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You see, everything revolves
around the Infallible Truth.
If it isn’t absolutely certain
that at least something is infallibly
true, then how in the world
can we be certain anything is true,
to whatever degree of certitude…
apart from one’s own individual
consciousness & existence? It’s the old solipsist quandary (‘solipsist’
or ‘solipsism’ comes from Latin for ‘self alone’ --- meaning, it isn’t
possible to know for sure that anything else exists apart from
your own individual self & consciousness). In recent times, it’s
popularly accessible in The Matrix
film trilogy, though this kind of intellectual skepticism of certainty about
‘what is real’ has been a fashionable Modernist theme in so-called
‘science fiction’ or ‘cyberpunk fiction’ for many
decades. (By the way, if anybody reading
this is actually Catholic, then DON’T
you dare blithely watch this cinematic trilogy without EXTREME CAUTION. It is, like most
contemporary works of art or entertainment, seething with religious falsehoods,
immorality & immodesty, whatever remarkable merits it may or may not
possess otherwise.) What if a nefarious power or being or unseen reality is
creating a ‘virtual reality’ that suckers us in completely, with
poor little human folks or other sentient creatures totally
‘helpless’ to know that it’s a farce, or a mirage, or a
diabolically clever scheme to use us for some purpose that is really not a nice
thing for this power, being, reality or what-have-you to do, or etc.,
etc…? What then? How are you to know the truth? We’re pawns in a
game.
Of course, solipsism
isn’t a practical option. If you can’t
know, why worry?
Why not just take everything at face value and play along as if it’s real?
Yet the dirty deed is done,
intellectually speaking. The doubt
is real. Perhaps we’re incapable of knowing the truth about
‘reality’ outside of us --- but if so, doesn’t that call into
question everything we think
we know? And it’s all very fine to say, “Well, in the end, at a
minimum, I know that I exist.” Okay… so you exist. Excellent. Super. But… um… what is existence? And what is consciousness? Do we really understand these things?
Or are we only using words, like labels, to talk like we fully ‘comprehend’?
It may seem all ivory tower
‘academic’ to you, dear soul. Yet this is our reality.
You may not think about it
much --- you probably don’t --- but it’s still ‘real’.
And if you talk to, or read
the writings of, or watch the video or podcast of, an impressively bright
intellectual who’s really & actually thought about these things
exceedingly carefully & rigorously… and is humble enough and honest
enough to say so… then that bright person (who is rare, in my experience)
will as much as admit, in so many words, “You know, we don’t truly
comprehend consciousness. We can’t even define it adequately, let alone
explain it. And existence? Don’t get me
started.”
It’s like a duck. It
quacks, it waddles. You ‘know’ it when ‘see’ it.
But can you explain the duck
fully, down to the last atom or subatomic particle?
Can you explain all of its
functions & behaviors to the nth degree, every little thing?
Down
to the cellular or genetic level? Or on the macro scale, in flocks, etc…?
Or do you know what it’s like to be a duck, have you ever been a duck…?
Do you know the thing in and of itself,
as philosophers used to say?
Uh, would that be a no? Then
maybe quacking & waddling is --- oh, I don’t know --- a little
insufficient. Maybe we ‘know’ a duck when we ‘see’ it,
but --- in the bigger scheme of things --- we’re really not all that
knowledgeable & fantastic about ducks. Oh, sure, our so-called
‘science’ can tell us lots of impressive-sounding things about
ducks.
Yet is this the same as
fully & truly comprehending ‘duckness’?
Or is it just taking a thing
to pieces and saying, “Aha!”
As if ‘knowing’
how a few pieces work is the same as full & true understanding.
And that’s just ducks.
What can we pretend to ‘know’ from the miserable little
‘pieces’ we like to think we have ‘comprehended’ about
‘consciousness’ and ‘existence’? How on earth does this
inspire confidence in the truly thoughtful & honest human being? How is it
the ‘knowing’ of how a few pieces of consciousness or existence
‘work’ --- if that’s actually certain, even --- supposed to
assure us we really understand…?
Ah, but what’s the
point of this whimsical yet grave detour?
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A Late 1800s Pope Augurs Our Apostasy, Crafts an
Exorcism Prayer & Fights an Apocalyptic Beast (Part 2)
I’m glad you asked.
Or, er, that is, that I asked for you.
