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id="main" class="site-main" role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Category: <span>Synarchy</span></h1> </header> <article id="post-8291" class="post-8291 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-synarchy tag-angelo-roncalli tag-book-excerpt tag-france tag-freemasonry tag-modernism tag-paris tag-pope-john-xxiii tag-synarchy tag-vatican"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Gallica (1945 - 52)" decoding="async" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="8315" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/roncalli-in-paris-chapter/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Roncalli in Paris chapter" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roncalli-in-paris-chapter.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/" rel="bookmark">Roncalli in Paris (1945-52)</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-11-25T09:40:39+11:00">November 25, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-12-16T08:03:30+11:00">December 16, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">It appears that it was during his time in Paris that Angelo Roncalli was earmarked by Progressives as a future pontiff. France was always important to the Synarchists and through his diplomatic work, Roncalli was able to implant the Synarchic principles of ecumenism and globalism.</h4> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">GALLICA</h3> <p>Roncalli’s time in Paris could be said to have consolidated his reputation with the Progressive faction. Like Montini, he was the perfect blend of Modernist ideology covered by a convincing traditionalist exterior. His pious attitude towards Our Lady and other traditional devotions meant that he was accepted fairly well by conservative Catholics, even though many of his actions appeared to them to lack consistency.These paradoxical actions were evidenced in several areas: in his attitude towards leftwing politicians and known Modernists as well as his promotion of globalism and ecumenism.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="8297" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/image-4/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png" data-orig-size="493,588" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png?w=252" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png?w=493" width="493" height="588" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png?w=493" alt="" class="wp-image-8297" style="width:354px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png 493w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png?w=126 126w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png?w=252 252w" sizes="(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">One of the first photographs of Msgr Roncalli in Paris (1945) </figcaption></figure></div> <p></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">BACKGROUND</h3> <p>When Roncalli was thrust into diplomatic service in France, Europe was still in the throes of the Second World War. The Vatican had, to a certain degree, lost respect on the world stage due to its support for Fascism in Italy.</p> <p>In France this attitude was magnified. When Marshall Petain moved his government to Vichy in 1940, the Holy See followed with its diplomatic corps. Petain pursued a policy of cooperation with Germany and Italy while Pope Pius XII and his French bishops encouraged Catholics to support the government during the German occupation. Thus both Petain and the Church were seen as Fascist collaborators which incensed the fiercely independent French. Their suspicion and resentment simmered during the years of occupation.</p> <p>Petain had also been a friend to the Synarchists, employing many in his government. Later in 1945, when Marshall Pétain was prosecuted, he was interrogated about his knowledge of the Synarchist Pact.<sup data-fn="36c8ed11-5a91-4509-a455-eb74a270f1bd" class="fn"><a href="#36c8ed11-5a91-4509-a455-eb74a270f1bd" id="36c8ed11-5a91-4509-a455-eb74a270f1bd-link">1</a></sup></p> <p>De Gaulle then came to power representing the New France, leading the Resistance with help from the Allies. Although the Resistance at that time was full of Communists and Socialists, De Gaulle was personally against Communism, but he enjoyed support Stalin’s support even while Petain was still in power. In fact, De Gaulle and Georges Bidault travelled to Moscow in December 1944 to sign an agreement with Stalin promising mutual support between France and the USSR.</p> <p>In June 1944, only days after setting up the base of his provisional government at Bayeux in Normandy, De Gaulle met with Pope Pius XII, explaining his policy of zero-tolerance for collaborators. The Pope urged de Gaulle to come to an agreement with Marshall Petain but he was adamant: anyone who had supported the Vichy government was going to come within his crosshairs. This included Bishops such as the aristocratic Nuncio, Monsignor Valerio Valeri whom de Gaulle believed had abetted the Petain regime.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8294" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/image-2/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png" data-orig-size="607,609" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png?w=607" width="607" height="609" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png?w=607" alt="" class="wp-image-8294" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png 607w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-1.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Msgr. Valeri, Apostolic Nuncio to France, 1936 – 1944</figcaption></figure></div> <p>De Gaulle pressured Pope Pius to have Monsignor Valeri replaced, but at first, Pius stood his ground, since Valeri had done nothing to warrant such action. This situation continued until August 1944, when Paris was liberated from the Germans by the Allies with De Gaulle’s Free French Forces and Petain was suddenly grabbed from his rooms in Vichy and taken by Nazi soldiers to Germany.</p> <p>The final straw for de Gaulle was learning that Valeri had been on the scene soon after Petain was taken away, and he began to put even more pressure on the Pope.<sup data-fn="764e1e43-4765-4f6c-b9b3-04a3f8de9cac" class="fn"><a href="#764e1e43-4765-4f6c-b9b3-04a3f8de9cac" id="764e1e43-4765-4f6c-b9b3-04a3f8de9cac-link">2</a></sup> De Gaulle then embarked on a great purge which particularly persecuted Catholics, leading to the persecution, including murders, of 100,000 people. The account from Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite is chilling:</p> <p><em>“The bishops, who themselves were threatened, were silent while the blood of Frenchmen and Catholics flowed profusely and the prisons filled with innocent people. There was no episcopal voice to denounce the scandalous injustices of the Christian Democrats in power, as there should have been. Rome, too, was silent.”</em><sup data-fn="2ce745cd-dd50-4112-b9b1-c79f6711ec74" class="fn"><a href="#2ce745cd-dd50-4112-b9b1-c79f6711ec74" id="2ce745cd-dd50-4112-b9b1-c79f6711ec74-link">3</a></sup></p> <p>Pius finally relented, appointing Roncalli to take the place of Monsignor Valeri – although Roncalli was his second choice. His first choice, Archbishop Fietta, had declined on the grounds of ill-health.<sup data-fn="a5f6cec0-320a-4e5f-a1f4-aa68ec8f1936" class="fn"><a href="#a5f6cec0-320a-4e5f-a1f4-aa68ec8f1936" id="a5f6cec0-320a-4e5f-a1f4-aa68ec8f1936-link">4</a></sup></p> <p>Circumstances increased the pressure on Pius, as New Year’s Day was approaching and with it, the annual message of good will which would be given to de Gaulle by the head of the Diplomatic Corps. This was Valeri’s role and with tensions running so high, Pope Pius decided to send Roncalli to Paris to replace him, leaving many perplexed at his decision, including his <em>sostituto</em> Tardini.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8295" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/image-3/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png" data-orig-size="511,507" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png?w=511" loading="lazy" width="511" height="507" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png?w=511" alt="" class="wp-image-8295" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png 511w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-3.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Roncalli, on the eve of his departure to France (December 1944)</figcaption></figure></div> <p></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">SYNARCHY</h3> <p>Petain’s Vichy government had expanded the influence of the Synarchists, but after his defeat their leverage was diluted to a certain extent. De Gaulle was highly suspicious of the Synarchists and once in power, launched a campaign to remove the remaining offenders from his government. Unfortunately, as we will later see, in his enthusiasm for rebuilding France, de Gaulle went on to unknowingly allow many Synarchists into positions of power.</p> <p>For the Synarchists, a united Europe was the first step to a world government and they had marked France as being key to their plans. Although France retained a strong anti-clerical bent, its egalitarian spirit meant that independent leaders could spontaneously come forth from the grassroots and this continued to threaten the Synarchs’ long-term goal.</p> <p>A great breakthrough for the Synarchic globalists came in 1948 with the founding of the United Nations. Roncalli loved to express his support for the globalist project during his New Year’s Day Addresses to the President. By this time, Vincent Auriol – a staunch atheist – was President, and Roncalli didn’t hold back his enthusiasm for the UN.</p> <p><em>“During these last months Paris, the real crossroads of Europe and of the whole world, has had the honour of welcoming, with her customary exquisite hospitality, the great Assembly of the United Nations, convened to organise world peace….</em></p> <p><em>Certainly it has not been possible to solve all our problems, and no one ever thought that complete success could be achieved. But the atmosphere of the debates has gradually become more serene. Several principles have been asserted, all worthy of respect because they correspond to the fundamental rights of men and citizens. One might indeed sum up the innumerable speeches made at the Assembly of the United Nations in the course of these three months in the words of St Paul’s advice: ‘Test everything; hold fast what is good’.</em><sup data-fn="372b5026-3b69-4e65-a368-a83edea96c24" class="fn"><a href="#372b5026-3b69-4e65-a368-a83edea96c24" id="372b5026-3b69-4e65-a368-a83edea96c24-link">5</a></sup></p> <p>In his December 1949 Address to President Auriol, Roncalli again alluded to the possibility of an earthly uptopia which revealed his own humanistic philosophy. He spoke of a return to a ‘Golden Age’ when ‘respect for man’s rights and justice for all’ are achieved, as they “alone are capable of restoring the moral order.”<sup data-fn="71ff6cb0-f02c-4f54-9ab0-23a540290595" class="fn"><a href="#71ff6cb0-f02c-4f54-9ab0-23a540290595" id="71ff6cb0-f02c-4f54-9ab0-23a540290595-link">6</a></sup></p> <p>It must be noted that in Roncalli’s days, by contrast with the contemporary message from the ‘synodal’ Church, the Social Kingship of Christ was loudly proclaimed as being the exalted goal and the accepted solution to all the worlds’s ills. So while his ideas might have been commonplace for a politician of his time, they were not in keeping with the message of the Church. Roncalli stated:</p> <p><em>Last summer, when the Council of Europe met for the first time at Strasbourg, all were moved by the noble and vigorous words of the President of the French National Assembly. He recalled the words of the northern philosopher: ‘Politics must bow to moral considerations’, and appealed most fervently to all to study the most pressing problems of international life and try to realise, as M. Herriot himself has said, ‘a good part of the highest ideal ever set before any delegation : peace on earth to men of good will’.</em><sup data-fn="973879c3-7404-4b4d-9813-59d93daf9b10" class="fn"><a href="#973879c3-7404-4b4d-9813-59d93daf9b10" id="973879c3-7404-4b4d-9813-59d93daf9b10-link">7</a></sup></p> <p>Roncalli then made mention of the Holy Doors which were soon to be opened for the Holy Year, possibly making an allusion to the esoteric principle of, ‘as above, so below’, saying <em>Through this door we go, to take the ‘road that goes up’, viam ascensionis, not to descend but to ascend. And this is what, on the spiritual plane, individuals and peoples are called to do: never to descend, always to rise.</em><sup data-fn="fd9c3f87-80ac-48e1-9299-d9ab299cdb57" class="fn"><a href="#fd9c3f87-80ac-48e1-9299-d9ab299cdb57" id="fd9c3f87-80ac-48e1-9299-d9ab299cdb57-link">8</a></sup></p> <p>One of the most notable of the the French parliamentarians who furthered the goals of Synarchy during Roncalli’s tenure was Robert Schuman. Schuman is rumoured to have had associations with a Synarchist, professor of law Louis Le Fur, prior to World War II, and another associate of his, Jean Monnet, who is known as the ‘Father of Europe’, is also said to have been a Synarchist.<sup data-fn="cf454a35-6148-4e7a-9045-ba9418c7cc1f" class="fn"><a href="#cf454a35-6148-4e7a-9045-ba9418c7cc1f" id="cf454a35-6148-4e7a-9045-ba9418c7cc1f-link">9</a></sup> Interestingly, Monnet had never approved of De Gaulle – possibly due to the latter’s independence and anti-Synarchist tendencies.