WEBVTT 00:01.740 --> 00:11.640 Hello, and welcome to video number 61, number one in a series of six, where I'll be reading 00:11.640 --> 00:24.680 Rulers of Evil, written by F. Tupper Saucy and published in 1999. I won't be reading 00:24.680 --> 00:29.900 the first three preliminary sections of the book. I'll just skip straight to the first 00:29.900 --> 00:38.260 chapter, and I'll try to keep my commentary to a minimum, and just work my way through 00:38.600 --> 00:49.960 the 25 chapters. Okay, starting with chapter number one. Subliminal Rome. And he starts 00:49.960 --> 00:58.740 off with a quote by Bishop Mandel Creighton from his letters. And he says, the Roman Catholic 00:58.740 --> 01:08.020 Church is a state. That is a very, very significant statement. The Roman Catholic Church is a 01:08.020 --> 01:17.260 state. Nothing to do with a church. It's a state. And this is the thought that is the 01:17.260 --> 01:30.340 overarching idea in this book by Saucy. Okay, starting the reading. When a Pulitzer Prize-winning 01:30.340 --> 01:37.140 reporter announced in his 1992 Time Magazine cover story that a conspiracy binding President 01:37.140 --> 01:43.320 Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II into a secret holy alliance had brought about the 01:43.320 --> 01:50.420 demise of communism, at least one reader saw through the hype. Professor Carol A. Brown 01:50.420 --> 01:57.340 of the University of Massachusetts fired off a letter to Times editors saying, and I quote, 01:57.580 --> 02:02.980 last week I taught my students about the separation of church and state. This week I learned that 02:02.980 --> 02:08.620 the Pope is running U.S. foreign policy. No wonder our young people are cynical about 02:08.620 --> 02:16.540 American ideals. Unquote. What Brown had learned from Carl Bernstein, I had discovered for 02:16.540 --> 02:23.880 myself over several years of private investigation. The papacy really does run United States foreign 02:23.880 --> 02:32.880 policy, and always has. Yes, Bernstein noted that the leading American players behind the 02:32.880 --> 02:41.360 Reagan-Vatican conspiracy to a man were devout Roman Catholics. And he lists here William Casey, 02:41.500 --> 02:49.140 Director of the CIA, Richard Allen, National Security Advisor, Alexander Haig, Secretary of 02:49.140 --> 02:56.760 State, Vernon Walters, Ambassador at Large, William Wilson, Ambassador to the Vatican State, Judge 02:56.760 --> 03:04.200 William Clark, National Security Advisor. But the reporter neglected to mention that the entire 03:04.200 --> 03:10.580 Senate Foreign Relations Committee was governed by Roman Catholics as well. Specifically Senators 03:10.580 --> 03:21.060 Joseph Biden, who was on the subcommittee on European affairs, Paul Sarbanes, International 03:21.060 --> 03:30.820 Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment, Daniel P. Moynihan, Near Eastern and South Asian 03:30.820 --> 03:38.040 Affairs, John Kerry, Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications, and Christopher 03:38.040 --> 03:46.560 Dodd, Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs. Bernstein would have been wandering off point to 03:46.560 --> 03:52.360 list the Roman Catholic leaders of American domestic policy, such as Senate Majority Leader 03:52.360 --> 03:59.300 George Mitchell and Speaker of the House Tom Foley. In fact, when the Holy Alliance story hit 03:59.300 --> 04:06.620 the stands, there was virtually no arena of federal legislative activity according to the 1992 World 04:06.620 --> 04:13.000 Almanac of U.S. Politics that was not directly controlled by a Roman Catholic senator or 04:13.000 --> 04:18.380 representative. The committees and subcommittees of the United States Senate and House of 04:18.380 --> 04:27.240 Representatives governing Commerce, Communications, and Telecommunications, Energy, Medicine, Health, 04:27.780 --> 04:35.080 Education and Welfare, Human Services, Consumer Protection, Finance and Financial Institutions, 04:35.800 --> 04:42.760 Transportation, Labor and Employment, Hazardous Materials, Taxation, Bank Regulation, 04:43.000 --> 04:50.900 Currency and Monetary Policy, Oversight of the Federal Reserve System, Commodity Prices, Rent 04:50.900 --> 04:59.920 Services, Small Business Administration, Urban Affairs, European Affairs, Near Eastern, 6K, South 04:59.920 --> 05:08.420 Asian Affairs, Terrorism, Narcotics, International Communications, International Economic and Trade, 05:08.900 --> 05:18.280 Oceans, Environmental Policy, Insurance, Housing, Community Development, Federal Loan Guarantees, 05:18.740 --> 05:24.500 Economic Stabilization Measures, including Wage and Price Controls, Gold and Precious Metals 05:24.500 --> 05:32.800 Transactions, Agriculture, Animal and Forestry Industries, Rural Issues, Nutrition, Price 05:32.800 --> 05:41.920 Supports, Food for Peace, Agricultural Exports, Soil Conservation, Irrigation, Stream Channelization, 05:42.680 --> 05:50.600 Flood Control, Minority Enterprise, Environment and Pollution, Appropriations Defense, Foreign 05:50.600 --> 05:58.780 Operations, Vaccines, Drug Labeling and Packaging, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Inspection and 05:58.780 --> 06:04.620 Certification of Fish and Processed Food, Use of Vitamins and Saccharin, National Health 06:04.620 --> 06:12.160 Insurance Proposals, Human Services, Legal Services, Family Relations, the Arts and Humanities, 06:12.660 --> 06:19.080 the Handicapped and Aging. In other words, virtually every aspect of secular life in 06:19.080 --> 06:27.420 America came under the