Travelers encounter long waits at some airports as DHS shutdown affects security checkpoints

The estimated wait time at the standard security checkpoint at the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston early Sunday evening was at one point three hours.

By Associated Press

PUBLISHED: March 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM EDT | UPDATED: March 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM EDT

By BECKY BOHRER

Travelers complained of long waits Sunday — lasting hours in some cases — at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans, which officials blamed on a government shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The estimated wait time at the standard security checkpoint at the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston early Sunday evening was at one point three hours, according to the Houston Airports website. The Hobby airport on social media Friday said it expected more travelers than normal due to spring break.

In a series of posts Sunday, the airport on X went from urging travelers to arrive early to asking them to arrive 3 to 4 hours before their flights to eventually asking them to arrive 4 to 5 hours early to allow extra time for screening, citing the partial government shutdown.

A statement from Houston Airports, which counts Hobby and George Bush Intercontinental Airport as part of its system, said the shutdown “can impact security operations day-to-day and shift-to-shift.” Wait times at checkpoints at George Bush Intercontinental Airport early Sunday evening were as brief as a few minutes.

Posts on X from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Sunday said a shortage of TSA agents at the security checkpoint was leading to “longer-than-average” lines. The airport urged travelers to arrive at least three hours before their flights and said wait times could last up to two hours. It warned similar delays could continue through the coming week.

It’s not immediately clear if the delays in Houston and New Orleans were happening at other airports around the country. Sunday’s longer-than-usual wait times came on top of flight delays in recent days in places like Atlanta due to weather.

Agents with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the ongoing shutdown of the department, which began Feb. 14. Democratic lawmakers have said DHS won’t get funded until new restrictions are placed on federal immigration operations following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Chris Sununu, president and CEO of Airlines for America, a trade group for U.S. airlines, in a statement urged Congress and the Trump administration to act.

“We are in spring break travel season and expecting record numbers of people to take to the skies. Airlines have done their part to prepare; now Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown,” he said. “America’s transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage.”

Jessica Andersen Alexie and her two children, 10 and 13, were among the travelers caught in the long lines at Hobby in Houston as they tried to return home to New Orleans. They had been in Houston for the World Baseball Classic.

Alexie said they arrived 3 hours early to find a long line and realized they would not make their flight. While in line, she checked rental cars to see if driving home might be an option but couldn’t find any available. She was able to rebook for a late-night flight and felt relieved to get through the CLEAR security line after about 3 1/2 hours.

When they finally sat down to eat, she decided to take another look at available flights, on the chance that others in line had to cancel and rearrange their plans, and found three seats on a flight that got her family home Sunday afternoon. When they landed at the New Orleans airport, the line extended out to the parking garage, she said.

“It was nuts,” she said. “It was crazy.”

https://www.mcall.com/2026/03/09/dhs-shutdown-airport-security/

Sec.; Dept. of Homeland Security, Jewish SMOM Michael Chertoff, 2006

Professor of Law; Georgetown University, Viet D. Dinh, 2006

President Bush appointed Jewish Federal Judge Chertoff to lead the Department

of Homeland Security after Roman Catholic Tom Ridge’s departure, the Order continuing its policy of using Masonic “Court Jews” to direct its Soviet-styled intelligence agencies. Chertoff would enforce the wicked Patriot Act, co-written with Georgetown University Law professor, Viet D. Dinh. The act had been written before 911 and was passed unread by an intimidated U.S. Congress.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Din

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Joe Biden played a significant role in the introduction of the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, which laid the groundwork for later anti-terrorism legislation, including the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.

Overview of the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995

The Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 was introduced by Senators Joe Biden and Tom Daschle on behalf of the Clinton Administration. The bill aimed to enhance the United States' ability to deter and respond to terrorist acts. Although it was never put to a vote, many of its proposals were later incorporated into the USA PATRIOT Act following the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The word "curt" originates from the Latin word "curtus," meaning "short" or "shortened." It is cognate with several other languages, including Dutch "kort," German "kurz," and French "court." The term evolved from Middle English "cort," which referred to the physical shortness of something, and later came to describe brief or abrupt speech or behavior.

The next court date I have at Judge John Schlegelmilch's Third Judicial District Court, the Donald JOHN Trump Justice Complex in Yerington Nevada is scheduled for March 30 2026 on Juliet Rose Landau's birthday:

Lyon County renames justice complex after Donald Trump

Published 1:42 PM PST, February 8, 2022

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada county has renamed its justice complex after former President Donald J. Trump.

About 50 people attended the formal dedication of the Donald J. Trump Justice Complex in Yerington on Saturday, Lyon County Manager Jeff Page said. The complex, which opened in 2013, houses the sheriff’s office, jail, Third Judicial District Court and Walker River Justice Court.

The commissioners approved the new name for the justice complex on a 3-2 vote in August. They originally planned to rename a road in Dayton after Trump but dropped that idea because some residences and businesses would have had to change their address.

The Lyon County Commission discussed a resolution last week that could result in changes in procedures for naming county buildings, parks and other facilities in the future, but that did not affect names already approved, including the Trump complex, Page said.

While Trump was in office, hotels and residential towers in several cities stripped his name off their buildings.

But Trump’s name remains on countless products, golf courses and buildings in the U.S. and other countries, including a non-casino hotel near the Las Vegas Strip. Among the places his name has been added since his presidency is a stretch of U.S. highway in the remote western panhandle of Oklahoma near the Texas state line.

___

This story has been updated to correct that the board of commissioners is not revisiting the decision to rename the county justice complex.

https://apnews.com/article/nevada-donald-trump-9d1a17d5d2490915f6fd9e0c0a277bc5

Relatives

of Juliet Landau in Los Angeles, CA

Barbara Bain

Age 94 (Sep 1931)

Martin Landau

Age 97 (Jun 1928)

Erica Olsen

Age 47 (Aug 1978)

Allison Olsen

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Aeon Olsen

Age 29 (Aug 1996)

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In astronomy, an aeon is defined as a billion years (109 years, abbreviated AE).[4]

Roger Penrose uses the word aeon to describe the period between successive and cyclic Big Bangs within the context of conformal cyclic cosmology.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon

Juliet Rose Landau (born March 30, 1965)[1][2][3][4] is an American actress, director, producer, and ballerina best known for her role as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff show Angel, the latter appearance earning her a Saturn Award nomination. She is also known for co-starring as Loretta King in Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

Early life

Landau was born in Los Angeles to Jewish parents Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, both of whom were actors.[5][6][7] Her older sister is film producer Susan Landau Finch.[8] She spent her early childhood in West Los Angeles.[9] Landau is a former professional ballerina.[10]

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Kurt B. Olsen (born August 20, 1962) is an American lawyer.

Kurt Olsen

Born

Kurt B. Olsen

August 20, 1962 (age 63)EducationUnited States Naval Academy (BS)

Olsen graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1984 and was a Navy SEAL. In 2003, he founded Klafter & Olsen. Olsen's work involved defending companies in product liability cases. Following the 2020 presidential election, he became involved in litigation falsely contending Joe Biden's victory. According to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Olsen had prepared a draft executive order to direct the Department of Justice to "take voter action" and had spoken repeatedly with Trump on January 6. He later represented the former television presenter Kari Lake in her efforts to challenge Arizona's use of electronic voting machines and to contest the results of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, in which Katie Hobbs defeated Lake.

In October 2025, president Donald Trump appointed Olsen as a special government employee to investigate the 2020 election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Olsen

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.[a] (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

The St. Joseph's Cathedral[1] (Arabic: كاتدرائية القديس يوسف) or Latin Cathedral of St. Joseph[2] or Church of the Latins (Arabic: كنيسة اللاتين) or Church of the Virgin Lady (Arabic: كنيسة السيدة العذراء),[3] is a Catholic cathedral located on al-Jumhuriya Street in Baghdad,[4][5] the capital of Iraq.

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Trump, Vance meet with Pope Leo's Florida brother, 'a major MAGA fan', at White House

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USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida

May 22, 2025, 12:58 p.m. ET

Key Points AI-assisted summary

President Donald Trump met with Pope Leo XIV's brother, LOUIS Prevost, at the White House.

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A papal renunciation (Latin: renuntiatio), also called a papal abdication, occurs when the current pope of the Catholic Church voluntarily resigns his position.

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Louis Raphaël I Sako (Arabic: لويس روفائيل ساكو;[1] born 4 July 1948) is a Chaldean Catholic prelate who has served as Patriarch of Baghdad since 1 February 2013. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rapha%C3%ABl_I_Sako

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the United States on November 7, 2028, to elect the president and vice president of the United States for a term of four years.

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Kamala Devi Harris (English: /ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ ⓘ,[1] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving under President Joe Biden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

Raphael Gamaliel Warnock[1] (/ˈrɑːfiɛl ˈwɔːrnɒk/ RAH-fee-el WOR-nok; born July 23, 1969) is an American politician and Baptist pastor serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia, a seat he has held since 2021.

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Sako Limited (natively Sako Oy)[1] is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme in southern Finland.

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Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military officer serving since 2025 as the eighth director of national intelligence (DNI).

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The conspiracy is racist, considering Blacks, Hispanics, and Aboriginal Peoples to be inferior races of useless eaters. They believe or at least profess that the Anglo/Aryan race is the true Israel (British Israel and Christian Identity for the dupes and an Anglophile Secular Humanism for the leaders) and thus the Master race.

HOTT - MAJESTYTWELVE (hourofthetime.com)

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Pope FRANCIS[b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[c] 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.

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Easter in 2030

Date: April 21, 2030

Day: Sunday

2030-2031 APPARITION CHARACTERISTICS

The 2031 Mars apparition is considered Transitional (between Aphelic and Perihelic) because the orbital longitude at opposition will be 68.4° from the aphelion longitude of 70° Ls and 111.6° Ls from perihelion (250° Ls).

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (abbr. SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet"[1][2] – while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals

Nova music festival massacre

On 7 October 2023, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist organization Hamas, initiated a sudden attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

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Revelation 16:8

1599 Geneva Bible

8 [a]And the fourth Angel poured out his vial on the sun, and it was given to him to torment men with heat of fire,

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SpaceX Roadster is not a natural celestial object, but rather a man-made object launched by SpaceX in February 2018 as part of the Falcon Heavy test flight. It is a red sports car owned by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and was launched as a demonstration of the Falcon Heavy's capabilities.

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416 Finally, those means that are proposed by our holy father Saint Ignatius in Part X of the Constitutions for the preservation and development not only of the body or exterior of the Society but also of its spirit, and for the attainment of the objective it seeks, which is to aid souls to reach their ultimate and supernatural end, [10] are to be observed eagerly and diligently by all, with a truly personal sense of responsibility for its increase and development, for the praise and service of our God and Lord Jesus Christ, and the help of souls.[11]

L. D. S.

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

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A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses (M☉)) in a late phase of stellar evolution. The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous, making the radius large and the surface temperature around 5,000 K [K] (4,700 °C; 8,500 °F) or lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant

Revelation 16:8

1599 Geneva Bible

8 [a]And the fourth Angel poured out his vial on the sun, and it was given to him to torment men with heat of fire,

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2016%3A8-10&version=GNV

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2 Peter 3:10

1599 Geneva Bible

10 [a]But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a [b]noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth with the works that are therein shall be burnt up.

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Footnotes

2 Peter 3:10 A very short description of the least distinction of the world, but in such sort as nothing could be spoken more gravely.

2 Peter 3:10 With the violence as it were of a hissing storm.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%203%3A10&version=GNV

The heat death of the universe (also known as the Big Chill or the Big Freeze)[1][2] is a scientific hypothesis regarding the ultimate fate of the universe which posits the universe will evolve to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and, having reached maximum entropy, will therefore be unable to sustain any further thermodynamic processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

Revelation 21:8

1599 Geneva Bible

8 But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their [a]part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021%3A8&version=GNV

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CHAPTER TWO

THE JEWS CREATE HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood Created by Jews from Eastern Europe

Before we can turn our attention to the massive involvement of the

Roman Catholic institution in the Hollywood movie industry, and

ultimately its stranglehold upon the movies that were made, we have

to look at the very creation of Hollywood itself. And when we do so,

it becomes immediately evident that Hollywood was the creation of

Jews from eastern Europe. It was their industry: “the American film

industry, which Will Hays, president of the original Motion Picture

Producers and Distributors of America, called ‘the quintessence of

what we mean by “America,”’ was founded and for more than thirty

years operated by Eastern European Jews who themselves seemed

to be anything but the quintessence of America. The much-vaunted

‘studio system,’ which provided a prodigious supply of films during

the movies’ heyday, was supervised by a second generation of Jews,

many of whom also regarded themselves as marginal men trying to

punch into the American mainstream. The storefront theaters of the

late teens were transformed into the movie palaces of the twenties

by Jewish exhibitors. And when sound movies commandeered the

industry, Hollywood was invaded by a battalion of Jewish writers,

mostly from the East. The most powerful talent agencies were run

by Jews. Jewish lawyers transacted most of the industry’s business

and Jewish doctors ministered to the industry’s sick. Above all, Jews

produced the movies. ‘Of 85 names engaged in production,’ a 1936

study noted, ‘53 are Jews. And the Jewish advantage holds in prestige

as well as numbers.’”28

When one looks at the major empire-builders of the great Hollywood

studios, there is no denying it: the evidence is as plain as day. Universal

Pictures was founded by Carl Laemmle, a German Jewish immigrant to

America. Paramount Pictures was built by Adolph Zukor, a Hungarian

Jewish immigrant. The Fox Film Corporation was the work of William

Fox, also a Hungarian Jewish immigrant. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the

greatest of all the studios, was headed by Louis B. Mayer, a Russian

Jewish immigrant. And Warner Brothers was the work of the brothers

Harry, Sam, Albert and Jack Warner, sons of a Polish Jewish immigrant.

When these Jews arrived in America, virtually penniless, they turned

their backs on their Eastern European roots, and embraced America

wholeheartedly. They rejected their languages, their customs, and for

the most part, their Jewish religion. They were Jews in ancestry only,

and they wanted to be assimilated into America, as Americans. This

was not easy, for at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of

the twentieth centuries, to be a Jew from Eastern Europe was to be

an undesirable addition to the American melting pot, in the eyes of

many Americans. Jews simply were not wanted, and were made to

feel unwelcome. No matter how they tried, they were unable to fully

assimilate into mainstream America. But they found that there was one

business they could easily enter, and excel in: moviemaking.

At that time, the movie industry was new, and also somewhat

disreputable; and these two factors made it possible for Jews to make

their mark in the industry, for there were very few barriers to them

entering into it and rising up within it. “If the Jews were proscribed

from entering the real corridors of gentility and status in America, the

movies offered an ingenious option. Within the studios and on the

screen, the Jews could simply create a new country – an empire of their

own, so to speak – one where they would not only be admitted, but

would govern as well. They would fabricate their empire in the image

of America.... They would create its values and myths, its traditions

and archetypes.... This was their America, and its invention may be

their most enduring legacy.”29

Yes: using what became their vast power over the masses through

their movies, these Jews sought to literally mould America into their

image. As we shall see, they were restrained from doing so as much as

they would have liked by the domination of their Hollywood by Roman

Catholic censorship throughout its “Golden Age”; but even so they did

their best to portray an America on the big screens of the world that

was not, often, the real America, but rather an America they visualised.

In aiming to fashion this America of their own making, they worked

hard to re-create American values, traditions, etc., in their image. And

although, as we shall see, throughout Hollywood’s “Golden Age” it

was the Roman Catholic image of America that predominated, the

Hollywood Jews nevertheless did succeed – in uneasy alliance with

American Romanism, and then with more freedom once Roman

Catholic domination ceased – to move America along a particular path.

Today, the values and traditions of America are far, far removed from

that of their great-grandparents’ generation; and America is infinitely

the worse for it. Morally, America has collapsed; and ideologically,

it has swung to the extreme left. And this, to a massive extent, is

the result of what Hollywood succeeded in doing: changing the very

values, outlooks, ideologies, traditions and morality of the American

people. And of the world.

In a very real sense, “they colonized the American imagination.”

“Ultimately, American values came to be defined largely by the movies

the Jews made. Ultimately, by creating their idealized America on the

screen, the Jews reinvented the country in the image of their fiction.”30

For one thing is absolutely true: “The people who peered at the flick-

ering shadows in the peep shows and nickelodeons at the beginning

of the twentieth century didn’t realize that they were participants in

an experiment that would revolutionize the way Americans spent their

leisure time.”31 And not just Americans, but the whole world. Who

could have imagined that those silent, black and white, grainy early

picture shows would become the dominant entertainment-idol of the

world within a few decades? Perhaps the early Hollywood Jews could

not see that far into the future, but they certainly discerned that they

were onto something. Something big. Something bigger, perhaps,

than anything that had gone before.

Those early Hollywood Jews, also, used their power over the lucrative

Hollywood empire to establish themselves as a Jewish aristocracy,

with palatial homes and all the trappings of American Capitalism.

They always sought to have the best of everything. Their wealth was

their way of forsaking their poor Eastern European Jewish roots and

being accepted into high-class American Gentile society. They even

embraced the Republican Party, viewed as the party of conservatives

and Capitalists. And yet they were accused of being Communists.

What, then, is the truth?

The truth, as we shall see, is that although that first generation

of Hollywood Jews were more often than not Capitalists rather than

Communists, they themselves were for the most part very immoral

in their lives (despite having their own warped sense of “morality”),

and the movies they made were used for the purpose of lowering the

morals of America, which played into the hands of the Communist

movement; and thus Hollywood did promote certain Communist goals

even when it was under the control of the first-generation Jews, for

although their political ideology was Capitalistic their morals were

far from conservative or in accordance with Protestant America. And

then also, as time went by the later generations of Hollywood Jews

were, certainly, all too often outright Communists or Communist

sympathisers, causing Hollywood to take a far more radicalised turn to

the left. All this will become clear as we proceed.

Paramount Pictures

Adolph Zukor, who would build Paramount Pictures, was never

interested in the Jewish religion, even as a boy being raised by an uncle

who was a Judaic scholar, although he was fascinated by the story and

the characters of the Old Testament Scriptures. When he came to

America he deliberately did everything he could to show that he had

no ties to the religion of Judaism at all. He wanted to fully assimilate

into Gentile America, and because anything Jewish would mark him as

different, he dropped it all.

When he got into the infant movie industry, Zukor’s desire was to

make quality feature films, artistic films, because he believed this was

his ticket to acceptability in higher-class, genteel America. Politically

he was a Republican, and wanted to aim his films not at the working

classes, but at the higher classes of American society. He knew that

films were generally considered only as suitable entertainment for the

working classes and he wanted to change that image of them. And to

a large extent he succeeded, doing very well for himself in the process.

In 1910 he bought the rights to exhibit a film on the “Passion Play”

in New York and New Jersey, even though he was told it was a very

foolish business venture. He knew that a film depicting Christ might,

at that time, anger the high authorities of the Roman Catholic “Church”

in America, so he proceeded cautiously; but the film did very well

financially. Zukor became a real power in the industry, and he enjoyed

it. He was ruthless, and once he had his sights set on acquiring control

of Paramount Pictures, it was only a matter of time before he did.

Paramount films in the 1920 s and 1930s were sophisticated. Zukor

was so convinced of the importance of intellectual upliftment and the

part that movies could play in this, that he even set up a school at

Paramount for the purpose of teaching young would-be actors decorum,

including literature, sociology and sobriety classes. Said a Paramount

executive, Walter Wanger: “We were always trying to lift public taste

a little bit. Zukor and Lasky were dedicated men who would produce

pictures that they thought should be done, even though they weren’t

going to be profitable.”32 But let it not be thought that this meant

Paramount movies were moral. “Paramount pictures... didn’t ennoble

the audience; they whisked them away to a world of sheen and sex

where people spoke in innuendo, acted with abandon, and doubted the

rewards of virtue. Paramount’s was a universe of Marlene Dietrich’s

smoky come-ons, of Chevalier’s eyebrows arched in the boulevardier’s

worldliness, of Mae West’s double entendres sliding out the corner of

her mouth, of Gary Cooper’s aestheticized handsomeness, and of the

Marx Brothers’ leveling chaos.”33 It was, therefore, the purpose of

Paramount to create “classy”, sophisticated films, but not moral ones.

Universal Pictures

Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures, was a very different

character. He opened his first theatre in 1906, and even at that very

early period of movie history it was evident that many movies were

morally offensive. The movie houses themselves were often viewed

as dark places of iniquity – and not without reason. But Laemmle,

wanting to change this unsavoury image, deliberately named his new

theatre “The White Front” so that even its name would conjure up an

image of respectability and good clean family entertainment. Laemmle

became very successful financially, and by 1909 claimed, with some

justification, that he was the largest film distributor in America.

Laemmle’s success was largely attributable to the fact that

he recognised America’s expanding working class and booming

immigrant population were on the lookout for cheap entertainment –

and the movies were cheap. They were not well made, they were short,

they were usually based on incidents from American life and history,

but they were cheap. And for immigrants, the movies were a kind

of introduction to American life, the life they were trying so hard to

assimilate into. In the Jewish ghettoes of New York, the movies were

extremely popular.

In 1909 Laemmle decided to enter into movie production himself,

promising film exhibitors “the grandest American-made moving

pictures you ever saw.” An advertisement declared: “My motto will

be: The best films that man’s ingenuity can devise, and the best films

man’s skill can execute.”34 Laemmle’s desire was to make films that

would uplift the movie industry, and make it respectable.

By 1913 he was a power within the industry and a wealthy man,

earning an estimated $100 000 a year and having a personal fortune

of over $1 million. He formed another distribution company and

named it Universal, because, he said, the company would be supplying

“universal entertainment for the universe.”35

As studios increasingly gravitated from New York to Hollywood

in California, and the studio bosses with them, Laemmle eventually

bought a massive mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

He could be brutal too – he once sent a group of thugs to seize the

studio of the member of a faction trying to claim control of Universal.

But by 1915 Universal was under his control; and as Neal Gabler writes

in his history of the Jews in Hollywood, “From this point on, the Jews

would control the movies.”36

Universal films were at one time suggestive and pushed the

boundaries, but later they were aimed more decidedly at rural America.

Universal became best known for its westerns and horror films in the

late 1920s and early 1930s.

The Fox Film Corporation

Turning now to the Fox Film Corporation, we find, once again, a very

different type of Jewish character. William Fox was loud, ambitious,

and got things done. Once he had his foot in the door of the movie

industry, he went from strength to strength. He aimed to provide

cheaper entertainment for the masses. And his formula worked: he

became a millionaire in a short space of time.

But there was also more to it. Fox, like so many of the other Jews

in the movie industry of that time, saw his rise in the industry as a way

to climb the social ladder. He bought a large estate on Long Island,

New York, among the rich Gentile gentry, renamed it Fox Hall, and

lived an autocratic life there, lording it over his extended family and

demanding absolute obedience from them all. Family members lived

in fear of him. And yet, despite his best efforts to assimilate into upper-

class American society, he was acutely aware of the fact that he was

still a Jewish ghetto boy who made good, and who would never really

be fully accepted into the high society he craved.

Fox believed in his own version of God, not in the Judaism of his

father; he also believed in numerology, which was divination through

numbers. His wife claimed she was psychic, and Fox himself claimed

he could enter men’s minds and read their thoughts.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Next we turn to Louis B. Mayer. This was a man who wanted to do

everything better, and to a greater extent, than anyone else. The studio

he would ultimately come to control, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, had to

be the biggest, the greatest, and the best.

He obtained a theatre in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1907, renovated

it, and began to show what he deemed good, clean, respectable, family-

oriented pictures. He went from strength to strength, acquiring other

theatres, becoming wealthy and well-respected in middle-class society.

He saw films as a means to inculcate values, and he sought to become

a kind of “father figure” in society, something which he sought after

all his life.

He formed the Louis B. Mayer Film Company; and then later he and

some others formed a company for financing feature film production.

This company was first called Metro Pictures (the “Metro” part later

becoming the first initial in MGM), and Mayer was president of its

New England branch.

As he grew wealthier, Mayer joined a middle-class Conservative

Jewish temple, and began to live somewhat more lavishly. He also

moved now into movie production itself, not just movie distribution,

and relocated – as all the movie Jews had begun doing since 1907 –

to California in 1918. By the time Mayer arrived, over 80% of the

world’s movies were being made in Los Angeles.

Here he began to hobnob with industrial, political and religious

leaders. One of these was the powerful newspaper magnate, William

Randolph Hearst – a Roman Catholic. Hearst admired and respected

Mayer, and this meant much to the latter. They would talk about all

kinds of things, and Hearst would even consult with Mayer about the

running of his Hearst Corporation.

This relationship with a prominent Roman Catholic would not be

the only one Mayer would cultivate.

At this stage he was not as powerful as other Jews in the industry,

but that was soon to change. Marcus Loew, another Jew from New

York who owned a long string of movie theatres, bought Metro

Pictures, which Mayer had once been connected with, in 1919, and

later bought Goldwyn Pictures, which had also been started by Jews.

And after negotiations with Mayer, Loew bought Mayer’s studio, and

Mayer became vice-president of Metro-Goldwyn. In 1926 it became

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Mayer suddenly found himself a major

player in the film industry.

He believed in making what he considered were quality films with

moral messages. He once told an MGM writer, “I worship good women,

honorable men, and saintly mothers.”37 In this he was different from the

other Hollywood Jews – but not too different. It was his own version of

morality, after all, and although it was more conservative than the others,

that is all that can really be said for it. Mayer believed in the institution of

the family, in virtue, and in America. He was a Jew, but a proud American

Jew. And he was seeking to fashion the America of his imagination.

He idealised his female “stars”, and at MGM they always had to be

depicted so as to make them look as good as possible. The MGM actresses

were always to be beautiful or sensual, clever, but also remote and cool:

actresses such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford personified the MGM

“look”. As for the male “stars”, they too were generally cool, sophisticated,

well-dressed, as personified by Clark Gable. And yet at the same time,

Mayer had a view of America that was more domestic, moral according

to his own lights, and down to earth. In many MGM movies of this kind,

motherhood was exalted, and children learned from their parents. Mayer,

therefore, was a strange mixture: on the one hand wanting to use his films

to influence the morality of America, and on the other hand promoting a

fashionable, glamorous, idealised view of women in particular.

By the early 1930s, MGM was the greatest studio in Hollywood,

thanks in large part to Mayer’s efforts.

Warner Brothers

Turning next to the Warner Brothers studio, the two brothers most

crucial to it were Jack and Harry Warner, both of whom had volatile

tempers and who hated each other to boot. Harry had been born in

Poland, Jack in America. Harry was conservative, moral according to

his own lights, a family man. He was a religious Jew, and believed

in racial and religious tolerance. Jack, on the other hand, was a more

assimilated American than Harry, and rebelled against the Judaism of

his father. He was crude, vulgar and loud, openly boasting about his

sexual affairs. Unlike the other Hollywood Jews, he did not care a whit

about being respectable and acceptable in polite society.

Another brother, Sam, was the one who convinced the Warners to

go into the movie business as exhibitors. Harry was the leader of the

brothers. They started their business in 1903, and rapidly began to get

rich. They then moved into movie production. Harry based himself in

New York, where another brother, Albert, would work with him, and

Sam and Jack went to Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this way the

Warner brothers were strategically positioned in the two main centres

of film production. In time they forsook distribution and focused on

production alone.

At first the Warners were very much the outsiders in Hollywood

Jewish circles, but they did not care. They were not trying to ingratiate

themselves with genteel society. When other studios were unsure of

supporting the newly-invented sound movies, thinking the use of sound

might be just a temporary fad, Warner Brothers pitched in. They saw

sound as the wave of the future, and they were right. With the release

of The Jazz Singer in 1927 – a movie with sound that revolutionised

the industry – Warner Brothers moved up into the top ranks of studios.

Jack Warner, always a rebel against his father’s Judaism, shacked

up with a Roman Catholic actress, Ann Page Alvarado, even before his

own divorce, or hers, had been finalised. This disgusted Harry, and the

rift between them widened.

Warner Brothers’ films deliberately put across a message of being

films with a conscience, films in which the poor and weak were shown

to be pitted against the rich and strong. Jack once told a reporter

that films could and did play an all-important part in the cultural and

educational development of the world. Surprisingly, this statement

was in line with brother Harry’s own beliefs – and it was not often that

Jack was found expressing what his older brother believed. Many of

their films depicted both the contributions of Jews to society, and their

victimization by society. Many of them, also, exposed prejudice in

society in general. Others portrayed the weak and marginalised in a

good light, taking on the might of the privileged, even when this meant

that “heroes” engaged in antisocial behaviour. This raised the ire of

many, who saw such films – rightly – as essentially promoting civil

disobedience, the uprising of the lower classes. To this Harry replied:

“The motion picture presents right and wrong, as the Bible does. By

showing both right and wrong, we teach the right.”38

It sounded good, but it was not true, for in the words of the

Hollywood Jews’ biographer, Neal Gabler, Warner Brothers movies

took a more ambivalent attitude towards American values than any

other Hollywood studio. “Out of this mix of energy, suspicion, gloom,

iconoclasm, and liberalism came not only a distinctive kind of film, but

also a distinctive vision of America – particularly urban America. It

was an environment cruel and indifferent, one almost cosmologically

adversarial, where a host of forces prevented one from easily attaining

virtue.”39 In other words, Warner Brothers produced films which

attempted to alter American society by portraying urban America as

a dark, cruel place where the poor and marginalised needed to rise up

and change things. This was incipient Gramscian Marxism; cultural

Communism, the means whereby the Italian Communist, Gramsci,

had said America would be communised. Change the culture, change

the traditions, and you will change the country. America today is,

tragically, living proof that Gramscian Communism worked.

Columbia Pictures

As for the founder of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn, he was a Jew at

war with the world. People hated him, and he did not care. He was a

spiteful, vengeful man and a bully, a man who loved power and who

wielded it mercilessly. He greatly admired the Italian Fascist dictator,

Benito Mussolini, made a documentary on his life, even visited him

in Rome and decorated his own office like Mussolini’s, proudly

displaying a photo of the dictator there. And he copied Mussolini in

his own personal style. “Cohn epitomized the profane, vulgar, cruel,

rapacious, philandering mogul, and Red Skelton spoke for many when

he said, after thousands attended Cohn’s funeral, ‘Well, it only proves

what they always say – give the public something they want to see, and

they’ll come out for it.’”40

Cohn turned his back completely on his religious Jewish upbringing.

