The Intent of this Publication

It has been with an intense discomfort that I have decided to pursue the writing and publication of this book. Please consider as I explain the reasons why I finally committed to undertaking such an arduous project, as well as to share my ensuing doubts about whether I have been spending my time in pursuing such a seemingly vain pursuit.

It has been spiritually and mentally excruciating for me to examine myself as well as to examine and digest the issues contained herein; why would I spend such an enormous amount of time and energy on a project that few will likely read, and to which even fewer will believe? Most people vainly consider themselves to be too clever and well informed to have fallen prey to the issues I will set forth as fact. They read the newspapers, they watch the media news, they read their bibles, they graduated from high school or college. If such things as I am about to introduce were really true, “everybody would know it.” There is no way that so many people could have been so duped for so long, they will say and have said. I’d like to begin by sharing the deciding factor in my decision to prove such skepticism wrong.

An excerpt follows which is from early in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. It is the true story of a young man named Stephen, who proclaimed and stood on the truth that few wanted to hear, and that no one wanted to believe to be true: that an entire system of belief was built upon a lie, a conglomeration of lies, that had been set forth in the name of the truth (remember that Luke, who wrote the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, is highly regarded as an authentic historian). If they (those who, in those days, were in “the System”) were to believe Stephen, it would mean that they would have to admit that everything they had ever believed or done in their lives was falsely done in the name of understandings called truths. For many of us, for our pride, and for our own minds, this is simply “too much” to bear. It infringes on our “pride of life.”

This book is not about the gospel, per say; but Stephen’s speech to the religious people and to the leaders of his day was about the fact that many of them, indeed most of them, believed a fantasy. Indeed, if one is to examine it closely, that is what the gospel is truly about, the fact that the “world system” is a complex series of lies that we adhere to, that and the fact that there is an obtainable freedom from the slavery that occurs in the process of believing those lies. But in order to gain that freedom, we must first be willing to admit that everything we have ever believed to be true is actually misdirection, and that we must willingly “wipe the slate clean” and begin over again if we are to gain our freedom, “forsake all,” so that we may begin again with the truth as our foundation, and be “be transformed by the renewing of our minds.” In Stephen’s case, that was simply too much for the religious leaders to bear, and they “gnashed their teeth” in anguish, and proceeded to kill the messenger. Here is Stephen’s story:

And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of Freedmen[1] (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?” And he (Stephen) said, “Men and brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was is Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, and said to him, ‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would sojourn in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years. ‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’ Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people. So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers. And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. But when the time of the Promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt ‘till another king arose who did not know Joseph. This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months. But when he was set out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was learned and was mighty in words and deeds. But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’ But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, “saying, ‘I am the God of your fathers – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. I have certainly seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’ This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.’ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us, whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets,

‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, o house of Israel? Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David, who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built Him a house. However, the Most high does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says, ‘ Heaven is My Throne, and Earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? Says the Lord, Or what is the place of My rest? Has My hand not made all these things?

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”

When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, ‘Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!’ Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not charge them with this sin.’ And when he had said this, he fell asleep.”

It will require some examination and some introspection, but there is much to be learned from this story, this example, of Yeshua ha Messiach and His Way in this young man named Stephen. First, he was totally committed to the truth; he had done his homework. He wasn’t driven by “feelings,” or by what he had “always known,” but by the truth. He knew the history of Israel in detail, and because of his desire for the truth and the understanding that had been given to him he was able to see to the true heart of the matter. They were not able to refute him, so they “killed the messenger.” Stephen saw what had led the people of Israel astray, their desire for “Egypt,” or, the world they knew and loved, the world they thought they had some control over and that they were comfortable with. The religious consortium knew neither their true history nor the “heart of the matter.” For them, the truth they could not refute was “too much.” They were too tied up with their controls, their feelings, and their daily cares, and so to them the truth was nothing short of a shock to their systems; they were “cut to the heart.” But also remember that there was present one of the “enemy”, a young man named Saul, upon whom this event eventually had an enormous impact, both for himself personally, and for the entire world.

In many ways, what has happened to christendom is strikingly similar to what happened to Israel in the story told by Stephen above. God sent us “one like Moses” who delivered us, and yet over the course of time we have forgotten the true heart of the matter. We haven’t done our homework, and we don’t know our true history (“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”). We are consumed with our daily cares, and it’s too shocking to us to thoroughly examine the truth, the possibility that we are all living fantasies. In our denial, we “stop our ears” and we “kill the messenger(s),” because if we believe what they have to say, it means that our whole existence is built upon misconception in our own minds; what do we do then? So we allow our “pride of life” to prevail and we choose to remain blind to the Truth. In place of the Truth, we have created a system, in reality numerous systems but our own system still, to live in as a god in place of the Truth.

The story of Stephen was perhaps the deciding factor in my decision to pursue and complete this project. Most “christians” are not even aware of the truth of what is going on around them in the present time, let alone the truth of what has been occurring during the two thousand years since Jesus walked the Earth. The fact is, though, we cannot change any of what has already occurred or of what is occurring around us today. The game has been decided, as was foretold by the prophets in the scriptures, but where does that leave us? We cannot make one hair on our heads white or black, and neither can we add one inch to our stature. Our feeble attempts to “do something about it” only play into the hand of the system around us. Do we “forsake all,” or do we simply kill the messenger? Will killing the Truth to protect our system(s) save us? And where does the god of being loved and accepted figure into all of this?

There exist numerous striking similarities between the people of Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures and the Church as it has progressed and become today. Political and economic alliances, humanism, psychology, the doctrines of men and their systems, denominationalism (synagogue systems, cisterns that can hold no water), and a disdain for the Truth have taken their tolls on what was to be, and is perhaps no longer, the spotless Bride of Christ.

In the book that follows, I will endeavor to set forth historical documentation that all we have been led to believe concerning christianity, and politics, and economics, and history, is nothing more or less than a fabrication, an assembly of carefully crafted truths, which purpose is to intentionally lead us away from the Truth. Am I saying that the Gospel is untrue, that The Promise of Yeshua ha Messiach and the Word of God, are untrue? Absolutely not; to the contrary. What Yeshua and his prophets said is absolutely true; it’s our understanding of his life and of our proper response to it, our reasonable act of worship, that has been turned by an evil, deceiving spirit and unbelieving men into a lie.

The Hypothesis

The War of the World against the Saints

By the time of the Council at Nicea, those who ruled the Roman empire had, at their fingertips, the expertise born of and borrowed from the thousands of years of political intrigue, from their own dynasty as well as from realms that had preceded them. It would be naive to suppose that the economic and political rulers of 325-425 A.D. were simpletons who did not know how to plot for and keep hard-won economic, political, and social territories.

It would also be naive to suppose that these same people did not have a plan when they implemented The Holy Roman Catholic Empire, an integral part of their overall plan for world domination.

Religion is indeed the opiate of the masses, and the amphetamine as well. It is used on the masses by the economic/political powers as both a soporific and a stimulus to achieve their desired results. (Observe George W. Bush’s “Christianity” and its effects on the voting apparatus.)

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful .”

EDWARD GIBBON
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

By the end of the second century, Rome found itself in the position of losing the war economically and politically against an army it could not fight with soldiers. No ruling empire before had experienced the enigma of an enemy whom the more of them that were killed, the more they multiplied. It was a tree that kept producing fruit as its seeds fell into the ground and died. The tree could not be killed, or the branches cut off. For the powers of Rome, it was an adversary more formidable than the seven-headed hydra of Greek mythology.

“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need, we’re done for.”

Bill Bonner

Editor, The Daily Reckoning

April 3, 2003

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

Philosopher, educator

Surely the councils and committees called in their best historians and philosophers, not to mention the sorcerers (“alchemists, inventors”). The economic leaders would have been dismayed at the dropping sales, and the state’s coffers would be slowly depleted of tax revenues by which they maintained their military, and thus economic, might. Simply put, lack of spending (i.e. “ownership”) by the public masses translates to lack of political, economic, and military control. Armies they could crush, and political opponents they could assassinate by knife or conquest or by blackballing out of the arena of the powerful. But this? A society of willingly destitute pacifists who died to worldly things, who could not be bought, who counted it as a joy, and as worthiness, to “have their possessions plundered” and to be tortured and killed and sent to the grave to await their master? How does an empire fight such a thing? Only one way. By subverting it, by mimicking it and creating it anew, counterfeiting it, and then by putting their creation in control of all power in the name (supposedly) of the very master that the trouble makers followed. And then they would tie their religion directly to the economic control of the day. We will see this procedure used repeatedly over the next 1500 years.

Conspiracy theory? No, …historical fact. Just one example is the history of the indulgences invented by the Roman Catholic “nobility,” the popes and bishops. Forms of this heresy continue to this very day. But let us look at what the Word of God has to say about why the True Church was a threat to political and economic stability in the Roman Empire, for then we can see the “reasoning” behind the same methods that the world economic/political/religious Empire (•Rev…) has been using from that time to the present:

“But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city; and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.” Acts 16:19-21

And again:

“And about that time there arose a great commotion about The Way. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen. He called them together with the workers of similar occupation, and said, “Men, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade. Moreover, you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands. So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana may be despised and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.”

It is clear from this epistle that the Way was a threat to worldly economic matters. If people didn’t desire worldly things (…covetousness, which is idolatry…), and they didn’t buy, then the moneymakers didn’t make money. More importantly, and utterly crucial to their operations, they would lose the control over the consumer that was the key ingredient to forging their power base. It may be helpful to the reader if they look at money not as money, but as control. Consider this: there is in reality no such thing as money; it exists only as an illusion, as a control factor. Pebbles and stones could be “money” – all that matters is the regulation of a system.

In light of the above-mentioned threat, the moneymakers would then take political matters into their own hands to re-establish their profit (control) base. Keep in mind that throughout history, it has not been political agenda that has prescribed economic agenda; just the opposite. It is economic considerations that have always determined political policy, and in turn social. Especially today, it is the policies of the Council on Foreign (economic) Relations that are used to influence the standards for the legislative policies and laws of the United States in relation to entities such as the “European Economic Community” and the “World Trade Organization.”

It is a wonder to me that today’s christendom does not notice that the very powers they fear and complain about receive their power from the very fact that we buy their products. (James 2:6) We disable the power of the System when we give, and we empower the System when we buy. Think about it. If we stopped buying, how would their profit and their subsequent power continue? They’d no longer have their lever to use against us, so they would have to resort to persecuting us, killing us, to “make an example” or to (in their minds) eradicate the threat. But remember that it’s when True Saints die that the seeds are sown. The “elite,” the powers, the archons of this age, would be spiritually disempowered. The root of all evil would starve to death. But we’ve bought the material comfort (“ownership”)/prosperity lie (closely tied to “dominionism” as we shall see), and it may now be too late. “They” hold all the worldly power over our lives (“To whomsoever you owe, he is your master”).

“And power was given to the beast to overcome the saints…”

We can see from the above examples, and from many more throughout both history and the Scriptures, that it has been economics which has most influenced the initiation of the persecution of the church. “For the love of money is the root of all manner of evil.” Indeed, I hope to show, and prove, that christian capitalist is an oximoron – indeed, it is a well planned out paradox and a by-product of Lutherism/Calvinism. How is it possible to serve both the God that is not of this world and the “American dream,” the “pursuit of happiness” (in this present age of the world), at the same time? “No one can serve two masters…”

The reasons stated above from the Word of God show that the money was the reason, and the (false) religion, the worship of the goddess, was the excuse for the persecution of the saints. It was the same with the religious rulers of Jesus’ time. The pharisees and scribes feared loosing power and control of their system, their prosperity, so they would accuse Jesus and His followers of religious infractions. Religion is not only tolerated but supported by the economic powers so long as it is profitable and advantageous to them; if it empowers them.

Later on, the same concept will be repeated time and again throughout history, and will be included in the basic teachings of modern christiandom. Rome definitely established a profitable system of religion, and tolerated no other unless it was profitable to them and assisted in maintaining their control. Protestantism, meaning Calvin/Lutheran theology, initiated the same practice and continues in it to this day. This is the same hypocrisy that Jesus pointed out to the Jewish religious elite during His time on Earth. It’s nothing more than a system in place of God, the same mistake repeated by man throughout his history.

Over the course of the next two hundred years (325 AD – 525 AD), for the most part, Rome set about to destroy the plague of true christianity that had fallen upon the world system, utilizing Augustinian and Platonist precepts. Until that time, true believers (those who waited for the hope of the promised arrival of their King) no longer purchased in excess of their needs of food and clothing; they were content with what they had, and gave willingly and joyfully to all who had need, first to their “brethren” and then to others. They didn’t serve the lusts of the system, and as a result worldly profit would be diminished if they continued to “spread.” They were a threat, this True Church, to the world “order.” So, reasoned the leaders of Rome and of the Jews (who are not jews), they must be annihilated, and scourged from the face of the Earth.

The leaders faced a seemingly insurmountable dilemma, though. The Gospel, the Way, spread faster than they could kill it. And the true disciples did not fear torture or death; they feared God. They could not be controlled, so it seemed. In frustration, the authorities massacred the Disciples of the Way by the hundreds of thousands, perhaps even the millions. They turned the destruction of the disciples into a profitable and fashionable sport in their arenas. And at the same time, Paul’s words were proving true within the Church:

“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone day and night with tears.”

Please take note that the threat that Paul, and others, warned us of was not from the world, but from within the church itself, and would result from lack of diligence.

And indeed, men did rise up among them over the course of time, as they continue to do to this very day. These men turned the positions of servanthood to the Body of Christ into “leadership” of a system that departed from the Way. And that system married with the economic/political system. The spiritual work of the god of the world melded with the worldly authorities and set about replacing the Gospel, the Way, of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God, with a false and world-serving, self-serving religious system.

In the ensuing centuries, the Mother of Harlots (the religious system in union with the economic order) would give birth to her children, the doctrines of men like Augustine, Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, etc… (This may be exceedingly difficult for some of you, but please hear the point before reaching any conclusions.) But in the meantime, she set about subverting or killing the true children of the Word, and replacing them with her own.

Rebuilding the World in the Image of the Beast

While implementing their plan, they would need to take every precaution that the beast did not awaken again. It seemed that they could not totally kill it, but they could perhaps put it to sleep and keep a very close watch over it. “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest…”

But what if it should re-awaken and spread beyond their control? Well, then it must be drugged, and rendered ineffective. It must be kept in a stupor. Its own adherents must be sacrificed in the name of their master. If any of the hydra’s heads were to truly come alive, it must be cut off and cauterized, unless it could be purposefully woken and utilized through a controlled system that would benefit and feed the Empire. “Yes! We can awaken it ourselves under a controlled environment and use it to feed our purposes!”

Conspiracy theory? No, … historically provable fact.

Where do we start to prove such a heinous scenario, though? There is, after all, a nearly 2000 year span of historical facts (and many not-so-historical) to search through in order to find the right evidence, that seemingly will only be sufficient to lead us to possible proofs. It is doubtful (though not logically impossible) that we will find a document called, “The Plan of Rome,” by Thee First Pope and the Jews who are not Jews. If there is such a document still in existence, however, it is buried deep in the inaccessible confines of the Vatican vaults or in the hands of some other unknown entity. I seriously doubt they’ll let anyone saunter in and prove from their own manuscripts that they’ve been successfully manipulating thrones, financial powers, and the masses for over 1700 years. (By the way, so that the reader does not misunderstand, I don’t believe that “Rome,” meaning the Vatican, is the power base, but just another “tool.”) There are many items, however, that have not been secured away in their vaults. Yes, the Jesuits, the CIA, MI6, and others have found them and confiscated them, altered them for their own utilization, or destroyed them whenever possible, but there is still enough historical record available by which we can prove, within more than a reasonable doubt (even without access to the proverbial “smoking gun”), that we have been duped to our own potential destruction by a quite savvy dynasty of special interest groups. Remember, though, that Roman Catholicism in itself is not “The Leader” of “The Plan.” It, and its adherents, are only yet another powerful and very useful tool.

The Master Plan:

Undeniable Proof of “The Network”

There are certain documents available that show beyond any reasonable doubt that a “plan,” and that the Network that originated it and sustains it does in fact exist. Some may dismiss the credibility of such documents; however, what follows will demonstrate that there is, and has been for centuries, a plan for world domination, for an illusion of peace that at the same time lulls the common man into a stupor of complacency and apathy, and it is provable from the context of the document that this plan, or a form of it, is quite real. How is it provable? Because of the very fact that the future plans revealed in this document have taken place exactly as prescribed within its pages.

“Which bad-willing society has forged these plans and now triumphs over their fulfillment? Have they been falsified? If so, from where then does the uncanny gift of a prophecy come, which has partially been fulfilled already, or which is coming close to being fulfilled?”

The Londoner Times

March 8, 1921

I’ve included the available entirety of the manuscript for the reader’s perusal.

But first, a little historical background on the existence of such a “group”:

“Reverend Sir: It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am …

George Washington (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941, Vol. 20) Emphasis mine.

In 1953 the California Senate Investigating Committee reported:

“So-called modern Communism is apparently the same hypocritical and deadly conspiracy to destroy civilization that was founded by the secret order of the Illuminati in Bavaria on May 1, 1776, and that raised its hoary head in our colonies here as the critical period before the adoption of our Federal Constitution . . .

Since the official and highly organized founding of the Syndicate occurred in Europe in 1776 [2], our isolated and founding nation was thus spared the main thrust of its tentacles until after our revolution occurred and our Constitution adopted.”

Just three years after the Communists seized Russia, there was printed in the Illustrated Sunday Herald dated Feb. 8, 1920, the following statement by Winston Churchill about the Illuminati:

“From the days of Sparticus – (Adam) Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela-Kuhn, Rosa Luxembourg and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy for the French Revolution. It has been the main-spring of every subversive movement in the 19^th Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

Ralph Epperson, “The New World Order”

In January 1789 the Marquis de Luchet published this statement :

“Deluded people; You must understand that there exists a conspiracy in favor of despotism and against liberty[3], incapacity against talent, of vice against virtue, of ignorance against light! It is formed in the depths of the most impenetrable darkness, a society is to rule the world, to appropriate the authority of sovereigns, to usurp their place . . . Every species of error which afflicts the earth, every half-baked idea, every invention serves to fit the doctrines of the Illuminati . . . I see that all great fundamentals which society has made good use of to retain the allegiance of man – such as religion and law – will be without power to destroy an organization which has made itself a cult, and put itself above all human legislation. Finally, I see the release of calamities who end will be lost in the night of ages, activities devours the entrails of the globe and escapes into the air with a violent and devastating explosion.”

The (alleged) founder of the Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt, had this to say:

“The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it the true and genuine sense of Christians religion. O mortal man, is there nothing you cannot be made to believe.”

He went on to write:

“The true purpose of the order was to rule the world. To achieve this it was necessary for the order to destroy all religions, overthrow all governments and abolish private property . . . The strength of our order lies in its concealment, let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation.”

Here is a “short list” of other names that this order has used during the pursuit of their domination:

The Brotherhood

The Group

The Masons

The Cabal (or Kabal)

The Knights (Templar, Garter, Teutonic, Malta, etc. – conjoined societies)

The Enlightened Ones

The New World Order

The Council on Foreign Relations

The Trilateral Commission

Project for a New American Century

The Initiates

The Plan

The Round Table

Etc…

The following document referred to as “The Master Plan” was discovered in 1785, on the body of a courier who was reportedly the victim of being struck by lightning. The British Museum in London purchased a copy on August 10, 1906.

British journalist Victor Marsden translated the Master Plan into English. His translation was later published by the English Publishing Society, of London, in 1921.

I have utilized italics and bold print in the text for the purpose of highlighting significant details that have proven to be both foresightful and even accomplished since the discovery of “The Plan.”[4] Please be mindful, though. The spirit of this plan existed long before the document below was revealed, by the adherents’ own admission. Also, The Master Plan is a seemingly long publication, tedious, and difficult to digest. It was written by someone, or some-ones, both intellectually gifted and determinedly sinister. This document is poison to the soul, and I more than reluctantly include it. The only reasons I do include it is because 1) the Word of God says both to “expose evil” especially where the Church (ekklesia, called out ones) is concerned, and for a follower of Jesus the Christ to be both as wise as a serpent (know your enemy) and as innocent as a dove (don’t act like your enemy), and 2) it is of extreme importance to recognize the fact that an ancient plan was contrived against Christians, brandishing Christianity as a weapon, and that this plan has been demonstratively successful in carrying out its prerogatives.

I must also include other information here lest I be irresponsible in sharing what you are about to read. Please keep an open mind, even those of you who have thoroughly researched the origins of this document.

I do not propose or endorse that the following publication has, as its source, the “elders of Zion.” This document is Machiavellian to the extreme. It’s source could be from anywhere at any time over the last six centuries, and perhaps even earlier than that – the only aspect having been amended being that the language and style have been modernized as needed to correspond with the times.

The point being, that the authorship, whether plagiarized or no, in reality makes no matter; the point being the end result that is evidently being accomplished before our very eyes.

I recommend a thorough researching of this article; I only warn against too swift an acceptance of the proofs against the spirit of what is written. Yes, examine Machiavelli’s The Prince. Yes, consider the de-bunking of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Yes, examine the consistencies (and lack thereof) of the Geneva Dialogues. I heartily encourage you do as I have done, and examine the rabbit trails.

But also this: pay heed as to whether the results of this publication are true. Because if they are, neither the source nor its credibility hardly matter – whether the lion fights the bear, or the bear fights the lion, matters very little to the sheep. The sheep still is consumed.

Whether the contents refer to Napoleon III, or to the Rothschildes, or to the Vatican, or to the Assassins, or to the throne of England, or to the Rhodes/Fabian ideology is of meaningless consequence to the reader. In fact, the more one researches the contents, and the more one questions the authenticity of the author(s), and the more one researches what has taken place, the more one will see, and return to the publication, and say, “Yes, all true…this can’t be singularly traced to the “jews;” it appears that this is just another form of yet another previously written piece; this seems to be a fabulous invention of some corrupt mind; the argumentative points of the researchers show much doubt as to the origination of the thoughts contained in it…and yet, the truth, the end result, of what it contains is so evident as can’t be disallowed.”

I suggest you read what follows when in a clear state of mind and when you have a sufficient amount of time (about two hours) with which to digest its contents. I also suggest that you first take time to pray for protection and wisdom, and that you heed the Word concerning conspiratorial matters: Do not fear them, but fear the Lord and His Wrath.

THE MASTER PLAN

“Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding facts.

What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of ourselves and that of the Christians.

It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence and terrorization[5], and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at power, everyone would like to be like a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing their own welfare . . .

Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. The idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the masses of the people to one’s party for the purpose of crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier if the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, so-called liberalism, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power[6]. It is precisely here that triumph of our theory appears: the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism.

In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob [7]. . .

Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord brings it under the power of external foes – in any case it can be accounted irretrievably lost: it is our power. The despotism of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not – it goes to the bottom . . .

(Is it) possible for any logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by the aide of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and the men in masses, being solely guided by petty passions, paltry beliefs, customs, traditions and sentimental theorism, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument . . .[8]

The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have our course both to cunning . . . and to make believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be attributes of the kingdoms of the Christians but we must in no wise be guided by them . . .

Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it . . .[9]

Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.

Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labour of many centuries[10] brought to naught. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into abyss; consequently members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin . . .[11]

Our countersign is – force and make-believe. Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which do not lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end of good.[12] Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty.

Our state, marching along on the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror, which tends to produce blind submission.[13] Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory . . .

Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,”[14] words many times repeated since those days of stupid poll-parrots who from all sides round flew down on these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world, true freedom of the individual, so formerly well guarded against the pressure of the mob. The would be wise men of the Christians, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractness; did not note the contradiction of their meaning and inter-relation; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom;[15] that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws; never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself.

In all corners of the earth the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the Christians, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the Christians states.[16] As you will see latter, this helped us to triumph; it gave us the possibility, and among other things of getting into our hands the master card – the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the Christians, that class which was the only defense peoples and countries had against us . . .

Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men whom we wanted we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability for the material needs of man;[17] and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought our activities.

Our international rights will then wipe out the national rights[18], in the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of the States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.[19]

The administrators, whom we shall choose[20] from among the public, with strict regard to the capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the art of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisors, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of our have been drawing, to fit them for rule, the information they need from our political plans from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it passes. The Christians are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation[21], but by theoretical routine without any critical regard to consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them – let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed.[22] For them, let that play the principal part of which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the Christians will puff themselves with their knowledge and, without any logical verification of them, will put into effect all the information available from science, which our agentur specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want . . .[23]

In the hands of the State of today there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the press. That part is played by the press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its force; and it has fallen into our hands.[24] Through the Press we have gained the power of influence while remaining ourselves in the shade;[25] thanks to the Press we have the gold in our hands, not withstanding that we have had to gather it out of oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand Christians.

The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn.[26] The Christians are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting the scales would come into equilibrium . . .

In order to incite seekers after the power to a misuse of power, we have set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies towards independence. To this end, we have stirred up every form of enterprises, we have armed all parties, and we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a host of confused issues contend . . . A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal . . .

Babblers inexhaustible have turned into oratorical contests and the sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.[27]

All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty (debt) more firmly than ever they were chained to slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might free themselves, these could be settled with, but from want they will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called “People’s Rights” can exist only in idea, an idea that can never be realized in practical life. What is to the proletariat labourer, bowed double over to this heavy toll, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in favour of what we dictate, in favour of the men we place in power, the servants of our agentur . . .

We appear on the scene as alleged saviors of the worker from the oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces – to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity)[28] of our social masonry. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labour of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy and strong. We are interested in just the opposite – in the diminution, the killing out of the Christians. Our power is the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will.[29] Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.

By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.

When the hour strikes for our Sovereign Lord [antichrist?][30] of all the world to be crowned, it is these hands which will sweep away everything that might be hindrance thereto.

The Christians have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions [brainwashing] of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that it is essential to teach in national schools one simple, true piece of knowledge, the basis of all knowledge – the knowledge of the structure of human life, of social existence, which requires division of labour, and consequently, the division of men into classes and conditions. It is essential for all to know that owing to differences in the objects of human activity there cannot be any equality, that he who by any act of his, compromises a whole class cannot be equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honour.[31] The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the Christians, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this knowledge the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge and the directions we have given to its development the people, blindly believing things in print, cherishes – thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance – a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition.

This hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an economic crisis, which will stop dealings on the exchangers and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, a universal economic crisis whereby we shall throw upon the streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries of Europe. These mobs will rush diligently to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of the ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will be able to loot.

‘Ours’ they will not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to us and we shall take measures to protect our own.

We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the Christians to the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out of all institutions.

When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded to it in the name of freedom, it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power. But, naturally, like every other blind man it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks, it has rushed to find a guide, it has never had the sense to return to the former state and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at our feet[32]. Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of ‘Great’: the secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands . . .

And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders at every step[33].

Who and what are in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is[34]. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objectives, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.

But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy, without injury to the well-being of the peoples, if it rested upon the foundation of the faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negative by the very laws of creation, for they have established subordination. With such faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon the earth. This is the reason why it is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the minds of the Christians the very principle of Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations of material needs[35].

