. who does car a gap is in hothos ton cosmon hoste ton huion ton monogene edokian
hiena paso pisteon is auton may apolatai al ehe zoen ionion ionion ionion ion
what is eternal life god so loved the world that he gave his only son his only born son
the monogamous who had been prophesied of he gave them for the sake of what for the sake of
ionic life translated to you as eternal and tonight what i want to show you is the world
where eternal life doesn’t exist it’s nowhere in the bible it is not a promise of eternal life
it is a promise promise of ionic life what is this thing let’s see let’s see a an excellent
false derivation of that um more eternal life bring us bring it on you ghosts of the dead
bring on more eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of
my hand the bible says verily verily i say to thee he that heareth my word and believeth on him that
sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto
life jesus said and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die believest thou this and if
believe on christ you’ll never die some people think eternal life means life that goes on and
on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on so the life they have now doesn’t end
they think life that just continues and doesn’t stop no eternal life is the renderings the english
rendering of the greek zoe eternal life is used in the english language to describe the life only
belongs to the eternal the truth is the way of eternal life we need to be able to follow it
eternal life eternal life eternal life eternal life eternal life only son whoever believes in
him should not perish but have eternal life do not keep that life-changing truth to yourself
and remember you are loved you are indeed now um what is this thing they’re talking about this
ionic life and does it mean eternal um let us just go to the ion the best place to go is back
to the original go back to alice and by the way does um does anybody notice how that preacher
just snuck in a little bit of greek and it’s it to you it’s believable right to anybody who spends
time reading greek it’s you know it’s transparently bad yeah zoe that’s eternal life zoe thank you
let’s go to ion and see what is this thing ionic life what is it let’s go to ion okay please
beautiful back to alice alice tell us alice ion oh lifetime life age generation long space of time
space of time ion personified as the child of chronos oh that’s nice that’s nice what i want
you to look at just one word in greek and go let’s bring up the ion big ion show us with the derivate
oh okay okay look at this look at this look at this oh this is gorgeous um look right in the
middle here right here in space and time this way look right here this is i won i won alpha
iota and what is that f looking thing that’s a digamma can you say digamma yes you know what
that digamma is it is from the mycenaean greek this is a very very old word i won
and where does it come from from 1600 bc yes gorgeous gorgeous oh is that lovely um what is
the what is the iwan what is the iwan before we can show you the ion we have to step over
the cadavers of the terrible terrible misconceptions and lies that you have been
fed by people who pretend to know greek and tell you oh it’s from the greek and it means this
and they do not know it can i get a hail satan let’s see it let’s see them in their foolery
let’s go please show us the chewy show us the the false derivation the third clip that we’ve got
yeah if you know very much about the story of the bible you’ve probably heard that jesus offers
eternal life sounds nice but what does jesus mean by eternal life well jesus adopted this phrase
from the hebrew scriptures in english it’s translated eternal life or sometimes everlasting
life but the phrase literally translated from hebrew is life unto the age yeah yeah seriously
did he just say that it’s adopted from the hebrew and you people just sit there uh-huh uh-huh it’s
adopted from the hebrew i just showed you the mycenaean the proto-hebrew is the earliest
9th century bc this is not hebrew this is not semitic this is greek in its oldest form at least
the oldest recovered form that we have so far right let them let them work on their end so
the proto hebrew is to say that this is derived from hebrew is is tantamount to taking you in a
back alley and having way with you yes very bad shame on these people shame on these people and
why do people believe this because we have to if it logically works out within the judeo-christian
mystery the the languages have to follow each other and that original source has to be hebrew
they can’t live their universe shatters without that the masoretic
sect in the 10th century starts crying out from their graves oh we created you a text
and that tradition has bound you for a thousand years yes yes it’s time to wake up what is the
eye on where do we always go here at lady babylon we go to the medwa right we go to the arians
who call themselves the medway yes all because of this one woman where else would we go where
else is interesting except lady babylon seriously love it love it okay tonight i’d like to bring you
a text where we can see the ion and to show you that it has been poorly, poorly, terribly
mistranslated and criminally, perhaps, as eternal. Yes, eternal. Seriously, guys? Okay, let me pull
up the Medea text. This is the fourth Pythian ode, and it is a record of Medea’s oracle,
of Medea’s Oracle. Beautiful. Thank you very much, Chewie. So what is, take it down for a second,
what is Medea’s Oracle? Medea’s Oracle is, well, it’s one of the oracles of Medea that she handed
down from Thera Santorini. And this was before the explosion. Yeah. Anyway, she handed down this
uh oracle of the future that was kept by the pithia that’s awesome was kept by the pithia
and the pithia pithia went ahead and uh released it when uh the inquiry was there that was relevant
to the oracle um it was about the founders of cyrene and some yeah stuff in northern africa
good stuff anyway um so uh this is pindar’s record of that oracle and in it we have the word ion and
i just wanted you guys to see what the ion is you know ion is is uh hera hera is making sure
let’s bring up the greek hera is making sure that everybody is falling in love with jason’s ship
wants to go on the Argo. And what are they sailing to do, right? He doesn’t want them to,
third line, not third line, down on this one. I just want to show you the Iona.