</p> <p>From the time he became PM, Schuman began to implement various plans that pushed Europe along the path to unity. One of these was the <a href="https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2087/volume-87-I-1168-English.pdf">Council of Europe</a>, signed in May, 1949, originally by 10 member nations, with the aim of ‘facilitating the economic and social progress” of its members.</p> <p>The so-called Schumann Declaration of May, 1950, placed German and French coal and steel production under a single governing authority. Others nations later joined the alliance and this eventually led to the creation of the European Economic Community, and ultimately to the European Union. Jean Monnet worked closely with Schumann on the Declaration, keeping hidden the globalist agenda at its heart.</p> <p>Schumann was favourably disposed towards Angelo Roncalli. He once said that, “He is the only person in Paris in whose company one feels the physical sensation of peace.”<sup data-fn="318ce942-453f-47b8-922e-7a14a4143482" class="fn"><a href="#318ce942-453f-47b8-922e-7a14a4143482" id="318ce942-453f-47b8-922e-7a14a4143482-link">10</a></sup> The sentiment was obviously mutual: in his Address to Auriol of December 1950, Roncalli referred to an event which “had seemed to promise better things and which had shown unmistakeable signs of the pacification and elevations of men’s minds.” According the footnotes accompanying Roncalli’s <em>Mission to Paris</em>, Loris Capovilla tells us this event was none other than the Schumann Declaration.<sup data-fn="4c9a6a9e-10b5-40c9-b8ea-1d0c9ef32789" class="fn"><a href="#4c9a6a9e-10b5-40c9-b8ea-1d0c9ef32789" id="4c9a6a9e-10b5-40c9-b8ea-1d0c9ef32789-link">11</a></sup></p> <p></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8292" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/image/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg" data-orig-size="566,695" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg?w=244" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg?w=566" loading="lazy" width="566" height="695" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg?w=566" alt="" class="wp-image-8292" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg 566w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg?w=122 122w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.jpeg?w=244 244w" sizes="(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Robert Schumann, Angelo Roncalli. 1950.<sup data-fn="5d22849f-7b8d-47bc-a2f1-3fbe7276b7cb" class="fn"><a href="#5d22849f-7b8d-47bc-a2f1-3fbe7276b7cb" id="5d22849f-7b8d-47bc-a2f1-3fbe7276b7cb-link">12</a></sup></figcaption></figure></div> <p></p> <p></p> <p>It was during his time in Paris, that Roncalli appeared on the radar of the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS) a forerunner of the CIA.<sup data-fn="8d82773f-e653-4a21-9c57-b110bb289ae0" class="fn"><a href="#8d82773f-e653-4a21-9c57-b110bb289ae0" id="8d82773f-e653-4a21-9c57-b110bb289ae0-link">13</a></sup> Files referring to Roncalli which were declassified in 1978 claim he sent information to the Vatican regarding de Gaulle’s commitment to ending the Franco regime in Spain.</p> <p>While it may be hard to believe that the US government had an interest in Roncalli, one need only consider his track record in Turkey, where he made a habit of embroiling himself in high-level politics. Roncalli always had the appearance of one who was not aware of his own limitations and is also on record for passing on private comments from de Gaulle of a less political nature.</p> <p>Possibly the most overt example of his support for the globalist project came in1951, when Roncalli was appointed Vatican observer to UNESCO.</p> <p><em>Now I have noticed that among the seventy diplomatic missions, of which only thirty are Catholic, those who seem most responsive to the Apostolic Nuncio’s words, when he is inspired by this religious sense, are the Ambassadors in whose lands prevails a Buddhist, Confucian or Moslem tradition.</em></p> <p><em>There are then certain elementary principles of a moral or religious character which constitute the original patrimony of all peoples, and upon which an understanding must be based, as the irreplaceable foundation of a common effort to succeed in the construction of the true social and world order of justice and peace.</em><sup data-fn="88b2b222-95e0-435f-9e87-2c0165e5be39" class="fn"><a href="#88b2b222-95e0-435f-9e87-2c0165e5be39" id="88b2b222-95e0-435f-9e87-2c0165e5be39-link">14</a></sup></p> <p></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8296" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/25/roncalli-in-paris-1945-52/image-3/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png" data-orig-size="631,449" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png?w=631" loading="lazy" width="631" height="449" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png?w=631" alt="" class="wp-image-8296" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png 631w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-4.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">July 1951 as Vatican Observer at UNESCO</figcaption></figure></div> <p></p> <p>During his speech to UNESCO of July 1951, addressing the ‘elders’ of UNESCO, Roncalli spoke as a member of “the oldest and most widely extended cultural organisation in the world” referring to the “God of Knowledge” as the foundation of the Church.<sup data-fn="7924cf36-e3c3-4b0a-9844-90d871aad5c2" class="fn"><a href="#7924cf36-e3c3-4b0a-9844-90d871aad5c2" id="7924cf36-e3c3-4b0a-9844-90d871aad5c2-link">15</a></sup></p> <p>“UNESCO is a great burning furnace, the sparks from which will everywhere kindle … widespread cooperation in the interests of justice, liberty and peace for all the peoples of the earth, without distinction of race, language or religion…”<sup data-fn="e65c06fe-8243-4181-9d4c-532949541e13" class="fn"><a href="#e65c06fe-8243-4181-9d4c-532949541e13" id="e65c06fe-8243-4181-9d4c-532949541e13-link">16</a></sup></p> <p>Meanwhile, Pope Pius was playing right into the globalists; hands. He had identified the greatest threat to democracy as Communism and he became convinced that the only defence against its onslaught was a united Europe.</p> <p>This was unfortunate for a number of reasons: firstly because the Synarchists also wanted a united Europe; secondly, it made him prey to many devious stratagems devised by others in the name of anti-Communism; thirdly, and most significantly, because Our Lady, through her messages at Fatima, had already provided the means of defeating Communism: the Consecration of Russia and the First Saturday devotion.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">OCCULT</h3> <p>As with his time in Turkey, rumours abound of Roncalli’s occult involvement while he was in France. Accusations of this kind are not helped by the many occult references which peppered his speech. For example, when writing to the bishop of Bergamo following his rapid move to Paris, Roncalli said: “I seemed to be seized by surprise, like Habbakuk, and transported suddenly from Istanbul to Paris by a sort of incantation.…I was stupefied.”<sup data-fn="05496c8e-dbf5-49f7-b6c0-272540ef98f5" class="fn"><a href="#05496c8e-dbf5-49f7-b6c0-272540ef98f5" id="05496c8e-dbf5-49f7-b6c0-272540ef98f5-link">17</a></sup></p> <p>Nuncio Roncalli’s first public address to the faithful also contained an esoteric reference. During an address to the <em>Institut Catholique</em> at the church of St. Joseph des Carmes, he connected his last post in Turkey with his new position in France by saying:</p> <p>These shining points, which stand for two worlds and two forms of civilisation, Constantinople and Paris, are spanned, as it were, by a brilliant rainbow, upon which glow the last words of the prayer of Jesus, who was about to leave his disciples and wished to comfort them: ‘That they may be one’.<sup data-fn="52396318-d394-4b64-b87d-b7e9bb507e7a" class="fn"><a href="#52396318-d394-4b64-b87d-b7e9bb507e7a" id="52396318-d394-4b64-b87d-b7e9bb507e7a-link">18</a></sup></p> <p>Here is may be recalled that the rainbow is a symbol beloved of occultists; it certainly has no Christian relevance in this speech. In any case, Roncalli took the opportunity to recall one of his favourite projects, ecumenism: Turkey was mainly Muslim and Orthodox with Catholics in the minority.</p> <p>Roncalli’s <em>Journal</em> from this time reveals other comments which can be interpreted as occult references, or at least as heresy. One example of this is an entry from November of 1948, where there is a cryptic reference to what Roncalli called his ‘mystical death.’ (Journal, p. 270). Mystic death, far from being an accepted stage in a soul’s progress toward spiritual union with God, is part of the heresy of Quietism. The ‘mystic death’ was one of the 68 proposition of Quietism to have been condemned by the Church in 1687. The Spanish false mystic Michael de Molinos wrote that, “The inward way leads on to a state in which passion is extinguished, sin is no more, sense is deadened, and the soul, willing only what God wills, enjoys an imperturbable peace: this is the mystic death.”<sup data-fn="cada95a4-00cb-4b94-ac14-da851738943c" class="fn"><a href="#cada95a4-00cb-4b94-ac14-da851738943c" id="cada95a4-00cb-4b94-ac14-da851738943c-link">19</a></sup></p> <p>Reading Roncalli’s <em>Journal, </em>it becomes clear that he believed he experienced no passions and he wrote on many occasions of his constant state of peace. He even suggested in his <em>Journal </em>that he never once sinned seriously against purity in his entire life.</p> <p>Then in April 1950, there is another use of the phrase, ‘Know thyself’<sup data-fn="6d81cbe9-f9d8-45f9-be7c-ace8fbef0cbf" class="fn"><a href="#6d81cbe9-f9d8-45f9-be7c-ace8fbef0cbf" id="6d81cbe9-f9d8-45f9-be7c-ace8fbef0cbf-link">20</a></sup> which as explained previously, [in a previous chapter – Ed] was a favourite maxim of Aleister Crowley.</p> <p>Roncalli’s December 1952 Address to President Auriol was his final one before leaving for Venice, and it must be said, it was rather unusual. In the Address, he told a story from <em>The Fables of Jean Fontaine. </em>This story contained the famous maxim, ‘all paths lead to Rome’ and to their mind, twas best that each a different path should find.’ This is rather startling from a man who six years hence would find himself in Rome as Supreme Pontiff.</p> <p>This is followed by a reference to<em> the ‘Know thyself’ </em>mentioned previously, which Roncalli explains is<em> “inscribed on the pediment of the temple of Delphi, which in the depth and universality of its wisdom far exceeds any merely individual application, may be widely understood and practised wherever responsibility is borne in the service of the common good, and wherever men’s minds are burdened with the most acute problem of the present hour : to save peace, to save peace at all costs.”</em></p> <p>The fable continues:</p> <p><em>To know himself is the first task decreed By the All-mighty for his servant man. Come, stir my rivulet — can you trace Your features? “Leave it,” the Hermit cried, “to settle down — And your image will appear again!” Thus in his wisdom spake the Anchorite; Nor was his counsel giv’n in vain.”</em><sup data-fn="8e51ba71-5c73-4fca-8d47-000840b6ab81" class="fn"><a href="#8e51ba71-5c73-4fca-8d47-000840b6ab81" id="8e51ba71-5c73-4fca-8d47-000840b6ab81-link">21</a></sup></p> <p>Auriol responds in kind, “Discord hath ever ruled the Universe; And in this world of ours I could rehearse A thousand thralls of her uneasy sway.”<sup data-fn="db20dddb-4406-472e-bc83-c1d49bcececb" class="fn"><a href="#db20dddb-4406-472e-bc83-c1d49bcececb" id="db20dddb-4406-472e-bc83-c1d49bcececb-link">22</a></sup></p> <p>The day after the Address in which he advised his heaers to ‘know thyself’, Roncalli wrote to Cardinal Achille Lienart of Lille. As well as sending his New Year’s greetings, Roncalli mentioned his speech of the previous day, and so had yet another opportunity to use the golden words, “Know Thyself.”</p> <p><em>Yesterday on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps I was able to offer the same wishes to the President of the Republic. It is a difficult thing to speak in that noble and mixed assembly, but La Fontaine’s last Fable gave me the opportunity to recall the </em>Know thyself<em> of the old sages, which is valid for all times and all places.</em><sup data-fn="16c2e872-620d-439e-8641-930457c63463" class="fn"><a href="#16c2e872-620d-439e-8641-930457c63463" id="16c2e872-620d-439e-8641-930457c63463-link">23</a></sup></p> <p>Of significance here is that Lienart was rumoured to have been a Freemason; what is certain is that he was one of the prelates accused by de Gaulle of being a collaborator<em>.</em><sup data-fn="150f97cd-39ce-4686-b248-eb5586c3c4ff" class="fn"><a href="#150f97cd-39ce-4686-b248-eb5586c3c4ff" id="150f97cd-39ce-4686-b248-eb5586c3c4ff-link">24</a></sup></p> <p>While the above comments may be no more than ambiguities, there are more serious accusations against Roncalli. According to Mary Martinez in her book, <em>The Undermining of the Catholic Church, </em>a Major René Rouchette, once a member of Presidential Garde Republicaine, told her in an interview that during the mid 1940’s, he and his confreres saw Roncalli leaving the Nunciature every Thursday evening to attend meetings at the Grand Orient of France lodge.<sup data-fn="c633ff81-d4ca-4b04-a1e0-f89536c5eec6" class="fn"><a href="#c633ff81-d4ca-4b04-a1e0-f89536c5eec6" id="c633ff81-d4ca-4b04-a1e0-f89536c5eec6-link">25</a></sup> Certainly, Fr. Malachi Martin had no doubt that Roncalli was a Mason; he is quoted in <em>Eglise-Eclipsee</em> as saying Roncalli was initiated into the Lodge by Vincent Auriol.