Occult origins of the rapture:
Margaret Macdonald, a young Scottish visionary, experienced a vision of a pre-tribulation rapture after falling ill in 1830. She was involved in occult practices such as charismatic speaking in tongues, automatic writing and levitation, to which Robert Norton wrote of her and a friend, “I have seen both her and Miss Margaret Macdonald stand like statues scarcely touching the ground, evidently supernaturally.”
In 1861, a lawyer named Robert Baxter published Macdonald’s vision, proving her as the source of John Darby’s new secret rapture doctrine.
Despite the word “rapture” not appearing anywhere in the Bible or in the entirety of Church history prior to 1830, Darby's rapture delusion cemented itself into evangelical consciousness as the great American myth.
More on Millenarian Puritan cults, Freemasonry and the history of Christian Zionism: https://thereversion.co/p/kabbalah-and-christian-zionism
Margaret Macdonald, a young Scottish visionary, experienced a vision of a pre-tribulation rapture after falling ill in 1830. She was involved in occult practices such as charismatic speaking in tongues, automatic writing and levitation, to which Robert Norton wrote of her and a friend, “I have seen both her and Miss Margaret Macdonald stand like statues scarcely touching the ground, evidently supernaturally.”
In 1861, a lawyer named Robert Baxter published Macdonald’s vision, proving her as the source of John Darby’s new secret rapture doctrine.
Despite the word “rapture” not appearing anywhere in the Bible or in the entirety of Church history prior to 1830, Darby's rapture delusion cemented itself into evangelical consciousness as the great American myth.
More on Millenarian Puritan cults, Freemasonry and the history of Christian Zionism: https://thereversion.co/p/kabbalah-and-christian-zionism
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From one of my readers based on the painting of John Dee used in my article:
When they X-rayed this painting that you used in your article, they found it originally had a circle of human skulls around Dee. It's unknown when they were painted over.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/17/john-dee-painting-circle-of-human-skulls-exhibition
When they X-rayed this painting that you used in your article, they found it originally had a circle of human skulls around Dee. It's unknown when they were painted over.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/17/john-dee-painting-circle-of-human-skulls-exhibition
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