There we go. Second line, one, two, three, four, five, six, we’re in Iona, okay? So there we are.
And he doesn’t want them to have, to be staying there with their mothers. Hera doesn’t want them
to be staying there with their mothers. Having an Aion Akin Dunon. What is Akin Dunon? That’s
something that lacks any sort of danger. Lacks any sort of danger. Hera wants you to go on the Argo
because she doesn’t want you to sit at home with your mommy. Living an Aion that is without danger.
living an ion that was out without danger now what’s funny is um further down the line
despite the death even against death they should go to find what to find a calistone
pharmacon to find the best most beautiful drug the wait the most beautiful drug yes the most
beautiful drug drug what kind of drug a drug aretas the most beautiful drug of virtue of arte
you know you can’t get that if you’re sitting at home with your mommy says it’s good stuff you
gotta love it people don’t realize this stuff is written by women right they’re like oh all
the literature we have is no it’s not no it’s not it’s not all men right there’s great stuff
out there great stuff out there anyway um and yes did you notice what are they on the journey for
they’re on the journey for the pharmacon they want that drug that drug that leads to virtue
so they go and kidnap medea it’s logical right right she’s the source okay so um what i want
to do next is i wanted you to see that within its context and now i want to go to yes i guess
we’re going to pull up young now um let’s get you before we do can you just show the folks you
and i want you to i just want you to thank read book or leave her know them know what and what
shut up young read it just read it before you just okay put the text up let’s just do this
here we go are you guys ready we’re going to be transformed why is philemon a magician
oh look it’s got the root of amon in it yeah that’s nice does he conjure up immortality for
himself young is listening do you see what happens young is listening to you he’s watching
here i told you is he conjuring up immortality a life beyond he was probably only a magician
by profession and he now appears to be a pension magician speak you old fool speak who has retired
from service i’m not that old he’s desirousness and creative drive and this do you know why i
beat him now now you know i beat young i know every once in a while it feels good yes his
desirousness and creative drive have expired and he now enjoys his well-earned rest out of
sheer incapacity like every old man who can do nothing else than plant tulips and water his
little garden the mat okay now here’s where just give it to us give it to us you dirty old man
you dirty old man i’m gonna tell him what you did to your patient how old was she you creep young
um the magical rod now get ready for um get ready for you know this is the big stuff okay of all of
you esoteric people anybody who’s interested in the magic in the necromancy watch what’s going
to happen this is gorgeousness and gorgiosity all together yeah i love this um the magical rod
wait huh lies in a cupboard together with the sixth and seventh books of moses wait
genesis axis leviticus numbers deuteronomy that’s five i thought it was called a pentateuch
guess what your world that you thought was so normal isn’t there happened to be other books
of moses they just weren’t accepted in el canon love it okay um we have the eighth would you like
me to show you it survives in greek who wants to read the eighth book of moses you know you do
you know you do yeah philemon has become old and so much fever minded yes okay so um tell us why
is the rod the rod is laid upon the sixth and the seventh perhaps it’s the eighth you could say what
kind of rod this serpent rod the serpent wand that he that jung brings to you and profanes to you
remember he wanted this buried with him right and then released at a specific time what up
he’s weird now you know why restraints are so important with carl with with dr jung sorry
don’t get to don’t try to get personal um okay fantastic let’s go on uh to the eighth book of
moses then eighth book of moses and i’m going to read you a section of that and you are going to
perceive ionic life are you ready none of your people from harvard are going to give this to
you because they don’t use these sources shame on you when you were needed harvard ivy league
nothing about the ivy in that one yeah yeah let’s see okay i’ll read it to you let’s see if we can
find it where i don’t i’m not quite sure which one is nope nope nope nope well that’s okay take it
it down um i’ll read it to you please let me read it to you it’s from the pgm you can get it
yourself hans dieter bets yeah it’s the addition that john dr john scarborough was one of the many
translators for who was the uh the gentleman that i worked with um very nice very nice uh i call on
you the creator of all who are greater than all you the self-begotten god who see all and hear all
and are not seen okay do you have the mental image this god that he’s telling you about
calling on that unseen one for you gave helios all the glory and the power selene the privilege
to wax and wane and you have fixed the courses yet you took nothing from the earlier born darkness
but assign them equally assign them equality for when you appeared both order arose and light
appeared i like that order and light appeared and all things were arranged by you therefore
all things are also subject to you whose true form none of the gods can see who take different forms
in different visions ion of ion ion of ion yeah what ground are we treading here we’re treading
here the mysteries and we’re looking at the top um ion let’s images of ion images where are they
bring them up love it love it just keep bringing them up forget me forget me and just keep whatever
you can bring up of ion um yeah you’ll notice the snake association you know the robot is here for
all of you cats who were interested in in the dark side of the esoteric you’ll you’ll know the
images that are there for those of you who’ve been somewhat initiated yeah you’ll know you’ll
recognize. You begin to recognize him. Show him the serpent, right? The serpent around Ion,
right? AKA Phanes. Phanes. What is going on with the language? It’s the same divinity, right?