<sup data-fn="1c33d180-9610-4156-867c-0f5976a014ab" class="fn"><a href="#1c33d180-9610-4156-867c-0f5976a014ab" id="1c33d180-9610-4156-867c-0f5976a014ab-link">26</a></sup></p> <p>Roncalli’s Freemasonic membership was even suggested by French Masons themselves when in 2019, they posted on their website congratulations to Matteo Zuppi on being elevated to the Cardinalate:</p> <p><em>“As we renew our congratulations to the new Cardinal Presbyter of Sant’Egidio already expressed</em> <a href="http://www.grandeoriente-democratico.com/Matteo-Zuppi-Cardinale-e-una-eccellente-notizia-per-ogni-cattolico-sinceramente-progressista-democratico-e-ispirato-dai-piu-puri-e-autentici-insegnamenti-del-Vangelo-Cristiano.html">here</a> <em>we declare ourselves particularly pleased that the non-Freemason Matteo Zuppi, very recently named a Cardinal, wanted to significantly mention a Saint of the Church such as Pope John XXIII (our Mason Brother Angelo Roncalli in the world) to seal his new pastoral mission…”</em><sup data-fn="7b979260-769d-4a3c-9574-4918806ac97b" class="fn"><a href="#7b979260-769d-4a3c-9574-4918806ac97b" id="7b979260-769d-4a3c-9574-4918806ac97b-link">27</a></sup></p> <p>The Archbishop’s pro-masonic bent went well beyond having in common certain elements of their vision such as ecumenism; he also concretely advanced their sinister cause within the Church. Roncalli appointed a 33rd degree Freemason named Baron Yves Marsaudon, as head of the French branch of the Knights of Malta. This was the very order which Pius XII had suppressed and placed under investigation as he was well aware that it had become an organ of Freemasonry within the Church.<sup data-fn="4a2ee066-4134-4f24-aea2-0230badd8678" class="fn"><a href="#4a2ee066-4134-4f24-aea2-0230badd8678" id="4a2ee066-4134-4f24-aea2-0230badd8678-link">28</a></sup></p> <p>Archbishop Roncalli’s Secretary at the Nunciature, Mons. Bruno Heim, told the Vatican’s investigator into the matter that Freemasonry was “one of the last forces of social conservation in today’s world, and, therefore, a force of religious conservation,” and that <strong>“</strong>the nunciature of Paris was working in great secret to reconcile the Catholic Church with Freemasonry.”<sup data-fn="56335cb7-3e68-4df3-9ba1-d37443eea46d" class="fn"><a href="#56335cb7-3e68-4df3-9ba1-d37443eea46d" id="56335cb7-3e68-4df3-9ba1-d37443eea46d-link">29</a></sup></p> <p>As Pope, Roncalli eventually suspended all investigations into the Knights of Malta (June 24, 1961) and restored free reign to the order.</p> <p>Despite his tolerance for Freemasonry, Roncalli is said to have been pleased when his Parisian friend, Antonio Coën, renounced Masonry in favour of the religion of his youth …. Judaism!<sup data-fn="044c1c65-bee9-4b1c-8188-9dbe57103a1d" class="fn"><a href="#044c1c65-bee9-4b1c-8188-9dbe57103a1d" id="044c1c65-bee9-4b1c-8188-9dbe57103a1d-link">30</a></sup> He was also besotted with the Jewish mystic, Simone Weil, whose philosophy contained Kabbalic themes. One of Roncalli’s biographers, Paul Johnson, relates that he enjoyed the sermons of Fr. Riquet.<sup data-fn="f250a39a-b8d1-4d83-8920-e72315e26190" class="fn"><a href="#f250a39a-b8d1-4d83-8920-e72315e26190" id="f250a39a-b8d1-4d83-8920-e72315e26190-link">31</a></sup> Yet, Pierre Virion tells us that Fr. Riquet was deliriously enamoured by the French Freemasons!<sup data-fn="25ffea80-9c43-4253-ac57-0f6f2a7d43b1" class="fn"><a href="#25ffea80-9c43-4253-ac57-0f6f2a7d43b1" id="25ffea80-9c43-4253-ac57-0f6f2a7d43b1-link">32</a></sup></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">WORKER PRIESTS</h3> <p>Among the prelates who had been concerned about losing their position under de Gaulle’s purge was Cardinal Suhard of Paris. He had supported Petain and thus had been flagged as a collaborator. But after speaking to Archbishop Montini, Suhard’s mind was put at rest; Montini assured him that Roncalli was a prelate in the mould of Radini-Tadeschi rather than the more conservative Ottaviani, as he had feared.</p> <p>It was apparently Suhard who coined the term <em>aggiornamento</em> in reference to the need for the Church to update; this term was to become the <em>leitmotif</em> of Roncalli’s papacy. His ideas were very progressive and Rome became concerned about his support for the increasingly left-leaning Worker Priest movement.</p> <p>The worker-priests were originally a response to the collapse of faith among men returning from the forced labour camps. Some of these men could not accept the liturgy as it had always been offered, having become used to Masses that, of necessity, were offered outside of the usual church setting. Some of the incarcerated priests had taken liberties with these Masses, even offering them in the vernacular. Such priests were believed by French conservatives to be Communists, and indeed, many of them were. Suhard refused to discipline them and began to oversee the Parisian worker-priest chapter after the movement was given conditional approval by Pius XII, who had designated France a ‘mission land.’</p> <p>Roncalli didn’t publicly endorse Suhard’s ideas, but also did not reveal where his loyalties really lay. Montini, however, <em>did </em>support those ideas from his position in Rome and as Pope Paul VI went on to approve a modified form of worker-priest.<sup data-fn="a2d81d69-5ec1-48d8-a9ef-a98b1e2dc8f6" class="fn"><a href="#a2d81d69-5ec1-48d8-a9ef-a98b1e2dc8f6" id="a2d81d69-5ec1-48d8-a9ef-a98b1e2dc8f6-link">33</a></sup></p> <p>The pontificates of both Roncalli and Montini show the influence of the ideas of Suhard. This is important because the worker-priest movement ‘Catholicised’ the anti-Catholic revolution, and Roncalli played a significant role in ensuring that the movement was allowed to flourish when it could have been nipped in the bud.</p> <p>Customarily, Roncalli remained ambivalent as he did not want to become unpopular with either side. Although he valued a traditional practise of the Faith in many respects, the worker-priests exemplified Radini-Tedeschi’s dream for Catholic Action. Radini-Tedeschi had introduced the young Roncalli to the <em>Opera Congressi, </em>another worker movement, when the latter became his secretary in Bergamo, although Pius X later was later to suppress the <em>Opera</em> due to its enthusiasm for democracy and its lack of oversight. Radini-Tedeschi had also lent his support to the <em>Sillon</em> – another left-leaning movement which was eventually banned by Pius and in which Roncalli took some interest.<sup data-fn="ebbd2d6e-9ed3-4c98-810d-4289cfe47f0e" class="fn"><a href="#ebbd2d6e-9ed3-4c98-810d-4289cfe47f0e" id="ebbd2d6e-9ed3-4c98-810d-4289cfe47f0e-link">34</a></sup></p> <p>It is also known that Roncalli had close contact with the Specialised Catholic Action movements.<sup data-fn="1312ff92-9293-458c-a654-ce91f99c4aa3" class="fn"><a href="#1312ff92-9293-458c-a654-ce91f99c4aa3" id="1312ff92-9293-458c-a654-ce91f99c4aa3-link">35</a></sup> and that he met regularly with the French leaders of the JOC. Roncalli recorded in his his diary that those were ‘particularly remarkable’ meetings.<sup data-fn="95d63488-077e-4521-a41e-5d231573a875" class="fn"><a href="#95d63488-077e-4521-a41e-5d231573a875" id="95d63488-077e-4521-a41e-5d231573a875-link">36</a></sup></p> <p>To conclude this section, it should be noted that by his inaction regarding these left-wing groups, the Parisian Nuncio allowed Russia to spread her errors in post-war France.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">PERSONALITY</h3> <p>A little has already been said about how Roncalli was seen by his peers in Paris: although Robert Schumann was quite taken with him, few of the Parisian elite took him seriously. After Roncalli’s death, a Parisian Jesuit wrote that the impression he gave while Nuncio was that of being “a clown.”<sup data-fn="8d333875-cac6-462b-afd4-6a67f6c26956" class="fn"><a href="#8d333875-cac6-462b-afd4-6a67f6c26956" id="8d333875-cac6-462b-afd4-6a67f6c26956-link">37</a></sup></p> <p>His friend, the Modernist, Dom Beauduin, told the story of how he went to visit the Nuncio, who, with an enthusiastic laugh, whisked him through the door and onto a large chair. The chair, positioned on a platform, was none other than the Papal throne, the symbol of papal authority found at every nunciature. As Fr. Villa wrote, “The future pope’s use of a symbol of the papal sovereignty as a mere prop for his own jokes was sadly more than just a misguided attempt at humour; history would show it was prophetic, as he would use the papacy to promote heretics and debase the authority of his own office.”<sup data-fn="61bf3c9e-0ac6-4e91-8f77-5ce62209e677" class="fn"><a href="#61bf3c9e-0ac6-4e91-8f77-5ce62209e677" id="61bf3c9e-0ac6-4e91-8f77-5ce62209e677-link">38</a></sup></p> <p>Similarly, the leaders of de France’s ruling party, the MRP, (<em>Mouvement Républicain Populaire </em>or Popular Republican Movement) had little respect for Roncalli, regarding him as untrustworthy and unscrupulous.<sup data-fn="eabd8579-165f-4b1c-b0ba-ecd6244d0f47" class="fn"><a href="#eabd8579-165f-4b1c-b0ba-ecd6244d0f47" id="eabd8579-165f-4b1c-b0ba-ecd6244d0f47-link">39</a></sup> Even his friends could see through his pretence: Jacques Dumaine, head of Protocol at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said of Roncalli that he was “more artful than subtle.”<sup data-fn="3bfe4a8a-3c74-4c8d-ab69-9e7c2099b344" class="fn"><a href="#3bfe4a8a-3c74-4c8d-ab69-9e7c2099b344" id="3bfe4a8a-3c74-4c8d-ab69-9e7c2099b344-link">40</a></sup></p> <p>To give an idea of his inflated view of himself, Roncalli was asked his opinion of the plunging necklines of society ladies present at diplomatic functions. He responded that it didn’t bother him at all, “And you don’t have to worry about the imaginations of the other diplomates present – they are too busy watching my actions to get too preoccupied with these manifestations of fashion and beauty.”<sup data-fn="2ebc90c2-b43d-45ed-a18f-5c62311ac014" class="fn"><a href="#2ebc90c2-b43d-45ed-a18f-5c62311ac014" id="2ebc90c2-b43d-45ed-a18f-5c62311ac014-link">41</a></sup></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">SUPPORT FOR MODERNISTS</h3> <p>In his role as a diplomat, Roncalli was able to move in the elegant circles of the Parisian elite. He held fine dinner parties with a range of guests including the most radical secularists. Roncalli was preoccupied with beautifying the nunciature for his many guests at a time when poverty was rife in post-war France – although he justified the expense by claiming it was for the honour of the Pope, whose representative he truly was. A letter to Secretary of State Montini (later Pope Paul VI) provides details of the elaborate decorations Roncalli commissioned for the nunciature’s dining room. There were numerous murals, including on the ceiling, as well as expensive seventeenth century tapestries: nothing was too much for Roncalli’s salon in which the secular and religious elite of Paris were regularly entertained.<sup data-fn="1655e47c-0cb0-48d9-b455-6d57c2e0101e" class="fn"><a href="#1655e47c-0cb0-48d9-b455-6d57c2e0101e" id="1655e47c-0cb0-48d9-b455-6d57c2e0101e-link">42</a></sup></p> <p>Roncalli was also known to be friends with Eduoard Herriot, an anti Catholic socialist, who was himself a fan of both Marc Sagnier and Soviet Russia.</p> <p>“Nuncio in Paris, Bishop Roncalli received at an open table Edouard Herriot and Vincent Auriol, notorious Freemasons and politicians who carried out an action persecuting the Church. In the heat of a banquet, he said to them one day: “What separates us is of little importance.”. All his happiness seemed to be that of the table where he wanted above all to please.” <sup data-fn="74376456-014b-4bf6-85a6-10340e9658ba" class="fn"><a href="#74376456-014b-4bf6-85a6-10340e9658ba" id="74376456-014b-4bf6-85a6-10340e9658ba-link">43</a></sup></p> <p>Despite his high opinion of himself, Roncalli was out of his depth in the Parisian world of sophisticated and fashionable ideas. Even his very sympathetic biographer, Peter Hebblethwaite, wrote that Roncalli “gleaned most of his knowledge of theology from conversations” and that he could not wrap his head around the ideas of the very fashionable Teilhard de Chardin.<sup data-fn="46ac92bc-d5bd-4742-a2f8-372364b3c122" class="fn"><a href="#46ac92bc-d5bd-4742-a2f8-372364b3c122" id="46ac92bc-d5bd-4742-a2f8-372364b3c122-link">44</a></sup></p> <p>By and large, Roncalli played the part of loyal representative of Pope Pius, but there are many examples which reveal his early dedication to Modernism. Such is the case of the French Ambassador, Jacques Maritain.</p> <p>Roncalli met with de Gaulle in January of 1945, to discuss the latter’s choice of Maritain as French ambassador to the Holy See. The philosopher Maritain was the inventor of the liberal doctrine of ‘integral humanism’, which was to have such a devastating and lasting influence on the Church. Maritain also became very close to Cardinal Montini, more of which in another chapter, where we will explore their relationship with the Communist agitator, Saul Alinsky. Maritain’s ideas were a driving force behind the MRP, the French Christian Democratic Party which formed after France was liberated. Left-leaning, the MRP was full of Catholics in support of the Republic.</p> <p>Maritain is significant because his ideas were quite heretical, although this wasn’t always acknowledged either in his lifetime or afterwards. In one paper published after his death, Maritain stated his desire that <strong>Satan would be forgiven and eventually be allowed to dwell in Limbo with the unbaptised children</strong>.<sup data-fn="23227d48-8a8f-4b2b-b23b-e395efa628fe" class="fn"><a href="#23227d48-8a8f-4b2b-b23b-e395efa628fe" id="23227d48-8a8f-4b2b-b23b-e395efa628fe-link">45</a></sup> This is hardly surprising when one learns that Maritain was led to the faith by a self-confessed ‘prophet of Lucifer’ named Leon Bloy.