chairmanship of one of these Roman Catholic laypersons. And he 06:27.420 --> 06:38.800 lists here Frank Anunzio, Joseph Biden, Silvio Conte, Kika De La Garza, John Dingle, Christopher 06:38.800 --> 06:48.080 Dodd, Vic Fazio, James Florio, Henry Gonzalez, Thomas Harkin, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, 06:48.760 --> 06:57.160 John LaFalce, Patrick Leahy, Charles Lucan, Edward Madigan, Edward Markey, Joseph 06:57.160 --> 07:07.220 McDade, Barbara Mikulski, George Miller, Daniel Moynihan, John Murtha, Mary Rose O'Carr, David 07:07.220 --> 07:21.400 Obie, Claiborne, Charles Rangel, Dan Rostenkowski, or Edward Roybill. Wow, what a list. And that's 07:21.400 --> 07:29.640 probably just the tip of the iceberg. But he cites all these people as being part of the committees 07:29.640 --> 07:37.380 in the US government, oversighting all these areas of human affairs for American citizens. 07:39.340 --> 07:48.620 Vatican Council IP's Constitution on the Church 1964 instructs politicians to use their secular 07:48.620 --> 07:56.260 offices to advance the cause of Roman Catholicism. Catholic laypersons, whoever they are, are 07:56.260 --> 08:01.900 called upon to expend all their energy for the growth of the Church and its continuous 08:01.900 --> 08:07.720 sanctification, and to make the Church present and operative in those places and circumstances 08:08.140 --> 08:13.300 where only through them can it become the salt of the earth. 08:15.520 --> 08:21.140 Vatican II further instructs all Catholics by their competence in secular disciplines 08:21.640 --> 08:28.700 and by their activity to vigorously contribute their effort so that the goods of this world 08:29.100 --> 08:34.660 may be more equitably distributed among all men, and may in their own way be conducive 08:34.660 --> 08:41.380 to universal progress in human and Christian freedom, and to remedy the customs and conditions 08:41.380 --> 08:47.160 of the world, if they are an inducement to sin, so that they all may be conformed to 08:47.160 --> 08:53.840 the norms of justice, and may favor the practice of virtue, rather than hinder it." Now this 08:53.840 --> 09:02.120 is all part of Vatican II. This is in the documents. So we can see here that the Vatican 09:02.120 --> 09:11.360 aims at total control of the USA and every country worldwide. 09:15.820 --> 09:25.640 Vatican II affirms Catholic doctrine dating back to 1302, when Pope Boniface VIII asserted 09:25.640 --> 09:30.860 that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to 09:30.860 --> 09:36.740 the Roman pontiff. This was the inspiration for the papacy to create the United States 09:36.740 --> 09:43.900 of America that materialized in 1776, by a process just as secret as the Reagan Vatican 09:43.900 --> 09:52.340 production of Eastern Europe in 1989. What? American government? Roman Catholic? From 09:52.340 --> 09:58.960 the beginning? Consider, the land known today as the District of Columbia bore the name 09:58.960 --> 10:06.480 Rome in 1663 property records, and the branch of the Potomac River that bordered Rome on 10:06.480 --> 10:12.600 the south was called Tiber. This information was reported in the 1902 edition of the Catholic 10:12.600 --> 10:18.480 Encyclopedia's article on Daniel Carroll. The article specifically declaring itself 10:18.480 --> 10:24.820 of interest to Catholics in the 1902 edition was deleted from the New Catholic Encyclopedia 10:24.820 --> 10:33.600 of 1967. That's interesting. Other facts were reported in 1902 and deleted from 1967 again. 10:34.440 --> 10:42.120 Why? For example, when Congress met in Washington for the first time in November 1800, the only 10:42.120 --> 10:48.020 two really comfortable and imposing houses within the bounds of the city belonged to 10:48.020 --> 10:53.940 Roman Catholics. One was Washington's first mayor, Robert Brent. The other was Brent's 10:53.940 --> 11:00.620 brother-in-law, Notley Young, a Jesuit priest. Daniel Carroll was a Roman Catholic congressman 11:00.620 --> 11:06.300 from Maryland who signed two of America's fundamental documents, the Articles of Confederation 11:06.820 --> 11:12.440 and the United States Constitution. Carroll was a direct descendant of the Calverts, a 11:12.440 --> 11:18.540 Catholic family to whom King Charles I of England had granted Maryland as a feudal barony. 11:20.220 --> 11:26.560 Carroll had received his education at St. Omer's Jesuit College in Flanders, where young 11:26.560 --> 11:31.440 English-speaking Catholics were trained in a variety of guerrilla techniques for advancing 11:31.440 --> 11:40.560 the cause of Roman Catholicism among hostile Protestants. In 1790, President George Washington, 11:40.740 --> 11:46.200 a Protestant, appointed Congressman Carroll to head a commission of three men to select 11:46.200 --> 11:51.820 land for the federal city called for in the Constitution. Of all places, the commission 11:51.820 --> 11:57.960 chose Rome, which at the time consisted of four arms, one of which belonged to Daniel 11:57.960 --> 12:10.800 Carroll. It was upon Carroll's farm that the new government chose to erect its most important 12:10.800 --> 12:21.230 building, the Capitol. The American Capitol abounds with clues of its Roman origins. Freedom, 12:21.690 --> 12:27.490 the Roman goddess whose statue crowns the dome, was created in Rome at the studio of American 12:27.490 --> 12:33.430 sculptor Thomas Crawford. We find a whole pantheon of Roman deities in the great fresco 12:33.430 --> 12:42.950 covering the dome's interior rotunda. Persephone, Ceres, Freedom, Vulcan, Mercury, even a deified 12:42.950 --> 12:50.210 George Washington. These figures were the creation of Vatican artist Constantino Brumidi. 