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ninja
the px is also called the chi rho.......
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parakeet
It's the symbol of the deepest, darkest society of all -- the Society of Avenging Parakeets. If you thought the Hitchcock movie, "The Birds," was scary, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Death from above! SSSSSSSssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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cameo-d
Thank you very much, Ninja.
This symbol "PX" is actually not letters. In many of the logo designs the "p" is not enclosed and is very obviously meant to be a shepherd's crook. It symbolizes the dominance of the taskmaster of the sheep. The "x" is actually portrayed as more horizontal than upright and some symbols having rounded nibs on the ends seems indicative of the crossbones motif seen in other secret society emblems.
This symbol has ancient origins; here you can see it is related also to commerce:
Magnentius / Christogram - AE 2 - 353 AD - 23mm - 5.6g - Arlate mint
The Chi Rho symbol is also used by this group:
THE PHYLAXIS SOCIETY is an international organization of Prince Hall Freemasons dedicated to studying the life of Prince Hall and researching the history of Prince Hall Freemasonry.
PHYLAXIS means to guard and preserve. Symbolically we interpret it as to bring forth more light in Masonry, and to guard the Prince Hall Fraternity against its enemies using the truth to preserve our Masonic heritage.
How odd that a symbol can be traced back to ancient commerce, also to secret societies, and now is creeping into church logos. With new information being released, it will appear that this has "always" been a 'christian' symbol. Much like the way WT has new light and then explains that it has "always" been that way, but the New Light just clarifies it better. Hmmph!
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BurnTheShips
The Chi-Rho is an ancient Christian symbol. It is the first two letters of Christ. C-R. That is why it is a common Christian motif. That is all there is to it.
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lurk3r
I am positive this symbol, or one very close to it, is located in an area at the Vatican. Its not just a symbol portrayed on a picture either. There is an area, where this X is created with shadows coming off of a pole or something...i just watched a program on it the other day. Perhaps i must watch it again. The shadows that are "thrown" make an X according to the position of the sun, at its high points and low points.
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cameo-d
Burn: The Chi-Rho is an ancient Christian symbol. It is the first two letters of Christ. C-R. That is why it is a common Christian motif. That is all there is to it.
Look deeper to the origins, Burn.
This sign was used as a bloody battle cry and to intimidate opposition in announcing it as a sign directly from god.
Just like today, every country claims "god is on our side" when they all go to war.
And as OT makes it clear, Jehovah is a god of war. With a god like that, this world can never expect peace.
Lactantius, a Christian author of the 3rd and 4th century, reports that on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312, Constantine saw a vision in the sky, of the Chi Rho accompanied by the words "in hoc signo vinces" (in this sign conquer). He then ordered that the Chi Rho be emblazoned on his men's shields. Eusebius gives a similar account of Constantine's vision.
After Constantine's success at the Milvian bridge, the Chi Rho became the official imperial insignia. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Chi Rho was emblazoned on the helmet and shield of Constantine as well as those of all of his soldiers.
Lactantius states that, in the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to "delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers" (On the Deaths of the Persecutors 44.5). He obeyed and marked the shields with a sign "denoting Christ". Lactantius describes that sign as a "staurogram", or a Latin cross with its upper end rounded in a P-like fashion. There is no certain evidence that Constantine ever used that sign, opposed to the better known Chi-Rho sign described by Eusebius.
In his later Life of Constantine, Eusebius gives a detailed account of a vision and stresses that he had heard the story from the emperor himself. According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching somewhere (Eusebius doesn't specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly isn't in the camp at Rome), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words "Εν Το?τ? Ν?κα". The Latin translation is in hoc signo vinces—"In this [sign], conquer". At first he was unsure of the meaning of the apparition, but in the following night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign against his enemies. Eusebius then continues to describe the labarum, the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign. [ 4 ]
Those two accounts can hardly be reconciled with each other, though they have been merged in popular notion into Constantine seeing the Chi-Rho sign at the evening before battle. Both authors agree that the sign wasn't readily understandable to denote Christ, which corresponds to the fact that there is no certain evidence of the use of the letters chi and rho as a Christian sign before Constantine. Its first appearance is on a Constantinian silver coin from c. 317, which proves that Constantine did use the sign at that time, though not very prominently. [ 5 ] He made extensive use of the Chi-Rho and the Labarum only later in the conflict with Licinius.
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