In order to give the Christians no time to think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once and for all disintegrate and ruin communities of the Christians, we must put industry on a speculative basis: the result of this will be what is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is our class. (Author’s note: Examine closely the NAFTA treaty and the resulting “loss” of an estimated 7 trillion dollars of individuals’ savings, pensions, and retirement funds from 1999 to 2003. This “passing into speculation” continues to this time.)

We shall create an intensified centralization of government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by the Christians, and our kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any Christians who opposes us by deed or word.[36] We shall be told that despotism as I speak of is not consistent with the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that it is.

Moreover, the art of directing the masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other quirks, in which all the Christians understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administration brain. Reared on analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of the plans of political actions and solidarity . . . [37]

For a time perhaps we might be successfully dealt with by a coalition of the Christians of all the world: but from this danger we are secured by the discord existing among them [38] whose roots are so deeply seated that they can never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of the Christians, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for everyone of them must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong – there is no evading power. The nations cannot come to even an inconsiderable private without our secretly having a hand in it . . . Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead into war; more important to use to our advantage the passions which have burst into flames than to quench their fire; more important to catch up and interpret the ideas of others to suit ourselves than to eradicate them. The principal objective of our directorate consists in this: to debilitate the public mind by criticism; to lead it away from serious reflections calculated to arouse resistance; to distract the forces of the mind towards a sham fight of empty eloquence.

In all ages the peoples of the world, equally with the individuals, have accepted words for deeds, for they are content with a show and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore we shall establish institutions[39] which will give eloquent proof to their benefit to progress.[40]

We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all directions, and we shall give the physiognomy a voice in orators who will speak so much that they will exhaust patience of their hearers and produce an abhorrence to oratory.

In order to put public opinion into our hands we must bring it into a state of bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many contradictory opinions and for such length of time as will suffice to make the Christians lose their heads in the labyrinth and come to see that the best thing to have no opinion of any kind in matters political, they are understood only by him who guides the public.[41] This is the first secret.[42] (Author’s note: “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways…”)

The second secret requisite for success for our government is comprised of the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us in another way, namely, to sow discord in all parities, to dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. There is nothing more dangerous than personal initiative; if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the Christians communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain, which results from freedom of action, saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. By all these means we shall so wear down the Christians that they will be compelled to offer us international power of a nature that by its position will enable us without any violence gradually absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government. In place of the rulers of today we shall set up a bogey which will be called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.

What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both labour and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the Christians into the ranks of the proletariat[43]. Then the Christians will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist . . . We shall raise the rate of wages which, however, will not bring any advantage to the workers, for at the same time, we shall produce a rise in prices of the first necessaries of life, alleging that it arises from the decline of agriculture and cattle-breeding[44]; we shall further undermine artfully and deeply sources of productions, by accustoming the workers to anarchy[45] and to drunkenness and side by side therewith taking all measures to extirpate from the earth all the educated forces of the Christians.

In order that the true meaning of the things may not strike the Christians before the proper time we shall mask it under alleged ardent desire to serve the working classes and the great principles of political economy[46] about which our economic theories are carrying on an energetic propaganda.

The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential for the completion of the aforesaid mentioned plans[47]. What we have to get at is that there should be in all States of the world, beside ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.[48]

We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us[49]; but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by universal war.

The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings; the world should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

We must compel the governments of the Christians to take action in the direction favored by our widely-conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called “Great Power” – the Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands.

In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the Christians in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.

We must arm ourselves with all the weapons that our opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in expression that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with these forces of civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats, and finally, with persons prepared by a special super-educational training in our special schools[50]. These persons will have cognizance of all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that can be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be acquainted with the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to play[51].

These cords are the cast of mind of the Christians, their tendencies, shortcomings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from amongst the Christians, who are accustomed to perform their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of the Christians sign papers without reading them, [Editor’s Note: The Act of March 9, 1933 is a prime example] and they serve either for mercenary reasons or for reasons of ambition . . .

For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our States to our brother [Illuminists] – we shall put between them and the people lies, an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear – this in order to make them defend our interest to their last gasp.

For us there are no checks to limit the range of our activity. Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions, which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word – Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and shall spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. And the weapons in our hands are limitless ambitions, burning greediness, merciless vengeance, hatreds and malice.

It is from us that the all-engulfing terror proceeds. We have in our service persons of opinions of all doctrines, restorating monarchists, demagogues, socialists, communists, and utopian dreamers of every kind. We have harnessed them all to the task: each one of them on his own account is boring away at the last remnants of authority, is striving to overthrow all established forms of order.[52] By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to tranquillity, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace, but we will not give them peace until they openly acknowledge our international Super-Government, and with submissiveness.

The people have raised a howl about the necessity of setting the question of Socialism by way of an international agreement. Division into fractional parties has given them into our hands, for in order to carry on a contested struggle one must have money, and the money is all in our hands . . .

In this way the blind force of the people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal . . .

In order not to annihilate the institutions of the Christians before it is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs which move the mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by chaotic license of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, but principally into the education and training as being the corner stones of a free existence.[53]

We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the youth of the Christians by rearing them in principles and theories that are know to us to be false although it is by us that they have been inculcated.[54]

Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely twisting contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression first in the fact that the interpretations masked the laws: afterwards they entirely hid them from the eyes of governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out of the web of legislation.

This is the origin of the theory, of course, of arbitration.

You may say that the Christians will rise upon us, arms in arms, if they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts will quail – undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown into the air with all their organization and archives[55].

When we have accomplished our coup d’etat we shall say then to the various people: ‘Everything has gone terribly badly, all have been worn out with sufferings. We are destroying the causes of your torment – nationalities, frontiers, differences of coinage[56]. You are at liberty, of course, to pronounce sentence upon us, but can it possibly be a just one if it is confirmed by you before you make any trial of what we are offering you’ . . . Then will the mob exalt us and bear us up in their hands in a unanimous triumph of hopes and expectations. Voting, which we have made an instrument which will set us on the throne of the world by teaching even the very smallest units of members of the human race to vote by means of meetings and agreements of groups, will then have served its purposes and will play its part then for the last time by a unanimity of desire to make close acquaintance with us before condemning us.

To secure this we must have everybody vote without distinction of classes and qualifications, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the Christians the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing[57]; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set as its head by us as leaders of the mob . . .

When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal illness – blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their death agony . . .

(Author’s note: The definition of the word “liberalism” used by the writer must not be confused with the understanding of the word “liberalism” today, which is seen as either “human rights” or as “socialism.” The above writer’s definition is that of “freedom,” “democracy,” and “liberty,” as will be proven in this book.)

In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections in favour of such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain, some ‘Panama’ or other – then they will be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the retention of privileges, but we shall take from it the right to propose new, or make changes in the existing laws[58], for this right will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of the president will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but we shall provide him with the means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that same blind slave of ours – the majority of the mob. Independently of this we shall invest the president with the right of declaring a state of war.[59] We shall justify this last right on the ground that the president, as chief of the whole army of the country, must have at his disposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution[60], the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representative of the constitution. It is easy to understand that in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force of legislation . . .

But you as yourselves perfectly well know that to produce the possibility of the expression of such wishes by all the nations it is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people’s relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation. By the inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the Christians see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and all else.

But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly ever to arrive.

This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall make Law, Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals of the Legislative Corps, (2) by decrees of the president under the guise of the general regulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions of the State Councils in the guise of ministerial orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise – in the form of a revolution in the State . . . What we want is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the peoples of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact of the revolution, still in a condition of terror and uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are so strong, so inexpungable, so superabundantly filled with power, that in no case shall we take any account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression and manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in no case divide our power with them . . . Then in fear and trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be content to await what will be the end of it all.

The Christians are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? . . .

There is no other reason why they will close their eyes: for we shall keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties . . .[61]

It is not worth while to say anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting for this return of their liberties . . .

The word ‘freedom,’ which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows: –

Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows. The interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.

We shall deal with the press in the following way: What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties.[62] It is often too vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb; we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? . . .[63]

Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.

[Author’s note:]

Now observe this quote from Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud and consultant to CBS empire kingpin William Paley:

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it ... The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country ...[64] In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons … who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”[65]

(The Master Plan cont’d:)

If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the Christians communities to such an extent that they all come near looking upon the events of the world through coloured glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses: if already now there in not a single State where there exist for us any barriers of admittance into what the Christians stupidity calls State secrets; what will our position be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world . . .

All the so-called liberal are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought. Everyone of them is hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest . . .

In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.

All our newspapers will be all possible complexions – aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical[66] – for so long, of course, as the constitution exists . . . Like the Indian idol Vishnu they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When the pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who think they are repeating the opinion of the newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will in fact follow the flag which we hang out to them . . .

These attacks upon us will also serve another purpose, namely, that our subjects will be convinced of the existence of full freedom of speech and so give our agents an occasion to affirm that all organs which oppose us are empty babblers, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.

Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government . . . Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquilize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now the truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it[67] . . . We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full and final expression of their views owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.

Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs . . .

When we are in the period of the new regime [The New World Order – Author] transitional to that of our assumption of full sovereignty we must not admit any revelations by the press of any form of public dishonesty; it is necessary that the new regime should be thought to have so perfectly contented everybody that even criminality has disappeared . . . Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses – no more. The need for daily bread forces the Christians to keep silence and be our humble servants[68]. Agents taken on to our press from among the Christians will at our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and then offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare demand to abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will be represented as an improvement . . . And immediately the press will distract the current thought towards new questions (have we not trained people always to be seeking something new?) . . .

…in order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions of questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this sphere let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remain inactive, to take a rest from what they suppose to be political activity (which we trained them in order to use them as a means of combating the Christians governments)[69] only on condition of being found new employments, in which we are prescribing them something that looks like the same political objective.[70]

In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about we further distract them with arguments, games, pastimes, passions, people’s palaces . . . Soon we shall begin through the press to propose competitions in art, in sport of all kinds; these interest will finally distract their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them[71]. Growing more and more disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions for their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we, because we alone shall be offering them new directions for thought . . . of course through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us[72].

The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will finally be played out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue to do us good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct their hands to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive; for have we not with complete success turned the brainless heads of the Christians with progress, till there is not among the Christians one mind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in all cases where it is not a question of material inventions, for truth is one, and in it there is no place for progress. Progress, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so that none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its guardians.

When we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our beneficent rule.

Who will ever suspect then that all these peoples were staged-managed by us according to political plan, which no one has so much as guessed at in the course of many centuries? . . .

. . . Useless changes of forms of government to which we instigated the Christians when we were undermining the state structures, will have so wearied the peoples by that time they will prefer to suffer anything under us rather than run the risk of enduring again all the agitations and miseries they have gone through.

At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of the Christians government which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the true good of humanity in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, and have never noticed that these schemes kept producing a worse and never better state of universal relations which are the basis of human life[73].

The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that we shall present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and decomposed old order of things in social life. (The New World Order – Author)

Our philosophers will discuss the shortcomings of the various beliefs of the Christians, but no one will ever bring under discussion our faith from its true point of view since this will be fully learned by none save ours, who will never dare to betray its secrets[74].

In countries known as progressive and enlightened, we have created a senseless, filthy abominable literature. For some time our entrance to power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a telling relief by contrast to the speeches, party program, which will be distributed from exalted quarters of ours . . . Our wise men, trained to become leaders of the Christians, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs, articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds of the Christians, directing them towards such understanding and forms of knowledge as have been determined by us.[75]

When we last definitely come to our kingdom by the aid of the coups d’etat prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after the worthlessness of all existing forms of government has been definitely acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that comes about, perhaps even a whole century) we shall make it our task to see that against us such things as plots shall no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new institution of anything like our secret society will also be punished by death; those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from Europe. In this way we shall proceed with those Christians masons who know too much; such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members of secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the centre of our rule. Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.

In the Christians societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord of Protestantism, the only way of restoring order is to employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must be paid to victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment of that well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, is the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges, as justification for its existence, not only to its privileges but its obligations. The principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this aureole is attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on its face of inviolability from mystical cause – from the choice of God. Such was, until recent times, the Russian autocracy, the one and only serious foe we had in the world without counting the Papacy . . . (Author’s note: I have personally concluded this last statement about the Papacy to be false, and a “plant.” The Papacy has long played a significant and leading role in the establishment of these “secret doctrines,” as will be shown in this book.)

The class of people of most willingly enter into secret societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, most light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to stir it up in order to break up its solidarity. But if there should arise in its midst a plot, then at the head of that plot will be no other than one of our most trusted servants. It is natural that we and no other should lead Masonic activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know the final goal of every form of activity whereas the Christians have knowledge of nothing, not even of the immediate effect of action.

When it comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its blessings, we shall remake all legislature, all our laws will be brief, plain, stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in a position to know them perfectly. The main feature will run right through them is submission to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse of power subordinate to this last instance will be mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious to try experiments with their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the administration on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the State, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.

Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in service of the administration – all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first examples of severe punishment. The sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling on the administration field of battle in the interest of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of those who hold reins of the public coach should turn aside from the public highway to their own private baths. For example: our judges will know whenever they feel disposed to plume themselves on foolish clemency; they are violating the law of justice which is instituted for the exemplary edification of the men by penalties for lapses and not for display of the spiritual qualities of the judge . . .

We shall root out liberalism from all the important pots of our government on which depends the training of the subordinates for our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trained by us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the retirement of old servants will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly they will be provided with some private service in place of what they lose, and secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government that has to fear expense.

Our government will have the appearance of a patriarchal paternal guardianship on the part of the ruler. Our own nation and our subjects will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every act, their every inner-relation as subjects one with another, as well as their relations to the ruler[76]. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, that they will acknowledge the autocracy of our ruler with a devotion bordering on Apotheosis, especially when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their own in place of his authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. They will be rejoiced that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who desire to train their children in the cause of duty and submission.

We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a breach of established order, for the exemplary punishment of evil lies a great educational problem.

In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours, we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism – the universities, by reeducating them in a new direction.[77] Their officials and professors will be prepared for their business by detailed secret programs of action from which they will not with immunity diverge, not by one iota. They will be appointed with special precaution, and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent upon the Government . . .

We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of governments of the Christians[78]. The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of the people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples which spread the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling of state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the question has special importance.

Each state of life must be trained within the strict limits corresponding to its destination and work in life. The occasional genius has always managed and always will manage to slip through into other states of life, but it is the most perfect folly for the sake of this rare occasional genius to let through into the ranks foreign to them the untalented who thus rob of their places those who belong to those ranks by birth or employment. You know yourselves in what all this has ended for the Christians who allowed this crying absurdity.

In a word, knowing by experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by ideas[79], that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful to us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by object lessons, the purpose of which is to turn the Christians into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them . . .[80]

They do not usually decline to undertaking any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with litigants[81]; they will receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of report and documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated in court on the facts that have appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business in the interest of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business in the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted from the not personal interest but by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain between advocates to agree only to let that side win which pays the most . . .

Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. Freedom of conscience has been declared everywhere[82], so that now only years divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that Christians religion, as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now . . .[83]

In our program one-third of our subjects will keep the rest under observation from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State.[84] It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be no development of abuses of this right.

This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and responsible for concealment, if it is proved he is guilty of this crime.

Just as nowadays our brethren are obliged at their own risk to denounce to the kabal apostates of their own family or members who have been noticed doing anything in opposition to the kabal, so in our kingdom over all the world it will be obligatory for all our subjects to observe the duty of service to the State in this direction.

We have compelled the rulers to acknowledge their weakness in advertising over measures of secret defense and thereby we shall bring the promise of authority to destruction.

Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is compelled to hide from it.

Criminals with us will be arrested at the first more or less well-grounded suspicion; it cannot be allowed that out of fear a possible mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a political lapse or crime, for in these matters we shall be literally merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with question in which nobody except the government can understand anything . . . And it is not all governments that understand true policy.

Sedition mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap dog at an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but from the public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to take a good example to show relative importance of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and wag their tails the moment they set eyes on an elephant.

Economic cries have been produced by us for the Christians by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated, withdrawing from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnate capitals for loans[85]. These loans burdened the finances of the state with the payment of interest, and made them the bond slaves of these capitals . . . The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples and with them also of the States . . .

The present issue of money in general does not correspond with the requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to correspond with the growth of the population and thereby children must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth[86]. This revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.

You are aware that the gold standard has been the best ruin of the States which adopted it, for it has been unable to satisfy the demands for money, the more so that we have removed gold from circulation as far as possible.

With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of the working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or wood. We shall make the issue of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.

The reform projected by us in the financial institutions and principles of the Christians[87] will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarm nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the disorderly darkness into which the Christians by their irregularities have plunged the finances. The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their beginning with drawing up a single budget which year after year grows owing to the following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they demand a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months, after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from the normal reaches as much as 50 percent in a year, and so the annual budget is trebled in ten years. Thanks so much methods, allowed by the carelessness of the Christians States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the Christians States to bankruptcy.

You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this kind, which have been suggested to the Christians by us, cannot be carried on by us . . .

What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan is – an issue of governments’ bills of exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a charge of 5 percent, then in twenty years the State vainly pay away in interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty – treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.[88]

From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head of State is bailing out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with the wealthy foreigners, from who it has borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest[89].

So long as loans were internal the Christians only shuffled money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the necessary person ( Author’s note: Rothschild…) in order to transfer loans into the external sphere all the wealth of the States flowed into our cash-boxes and all the Christians began to pay us the tribute of subjects . . .

How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the Christians, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us with the payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people?

But it is proof of genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in them an advantage for themselves.

Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in light of centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on the Christians States[90], will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness, and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which we owe our mastery over the Christians, but which cannot be allowed in our kingdom . . .

You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what a pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples . . .

If everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the government would be hooked on their flies and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the Christians governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments of their moneys, and thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off their shoulders a debt of several millions.

Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the Christians for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.

In this way an acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various countries the absence of any means between the interest of the people and those who rule them.

I beg you too concentrate your particular attention upon this point and upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by the so-called flying loans, that is such as have terms of payments more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition of a government, these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are replaced by the deposit of equivalent amount of rents.

We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observance of the laws established by us . . .

Our authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles and which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but utopian . . . Our authority will be the crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a reverent fear before it of all the peoples. True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of God: none date near to it as to take much as a span from it away.

That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary to inoculate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of articles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall reestablish small master production, which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of manufacturers. That is indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masters knows nothing of unemployment, and this binds him closely with the existing order, and consequently with the firmness of authority. Unemployment is a most perilous thing for a government. For us its part will have been played out the moment authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against the humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol.

Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the strong hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword for defense and support against social scourges . . . What do they want with an angelic spirit in a king? What they have to see in him is the personification of force and power.”

We have just read testimony that there are those persons, somewhere, who believe they can control every aspect of every life on earth through their power structure. Let’s examine these areas to see if there is a valid basis to believe the authenticity of what is written above in The Master Plan.

The areas where the composer of this document claimed that himself and his “organization” had, or were gaining, control are as follows:

The media

International banking

Calvinist/Lutheran theology

Liberal politics

Family

Education

Systems of taxation

The writing of constitutions

Now let’s see what Henry Ford had to say in an interview published in the New York World, February 17, 1921:

“The only statement I care to make about the Master Plan is that they fit in with what is going on. They are [at least] sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now.”

“This small but powerful group which includes international bankers, industrialists, scientists, military and political leaders, educationalists, economists, members of the media and religious leaders have used all subversive movements to divide the masses of the people into opposing camps on political, social, racial, economic and religious issues. They arm the groups and encourage them to fight with each other”.

Do I suggest that anyone “take action” against these wicked schemes or the men who devise them and put them into practice? Heaven forbid, no! What they do, they only do because the Sovereign God Himself has predetermined that they should do it.

Huh?

Friends, the Word clearly shows that God will only allow these enemies of His to do the part He Himself has laid out for them. They are of The Adversary, who, God in His wisdom, has determined of that whatever he (or his men) do for evil, God will turn to Good, for His own purposes. The Word only dictates that we should be aware of them, and to expose them, but not that we should take any action against them except to obey His Word. To do so would be to play exactly into their hands, and so to be deceived.

When Christians take up arms, or politics, or lawsuits against these forces, we are attempting to use their own weapons against them, and we are also taking action against the sovereignty of God. What has happened to Christianity in the United States is a primary example. We were not founded on the principles of righteousness, peace, love, and the obedience to sovereigns; quite the opposite. We were founded on liberalism (freedom), on revolution (rebellion is the same as witchcraft), on the blood of our brothers (who lives by the sword shall die by the sword), and on the capital (whomsoever you owe, he is your master) of the very men who devised the strategy above. Think about it! Check our history and check the Word!

For example, let’s examine the definitions of a constitutional republic against that of a democracy, as written in the U.S. Government War Department Training Manual #2000-25:

Republic: Authority is derived through the election by the people of the public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A great number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. Is the standard form of government throughout the world. A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who, works together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights. Take away any one or more of these four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one ore more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Democracy: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meetings or any other form of direct expression (media, opinionism, insert mine). Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic – negative property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Now, let’s first look to the Word of God to see if either of these definitions is supportable in context with the Faith. What rights are given to believers in this world? That of sojourners, at odds with the world; persecution, undeserved hatred, imprisonment, martyrdom, poverty – these things, we were told by our Leader, our Commander, our King, we would inherit on this earth in this age if we are in Him. Our true citizenship, our prosperity of the Faith, is waiting in Heaven in Jesus Christ the King, until its revealing at His arrival, to all those who believe and obey, who are found worthy. In what way should we appeal to the rights of the world, which, even were they real, would assign our citizenship to the world that is to be destroyed instead of to the world and the age to come under His rule?

Having said that, let’s examine carefully the distinction between these two forms of the government of the world, and make some disturbing observations.

The present President of the United States, George W. Bush, a professing Christian, an elected republican, has been quoted more times than is possible to count as saying that his policies have the defined purpose of establishing democracy throughout the world. Democracy? And he repeats the mantra of freedom and liberty at every opportunity. Is there a contradiction here, my friends?

And moreso, does this observation coincide with the philosophy behind “The Master Plan” document?

Am I advocating revolution? Or that we can or should “do something about it?” No, my friends. On the one hand, there is nothing we can “do about it.” This was all foretold by our God through His prophets. So, on the other hand, there is only one thing we can “do about it.” But, we have been lulled; so we don’t even know how to go about being “willing and obedient.”

Therefore, all American Christianity is built on a foundation of sand, and not on the Gospel of Peace and unselfish Love according to our Redeemer. And for that very reason, all of the awful things written in the Master Plan have already begun, and many of them have been fulfilled. Unfortunately, their surmise of “christians” was all too accurate.

And, these things may not have been (though He told us they would be) save for the “ministries” of John Calvin and Martin Luther, who were not the True reformers of the gospel (that title belongs to other, little known men, as we shall see). This may seem unbelievable to the reader, and I quite understand. Therefore, please allow this author to continue laying the foundation of fact and truth that may allow us to see that these statements are not so incredible after all. As with Stephen, history will provide us our proofs.

Now let’s open our eyes and take a look at the systems listed in the Master Plan.

The Education System

The administration of our universities has been taken over by Presidents selected by the Fabian Socialists/Milner Group through the noble-sounding “Rhodes Scholars” program. Therefore, the Professors selected are the ones that lean more (heavily) toward a socialist, or “liberal,” bent, exactly as the document reads. Our universities are now bastions of liberalism and unrest.

INSERT list of educators

1913 – O.C. Carmichael, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University

1921 – John Tigert, U.S. Commissioner of Education, President of the University of Florida

1922 – Frank Aydelotte – President of Swarthmore College

1941 – Morris Abram – President of Brandeis University, member Council on Foreign Relations, member Institute for International Education…

1942 – William Yandell Elliot – Professor of Government, Harvard University

ETC….

It’s quite evident that the policies of education in the United States could not possibly escape the influence of the above list of influential administrators.

In their hands has been, and is, the power to appoint (and dis-appoint) professors to and from the staffs of the universities under their rule. They can favorably, or disfavorably, influence the futures of students under their umbrella, who more often than not move on to positions of power within both governments and corporations. Also, their influence “filters down” into primary and secondary education; the views and policies they initiate and enforce are learned by graduate students who go on to teach in the elementary and high school education systems.

The Media

The media, at least the part of it that is allowed to reach the majority of the general public through television, newspapers, radio, books, and movies, are all controlled by three, and at the most four, “owners,” though affiliations are difficult for the average person to see, and difficult even for the more seasoned researchers to “track down.”

But let’s look at just one media company, Time Warner:

The largest media company in the world is the standard bearer of synergy and vertical integration in the modern digital age. The marriage between “old” media Time Warner and “new” media AOL in 2000 was heralded by many experts as a sign of a new era. The belief was that traditional media companies had to align themselves with online partners or risk the chance of finding their business model and methods obsolete. A weak ad market, subscriptions for new online users hitting a plateau, and a less than expected demand for broadband Internet service are just some of the reasons why AOL Time Warner never jumped started an overhaul of the entire media industry as first predicted. The company dropped AOL from its corporate name in 2003 in an effort to show Wall Street that it still valued its core assets. With such influential brands as CNN, Warner Brothers studio, Sports Illustrated and AOL Instant Messaging, a Time Warner property is never too far away from any consumer’s fingertips.

Time Warner Book Group

Warner Books

The Mysterious Press
Warner Vision
Warner Business Books
Aspect

Warner Faith

Warner Treasures
TW Kids

Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown Adult Trade
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Back Bay
Bulfinch Press

Time Warner Book Group UK
Time Warner Audio Books
Time Inc.