12:51.570 --> 12:58.150 The fact that the National State House evolved as a Capitol bespeaks Roman influence. No 12:58.150 --> 13:04.410 building can rightly be called a Capitol unless it is a Temple of Jupiter, the great father 13:04.410 --> 13:09.450 god of Rome who ruled heaven with his thunderbolts and nourished the earth with his fertilizing 13:09.450 --> 13:17.550 rains. If it was a Capitolium, it belonged to Jupiter and his priests. Jupiter's mascot 13:17.550 --> 13:23.470 was the eagle, which the founding fathers made their mascot as well. A Roman eagle tops 13:23.470 --> 13:29.650 the governing idol of the House of Representatives, a 46-inch sterling silver and ebony wand called 13:29.650 --> 13:35.830 a mace. The mace is the symbol of authority in the House. When the sergeant at arms displays 13:35.830 --> 13:42.110 it before an unruly member of Congress, the mace restores order. Its position at the rostrum 13:42.110 --> 13:50.030 tells whether the House is in committee or in session. America's national motto, Enoi 13:50.030 --> 13:58.390 Coeptis, came from a prayer to Jupiter. It appears in Book 9 of Virgil's epic propaganda, 13:58.530 --> 14:04.950 the Aeneid, a poem commissioned just before the birth of Christ by Caius Macinus, the 14:04.950 --> 14:11.050 multi-billionaire power behind Augustus Caesar. The poem's objective was to fashion Rome into 14:11.050 --> 14:18.870 an imperial monarchy for which its citizens would gladly sacrifice their lives. And this 14:18.870 --> 14:29.310 is exactly what Americans do. They sacrifice their lives for the state. The imperial monarchy, 14:29.770 --> 14:36.450 whatever you want to call it. Fascism may be an ugly word to many, but its stately emblem 14:36.450 --> 14:42.890 is apparently offensive to no one. The emblem of fascism, a pair of them, commands the wall 14:42.890 --> 14:46.690 above and behind the speaker's rostrum in the chamber of the House of Representatives. 14:47.310 --> 14:51.670 They're called fasci, and I can think of no reason for them to be there other than to 14:51.670 --> 15:00.330 declare the fascistic nature of American republican democracy. A fasci is a Roman device. Actually 15:00.330 --> 15:04.750 it originated with the ancient Etruscans, from whom the earliest Romans derived their 15:04.750 --> 15:11.470 religious jurisprudence nearly 3,000 years ago. It's an axe head whose handle is a bundle 15:11.470 --> 15:16.850 of rods tightly strapped together by a red sinew. It symbolizes the ordering of priestly 15:16.850 --> 15:24.550 functions into a single infallible sovereign, an autocrat who could require life and limb 15:24.550 --> 15:31.430 of his subjects. If the fasci is intertwined with laurel, like the pair on the house wall, 15:31.610 --> 15:39.070 it signifies Caesarian military power. The Romans called this infallible sovereign Pontifex 15:39.070 --> 15:45.970 Maximus, supreme bridge builder. No Roman was called Pontifex Maximus until the title 15:45.970 --> 15:54.570 was given to Julius Caesar in 48 BC. Today's Pontifex Maximus is Pope John Paul II. 15:55.290 --> 16:00.830 As we shall discover in a forthcoming chapter, John Paul does not hold that title alone. 16:01.470 --> 16:07.190 He shares it with a mysterious partner, a military man, a man holding an office that has been 16:07.190 --> 16:13.670 known for more than four centuries as Papa Nero, the Black Pope. I shall present evidence 16:13.670 --> 16:21.970 that the House Fasci represent the Black Pope, who indeed rules the world. Later I will develop 16:21.970 --> 16:29.230 what is sure to become a controversial hypothesis, that the Black Pope rules by divine appointment 16:29.750 --> 16:32.910 and for the ultimate good of mankind. 16:35.790 --> 16:40.270 Chapter 2 Missionary Adaptation 16:41.570 --> 16:45.990 Few people seem to be aware that the Roman Catholic Church in America is officially recognized 16:45.990 --> 16:52.570 as a state. How this came about makes interesting reading. Early in his administration, President 16:52.570 --> 16:58.750 Ronald Reagan invited the Vatican City, whose ruling head is the Pope, to open its first 16:58.750 --> 17:06.710 embassy in Washington DC. His holiness responded positively and the embassy, or apostolic nunciature 17:06.710 --> 17:14.350 of the Holy See, opened officially on January 10, 1984. Shortly thereafter, a complaint 17:14.350 --> 17:19.450 was filed against President Reagan at U.S. District Court in Philadelphia by the American 17:19.450 --> 17:25.470 Jewish Congress, the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Seventh-day Adventists, 17:25.890 --> 17:32.090 the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals, and Americans 17:32.090 --> 17:36.850 United for Separation of Church and State. The plaintiffs sought to have the court declare 17:36.850 --> 17:42.490 that the administration had unconstitutionally granted to the Roman Catholic faith privileges 17:42.490 --> 17:50.650 that were being denied to other establishments of religion. On May 7, 1985, the suit was 17:50.650 --> 17:56.990 thrown out by Chief Judge John Fulham. Judge Fulham ruled that district courts do not have 17:56.990 --> 18:03.110 jurisdiction to intervene in foreign policy decisions of the executive branch. Bishop 18:03.110 --> 18:08.650 James W. Malone, President of the U.S. Catholic Conference, praised Judge Fulham's decision, 18:08.910 --> 18:15.410 noting that it settled not a religious issue, but a public policy question. The plaintiffs 18:15.410 --> 18:20.330 appealed. The Third Circuit denied the appeal, noticing that the Roman Catholic Church's unique 18:20.330 --> 18:26.670 position of control over a sovereign territory gives it advantages that other religious organizations 18:26.670 --> 18:36.850 do not enjoy. The Apostolic Nunciature at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue NW enables Pontifex 18:36.850 --> 18:45.230 Maximus to supervise more closely American civil government, public policy as administered 18:45.230 --> 18:53.090 through Roman Catholic laypersons. One such layperson was Chief Judge Fulham, whose Roman 18:53.090 --> 19:01.230 Catholicism apparently escaped the attention of the plaintiffs. This same imperium ran 19:01.760 --> 19:06.870 pagan Rome in essentially the same way. The public servants were priests of the various 19:06.870 --> 19:12.890 gods and goddesses. Monetary affairs, for example, were governed by priests of the goddess 19:12.890 --> 19:20.990 Monita. Priests of Dionysus managed architecture and cemeteries, while priests of Justitia, 19:21.510 --> 19:28.190 with her sword and libera blindfolded holding her scales aloft, ruled the courts. Hundreds 19:28.190 --> 19:34.010 of priestly orders, known as the Sacred College, managed hundreds of government bureaus from 19:34.010 --> 19:39.810 the justice system to the construction, cleaning, and repair of bridges. No bridge could be 19:39.810 --> 19:48.750 built without the approval of Pontifex Maximus. Buildings, temples, castles, baths, sewers, 19:49.210 --> 19:55.830 ports, highways, walls and ramparts of cities, and the boundaries of lands. Priests directed 19:55.830 --> 20:00.630 the paving and repairing of streets and roads, supervised the calendar and the education 20:00.630 --> 20:06.710 of youth. Priests regulated weights, measures, and the value of money. Priests solemnized 20:06.710 --> 20:15.230 and certified births, baptisms, puberty, purification, confession, adolescence, marriage, divorce, 20:15.870 --> 20:24.250 death, burial, excommunication, canonization, deification, adoption into families, adoption 20:24.250 --> 20:31.510 into tribes, and orders of nobility. Priests ran the libraries, the museums, the consecrated 20:31.510 --> 20:36.850 lands and treasures. Priests registered the trademarks and symbols. Priests were in charge 20:36.850 --> 20:43.450 of public worship, directing the festivals, plays, entertainments, games, and ceremonies. 20:44.350 --> 20:51.010 Priests wrote and held custody over wills, testaments, and legal conveyances. They ran 20:51.010 --> 21:00.610 everything. The priests ran everything. And in the same way today, in one way, shape or 21:00.610 --> 21:10.270 form, the priests run everything. By the 4th century, one half of the lands and one fourth 21:10.270 --> 21:18.310 of the population of the Roman Empire were owned by the priests. When the Emperor Constantine 21:18.310 --> 21:23.990 and his Senate formally adopted Christianity as the Empire's official religion, the exercise 21:23.990 --> 21:30.490 was more of a merger or acquisition than a revolution. The wealth of the priests merely 21:30.490 --> 21:35.570 became the immediate possession of the Christian churches, and the priests merely declared 21:35.570 --> 21:43.550 themselves Christians. Government continued without interruption. The pagan gods and goddesses 21:43.550 --> 21:49.210 were artfully outfitted with names appropriate to Christianity. The sign over the pantheon 21:49.210 --> 21:58.950 indicating to the fertility goddess Sibyl and all the gods was rewritten to Mary and 21:58.950 --> 22:05.610 all the saints. The Temple of Apollo became the Church of Saint Apollinaris. The Temple 22:05.610 --> 22:12.870 of Mars was re-consecrated Church of Santa Martina, with the inscription Mars hence ejected 22:14.270 --> 22:26.360 Martina martyred, made, claims now the worship which to him was paid. Haloed icons of Apollo 22:26.360 --> 22:32.720 were identified as Jesus, and the crosses of Bacchus and Tammuz were accepted as the official 22:32.720 --> 22:38.700 symbol of the crucifixion. Pope Leo I decreed that Saint Peter and Saint Paul have replaced 22:38.700 --> 22:46.600 Romulus and Remus as Rome's protecting patrons. Pagan feasts too were Christianized. December 22:46.600 --> 22:52.680 25th, the celebrated birthday of a number of gods, among them Saturn, Jupiter, Tammuz, 22:53.120 --> 22:59.680 Bacchus, Osiris, and Mithras, was claimed to have been that of Jesus as well, and the 22:59.680 --> 23:06.800 traditional Saturnalia, season of drunken merriment and gift giving, evolved into Christmas. 23:12.660 --> 23:20.840 Bacchus was popular in ancient France under his Greek name Dionysus, or as the French 23:20.840 --> 23:32.300 rendered it, Denis. His feast, the Festern Dionysi, was held every seventh day of October, 23:32.860 --> 23:38.900 at the end of the vintage season. After two days of wild partying, another feast was held, 23:38.900 --> 23:50.820 the Festern Dionysi Eleutheri Rusticum, country festival of Mary Dionysus. The papacy cleverly 23:50.820 --> 23:57.940 brought the worshippers of Dionysus into its jurisdiction by transforming the words Dionysus, 23:59.120 --> 24:06.680 Bacchus, Eleutheri, and Rusticum into a group of Christian martyrs. October 7th was entered 24:06.680 --> 24:13.140 on the liturgical calendar as the feast day of St. Bacchus the Martyr, while October 9th 24:13.140 --> 24:20.880 was instituted as the festival of St. Denis, and of his companions St. Eleutheri and St. 24:21.080 --> 24:28.940 Rustic. The Catholic Almanac of 1992 sustains the fabrication by designating October 9th 24:29.280 --> 24:35.920 as the feast day of Denis, Bishop of Paris, and two companions identified by early writers 24:35.920 --> 24:43.420 as Rusticus, a priest, and Eleutherius, a deacon martyred near Paris. Denis is popularly 24:43.420 --> 24:47.920 regarded as the Apostle and patron saint of France. 