Biography

Elijah E. Hernandez is a Mexican-American born and raised in California who has ancestral ties to a family of pachucos in Downey, Paramount, Downtown Los Angeles, and East Los Angeles. He belongs to the southwest Calo lineage with a connection to Saint Thomas Yuma Indian Mission (aka) La Mission Puerto de Purissima Concepcion in the Arizona Mission District of Winterhaven California established in 1780, La Purissima Mission State Park in Lompoc California that dates back to 1787 and is the 11th mission located on El Camino Road (Royal Road), and La Purisima Catholic Church in Boyle Heights established in 1931. Elijah was the first to graduate with a high school diploma from Bellflower California (aka) Gateway City or Southeast Los Angeles and the first civilized member of his family. As a native of Downey, California, had a religious upbringing and was actively involved in his local church from a young age. However, he began to question his beliefs and found solace in music, particularly heavy metal, as a form of escape from negative influences such as gang life and public institutions. As he entered his twenties, Elijah attended college and became increasingly aware of what he perceived as the prevalence of socialist ideologies being promoted in academia. This realization led him to believe that many professors and students lacked an understanding of the true nature of American institutions and establishments, which he sees as rooted in realism rather than idealism or socialism. Overall, Elijah’s personal journey has shaped his perspective on religion, music, and sociopolitical landscape of the United States.

3 God's divine power has given us everything we need to live a truly religious life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share in his own glory and goodness. 4 In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature. 5 For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge; 6 to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness; 7 to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love. 8 These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.

2 Peter 3-9