Ishtar worship coming out of the closet.

From: "George (USAF-VET)"

Ishtar worship coming out of the closet.

Ishtar Worship Coming Out of Closet

Ishtar Enlightening the World with her torch uplifted

Ishtarism Coming Out of the Closet In American Churches!
By R.A. Coombes

We've been saying for years that it was just a matter of time before
the Babylonian chief goddess Ishtar (a.k.a. Inanna in Babylon, Isis in
Eygypt, Astarte or Aphrodite in Greece and Libertas/Venus in Rome to
name just a few) would once again rise to prominence in world affairs
not merely in a mystical manner but in a bold, in-your-face resurgence
of Ishtar's many "mystical" doctrines. Now we see more instances of her
return in human society as her doctrines take a subtle hold within both
Protestant and Catholic churches in the USA. Such developments further
fuel the cosmic rebellion against the Creator-Ruler of the Universe.

Pagan Mysticism

Remember that Ishtar has already made extensive inroads into Western
Civilization in the form of the goddess Libertas (her early Roman name)
which in English is the Goddess of Liberty or Goddess of Freedom. In
that guise she can be found as the Statue of Liberty guarding the New
York City harbor as well as atop the US Capitol Building in Washington
D.C. where America's lawmakers meet to write new laws. She also can be
found on the grounds or atop the domes of many statehouses around the
USA. She is also found on coinage of America too.

We've also seen Ishtar worship itself come at least somewhat into the
open thanks to the advent of the Internet. Run a search on google.com
or any other search engine and punch in the term Ishtar and the term
goddess (or vice-versa) and see what you come up with. Keep in mind
that there is an actual Ishtar Temple group that had been meeting once
a year at the pagan festival of "The Burning Man" in the Nevada desert
in the southwestern USA during America's Labor Day celebrations. We
understand that for 2003 the group has chosen a more mainstream
location in San Francisco to operate its temple.

http://www.ishtartemple.org/

http://ishtartemple.org/PriestessTraining.htm

Other Priestess training websites:

http://www.maggietapert.com/html_en/ess_beauty_fr.html

We have a hunch that at some point, Ishtarism will begin to openly
operate in big cities. When this occurs it will feature a form of
religious prostitution in which sexual activities will occur with money
changing hands directly to the "temple" itself with the "priestesses"
then being paid a salary perhaps, just like ministers in a Christian
church would be paid a salary? We're guessing here but we think such an
approach would be a logical extension to skirt the current local
prostitution laws around the country. Such a development would have to
skirt local, state and any federal laws regarding prostitution because
of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against religious worship. The
idea of "holy prostitution" activities would be argued by attorneys
that such rituals are a religious rite dating back to the beginning of
recorded history and therefore a valid religion and thus local
ordinances and laws could not apply to such activities because such
activities are indeed religious in nature and thereby protected by the
Constitutional mandate that prohibits the government and the courts
from interfering with religion. But now, that is not all we suspect
will develop with Ishtarism.

Here are more links to information on Ishtar-Inanna goddess worship and
training.

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/ladyinanna2.html

The Church of the Goddess:

http://www.goddess.org/home.html

More . Complaints by Ishtar / Isis priestess in L.A. about Christian
history of persecuting Ishtar worshippers. We mention this only for
the reader to note that

Such worshippers and priests/priestesses DO EXIST today. Incidentally,
the author at that link is a high priestess - the 537th in direct line
of service to Isis, which is the Egyptian name for Ishtar of Babylon.

http://www.goddess.org/sabrina/theology.html

More here:

http://www.goddess.org/religious_sex.html

Here's another site but it is closed to the public.

http://www.daughtersofthenile.com

Yet another Ishtar Worship Group:

http://www.geocities.com/temple_of_ishtar/ishtar_sanctuary.htm

Here's a list of other Ishtar Temple groups worldwide:

http://free.freespeech.org/ascardan/list.htm

Mainline Protestant Denominations & New Age-isms

Not only do we see Ishtar coming to the forefront in the new rise of
paganism in the USA but we also see Ishtar in a more veiled aspect
sweeping through the churches of America and other western nations. It
comes in a more subtle approach. We have noticed the recent usage of
the term "goddess" in such mainline Protestant denominations as the
Methodist Church, Episcopalians and even the Presbyterian Church USA.
We began to see such beginning forays as early as the late 1970s and
more so in the late 1980's and early 1990s and slowly gaining ground
ever since. Here is an example of an Episcopalian woman turning to the
goddess worship of Ishtar. Check out this link to the webpage of
Elizabeth Cunningham writing for the New Seminary about "Sacred
Prostitution."

One artistic rendition of Ishtar, agricultural fertility goddess, among
other things.

