Matthew 27:52 The Saints

 

⁵² And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, -Matthew 27:51-53 King James Version (KJV)

Just because someone wishes to be a saint or the members of a church or religion believe a person who has died has become a saint does not mean they really are a saint.

Last Judgment Posthumous, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1762], tr. by John Whitehead [1914], at sacred-texts.com


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[59] THE SAINTS OF THE PAPISTS. The papists [or Roman Catholics,] especially the monks, when they come into the other life, inquire for the saints, each one for those in his order; and the Jesuits do the same: and they likewise find them; but when they speak with them, they do not find more of holiness with them than with others. On being questioned, they say that they have no more power than others; and that they who have not worshipped the Lord, but only the Father, have no power; and that they are among the vile, whom their associates despised. Some of them know that they have been canonized; and when they are proud of it, they are derided by their associates; some do not know it. The most of those who affected sanctity in the world, are in the lower earth [just above the hells] and in the hells, because they did this from the insane love, that they wished to be invoked and worshipped as gods; and that love profanes all the sanctity of heaven. But still the monks, and especially the Jesuits, conceal the lot of those, and lie to the common people, that they are saints on account of a restraint and obedience; although they laugh at them in their hearts.

POPE CLEMENT XII  (1730-1740)

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[60] I heard the Pope who lived in the year 1738, -because he receded from the Babylonish error, and renounced all power over souls and over heaven, and became a Christian, calling upon the Lord alone, (Clement XII, Pope A.D. 1730-1740)  he related to me that he had spoken with almost all who had been made saints, of both sexes; and, except two, he had seen no one in heaven; and that these two abhorred being invoked: and that many of them were not aware of it; and that some spoke foolishly.

Saint Genevieve, seventeenth-century painting, Musée Carnavalet, Paris

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[61] St. Genevieve. [Saint Genevieve c. 419/422 – Paris 502/512 is the patron saint of Paris in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition.] She appears sometimes to the Parisians, in a middle altitude, in a splendid dress, and then as it were with a saintly face, and grants herself to be seen by many. But when some begin to invoke her, then immediately her face changed, and also her garments; and she becomes like another woman, and chides them, and rebukes them severely, for wishing to worship a woman, whose lot is no other than the lot of ordinary women, and who is not more highly esteemed among her associates than others: and she chides them even to shame, that men in the world are taken with such trifles. I will add, that the reason why she appears to them such at the beginning, was to the end that it might be known what kind of delusions these were. I heard the angels say that she sometimes appears so, for the sake of separating the worshippers of men from the worshippers of God. She also teaches them that she knows nothing at all more than others, and nothing whatever about invocation.

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[62] She says also that she is not among the best; and that he who wishes to become greater than others, becomes lower than others; and that it is an injury to the most of them that they have been canonized; because, when they hear of it, they become puffed up in heart from hereditary evil, and are removed away, that they may not know at all who they were in the world.

 

 

                                     St. Agnes of Rome

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[63] Agnes [Saint Agnes of Rome is a virgin–martyr, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism Born: 291 AD, Died:

 

304 AD] dwells in a chamber with virgins for her companions; and as often as she is called forth by any worshipper, she goes out, and asks what they want with a shepherd girl, who in herself is low, and is one with others in their work. And then her companions go out, and chide them even to shame. And as soon as they are ashamed, and desist from such things, she is also guarded, lest pride should enter into her. But she is now conducted away to another place; nor is she found anymore to the right among the upright women; in whose society she is not tolerated, unless she answers that she is filthy.

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[64] The saints adored in the world are of three kinds. Some are averse to the worship; these are guarded by angels. Some orally repudiate it, but still cherish in heart that they wish to be worshipped. Some receive it; but these are profane, miserable, and foolish.

 

                        Saint Anthony of Padua (?) distributing Bread

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[65] Anthony of Padua [Saint Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Born: August 15, 1195, Died: June 13, 1231] appeared to me in front a little below, at the plane of the foot. He appeared in a dark garment; and I spoke to him as to whether he supposed he was a saint. He at first answered that he was not at all a saint: but still it was perceived that he retained the pride, that he wished to be one; on which account I spoke with him more severely. When anyone comes to him, he is led to say, that he can introduce no one into heaven, and that he knows nothing at all about being invoked; that this is a falsity. When they inquire of him what heaven is, whether it is the Lord, and whether it is love from Him and to Him and mutual love, this he does not know: on which account other spirits, from whom he wishes to get away, and cannot, mock at him. An interior craftiness has been observed in him. He endeavors to be worshipped in secret ways; but he fears: for he would be thrust down to lower places, where he suffers hard things. He can by art bind the ideas of the thought of others. He has conjunction with the Jesuits who appear in white.

 

         St. Francis Xavier  

 

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[66] Francis Xavier [Saint Francis Xavier was born in the castle of Xavier in Navarre, Spain (1506 – 1552) He was a Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus Jesuits] dwells deep beneath the back parts. He was a subtle magician, operating through conjugial love and through innocence; thus clandestinely [or conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.]

 

                                     St. Ignatius of Antioch 

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[67] Ignatius [Saint Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35 or 50 - 98 to 117) was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle. En route to Rome according to Christian tradition he met his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts] was in front above. He was a good spirit. He said that he was averse to being canonized, making himself filthy. He detested their making saints. He knew about the Jesuits, and called them atheists, and said that he shunned them.

 

 

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[68] The Virgin Mary, the mother of the Lord, was seen. Mary appeared to one side, in a snow-white garment, only as she passed by: and then she stopped a little, and said, that she had been the mother of the Lord; that He was indeed born of her; but that He became God, and put off all the maternal human; and that she therefore now adores Him as her God; and that she is unwilling that anyone should acknowledge Him as her son, because in Him all is Divine.


               

                Saint Germain

    

I believe one of the true Saints is Saint Germain. He has gained the Ascension in His physical body as Jesus did following His Resurrection from the dead. Beloved Saint Germain illumined and raised His body in 1684. (See 'The Voice  of the I AM' March 1936 p5-9)