He did his best to push the fact that he was Jewish right out of his

life. He married a Roman Catholic and ignored all Jewish festivals and

other aspects of Judaism. Whereas other Hollywood Jews got rid of

their Judaism so as to be accepted into American Gentile society, Harry

Cohn went further – he held it in contempt. He once said, when asked

for a contribution towards a Jewish relief fund, “Relief for the Jews!

How about relief from the Jews? All the trouble in this world is caused

by Jews and Irishmen.”41

He was also extremely immoral in his personal life, having many

affairs with many women. He divorced his first wife because she could

not have children and because she was not attractive enough, in his

view, to be the wife of so great a man as he fancied himself to be. He

married his new wife, a young, attractive actress and a Gentile, three

days after he divorced his first wife. Within a year she bore him a son.

As for the films Columbia made in the 1930s and 1940s, in some

ways they resembled those from Warner Brothers: they were so often

about the poor against the ruthless rich, the individual against the

corporation, and the traditional against the new. The Columbia films

may not have been as class-conscious as Warner Brothers films were,

and the heroes were more middle-class than lower-class, with ethnicity

nowhere near as prominent; but even so there was a resemblance to

Warner Brothers’ offerings.

The Religion (or Lack Thereof) of Hollywood’s Jews

Edgar Magnin was the rabbi to many of the Hollywood Jews. He

was the rabbi in Los Angeles, not only by his own admission but

by that of many others too. In 1914 he had been invited to become

the associate rabbi of B’nai B’rith, which was Los Angeles’ first

Jewish congregation. It was what was known as a Reform Jewish

congregation. The controversial and liberal Magnin later became the

chief rabbi there. He was truly “one of the boys”, mixing with the

wealthy Jewish elite of Hollywood and never too interested in religious

Judaism himself, despite being a rabbi. He overlooked their sins, and

they loved him for it.

Magnin called for an Americanized Judaism, where Jews were fully

assimilated as Americans; and this was a doctrine well received by the

Hollywood Jews, for they had turned their backs on Orthodox Judaism.

One after the other joined Magnin’s B’nai B’rith – Carl Laemmle, Harry

and Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and literally dozens

of film executives, directors and actors. But they joined, not because

they wanted their Jewish religion, but rather the secularised “religion”

preached by Magnin. Very few of them were religious. They attended

Magnin’s ornate and lavish Wilshire Boulevard Temple on Jewish holy

days, and they gave generously to Jewish welfare organisations and

other Jewish causes; but that was all. Partly, they supported such groups

with their money because it was just what Jews did; partly, because

philanthropy was a status symbol, a sign of respectability; partly even,

perhaps, because they felt a certain amount of guilt at having turned

their backs on their Jewishness; but never did they do so because of

any real religious feelings. The Hollywood Jews deliberately distanced

themselves from the Jewish religion as far as possible.

And they were always cautious, even in their giving to Jewish

causes. They did not want to be associated (at least at first) with any

Jewish political causes. When Ben Hecht, a radical Jewish-American

writer in Hollywood, tried to raise funds to support a Jewish group in

Palestine which was aiming to use terrorism to drive the British out,

he found no sympathisers among the Hollywood Jews. They did not

want to do anything that would jeopardise their assimilationist efforts

into American Gentile society. They wanted to be seen as Americans,

not Jews.

But their opposition did not last. As Nazism grew in strength in

Europe, the Jews in Hollywood softened in their stance, and began to

show an interest in supporting the Jewish political cause in Palestine.

In 1942 the younger-generation Jews in Hollywood, especially, were

supportive of efforts to form a Hollywood organisation to combat

growing anti-Semitism in the United States, in particular when they

felt such anti-Semitism was directed at the movie industry.

One of the primary movers and shakers in this regard was Mendel

Silverberg, a powerful Jewish lawyer in Hollywood with close

connections to the Chandler family, who owned the Los Angeles

Times, and to the Republican Party. He became closely associated

with Hollywood’s elite Jews, although he himself was only nominally

Jewish. He was very useful to the Hollywood Jews in combatting

growing Nazi sympathies in Los Angeles in the early 1930s. They

formed what was called the Community Committee, with Silverberg as

its chairman. Its name was later changed to the Community Relations

Council, and its purpose was to be the official liaison between Jews and

Gentiles in Los Angeles. Silverberg also sat on various other Jewish

committees.

Prior to World War Two, the Hollywood Jews saw no value in

making films promoting Jews or Judaism. They wanted to assimilate

into Gentile America, not stick out as Jews. Jewish actors and actresses

even changed their names to make them sound more Gentile. But with

the rise of Hitler and Nazism and the horrors of World War Two, the

Hollywood Jews began to see the value of using their immense power

and influence, via their film studios, to promote a positive image of

Jews. A new Jewish organisation was created in 1948, called the

Motion Picture Project, which enabled each major Jewish organisation

to have some say over the way Hollywood would portray the Jews.

It would be used to review scripts, influence producers, and inform

the Jewish organisations of any films that would either benefit Jews,

or harm them. Silverberg correctly saw that this was an attempt to

censor the movie industry. The Hollywood Jews now felt the pressure,

channelled through the Motion Picture Project, from such Jewish

organisations as the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish

Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League.

As an alternative to Hollywood’s liberal rabbi, Edgar Magnin, there

was Max Nussbaum, who came to Hollywood in the 1940s to lead the

Jewish congregation at Temple Israel. This temple had been founded

by important men in the movie business, essentially as an alternative to

Magnin’s version of Judaism. For although Magnin was very popular,

both with non-Jews and with many of the elite Hollywood Jews, not

all liked him. One even called him “Cardinal Magnin” because of his

closeness with Roman Catholics.42 This alternative rabbi, Nussbaum,

and his Temple Israel, was more pro-Jewish, committed to Jewish

tradition and ritual. Nussbaum himself had escaped Hitler’s madness

in Germany and made his way to the USA. He was a fiery and eloquent

speaker. He attracted many, just as Magnin did, but for different

reasons. And during and after World War Two he began to attract more

Hollywood Jews than Magnin was doing.

The reason for this was that the second-generation Hollywood Jews,

as a result of the war and Hitler’s Holocaust, were far more interested

in their Judaism, and also in being involved in Jewish social activist

causes. For although Nussbaum was religiously conservative, he was

socially activist, supporting various causes including the establishment

of the state of Israel.

The Surprising Influence of Romanism Over Some Hollywood

Jews

There was another powerful, albeit at first surprising, influence over

some of the influential Jews of Hollywood: Roman Catholicism. One

writer recalled that when it came to religious matters, the Hollywood

Jews were always “very tender with the Catholics.”43

Louis B. Mayer was closer to Roman Catholicism than Judaism.

His daughter Edith said her father was “very Catholic prone. He loved

the Catholics.”44 This was a true statement. Mayer was a close friend

and admirer of New York’s powerful Roman Catholic cardinal, Francis

Spellman. A large portrait of Spellman hung in Mayer’s library. According

to Magnin, Mayer admired power and importance, which was the reason

he admired Spellman and Romanism. According to his grandson, Danny

Selznick, Mayer was attracted to Roman Catholicism because of its

respectability, and also because Mayer, as head of MGM, identified with

the pope of Rome. These may indeed have been some reasons for Mayer’s

fascination with Romanism, but clearly there was more to it. Still, he was

not above making use of his friendship with Spellman to get his own way

when a movie was going to be banned by the Roman Catholic “Church”.

He would call Spellman and seek his help.

He was an admirer of other prominent and conservative Roman

Catholics as well, notably Senator Joseph McCarthy. Mayer fully

supported McCarthy’s efforts to rid the U.S. government of Communists.

At a Chamber of Commerce dinner in his honour in 1954, Mayer said,

“The more McCarthy yells, the better I like him. He’s doing a job to get

rid of the ‘termites’ eating away at our democracy.... I hope he drives

all the bums back to Moscow. That’s the place for them.” He also said:

“Why is it that there are so few Catholic converts to Communism? It

is because they learned the love of God when they were children. Why

don’t Jews and Protestants do the same thing?”45 Yes, Mayer esteemed

Roman Catholicism very highly.

It was not just Mayer, however (although he was the closest of all

Hollywood’s top Jews to Rome). Other Hollywood Jews were under

Rome’s spell as well, to varying degrees. Harry Cohn, for example,

was friends with the cardinal, Spellman, and whenever he was in New

York he would visit Spellman. Cohn’s first wife had been a Roman

Catholic, and his second wife was a convert to Roman Catholicism

who was very devout; and Cohn allowed her to raise their children

as Roman Catholics. There were rumours that Cohn himself would

convert to Romanism, but he never did. Still, there were strong

influences at work.

The Politics of the Hollywood Jews

Politically, because they wanted to be accepted into American society

so much and because the Republican Party was seen as the party of the

American elite, most of the Hollywood Jewish elite were Republicans.

And they certainly were among the country’s elite by the mid-1930s,

with 19 of the 25 highest salaries in the USA being paid to movie

executives, and Louis B. Mayer, the highest-earning movie man,

earning over $1 million, which was more than any other American was

earning at that time. Mayer would always entertain important senators,

congressmen, and other officials whenever they were in Los Angeles.

This enabled him to rise within the ranks of the Republican Party, and

when Californian Herbert Hoover became president in 1928, Mayer

and his family were invited to the White House. It was even rumoured,

some years later, that Mayer himself might run for president.

The Warner brothers were really the only major Democrats among

the Hollywood Jews – and only for a brief period. Prior to 1932 they

too had been Republicans, but in that year Jack and Harry Warner

met with top Democrats in New York and were brought on board the

campaign to get Franklin Roosevelt elected. It is likely the Democrats

sought for the Warners’ support because it was well known that they

were considered the “outsiders” in Hollywood. Harry was quoted by

Jack as saying, “The country is in chaos. There is a revolution in the air,

and we need a change.”46 In Hollywood Jack worked to get Roosevelt

elected. When Roosevelt became president and Jack was invited to the

White House at various times, Jack claimed he was simply the court

jester of the White House because he was a humorous man; but in truth

there was far more to it than that. Warner Brothers threw its weight

behind Roosevelt and the president knew it.

Nevertheless, by 1936 the Warners were Republicans again, after

Harry Warner saw Roosevelt as having turned his back on him in

an hour of need. “It was the last time any of the first generation of

Hollywood Jews would support a Democrat.”47

Conclusion

Thus, the first-generation Jewish creators of Hollywood were, for the

most part, men who abandoned their traditional Judaism; who were

Capitalists, not Communists; some of whom were attracted to, and

influenced by, Roman Catholicism; and many of whom were immoral

in their personal lives and produced immoral movies, lowering

the morals of the world. And thus they played into the hands of

international Communism’s assault on America and the entire western

world. Furthermore, the next generation of Jewish Hollywood leaders

leaned far to the left.

This then was the Jewish industry which the powerful American

Roman Catholic institution sought to influence and control for its own

ends.

Jesuit Hollywood

by Shaun Wilcock

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cw53CF8bdkg9xHIOM3RGBm9glCAPG8mE/view?usp=sharing

Jews and the Knights Templar – a complex relationship

Thousands of Jewish people around the world are taking up an invitation from the Portuguese government to return to Portugal. Their ancestors were forced out of the country by the Inquisition from the 15th century onwards. And it seems a good moment to look back at the relationship between Portuguese Jews and the Knights Templar in Portugal.

https://thetemplarknight.com/2011/09/18/jews-knights-templar-relationship/

Kike, (pronounced "kee-kay"), also spelled Kiké or Quique, is a Spanish masculine given name, often as a diminutive of Enrique. It is unrelated to the differently pronounced anti-Semitic slur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike_(given_name)

Although in the first 30 years of the existence of the Society of Jesus there were many Jesuits who were conversos (Catholic-convert Jews and Muslims and their descendants), an anti-converso faction led to the Decree de genere (1593) which proclaimed that either Jewish or Muslim ancestry, no matter how distant, was an insurmountable impediment for admission to the Society of Jesus.[191]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits

Al-Andalus[a] (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern Spain, Portugal[1] and France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

1236

June 29 – Siege of Córdoba: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) capture Muslim Córdoba from Emir Ibn Hud, as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.[2]

July – At a diet (princely convention) in Piacenza, Emperor Frederick II proclaims his wish to recover all Italy for the Holy Roman Empire.[3]

Pope Gregory IX condemned the links that both the Knights Templer and Knights Hospitaller have with the Assassin fighters in the Middle East. He issues a bull, a formal proclamation issued by the pope, preventing further contact with the Assassins.

May 6 – Roger of Wendover, English Benedictine monk and chronicler, dies at St. Albans Abbey. His chronicle is continued by Matthew of Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1236

Atheism: resisting it with all our forces is a special mission given to the Society by the supreme pontiff, 253 2°; a mission which should permeate all forms of our apostolate, 254; our efforts are to be directed toward nonbelievers, ibid.; toward that end, an experience of God must be fostered in ourselves, 223 §§3-4, 224, 247

1° 2° 3° 6°;

and also in others, by means of the Spiritual Exercises, 271

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

Himmler used the Jesuits as the model for the SS, since he found they had the core elements of absolute obedience and the cult of the organisation.[59][60] Hitler is said to have called Himmler "my Ignatius of Loyola".[59] As an order, the SS needed a coherent doctrine that would set it apart.[61]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_the_SS

The archbasilica's Latin name is Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris ac Sancti Ioannis Baptistae et Ioannis Evangelistae ad Lateranum,[6] which in English is the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist at the Lateran, and in Italian Arcibasilica [Papale] del Santissimo Salvatore e Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbasilica_of_Saint_John_Lateran#Lateran_Palace

From 1939, the SS assumed responsibility for “solving” the so-called Jewish Question; after 1941, its leadership planned, coordinated and directed the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question. This “solution” was the annihilation of the European Jews, which we now refer to as the Holocaust

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ss

2 §1. The character and charism of the Society of Jesus arise from the Spiritual Exercises which our holy father Ignatius and his companions went through. Led by this experience, they formed an apostolic group rooted in charity, in which, after they had taken the vows of chastity and poverty and had been raised to the priesthood, they offered themselves as a HOLOCAUST to God,[2] so that serving as soldiers of God beneath the banner of the cross and serving the Lord alone and the Church his spouse under the Roman Pontiff, the vicar of Christ on earth,[3] they would be sent into the entire world[4] for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine. [5]

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

https://web.archive.org/web/20200211182223/https://jesuitas.lat/uploads/the-constitutions-of-the-society-of-jesus-and-their-complementary-norms/Constitutions%20and%20Norms%20SJ%20ingls.pdf

Early life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Landau

AMORC of the 1960’s in California was different than it is today. In the 1960’s they were big on hypnosis and used LSD and mescalin in their hypnosis sessions. They don't do that in modern times because those drugs are illegal. But in 1960s AMORC in California, the use of LSD and mind altering drugs was more common.

There is also a cross-over between Freemasons and AMORC. AMORC is open to everyone and you don't have to be a Freemason to join. But within Freemasons there is also an Order of the Rose Croix, which is the 18° of masons (Knights of the Rose Cross). So naturally some Rose Cross Masons also join AMORC, but don't assume that all AMORC members are Freemasons.

It is significant because Judge Earl Warren took the Freemason title “Wise Master of the Rose Croix” in 1938. That of course was decades before AMORC began using LSD in hypnosis, but it meant that Judge Warren's Freemason connections in California were Rosicrucians.

https://www.quora.com/Which-specific-Rosicrucian-organization-active-in-the-1960s-did-Sirhan-Sirhan-belong-to

My Famous Parents are Narcissists with Juliet Landau | Season 2; Ep 28

Sep 21, 2023 Navigating Narcissism

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Award-winning actress Juliet Landau (Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, Bosch and TNT’s Claws) reveals the long-lasting impact of balancing on a “razor’s edge” as a child to avoid upsetting her parents: beloved, award-winning actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.

I want to hear from you, too. Have a toxic topic you want me to explore? Email me at askdrramani@redtabletalk.com. I just might answer your questions on air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQe9zcRvVsk

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2p92_7JeW6EL31xlOUqyyff5J2Awd7cH

LBJ Sworn in as President of the United States, Dallas, 1963

#690

The brazen hard-heartedness of LBJ is written all over his face as he stands next

to grief-stricken Jackie Kennedy, the wife of the man he had just murdered.

According to LBJ’s mistress, Mrs. Brown, Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes

administered the oath not with a Protestant Bible, but with a Roman Catholic

Missal!* This was most fitting as LBJ would be the abject slave of Rome during

his entire tenure in office. Upon the command, “Let’s get this thing airborne”

(after JFK’s body had been taken from Parkland Hospital in violation of Texas

law), LBJ and Knight Rowley’s Secret Service aboard Air Force One provided

the distraction for SSA Kellerman to remove the body then flown to Walter Reed

Hospital; Naval surgeons then removed JFK’s brain. This eliminated the most

important piece of evidence that would have conclusively proved from which

direction the fatal shots had been fired—all this “for the greater glory of God!”

Official Program: Inaugural Ceremonies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

, A Pictorial Review

1961 Inauguration, “A Young Leader Falls,” Alice M. Fearen, (Washington, D.C., Merkle Press Inc., 1961).

*Texas In The Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Madeleine Duncan Brown, (Baltimore: The Conservatory Press, 1997) p. 178

Vatican Assassins Wounded In The House of My Friends

Third Edition

by Eric Jon Phelps

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQl1CmWeLL87RWVtzKttGFKm0frSNR8D/view?usp=sharing

What is Futurecasting in Strategic Planning?

Erica Olsen

Updated

2016-03-26 18:15:53

From the book

Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies

Consider starting your annual strategic planning retreat by futurecasting — the practice of trying to envision your company’s future. Companies spend a lot of time predicting what sales will be like in the future, but little time actually thinking about the factors that impact that future.

https://www.dummies.com/article/business-careers-money/business/strategic-planning/what-is-futurecasting-in-strategic-planning-178316/

Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally (née Bowser; born 26 March 1962) is an English Anglican prelate and former nurse. She has been the bishop of London since 2018, and is the first woman to hold this office. By virtue of her office she is also a Lord Spiritual, one of the 26 Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. On 3 October 2025, it was announced that Mullally would become the 106th archbishop of Canterbury in January 2026; she will be the first woman to hold the office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Mullally

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxjGefHefbBAUIziNF7CbsBIy5z4GCkrL2

The 7 July 2005 London bombings, sometimes referred to informally as 7/7, were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.[b]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III

Princess Charlotte of Wales (Charlotte Elizabeth Diana; born 2 May 2015) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, and a granddaughter of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales. She is third in the line of succession to the British throne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Charlotte_of_Wales_(born_2015)

"Killer Queen" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and recorded for their third album Sheer Heart Attack in 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Queen

The De Beers Group is a South African–British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploration, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers

The first member of the family who was known to use the name "Rothschild" was Isaak Elchanan Rothschild, born in 1577. The name is derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "at the red shield", in reference to the house where the family lived for many generations (in those days, houses were designated not by numbers, but by signs displaying different symbols or colours). A red shield can still be seen at the centre of the Rothschild coat of arms. The family's ascent to international prominence began in 1744, with the birth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild (born circa 1710),[13] a money changer who had traded with the Prince of Hesse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family

A scutum was typically red in color, as red was the color of the Roman god of war, Mars. It was decorated with an iconic image such as a winged eagle to represent victory and lightning bolts, the scuta (plural for scutum) provided essential protection and were a vital reason for the military successes of ancient Rome.

https://www.unrv.com/military/scutum.php

John Hyrcanus (/hɜːrˈkeɪnəs/; Hebrew: יוחנן הרקנוס, romanized: Yoḥānān Hurqanos; Koine Greek: Ἰωάννης Ὑρκανός, romanized: Iōánnēs Hurkanós) a Jewish high priest and ruler of Judea from the Hasmonean dynasty (born 164 BCE, reigned from 134 BCE until he died in 104 BCE).

....

Hyrcanus sought for good relations with the surrounding Gentile powers, especially the growing Roman Republic. Two decrees were passed in the Roman Senate that established a treaty of friendship with Judea.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hyrcanus

The name Sean is the Irish form of John, which comes from the Hebrew name Yochanan (יוֹחָנָן), meaning "God is gracious."

Sion is a name used in Wales and in other nations.

Johann (Hans) (1526-75) was the eldest of six children born to the reformer Martin Luther and his wife Katharina (who also reared four orphans).

https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3716#:~:text=Johann%20(Hans)%20(1526%2D,a%20profession%20of%20the%20law.

Welsh name

Siôn (Welsh pronunciation: [ʃoːn]) or Sion is a Welsh form of the Anglo-Norman Jean,[1] pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sion_(name)

The Order – A Brief History

The origins of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem date back to the First Crusade, when its leader, Godfrey de Bouillon, liberated Jerusalem. As part of his operations to organize the religious, military and public bodies of the territories newly freed from Muslim control, he founded the Order of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre.

https://eohsjeastern.org/a-brief-history/

The equus publicus (literally "horse bought by the commonwealth") was an honourable status in ancient Rome, granting its holder a military horse paid for by the state, along with the cost of its fodder for its whole life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_publicus

Horses: the extent to which they can be possessed in our houses [575, 576]; the extent to which they can be used on missions [574, 625]

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

And it is also a historical fact that the Assassins were prepared to adopt Christianity if they could gain greater power thereby (Christianity, that is, on the surface, just as the Knights Templar had done)]. Hammer points to the similarities of the two organizations. The followers of Hasan Ibn Sabah were in contact with the Templars, and had a similar method of organization. They were in existence before the Templars were formed: “The Ismailians ([or] Assassins) was the original, and [folks] the Order of the Templars, [was] the copy.”

The Templars and the Assassins (aired March 2nd, 1993)

https://viefag.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/transcripts-of-william-cooper-s-mystery-babylon-series.pdf

The word asas in Arabic means "PRINCIPLE". The Asāsiyyūn (plural, from literary Arabic) were, as defined in Arabic, the principle people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins

PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola

TRANSLATED FROM

THE AUTOGRAPH

FATHER ELDER MULLAN, S.J.

I.H.S.

NEW YORK

P.J. KENEDY & SONS

PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE

The word Ormus contained within its spelling the history of Sion. Its symbol was shaped like a

capital M. Within the frame of the M were four letters - OR and US - which together with the M spell "Ormus." These letters combine a number of other key words and symbols important to Sion. "Ours means 'bear' in French. Ursus, or echo in Latin, suggested, as subsequently became apparent, Dagobert II and the Merovingian dynasty. Orme is French for 'elm.' Or, of course, is 'gold.'

Scarlet and the Beast

by John Daniel

https://ia803001.us.archive.org/28/items/ScarletAndTheBeastJohnDaniel1995/Scarlet%20and%20the%20Beast,%20John%20Daniel%20(1995).pdf

Ormsby County was a county in Nevada Territory from 1861 to 1864 and in the State of Nevada from 1864 until 1969. It contained Carson City, the county seat, and later, the state capital, founded two years earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormsby_County,_Nevada

Our Nevada Judges, Inc.

May 24, 2025

District Court Judge John Schlegelmilch, conviction on jury verdict of man for false imprisonment, upheld on appeal. Court of Appeals cites "invited error doctrine", defendant induced error by proffering improper statements during opening statements.

https://ournevadajudges.com/judges/john-paul-schlegelmilch/cases?state=%7B%22show%22:%2254741-89230.pdf%22%7D

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxLKGbN8PkjZ2FVBPHD5REzfZRqhQ9TGXQ

“When Theodore Roosevelt ascended the presidency in the same year that

Morgan created U.S. Steel [later to be headed by Knights of Malta Myron

C. Taylor and John Farrell], public outcry made the chief question facing

him the issue of the trusts. It was a political dilemma. Antitrust legislation,

the new President declared, was about as effective as a papal bull against a

comet

. . . . Morgan’s steel trust, sprawled over the most basic of modern

industries, would be overlooked by Roosevelt’s regulators and trust busters,

as would his New England railroad monopoly. . . . But the most obvious

sacrifice for which the public clamored was [Masonic Jesuit Temporal

Coadjutor] John D. Rockefeller [Sr.] and Standard Oil. . . .

By midsummer of 1907 there were seven federal suits pending against the

Standard and its various subsidiaries, . . . The most spectacular legal

fireworks of the year came in the celebrated [Judge “Kenesaw

Mountain”] Landis case, . . . The Landis decision was indeed overturned

on appeal. . . . But . . . the [Jesuit-controlled] U. S. Department of Justice

began a suit in federal circuit court in Missouri

, petitioning for the

dissolution of the trust itself as a conspiracy in restraint of trade

[a much

lesser charge than extortion or price fixing]. . . . The government won the

case, and kept winning on the long road to appeal. It was on a chilly March

day in 1911 that [Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor—according to ex-priest

Jeremiah J. Crowley] Chief Justice White of the Supreme Court [who

received his law degree from Jesuit Georgetown University] rose to read the

decision that finally dissolved the Standard trust: . . . After hearing the

news, Rockefeller sent a humorous obituary to his old partners: ‘Dearly

beloved, we must obey the [Jesuit Order’s] Supreme Court. Our splendid,

happy family must scatter [Rockefeller secretly working with Roosevelt’s

“trust busters” giving the illusion that his trust was in fact destroyed].’ . . .

The octopus

was broken down into 39 different and theoretically

competitive companies at the time of dissolution, but ownership remained

in the hands of the same shareholders who had always been in control, and

for years the new firms would continue to respect each other’s territorial

imperatives [as does the Pope’s Masonic Vatican Hierarchy, the Pope’s

Masonic Mafia families, the Pope’s Masonic intelligence agencies and the

Pope’s Masonic banking families—both Jew and Gentile].

The trust’s life after death proved an ironic epilogue to the suit. For within

a week after stockholders received their shares, the Standard companies

were traded on Wall Street for the first time. It exploded in the biggest bull

market yet known for a single stock, dramatically increasing the value of

the former trust

. Standard of New Jersey rose in worth from $260 per share

to $580; Standard of Indiana from $3,500 to $9, 500. Thus, while people

The Jesuits — 1913– 1936

916

Vatican Assassins

were celebrating the breaking of the trust, another $200 million was added

to the value of Standard stock in the space of five short months

. . . .

President Roosevelt himself saw the irony of it all. In a 1912 speech [the

same year the Company sent the Titanic to the bottom of the North Atlantic

Ocean], he pondered the results of trust-busting and remarked: ‘No wonder

that Wall Street’s prayer now is: “Oh Merciful Providence, give us another

dissolution

.” ’ . . .

For David [Rockefeller] and his brothers, World War II was . . . a step over

the past. Yet a scandal at its onset showed how far the family had come

from the days when Standard Oil and Rockefeller were synonymous

, and

proved again the wisdom of Junior’s decision to minimize public

identification with the company [a proven Jesuit military tactic of indirect

control through a trusted third party]. For as America was beginning to

mobilize, Standard Oil was once again the subject of shocking revelations.

In the 1920s the Jersey Company had entered into a cartel with the German

petrochemical monopoly, I. G. Farben [later managed by Pope Pius XII’s

Roman Catholic Papal Knights Otto Ambrose and Hermann Abs]. The

business relationship had continued even after Hitler’s rise to power

1941, on the eve of Pearl Harbor [the Order in full control of Masons

Hirohito and FDR, thus the heads of both American and Japanese Military

Intelligence], during hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee to Investigate

the National Defense, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold read a

letter from Standard Vice-President Frank A. Howard noting that the

company had renewed the cartel agreement with the Nazis in Holland in

1939

. The terms had seemed so distinctly lacking in patriotic concern . . .

that the [openly] committed Chairman [who was in fact secretly loyal to

Rome, Masonic Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor] Harry S. Truman had left the

room snorting, ‘I think this approaches treason.’ . . .

With memories of the [Ivy] Lee scandal in mind, Junior grew greatly

concerned as the Truman Committee probed the intricacies of the Standard

Farben cartel. (By 1942, Farben was known to be operating with slave

labor from the Nazi concentration camps

He privately requested a

memorandum from Standard executives explaining their dealings with the

Axis powers which he could use in his defense if it should come to that.

But it never did; he had become a citizen above suspicion

[just like

Freemason Thomas J. Watson of IBM, and thus Shriner Harry Truman

obediently carried out the cover-up].” {18

} [Emphasis added]

Peter Collier and David Horowitz, 1976

American CFR-Controlled Historians

The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty

Vatican Assassins Wounded In The House of My Friends

Third Edition

by Eric Jon Phelps

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQl1CmWeLL87RWVtzKttGFKm0frSNR8D/view?usp=sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_the_SS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbasilica_of_Saint_John_Lateran#Lateran_Palace

The ratlines (German: Rattenlinien) were systems of escape routes for German Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe from 1945 onwards in the aftermath of World War II. These escape routes mainly led toward havens in the Americas, particularly in Argentina, though also in Paraguay, Colombia,[1] Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Bolivia, as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

In the Nazi state, the SS assumed leading responsibility for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis. The SS controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp system. The SS conceived and implemented plans designed to restructure the ethnic composition of eastern Europe and the occupied Soviet Union.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ss

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

https://jesuitas.lat/uploads/the-constitutions-of-the-society-of-jesus-and-their-complementary-norms/Constitutions%20and%20Norms%20SJ%20ingls.pdf

The People's Court is an American arbitration-based reality court show, featuring an arbitrator handling small claims disputes in a simulated courtroom set. Within the court show genre, it is the first of all arbitration-based reality-style programs, which has overwhelmingly become the convention of the genre. The original series ran from 1981 to 1993, and the revival ran from 1997 to 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Court

The Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the US for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; several were confirmed to be former members of the Nazi Party, including the SS or the SA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

John Schlegelmilch

December 18, 2014

Don't forget ... Open House, Christmas Party and District Judge Victory Celebration is tomorrow.

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From Jupiter to Peter: The Vatican’s Greatest Identity Theft?

Writer: Michelle Hayman

Michelle Hayman

Feb 10, 2025

10 min read

For centuries, the Vatican has claimed that the bones of the Apostle Peter rest beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, serving as physical evidence that the Catholic Church was built upon the "rock" of Peter. This claim is foundational to the doctrine of apostolic succession, reinforcing the idea that the pope is Peter’s rightful successor. But how could they possibly identify Peter’s bones when St. Peter’s Basilica was built on top of an ancient Roman cemetery, containing the remains of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals? The sheer impossibility of distinguishing one set of remains from another renders the Vatican’s assertion nothing more than religious propaganda rather than archaeological truth.