<sup data-fn="bdf5b521-b621-4f92-8a6c-dfb37c15bf32" class="fn"><a href="#bdf5b521-b621-4f92-8a6c-dfb37c15bf32" id="bdf5b521-b621-4f92-8a6c-dfb37c15bf32-link">46</a></sup> Interestingly, the language of Maritain’s philosophy was to be found in the Synarchic Pact, which referred to integral humanism as “the primacy of the spiritual in our revolutionary movement.”<sup data-fn="3ad3be72-7bde-44ef-94b3-43a8e4b02fea" class="fn"><a href="#3ad3be72-7bde-44ef-94b3-43a8e4b02fea" id="3ad3be72-7bde-44ef-94b3-43a8e4b02fea-link">47</a></sup></p> <p>While he was stationed in Paris, Roncalli’s friend from his seminary days, Buonaiuti passed away. Roncalli had never renounced his relationship with the thrice-excommunicated Buonaiuti, and wrote at the time,</p> <p><em>“Excommunicated in 1921, declared vitandus [shunned] in January 1926, died on April 20, 1946, Holy Saturday. Therefore he died at the age of 65: in luce et in Cruce. His admirers wrote about him that he was a profoundly and intensely religious mind, clinging to Christianity with every fiber, bound with unbreakable bonds to his beloved Catholic Church. Naturally there was no clergyman to bless his remains; no churchyard that would receive his burial.”</em><sup data-fn="d4faebec-8dba-46c5-8bd7-d1c29ea79155" class="fn"><a href="#d4faebec-8dba-46c5-8bd7-d1c29ea79155" id="d4faebec-8dba-46c5-8bd7-d1c29ea79155-link">48</a></sup></p> <p>Another death which took place during Roncalli’s time in Paris sheds more light on his deep-seated Modernist views. After the death of Marc Sagnier, the founder of <em>Le Sillon</em>, Nuncio Roncalli wrote to Sagnier’s widow. In his letter of June 1950, Roncalli described the great impression her late husband had made on him almost fifty years previously, when the latter gave a speech to Young Catholic Workers.<sup data-fn="c28a3780-882d-4f8b-b2a4-094b7058d882" class="fn"><a href="#c28a3780-882d-4f8b-b2a4-094b7058d882" id="c28a3780-882d-4f8b-b2a4-094b7058d882-link">49</a></sup></p> <p>Roncalli made a startling reference to the “affectionate and benevolent admonition” given by Pius X to Sagnier in 1910. Far from being an “affectionate” rebuke, Pius’ condemnation of <em>Le Sillon</em> was extremely firm and uncompromising, albeit made in fraternal charity. Pius made it clear in no uncertain terms that the ideology of <em>Le Sillon</em> was socialist, unCatholic and part of a creeping apostasy that threatened to spread throughout the world “… organized in all countries for the establishment of a universal church with neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, nor a rule for the mind, nor a bridle for the passions.”<sup data-fn="fa4a6ea2-7905-4ca6-b2f2-6297a98cc8bb" class="fn"><a href="#fa4a6ea2-7905-4ca6-b2f2-6297a98cc8bb" id="fa4a6ea2-7905-4ca6-b2f2-6297a98cc8bb-link">50</a></sup></p> <p>When the axe fell on the Modernists in the form of Pius XII’s <em>Humanae Generis, </em>Roncalli stayed noticeably quiet. The French liberals were hit particularly hard: Chenu, Congar, de Chardin, de Lubac and others of the <em>nouvelle theologie </em>school and its adjacents were censured and even lost their positions. Although he had the task of passing on the orders, Roncalli bypassed most of the controversy by taking a trip and leaving the politics to others. However the thoughts of these men recurred time and time again in Roncalli’s writings once he became Pope.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">ECUMENISM</h3> <p>While in Turkey and Greece, Roncalli had been successful at placating non-Catholics, attempting to show that Catholicism had dropped its age-old policy of <em>extra ecclesia nulla salus – ‘</em>there is no salvation outside the Church’.</p> <p>As time went on, Roncalli’s ecumenical bent became even more evident. In 1949, for example, he interceded with Rome for the Protestant founders of a new ecumenical community. This led to permission being granted for the celebration of their liturgies in the disused Catholic Church in the little town of Taizé.<sup data-fn="8666a425-f165-48d1-aa29-d65509742334" class="fn"><a href="#8666a425-f165-48d1-aa29-d65509742334" id="8666a425-f165-48d1-aa29-d65509742334-link">51</a></sup></p> <p>In paradoxical contrast, although some progressives saw it as an obstacle to ecumenism, Roncalli had no problem with Pius’ declaration of the Dogma of the Assumption in August of 1950.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">LEAVING PARIS</h3> <p>As with most chapters of Angelo Roncalli’s life, there are several conflicting versions of the motives behind his appointment as Patriarch of Venice. The most popular version claims that in late 1952, it became obvious that Cardinal Agostini, the Patriarch of Venice, was mortally ill and Pius XII asked Roncalli to accept that post, once it became vacant. Roncalli accepted and his elevation to the rank of Cardinal was subsequently announced.</p> <p>There is a different account, however, which casts Roncalli in a less favourable different light. In this version, as recounted by a sympathetic biographer, Pius XII lost patience with the overly-tolerant Nuncio who refused to voice any opposition to the worker-priests. The movement had gathered so much steam that it was espousing openly Marxist ideas, with some priests taking roles as trade union leaders.<sup data-fn="6574492c-99d5-49d6-9113-49c7253dfeb8" class="fn"><a href="#6574492c-99d5-49d6-9113-49c7253dfeb8" id="6574492c-99d5-49d6-9113-49c7253dfeb8-link">52</a></sup> Seen in this light, Roncalli’s appointment to Venice was a typical Roman <em>promoveatur ut removeatur</em> – “promote to remove”.</p> <p>When in January, 1953, Roncalli was appointed Cardinal, his strong ties with France continued to be evident. Roncalli controversially received his red hat from the hands of the French leader, the Socialist Vincent Auriol. Although this special privilege had been granted to Catholic heads of state in France, it was pushing the boundaries to extend this honour to the atheist Auriol.</p> <p><em>1 It was an ancient privilege of the Heads of State in Spain, Portugal and Austria to confer the biretta upon the new Cardinals. This custom had been interrupted in France in 1897 but was revived for Mgr Cerrctti (1925) and continued for Mgr Maglionc and Mgr Roncalli.</em><sup data-fn="7dfdc4fc-2991-4e92-9a12-bb0f108170cd" class="fn"><a href="#7dfdc4fc-2991-4e92-9a12-bb0f108170cd" id="7dfdc4fc-2991-4e92-9a12-bb0f108170cd-link">53</a></sup></p> <p>The two were so close that Auriol visited Roncalli in Venice after he had been appointed Patriarch there. Roncalli embraced Auriol in the presence of many faithful who were “on their knees around us”, as he later wrote.<sup data-fn="c465f870-94b0-47c3-a599-b66d0c0ae789" class="fn"><a href="#c465f870-94b0-47c3-a599-b66d0c0ae789" id="c465f870-94b0-47c3-a599-b66d0c0ae789-link">54</a></sup></p> <p>COVER PIC: Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons</p> <ol class="wp-block-footnotes"><li id="36c8ed11-5a91-4509-a455-eb74a270f1bd"><a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/synarchy-the-hidden-hand-behind-the-european-union">https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/synarchy-the-hidden-hand-behind-the-european-union</a> <a href="#36c8ed11-5a91-4509-a455-eb74a270f1bd-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="764e1e43-4765-4f6c-b9b3-04a3f8de9cac">[Shepherd, p. 200] <a href="#764e1e43-4765-4f6c-b9b3-04a3f8de9cac-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="2ce745cd-dd50-4112-b9b1-c79f6711ec74">[Frere Michel de la Sainte Trinite. “The Whole Truth about Fatima – Vol III.” iBooks. – p 283.] <a href="#2ce745cd-dd50-4112-b9b1-c79f6711ec74-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="a5f6cec0-320a-4e5f-a1f4-aa68ec8f1936">[Shepherd, p. 201] <a href="#a5f6cec0-320a-4e5f-a1f4-aa68ec8f1936-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="372b5026-3b69-4e65-a368-a83edea96c24"><em>(MTF p 90)</em> <a href="#372b5026-3b69-4e65-a368-a83edea96c24-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="71ff6cb0-f02c-4f54-9ab0-23a540290595">(MTF p 111-112) <a href="#71ff6cb0-f02c-4f54-9ab0-23a540290595-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="973879c3-7404-4b4d-9813-59d93daf9b10">(MTF p 112) <a href="#973879c3-7404-4b4d-9813-59d93daf9b10-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="fd9c3f87-80ac-48e1-9299-d9ab299cdb57">(MTF p 112) <a href="#fd9c3f87-80ac-48e1-9299-d9ab299cdb57-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="cf454a35-6148-4e7a-9045-ba9418c7cc1f"><a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/synarchy-the-hidden-hand-behind-the-european-union">https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/synarchy-the-hidden-hand-behind-the-european-union</a> <a href="#cf454a35-6148-4e7a-9045-ba9418c7cc1f-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="318ce942-453f-47b8-922e-7a14a4143482">[The Good Pope, p 83.] <a href="#318ce942-453f-47b8-922e-7a14a4143482-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="4c9a6a9e-10b5-40c9-b8ea-1d0c9ef32789">[MTF p 132] <a href="#4c9a6a9e-10b5-40c9-b8ea-1d0c9ef32789-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="8d82773f-e653-4a21-9c57-b110bb289ae0">citation needed <a href="#8d82773f-e653-4a21-9c57-b110bb289ae0-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="7924cf36-e3c3-4b0a-9844-90d871aad5c2">{MTF p 144} <a href="#7924cf36-e3c3-4b0a-9844-90d871aad5c2-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="e65c06fe-8243-4181-9d4c-532949541e13">[The Good Pope, p 87] <a href="#e65c06fe-8243-4181-9d4c-532949541e13-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="05496c8e-dbf5-49f7-b6c0-272540ef98f5">[The Good Pope, p 78] <a href="#05496c8e-dbf5-49f7-b6c0-272540ef98f5-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="52396318-d394-4b64-b87d-b7e9bb507e7a">(Page 8 Mission to France) <a href="#52396318-d394-4b64-b87d-b7e9bb507e7a-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="cada95a4-00cb-4b94-ac14-da851738943c">(<a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608c.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608c.htm</a>) <a href="#cada95a4-00cb-4b94-ac14-da851738943c-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="6d81cbe9-f9d8-45f9-be7c-ace8fbef0cbf">(Journal, p 275) <a href="#6d81cbe9-f9d8-45f9-be7c-ace8fbef0cbf-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="8e51ba71-5c73-4fca-8d47-000840b6ab81">(Mission To France p 168-169.) <a href="#8e51ba71-5c73-4fca-8d47-000840b6ab81-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="db20dddb-4406-472e-bc83-c1d49bcececb">(Mission To France P 170) <a href="#db20dddb-4406-472e-bc83-c1d49bcececb-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="16c2e872-620d-439e-8641-930457c63463"><em>(</em>Mission To France<em> p 174)</em> <a href="#16c2e872-620d-439e-8641-930457c63463-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="150f97cd-39ce-4686-b248-eb5586c3c4ff"><em>[Shepherd of the Modern World</em> p 204] <a href="#150f97cd-39ce-4686-b248-eb5586c3c4ff-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="c633ff81-d4ca-4b04-a1e0-f89536c5eec6"> [Undermining of the Catholic Church, p 125.] <a href="#c633ff81-d4ca-4b04-a1e0-f89536c5eec6-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="1c33d180-9610-4156-867c-0f5976a014ab">[Eglise-eclipsee p 119] <a href="#1c33d180-9610-4156-867c-0f5976a014ab-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="7b979260-769d-4a3c-9574-4918806ac97b">[https://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_195_J23.html] <a href="#7b979260-769d-4a3c-9574-4918806ac97b-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="4a2ee066-4134-4f24-aea2-0230badd8678"><em>[Nikita Roncalli]</em> <a href="#4a2ee066-4134-4f24-aea2-0230badd8678-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="56335cb7-3e68-4df3-9ba1-d37443eea46d">[Poncins p 13] <a href="#56335cb7-3e68-4df3-9ba1-d37443eea46d-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="044c1c65-bee9-4b1c-8188-9dbe57103a1d">[Aime-Azam, as quoted in Shepherd, p 232.] <a href="#044c1c65-bee9-4b1c-8188-9dbe57103a1d-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="f250a39a-b8d1-4d83-8920-e72315e26190">[Johnson, p 70] <a href="#f250a39a-b8d1-4d83-8920-e72315e26190-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="25ffea80-9c43-4253-ac57-0f6f2a7d43b1">[Virion, <em>The Mystery of Iniquity</em>.] <a href="#25ffea80-9c43-4253-ac57-0f6f2a7d43b1-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="a2d81d69-5ec1-48d8-a9ef-a98b1e2dc8f6">[<em>Shepherd of the Modern World, </em>p 215-21] <a href="#a2d81d69-5ec1-48d8-a9ef-a98b1e2dc8f6-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="ebbd2d6e-9ed3-4c98-810d-4289cfe47f0e">[Leaven p 103] <a href="#ebbd2d6e-9ed3-4c98-810d-4289cfe47f0e-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="1312ff92-9293-458c-a654-ce91f99c4aa3">[Leaven in the Council p 78.] <a href="#1312ff92-9293-458c-a654-ce91f99c4aa3-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="95d63488-077e-4521-a41e-5d231573a875">[Leaven in the Council p 102] <a href="#95d63488-077e-4521-a41e-5d231573a875-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="8d333875-cac6-462b-afd4-6a67f6c26956">[Johnson, p 70.] <a href="#8d333875-cac6-462b-afd4-6a67f6c26956-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="61bf3c9e-0ac6-4e91-8f77-5ce62209e677">Villa, “John XXIII,” p. 4. <a href="#61bf3c9e-0ac6-4e91-8f77-5ce62209e677-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="eabd8579-165f-4b1c-b0ba-ecd6244d0f47">[Shepherd p 213.] <a href="#eabd8579-165f-4b1c-b0ba-ecd6244d0f47-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="3bfe4a8a-3c74-4c8d-ab69-9e7c2099b344">[Paul Johnston, p 66] <a href="#3bfe4a8a-3c74-4c8d-ab69-9e7c2099b344-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="2ebc90c2-b43d-45ed-a18f-5c62311ac014">[Three Popes and the Cardinal p 14] <a