Your Magnificent Majesty, King of Heaven, Master of the World, and Distinguished Lord of Unbelievable Greatness and Inconceivable Preeminence,

With your indulgence and for your pleasure, I continue my narratives concerning the implausible accomplishment's of your fabulous kids. Utter commendations to Jesus's kids from myself and the Heavenly Host.

IN 325 C.E.
Leaders of five major Christian centers (Alexandria, Athens, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Rome) gathered for the First Nicean Council. Your kids had began to feel the extent of their burgeoning power and, although still in their infancy, they, young fledglings, were ready to try their wings. Craftily, they called for leaders from the pagan religions to join them. Bishops from the cults of Mithras, Tammuz, Oannes (Dagon), Janus, Bacchus, Apollo, Osiris, Jupiter, and even the religion of Emperor Constantine, Sol Invictus were invited. These were all male dominated religions and your kids had determined that their greatest opposition was the Goddess, served by women and Gallae. Leaders from the cults of Cybele, Diana, Inanna, the Magna Mater in any form, were not invited. Nor were the Montanists invited. Montanus, a Gallae from Phrygia had created the "Voice of the New Prophecy." Oh and what wicked teachings came from the women he appointed as prophets. Prisca and Maximilla were their names, and that castrated priest painted his face and dressed in women's robes taking the name of Carata.

Can you imagine the sheer horror of your kids when these wicked women prophesied that you, my Lord, would return as a woman? And in frenzied deliriums, dancing to the sound of the tympanum, they exhorted every person of good heart to dance, to sing, to flagellate, and then to make prophesies. Without church sanction or authority the rank and file were invited to participate in the most sacred of priestly duties. M'lord, they were undermining the priesthood, threatening the power and authority of the church.

In disbelief I watched as Montanism began spreading across North Africa and into Europe. I expected any moment that you would personally step in and destroy these upstarts. But then you never do, do you? You are the wisest of the wise. Leaving it to the priests to answer all prayers, manage all troubles, and thus your kids grow strong, strong and mean.

In another letter, perhaps, I'll tell you how your kids dealt with the Montanists. Your heart will swell with pride. But for the nonce I must continue the account of The First Nicean Council.

Your kids advised the pagan religions of their precarious condition and offered them a place in the Catholic (meaning universal) religion. Promising to consolidate pagan beliefs into the Catholic religion they adopted clerical clothing, religious accoutrements, pagan holidays, rites and rituals, reflecting those of the pagan religions. They also turned pagan Gods and heroes into Catholic Saints. It was in this wise your kids seduced and assimilated the patriarchal pagan leaders.

Your papacy was established then, and built on the doctrine that St. Peter, associated with Jupiter from the pagan religions, was the first Bishop of Rome. However, my Lord, as you know full well, there never was a Peter. He and the other disciples had been extrapolated from the myths associated with Mithra. Peter, in the Catholic religion replaced the "Pet-Roma", the "Book of Stone" from the Eleusinian Mysteries. Another fine example of tokenism to seduce the pagans.

In an attempt to confirm Peter as first pope and spiritual leader the great statue of Jupiter was transformed into the statue of Peter. Church fathers, your kids, sagaciously proclaimed it had always been the statue of Peter. Any who claimed differently, remembering it originally as a tribute to Jupiter, were threatened with excommunication.

This technique has been a favorite of your kids through out their long ascension to world domination. Polycarp, one of your favored kids, used it best; proclaiming pagan myths, the very source of your myths, were forgeries of the devil stolen hundreds of years before you came to earth. "How clever and dangerous," Polycarp admonished, "is Satan, creating the pagan religions in an attempt to discredit Jesus Christ and the Catholic church." Good God, what amazing nerve, the sheer, diabolical, brilliance of your kids, coupled with their willingness to ready duplicity, astonishes an old jaded heart such as mine. You must beam with pride. After all, in your aspect as the Father, you created them in your own image.

Creating a universal religion, the Catholic religion, wasn't easy. Careful politics and keen stratagems were the order of the day. No attempt was made to censure the pagan Gods. Honoring their Gods was permitted in that the pagans, newly Catholic, embraced you as the OverGod, God of Gods. In order to facilitate this process, your kids assoicated the names of certain disciples to these subordinate gods. Matthew was Mithras, Thomas was Tammuz, Mark was Mars, John was Oannes, Peter was Jupiter, and Paul was Apollo. The virgin Mary was a variation on older myths, a token thrown to the goddess religions. Still, it was an immense demotion from the immortal Mother of the all the Gods, to a human mother of a mortal expression of God, a Son of God, you my Lord.

I am delirious with rapture and filled with vast pleasure to report the machinations at the First Council at Nicea were entirely succesful. The pagan Bishops chose to be small fish with large parishes in an all consuming Catholic hierarchy, rather than be a large fish, pontentate, over small and diminishing cults slated for eventual extermination. The capacity for deceit of your kids is unconfined? Shamelessly, they employed every artifice to achieve your ends, total domination of every soul on earth. Personally, with all my power as an Archangel, I would not willing place myself in opposition to their schemes.

With that said, with sadness and sorrow, I must report two sad notes concerning the First Nicean Council.

A vote was taken concerning women, questioning whether women were, strictly speaking, human and whether they had souls. I know your view on this issue and, with deep regret, I must relate we lost by one vote. The Bishop of Mithra, now the Bishop of Matthew, cast the last and deciding vote. The decision came down that women do have souls, and are, consequently, human. Still, those souls were proclaimed low-grade and the voices of women was to remain silent.

The other sad note was that the Emperor Constantine, while our friend and supporter, never converted. True, on his death bed, with Constantine delirious and unable to protest, Saint Eusebius entered his chambers, sprinkled and baptized him. Even for your kids, capable of the most outrageous atrocities, this was a particularly loathsome and unpraiseworthy act. Constantine had ended the prosecution of Catholic Christians for their crimes against other religions. He united the Empire of Rome under one religion, the Catholic religion. Should we have held him to task for excusing himself? I would think not.

Yes, I know, there are no depths your kids are unwilling to plumb in taking command of the earth, but the one man, more instrumental than any other save yourself, my Lord, in achieving those ends shouldn't have had to be Catholic. Not if he didn't want to be Catholic.

Having ruled the conference with an iron hand, instrumental in forcing the pagan bishops to fall in line, he exempted only himself. He, after all, was the state and the state embraced the Catholic church. By 345 C.E. it would be illegal to practice pagan religions under penalty of death, and by the year 385 C.E. every soldier and every civil servant would be Catholic. Consider, my Lord, in the beginning of our great religion we refused to serve as soldiers or in government and within four centuries we were the soldiers and the government. The aptitude and appetite of your kids has no earthly limit. Surely, no people on earth, or anywhere in your universe, are more cataclysmic. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise the blessed name of Constantine, reserve a page for him in the Book of Life. Without his aid, the natural capacity for annihilation and death in the hearts of your kids, might have never come to fruition. With his support, your kids were an irresistable juggernaut. You are Lord, but for me, I would allow Constantine the dictates of his conscience and not claim him Catholic against his will.

Praise in the Highest,
Eternally, your Faithful Servant,
Archangel Ariel Ramadan Cardova