Hopefully, you’re
coming along for the ride. Because there really is a grave
point.
The whimsy we indulge as we
walk along the mental road is because, when you love knowing & having
wisdom, it really is ‘fun’, as it were, to know the truth and have
wise understanding. If this idea strikes you as ‘childish’ or
‘silly’, then perhaps you haven’t looked closely at Sacred
Scripture, my beloved one. Have you not read where it says:
“Doth [does] not wisdom cry
aloud… saying… ‘The Lord possessed me in the beginning
of his ways, before he made anything from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of
old before the earth was made… When he prepared the heavens, I
was present… when he balanced the foundations of the earth; I was
with him forming all things: and was
delighted every day, PLAYING BEFORE HIM AT ALL TIMES; PLAYING IN THE
WORLD: and my delights were to be with the children of men [i.e., humanity, who are made in the Image of Our Uncreated Creator,
the Lord God, and particularly with THOSE
WHO FEAR HIM AND LOVE HER... that is to say, Wisdom].’”
(Proverbs 8:1a, 3b, 22-23, 27a-b, 29c-31 DRC)
You see, precious reader, epistemology (that big old fancy
‘scary’ word, with its multisyllabic, Greek-derived form), simply
means the study of knowledge, of its origin, nature, methods & limitations.
In other words, how do we know what we
know? How can we be sure, that what we think is true, really
is the truth? And to what degree of certainty is it that we can be sure? Is
it infallibly certain? (To
wit, we couldn’t possibly be wrong.) Of an
absolute moral certainty?
(Accordingly, we don’t claim ‘infallible’ certainty,
but, honestly, we have absolutely no good reason, after very, very, very
careful thought & investigation, to think that we’re
wrong… and, if we are
wrong, that extremely wary thought & investigation, is what wisely &
prudently protects from moral guilt in the matter, should our wrong
judgment have unforeseen consequences.) Mere prudent certainty? (Seems, after careful thought & investigation, to be the best
conclusion. Howsoever, some facts are unknown or doubtful, or our logic
is not beyond all contesting.) Bare certainty? (Really haven’t time to
think this through wholly, investigating everything. But it’s not that important and
worth the effort.)
Do you see?
We can use varying
terminology. It’s never the precise terms that matter. It’s the
meaning. Do certain other terms used mean what I mean? Or
somewhere in-between? That’s the truly imperative thing when it
comes to something like this. The point?
Epistemologically speaking, the dogged & tenacious thinker
realizes that, given the threat of ‘solipsism’ (see Chapter 35 just
above, poor reader, if you don’t remember what this is), what is,
ultimately, the degree of certainty of knowing in this world? For small
finite creatures such as ourselves, that is. Who,
while smart, are indeed limited.
And
the answer?
Surprisingly --- for the
person who hasn’t thought it out ruthlessly --- it is:
WITHOUT INFALLIBLE TRUTH, THERE IS NO CERTAINTY.
Period.
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If everything except for
your own individual consciousness is questionable, then absolutely nothing else
in the world around you --- that you
think you see or sense --- is knowable with any kind of real certainty, to whatever
degree, or lack thereof, we may want to think a certain thing is
‘certain’. This is because we are not omniscient (all-knowing) and we are not omnipotent (all-powerful). Ergo, there is never any way, in situations of
this sort, to rule out completely
the very real possibility that we are utterly self-deluded and that
so-called ‘reality’ is not what we think we see or want
to think.
End of sentence.
Most people don’t
think about these things.
Those who do,
either eventually laugh it off or call it ‘hypothetical’.
Those who never think about
it are simply unthinking. I.e., thoughtless. Literally.
Those who do think about it
and then laugh it off are foolish, being unwise.
And those who call it
‘hypothetical’ are ‘technically’ correct.
Yet
evading the question, all the same.
Which is?
Well, since you can’t rule it out with
infallible or absolute certainty… not being omniscient or
omnipotent… then why
aren’t you using the intelligence of that individual consciousness of
yours --- which has gotten you this far just fine, in the meantime, as you pursue the truth about truth,
knowledge, reality & epistemology --- and complete the uncompleted, drawing the correct conclusions about our existence?
Which are?
Either that you can know absolutely
nothing certain about existence aside from the tiny, albeit
critical, matter of ‘I exist and I perceive’, or else you can have certainty
about all that is critically important for you to know --- and that
something is real apart from yourself --- due to there being a Creator Who made you
for a Purpose.