24:50.260 --> 24:54.740 Playing loose with truth in scripture in order to bring every human creature into subjection 24:54.740 --> 25:01.880 to the Roman Pontiff is a technique called missionary adaptation. This is explained as 25:01.880 --> 25:07.680 the adjustment of the mission subjection to the cultural requirements of the mission object 25:07.680 --> 25:13.640 so that the papacy's needs will be brought as much as possible in accord with existing 25:13.640 --> 25:22.060 socially shared patterns of thought, evaluation, and action so as to avoid unnecessary and serious 25:22.060 --> 25:30.460 disorganization. Rome has so seamlessly adapted its mission to American secularism that we 25:30.460 --> 25:37.460 do not think of the United States as a Catholic system. Yet, the rosters of government rather 25:38.700 --> 25:45.660 decisively show this to be the case. By far the greatest challenge to missionary adaptation 25:45.660 --> 25:51.260 has been scripture, that is the Old and New Testaments, commonly known as the Holy Bible. 25:51.980 --> 25:57.580 Almost for as long as Rome has been the seat of Pontifex Maximus, there has been a curious 25:57.580 --> 26:05.860 enmity between the Popes and the Bible whose believers they are presumed to head. In the 26:05.860 --> 26:10.700 next chapter we shall begin our examination of that enmity. 26:19.540 --> 26:29.880 Beginning chapter three, marginalizing the Bible. Every ruled society has some form of 26:29.900 --> 26:36.900 Holy Scripture. The Holy Scriptures of Caesarean Rome were the prophecies and ritual directions 26:36.900 --> 26:45.280 contained in the ten Sibylline Gospels and Virgil's Aeneid. The Aeneid implied that every 26:45.280 --> 26:53.620 Roman's duty was to sacrifice his individuality, as heroic Aeneas had done to the greater glory 26:53.620 --> 27:00.840 of Rome and Pontifex Maximus. The Sibyllines, borrowing from Isaiah's much earlier prophecy 27:00.840 --> 27:08.580 of Jesus Christ, prophesied that when Caesar Augustus succeeded his uncle Julius as Pontifex 27:08.580 --> 27:17.520 Maximus, he would rule the world as Prince of Peace, Son of God. Augustus would issue 27:17.520 --> 27:24.040 in a new world order, as indeed he did. The Sibyllines and the Aeneid were so beloved 27:24.040 --> 27:30.660 by the government priests that they were considered part of the Roman Constitution. The same Scriptures 27:30.660 --> 27:38.540 were made part of the United States Constitution when the mottos, Annoe Coeptis and Novus Ordo 27:38.540 --> 27:45.580 Seclorum, taken from the Aeneid and the Sibyllines respectively, were incorporated by the Act 27:45.580 --> 27:55.180 of July 28, 1782 into the Great Seal of the United States. This goes to show you who 27:55.180 --> 28:04.560 really has been in control of the United States right from the beginning. The Sibyllines and 28:04.560 --> 28:10.100 the Aeneid were open only to priests and certain privileged persons. The people learned their 28:10.100 --> 28:16.140 sacred content by the trickle down of priestly retelling. When the Old and New Testaments 28:16.140 --> 28:21.120 were adopted as the Empire's official sacred writings, they too were given to the exclusive 28:21.120 --> 28:27.600 care of the priests. And in accord with Roman tradition, the people learned sacred content 28:27.600 --> 28:35.500 from discretionary retelling. This had to be for the sake of the Holy Empire. For should 28:35.500 --> 28:41.200 the people acquire biblical knowledge, they would know that Pontifex Maximus was not 28:41.200 --> 28:47.700 a legitimate Christian entitlement. Knowing this, they would not bow to his supremacy. 28:48.360 --> 28:56.000 The Empire would collapse. And so the monarchical Roman Church forcibly suppressed the Bible's 28:56.000 --> 29:02.120 intelligent reading. This is why the millennium between Constantine and Gutenberg is known 29:02.120 --> 29:10.820 as the Dark Ages. The Bible was suppressed to the max. Sprinkled throughout the Empire, 29:10.960 --> 29:17.020 however, were isolated Christian assemblies who had preserved scripture from the days 29:17.020 --> 29:22.340 of the early Church. For them, the Bible invited an ongoing personal communion with the Creator 29:22.340 --> 29:28.660 of the Universe. They lived by the writings of which Rome was so jealous. By the 13th 29:28.660 --> 29:35.380 century, these assemblies had grown so vibrant that Pope Gregory IX declared unauthorized 29:35.380 --> 29:42.680 Bible study a heresy. He further decreed that it is the duty of every Catholic to persecute 29:42.680 --> 29:54.120 heretics. To manage the persecution, Gregory established the Pontifical Inquisition. The 29:54.120 --> 29:58.400 Inquisition treated the slightest departure from the life of the community as proof of 29:58.400 --> 30:04.580 direct communion with the Bible or Satan. Either instance was a sin worthy of death. 