The Freemason / Luciferian Connection to Darby's Dispensationalism

This article is a composite three articles, one from https://libertytothecaptives.net/darby_writings_occult.html which is hard to read from a phone, one from https://theologyonline.com/threads/the-freemason-and-dispensationalist-connection.40545/, and one from https://www.cuttingedge.org/.

John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), the “Father of Dispensationalism,” used occult language throughout his doctrinal writings and letters. The majority of the phrases are found in Kabbalistic/Theosophical literature. J.N. Darby learned these esoteric terms somewhere—not from the Bible—and he deliberately integrated them into his theological treatises and letters. His practice of merging Theosophical vocabulary with supposedly biblical teaching is a form of syncretism.

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths. – Wikipedia

The Absolute

John Nelson Darby

The Absolute is a Theosophical term for God.

The following is Helena Blavatsky’s description of the Absolute in The Secret Doctrine:

The Absolute: “An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable PRINCIPLE on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. It is beyond the range and reach of thought — in the words of Mandukya, ‘unthinkable and unspeakable.’” (Secret Doctrine I pg. 14)

Darby and the Absolute

John Darby used the word, Absolute (with capitals to indicate a title) in reference to God:

“The essential being of Godhead cannot change, as is evident – the Absolute, as men speak – and whatever His humiliation, all the fulness of the Godhead (theotetos) dwelt in Him bodily.”

Architect

Theosophy and Architect:

“The occultist, however, works there; he becomes a conscious directing agent; he creates upon the physical plane that which he desires, and that which he desires is the pattern of [244] things and the design laid down upon the trestle board of the spiritual consciousness by the great divine Architect.”

Darby and Architect

John Darby used the Masonic/Theosophical word, Architect (with capitals to indicate a title) in reference to God:

But we need a “Faithful Witness.” We see God in nature that is true, but all this knowledge does not lead man to God. Man has spoilt all. The traces of God, of the Architect, are there; but it is a ruin. All is defiled from His mind; all is in degradation.

Heavenly Architect

Theosophy and the heavenly architect

“And then he desired him to bring his army, which, from respect, had been encamped at a distance, and he called on the heavenly architect, Vishvakarma, to come and build him lodgings for Bharata and his followers, and to various Deities to aid him in showing due hospitality.”

Darby and the heavenly Architect

“It is life; that is, Christ, as having, as Son, life in and from the life of the living God, life divine, life in Himself (proved in resurrection), which is the foundation and security of the assembly built by the heavenly Architect, against which he who has the power of death, Satan, cannot prevail.” (“Heavenly Architect” is also a Masonic term.)

Vital Force

The occult and vital force

“Vital Force, the force – the energy of life, that makes the difference between a dead and a living body.”

“A person is “really dead” when his vital force is totally diminished.”

Darby and vital force

“All suffering was over for Him at His death; and in His resurrection all is new for us! all our sins are forgiven, and we are with Him in God’s presence, and when He comes we shall be like Him in glory. But though He died it was not because His vital force was exhausted. He cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost.”

[Note: John Darby used the term, “vital force” the same way that occult practitioners do.]

Divine Mind

Theosophy and the Divine mind

H. P. BLAVATSKY defined Occultism as “the study of the Divine Mind in Nature”.

Darby and divine mind

In spiritual subjects, it is the object of much distinct converse in them to be able to present them primarily and vividly, so as to lead the way to fuller investigation of the divine mind.

Divine Being

Theosophy and the Divine Being

Theosophist Alice Bailey stated that the Seven Rays that reach us on Earth locally originate within the “Solar Logos,” i.e., the consciousness of the “Divine Being” of the Sun.

Darby and divine Being

“Christians are brought into connection with the divine Being Himself, and in acts which ought to have the most powerful effect on the heart and conscience; if they do not, both the one and the other are in a bad state and hardened.”

Divine Essence

Theosophy and divine essence

The fundamental teaching of the ancient wisdom is the spiritual unity of all things. Blavatsky writes: “. . . ‘not only humanity — composed as it is of thousands of races — but everything that lives is made of the same essence and substance, is animated by the same spirit, and consequently, everything in nature is bound in solidarity.’ Rejecting the idea of a God existing outside nature, theosophy speaks of an all-pervading divine essence, an infinite ocean of consciousness, from which all things are born and to which they ultimately return.”

Darby and divine essence

“No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” He knew, and saw, as One familiar and at ease with the Father and the Holy Ghost, with the glory of the Godhead. He was Himself in the unity of the divine essence.”

Divine Energy

Theosophy and Divine Energy

“All human history and all human temperaments, all ways to serve and all ways to joy, are seen as manifestations of one or another of the seven “rays” which channel divine energy into the life of the world.”