Southern Progress Corporation

Sunset Books
Oxmoor House
Leisure Arts

Time Warner – Cable

HBO
CNN
CNN International
CNN en Espanol
CNN Headline News
CNN Airport Network
CNN fn
CNN Radio
CNN Interactive
Court TV (with Liberty Media)
Time Warner Cable
Road Runner
New York 1 News (24 hour news channel devoted only to NYC)
Kablevision (53.75% – cable television in Hungary)

In Demand

Metro Sports (Kansas City)

Time Warner Inc. – Film & TV Production/Distribution

Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Studios
Warner Bros. Television (production)
The WB Television Network
Warner Bros. Television Animation
Hanna – Barbera Cartoons
Telepictures Production
Witt – Thomas Productions
Castle Rock Entertainment
Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Domestic Pay – TV
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution
The Warner Channel (Latin America, Asia – Pacific, Australia, Germ.)
Warner Bros. International Theaters (owns/operates multiplex theaters in over 12 countries)

Time Warner Inc. – Magazines

Time

Time Asia
Time Atlantic
Time Canada
Time Latin America
Time South Pacific
Time Money
Time For Kids

Fortune
All You
Business 2.0
Life
Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated International
SI for Kids

Inside Stuff
Money

Your Company
Your Future

People

Who Weekly (Australian edition)
People en Español
Teen People

Entertainment Weekly

EW Metro

The Ticket
In Style
Southern Living
Progressive Farmer
Southern Accents
Cooking Light
The Parent Group

Parenting
Baby Talk
Baby on the Way

This Old House
Sunset
Sunset Garden Guide
The Health Publishing Group

Health
Hippocrates
Coastal Living
Weight Watchers

Real Simple
Asiaweek (Asian news weekly)
President (Japanese business monthly)
Dancyu (Japanese cooking)
Wallpaper (K.)
Field & Stream
Freeze
Golf Magazine
Outdoor Life
Popular Science
Salt Water Sportsman
Ski
Skiing Magazine
Skiing Trade News
SNAP
Snowboard Life
Ride BMX
Today’s Homeowner
TransWorld Skateboarding
TransWorld Snowboarding
Verge
Yachting Magazine
Warp
American Express Publishing Corporation (partial ownership/management)

Travel & Leisure
Food & Wine
Your Company
Departures
SkyGuide

Magazines listed under Warner Brothers label

DC Comics
Vertigo
Paradox
Milestone
Mad Magazine

Online Services

CompuServe Interactive Services
AOL Instant Messenger
com portal
DigitalCity
AOL Europe
ICQ
The Knot, Inc. – wedding content (8 % with QVC 36% and Hummer
WinbladFunds18%)
com – pending regulatory approval
com
Winamp
com (10%)
Legend (49% – Internet service in China)

Time Warner – Online/Other Publishing

Road Runner
Warner Publisher Services
Time Distribution Services
American Family Publishers (50%)
Pathfinder
com

Time Warner – Merchandise/Retail

Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Theme Parks

Warner Brothers Recreation Enterprises (owns/operates international theme parks)

Time Warner Inc. – Turner Entertainment

Entertainment Networks

TBS Superstation
Turner Network Television (TNT)
Turner South
Cartoon Network
Turner Classic Movies
Cartoon Network in Europe
Cartoon Network in Latin America
TNT & Cartoon Network in Asia/Pacific

Film Production

New Line Cinema
Fine Line Features
Turner Original Productions

Sports

Atlanta Braves

Other Operations

Turner Learning
CNN Newsroom (daily news program for classrooms)
Turner Adventure Learning (electronic field trips for schools)
Turner Home Satellite
Turner Network Sales

Other

Netscape Communications
Netscape Netcenter portal
AOL MovieFone
iAmaze
com (partial)
com
Streetmail (partial)
Switchboard (6%)

last updated 8/11/2004

The above Time Warner information is:

Now, a little Time-Warner info. Time Warner was originally the Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. It was founded by the “Warner” brothers, Jack, Albert, Harry and Samuel, only their name wasn’t Warner. It was Eichelbaum.

Now, I don’t desire to get into the arena of “Jewish conspiracy,” for several biblical reasons. First, the Word says that there are jews, then there are Jews. “One is a Jew who is one inwardly.” So, if there are “jews” involved in this matter in a negative way, then they are not really “Jews.” They are of the “synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are not.” Therefore, they are condemned with the rest of the world that does not seek God to do His will. Therefore, they are our enemies, and we should pray for them, do good to them, and lay down our lives for them as Jesus did for His enemies, you and me. Enough said, right?

I’m not claiming that the owners of Time Warner (in particular) are a part of the “evil plot” against the world as described above, though personally, I suspect they might be. They’re certainly in a position to be, and they keep the “right company” to be, and their fruits seem to be bad fruits.

The point that should be observed is that so much power in the hands of a very few actually exists. And such power exercises tremendous influence with whomever watches the movies and television, reads the newspapers, listens to the radio, or buys books. Not to mention the watching of amateur and professional sports.

Also, in such a position, the controllers of any media operation this vast have an enormous influence over public opinion in the areas of politics, morals, and education.

Now, after reading the document above and observing all that has taken place in the United States since the advent of Hollywood, can we possibly discern a link between the Master Plan and the effects of the media?

To say that the media influences anti-christian sentiments and lifestyles would definitely be an understatement. And did you notice the anti-christian content of the Master Plan, and the way they proposed to combat the Christians? And how many people in America claim to be “Christians” while consuming of the unclean menu listed above? We should “Examine yourselves to see if you are in the Faith” – if we have ears to hear.

The Formation of the John Calvin Legacy

When one is searching for the Truth, they must do so by gathering enough pieces of the puzzle which they believe they see until a coherent picture begins to develop. In this way, even without “all the pieces,” one is still able to see the picture.

It would be wise to heed and recognize as true the words of author Frank Herbert:

“You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure…The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts defer attention from the secret influences around the recorded events.”

Due to some research conducted by others who were seeking the entire Truth, I one day saw (Glory to God) a pattern (secret influences around recorded events) that I had not seen or read of before. It intrigued me, so I started digging. My reason for digging at first was to trace down a suspected “bad egg” that had sneaked into Christianity, namely the “eternal security” or “once saved always saved” doctrine that is infecting the churches today via the Trojan horse of the “New Evangelical Movement.” I knew that this doctrine seemingly had its origins with Luther and/or Calvin, but I soon discovered that what I “knew” was incorrect. Where the false doctrine had its “modern” origins was with Augustine, the historical holy father of Catholic dogma. So, I decided to start “connecting dots.” I had no idea how many “dots” I would discover, and where the trails of dots would lead. But it did not take long to see a “picture” developing.

I would find dots in pre-Nicea paganism (an intriguing blend of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Manicheaism, and Babylonian and Egyptian occult), leading through the “throne” of the Church to an organized structure contrived by Augustine (the City of God), through the Merovingian Dynasty to the Knights Templar, to the French Throne and the power struggle for the control of the “Banks of the Kings,” through the setting up of a Bank-state with a religious top-dressing in Geneva, to the Puritan (Calvinist) – Huguenot (Calvinist/Masonic) colonization of North America and the establishment of Freemasonry as a worldwide deception, dominion, recruiting, and communications system, to the frauds perpetrated by some of the world’s most “trusted” individuals in order to set up John Calvin’s Worldwide Socialist Demo-theocracy.

Those trustworthy names? How about the President of the United States (name one!), Billy Graham, the Pope, Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite (has been a “card-carrying member of the World Federalists for his entire career), the Rockefeller dynasty, the Queen of England (more than just a “figurehead!”), the Dalai Lama, the Red Cross, Charles Stanley, … and strangely, at the “middle of it all,” an otherwise somewhat insignificant enigma of a man named John Calvin, without whom the whole “puzzle” may fall apart, for he is a “key piece.”

You see, in one way or another, John Calvin is the one single factor that is in common with all of the above, and more. Dots connect him to Augustine. Dots connect him to the French Throne. Dots connect him to Geneva. Dots connect him to the Constitution of the United States. Dots connect him to the Throne of England (Westminister Confession). Dots connect him to the Knights Templar (Teutonic Knights), the Rosicrucians, and the Freemasons. Dots connect him to the World Bank system (beginning with the Medici, Savoy, and Hapsburg empires).

Do I mean John Calvin, the great theologian? Well, first of all, John Calvin was no great (of The Faith) theologian, which is easily proven. He was a humanist attorney. He was still on Rome’s payroll when he wrote the first draft of his Institutes, a historically provable fact. His mission was to systemitize the works of Augustine and, in doing so, whether wittingly or no, he greatly progressed the modern political structure of Socialist Democracy, otherwise known to students of politics as Fascism, as well as the existing hierarchical church governing system (also fascism). And this social structure is the central political theme to the United Nation’s place in the World Government, which is betrothed to its bride to be, the (for now) Rome-centered New World Religion, the worship of Gaia. The “spirit” that is to make these two “one flesh” is absolute control, or the spirit of mammon.

Doubt that statement? Let’s revue again what alleged Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt had to say of Luther and Calvin:

“The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it the true and genuine sense of Christians religion. O mortal man, is there nothing you cannot be made to believe.”

He went on to write,

“The true purpose of the order was to rule the world. To achieve this it was necessary for the order to destroy all religions, overthrow all governments and abolish private property . . . The strength of our order lies in its concealment, let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation.”

Allow me to state at this point my philosophical viewpoint: I despise conspiracy theory as an end in and of itself. To me, conspiracy theory is useful only as a potential basis of hypothesis. In that definition, conspiracy theory is not theory at all, and conspiracy theorists often do nothing but to feed the mysticism machine that keeps rulers in power and enables them to dupe the public. Conspiracy “theorists” often blend “truths” with conjecture and speculation with the result of creating urban legends, and thus discredit the very truths they used to formulate their opinions.

Before a hypothesis is even begun, there must be some basis of credible fact above and beyond suspicion. However, many conspiracy theories have only the suspicions of their progenitors as a basis, and, accompanied by a few facts and some sensationalism, are often built on no more than rumours and vain imaginations. What I hope to do in this hypothesis is to provide the facts; you can then be free to come to your own conclusions regarding them.

When I look for facts, I often go to the resource of historically provable relationships and combine what is found there with the results or consequences of said relationships (“…secret influences around recorded events.”). I look for at least three resources, or better said, types of resources in which to establish a historical fact. I will look to a resource that is friendly to the subject, a resource that is hostile to the subject, and a resource that is seemingly or somewhat neutral to the subject. Then, I set aside the opinions and/or conclusions and look for data that is consistent between the three sources or categories of sources.

I also look for persons, times, locations, associations, and quotations that agree with each other. I make a “facts package” out of said information, and then repeat the procedure with each individual fact within each package. For example, all resources show that John Calvin spent a considerable amount of time in the French court, and in positions of an appointed capacity, before his “sudden conversion” and his subsequent move to Geneva via the noble houses of France. So, who was in the “French Court” at this time, and what were their associations? Is there a connection between the Medici Bank of Italy and Catherine de Medici, who was the soon-to-be Mother of the European court at the time? Yes. Was there a connection between the Medici Bank and Rome at the time? Yes. Was there a connection between the Medici Bank and the economic/political upheaval in Geneva at the time? Yes. Is there a connection between the Papacy and many or all subsequent “Royal Banks” before and since? Yes. Were many of them directly associated with the French throne? Yes. Is Geneva’s evolved system friendly to such banking powers? Yes. Did Calvin continue his relationships with secular powers in France even after his “ascendance to power” in Geneva? Yes. And so on…

Was John Calvin, Jean Cauvin, Johannes Calvinus…was this young man groomed ?

In this way it is possible to distinguish one set of historical facts from the other more popularly used set of historical “facts” (those used in our secondary and collegiate “history” programs). The consequences of understanding the differences between these two sets of facts is enormous, in fact the consequences are eternal. How can I make such a bold claim that a person’s eternity is at risk? Because II Thessalonians chapter 2 clearly shows that when all is said and done, there will be only two groups of people: 1) Those who have received the Love of the Truth, and 2) Those who believed the Lie.

And that, my friends, is the sole purpose of this study, to give the reader the facts they need to come to a conclusion as to which category they occupy.

Building a Case for the Truth

In presenting this information I will use the same method which I used in tracking it down: From John Calvin to modern times, and from John Calvin back to the time of the Romanization of the Church. I hope to reveal, for your examination, the powers of religion, politics, and economics working hand-in-hand not only to gain and maintain control of a duped and subjected humanity, but of their subjects’ eternal destinations as well. Remember, friends, that our battle is not against flesh and blood, and that the earthly powers are dupes themselves of a much more sinister authority. And keep in mind as well that it is much easier to distort the facts and hide the powers than it is to hide the influences and outcomes of their decisions. Analyze the fruit, then trace the branches to the root, and then you can’t help but to stumble upon the trunk along the way.

Quote from Elias Root Beadle:

“Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.”

Quote from Bertrand Russell:

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. …It’s importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda …Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class (Elite). The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.”

John Calvin is most recognized today for his work entitled “Institutes of Christian Religion,” which is the “bible” of most modern Protestant dogma (via the Westminster Confession). What most people don’t understand is that these Institutes were based largely on the writings of Augustine, the renowned Roman Catholic Church “father,” as well as on the teachings of the most prominent humanists of Calvin’s time. Augustine’s writings were put “in order,” or sectionalized, by John Calvin so that they may be used as Protestant dogma, the intended result being the establishment of Augustine’s dream, the City of God, or, the New Atlantis (Sir Francis Bacon). In fact, most historians and theologians know, and state, that the Institutes were rather a “sectionalizing” of Augustine’s writings than an original work in and of themselves. Quotes Calvin from Augustine:

The zeal of those whose cause I undertook,
Has swelled a short defence into a book.

I profess to be one of those who, by profiting,
write, and by writing profit. –Augustine, Epist. 7

“One of the most momentous experiments of all time began when this lean and harsh man entered the Cornavian Gate of Geneva. A state was to be converted into a rigid mechanism; innumerable souls, people with countless feelings and thoughts, were to be compacted into an all-embracing and unique system. This was the first attempt made in Europe to impose…a uniform subordination upon an entire populace. With systematic thoroughness, Calvin set to work for the realization of his plan to convert Geneva into the first kingdom of God on Earth. It was to be a community without corruption, disorder, vice, or sin; it was to be the New Jerusalem…

Stefan Zweig

“Virtually nothing in John Calvin’s view of predestination …was not first in Martin Luther, and before Luther in Augustine.”

R.C. Sproul

“Augustine is so fully with me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.”

John Calvin

Keep in mind that for a man to reject Catholicism and then to base his most important work on the writings of the man who established much of Catholicism’s dogma is a bit too controversial an issue in subject to dismiss. There were undisputedly others in Calvin’s day who had the same thought. In Calvin’s own words:

“I had undoubted information that, at Augsburg, where the Imperial Diet was held, a rumour of my defection to the papacy was circulated, and entertained in the courts of the princes more readily than might have been expected.”

Said John Calvin himself:

“I believe in the Holy Catholic Church…whence flow perpetual remission of sins, and full restoration to eternal life.”

This work is not a “bio” of John Calvin; many have been done, most reaching similar historical conclusions. The fact is, little is known of the man, particularly previous to his role in Geneva, Switzerland. Why is this? Personally, I find it rather convenient that the majority of his personal memoirs were lost or destroyed in a fire soon before his “ascendance to power” in Geneva in 1541. In all that remains, all we know, which is oft repeated in biographies, is that he underwent a “sudden conversion” (“God subdued my soul to docility by a sudden conversion” was how Calvin described this experience) and was immediately afterwards an authority on the Scriptures, and considered as being almost equal, if not quite equal, to an Apostle. He has often been compared by admirers to the Apostle Paul, and it’s also very interesting that before beginning his “ministry” in Geneva, he supposedly went through a “sudden transformation” much like the one that changed Paul’s life and redirected his steps. However, unlike Paul, Calvin often quotes Augustine as his authority (over 400 times) rather than the Word of God.

While searching out details, I went to available records pertaining to the “company he kept” before, and immediately before, his “conversion.” I have often posed the question, “Who was Billy Graham’s Sunday School teacher?” Normally, of course, no one knows the answer. There is a philosophical reasoning behind this question. In other words, “What person(s) or event(s) had an impact on the direction this person took before and after the said influence?” As an example, for former President Bill Clinton, it was Professor Carroll Quigley, author of “Tragedy and Hope.” (You should check out his bio!)

In retrospect, the Apostle Paul made it clear that he was neither evangelized nor taught by any of the other Apostles before his conversion, showing that his insight came directly from the risen Jesus Christ. Let’s, then, take a look at John Calvin’s surrounding influences.

“The Short List”

I’ve made a “short list” of people from many John Calvin biographies who consistently make appearances. Among them are:

Margerite of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre

King Francis I (responsible for the execution of hundreds of Waldensian “heretics”)

Andrea Alciotti (his professor and prominent humanist attorney)

Olivetan’ (his cousin and writer of the Geneva Bible, and also resided in French court with him)

Nicolas Cop (President of the University of Paris while both Calvin and Jesuit founder Ignatious de’ Loyola studied there)

Montmor de’ Hengist

Guillaume Farel

The Bishop of Angouleme (Catholic protector under umbrella of Margerite de’ Angouleme)

As for significant places he visited and resided, the towns of Paris, Lyons, Strassborg, Basel, and of course Geneva, each having their own significance at the time.

Andrea Alcioti

We know that in or around 1529, Calvin went to Bourges, France to study humanities (secular humanism) under the distinguished Italian humanist attorney named Andrea Alcioti. So, I decided to check up on Mr. Alcioti and see what he was about. Here’s just one example of this gentleman’s philosophical (and theological) leanings:

INSERT:

Andrea Alciati, Emblemata, Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1621

Andrea Alcioti was not only one of the most important lawyers in Europe at the time, he was also a distinguished humanist philosopher and an artist. In fact, he designed “Family Crests” for many of the noble houses in Europe. One must not underestimate the importance and significance placed on the meanings of coats of arms, crests, and emblems to the elite families of Europe. As I perused these crests, I was impressed with the extent of occultic influence in his work. And his connections with Italy as well as the thrones of Europa cannot be denied. So what has all of this to do with Mr. Calvin?

Let’s backtrack just a bit more.

Hangest de Montmor

As a youth, Calvin’s father had sent him to a noble family, the Hangest de Montmor, for his upbringing. In 1521, at the age of 12, he was assigned the position of chaplain at the Cathedral of Noyon (this was a political appointment). In 1523 he traveled to Paris to visit the French court with the Hangests. He quickly (at the age of 14) found himself an “insider” with the Throne, and kept such distinguished company as Olivetan (his cousin) and Margaret de’ Angouleme (Anjou), a.k.a. Margaret of Navarre.

Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre

Margaret happened to be the sister of the French King, Francis I, and they were the offspring of Charles, Duke of Angouleme’, and Louise of the House of Savoy (keep that in mind![91]). Leonardo de Vinci was also known to frequent the French court just previous to this time (up to 1519), though I have found no evidence that he and Calvin ever met; however, there is little doubt that his influence would have remained present. Margaret is recorded as having not only been a humanist, but very supportive of humanist scholarship. Her grandson Henry IV would later defend the Huguenot cause, even proclaiming adherence to their doctrine for a season, before reverting back to Catholicism under pressure (supposedly) from the Vatican and his second wife, Marie de Medici (of the prominent banking family). Calvin also maintained, and even deepened, his relationship with Margaret, the grandmother of the future King Henry IV. Margaret was John Calvin’s “patron.”

Nicolas and Michael Cop

During 1523-24, Calvin became associated with two young men, Nicholas and Michael Cop, the sons of the King’s personal (Swiss) physician. Nicholas later (1533-34) was appointed (by the Throne) the Rector of the University of Paris, a very prominent position, and he and Calvin maintained their close association throughout this period as Calvin was attending the same institution. Keep in mind that Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, was also at the University of Paris during the same time period, and also underwent a “sudden conversion”. (By the way, Cecil Rhodes stated that he would form the Fabian Socialist/Rhodes Fellowship organization after the pattern of the Jesuits.)

Huguenots: The forerunners of freemasonry

The Huguenots had existed, even before Calvin’s emergence, as a secret society of freedom fighters in Switzerland despite history’s rendering of their origins in Calvin’s doctrines. They eventually became the “Calvinist army” who upheld and spread Calvin’s doctrines under the leadership of Guillaume Faril, Calvin’s “enforcer.”

There is no doubt that prior to his “sudden conversion,” Calvin maintained relationships in very lofty circles. There can also be no doubt that those in the lofty circles were deeply involved in the political intrigue and especially the banking interests of Europe. The intriguing relationship between the Medici family (blood relatives of four popes as well as being the Bankers of the Vatican) and the French throne alone proves that the money of Europe was the consistent factor in the “religious” upheavals of the day. Also, the House of Anjou’, or Angouleme’, is known for its historical connections with the Knights Templar, and can be traced back even to the famed and fabled Merovingian dynasty of the first milennium A.D. This important factor cannot be left out when we later observe the social changes brought about (seemingly) by Calvin’s presence in Geneva, Switzerland from 1534 until his death:

In January, 1537 the “articles” were voted which insisted on communion four times a year, set spies on delinquents, established a moral censorship, and punished the unruly with excommunication. The ordinances of 1541 were maintained; the clergy, assisted by lay elders, governed despotically and in detail the actions of every citizen. In November, 1552, the Council declared that Calvin’s “Institutes” were a “holy doctrine which no man might speak against.”[92] Thus the State issued dogmatic decrees, the force of which had been anticipated earlier, as when Jacques Gouet was imprisoned on charges of impiety in June, 1547, and after severe torture was beheaded in July. Within five years fifty-eight sentences of death and seventy-six of exile, besides numerous committals of the most eminent citizens to prison, took place in Geneva.[93]

The Reformer (Calvin) called Servetus arrogant (he had dared to criticize the “Institutes” in marginal glosses), and uttered the significant menace, “If he comes here and I have any authority, I will never let him leave the place alive.” Some extraordinary fascination drew him (Servetus) to Geneva, from which he intended to pass the Alps. He arrived on 13 August, 1553. The next day Calvin, who had remarked him at the sermon, got his critic arrested, the preacher’s own secretary coming forward to accuse him. Calvin drew up forty articles of charge under three heads, concerning the nature of God, infant baptism, and the attack which Servetus had ventured on his own teaching. The council hesitated before taking a deadly decision, but the dictator, reinforced by Farel, drove them on. In prison the culprit suffered much and loudly complained. The Bernese and other Swiss voted for some indefinite penalty. But to Calvin his power in Geneva seemed lost, while the stigma of heresy; as he insisted, would cling to all Protestants if this innovator were not put to death. “Let the world see” Bullinger counselled him, “that Geneva wills the glory of Christ.”

Accordingly, sentence was pronounced 26 October, 1553, of burning at the stake. “Tomorrow he dies,” wrote Calvin to Farel.

Geneva has long since ceased to be the head of Calvinism. It is a rallying point for Free Thought, Socialist propaganda, and Nihilist conspiracies.

…Not to mention the establishment of worldwide banking houses and social reform that has ever since been a mainstay of Geneva’s famous, though often secretive, heritage. It will be shown that Calvin never ceased being a “Catholic” in all that he did, and that his purpose and legacy were not Truly spiritual in nature at all, but social, in forming a religion-based fascist society. He would, in fact, set up a social structure that, while appearing “Protestant,” was instead a system set up in accord with Augustine’s teachings as its basis. Therefore, while having all the appearances of being a socialist/democratic environment proclaiming a Protestant mindset, it would serve as an ideal system for Rome’s political and financial interests. Ideally, one could say that Calvin’s “system” is the product of both Augustinian and Aristotelian conception.

Another interesting fact to keep in mind as we continue is that to this very day, the nation known as the Vatican gets its loyal soldiers from only one location: Switzerland. How is it that they see fit to recruit the elite guards of the pope from the hotbed of rebellion against Roman church dominance?

We will discuss later the impact of John Calvin and the Huguenots on the establishment of freemasonry throughout the Americas during the colonization of the “New World.”

The Rosicrucian Connection

Please keep the above in mind and bear with me as I introduce another segment of the hypothesis that intertwines with, and can not be left out of, the true history of the formation of Geneva and the resulting effects on European society and eventually the world as we think we know it. Many average people, with only the academia of secular and collegiate “studies,” will scoff at this particular introduction; but the true scholars know better, as did such renowned persons as Sir (read that “Knight”) Francis Bacon. It is the matter of one Christian Rosencreutz, the supposed founder of a “secret society” known as the “Rosecrucians.” More particularly I refer to the often mentioned and never satisfactorily explained “Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz.”

First of all, there is not a person named Christian Rosencreutz who can be connected to the political, spiritual, and economic intrigue of that day, generally speaking of the 15^th ,16^th, and 17^th centuries.

It is a known fact that Martin Luther’s emblem was a “rosy cross,” and that he was backed, protected, and bankrolled by the Catholic (though “protestant”) Order of the Knights Teutonic. Keep in mind that the term “Catholic” has quite a different definition in alchemical circles (which is “several aspects blended into one”). We also know that the House of Bern in the Switzerland of the day had heavy Teutonic ties, and that they often were involved politically and militarily with the developing Geneva (see Zwingli). We know the international symbol of the rose croix, or Red Cross, and its place in the Switzerland, let alone the world, of today. We know from history that, in one way or another, Calvin was invited to leave Geneva after his first attempt at setting up a religious governing administration that heavily favored papal policies. And we know that when he left, he went to Strasbourg, the “seat” of the Rosicrucian policy, to re-work his Institutes before returning to Geneva, at which time he was invited back by the political forces in Geneva to administer his “reforms.” There is no controversy surrounding any of these facts in the eyes of the historians. What is also important to note is that Calvin also traveled to Strasbourg to complete the original draft of the Institutes before ever arriving in Geneva. Also, the Rosicrucians and the freemasons practice the same humanist/mystic/kabbalic/scientological ideologies. And it’s also provable historical fact that the Huguenot freedom fighters combined their forces with the rosicrucian philosophies to form what is known as modern Freemasonry.

For now, I would like to take a look back at the intriguing and seemingly mysterious title, “The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosincreutz.”

Ordo ob Chao?

Christian Rosincreutz is the name given to the alleged founder of the Rosicrucians, a “mystery brotherhood” that has existed for, at the least, centuries. There is no historical record, however, that a Christian Rosincreutz ever existed. A famous writing (among the Kabballic brotherhoods) is referred to as The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosincreutz. One may need to be somewhat familiar with the “mystery” writings of these Masonic sects in order to make any “sense” of the meanings, but I will attempt to show what may be hidden in this “innocent looking” title.

Chymical should be read in context as alchemical, an easy to see reference to the Kabbalic mysteries that are so thoroughly intertwined with the orders of the knights, the noble houses, and the humanistic studies of the day, as well as with Catholic mysticism. An alchemical union should be seen as a mysterious, inseparable co-mingling, an undilutible mixture or compound that has been blended for some secret purpose. This union can be thought of as sorcery using human ingredients. Also, today’s word chemistry, as well as alchemy, are derived from the term used by ancient Egyptian sorcerers to refer to their brotherhood. The term wedding, of course, refers to an inseparable (in those days) union. Christian should, at least, infer a relationship with or belief in Jesus Christ, while Rosencreutz is a distinct reference to the red cross as (reportedly) seen by Constantine in his “historical” vision, and later utilized by the orders of the Knights as well as by many NGOs (Non-Government organizations) today. The Jewish/Teutonic spelling of Rosencreutz makes further implications of its place in the “title.” Also, it was noted by contemporaries such as Francis Bacon that the Rosicrucian society referred to themselves as the “Valley of Peace,” which had a secret meaning known only to a select few. And remember, “… by peace he shall destroy many.”

The Waldenses

The Way of the Poor Men of Lyons

Again, I beg that you indulge me as I bring a few other components into the “mix.” The things that must be kept constantly in mind are the (apparent) predominance of the Papacy, the security of the Noble Houses/Thrones, and the economic control and stability of post-Roman Empire European society.

Preceding and during the attempt by the Knights to set up the first true world banking system in the 12-14^th century (which, despite historical record appears to have succeeded), there came into play the part of a man who is mostly left out of the history books of today. Don’t laugh, but his name was Waldo, Valdois in the French vernacular of the day. He was shortly after his appearance to take on the new name of Peter. What did this man do that he should be brought into this study? What he did was to upset the entire apple cart of Papal and European policy. Yet, most have never heard of him. Why is that? It could be said that his role was obscured, or at least minimalized, by the historians who have always mostly been under influence, willingly or not, of the Rulers.

