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