I mean, you
didn’t make everything that exists, if indeed it does exist, did you?
Nor did I.
Nor did any reader of this work. Nor
did any mere creature.
So if you aren’t willing to embrace solipsism full on,
then get real.
Various forms of
‘evolutionary theory’ or ‘evo devo’ are NOT
sufficient to explain the origin of All That Exists, being based on all kinds
of assumptions, out of thin air, in order to make them look like they can
‘fly’. They are not ultimately ‘testable’, and, while
very clever scientists like to say that ‘we
can never know for sure, another theory may come along that supersedes what we
think we know for the present’ --- thereby sounding, supposedly,
‘humble’ about their limitations of knowledge --- they are filled
with utmost hubris, and have no real desire to learn the truth about
truth, let alone the truth about the world around them or the truth about
themselves. They may claim that ‘falsifiable’ tests (although that’s stretching it way far
since you can never actually ‘test’ the universe or multiverse, ‘falsifying’ one particular theory
of ultimate origins over another, and, anyhow, no amount of
‘observations’ of things around you is an ultimate
‘proof’ of anything at all since ‘observations’ mean NOTHING without us interpreting them)
become the ‘gold standard’ of Science… with a capital
‘S’ that requires you to bow before their altar, worshipping their
godlike minds and ‘ability to know’, which they pronounce with the
‘authority’ of popes, pretending that you dare not doubt them, itty
bitty peon of intellect that you are, without any ‘high degree’ of
learning behind you (which, even if a
doubter has this high degree of learning, they sneer at, regardless, because
that was never the point to begin with)… yet endless
‘falsification’ never fathoms final truth or certainty. It could
still be, all of it, TOTALLY WRONG.
Only infallible truth gives us a frame of reference in a world of ignorance.
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Do you start to see why Pope
Pius IX fought hard to get Papal Infallibility at least minimally defined with
an explicitness that would not let those who are foolish, wicked, rebellious or
bad slither out, like the snakes they are, from the Infallible Catholic Truth?
And he did it, just barely,
before the revolutionaries ended
Or, should we say, since
Vatican II is a pseudo-council
--- being false since filled
with various heresies --- the
one & only Vatican Council that there has been hence far in time. Indeed, a
Council never formally closed.
They were in a rush, remember?
To get out of there before
the revolutionaries trapped or killed them.
Technically speaking, the
Vatican Council could be re-opened.
Oh, yet mayhap the skeptical
reader is still unconvinced. Perchance (albeit the chance would seem pretty
remote…) he or she says, “You really haven’t dealt with the fact
of evolution correctly or fairly! No properly informed person today disbelieves
in the reality
of evolutionary change over billions of years. We merely argue over the theoretical
details.” Then they go on to cite the Galapagos finches, etc., etc.
That atheists may read my
book seems unlikely; but, just in case, we’ll deal with it.
Too, they might take pains
to distinguish ‘cosmological’ from ‘biological’
evolution. “The two are not the same,” such a person might insist. Although such a claim is either naïve or disingenuous, we’ll
grapple with it to be thorough. Nonetheless, it bears noting, I’ve
not designed this book, Inter
Regnum, to be a comprehensive, let alone exhaustive, study of, or statement
upon, ‘evolution’ or ‘evo devo’. That would have to come in another book in the
future --- if ever I have the time or motivation. Meanwhile, intellectuals have
written books about Darwinism and found it lacking.
Even
intellectuals who don’t necessarily believe in a Maker.
Yet since this strikes at
truth’s heart, we state carefully:
First, to pretend a distinction between the ‘fact’ of macro-evolution
and ‘theoretical’ details is a common ploy of Darwinists. Another
common & useful strategy of theirs is to focus on micro-evolutionary
evidence that’s indisputable --- like
the aforesaid Galapagos finches, whose beaks vary back-and-forth in length over
decades, or the Peppered moths of England, who, some 200 years ago prior to
heavy industrial pollution, were mostly ‘peppered’ in appearance
and thus camouflaged better on less-darkened tree trunks, whereas, with heavy
pollution, darker-bodied moths came to dominate with darker-trunked trees, the
process reversing later with less pollution --- and pretend it’s
‘evidence’ for transformation of one kind of organism into
another altogether.