A Church Built Over a Pagan and Christian Necropolis

Before St. Peter’s Basilica existed, Vatican Hill was home to a large necropolis, a burial ground used by both pagans and early Christians. Roman law forbade burials within the city, so cemeteries were placed along roads outside its limits. The Via Cornelia, one such road, ran along Vatican Hill, where mausoleums and tombs of various Roman citizens and social classes were constructed. This was an active burial site in the first century AD, meaning Peter, if he were buried there at all, would have been just one of many individuals laid to rest in the same location.

When Emperor Constantine decided in the 4th century to build the first St. Peter’s Basilica, he ordered it to be constructed directly on top of this cemetery, supposedly to enshrine Peter’s tomb. However, in order to level the uneven hill, much of the existing necropolis was buried, filled in, or completely altered. Many graves were disrupted, their locations lost or reassigned, meaning that any original burial site—including the alleged resting place of Peter—would have been tampered with, contaminated, or obliterated during construction. The idea that Peter’s remains could have survived undisturbed beneath the Basilica, perfectly preserved and identifiable, defies all logic.

The Illogical Claim of Identifying Peter’s Bones

In the 1940s, under Pope Pius XII, archaeologists uncovered bones in a tomb beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, buried deep within the necropolis. The Vatican later declared these to be Peter’s bones, yet the process by which they arrived at this conclusion exposes the complete lack of scientific or historical credibility behind the claim.

First, there is no DNA evidence to verify the identity of these remains. Peter had no known biological descendants, meaning there is no genetic baseline for comparison. Without this, how could anyone distinguish Peter’s bones from the remains of any other individual buried in the necropolis? The simple answer is—they cannot.

Second, the bones were not found in isolation. They were discovered in a mixed grave, alongside the remains of several other individuals. This means that any attempt to single out one particular set of bones as belonging to Peter is purely speculative. The fact that multiple remains were buried together should raise an obvious question—if these bones belong to Peter, then whose bones are buried alongside him? If the Vatican cannot answer this, then their entire claim falls apart.

Third, the Bible itself provides no record of Peter’s burial, and no contemporary Roman historian ever documented his execution or internment. The earliest references to Peter’s martyrdom in Rome come from later traditions, not from eyewitness accounts. Even the historian Eusebius, who wrote extensively about early Christianity in the 4th century, provides no firsthand evidence of Peter's burial site. This means that the entire belief that Peter was buried in the Vatican necropolis is built on church tradition, not verifiable history.

Fourth, Constantine’s original basilica construction buried, displaced, or destroyed many of the existing graves. If Peter had been buried there, his tomb would have been among those disrupted. The logical consequence of this is clear—even if Peter had been buried at the necropolis, there would be no way to identify his remains centuries later, after the entire area had been altered and filled in to build a church on top of it.

A Convenient Claim to Maintain Papal Authority

The claim that Peter’s bones have been identified is not based on science, archaeology, or reliable history—it is a claim built on tradition and the need to maintain power. The Vatican has a vested interest in upholding the belief that Peter’s remains rest beneath the Basilica, because it reinforces the idea of apostolic succession. If Peter’s authority can be physically tied to the Vatican, then the pope’s claim to be his spiritual heir appears more legitimate.

But the reality is that there is no way to distinguish Peter’s bones from the countless others buried in the same location. The Vatican’s claim does not withstand historical scrutiny. When a church is built on top of an ancient cemetery, any attempt to claim specific bones from the countless dead is nothing short of absurd.

The identification of Peter’s bones is not an archaeological discovery—it is a fabrication, designed to solidify the Vatican’s authority. If there were any true evidence to support this claim, it would be universally recognized by secular scholars and historians, yet it remains a matter of faith rather than fact. The truth is simple: Peter’s bones, if they were ever buried there, have been lost to history, and any assertion otherwise is built on deception rather than evidence.

The Statue of Saint Peter: A Repurposed Idol of Jupiter?

One of the most venerated images in St. Peter’s Basilica is the famous bronze statue of “Saint Peter” seated on a throne. Over centuries, millions of Catholics have kissed its feet in devotion, wearing the metal down in a manner eerily similar to how ancient pagans venerated the statues of their gods. However, historical evidence suggests that this is not an original depiction of Peter, but rather a repurposed statue of the Roman god Jupiter (Zeus), rebranded to aid the Church’s assimilation of pagan converts.

The resemblance between the bronze statue of “Saint Peter” and classical images of Jupiter is undeniable. In Roman art, Jupiter was frequently depicted seated on a throne, with his right hand raised in a blessing gesture—exactly like the statue in the Vatican today. The facial features, regal posture, and general artistic style further strengthen the argument that this was not originally intended to be an image of Peter but of Jupiter, the chief deity of the Roman pantheon.

Many believe this rebranding of Jupiter into Peter occurred under Pope Leo I (440–461 AD) or another early pope who sought to merge pagan traditions with Christianity. This would have aligned with the broader effort of the Roman Catholic Church to absorb pagan elements to make conversion easier. Rather than rejecting idolatry outright, pagan statues were given Christian identities, and their worship was redirected under new names.

This was a common practice in early Catholicism, especially after Emperor Constantine’s legalization of Christianity in the 4th century. Temples to pagan gods were converted into churches, festivals such as Saturnalia became Christmas, and pagan deities found new life as Christian saints. It would make sense that a massive statue of Jupiter—which already commanded respect from the Roman populace—was not destroyed but simply renamed as Saint Peter to make Christianity more palatable to former pagans.

Some scholars argue that rather than crafting a brand-new image of Peter, the Church only modified the existing Jupiter statue. Minor changes, such as recasting the hands or adding a Christian inscription, would have been enough to give it a new religious identity without entirely abandoning its familiar form.

Even today, this statue is treated much like pagan idols were in ancient Rome. The devotional kissing of its feet, the burning of candles, and the reverence given to the image all mirror Roman pagan rituals. This practice directly contradicts the biblical command against idol worship (Exodus 20:4-5), yet it persists in Catholic tradition.

Was Peter Ever Depicted Like This?

There is no biblical evidence that Peter was ever portrayed as a regal, throne-sitting figure. Peter was a fisherman, a humble servant of Christ, not a majestic deity-like figure adorned in imperial grandeur. The Bible gives no reason to believe Peter was ever worshipped, venerated, or given statues to be kissed and bowed before. If Peter were alive, he would have rebuked anyone kneeling before his image, just as he refused worship in Acts 10:25-26, when Cornelius bowed before him and Peter immediately told him to "Stand up; I myself also am a man."

The Truth Behind the Idolatry

The idea that a statue of Jupiter was rebranded as Peter is not just historical speculation—it exposes the foundational deception at the heart of Catholic tradition. Rather than following Scripture, the Church chose compromise. Instead of rejecting idolatry, it repurposed it. Instead of calling people to worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24), it allowed pagan customs to define its worship practices.

This is why the Bible warns against such distortions in 2 Corinthians 6:14-17, where God commands:

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."

The worship of a statue—no matter the name given to it—remains idolatry, and the Bible clearly condemns it. The Catholic Church’s repurposing of Jupiter as Peter is not a testament to apostolic faith—it is evidence of its departure from biblical truth.

In Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy, a former Catholic priest, writes:

"Rome has brought back the idolatry of old paganism under a new name. She has replaced upon her altars the Jupiter Tonans of the Greeks and Romans, only she places upon his shoulders the mantle and she writes on the forehead of her idol the name of Jesus, in order the better to deceive the world!"

The Forged Foundations of Papal Authority: Exposing the Greatest Religious Fabrications

For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has claimed supreme authority over all of Christendom, citing divine right, apostolic succession, and historical precedent. However, many of these claims rest not on genuine history, but on deliberate forgeries—fabricated documents that were used to justify the expanding power of the papacy. While the Vatican promoted these as legitimate, history has exposed them as fraudulent. These forgeries were instrumental in shaping the authority of the Church, influencing rulers, and altering the course of religious history.

One of the most infamous forgeries is The Donation of Constantine, a document purportedly written by Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th century. According to this text, Constantine granted Pope Sylvester I dominion over Rome and the entire Western Roman Empire. This supposed imperial decree was used for centuries to justify papal political authority, allowing popes to claim divine rule over kings and emperors. However, in the 15th century, the scholar Lorenzo Valla conclusively proved that the document was a fraud, written not in Constantine’s time but in the 8th century, at a time when the Church sought to expand its influence over secular rulers. Despite being exposed, the effects of this forgery continued to shape Catholic doctrine and political power.

Another major fabrication is The False Decretals, also known as the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, a collection of forged letters and decrees supposedly written by early popes to reinforce the authority of the bishop of Rome. These fraudulent writings, which surfaced in the 9th century, claimed that popes had always held supreme authority over all bishops and secular rulers. By attributing papal supremacy to early Christian history, these forged documents weakened the role of local bishops and centralized power in Rome. This collection gave the Vatican the leverage it needed to dominate church councils, establish canon law, and position the pope as an infallible ruler over Christendom.

Another deceptive text is The Acts of St. Sylvester, also known as The Constitutum Sylvestri, which falsely claims that Pope Sylvester I miraculously healed Constantine of leprosy, leading to the emperor’s immediate conversion to Christianity and his bestowal of supreme power upon the pope. This legend, designed to reinforce the legitimacy of papal rule, was widely accepted in medieval Catholic doctrine despite its clear lack of historical foundation. The story became a staple of Catholic tradition, used to justify why the pope held more authority than any earthly ruler.

A further example of manipulation is The Liber Pontificalis, a historical chronicle of popes, parts of which were altered or fabricated to exaggerate the power and divine right of the early papacy. While some sections contain authentic history, many were deliberately modified to create a false narrative of uninterrupted papal supremacy dating back to Peter himself. This allowed the Vatican to maintain the illusion that the popes had always held unrivaled power in the Christian world.

Another significant deception is The Letters of St. Peter to James, found in the Pseudo-Clementine Writings, which falsely claim that Peter appointed successors to carry on his authority. These apocryphal writings were used to support the idea of an unbroken line of popes, despite no biblical or historical evidence for such a succession. The Bible never records Peter passing on his authority in this way, yet these forgeries were instrumental in constructing the doctrine of apostolic succession, which remains central to Catholic teaching today.

Beyond written forgeries, forged papal bulls and decrees were also common throughout history. Many popes used fabricated or altered documents to justify land claims, impose taxes, and expand their influence. Some decrees, falsely attributed to historical figures, were crafted specifically to solidify Rome’s control over monarchs and territories. The Pragmatic Sanction of Louis IX, for example, was a fraudulent document that claimed King Louis IX of France recognized the pope’s supremacy over all secular rulers. Although there is no historical record of such a decree, it was used to support papal authority in political matters.

The exposure of these forgeries in the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation. Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin pointed to these false documents as evidence that the Catholic Church’s claims of divine authority were not based on biblical truth but on centuries of deception. When scholars like Lorenzo Valla demonstrated that The Donation of Constantine was an outright fabrication, it became clear that much of what the Vatican claimed as historical fact was, in reality, constructed to serve its own agenda.

Despite being historically debunked, many of these fraudulent documents shaped the Catholic Church’s power structure and continue to influence its theology today. The doctrine of papal supremacy, apostolic succession, and the infallibility of the pope all rest on a foundation of historical manipulation and forgeries. Without these fabricated texts, the papacy would have no legitimate claim to the absolute authority it has asserted for centuries.

These forgeries are undeniable proof that papal supremacy was never divinely ordained but rather carefully manufactured. The Vatican built its power not on the truth of Scripture, but on false documents, political maneuvering, and historical revisionism. The question that remains is: If the Church’s authority was truly given by God, why would it need forgeries to prove it?

https://www.rebuildspirit.com/post/from-jupiter-to-peter-the-vatican-s-greatest-identity-theft

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The principal and mailing address of the company is situated at 608 Mainsail Circle, Jupiter, FL 33477. This address serves as the central hub for the company's activities and communications.

Overseeing the operations and compliance of this Florida Limited Liability Company is Rothschild, Christina N., who serves as the registered agent. He is based at the same address as the company's principal address.

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Frank Rothschild: A former prosecutor known for his involvement in high-profile cases, including the prosecution of serial killer Robert Hansen, also known as the "Butcher Baker". He has also taught trial training and authored materials on courtroom technology.

Daniel S. Rothschild: An associate at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in Harrisburg, PA, who previously worked as a prosecutor in Dauphin and Allegheny County, handling cases such as murder trials.

Jerome M. Rothschild Jr.: Appointed by then-Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to serve as a U.S. immigration judge, taking office in March 2019.

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The Bible describes corrupt prosecutors and judges as those who take bribes, pervert justice, and ignore the rights of the needy, often for personal gain. Key passages, including Isaiah 1:21-26, Micah 3:11, and Deuteronomy 16:19, condemn such behavior as a "harlotry" against God and a cause for divine wrath.

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Isaiah 1:23: Describes rulers as "rebels, friends of thieves" who love bribes and neglect the fatherless and widow.

Micah 3:11: Highlights leaders who "judge for a bribe" and "teach for a price".

Deuteronomy 16:19: Commands, "Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent".

Proverbs 17:23: States that corrupt judges accept secret bribes, preventing justice.

Psalm 94:20-21: Condemns those who "make injustice legal" and "plot against good people".

Amos 5:13: Mentions that in such times of deep corruption, "the prudent keep silent".

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Biblical Themes on Misused Power

Bribery: Frequently cited as the primary driver of legal corruption (Exodus 23:8, Psalm 26:10).

Oppression of the Poor: Corrupt officials are noted for depriving the needy of their rights.

Hypocrisy: Jesus condemns scribes and Pharisees for hypocritical, legalistic behavior in Matthew 23:23.

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I’m a licensed attorney in the State of Nevada currently working for the Lyon County District Attorney’s Office as a Deputy District Attorney, prosecuting felony and misdemeanor crimes occurring in Lyon County.

I am a graduate of the Michigan State University College of Law. I am also a graduate of MSU Law’s Trial Practice Institute. The Trial Practice Institute is a two year intensive program that focuses on litigation and trial work. In our second year of law school, participants in the program work on the Pretrial process, beginning with client intake and ending with oral arguments on motions for summary judgment. In our third year, we conduct two full trials; one criminal and one civil. These trials include motions in limine and jury selection, culminating with the trial itself. I was also a member of the mock trial team and Trial Director for the MSU Board of Advocates.

During law school, I had the privilege of working for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office in the post-conviction unit. There, I learned a great deal about Writs for Habeas Corpus and the post conviction process. It is an area of the law that I have a particular interest in. It was in this internship that I learned a prosecution does not end with a guilty verdict; it is the prosecutor’s job to uphold the criminal justice process to maintain the integrity of a conviction during the appeals process.

After law school, I clerked for the Hon. Connie Steinheimer in the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada. I assisted the Judge with civil and criminal cases. My tasks included writing bench memos, drafting orders, and writing jury instructions. Working for Judge Steinheimer was a great honor and I learned so much from her in my short time as her clerk.

I previously worked for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office prosecuting domestic violence and sexual assault crimes in Churchill and Lyon counties under the ICJR Grant. Crimes of domestic violence and sexual assault are crimes that the law punishes very severely, but for many reasons can be difficult to prosecute. The challenges presented by these crimes have been wonderful learning experiences. In this position, I had the opportunity to work closely with experienced prosecutors, dedicated victim’s advocates, and law enforcement officers.I’m a licensed attorney in the State of Nevada currently working for the Lyon County District Attorney’s Office as a Deputy District Attorney, prosecuting felony and misdemeanor crimes occurring in Lyon County. I am a graduate of the Michigan State University College of Law. I am also a graduate of MSU Law’s Trial Practice Institute. The Trial Practice Institute is a two year intensive program that focuses on litigation and trial work. In our second year of law school, participants in the program work on the Pretrial process, beginning with client intake and ending with oral arguments on motions for summary judgment. In our third year, we conduct two full trials; one criminal and one civil. These trials include motions in limine and jury selection, culminating with the trial itself. I was also a member of the mock trial team and Trial Director for the MSU Board of Advocates. During law school, I had the privilege of working for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office in the post-conviction unit. There, I learned a great deal about Writs for Habeas Corpus and the post conviction process. It is an area of the law that I have a particular interest in. It was in this internship that I learned a prosecution does not end with a guilty verdict; it is the prosecutor’s job to uphold the criminal justice process to maintain the integrity of a conviction during the appeals process. After law school, I clerked for the Hon. Connie Steinheimer in the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada. I assisted the Judge with civil and criminal cases. My tasks included writing bench memos, drafting orders, and writing jury instructions. Working for Judge Steinheimer was a great honor and I learned so much from her in my short time as her clerk. I previously worked for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office prosecuting domestic violence and sexual assault crimes in Churchill and Lyon counties under the ICJR Grant. Crimes of domestic violence and sexual assault are crimes that the law punishes very severely, but for many reasons can be difficult to prosecute. The challenges presented by these crimes have been wonderful learning experiences. In this position, I had the opportunity to work closely with experienced prosecutors, dedicated victim’s advocates, and law enforcement officers.

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Early Female Transgender Identity after Prenatal Exposure to Diethylstilbestrol: Report from a French National Diethylstilbestrol (DES) Cohort

by Laura Gaspari 1,2,3,†,Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard 4,5,†ORCID,Scott Kerlin 6,Françoise Paris 1,2,3 andCharles Sultan 1,*

Unité d’Endocrinologie-Gynécologie Pédiatrique, CHU Montpellier, University Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France

INSERM 1203, Développement Embryonnaire Fertilité Environnement, University of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France

CHU Montpellier, University Montpellier, Centre de Référence Maladies Rares du Développement Génital, Constitutif Sud, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 34295 Montpellier, France

Laboratoire Arago, Observatoire Océanologique, Sorbonne University, CNRS, 75016 Paris, France

Association HHORAGES-France, 66100 Perpignan, France

DES International Information and Research Network, Livermore, CA 94551, USA

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

J. Xenobiot. 2024, 14(1), 166-175; https://doi.org/10.3390/jox14010010

Submission received: 28 November 2023 / Revised: 8 January 2024 / Accepted: 10 January 2024 / Published: 12 January 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the Human Health)

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Abstract

Diagnostic of transsexualism and gender incongruence are terms to describe individuals whose self-identity does not match their sex assignment at birth. A transgender woman is an individual assigned male at birth (AMAB) on the basis of the external or internal genitalia who identifies and lives as a woman. In recent decades, a significant increase in the number of transgender people has been reported. Although, its etiology is unknown, biological, anatomical, genetic, environmental and cultural factors have been suggested to contribute to gender variation. In XY animals, it has been shown that environmental endocrine disruptors, through their anti-androgenic activity, induce a female identity. In this work, we described four XY individuals who were exposed in utero to the xenoestrogen diethylstilbesterol (DES) and were part of the French HHORAGES cohort. They all reported a female transgender identity starting from childhood and adolescence. This high prevalence of male to female transgenderism (1.58%) in our cohort of 253 DES sons suggests that exposure to chemicals with xenoestrogen activity during fetal life may affect the male sex identity and behavior.

Keywords: sexual identity; diethylstilbestrol (DES); prenatal exposure

1. Introduction

Gender identity defines each individual’s deeply held personal sense of their own gender as male or female or something else [1]. Moreover, gender diversity and variance are umbrella terms used to describe the wide range of gender identifications outside the conventional gender categories [2]. Gender dysphoria [3] relates to the distress and unease experienced by individuals who are discontent with their assigned gender and identify with a gender other than the one associated with their birth sex [4]. A transgender man or woman is a person born phenotypically female or male, assigned female or male at birth on the basis of their external or internal genitalia, who identifies and lives as a male or a female. Actually, for many experts [5] this definition should be enlarged to Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) individuals, people with disorders of sex development (DSDs) and people assigned male (AMAB) or female at birth (AFAB) [6].

All studies on secular trends have reported a dramatic increase in the number of transgender people in recent decades [7]. A temporal change in the age of presentation is another notable phenomenon [8]. Quoting Hassler et al. [8] in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5), signs of transgender in children include: “A repeated desire to be the other sex or an assertion that they are the other sex; a belief that their assigned sex will change on its own (e.g., thinking they will grow a penis or that their penis will come off when they get older); wanting to change their name to a name typically associated with another gender, or a gender-neutral name; a preference for presenting as another gender (e.g., a child assigned male at birth who prefers long hair and wearing dresses, or a child assigned female at birth who prefers short hair and wearing gender-neutral clothing); resistance or distress when made to present as a gender they do not identify with (such as a ‘girl’ throwing a tantrum over having to wear a dress or a ‘boy’ crying after having to get a haircut); assuming the role of another gender in fantasy games or make-believe; an intense desire to participate in the games and activities typical of the other gender (such as an assigned-male child playing with Barbie and an assigned-female child playing contact sports); a preference for playmates of another gender”.

Hassler et al. also wrote [8]: “In adolescence, signs of transgender includes: feelings of panic or severe discomfort concerning puberty and body changes (e.g., refusing to acknowledge or admit that changes are occurring, refusing to look at their body, or becoming distressed or uncomfortable with body development, menstruation, or ejaculation); discomfort or distress with certain forms of gender presentation, such as disliking long hair or certain types of clothing; increased bullying at school due to differences in acting out one’s perceived gender or lack of self-confidence; isolation from peers due to lack of connection or fear of bullying; depression and/or anxiety as a result of confusion over gender identity or not fitting in with peers; be aware that some adolescents may try to repress their true gender due to outside pressure, such as from family and peers, even if they previously expressed their true gender as a child”.

The literature on the prevalence of transgender people is heterogeneous, depending on the geographic area, inclusion criteria and age at presentation [9]. Specialized centers that manage transgender people estimate a prevalence between 17 and 33/100,000 individuals [10]. Actually, people who identify as transgender represent a sizable proportion of the general population, from 0.1% to 2% [11,12].

Although the biological basis of transgenderism/incongruence is unknown, biological, anatomical, genetic and environmental factors have been suggested to contribute to gender identity [13,14]. The role of sex hormones and genetics in sexual development was described by studies published between 1948 and 2019, and the implication of endogenous steroids in brain sexual differentiation has been widely studied [14,15,16,17,18]. According to the accepted dogma, high levels of fetal testosterone organize the brain towards a male phenotype [19]. Any exogenous chemical that can reduce testosterone action during fetal life can affect the differentiation of genitalia and sex behavior.

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a molecule that has strengthened the concepts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and the fetal basis of adult diseases [20]. It is well known that in utero exposure to DES, a compound with estrogenic and anti-androgenic activity, induces a wide range of reproductive tract/function abnormalities in the so-called ‘DES daughters’, e.g., alterations to Müllerian duct development, fertility problems, ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, premature births and cancers, especially clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) of the vagina and cervix in girls and young women [21]. In ‘DES sons’, epididymal cysts, hypospadias, cryptorchidism, hypoplastic testes and micropenises have been observed [22,23,24,25,26]. In addition, although less studied, in utero exposure to synthetic sex hormones, particularly DES, can cause psychological disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, eating disorders and suicidal behavior [27]. Interestingly, some studies in patients exposed in utero to DES with psychotic disorders identified methylome changes that affect the expression of ZFP57 and ADAMTS9, two genes implicated in neurodevelopment regulation [28], with potential multigenerational and transgenerational effects [29,30].

In this work, we first describe four transgender women identified among the 253 sons exposed in utero to DES included in the HHORAGES-France cohort (a French National patient association). This high prevalence of male-to-female transgender individuals among DES sons (1.58%) strongly suggests that exposure of male fetuses to this xenoestrogen during fetal life may affect future male sex identity and behavior.

2. Patients and Methods

This study was based on a French national retrospective cohort of DES-treated women (HHORAGES-France Association) (n = 1200) and their families. Detailed standard questionnaires were obtained from all DES mothers when they joined the HHORAGES-France Association and all DES children were already adults at this time. The answers to this online questionnaire were used to select women who met the following inclusion criteria: (1) at least two pregnancies with two viable male babies (same father) among whom the first child was not exposed in utero to DES (pre-DES), followed by one or more children with fetal exposure to DES (DES); (2) confirmed data on the total DES dose (health record or physician’s observation). The cumulative dose D administered to the French pregnant mothers was 4050 mg < D < 7300 mg. This is considered a medium-low-dose cohort, in accordance with the observations by Tournaire et al. [31] and compared with the higher doses administered in the United States (7550 mg < D < 12,742 mg). The answers to the questionnaires were also used to identify women with a DES son who presented female gender variance. We then contacted all DES sons with female gender variance and we carried out an individual interview with them.

The local university hospital ethics committee approved this study (ID IRB No. 202301531), and all patients gave their informed consent through the HHORAGES-France Association (CNIL: J B/EM/DC042793, N° 1006460).

All DES sons who identified as transgender women underwent karyotyping at their local hospital at the moment of transition.

2.1. Patient 1 (M.) (Table 1, First Column)

Table 1. Clinical features of our four patients with female gender variance, from childhood to adulthood.

Currently a writer and photographer, M. was born in 1961 after in utero exposure to DES given to their mother following a previous miscarriage. At birth, M. had male genitalia and unilateral cryptorchidism. At the age of 4 years, M. started to present gender dysphoria that became clear at the age of 9 years (Table 1, first column). During adolescence, M. expressed the conviction of being a woman. This period was also characterized by important school absenteeism and poor academic performance. In adult life, M. presented severe psychological disorders, particularly a severe self-mutilation episode (external genitalia) at the age of 43 years (2004), with a major, life-threatening hemorrhage. After seeing a psychiatrist, M. began the transition with male to female gender reassignment surgery in France, after the agreement of the French court of first instance. Since this operation, she has been receiving Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) and she is regularly followed as part of GAHT management.

2.2. Patient 2 (S.) (Table 1, Second Column)

Currently a composer (guitar and vocals), S. was born in 1969 after in utero exposure to DES. At birth, S. had male genitalia with unilateral cryptorchidism. S. started to question the assigned male gender at the age of 4 years: “I remember very clearly that when I was 3–4 years old, one day I went with my mother to a hairdressing salon and having looked at all the ladies, I thought: ‘When I grow up this is what I will do: I will be a woman’”.

During adolescence, S. felt he was a woman and had severe psychological disorders, particularly depression and suicidal ideation (Table 1, second column). As an adult, S. married and had two children. These two girls had prolactinoma, and one has Asperger’s syndrome, androgyny and ovarian cysts. S. began the transition with male to female gender reassignment surgery, in Brighton, United Kingdom (UK), in November 2015. Since then, S. has been receiving GAHT and is followed by the doctor who managed the transition. According to the UK Gender Recognition Act, S. could change their sex recorded on their birth certificate (male to female) and now, she lives in Scotland. Her elder sister, also exposed to DES in utero after her mother’s miscarriage, died due to vaginal adenocarcinoma during adolescence.

2.3. Patient 3 (Chr.) (Table 1, Third Column)

Currently a ULM pilot teacher, Chr. was born in 1963 after in utero exposure to DES and slow-release progestin. At birth, Chr. had male genitalia without any genital malformation and spina bifida. Chr. reported gender dysphoria at the age of 7 years (see Table 1, third column). During adolescence, Chr. had psychological disorders and enuresis up to the age of 16 years. At the age of 22 years, Chr. married and had one son at the age of 23 years. From the age of 30 years, Chr. regularly dressed as a female and finally divorced after 20 years of married life. Chr. began the transition with male to female gender reassignment surgery performed in Thailand, in 2003, at the age of 40 years. Since this operation, she has been receiving GAHT. She lives in a couple with her former female partner and the French court of first instance of her department recognized her identity change on June 2006, at the age of 43 years.

2.4. Patient 4 (J.) (Table 1, Fourth Column)

J. was born in May 1953 in the USA (Kansas, Mid-West) after in utero exposure to DES. At birth, J. had normal male genitalia and no malformation. Gender dysphoria began at about 3–4 years of age. During childhood, J. always liked to wear his sister’s clothing, including panties, slips and dresses (Table 1, fourth column). J. had no girlfriend at the age of 16 years, and later, fantasized to be Annette Funicello, a very feminine movie star. During adolescence, J. always fantasized by looking at women’s apparel and dreamt of wearing all the items featured in catalogues, especially panties and lingerie, and often dressed as a woman. Once an adult, J. married, “But still society pushed me into marriage which is where I am now, taking cross-sex hormones to become a girl!”. Indeed, from 1997, J. has been taking estradiol to change sex, but did not undergo gender reassignment surgery.

3. Results

In this French national retrospective cohort of DES-treated women (i.e., DES mothers; n = 1200) and their families, 253 boys who were exposed in utero to DES (DES sons) and 148 pre-DES sons were identified. The flowchart showing the included and excluded patients is shown in Figure 1. Four of these DES sons identified themselves as transgender women (transgender prevalence =1.58%) versus zero among the pre-DES sons (0%). The prevalence difference was not significant (p-value = 0.30), probably because of the small sample size. The DES doses were documented for all 253 DES sons.

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Figure 1. Included and excluded patients of the HHORAGES-France cohort in which four transgender M/Fs were identified. (HHORAGES-France data.) E2 is the synthetic hormone 17-α-estradiol that was often administered in a cocktail with DES and synthetic progesterone during pregnancy, but was banned for pregnant women in Europe in 1980.

In these four DES sons who identified themselves as transgender women, karyotyping did not reveal any abnormality. Major transgender components and behaviors were present already in early childhood and adolescence, as described in the previous section and summarized in Table 1.

4. Discussion

The number of patients seeking gender-specific healthcare has drastically increased (30–40-fold) in the last three decades [32]. In a recent European study, 0.7–1% of the general population reported incongruent gender identity [33]. However, several reports highlighted the important heterogeneity in the published estimates across studies. Moreover, the definition of transgender is often expanded to include broader manifestations of gender diversity. However, non-binary people should not be included in this wide definition. If we consider the highest prevalence of transgender women reported in the literature (1/17,000) [10], the prevalence we observed in our study (1.58%) is 10- to 100-fold higher. Moreover, the prevalence of female transgender identity was 0% among the 148 elder non-exposed sons (AMAB) in the same informative families.

