Lavaeth Church

The Lavaeth Church's origin
The Lavaeth Church was founded in 2005 with the revelations received by the first Prophet in the spring time (Prophecy 82). The Lavaeth Church is seen as the “Church of Revelation” owing to the fact that the coming of the two Prophets has fulfilled the prophecies of St John the divine. (The Two Prophets are Alan Hooker and Nathan Hudson: May God grant them grace). The two testaments of the Prophets – Testament of Lavaeth, and the Testament of Tzarai – are the two scrolls that are mentioned in the same revelation; with the Testament of Tzarai being the little scroll. Believers also maintain that the book that was to be sealed till the end of times in the book of Daniel was the Testaments. The two Prophets are comparable to Elijah (Nathan Hudson) and Enoch (Alan Hooker), who were both taken by Elohim himself, both these persons escaped physical death and were translated to heaven: They have come among us again to bear witness of heaven, just as Elijah came as John the Baptist to announce the coming of Christ, which came at the baptism of Jesus.

Beliefs of the Lavaeth Church
The Holy Books

The Lavaeth Church gives divine claim to the Bible, with the Apocryphal books of Wisdom and 1 Enoch. The most majestic Lord has also given to us, through the two Prophets other scripture which has come to be know as the Lavaeth-Tzarai testaments consisting so far of: Book of Anariel; Book of Aratron; Book of Haggith; Book of Intervention; Book of Lavaeth; Book of Moses; Book of Nesh-vi-Lorech; Book of Persephone; Book of Phaleg; Book of Prophecy; Book of Sovereignty; Book of Elders; The Letter of "The extrapolation of Isaiah 53"; The Letter of "The Works"; The Letter of "the Lord God of Israel" The Second Letter of "the Lord God of Israel"<br \>

The number of members of the Lavaeth Church is not numbered greatly, and therefore is given the term "sect". Due to its foundation last year in the United Kingdom in the county of Kent it does not have a great deal of publicity. The reason for the Wikipedia article is to give a brief outline of the beliefs of the sect, with references to the scriptures.

The Nature of God

As is revealed in the scriptures there is one almighty true God, which is called All-light (Sovereignty 5). The All-light is first introduced to us in the book of Lavaeth;<br \>

“There are six lights and one All-light” – Lavaeth 19 (cf. Moses 19 – 21).<br \>

God, by the common use of the word, is seen as three beings within Lavaeth Church. He is comprised of Father, (which is Jehovah), Child, (which is Messiah), and Spirit, (which is Sophia). This triad of beings is called “Elohim”, and this is the power of the Old Testament.<br \> The word “Elohim” means “rulers, judges, mighty ones” (Elohim is the plural of Eloah – meaning Judge) and as such Elohim is not the All-light. Logically, the supreme ruler would be good, just, loving etc, but this being would be more than this, this being would be the most good of the good, the most just of the just and there is such a being, and He is called All-light. There is biblical support to the fact that Elohim is not the most good of the good, and the most just of the just, (see Isaiah 45.7 for such example). <br \>Consequently, the Lavaeth Church believes in the invisible unknowable God called All-light, and His council called Elohim. (See Sovereignty 2 – 10 for the account of the emergence of Elohim). Please take note that Elohim is comprised of three separate beings, the beings are not co-eternal, co-equal etc, for Jesus Christ proclaims himself that he is subservient to the father and cannot glorify himself (see John 8).<br \> The Lavaeth Church does not condone the worship of Elohim, Elohim may only receive homage and obeisance, all worship belongs to All-light. Worship of Elohim and All-light would be worshipping falsely which is a most terrible sin. Seeing as the All-light is unknowable, the only way in which we come to understand or start to comprehend Him is through Elohim and this is the reason behind praying through the name of Elohim. Thus we concern ourselves with Elohim, for by Him we may know All-light.<br \> Sovereignty 2 – 10 proclaims that All-light proceeded from Himself Elohim, and so I shall give a brief description of Jehovah, Christos and Sophia.