Both are the logical
fallacy of putting the cart before the horse. No one has
‘proved’ the macro-evolution of one kind of organism into an
altogether & distinct organism, with a genome so different that the two
distinct kinds are no longer able to reproduce, ever, period. This goes for
microbial life as well. To use the observation of micro-evolution (Galapagos finches, Peppered moths, and so
forth) as if this ‘proves’ organisms change minutely
over millions of years into utterly distinct organisms, with genomes
that can no longer support genetic reproduction between the two, is to extrapolate
illogically without actual evidence. (For
instance, a fossil record showing minute & gradual changes every
step of the way from one kind into another, which is totally in contradiction
to what the fossil record reveals after centuries of study. Or a detailed,
plausible & wholly tested description of minute changes that could add
up, gradually, into organisms that really survive & propagate,
instead of airy fairy ‘just so’ stories that we constantly get from
Darwinists without the truly believable & nitty
gritty details. And why do they choose to believe in the ‘just
so’ stories that they make up? Because they are already
‘believers’, with ‘blind faith’, whereas the rest
of us, who believe hard evidence & solid logic are necessary,
understandably balk at these Modernist religious myths regarding our
ultimate origin and how things came to exist.) The intelligent skeptic
of macro-evolutionary transformation of species notes the blatantly obvious,
pointing out, logically, how micro-evolutionary changes are merely ‘gene
pool shift’, a natural variation of population groups within their
genetic limitations. This is particularly manifest with the Galapagos
finches or Peppered moths --- who we have never yet witnessed
‘evolving’ into organisms with genomes & phenotypes so distinct
they no longer have any remnant ability to reproduce. They simply vary
within genetic limits, which, when scientists in the laboratory or breeders of
animals try to push a species beyond its limits, either sacrifices the
organism’s ability to survive in its natural environment, or else ruins
its ability to survive utterly, even in a laboratory.
The astonishingly fast
breeding, short-lived fruit fly, Drosophila,
often studied in a natural environment, or experimented with in laboratories,
because of this and other advantageous research factors, shows these
limitations perfectly. Perhaps this or other kinds of organisms spread so
widely that their genetic variation may or may not allow overlapping
reproduction. Yet is this ‘proof’ of an entirely new species?
Patently not. And when pushed through breeding or
hybridization or mutation beyond the limits, Drosophila, against the boundaries of its ‘gene pool’, ceases
to survive properly. Additionally, this kind of organism & others show,
again & again, how genetic ‘mutations’, where induced or
observed, are almost always --- if not always --- deleterious to the
organism. Which is NOT the same as
‘chromosome shuffling’ or ‘horizontal gene transfer’.
The shifting of DNA or RNA fragments, or the sections of chromosomes, may be an
increasingly firm fact, especially in microbes such as viruses or bacteria, but
a mutation in the essential & strict sense is an ‘accidental’
or ‘random’ event that mutates the DNA or RNA at some point along a
chain or ring (‘ring’ if
we’re talking about DNA ‘plasmids’). This kind of genetic
mutation has been essential for Darwinists, a key point in their
argument for ‘life from chance’. For while chromosome shuffling
or horizontal gene transfer plays an undeniable role in ‘changes’
to organisms, often seen easily in the phenotype (physical & visible attributes of an organism due to its genes,
which latter is an organism’s ‘genotype’), you plainly
cannot get from ‘here to there’, evolutionarily speaking, without
something driving a CHANGE IN INFORMATION, genetically speaking, so as
to permit a kind of organism to gradually morph into another kind of
organism altogether… and whether or not the transformation is
‘more complex’. It is ‘random mutation’ (in this essential sense) plus ‘natural
selection’ that has been the dominant thesis of Darwinists for
roughly the past century. They may admit debating the ‘theoretical
details’ of evo devo.
Though, again, it’s a logical fallacy to put horses behind carts.