30:05.300 --> 30:09.920 Cases were prosecuted according to a strict routine. First, the Inquisitors would enter 30:09.920 --> 30:14.720 a town and present their credentials to the civil authorities. In the Pope's name they 30:14.720 --> 30:19.260 would require the Governor's cooperation. Next, a local priest would be ordered to summon 30:19.260 --> 30:25.980 his congregation to hear the Inquisitors preach against heresy, which was defined as anything 30:25.980 --> 30:31.920 the least bit opposed to the papal system. A brief grace period followed the sermon wherein 30:31.920 --> 30:38.860 the people were given an opportunity to step forward and accuse themselves of crimes. Those 30:38.860 --> 30:44.320 who did were usually punished mildly. Later, the Inquisitors would receive at their lodgings 30:44.320 --> 30:51.580 unverified accusations, guaranteeing in the Pope's name the anonymity of informants. Many 30:51.580 --> 30:58.400 innocent lives were ruined by false testimony. Trials were conducted arbitrarily and secretly 30:58.400 --> 31:04.960 by tribunals consisting of the Inquisitors, their staffs, and their witnesses, all concealed 31:05.500 --> 31:11.020 under hoods. The accused were never told the charges against them, and they were forbidden 31:11.020 --> 31:20.320 to ask. No defense witnesses were permitted. The accused had but one option, to confess 31:20.320 --> 31:27.440 guilt and die. Those who refused to confess and witnesses who balked at testifying were 31:27.440 --> 31:33.200 carried to the dungeon for torture session, boys under 14 and girls under 12 exempted. 31:34.100 --> 31:40.380 Inquisitors and executioners were commanded by papal edict to show no mercy. No acquittal 31:40.380 --> 31:47.380 was ever recorded. Every fully prosecuted case ended in the death of the defendant and 31:47.380 --> 31:53.380 the forfeiture of his or her property, since it was assumed, as in American forfeiture cases 31:53.380 --> 32:01.400 since 1984, that the property was gained in sin. Sometimes the property of family members 32:01.400 --> 32:06.760 for generations to come was forfeited. These forfeitures were paid out in expenses to the 32:06.760 --> 32:12.000 scribes and executioners, half of the remainder going into the papal treasury and half to 32:12.000 --> 32:17.100 the inquisitors. Although popes and inquisitors amassed great fortunes from the inquisition, 32:17.740 --> 32:24.240 its greatest beneficiary was, and has been, the Roman system. The inquisition was most 32:24.240 --> 32:29.760 effective against the isolated truth seeker in an ignorant community. As communities became 32:29.760 --> 32:35.920 more literate, the inquisition grew subtler. What brought literacy to communities was the 32:35.920 --> 32:42.620 epidemic of Bible reading made possible by the perfection of Johannes Gutenberg's invention 32:42.620 --> 32:57.780 of movable type. Chapter 4 Medici Learning Gutenberg chose the Bible to demonstrate movable 32:57.780 --> 33:02.100 type not so much that the common man might be brought nearer to God, but that he and 33:02.100 --> 33:09.380 his backer, Dr. Johannes Faust, might make a killing in the book trade. Prior to 1450, 33:09.600 --> 33:15.620 Bibles were so rare they were conveyed by deed, like parcels of real estate. A Bible 33:15.620 --> 33:21.800 took nearly a year to make, commanding a price equal to ten times the annual income of a 33:21.800 --> 33:27.980 prosperous man. Johannes Gutenberg intended his first production, a folio edition of the 33:27.980 --> 33:34.540 6th century Latin Bible, known as the Vulgate, to fetch manuscript prices. Dr. Faust discreetly 33:34.540 --> 33:41.880 sold it as a one-of-a-kind to kings, nobles, and churches. A second edition in 1462 sold 33:41.880 --> 33:49.000 for as much as 600 crowns each in Paris, but sales were too sluggish to suit Faust, so 33:49.000 --> 33:55.940 he slashed prices to 60 crowns and then to 30. This put enough copies into circulation 33:55.940 --> 34:02.120 for church authorities to notice that several were identical. Such extraordinary uniformity 34:02.120 --> 34:07.080 being regarded as humanly impossible, the authorities charged that Faust had produced the Bibles 34:07.080 --> 34:14.300 by magic. On this pretext, the Archbishop of Mainz had Gutenberg shop-raided and a fortune 34:14.300 --> 34:19.520 and counterfeit Bibles seized. The red ink with which they were embellished was alleged 34:19.520 --> 34:25.660 to be human blood. Faust was arrested for conspiring with Satan, but there is no record 34:26.280 --> 34:32.120 of any trial. Meanwhile, the pressmen, who had been sworn not to disclose Gutenberg's 34:32.120 --> 34:39.120 secrets while in his service, fled the jurisdiction of Mainz and set up shops of their own. As 34:39.120 --> 34:44.720 paper manufacture improved, along with technical improvements in matrix cutting and typecasting, 34:44.880 --> 34:50.780 books began to proliferate. Most were editions of the Vulgate. In the decade following the 34:50.780 --> 34:56.760 Mainz Raid, five Latin and two German Bibles were published. Translators busied themselves 34:56.760 --> 35:05.400 in other countries. An Italian version appeared in 1471, a Bohemian in 1475, a Dutch and a 35:05.400 --> 35:14.100 French in 1477, and a Spanish in 1478. As quickly as our generation had become computer 35:14.100 --> 35:19.720 literate, the Gutenberg generation learned to read books, and careful readers found shocking 35:19.720 --> 35:28.120 discrepancies between the papacy's interpretation of God's Word, and the Word itself. In 1485, 35:28.420 --> 35:35.420 the Archbishop of Mainz issued an edict punishing unauthorized Bible reading with excommunication, 35:36.060 --> 35:42.840 confiscation of books, and heavy fines. The great Renaissance theologian, Desiderius Erasmus, 35:43.160 --> 35:48.840 challenged the Archbishop by publishing in 1516 the first printed edition of the Great 35:48.840 --> 35:54.180 New Testament. He addressed the anti-Bible mentality in