It is generally accepted that fetal androgens play a crucial role in male brain differentiation by directly activating neuronal regions to provide organizational changes. In male individuals, gender identity, gender behavior and sex orientation are driven by prenatal androgen action [34]. Basic gender identity is developed at the age of 2–3 years [35]. By this age, most children have become aware of gender stereotypes, for instance, through toy preference and clothing. It is interesting to note that in our four patients, most diagnostic signs of transgenderism were present early in life and persisted during adolescence and adult life. In addition, mental health disorders, particularly depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation, have frequently been reported by DES children [27,36] and also by our four patients, starting from early adolescence and then in adulthood. Moreover, in many countries, transgender people live at the margin of society, and despite a higher educational level, they have a lower socio-economic status.

Although research in the transgender field is increasing, the causal mechanisms have not been adequately identified yet [13,37]. Genetic [38,39], biological [1,4], anatomical [40,41] and environmental factors [42,43] have mainly been studied. A greater chance of transgender concordance among XY monozygotic tweens than dizygotic tweens [44] supports a genetic component. A significant association between female transgenderism and over-represented alleles and genotypes (estrogen receptor α, ERα; androgen receptor, AR; Steroid 5 Alpha-Reductase 2, SRD5A2; cytochrome 17, CYP17) has been identified by Foreman et al. [38]. These authors suggested that gender dysphoria may have a polygenetic basis that may alter the masculinization of the fetal brain, contributing to the development of a female transgender identity. Moreover, the second-to-fourth digit length ratio (2D:4D), a proxy of prenatal androgen activity, was recently found to be higher, i.e., feminized, in female transgender persons. This finding reinforces the role of reduced prenatal androgen activity in female transgenderism. Unfortunately, we could not scan the left hand of our patients [45]. The primacy of testosterone [19] activity during fetal life is a critical driver of brain androgenization and the subsequent male sex identity and behavior [39,40].

In many animal studies, EDC exposure during development has been associated with changes in sex behavior, such as disruption of the normal social preference behavior (rats) and alteration of the differentiation of relevant sexually dimorphic pathways (mouse, Japanese quail) [42,43]. The most convincing evidence linking testosterone to the establishment of the male gender identity comes from individuals with DSDs, such as XY complete androgen insensitivity syndrome [45], XY 5 alpha reductase deficiency [46] and XX congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) [47]. For example, individuals with 5 alpha reductase deficiency are usually reared as girls on the basis of their female external genitalia [47]. They change the initial gender assignment during puberty, when testosterone concentration increase can organize the brain structures and influence the adolescent gender identity and behavior. XX fetuses with CAH and exposed to a high testosterone level during prenatal life present a high risk of gender incongruence. The transgender prevalence among individuals with DSDs is much higher than in the general population, although there are substantial differences among DSD etiologies. In a European collaborative work from the DSD Life Study, 4% of the 1040 participants with DSDs reported gender variance [48]. In our four patients, no DSD was diagnosed at birth. Patients 1 and 2 presented unilateral cryptorchidism, which cannot be considered a clinical expression of a DSD on its own, but is a minor effect of in utero exposure to DES. The XY DSD related to insufficient or deficient androgen production or activity during fetal life contributes to the low male sex differentiation of the brain [34]. This will lead to disorders of male gender identity, male behavior and male sexual orientation. Therefore, fetal exposure to any chemicals that can reduce androgen production or action should be considered a transgender risk factor [17]. In 1991, Renish et al. reported that male patients exposed in utero to DES appeared to be feminized [49].

In 2005 and 2020, Kerlin et al. conducted a 5-year qualitative study of DES sons via the Association DES-Sons USA and analyzed a sample of 500 men with confirmed DES exposure. In total, 90 individuals with verified DES exposure identified as transsexual, transgender or gender dysphoric (personal data). In addition, 65 individuals with strongly suspected but not confirmed DES exposure also defined themselves as “transsexual, transgender or gender dysphoric”. Kerlin et al. carried out extensive surveys and interviews with several of them for more than 15 years that enabled a stronger verification of the full scope of DES-related effects (personal data).

Based on a study by Tournaire et al. [21,31], the DES doses administered in France (4050 mg < D < 7300 mg) were lower than those administered in the United States (7550 mg < D < 12,742 mg; doses varied in the different states). These authors investigated DES’s role in clear cell carcinoma development in DES daughters in France and proposed that early fetal exposure (administration beginning during the first trimester of pregnancy which represents most cases) is more important than the dose. We think that this hypothesis is valid also for our DES sons.

Conversely, Titus et al. [50] evaluated a cohort of 2694 DES sons and found little support to the hypothesis that prenatal exposure to DES influences the psychosexual characteristics of adult men. Troisi et al. [51], in a group of 1848 DES sons, reported an odds ratio of 1.4 of having a gay identity or bisexual identity (five of these individuals were transgender women). Similarly, our finding of four transgender women among 253 XY patients who were exposed to DES in utero (1.58%), a much higher rate than in the general population and probably underestimated because no epidemiological investigation has been carried out on this topic, strongly suggests that DES plays a role in male to female transgender development. DES displays antiandrogenic activity in all assays used [52]. Northern blotting and RT-PCR showed a significant downregulation of androgen responsive genes upon exposure to DES [53]. As a xenoestrogen, DES can also stimulate production of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), the major androgen-binding protein in serum that reduces androgen’s ability to enter into the cell [54]. By reducing androgen production, bioactivity and action in target cells, DES must be considered an anti-androgen substance that can alter male sex differentiation of the brain and/or sex differentiation of the internal/external genitalia.

Differences in sex behavior may have correspondence in the brain architecture. Several studies reported an association between brain structure [15,55,56,57] and gender identity. Zhou et al. [58] first showed by brain imaging that the bed nucleus striae terminalis volume differs in men and women, and this is similar in transgender women and women. Garçia-Falgueras et al. [59], using brain imaging, found that the interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus volume is different between males and females and that its volume in transgender women is within the female range. Luders et al. reported regional gray matter variations in male-to-female transsexualism [55]. Lastly, Mueller et al. analyzed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from transgender men and women and cisgender men and women. Based on their findings, they suggested that transgender persons present a specific brain phenotype [56]. Unfortunately, no MRI data were available for our four patients.

In conclusion, the presented clinical data from our DES cohort, experimental works and the endocrine consequences of environmental disruptors suggest for the first time that male to female transgenderism in DES sons is associated with DES exposure and is not a coincidental finding.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, L.G., M.-O.S.-G. and C.S.; methodology, M.-O.S.-G. and C.S.; validation, F.P. and S.K.; formal analysis, C.S.; investigation, M.-O.S.-G. and C.S.; resources, M.-O.S.-G.; data curation, C.S.; writing—original draft preparation, writing—review and editing, M.-O.S.-G. and C.S.; visualization, F.P. and S.K.; supervision, C.S.; project administration, M.-O.S.-G.; funding acquisition, M.-O.S.-G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The APC was funded by HHORAGES Association.

Institutional Review Board Statement

The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of CHU Montpellier Pole 0078 Femme Mère Enfant protocol code 202301531/9-11-2023.

Informed Consent Statement

Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

Data Availability Statement

Data are contained within the article.

Acknowledgments

The authors warmly acknowledge M. D, S. F., Chr. P., and J. R. for their participation in answering questionnaires and interviews and analyses. This work could not continue without the daily ongoing support of the HHORAGES-France families and board, especially Mauricette P. (HHORAGES-France, a patient association, is registered at the Epidemiological Portal of French Health Databases INSERM (French National Institute for Medical Research) and AVIESAN (National Alliance for Life Sciences and Health) (epidemiologiefrance.aviesan.fr)), Yette B. and Aimée I. The authors also thank Elisabetta Andermarcher for corrections and relevant suggestions for the manuscript.

Conflicts of Interest

M-OS-G is a researcher and President of the HHORAGES-France Association and a mother concerned with DES and other synthetic hormones. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. HHORAGES-France Association is financed exclusively by subscriptions and donations.

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Michigan State University College of Law

Doctor of Law (J.D.)Doctor of Law (J.D.)

2016 - 20192016 - 2019

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Michigan State University College of Law has provided me thus far with an excellent legal education and hands on experience. I was awarded an Excellence in Oral Advocacy scholarship upon admission, which allowed be to be directly admitted to the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute. In my short time here, I have made the Dean's List for Spring 2017 and was a First Year Advocacy Oral Argument semi-finalist. In my second year, I will begin my coursework in the Trial Practice Institute and look forward to participating with the Board of Advocates on the Mock Trial team.Michigan State University College of Law has provided me thus far with an excellent legal education and hands on experience. I was awarded an Excellence in Oral Advocacy scholarship upon admission, which allowed be to be directly admitted to the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute. In my short time here, I have made the Dean's List for Spring 2017 and was a First Year Advocacy Oral Argument semi-finalist. In my second year, I will begin my coursework in the Trial Practice Institute and look forward to participating with the Board of Advocates on the Mock Trial team.

Saint Mary's College of California

Bachelor of the Arts, History Bachelor of the Arts, History

2012 - 20162012 - 2016

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As an undergraduate history student, I completed a thesis on the role of crusade as a political tactic during the reign of Henry VIII. I concentrated in Medieval European History and American History. This thesis won the Ron Isetti Award, the Saint Mary's History Department award for excellence in historical research and writing. In addition to studying history, I was also a member of the Macken Forensics Team. Along with my partner at the time, I was the first debater from Saint Mary's to recieve a first round bid to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence and the first to make it to elimination rounds at the National Parliamentary Debate Association's National Tournament. For two years in a row, I was nationally ranked for Parliamentary Debate. I graduated from Saint Mary's Cum Laude in May 2016 and believe to this day that attending Saint Mary's was the best decision I have ever made.As an undergraduate history student, I completed a thesis on the role of crusade as a political tactic during the reign of Henry VIII. I concentrated in Medieval European History and American History. This thesis won the Ron Isetti Award, the Saint Mary's History Department award for excellence in historical research and writing. In addition to studying history, I was also a member of the Macken Forensics Team. Along with my partner at the time, I was the first debater from Saint Mary's to recieve a first round bid to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence and the first to make it to elimination rounds at the National Parliamentary Debate Association's National Tournament. For two years in a row, I was nationally ranked for Parliamentary Debate. I graduated from Saint Mary's Cum Laude in May 2016 and believe to this day that attending Saint Mary's was the best decision I have ever made.

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Edmondo is an Italian masculine given name derived from the Old English name Eadmund, meaning "wealthy protector" or "prosperous guardian". It combines the Germanic elements ead ("wealth, fortune") and mund ("protection, guardian"). The name adapted through Latin as Edmundus before becoming the Italian Edmondo.

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Key Etymological and Historical Details:

Origin: The name has Old English roots, stemming from the Anglo-Saxon Eadmund.

Meaning: It translates to "wealthy protector," "guardian of prosperity," or "prosperous defender," reflecting ancient values of safeguarding family and property.

Evolution: It transitioned from Old English to Latin as Edmundus, and subsequently into Italian as Edmondo.

Significance: The name was popularized by Saint Edmund, the 9th-century King of East Anglia, and became widespread in medieval Europe.

Usage: While primarily used in Italian-speaking regions, it is the Italian equivalent of the English name Edmund or the Spanish/Portuguese Edmundo.

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Edmondo carries connotations of nobility and strength, often associated with historical figures, including the Italian novelist Edmondo De Amicis.

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In Revelation 17, the "licentious" behavior of the great prostitute (Babylon) symbolizes spiritual infidelity, idolatry, and global corruption rather than just literal sexual immorality. She is depicted as drunk on the blood of saints and seducing world leaders to partake in her sins, representing a false religious system that brings the world into a state of intoxication with her errors.

Revelation 17:7

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7 Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides [DRIVES], which has the SEVEN heads and ten horns.

JOHN P. SCHLEGELMILCH DISTRICT JUDGE

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Dear Mr. Dunn:

On behalf of the Court, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation for your service as a juror in State of Nevada v. Ryan Joe Coddington. Your conscientious consideration of the challenging and sensitive issues presented to you in this case proves that our Constitutional system of trial by our peers works to ensure fair and unbiased decisions are handed out of our courts.

Abraham Lincoln once said that "A jury is the common sense of a common people." The only way we have justice is through the judicial system in the United States. Justice really means fairness. It means that if you're charged with a crime, you can appear in front of a jury of your peers who will judge the facts fairly as a citizen of this State. A jury of your peers means a mix of people from all walks of life using their common sense to do justice. It is one of the most important civic responsibilities of being a United States Citizen.

I appreciate the fact that you responded to your summons as a juror willing to do your job. Our judicial system only works because citizens like you are interested, concerned and willing to make whatever arrangements are necessary in their personal lives to be able to perform this invaluable service. Your presence on the jury was a great asset in this case.

Once again, I would like to thank you on behalf of the Court and the people of Lyon County for your willingness to serve as a juror and to give so freely of your time and abilities. I admire you for your commitment to this case.

With great respect,

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Kale M. Brock, Esq. was recently named a 2021 PRO BONO Attorney of the Year by Nevada Legal Services

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The name "Brock" has dual origins: it's an English/Germanic name meaning "badger" (from Old English broc), often a nickname for someone tenacious, or a variant of "Brook," meaning a small stream, given to those living near water.

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Trustee Brookings Institution from 1922 on, until at least 1929.

Founding or very early director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from at least 1922, together with the Morgan and Rockefeller interests.

The Warburg-Schiff connection to the Bolsheviks also extended from Germany to the United States. When Lenin's Bolshevik ally Leon Trotsky arrived in New York City in January 1917, a certain Arthur Concors, the superintendent and director of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), waited for him on the pier.

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In Revelation 17:7, Who is the woman riding the Beast?

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But the angel said to me, "Why are you so amazed? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.

-- Revelation 17:7 (NRS)

Dave Hunt, who is an apologist and author, wrote a book called A Woman Rides the Beast. The woman who rides the beast, in his beliefs on scripture, refers mostly to Rome and the revived Roman Empire. But in each chapter, Dave continues to talk about other factors that play into this mysterious woman, including the false perception of Mary, the Vatican's connection to the holocaust, and "the failure of the first pope." The first pope, of course, was Peter but how did he fail as pope? He also wrote that "the gospel was being spread before any church was ever established", an excellent point made against Roman Catholicism.

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Pope Francis[b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[c] 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025.

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Easter in 2030

Date: April 21, 2030

Day: Sunday

On Easter Sunday 2021, Warnock's Twitter account tweeted, "The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are a Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves."

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Trump, Vance meet with Pope Leo's Florida brother, 'a major MAGA fan', at White House

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President Donald Trump met with Pope Leo XIV's brother, LOUIS Prevost, at the White House.

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Pope John Paul I[a] (born Albino Luciani;[b] 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I

On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II

SAKO Limited (natively Sako Oy)[1] is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme in southern Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAKO

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Revelation 13:3

LOUIS Raphaël I Sako (Arabic: لويس روفائيل ساكو;[1] born 4 July 1948) is a Chaldean Catholic prelate who has served as Patriarch of Baghdad since 1 February 2013. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rapha%C3%ABl_I_Sako

The word asas in Arabic means "PRINCIPLE". The Asāsiyyūn (plural, from literary Arabic) were, as defined in Arabic, the principle people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins

PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola

TRANSLATED FROM

THE AUTOGRAPH

FATHER ELDER MULLAN, S.J.

I.H.S.

NEW YORK

P.J. KENEDY & SONS

PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE

https://ia601603.us.archive.org/32/items/spiritualexercis00ignauoft/spiritualexercis00ignauoft.pdf

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the United States on November 7, 2028, to elect the president and vice president of the United States for a term of four years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_United_States_presidential_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Warnock

The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral John Warren's Chesapeake campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington

London is going to launch nuclear attack on Washington D.C 2030-2031 after false flag attacks in Jerusalem because of the Vatican and CIA.

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Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military officer serving since 2025 as the eighth director of national intelligence (DNI).

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The Cheyenne Mountain Complex (CMOC)[a] is a non-public military installation of the United States Department of Defense[b] located inside Cheyenne Mountain, in El Paso County, Colorado.[3]

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HOTT - MAJESTYTWELVE (hourofthetime.com)

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Our Nevada Judges, Inc.

May 24, 2025

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Democrats’ Reckless DHS Shutdown Hits Americans Hard as 100,000+ Workers Go Without Pay

The White House

March 9, 2026

As Radical Left Democrats drag the Department of Homeland Security shutdown into its 24th day, everyday Americans are paying the price. Now, as TSA officers work without paychecks for the third time in nearly six months, crippling staffing shortages and hours-long security lines are gripping airports as millions of families head out for spring break.

The chaos unfolded this weekend at airports across the country:

“There’s been a lot of frustration. A lot of people are very upset,” said a traveler at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston — where TSA wait times neared four hours.

“This is ridiculous. This is crazy. We get here, we go through Customs — and it’s so packed in here, you can’t even find the direction they’re trying to give,” said a traveler at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport — where lines snaked through multiple floors and spilled into the parking garage.

“It’s the longest I’ve ever seen it. I’ve flown into Atlanta several times, and this is by far the longest I’ve ever seen it in my life,” said a traveler at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — where passengers were met with mounting wait times and ground delays.

“We’re fed up. We’ve had enough. This is the third shutdown in a matter of six months,” said a 10-year veteran TSA officer in Phoenix.

It’s not just airports reeling from the effects of the Democrat Shutdown. Democrats have cut off resources and funding for FEMA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and thousands of federal law enforcement officers — jeopardizing America’s border security, maritime safety, and ability to respond to emergencies.

Americans’ safety and security are on the line each day the Democrat Shutdown continues. Democrats negotiated a bipartisan, full-year DHS funding bill — then walked away from the table, choosing illegal aliens over public safety and forcing these essential workers to serve without pay yet again.

Radical Left Democrats must stop playing politics with our homeland security.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/03/democrats-reckless-dhs-shutdown-hits-americans-hard-as-100000-workers-go-without-pay/

In Western esotericism, left-hand path and right-hand path are two opposing approaches to magic. Various groups engaged with the occult and ceremonial magic use the terminology to establish a dichotomy, broadly simplified as (malicious) black magic on the left and (benevolent) white magic on the right.[1] Others approach the left/right paths as different kinds of workings, without connotations of good or evil magical actions.[2] Still others treat the paths as fundamental schemes, connected with external divinities on the right, contrasted with self-deification on the left.

The terms have their origins in tantra: the right-hand path (RHP, or dakṣiṇācāra) applied to magical or spiritual groups that follow specific ethical codes and adopt social convention, while the left-hand path (LHP, or vāmācāra) adopts the opposite attitude, breaking taboos and abandoning set morality in order to practice and embrace heterodox practices.

Terminology

Right-hand path

The right-hand path is commonly thought to refer to magical or religious groups which adhere to a certain set of characteristics:

They divide the concepts of mind, body and spirit into three separate, albeit interrelated, entities.[3]

They adhere to a specific moral code and a belief in some form of judgement, such as karma or the Threefold Law.[3]

The occultist Dion Fortune considered Abrahamic religions to be RHP.[4]

Left-hand path

Historian Dave Evans studied self-professed followers of the left-hand path in the early 21st century, making several observations about their practices:

They often reject societal convention and the status quo, which some suggest is in a search for spiritual freedom. As a part of this, LHP followers embrace magical techniques that would traditionally be viewed as taboo, for instance using sex magic or embracing Satanic imagery.[5] As Mogg Morgan wrote, the "breaking of taboos makes magic more potent and can lead to reintegration and liberation, [for example] the eating of meat in a vegetarian community can have the same liberating effect as anal intercourse in a sexually inhibited society".[6]

They often question religious or moral dogma, instead adhering to forms of personal anarchism.[7]

They often embrace sexuality and incorporate it into magical ritual such as in Tantra, long practiced in parts of both Europe and Asia.[8]

History of the terms

Tantra and Madame Blavatsky

Vāmācāra is a Sanskrit term meaning "left-handed attainment". The converse term is dakshinachara.[9] The Western use of the terms left-hand path and right-hand path originated with Madame Blavatsky, a 19th-century occultist who founded the Theosophical Society. She had travelled across parts of southern Asia and gave accounts of having met with many mystics and magical practitioners in India and Tibet. She developed the term left-hand path as a translation of the term vamachara, an Indian Tantric practice that emphasised the breaking of Hindu societal taboos by having sexual intercourse in ritual, drinking alcohol, eating meat and assembling in graveyards, as a part of the spiritual practice. The term vamachara literally meant "the left-hand way" in Sanskrit, and it was from this that Blavatsky first coined the term.[10]

Returning to Europe, Blavatsky began using the term. It was relatively easy for her to associate left with evil in many European countries, where it already has had an association with evil and bad luck since the Classical Latin era. As the historian Dave Evans noted, homosexuals were referred to as "left-handed", while in Protestant nations Roman Catholics were called "left-footers".[11]

Adoption into the Western esoteric tradition

In New York, Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society with several other people in 1875. She set about writing several books, including Isis Unveiled (1877), in which she introduced the terms left-hand path and right-hand path, firmly stating that she herself followed the RHP, and that followers of the LHP were practitioners of black magic who were a threat to society. The occult community soon picked up on her newly introduced duality, which, according to historian Dave Evans, "had not been known before" in the Western Esoteric Tradition.[12] For instance, Dion Fortune, founder of the magical group the Society of the Inner Light, also took the side of the RHP, making the claim that followers of the LHP were homosexuals and that Indian servants might use malicious magical rites devoted to the goddess Kali against their European masters.[13]

Aleister Crowley further altered and popularized the term in certain occult circles, referring to a "brother of the left-hand path", or a "black brother", as one who failed to attain the grade of Magister Templi in Crowley's system of ceremonial magic.[14] Crowley also referred to the left-hand path when describing the point at which the Adeptus Exemptus chooses to cross the Abyss, which is the location of Choronzon and the illusory eleventh Sephira, which is Da'ath or Knowledge. In this example, the adept must surrender all, including the guidance of his Holy Guardian Angel, and leap into the Abyss. If his accumulated karma is sufficient, and if he has been utterly thorough in his own self-destruction, he becomes a "babe of the abyss", arising as a Star in the Crowleyan system. On the other hand, if he retains some fragment of ego, or if he fears to cross, he then becomes encysted. The layers of his self, which he could have shed in the Abyss, ossify around him. He is then titled a "brother of the left-hand path", who will eventually be broken up and disintegrated against his will, since he failed to choose voluntary disintegration.[14] Crowley associated all this with "Mary, a blasphemy against Babalon", and with the celibacy of Christian clergy.[14]

A figure Fortune considered to be a follower of the LHP was Arthur Edward Waite, who did not recognise these terms, and acknowledged that they were newly introduced and that in any case he believed the terms LHP and RHP to be distinct from black and white magic.[15] However, despite Waite's attempts to distinguish the two, the equation of the LHP with black magic was propagated more widely in the fiction of Dennis Wheatley; Wheatley also conflated the two with Satanism and also the political ideology of communism, which he viewed as a threat to traditional British society.[16]

Later 20th and 21st centuries

In the latter half of the 20th century various groups arose that self-professedly described themselves as LHP but did not consider themselves as practicing black magic. In 1975, Kenneth Grant, a student of Aleister Crowley, explained in Cults of the Shadow that he and his group, the Typhonian Order, practiced the LHP. Grant's usage takes meaning from its roots in eastern Tantra; Grant states that it is about challenging taboos, but that it should be used in conjunction with the RHP to achieve balance.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-hand_path_and_right-hand_path

Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants

Jackson Arn, Artsy

5 min read

Updated 5:28 AM EST, Tue November 3, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen here.

CNN

—

Every election cycle, illustrations of donkeys and elephants show up in political cartoons, campaign buttons, Internet memes, and some truly alarming fashion choices. How could it be otherwise? The two beasts – the former representing the Democratic Party; the latter, the Republican Party – are mainstays of America’s visual culture, as recognizable as Santa Claus or Uncle Sam.

This photographer is reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st century

Yet most Americans would be surprised to learn that both political symbols (as well as Santa Claus and Uncle Sam) were popularized, and given their modern forms, by the same maverick cartoonist.

His name was Thomas Nast, and over the course of his tenure at Harper’s Weekly, from 1862 to 1886, he became America’s first great political cartoonist – and one of its harshest satirists. In the intricately detailed wood engravings for which he’s best remembered, he tackled the Civil War, the follies of Reconstruction, immigration, and – most famously – the Tammany Hall political machine. Some have suggested that the word “nasty” derives from the artist’s surname, and while this is almost certainly not true, one glance at his cartoons might convince you that it is.

Historians have asserted that Nast, who grew up in New York City in the 1840s and ’50s, was ferociously bullied as a child. Indeed, the two themes that run through his career are his sneering disdain for bullies of all shapes and sizes, and his compassion for their victims.

This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images

At Harper’s, he moved back and forth between these two poles. In one famous cartoon, “Worse Than Slavery” (1874), a defenseless black family cowers before a grinning Klansman; in another – a blistering parody of the KKK’s alliance with New York’s political machine, captioned “They Are Swallowing Each Other” – there are no victims, only two bloated, bug-eyed men depicted as ouroboroi. Nowadays, “editorial cartoons” might bring to mind spare, deliberately simplistic images – the kind you can process in half a second while reading the news. By contrast, Nast’s dense, meticulously labeled cartoons were news: not just images but arguments, meant to be analyzed and discussed point-by-point.

In the post-truth era, photographers use lies to spread facts

Take “Third Term Panic,” the 1874 cartoon often credited with popularizing the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. In the months leading up to the midterms, the New York Herald, at the time backing several Democratic candidates, had spread the rumor that President Ulysses Grant, a Republican, was contemplating running for a third term in 1876 – not illegal in the days before the 22nd Amendment but definitely frowned upon.

In this politcal cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled "Fine-Ass Committee," a donkey stands in for a Democratic congressmen blowing financial bubbles. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Nast, a proud supporter of the Party of Lincoln, drew the Herald as a donkey wrapped in a lion’s skin, frightening the other animals with wild stories of a Grant dictatorship. Among these animals are an enormous, oafish elephant labeled “the Republican Vote,” which looks as though it’s about to tumble off a cliff.

Nast was hardly the first humorist to compare humans to animals – the story of the donkey in the lion’s skin goes back all the way to Aesop. He wasn’t even the first artist to compare Republicans to pachyderms: At least a decade earlier, advertisements had promoted the GOP with the slogan “see the elephant,” an obscure bit of Civil War slang that roughly translates to “fight bravely.”

And while Nast depicted the Democratic Party as a donkey many times (though in “Third Term Panic” it actually takes the shape of a fox), the two had been linked since the days of the Jackson administration half a century ago.

The Republican elephant made its first appearance in this 1874 cartoon by Thomas Nast. A fox in the bottom right corner represents the Democratic party. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images

But it was Nast’s insight to present American politics as one big, messy menagerie – a circus, much like the one Barnum & Bailey had debuted in New York three years earlier. Like the best satirists, he ridiculed his own side almost as gleefully as he did his opponents’ – and so, he reimagined the GOP as a weak, panicky creature that was constantly lumbering off in the wrong direction, its size more of a liability than an asset.

Artists mark Trump's inauguration anniversary with day of protest art

Nast’s donkeys fare no better; a typical cartoon from 1879 shows the stubborn beast dangling by the tail, about to fall into an abyss of “financial chaos.” More often than not, in fact, his cartoons depict elephants and donkeys only a hair’s breadth away from chaos – a pretty fair assessment of Republican and Democratic leadership during the Gilded Age.

In the 1880s, Nast was the most feared artist in the country, the sworn enemy of crooks and swindlers on the right and the left alike. Then, in a Nast-y twist of fate worthy of his cartoons, he lost all his money in a Ponzi scheme, the kind of sleazy operation he’d spent his entire career cautioning against. In 1890, he tried to rebuild his fortune by publishing a book of Christmas illustrations.

In this 1876 Nast cartoon, the Republican vote, represented by Uncle Sam riding an elephant, tramples a tiger representing the Democrats. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images

By that point, however, he seems to have lost some of the creative momentum he’d gained at Harper’s, and he spent the last decade of his life in poor health, painfully aware that his best work was long behind him.

Political art set to sweep billboards across 50 US states ahead of 2018 midterms

But the elephant and the donkey live on in political pageantry, thanks to Nast’s ingenuity. To date, the elephant remains the official symbol of the Republican Party, and although the Democrats have yet to declare their own, you wouldn’t need to walk more than a couple paces at one of their rallies before spotting a donkey.

It’s a little weird that both of the major American political parties have embraced their mascots so enthusiastically, considering how poorly the two animals come across in Nast’s original cartoons: how stupid, how pliable, how easily confused. Maybe neither party bothered to check before stocking up on pins and tote bags.

Or maybe they knew about Nast’s mockery and decided that the appropriate response was to join in mocking themselves.

This article was originally published in November 2018.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/why-democrats-are-donkeys-republicans-are-elephants-artsy/

Shitala

Goddess of Ailments[1]

The goddess Shitala on Jvarasura

Affiliation Devi

Parvati

Weapon Broom, hand fan, water pot (medicinal water for cure for diseases)

Mount Jvarasur (donkey)

Festivals Sheetala Asthami

Consort Shiva

Shitala (Sanskrit: शीतला, IAST: śītalā) lit. 'coolness', also spelled as Sheetala, śītalā and Seetla, is a Hindu goddess venerated primarily in North India.[2] She is regarded to be an incarnation of the goddess Parvati. She is believed to cure poxes, sores, ghouls, pustules, and diseases, and most directly linked with the disease smallpox. Shitala is worshipped on Tuesday[3] Saptami and Ashtami (the seventh and eighth day of a Hindu month), especially after Holi during the month of Chaitra. The celebration of the goddess Shitala on the seventh and eighth day of the Hindu month is referred to as the Sheetala Saptami and Sheetala Asthami, respectively.[4]

Mythology

The deity is typically depicted as a mother who defends children from paediatric ailments, such as exanthemata and smallpox. She also serves as a fertility goddess that assists women in finding good husbands and conceiving healthy children. Her auspicious presence promises the welfare of the family and is considered to protect the devotee's sources of livelihood. Shitala is also summoned to ensure refreshing rainfall and the prevention of famines, droughts, and cattle diseases.[5]

Some 16th-century copies of the Skanda Purana's Kāśī Khaṇḍa section on Varanasi describe Shitala curing ailments like smallpox pustules:[6]

For the sake of quelling boils and blisters (of smallpox) and for the sake of the children, a devotee takes Masūra lentils by measures and grinds them. Due to the power of Śītalā, children become free from the disease.