Was Waldo a part of some scheme to take over thrones or economic forces? If so, he went about it in a very strange way. Was he seeking glory? Some thing. What was his intent? Let’s take a brief look at what we know of him:

Valdois de’ Lyons was by most accounts a prosperous merchant who, upon reading a true rendering of Scripture in the forbidden local language, turned from a life of wealth to one of poverty for the purpose of proclaiming the hidden Gospel. He had been provided a copy of the Scriptures in translated form by two priests whom he had befriended. After studying the Scriptures he immediately made arrangements for his wife and two daughters, gave away the remainder of his wealth, and began preaching the Gospel throughout the area. This, of course, was prohibited by Rome, for lay ministry had been proclaimed illegal by the papacy. Keep in mind that it was very shortly after his ministry began that the first Order of the Knights Templar was initiated. Rome apparently did not delay in countering this most horrendous of enemies.

Lay ministry was forbidden by the Catholic church of the time, yet certain priests found themselves sympathetic to Waldo’s message. Two in particular, Bernard Ydros and Stephen of Ansa, agreed to the bold layman’s request for a translation of the Gospels and certain epistles into the vernacular for his own study and use. The time Peter spent poring over his new treasure served only to strengthen and clarify his conviction that Christ had called His followers to a life of self-denial, not to the gross materialism and indulgence manifested by the Catholic church. His preaching gained new zeal and depth as he expounded the Scriptures to all who would listen. Impressed by Peter’s example and his evident sincerity, others soon joined him, and thus the movement began.

At first, Waldo had no intention of leaving the Catholic church. His desire was to inspire reform, not foment rebellion. Thus he approached Pope Alexander III in 1179 to approve his vow of poverty, and signed a confession of faith which may still be viewed today. However, the papal support of Waldo soon waned when he and his fellow pauperes, or “poor men,” refused to stop their presumptuous preaching though they had been directly ordered to do so. The Archbishop of Lyons condemned Peter and his followers, and the papal bull of Lucius III in 1184 excommunicated them. Nevertheless, the Waldensians continued to grow in numbers and in commitment to the Word of God.[94]

The movement spread like wildfire. The masses were quite aware that the state of the church was not as it should be, and their hunger fed the flames. The fact that the Knights Templar was formed immediately after Waldo’s trip to Rome must be inspected carefully because of its coincidental nature, especially considering the fact that many of the “Knights” went about hunting down and killing whole villages of these “heretics” in the ensuing years.

Once the teaching of Peter started taking root, no amount of debunking could prevent the effects upon society. Rome could excommunicate Waldo, but killing him, (I propose) it knew from the previous example of the martyrs of Rome, could do more harm than good. Discreditation and subversion, they had learned, were its only viable tactics. An effective narcotic would need to be developed and administered and Balaam’s error employed. It would take a strategy of centuries to change the course of this exposure, as Rome knew quite well (which is why “lay teaching” was illegal, though the Word says that all True believers are called to the ministry of Jesus).

The best way to control a thing is to render it ineffective for its original purposes. It was not long before monks, priests, bishops, and nobles “joined” the movement( see “The Poor Catholics”). But the public conscience was now aware and informed, and though they could be controlled, an antibiotic must be devised to kill the disease and kept on hand should it break out again. Rome now knew that merely keeping the source of the disease out of public consumption was no longer effective. Time had not rendered the Gospel any less deadly to the purposes of the Archons:

Even this short list demonstrates that there were questions being asked at this time, many of which are strikingly similar to those issues raised by the Poor of Lyons:

the question of poverty and asceticism as a means of growth and/or salvation,
questions about the role of ritual,
activism of various sorts among the laity,
questions about the integrity of the clergy.
questions about interpretation and application of the Bible

It is likely that Waldo and his followers were influenced by some of these movements, or were the influence, although it is not clear how much. It would be too coincidental to see such common themes arising apart from any influence whatever. The fact is that there was a cultural and religious milieu shaping the thinking of this movement.

For example, we can place Lyonese poor nuclei in the same area of France as the Cathari, at a time when the Catharite revolution was at its height. Also, both southern France and northern Italy were hot-beds of dissident zeal during the very period of the rise of the Waldensians.

On the other hand, the Neo-Platonic and dualistic aspects of so many of these groups is not as evident in the teachings of the Waldensians during the earliest period. There is undoubtedly (*see italics below) some platonic asceticism involved in Waldo’ renunciation of wealth. Many of the new groups, including the mendicant orders of monks were renouncing all wealth at this time, and traveling around as beggars and preachers. The material world was viewed with suspicion, and anything that served to separate one from it would bring him/her closer to the Spiritual world, that is, closer to God.

Significantly, shortly after the time of Waldo, Boanaventure would argue that poverty had been Christ’s pattern, carried on for some time by monks such as the Egyptian anchorites, “but poverty declined after the Donation of Constantine and was not revived until the thirteenth century with the foundation of religious mendicancy by Francis and Dominic.” This view of history was identical to that held by the Waldensians.

*Tourn and others argue that this ascetic ideological base was not the case with the Waldensians. Their basis for renunciation of wealth was a literalistic application of Lk. 9:3-6, and Mk. 10:23-27, which are not ascetic. In other words, “. . .one might say that Waldensian piety was eschatological rather than dualist or ascetic.” [This author agrees with this view after much investigation.]

This may be partially true for another reason. We find no reference to the monastic literature anywhere in the early Waldensian literature. The Cistercian order, which had been organized around 1119 believed that,

. . .the rule (of St. Benedict) was not merely a guideline or a set of positive laws which can be dispensed, but rather a species of Divine Law, which like the Commandments of the Gospel, has to be interpreted, but cannot be changed or dispensed.39

This point of view, so typical of all of the orders at this time, is absent from early Waldensian thinking. They based their movement on the authority of the scriptures.

Another distinction between the Waldensians and the monastic idealists at this time was the outward focus of the Poor of Lyons. They were not seeking primarily inner piety, but aggressive outreach to others.

“. . .Waldo’s case was different [than most poverty enthusiasts]. His vow did not lead him to a monastery and to a life of contemplation and obedience. He was an ordinary citizen among the poor and was determined to remain so. . .”

“For the Poor the bond of unity lay not in the sacraments but in their apostolic mission. Christian virtue, then, was in demonstrating love, and care for the brethren.

“Everyone of them, old and young, men and women, by day and by night, do not stop their learning and teaching of others.”

An inquisitor quotes, in the same vein, one of the Poor who had been brought before him: “In our home, women teach as well as men, and one who has been a student for a week teaches another.” 42

Thus the Waldensians were more activistic and outreaching than sacramental or reflective.

Waldensians Compared to Fransciscans

Perhaps if there had been more dependence on monastic ideology the later history of the Waldensians would have been very different. Not long after the time of Waldo, another new order arose not far from the region of Lombardy under the leadership of Francis of Assisi. The similarities between these groups is quite striking:

1)Both were operating in the same area at about the same time.

2)Francis was also untrained in theology.

3)His followers, like the Waldensians, were unlearned.

4)They lived in voluntary poverty, dressing in course cloth and sandals—exactly like the Waldensians.

5)They traveled around sometimes and preached, as the Waldensians did, although the emphasis with the Franciscans was more on service while that of the Waldensians was more on preaching.

6)Both were critical of the Roman Church’s failure to fully live up to the ideals of Scripture.

7)Both went to Rome to obtain papal approval for their orders. And this is where the similarity stops.

Francis did obtain approval from the Pope, while Waldo did not. Thus the Franciscans were taken into the embrace of the Church. This exempted them from persecution for the time being, and in fact, Franciscans were often leaders of the persecution of the Waldensians.

The question of the relationship of the Waldensians to the other doctrinal currents of that time is hard to determine exactly. There is no evidence of any influence from other groups on Waldo himself, until after his condemnation. Earlier, for instance, he directly denounced the Albigensians’ doctrine. The most important point in this is that there was no ideological or theological breakthrough that occasioned the Waldensian movement. Their existence was not the result of any change in theology, but rather a change in theopraxy—the Poor of Lyons translated the Bible, and preached it in their own words. Thus, the Waldensians are an early test case in the area of lay ministry. Their main sin was to take too literally the Biblical command to, “. . .teach them to observe all that I commanded you.”

Not only did they refuse to deny the right of the laity to preach and teach, they also allowed and encouraged women to teach. This had tremendous shock effect on their culture, at the same time that it probably tapped an hitherto unknown source of power. It would be easy to underestimate the impact that this feature had on the Europe of 1170.

It was after their excommunication that the Poor of Lyons’ doctrine became objectionable to the Roman Catholic Church. More than a hundred years later, it was said,

“Among all the sects, there is none more pernicious to the Church than that of the leonists (Lyonists), and for three reasons:

In the first place, because it is one of the most ancient; for some say that it dates back to the time of Sylvester; others to the time of the Apostles.
In the second place, because it is the most widespread. There is hardly a country where it does not exist.
In the third place, because, if other sects strike with horror those who listen to them, the Leonists, on the contrary, possess a great outward appearance of piety. As a matter of fact they lead irreproachable lives before men, and as regards their faith and the articles of their creed, they are orthodox.

Their one conspicuous fault is, that they blaspheme against the Church and the clergy, points on which laymen in general are known to be too easily led away.

www.xenos.org/essays/waldo4.htm

(This Author: It was, and still is, considered blasphemy and heresy to speak against Papal policy. Calvin continued in the same vein.)

Now, examine the following information and add it to what you have just read above:

Another tactic that was employed briefly with success by Pope Innocent III was to take advantage of the differences between Waldo and the Lombards in 1208 to win the Poor Men back to the Church. Beginning in 1208 he encouraged the formation and spread of Pauperes Catholici (“Poor Catholics”) who under ecclesiastical direction would follow such of the practices of the Waldenses as the Church could approve. By this means many who had been attracted by the Poor Men were held or won back.

From Xenos website article : The Waldensian Movement from Waldo to the Reformation, Part V.

There had been, previous to this time, a precedent already established by the Roman Catholic authorities, namely, to subvert true Christianity by mimickry. Constantine’s administration is the primary example. Simply “copy” the practices of the authentic Church, and then supplant it with other ideals, and let the watering-down process and the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the pride of life do the rest. In addition, accuse the True followers of heresy and witchcraft, and kill any who will not be assimilated. Here is record of the various inquisitions against the Waldensians:

It is important to remember that this period (1150-1300) were the years of the zenith of papal temporal power. Innocent III described himself as “set between God and man, lower than God but higher than man, who judges all and is judged by no one. . .” He declared that, “the priesthood was as superior to the kingship as the soul to the body,” and he informed the nobles of Tuscany that, “just as the moon derives its light from the sun . . .so too the royal power derives the splendor of its dignity from the pontifical authority” (Luciferian theology). As has been the case so often in history, greater political power for the institutional church has been bad news for Christian minorities.

www.xenos.org/essays/waldo6.htm

(As you’ll see later, this was exactly the case in the events surrounding Calvin’s reformation, and has been the case ever since, up to and including modern society.)

This was also the pattern that would characterize Roman Catholic reaction to the Waldensians for the next 450 years. The history of the Waldensians during this period is an incredible litany of genocidal disaster. This was the period of the inquisition in Europe, and it is through the well kept records of the inquisition that we follow the spread of the Waldensians movement throughout Europe. Tourn lists some of the major persecutions after the crusade of 1208:

We know that at the beginning of the 14^th century there were enough Poor remaining in France that the inquisitor Jacques Fournier, who later became Pope Benedict XII, undertook court trials against them.
The transference of the papacy to Avignon in the middle of the 14^th century was apparently the signal for a brutal repression against Waldensians in the Dauphine, for the beleaguered Pope was evidently not disposed to tolerate any expression of dissidence so near to his exiled see.
In the year 1380. . . [a severe] round-up was begun under the inquisitors Martin of Prague and Peter Zwicker. These two were commissioned to bring to trial or to force the conversion of Waldensians through much of Europe.
Their systematic effort began in Bavaria, continuing in the following year in the region of Erfurt, and in 1392 in the province of Brandenberg. The inquisitors then proceeded to Stettin, where they held a trial of 400 Waldensians.
Their reports speak of activities in various cities of what are now Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and of their success in the city of Bern, Switzerland, in getting 130 suspects to abjure heresy and return to the Church’s fold. They reported a similar success in Fribourg with some 50 Waldensians.
. . .in the latter part of the century the inquisition was resumed in full intensity under the direction of a Franciscan, Francesco Borelli. So obsessed was this monk with his pursuit of heretics that it was said that every prison from Embrun to Avignon was full to overflowing. As a result, Pope Gregory IX himself had to appeal for alms for the hapless prisoners.
. . . in 1450, the inquisitors were sent in to deal with Alpine (Swiss) dissidents. In that year the whole valley of Luserna was placed under interdiction on the charge of having resisted the authorities.
Another inquisitorial sweep took place in 1475, including interminable court trials against anyone who failed to cooperate fully in the drive. . . .the counts of Luserna themselves were. . . charged with being too lenient toward the Waldensians—for which they were duly warned and subjected to heavy fines.
. . .Charles I at last called for full scale military action against the dissidents, and was joined, from the French side, by the declaration of a crusade against the Waldensians which lasted from 1487-89. The latter was directed by the infamous papal legate, Alberta Cattane
. . . There the governor of Savoy, with the full consent of Charles VIII of France, undertook a veritable and thorough going crusade against the hapless population. As in other places and times in the Middle Ages, it was under the patronage of the Pope and organized by his legate

(Remember John Calvin’s attachments to the throne of France and to the Berns and the Savoys not long after this period.)

. . .[the village of] Pragelato found itself squarely in the path of the crusaders, so that it was invaded and sacked in the winter of 1487. A fate similar to that of Pragelato was in store for the Waldensians in the valleys of Argentieres and Vallouise. These folk had been consistently pacifist by tradition, so that they did not resist when the invaders came. The crusaders then proceeded to level their villages, destroying every trace of the Waldensians heritage.

Francis I. . .in 1545 (Calvin was in his court) named the president of Aix’s parliament personally to lead a papal army from Avignon to clear the area entirely of Waldensian presence. The Luberon folk were suddenly caught in a vise.
. . .The mercenary soldiers engaged for the sweep did not stop until they had devastated the whole region and obliterated every trace of the Waldensian villages. A few survivors did manage to escape to Switzerland, but the lot of all the rest was either death by the sword or life sentences as galley-slaves on French ships.
. . .On June 5, 1561, the town of San Sisto, with its 6,000 inhabitants, was burned to the ground.
. . .Guardia Piemontese, its neighbor, was likewise destroyed. Prisoners were burned like torches, sold as slaves to the Moors or condemned to die of starvation in the dungeons of Cosenza. The massacre reached its height at Montalto Uffugo on June 11^th. On the steps in front of the parish church, 88 Waldensians were slaughtered one by one, like animals brought to market.
If the military operation lasted only a few weeks, the work of Catholic indoctrination, Jesuit style, continued for years. The Jesuits were determined to obliterate every evidence that Waldensians had been present in Calabria. They almost succeeded, except in one small respect: there is still a hint of the Provencal language in the daily speech of the inhabitants.

The list of atrocities goes on and on, in fact far too long for detailed consideration here. The point that becomes clear is that every effort was made on numerous occasions to eliminate the Poor of Lyons in the customary way. At various points this policy was close to final success. Yet, the Waldensian movement was never eliminated.

(Author’s note: Not true – the Waldensian doctrine was “eliminated” by absorbtion by John Calvin and his “henchman,” Farel)

Following is a list of false allegations made against the Waldensian heretics by Rome:

Medieval Sourcebook: Reinarius Saccho, Of the Sects of the Modern Heretics 1254

First They (the Waldensians) say that the Romish Church, is not the Church of Jesus Christ, but a church of malignants and that it apostatized under Sylvester, when the poison of temporalities was infused into the h. And they say, that they are the church of Christ, because they observe both in word, and deed, the doctrine of Christ, of the Gospel, and of the Apostles.

Their second error is that all vices and sins are in the church, and that they alone live righteously.
That scarcely anyone in the church, but themselves, preserves the evangelical doctrine.
That they are the true poor in spirit, and suffer persecution for righteousness and faith.
That they are the Church of Jesus Christ.
That the Church of Rome is the Harlot in the Apocalypse, on account of its superfluous decoration which the Eastern Church does not regard.
That they despise all the statutes of the Church, because they are heavy and numerous.
That the Pope is the head of all errors.
That the Prelates are Scribes; and the Monks, Pharisees.
That the Pope and all Bishops, are homicides on account of wars.
That we are not to obey Prelates; but only God.
That no one is greater than another in the church. Matt. 23. “All of you are brethren.”
That no one ought to bow the knee before a priest. Rev. ii. where the Angel says to John “See thou do it not.”
That tithes are not to be given, because first fruits were not given to the church.
That the clergy ought not to have possessions; Dent. xviii. “The Priests and all the tribe of Levi, shall not have part and inheritance with the people of Israel, because they eat the sacrifices, and they shall receive nothing else.”
That the clergy, and monks, ought not to have Prebends.
That the Bishops and Abbots ought not to have royal rights.
That the land, and the people, are not to be divided into parts.
That it is a bad thing to found and endow churches and monasteries.
That wills are not to be made in favor of Churches-also, that no one ought to be a tenant of the church – also, they condemn all the clergy for idleness, saying that they ought to work with their hands as the Apostles did – also, they reprobate titles of dignity such as Pope, Bishops, etc. – also, that no one is to be forced into belief – also, that they make no account of all ecclesiastical offices – also, that they care nothing for ecclesiastical privileges – also, they despise the immunity of the Church and of ecclesiastical persons and things – also, they condemn Councils, Synods, and Assemblies – also, they say that all parochial rights are invention – also, they say that monastic rules are the traditions of the Pharisees.

Secondly, they condemn all the Sacraments of the Church; in the first place, as to baptism, they say that the Catechism is nothing – also, that the ablution which is given to infants profits nothing….

(This would later be used extensively by both Roman Catholics and Reformation Protestants as the basis for accusations of heresy, for which both parties tortured and killed by burning, drowning, and imprisonment thousands of non-calvin, non-luther believers.)

Also, they condemn the sacrament of Marriage (*untrue, see below), saying that married persons sin mortally if they come together without the hope of offspring-also, they disregard compaternity – also, they despise the degrees of affinity, carnal and spiritual, and the impediments of Orders, and of public decency, and of ecclesiastical prohibitions-also, they say that a woman after child-bearing does not require benediction, or introduction – also, they say that the church has erred in prohibiting the marriage of the Clergy, while even those of the East marry – also, they say that the continent do not sin in kisses and embraces.

The sacrament of Unction, they reprobate, because it is only given to the rich; and because several priests are required for it – also, they say that the sacrament of Orders is nothing – also, they say that every good layman is a priest, as the Apostles were laymen – also, that the prayer of an evil priest does not profit – also, they deride the clerical tonsure – also, that Latin prayer does not profit the vulgar – also, they make it a matter of ridicule that illegitimate persons and wicked sinners are raised to eminence in the church – also, they say that every layman, and even woman ought to preach, 1. Cor. xiv. “I would that ye spake in tongues, that the church might receive edification” – also, whatever is preached which cannot be proved by the text of Scripture they consider as fabulous….

… also, they say that the doctrine of Christ and the Apostles is sufficient for salvation without the statutes of the church – that the tradition of the church is the tradition of the Pharisees; and that there is more made of the transgression of a human tradition than of a divine law. Matt. xv. “Why do ye transgress the commands of God by reason of your traditions?” Also, they reject the mystical sense in the holy Scriptures, principally as it regards the sayings and doings delivered in the Church by tradition; as that the cock upon the steeple signifies a doctor.[95]

I don’t know about you, but to me the Waldensians were, at the least, close to right on! And they were called heretics for adhering to the literal Scriptures, and condemned and tortured for it. However, here is the Waldensian Doctrine of record for your own perusal:

Waldensian Confession of Faith

We believe and firmly maintain all that is contained in the twelve articles of the symbol, commonly called the apostles’ creed, and we regard as heretical whatever is inconsistent with the said twelve articles.
We believe that there is one God – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We acknowledge for sacred canonical scriptures the books of the Holy Bible. (Here follows the title of each, exactly conformable to our received canon, but which it is deemed, on that account, quite unnecessary to particularize.)
The books above-mentioned teach us: That there is one GOD, almighty, unbounded in wisdom, and infinite in goodness, and who, in His goodness, has made all things. For He created Adam after His own image and likeness. But through the enmity of the Devil, and his own disobedience, Adam fell, sin entered into the world, and we became transgressors in and by Adam.
That Christ had been promised to the fathers who received the law, to the end that, knowing their sin by the law, and their unrighteousness and insufficiency, they might desire the coming of Christ to make satisfaction for their sins, and to accomplish the law by Himself.
That at the time appointed of the Father, Christ was born – a time when iniquity everywhere abounded, to make it manifest that it was not for the sake of any good in ourselves, for all were sinners, but that He, who is true, might display His grace and mercy towards us.
That Christ is our life, and truth, and peace, and righteousness – our shepherd and advocate, our sacrifice and priest, who died for the salvation of all who should believe, and rose again for their justification.
And we also firmly believe, that there is no other mediator, or advocate with God the Father, but Jesus Christ. And as to the Virgin Mary, she was holy, humble, and full of grace; and this we also believe concerning all other saints, namely, that they are waiting in heaven for the resurrection of their bodies at the day of judgment.
We also believe, that, after this life, there are but two places – one for those that are saved, the other for the damned, which [two] we call paradise and hell, wholly denying that imaginary purgatory of Antichrist, invented in opposition to the truth.
Moreover, we have ever regarded all the inventions of men [in the affairs of religion] as an unspeakable abomination before God; such as the festival days and vigils of saints, and what is called holy-water, the abstaining from flesh on certain days, and such like things, but above all, the masses.
We hold in abhorrence all human inventions, as proceeding from Antichrist, which produce distress (Alluding probably to the voluntary penances and mortification imposed by the Catholics on themselves), and are prejudicial to the liberty of the mind.

12 We consider the Sacraments as signs of holy things, or as the visible emblems of invisible blessings. We regard it as proper and even necessary that believers use these symbols or visible forms when it can be done. Notwithstanding which, we maintain that believers may be saved without these signs, when they have neither place nor opportunity of observing them.

We acknowledge no sacraments [as of divine appointment] but baptism and the Lord’s supper.
We honour the secular powers, with subjection, obedience, promptitude, and payment. [96]

Over the next two-and-a-half centuries, from about 1250-1450A.D., for those who care to look and see (God willing, more detail will be included later), we can see the eventual developement of the original Waldensian movement being assimilated, by persecution and deceit and the weaknesses of man, into what is known today as the Hussite movement (through no apparent fault of Jonathan Huss). By the time that many of the tares had grown and overcome the wheat, the movement had been supplanted with the organizations of men and the lusts of the flesh. False doctrines were brought in by wolves in sheeps’ clothing, and a hierarchical structure which depended on the truth and loyalty of the self-serving leadership had been established, just as had happened in the early Church and for which we were pre-warned by Jesus and the writing Apostles. Along the way the true sheep had been “removed” by claims of witchcraft and by stacks of wood, stakes, and flames. In fact, the “Protestant reformers” often joined with the Roman church to scourge the “heretics.”

Consider for a moment, if you will, our modern judicial system. As flawed as it is, it often follows “loose” guidelines of sentencing, that is, for the first offense the offender is often given a “lighter” sentence, for the second offense a heavier sentence, for the third offense an even heavier one, and so on. In fact, many judicial systems have a “three strikes and you’re out” policy wherein the offender is permanently removed from society after a conviction for their third offense. My question is, how is it that the Roman authorities have gone on and on in the same crimes since even before the days of Constantine, of murdering innocents in order to maintain control of money and power (in the world, one in the same), provably using the same methods over and again right up to and including modern times?

It was a much different movement than that of the Waldensians at which Luther took the helm in the early 1500s with the philosophy of the Chymical Wedding and the power of the Teutonic Knighthood.

The social emphases and communist experiments at Tábor have long been a cause célèbre in modern Czech historiography.* According to Vavinec of Bezová, the conservative Hussite chronicler, the priests of Tábor began preaching a unique advent of Christ among the elect. Those within the safety of the five designated cities of refuge—Plze, Klatovy, atec, Louny, and Slany—would survive the wrath of God. From all over Bohemia and Moravia multitudes of people thronged to the Táborite priests. Having sold their possessions they brought the money and placed it at the feet of the priests.* In 1419 several mass gatherings occurred in which elementary communist principles were invoked; everyone was called “brother” or “sister” and social distinctions were ignored.* Food was shared in common, the richer supplying the poor. No difference was made between “mine” and “thine,” though the communal sexual use of women was not practiced at this point. But later, as noted proleptically by Cosmas of Prague, this did occur on the fringes of Táborite society. By the term communism I mean a community of goods. James Stayer has defined that idea as the attempt to practice the principles outlined in the Acts of the Apostles, chapters 2 and 4.* His definition is appropriate for fifteenth-century Bohemia.

The phenomenon of selling possessions and donating the proceeds to the priests at Tábor was not an isolated occurrence. The conservative Hussite, Jan Píbram corroborated Vavinec’s account and noted that a similar event occurred at Písek, a centre with a history of radical sectarian devotion, where community chests were established.* Where did this particular communism originate? The motif can be traced to two sources. First, it developed out of the Hussites intense desire to establish the primitive church in Bohemia. Priest Jan elivský, preaching in the New Town of Prague at the Church of St. Mary of the Snows, articulated this desire forcefully: “O that the city of Prague would now be the example for all believers, not only in Moravia, but in Hungary, Poland, Austria . . . !”* Jan Píbram wrote in disgust that the radical Táborites considered themselves the sole holy, universal, church and community in all Christendom.* Píbram’s charge must not be dismissed for this is precisely how the radicals viewed themselves. Nor were they alone in this assumption. A century later the Hutterites claimed that the practice of common goods marked out the true believers and in 1529 Clemens Adler, the Anabaptist leader in Silesia, underscored this idea.* Not long thereafter, radicals in Poland expressed similar convictions, insisting that private property was wickedness.* Given the Táborites’ biblicist enthusiasm, the communist practices of the early apostolic community was enough to warrant its imitation in Hussite Bohemia.

However, a simple “thus saith the Lord” would hardly have been sufficient to attract so many adherents to Tábor. The second source provides a solution. Without doubt the chiliast enthusiasm which swept the radical sectors of Hussitism had strong appeal. The promise of a world utopia, coupled with the combined pooling of resources for the betterment of society, attracted its followers.* After a lifetime of giving one’s productivity over to the lord of the land, and in the face of mounting political and economic difficulties, there were those willing to risk what little they had on the prophecies and visions of the radical priests.* Understandably, the majority of those attracted to this particular communistic lifestyle were the socially disinherited and disadvantaged. No one could expect “the lame devil,” Oldich Romberk, to ride into Tábor and surrender the nine towns, twenty-six small villages and almost seven hundred whole and partial villages he controlled,* or to grant freedom to the eleven thousand peasants under the control of the Romberk empire.* Nonetheless, we know that in addition to peasants, there were village magistrates, grooms, potters, priests, servants, barbers, carpenters, town councillors, cobblers, blacksmiths, burghers, and cooks involved in Táborite activities.* How many were advocates of communist ideals is impossible to determine. But those wishing to escape the hegemonic strictures of medieval society could place their hopes in the vision of a chiliast, apostolic, communist Bohemian society.