The Heavenly Family
Jehovah, your father

Through the book of Intervention Jehovah reveals himself to us as “father god” and the one “who chose the Jewish people” as his race (Intervention 1). The title “father god” makes it known to us that he is one of our celestial parents. He also tells us he is one of the three that function within Elohim. <br \> The next title Jehovah gives himself is “father of all living things” (Intervention 5), it is he that moulded into existence all things – I choose the words “moulded” for a reason because Intervention 10 states that Jehovah did not create matter from nothing, but that matter was already existent, he merely took the spiritual matter and took it out of the residence of the All-light, the matter he used was already there. Some people confuse Jehovah with the God that created all things, but in reality Jehovah is the chief sustainer of the Earth and the universe.<br \>

Genesis 2:7; “And JEHOVAH God formed man from the dust of the ground…”

Sophia, your mother

Sophia, in traditional terms, is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is wisdom which is called Sophia, see Wisdom 7.25 for the reasoning behind this.<br \> Sophia is the mother of us all, the first manifestation of the All-light (with the second being Jehovah), from her womb we are born, and so Sophia is the wife of Jehovah. We must not view this in a physical sense but only spiritually. We view Sophia as the wife of Jehovah because in the beginning Israel is called the wife of Jehovah, but Sophia is told to be and dwell within Israel, and so therefore the concept of the Holy Spirit as Wife of Jehovah arises, compare Wisdom 7.12.<br \> Sophia is here to help you receive godliness and to hear the voice of reasoning and also here to comfort you (Intervention 103). Sophia tells us that she is subtle in answering our petitions for advice but she will always pull through (Intervention 118) and this promise is one which we must trust.

Christos, your sibling

The revelation of Christos has not yet happened, no-doubt it will arrive soon. Christos is the child of Jehovah and Sophia, and because of this he contains the active and aggressive qualities of Jehovah and the loving kindness and grace of Sophia. Since Christos is dilute (i.e. not of himself, but of two other beings) he is able to pass the world of the vault (in which Elohim lives) and the Earth (in which we live), and so it is he that is chosen to be born into the world and preach the word of Elohim.<br \>

He is filled with divinity and love; he will sacrifice himself many times for us for the purpose of purifying (Intervention 142). He is our way out of sin and by his example we should live our lives. It is him whom we owe most thanks for it was he that came to save us that we may know the ways of Elohim.<br \>

Christos, as with Jehovah and Sophia, is present in the old and new testaments, within the old testaments he is called “The Angel of the LORD”, or more correctly, “The Angel of Jehovah”. Christos, of course, does not refer to Jesus but to the ever-lasting concept of salvation, which is born of Jehovah and Sophia and is present in the vault as the first begotten spirit child. Jesus, as with Adam, was a receptacle in which Christos took dwelling: <br \>

Jesus did not die for your sins, but it was Jesus Christ that died for your sins: The Christos within Jesus was the force that enabled Jesus to become divine and exalted and he was chosen to be the residence of the Christos before the foundation of the world, and we lived with him in this pre-existence, all as children of Jehovah.

Sin and Salvation
It may come as a surprise, but the Lavaeth Church believes that the serpent present in the garden of Eden was not Satan, but in fact Sophia, our Mother (Intervention 18).<br \>

Sophia knew of the harsh rules in which Jehovah kept our earthly parents Adam and Eve imprisoned, even at the will of the Most High. This is also because Jehovah is a jealous ruler, and wished not for Adam and Eve to hold the power and the knowledge that he possessed; which our Mother knew the tree of knowledge-of-good-and-evil held (Genesis 3:5). Our Mother gave us a chance to experience the knowledge that we may truly have for us to be called humans: of course Sophia knew of the consequences that this would entail, which is death; but she also knew of Christos as the redeeming judge; so she knew that the eternal plan of salvation might start with her actions in the Garden of Pleasures; which is Eden.<br \>

Salvation is found only in Elohim (John 14:6), Salvation does not belong to just one personage in Elohim, but to all three members: Therefore Salvation does not just belong to Jehovah, or just to Christ, or just to the Holy Spirit, but to all three which are united in purpose: The purpose is to bring salvation to the repentant. To be saved you must accept Christ as your cleanser, the redeemer of your personal sins and also for the carnal sin that Adam has put upon us for his actions in the Garden of Pleasures.<br \>

The Divinity of Adam and Eve
“Pay attention! Adam, our father, was the host for the indwelling of Christos. And therefore, Adam is God, inasmuch as Christos is God – which is Elohim.” <br \> - Moses 66<br \>