— Skanda Purana, Chapter 12

The earliest Bengali language poems on Shitala were composed in Saptagram in 1690. 18th-century compositions from Midnapore, West Bengal led to Shitala's increasing prominence in religious worship. During this period, conflicts between the Maratha Empire and British East India Company led to famines that increased the mortality of smallpox cases.[7]

Name and variants

In Sanskrit, the name Sheetala (शीतला śītalā) literally means 'the one who cools.' An epithet of the mother goddess Devi revered in Hinduism, 'Sheetala' represents the divine blessing of bestowing cool relief from the suffering of fever. The goddess Sheetala is worshiped under varying names across the Indian subcontinent. Devotees most often refer to Sheetala using honorific suffixes reserved for respected motherly figures, such as Sheetala-Ma (Hindi: मां māṃ), Sheetala-Mata (Sanskrit: माता mātā), and Sheetala-Amma (Kannada: ಅಮ್ಮ am'ma). Sheetala is revered by Hindus, Buddhists, and Adivasi communities. She is mentioned in Tantric and Puranic literature, and Her later appearance in vernacular texts - such as the 17th-century Bengali-language Sheetala Mangal-Kāvya (শীতলা মঙ্গলকাব্য, Lit. 'auspicious poetry of Goddess Sheetala') by Manikram Gangopadhyay - has contributed to popularising Her worship.[8]

In North India, Sheetala Devi's worship is especially popular among Jatavs communities,[9] where She is traditionally identified as an aspect of Goddess Parvati, the Divine Consort of Lord Shiva. She is also closely associated with the neem tree - the leaves and flowers of which are used as naivedya (sacred offerings) at Sheetala Devi shrines and temples. In some places, like Muzaffarnagar, worshippers pray to Her using the divine epithet 'Mā Ujalī Devī' (माँ उजली देवी, 'Divine Mother of Brightness'). Other shrines are located at Sikandarpur; in Bijnor, Raewala, Dehra Dun and in Jalon. These Goddesses seem to have been worshipped for many centuries by the Chamars as has been documented.[9] In addition to being addressed as 'Mother', Sheetala Devi is also revered with honorific titles such as Thakurani, Jagrani (Queen of the World), Karunamayi (She Who Is Full of Mercy), Mangala (The Auspicious One), Bhagavati (The Revered Goddess), Dayamayi (She Who Is Compassionate, Full of Grace, and Kindness).[10] In Gurgaon, Haryana, Sheetala is considered to be Kripi (the wife of Drona) and worshipped in the Sheetla Mata Mandir Gurgaon.[11] In South India, Sheetala Devi is revered as the goddess incarnate Mariamman, widely worshipped by various communities.

Sheetala Puja

Sheetala is primarily worshiped by women on Sitalastami, the eighth day of Phalguna, the eleventh month of the Hindu lunar calendar, which typically falls between mid-February and late March, as established by Raghunandana because the long, dry nights are associated with deaths from smallpox.[7] There are many arti sangrah and stutis for the puja of Seetala. Some of them are Shri Shitla Mata Chalisa, Shitala Maa ki arti, and Shri Shitala Mata ashtak.

According to common belief, many families do not light their stoves on Ashtami/Saptami day, and all devotees cheerfully eat cold food (Cooked the previous night) in the form of prasada. The idea behind this is that as spring fades and summer approaches, cold food should be avoided.[12]

Sheetala Mata Pooja

Iconography and symbolism

Image of Shitala

Traditional depictions

Shitala is traditionally represented as a young maiden crowned with a winnowing fan, riding a donkey, and holding a short broom to spread the content of her pot full of viral pustules or cold water of immortality. In smaller rural shrines built by Adivasi and Bahujan communities, Shitala may be simply represented by smooth stone slabs with painted facial features and decorative adornments donated by devotees. Notably, references to neem leaves are ubiquitous in Shitala's liturgy and also appear in her iconography, suggesting an early understanding of Azadirachta indica as a medicinal plant. Moreover, neem leaves are extensively mentioned in the Sushruta Samhita, where it is listed as an effective antipyretic, as well as a remedy for certain inflammatory skin conditions.

Shitala is a form of Goddess Katyayani. She provides coolness to feverish patients. According to the Devi Mahatmyam, when an asura named Jvarasura gave bacterial fever to all the children, the goddess Katyayani arrived in her avatar of Shitala to purify the children's blood by ridding them of the fever-causing bacteria, and vanquishing the evil Jvarasura. In Sanskrit jvara means 'fever', and shītala means 'coolness'. In North Indian iconography, Shitala is often depicted with Jvarasura as her eternal servant. Other deities often worshiped alongside Shitala Devi include Ghentu-debata, the god of skin diseases; Raktabati , the goddess of blood infections and the sixty-four epidemics; and Oladevi, a cholera-associated disease goddess.[13]

She is also depicted enthroned in an eight-handed form holding a trident, broom, discus (chakra), pot of viral pustules and healing water, branches of neem, scimitar, conch. and a hand depicting varadamudra. She is also flanked by two donkeys. This depiction has established her as a goddess of protection, good fortune, health, and power.

Smallpox eradication

Shitala is historically understood as causing smallpox among non-believers, providing them an opportunity for reflection. Based on her religious role of healing those that make offerings to others recovering from illness, the World Health Organization's efforts to distribute smallpox vaccines initially faced resistance as local people saw vaccination as an attempt by Western science to circumvent Hindu religious order. To combat this perception, the international Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP) produced posters depicting Shitala with a vaccination needle to reinterpret immunization as derived from Shitala's power.[14]

Buddhism

In Buddhist legends, Jvarasura and Shitala are depicted sometimes as companions of Paranasabari, the Buddhist goddess of diseases. Jvarasura and Shitala are shown escorting her to her right and left side, respectively.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitala

Indra

King of the Devas

King of Svarga

God of Weather, Lightning, Thunder, Storms and Rain

Indra, Parjanya

Painting of Indra on his elephant mount, Airavata, from Tiruchchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, c. 1820-1825

Other names Devendra, Mahendra, Surendra, Surapati, Suresha, Devesha, Devaraja, Amaresha, Parjanya, Vendhan,

Devanagari इन्द्र

Sanskrit transliteration Indra

Affiliation Adityas, Deva, Dikpala, Parjanya

Abode Amarāvati, the capital of Indraloka in Svarga[1]

Mantra Oṁ Indradevāya Namaḥ

Oṁ Indrarājāya Vidmahe Mahā Indrāya Dhīmahi Tanno Indraḥ Pracodayāt

Weapon Vajra (thunderbolt), Astras, Indrastra, Aindrastra,

Symbols Vajra, Indra's net

Day Sunday

Mount Airavata (white elephant), Uchchaihshravas (white horse), A divine chariot yoked with eight horses

Texts Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads

Gender Male

Festivals Indra Jatra, Indra Vila, Raksha Bandhan, Lohri, Sawan, Deepavali

Genealogy

Parents Kashyapa and Aditi[2][3][a]

Siblings Adityas including Surya, Varuna, Bhaga, Aryaman, Mitra, Savitr and Vamana

Consort Shachi

Children Jayanta, Rishabha, Midhusha, Jayanti, Devasena (Shashthi), Vali and Arjuna

Equivalents

Canaanite Ba'al

Greek Zeus

Indo-European Perkwunos

Norse Thor

Roman Jupiter

Slavic Perun

Celtic Taranis

Japanese Susanoo-no-Mikoto, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto

Nuristani Great Gish, Sudrem

Egyptian Amun

Buddhist Śakra

Indra (/ˈɪndrə/; Sanskrit: इन्द्र, IPA: [in̪d̪rɐ]) is the Vedic god of weather, considered the king of the devas[4] and svarga in Hinduism. He is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows, and war.[5][6][7][8]

Indra is the most frequently mentioned deity in the Rigveda.[9] He is celebrated for his powers based on his status as a god of order,[4] and as the one who killed the great evil, an asura named Vritra, who obstructed human prosperity and happiness. Indra destroys Vritra and his "deceiving forces", and thereby brings rain and sunshine as the saviour of mankind.[8][10]

Indra's significance diminishes in the post-Vedic Indian literature, but he still plays an important role in various mythological events. He is depicted as a powerful hero.[11]

According to the Vishnu Purana, Indra is the title borne by the king of the gods, which changes every Manvantara – a cyclic period of time in Hindu cosmology. Each Manvantara has its own Indra and the Indra of the current Manvantara is called Purandhara.[12][13][14][15]

Indra is also depicted in Buddhist (Pali: Indā)[16][17] and Jain[18] mythologies. Indra rules over the much-sought Devas realm of rebirth within the Samsara doctrine of Buddhist traditions.[19] However, like the post-Vedic Hindu texts, Indra is also a subject of ridicule and reduced to a figurehead status in Buddhist texts,[20] shown as a god who suffers rebirth.[19] In Jain traditions, unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Indra is not the king of gods, but the king of superhumans residing in Svarga-Loka, and very much a part of Jain rebirth cosmology.[21] He is also the one who appears with his consort Indrani to celebrate the auspicious moments in the life of a Jain Tirthankara, an iconography that suggests the king and queen of superhumans residing in Svarga reverentially marking the spiritual journey of a Jain.[22][23] He is a rough equivalent to Zeus in Greek mythology, or Jupiter in Roman mythology. Indra's powers are similar to other Indo-European deities such as Armenian Aramazd, Norse Odin, Slavic Perun, Perkūnas, Zalmoxis, Taranis, and Thor, part of the greater Proto-Indo-European mythology.[8][24][25]

Indra's iconography shows him wielding his vajra and riding his vahana, Airavata.[26][27] Indra's abode is in the capital city of Svarga, Amaravati, though he is also associated with Mount Meru (also called Sumeru).[19][28]

Etymology and nomenclature

Indra on his elephant, guarding the entrance of the 1st century BCE Buddhist Cave 19 at Bhaja Caves (Maharashtra).[29]

The etymological roots of Indra are unclear, and it has been a contested topic among scholars since the 19th-century, one with many proposals.[30][31] The significant proposals have been:

root ind-u, or "spirit", based on the Vedic mythology that he conquered rain and brought it down to earth.[26][30]

root ind, or "equipped with great power". This was proposed by Vopadeva.[26]

root idh or "spirit", and ina or "strong".[32][33]

root indha, or "igniter", for his ability to bring light and power (indriya) that ignites the vital forces of life (prana). This is based on Shatapatha Brahmana.[34]

root idam-dra, or "It seeing" which is a reference to the one who first perceived the self-sufficient metaphysical Brahman. This is based on Aitareya Upanishad.[26]

roots in ancient Indo-European, Indo-Aryan deities.[35] For example, states John Colarusso, as a reflex of proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr-, Greek anēr, Sabine nerō, Avestan nar-, Umbrian nerus, Old Irish nert, Pashto nər, Ossetic nart, and others which all refer to "most manly" or "hero".[35]

roots in ancient Proto-Uralic paganism, particularly the old Uralic sky god, whose modern reflexes include e.g. Finnish Ilmarinen and Udmurt Inmar [ru].[36]

Colonial era scholarship proposed that Indra shares etymological roots with Avestan Andra, Old High German *antra ("giant"), or Old Church Slavonic jedru ("strong"), but Max Muller critiqued these proposals as untenable.[30][37] Later scholarship has linked Vedic Indra to Aynar (the Great One) of Circassian, Abaza and Ubykh mythology, and Innara of Hittite mythology.[35][38] Colarusso suggests a Pontic[b] origin and that both the phonology and the context of Indra in Indian religions is best explained from Indo-Aryan roots and a Circassian etymology (i.e. *inra).[35] Modern scholarship suggests the name originated at the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex where the Aryans lived before settling in India.

Other languages

In other languages, he is also known as

Ashkun: Indra

Bengali: ইন্দ্র (Indro)

Burmese: သိကြားမင်း ([ðədʑá mɪ́ɰ̃])

Chinese: 因陀羅 (Yīntuóluó) or 帝釋天 (Dìshìtiān)

Indonesian/Malay: (Indera)

Japanese: 帝釈天 (Taishakuten).[39]

Javanese: ꦧꦛꦫꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦿ (Bathara Indra)

Kamkata-vari: Inra

Kannada: ಇಂದ್ರ (Indra)

Khmer: ព្រះឥន្ទ្រ (Preah In pronounced [preah ʔən])

Korean: 제석천 (Jeseokcheon)

Lanna: ᩍᨶ᩠ᨴᩣ (Intha) or ᨻᩕ᩠ᨿᩣᩍᨶ᩠ᨴ᩼ (Pha Nya In)

Lao: ພະອິນ (Pha In) or ພະຍາອິນ (Pha Nya In)

Malayalam: ഇന്ദ്രൻ (Indran)

Mon: ဣန် (In)

Mongolian: Индра (Indra)

Odia: ଇନ୍ଦ୍ର (Indrô)

Prasun: Indr

Sinhala: ඉඳු (In̆du) or ඉන්ද්‍ර (Indra)

Tai Lue: ᦀᦲᧃ (In) or ᦘᦍᦱᦀᦲᧃ (Pha Ya In)

Tamil: இந்திரன் (Inthiran)

Telugu: ఇంద్రుఁడు (Indrun̆ḍu or Indrũḍu)

Tibetan: དབང་པོ་ (dbang po)

Thai: พระอินทร์ (Phra In)

Waigali: Indr

Epithets

Indra has many epithets in the Indian religions, notably Śakra (शक्र, powerful one),

Vṛṣan (वृषन्, mighty)

Vṛtrahan (वृत्रहन्, slayer of Vṛtra)

Meghavāhana (मेघवाहन, he whose vehicle is cloud)

Devarāja (देवराज, king of deities)

Devendra (देवेन्द्र, the lord of deities)[40]

Surendra (सुरेन्द्र, chief of deities)

Svargapati (स्वर्गपति, the lord of heaven)

Śatakratu (शतक्रतु one who performs 100 sacrifices).

Vajrapāṇī (वज्रपाणि, wielder of Vajra, i.e., thunderbolt)

Vāsava (वासव, lord of Vasus)

Purandara (पुरंदर, the breaker of forts)

Kaushika (कौशिक, Vishvamitra was born as the embodiment of Indra)

Shachin or Shachindra (शचीन, the consort of Shachi).

Parjanya (पर्जन्य, Rain)

Origins

Banteay Srei temple's pediment carvings depict Indra mounted on Airavata, Cambodia, c. 10th century.

Indra is of ancient but unclear origin. Aspects of Indra as a deity are cognate to other Indo-European gods; there are thunder gods such as Thor, Perun, and Zeus who share parts of his heroic mythologies, act as king of gods, and all are linked to "rain and thunder".[41] The similarities between Indra of Vedic mythology and of Thor of Nordic and Germanic mythologies are significant, states Max Müller. Both Indra and Thor are storm gods, with powers over lightning and thunder, both carry a hammer or an equivalent, for both the weapon returns to their hand after they hurl it, both are associated with bulls in the earliest layer of respective texts, both use thunder as a battle-cry, both are protectors of mankind, both are described with legends about "milking the cloud-cows", both are benevolent giants, gods of strength, of life, of marriage and the healing gods.[42]

Michael Janda suggests that Indra has origins in the Indo-European *trigw-welumos [or rather *trigw-t-welumos] "smasher of the enclosure" (of Vritra, Vala) and diye-snūtyos "impeller of streams" (the liberated rivers, corresponding to Vedic apam ajas "agitator of the waters").[43] Brave and heroic Innara or Inra, which sounds like Indra, is mentioned among the gods of the Mitanni, a Hurrian-speaking people of Hittite region.[44]

Indra as a deity was known in the capital of the Hittite Empire in northeastern Asia minor, as evidenced by the inscriptions on the Boghaz-köi clay tablets dated to about 1400 BCE. This tablet mentions a treaty, but its significance is in four names it includes reverentially as Mi-it-ra, U-ru-w-na, In-da-ra and Na-sa-at-ti-ia. These are respectively, Mitra, Varuna, Indra and Nasatya-Asvin of the Vedic pantheon as revered deities, and these are also found in Avestan pantheon but with Indra and Naonhaitya as demons. This at least suggests that Indra and his fellow deities were in vogue in South Asia and Asia minor by about mid 2nd-millennium BCE.[32][45]

Indra is praised as the highest god in 250 hymns of the Rigveda – a Hindu scripture dated to have been composed sometime between 1700 and 1100 BCE. He is co-praised as the supreme in another 50 hymns, thus making him one of the most celebrated Vedic deities.[32] He is also mentioned in ancient Indo-Iranian literature, but with a major inconsistency when contrasted with the Vedas. In the Vedic literature, Indra is a heroic god. In the Avestan (ancient, pre-Islamic Iranian) texts such as Vd. 10.9, Dk. 9.3 and Gbd 27.6-34.27, Indra – or accurately Andra[46] – is a gigantic demon who opposes truth.[35][c] In the Vedic texts, Indra kills the archenemy and demon Vritra who threatens mankind. In the Avestan texts, Vritra is not found.[46]

According to David Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Iran.[47] It was "a syncretic mixture of old Central Asian and new Indo-European elements",[47] which borrowed "distinctive religious beliefs and practices"[48] from the Bactria–Margiana Culture.[48] At least 383 non-Indo-European words were found in this culture, including the god Indra and the ritual drink Soma.[49] According to Anthony,

Many of the qualities of Indo-Iranian god of might/victory, Verethraghna, were transferred to the god Indra, who became the central deity of the developing Old Indic culture. Indra was the subject of 250 hymns, a quarter of the Rig Veda. He was associated more than any other deity with Soma, a stimulant drug (perhaps derived from Ephedra) probably borrowed from the BMAC religion. His rise to prominence was a peculiar trait of the Old Indic speakers.[50]

However, according to Paul Thieme, "there is no valid justification for supposing that the Proto-Aryan adjective *vrtraghan was specifically connected with *Indra or any other particular god."[51]

Iconography

Indra's iconography shows him holding a thunderbolt or Vajra and a sword. In addition he is shown on top of his elephant Airavata, which reinforces his characteristic of King of the Gods. Sometimes he is accompanied by his wife, Shachi. Left: Painting of Indra on his elephant mount, Airavata, c. 1820. Right: From Hoysaleswara temple, 12th century CE.

A gilt-copper sculpture of Indra, c. 16th-century

In Rigveda, Indra is described as strong willed, armed with a thunderbolt, riding a chariot:

5. Let bullish heaven strengthen you, the bull; as bull you travel with your two bullish fallow bays. As bull with a bullish chariot, well-lipped one, as bull with bullish will, you of the mace, set us up in loot.

— Rigveda, Book 5, Hymn 37: Jamison[52]

Contrary to how he has been portrayed in post-Vedic works of art, Indra is described as having glowing golden hair, rather than the dark hair common among most Hindu gods:

5. It was just you who were gladdened when you were praised by the ancient sacrificers, o golden-haired Indra.

— Rigveda, Book 10, Hymn 97: Jamison[52]

Indra's weapon, which he used to kill the evil Vritra, is the vajra or thunderbolt. Other alternate iconographic symbolism for him includes a bow (sometimes as a colorful rainbow), a sword, a net, a noose, a hook, or a conch.[53] The thunderbolt of Indra is called Bhaudhara.[54]

In the post-Vedic period, he rides a large, four-tusked white elephant called Airavata.[26] In sculpture and relief artworks in temples, he typically sits on an elephant or is near one. When he is shown to have two, he holds the vajra and a bow.[55]

In the Shatapatha Brahmana and in Shaktism traditions, Indra is stated to be the same as the goddess Shodashi (Tripura Sundari), and her iconography is described similarly to that of Indra.[56]

The rainbow is called Indra's Bow (Sanskrit: इन्द्रधनुस् indradhanus).[53]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra

Elephant and Obelisk is a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome, adjacent to the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it stands today.

The obelisk

The red granite obelisk was originally erected by Pharaoh Apries of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt,[1] about 580 BC, in his capital Sais. The obelisk was rediscovered in 1665 during excavations near the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. It had probably been brought to Rome in the first century AD for the temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis that was located there. The obelisk is 5.47 meters tall and is the smallest of the 13 ancient obelisks present in Rome.[2] Together with pedestal and elephant, the statue stands 12.69 meters tall.

The obelisk is considered to be one of a pair; the other is in Urbino.

The elephant statue

The image possibly originated from the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili of 1499. Various preparatory drawings done by Bernini exist. One version in Windsor Castle, UK was probably done in the 1630s when Cardinal Francesco Barberini wished to place an Egyptian obelisk in front of his family palace, the Palazzo Barberini. Nothing came of this specific project, but Bernini revived the idea in the 1660s, when Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi, wished to build a similar monument after another Egyptian obelisk had been discovered in Rome.

Various other concepts were explored for this later commission as attested by preparatory drawings. It is likely that the drawings were used so that the patron could make a decision about which design he wanted. This included a drawing (in Leipzig) of the figure of Time holding a scythe and simultaneously the obelisk. In the Vatican Library there are two pen and ink drawings with other figures holding up the obelisk, including one of Hercules, and another with various allegorical figures supporting the spire.[3] A third version in the Vatican Library shows Bernini adapting on the concept he created in the 1630s, although he added in a larger base, changed the direction of the elephant's orientation, and made its face appear more friendly than ferocious.[4]

The marble elephant was probably carved by Bernini's assistant Ercole Ferrata.

The Latin inscription at one side of the pedestal reads: "Let any beholder of the carved images of the wisdom of Egypt on the obelisk carried by the elephant, the strongest of beasts, realize that it takes a robust mind to carry solid wisdom."[5]

The statue turned out to be the last commission Pope Alexander VII would ask of Bernini, as the pope died in May 1667. He was succeeded by Pope Clement IX.

In later times

Wood cut from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

A similar statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk was erected by Vaccarini in 1736 in front of the Palazzo degli Elefanti in Catania on Sicily.

The statue makes a brief but prominent appearance in the Italian neorealist film Umberto D. (1952). It also features as a motif in the novel Adua by Igiaba Scego (2015).

On 15 November 2016, Rome authorities announced they were searching for vandals who broke the left tusk the previous Sunday night and left the piece nearby. Mayor Virginia Raggi said that they will assess the damage to determine how to best reattach the fragment.[6]

Salvador Dalí's painting The Elephants, which depicts two elephants with elongated legs facing each other while bearing fragmented obelisks, also makes visual references to the statue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_and_Obelisk

The Jesuits had successfully waged a war between two sovereign nations, the

United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The despots of

the Jesuits’ Holy Alliance had sided with the North, and thus, the Southern people

fought the world. The deceived patriots of the North fought to “save the Union” but

they in fact destroyed it, and on its ruins the Jesuits, with their Freemasons, would

erect a new Union—a new United Socialist States of America. This new nation

would be a Jesuit “democratic” socialist republic with the President, as Commander

in-Chief, exercising powers of an absolute Monarch. The old Calvinistic Federal

Republic of Washington would be converted into a huge centralized Empire with the

ten planks of the Masonic Communist Manifesto

replacing The Ten Commandments

Moses. In order to accomplish this, the Constitution had to be amended—“by hook

or by crook.” It would be amended in accordance with the Masonic cry of both

French Revolutions. “Liberty” would be the Thirteenth Amendment. “Equality”

would be the Fourteenth Amendment. “Fraternity” would be the Fifteenth

Amendment. We now will examine the forced ratification of the Fourteenth

Amendment with all its tyranny and usurpation, as it was the coup d’etat.

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On July 28, 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was declared to be “ratified” by

the Radicals in Washington. Since 1866 the Southern States had been under martial

law and divided into five military districts. The districts were governed by five Union

Generals beholden to the Jesuits, including General Benjamin F. Butler known as

“Butler the Beast.”

The wicked, bigoted Thaddeus Stevens with his

“Reconstruction Act” of 1866 had implemented martial law. And why? Because the

Southern State governments, having ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, refused to

ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. So the solution of the Radicals, to the disgrace of

the Protestant ministers and people of the North, was to suspend the lawful State

governments and impose martial law (absolutism). The only way the Southern States

could be re-admitted into this new “Union of North American Socialist Republics,”

thereby ending martial law, was to “ratify” this new amendment. That is called

“consent at the point of a bayonet” or rather, “forced conversion of heretics.”

Why was the Fourteenth Amendment, forced on the South by the Radical,

Communist, Red Republican Jacobins of the North, so important to the Jesuits and

their despots of Europe, including apostate Protestant Queen Victoria of England

whose policies were dictated by her Jesuit-controlled Prime Ministers, Lord John

Russell and Viscount Palmerston? Section 1 of the Amendment reads:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to

the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the

State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which

shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States

[which “privileges and immunities” do not include ancient common law

rights or the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights]; nor shall any State deprive

any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny

to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” {15

}

The coup d’etat is in the first sentence. It made all persons born in the

United States (excluding the Indian nations) citizens of the United States first and

citizens of a State secondly. This reversed the original American citizenship.

Senator James G. Blaine, one of the Order’s Temporal Coadjutors (according to 1883

author Edwin A. Sherman) and Radical Red Republicans of the day, explained:

“In the first place, we ask that they will agree to certain changes in the

Constitution of the United States; and, to begin with, we want them to unite

with us in broadening the citizenship of the Republic. The slaves recently

emancipated by proclamation

Amendment

and subsequently by Constitutional

, have no civil status. They should be made citizens

, and in

making this extension of citizenship, we are not confining the breadth and

scope of our efforts to the negro. It is for the white man as well. We intend

to make citizenship National

. Heretofore, a man has been a citizen of the

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United States because he was a citizen of some one of the States: Now, we

propose to reverse that

, and make him a citizen of any State where he

chooses to reside

, by defining in advance his National citizenship—and

our Amendment declares that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United

States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United

States [first] and [secondly] of the States [State] wherein they reside.’ ” {16

[Emphasis added]

}

Years later our Jesuit-controlled Supreme Court, in describing the effect of the

Fourteenth Amendment, would say the same as its radical authors.

“ ‘In reviewing the subject,’ [“Jesuitical”] Chief Justice White [according

to our hero Jeremiah Crowley] said in the Selective Draft Law Cases

, 245

US 366, 377, 388-389, ‘ . . . it broadened the national scope of the

Government under the Constitution by causing citizenship of the United

States to be paramount and dominant instead of being subordinate and

derivative, and therefore, operating as it does upon all the powers conferred

by the Constitution.’ ” {17

} [Emphasis added]

Simply put, by reversing American citizenship and making it “National,” all

the powers of the government, specifically granted by the Constitution, were greatly

increased. A new citizenship created a new government. All the executive, legislative

and judicial powers in Washington were “broadened.” So the radicals, pretending to

do good to the Black freedman, used these freedmen to centralize and increase

Rome’s power in Washington with the Fourteenth Amendment.

(This is exactly what happened as a result of the Civil Rights movement during the

1960s. In seeking to concentrate more power in Washington under the guise of

ending segregation in the South, the Jesuits using Freemasonry fomented the Civil

Rights Agitation with their Black communist, Martin Luther (Lucifer) King. Once

again, the using of deliberately agitated American Negroes conferred more power in

Washington with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, enacted through a perversion of “The

Commerce Clause” and written by one of Rome’s most powerful priests in America

with over one hundred earned and honorary degrees, CFR member Theodore M.

Hesburgh. Race-mixing in the South would gradually become a reality accelerating

the destruction of another White Protestant and Baptist “heretic” nation!)

Many Southern statesmen knew the true purpose of the Fourteenth

Amendment. The former Vice-President of the Confederacy, Freemason Alexander

Stephens, was one of them. He wrote:

“These monstrous Reconstruction Measures, with all their enormities and

fatal tendencies towards ultimate complete Centralism and Empire, are

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still based upon the assumption that the States, as separate integral parts

constitute members of what is still, in words, at least, acknowledged to be a

Federal Union! All these bold usurpations of power are, upon their face,

nothing but resorts to induce, or to compel, under duress, the Peoples of the

several Southern States to go through the forms of adopting the Fourteenth

Amendment . . .” {18

} [Emphasis added]

Honest Freemason Alexander H. Stephens knew that the forced ratification of

the Fourteenth Amendment would create a centralized Empire out of a federation of

sovereign States. The President would exercise powers of a Monarch, the Congress

would exercise powers of a Parliament and the Supreme Court would exercise powers

of a King’s Bench, having its jurisdiction extended to include anything and everything

under the guise of the new “Federal Question Jurisdiction.”

Federal Question Jurisdiction is an alien and foreign jurisdiction to the

original Constitution.

It created “judicial supremacy” in the Supreme Court,

broadening its power of review to overturn laws and decisions of the several States.

There are virtually no judicial decisions, state or federal, that cannot be appealed to

the Supreme Court with a “Writ of Certiorari.” With this all-encompassing

jurisdiction and the thousands of appeals filed annually, the Jesuits at Georgetown

University influence the Supreme Court as to which cases to hear. The ensuing

decisions further the purpose of the Order in destroying White, Protestant American

culture along with its popular self-government or “liberalism,” as the Jesuits call it.

Remembering previous chapters, the Jesuits have avowed to destroy both

Protestantism and Liberalism pursuant to their Jesuit Oath and Council of Trent.

In looking back, we Americans can see the evil decisions made possible by the

Jesuits’ “Federal Question Jurisdiction.” Among others, it enabled the Supreme

Court to force the religion of evolution down our throats, to force the integration of

public schools when neither the Whites nor the Blacks wanted it; to legalize abortion

and prohibit capital punishment overthrowing laws of the States to the contrary, and

to outlaw Bible-reading and prayer in the “accursed public schools.” For in

prohibiting Bible-reading and prayer in the public schools, Protestant civilization is

destroyed, and with it, popular self-government—to the delight of the Jesuit Order!!!

The Jesuits are absolutists. Therefore, the pagan governments they control

must exercise absolute powers. Since rights limit powers, the rights of the citizens

can be no more than privileges granted from absolute governments of nations past

such as Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Ancient English liberties and common

law rights cannot be included. Such is the case with every socialist-communist

government of today, be it the monarchy of Queen Elizabeth II, the military

dictatorship of Castro or the democracy of Presidents William J. Clinton or George

W.Bush, alias “King George II,” a descendant of England’s Stuart Dynasty.