his preface with these words, 35:55.540 --> 36:00.360 And I quote, I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the 36:00.360 --> 36:05.380 holy scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues, as though either 36:05.380 --> 36:11.440 Christ taught such difficult doctrines that can only be understood by a few theologians, 36:11.620 --> 36:17.240 or the safety of the Christian religion lay in ignorance of it. I should, like all women, 36:17.240 --> 36:22.520 to read the gospel and the epistles of Paul. Would that they were translated into all languages 36:22.520 --> 36:28.280 so that not only the Scotch and Irish, but Turks and Saracens might be able to read and 36:28.280 --> 36:32.920 know them. A Catholic monk named Martin Luther, against 36:32.920 --> 36:37.880 the advice of his superiors, plunged into the New Testament of Erasmus. He was shocked 36:37.880 --> 36:44.160 by the absence of scriptural authority for so many church traditions. Of the seven church 36:44.340 --> 36:49.680 sacraments, only two, baptism and the Lord's Supper, were grounded in scripture. The remaining 36:49.680 --> 36:58.180 five, confirmation, absolution, ordination, marriage, and extreme unction, were the inventions 36:58.180 --> 37:04.040 of post-biblical councils and decrees. Luther found no scriptural mandate for celibacy of 37:04.040 --> 37:10.420 monks and nuns, or for pilgrimages and the veneration of sacred relics. The church taught 37:10.420 --> 37:16.080 that prayer, good works, and regular participation in the sacraments might save man from eternal 37:16.080 --> 37:21.580 damnation. Luther found this to be opposed to the teaching of scripture. According to 37:21.580 --> 37:26.740 scripture, only one thing can save man from the consequences of his sins, God's grace, 37:27.400 --> 37:33.340 and that alone. The most explosive result of Luther's Bible reading was its attitude 37:33.340 --> 37:39.400 toward the papacy. Nowhere in scripture could the passionate monk find that God had ordained 37:39.400 --> 37:45.500 an imperious Roman vicar of Christ to rule over a vast economy based on selling rights 37:45.500 --> 37:51.840 to do evil. These rights were called indulgences. They had been a church tradition since Pope 37:51.840 --> 37:59.000 Leo III had begun granting them in the year 800, payable in the money coined by Pope Adrian 37:59.000 --> 38:07.560 I in 780 AD. Indulgences were floated on the church's credibility, rather like government 38:07.560 --> 38:14.700 bonds are issued on the credibility of states today. In 1491, for example, Innocent VII granted 38:14.700 --> 38:21.460 the 20-year Butter Brief indulgence by which Germans could pay one twentieth of a guilder 38:21.460 --> 38:27.920 for the annual privilege of eating dairy products, even while meriting from fasting. The proceeds 38:27.920 --> 38:34.800 of the Butter Brief went to build a bridge at Torgau. Rome's indulgence economy was as 38:34.800 --> 38:40.840 extensive as America's income tax system today, and it was every bit as fueled by the people's 38:40.840 --> 38:49.560 trembling compliance, voluntarily, to a presumption of liability. In 1515, Pope Leo X issued a 38:49.560 --> 38:55.340 bowl of indulgence authorizing letters of safe conduct to Paradise, and pardons for 38:55.340 --> 39:02.480 every evil imaginable. From twenty-five-cent purgatory release, to deadlift purgatory, 39:02.480 --> 39:07.780 the instant one's coins hit the bottom of the indulgence salesman's bucket, to a license 39:07.780 --> 39:13.760 so potent that it would excuse someone who had raped the Virgin Mary. For the payment 39:13.760 --> 39:19.420 of four ducats, one could be forgiven for murdering one's father. Sorcery was pardoned 39:19.420 --> 39:24.700 for six ducats. For robbing a church, the law could be relaxed for only nine ducats. 39:25.860 --> 39:31.300 Sodomy was pardoned for twelve ducats. Half the revenues from Leo's indulgence went to 39:31.300 --> 39:36.260 a fund for the building of St. Peter's Cathedral, and the other half to paying forty percent 39:36.260 --> 39:41.580 interest rates on bank loans subsidizing the magnificent works of art and architecture 39:41.580 --> 39:47.900 with which His Holiness was establishing Rome as the cultural capital of the Renaissance. 39:49.240 --> 39:54.020 Historians have glorified Leo, whose father happened to be the great Florentine banker 39:54.020 --> 39:59.740 Lorenzo Medici, by marking the 16th century as the century of Leo X. 40:02.390 --> 40:09.500 In early 1521, Martin Luther formally protested the indulgence racket by nailing his famous 40:09.500 --> 40:16.760 95 Theses upon indulgences to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg. The church 40:16.760 --> 40:23.240 was said to own a lock of the Holy Virgin's hair worth two million years of indulgences. 40:24.020 --> 40:31.260 Luther's Theses exhorted Christians to follow Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths 40:31.260 --> 40:37.480 and hells, rather than purchase a false assurance of peace from church indulgence salesmen. 