href="#2ebc90c2-b43d-45ed-a18f-5c62311ac014-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="1655e47c-0cb0-48d9-b455-6d57c2e0101e">(MTF p 115-117) <a href="#1655e47c-0cb0-48d9-b455-6d57c2e0101e-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="74376456-014b-4bf6-85a6-10340e9658ba">[Eglise-eclipsee p 119] <a href="#74376456-014b-4bf6-85a6-10340e9658ba-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="46ac92bc-d5bd-4742-a2f8-372364b3c122"> [Shepherd p 218-9.] <a href="#46ac92bc-d5bd-4742-a2f8-372364b3c122-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="23227d48-8a8f-4b2b-b23b-e395efa628fe">[Iota Unum, p 697, emphasis added.] <a href="#23227d48-8a8f-4b2b-b23b-e395efa628fe-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="bdf5b521-b621-4f92-8a6c-dfb37c15bf32"><em>BROKEN CROSS</em> <a href="#bdf5b521-b621-4f92-8a6c-dfb37c15bf32-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="3ad3be72-7bde-44ef-94b3-43a8e4b02fea">[Virion.] <a href="#3ad3be72-7bde-44ef-94b3-43a8e4b02fea-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="d4faebec-8dba-46c5-8bd7-d1c29ea79155">[de Mattei, Roberto. “The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story.”] <a href="#d4faebec-8dba-46c5-8bd7-d1c29ea79155-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="c28a3780-882d-4f8b-b2a4-094b7058d882">(MTF p 124-125) <a href="#c28a3780-882d-4f8b-b2a4-094b7058d882-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="fa4a6ea2-7905-4ca6-b2f2-6297a98cc8bb">[Pius X, <em>Notre Charge Apostolique</em> (<em>Letter on the Sillon)</em>.] <a href="#fa4a6ea2-7905-4ca6-b2f2-6297a98cc8bb-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="8666a425-f165-48d1-aa29-d65509742334">[de Mattei, Roberto. “The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story.” iBooks. P 98] <a href="#8666a425-f165-48d1-aa29-d65509742334-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="6574492c-99d5-49d6-9113-49c7253dfeb8">[Mark Fellows in Fatima in Twilight p 120] <a href="#6574492c-99d5-49d6-9113-49c7253dfeb8-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="7dfdc4fc-2991-4e92-9a12-bb0f108170cd"><em>MTF p 178</em> <a href="#7dfdc4fc-2991-4e92-9a12-bb0f108170cd-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="c465f870-94b0-47c3-a599-b66d0c0ae789">[Aradi, p 149.] <a href="#c465f870-94b0-47c3-a599-b66d0c0ae789-link">↩︎</a></li></ol> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/angelo-roncalli/" rel="tag">Angelo Roncalli</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/book-excerpt/" rel="tag">Book Excerpt</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/france/" rel="tag">France</a>, <a 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src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="The Pope, the Abortionist and the Convert." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="8133" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/emma-bonino/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Emma Bonino" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/emma-bonino.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/" rel="bookmark">The Pope, the Abortionist and the Convert</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-11-11T10:49:42+11:00">November 11, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-11-11T10:50:33+11:00">November 11, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Emma Bonino is an Italian, a former politician and abortionist, who is on good terms with Pope Francis and who was apparently friendly with JPII as well..</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="8128" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-3/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,853" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=760" loading="lazy" width="760" height="506" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=760" alt="" class="wp-image-8128" style="width:412px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=760 760w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/roma_porta_pia_20_sep_2007_bonino_bernardini-edited-1.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" /></figure></div></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img data-attachment-id="8129" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg" data-orig-size="331,349" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="John_Paul_II,_Emma_Bonino,_Marco_Pannella_(Vatican_City,_1986)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg?w=285" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg?w=331" loading="lazy" width="331" height="349" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-8129" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg 331w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg?w=142&h=150 142w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/john_paul_ii_emma_bonino_marco_pannella_vatican_city_1986.jpg?w=285&h=300 285w" sizes="(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px" /></figure></div></div> </div> <p>A fascinating report comes from <a href="https://gloria.tv/post/1ReoiA4w1q1GC4HkVe8a7eTRj">Gloria TV</a> (or <a href="https://www.daniloquinto.it/la-sinagoga-di-satana-danilo-quinto-6-novembre-2024/">here</a> on his own blog, in Italian) where the author, Danilo Quinto, was once a personal friend of the notorious Ms. Emma Bonino. After experiencing a conversion, he now writes to expose the rot inside and outside the Church. God bless him.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>The <a href="https://gloria.tv/user/V4rcpzUthFwq3eWaNgdKpTCb2">author</a> is a former and repented high-placed activist of the immoral and inhuman Italian Partito Radicale which works for the de-Christianisation of Italy. On 5 November Bergoglio paid a visit to Emma Bonino, a former leader of that party. Bergoglio called Bonino a ‘great Italian’ (sic) and example of ‘liberty and resilience’ (sic).</em></p> <p>I too frequented that terrace in Trastevere, in the centre of Rome.</p> <p>Those were the years when strategies were being imagined and constructed to consolidate the results of the divorce and abortion laws, which destroyed the family institution.</p> <p>A ‘demographic bomb’ was denounced, which never existed, but served to decertify an entire country and prevent, with the spread of the pill and other contraceptive systems, its growth, which is only determined by the birth of new creatures into the world.</p> <p>The foundations for the campaign on euthanasia were laid, which over the years, despite the lack of a law, has become a widespread and customary practice, along with assisted suicide.</p> <p>We discussed how to permanently overthrow the temporal power of the Church; the theory of the third and fourth sex, same-sex marriage, assisted fertilisation, and surrogate motherhood were being spread.</p> <p>Consciences were manipulated to the acceptance and integration of people who sooner or later – after replacing us – will kill us all.</p> <p>Well, on that terrace of that house that has seen literally every colour of the rainbow, the Head of the Catholic Church, the indestructible Jorge Maria Bergoglio, came up the other day.</p> <p>He had a bouquet of white roses and a box of chocolates in his hand, to pay homage to the maximum exponent of that ideology – after the death of Pannella – that has contributed decisively to de-Christianising Italy and making churches useful for making large soup kitchens for the poor, for welcoming migrants or for making money by handing them over to private individuals, who manage them to make museums or other worldly stuff.</p> <p>‘Example of freedom and resilience,’ Bergoglio said of Emma Bonino. He hit the nail on the head.</p> <p>After all, from a man like him, who masterfully interprets the desires of this degenerate world, one could not expect the intention to convert Emma Bonino – he has declared several times that he does not want to convert anyone – but only a snapshot of reality.</p> <p>Certainly, Emma Bonino is an example of ‘freedom and resilience’. Yes, from God! As is the one who uttered these words.</p> <p>Both have done, and they will still do everything until their death – unless they convert, in their case publicly, given the gravity of their sins – to ensure that human beings are free from their Creator and will be resilient to His laws.</p> <p>As have been those many Italian Catholics who have divorced, had abortions, used contraceptive methods, letting an ideology win that has nothing human about it.</p> <p>As has been that modernist Church, a direct product of the secular work of Freemasonry and the Second Vatican Council, which has in Bergoglio its latest interpreter, after a succession of popes subsequent to Pius XII who paved the way for him and the Mafia of St. Gallen.</p> <p>At the conclusion of the encyclical Etsi Multa of 21 November 1873, Pius IX uses an expression that appears twice in the Bible – Synagogue of Satan – in ch. 2 verse 9 and ch. 3 verse 9 of the Apocalypse of St John the Evangelist.</p> <p>He writes: ‘It will perhaps surprise some of you, Venerable Brethren, that the war that is being waged against the Catholic Church today is expanding so much. But whoever knows the character, the aims and the purpose of the sects, whether they are called Masonic or by any other name, and compares them to the character, the manner, and the extent of this war, by which the Church is assailed on almost every side, will certainly not be able to doubt that this calamity is not to be attributed to the frauds and machinations of those sects. For from them is formed the synagogue of Satan, who orders his army against the Church of Christ, raises his banner and comes to battle’.</p> <p>Prophetic words. Exemplary of the situation we live in, where men of the Church prostrate themselves to the World and the builders of Evil.</p> <p>To counterbalance the attempts of those men of the Church and those builders of Evil – united by the design of the strong powers, who want to annihilate man, created in the image and likeness of God – the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, which is of divine origin, will not be brought down, despite the night of Gethsemane that it has been living through for too long, to the delight of its enemies.</p> <p>As the beautiful antiphon at the introit of the Feast of Christ the King of the Apostolic Mass says:</p> <p>‘The Lamb who was slain is worthy to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and praise; on Him be Lordship forever’.</p> </blockquote> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Here is Bonino again, dressed as a priest. This time in with US Secretary of State, John Kerry, when she was the Italian Foreign Minister in 2013.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8131" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/11/the-pope-and-the-abortionist/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg" data-orig-size="2433,1615" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1386075916","copyright":"","focal_length":"48","iso":"5000","shutter_speed":"0.002","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Secretary_Kerry_Meets_With_Italian_Foreign_Minister_Bonino_(11194494076)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="679" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-8131" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=2046 2046w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/secretary_kerry_meets_with_italian_foreign_minister_bonino_11194494076.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> </div> </div> <p class="has-small-font-size"></p> <p class="has-small-font-size">Blackcat, CC BY-SA 3.0 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</p> <p class="has-small-font-size">John Paul II, Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella (Vatican City, 1986).jpg</p> <p class="has-small-font-size">U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</p> </div> <footer 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tag-featured tag-freemasonry tag-globalism tag-illuminati tag-new-world-order tag-synarchy tag-technocracy"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Synarchy and the Illuminati" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/illuminati.png?w=1024 1024w, 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href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/" rel="bookmark">Synarchy and the Illuminati</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-10-27T20:01:10+11:00">October 27, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">SYNARCHY: THE RELIGION OF THE TECHNOCRATS – PART II. TO READ PART I, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/">CLICK HERE.</a></h4> <p>There is an old saying about the devil that runs along the lines that his greatest trick was to convince people that he does not exist. The same can be said for the occult religion known as the Illuminati. This highly secretive esoteric society has been around for hundreds of years, moving in the shadows of world events, and its philosophy is closely entwined with that of <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/">Synarchy</a>. </p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">Background of the Illuminati</h1> <p>Various Illuminist (meaning ‘enlightened’) groups have appeared over the centuries, but the point of commonality is their reliance on ‘higher beings’ to reveal ‘secret knowledge’. Although occasionally true Catholic visionaries are conflated with Illuminists, in this case, the source of the occult knowledge is actually the demonic realm.