Sacred Prostitution: The Whore and the Holy One,

http://www.magdalentrilogy.com/sacred.html
"Once upon a time, so long ago that we only have fragments of Sumerian
and Babylonian tablets, myths and our own dreams to tell us this story,
the assertion "I am the whore and the holy one" would not have been a
paradox at all. In ancient Sumer and Babylon, temple
priestess/prostitutes of the goddess received the god-bearing stranger.
Their sexual union was, for both participants, communion with the
divine."
"Over time the enactment of the king's symbolic marriage with the
goddess probably became mere form and finally obsolete as Babylon and
other societies became more stratified and war-like. Then military
might, instead of mystical union with the goddess, conferred legitimacy
on a ruler. In Babylon there was also a hierarchy of prostitutes from
the high-ranking temple priestesses, the entu and naditu, to the tavern
or street whore called harimtu. It's worth noting that in Babylonian
religious texts, the goddess Ishtar identifies herself with the lower
ranks of the street prostitutes, saying "When I sit in the entrance of
a tavern, I, Ishtar, am a loving harimtu." In another Babylonian text
Ishtar proclaims, "A prostitute compassionate am I."
"There are many theories about what might have caused the near
total-eclipse of goddess worship(at least in the Western world) and I
don't want to address them today. I just want to observe that she
(whoever, whatever she is) seems to be re-emerging."

So there you have it, a devotee of Ishtar if not a priestess of Ishtar
notes that Ishtar worship seems to be "re-emerging."

Below is perhaps one of the earliest pieces of money ever found.
Ishtar's religion invented the concept of money, as a coin-related
economy that centered around Ishtar temple worship. The origin of money
was developed in order to support the worship of Ishtar by providing a
way for assets to be garnered to cover the expenses of maintaining the
temple and its priestesses and priests.

Third-Wave/Latter-Rain Charismatic Movement

We've also run across Ishtar doctrines now developing in such
Charismatic organizations as The Toronto Blessing, the Brownsville
Revival and similar movements in Great Britain. We've seen it
beginning to develop in those groups while using their term
"cross-pollination." The term seems to have blossomed under the
guidance of Carol Arnott (Toronto) and Brenda Kilpatrick (Brownsville).

They have been among those leading the charge for a "New Apostolic
Reformation" within the Charismatic and Liberal Mainline Denominations
as well as within (they're hoping) the Catholic Church to a certain
extent. These two women are "alleged" apostolic sisters cut of the
same doctrinal cloth and have had significant impacts within the "KEYS
TO FREEDOM" and special Women's conferences in the last few years. A
dilemma supposedly developed with these women at the beginning of their
"ministry" involving the need for a transferable anointing or so it was
advised by male counterparts. It was felt that for them to have such a
special ministry in the movement, such obligation required that the two
women needed to take a transferable anointing back to their own
churches and "cross-pollinate." The idea of "cross-pollinating" would
allegedly bring unity to the churches and end denominationalism. In
their way of thinking, denominationalism is evil. The idea itself
carries sexual overtones very similar to instances by Toronto blessing
churches in Great Britain where women have had their genitals
"anointed" with oil by ministers. There have even been allegations of
at least one minister engaging in sexual intercourse with women to give
them an "internal anointing." There have been reports of "holy
orgasms," nudity and other allegations of lewd, sexual misconduct
within what is called "Third Wave" churches where women are urged to
"cross-pollinate" for the sake of revival, renewal and the gospel.
For confirmation on this concept of "cross-pollination" visit the link
given below.

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/crosspollination.html

This link provides an example of the attitude of "cross-pollinators" in
the U.S. and elsewhere.

http://www.intercessor.net/INet/cross1.htm

In these movements we have read of sexual promiscuity being part of a
worship service or even worse, the inclusion of sexual relations as
part of an anointing process or processes along with the "laying on of
hands" in order to gain special spiritual blessings or spiritual
"power" or healing or forgiveness of sins.

C. Peter Wagner, a leader in the Third Wave Movement has reportedly
promoted occultic, shamanistic native dances including of all things,
"belly dancing."

This last element, the forgiveness of sins is the most key element of
all, and yet until now the most hidden part of the Ishtar agenda was
her salvation doctrines which involve the notion of sexual relations
with a temple priestess in which the goddess possesses the body of the
priestess (or priest) and the worshipper then engages in sexual
relations with the priestess in order to "become one with the goddess."
That "becoming one" supposedly enables the worshipper to have their
sins "washed away" ("purified") because they become "one" with the
goddess and her divine nature can not only wash away the sins but also
"enlighten" the worshipper to new insights of life.

This Ishtar doctrine of salvation, we believe will eventually be pushed
to the forefront. We suspect Ishtarism will be adopted like a wildfire
(in a drought-stricken prairie and forest) and will spread rapidly
throughout the USA especially in supposedly "Christian churches."
Combine this with a future government "admission" that there are UFOs
and aliens and that the aliens gave us our religions to help civilize
our species. In other words, Jesus, the Christ is no different than
Ishtar of Babylon or Baal or Allah, or Krishna or Buddha and any other
pagan deity you care to think of. Such a revelation by the government
with key government scientists providing detailed data-points will (I
hypothesize) tend to destabilize much of the population's views
regarding established religious beliefs.