Horses pull carts, NOT the other way around. To wit, if such Darwinists CANNOT
even now… after almost 160 years of trying to… both formulate ‘theoretical details’ in rigorous
enough detail to be totally plausible and
test all these ‘theoretical details’ with rigorous
experiments that are defined adequately enough to be falsifiable (instead of endlessly explained away or
perpetually interpreted, without solid basis, and ‘spun’ always
in favor of macro-evolution despite the lack of rigor that is falsifiable,
if adequately tested) or, at least, supported mightily & repeatedly
with observations that any adequately intelligent person can observe and
affirm (e.g., an extensive &
unbroken fossil record which literally does appear to demonstrate gradual
changes, to one type of organism, step by excruciating step, into another type
completely, and NOT the wide-ranging fossil record we actually have,
that never reveals anything of the sort, gradual step by excruciating step,
showing instead a remarkable propensity for stasis of kinds of organisms,
within general boundaries), then where do they get off, logically speaking,
PRETENDING it’s a ‘fact’? Rigorously prove the details
first!
And, secondly, whether we are addressing ‘biological’
evolution or ‘cosmological’ evolution, the general principles
& mechanisms are the same. Accordingly, randomness allied
with RULES.
In biological evolution, this means ‘random mutation’ of genes and
‘natural selection’ of the resulting organisms. The mutated genes
are the randomness or chance; while nature selecting is the RULES or LAWS nature uses to
determine the ‘winning’ organisms. In cosmological evolution, this
means ‘random motion’ of mass, energy or so forth, and the
‘natural shaping’ of the resulting structures that we see in the
universe (or guess at in a hypothetical
‘multiverse’ or ‘quantum bubble
froth’, etc.). The Big Bang, or Cyclical Bangs & Collapses, or
Infinite Zero-Point Energy Fluctuations in the Quantum Froth Erupting into New
‘Universes’ (or whatever
specific origin theory scientists may subscribe to, albeit the ‘Big Bang
Theory’ has dominated for the past several decades) are the randomness
or chance, a randomness that, with quantum mechanics, along with so-called
‘chaotic’ or ‘nonlinear’ systems, seems to perpetuate
indefinitely over ‘billions of years’ in the opinion of
Modernist scientists, not to mention increasing thermodynamic entropy,
despite this ending in the ‘heat death’ of the universe if Big Bang
believers are right and there is no ultimate ‘Big Crush’ in the
distant future, where everything collapses back to a ‘singularity’.
Meanwhile, physics, chemistry & other disciplines of science are rules
or laws that govern nature, determining how the universe, multiverse, quantum bubble froth, or what-you-will, evolves
over eons of practically neverending time (from our little human point of view, that is), thereby placing limitations
on the options available (apart from
those who love to interpret quantum mechanics from the ‘many
worlds’ stance, providing them with an infinite number of
‘realities’ that nature has played out with every little option
encountered, although it’s hard for others to swallow since these
alternate ‘realities’ would be, it seems, impossible to
prove or disprove…), hence giving us the cosmos that exists.
The
problem?
As we remarked near the beginning of Chapter 29:
It’s NEVER ‘randomness’ or
‘chance’ all by itself… is it? It is always --- we repeat, ALWAYS!
--- for a good little evolutionist, ‘randomness’ or
‘chance’ put together with ‘RULES’ or ‘LAWS’.
In biological evolution, the rules constitute ‘natural
selection’. The LAWS OF NATURE determine which organism lives to propagate and which
organism bites the big one, never to leave offspring or
‘replications’ of itself. In cosmological evolution, these rules
constitute ‘cosmic selection’. These LAWS OF NATURE
show us which structure of universe or multiverse or
quantum bubble froth (or put in your
favorite material theory of origin here) wins the cosmic lottery, being the
actual ‘reality’ that we think we find ourselves within (or near to, if you imagine more than one
universe with many different ‘rules’ existing). Ah, but
we’ve a small logical problem, don’t we? As already noted, WHERE did the ‘laws of
nature’ or ‘rules of operation’ come from? Modernist scientists, grounded firmly in the assumption
of ‘there is no Creator’ or, leastwise, ‘there is no Creator
that intervenes within or guides His Creation’, assume, from out
of wee thin air, that these ‘laws of nature’ just happened to pop into existence magically, out of
nowhere, somehow, inexplicably
(and they never bother to ponder,
let alone explain, this magical origin of such laws… or
almost never… but, then, the tiny few who do are indulging pure
‘metaphysics’, aren’t they?... and that sort of thing
is rather frowned upon by philosophically materialist Modernist
scientists). Yet we’ll ‘force’ scientists to ponder it.
Well, that is, if they bother to read this book or listen.