Phanes. Bring him up, Phanes. Oh, feast your eyes on this guy, right? With the serpent around him.
he’s got the wings. Oh, you got to love it. Does anybody smell Saturn? Yes, you should because this
is Saturn. Hail Satan. Judaism and Christianity are the children of Satanism. Yeah, the children
of Satanism. Yeah, yeah. There he is for you. There is Ion. And if you go into the synagogues
in israel from the first from the second and first bc the first and second anno domini you’re gonna
find ion you’re gonna find ion the worship of saturn love it love it love it it’s good stuff
it’s good stuff so the as as we um i just want to hit a couple more texts with you
But as we wrap up then, come full circle, this ionic life is a part of the mystery.
The initiate who enters death and is brought back to life is born again.
Yeah, yeah, you’re born again.
And that ionic life is the state that the initiate enters.
It is not the word eternal.
And the mistake comes through Latin.
It’s the church pushing it, Iwum, and what Iwum means,
and whether it means eternitas, and it doesn’t.
The ion, Saturn, is outside of Kronos.
Wait, what?
Yeah, Kronos, time.
The Saturn, Satan, is outside of that time.
Yeah, it is only by the castration of Uranus that anything proceeds.
He has set that time.
I’m first and last.
Apocalypse.
Here we go.
Are you ready?
Here’s the funny thing.
This Fane’s ion is bigendered.
It’s dual.
Dual gendered.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Feast on that, guys with your serpents on your poles.
Feast.net, right?
Oh, got to love it.
Bring the apocalyptic chapter in here.
I want to, this is from the beginning of the apocalypse.
We’re going to go right there.
I’m going to bring it up on my screen here so it’s easier on my old eyes.
Yes.
Fantastic.
In the middle of these lamps was this dude who was very much like the son of
man yeah he’s he’s dressed all the way down to his feet right and he’s got this uh um girdle thing
that’s a bra yeah he’s got a bra on why i told you fanace was the was the bi-gendered one nobody ever
believes me in that but um look um here is jesus right we’re talking about jesus and it says in
that very top of that first line prostos mastos right zoning he’s got the zone he’s got the bra
and it’s around his mastoise right it doesn’t say it’s around his stern his chest it says it’s
around his his breasts it’s around his breasts and this zone is a very important thing it um
it’s a ceremonial thing worn by priestesses who are collecting the serious exudate from their
breasts for the sake of ritual use yeah jesus is wearing one in the apocalypse jesus is wearing
one can you believe that okay and his uh anyway verse 14 and his head right he’s got white hairs
on his head and they’re white like a lamb and yeah he on like the snow and his eyes are the
flocks right fire it’s that that that eruption of fire the flocks oh it’s got so much meaning
he’s the one that you can’t see but appears oh this is fantastic and his feet are like bronze
why does he have the bronze feet because she has the bronze feet um if i show you the vampire
text that i have if i show you the vampire text from mike maroulis who’s the buddy of
blad um the impaler uh in his perfect perfect cult latin by the way which in 1450 or whenever
whenever he wrote this maybe it was a little before then but for the time that was the most
outstanding latin and way too close to the cult um to not be right in the big darn middle of it
um but he will tell you and it’s him to attorney to us he he brings you the ion yeah why because
he’s the the guy who knows the purple right and the use of the pearl remember the wings of purple
right before the in the oracle of medea you guys have to read this stuff you love it pindar pithian
nodes okay let’s go on with the apocalypse and having in his right hand what did he have he had
the asteros heptai had the seven stars yeah and from his stomatos from his mouth came what a very
sharp sword yeah very sharp yeah distomos cutting two ways that’s sometimes rendered as two-edged
the double edge but it literally says cutting two ways anyway and uh yeah so he’s got stars
in his face his abscess his expression is glare with that light that comes out of your eyes these
are all magic this is magic physics right yeah um what is it what is this glare it’s like the helios
oh okay wait a minute now we’re getting close to it can you can you smell the sorcery can you smell
the drugs can you smell what’s going on in the text right um he’s got the bronze feet and all
that kind of stuff he’s got all the witchy stuff there from the pgm right from the magical papyri
he’s he’s got it all and uh he’s also got the power of the sun right who is the granddaughter