Darby and Divine Energy

“There is a power which takes us, as it were, out of ourselves, where God is in divine energy, but there is a calculation of love which is divine too.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/letters/51176E.html

Unintelligent Energy

Theosophy and Unintelligent Energy

“It is evidently first apparent as a blind force seeking the light of self-perception and from this it arises that we are often puzzled by the appearance of an apparent unintelligent energy, known to us as the law of necessity usurping the control of the Universe.” (Theosophical review, Volume 6 Googlebooks.com)

Darby and Unintelligent Energy

“When the carnal and unintelligent energy of Peter employs force to defend Him, who, if He would, had only needed to have gone away when a word from His lips had cast down to the ground all those who came to take Him, and the word that revealed to them the object of their search deprived them of all power to seize it.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/synopsis/john/john18.html

Energy of Faith

Theosophy and energy of faith

“The weak point and vicious aspect of the arrangement is that people, not understanding the real meaning of these rituals, have come to perform them quite mechanically, and the energy of faith has evaporated leaving behind the scum of blind-belief. So to-day the religious actions and exercises are in greatest measure a farce, nay more, a blasphemy.”

Darby and the energy of faith

If God has shewn that He took notice of His servant’s fault, and did not pass it lightly over, He did not fail towards him in either tenderness or faithfulness. He acted towards him as towards a beloved and faithful servant, even at the moment in which He made him sensible of his failure in the energy of faith; for He did not make others aware of it, although He has communicated it to us for our instruction. http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/synopsis/2kings/2kings1.html

Secret Wisdom of God

Kabbalah and the secret wisdom of God

“According to tradition, the Kabbalah is the secret wisdom of God, first given to Adam and Moses and passed on orally from teacher to student down through the ages to the present.”

Darby and the secret wisdom of God

“The church continues, if you take the secret wisdom of God; if you take the revealed statement of God, there is no intimation of remaining here. You will never find the church contemplated as remaining, so as to put off the coming of the Lord.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/EXPOSIT/26020-6E.html

Divine Principle

Theosophy and the divine principle

“We believe in a universal divine principle, the root of all, from which all proceeds, and within which all shall be absorbed at the end of the great cycle of being” (ibid., p. 63).

Darby and the divine principle

“In the case which has led to these remarks, it is striking to see how this principle elevates the slave in his condition: he obeys by an inward divine principle, as though it were Christ Himself whom he obeyed.” (Quote source: John Nelson Darby’s Synopsis of the Bible Ephesians Chapter 6: http://stempublishing.com/authors/darby/synopsis/ephesians/ephesians6.html)

Divine Doctrine

Theosophy and the divine doctrine

“To continue the tradition, we have to add that the class of hierophants was divided into two distinct categories:*** those who were instructed by the ‘Sons of God,’ of the island, and who were initiated in the divine doctrine of pure revelation; and others who inhabited the lost Atlantis — if such must be its name — and who, being of another race, (born sexually but of divine parents), were born with a sight, which embraced all living things, and was independent of both distance and material obstacle.” (Term used by Helena Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine–Vol.2)

Darby and the divine doctrine

“It is beautiful to see the way in which divine doctrine enters into the details of life, and throws the fragrance of its perfection into every duty and every relationship; how it acknowledges existing things, as far as they can be owned and directed by its principles, but exalts and enhances the value of everything according to the perfection of those principles; by touching not the relationships but the man’s heart who walks in them; taking the moral side, and that of submission, in love and in the exercise of authority which the divine doctrine can regulate, bringing in the grace which governs the use of the authority of God.” J. N. Darby (http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/synopsis/ephesians/ephesians6.html)

Vital Principle

Theosophy and vital principle

H. P. Blavatsky wrote in 1888:

The “wave motion of living particles” becomes comprehensible on the theory of a Spiritual ONE LIFE, of a universal Vital principle independent of our matter, and manifesting as atomic energy only on our plane of consciousness. (The Secret Doctrine II, 672.)

Darby and vital principle

“The aggressive action which is the vital principle of all dissenting energy, be it for good or for evil, its professed disconnection with the State, debars it from this place.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/DOCTRINE/15016E.html

Vital Energy

Theosophy and vital energy

“Most people who have taken the Seven Ray Intensive report life-changing adjustments to their path and an increase of vital energy and spiritual connectedness.”

Darby and vital energy

“Moreover, here is the emphasis, the point of association as the communion of all vital energy, the standard and communication of fulness, and thus all fulness is there. But as the branch bears nothing out of the vine, but withers itself, so we bear no fruit but as abiding in Christ, and this practically proportionately, for all the fulness is in Him.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/NOTESCOM/47015E.html

Energy of Love

Theosophy and energy of love

“Bailey wrote of “the return of the Christ”, but her concept had little in common with that of mainstream Christian churches. Bailey almost always used the phrase “the Christ” when not referring specifically to the Christian idea. For her, the leadership of the Hierarchy is an “office” (so to speak), to be occupied by various Masters, including the Master Jesus, in the course of Their unfolding evolution. She saw the Christ as a great “Person”, embodying the energy of love, and His return as the awakening of that energy in human consciousness.”