It was not incidental that these early Hussites forsook the cities and towns and fled to the hills. Clearly such gatherings in the towns would have come under the scrutiny and censure of the authorities. Moreover, if we are to believe the figures of chroniclers, the sheer numbers present at these gatherings dictated the wide open spaces. Beyond this, was the conviction that towns were symbolic of all that had gone awry in society. The town milieu not only exacerbated social divisions but also conflicted with notions of apostolic poverty. Many leading intellectuals in pre-Hussite Bohemia expressed grave reservations about the cities, towns and the prevailing ethos within. Jan Huss made clear that in great cities, evil people gathered and succeeded in turning towns into seats of the devil.* Hussites later conceived the town even less favourably. Jan Rokycana and Petr Chelický both spoke critically and bitterly about urban centres. The latter insisted that the city embodied Antichrist.* Considering the physical demarcation of towns and cities and the type of popular beliefs which grew up around them, it is not surprising to find these urban centres demonized. The boundaries of cities were marked clearly. The walls or ramparts identified the social autonomy of the town. Troops kept watch by day and night. When night fell the walls glimmered with the light of torches. Gates were shut from dusk until dawn. No one could enter or leave during those hours without permission. Climbing the walls was punished severely. Even approaching the walls during the night constituted a criminal act. The walls of towns symbolized security and formed a boundary between the community and the rest of the world.* Walls kept the city in and the rest of the world out. The city of God and the city of Antichrist could not, and should not, be mixed.* So the radicals fled from the urban darkness to the light of the hills, where the Hussites anticipated the end of time and the climax of human history, in an artificially constructed apocalyptic utopia.

The experiment at Tábor not only sprang from a desire to witness the primitive church in Bohemia redivivus, but also from impulses for a more just social order.* The proposed renovation would conceivably set the stage for the arrival of the eschaton. The apocalyptic mood in Bohemia found a context for establishing this idea among the Táborites. An experiment developed wherein social divisions and structures of hierarchy were swept away: payment for rent and service forbidden, all goods to be held in common, material wealth collected before newcomers could be admitted to the community, certain former laws disregarded, all debtors released from their obligations, lord-peasant relationships dissolved, all persons henceforth became brothers and sisters, and private property was outlawed in the quest for a new social order. A popular song combined the social critique of the aforementioned “Priest Jan, the apostate monk of evil,” and the sentiment being expressed at Tábor.*

“According to the wisdom of the masters, they would have told God to arrange matters in this way: the poor should neither eat nor drink, should sleep neither at night nor day, but always work and pay their lords. The lords, after listening to the priests, would require more and more dues. Then, when using up the peasant, they could turn his body into that of a beast of burden and subject him to forced labour. This is how the wretched have come to be in anguish in every land, especially the Czechs, on account of the conceited priesthood.”*

How could the problem be rectified? Tábor provided an answer. The overarching rubric of Hussitism contended that the establishment of the primitive church ethos was the ultimate ideal. This notion was advanced by the Prague university master and Hussite lawyer, Jan of Jesenice, according to whom the land should return to apostolic simplicity where all things are held in common.* Thus the Táborite leaders instructed the people to cease paying rents and being subject to their lords. “Now you will freely take possession of their towns, fish-ponds, pastures, forests and everything they own.”* Jan Píbram noted further that Táborites advocated the violent abolition of the nobility: “All lords and knights should have their throats cut and their goods ravaged. This has happened with many of them [nobles] being murdered.”* The idea of communal goods posed a serious threat to the stability of hierarchical society and called into question the nature of medieval social structure. This was not lost on the detractors of the radical Hussites. A century later, drastic measures were enacted to discourage both religious dissent and social innovation as they related to a community of goods. On 20 August 1527 the Habsburg ruler, Ferdinand I issued a decree against the Anabaptists calling for those who taught the sharing of property to be executed by beheading.*[97]

It was clear that what had been “started” by Valdois of Lyons had by this time, in large part, spun out of control across the whole of Europe. False doctrines and the insurgence of “the multitudes” into a true work of God had resulted in the chaos desired by the rulers. We know from the repetition of history that chaos is indeed desired by the politicians, because it gives them the needed “cause” to impose “order” – their order. But a binding force was needed before the wedding could take place. Enter John Calvin.

John Calvin proved to be the perfect “new Constantine.” He wedded the laws of humanism and Socialism with the Scriptures in the same way that Constantine blended paganism with belief. What emerged in each case was a State system and an army to defend it, as well as a center of economic, political, and religious power. And the seemingly rebellious child was under the unswaying dominance of its matriarchy thanks to the benefits of the monetary control of the thrones. The Templars and the Medicis of their day had formulated an uncompromising system with Rome (apparently) securely at the helm, but Rome was in reality just a “control factor” for the bankers, and more control was needed.

My friend, before we continue, allow me to digress and pose a question: Do you have a proper fear of The Truth? Please think carefully, and prayerfully, before you answer.

Most people do not have a proper fear of The Truth, and it is only when we can admit that we do not that we can move toward the Truth. Think about it. Have you ever proclaimed, “Stop! I’ve heard enough, and I want to hear no more”?

The Word tells us that we should “become fools so that we can be made wise.” There is a reason this is necessary. Until we can admit that we fear the Truth, we cannot fear it properly. And until the time that we can fear it properly, we cannot know it. And if we cannot know it, we cannot Love it. It is only when one learns to properly fear the Truth and the consequences of knowing it that we can Love it and pursue it. Once we Love it properly, then it is perfect and all fear is cast out. It is then that we can truly learn and overcome the Lie.

One must carefully scrutinize the religious movements, the intermarriages of noble houses, the development of banking systems, the ascendancy of popes, and the writings of the Aristotles and the Augustines and the Calvins and the Machiavellis and the Bacons before they can see the tapestry of history as it truly transpired. Our system of education has managed to keep a discreet distance between these areas of study so that the most any individual may hold in his hands is but a few colored threads – save for a select Few individuals. All has been done in order to arrange the ultimate Chymical Wedding – that of Religious forces, Political forces, Economic forces and Elemental forces. We have both been “dumbed down” and made to fear certain truths in order to keep us from looking too closely and acting upon them. Waldo, above, looked closely and acted. And it is his fate which most of us fear. Much easier to follow Calvin, we think. Much more “practical” and “sensible.”

You say you’re no scholar? My friend, neither am I, and neither was Stephen, nor were most of the Apostles, but I wish to be obedient, and Jesus told us to be “wise as a serpent.” In other words, “know your enemy.” Our enemies, friends, are Satan, the World, and the Flesh. Those who are friends with the world are friends with their enemy. The truth is, most of us don’t want to know because of what we will be required to do upon knowing. This is why we were instructed, even commanded, to die to self, which is to put on Christ, which is the “power thereof.” In the process of seeking the truth, as we are instructed to do time and again in the Word, we eventually will come to the point where we are faced with choices. At this point, the point of revelation where we see that we have been missing something essential, we can either die to what we think we know (make ourselves fools…) or we can say, “Show me no more; it is too much for me. I will remain content with what I believed before.” Therefore, most of us have been purposefully and successfully conditioned to say, “I won’t believe that…” instead of seeing that not believing “that” has held us captive to the Lie. We improperly fear the Truth because the Truth requires absolute change, or, true repentance, or, simply, death to self. This is the core of the teachings of Jesus: “If you had said, “I am blind,” you would have no sin. But since you say, “I see,” your sin remains.” “Anyone who does not forsake all that he has, cannot be My disciple.”

The very thing that is often forgotten is that Satan is the god, the archon, the ruler, the spirit, of this world, and that his throne is on it, and that his is the spirit of it. It is in his power to use the full extent of politics, economics, and religion for one three-fold purpose: to hide, if he can, the good and right way, to dislodge those who have seen it from The Path, and by all means in his power to prevent any from entering in through the One Narrow Gate. This is all demonstrated quite clearly in his temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. And yet we do not heed the Words of the Lord to not be deceived; we believe our historians and politicians, we trust in our worldly comforts, and we live the philosophies of the religious leaders. All of this, friend, is out of our fear of the Truth. What will we lose, what will threaten us and ours, if we seek the Truth, believe it, and serve it? And serve The Truth alone?

What price will a man give for his soul? We are encouraged by The Truth to say, “As for me and my house, no price is too high. And if it is too high for my house, should I not separate myself from my house?” But we of the world have always been easily duped into believing this viewpoint to be ludicrous, “…foolishness to those who perish.”

Now, getting back to the subject matter of this hypothesis, what point is it that I seem to be making?

For one, concerning everything we have ever learned about history, politics, economics, and religion, it becomes necessary for us to discard everything we have ever learned so that we can see the Truth. Yes, keep the names, dates, and (verifiable) facts, and discard the rest because it has been engineered for your consumption by tools of the enemy. Then, having “made ourselves fools,” we start over at square one, the Word of God, we ignore any unscriptural teachings of our pastors and “modern-day prophets,” and we concentrate on The Truth. If we are to believe the Word of God, and I state unequivocally that we should, then we must believe that the majority of our pastors, teachers, and prophets of today are leading us astray. How can I say that? Because the Word of God says it, foretold it, and I will believe no other source. But likewise a caution: even the “authorized” Word of God has been manipulated since before the canonization (especially by the writers of the Vulgate Bible and the Geneva Bible, and then with the “Westminister Confession”), and one must truly seek and dig for the hidden treasure in it. And pray. A lot. All of the translations are rife with corruption. Oh, the words used in the translations are “right,” but the original meanings in context have been subtly altered, here a little, there a little, to distort the Truth. The words “belief,” and “faith,” and “righteousness,” and “grace,” and even “love” (agape’), along with many others, no longer convey the original textual meanings. This is the answer both to how many are so misled as well as to the divisions over interpretation and doctrine that exist today. The original texts had meaningful language and the modern texts have definitive language. Basically, the “spirit” is hidden. But with prayer, and with seeking and knocking and “digging as for silver and gold,” we can see the meanings through the subterfuge. The “trick” lies in seeking out the whole council of God, and not just those parts that “seem right” with what we already believe (…there is a way that seems right to a man but…). This will prove most difficult for the theologians, the pastor/teachers, and those with material comfort, for they feel both that they have been “blessed” and that they have the “most to lose.”

Basically, the tenets of Calvin and Luther and the Chymical Wedding contain the seeds of pre-emergent Marxism, the ideology that the “feelings of the general consensus” outweigh the basic facts and truths of the Word of God. Of course, once the feelings of the general consensus have been manipulated, the Truth is no longer relevant. How I feel or we feel becomes more important than the Truth, the “thou shalts” and the “thou shalt nots.” If a person feels they are right or righteous that is all that really matters. Materialism and divorce then become subject to our feelings about them instead of what the Word of God has to say about them. Thus we can feel as if we are saved even though we in fact violate the Word of God, because “how dare you judge me!” Thus we can “feel led” of God though our action or inaction violates His very instructions. Thus we are turned from the “narrow path” to the “wide road.” After all, we have predestination and “grace” and manifest destiny on our side. And if we “feel” we do not have such things? Why then, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” Two wide roads.

Despite all of the efforts of Rome to annihilate the Waldensians, the group managed to maintain remnants up until the time of the Reformers of Geneva. It would be John Calvin’s “right hand man,” the zealous enforcer of Calvin’s inquisition, who would deliver what seems to be the fatal blow to what remained of the purity of the Waldensian doctrine. The enforcer’s name was Guillaume Farel. While Luther assimilated the Hussite child of Waldo, it would be Farel who took an axe to the root of the tree:

His arrival in Neuchâtel (December, 1529) marks an epoch in its history. In spite of violent opposition, he succeeded in introducing the Reformation in the city and neighboring villages. He afterwards returned to Neuchâtel, where he finished his course.347 Robert Olivetan, Calvin’s cousin, published the first edition of his French translation of the Bible at Neuchâtel in 1535. Farel had urged him to do this work. It is the basis of the numerous French translations made since that time.

In 1532 Farel with his friend Saunier visited the Waldenses in Piedmont at the request of Georg Morel and Peter Masson, two Waldensian preachers, who were returning from a visit to Strassburg and the Reformed Churches of Switzerland. He attended the Synod which met at Chanforans in the valley of Angrogne, Sept. 12, 1532, and resolved to adopt the doctrines of the Reformation. He advised them to establish schools. He afterwards collected money for them and sent them four teachers, one of whom was Robert Olivetan, who was at that time private tutor at Geneva. This is the beginning of the fraternal relations between the Waldenses and the Reformed Churches which continue to this day.[98]

I know that all may seem innocent enough, but let’s examine in what way the Waldensians were affected by their contact with Farel and the other “scholars” of the Swiss reformation:

No official ties were forged between the Waldensians and the other Protestant Churches until 1532. In that year, the Synod of Chanforan was held, in which the Waldensians became a part of the reformed Church based in Geneva. For the Reformed, Farel led the negotiations, which were troubled, because of the Waldensian insistence on the separation of church and state, as well as other doctrinal differences.76 The Swiss reformers also called on the Waldensians to put an end to confessions, fasts and “meritorious Sundays,” and to introduce an emphasis on the doctrine of predestination.[99]

Please note the points of contention listed above, and keep in mind the habit of Calvin and Farel to execute anyone who didn’t see things their way. We see the union/separation of church and state as one point, and the emphasis of the doctrine of predestination as another point. These are two poisons which the Waldensians had always adamantly rejected, but now, over four centuries after their “founding,” they were coerced into re-adopting. It comes as no surprise that the Waldensians of today are a member of the World Council of Churches (actually originated in Geneva), and are thus tied to the very Rome that had killed them during that entire period of time. In fact, we will see that the World Council of Churches, a humanist organization, came about as a direct result of the works of Augustine, Calvin, Farel, Erasmus, Zwingli, Luther, and “Christian Rosencreutz,” if indeed we haven’t already begun to see it.

The Philosophy of the “Freedom Fighters”

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Frederic Bastiat

“To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.”

H.L. Mencken

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Freedom Fighters.” A seemingly noble title that signifies the pursuit of truth, justice, and “the American way.” But let’s take a look at the numerous times in history this title has been applied in the process of societal and political change and see if we can find a common thread.

Let me give you just one example. The patriots of the American Revolution used that name because patriot meant freedom fighter, and at the same time the Al Qaida group, known worldwide as a terrorist organization, were first known (and supported heavily by the CIA) as the mujahadeen – “freedom fighters.” In fact, almost every revolutionary group in the last millenium has been known by that term, as will be shown here. But keep in mind that most importantly for this study, the term huguenot meant freedom fighter.

One common thread between all the different freedom fighter groups is that they were and are all willing to die horrible deaths in the name of freedom, and that in their cultures it was and still is considered a very noble thing to do. Another common thread is that these same groups are all not only willing to die, but also willing to inflict death upon whoever stands in the way of their concept of freedom. This philosophy, and even theology, is also known as liberalism, as well as by another term: liberation theology, or, the “God-given right to freedom.” And it is quite contradictory to the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles.

“…there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the Way of Truth will be blasphemed…These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through licentiousness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also is he brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than in the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.”

I’m going to jump ahead a little here in order to give some historical perspective on the effects that the Huguenots had on the development of American society and American Christendom as we see it today.

Most who have heard the term Huguenot associate it with the French War(s) of Religion and with the teachings of John Calvin, but in this they are only partially correct. The fact is that the Huguenots preceded John Calvin as a secret society of “freedom fighters” in Switzerland:

59. The Condition of French Switzerland before the Reformation.

The losses of the Reformation in German Switzerland were more than made up by the gains in French Switzerland; that is, in the three Cantons, Vaud, Neuchàtel, and Geneva.332 Protestantism moved westward. Calvin continued, improved, and completed the work of Zwingli, and gave it a wider significance. Geneva took the place of Zürich, and surpassed in influence the city of Zwingli and the city of Luther. It became “the Protestant Rome,” from which proceeded the ideas and impulses for the Reformed Churches of France, Holland, England, and Scotland. The city of Calvin has long since departed from his rigorous creed and theocratic discipline, and will never return to them; but the evangelical faith still lives there in renewed vigor; and among cities of the same size there is none that occupies a more important and influential position in theological and religious activity as well as literary and social culture, and as a convenient centre for the settlement of international questions, than Geneva.

The Reformation of French Switzerland cannot be separated from that of France. The inhabitants of the two countries are of the same Celtic or Gallic stock mixed with Germanic (Frank and Burgundian) blood. The first evangelists of Western Switzerland were Frenchmen who had to flee from their native soil. They became in turn, through their pupils, the founders of the Reformed Church of France. The Reformed Churches of the two countries are one in spirit. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, many Huguenots found an asylum in Geneva, Vaud, and Neuchâtel. The French Swiss combine the best traits of the French character with Swiss solidity and love of freedom. They are ever ready to lend a helping hand to their brethren across the frontier, and they form at the same time a connecting link between them and the Protestants of the German tongue. Their excellent educational institutions attract students from abroad and train teachers for other countries.

The territory of the French Cantons, which embraces 1665 square miles, was in the sixteenth century under the protection of the Swiss Confederacy.

Vaud was conquered by Bern from the Duke of Savoy, and ruled by bailiffs till 1798.333

The principality of Neuchâtel and Valangin concluded a co-burghery with Freiburg, 1290, with Bern, 1307, and with Solothurn, 1324. In 1707 the principality passed to King Frederick I. of Prussia, who confirmed the rights and liberties of the country and its old alliance with Switzerland. The connection with Prussia continued till 1857, when it was dissolved by free consent.334

Geneva was originally governed by a bishop and a count, who divided the spiritual and secular government between them. Duke Charles III. of Savoy tried to subdue the city with the aid of an unworthy and servile bishop, Pierre de la Baume, whom he had appointed from his own family with the consent of Pope Leo X.335 But a patriotic party, under the lead of Philibert Berthelier, Besançon Hugues, and François Bonivard (Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon”) opposed the attempt and began a struggle for independence, which lasted several years, and resembles on a small scale the heroic struggle of Switzerland against foreign oppression. The patriots, on account of their alliance with the Swiss, were called Eidgenossen,—a German word for (Swiss) Confederates, which degenerated by mispronunciation into Eignots and Huguenots, and passed afterwards from Geneva to France as a nickname for Protestants.336 The party of the Duke of Savoy and the bishop were nicknamed Mamelukes or slaves. The patriots gained the victory with the aid of the German Swiss. On Feb. 20, 1526, Bern and Freiburg concluded an alliance with Geneva, and pledged their armed aid for the protection of her independence. The citizens of Geneva ratified the Swiss alliance by an overwhelming majority, who shouted, “The Swiss and liberty!”

I will point out, for those who have not yet seen it, the similarity of language between what we see occurring above in Switzerland and the language of events in early American colonial history. It exists in our heritage from the philosophies of liberty, or freedom to the “rights” of manifest destiny, an offspring of predestination dogma. But the similarity does not stop there, not in the least. The fact that this “movement” of Protestant patriotism was transferred to the Americas during and after the Wars of Religion cannot be denied any more than the common theme between them can be. Allow me to repeat, the entire concept of “American patriotism” and liberty and freedom was not born in America; it was designed, conceived, given birth to, and weaned in Switzerland, and France, and Germany, and England, and then transplanted as the root philosophy for the foundation of the American colonies. The “War of Independence” was both planned and meant to happen.

An ardent colonial supporter of King George III wrote home: “I fix all the blame for these extraordinary proceedings upon the Presbyterians. They have been the chief and principal instruments in all these flaming measures. They always do and ever will act against government from that restless and turbulent anti-monarchial spirit which has always distinguished them everywhere.”[100]

“If the average American citizen were asked, who was the founder of America, the true author of our great Republic, he might be puzzled to answer. We can imagine his amazement at hearing the answer given to this question by the famous German historian, Ranke, one of the profoundest scholars of modern times. Says Ranke, ‘John Calvin was the virtual founder of America.’”[101]

It is during this period that a “new order” was given new life in Europe, though the order had existed in various forms throughout history, even from the times of Babylon and the Pharaohs and the building of the Temple of Solomon. This order, from which the modern term cabal is derived, is known in some circles as the mysteries of the Kabbal, or The Brotherhood, or (take your pick) Freemasonry, Rosicrusians, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, The Knights of Malta , P2, etc… Volumes upon volumes have been written about the existence of these “orders” and their affinities (I recommend authors Gary Kah and Dr. Cathy Burns’ books), so I will not write another, but at this point allow me to insert two “connecting dots” for inspection:

The name of Huguenot, as applied to the dissenters from the Church of Rome, is supposed to have been derived from Hugeon, a word used in Touraine to signify persons who walk at night. Their only safe place of worship for one hundred years had been dark caves and the blue vault of the heavens. The matter of religion with Louis XIV was merely a pretext. He used the Church as a club for wholesale confiscation. It was a rich field to work in, and the proceeds lined the pockets of the dissolute nobles of his court.

The Huguenots, as a class, were the bone and sinew of France. The nobility were wealthy, the merchants and manufacturers prosperous, and the poorer classes sober and industrious. It is estimated that the loss to France by the Huguenot persecutions, first and last, was about 400,000. Manufactures and the arts were paralyzed, and the whole country suffered from its effects for one hundred years. Louis and his predecessors sowed the vipers’ eggs that a century later brought Louis XVI and his court to the guillotine. Thus, in a measure, did time avenge the martyred Huguenots. This name was applied indiscriminately to those who adopted the creeds of Luther or Calvin. It seems they got an idea that the Bible would be a pretty good book for the people, and this did not suit the priests and monks of those days. They made a general job of burning both books and readers. Mankind is a contrary quantity, and, as is generally the case, their ideas grew and prospered under opposition and persecution. In the course of time, the Huguenots became a prominent factor among all classes, from noble to peasant. The followers of Luther and Calvin were the bone and sinew of the states, and in a general way, represented the best class of inhabitants.

This struggle between advancement and ignorance was at its height about 1450. To quote a French monk of that period: “They have now found out a new language called Greek. We must carefully guard ourselves against it. That language will be the mother of all heresies. I see in the hands of a great number of persons a book written in this language, called the New Testament. It is a book full of brambles with vipers in them. As to the Hebrew, whoever learns that becomes a Jew at once.”

One hundred years passed and found the new faith growing, and persecution increasing. Phillip II of Spain devastated Flanders, and changed that rich country to a desert. The massacre of St. Bartholomew followed shortly after. In 1581, the exodus from France and Flanders began in earnest, but was stayed, in a measure, by Henry of Navarre, who was proclaimed king in 1584, with the title of Henry IV. As a Protestant himself, he promulgated the celebrated Edict of Nantes, but the people were soon deprived of its benefits when the king became a nominal Catholic for 124 political reasons. The persecution recommenced with greater fury and culminated in the revocation of the edict by Louis XIV, in 1685. Then the exodus began in earnest. There was no safety for a Huguenot in France. The galleys, dungeon or the stake was the alternative. All possible avenues of escape were closed by the king and his troops. He did not want to lose the people; he wanted to save their souls, but the poor deluded Huguenots did not see it in that light. The rich sacrificed their wealth, and the poor the little mite that they possessed, for the sake of life and liberty. Now and then some mentally weaker than the rest recanted, or pretended to do so, and outwardly seemed to be converted to the true faith, and were spared, but they were sharply watched.

North, South, East and West, they fled for life and liberty; by highways, byways, wild mountain passes, forest trails, by sea. or land, enclosed in casks, or in the foul holds of merchant vessels bound to some foreign port. Any future prospect was preferable to a life in France. Holland, Germany and England gave them shelter, even benighted Russia gave a home to French exiles, and little Switzerland was full of refugees. Louis XIV sent the citizens of Geneva, a peremptory mandate to expel the Huguenots, under pain of his displeasure. They pretended to escort the exiles, with all due ceremony, outside the city gates, and quietly brought them in again by a gate on the other side. But Holland was crowded in population; the English laborer was jealous of the superior workmanship of the French emigrant; and it remained for America to make a final safe and happy home for the Huguenots of France.

The best blood of France is blended with ours and we are proud of the result as it is today. The great loss of France is our gain. There is no better blood than the American in this year of 1908. The families of Bontekoe and DeReseguier were among the first refugees from French persecution. (From Experiences of the French Huguenots in America, by James Tompkins Watson, 1908).

Let’s take a look at the DeReseguier family in particular and we’ll see something quite interesting:

What of Masonry at this period? Today we hear in the lecture of the second degree these words, “Our Ancient Brethren wrought in Operative Masonry”. This is literally true. Masonry at the beginning of the 18^th century was limited to Guilds of Operative Masons. It was these early Guilds that had erected the magnificent cathedrals of England and France, of Germany and Italy. From these cathedrals came the early fame of the Guilds that ripened into prosperity, influence, prestige.

Masons, proud of their position, kept the basic principles of building, the practices of the trade, as closely guarded secrets of the Fraternity known only to themselves. Revealed to initiates only in their tiled meetings, these professional secrets and the esoteric nature of their liturgy combined to weave a spell that later drew all eyes to Freemasonry.

In a firmament emblazoned with the figures of kings and nobles, of stone masons and cathedrals, on the 12^th day of March, 1683, in the city of Rochelle, France, a Star was Born. There were no fanfare of trumpets, no herald angels singing, “Peace on Earth, Good. Will toward Men”. But there must have been joy in the Celestial Lodge above, as Divine Providence sent into the world a New Hope. A babe came to the humble home of a French Huguenot clergyman, a son, who, when he grew to man’s estate was destined to create a force so powerful that its influence carried into every phase of the lives of all who lived after him, a force which reached to the very foundation of civilization and changed the destiny of man, a force which gave to man a liberty he had never before experienced and which has been called the Forefather of Democracy.

Two years later Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had for nearly a century assured to French Protestants a religious liberty and a legal status. As a result of the Revocation thousands of loyal French were driven into exile. Among those who were forced to flee was this Huguenot clergyman, John D. Desaguliers. Escape was difficult and dangerous, but hiding his two year old son, John Theophilus, in a wine cask which was loaded on a ship bound for England, Desaguliers managed to find refuge.

It is to be regretted that so little is known of this babe of the wine cask—only the scanty Masonic records and a few contemporary notices—because Freemasonry and modern civilization owe more to him than to any other person of the 18^th century.

The Rev. John D. Desaguliers became chaplain of a French Huguenot church in London and there personally guided the training of his son in the classical languages. Later, with the assistance of the boy, then only in his teens, he founded a school at Islington. Thus at an early age, this youth formed the habit of molding other’s minds. He never lost that habit. He became the great pedagogue of Hanoverian England.

