THE
GREATEST HOAX EVER PERPETRATED ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION
One of the most insightful quotes ever attributed to
Mark Twain is:
“It is easier to fool people than it is to
convince them that they’ve been fooled.”
We, the people of Western Civilization, have been
deliberately lied to and fooled about some of the very most basic facts of our
existence for more than a thousand years. It started with a megalomaniac politician
who used fear, intimidation, eradication and distortion of history, and
subversion of the truth to maintain his power and control over people. Sound
familiar? Politicians have been doing the same thing to obtain and maintain
power throughout the history of Western Civilization. What makes our man stand
out, is the scope, depth in the human psyche, and duration of the deception he
perpetrated.
Before I tell you who this megalomaniac was, and
exactly why and how he went about fooling so many people for so long, let me set
the stage historically: His deception happened at the lowest point in this
cycle of human development, which occurred about 500 AD. From around 11,500 BC
until about 1000 BC, the mental, spiritual, and technological development of
human beings was actually much more highly developed than it is now. It's the unabashed
ego of modern man that makes us believe that we are at the highest point of
human virtue ever, right now. There is plenty of evidence that this is untrue,
but that is not the focus of this post. See Part X, Cycles of Consciousness and
Time, in Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, for more
detail about this fantasy of modern man.
For this post, I just want to put the greatest hoax
of the Western World into the proper historical context of the three Roman
Empires: The first extremely brutal and bloody Roman conquest of Europe, second,
the Holy Roman Empire, and third, the attempt by the same evil forces to dominate
the world in the third Roman Empire, the utopian dream that its architect
called the Third Reich! The connection between these three attempts to control
the people of the world has been hidden from the people of Western Civilization
for rather obvious reasons, that will become clear once you know the real
history of the three Roman Empires.
The Roman Catholic
Church claimed that St. Peter was the first Pope of the Catholic Church, but this
is clearly a lie concocted after the fact. Peter was never actually part of the
Roman Catholic Church. Peter, like Jesus was a Jew. and he was crucified in
Rome, by Romans, in 67AD, during the reign of the Emperor Nero. He
was crucified in a horrific manner in the public square in Rome because he was
identified as the leader of an underground group following the anti-Roman
teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. The teachings of Jesus challenged the pagan
religion of the Roman state. Peter was replaced immediately, according to historical
records, by Papa Linus, a Roman. It is obvious to any
objective observer that this was a political move by the Emperor and the Roman
government, to take control of the followers of Jesus, recognized by Rome as a
rapidly growing Jewish cult at the time.
There was no such entity as the Catholic church at
the time of Peter’s execution in 67AD. The term “Catholic” comes from the Greek
word καθολικός, meaning universal,
or “of the whole”. It was coined by the Greek Christian theologian Origen
around 200 AD. Predictably, from the time of Peter’s execution, the popes of
the Christian Church were either appointed by the Emperor or elected by the
Romans, and until the end of Roman Empire, popes were always either Roman or
Greek, never Jewish.
For several hundred years, Christian teachings
included many Oriental ideas, including immortality of the soul and reincarnation.
Origen, a Greek born in Alexandria, was the most prolific Christian writer of
the third century AD, producing more than 6,000 treatises on Christian
philosophy and theology, including commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the
teachings of Jesus recorded in scriptures that became known as the New
Testament, as well as several other scriptures later rejected by the Catholic Church
as too Jewish or too pagan. He wrote about reincarnation in two of his major
treatises as follows:
"Each soul enters the world
strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defects of its past lives. Its
place in this world is determined by past virtues and shortcomings." - From Origen’s work: “De Principalis”
"Is it not more in accordance with
common sense that every soul for reasons unknown - I speak in accordance with
the opinions of Pythagoras, Plato and Empedokles - enters the body influenced by its past deeds?
The soul has a body at its disposal for a certain period of time which, due to
its changeable condition, eventually is no longer suitable for the soul,
whereupon it changes that body for another." - From “Contra
Celsum”
Origen was, and still is to this day, highly
regarded as one of the most important Christian theologians of all time, and a
founding father of the Catholic Church. So, just how did his recording of some specific
teachings of Jesus, especially the belief in the pre-existence, survival and
continuation of souls get eliminated from Church doctrine? The answer may
surprise you: It was not a Pope nor any member of the Catholic priesthood who banned certain earlier
teachings from Church doctrine, it was Justinian, Emperor of the bloody Roman
Empire.
By the year 500, the power and influence of the
Roman Empire was beginning to fade. The Emperors of Rome, like the rulers of
many civilizations before them, had gained their power by use of brute force, and
had maintained power, claiming that the line of emperors were direct
descendants of the Roman gods, Zeus, and company. They used the wealth gained
by killing, conquering, and converting the peoples around them to slavery to
perpetuate and glorify their gods and images of their emperors as descendants
of the gods. But they were actually only human beings after all, and their
absolute power gradually became absolute corruption.