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p>The group most closely associated with the contemporary Illuminati is the Bavarian Illuminati, founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. Weishaupt, a former Jesuit, was a law professor at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. He infiltrated Masonic lodges with Illuminist disciples in an effort to control them, but his ultimate goal was to replace Christianity with the religion of reason.<sup data-fn="b93ca6f0-ed42-413e-be31-bdd004b1b411" class="fn"><a href="#b93ca6f0-ed42-413e-be31-bdd004b1b411" id="b93ca6f0-ed42-413e-be31-bdd004b1b411-link">1</a></sup> The precepts of the Illuminati were later repackaged for political use into the ideology of Communism, and to Illuminists financed the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="7979" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/johann_adam_weishaupt/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,2600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Johann_Adam_Weishaupt" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=231" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=760" loading="lazy" width="788" height="1024" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=788" alt="" class="wp-image-7979" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=788 788w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=1576 1576w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=115 115w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=231 231w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/johann_adam_weishaupt.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px" /></figure> </div> </div> <p></p> <p>A successor of Weishaupt was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini">Guiseppe Mazzini </a>who founded a group in Italy called the Carbonari. A renegade Freemason, Mazzini is thought to be the author of the famous Masonic document, the <em>Alta Vendita</em>. This is a plot to infiltrate the Catholic Church in order to elect a Pope sympathetic to the cause of Masonry and Illuminism. This goal came very close to being realised with the near-election of <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2021/05/24/cardinal-rampolla-the-archetypal-freemason-cleric/">Cardinal Rampolla</a> in 1903.</p> <p></p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">Goals of the Illuminati</h1> <p>While it’s common to think of Illuminists as being practitioners of blood-drinking and child-sacrifice, those practices are engaged in only by the minority. Rather, the Illuminist is a high-adept satanist whose goal is to have an “intense and personal psychic relationship with Satan.”<sup data-fn="e5a64c13-830e-48ee-a1a3-7093570ef40e" class="fn"><a href="#e5a64c13-830e-48ee-a1a3-7093570ef40e" id="e5a64c13-830e-48ee-a1a3-7093570ef40e-link">2</a></sup></p> <p>As a group, the goal of the Illuminati is the establishment of a global government. This is often referred to as a ‘New World Order’. As the most powerful Luciferian secret society in the world, the Illuminati are certainly in a position to make achieve their goal.</p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">The Nature of the Illuminists and Synarchs</h1> <p>On the outside, many Illuminists appear to be genteel and cultured persons, which makes it difficult for people to believe they are satanists. As experts in mind-control, they can ensure that the people around them are oblivious to any red-flags provoked by their behaviour.</p> <p>Since they use occult powers to become extremely wealthy and to control vast resources, Illuminists are aristocrats of both the natural world and the occult world. These members of the ‘elite’ ensure that the wealthy minority maintain an unfair economic advantage over the majority by oppressing or exploiting them. </p> <p>It is here that the link between the Illuminati and Synarchy becomes most obvious: the Synarchists’ desire to form a world government using technology and the occult coincides with the Illuminati’s almost identical goal for world dominance.</p> <p>High-level Illuminists may join another Order, such as the OTO (Ordo Templi Orentis) of which Cardinal Rampolla was a member. These higher levels are associated with the Palladium (or Palladin) Rite, founded by the Freemason Albert Pike. The former head of the World Bank, Alden W. Clausen, was said to have been a member of this Rite.<sup data-fn="34c1d9b8-ffa6-470e-a015-5b36a8d0614d" class="fn"><a href="#34c1d9b8-ffa6-470e-a015-5b36a8d0614d" id="34c1d9b8-ffa6-470e-a015-5b36a8d0614d-link">3</a></sup></p> <p>The Illuminati focus on bloodlines because they believe this gives them the power to communicate telepathically with demons.<sup data-fn="bdd00b47-015a-4c4b-b18b-b9d43248fdcc" class="fn"><a href="#bdd00b47-015a-4c4b-b18b-b9d43248fdcc" id="bdd00b47-015a-4c4b-b18b-b9d43248fdcc-link">4</a></sup> Illuminists deliberately commune with Satan and other demons and have an obsession for them. Although extreme activities such as cannibalism/blood-drinking/sexual perversion/violence are not part of their ritual ceremonies they may be practised informally or socially. They do however surround themselves with lower-level satanists, known as ‘enforcers’ who act as bodyguards. These enforcers are usually involved in criminal activity such as human trafficking and are more likely to engage in the extreme practices mentioned above.</p> <p>Eventually, Illuminists come to identify with the demons and reject their humanity entirely. At that point, the entire human race is seen as the enemy, hence the depopulation agenda which is promoted by Illuminists and shared by the Synarchists.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Part of the difficulty in identifying traits of specific secret societies lies in their interconnectedness. To become a high-adept Satanist like an Illuminist, one must first belong to another formal Luciferian group like Theosophy or Freemasonry. The ambitions satanist does not necessarily believe in the tenets of this group: he or she is merely using the group to gain standing and tried to gain a leadership position on the path to full possession.</p> <p>You may have seen a photograph online of Marina Abramovic and Lord Jacob de Rothschild standing in front of this painting.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="7931" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg" data-orig-size="1285,2000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Satan_summoning_his_Legions,_1796-1797_by_Sir_Thomas_Lawrence" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=193" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=658" loading="lazy" width="658" height="1024" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=658" alt="" class="wp-image-7931" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=658 658w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=96 96w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=193 193w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/satan_summoning_his_legions_1796-1797_by_sir_thomas_lawrence.jpg 1285w" sizes="(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Sir Thomas Lawrence, ‘Satan Summoning His Legions’<br> via Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">How Illuminists have Influenced History</h1> <p>The Illuminati is controlled by an organisation based in Europe, known as The Committee. Although The Committee rules many Luciferian secret societies on behalf of the Illuminati, not all such groups are under its control. The Committee functions very much like a secret government because of its influence in the US, Middle East and Europe.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">WARS</h3> <p>As powerful, wealthy individuals, Illuminati members have influenced everything from revolutions and wars to international trade agreements. They use their demonic powers to pit world leaders against each other, e.g. Rothschild family is known to have played a part in both the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars and used them their own financial gain.</p> <p>There is actually hard proof that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution. In 1785, an associate of Weishaupt’s named Lanz was struck by lightning. It ensued that the Bavarian police found he was carrying papers which identified his circle and this led to the uncovering of a plot to bring down the French monarchy in 1789. Unfortunately, the authorities did not believe such a conspiracy was possible and ignored the warning.<sup data-fn="db25735b-81bb-476a-b4f0-310e97f752d4" class="fn"><a href="#db25735b-81bb-476a-b4f0-310e97f752d4" id="db25735b-81bb-476a-b4f0-310e97f752d4-link">5</a></sup></p> <p>The Illuminists’ habit of using demons to cause chaos and war stems from their desire to destroy everything good that God has made. Rather than ritually sacrificing individual children, they prefer war because it is one, long blood sacrifice.</p> <p>It was also the Rothschild family who influenced the high-level Freemason, Albert Pike, to draw up his plan for the three <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/09/30/the-masons-chilling-plans-for-three-world-wars/">World Wars</a>.<sup data-fn="be672df6-2674-45fd-a26f-0ae6397319e0" class="fn"><a href="#be672df6-2674-45fd-a26f-0ae6397319e0" id="be672df6-2674-45fd-a26f-0ae6397319e0-link">6</a></sup> At the conclusion of each war, a new globalist entity was created to extend the power of the Illuminists and take the world closer to the New Order. After World War 1, the League of Nations was created; after World War 2, that became the United Nations. After World War 3, the New World Order itself will be established.</p> <p>[NOTE: The Trilateral Commission <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/Trilateral-Commission-calls-2023-Year-One-of-new-world-order">designated</a> 2023 as ‘Year One’ of the New World Order. My personal opinion is that in the future, Palestine’s invasion of Israel on October 7th, 2023, will be known as the beginning of the Third World War.]</p> <p>Illuminati members have also played an influential role in shaping society, for example, the Rockefeller family successfully infiltrated women’s movement of 1960’s in an effort to destroy the traditional family unit (LOC 3232)</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">THE UNITED NATIONS</h3> <p>The United Nations has played a key role in bringing us closer to a New World Order. According to Kerth Barker, the UN is run by high-level Luciferians, some of whom are cannibals (don’t forget, this is quite fashionable among the so-called ‘elite’)<sup data-fn="ec7d36e6-60d0-430e-8ab5-cb3d050ba8e8" class="fn"><a href="#ec7d36e6-60d0-430e-8ab5-cb3d050ba8e8" id="ec7d36e6-60d0-430e-8ab5-cb3d050ba8e8-link">7</a></sup>.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="7938" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/synarchy-and-the-illuminati/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg" data-orig-size="4048,3036" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Pixel XL","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1577961390","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"434","shutter_speed":"0.016667","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"40.750427777778","longitude":"-73.967605555556"}" data-image-title="UNHQ2020GeneralAssemblyBuildingFirstFloorMeditationRoom" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-7938" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unhq2020generalassemblybuildingfirstfloormeditationroom.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Daniel Penfield, via Wikimedia Commons (NOTE: this is the only royalty-free image of the Meditation Room I could find. This appears to be the entrance to the room.)</figcaption></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p>The UN headquarters was built on land donated by the Rockefeller family and the entire building is a Satanic Temple, complete with its bizarre ‘Meditation Room’, including a painting of a <a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/11/meditation_room_brochure.pdf">scythe</a> which is the occult symbol for Satanic human sacrifice. </p> </div> </div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">CIA MIND CONTROL</h3> <p>The corruption at the heart of the CIA is by now well established and a great deal of evidence exists in relation to its mind-control programmes. One of these is Operation Paperclip, under which the CIA imported Nazi war-criminals and employed them to develop mind-control programmes like MK Ultra.</p> <p>Once regarded as the domain of conspiracy theorists, MK is coming to be recognised as a real CIA programme which is still in use today. MK Ultra was originally an Illuminati experiment which sought make a scientific method out of traditional Satanism. It could be correctly called the “science of Satanic Ritual Abuse”. </p> <p>Mk Ultra is trauma-based mind-control in which the victim is traumatised to the point of disassociation. Victims become brainwashed into doing anything and most victims become abusers themselves. Some are recruited into secret societies, others become solo practitioners.</p> <p>CIA Illuminists found that trauma-based mind control is not effective when they require a victim’s skills to be accessed. Thus it is not useful when the skills of a scientist, computer programmer or social organiser are required – although it is suitable for low-level skills like acting and entertaining. As an alternative, these diabolical handlers have turned to surgical mutilation, which leaves the victim dependant and open to suggestion but still able to function in their area of expertise.</p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">A Cause for Hope?