A disabled one-year-old has been murdered by doctors in the Netherlands following the implementation of new rules that allow the euthanisation of disabled children up to the age of 12.
The baby was born at 26 weeks while the birth mother was on holiday abroad. Due to complications from premature birth, the baby was born with extensive brain damage, leading to spastic cerebral palsy. The baby was also severely visually impaired. The baby spent four and a half months abroad before being moved to the Netherlands. The baby was ‘put to sleep’ via midazolam and morphine by physicians, according to authorities.
In October 2024, the Netherlands passed new laws allowed for the execution of disabled children by physicians. In their review, the Committee for Late Termination of Pregnancy and Termination of Life in Newborns determined that ‘the physician acted with due care’ due to the unbearability, hopelessness, and irreversibility of the situation.
The topics of abortion and euthanasia are well-worn terrain in the culture wars, and I have no intention of rehashing stale debating points. People will disagree on the morality based upon their underlying worldview. Christians will focus on the sanctity of life. Secular pragmatists will focus on the quality of life and the burdens on the family. There’s no bridging that divide.
My objection is different, and while still ultimately Christian, it’s not the moralistic perspective you usually encounter. My argument against this encroaching agenda, which will ultimately lead to socially undesirable individuals (such as us) being incarcerated or ‘put to sleep’, in the euphemism of the official report, is instead to do with our modern belief that we can impose our will upon reality.
Our modern worldview trains us to see ourselves, our children, society, and indeed reality itself, as mouldable and controllable. We do not submit to fate. We don’t accept our lot. Instead, we operate on the assumption that everything about ourselves and others can be engineered and optimised.
This is what drives ‘politics’. Leftism has had many manifestations since its genesis during the French Revolution, but the common denominator to all of them is that leftists believe they have solved the problem of history (however they define it) and the only requirement is that they gain absolute power over the state in order to implement the necessary solution. Whatever reactionary force emerges against their agenda is then evil because it is preventing the realisation of utopia. Cue guillotines, firing squads, gulags, and cancel culture.
As a result of our unwillingess to accept reality, modern people make war on reality. Women inject themselves with chemical substances to maintain their youth in vain attempts to fight time. They only look worse. Consumerists rack up debt to project an image of affluence while they can’t afford the basics of life for their families. Mothers medicate their sons to make them less unpredictable and impulsive, thus destroying their masculinity before it had time to mature.
The cosmic reality is that all of us are assigned our lot at birth. This is a biblical term; in the Hebrew Old Testament the term is goral and in the Greek New Testament the word is kleros. You’ll find those equivalent terms in Leviticus, Joshua, Psalms, Proverbs, Daniel, Matthew, Luke, John, Acts, Colossians, and 1 Peter. Both of these terms mean ‘alloted share’ or ‘portion’ that we receive from the Lord, and all of Scripture points believers to accept and be grateful for our allotment from the Lord regardless of which parts are heavy and burdensome and which are light and fortunate. We are not to fight our allotment. We are to accept and embrace it.
This is not moralistic preaching. It is teaching to align oneself with reality and submit to divine governance. It is about order, not ‘goodness’.
These are also the same words used by Hellenistic astrologers at the time of the writing of the Old and New Testament scriptures to refer to one’s natal chart. At the time and place of our birth we are allocated our portion by the stars. Some parts are fortunate, some unfortunate, and due to how the signs, houses, planets, nodes, and even asteroids are arranged, it will be a bitter, sweet, or usually bittersweet life for us. There’s no changing it. It is our portion.
Christians today, of course, scoff at such an assertion. We’ve been told all throughout our Christian life that astrology is evil and to be equated with divination and sorcery. If that’s true, why is the Bible full of astrological references? Why were the Essenes, the group from which the Jesus movement emerged, strong believers in and practitioners of astrology? It was only later, as the church shifted into the medieval period and became the hierarchical, centralised power structure we are familiar with, that orthodoxy condemned knowledge of the astrological mysteries. For Second Temple period Jews listening to Jesus, the stars were the lowercase-g gods that uppercase-G God delegated governance of Creation to. They were His divine council. We lost that understanding during Late Antiquity, and it has impoverished Christian cosmology ever since.
If you are fair-minded and open-hearted enough to test the truth of what I’m saying, look up what your natal chart says about you. Put in your exact time and place of birth into astroseek.com, download the resulting chart (I recommend a Whole House, tropical, traditional chart), and then tell ai to interpret your chart according to traditional astrology based on Hellenistic principles with the modern planets included. See what it says. Tell me it doesn’t profoundly describe the patterns and forces of your life. I tried to disprove this assertion repeatedly, only to come to see that it really does work. I’ve spent years since then trying to make sense of what that means.
I believe the earliest form of Christianity incorporated these mysteries. John in particular was all across this stuff. Revelation is full of it. Early church fathers such as Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215 AD), Origen (c.185-253 AD), Bardaisan of Edessa (154-222 AD), Hippolytus (c.170-235 AD), Julius Africanus (c.160-240 AD), and multiple other early Christian writers all make reference to astrology, cosmic ages, or the Great Year. It was only as antiquity ended and the medieval period began that the censorship and suppression of these views became hegemonic.
This is the mechanism of divine governance. The divine council govern Creation under the authority of Jesus. Jesus taking his position as Lord of the Ages from the Most High is what we see in the throne room scene of Revelation. If you wish to evaluate yourself the scholarly argument for this theory of the Great Year, then check out my book.
We all receive our allotment from the Lord. For that little disabled baby and the family he or she was given to, it was a hard, grueling one. I’ve known families at our church who have raised severely disabled children to adulthood, and it is a hard, hard portion from the Lord for the entire family to endure.
But whatever your portion, there is divine grace available to those who know Jesus. There is hope for us in this life and the next. Jesus is the only authority above the stars, because only He is the Lord of the Ages.
Originally published at Metaphysical History. You can purchase Dr. Hilton’s books here.