The Emperor Justinian I was a clever, well-educated,
and thoroughly evil man, also known as Justinian the Great, and would become
known as Saint Justinian in the Eastern Greek Orthodox Church. His stated goal
was to “revive the Roman Empire's greatness and
reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire”. In his mind,
the decline of Rome’s influence in the western parts of the Roman Empire was
due in large part to the ascending influence of Christian teachings, as
disparate anti-Roman groups had coalesced under the teachings of Jesus of
Nazareth, who was becoming a mythical legend, challenging the divinity of the
line of Roman Emperors. Justinian was smart enough to see that he couldn’t
openly declare war on the offending churches, so he cleverly plotted to
undermine their influence and integrate them into the Roman theocracy.
By the time of the Emperor
Justinian, the decadence and debauchery of the rulers of the Roman Empire had
been well-known for hundreds of years, and the ranks of the Christian Religious
Sect had also been steadily growing during the same period of time. He carefully studied the writings of Origen, by far the
most influential of the Christian theologians, and picked out a list of ideas that
he could use to subvert the Christian teachings in the western provinces and
integrate them into Roman theology.
Justinian realized that some of the teachings of the
followers of Jesus constituted a serious threat to his power. E.g., according
to Origen, Jesus had said: “Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's”. And “All are
sons of the most-high God”. And Origen had written: "Each soul enters the world strengthened by
the victories or weakened by the defects of its past lives. Its place in this
world is determined by past virtues and shortcomings." Such teachings
were in direct conflict with what Justinian saw as his divine right to rule, so
he seized on this statement and related ideas in Christian doctrine, as recorded
by Origen, that potentially undermined the Roman ruler’s claim of divinity and
right to rule. If people were led to believe that by being virtuous, they could
rise to the level of an Emperor, i.e., to the status of a son of god, then the
Emperor’s power would be seriously threatened. He decided that he must declare
this idea to be heresy and act to stamp it out as quickly as possible. In what
he called the ten anathemas, an edict
that he prepared for this purpose, read in part:
"Whosoever
teaches the doctrine of a supposed pre-birth existence of the soul, and speaks
of a monstrous restoration of this, is cursed. Such heretics will be executed,
their writings burned, and their property will become the property of the
Emperor."
In 553AD, the Emperor called for an immediate
assembly of a Council of the Church Fathers to ratify the decree, but the
meeting of the Council was opposed by the Pope. So the Emperor cleverly forced
several Eastern bishops to attend a secret meeting where he presented his ‘Fifteen Anathemata’ to them, condemning
Origen’s interpretations of Christian teachings of that time. He prevailed upon
them, under threat of death, to sign the decree. The meeting with the bishops
prior to the Council was a bold ploy to undermine the Pope’s power and ban the
offending teachings of Origen. The scheme worked. An official meeting of the
Council was held on the fifth of May 553, and the Pope was forced to accept the
decree, allowing the Emperor to issue the ban as if it were imposed by the Pope
and the Council of Bishops.
As a result, throughout Europe and the Middle East, Christian
monks educated as scribes were put to work, urgently expunging all references
to the pre-birth existence and transmigration of the soul from all of the
existing versions of Biblical scripture, so that Christian dioceses throughout
the land would not risk the wrath of Justinian, which they knew was a very real
threat. The purge of references to rebirth was very thorough, and where it
could not be eliminated without destroying whole passages vital to the
teachings, it was carefully re-worded to imply a spiritual rebirth, not a
physical one.
In this way, the ban on the belief in the pre-existence
and immortality of the soul was forced into Church doctrine, and no attempt was
made to rectify Justinian’s self-serving actions until after the participants
in the Council of 553 had passed away and even the memory that the immortality
of the human soul had once been part of Christian doctrine had faded away. In
this way, the ban was passed down to this day, and the delusion that we have
only one life to live has become mainstream Christian thinking, in stark
contrast with almost every other authentic religion in the world.
The account I’ve given here of the history of the
banning of the concept of reincarnation from Christian thought comes from a
number of reliable sources, including a Roman Catholic monk and member of a
European royal family I met in 1960, who told me that he had seen the records
of the purging of the mention of the immortality of the soul from Church
documents in the archives of the Vatican City in Rome. A German Biblical
scholar wrote extensively about the expunging of reincarnation from Church
doctrine. Here is a quote from that German Scholar:
"… the ‘ban’ on the teaching of reincarnation is based on
historical misrepresentation and has no ecclesiastical authority. It was in
fact a ‘fait accompli’, brought about by Justinian, which no-one within the Christian
church has dared to challenge in the course of some 1500 years. What is worse
is that the subject has been totally ignored, as a glance at any encyclopedia
will show." (Peter Andreas: Jenseits
von Einstein, Econ Verlag, Germany, April 1999)
Clearly, the Emperor Justinian was not a spiritual
man, He was a political tyrant whose goals were to gain and keep power and
wealth anyway he could. He enforced the ban on the teaching of reincarnation
and initiated other heavy-handed rules of state on the leaders of the Church
under threat of execution and confiscation of Church property. His goal was to control people, not
enlighten them. The priests and the Pope acquiesced, and within a few
decades, Justinian’s oppressive rules became institutionalized as part of the
dogma of the Catholic Church and the Church became the most powerful arm of the
Holy Roman Empire, used to control the masses and most of Europe.