What makes you think ‘LAWS
OF NATURE’ or ‘RULES OF OPERATION’
just magically happened to pop into existence for no real reason at all (nor is a quantum ‘fluctuation’ that occurs randomly
according to statistical probability, supposedly, and, every so often
‘inflates’ into an entire ‘universe’, exempt from being
‘laws of nature’ that pop into existence for no real
reason at all!) are, then, somehow & inexplicably,
‘bound’ to stick around consistently, or apply consistently,
everywhere & everywhen? (Nor is it relevant, successfully ‘refuting’
this point, if a Darwinist claims the multiverse or the universe is ‘self-eternal’.
It still begs the question: “Why these particular laws of nature and
not something else? Why do they persist without capricious change?”)
And, mind you, we don’t say
‘everywhere & everywhen’ to the exclusion of the
possibility (in several scientists’
minds today) of a ‘mulitiverse’ or
‘quantum bubble froth’ realities having different kinds of
basic ‘rules of operation’, we simply point out the obvious --- what makes you think such suddenly appearing ‘laws of nature’
inexplicably ‘must’
stick around somewhere long enough to produce
the cosmological or biological evolution that such scientists want to believe is true?
What innate logic justifies us assuming
that? It’s NOT logical or
rational… it is illogical & irrational.
It is a BLIND FAITH in a non-conscious cosmos to magically pop into existence
‘laws of nature’ for no
real reason at all, whilst, in addition to this, for no real reason at all, keep them around to make your precious ‘theory of
evolution’ look… without
reason… somehow ‘plausible’.
Do you get it? It takes BLIND FAITH to believe in macro-evolution,
period.
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Of course, the particularly
obstinate reader may mention the ‘punctuated equilibrium’ version
of biological ‘evolution theory’ in order to get around blatantly
missing fossils that’d show, manifestly, tiny & minute &
gradual changes that could be, plausibly, then interpreted as powerful
circumstantial evidence for one type of organism slowly, ever so slowly, changing into another
type totally. ‘Punctuated
equilibrium’ is still putting a cart before
the horse! First assume
macro-evolution is ‘true’, then explain away the lack of fossil evidence by saying organisms
mysteriously stay ‘static’ for millions of years until, suddenly,
they up and ‘race along’ (relatively
speaking when you’re dealing with epochs lasting for untold millions of
years…), changing into another type of organism wholly, without
adequate fossil evidence to truly support ‘evolutionary theory’
in the first place… Don’t know about you, my dear soul, but I call
that CHEATING.
Really, it’s all
cheating --- a fraud! --- intellectually speaking,
when it comes to the ultimate truth. And it’s pretty hard to get more
‘ultimate’ than when it involves the truth about the origin of
everything in existence and how we ourselves came to be individually conscious
beings in this vast thing called ‘existence’. Again, Darwinists cheat when they pretend macro-evolution is a
‘fact’ and that every smart, informed person ‘must’
agree about this supposed ‘fact’; that the only thing
‘debatable’ about macro-evolution are ‘theoretical’
details concerning the precise process or history of evolution. Not so.
And, again, Darwinists cheat when they make ‘random
chance’ and ‘laws of
nature’ twin pillars of their ‘theory’ --- for where
did such ‘laws of nature’
come from in the first place?
The same place the matter or energy of our cosmos came from… out
of nowhere, with no reason at all for it to appear!
Sure, you can assume
something happens for no reason at all. But
is this logical & true?
Only if you assume that
‘evolution’ occurs before
having adequate proof to begin with. Then it’s a truly stunning
example of circular reasoning.
How do we know macro-evolution is true?
Because the cosmos & life must exist somehow.
How is it that the cosmos & life came into existence? Because macro-evolution was able to do so. How do we
know macro-evolution is true? Because the cosmos &
life must exist somehow… And so forth and so on. I
think you get the drift. Darwinists tend to hate the thought of a Creator, and they definitely hate a Maker Who dares
to tinker & fiddle with the cosmos & life. Macro-evolution lets
Darwinists feel as if they’re both ‘honest’ &
‘intellectually fulfilled’.