Such a bold statement to claim that Adam is God, and therefore we must assume then that Eve is God since they are coupled together in matrimony of the celestial order. If Eve is the wife of Adam, and Eve is the host for the indwelling of Sophia, then we should assume that Adam is the indwelling for Jehovah. But Jehovah is mentioned in the creation account already, because he walked through the Garden of Pleasures to check up on our earthly parents. <br \> It seems that Jehovah gave to Adam Sophia as a gift that he might obtain wisdom and also that he might produce children with the insight granted to them by their mother (Eve-Sophia). <br \> This verse is not saying that Adam is the True God, rather it is giving Adam the status of Judge and Ruler (Elohim) within the earthly plane. “Adam is God, inasmuch is Christos is God”: since the Christos is not the true God, then neither is Adam, but rather Adam is the first ruler of the earth in the same way that Elohim is the first ruler of the heavens.<br \>

The Divinity of Mankind, becoming as God
The Lavaeth Church holds that we may one day become like God; this stems from Persephone 3:17 where it is revealed that we may “rise in the spiritual realms”, the doctrine also has biblical support in Ephesians 3.19 where we may receive the fullness of the Father through the grace of his Son. <br \> Romans 8:17 tells of becoming joint heirs with Christ. We shall, as Jehovah’s spirit children, inherit heaven and become like our Father who is a ruler and a judge. We shall also be magnified along with Christ so that we may be able to sit at the right hand of Jehovah. Consequently the Lavaeth Church calls this process “glorification”, this process also comes in suffering with Christ, because as Christ was lifted up on the cross we will be lifted up in heaven. John 10:34 maintains that we are gods, of course that does not mean we are the creators but it is metaphorical for the majesty that we may receive through obeying the gospels and the testaments. <br \> This is true also for the term ‘gods’ that appears within the Lavaeth-Tzarai testaments, it refers not to gods, as the word is understood, but to glorified beings who obeyed Father in the pre-existence.<br \>

(cf. Philippians 2:5-6, 2 Peter 1:3-4, 1 John 3:2, and Matthew 5:48: Also Psalm 8 refers to our creation as a little lower than Elohim, whom we may one day be like)<br \>

NB. Some people suggest that angels may be called gods, whilst this is true: The doctrine of glorification specifically refers to us becoming as Elohim, rulers and judges.

Baptism
Baptism is described as “the visible part of [The Holy Spirit] coming upon you” (Moses 79). Baptism is needed that we may feel accepted by Sophia, because when we truly feel accepted then we may reap the benefits of the gifts of the Spirit. <br \> Within the gospels and the testaments there are three baptisms that are put into place: the baptisms of blood, water and spirit (Sovereignty 34, cf. Matthew 3:11, Hebrews 9:22).<br \> Sovereignty proclaims that the blood baptism was necessary to cleanse the sins of the world, the baptism of spirit enables man to receive wisdom and the gifts of Sophia and lastly the baptism of water marks the new covenant with Christ. <br \> Sovereignty 38 tells that when Jesus Christ brought forth blood and water on the cross and then gave up his spirit, he was instituting the three baptisms for our age and the ages that follow.

Death and the Afterlife
Death results as a consequence of sin in the Garden of Pleasures, this was a price that was paid that we might receive knowledge and be given a chance to become like our heavenly parents.<br \> The afterlife is explained in the fourth chapter of the Book of Persephone. Verses 1–2 tell that there are seven hells, each one ruled by a damned angel and each hell being a dwelling place of persons that commit various sins.<br \> This person’s body will be without the Ever-Holy (Sovereignty 45), and their soul will be born again. At each successive incarnation the person’s soul becomes tainted even more after again denying the Christ or their soul is redeemed after accepting Christ in that life. <br \> Each person must strive to become perfect, even as Heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48) and when we have become perfect we will rejoin our aetherical creator ALL-LIGHT (Persephone 4:5). Once the soul has become fully tainted or fully perfect then they shall remain within the designated heaven or hell until the “resurrection of the blesséd” (Persephone 4:7), when all in the heavens will be resurrected to inherit the earthly plane with our celestial brother, Christ. Persephone 4:9 tells us that to escape the hells we must “follow the great commandments of the Lord” which are found in Intervention 86 – 97

2006 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.<br \> Permission granted by Alan Hooker: Founder of the sect.