</h1> <p>These days, some Illuminati members have become disillusioned: the ‘Gentle Followers of Mary’ and the ‘Disciples of Deus’ are two such groups. The former group are heretical Christians who believe they have psychic powers, based in Hermeticism, which can be used to benefit mankind. They believe in an alternate version of history which includes the existence of aliens, and consider themselves to be ‘good’ Illuminists. </p> <p>The ‘Disciples of Deus’ are Technocrats who respect Western civilisation and want to save it from the Illuminati and who also respect Christianity for its contribution to culture. This group sees the dangers of Transhumanism and has come to reject it. Again, we see here the similarity between Synarchy and Illuminism: Synarchy specifically employs Technocrats to implement its aims.</p> <p>Another fairly bizarre turn of events is the Illuminati’s apparent concern about an epidemic of <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/23/this-french-mystic-predicted-the-adrenochrome-trade-2/">adrenochrome</a> addiction. Adrenalised blood is highly addictive, and Kerth Barker explains that the Illuminati has initiated addiction recovery programmes<sup data-fn="b1ef8e60-58b7-4f5a-94bc-c1d69091f080" class="fn"><a href="#b1ef8e60-58b7-4f5a-94bc-c1d69091f080" id="b1ef8e60-58b7-4f5a-94bc-c1d69091f080-link">8</a></sup>. This is because the high demand for fresh adrenochrome is drawing attention to the practice, especially in the realm of child trafficking.</p> <h1 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion</h1> <p>So at this point, we may ask, are Illuminists<strong> identical </strong>with Synarchists? That is something I have often wondered. Members of both groups commune directly with demons and use that diabolical intelligence to steer the world toward a global government. Both use infiltration as a strategy and both will work with any political system to achieve their end.</p> <p>Given the amount of overlap among the various secret societies and the convoluted pathways followed by adepts as they move through the networks of rituals and degrees, it isn’t possible to know for certain whether or not they are synonymous. Yet, their history, goals, and methods are so intertwined, that we can confidently say that to know one is to know both. </p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <p>NOTE: much of the information in the article comes from the book, <em>Cannibalism, Blood-Drinking and High-Adept Satanism </em>by Kerth Barker. Although not for the faint-hearted, it is of great interest to those studying secret societies and their diabolical nature.</p> <p>Footnotes:</p> <ol class="wp-block-footnotes"><li id="b93ca6f0-ed42-413e-be31-bdd004b1b411"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/illuminati-group-designation#ref1250318">Brittanica</a> website<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/illuminati-group-designation#ref1250318">.</a> <a href="#b93ca6f0-ed42-413e-be31-bdd004b1b411-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="e5a64c13-830e-48ee-a1a3-7093570ef40e"> (LOC 1650) <a href="#e5a64c13-830e-48ee-a1a3-7093570ef40e-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="34c1d9b8-ffa6-470e-a015-5b36a8d0614d"><a href="http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2006/VM-2006-10-09-C-00-Rampolla_article_de_SLB.pdf">Virgo Maria.org</a> <a href="#34c1d9b8-ffa6-470e-a015-5b36a8d0614d-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="bdd00b47-015a-4c4b-b18b-b9d43248fdcc">(LOC 3432) <a href="#bdd00b47-015a-4c4b-b18b-b9d43248fdcc-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="db25735b-81bb-476a-b4f0-310e97f752d4">L’Eglise Eclipsee <a href="#db25735b-81bb-476a-b4f0-310e97f752d4-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="be672df6-2674-45fd-a26f-0ae6397319e0">(LOC 3217) <a href="#be672df6-2674-45fd-a26f-0ae6397319e0-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="ec7d36e6-60d0-430e-8ab5-cb3d050ba8e8">(LOC 632) and 676 <a href="#ec7d36e6-60d0-430e-8ab5-cb3d050ba8e8-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="b1ef8e60-58b7-4f5a-94bc-c1d69091f080">(LOC 1260) <a href="#b1ef8e60-58b7-4f5a-94bc-c1d69091f080-link">↩︎</a></li></ol> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a 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data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/what-is-synarchy-2/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/what-is-synarchy.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="What is Synarchy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/what-is-synarchy.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/what-is-synarchy.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/" rel="bookmark">Synarchy: the Religion of the Technocrats</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-21T10:16:12+11:00">October 21, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-22T16:32:15+11:00">October 22, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/synarchy-the-religion-of-the-technocrats/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">PART I</h4> <p class="has-medium-font-size">When someone uses the term, ‘Synarchy’ he or she is generally referring to one of two things. It may be that they mean the general concept of a technology-based rule by a minority, which is also synonymous with <em>technocracy. </em>Or they may mean something more specific<em>: </em>a group of high-level occultists who seek to manipulate the world using Luciferian powers, and who infiltrate governments, institutions and religious organisations in order to create their own totalitarian, globalist World Order. It is this second meaning, a specific secret society with their specific goal of world governance, to which this article refers.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Although these days, there are very few who acknowledge that the shadowy figures behind the New World Order are Synarchists, there were, in the past, a number of writer and investigators who exposed Synarchy in all its brutal reality. One of these was the Catholic author, Pierre Virion, who wrote extensively on Synarchy and the New World Order during the 1970’s. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">In his book, <em>Mysterium Iniquitas</em>, Virion wrote that Synarchy is defined as:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">a set of occult powers of all orders and of all schools united to contribute to the formation of an invisible world government. Politically, it is the desired integration of all the social and especially financial powers, forming this government in a generalized, technicalized socialist regime, extending to the world divided into geo-political zones.”</p> </blockquote> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Virion continues,</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Catholicism would be like all religions reputed to be equal, absorbed in a universal syncretism.</p> </blockquote> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Looking at Virion’s definition, it becomes immediately obvious that the goals of Synarchy coincide precisely with the goals of Freemasonry: a universalist world religion in which the Catholic Church is no longer seen as the One, True Faith. This is the end goal of the false ecumenism which is so prevalent in the Church today, and indeed, the ecumenical movement grew out the false ideas of the Synarchists.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The religion of Synarchy itself sprang from the Lodges and, as we will eventually see, influenced the Masons to work <em>with </em>the Catholic Church, rather than trying to annihilate Her, as had previously been their plan.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Another early writer on Synarchy was Fr Gruber, who described it as: “a centralized world state with a centralized government planned as an anti-church.” (<em>Athanasius and the Church of our Time</em> p 31)</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Thus, is can be seen that Synarchy is a form of Freemasonic totalitarian government, the religion of the Technocrats. Rather than being a purely spiritual movement, Synarchy seeks to employ financiers, industrialists, technocrats as well as spiritual leaders to force compliance on the populace. This is the dark and sinister end-game of globalist entities such as the World Economic Forum, the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations and the United Nations for which the hysterical COVID ‘pandemic’ was a trial run.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">[Note: In Europe, the media sometimes uses the term “synarchy” to describe any kind of conspiracy or cartel.]</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Goal of Synarchy</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">It is important to realise that within the dark and shadowy world of the the secret societies, there are not always bright lines delineating particular philosophies and denominations. There is a great deal of overlap, with shifting loyalties, degrees of understanding by adherents, a constant splintering and restructuring within groups with everything veiled in the utmost secrecy.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Individual initiates join the various groups for a variety of reasons – none of which may be related to world domination or even to the occult. This is particularly true of the lower levels of Freemasonry, when members may be interested purely in fostering business relationships. Even though they necessarily become involved in occult rituals, these men and women may not even realise the fact. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">There are certain groups, however, whose membership is limited to those specifically pursuing esoteric knowledge. These include the Rosicrucians, the Martinists, members of the Order of the Golden Dawn and the OTO, Theosophists and so on and they are under no illusions about the true source of any power they may acquire. The Synarchists are part of this latter group, and its leaders are part of the highest level of occultists: those in direct communication with satan.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The common thread in all these brotherhoods is the source of the anti-Christic inspiration behind them. Although each adherent may perform a different series of rituals and be influenced by a completely different set of philosophies and personalities, the end goal of the demonic intelligence behind all of them is the same: the total enslavement of the human race to satan using technology and every other lever of power in society.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">This is the diabolical inversion of the reign of Christ the King: the reign of satan as lord of the world. Every secret society is in some way contributing to that goal, whether or not the individuals within those groups understand it.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The History of Synarchy</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Given the secretive nature of Synarchy, there will always remain some aspects and personalities that are unknown to us – especially those at the ‘top’ for whom their involvement would compromise their ability to work behind the scenes.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">There are many men from the past, however, whose involvement is documented; they are the founders of Synarchy and their disciples. These include the defrocked <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/abbe-roca-1830-1893/">Abbé Roca</a>, Joseph <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/">Alexandre Saint-Yves Alveydre</a>, and <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/">Raoul Husson</a>. (Each of these has a separate page which can be accessed by clicking on their name.)</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre was an occultist who was active at the turn of the 19th Century. He is credited as being the founder of Synarchy because he was the first to record its doctrines. According to Saint-Yves, the principle tenet of Synarchy was to pursue a world government with a world religion which was a mixture of the major spiritualities, including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam. This world religion would be based on superstition and esotericism, rather than on any true supernatural belief.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Out of Saint-Alveydre’s teachings came the Martinist Order, founded by another occultist named Gerard Encausse, also known as Papus. One of the chief aims of this order was to form a “United States of Europe.” Saint-Yves had this idea as did his friend, Victor Hugo. Some say the Martinists also wanted to unite all occultists into a reformed Rosicrucianism, making Russia a link between East and West. Martinists initiated only master Masons into their brotherhood.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Synarchy then became linked with the rise of Fascism, especially in Italy and with the Pan-European movement.  An <em>International Synarchist Movement</em> was founded in 1919 to counter the rise of Communism after the Russian Revolution. There also seems to have been some influence by Synarchists on the ideology of Nazism.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The death of Encausse in 1916 led to a rupture among the Martinists due to the aversion of some to be involved in politics. The political Martinists went on to form the <em>Martinist and Synarchic Order</em> in 1921, headed by Victor Blanchard, who was another friend of Saint-Yves.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Blanchard was the secretary to the French government’s Council of Ministers and was also a member of the <em>Polaire Brotherhood</em>, a mysterious group which apparently received its orders via the Ouija Board.