40:38.940 --> 40:45.960 Leo had Luther arrested and detained for ten months in Wartburg Castle. While in custody, 40:46.320 --> 40:52.200 Luther managed to translate the Greek New Testament of Erasmus into German. Its publication 40:52.200 --> 40:58.460 alarmed the broadest reaches of Roman authority. Daubin, in his History of the Reformation, 40:58.680 --> 41:04.260 tells us that ignorant priests shuddered at the thought that every Christian, nay every 41:04.260 --> 41:08.620 peasant, would now be able to dispute with them on the precepts of our Lord. 41:09.680 --> 41:17.560 Meanwhile, Leo X died. The new Pope, Adrian VI, hardly eulogized Leo when confessing to 41:17.560 --> 41:21.720 the Diet of Nuremberg that for many years, abominable things have taken place in the 41:21.720 --> 41:27.240 chair of Peter. Abuses in spiritual matters, transgressions of the commandments, so that 41:27.240 --> 41:33.780 everything here has been wickedly perverted. Adrian died shortly after speaking these lines, 41:34.120 --> 41:39.180 to be succeeded by the Cardinal, who had been handling Martin Luther's case all along, another 41:39.180 --> 41:48.100 Medici, Leo X's first cousin, Giulio de' Medici. Giulio took the papal name of Clement VII. 41:48.620 --> 41:55.740 Just as Leo X's corruption had ignited Luther, Clement VII's shrewdness determined how the 41:55.740 --> 42:01.960 Church would deal with the proliferation of Bibles. Clement was personally advised by 42:01.960 --> 42:08.960 the KG Niccolò Machiavelli, inventor of modern political science, and Cardinal Thomas Walsley, 42:09.540 --> 42:18.080 Chancellor of England. Machiavelli and Walsley opined that both printing and Protestantism 42:18.100 --> 42:24.140 could be turned to Rome's advantage by employing movable type to produce a literature that 42:24.140 --> 42:32.640 would confuse, diminish, and ultimately marginalize the Bible. Today we would call that fiction. 42:33.940 --> 42:39.920 Cardinal Walsley, who would later found Christchurch College at Oxford, characterized the project 42:39.920 --> 42:47.540 as to put learning against learning. Against the Bible's learning, which demonstrated how 42:47.540 --> 42:52.140 man could have eternal life simply by believing in the facts of Christ's death and resurrection, 42:52.640 --> 42:58.720 would be put the learning of the Gnostics. Gnosticism held out the hope that man could 42:58.720 --> 43:05.060 achieve everlasting life by doing good works himself. To put it succinctly, Bible learning 43:05.060 --> 43:13.100 was Christ-centered. Gnostic learning was man-centered. An enormous trove of Gnostic learning had 43:13.100 --> 43:17.720 been brought from the Eastern Mediterranean by agents of Clement VII's great-grandfather 43:17.720 --> 43:24.160 Cosimo de' Medici. Suppressed since the Emperor Justinian had piously shut down the pagan 43:24.160 --> 43:30.880 colleges of Athens back in 529 A.D., these celebrated mystical, scientific, and philosophical 43:30.880 --> 43:37.900 scrolls and manuscripts flattered humanity. They taught that human intelligence was competent 43:37.900 --> 43:44.160 to determine truth from falsehood, without guidance or assistance from any god. Since 43:44.160 --> 43:50.100 as Protagoras put it, man is the measure of all things, man could control all the living 43:50.100 --> 43:57.160 powers of the universe. If elected and initiated into the secret knowledge, or Gnosis, man could 43:57.160 --> 44:04.600 master the Kabbalah, the royal science of names, numbers, and symbols, to create his 44:04.600 --> 44:10.540 very own divinity. And that is what we call today, humanism. 44:13.460 --> 44:19.060 Cosimo had stored huge quantities of this pagan material in his library in Florence. 44:19.500 --> 44:25.340 The Medici library, whose final architect was Michelangelo, welcomed scholars favored 44:25.340 --> 44:30.980 by the papacy. These scholars, not surprisingly, soon began emulating the papacy and focusing 44:30.980 --> 44:37.100 more upon humanity than upon the Old and New Testaments. So extensive was the Medici library's 44:37.100 --> 44:42.980 philosophical influence that even scholars today consider it the cradle of western civilization. 44:44.620 --> 44:49.180 Martin Luther, seeing that learning against learning was the future of Christianity, voiced 44:49.180 --> 44:55.400 an appeal to the ruling classes in 1520 in which he wrote, rather prophetically, and 44:55.400 --> 44:59.760 I quote, Though our children live in the midst of a Christian world, they faint and perish 44:59.760 --> 45:04.480 in misery because they lack the gospel in which we should be training and exercising 45:04.480 --> 45:10.800 them all the time. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign 45:10.800 --> 45:17.300 paramount. Schools will become wide-open gates of hell if they do not diligently engrave 45:17.300 --> 45:22.400 the holy scriptures on young hearts. Every institution where men are not increasingly 45:22.400 --> 45:28.440 occupied with the word of God must become corrupt. Unquote. 45:29.760 --> 45:38.320 And that is what we see today. Corruption on every level from godless humanistic learning 45:38.320 --> 45:47.100 taught in all the school, Masonic schools, worldwide, under the control of Jesuit-controlled 45:47.100 --> 45:52.900 governments. It was one thing to recommend learning against 45:52.900 --> 45:58.980 learning and quite another to manage its multiple dimensions. Learning against learning amounted 45:58.980 --> 46:05.060 to no less than making war on the Bible. To wage such a war, the papacy needed a new 46:05.060 --> 46:11.220 priestly order of pious soldiers, conditioned to wield psychological weapons on a battlefield 46:11.220 --> 46:20.680 of human thought. But first there had to be a general. The man chosen to lead the assault 46:20.680 --> 46:26.740 on the Bible was a swashbuckling adventurer from the proud Basque country of Northern Spain. 46:28.980 --> 46:39.440 And this ends chapter 4 of Rulers of Evil by F. Tapersase. Thanks for listening and 46:39.440 --> 46:44.760 I'll see you in the next video where I'll be reading chapters 5 to 8.