Sinai as Interpretive Key to Genesis
Entering the Cult to Enter the Mind of the Author [or Practitioner]
In order to track a Luciferian serial-killer, Robert Downey, Jr’s film-version of world-famous master sleuth Sherlock Holmes singly enters into a satanic ritual in the first installment of the Sherlock Holmes movie franchise. While it is repugnant, ill-advised, arrogant, and reveals typical ignorance of playing around with things demonic, the fictional character makes an obvious point: one can enter into the mind of a person and figure out his intentions and mental habits by entering into the rituals that he regularly practices.
While an Enlightenment character like Holmes may see himself as above religious ritual—and even see religious practice as pre-scientific—he still sees the value of understanding cult to understand the mindset of a person and a community. In this essay, cult is defined as religious ritual or practices and has no intrinsic negative connotation. Cult is simply what provides context and insight to understand the way a practitioner or protagonist views the world and interactions between God and man or between man and spirits….
[Read the rest of this essay at the Adoremus Bulletin by clicking this link. It explains the importance of Mt. Sinai in Exodus 19 for interpreting Genesis [Eden] rightly and according to substantial Mosaic authorship. The central example will be the pillar of cloud (an angel) in Exodus 14 & 33 which demonstrates the meaning of the cherubim guarding the way into Eden in Genesis 3. As exciting, the essay draws heavily upon our recently deceased and beloved Benedict XVI’s Spirit of the Liturgy.]