After the death of his father, John Theophilus Desaguliers decided to finish his studies at Oxford, where he attained fame in Experimental Philosophy, or Science. He was given the chair of Experimental Philosophy in Christ Church College and acclaimed the great authority of all Europe.

In 1713 he left Oxford for London, taking spacious quarters, and in them gave lectures. Thus he became the first public lecturer on Science in Europe. Success immediately greeted his audacious enterprise,, because the people of London had never seen anything like this. They crowded his quarters. He became the fashion. The greatest noblemen of his time honored his courses with their attendance and him with their friendship. He became one of the most important personages of all London, the intimate of the illustrious Sir Isaac Newton. He was elected “Fellow of the Royal Society of London”, chosen Curator and Demonstrator of that august Society, and it was here that Desaguliers took the great doctrines of Newton and through his experiments made them accessible and understandable to the minds of all. He invented the planetarium. His scientific and philosophical treatises and books were accepted as the standard works of his day.

The social world was so carried away with enthusiasm for his lectures that he was invited by royalty to give his experiments at court. His patriotic zeal and the quality of his endeavors won for him one of the most prominent places In Hanoverian England.

If at any time in her history England needed strong leadership it was at this moment. There had been a continuous political strife and dissension. Morality was at a low ebb. Religiouswise that nation, as perhaps the rest of the world, was in a chaotic state. Fads and isms had sprung up. Confusion was the order of the day. Darkness was upon the face of the deep.

On June 24^th, 1717, as a strategic move in the political game of chess between the Houses of Hanover and Stuart, the Hanoverians, just to accomplish their own selfish ends, gathered together four comparatively unimportant Masonic Lodges lying in the outskirts of London to form the Grand Lodge of London, the first Grand Lodge of Masonry. It was on that day that Freemasonry, all unexpectedly, started on its world mission.

For at least two centuries people on all sides had been looking for such a thing as Freemasonry. Inquiring minds, irritated by the social and Intellectual discipline imposed by the Church, had been centers of resistance, around which formed societies which took issue with the Church. For a long time those forces had been turning expectantly toward Masonry. Every ism indeed had sought the influence of some one or more of the Masonic Guilds, and one can well imagine the chaos in that multitude of loosely organized associations which seemed groping without aim or purpose.

For a time it looked as though even this newborn Masonry was to fail, but in 1719 Desaguliers was elected Grand Master, and he brought to Freemasonry the life it needed. He wrote most of its ritual. He brought to it his experimental philosophy, and gave to it a touch of Newtonian Christianity, a belief in Newton’s God, now and for the first time, “The Great Artificer and Creator of the Universe.” The world had been openly venal and immoral. It had been attacking religion in self defense, and all the more easily because religion seemed but an ancient dogma. But here was a new idea in religion, one appealing to the intelligence instead of offering a creed, for it based upon analysis and reality. Here a contemplation of nature produced certain logical facts. It taught men to think.

Desaguliers brought back Into Masonry many of those had been in the habit of neglecting it. Further he introduced into Fraternity a group of the greatest noblemen of England. He it was who inaugurated the idea of making speeches at the end of Masonic banquets. Again, he restored the ancient custom of presenting at the conclusion of banquets those emphatic toasts which played such an important role in the formal life of England. These took the place of our contemporary political discussions and created the political atmosphere of the day.

Fashion is one of the most powerful of social forces. Freemasonry under Desaguliers became the fashion. The very elite of England quickly rushed to the order. Its Grand Masters were selected from the highest of the nobility. Powerful indeed became our Brotherhood and one definitely designed for the temporal influence by reason of the importance of its leaders.

Those who developed this new order enjoyed a success that surpassed their fondest hopes. Their aim had been a strong central Lodge around which the other Lodges in and about London, then working in an incoherent manner, could be grouped. But around this new movement the nobility, the clergy, the army, the middle classes, all the forces of the nation, gathered in a single body. So astounding a revolution of the human spirit had not been witnessed since the explosion of primitive Christianity. England found a national unity and as a consequence, England became for the entire civilized world a perfect example of enlightened government. The exact formula, suited to the amount, had been found.

Fifteen years after Its formation the Grand Lodge of London had become the center of all English Freemasonry, and after thirty years dominated the Masonry of the world—thanks to one man!

His life was a veritable fountain of light, a beacon to show the way for countless generations. John Theophilus Desaguliers has, even in death, ruled nations. Was it not as though the Supreme Grand Master spoke to men’s minds through him and said, “What is the cause of this confusion?”

With all this information before us may anyone question that Freemasonry had a political and religious mission in England during the first half of the 18^th century?

Indeed, may we not feel that Freemasonry played a most important political and religious role in France during the closing years of the 18^th century?

What of Freemasonry in the Americas?

Prior to our own Revolution thirteen small Colonies were separated by such distances that it took a letter three weeks to travel from Boston to Georgia. There was no uniformity in the administration of those thirteen separate governments, or in their religious affiliations, or social standards. There were the merchant class of the North—the great land owners of the South. There were the Puritans. the Quakers, the Catholics, the Dutch, English, Scotch-Irish, Germans and French. All rivals and jealous of each other. There was no unity.

Freemasonry alone, undertook to prepare a common foundation. It spread throughout the Colonies among a prominent class of people. Contact between American Lodges became closer and closer each year, and any Mason traveling found a welcome in the Lodges he visited. There he met the best citizens who were glad to help him in both social and business ways. As a result a virtual social and economic aristocracy of Freemasonry was established in America on a national scale, with a feeling of American unity, without which American Liberty would not have developed—without which there would have been no United States of America.

(From: W. Brother George E. Maine
Past Master, George Washington Lodge No. 251, and
Grand Orator of the M.W. Grand Lodge,
F. & A.M. of Washington

An Oration delivered before The Grand Lodge of Washington June, 1939 )

So, was it John Calvin or freemasonry that was the true founding force of America? What if it is both?

Kinda gives a new perspective on the meaning of placing the French Masonic/Huguenot Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, doesn’t it? It is not a symbol of American liberty, but a mark of ownership by the Masonic Huguenots. It is also representative of the Mother Goddess, or Gaia, or the feminine aspect of Baphomet. Now, please have patience with me and examine one more item:

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This above picture is from the website of the Huguenot Masonic Lodge that still exists today in Kutztown, PA.

As you may have deduced, I am establishing that what was devised by Augustine in his City of God, a mixture of Roman Empirism, Roman Catholicism, and Aristotlian philosophy, was conceived into a social union by a Catholic (alchemical) John Calvin, with the support of the French Throne, and by Rosicrucian Martin Luther, supported by Frederic the Wise, in the city of Geneva in 1534-70 (or so), then, once established, was transplanted like a seedling to grow in the Americas under the guiding hands of French and English Masonic Nobility. No other explanation, in my opinion, is plausible. That this transplantation served the causes of the Roman Archons can be seen even today in the marriage(s) of the World Bank, the World Council of Churches, and the United Nations, of whom the Vicar of Rome, via Gorbachev, is the predominant religious force. It has grown thus into a “great tree, in which all the birds of the air roost.” And we know, Glory to God, who the prince of the power of the air is.

Please examine this carefully. We know that the “powers” of Rome used mimicry to establish Roman Catholicism as a “state religion” under Constantine. Proven fact. We know that once the Word of God got into laymen’s hands (Waldo of Lyans), the powers of Rome attempted subversion by mimicry via the “Poor Catholics.” Proven fact. And we know that John Calvin and company established a state religion in Geneva that was based on Augustine’s writings, and which eventually was transferred to the Americas. Proven fact. And we know that there, contrary to biblical doctrines concerning sovereigns and authorities, those same Calvinists took up arms in revolution against a sovereign king. Proven fact.

Here is the complete transcript of a pro-Calvinist historic web page to consider:

CALVINISM IN AMERICA

When we come to study the influence of Calvinism as a political force in the history of the United States we come to one of the brightest pages of all Calvinistic history. Calvinism came to America in the Mayflower, and Bancroft, the greatest of American historians, pronounces the Pilgrim Fathers “Calvinists in their faith according to the straightest system.”¹ John Endicott, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; John Winthrop, the second governor of that Colony; Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut; John Davenport, the founder of the New Haven Colony; and Roger Williams, the founder of the Rhode Island Colony, were all Calvinists. William Penn was a disciple of the Huguenots. It is estimated that of the 3,000,000 Americans at the time of the American Revolution, 900,000 were of Scotch or Scotch-Irish origin, 600,000 were Puritan English, and 400,000 were German or Dutch Reformed. In addition to this the Episcopalians had a Calvinistic confession in their Thirty-nine Articles; and many French Huguenots also had come to this western world. Thus we see that about two-thirds of the colonial population had been trained in the school of Calvin. Never in the world’s history had a nation been founded by such people as these. Furthermore these people came to America not primarily for commercial gain or advantage, but because of deep religious convictions. It seems that the religious persecutions in various European countries had been providentially used to select out the most progressive and enlightened people for the colonization of America. At any rate it is quite generally admitted that the English, Scotch, Germans, and Dutch have been the most masterful people of Europe. Let it be especially remembered that the Puritans, who formed the great bulk of the settlers in New England, brought with them a Calvinistic Protestantism, that they were truly devoted to the doctrines of the great Reformers, that they had an aversion for formalism and oppression whether in the Church or in the State, and that in New England Calvinism remained the ruling theology throughout the entire Colonial period.

With this background we shall not be surprised to find that the Presbyterians took a very prominent part in the American Revolution. Our own historian Bancroft says: “The Revolution of 1776, so far as it was affected by religion, was a Presbyterian measure. It was the natural outgrowth of the principles which the Presbyterianism of the Old World planted in her sons, the English Puritans, the Scotch Covenanters, the French Huguenots, the Dutch Calvinists, and the Presbyterians of Ulster.” So intense, universal, and aggressive were the Presbyterians in their zeal for liberty that the war was spoken of in England as “The Presbyterian Rebellion.” An ardent colonial supporter of King George III wrote home: “I fix all the blame for these extraordinary proceedings upon the Presbyterians. They have been the chief and principal instruments in all these flaming measures. They always do and ever will act against government from that restless and turbulent anti-monarchial spirit which has always distinguished them everywhere.”² When the news of “these extraordinary proceedings” reached England, Prime Minister Horace Walpole said in Parliament, “Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson” (John Witherspoon, president of Princeton, signer of Declaration of Independence).

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that that Christianity was Calvinism. The great Revolutionary conflict which resulted in the formation of the American nation, was carried out mainly by Calvinists, many of whom had been trained in the rigidly Presbyterian College at Princeton, and this nation is their gift to all liberty loving people.

R. Sizoo tells us: “When Cornwallis was driven back to ultimate retreat and surrender at Yorktown, all of the colonels of the Colonial Army but one were Presbyterian elders. More than one-half of all the soldiers and officers of the American Army during the Revolution were Presbyterians.”³

The testimony of Emilio Castelar, the famous Spanish statesman, orator and scholar, is interesting and valuable. Castelar had been professor of Philosophy in the University of Madrid before he entered politics, and he was made president of the republic which was set up by the Liberals in 1873. As a Roman Catholic he hated Calvin and Calvinism. Says he: “It was necessary for the republican movement that there should come a morality more austere than Luther’s, the morality of Calvin, and a Church more democratic than the German, the Church of Geneva. The Anglo-Saxon democracy has for its lineage a book of a primitive society — the Bible. It is the product of a severe theology learned by the few Christian fugitives in the gloomy cities of Holland and Switzerland, where the morose shade of Calvin still wanders . . . And it remains serenely in its grandeur, forming the most dignified, most moral and most enlightened portion of the human race.”⁴

Says Motley: “In England the seeds of liberty, wrapped up in Calvinism and hoarded through many trying years, were at last destined to float over land and sea, and to bear the largest harvests of temperate freedom for great commonwealths that were still unborn.⁵ “The Calvinists founded the commonwealths of England, of Holland, and America.” And again, “To Calvinists more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of England, Holland and America are due.”⁶

The testimony of another famous historian, the Frenchman Taine, who himself held no religious faith, is worthy of consideration. Concerning the Calvinists he said: “These men are the true heroes of England. They founded England, in spite of the corruption of the Stuarts, by the exercise of duty, by the practice of justice, by obstinate toil, by vindication of right, by resistance to oppression, by the conquest of liberty, by the repression of vice. They founded Scotland; they founded the United States; at this day they are, by their descendants, founding Australia and colonizing the world.”⁷

In his book, “The Creed of Presbyterians,” E. W. Smith asks concerning the American colonists, “Where learned they those immortal principles of the rights of man, of human liberty, equality and self-government, on which they based their Republic, and which form today the distinctive glory of our American civilization ? In the school of Calvin they learned them. There the modern world learned them. So history teaches,” (p. 121).

We shall now pass on to consider the influence which the Presbyterian Church as a Church exerted in the formation of the Republic. “The Presbyterian Church,” said Dr. W. H. Roberts in an address before the General Assembly, “was for three-quarters of a century the sole representative upon this continent of republican government as now organized in the nation.” And then he continues: “From 1706 to the opening of the revolutionary struggle the only body in existence which stood for our present national political organization was the General Synod of the American Presbyterian Church. It alone among ecclesiastical and political colonial organizations exercised authority, derived from the colonists themselves, over bodies of Americans scattered through all the colonies from New England to Georgia. The colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is to be remembered, while all dependent upon Great Britain, were independent of each other. Such a body as the Continental Congress did not exist until 1774. The religious condition of the country was similar to the political. The Congregational Churches of New England had no connection with each other, and had no power apart from the civil government. The Episcopal Church was without organization in the colonies, was dependent for support and a ministry on the Established Church of England, and was filled with an intense loyalty to the British monarchy. The Reformed Dutch Church did not become an efficient and independent organization until 1771, and the German Reformed Church did not attain to that condition until 1793. The Baptist Churches were separate organizations, the Methodists were practically unknown, and the Quakers were non-combatants.”

Delegates met every year in the General Synod, and as Dr. Roberts tells us, the Church became “a bond of union and correspondence between large elements in the population of the divided colonies.” “Is it any wonder,” he continues, “that under its fostering influence the sentiments of true liberty, as well as the tenets of a sound gospel, were preached throughout the territory from Long Island to South Carolina, and that above all a feeling of unity between the Colonies began slowly but surely to assert itself? Too much emphasis cannot be laid, in connection with the origin of the nation, upon the influence of that ecclesiastical republic, which from 1706 to 1774 was the only representative on this continent of fully developed federal republican institutions. The United States of America owes much to that oldest of American Republics, the Presbyterian Church.”⁸

It is, of course, not claimed that the Presbyterian Church was the only source from which sprang the principles upon which this republic is founded, but it is claimed that the principles found in the Westminster Standards were the chief basis for the republic, and that “The Presbyterian Church taught, practiced, and maintained in fulness, first in this land that form of government in accordance with which the Republic has been organized.” (Roberts).

The opening of the Revolutionary struggle found the Presbyterian ministers and churches lined up solidly on the side of the colonists, and Bancroft accredits them with having made the first bold move toward independence.⁹The synod which assembled in Philadelphia in 1775 was the first religious body to declare openly and publicly for a separation from England. It urged the people under its jurisdiction to leave nothing undone that would promote the end in view, and called upon them to pray for the Congress which was then in session.

The Episcopalian Church was then still united with the Church of England, and it opposed the Revolution. A considerable number of individuals within that Church, however, labored earnestly for independence and gave of their wealth and influence to secure it. It is to be remembered also that the Commander-in-Chief of the American armies, “the father of our country,” was a member of her household. Washington himself attended, and ordered all of his men to attend the services of his chaplains, who were clergymen from the various churches. He gave forty thousand dollars to establish a Presbyterian College in his native state, which took his name in honor of the gift and became Washington College.

S. McFetridge has thrown light upon another major development of the Revolutionary period. For the sake of accuracy and completeness we shall take the privilege of quoting him rather extensively. “Another important factor in the independent movement,” says he, “was what is known as the ‘Mecklenburg Declaration,’ proclaimed by the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of North Carolina, May 20, 1775, more than a year before the Declaration (of Independence) of Congress. It was the fresh, hearty greeting of the Scotch-Irish to their struggling brethren in the North, and their bold challenge to the power of England. They had been keenly watching the progress of the contest between the colonies and the Crown, and when they heard of the address presented by the Congress to the King, declaring the colonies in actual rebellion, they deemed it time for patriots to speak. Accordingly, they called a representative body together in Charlotte, N. C., which by unanimous resolution declared the people free and independent, and that all laws and commissions from the king were henceforth null and void. In their Declaration were such resolutions as these: ‘We do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us with the mother-country, and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British crown’ …. ‘We hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under control of no power other than that of our God and the general government of Congress; to the maintenance of which we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual cooperation and our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor.’ … That assembly was composed of twenty-seven staunch Calvinists, just one-third of whom were ruling elders in the Presbyterian Church, including the president and secretary; and one was a Presbyterian clergyman. The man who drew up that famous and important document was the secretary, Ephraim Brevard, a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church and a graduate of Princeton College. Bancroft says of it that it was, ‘in effect, a declaration as well as a complete system of government.’ (U.S. Hist. VIII, 40). It was sent by special messenger to the Congress in Philadelphia, and was published in the Cape Fear Mercury, and was widely distributed throughout the land. Of course it was speedily transmitted to England, where it became the cause of intense excitement.

“The identity of sentiment and similarity of expression in this Declaration and the great Declaration written by Jefferson could not escape the eye of the historian; hence Tucker, in his Life of Jefferson, says: ‘Everyone must be persuaded that one of these papers must have been borrowed from the other.’ But it is certain that Brevard could not have ‘borrowed’ from Jefferson, for he wrote more than a year before Jefferson; hence Jefferson, according to his biographer, must have ‘borrowed’ from Brevard. But it was a happy plagiarism, for which the world will freely forgive him. In correcting his first draft of the Declaration it can be seen, in at least a few places, that Jefferson has erased the original words and inserted those which are first found in the Mecklenberg Declaration. No one can doubt that Jefferson had Brevard’s resolutions before him when he was writing his immortal Declaration.”¹⁰

This striking similarity between the principles set forth in the Form of Government of the Presbyterian Church and those set forth in the Constitution of the United States has caused much comment. “When the fathers of our Republic sat down to frame a system of representative and popular government,” says Dr. E. W. Smith, “their task was not so difficult as some have imagined. They had a model to work by.”¹¹

D’Aubigne, whose history of the Reformation is a classic, writes: “Calvin was the founder of the greatest of republics. The Pilgrims who left their country in the reign of James I, and landing on the barren soil of New England, founded populous and mighty colonies, were his sons, his direct and legitimate sons; and that American nation which we have seen growing so rapidly boasts as its father the humble Reformer on the shore of Lake Leman.”¹³

Dr. E. W. Smith says, “These revolutionary principles of republican liberty and self-government, taught and embodied in the system of Calvin, were brought to America, and in this new land where they have borne so mighty a harvest were planted, by whose hands? — the hands of the Calvinists. The vital relation of Calvin and Calvinism to the founding of the free institutions of America, however strange in some ears the statement of Ranke may have sounded, is recognized and affirmed by historians of all lands and creeds.”¹⁴

All this has been thoroughly understood and candidly acknowledged by such penetrating and philosophic historians as Bancroft, who far though he was from being Calvinistic in his own personal convictions, simply calls Calvin “the father of America,” and adds: “He who will not honor the memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows but little of the origin of American liberty.”

When we remember that two-thirds of the population at the time of the Revolution had been trained in the school of Calvin, and when we remember how unitedly and enthusiastically the Calvinists labored for the cause of independence, we readily see how true are the above testimonies.

There were practically no Methodists in America at the time of the Revolution; and, in fact, the Methodist Church was not officially organized as such in England until the year 1784, which was three years after the American Revolution closed. John Wesley, great and good man though he was, was a Tory and a believer in political non-resistance. He wrote against the American “rebellion,” but accepted the providential result. McFetridge tells us: “The Methodists had hardly a foothold in the colonies when the war began. In 1773 they claimed about one hundred and sixty members. Their ministers were almost all, if not all, from England, and were staunch supporters of the Crown against American Independence. Hence, when the war broke out they were compelled to fly from the country. Their political views were naturally in accord with those of their great leader, John Wesley, who wielded all the power of his eloquence and influence against the independence of the colonies. (Bancroft, Hist. U.S., Vol. VII, p. 261.) He did not foresee that independent America was to be the field on which his noble Church was to reap her largest harvests, and that in that Declaration which he so earnestly opposed lay the security of the liberties of his followers.”¹⁵

In England and America the great struggles for civil and religious liberty were nursed in Calvinism, inspired by Calvinism, and carried out largely by men who were Calvinists. And because the majority of historians have never made a serious study of Calvinism they have never been able to give us a truthful and complete account of what it has done in these countries. Only the light of historical investigation is needed to show us how our forefathers believed in it and were controlled by it. We live in a day when the services of the Calvinists in the founding of this country have been largely forgotten, and one can hardly treat of this subject without appearing to be a mere eulogizer of Calvinism. We may well do honor to that Creed which has borne such sweet fruits and to which America owes so much.

Footnotes:

¹Hist. U. S., I, p. 463.
²Presbyterians and the Revolution, p. 49.
³They Seek a Country, J. G. Slosser, editor, p. 155.
⁴Harper’s Monthly. June and July, 1872.
⁵The’United Netherlands, III., p. 121.
⁶The United Netherlands, IV., pp. 548, 547.
⁷English Literature, II., p. 472.
⁸Address on, “The Westminster Standards and the Formation of the American Republic.
⁹Hist. U.S., X., p. 77.
¹⁰Calvinism in History, pp. 85-88.
¹¹The Creed of Presbyterians, p. 142.
¹²Id. p. 119.
¹³Reformation in the Time of Calvin, I., p. 5.
¹⁴The Creed of Presbyterians, p. 132.
¹⁵Calvinism in History, p. 74.

Did you notice any catchwords or catch phrases form The Master Plan in all of that? Liberty, freedom, taking up arms against an established monarchy, Presbyterian theology leading the revolution…quite a “coincidence,” don’t you think?

And, if Calvin was the “father of America” as stated above, what of the fact that he installed a fascist state in Geneva? And what is the role of the Huguenots here?

But how, you ask, may we know that the Papacy is still up to its old Banking Empire tricks? Well, here is one example:

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, is a mostly misleading title. It is primarily an adjunct and creature of the U.S. Treasury and the White House, jointly with the London money center banks. In the past, numerous requests for bail-out funds were granted by IMF, that is, by the U.S., to Brazil, to Argentina, and to others. Remember. At one time England had an armlock on the infrastructure and finances of Argentina, such as in their capital, Buenos Aires. The subway there, the waterworks, the public utilities, originally were owned and exploited by British absentee owners. Then came 1982. Argentina seized the Falkland Islands, which they called the Malvinas, contending they belonged historically to Argentina. Between Argentina and the Falklands were discovered great sources of offshore oil, claimed by Argentina. Expecting a war, the Vatican Bank had given billions of dollars to Argentina, disguised as from Banco Ambrosiano, a major Italian bank. The purpose was for Argentina to purchase, as they did, from France and elsewhere, Exocet missiles and other exotic weapons with which the Argentines later attacked the few major warships that the British still had. A certain area in and around the Falklands was designated by both sides as the “war zone”. In violation of designated NEUTRAL territory, the British, using U.S. satellite imagery, had one of their submarines (maybe actually a U.S. submarine) torpedo and sink the major ship of the Argentine fleet in the NEUTRAL ZONE, the cruiser “Belgrano”. Over eight hundred unsuspecting Argentine sailors were thus killed. In violation of the Geneva Convention, to which Great Britain is a signatory, the British tortured and slaughtered numerous Argentine Prisoners-of-War on the re-taken Falklands. The head of Banco Ambrosiano, blamed for not keeping the Vatican Bank-Argentine funds adequately secret, was found murdered, hanging under Blackfriars’ Bridge, London. In the U.S., network television reporter, Jessica Savitch, did a documentary on the murder and related matters of the Italian banker. Later, she herself was murdered along with her boyfriend, a top media executive. The press whores explained it away as a supposed accident, as if their car somehow fell into a canal and they drowned. One problem. The canal was dry. [Some details are in the book “Golden Girl The Story of Jessica Savitch” by Alanna K. Nash, paperback edition.] By December, 2001, here was the situation. As to Argentina, “Most major utilities in the country are Spanish-owned…The largest oil company in Argentina is Spanish-owned. In all, Spanish companies have some $39 Billion invested in Argentina, more than those of any other country.” New York Times, January 8, 2001, under a headline “Argentina Devalues, and the Spanish Feel the Loss”. So, to damage the OTHER pipeline consortium headed by the Argentine firm Bridas, George W. Bush was adamant. Argentina would get no help from the IMF. The rivalry between the Vatican/Spain/Catholic business interests and Great Britain has been going on for centuries. So, when Argentina needed to be bailed out, as in the past, by the IMF, well, Unocal/Bush decided to withhold IMF help from Argentina which went into default of about 132 Billion Dollars of foreign debt. [Visit our website series “Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush”, attached to which are the secret Federal Reserve wire transfer records, under the authorization code of Greenspan, showing the 25 secret worldwide accounts of the Bush Family. Included is an account through which has been laundered HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in illicit dealings, a joint account of the Bush Family and the Queen of England in her PRIVATE bank, Coutts Bank London. Note also, the World Trade Center, where several thousand died, had principally financial firms operated by Irish Catholics and Jews, such as Cantor Fitzgerald, way up toward the top of one of the towers; not a single person of some 700 in those offices survived. Others have documented the Nazi business links of the Bush Family. Such as “The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush” by Webster Tarpley. So, did George W. Bush really give a damn for what happened to Irish Catholics and Jews in those collapsed WTC buildings? Do we have to re-invent history that the Queen of England, with a joint account with the Bush Family, hates Irish Catholics?] The Argentine firm, Bridas, heading up the consortium competing with Unocal/Bush, was still ready to go ahead with their Afghanistan pipeline plan AFTER the Unocal/Bush plan with Osama bin Laden and Taliban went sour just prior to September 11, 2001. How do you wreck a pipeline deal for Afghanistan of a competitor group? Simple. You wreck Argentina/Vatican Bank/Spain/Catholic Business Interests. Call it a natural happening. Call it sinister. Whatever. The new Afghan interim strongman selected by the U.S. and Great Britain is Hamid Karzai. Should it surprise savvy sorts that HE has been a consultant to Unocal. Referred to in the major French newspaper LeMonde, just before Christmas, 2001, as translated as they said of Karzai, “…in the USA, where he acted, for a while, as a consultant for the American oil company Unocal, at the time it was considering building a pipeline in Afghanistan….” Hey, are the U.S. and Great Britain so stupid to think the Vatican/Argentina/Spain/Catholic Business Interests are not capable of revenge? Also to be mentioned. Richard Cheney and his firm Halliburton are reportedly implicated in the Afghanitan pipeline dirty business. Remember, he was CEO of Halliburton up to August, 2000. Halliburton is big in oil patch machinery and such. Also reportedly implicated George W. Bush/Richard Cheney/Enron.