of the sun who wears the breastband that collects the galene who is she the medwa the media the media
or when you look in the mirror and you face edim yeah in order to be in paradise you got to be
facing the mirror you got to be facing a dim oh yeah you begin to see it can you taste it
yeah um so yeah he was dead and alive he came back right and um put his right hand on him saying
don’t be afraid now look at how jesus identifies himself here verse uh 18 uh 17.5 ego amy i am
i’m the first and the boom accomplishment finish the finishing love it eschatology
and the living he is the living he’s not offering you the the zoe it’s the ionian zoe he’s offering
you and the living and i became dead necros and behold i am alive
how do you translate that it’s in the plural it it says into the ions of ions there has never
yet been written a good english translation of that expression and if i were to walk into your
pastor’s office if i kicked down his door and walked in and threw my greek text in front and
said listen you little braggart tell me what does this expression mean he wouldn’t be able to
he wouldn’t be able to no no yet why because they don’t read they just pretend to all right anybody
who tells you they do greek yeah okay um it’s rich it’s deep it’s deep all right you say it
with reverence you know and fear a classical philologist says that with reverence and fear
because they’ve seen the great, wonderful depths of Greek
and they’ve swam.
They know, they know and respect its beauty.
And anybody who tells you they know it probably doesn’t.
They just have had a couple of semesters.
I left Dallas Theological Seminary.
I went to the president and I was like,
look, I just started my THM program
and I have a bachelor’s in classics
with a double major in Greek and Latin.
so um your program is weak and he was like yeah brah he didn’t say brah or he may have said brother
but he was like yeah brah it is he confessed it was weak it wasn’t what it used to be i had looked
at some scholars who’d come there when they were all reading lewis perry schaefer and so i knew
and it was just weak seminaries are weak they are weak i went into a seminary
and within a very short period of time two years within a very short period of time i had people
saying what the what are these students doing their greek is suddenly fantastic they don’t even
have to know that anymore he should have just been teaching them latin what’s in the pope’s decrees
anyway um yeah look he’s into the ions of ions that that’s a prepositional phrase there
into the ions of ions yeah what does it mean i’m engaging i am that ions of ions now for god so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth like gonna love the king
james on him should not perish but have ion interesting yeah you have just uncovered a new
a new reality there is no eternal life that is such an absurdity and it’s a self-contradicting
statement right um because the ion is by definition especially if you’re pythagorean
And you have a connection to 10, a decade.
Does anybody know the decade?
No, nobody knows the decade.
Don’t eat the Kabbalah on the way there, right?
Kabbalah is later.
It’s medieval.
It’s off.
Anyway, here we have the fruit, and we’re looking at it.
Here we have the ion.
The ion is outside.
It’s outside of the time.
So a definition of eternal for it is sad, is sad.
and i can talk about other greek words used for eternal i can talk about simple adverb and its
roots and the relation to the verb io meaning to comprehend or to perceive and i days being hades
who is the one who is invisible the perception of the invisibility the phonies the saturn you big
does everybody see it we’re right back to saturn the verbs take us there the language
the language absorbed all this stuff it’s like a fingerprint the jews and the christians
worship a satanic divinity that’s a profound moment christians worship a satanic divinity
oh that’s so lovely thank you for coming tonight um we had a couple of questions but i’ve had so
much fun and that’s a lot to absorb and i think what we’re going to do this time is just say
hey all of you who are writing in with great questions i’m trying to get to them all
it may take me some time and for those of you who have sent me uh email requests for
communications or zooming i appreciate it and i will get to all of those if i have time i’m trying
i’m trying um i love your comments and your questions and i will uh return you a spot a
response within a couple of days i’ll get on the uh find time to get on and take you guys
extremely serious. I appreciate everything, and I want you to have a great week.
I’ll see you at Satanic Initiation. Hail Satan.
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