KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Eliphas Levi's Dogma and Ritual of High Magic distinguishes between the original "Our Father" and the shortened version used by esoterics and new versions.

[There is an]. . .occult version of the Paternoster [Latin for 'Our Father']. . .There were originally two ways of doing it.. .one reserved for the . . .initiate.. .the other for the profane.2

The heading "The Real Paternoster" blazes across the pages of one of H.P. Blavatsky's books, as does "Holy Satan." She confesses that the Father of the New Age is, as she puts it:

"Holy Father of Evil, Sainted Satan."3

With jaded joy, she boasts that this 'Father's' version has stepped into the new bible versions—cradled by her second century mentor Marcion, then carried to the twentieth century by bible critic B.F. Westcott.

Finally we may add that modem bible criticism, which unfortunately became active and serious toward the end of the last century, now generally admits that Marcion's text of the only gospel he knew anything about—that of Luke, is far superior and far more correct than that of our present Synoptics. We find in Supernatural Religion the following startling sentence: We are, therefore, indebted to Marcion for the correct version even of the 'Lord's Prayer'.4

New Age Bible Interpretation outlines how Marcion's

followers used the shortened Lord's Prayer.

[E]arly Christians used this prayer in the following manner to attract the beneficent down-pouring of the great celestial Hierarchies.5 Marcion, or the "beast," as he was called by second century Christians, describes 'the Father' of these "great celestial hierarchies" in his Philosophumena, The Revelation ofMarcion. (emphasis mine)