Again, Darwinists
don’t just assume that matter & energy popped into
existence out of nowhere for no reason at all. And they don’t just
assume that ‘random chance’ is enough, all by itself, given
‘enough time’, to grow the cosmos and evolve life &
consciousness into existence. They also assume these ‘laws of nature’
popped into existence for no apparent
reason, and they assume, too, that these ‘laws
of nature’ mysteriously stick
around, enough everywhere & enough everywhen, that both
‘cosmic selection’ and ‘natural selection’ transpire,
in union with ‘random chance’, to
evolve everything in existence. And even though such ‘LAWS OF NATURE’
popped into existence FOR NO APPARENT
REASON AT ALL --- these ‘laws of nature’ being their
non-conscious ‘creator god’, as it were --- and is a
BLIND LEAP OF FAITH.
Yet
the link with infallible truth
and apostasy, exorcism & apocalypse?
Well… do you recall
that uncanny philosophy, SOLIPSISM?
The unthinking person never
considers it. The foolish person wantonly mocks it. The fearful person
cautiously avoids it. Whereas the wise person boldly embraces
it. Why? It seems so ‘pointless’, so ‘peculiar’,
so ‘impractical’. And yet it’s not. For the ignorant soul
seeking to comprehend consciousness, existence and the purpose of being a human
being, it is the key to beginning to unlock the door. What door is this? To the House of Truth.
In this
Either I alone exist, or
else there is a Creator. Yet even if I alone, how?
How did I come to
exist? I didn’t make myself. Who
did?
Without Omniscience
(All-Knowingness) there is no way to know anything for sure. Curiously, part of
‘knowing everything’ is KNOWING that you ‘know everything’. I certainly
know that I don’t know
such a thing! Namely, everything. So how is anything knowable? I could be
wrong! Who knows? Ah, there. There is the rub. Who, indeed?
If there is no Creator, then there is no rational possibility for
order in existence --- any order at all, no matter how tiny, infinitesimal
& modest. Patterns & order do not
come into existence all by themselves for no
reason at all. To think so is to be a fool. Either unthinking (ignorant)
or poor thinking (illogical). Truly, to purposefully
think it so, whilst of sound intelligence and having plenty of time and
opportunities to think it through, adequately, is to be anti-thinking (immoral).
You are a brazen LIAR!
We human beings have our
intelligent minds & free wills for a reason.
It’s part of the plan.
It’s central to why we exist. A human mind is not there as a consequence of ‘random chance’
and ‘laws of nature’ so as to leave more progeny. Or, should we
say, for a ‘blind’ thing called ‘evolution’ to produce
‘something’ after lots of ‘time’… and for no purpose at all, since
‘purpose’ is a quality of mind & will. But the thing called
‘evo devo’ is neither conscious nor determined. Or, should we
say, if ‘determined’, determined ‘irrationally’, by a
purportedly ‘blind’ causality.
Yet cause & effect are rational things. Where then is reason in evo
devo?
There is no reason. We are
reasoners trying to find reason in a reasonless world, reasoning ourselves into
a pretended ‘reason’, and all for the reason of… avoiding real
reason in our existence. Without a Creator we are our own
‘creators’. Whilst to imagine ourselves ‘creators’, we
must forsake
reason and defy all creation… the evidence it plainly offers
us, if
only we freely choose to look with honest & intelligent minds.
“For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those
men that detain the truth of God in injustice [read: intelligent humans are willfully ignorant of the Truth
About God for the sake of them pretending it’s okay to sin]:
because that which is known of God is manifest in them [read: human beings of sound mind have what
Catholic theologians call the ‘Law of Natural Reason’ on
their hearts, making it impossible for intelligent humans not to know
that God exists]. For God hath [has]
manifested it unto them. For the invisible
things of him [read: the things about God
that we can’t see with our physical senses], from the creation
of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the THINGS THAT ARE MADE; his eternal
power also, and divinity: SO THAT THEY
ARE INEXCUSABLE.” (Romans 1:18-20 DRC)
This is the Natural Law. There is
also a Supernatural Law: infallible Catholicism.
Infallible truth gives us
both a spiritual compass and an epistemological frame of reference in a world
of ignorance. The Law of Natural Reason upon our hearts is like a lodestone, a
magnetic rationality that draws us ineluctably toward this Infallible Truth.
The Roman Catholic Religion is a diamond-hard and diamond-beautiful mountain
commanding, in its all-encompassing immensity, the weather around it. We, the
intelligent spirits that God made in His Image, are breaths of wind nearby.
There is no escaping it. We
can fight it, but such a war is irrational.
Why defy what is clearly, infallibly and undeniably so true?
There is no reason in
that… unless you hate the truth.