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Therefore, one more nail had to be driven into America’s coffin. The Jesuits

would not allow the powers newly given to Washington to be absolutely limited by

the rights of its newly created national citizens, both White and Black. The

“privileges and immunities” of this new Fourteenth Amendment citizenship had to

be defined by the Supreme Court so as not to include fundamental or common-law

rights. This happened on April 14, 1873 (the anniversary of the assassination of

President Lincoln in the Ford’s Theater “Slaughterhouse”) with the decision given

in the Slaughterhouse Cases

, 83 US 36, 80 (1873). The decision truly slaughtered our

rights. The court held:

“We are of the opinion that the rights claimed by these plaintiffs in error

[fundamental, common-law rights] if they have any existence [What

arrogance!!!] are not privileges and immunities of citizens of the United

States within the meaning of the clause of the fourteenth amendment under

consideration.” {19

}

The Freemason, Justice Stephen J. Field, another hero and nearly assassinated by

one of his California judicial brethren, strongly dissented. He declared:

“The fundamental rights, privileges, and immunities which belong to him as

a free man and a free citizen, now belong to him as a citizen of the United

States, and are not dependent upon his citizenship of any State. . . . The

Amendment does not attempt to confer any new privileges or immunities

upon citizens, or to enumerate or define those already existing. It assumes

that there are such privileges and immunities, which belong of right

citizens as such, and ordains that they shall not be abridged by state

legislation. If this inhibition has no reference to privileges and immunities

of this character, but only refers, as held by the majority of the court in their

opinion, to such privileges and immunities as were, before its adoption,

specially designated in the Constitution, or necessarily implied as belonging

to citizens of the United States, it was a vain and idle enactment, which

accomplished nothing, and most unnecessarily excited Congress and the

people on its passage

. . . . But, if the Amendment refers to the natural and

inalienable rights which belong to all citizens, the inhibition has a profound

significance and consequence.” {20

} [Emphasis added]

Field was correct but the radical Black Republicans prevailed. Slaughterhouse

would be the precedent with which every following decision must agree. The Bill of

Rights would not be considered as “privileges and immunities” of Fourteenth

Amendment U.S. citizenship. But the two great dissenters through the years (both

being Freemasons according to House Undivided

by Allen Roberts (1961)) would be

our heroes, Justice Stephen Field and Justice John Marshall Harlan from

Kentucky. Harlan’s great dissent in Maxwell v. Dow

, 176 US 597, 607, 610, 611

(1899), given just before the turn of the Black Pope’s “American Century” reads:

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“It seems to me that the privileges and immunities enumerated in these

amendments

[ten]

[Bill of Rights] belong to every citizen of the United States.

They were universally so regarded prior to the adoption of the Fourteenth

Amendment

. . . . I take it no one doubts that the great men who laid the

foundations of our government regarded the preservation of the privileges

and immunities specified in the first ten Amendments as vital to the

personal security of American citizens

. . .

But, if I do not wholly misapprehend the scope and legal effect of the

present decision, the Constitution of the United States does not stand in the

way of any state [or the new National Government in Washington, D.C.]

striking down guaranties of life and liberty that English-speaking people

have for centuries regarded as vital to personal security, and which the men

of the revolutionary period universally claimed as the birthright of

[American] freemen

.” {21

} [Emphasis added]

This same question was again before the Court in 1908. In Twining v. New

Jersey

, 211 US 97, 105, 106 (1908), the majority opinion sealed forever the holding

of the Slaughterhouse Cases

. Proceeding as if it were England’s King’s Bench or

the Pope’s Sacred Rota, it arrogantly declared:

“This view is based upon the contention which must now be examined, that

the safeguards of personal rights which are enumerated in the first eight

articles of amendment to the Federal Constitution

, sometimes called the

Federal Bill of Rights

though they were by those Amendments originally

secured only against national action, are among the privileges and

immunities of citizens of the United States, which this clause of the 14th

Amendment protects against state action. This view has been, at different

times, expressed by justices of this court . . . (Mr. Justice Field . . . and

Mr. Justice Harlan . . .), and was undoubtedly that entertained by some of

those who framed the Amendment

[The Court then gives its Jesuitical, absolutist, tyrannical decree, opening the door for

the Empire’s future fascist Roman Catholic, military dictatorship.]

It is, however, not profitable to examine the weighty arguments in its favor,

for the question is no longer open in the court

. The right of trial by jury in

civil cases, guaranteed by the 7th Amendment . . . and the right to bear arms,

guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment, have been distinctly held not to be

privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, guaranteed by

the 14th Amendment

. . . the same decision was made in respect of the

guaranty against prosecution, except by indictment of a grand jury,

contained in the 5th Amendment . . . and in respect of the right to be

confronted with witnesses, contained in the 6th Amendment . . . In Maxwell

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v. Dow, supra

, where the plaintiff in error had been convicted in a state

court of a felony upon an information

, and by a jury of eight persons

, it was

held that the indictment, made indispensable by the 5th Amendment, and the

trial by jury, guaranteed by the 6th Amendment, were not

privileges and

immunities of citizens of the United States, as those words were used in the

14th Amendment. The discussion in that case ought not to be repeated

. All

the arguments for the other view were considered and answered . . . the

decision rested upon the ground that this clause of the 14th Amendment did

not forbid the states to abridge the personal rights enumerated in the first

eight Amendments, because those rights were not within the meaning of the

clause ‘privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States

.’ ” [And

if the states are not forbidden to abridge the personal rights enumerated in

the first eight Amendments, then, logically, neither is the National

government forbidden to do likewise! What a sly accomplishment was this

deceptive coup d’etat of the Black Pope!] {22

} [Emphasis added]

Dear truth-seeker, the rights of the people limit the powers of the government.

If the people have no absolute rights of citizenship, the rulers have absolute powers of

government. This is precisely what the Radical Red Republican Supreme Court

accomplished for the Jesuit Order when it overthrew the absolute rights of American

citizens, secured by the pen and sword of Protestant Calvinist freemen.

The Slaughterhouse Cases

reduced each one of us to the status of a feudal,

Roman Catholic serf to whom, upon birth and baptism, is granted privileges and

immunities of citizenship from the all-powerful National Government and Church of

Rome. The government is ruled by its Commander-in-Chief (now overseen by a

Papal Nuncio) and the Church is ruled by its “infallible” Papal Caesar of Rome, both

of which are mere puppets of the General of the Jesuits, the Black Pope.

Summing it up, by 1868 the Jesuits, with their radical Republicans Thaddeus

Stevens and Charles Sumner, had forced the Fourteenth Amendment on the

peoples of the States, North and South. According to Federal Colonel Edwin Allen

Sherman, author The Engineer Corps of Hell

(1883), the Jesuits had worked through

another Republican, James G. Blaine (“the liar from the State of Maine”), for the

“ruination of the Republic.” They had created a new nation as a result of creating a

new citizenship. By 1873 the Jesuits, with their radicals on the Supreme Court, had

made the powers of both the Federal (now National) and State governments absolute,

limited only by decisions of their respective King’s Benches—the Federal (now

National) and State Supreme Courts. The transition from a Presbyterian form of

government to a Roman Catholic form of government had been accomplished. And

how did they do that? By declaring that the Bill of Rights were not privileges and

immunities of Fourteenth Amendment citizenship, thereby overthrowing the ancient

liberties of White, English-speaking, Protestant and Baptist-Calvinist freemen.

The Jesuits — 1868– 1873

622

Vatican Assassins

Indeed, the words of Jesuit-trained Pope Leo XIII have come to pass. The

Constitution of the United States has been modeled to the principles of the Roman

Catholic Church. This is the foundation of the American Empire’s coming fascist

military dictator, martial law, Concordat with Rome and mass-execution of a mixed

people having corrupted themselves and whose iniquity has come to the full.

The injustice of an absolutist, robbing people of their liberties and giving to

them privileges in their stead, is not new. Nimrod, the Black antichrist of the Old

Testament, had done this to the people of Babylon. We read:

“Though by setting up as king, Nimrod [now the Pope] invaded the

patriarchal system, and abridged the liberties of mankind, yet he was held

by many to have conferred benefits upon them, that amply indemnified

them for the loss of their liberties, and covered him with glory and renown

. . . he was the first that abridged the liberties of mankind as the grand

‘Emancipator!’ ” [Rome used President Andrew Johnson to this end!] {23

}

The “New Republic

” in a “New Era

” deserves a “New Name

.” From now on

the United States will be called “Fourteenth Amendment America,” “the American

Empire” or “the Holy Roman American Empire” composed of “the Union of

American/Soviet Socialist Republics” or rather, “the United Socialist States of

North America” which apparently now include predominantly Roman Catholic

Canada and Roman Catholic Mexico through the North American Free Trade

Agreement (NAFTA), heavily promoted by Cardinal O’Connor’s Knight of Malta

and secret Kennedy assassin, Roman Catholic Lee Iacocca! For as the Jesuits in 1852

overthrew the Second Republic of France and imposed an Empire fully intended to

fight the Papal Caesar’s crusades led by Napoleon III, so they agitated and

overthrew the blessed, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republic in America with the

“American Civil War.” On its ruins, the Sons of Loyola erected an Evil Socialist

Communist Empire (via the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868) and perfected it in

1933 with their 33rd Degree Freemason, FDR, using his socialist-communist New

(dirty) Deal endorsed by Jesuit-controlled Charles E. Coughlin along with Priests

John Ryan and Monsignor Francis J. Haas of Catholic University of America. The

Society of Jesus, with their vile, “Holy Alliance” of White tyrants serving the Pope,

had won. As unbelievable as the world’s headlines read in 1960, “Eichmann in

Jerusalem,” even so the world moved ever closer to the same kind of shock and

surprise when the Pope, “whose deadly wound was healed” and thus adored by the

International Press, will also suddenly appear in Jerusalem!

From this time forward, we, the American people, both White and Black, as

well as Oriental, would never go to war with England again. But rather, we would be

brainwashed and incited to fight alongside of our royalist English foe in World War I

and World War II—the Jesuit General’s Second Thirty Years’ War.

Vatican Assassins:

“Wounded In The House Of My Friends”

Third Edition

by Eric Jon Phelps

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQl1CmWeLL87RWVtzKttGFKm0frSNR8D/view?usp=sharing

Devī (/ˈdeɪvi/;[1] Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is Deva. Devi and Deva mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are gender-specific terms for deity in Indian religions.

Reverence for the divine feminine in Hinduism appears in the Vedas, composed around the 2nd millennium BCE. Though the goddesses did not play a vital role in that era, goddesses such as Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Parvati, Radha, Saraswati, and Sita have continued to be revered into the modern era.[2] The medieval era Puranas witnessed a major expansion in mythology and literature associated with Devi, with texts such as the Devi Mahatmya, wherein the goddess is revered as the ultimate truth and supreme power. The goddess centric tradition within Hinduism, namely Shaktism, is centred around Devi. Further, Devi is considered a central figure in the Hindu tradition of Shaivism.[2][3] In Indian religions, the concept of Shakti explores the idea of divine feminine, and women are regarded as manifestations of Devi, as seen in the Kumari worship.

Etymology

Devi and deva are Sanskrit terms found in Vedic literature around the 3rd millennium BCE. Deva is masculine, and the related feminine equivalent is devi.[4] Monier-Williams translates it as 'heavenly, divine, terrestrial things of high excellence, exalted, shining ones'.[5][6] Etymologically, a cognate of devi is Latin dea.[7] When capitalised, Devi maata refers to the mother goddess in Hinduism.[8] Deva is short for devatā and devi for devika.[5]

According to Douglas Harper, the etymological root dev- means "a shining one", from *div-, "to shine", it is an Indo-European cognate of the Greek dios, Gothic divine and Latin deus (Old Latin deivos); see also *Dyēus.[9]

A synonym for the word Devi in the Vedas is Bhagavati. Bhagavatī (Devanagari: भगवती, IAST: Bhagavatī), is an Indian epithet of Sanskrit origin, used as an honorific title for goddesses in Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, it is primarily used to address the goddesses Lakshmi and Durga. In Buddhism, it is used to refer to several Mahayana Buddhist female deities, like Cundā.[10]

History

See also: God and gender in Hinduism

The worship of Devi-like deities dates back to period of Indus Valley civilisation.[11][12]

The Devīsūkta of the Rigveda (10.125.1 to 10.125.8) is among the most studied hymns declaring that the ultimate reality is a goddess:[13][14]

I have created all worlds at my will without being urged by any higher Being, and dwell within them. I permeate the earth and heaven, and all created entities with my greatness and dwell in them as eternal and infinite consciousness.

— Devi Sukta, Rigveda 10.125.8, Translated by June McDaniel[15][16]

The Vedas name numerous cosmic goddesses such as Prithvi (earth), Aditi (cosmic moral order), Vāc (sound), Nirṛti (destruction), Ratri (night) and Aranyani (forest); bounty goddesses such as Dinsana, Raka, Puramdhi, Parendi, Bharati and Mahi are among others are mentioned in the Rigveda.[2]: 6–17, 55–64 However, the goddesses are not discussed as frequently as gods (devas).[2] Devi appears in late Vedic texts dated to be pre-Buddhist, but verses dedicated to her do not suggest that her characteristics were fully developed in the Vedic era.[2]: 18–19 All gods and goddesses are distinguished in Vedic times,[2]: 18 but in post-Vedic texts, particularly in the early medieval era literature, they are ultimately seen as aspects or manifestations of one Devi, the Supreme Power.[17]

Devi is the supreme being in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism; in the Smarta tradition, she is one of the five primary forms of Brahman that is revered.[18][19] In other Hindu traditions, Devi embodies the active energy and power of Deva, and they always appear together complementing each other. Examples of this are Parvati with Shiva in Shaivism, Saraswati with Brahma in Brahmanism and Lakshmi with Vishnu, Sita with Rama and Radha with Krishna in Vaishnavism.[20][21][22]

Devi-inspired philosophy is propounded in many Hindu texts such as the Devi Upanishad, which teaches that Shakti is essentially Brahman (ultimate metaphysical Reality) and that from her arises prakṛti (matter) and purusha (consciousness) and that she is bliss and non-bliss, the Vedas and what is different from it, the born and the unborn and all of the universe. Shakti is Parvati, Shiva’s wife.[23] She is also mentioned as the creative power of Shiva in Tripura Upanishad, Bahvricha Upanishad and Guhyakali Upanishad.[13]

Devi identifies herself in the Devi Upanishad as Brahman in her reply to the gods stating that she rules the world, blesses devotees with riches, that she is the supreme deity to whom all worship is to be offered and that she infuses Ātman in every soul.[23] Devi asserts that she is the creator of earth and heaven and resides there.[13] Her creation of the sky as father and the seas as the mother is reflected as the 'Inner Supreme Self'.[13] Her creations are not prompted by any higher being and she resides in all her creations. She is, states Devi, the eternal and infinite consciousness engulfing earth and heaven, and 'all forms of bliss and non-bliss, knowledge and ignorance, Brahman and Non-Brahman'. The tantric aspect in Devi Upanishad, says June McDaniel, is the usage of the terms yantra, bindu, bija, mantra, shakti and chakra.[13]

Among the major world religions, the concept of Goddess in Hinduism as the divine feminine has had the strongest presence since ancient times.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi

Kamala Devi Harris Got Her Name From a Goddess — and a Film Star?

The meaning of Kamala Harris: The secret origin of her name — Its spirituality and star power

Joseph Serwach

4 min read

Oct 27, 2024

Names shape identity. Kamala Devi Harris shares her name with Hindu Goddess Kamala Devi and TV/film star Kamala Devi.

Forgotten middle names? Voters see “Kamala D. Harris” on their ballot and ask, “What does the ‘D’ stand for? Her name is Kamala Devi, meaning:

Kamala. A Hindu name honors the Divine Feminine Energy (known in Sanskrit as Shakti).

Devi. A Sanskrit word (देवी) meaning “goddess,” is a feminine deva or “god.”

Author and filmmaker Raja Choudhury recently spoke at Princeton University on “Kamala Devi: Hinduism’s Shakti Path to Spiritual Awakening,” arguing that “Vice President Harris’s candidacy has made her first and middle names — Kamala Devi — household words.”

https://medium.com/the-spirit/kamala-devi-harris-got-her-name-from-a-goddess-and-a-film-star-ad20c489ff15

Kamala Devi Harris true genetic father is President William Jefferson Clinton:

In 1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, where she was described as "an able prosecutor on the way up".[37] In 1994, Speaker of the California Assembly Willie BROWN, who was then dating Harris, appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.[37] In February 1998, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan recruited Harris as an assistant district attorney.[38] There, she became the chief of the Career Criminal Division, supervising five other attorneys, where she prosecuted homicide, burglary, robbery, and sexual assault cases—particularly three-strikes cases. In August 2000, Harris took a job at San Francisco City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne.[39] Harris ran the Family and Children's Services Division, representing child abuse and neglect cases. Renne endorsed Harris during her D.A. campaign.[40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

Ultramontanism was a school of thought of the Catholic Church which promoted supreme papal authority in matters of spirituality and governance. Ultramontanism rejected modern ideals in favour of the supremacy of Catholicism and the Catholic Church in public life. This school of thought was particularly influent in the French-Canadian society during the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

Jules-Paul Tardivel, journalist, novelist. Until his death he devoted himself to his two lifelong obsessions: ultramontanism and nationalism.

(1851-1905)

Origins

In Canada and in Europe — mainly in France, where ultramontanism appeared during the Middle Ages and grew rapidly during the French Revolution —, its supporters criticized the separation of Church and state, as well as what they considered manifestations of modern liberalism. They pushed for the supremacy of the Catholic Church in both civil and religious matters. This school of thought was mainly characterized by its attachment to the Holy See’s authority and, as of 1870, by its faith in the Pope’s infallibility. The term “ultramontane” meant, literally, “beyond the mountains,” because the French Ultramontanes believed in the supremacy of the Vatican — which is located beyond the mountains of the Alps — over the local clergy.

Ultramontanism was adopted in Canada in the 1820s, first in the Saint-Hyacinthe seminary under the strong influence of French priest Félicité de Lamennais, then in Montreal under that of its first Catholic bishop, Jean-Jacques Lartigue. The latter opposed the Gallican ideas and fought for the freedom of the Church and for religious supremacy in matters of education. His successor, Monseigneur Ignace Bourget, led the triumph of ultramontane ideas in all fields (theology, education, relations between Church and state, etc.) in Montreal and made them a major, albeit contested, part of the Catholic world in Canada.

Ideological Split

Ultramontanism grew strong in Canada, but faced a split at the end of the 1860s, following the Guibord Affair. Monseigneur Bourget, followed by Monseigneur Louis-François Laflèche, represented a group of extreme Ultramontanes who were more active within political institutions. This group fought for the immediate application of ultramontane principles, namely the Church’s supreme power over education matters, the reform of laws under canon law and the introduction of episcopate monitoring of civil legislation. Moderate Ultramontanes, like Joseph-Sabin Raymond, to whom the extremists referred as liberals, wished for a more prudent application of the Ultramontane principles and for compromise where necessary.

The extremists engaged conservative journalists and politicians, who advocated for a Catholic election platform as early as 1871 with the goal of guaranteeing the supremacy of the Church over politics. Over the following years, the extremists and supporters of the election platform led an anti-liberal crusade, which resulted in the creation of the Castors (“Beavers”) in 1882.

Influence

Ultramontanism dominated philosophy and theology teachings in small and large seminaries, the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada and several bishop directives from the second half of the 19th century until the 1950s.

Ultramontanist thought guided the ideals of important French Canadian nationalists who desired a self-sufficient society governed by the Church. The movement had a significant influence over the French-Canadian society and Maurice Duplessis’ reign as premier of Quebec. Ultramontanism fed traditional and conservative tendencies within the French-Canadian society, until the Quiet Revolution and the Second Vatican Council put an end to this influence.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ultramontanism

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is the final and the only result of a complex reform that involves various Masonic Systems which developed separately one from another during the XVIII century in the range of the so called Scottish Regime. This regime originated from the advent of the Scottish Masters since about 1738 and continued with the Chapters of Clermont (1754), the Emperors of the Orient and the Western world (1758) which put in practice rituality defined as the Rite of Perfection or the Rite of Heredom. The aim of the reform, that unified all in one single Order, was aside from these veins, also minor branches with more recent manifestation among which the Primitive Rite and others.

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is the rituality that characterises a particular Masonic Body which it adopts and makes his. This Masonic Body is called “The Supreme Council of the Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the 33 rd and Last Level of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite”.

The first Supreme Council (SC) called Mother of the World was founded in Charleston, Carolina, USA on the May 31st 1801 and presently has headquarters in Washington DC, USA.

In some ten years the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, under the impetus of the SC of Charleston, practically spread to all the world through further Supreme Councils which were formed in national territorial Jurisdictions, each independent and autonomous, jealous of their very sovereignty.

The Scottish Rite in Italy

The SC of Italy, that today is denominated “the Supreme Council SS.GG.II.GG. of the 3 rd and Last Level of the Free Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Italian Jurisdiction – Grand Orient of Italy – Palazzo Giustiniani” as shown in a manuscript handed down as the Verbal of the Foundation, also called the “Seal of Foundation” which was founded and installed ritually in Milan on March16th 1805 by the Count Alexandre Francois Auguste De Grasse Tilly S.G.C. of the SC of France (1804), duly assisted by the French and Italian Brothers, with Licenses conferred by the SC Mother of the World of Charleston. The SC of Italy was a direct emanation of this Ritual Body.

In the same constitutional act of the SC of Italy, it is formally declared that it “creates and constitutes by its sovereign authority a General Grand Lodge in Italy under the name of G.O. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite“. The Grand Orient of Italy, thus founded, was ritually installed on June 20th 1805 by the same founders of the SC of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.

The SC of Italy with headquarters in Milan, had jurisdiction only in the territory of the Italian Kingdom and the Sovereign Grand Commander was the Vice King Eugenio Beauharnais.

Subsequently, on the not yet unified Italian territory, other SS.CC ‘s were formed among which (in Naples) a SC called of the two Sicilies (1809), a SC of Palermo (1860), a SC of Naples (1860). Following the unification of Italy initially a SC was formed with the fusion of the SC Milan with that of Turin (1862), then with the transfer of the capital to Florence another SC of this city (1864) was formed. A further SC was established in 1870 in Rome, permanent Capital of the Kingdom. Following numerous agreements and with much difficulty, the unification between the various SS.CC in a single SC of Italy was achieved with headquarters in Rome.

From a schism which occurring 1908, a second SC was born called “Piazza del Gesù” which since 1912 was recognized by many SS.CC. of the world opposed to that of 2Palazzo Giustiniani”. The fascist period, during which all Masonic activity in Italy was prohibited, actually eliminated the problem of this atypical duplication between the historical continuity and the possession of recognition of the various Jurisdictions.

The separation between the Jurisdictions of the Grand Orient of Italy and the SC was sanctioned in 1922. The conference of Paris of the SS.CC. of the world, held in 1929, authorized this principle for all the SS.CC.

Upon recommencement of Masonic activity in 1943, after the failures of unification attempts, those who possessed the Supreme Level of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, formed two SS.CC. of “Palazzo Giustiniani” and “Piazza del Gesù”.

From 1960 to 1973, the residual incomprehension between the two historical blocks of Italian Masonry were settled. Since then, in spite of other efforts of schism, in particular that of 1977 which failed owing to the loyalty of the Scottish Brothers of Italy and the wisdom of SS.CC. of the rest of the world, the SC of “Palazzo Giustiniani” represents the regularity for 54 Supreme Councils in the world.

https://www.ritoscozzese.it/en/rsaa/history/

Vatican reaffirms 'grave sin' of Freemasonry, says Catholics cannot join the world's largest secret society

Freemasonry has been prohibited for Catholics since 1738, when Pope Clement XII called the secret society 'depraved and perverted'

By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News

Published November 15, 2023 12:25pm EST

The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has reaffirmed the Catholic Church's teachings that laity or clerics participating in Freemasonry are in "a state of grave sin."

The DDF released the Nov. 13 document to the public with the signatures of Pope Francis and the DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández, urging the faithful not to participate in or affiliate with Freemasonry groups.

"On the doctrinal level, it should be remembered that active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is forbidden because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," the document reads, citing the 1983 "Declaration on Masonic Associations" by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would go on to become Pope Benedict XVI.

"Therefore, those who are formally and knowingly enrolled in Masonic Lodges and have embraced Masonic principles fall under the provisions in the above-mentioned Declaration. These measures also apply to any clerics enrolled in Freemasonry," the document continues.

The clarification was requested by Bishop Julito Cortes of the Philippines, who raised concerns about growing interest in the secret society in his country.

Freemasonry, the world's largest secret society with millions of members scattered across almost every country in the world, established its first Grand Lodge in England in 1717.

The society swears oaths of secrecy, fellowship and fraternity among members and has accumulated a vast catalog of rituals, ceremonial attire and secret signals between masons. These aesthetic affectations often use Christian imagery despite being used for non-Christian rituals.

Freemasons are usually expected to profess belief in a "supreme being" but are not obligated to believe in any specific deity.

Members of the Catholic Church are not allowed to join or affiliate with Freemasonry groups due to the organizations' deistic, non-Christian teachings about divinity.

Additionally, the secretive and ritualistic nature of Freemason lodges has often led to accusations from Catholic leaders of idolatry and clandestine opposition to Christianity.

However, Freemason associations are far from uniform, and Masonic culture differs greatly between different rites, sects, lodges and national bodies of Freemasonry. The Catholic Church has fought most aggressively with Masonic bodies in continental Europe, which boasts a more ideological tone.

Freemasonry in the U.S. and the U.K., while still linked to overseas lodges, is reportedly more socially and professionally focused.

Freemasonry was rendered an excommunicable offense in 1738 by Pope Clement XII, who called the secret society "depraved and perverted."

The 1983 document by then-Cardinal Ratzinger cited in the Vatican's latest document states that the "negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden."

The 1983 document adds, "The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion."

The Vatican recommended a pastoral approach to the issue of Freemasonry in the Philippines, suggesting national bishops push for greater catechesis on the subject among the laity.

"On the pastoral level, the Dicastery proposes that the Philippine Bishops conduct catechesis accessible to the people and in all parishes regarding the reasons for the irreconcilability between the Catholic Faith and Freemasonry."

It is debated whether joining a Freemasonic lodge incurs an automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church under Canon Law.

https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/vatican-reaffirms-grave-sin-freemasonry-catholics-cannot-join-worlds-largest-secret-society

Barnum said and I quote "there's a sucker born every minute", villian Hillary claimed they were passive investors in whitewater they would have you believe they were innocent dupes in a series of unfortunate schemes perpetuated on them by unscrupulous cads mcquarrie no and the Hour of the Time tend to demonstrate to you that the exact opposite is true.

Number one, it was built in himself who masterminded the schemes in connection with the intelligence community with its roots in the Central Intelligence Agency. Number two, Hillary through her legal connections with a key player in much of the fraud, and three, the Clintons and their friends benefitted to the tune of millions of dollars.

One thing you have to understand is that the political machine in Arkansas is one of the most corrupt systems in the nation. It's impossible to be in Arkansas politics and not be corrupt and it is heavily under the control of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, of the Southern Jurisdiction.

Let me give you two examples of what we're talking about here. One Arkansas governor ensured every concrete and steel bridge in the state for fire, mind you, every concrete and steel bridge in the state for fire. Now, who, dear listeners, you think owned the insurance company?

Another governor up on fraud charges fired the judge. He replaced him with the town drunks who promptly dismissed the grand jury that was about to hand down an indictment. Hallelujah, Arkansas, that's just politics as usual in Arkansas. Bill was just following the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors but ypu see he had an extra incentive. The GABAA governor of Arkansas pays a disparity $35,000 a year. Clinton was not independently wealthy, it was a small-town boy with huge political ambition. He was picked by the power structure, his mentor was the man who wrote Tragedy and Hope, he was sent to England to Oxoford under a Rhodes Scholarship to learn how to lead the sheeple into the New World Order, into one world government. He's an Anglophile, he believes in British Israelism."

Whitewater - Hour of the Time - Bill Cooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPkY0fFoC0

The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is located in HOPE, Arkansas.[2] Built in 1917 by Dr. H. S. Garrett, in this house the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spent the first four years of his life, having been born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in HOPE, Arkansas.[3][4] The house was owned by Clinton's maternal grandparents, Edith Grisham and James Eldridge Cassidy, and they cared for him when his mother, Virginia, was away working as an anesthetist in New Orleans.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_William_Jefferson_Clinton_Birthplace_Home_National_Historic_Site

"Tragedy and HOPE: A History of the World in Our Time is a work of history written by former Georgetown University professor and historian Carroll Quigley. The book covers the period of roughly 1880 to 1963 and is multidisciplinary in nature though perhaps focusing on the economic problems brought about by the First World War and the impact these had on subsequent events. While global in scope, the book focuses on Western civilization."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_and_Hope

"In his first year (1965) in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, Bill Clinton took Quigley's course, receiving a 'B' as his final grade in both semesters (an excellent grade in a course where nearly half the students received D or lower).[1]: 94, 96 In 1991, Clinton named Quigley as an important influence on his aspirations and political philosophy, when Clinton launched his presidential campaign in a speech at Georgetown.[1]: 96 He said he learned from Quigley that “The future can be better than the past, and that each of us has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so.” Bill Clinton told his audiences, “that is what the new choice is all about....We are not here to save the Democratic party. We are here to save the United States of America.” It was Clinton's most effective speech, and he repeated variations time and time again as the blueprint for his campaign message in winning the Democratic nomination and the general election for President of the United States in 1992.[21][22]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley

"Theorists also cite the inclusion of Bill Clinton at the meetings in 1991 before he was president and Tony Blair’s presence in 1993 before he became the British prime minister as examples of the group’s power. Past attendees have included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who will also be attending this year), former Chase Manhattan chief executive David Rockefeller, and British Prime Minister David Cameron."