Justinian’s evil scheme
to subvert Christian doctrine and integrate it with Roman paganism was
successful far beyond his personal goals, and reached far beyond his time. Justinian’s
anathemata were happily adopted and
adapted by power-hungry priests within the Roman Catholic Church and used to
initiate and perpetuate the bloody inquisitions
that swept across Europe in the 13th century AD. A group of institutions were established within the
Catholic Church whose stated aim was to combat heresy. In fact, the
institutions of inquisition were used to wage war against religious
sectarianism that threatened the ruling power of the Holy Roman Catholic
Church, in much the same way Justinian had used his power to re-conquer the
parts of the Roman Empire that were converting to the original form of
Christianity and integrate them into the Roman Empire in his time. Such diverse
sectarian groups as the Cathars in France, the Hussites in Eastern Europe and
the Waldensians in the Italian and Swiss Alps and Germany were targeted. Within
the Catholic Church, the Spiritual Franciscans, and other orders with whom the
Dominicans, who dominated the inquisition institutions, disagreed, were also
viciously targeted.
During the Middle
Ages and the early Renaissance, the scope of the Inquisition was expanded in an
effort to put down the Protestant Reformation. This expansion resulted in the
Spanish inquisitions, and consequently, the inquisitions throughout Spanish
empires in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, including the Peruvian and Mexican inquisitions,
where hundreds of thousands of natives were tortured and killed in the name of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Encouraged by their
successes, the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitors focused on the Jewish and
Muslim converts to Catholicism, under the assumption that they were still practicing
their former religions in secret. This led to a further expansion of the
inquisition as a means of eradicating whole communities of Jews and Muslims.
I hasten to add that
the Catholic Church is not completely evil, as many of the leaders of the
Protestant movements like Martin Luther, Jehan Cauvin (John Calvin) and Jan Hus
proclaimed - and some protestants still do today. Many priests and lay
practitioners of the Catholic faith were and are spiritual people devoted to
Christ and Christian principles. They are just ignorant of the great
hoax pulled off by Justinian I.
The story of the
perversion of organized, institutionalized church and state into heavy-handed
political entities, is by no means limited to the Catholic Church. It appears
to be endemic in organizations that become dogmatic state-controlled
institutions. Such organizations magnify human weaknesses and failures often
bringing about unnecessary death and destruction.
The Institution of
Inquisitions, like Justinian’s anathemata, was created to stamp out heresy,
i.e., anything that contradicted Church doctrine, and in spite of claims by
Church spokesmen to the contrary, it has never gone away, it has been renamed
as: "The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office". Its purpose
is essentially the same as it has always been, to suppress ideas that are
counter to Church dogma, its stated objective is to "spread sound Catholic
doctrine and defend those points of Christian tradition which seem in danger
because of new and unacceptable doctrines.” In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler became
the latest and most powerful world leader to use the same evil logic of
Justinian’s anathemata to perpetuate violence and genocide.
Hitler was born to a
Catholic mother in Braunau, an Austrian town near the German border, and was
christened Adolphus Hitler in 1889. While he was a child, his family moved back
and forth between Austria and Bavarian Germany. At the age of eight, he sang in
the choir in the Catholic Church in the town where he lived, and after he was
confirmed as a Catholic, he considered becoming a priest. But that was not to
be his path in life. When the First World War broke out, he volunteered in the
German Army. Injured in battle, he was awarded the Iron Cross and commended for
bravery by his superiors. Hitler never accepted the idea that the German Army
had been defeated, He blamed the capitulation on civilian leaders who had no
stomach for war.
After the war, Hitler
joined the National Socialist German Workers Party, where he became a confirmed
socialist and anti-Semitic, and within which he eventually rose to power
because of his tireless energy and impressive oratory skills. He took advantage
of the bitterness of the German people over the heavy penalties imposed on them
at the end of the war, blaming the British, the Russian Marxists and the Jews
for Germany’s military and economic collapse. For personal and political
reasons, Hitler embraced the evil logic of the anathemata of the Emperor
Justinian I with great fervor as an excuse to continue the inquisitions started
by the Catholic Church in the name of the Holy Roman Empire, and exact revenge
on the Jews and other non-Aryan people in Germany, blamed for all of Germany’s
woes. Hitler’s vision was the Third Reich,
meant to be the new, emboldened version of Justinian’s Rome and the Holy Roman
Empire.