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Blanchard went on to form the <em>Synarchic Central Committee</em> in 1922, followed by the <em>Synarchic Revolutionary Convention, </em>in order to enlist fresh young blood from the business and bureaucratic worlds<em>.</em></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">United Europe – the Synarchist Pact</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">From the 1930’s, the explicit idea of a United Europe became a theme among the Synarchists. A document known as the <em>Synarchist Pact </em>was written (possibly) by the occultist, Vivien Postel du Mas, in 1930 and this became a platform for the various Synarchist groups. The <em>Pact</em> was kept so secret that its existence remained unknown until 1941.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The Pact described the Synarchists’ plan to infiltrate governments and first take over France then form a “European Union.” Postel du Mas held soirees in his apartment where information from the “secret master” was delivered through a medium. It is said that the meetings were attended by “men of science, company directors and bankers.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The<em> Synarchist Empire Movement</em> was formed in 1932 by Postel du Mas and another occultist, Jeanne Canudo. Their own secret society had the stated aim of influencing politics and the economy using spiritism. This group was responsible for much of France’s right-wing terrorism initiated by groups such as CSAR, the Secret Committee for Revolutionary Action, during the 1930’s</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The movement to unite Europe continued unabated and from 1932 was spearheaded by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi of Austria under the banner of the Pan-European movement. Coudenhove-Kalergi became extremely influential: Otto von Hapsburg referred to him as “guide and prophet” of a United Europe while even Winston Churchill was influenced by him and in 1953, wrote the foreword to the Count’s book. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Churchill also began to promote the idea of a united Europe. One of Coudenhove-Kalergi’s ideas, that of dividing the world into “five Imperial federations” was found in the Synarchic Pact document. </p> <p class="has-small-font-size">IMAGE CREDIT: Luca Signorelli: S<em>ermon and Deeds of the Antichrist</em> – Wikimedia</p> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/globalism/" rel="tag">Globalism</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">History</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/new-world-order/" rel="tag">New World Order</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/occult/" rel="tag">Occult</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/satanism/" rel="tag">Satanism</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/synarchy/" rel="tag">Synarchy</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/technocracy/" rel="tag">Technocracy</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7827" class="post-7827 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-synarchy tag-atlantis tag-freemasonry tag-occult tag-rosicrucianism tag-saint-yves-alveydre tag-synarchy"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Saint-Yves d"Alveydre" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7828" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/saint-alveydre/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Saint Alveydre" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/saint-alveydre.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/" rel="bookmark">Saint-Yves Alveydre</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-10-21T10:13:58+11:00">October 21, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/saint-yves-alveydre/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Around the turn of the nineteenth century, there was a resurgence of interest in Rosicrucianism, Kabbalism and Spiritualism among Freemasons. You may <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/13/the-st-michael-prayer-was-an-antidote-to-freemasonry/">recall</a> that demons have revealed to exorcists that that this time period was marked by a great increase in demonic activity. Various groups, including the Kabbalist Order of the Rose-Cross, the Martinists and the Symbolists, splintered off from Masonry. These groups were particularly active in France.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">One member who had connections with several of these groups was Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves Alveydre (1842-1909). Saint-Yves was a member of the occult, moving in circles with Victor Hugo and Lord Bulwer-Lytton.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">who is credited with being the founder of Synarchy because he was the first to write down its doctrines. Saint-Yves believed that he was in contact with a superior race of beings who communicated with him telepathically. He claimed that the principles of Synarchy were given to him by these beings as a way of countering the spread of anarchy which was prevalent at that time.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Whereas anarchy holds that there should be no governing authority, Synarchy imposes control over every facet of life. More specifically, Saint Yves believed that the superior beings who gave him this secret knowledge would help a ruling elite to govern society.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Yves believed that the world had once been ruled by such an elite and that their civilization was destroyed by natural disaster. His hypothesis is reflected in the legend of Atlantis and he believed that the Atlantians constructed the Sphinx.. Throughout history, the cosmic powers continued to send prophets such as Jesus, Moses, and of course, Saint-Yves, using secret societies to pass on the philosophy of synarchy. One example of this is the Knights Templar, whom he regarded as the perfect model of Synarchists because of their level of control over the three levers of power: socio-political, religious and economic.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Yves believed these three areas should be controlled by an elite who took their orders from the “wise ones”. This would be done without the general population realising that they were being governed by elite puppets. Once the elites gained control of the three levers of power, it would not matter whether a government was on the “left” or on the “right” – the outcome would be the same.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Yves also called for a united state of Europe – something that will become important later in our inquiry. Apart from his interest in geo-politics, His Synarchy adopted elements from popular occult movements of his time, melding them with his principle of taking orders directly from the “enlightened beings.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Yves wrote many books in which he described plans for a Universal Synarchist Church, which is nothing other than <em>Masonic syncretism</em>. A blend of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, the church of the Synarchists would be cultural as well as spiritual.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Alveydre’s Universal Synarchic Church did not attempt to eliminate the Catholic Church, but to subsume Her into its ranks. For this two occur, Catholicism would firstly need to agree that all religions are equal and then to come to terms with Freemasonry. One can see how closely the post-Conciliar Popes have followed this programme through their promotion of ecumenism.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">And while they may have officially upheld the Church’s teaching on Freemasonry, in their words and actions, they have been quite tolerant of Masonry within the hierarchy. Saint-Alveydre promoted the idea that Masonry was based in Christianity, writing that:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“If Masonry admits men without distinction of race, worship, creed, to fraternal assistance from the Prince of Wales to the pariahs of India, then it is more Christian, more Orthodox in the eyes of Jesus than you who anathematize it.” (<em>Mission des Souverains</em>, p 446, as quoted in <em>Mystère d’iniquité</em>)</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Saint-Alveydre’s comment is reminiscent of Stefano Bisi, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. At a recent <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/02/16/historic-debate-on-church-masonry-relationship-in-milan/">event</a> to promote <em>rapprochement </em>between Masonry and Catholicism, he said:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“The starry sky is the same for the Buddhist, for the Catholic, for the Waldensian, for the Muslim, for all those who believe in a supreme being,” he continued, adding: “We set our brothers free to adhere to any religion and to practice. Absolute truths and walls of the mind do not belong to us, and for us they must be torn down.” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">His 1877 book, <em>Keys to the East,</em> introduced Synarchy to a popular audience. In1886,   Saint-Yves created the Syndicate of the Professional and Economic Press which introduced business and political leaders to synarchy. Enthusiasts included French minister François Césaire Demahy and Paul Deschanel who later became President of France.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">There seems little doubt that Saint-Yves was in direct communication with demons and that the principles of Synarchy were directly inspired by hell. Certainly the consequences of a totalitarian state ruled by an unworthy elite seem consistent with their origin. Anything that lacked evidence, such as his ideas about race or the origins of the world were for Saint-Yves a product of the secret knowledge from the “wise ones.”</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/atlantis/" rel="tag">Atlantis</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/occult/" rel="tag">Occult</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/rosicrucianism/" rel="tag">Rosicrucianism</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/saint-yves-alveydre/" rel="tag">Saint-Yves Alveydre</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/synarchy/" rel="tag">Synarchy</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7831" class="post-7831 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-synarchy tag-bourbaki-group tag-europe-united-europe-raoul-husson tag-synarchic-pact tag-synarchy"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Raoul Husson" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7869" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/raoul-husson/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Raoul Husson" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raoul-husson.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/" rel="bookmark">Raoul Husson</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-10-21T10:07:20+11:00">October 21, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/raoul-husson/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Roaul Husson was a Synarchist and member of a secret society for mathematicians known as the Nicolas Bourbaki group. It is possible that this group was also a member of Synarchy, as one of the founders, Henri Cartan, was the president of the European Federalist Movement (1974-1985) and promoted the idea of the United States of Europe.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">In 1946,  Raoul Husson released <em>Synarchy, Panorama of 25 years of Occult Activity </em>under the pseudonym Geoffroy de Charnay. In the appendix to this work, he reproduced the entire “Revolutionary Synarchic Pact for the French Empire ”. In his book, he concluded that technocrats had deliberately orchestrated the collapse of France during WWII and suggested that the Synarchists were planning to repeat their performance. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Husson spelled out the hidden plan contained within the Pact: that the unification of Europe was only the first step to a unified world.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He explained that parliamentarianism was a political enemy, and that the future citizen of Synarchy would become identified solely with his profession: he should have no part in running his country through involvement in politics.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">In his book, Husson spelled out the priority for France to be infiltrated if a united Europe was to be established. It was necessary for Synarchs to be firmly positioned there because despite its anti-clerical drift, France’s egalitarian spirit meant that independent leaders could spontaneously come forth from the grassroots and threaten the Synarch’s long-term goal. He claimed this had already been achieved by 1939.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Details of the Pact include: permeable national borders, pacifism, world peace after the establishment of five political supercontinents.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Unable to agree to dissociate ourselves from any being, we want the current world revolution to bring the peoples into an irresistible movement, <em>–</em> beyond orthodox materialist Marxism like false capitalist liberalism, <em>–</em> towards a high spiritual civilization marked by seal of universal humanism.”</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/bourbaki-group/" rel="tag">Bourbaki Group</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/europe-united-europe-raoul-husson/" 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