Bilderberg Group: What To Know About the Secretive Meetings

https://time.com/4362872/bilderberg-group-meetings-2016-conspiracy-theories/

"Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner October 20, 2016 Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Henry Kissinger Gayle King Cardinal Dolan Katie Couric Chuck Schumer Mayor Bill de Blasio"

https://www.facebook.com/MariaBartiromo/posts/alfred-e-smith-memorial-foundation-dinner-october-20-2016-donald-trump-hillary-c/1353937201283479/

"HOPE: all hope is to be placed in God, and with what degree of perfection [67]; eternal life alone is to be hoped for as a reward [82]; the extent to which this hope should be of assistance [288]; how hope should be shown by the dying | 595]; hope in the preservation and growth of the Society [812]. See also Faithfulness" The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms pg. 464

https://jesuitas.lat/uploads/the-constitutions-of-the-society-of-jesus-and-their-complementary-norms/Constitutions%20and%20Norms%20SJ%20ingls.pdf

His Holiness Pope Francis, President Clinton Discuss Climate Change, Importance of Collaboration, and the Work of the Bambino Gesù Hospital at CGI 2023

Today, His Holiness Pope Francis joined President Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2023 Meeting for a conversation via remote link.

During the conversation, His Holiness Pope Francis and President Clinton discussed the urgent need to act on climate change, our collective responsibility to come together in the face of difficulty, the work of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, and more.

Please find the full transcript of the conversation below.

President Clinton:

The Pope is with us today. Holy Father, we are so honored to have you join us at CGI this year. You’re speaking to a room full of people from all over the world, from all walks of life, who, each in their own way, are trying to follow the admonition of Isaiah, who told us we had to be repairers of the breach.

They know our world is broken in many ways, but also full of many possibilities, and they’re trying to make the most of their ability to make a difference. I thought it would be interesting given our wonderful meeting a few weeks ago, if you could say what you believe about the obligations of ordinary people to make a difference, to deal with these big challenges that are so big that no person, no matter how wealthy or powerful, no person can believe that he or she could do them alone. What are ordinary people supposed to do with their days that will make our societies better or our problems less severe?

Pope Francis:

Thank you, Mr. President, for inviting me to your meeting. Thank you very much. It is important to spread a culture of encounter, a culture of dialogue, a culture of listening and of understanding. It is necessary to share thoughts on how to contribute to the common good and how not to leave behind the most vulnerable people such as children, who through the foundation, the patrons of Bambino Gesù, are at the root of this meeting. We all know it. We are living through a changing epoch. Only together can we emerge from it better. Together. Only together can we heal the world from the globalization of indifference.

You, Mr. President, have listed the many challenges of our time: climate change, humanitarian crises affecting migrants and refugees and childcare and many others. I would add to this, the wind of war that blows around the world fueling with the spirit of war, what I have repeatedly called the Third World War, but peaceful. We are in need of a great and shared assumption of responsibility. No challenge is too great if we meet it, starting with personal conversion, the personal conversion of each of us, the personal contribution that each of us can make to solve it, and from an awareness of what it is that makes us part of one destiny.

No challenge can be overcome alone, not alone, moving together, sisters and brothers, children of God. This is why I always encourage, and I want to do so here as well, all women and men of goodwill not to give up in the face of difficulties. Difficulties are part of life and the best way to deal with them is to always seek the calming good, never alone, always together. Difficulties can bring out the best or the worst in us. Therein lies our challenge, fighting selfishness, narcissism, division with generosity and humility. Better unity than conflict. It is time to find the path of peace, the change for fraternity. It is time for weapons to cease and for us to return to dialogue. Let the designs of conquest and military aggression cease. That is why I repeat, no to war, no to war. It’s time to work together to stop the ecological catastrophe before it’s too late.

That’s why I’ve chosen to write a new document ten years after the publication of the encyclical Laudato si’. Let us stop while there is still time. Please, please let us stop while there is still time. It’s time to face migration emergencies. Remembering that we are not talking about numbers, but about people: men, women, and children. When we talk about migration, let’s think about the eyes of the children we’ve seen in refugee camps. It’s time to think about the youngest, the children, and of their education and to their care. As you know, Mr. President, this meeting of ours stems from a great small project that I care about very much. It is about children and their health. In Italy, in Rome, near the Vatican, there’s a very special hospital: the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital. In the world, it is known as the Pope hospital, but to me, that’s not why it is unique. It is evident that our great little hospital cannot solve the problems of all the children in the world. However, it seeks to be a sign, a testimony that it is possible through many struggles to bring together great scientific research geared toward caring for children and the gratuitous welcoming of people in need, science and hospitality. Rarely are these two things found together.

The hospital welcomes children here in the Vatican. Two or three times, a helicopter has arrived with children who need urgent help from different parts of the world. In these terrible months marked by war, the Bambino Gesù Hospital has treated more than two thousand small, young patients of Ukraine who escaped from their country with various relatives. The healthcare sector today, more than ever, the first and most concrete form of charity is science. The capacity to care, which however must be accessible to all. Bambino Gesù Hospital is a concrete sign of charity and mercy of the church. There are illnesses that cannot be cured, but there are no children who cannot be cared for. Let’s keep this in mind. There are illnesses that cannot be cured, but there are no children who cannot be cared for. This is the distinctive feature of the hospital. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all and I wish you all a nice day.

President Clinton:

Thank you so much. It’s wonderful to see you again and hear you in such great voice, and thank you for saying something that I hope will mean something to every person because one of the things that we try to do, which is difficult enough in any form of life, but especially in public life, is to convince every person that he or she has a role to play without regard to their age or their standing. And I think you make us all feel empowered. And perhaps that is your greatest power as the Pope that you make everybody, even people who aren’t members of the Roman Catholic Church, feel that they have power and therefore they have responsibility. It’s an extraordinary gift, and I thank you for that. I know you have a busy day, but I wonder if there’s anything else you want to say. I thank you for what you said about the children and what you said about climate change. Do you have any other message for us before you go, anything you want to make sure we take to heart?

Pope Francis:

Both things, children and climate change. Please on climate change, let us take action before it’s too late.

President Clinton:

Thank you very much.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/press-and-news/clinton-global-initiative/his-holiness-pope-francis-president-clinton-discuss-climate-change-importance-of-collaboration-and-the-work-of-the-bambino-gesu-hospital-at-cgi-2023/

32 Let Christ the king of Israel now come down from the cross, that we may see, and believe. They also that were crucified with him, reviled him.

Mark 15:32

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MISSIONS FROM THE SUPREME PONTIFF

252 §1. To be truly Christian, our service to the Church must be anchored in fidelity to Christ, who makes all things new; to be proper to the Society, it must be done in union with the successors of Peter[32]

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

A Complete English Translation of the Official Latin Texts

THE INSTITUTE OF JESUIT SOURCES

SAINT LOUIS, 1996

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Note 370.—"Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret. The 32nd degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite, and for many years, or until the institution of the 33d degree, this was the highest degree, or ne plus ultra of Masonry. The body is styled a Consistory, and should be held in a building of two stories. The officers are, a Thrice Illustrious Commander, First and Second Lieutenants, a Minister of State, a Grand Chancellor, a Grand Treasurer, a Grand Secretary, and a Grand Captain of the Guard. In the East a throne, elevated on seven steps, which is the seat of the Thrice Illustrious Commander, who wears a robe of royal purple, and he and the Lieutenants, wear swords. The collar of this degree is black, lined with scarlet, and in the center, at the point, a double-headed eagle, of silver or gold, on a red Teutonic cross. The apron is of white satin, with a border of gold lace, one inch wide, lined with scarlet; on the flap is a double-headed eagle, on each side of which is the flag of the country in which the body is located, the flag of Prussia and the Beause- -ant of the Kadosh degree; on the apron is the camp of the Crusaders, , which is thus explained; it is composed of an enneagon, within which is ' inscribed a heptagon, within that a pentagon, and in the center an equilateral triangle, within which is a circle. Between the heptagon and pentagon are placed five standards, in the designs of whigjl are five letters, which form a particular word. The first standard is purple, on which is emblazoned the ark of the covenant, with a palm, tree on each side; the ark has the motto Laus Deo. The second is blue, on which is a lion, of gold, couchant, holding in his mouth a golden key, with a collar of the same metal on his neck, and on it is the device, Ad majorem Dei gloriam. The third is white, and displays a heart in flames, with two wings; it is surmounted by a crown of laurels. The fourth is green, and bears a double-headed black eagle, crowned, holding a sword in his right claw, and a bleeding heart in his left. The fifth bears a black ox. on a field of gold. On the sides of the enneagon are nine tents, with flags, representing the divisions of the Masonic army; on the angles are nine pinions, of the same color as the flag of the tent that precedes it. The hall of the Consistory is hung with black, strewed with tears of silver. The jewel is a double-headed white and black eagle, resting on a Teutonic cross, of gold, worn attached to the collar or ribbon. ^The members are called Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. The moral of the degree teaches opposition to bigotry, superstition, and all the passions and vices which disgrace human nature."—Macoy's Encyclopaedia and Pictionary of Freemasonry, Article Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

PART VI 1THE PERSONAL LIFE OF THOSE ALREADY ADMITTED AND INCORPORATED INTO THE BODY OF THE SOCIETY

SECTION 1: THE APOSTOLIC CHARACTER OF OUR VOWS IN GENERAL

143 §1. Our consecration by profession of the evangelical counsels, by which we respond to a divine vocation, is at one and the same time the following of Christ poor, virginal, and obedient and a rejection of those idols that the world is always prepared to adore, especially wealth, pleasure, prestige, and power. Hence, our poverty, chastity, and obedience ought visibly and efficaciously to bear witness to this attitude, whereby we proclaim the evangelical possibility of a certain communion among men and women that is a foretaste of the future kingdom of God.[1]

§2. Our religious vows, while binding us, also set us FREE:

FREE, by our vow of poverty, to share the life of the poor and to use whatever resources we may have, not for our own security and comfort, but for service;

FREE, by our vow of chastity, to be men for others, in friendship and communion with all, but especially with those who share our mission of service;

FREE, by our vow of obedience, to respond to the call of Christ as made known to us by him whom the Spirit has placed over the Church, and to follow the lead of all our superiors.[2] [1] See GC 32, d. 4, no. 16; see GC 31, d. 16, no. 4; d. 17, no. 2; d. 18, no. 3. [2] GC 32, d. 2, no. 20. 215

The Constitutions of The Society of Jesus and Their Complimentary Norms

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ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE

The History and Legend of Scottish Rite Origins

The Story Unfolds…

Like much of early Masonic history, the origins of the Scottish Rite are uncertain. This is primarily due to the lack of historic documentation prior to the early 1700’s and not to any great veiled mystery. The few records kept were subject to loss, fire, weather and aging. So we can at best only speculate on many of our origins by looking at the few documents, historical references and legends that remain.

What We Know

n 1754, near Paris, Chevalier de Bonneville established the Chapter of Clermont. The Chapter resided in the College of Jesuits of Clermont, hence the name. It is said to have been created to honor the Duc de Clermont, then Grand Master of the English Grand Lodge of France.

The Chapter of Clermont was a “Chapter of the Advanced Degrees” and initially entailed six degrees and was later extended to 25 known degrees. The six initial degrees were 1˚, 2˚ and 3˚ St John’s Masonry, 4˚ Knight of the Eagle, 5˚ Illustrious Knight or Templar, 6˚ Sublime Illustrious Knight.

Interestingly enough historically, prior to the time of the Rite’s creation, James II had been in residence at Clermont in exile from Britain from 1688 to his death in 1701. As noted by German Masonic historian, Lenning… “whilst in exile, James II residing at the Jesuit College of Clermont in France, allowed his closest associates to fabricate certain degrees in order to extend their political views.” Lenning believed this to have been an attempt on the part of James and his associates to regain control of the British throne for the House of Stuart. If Lenning is right, this places the origins of the “Rite of Perfection” in the hands of James II and the Jacobite (Stuart) Freemasons who at the time were in exile from Great Britain throughout France and Italy. Lenning also contends that these degrees were introduced into French Freemasonry under the name of the Clermont System.

James II died in exile in 1701. His son James III is said to have continued his father’s Masonic legacy and later created further higher degrees.

Perhaps James II saw in the Jesuit morality plays of the College of Clermont a vessel for passing on a set of moral lessons. Some of the world’s greatest playwrights had emerged from Clermont. Jesuit tutelage had previously produced great writers such as Lope de Vega, Moliere, Racine, and the Corneille brothers. Ensconced in exile, I believe James II did find the inspiration and the training to help produce what would later become the first six degrees. From out of the darkness… comes light.

To be continued… (Author’s note… An in depth look at the Templar influence in Scottish Rite masonry’s origins can be found by visiting the Rosslyn Templars’ website.)"

https://web.archive.org/.../scottish-rite-history.html

The Collège de Clermont was one of the earliest schools established by the Jesuits, who were incredibly influential in shaping education in Europe. The Jesuits were a rigid and hierarchical Catholic sect that followed the teachings of Ignatius Loyola.

https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/development-of-education-in-ea/item/249#:~:text=The%20Coll%C3%A8ge%20de%20Clermont%20was,the%20teachings%20of%20Ignatius%20Loyola.

Hillary Clinton : "We Can Have this Jesuitical Argument about what exactly was meant" (re-upload) - YouTube

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MEET THE PRESS - RUSSERT BADGERS HILLARY ON THE IRAQ VOTE P2

MEET THE PRESS JANUARY 6, 2008

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Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, Named Next Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada

March 15, 2024 — The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) announced the appointment of Fr. Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, as the next provincial of the Jesuits of Canada. This appointment is the culmination of a thoughtful, prayerful process of consultation and discernment, marking a significant milestone for the Canadian Province.

https://www.jesuits.org/stories/jeffrey-s-burwell-sj-named-next-provincial-of-the-jesuits-of-canada/

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Tariffs on Imports from Canada, Mexico and China

The White House

February 1, 2025

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Until the crisis is alleviated, President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff.

President Trump is taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.

The orders make clear that the flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl to the United States, through illicit distribution networks, has created a national emergency, including a public health crisis. Chinese officials have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels and shut down money laundering by transnational criminal organizations.

In addition, the Mexican drug trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico. The government of Mexico has afforded safe havens for the cartels to engage in the manufacturing and transportation of dangerous narcotics, which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of American victims. This alliance endangers the national security of the United States, and we must eradicate the influence of these dangerous cartels.

There is also a growing presence of Mexican cartels operating fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada. A recent study recognized Canada’s heightened domestic production of fentanyl, and its growing footprint within international narcotics distribution

USING OUR LEVERAGE TO ENSURE AMERICANS’ SAFETY: Previous Administrations failed to fully leverage America’s economic position as a tool to secure our borders against illegal migration and combat the scourge of fentanyl, preferring to let problems fester.

Access to the American market is a privilege. The United States has one of the most open economies in the world, and the lowest average tariff rates in the world.

While trade accounts for 67% of Canada’s GDP, 73% of Mexico’s GDP, and 37% of China’s GDP, it accounts for only 24% of U.S. GDP. However, in 2023 the U.S. trade deficit in goods was the world’s largest at over $1 trillion.

Tariffs are a powerful, proven source of leverage for protecting the national interest. President Trump is using the tools at hand and taking decisive action that puts Americans’ safety and our national security first.

Though previous Administrations have failed to leverage America’s combination of exceptional strength and its unique role in world trade to advance the security interests of the American people, President Trump has not.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO STOP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DRUGS: When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to seal the border. That is exactly what he is doing.

The Biden Administration’s policies have fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history.

More than 10 million illegal aliens attempted to enter the United States under Biden’s leadership, including a rising number of Chinese nationals and people on the terror watchlist.

This problem is not confined to the southern border – encounters at the northern border with Canada are rising as well.

The sustained influx of illegal aliens has profound consequences on every aspect of our national life – overwhelming our schools, lowering our wages, reducing our housing supply and raising rents, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and causing crime.

Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and illegal drugs and narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our borders and into our communities.

Last fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more than 21,000 pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough fentanyl to kill more than 4 billion people.

It is estimated that federal officials are only able to seize a fraction of the fentanyl smuggled across the southern border.

These drugs kill tens of thousands of Americans each year, including 75,000 deaths per year attributed to fentanyl alone.

More Americans are dying from fentanyl overdoses each year than the number of American lives lost in the entirety of the Vietnam War.

BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS: President Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to ensuring U.S. trade policy serves the national interest.

As President Trump said in the Presidential Memorandum on American First Trade Policy, trade policy is a critical component in national security.

President Trump promised in November to “sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

During his first term as President of the United States, President Trump established the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and declared the Opioid Crisis a public health emergency.

President Trump also has a long record of putting America first on trade. In his first term, President Trump successfully used threats of tariffs on Mexico to help secure our border.

When our national security was threatened by a global oversupply of steel and aluminum, President Trump took swift action to protect America’s national security by implementing tariffs on imports of these goods.

In response to China’s intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, and other unreasonable behavior, President Trump acted with conviction to impose tariffs on imports from China, using that leverage to reach a historic bilateral economic agreement.

Just last week, President Trump leveraged tariffs to successfully resolve national security concerns with Colombia, swiftly reaching an outcome that prioritizes the safety and security of the American people and the sanctity of our national borders.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-mexico-and-china/

St. Mike’s congratulates JEFFrey S. Burwell, SJ, Next Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada

Father Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ

Fr. Burwell is a seasoned educator and chaplain

Montreal, March 14, 2024 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) announced the appointment of Father Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, as the next Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada. This appointment is the culmination of a thoughtful, prayerful process of consultation and discernment, marking a significant milestone for the Canadian Province.

Father Burwell will succeed Fr. Erik Oland, assuming his new responsibilities on July 31, 2024, with an inaugural Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Toronto. A special celebration will also take place at the Jesuit infirmary in Richelieu, Quebec, on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 2024.

The University of St. Michael’s College congratulates Fr. Burwell on his appointment and gives thanks for the service of Fr. Erik Oland.

https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/news/st-mikes-congratulates-jeffrey-s-burwell-sj-next-provincial-of-the-jesuits-of-canada

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Ahead of World Youth Day, the head of the Jesuits had a candid Q&A with six young pilgrims

by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

August 2, 2023

On Monday, July 31, during MAGIS 2023, the Jesuits’ pre-World Youth Day program for people aged 18 to 35, Arturo Sosa, S.J., [RED BASEBALL HAT] had a candid, live-streamed conversation with six young pilgrims. (Credit: MAGIS 2023)

On the feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, S.J, the superior general of the order, had a candid, live-streamed conversation with six young pilgrims representing diverse continents and socio-economic backgrounds. The discussion took place on Monday, July 31, during MAGIS 2023, the Jesuits’ pre-World Youth Day program for people aged 18 to 35. Each of the six participants had the opportunity to ask Father Sosa a question about the church and the world.

Elijah, a pilgrim from the United States, was the first to pose a question. He wanted to know how he could live his Catholic faith as a young person and a recently confirmed Catholic, to “illuminate his path forward.”

“To be a Catholic is to be in a personal relationship with the Lord—with Jesus, when recognizing him as the Lord,” Father Sosa replied. “Catholicism is not a doctrine. It’s a faith. The only principle is to follow Jesus. And to follow Jesus, we need to be in touch with him. We need to be, as [St. Ignatius] said, in familiarity; to develop that familiarity through prayer, through service to the other is what really gets you in the Catholic faith.”

The next question posed to the superior general zeroed in on the role of the Jesuits and their apostolic preference for working with young people and to encourage them to be “creators of a hope-filled future,” as the MAGIS 2023 theme suggests.

“I wonder if those who are not called to a religious vocation can have a role, too,” Sofia, a young woman from Portugal, put to Father Sosa. “How can we empower this group of people?” She then added a further question: “How can the Society of Jesus provide integral tools and training to those who want to be part of building this future full of hope, even if their life path doesn’t lead to a religious vocation?”

[James Martin, S.J. at World Youth Day: ‘Does God exist?’ and other FAQs about faith and religion]

Responding to the question, Father Sosa drew on the analogy of the body of Christ used in Scripture by St. Paul, reminding pilgrims that the church, like the body, has many parts. “The church is re-imagining itself as the people of God who walk together,” he said. “But the main Christian vocation is to lay life—the majority of God’s people is a lay people.”

“How do we contribute to that?,” Father Sosa asked. “Because vocation comes from God; it is God who calls, not a person who invents. It is not that I propose to do this or that; the Lord calls who he wants, for what he believes can be better for their happiness—for the happiness of each one of us.” Father Sosa then turned to the particular gift that Ignatian spirituality can bring to help people discover their vocation: “What we have to learn is to listen to the call of God…. Ignatian spirituality is a concrete way of perceiving, of listening to the call and of preparing ourselves to make a choice, because the vocation is given by the Lord, but the decision is up to each one of us.”

Next to address the general was Jonathan from Austria. Noting the distraction that social media and the digital world brings to the life of young people, he asked: “I wonder how we can, through faith and God, refocus on what is truly important? How can we reawaken our senses to see and hear the needs of those around us?”

“First of all, I want to say that smartphones and technology are a gift of God,” Father Sosa responded. “What is important is that smartphones and all the technology, artificial intelligence, all of that, are instruments.” Father Sosa then shared the wisdom of the former superior general of the Jesuits, Adolfo Nicolás, S.J. “My predecessor used to say that the big danger in this moment of human history is the globalization of superficiality, and that we Christians need to go deeper. We need to go deeper in our life, in the life of everybody, in the life of history, in the life of transforming the social structures, and instruments like technology are good for that.”

Yvonne, a Catholic from Malaysia, commented that in some Asian countries, being Catholic results in persecution. She asked Father Sosa, “When our environment limits our ability to express and share our faith, how do we become a beacon of hope for others?”

“Pope Francis has invited us not only to watch Jesus Christ on the cross but to watch from the cross,” Father Sosa said. “If we really want to follow Jesus, we need to get up on the cross and watch the world and watch history from the eyes of Christ on the cross—and that changes everything. When you are on the cross, you are open to what God wants to do for the world.”

Pope Francis has often described today as the greatest moment of Christian persecution, Father Sosa noted. He cited recent incidents in India where hundreds of churches have been burned and many have died.

“As Christians, we must accustom ourselves to difficulties. The way to true life passes through the cross. You don’t arrive at resurrection without dying,” he said. “What gives us consolation is that [Jesus] is with us. He opened the way. He walked the way until the end and that’s why he rose and he opened up resurrected life to us.”

Bia, a woman from Brazil, said the issue of employment for youth is of critical importance. The dignity of workers touches upon a number of issues, including race and gender. She asked Father Sosa how the church and the Society of Jesus have reflected on this issue.

“It’s not just about neoliberal policies that make the economy grow,” Father Sosa said. “For there to be dignified work for all requires social justice. As long as poverty grows, regardless of how much work is available, there will be exploitation and work that is not dignified for the human person.”

The Society of Jesus understands its mission as “a faith in the Lord that promotes social justice for all,” he said. “The service we want to offer the world is to contribute to changing the social structures to end poverty as the condition of most of the world, to end forced migrations, to end undignified work.”

But these changes, he said, will only come about with a commitment from Catholics to the common good of all humanity. “As long as there are poor people, there is no human dignity,” he said.

Father Arturo Sosa answers the questions of six young pilgrims during MAGIS 2023 (Credit: MAGIS 2023)

Shingirai, a young woman from Zimbabwe, posed the final question to Father Sosa. She expressed concern about the impact of Christianity on African culture, particularly the loss of traditional roots. “What is the church doing to shape the moral fabric of young people?,” she asked, making specific mention of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. She also inquired about the church’s efforts to include people from Africa and Asia in shaping its values and administration.

Father Sosa replied: “Maybe the 20th century and this one, the 21st century, is the moment when the church is getting Catholic. Now is the moment in history when the church is getting real universal; because we now have a multicultural church.”

“Every culture should be converted by the light of the Gospel. To be a Christian or a Catholic is not to acquire a new culture; it is to evangelize the culture where you come from. Christianity is not a culture, it’s a religious faith that illuminates every culture,” he said. “That’s why the big challenge is to become intercultural; from your culture illuminated by the Gospel you get in touch with other cultures and you enrich the other cultures and you get enriched by the others.”

Father General then turned to respond more directly to Shingirai’s concern about the church’s impact on sexual morality across cultures. Catholic moral and theological thought “is always in process,” he said.

“We need to develop from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit how to approach different problems. And that’s why discernment is so important,” he added. “We need to love people, because God loves everyone. God is love. And he takes the initiative of loving everyone; every human being is loved by the Lord. So from there we can really understand and develop our way of relationship and thinking.”

As the one-on-one conversation between young people and the general drew to a close, Mike Martinez, S.J., a Jesuit scholastic and rapper from the United States studying theology in Brazil, who had moderated the conversation, addressed MAGIS pilgrims. “With this energy, I think that Father General might actually have a question now for us,” he said. And with that, the Jesuit superior general left pilgrims with a final task: “What cannot be missing for a future full of hope?”

With that, the general left the stage to prepare for Mass, a dual celebration honoring the feast day of St. Ignatius Loyola and also serving as the conclusion of the MAGIS experience. Later that afternoon, these young people would join hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims already in Lisbon for the start of World Youth Day. The Mass took place on the sports fields of Colégio São João de Brito, and it was attended by over 4,000 people, including both MAGIS pilgrims and individuals associated with the Jesuits in Portugal.

In his homily, Father Sosa used the images of St. Ignatius and the prophet Jeremiah, who was the focus of the first reading, as examples of how God can reach each one of us: “God came to meet Ignatius of Loyola, uprooting him from his dreams and transforming him into a pilgrim toward something new. Amid so much resistance, Jeremiah and Ignatius experience the intimate joy of the encounter.”

Each of those present was called to allow themselves to be open to the journey that God wants for each of us, he said. But this journey cannot be carried out without reflection, as was stressed in the Luke’s Gospel. “Any dream, to be realized,” Father Sosa said, “needs human reflection, dialogue with others and prayer in search of light, to complete the construction of this tower, as St. Ignatius would say when speaking of the religious vocation.”

Father Sosa invited everyone to “fix our eyes on him, so that his eyes may reflect to us the poor and humble Jesus who seduced him to the point of madness. St. Ignatius was a madman for Christ, as the monk of Montserrat called him.”

With reporting from PontoSJ, the online journal of the Jesuits in Portugal.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/08/02/father-arturo-sosa-magis-world-youth-day-questions-245777/

Trump rally shooter killed by Secret Service sniper, officials say

By Faris Tanyos

Updated on: July 14, 2024 / 10:14 AM EDT / CBS News

A suspected gunman who opened fire during a Trump rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot by a Secret Service sniper, authorities said.

One rally attendee was killed and two more were critically wounded, the Secret Service said in a statement Saturday night.

The suspect was shot and killed by a member of a Secret Service counter-assault team, two law enforcement sources told CBS News.

Former President Donald Trump as gunshots are fired at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. This photo appears to show a bullet in the air near Trump.

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Multiple law enforcement sources said the gunman was outside of the cordoned-off rally area, about 400 feet from the stage, and was on top of a shed, the two sources said. The shooter was armed with a semiautomatic AR-style rifle, the sources said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is tracing the weapon.

Several shots rang out while Trump was speaking on stage at about 6:15 p.m. local time. Video showed the former president immediately touch his ear and then crouch to the ground, with his Secret Service agents rushing the stage. Some blood could be seen on his face as he stood up and held up his fist to the crowd. He was rushed out to his motorcade and the Secret Service later confirmed that he was safe.

In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear."

"I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin," he continued.

Authorities are investigating the shooting as an attempted assassination. The FBI said in a statement that it is leading the investigation, with assistance from the Secret Service and state and local agencies.

In a statement early Sunday morning, the FBI identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, which is located just outside Pittsburgh.

In a news conference late Saturday night, Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh office, refused to speculate on a possible motive. He disclosed that "there was identification of suspicious packages around where the shooter was, and so we deployed, in an abundance of caution, bomb assets, to make sure those were cleared for investigators."

The FBI is leading the investigation, with assistance from the Secret Service and state and local agencies.

Rally attendee Ben Macer told CBS Pittsburgh that he saw the suspect "move from roof to roof" and told an officer that the gunman "was on the roof."

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa.

Evan Vucci / AP

"When I turned around to go back to where I was, it was when the gunshots started, and then it was just chaos, and we all came running away, and that was that," Macer said.

Rep. Mike Kelley of Pennsylvania, who was standing backstage watching Trump speak, told CBS News, "I believe a lady who was next to me was hit, other people were hit."

Dr. Jim Sweetland, an emergency room physician who was at the rally and witnessed the shooting, told CBS News by phone that he administered first aid to a man who had sustained a gunshot wound to the head.

"He was shot in the head, his body was twisted around and wedged between two benches that were in the stands," Sweetland said. "He was not breathing, he did not have a pulse. He appeared gravely ill."

With the help of three people, Sweetland said he was able to get the victim onto a bench and then began administering CPR and chest compressions.

"There was a lot of blood that was spilt on the stands where he lay, as well as brain matter," Sweetland said.

Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers then approached, gathered up the victim and took him, presumably to an ambulance, Sweetland said.

Republican Senate candidate David McCormick, who was in the front row of the rally, also saw one person shot.

People hug after Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13, 2024.

Gene J. Puskar / AP

"It was really hard to tell, there was a lot of blood, so it wasn't clear where the bullet had struck him, and how severe the wound was," McCormick told CBS News. "He looked to be unconscious, but even that's not entirely clear to me."

The shooting comes just two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Trump's motorcade departed Butler Memorial Hospital a little before 9:30 p.m. local time, two sources confirmed to CBS News. Video posted by a Trump aide to social media early Sunday morning showed him deboarding after his plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Prior to the shooting incident, he had been scheduled to travel to his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, before departing for Milwaukee for the convention.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-shooter-death-attendee-butler-county-da/

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.[a] (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

Copilot Search Branding

Robinette is a diminutive form of Robin or Roberta, meaning "bright fame" or "famous and shining."

AI Overview

During President Joe Biden's visit to Rome in late October 2021 for the G20 summit, his heavily armored limousine, known as "The Beast" (specifically the 2018 Cadillac One model), was a central part of a massive motorcade.