The same evil spirit
that drove Emperor Justinian I drove Adolf Hitler. In 1933, when Mussolini, the
socialist dictator of Italy, joined with Hitler’s National Socialist Party to
form the Third Reich Axis, Hitler signed an agreement called a Concordat with the Vatican in an effort
to strengthen the power of the Nazi party with the Catholic Church as the
spiritual arm of the new world government.
This was a no-brainer
for the Pope XI and Pope XII because it protected the Church’s holdings in
Germany and if Hitler succeeded in his quest to conquer all of Europe, which it
looked as if he was likely to do, the socialist ideals of the Holy Roman Empire
and the Catholic Church would be spread across the globe. If he didn’t succeed,
the Church could claim that the Concordat
with Hitler was signed only to protect its churches in Germany and to avoid an
invasion of the Vatican City, which Hitler certainly could easily have done.
The Italian
government, with the secret complicity of the Vatican, helped fund Hitler’s war
efforts, because it was a way to re-establish the Holy Roman Empire as an
integral part of the new world government, Hitler’s Third Reich.
Franz von Papen, a
German Nobleman, Chancellor of Germany in1932, a strong supporter of Hitler as
he rose to power, and Vice-Chancellor under Hitler, was instrumental in setting
up the concordat between Germany and
the Vatican. Von Papen publicly announced that "The Third Reich is the
first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the
highest principles of the papacy." The Vatican considered the governments
that had signed the concordat, i.e., Italy, Germany, and Spain, as a part of
the “Government of God”, and the Vatican swore to stabilize and uphold such socialist
governments and give them divine protection.
Hitler wrote this
about his Third Reich:
"I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits.
Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the
hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church. I transferred much of this
organization into my own party."
After the defeat of
the Axis in the Second World War, the connection of Hitler’s Nazi party, the
“Third Reich” with the Catholic Church was covered up for obvious reasons. It
is interesting to note that, because Hitler became such an icon of evil in the
western world, the word Nazi, pronounced “naht-zee” in German, has become a
popular symbol for pure evil. In fact, NAZI is simply an abbreviated
contraction formed by taking prominent letters from the title National
Socialist Party in German, which translates in English to “The National
Socialist German Workers Party”.
Most people certainly do not think of Adolph Hitler as a
Christian, but he was a life-long member of the Catholic Church. The following,
from Hitler’s reassurance to the Pope Pius XII about the safety of Christian
churches under his Reich provides a glimpse of how he related to Christianity
personally:
"I am personally
convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't
allow any other religion to be promoted. That is why I have turned away from
Ludendorff and that is why I reject that book by Rosenberg. It was written by a
Protestant. It is not a Party book. It was not written by him as a Party man.
The Protestants can be left to argue with him ... As a Catholic I never feel
comfortable in the Evangelical Church or its structures. That is why I will
have great difficulty if I try to regulate affairs of the Protestant churches.
The evangelical people or the Protestants will in any case reject me. But you
can be sure: I will protect the rights and freedoms of the (Catholic) churches
and not let them be touched, so that you need have no fears about the future of
the Church."
At the end of the war, when the world press
announced that Hitler was dead, Franco, the military dictator of Spain who had
also signed the concordat with the Vatican in his effort to establish a
Socialist Catholic Monarchy, published the following:
"Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic
Church, died while defending Christianity. … Over his mortal remains stands his
victorious moral figure. With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the
laurels of Victory."
Once the true history
of the three Roman Empires is revealed, it becomes clear that even today, we
are not really dealing with struggles between Communism and Capitalism, Marxists,
Maoists and Democracy, Democrats and Republicans, as the political pundits
would have us believe, but the struggle between good and evil. The Prince of
the material world, AKA Satan, works by keeping the people of this world
ignorant of their true nature as “sons and daughters of the Most High God”
perpetuating the hoax of the possibility of a socialist utopia here on Earth,
by hiding the truth of the immortality of the soul and the ascendance into a
real Heaven prepared for us by our loving God!
The evil forces in the
world happily promote and use the fear of death and annihilation of the soul to
dominate and control the population, keeping them in the dark about their true
nature, and promising a socialist utopia on Earth, which in reality is only a
utopia for the ruling class.
The greatest hoax ever
perpetrated on the Western World is the subversion of the teachings of the Spiritual
Masters concerning the pre-existence, divinity, and immortality of every single
soul ever born onto this planet. Once you know the truth, evil has no power
over you!
ERC July 4th
US Independence Day, 2020