Darby and energy of love

“For here it seems to be, in the largest sense, the love of God. Of course, it means God’s loving us; but it includes also the blessed fact that no matter what the state of evil may be, as long as the Lord leaves His Church here, there is room for this energy of love to others.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/New7_96/Jude_20-25.html

Lord of Love

Theosophy and Lord of Love

“He is known to be the great Lord of Love and Compassion, the Master of the Masters, the Instructor of the Angels and the “One for Whom all the nations wait.” And, this Great Being is also known under such additional titles as the True Aquarian, the Pilgrim, the Healer and the Thinker.” Bailey, Alice A. The Reappearance of the Christ, Page 190.

Darby and Lord of Love

“But the patience of the Lord of love is never wearied by the obstinate perverseness of His people.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/EVANGEL/12001E.html

Divine Intelligence

Theosophy and divine intelligence

Alice Bailey:

“On theological interpretations there are wide differences; on a widespread recognition of a universal divine Intelligence or of God (by whatever name the all-embracing Life may be called) there is a general similarity of reaction.”

Darby and divine intelligence

“The three parables which follow (v. 44-50) shew the intention of Christ, and divine intelligence, in these things. The field is purchased to obtain the treasure. Christ has bought (not redeemed) the world to possess His own. His power over those who refuse His rights will be manifested in judgment, but this is not the subject of the parable.” http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/MISCELLA/33012F.html

The Coming One

Theosophy and the Coming One

“Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men’s minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.” Discipleship in the New Age.Vol.11, p.226

Darby and the Coming One

The axe is at the root of the trees, the fan is in the hand of the coming One, the wheat is gathered into God’s garner, the chaff burnt up. That is, there is a close of the history of God’s people in judgment. http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/darby/synopsis/matthew/matthew3.html

My opinion

One may argue that the occultic, Masonic, Kabbalistic, Theosophical terms that Darby used in his writings was the popular language of his day, but the fact is not one of these terms are found in the Bible! To me this proves Darby was not a Bible teacher, he was a promoter of Luciferian doctrines which he claimed to be based on the Bible. A preacher is supposed to teach the Word of God from the Bible!
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word (the Bible), it is because there is no light in them.

Just think what an evil influence Darby continues to be on millions of evangelicals today who promote the unbiblical doctrine of support for physical Israel in spite of the fact Almighty God destroyed the Christ rejecting nation of Israel and the Temple through the Romans in 70 AD! How could the Protestant churches tolerate that? The only reason I can think of is the hidden hand of the Jesuit order and its Counter-Reformtion behind it all. I heard it only takes one infiltrator to subvert a church or even an entire Protestant denomination.

The following are quotes from an article entitled, “The Freemason and Dispensationalist Connection.”

In the history of the Southern Baptist Convention – or denomination – during the late 19th century and through the 20th century, many of its male members were both Freemasons and dispensationalists. However, the denomination did not become totally dispensationalist until the sixties when the preacher of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, W.A. Criswell, led the Convention to become totally dispensationalist. Criswell soon led the Southern Baptist denomination to get rid of its old doctrine of the priesthood of the believer because under dispensationalism, the preacher must rule the members.

The Southern Baptists are not the only Evangelicals to follow dispensationalism and to have many male members who are Freemasons. Some of the wives are members of the Masonic women’s organization, the Eastern Star.

Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell and Robert Schuller were all high ranking Freemasons as are their present day successors like T.D. Jakes. (And they were all Dispensationalists as well who promoted the false pre-tribulation rapture doctrine and unbiblical claims about the modern state of Israel.)

Stephen Sizer wrote a history of dispensationalism which he called Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon,2009, Inter-Varsity Press.

Sizer has other writings on the topic of Christian Zionism, such as .”Christian Zionism: The New Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace”. Middle East Monitor. Retrieved 1 August 2013..

“At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This view is known as Christian Zionism. The Pew Research Center put the figure at 63 per cent among white evangelicals. Christian Zionism is pervasive within mainline American evangelical, charismatic and independent denominations including the Assemblies of God, Pentecostals and Southern Baptists, as well as many of the independent mega-churches. It is less prevalent within the historic denominations, which show a greater respect for the work of the United Nations, support for human rights, the rule of international law and empathy with the Palestinians.”