Since the above, as you can likely tell by the language, is from a popular “conspiracy theory” website, I did some more investigating, as I wholeheartedly suggest we all do as well, I went looking in “more credible” sources. Here’s some of what my friend and fellow researcher, Gary, found:

Excerpts from:

“Through the Looking Glass and Beyond”

Vatican Politics and the Calvi Murder and Beyond

By Conrad Goeringer

Early on the morning of Friday, June 18, 1982, a body was found dangling from an orange rope underneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. Police recovered the corpse of a middle age man, about sixty, paunchy, in a gray suit. Pieces of rocks and brick had been stuffed into the pockets, along with $15,000 in various currencies. A passport identified the victim as Gian Roberto Calvini, (Gian Calvin?) but soon it was learned that the dead man was really Roberto Calvi, chairman and managing director of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan, Italy. Calvi had mysteriously vanished from Rome on June 11, and his misfortune in London re-ignited media curiosity over a story which had already made headlines, and reverberated through the world’s major financial and political institutions.

Calvi was only one of a cast of characters in that story that included organized crime interests, political groups, secret societies, drug dealers, major financial institutions, and perhaps most stunning of all, a little-known entity identified as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, the official bank for the Vatican. The collapse of Calvi’s Banco Ambrosiano revealed that high officials within the Vatican and its bank had collaborated in building a network of offshore dummy corporations propped up under the Ambosirano Group’s line of credit, into which hundreds of millions of dollars disappeared. Some figures indicate that the Vatican’s participation in this scandal exceeded $1.25 billion dollars (and remember, this is the early 1980s).

When you mention the Vatican, most people instinctively think of a religious institution, the Roman Catholic Church, when in fact the Vatican is really the latest incarnation of something known as the Papal States, Pontifical States or States of the Church. Less than six centuries after being constituted, the popes of the Church became the defacto political rulers of Rome and the surrounding regions; the Frankish king, Pepin the Short formally granted those lands to the church under Pope Stephen II, and by the 16^th century, the papal holdings came to embrace nearly the whole of central Italy. . Napoleon seized much of this, but in 1815 the Congress of Vienna restored the bulk of earlier papal holdings. Uprisings were put down by the Austrians who acted as surrogate troops and neighborhood watch for the papacy, but in 1870, the Vatican again lost control in the united Italy under Victor Emanuel II. Papal authority was confined to a small area in Rome, and in protest a series of popes designated themselves as “voluntary prisoners.”

That changed when the fascist party of Benito Mussolini came to power; in 1929 the Lateran treaty or Concordant was enacted between the Italian government and the church. It formally recognized the sovereignty of the Vatican state, officially declared Roman Catholicism the state religion, nominally called for the papacy to remain neutral in international affairs, and made financial compensation for claims arising from the confiscation of papal lands. Strangely enough, estimates vary on exactly how much this compensation amounted to, but it was probably somewhere in the vicinity of $85 million. In addition to this, the church was granted control of various properties outside of Vatican city, and those holdings were declared tax exempt. Mussolini’s government was even more generous with time; during the war, for instance, all Vatican investments in Italy were likewise given tax exemption.

A couple of things need to be said in connection with something which has deeply divided historians, and that is the role of the Holy See in World War II. At the very least, we know that the Roman Catholic Church flirted with the fascist regimes in Germany, Italy and Spain, and saw fascism as a counterweight to so-called atheistic communism. Many questions remain concerning this period of time, for instance, the Vatican’s role in sequestering gold seized from Jews in Eastern Europe, and the involvement of the church in operating the so-called “Vatican ratlines” which provided phony passports, shelter, money and transport for war criminals heading out of the European continent. It must be stated that the Vatican’s relationship with fascist regimes was often varied and ambivalent; the church was more comfortable with the authoritarian, clerical politics of Gen. Franco in Spain, for instance, but less so with the Nazi regime in Germany.

In addition to the Concordant with fascist Italy, the Vatican also signed what can only be described as an franchise deal with Nazi Germany. This was the inclusion of the Roman Catholic Church in the notorious Kirchensteuer or “church tax” which was an income tax… and in 1943, in that year alone, $100 million flowed into the coffers of the Vatican from that tax.

As a matter of record, it is next to impossible for outsiders to determine what the “net worth” of the Vatican really is. Some of this wealth is described as “illliquid,” meaning that it consists of art treasures, buildings and other holdings, and some of this is in the form of so-called perpetual trusts, which means that it cannot be sold off. But some of the wealth takes a different form, and when you look at these holdings as financial instruments, they are virtually indistinguishable from those of any modern bank, government or corporation.
… Now, much of money from the Lateran Treaty was placed in the control of a church agency known as APSA, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See; and after 1960, it’s known that increasingly these investments were made outside of Italy. Another agency was created in 1942, the so-called Istituto per le Opere de Religioni, the Institute for Religious Works. IOR was reconstituted from another agency, the Administration for Religious Works, which had been established by Leo XIII in 1887. In June, 1942, Pius XII renames this agency and places it under the control of a financial wizard named Bernardino Nogara, who immediately goes to work using the Lateran Treaty, and begins investing Vatican monies in banks, real estate holding companies, and corporations. Nogara accepts the job, but only with the proviso that the Vatican Bank be permitted to begin loaning money at competitive rates of interests (something which most “Catholic banks” did not do because of a supposed biblical injunction against usury), and that he have autonomy in deciding when and where investments would be made. As a result of this, the IOR begins to establish ties with the leading financial institutions of the world including Morgan Guaranty, Credit Suisse, Chase Manhattan and the Chicago-based Continental Illinois. Soon the Vatican is gobbling up interests in corporations involved in steel production, agri-business, and insurance. The Vatican also buys a 15% interest in the giant real estate holding and construction company known as Immobiliare; that gives IOR a piece of the action in everything from the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC, to resorts in Mexico, and apartment complexes in Montreal. Working through Chase Manhattan, the Vatican Bank also begins purchasing stock in General Motors, Gulf Oil, Bethlehem Steel, TWA, IBM and other major companies.

Nogara retired in 1954, died in 1958 amidst relative obscurity, and during his lifetime had pyramided the money given to the Vatican by Mussolini’s regime to nearly $1 billion.

Financial historian Larry Gurwin in his book about the Calvi Affair noted that during the war, “IOR helped many Italians to protect their wealth from confiscation by the Germans, taking advantage of Vatican City’s status as a sovereign state.” That fact, along with revelations of the enormous earnings which the Vatican was making through the IOR attracted the interest of the Italian government which in 1962 proposed lifting tax exemptions which had been granted by Mussolini, but the Vatican objected and the idea quickly died. A government led by Aldo Moro, who was later supposedly executed by the Red Brigades, tried, it failed; and every so often this idea comes up, but it never seems to enjoy any success. In 1964, for instance, the Vatican threatened to sell off all of its Italian financial holdings, something which would have plunged financial markets there into chaos, should their earnings be taxed.

Now, after the war, starting in the early 1950s under Nogara the IOR began forming a “trust” of Catholic and non-Catholic financial advisors, who became known as uomini di fiducia, or “men of confidence.”

In 1969, the Vatican brought into to its inner cabal of financial planners a man named Michael Sindona, who accelerated the move of Vatican investments to offshore holdings. This was because the Vatican was literally making a fortune, and there was no reason not to take advantage of modern financial instruments and strategies

Now, you need to know that there was already throughout Italy a dual-banking system. On one side were what we could call “regular banks,” but the church maintained a parallel banking system of what we informally known as “Catholic banks.” These were banks that throughout the country did business with the church and its officials, they were usually owned by Catholics, and they considered themselves as distinct from other parts of the financial community that they deemed “secular.” Beginning in the 1950’s, Nogara and the Vatican begin to harness and direct the financial power of these more conservative “Catholic” institutions and use that capitol for wider investment purposes. It’s a smart move financially, it’s also very legal, but it marks a distinct break in the history of the “Catholic bank” system, which is beginning to behave more and more like the financially savvy “lay” banks.

Who was Michael Sindona? Well, for starter, he was an early patron of Roberto Calvi. He grew up in Sicily, studied law and during the war became involved in the lemon business. Let me just read an excerpt from Luigi DiFonzo’s biography of Sindona. He’s discussing how after the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, Sindona purchased a truck to transport lemons…

”To accomplish this task, Michele Sindona needed the protection of the Mafia because it controlled the produce industry and could supply him with the documents he needed to present to the border patrols. To this end, the bishop of Psatti got in touch with Vito Geneovese, a top-ranking member of the American Mafia who had helped to organize the American invasion of Sicily with the help of the Sicilian Mafia. Genovese, a major international drug smuggler and boss of the New York crime family founded by Lucky Lucianao, used his influence with the Sicilian Mafia dons and members of the American invasion force to arrange for fresh produce, forged papers, and a safe route for Michele Sindona.”

End of the war, Sindona moves to Milan where he has a letter of introduction from the Archbishop of Messina addressed to Giovanni Montini, who is high up in the Vatican power structure and would soon became the Archbishop of Milan. He also meets Prince Massimo Spada, who is a senior official at IOR, and by 1960 has purchased his own bank called Banca Privata which is receiving deposits from the Vatican bank. So, even before becoming a “man of confidence,” Sindona is working closely with the Vatican, using church money for leverage, laundering money back and forth between the IOR, and Banca Privata and other holdings. Three years later, his friend Archbishop Montini becomes Pope Paul VI. Sindona’s empire grows, fueled in part by deposits from the Institute for Religious Works. He and the Vatican invest in other enterprises such as Banca Unione, and the Swiss-based Banque de Financement. Sindona also began investing in the United States, becomes partners with David Kennedy, who is the chairman of Continental Illinois and who introduces Sindona into the Republican Party hierarchy. This is nearly three decades before the rumble about the soft money scandal and the Democratic party and foreign contributors.

All during this time, Sindona is also working with the Inzerillo crime family, which are cousins to the Gambino crime organization based in the United States. Sindona is not only trusted inside Vatican, but he is trusted by the Gambino-Inzerillo family and even attends a private reunion of the family on November 2,1957 which takes place at the Grand Hotel des Palmes in Palermo. Working with layoff money from the Gambino group as well as funds from the Vatican, Sindona creates acquires everything from a Liechtenstein holding company named Fasco AG to, again, the Banca Privata Finanziaria, which had been founded in 1930 by a Fascist ideologue.

In 1968, Sindona comes up with new plans on how to shelter Vatican money in offshore investments; this comes because throughout Italy, there is again growing scrutiny and concern about the Holy Sees investments, it’s learned that the Vatican has money in weapons manufacturing, even a Pharmaceutical firm that produces birth control pills, and in that year, there is another call for the Italian government to remove the special tax exemption for the church. Sindona begins working very closely with an American bishop (who would later become an Archbishop) named Paul Marcinkus.
OK, who’s Paul Marcinkus? He was a priest ordained in Chicago, came to the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1952; in 1964, he is accompanying the Pope on international tours where he acts as a linguist, organizer and bodyguard. In 1970, he even saved the Pope’s life during an assassination attempt, in 1971, the Pope names Marcinkus as head of the Vatican Bank. Remember that by now, Sindona’s off-shore capital flight scheme is in place, IOR money is flowing out of the country to banks all over Europe, Latin America, the United States and the Caribbean. When Albino Luciani was elected Pope with the title of John Paul I, there was speculation that he was going to clean up the financial intrigue in the Vatican, and that included dismissing Marcinkus. Thirty three days after his election, John Paul I dies in his bed, presumably from a heart attack, and he is succeeded by Karol Wojtyla, John Paul II. Marcinkus has a new ally, and later is working with the US government to funnel huge amounts of money through the Vatican Bank to the Solidarity Union in Poland.

Now, Sindona is linked to a lot of the characters in the story, including Roberto Calvi. Calvi had grown up in Milan, served in the Italian army , and by the end of the war has a job cutting his eye teeth in the business at Banca Commerciale. In 1946, with the help of an old school chum, he transfers to Banco Ambrosiano, one of the network of “Catholic banks” meant to counter the influence of the so-called “lay” banks. Most of the bank’s shareholders were Church-controlled institutions, and to prevent a takeover by the “lay” banks or non-church interests, no one individual could own more than 5% of the voting shares.
Now, even with their very conservative and cautious banking policies, the Catholic banks prosper after the war in the economic book of the 1950s; Roberto Calvi moves up the ladder at Banco Ambrosiano, the bank’s chairman—a man named Carolo Canesi begins grooming him as a potential protoge. And Calvi creates in 1960 Italy’s first genuine “mutual fund” company. That means that a group of individual investors can now join together, but it also means that control of all of that money is vested in the fund manager. Banco Ambrosiano begins to expand out of its role as a strictly “Catholic bank,” it begins to acquire other institutions. By 1965, Calvi is a central manager of the bank, but he reached a dead-end in his career. In short, he needs a patron, and he is suddenly “discovered” by an Italian “master of the universe” named Michael Sindona.

Now, remember that in 1969, Sindona becomes a “man of confidence” in the Vatican, but he still maintains ties to other sectors of influence. And even before this, he had been working with the Vatican bank. In 1959, for instance, Sindona, the IOR and the Vatican’s principal American bankers, Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company, had acquired the Banca Privata. For what’s it worth, notice the Chicago connection there between the Vatican, Continental, and Paul Marcinkus, who was really the Chicago archdiocese ’golden boy’ on the international scene. Sindona’s financial manipulations make a story of their own. One sector Sindona maintained ties to was organized crime. Gurwin notes that Sindona’s network of banks and offshore companies “proved to be a convenient vehicle for the laundering of dirty money earned from heroin traffic and other mob-connected businesses..”

Sindona also had another tie which is interesting, especially in light of how he got started in Sicily. The arrangement to deport Lucky Luciano, the American crime boss, in exchange for the Sicilian Mafia’s help in World War II, was just the start of a long relationship linking intelligence services, American foreign policy, and organized crime. A number of writers who probed the Calvi case maintain that Michael Sindona was a player here as well; RT. Naylor talks about this in his book HOT MONEY AND THE POLITICS OF DEBT, in a discussion of so-called “anstalten,” which is a term for a Swiss or Liechtenstein-based corporation with only one stockholder; it’s a very powerful financial tool if you want to move money around through anonymous conduits. He writes, “In the postwar period, Sindona, a pioneer in the use of the Liechtenstein “anstalten” allegedly put his financial skills to work channeling CIA money to the church and the Christian Democratic party, and laundering and reinvesting heroin profits for the Mafia.”

Another link which Sindona had brings us to one of the most controversial characters in this story, a man named Liccio Gelli. Gelli was the Grandmaster of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P-2, and this secret lodge included in its membership rolls some of the most powerful people in Italy. Ranking members of the military and intelligence services were enrolled, so were leading industrialists, bankers and other business leaders, so were members of government agencies and probably some fairly high ranking Vatican officials might have had membership in P-2 as well, despite the church prohibition on freemasonry.

Gelli was a member of the Black Shirts Battalion in Italy and served with the fascists during the Spanish civil war. When World War II broke out, he attained the rank of oberleutnant in the SS and was named as liaison officer to the elite SS Herman Goring Division, and through this he came to the attention of the OVRA, the Italian secret service, as well as later the British Intelligence Service. After the war, Gelli became involved in the Vatican “Ratline” working with a Croatian priest named Krujoslav Dragonovic, and it is believed that Gelli was instrumental in smuggling out Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyons,” whose flight to the west was paid for by funds from the US Counterintelligence Corps. It is also believed that Gelli was a key member of what was known as “Operation Gladio.” This was a secret operation run by the CIA and NATO that established so-called “stay behind” networks all over Europe. The idea was that in the event of a Soviet land invasion, if the nuclear option was not be used on the continent, these networks which would have hidden stashes of military equipment and money, would operate as fifth columns behind the Russian lines until the Americans rode to the rescue. Somewhere around 15,000 operatives are recruited by Operation Gladio, but In fact, most of the “stay behind” network was really a bureaucratic farce, and in some cases the assets most likely served the interests of fascist groups, particularly in Italy. And there is another story about Liccio Gelli, and this suggests that Gelli was even spying for the Russians in exchange for their protection in him not being prosecuted as a war criminal

Anyway, after the war Gelli is linked to all of these different groups, he even befriends the Argentinean General Juan Peron and becomes an arms broker. When Peron returns to Argentina after the political turmoil there and becomes President of the country in 1973 — something he did with the financial and political backing of Gelli and his contacts—Gelli was the official guest of honor at the inauguration; and Giulio Andreotti, the Italian Prime Minister who was there at the ceremony, said that he actually say Juan Peron kneel at the feet of Liccio Gelli and kiss his ring. Gelli established a branch of P-2 in Argentina, and like the lodge in Italy, it included some of the most powerful functionaries there. After Peron’s death in 1974, Gelli and Jose Lopez Rega, a death squad leader and Minister of Social Welfare, fly to Libya and broker a arms-for-machinery trading deal between Libya, Italy and Argentina. Incidentally, it was Liccio Gelli who basically obtained the materiel for the modern Argentinean military, including the Exocet missiles that he bought from the French that were used in the Falklands war. And during this period, he is also funneling information to the SID, the Italian Army Intelligence. service. Gelli is intimately involved in the Calvi story, and there is a quote attributed to him that I think it is fitting; Liccio Gelli “The doors to all bank vaults open to the right…”

Please be advised about the Truth in this one thing: You must seek it out for yourself, and not remain in comfortable complacency about everything that you are told in school, or at work, or in the news, for then you will play into the very hands that desire only to use you up and then destroy whatever’s left. That, I have learned from much study, is the simple Truth. Satan uses the World System to drain us dry before eventually claiming what’s left: our souls. No, it is not conspiracy theory, nor is it automatically lunatic fringe thinking. The value of the Truth depends on what we do with it. The belief that it is lunatic fringe thinking to seek out the Truth is, though, what the Brotherhood or whatever form they go by wish you to believe. Ask Rush Limbaugh. He is paid to pronounce steadily over his popular airwaves that anyone who thinks such things is automatically a “kook.” I apologize, but to me a kook is a person who does not desire the Truth enough to go looking for himself, and will believe whatever he’s told by people with agendas other than our well being just because they seem sincere. And there’s no doubt that Rush’s pockets are quite well padded, along with Ted Turner, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and numerous others, with money that flows out of our own pockets into the World Bank and their interests. Yes, we actually pay to be lied to and then to be eternally damned. So, who’s the kook? Is it those who receive the love of the Truth or those who believe the Lie? I personally wouldn’t feel quite comfortable in the second category.

I know that I’m throwing quite a bit of information at you, and it may seem confusing to you, but the Truth, as the Word says, is built precept upon precept, here a little, there a little. Honestly, I could write a volume of 10,000 pages, with extensive bibliography, and unless you desire the Truth it will avail you (and me!) nothing. I am merely attempting to provide you with enough information to see that things are not as they seem in the world so that you may start asking your own questions and looking about for the answers.

I hope I have begun to show that since the days of the early Church, the (false) church, the “state,” and the banking powers have been working hand in hand to dupe the public for the sole purpose of feeding on us. I hope also that I have begun to show that the “Roman church” is not the only false church out there, though it is a primary candidate, in my book, for the title “Mother of Harlots.” Note the plural of harlots, meaning “more than one.” And that as a Mother, it has given birth to others. Jesus and the writing Apostles did not limit the end times apostasy to one harlot. They all said there would be many. How attached is your church to the world system? Does it have a mortgage? Is it a 501c3 corporation? Is prosperity, or “The American Dream,” or “Liberty” a part of its teaching? Does it support a particular political agenda? These are all questions we should ask of ourselves, and our church “leadership,” at every opportunity.

The Hospitallers…..

“You Shall Not Surely Die…”

There is another area to be examined that I must insert at this time, and that is the role that hospitals play, and have in the past played, in the development of our society. What also must be examined are not only those who have built the hospitals and modern medicine as we know it today, but for what purpose they have built them. To heal the sick, you say? I beg to differ.

Before I continue, though, please allow me to explain this: there are many who attain to the medical profession who do so out of compassion, desiring to minister to the sick. Those are not the people I am referring to here. There are also those who study and join the profession for the wealth and civil distinction they will gain from their participation. They have received their reward, but they also are not those to whom I am referring. Rather, it is the administrations, the guiding political and sociological forces, the foundations and organizations that are at the heart of what evil is to be found in the field of medicine. And even they are deceived, misguided, and deluded by a few who control the strings, who provably (in their own words) have an evil, sinister, even unbelievable agenda. And this agenda is the same agenda that originated the very fall of man. “You shall not surely die.” These few seek nothing less than immortality, and they need their alchemical experiments to achieve it. For that, friends, just as mice are used in medical research, they need their guinea pigs.

Too fantastic to be true? Please, friends, be noble and examine the questions, and the answers. Examine the facts and see if they line up with what I just stated.

Are you familiar, for example, with the Human Genome Project? It is supposedly “just science” that will “help to solve mysteries” concerning the origins of disease, and will help to find a cure, and even a prevention, where human disease is concerned. These discoveries would not have been possible without the medical sciences, and without hospitals, and without sick (and healthy) people to study. You say that this is a good thing? On the surface, perhaps, very good and very noble. But let’s take it a step further. There are already concerns about overpopulation on the earth. What will happen when, through genetic research, diseases are made obsolete? There will then be little or no population control. Or will there? As you think about it, let’s examine the beliefs of some of the United Nation’s former and current policymakers in their own words concerning population control and the means of achieving it. Let us also examine the indisputable facts about the history and formation of today’s medical sciences. Here are some points to examine as we continue:

Examine the name “Red Cross.” What are the foundations of this seemingly harmless and benevolent name? Red Cross is translated, simply, rose croix. Where have we seen this before? And where is the international headquarters of the Red Cross? Geneva, Switzerland—also the headquarters of the international banking community and the seat, or origin, of the social democratic principles of John Calvin.
Examine the term “pharmacology.” Where is it derived from? Many of us may be able to easily answer that question – but have we who claim to serve the Lord who said, “Kill the sorcerer,” considered the spiritual implications of this word? It is derived from the Greek term “pharmacae,” which means, “to have communion (make oneself one with) demonic spirits.” It is in all practicality the same as The very same sin that brought about the fall, the corruption, and the Flood.
While the origins of modern medicine may seemingly be rooted in compassion to help the sick and dying, and many people still enter the field for this purpose, what are the means and the end results today? If one doesn’t have money (or insurance) and is sick, where then is that compassion? Because of the nature of the medical field today, it takes a great deal of money to get a degree in order to make a great deal of money. It is definitely money-driven and money-responsive. Why is this? Money is required to conduct research, it is said. But what research is occurring? Let’s examine this in light of the “original lie.” “You surely shall not die.” Today there is a huge, concerted effort, a race, to “map the human genome” and to find the “Methusela gene.” What is this elusive gene? It is, simply, the immortality gene. The trillions of dollars of research that is conducted has but this one goal in distilled reality. And who is the chief managing consortium of this goal? The World Health Organization. In Geneva.
Examine the symbol of today’s medical field. What does the serpent have to do with medical practice? Remember it was the Serpent’s promise…”You surely shall not die.”
Examine the stated purpose of the leaders of the United Nations and its affiliates to attain a world population of 500 million or less, and to maintain it. It is even displayed publicly, on American soil (see the Georgia Guidestones) that this is the intent. If “immortality” is achieved by man, by what means will the other 6 billion people on earth be reduced? The research can provide answers to this as well – selective immunity. Immunity to what? It’s no secret that for centuries research has been conducted in the field of biological warfare as well as in immunity to biological warfare. Trillions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of the answers to biological mysteries.
Ask the question, if you dare. If the World Health Organization (a global NGO) is so concerned about the health of people, and at the same time their (globalists’) stated purpose is a huge reduction in population, isn’t there an inherent contradiction? Why help people to live longer if they want less people? Keep in mind that NGOs (non-government organizations such as the Red Cross) are funded primarily, and tax free, by foundations, such as The Rockefeller Foundation, The Carnegie Foundation, etc, who are controlling entities with immediate ties to the World Bank.
Examine the desire of the group (or groups) that are loosely referred to as “rosicrucian” in philosophy. Their god, their religion, is the pursuit of the sciences, or simply, Sorcery. (Study the life and writings of Sir Francis Bacon for some distinct clues here.) The Rhodes organizations have been planting their people in the positions of running our universities, or centers of scientific research, and guiding their progress for nearly a century. Who are the main benefactors of this seemingly noble organization? Originally, monetarily, the Rothschilds and their affiliates, known today as The World Bank, who are greatly affiliated with The World Health Organization and The Red Cross.
Finally, check the “sure Word of prophecy.” In the Revelation of Jesus Christ – His personal statement about what has been and what is to come – we see about a “church” that is located in the same area as “the seat of Satan” and about those who “say they are Jews but are not.” Where is the “seat” of the World Bank? Geneva. Where is the “seat” of reformed christianity? Geneva. Who are the reported controllers of the World Bank system? The Rothschildes. Of what lineage do the Rothschildes claim to be? Jewish. But, are they “a jew inwardly?” Their love of money and power would dictate otherwise. So, they say they are Jews, but are not.

As we examine these things in light of the facts and of the circumstances that surround us today, let’s keep the process in mind. When immunizations are developed, through the sciences of pharmacy and biotechnology, they are then administered to a great number of people, and then the results are recorded and studied, for the expressed purpose of making “better” immunizations, or more effective. We, for the most part, nod our heads in agreement and say, “Well, certainly, this is a good thing because it helps people.” Whenever new drugs are developed, they are tested and re-tested, the results are catalogued, and improvements are made, and more money is charged, because, “it takes money to conduct research so that we can make the results better.” Again, we nod our heads in agreement. It is the problem/reaction/solution principle in operation, also known as the Hegelian Dialectic. It is the very same principle by which “order out of chaos” operates. But what, you ask, has this to do with the Church, or Faith? Everything.

From the beginning, the Templars were referred to as “Hospitallers.” The greatest builders of hospitals have been the Catholics and the Masons and their affiliated organizations. And they have not done so out of compassion or charity, as it is supposed to seem. I’m not saying that individual doctors and nurses and other medical workers and many donors have not done their part because of compassion (although these days it’s more for a secure job and a large paycheck), but I am saying that there is ample evidence that some other, not apparent, purpose is being accomplished. I ask you to think, for a moment, after this manner: How could the genetic studies of today have been accomplished without “laboratory mice?”

They seek the immortality gene, as the enemies of God have always sought immortality, by means other than the One which God provided for us.

There is more. The Word of God describes a third of the world dying of pestilence. The U.N. agenda openly declares a reduction of the Earth’s population by 2/3 or more. How to make some immune and others not? How to have a controlled pestilence? How to overcome the medical limitations of our mortality? The science of such things requires study, and study requires subjects, and a lot of them. Enter the hospitals, along with the sciences to which freemasonry, theosophy, and the “magic arts” are all dedicated.

