Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
The Movie “Constantine”’s Vision
It was much easier to relate to this Movie than it was to submit to the silly metaphysics of the Matrix. Toss away Zen-like Allegory and settle into, well, if not the Truth, at least the scenery and elements of the Truth: Angels, Demons, Heroes and Saints. We have the resurrection of the Spear of Longinus, and incident which is odd enough, since we know that the Spear of Longinus actually sits today in the Vatican, but the Movie Version of the Spear has great powers for both good and evil.
What interested me the most was the Agenda of the Archangel Gabriel which at one point so exasperated Keanu “The Matrix” Reeves that he hissed and sputtered “Gabriel, you’re insane!” I don’t wish to give away the Movie, but if one digs deeply enough into Catholic Memorabilia, one becomes acquainted soon enough with the workings of the Avenging Angels. Simplistically, one would suppose that Demons would be sent to afflict and punish Humanity for its Sins, but the Truth is rather that such duty goes to the Legions of the Loyal Angels. Anne Catherine Emmerich, Catholicism’s foremost Seer and Visionary (from which Mel Gibson got his screenplay) mentions them. Other Saints have mentioned them. The Avenging Angels quite believe in the beneficial aspects of what they do. Their reasoning is that People often only turn to God as a last resort when they are in the deepest throes of the most abysmal sufferings. So, by imposing upon Humanity just such abysmal suffering, they are instrumental in turning People toward God. It was just such reasoning that Keanu’s Constantine thought so ‘insane’. Hmmmmm… the way people toss around that word…
I wonder, though, why the screenwriters singled out Gabriel. It has always been rather traditional to suppose Michael at the head of the Avenging Angels, but I suppose the ambiguous nature of what we know about Gabriel’s present offices and duties better lend themselves to the intricacies of the screen play. But I do commend the screenwriters for their vision of supposing that even God’s Closest Angels are well stocked in Free Will and that God is not All Powerful only to be the most annoying of Micro-Managers. It brings to mind a story that Anne Catherine Emmerich had told of Michael. It seems that at the Death of Christ Michael was so enraged that he would have immediately commenced the Destruction of Jerusalem, and started at The Temple where he tore the Veil to the Holy of Holies and moved onto inducing an earthquake that began to bring down the walls. The Spirit of Jesus arrived and He was able to prevail upon their friendship to persuade Michael to contain his anger for just a time… and so Michael did. He desisted for 40 years – a generation – and then destroyed Jerusalem, incidentally destroying most of the True Messianic Church in the wake of that terrible destruction. The Church of Paul, which had up to that time been a despised and a comparatively small heresy – a blasphemy aimed at opportunistic gentiles – was able to take advantage of the devastations of the True Messianic Church to jump into the Power Vacuum, fomenting Civil War between ‘Christians’ and Messianic Jews, to make itself the broker of Acceptable Doctrines. It was here that the Doctrines of Paul would ‘contradict’ and usurp the place of Christ. I suppose the Silver Lining around that Dark Cloud would be that the Doctrines of Sin espoused by Paul would bring just those kinds of abysmal sufferings to Humanity which would make them finally turn toward God in their final desperations. Just look at the Sufferings Modern Day Protestantism imposes upon those they Militarily Inflict or Economically Exploit, and we can see how much ‘Good’ is occasioned by Protestants by how many tears and anguished cries arise to Heaven praying for Justice and Vengeance against them. We can only hope that someday somewhat similar sufferings will finally shake Protestants loose enough from Paul’s delusional Doctrine of an Easy Salvation by Divine Murder, and seeing God’s Anger and Outrage, they may finally turn to true Penance and serious Moral reclamation.
It was much easier to relate to this Movie than it was to submit to the silly metaphysics of the Matrix. Toss away Zen-like Allegory and settle into, well, if not the Truth, at least the scenery and elements of the Truth: Angels, Demons, Heroes and Saints. We have the resurrection of the Spear of Longinus, and incident which is odd enough, since we know that the Spear of Longinus actually sits today in the Vatican, but the Movie Version of the Spear has great powers for both good and evil.
What interested me the most was the Agenda of the Archangel Gabriel which at one point so exasperated Keanu “The Matrix” Reeves that he hissed and sputtered “Gabriel, you’re insane!” I don’t wish to give away the Movie, but if one digs deeply enough into Catholic Memorabilia, one becomes acquainted soon enough with the workings of the Avenging Angels. Simplistically, one would suppose that Demons would be sent to afflict and punish Humanity for its Sins, but the Truth is rather that such duty goes to the Legions of the Loyal Angels. Anne Catherine Emmerich, Catholicism’s foremost Seer and Visionary (from which Mel Gibson got his screenplay) mentions them. Other Saints have mentioned them. The Avenging Angels quite believe in the beneficial aspects of what they do. Their reasoning is that People often only turn to God as a last resort when they are in the deepest throes of the most abysmal sufferings. So, by imposing upon Humanity just such abysmal suffering, they are instrumental in turning People toward God. It was just such reasoning that Keanu’s Constantine thought so ‘insane’. Hmmmmm… the way people toss around that word…
I wonder, though, why the screenwriters singled out Gabriel. It has always been rather traditional to suppose Michael at the head of the Avenging Angels, but I suppose the ambiguous nature of what we know about Gabriel’s present offices and duties better lend themselves to the intricacies of the screen play. But I do commend the screenwriters for their vision of supposing that even God’s Closest Angels are well stocked in Free Will and that God is not All Powerful only to be the most annoying of Micro-Managers. It brings to mind a story that Anne Catherine Emmerich had told of Michael. It seems that at the Death of Christ Michael was so enraged that he would have immediately commenced the Destruction of Jerusalem, and started at The Temple where he tore the Veil to the Holy of Holies and moved onto inducing an earthquake that began to bring down the walls. The Spirit of Jesus arrived and He was able to prevail upon their friendship to persuade Michael to contain his anger for just a time… and so Michael did. He desisted for 40 years – a generation – and then destroyed Jerusalem, incidentally destroying most of the True Messianic Church in the wake of that terrible destruction. The Church of Paul, which had up to that time been a despised and a comparatively small heresy – a blasphemy aimed at opportunistic gentiles – was able to take advantage of the devastations of the True Messianic Church to jump into the Power Vacuum, fomenting Civil War between ‘Christians’ and Messianic Jews, to make itself the broker of Acceptable Doctrines. It was here that the Doctrines of Paul would ‘contradict’ and usurp the place of Christ. I suppose the Silver Lining around that Dark Cloud would be that the Doctrines of Sin espoused by Paul would bring just those kinds of abysmal sufferings to Humanity which would make them finally turn toward God in their final desperations. Just look at the Sufferings Modern Day Protestantism imposes upon those they Militarily Inflict or Economically Exploit, and we can see how much ‘Good’ is occasioned by Protestants by how many tears and anguished cries arise to Heaven praying for Justice and Vengeance against them. We can only hope that someday somewhat similar sufferings will finally shake Protestants loose enough from Paul’s delusional Doctrine of an Easy Salvation by Divine Murder, and seeing God’s Anger and Outrage, they may finally turn to true Penance and serious Moral reclamation.