“The origins of the movement can be traced to the early 19th century when a group of eccentric British Christian leaders began to lobby for Jewish restoration to Palestine as a necessary precondition for the return of Christ. The movement gained traction from the middle of the 19th century when Palestine became strategic to British, French and German colonial interests in the Middle East. Proto-Christian Zionism therefore preceded Jewish Zionism by more than 50 years. Some of Theodore Herzl’s strongest advocates were Christian clergy.

Christian Zionism as a modern theological and political movement embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism.”

“Burgeoning Christian Zionist organizations such as the International Christian Embassy (ICEJ), Christian Friends of Israel (CFI) and Christians United for Israel (CUFI) wield considerable influence on Capitol Hill, claiming a support base in excess of 50 million true believers. This means there are now at least ten times as many Christian Zionists as Jewish Zionists.”

See: http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2011/05/understanding-christian-zionism-and-its.html
“Freemason John Nelson Darby is regarded as the Father of Dispensationalism and its prodigy, Christian Zionism. It was Freemason Cyrus. I. Scofield and D. L. Moody, who brought Darby’s sectarian theology into mainstream evangelical circles. R. C. Sproul stated that dispensationalism is now ‘…a theological system that, in all probability, is the majority report among current American evangelicals.”

The article with the link shown above refers to this source for the claim that John Nelson Darby was not only a Freemason but also was an agent of the Rothschild-owned British East India Company, is this: John Coleman, How Conspirators Misuse Christian Fundamentalists (white paper) (Carson City, Nev.: World in Review, 2003)

John Darby said that the “Church has sought to settle itself here, but it has no place on the earth… [Though] making a most constructive parenthesis, it forms no part of the regular order of God’s earthly plans, but is merely an interruption of them to give a fuller character and meaning to them…” – John. N. Darby, ‘The Character of Office in The Present Dispensation’ Collected Writings., Eccl. I, Vol. I, p. 94.

“Them” are all physical Israel, or Old Covenant Israel. The church, for Darby exists mainly to “give fuller character and meaning to all physical Israel.”

John Darby and then C.I. Scofield and Lewis S. Chafer said that when the dispensation of grace is over then God will return to a dispensation of law and again raise up and work with the people of the physical bloodline.- of the Old Covenant.

John Darby says, that in dispensationalism the Church is a mere “Parenthesis” and Israel – Old Covenant Israel of the bloodline – is to reign in the future, but II Corinthians 3: 7-11, and Hebrews 10: 9 say the Old Covenant was done away with – and in the Old Testament Haggai 2: 9 says “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former. saith the Lord of hosts…”

“JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1903, Vol. 5, page 503: “The technical language, symbolism, and rites of Masonry are full of Jewish ideas and terms.”

In Morals and Dogma,Albert Pike admits that the source of Freemasonry’s doctrines ultimately goes back to the Kabbalah, a Jewish book of occult knowledge:

“All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah: all Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols.” (Morals and Dogma, p 744)

Next from FERVENT MASONIC DESIRE TO REBUILD SOLOMON’S TEMPLE IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE EVENTS OF THE MID-EAST TODAY.

“Therefore, the first understanding we want you to grasp is that Freemasonry is absolutely, completely, 100% devoted to the Solomon Temple, without which the entire structure and foundation of Freemasonry would die! Thus does Masonry stand in stark contrast to genuine, Biblical Christianity. In other words, Freemasonry is rooted at its deepest foundation to the First Covenant of the Old Testament, while Biblical Christianity is rooted to the Second Covenant of Jesus Christ as delineated in the New Testament.”

“Mackey makes this fact quite clear also: “Masonry has derived its temple symbolism, as it has almost all its symbolic ideas, from the Hebrew type …” [Ibid] Since the Old Testament was written originally in the Hebrew, and the New Testament in the Greek, Mackey is clearly stating that Freemasonry is rooted in the Old Testament!”

Yet the admission of top Masons that Freemasonry is under the influence of the Kaballah shows that Masonry is rooted in the Kaballah and in the Talmud.

The emphasis in Freemasonry on the rebuilding of Solomon’s temple can be seen as a metaphor for building a world wide Masonic kingdom, both political and religious. Rebuilding the temple of Solomon might also be seen to be metaphoric for the rebuilding of the Mason himself along the lines of the Kaballah. But Freemasonry is run from the top, and most Masons in the local lodges do not know much about that top elite of Freemasonry.

The Masonic absorption in rebuilding Solomon’s Temple as a metaphor for creating a Masonic kingdom, or New World Order, has some roots in the Kaballah.

A Kabbalist of the 1500s, Isaac Luria, writes about the olam ha-tohu, or realm of confusion, and the olam ha-tikkun, the realm of restoration, which is the Kaballistic version of the millennial kingdom, the world empire to come ruled by the Kaballists.