Key details regarding the Beast and the 2021 Rome trip include:

Massive Motorcade: Reports indicated that the motorcade, which transported the President to a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican and to G20 events, consisted of approximately 85 vehicles.Pope Leo XIV[a] (born

Robert Francis Prevost,[b] pronounced /ˈpriːvoʊst/ PREE-vohst,[2][c] September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenships, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second (after his immediate predecessor Pope Francis) from the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

Trump, Vance meet with Pope Leo's Florida brother, 'a major MAGA fan', at White House

Kim Luciani

USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida

May 22, 2025, 12:58 p.m. ET

Key Points AI-assisted summary

President Donald Trump met with Pope Leo XIV's brother, LOUIS Prevost, at the White House.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2025/05/22/trump-pope-leo-florida-maga-brother-louis-prevost-white-house-visit/83773944007/

Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, Named Next Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada

March 15, 2024 — The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) announced the appointment of Fr. Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, as the next provincial of the Jesuits of Canada.

https://www.jesuits.org/stories/jeffrey-s-burwell-sj-named-next-provincial-of-the-jesuits-of-canada/

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Pope John Paul I[a] (born Albino Luciani;[b] 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I

On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II

SAKO Limited (natively Sako Oy)[1] is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme in southern Finland.

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And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Revelation 13:3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rapha%C3%ABl_I_Sako

Armed man shot and killed after entering secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service says

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALLEN G. BREED

Updated 11:54 AM PST, February 23, 2026

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed man entered the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service.

Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House when the breach occurred around 1:30 a.m.

The man had a gas can and a shotgun, authorities said. Investigators identified him as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, according to the FBI, and authorities said his family had recently reported him missing.

He’s believed to have purchased his shotgun while driving south, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, and a box for the weapon was later discovered in the man’s vehicle.

Investigators have not identified a motive. However, Trump has faced threats to his life before, including two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign.

The investigation is ongoing

The man entered the north gate of the property as a vehicle was exiting and was confronted by two Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. Martin was on foot and was spotted by the Secret Service entering the gate as it opened for employees to leave, a Secret Service spokesperson said.

“He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him. At which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said at a brief press conference. The two agents and the deputy “fired their weapons to neutralize the threat.”

The Moore County Sheriff’s Department in North Carolina said a relative of Martin’s reported him missing early Sunday morning.

Investigators are working to compile a psychological profile. Asked whether the man was previously known to law enforcement, Bradshaw said “not right now.”

The FBI encouraged residents who live near Mar-a-Lago to check any security cameras they may have for footage that could help investigators.

In a post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau would be “dedicating all necessary resources” to the investigation.

Martin was described by family as quiet and averse to guns

On Sunday afternoon, vehicles blocked the entrance to a property listed in public records as an address for Martin at the end of a private road in Cameron, North Carolina.

Braeden Fields, Martin’s cousin, reacted with disbelief. He described Martin as quiet, afraid of guns and from a family of avid Trump supporters.

“He’s a good kid,” Fields, 19, said. He said they grew up together. “I wouldn’t believe he would do something like this. It’s mind-blowing,” Fields said.

He said Martin worked at a local golf course and would send money from each paycheck to charity.

“He wouldn’t even hurt an ant. He doesn’t even know how to use a gun,” Fields said.

He said his cousin didn’t discuss politics.

“We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody,” Fields said, but his cousin was “real quiet, never really talked about anything.”

Trump faced two assassination attempts during his last campaign

Sunday’s incursion at Mar-a-Lago took place a few miles from Trump’s West Palm Beach club where a man tried to assassinate him while he played golf during the 2024 campaign.

A Secret Service agent spotted that man, Ryan Routh, aiming a rifle through the shrubbery before Trump came into view. Officials said Routh aimed his rifle at the agent, who opened fire and caused Routh to drop his weapon.

Routh was found guilty last year and sentenced this month to life in prison.

Trump also survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That gunman fired eight shots before being killed by a Secret Service counter sniper. One rally attendee was killed by the gunman.

White House brings in shutdown politics

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X that “the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home.”

Leavitt used her post to blame Democratic lawmakers in Congress for the partial government shutdown affecting the Homeland Security Department, which began Feb. 14 after Democrats demanded changes to the president’s deportation campaign.

The Secret Service is among the agencies where the vast majority of employees are continuing their work but missing a paycheck.

“Federal law enforcement are working 24/7 to keep our country safe and protect all Americans,” Leavitt said. “It’s shameful and reckless that Democrats have chosen to shut down their Department.”

The White House referred all questions to the Secret Service and FBI. Both Trump and his wife posted statements on social media after the incident, but they were unrelated to the shooting.

Numerous recent acts of politically motivated violence

In the past year, there was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk; the assassination of the Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife; and an arson attack at the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Five days ago, a Georgia man armed with a shotgun was arrested as he sprinted toward the west side of the U.S. Capitol. Trump is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address there on Tuesday night.

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This story was first published on Feb. 22, 2026. It was published again on Feb. 23, 2026, to correct authorities say the suspect walked, not drove, into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago.

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Breed reported from Cameron, N.C. Associated Press reporters Alanna Durkin Richer and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this story.

https://apnews.com/article/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516

The name Austin is derived from the medieval diminutive of Augustine, which itself comes from the Latin name Augustus. The name carries connotations of greatness or magnificence and has historical significance linked to Saint Augustine of Hippo, a pivotal figure in the development of Western Christianity. Thus, Austin symbolizes dignity and respect, reflecting its roots in the Latin language.

https://www.familyeducation.com/baby-names/name-meaning/austin

Pope Leo XIV[a] (born Robert Francis Prevost,[b][c] September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States, the first from North America, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenships (or both), the first born after World War II, the first from the Order of Saint AUGUSTINE, and the second (after his immediate predecessor Pope Francis) from the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

Robert Francis Prevost and Louis Sako conspired to have Pope Francis assassinate and Robert Francis Prevost has a martyrdom complex and is betraying America to Louis Sako and is either going to retire and then get assassinated like Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI or is going to get assassinated by 2028 as Pope for Cardinal Louis Sako to be elected Pope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rapha%C3%ABl_I_Sako

RAPHAEL Gamaliel Warnock[1] (/ˈrɑːfiɛl ˈwɔːrnɒk/ RAH-fee-el WOR-nok; born July 23, 1969) is an American politician and Baptist pastor serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Warnock

The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military officer serving since 2025 as the eighth director of national intelligence (DNI). She has held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve since 2021, and previously served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A former Democrat, she became an independent in 2022 and later joined the Republican Party in 2024. Gabbard was the youngest state legislator in Hawaii from 2002 to 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

Jeffrey S. Burwell, SJ, Named Next Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada

https://www.jesuits.org/stories/jeffrey-s-burwell-sj-named-next-provincial-of-the-jesuits-of-canada/

Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal SJ (born 12 November 1948) is a Venezuelan Catholic priest who has served as the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus since 2016. He was elected by the Society's 36th General Congregation to succeed Adolfo Nicolás. He is the first person born in Latin America to lead the Jesuits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sosa

Etymology of Arturo

What does the name Arturo mean?

The surname Arturo is an Italian patronymic surname; that is, it was a name created from the first name of the father. Arturo is derived from the Breton given names Artuir and Arthur. This personal name is of very ancient origin and is derived from the Celtic word art, which means bear. The name Arthur is also related to the Greek Arcturus, which means bear or guardian and is the name of the bright star in the constellation Bootes.

https://www.houseofnames.com/arturo-family-crest

The Beast (Koine Greek: Θηρίον, Thērion) may refer to one of three beasts described in the Book of Revelation.

Revelation 12-13 describes these three beasts as follows:

The dragon (later revealed in the text to be Satan)[1]

The beast of the sea (commonly interpreted as the Antichrist)[2][3]

The beast of the earth (later revealed in the text to be the False prophet)[4]

However, many people have different beliefs about the meaning of these beasts.

In Revelation 13:1–10, the beast of the sea rises "out of the sea" and is given authority and power by the dragon. It persecutes God's people in the 2nd part of Revelation 13. To buy and sell, everyone is required to have its name or number on their forehead or right hand (Rev 13:16-17). It speaks blasphemous words against God, will rule the world for 42 months (Revelation 13:5-7), and is described as resembling a leopard, a lion, and a bear—which are three of the animals in Daniel 7. It suffers a fatal head wound which is miraculously healed, bewildering the world's population and causing many to worship it.

In Revelation 13:11–18, the beast of the earth, later known as the false prophet, comes "out of the earth," exercises all the authority of the Sea Beast, forces everyone on earth to worship the Sea Beast, and convinces the people, through signs and wonders, to make an image of the Sea Beast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation)

CODEWORD BARBELON

BILL CLINTON AND OTHER LEARNED AGENTS OF THE GREAT

SECRET SOCIETY

Notwithstanding Phi Beta Kappa being called a "giant evil," this has ot detracted from its appeal. Famous members include:" William Howard Taft (founder of Skull and Bones); George H.W. Bush Nelson Rockefeller; John D. Rockefeller, Jnr.; Alger Hiss; Henry Kissinger: Pat Robertson: Senator Joseph Lieberman: Eliot Spitzer; Condoleezza Rice; Bill Clinton; AND Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Samuel Alito; former Chief Justices William Rehnquist and John Marshall; and the current Chief Justice John Roberts. All of these Justices, except John Marshall, are Catholics.

Earlier I promised to furnish proof of Bill Clinton's Masonic membership and affiliations. Here it is: from a notice posted in The Jerusalem Post, November, 1994 by "The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel." You will see it is addressed "To the Masons of Peace": "Yitzak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel," "King Hussein of Jordan," and "The Honourable Bill Clinton, President of the United States."

The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel

of Uncient Free and Receptes Mere

To the Masons of Peace

The Honorable Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel His Majesty King Hussein of jordan

The Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the United States

With warm fraternal congratulations on the signing of the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan

Ephraim Fuchs President of the leal Order of Masons

This advertisement, as you can see, refers to President Bill Clinton as one of "the Masons of peace, and ends with: "With warm fraternal congratulations" and is signed-Ephraim Fuchs, President of the Israel

Order of Masons.

15 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi Beta Kappa.

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Phi Beta Kappa, Literary Societies & Bill's Masonic Membership Not only is Bill Clinton a high-ranking Freemason, a Rhodes scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and an ex-Yale law school dropout-Yale is the headquarters of Skull and Bones-his Alma Mater is Georgetown University; the first Jesuit university in America. Impeccable credentials for any good double agent of the great secret society.

our leaders-are Freemasons or belong to one of the many "literary' But why should it matter to us whether or not people-particularly societies? Why should we care if people like Bill Clinton, Hilary Chinton, George Bush, Barack Obama (whose Presidential running mate, Joseph R. Biden, is a staunch Roman Catholic)" and Condoleezza Rice, are members of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Beta Kappa, or Skull and Bones"? Well, according to the eminent Freemason, Arthur Edward Waite, it is because these secret societies frequently "determine in the depths fi.e. behind the scenes] the changes that take place on the surface. Moreover, virtually every one of the literary societies' (or sororities) at American universities are offsprings of that "giant evil" called Phi Beta Kappa, which was formed as an American echo of Adam Weishaupt's conspiratorial Illuminati Order. These societies require that their members take oaths, pledging allegiance to organizations other than the state, or country of their domicile.

On July 4, 1798, Timothy Dwight, President of Yale University. warned the people of New Haven about the Illuminati's use of American politics, religion and education to further their sinister ends: "Shall we introduce them into our government, our schools, our families? Shall our sons become the disciples of Voltaire (a French Jesuit-trained writer) and the dragoons of Murat, or our daughters, the

16 His son, Hunter Biden, 38, is a longtime federal lobbyist for the Jesuit university located in his father's hometown, Scranton, PA. According to federal disclosures, Hunter Biden has been earning about $80,000 a year since 2006 to lobby for this University. Senator Biden himself has lectured at the Jesuit University of Scranton, and received an the end of this chapter. Even he is under the influence of the Jesuits honoray degree from the same university, in 1976. As to Mr. Obama, see in which one of the characters overseering the initiation is dressed as A known Masonic Order, that uses blood oaths and ritual initiations. the Pope. Like Weishaupt's Illuminati new members of Skull and Bones are assigned secret names denoting their function within the Order, such as Long Devil, and Boaz (short for Beelzebub).

18 In A. Ralph Epperson's, The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History (Tucson, A: Publius Press, 1985), p. 126.

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concubines of the Illuminati."" Unfortunately, many of the leading milies of America have become disciples of Illuminism through the stem of college sororities, or fraternaties: "The most prominent haracteristic of American undergraduate social life." But Albert C. tevens reminded us, all of the college fraternities have been extensively orrowed from Freemasonry. Here is the full text of his earlier quote:

Slome of the better known college fraternities give unmistakable evidence, to those of their members in a position to judge, of having been rummaged in the bureau drawers of Freemasonry, Odd Fellowship, Forestry, the Templars, Knights of Malta, and other 'orders' for ritualistic finery. Zeta Psi was founded by Freemasons. Delta Psi, Columbia, 1817, was dressed up by someone who had access to rituals of the bastard Masonic rites of Misraim and Memphis. Psi Upsilon hung its harp low on the tree of symbolic Masonry, while its offspring.... Theta Delta Chi went far afield and returned with the Forestic legend, while the earlier "Alpha Delts" were evidently inspired by what they knew of Royal Arch Masonry and the Red Cross degree as conferred in commanderies of Masonic Knights Templars [sic]."

Sadly, however, as Stevens writes on p. XV of his book The Cyclopaedia of Fraternities: "Very few among the six million members of nearly three hundred secret societies, fraternities, and sisterhoods in the United States are familiar with the origin or history" of these organizations. And yet, a little research will reveal that these college fraternities are the legacy of the Jesuit Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. How profound was the observation of French historian Louis Blanc when he wrote, Weishaupt was "one of the profoundest conspirators who have ever existed."

And lest the reader is inclined to think lightly of this fact-of leaders like Bill Clinton and others belonging to these Masonic organizations-I share a statement from the respected Masonic Professor Manly P. Hall,

19 Sermon, Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis... Fourth July, 1798, at the request of the Citizens of New Haven, 1798, pp. 20,21; cited in Esther Ernestine Brown, The French Revolution and the American Man of Letters (University of Missouri, 1951), p. 135; Robert Ernest Spiller et al. Literary History of the United States, (1953), p. 120.

20 Albert C. Stevens, The Cyclopedia of Fraternities, op. cit., p. 328.

21 Stevens, The Cyclopedia of Fraternities, op. cit., 346-347.

22 Louis Blanc, d'Histoire de la Révolution de Février 1848, p. 84.

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Hall writes: "When a Mason learns the... seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, like. before he is allowed to progress to the higher Masonic degrees] he must prove his ability to properly apply that energy!" Yes, that is what Manly Hall says about Freemasonry, of which Bill Clinton is a member. And that's not all. There is also proof which suggests that Bill Clinton was a deep cover CIA agent in the late 1960s-while at Oxford University, and that his handler was none other than the CIA's London bureau chief, Cord Meyer. But more on that in Chapter XXXVII.

Before we move on, I promised in the footnote on page 181 to say more about President Barack Obama. Here it is, for what it's worth.

Obama's gonna change it, Obama's gonna lead 'em We're gonna change it. And rearrange it....

The above sung is from a "grassroots" music video produced by "Sing for Change," showing children singing praises to Obama. Now, most people know that Barack Obama worked extensively in community organizing, in the 1980s. But what is not so well-known is that this community organizing was done when Obama was hired by a lay Catholic minister, Jerry Kellman, as lead organizer for a Chicago organization called" the "Developing Communities Project," funded by Chicago's south-side Catholic churches. What is also significant is that Obama's Chicago mentor Gregory Galluzzo was a Jesuit priest! And now, Obama's Chief Speechwriter, Jon Favreau, is a Jesuit-trained ethics' professor: Obama's Senior Military and Foreign Policy Advisor, Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, is Jesuit-trained; and Obama's Deputy Communications Director, Dan Pleiller, is Jesuit-trained. Obama chose Jesuit-controlled Joe Biden as his vice-president! Do you think that all of Mr. Obama's Jesuit connections and selections are mere coincidences? And why do you think the other side (Republicans) ran 'a corpse' and a hockey mum' against him? To ensure his victory! Yes, "Change has come to America"! Reader, what is yet to come will, at first, leave you nonplussed-even unnerved, alarmed, puzzled, mystified, bewildered, and ballled-but I promise, it will all be made clear at the end.

Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys To Freemasonry (a.ka. The Secret of Hiram Abiff) (Santa Monica, Calif., 1923), p. 48; Repr. N 2006 by JP

24 Catholic Press: unw.fratres.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/obama-

Tarcher/Penguin, New York.

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Codeword Barbelon book One

by PD. Stuart

Danney Lee Williams Jr. (born December 7, 1985) is a man from Little Rock, Arkansas who claims to be the biological son of Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States.[1] Blood tests ruled out Clinton as the father.[1][2]

Background

Williams was born in 1985 to Danney Williams Sr. and Bobbie Ann Williams.

The story came to notice in the late 1990s when reporting by Newsmax led by celebrity tabloid magazine Star to commission a paternity test prove whether Williams is actually Clinton's biological son.[3] Time magazine cited Star on July 18, 1999 to say that there was no match.[4]

The story was revived in 2016 before the 2016 presidential election and pushed by a number of media outlets including Newsmax, the Drudge Report,[3] as well as WorldNetDaily,[1] and the New York Daily News.[1]

Due to some uncertainties with the original test by Star, Snopes concluded that the claim was unproven.[3] The Washington Post stated that, while the test could not prove Clinton was the father, it did conclusively rule him out as the father.[1]

On October 19, 2016, Williams' lawyers announced their intentions to file a paternity suit to prove that Clinton's DNA matched Williams'.[5] Williams wrote to Monica Lewinsky asking for her dress in order to obtain a sample of Clinton's DNA. However, Lewinsky never replied to Williams.[6] A partial analysis of Clinton's blood, and thus his DNA, was already part of the public record because of the Lewinsky affair investigation.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danney_Williams

Thomas Trace Beatie (born 1974[1]) is an American public speaker, author, and advocate of transgender rights and sexuality issues, with a focus on transgender fertility and reproductive rights.[2]

Beatie came out as a trans man in early 1997. Beatie had gender-affirming surgery in March 2002 and became known as "the pregnant man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007.[3] Beatie chose to be pregnant, with donated sperm,[4][5] because his wife Nancy was sterile.

The couple filed for divorce in 2012. The Beatie case is the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie

Exoteric Masonry, which is only the husks of the Mystic Order formed by the Sons of Cain has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. The sons of Seth, constituting themselves the Priestcraft have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element to dominate the spiritual development. And whereas, the sons of Cain working through Freemasonry and kindred movements, have openly fought for the temporal power, the Priestcraft has fought as strenuously and perhaps more effectively, by stealth, to retain their monopoly upon the spiritual development of the feminine element. To the casual onlooker it would seem as if there were no decided antagonism between these two movements at the present time, but though Freemasonry of today is but a shell of its true ancient mystic self, and though Catholicism has been terribly tarnished by the touch of time, in that one thing there is no difference, the war is as keen as ever, the efforts of the Church are not concentrated upon the masses however as much as upon those who are seeking to live the higher life, so that they may gain admission to the Mystery Temple and learn how to make the Philosophers’ Stone. As mankind advances in evolution, the vital body becomes more permanently positively polarized giving to both sexes a greater desire for spirituality, and though we change from the masculine to feminine in alternate embodiment, positive polarity of the vital body is becoming more pronounced regardless of sex, and this accounts for the growing tendency towards Altruism which is even being brought out by the suffering entailed by the great war we are now fighting, for all agree that they are seeking to obtain a lasting peace where the swords may be made into plowshares, and the spears into pruning hooks. In the past humanity has been claiming universal brotherhood as a great ideal, but we must come closer than that to be in full accord with the Christ. He said to his Disciples “ye are my friends.” Among brothers and sisters hate and enmity may exist, but friendship is the expression of love and cannot exist apart from that. This is therefore the magic word which will eventually level all distinctions, bring peace upon earth and goodwill among men. This is the great Ideal proclaimed by the Rosicrucian Fellowship, an Ideal which points the shortest way to the New Heaven and the New Earth, where the sons of Cain and the sons of Seth will eventually be united.

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM

by MAX HEINDEL

https://dn720206.ca.archive.org/0/items/freemasonryandca017137mbp/freemasonryandca017137mbp.pdf

Kamala Devi Amesur (8 October 1933 – 29 November 2010) was an Indian and American actress, best known for her roles in the 1960s opposite her first husband, Chuck Connors.[1]

Early life

She was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), British India[2] on 11 October 1933. Her mother, Elizabeth,[3] was of English-Welsh descent, and her father, Chandumal Amesur, was a Sindhi Hindu head-and-neck surgeon.[4]

As of 1963, both Devi's parents lived in Bombay, India.[4]

She lived in the US since 1960, and became a US citizen after living in the country for 6 years.[4] Devi became a US citizen on 2 December 1966.[5]

Career

In 1958, Devi made her film debut in Harry Black, starring Stewart Granger. In 1962, she played in Geronimo the lead role of Teela, the wife of the legendary Apache chief Geronimo, played by Chuck Connors.

In 1964, she portrayed the harem girl and jinn Tezra in The Brass Bottle.

Personal life

Kamala met Chuck Connors on the sets on Geronimo, which they both acted as a couple. Chuck Connors announced the marriage date to press.[4]

On 10 April 1963, she married Chuck Connors, and they were divorced in 1972.[6]

In 2005, she married Maurie Beaumont, her third husband, who died in 2008.[7]

Death

Kamala Devi died in Arlington County, Virginia, at age 77 on 29 November 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Devi_%28actress%29

Can a Christian consider a career in acting / entertainment?

Answer

This is a hard question to answer because the entertainment business includes many aspects. There is a vast difference between a theatre that presents only classics such as Shakespeare’s plays and TV shows that glorify sex and violence. Both are considered part of the entertainment business and both involve actors and actresses, but the impact on the performers and the audiences is quite different. Christians considering a career in acting or performing must consider the bearing their roles will have on themselves spiritually, the lifestyle into which they will be entering, and the influence their performances will have on others.

For the Christian actor/actress/performer, involvement in a movie that glorifies sin or the devil’s work is clearly not an option. Because actors struggle to find roles, they often take whatever parts come along, especially when they are first starting out. For unbelieving actors/actresses, the decision to take a part involves little more than the effect it will have on their careers and future roles and the money involved. But for the Christian, there is also the problem of whether the role glorifies God or at least is not actually glorifying rebellion against Him with violence or sex or other evils. Granted, the big money is probably with the ungodly roles because we live in a world where the devil has a huge influence on these matters, but the Christian actor should not take parts which promote Satan’s agenda. The overriding principle involved is found in 1 Corinthians 10:31: "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

In addition, the issue of the lifestyle of performers in general must be a consideration for a Christian. There is an enormous amount of drugs, alcohol, and immoral behavior in the entertainment industry. Young people eager to get the “big break” are often used and abused by those in power. While it may be possible for a Christian to be in this world and not be affected by it, 1 Corinthians 15:33 warns us, “Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’” It would be foolish to ignore that warning.

Finally, the impact performers have on others must be considered. When unbelievers see professing Christians in movies, TV shows, or live performances that promote ungodliness, they sense the hypocrisy and are given cause to “blaspheme the name of God” (Romans 2:24). There is also a detrimental effect on the faith of other believers, especially young people and those immature in the faith. Anytime a young believer can justify ungodliness by saying, “Well, so-and-so does it and he’s a Christian,” the cause of Christ suffers, and the young person is drawn away from truth into sin. Jesus spoke harshly of those who cause “one of these little ones who believe in me to sin” (Matthew 18:6).

Ultimately, the decision to enter into a career in acting or entertainment must be made prayerfully, seeking God’s wisdom (James 1:5) and the counsel of mature Christians, remembering always that "everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness" (2 Timothy 2:19).

https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-acting-entertainment.html

James 1

1599 Geneva Bible

The [a]General Epistle of James

1 4 He entreateth of patience, 6 of faith, 10 and of lowliness of mind in rich men. 13 That tentations come not of God for our evil, 17 because he is the author of all goodness. 21 In what manner the word of life must be received.

1 James a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve Tribes, which are [b]scattered abroad, salutation.

2 [c]My brethren, [d]count it exceeding joy, [e]when ye fall into divers tentations,

3 [f]Knowing that the [g]trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

4 [h]And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

5 [i]If any of you lack [j]wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men liberally, and reproacheth no man, and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, and [k]waver not: [l]for he that wavereth, is like a wave of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried away.

7 Neither let that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in [m]all his ways.

9 [n]Let the brother of [o]low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10 [p]Again, he that is [q]rich, in that he is made low: [r]for as the flower of the grass, shall he vanish away.

11 For as when the sun riseth with heat, then the grass withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man wither away in all his [s]ways.

12 [t]Blessed is the man, that endureth [u]tentation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

13 [v]Let no man say when he is [w]tempted, I am tempted of God: [x]for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth [y]sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

16 [z]Err not my dear brethren.

17 Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the [aa]Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither [ab]shadow of turning.

18 [ac]Of his own [ad]will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be as the [ae]firstfruits of his creatures.

19 Wherefore my dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

20 For the wrath of man doth not accomplish the [af]righteousness of God.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with [ag]meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls.

22 [ah]And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, [ai]deceiving your own selves.

23 [aj]For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his [ak]natural face in a glass.

24 For when he hath considered himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner of one he was.

25 But who so looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his [al]deed.

26 [am]If any man among you seem religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiveth his [an]own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

27 [ao]Pure religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to [ap]visit the fatherless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

Footnotes

James 1:1 That is, written to no one man, city or country, but to all the Jews generally, being now dispersed.

James 1:1 To all the believing Jews, of what Tribe soever they be, and are dispersed through the whole world.

James 1:2 The first place or part touching comfort in afflictions, wherein we ought not be cast down and be fainthearted, but rather rejoice and be glad.

James 1:2 Seeing their condition was miserable in that scattering abroad, he doth well to begin as he doth.

James 1:2 The first argument, because our faith is tried through afflictions: which ought to be most pure, for so it is behoovable for us.

James 1:3 The second, Because patience, far passing and most excellent virtue, is by this means engendered in us.

James 1:3 That wherewith your faith is tried, to wit, those manifold temptations.

James 1:4 The third argument propounded in manner of an exhortation, that true and continual patience may be discerned from fained and for a time. The cross is as it were the instrument wherewith God doth polish and [re]fine us. Therefore the work and effect of afflictions, is the perfecting of us in Christ.

James 1:5 An answer to a privy objection: It is easily said, but it is not so easily done. He answereth that we need in this case a far other manner of wisdom, than the wisdom of man, to judge those things best for us, which are most contrary to the flesh: but yet we shall easily obtain this gift of wisdom, if we ask it rightly, that is, with a sure confidence of God, who is most bountiful and liberal.

James 1:5 By wisdom he meaneth the knowledge of that doctrine whereof mention was made before, to wit, wherefore we are afflicted of God, and what fruit we have to reap of affliction.

James 1:6 Why then what need other Mediator?

James 1:6 A digression or going aside from his matter, against prayers which are conceived with a doubting mind, whereas we have a certain promise of God, and this is that second part of the Epistle.

James 1:8 In all his thoughts and his deeds.

James 1:9 He returneth to his purpose, repeating the proposition, which is, that we must rejoice in the cross, for it doth not press us down, but exalt us.

James 1:9 Who is afflicted with poverty, or contempt, or with any kind of calamity.

James 1:10 Before he concludeth, he giveth a doctrine contrary to the former: to wit, how we ought to use prosperity, which is plenty of all things: to wit, so that no man therefore please himself, but be so much the more void of pride.

James 1:10 Who hath all things at his will.

James 1:10 An argument taken of the very nature of the things themselves, for that they are most vain and uncertain.

James 1:11 Whatsoever he either purposeth in his mind, or doeth.

James 1:12 The conclusion: Therefore we must patiently bear the cross: and he addeth a fourth argument, which comprehendeth the sum of all the former, to wit, because we come by this way to the crown of life, but yet of grace according to the promise.

James 1:12 Affliction whereby the Lord trieth him.

James 1:13 The third part of this Epistle, wherein he descendeth from outward tentations, that is, from afflictions, whereby God trieth us, to inward, that is, to those lusts whereby we are stirred up to do evil. The sum is this: Every man is the author of these temptations to himself, and not God: for we bear about in our bosoms that wicked corruption, which taketh occasions by what means soever, to stir up evil motions in us, whence out at length proceed wicked doing, and in conclusion followeth death the just reward of them.

James 1:13 When he is provoked to do evil.

James 1:13 Here is a reason showed, why God cannot be the author of evil doing in us, because he desireth not evil.

James 1:15 By sin is meant in this place actual sin.

James 1:16 Another reason taken of contraries: God is the author of all goodness, and so, that he is always like himself; how then can he be thought to be author of evil?

James 1:17 From him who is the fountain and author of all goodness.

James 1:17 He goeth on in the metaphor: for the sun by his manifold and sundry kinds of turning, maketh hours, days, months, years, light and darkness.

James 1:18 The fourth part concerning the excellency and fruit of the word of God. The sum is this: we must hear the word of God most carefully and diligently, seeing it is the seed, wherewith God of his free favor and love hath begotten us unto himself, picking us out of the number of his creatures. And the Apostle condemneth two faults, which do greatly trouble us in this matter, to wit, for that we so please ourselves, that we had rather speak ourselves than hear God speaking: yea, we snuff and are angry when we are reprehended: against which faults, he setteth a peaceable and quiet mind, and such an one as is desirous of purity.

James 1:18 This is it which Paul calleth gracious favor, and good will, which is the fountain of our salvation.

James 1:18 As it were an holy kind of offering, taken out of the residue of man.

James 1:20 That which God appointeth.

James 1:21 By meekness, he meaneth modesty, and whatsoever is contrary to an haughty and proud stomach.

James 1:22 Another admonition. Therefore is God’s word heard, that we may frame our lives according to the prescript thereof.

James 1:22 He addeth reasons, and those most weighty: first, because they that do otherwise, do very much hurt themselves.

James 1:23 Secondly, because they lose the chiefest use of God’s word, which correct not by it the faults that they know.

James 1:23 He alludeth to that natural spot, to which is contrary that purity whereunto we are born again, the lively image whereof we behold in the Law.

James 1:25 Behaving himself so: for works do show faith.

James 1:26 The third admonition: The word of God prescribeth a rule not only to do well, but also to speak well.

James 1:26 The fountain of all brabbling, and cursed speaking, and sauciness, is this, that men know not themselves.

James 1:27 The fourth: the true service of God standeth in charity toward our neighbors (especially such as need others’ help, as the fatherless and widows), and purity of life.

James 1:27 To have a care of them, and to help them as much as we can.

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