By virtue of Ishtar's various doctrines including that of
"Liberty/Freedom" and by reality of her other "sensual" doctrinal
appeals and the seeming irrelevance of Judeo-Christian values, I think
we can see the distinct possibility that a complete collapse of
traditional Judeo-Christian values would soon ensue? We think so.
Among many mainline liberal, Protestant denominations the trend is
already moving towards the concepts of Ishtarism. It wouldn't take
much to push those denominations over the edge and into outright
apostasy.

There is a group that has formed recently that is setting up an
ultra-liberal Christian church group in which non-monagamous
Christianity will be practiced. Now you may wonder what is meant by
"non-monagamous Christianity." It is essentially the notion that
married couples or singles can and should engage in sexual activities
without regard to the concept of marriage. Some would refer to this
notion as "swinging" while most would regard it as just plain old
adultery and fornication. I believe this group will be growing in
numbers sooner rather than later and will be ripe for conversion to
Ishtaristic - Christianity in which someday there will be sexual acts
performed in a church at an altar in front of the Preacher's podium.
Don't be surprised if it isn't performed much like the ritual of
communion or a baptism. All in all, I suspect these developments will
make the Church of Corinth look like extremely mature believers.
Remember they also had their share of sexual problems within their
membership, including cases of incest and homosexuality just to name a
couple of issues there.

Now this new group that I mentioned is called "Liberated for Christ"
(also known as "libchrist.com") and their website is so potentially
offensive, outlandish and outrageous that for this rare instance I
cannot in good conscience give out the URL for this group to prove my
points. You'll either have to accept my word for it, or use a search
engine to figure it out. Not only is their website rather offensive
but it links to another related site that promotes Church nudity and
especially church nudity of women parishioners. A link to that sight
would be a link to a pornographic website and we just can't in good
conscience post such a site's URL. We can only state that we were
shocked at such developments and yet we shouldn't have been. We've been
expecting it, but I figured we'd first hear about it in the media and
not stumble onto it ourselves by a forum link posting. If some reader
just absolutely has to have a link to this site they can email us at
lettertoeditor at aoreport.com and ask for the link and we'll give it
out privately but only if the reader specifically asks for it.

Roman Catholic Ishtarism

To many Evangelical, Fundamental Protestant believers, the Roman
Catholic Church has always practiced Ishtarism in its full-blown form
in a blatant and public manner. To that conclusion we would
respectfully disagree. No, we don't condone RCC doctrines that are in
error. Instead, we merely disagree that much of the paganistic
similarities within the RCC are exactly that, similarities for the most
part although there may be some remote linkage to late Roman Empire
paganism, nonetheless, we reject the claims made by Alexander Hislop
who falsely identified much of the RCC symbolism with Babylonian
paganism, especially Ishtarism. In fact, he referred to Ishtar as
"Semiramis" for which we now know was total error. There never was
such a divine goddess known as "Semiramis." It is not the purpose of
this article to investigate the false claims of Hislop so we shall drop
the subject, but we categorically maintain that Ishtar worship and
doctrines are nothing like those of the RCC once you fully investigate
the issue of Ishtar and her mystery doctrines.

We have read of the "Beautiful Creature" provisions for the priesthood
within the RCC having tacit Papal approval for illicit sexual relations
with "mystery wives" of the priests, some of whom may have been nuns.
This supposedly began in the middle of the 19th Century. In some
respects this revelation does bear some resemblance to Ishtar worship
but it is not universal and it is not public like that of Ishtar
worship. Indeed, the RCC does not have a woman-figure carrying the
title of "MOTHER OF HARLOTS" as does Ishtar herself proudly carry
that title. So in this regard, the RCC issue of "Beautiful Creature"
priesthood program just is not the same thing as Ishtar worship.

However, we do note a recent article indicating that true Ishtar-like
ideas and doctrines are beginning to find a home within some of the RCC
laity.

Here's some choice quotes from the following linked page:

http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=19782

In a recent article titled, "Shouldn't We Sing to Her?" Sister Mary
Irving, SSND, quoted Collins to support her plea that God be addressed
as female in order to honor "woman's dignity as the full image of God."
. "In other words, the way Catholics have worshiped for two millennia
is idolatry - to be corrected by transforming God into a goddess?"
"Another prominent feminist academic is Sister Sandra Schneiders, IHM,
Professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at the
Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California. Typically, her 1997
address to the LCWR exemplified post-Christian thought."

Conclusion:

We have presented evidence here that Ishtar worship is bubbling beneath
the surface not only in American society but also around the world. We
suspect that within the next ten years or sooner, we should see
Ishtarism flower out into public view and within the next 20 years, who
knows, it could become the dominant religion even in America. We would
expect that once the rapture occurs, or Christianity becomes outlawed
by the NOW, Ishtarism will quickly gain ground as a new religion of
choice.

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