Many people know that the word “pharmacy” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “to have intercourse with evil spirits.” And remember Genesis Chapter 6 and Daniel’s “mingling with the seed!” One must realize that in order to make (some men) immortal, while at the same time finding a way to expediently wipe out the undesirables of the Earth’s population, which happens to be most of us, great resources are needed. And great secrecy, and great deception, is needed as well. The main purpose of the New World Order, “The Plan,” as it’s called by the insiders, is the power and immortality of a few. It has been so for centuries, and by their own, though suppressed, admission. Remember the words of Adam Weishaupt:

Now, please thoughtfully and prayerfully consider this. What is the greatest weapon that the enemy leaders can use against their adversary? The weakness of the adversary’s greatest weapon. What is the believer’s greatest weapon, as seen through the eyes of most? Love – compassion. And what, I may ask, are the “hospitallers” using against their enemies? Look again at the quote above. In our compassion have we blindly submitted to our greatest enemy by forgetting that compassion, as told by Jesus, should always be accompanied by one other critical factor? “Be wise as a serpent and innocent as doves.” Know your enemy, but don’t act like him or buy into his agendas. But, I must ask, what have we done in the name of compassion?

Before you continue, or before you disregard what I am stating here, I must challenge you by asking these questions: Have you studied the Red Cross? Have you studied the World Health Organization? Have you studied the hospital builders? Have you studied the community of modern medicine? Have you studied the Rosicrucian philosophies? Have you studied the foundations mentioned above? Have you studied the Rhodes scholarships? Have you studied the histories of the Masons and of the Jesuits? Have you studied the NGOs? Have you studied the Rothschilde dynasty? Have you studied the development of genome research?

Before you can say, “It can’t be,” I recommend that you study to see whether or not it can be. I have studied these things, as have others. There is a virtual plethora of supporting documentation, of which I will list (some) at the conclusion of this book. There are several, if not many, crying out the truth of these matters, and their cry is falling largely on deaf ears. Why? Does the pursuit of the truth make us uncomfortable? You bet it does! It does me as well.

Of the Technology god, and of bondage, and of two masters

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. No sooner does he think that he has ‘found his place in it,’ than he finds that it has found its place in him.”

C.S. Lewis

“No man can serve two masters…”

Jesus the Redeemer

I know that in the process of reading this book, you have probably seen things that contradict everything “you have ever known,” and likely has left you feeling incredulous at times. In my pursuit of this, I have been called deluded, crazy, mislead, a communist, a legalist, and likely many other things that have not been shared in my hearing. A very few have agreed with my conclusions. Most just “don’t want to know.” I’m preparing now to show you some other things that you most likely don’t want to know or won’t want to agree with. But I ask you to examine the facts and to not be led by your feelings or by what you have always known and accepted as the truth. The truth and sincerity of this request can be seen in the discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus. Jesus, in essence, was instructing Nicodemus that he needed to die to everything he thought he knew, become a fool so he could be made wise, if he was to be born again and receive the truth, and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

The subject of this section will be the deception of man’s technology. The Word warned us of two things, among others, that would occur in the end times. He said that “knowledge would be greatly increased” and that it would be “as in the days of Noah.” Remember that Noah was a type of Jesus Christ, just as was Isaac, and Moses, and David, and some others. In Noah’s time, he was a preacher of righteousness. But, much like Jesus, his message fell on deaf ears. None could see or hear, all were blind and deaf, and Noah alone saw the truth. Jesus too walked through a world where He was the only one who saw the truth. Why do you think He spent so much time on the subjects of “seeing” and “hearing?”

The Word warns us, over and again, to “be not deceived.” It tells us that we are deceived by “the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.” It tells us that we are deceived by the “cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things.” John warned us to beware “the things of the world.” Now ask yourself this question: How many “things of the world” were there in that day and time in comparison to today? Take a quick and thorough inventory.

What do we concern ourselves with today, and what do we worry about? Paying the bills (we’re commanded to not have debt to other men), maintaining our houses, cars, clothes, machines…..how much time does all this leave us to concentrate on the things of the Kingdom, the things of God? I’ve heard that cars are good, because they allow us to have more fellowship with others. Is this really true? Think about it…

The early Church fellowshipped daily, yet they had no cars. For six thousand years man did without cars and this century’s technology, yet in this century, bit by bit, man’s fellowship and affection for others has steadily decreased. “…will lose their natural affection one for another…” Now, let’s take a look at why technology has greatly increased and at what we have done with the increase and at what the results of the increase have been on society, and particularly on the Church.

DeVinci. Newton. Bacon. Franklin. Edison. Ford. Einstein. Let’s look at these men, their philosophies, their contributions, their associations, and the fruits of their work. They are but a few, but the point can be seen that there is a relative spirit that is present in both the lives of these men and in the fruit of their lives. And they share one particular “attribute” – humanism, the secular advancement of man.

First, Leonardo de Vinci. He was an artist, philosopher, and scientist, and considered to be one of the “greatest minds” that ever lived. He was obsessed by the human body, so much so that he would have rotting cadavers in his workroom and despite the reek (remember, there was no refrigeration) he would spend days and hours dissecting and mapping the human body. He was also fascinated by machines, particularly ones that would allow man to escape the earth’s gravitational pull.

It is known that he spent his last years in the courts of the king of France, and associated frequently with Margerite de Anjou, the sister of the king. And the same Margerite that was patron to none other than John Calvin. Margerite was an avid humanist.

DeVinci’s philosophies centered largely on Aristotle, who could be called the father of humanism, at least of the last two millenia. Being Italian, there can be little doubt that he was closely associated with Andrea Alcioti, one of the leading aristotlian humanists of the day, and instructor to Calvin as well.

DeVinci is most likely, at least in part, responsible for much of the scientific fervor that was cultivated after his death, as he had the ears of the top philosophers and kings. The alchemy he delved into was in that day considered to be sorcery, but he was able to pursue it without condemnation in the name of “science.” Like so many things since, sorcery was just given another name in order to be made acceptable. For instance, eastern mysticism was merely renamed “transendental meditation,” called a “science,” and then was admitted into our classrooms and churches, without so much as an objection for the most part. Now it is embraced openly as “yoga,” and is popularly perceived as being “good for us.” Just as today “science” is embraced and taught in our schools as a required subject.

Sounds ridiculous? Please keep reading.

After DeVinci, there was an “explosion” of the pursuit of knowledge. Different “branches” of alchemy started being given different names, to distinguish them one from another. Botany. Physiology. Meteorology. Chemistry. It’s interesting that one of the primary places this knowledge was put to use was in devising ways to destroy human beings, and so has it been with science ever since. All manner of methods and machines from that point on were concocted for the sole purpose of killing people. Devinci’s study of the human body gave him sufficient resources to determine the best means to end lives. He subsequently became very popular with kings, and was perhaps best known in the Europe of his day for his machinery of war, and not for the Mona Lisa. His last position in this life was as a sort of “Minister of Defense” for King Francis.

So, is this “good” fruit? But people will say, “Look at all the good that has come of it!” The Word says, “Shall we do evil so that good may come of it?”

Newton. No doubt a brilliant man. He got bonked on the head with an apple and then was able to write the Laws of Physics. Newton is listed as one of the generational leaders of the Knights Templar, the guardians of the “rose croix.” Allow me to mention at this point that if you associate “rose croix” with the words “hidden knowledge,” you will be doing well. The name Knights Templar have for a millenium been associated with being the guardians of the “secret knowledge” of the world rulers. There are other orders of “Knights” now, and interestingly enough, many of our current world leaders hold the title in one form or another. It is much more than an “honorary” title.

Francis Bacon. Perhaps one of the most enigmatic figures of the current age. He wrote of mysteries in riddles, a “secret language” in “plain english” that was known only to a select few. Sound corny? Try reading his writings, carefully. Diagnosis is difficult. It’s like reading the Proverbs, themselves enigmas. What you just read, in hindsight, doesn’t mean what you thought you just read. Not exactly a man of the straight truth.

Bacon had a god. His god was “the sciences.” Not God, but the sciences were the hope and dream and philosophy of man. He wrote mysteriously of “Christian Rosencrutz,” and of the “New Atlantis,” and of a plethora of other subjects. But his biggest project in life was in establishing the study of sciences, which if you know the politics of his day, and the religious controversies of his time, and the effect of his work in institutionalizing the sciences as irremovable bedrock in our learning establishments, his life takes on a rather eerie ambiance. And he too is listed as a generational “head” of the Knights Templar, as well as an admitted humanist.

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most mistaught of the “heroes of the American Revolution.” An admitted humanist, he was definitely not a “good man.” He fathered (at last report) 17 illegitimate children. He left his wife alone and dying for years, though she wrote him repeatedly and told him that she was dying. Where was he? In England. Quite interesting, considering that we were “at war” with England. And who was he spending his time with there? The bankers, the nobles, the king, and the members of the English humanist establishment. He “loved England,” but eventually, after the death of his wife, and after years away, he returned to the Americas with a job to do. The question is, does history accurately represent what that job was to be? I say not.

For one who has studied, it’s clear that when he came back, he had the agenda of the bankers of England in mind in everything that he did. It’s no wonder that he holds such a prestigious place, on the face of every $100 bill in the United States, with the “Federal Reserve” logo on it. Please keep in mind that the “Federal Reserve System” is neither federal in fact, nor has it a reserve. It is a private institution, run by a “central bank system” operated by the stockholders, who are representatives of the World Bank powers.

It must not be forgotten that Franklin “discovered electricity.” The fact of the matter is, we knew about electricity. What he really did, and perhaps more importantly, was to discover conductivity. His work in science would culminate after nearly a century in the works of other scientists, among who was Thomas Edison.

It was also during the 19^th century that things really started to “pick up speed” as far as the sciences were concerned. The physics and chemistry of fuel engines was pioneered. Alopathic medicine was pioneered (the use of drugs to treat symptoms instead of concentrating on the cure. Modern medicine.) Metallurgy became more of a refined science (no pun intended). But to provide the technology to tie all these things together, the “discoveries of Thomas Edison” were needed.

Thomas Edison’s field was applied electricity, known now as electronics. He reportedly discovered the means of harnessing and regulating electricity so as to make it useful. He also reportedly stole most of what he took credit for and got the legal rights through patents. In reality, he institutionalized, industrialized, and commercialized electricity. He founded the General Electric Company. And, he was a humanist.

Without the harnessing of electricity, none of what we see in technology today would be possible. Does that make the harnessing of electricity a good thing?

Henry Ford. Perhaps the worst of the bunch, but who really knows? What we do know is that his methods made all this new technology “affordable” by the establishment of “assembly lines,” where process repetition is king.

Of course, during this same period of time we behold the establishment of the empires of the Carnegies, the Morgans, and the Rockefellers, and their relative “foundations” that soon took control over the genre we know now as “Non-government Organizations,” or NGOs. But what did Edison, and Ford, and Rockefeller, and Carnegie, and Morgan all have in common? Humanism and the World Bank. And their foundations were central in establishing what we know today as the United Nations, the foundation of a very soon to be World Government.

How did these men and their organizations gain such power? There are all kinds of conspiracy theories that attempt to explain how, with complicated political and economic investigations. But there’s a simpler answer. They invented stuff, and sold it to the public, and we bought it. That is how the “men of power” have their clout today. We reached into our pockets and gave it to them.

They have become our masters and our lawmakers simply because of our “lust of the flesh” and our “desire for other things.” We have given them control over our lives because we weren’t “content with food to eat and clothes to put on.” We simply didn’t obey what we were told, and warned, to do. To put it even more clearly, we paid them to set up the empire that is now our master, instead of God, on earth.

[1] There will be a segment later in the book that examines “liberation theology,” or the ages-old concept of “freedom fighters.”

[2] As the reader will see a bit later, this is a mistaken statement. Not only did the “syndicate” originate centuries earlier, but also the Constitution was clearly not spared. Also, “the communists” are not the only enemy, as this statement attempts to portray. In fact, it is the American government and economy that has empowered the “Network” the most over the last two centuries.

[3] Not exactly accurate. As will be seen from their own texts, “liberalism,” or freedom (or the illusion of) has been one of their primary strategic tools.

[4] The Londoner ‘Times’ gave great attention to the document. The first essay about this appeared on 8 March 1921. There they wrote: ‘Which bad-willing society has forged these plans and now triumphs over their fulfillment? Have they been falsified? If so, from where then does the uncanny gift of a prophecy come, which has partially been fulfilled already, or which is coming close to being fulfilled?'”

[5] As you read this document, please note the modern terrorism and the ends achieved whenever terror incidents are displayed through the media, for example 9/11, the Patriot Act, the National Security Enhancement Act, and the war on Iraq. Also, see Operation Northwoods, an FOIA declassified document.

[6] Keep in mind that as a result of the terror incidents in recent history, anti-constitutional laws have been passed which revoke the amended rights of the citizens of the United States, requiring only the penstroke of the existing president or his representative, and always invoked is a statement resembling, “…in order to preserve freedom…” or “democracy” or “liberty.” Many of these laws are not yet being enforced, but they are “on the books,” waiting for the right moment to enforce them.

[7] Democracy, or mob rule, is not the same as a sovereign constitutional republic.

[8] Please note the results of pre-election “discussions” in the existing two-party system of the United States.

[9] “Who is able to make war with the Beast?” Even if we were somehow moved to, would it be possible for us to now unseat the policymakers of the United States and of the world? By what means? Only the Coming of the King will do so.

[10] I must remark that the notion that the Illuminati was founded on May 1, 1776 is not only mistaken but historically ludicrous. By their own admission, their plan had been in the works for “centuries.”

[11] This statement is blunt humanism to the extreme. They’ve taken a biblical concept and reversed it, as they see the “pit” as being goodness, and goodness they will desert in their aim of human domination of the will.

[12] “Shall we therefore do evil so good may come of it?”

[13] The Patiot Act, signed into law by George W. Bush six weeks after the September 11, 2001 “terrorist attack,” and the Homeland Security Enhancement Act, at this publication supposedly written and waiting for the next tragedy.

[14] The cry not only of the “freedom fighters” of Switzerland before and during Calvin’s tenure, but also of the Huguenots over the next century, then of their offspring, the freemasons and the colonists of America. That same cry has been uttered in times since to invoke, each time, a major conflict that achieved the ends of the World bankers. Research “liberation theology,” for example.

[15] Norman Thomas: “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

[16] “when the foundations are destroyed, what will the righteous do?”

[17] We have been lulled today into a state of “comfortablism” as was both planned and carried out, as is evident in our current apathy about things of the Truth and our infatuation with eros, as constantly encouraged by Hollywood and the media. In order to maintain our state of “security, “ of “liberty,” and of comfort, we have heeded the false calls of “liberty” and of “freedom” to our own demise.

[18] Presidents George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, and many of their administrators, are on record repeatedly, in writing and on video, stating that the roles of the “New World Order,” and the “International Order” are far more important in scope than the national sovereignty of the United States. These men both took oaths that stated that their job, for which they were elected, was foremost to “protect the Constitution of the United States.” Yet they, as well as the current George W. Bush, have signed into law hundreds of documents which undermine the Constitution and the rights it protects.

[19] Examine the development of the “International Criminal Court” which place it is to supersede national sovereign law.

[20] See the book, “The Globalists,” by Dennis Cuddy, to see how the Rhodes Scholar designation has been utilized to choose political leaders and administrators.

[21] The purpose of this book ( The Church Masters) is that we may be guided by unprejudiced historical observation. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
[22] Much that has occurred to those who claim to believe is a direct result of our hunger for entertainment. Today’s “church” is mostly about entertainment, and when we leave church, we leave it with a continued thirst for entertainment and self-comfort. Please see the book “On the Way” by this author.

[23] Bertrand Russell: “I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. …It’s importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda …Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class (Elite). The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.”

[24] David Rockefeller: “We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years…”
“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

[25] “The news and truth are not the same thing.”
~~Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974

[26] Please carefully examine the continuous and ongoing transformation of the U.S. Constitution from that of a constitutional republic to that of a democracy, and study the vast difference between the two political philosophies.

[27] Because of unconstitutional liberties that have been exercised by most of the Presidents of the U.S. since Woodrow Wilson, and especially by F.D.R., Clinton, and G.W Bush (“executive orders”), and because the abuses of power are becoming now increasingly flagrant, eventually the people will be purposefully incited to riot, and international marshal law in the form of “UN peacekeepers” will intervene. This is not a guess. The laws are already in place to allow this intercession.

[28] Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush have constantly and increasingly made their policy and formed their speeches around the central theme of “for the good of the international community, freedom, and democracy.”

[29] There is more to F.D.R.’s “…a chicken in every pot” than meets the eye. Also, please note that F.D.R. and G. Bush Sr. meant exactly the same thing when F.D.R. used the term “New Deal” and Bush used the term “…A Big Idea – a New World Order…”

[30] Author’s insertion based on context

[31] This is the fervent cry of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), thus their anti-christian position.

[32] How many “temporary” executive orders composed in times of trouble have remained “on the books” even after the “trouble” was over?

[33] “…being led away of their own lusts they fall…”

[34] “Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” (Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913, p. 13-14).

[35] Their success is quite evident in today’s “Modern American Christendom.”

[36] Carefully review the “Patriot Act,” currently instilled as law (as of 6 weeks after 9/11/2001), as well as the “National Security Enhancement Act (also known as the Homestead Security Enhancement Act, a much “friendlier” name”), which is currently being treated as if it were already law, though it has not been passed into law.

[37] Solidarity – perestroika – one of Gorbachev’s favorite words.

[38] Perhaps the reader sees now why Jesus and the apostles stressed that we be “likeminded, of one accord, of the same mind” concerning the Kingdom (wherein lies our citizenship if we are faithful to obey) and the “things of the world” whereby we are distracted from the faith and “led away.”

[39] These institutions are known today as foundations and N.G.O.s, or Non-Government Organizations. They are the birthing-place of societal influences that become a “law” unto themselves.

[40] Always take note when the government or some institution puts a good name on a bad thing.

[41] Take note of the many denominations that were introduced before this was captured, as well as the increasingly heretical denominations that have been birthed since, ie, Mormonism, Unitarian/Universalism, Christian Science, etc…

[42] Harry Truman is quoted as saying, “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”

[43] Note that along with the “industrial age” came the break-up of the family unit, as well as the fact that the “middle class” feeds the machine of domination in the hands of a very few. Also, trillions of securities-based dollars “disappeared” during the last “economic crisis” from 1999 to the present.

[44] Also note the rise in gas prices with every “crisis” that appears in the media.

[45] Note the fruits of the labor unions: anarchy and democracy, or liberalism.

[46] ditto

[47] The “right to bear arms” has been thoroughly compromised by the fact that “the people” are not legally allowed to “bear” the same types of advanced weaponry as the ruling governments. But be not deceived – true believers are not to be “bearing arms” in the first place!

[48] On Feb. 18, 1964, the National Institute of Mental Health awarded a grant of $283,000 to B.F. Skinner to write a book entitled, “Beyond Freedom and Dignity.” In it he stated that the concepts of freedom and liberty must be discarded and that human behavior be conditioned by an “elite.” U.S. congressman Cornelius Gallagher will shortly thereafter entitle a speech called “Skinnering the Taxpayers” and will refer to Skinner’s “technology of behavior.”

[49] Sound familiar in light of our recent invasion of Iraq?

[50] Please note, once again, the Rhodes Scholar institution, which we will touch on later in the book.

[51] Observe “The Secret Doctrine” being employed to this very day by theosophists in our government and in the World government. (re: Alice Bailey)

[52] Note, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union, who, for the “protection of the rights of the few” (excepting Christians), will challenge any accepted practice for their “utopian” cause.

[53] The Rhodes Scholars program, initiated by Cecil Rhodes and guided by the Milner Group, has used the influence of their Fabian Socialist agenda to plant their own as the Presidents and Administrators of nearly every major collegiate academic institution in the United States, as well as abroad. These in turn appoint the teachers they want to guide the “education” of our youthful academics.

[54] The primary objective of this book is to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that false doctrines were knowingly inserted into christendom through “reformers” such as Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, Erasmus, etc.

[55] While it is not the purpose of this book to investigate this particular statement, we do know for fact that 1) our governments possess the technology to accomplish this, 2) there are enormous and numerous underground facilities already constructed (re: Denver Intnl. Airport), and, 3) it is already written into our existing laws the right of the government to make use of these facilities as civilian internment compounds, as well as specific procedural instructions for doing so. Also, “religious intolerance” is now considered to be terrorism in our laws, and subject to incarceration without representation or civil trial.

[56] This has been the steady cry of the last three administrations of the United States.

[57] This goal has been quite successfully achieved over the course of the last 75 years.

[58] A key example (among very many) of the reality of this operation of their philosophy is the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Woodrow Wilson expressed dismay over this Act, yet signed it into law. Afterwards he (seemingly) repented, saying that he had betrayed the American people, but the act remained, leaving the people in bondage to this day. Remember, the “Federal Reserve” is neither federal, nor a reserve. It’s a method.

[59] So it is in the U.S. today. See the “War Powers Act,” and how recently when invoked by George W. Bush and he came under attack, the power of the press was there to allow him an “appeal” to the “mob,” which (largely) reacted in “patriotic fervor.”

[60] As of this present time, the War Powers Act has been so expanded as to include anything the President may see as a “threat.” He can, for example, have me arrested and executed as a “threat,” without a trial by my peers, under a combination of the War Powers Act and the Patriot Act, just for writing these views.

[61] Historically in the U.S., “war powers acts,” once initiated, are never withdrawn.

[62] Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it’s worth noting that other newsmen, who admired him greatly, called Swinton “The Dean of His Profession”]:

” There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. “

[63] Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch recently made a $10 Million contribution toward the construction of a new Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles. Murdoch has wide holdings in the movie, TV, and publishing industries: including Fox Television, 20th Century Fox Films, London Times and New York Post newspapers, Harper Collins and Zondervan publishing companies.

But the fact that his TV stations and movie productions are some of the sleaziest, did not stop Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony from anointing him and his wife as members of the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great in January, 1998. This knighthood, bestowed on behalf of the pope, is given to persons of “unblemished character” who have promoted the interests of society, the [Catholic] Church and the Holy See [the Vatican].Besides this strange connection, there is an even stranger one. Murdoch is Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation which lists as one of its holdings, Zondervan Publishing House, the designated publisher of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV). Although the NIV copyright is held by the International Bible Society, Zondervan has exclusive publishing rights.

Acts2.com, Scott Berner

[64] Woodrow Wilson once said, “Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” (Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913, p. 13-14).

[65] Practically all the movie lots in Hollywood are owned by the Lehmans; Kuhn, Loeb, and Company; Goldman-Sachs; and other internationalist bankers. All the national radio and TV channels in the nation are owned and controlled by those same internationalist bankers. The same is true of every chain of metropolitan newspapers and magazines, also of the press wire-services, such as Associated Press, United Press, International, etc..

[66] This explains why just one media source produces a large variety of seemingly “at odds” publications. They will produce “Christian” or “Christian-appearing” products while at the same time producing everything from psychology to pornography.

[67] Just what do they do in those “think tanks” we’ve heard of? Ex.: The Hudson Institute.

[68] Our “cares of the world,” “desire for other things,” and “deceitfulness of riches”…

[69] The Council on Foreign Relations is a primary example of this philosophy. We have been “trained” to view the CFR as a “political mechanism,” and so pay little attention to its function. The truth is that it is of all parties and of no party, and instructs the parties as to legislation that will meet the financial ends of the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. It’s “chief” is the Bank of International Settlements located in Geneva, Switzerland, and its “boss” is the private ownership (yes it’s privately owned) of the Federal Reserve.

[70] This is exactly a large part of the primary functions of the GATT and NAFTA treaties.

[71] Televised sports suits the same purpose now as it did in Rome 2000 years ago, namely, distraction.

[72] “The Most Trusted Man In America,” Walter Cronkite, has been throughout his career an active, card-carrying member of The Federation for World Government, and was at one time the primary candidate for the position as its President. He declined, stating that he would be more useful as a highly visible member of the press.

[73] We have all gone out of the Way, have not obeyed God, and this is the result. We have brought it upon ourselves.

[74] This author recommends, for research purposes, “En Route to Global Occupation,” by Gary Kah, and “The Globalists,” by Lawrence Cuddy.

[75] See “Billy Graham and His Friends” by Cathy Barr. Excellent research.

[76] While this author does not agree with all of its conclusions, the book “The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea” by Tim Cohen portrays nicely the role that Prince Charles of England plays in being a “father” to the British people as well as giving himself the title of “Defender of Faith.”

[77] This Author highly recommends a book entitled, “The Globalists,” by Lawrence Cuddy. Mr. Cuddy has “done his homework” regarding the Rhodes Scholar program, a noble-sounding poison to our universities.

[78] While a plethora of historical facts have been obscured by innumerous means, a good example of this strategy can be seen in the writings of Will Durant, “famous historian.”

[79] “Lean not on your own understanding in all your ways; Acknowlege Him and He will direct your paths,” “Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Proclaiming believers have forgotten or neglected the meaning of these two verses.

[80] Note, for example, the “World Core Curriculum” being implanted in the schools beginning at the elementary level.

[81] Note the increasing use of “video court” in our courtrooms, which “de-personalizes” litigation.

[82] “For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lust of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they themselves promise liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption…” So Peter spoke of the church in the end times.

[83] Because they are using the “other religions” to attain their purposes

[84] This is true not only in the fiction “1984,” but in reality as well. Following 9/11, many people were all-too-willing to turn in neighbors they suspected of some “terrorist” mindset, even if it was merely voicing disagreement with the (Bush) administration policies.

[85] The exact purpose of the Federal Reserve system and the IRS.

[86] So it is today – people have become just a “commodity” from even before their birth, to feed the industrial hunger for capital.

[87] As the reader will see in the remainder of this book, I have no remaining doubt as to the validity of this statement, that “they” were the source of the ideology of the reformation.

[88] This is the duel purpose of the Federal Reserve System and the I.R.S. The Federal Reserve is neither Federal, nor does it have a reserve. The I.R.S. is a national interest debt collection agency, and no more or less.

[89] The defined purpose of the Central Banking system concept.

[90] This comment will be dealt with, at the least superficially, later in this book concerning the Medici, Hapsburg, Fugger, Rothschild, Knights Templar, Vatican Bank, and Assassin involvements – and what they have to do with the Reformation.

[91] At the time of Calvin’s arrival the city was struggling to achieve independence against two authorities who were trying to exercise control over Geneva. The first was the Dukes of Savoy and the second was the Bishop of Geneva. Geneva was not yet part of Switzerland (not until 1815) and the city allied with the cantons of Bern and Fribourg against Savoy. The bishop fled Geneva and Savoy was “defeated” in 1535.

[92] The same attitude of Holy Writ is ascribed to the Pope of Rome, whose doctrines Calvin supposedly opposed.

[93] “God subdued my soul to docility by a sudden conversion” ??? Docility?

[95] From Reinerius Saccho, “Of the Sects of Modern Heretics” (1254), in S. R. Maitland,trans.,History of the Albigenses and Waldenses (London: C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1832), pp. 407-413.

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[96] Reproduced from Jone’s Church History

[97] www.usask.ca/history/cjh/f/iss/text/98/fudg_498.shtml

[98] www.renealegre.net/S/Schaff/History/8_ch07.htm

[99] www.xenos.org/essays/waldo7.htm

[100] Presbyterians and the Revolution, p. 49.

[101] The Creed of Presbyterians, p. 119

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