Since the Original Sin of
Ss. Adam & Eve, most human beings, most of the time, have irrationally
hated the Infallible Truth of God. Many times parts of humanity have tried to
fight Our Creator’s Roman Catholic Mountain and His Holy Spirit of Truth.
Humanity as a whole --- except for a mere eight human beings --- once rebelled
completely, right before the Great Deluge. Today, humanity once again rebels
completely.
Pope Pius IX realized this
during the latter third of his life. It’s why he fought hard to define
Papal Infallibility near the end of his life, achieving this goal against
tremendous odds & opposition, even from in his own Church, of which he was
the visible head. Because he saw the demonic storm attacking
this Church, and he foresaw the stupendously hellish hurricane to come, in the
very near future.
This future is now upon us,
my beloved soul. Humanity is in Apostasy, we are collectively possessed ---
requiring Exorcism --- and the Apocalypse has arrived, a reckoning for our
rebellion. And all because… we hate this infallible truth.
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Exorcism Prayer & Fights an Apocalyptic Beast (Part 6)
For forty days it poured
rain nonstop, at the start of the Great Flood.
For forty years St. Moses
led the Israelites through the waterless desert.
For forty days Jesus fasted
& prayed in the desert, being tempted at the end.
For forty hours He was in
the Tomb, lifeless & inanimate, the saints do assure us.
For forty days He appeared
in the Flesh after His Resurrection, His Church teaches.
In forty is the perfectly
holy & divine, as well as the imperfectly corporeal & human. In it we
drown, upon it we float. In it we wander, upon it we labor under the shining
sun. In it we fast, upon it we pray. In it we die, upon it we remain
unblemished. In it we see God, and upon it we find how to see Him forever, via
the Shining Son of the Star of the Sea.
Forty years after Our Lady of La Salette appeared to
two poorly instructed Catholic children upon a lovely summit in southern
1886 minus 1846 is 40. Get
it? Forty years went by in
this stretch of time.
It’s curious, as well,
that there seems to be no official record for the act.
And even though no good
scholar denies Pope Leo XIII did this act!
Are you familiar with the
Prayer of St. Michael, my dear reader…?
“St. Michael the
Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and
snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do you, O Prince
of the Heavenly Host, cast into hell satan
and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world, seeking the ruin of
souls. Amen.”
The precise translation can
differ a bit here and there. The difference is immaterial as long as the
meaning is essentially the same. (So don’t be a ‘priss’ or a ‘CF’ ---
Catholic fundamentalist --- and get tied up in exact words.
Over decades & centuries words often change in definition or popularity, and,
with plenty of similar-meaning words to choose from, translations can differ in wording
without changing the meaning of something in this prayer. This, by the way,
constitutes part of EXHIBIT NO. 13 in this book.)
In addition, strictly
speaking, the prayer is not an ‘exorcism’ in the classic sense.
Accordingly, it’s not necessarily recited over someone that, one has
excellent reason to believe, is demon possessed. (Demons really do exist, and really can possess a human being. If
you’re truly Catholic,
or call yourself such, then it’s not
debatable. Simply peruse the Gospels in Sacred Scripture to see evidence of Christ Himself
exorcising demons --- also
called ‘evil spirits’ or ‘fallen angels’ --- from His
fellow Hebrews everywhere He went.) Which is not to say it
can’t be used in a classic exorcism. Howsoever, Leo XIII merely
required recital worldwide after Low Mass.
And what’s a Low Mass?
It originally meant a Mass
where the parts of the prayers of the Mass said by the presiding priest are
said by him quietly or ‘privately’. This did not mean
‘privately’ or ‘secretly’ like we mean these words
nowadays in everyday conversation. It just meant they were never said loud
enough for the whole parish congregation to hear… not that these
priestly prayers were purposely ‘hidden’ or kept
‘secret’ from everybody else. The terminology is confusing, though,
since, as words change meaning across centuries, the term ‘private’
later came to refer to a Mass said by a priest all alone, by himself, no
servers or congregation celebrating this Mass with him as the spiritual
‘father’.
The opposite, so to speak,
of a Low Mass is a Chanted or ‘Sung’
In a Low Mass (in Latin ‘Missa lecta’, i.e., literally, a ‘read Mass’) the priest’s prayers are read
quietly. In a Chanted Mass the priest chants or ‘sings’ his prayers
aloud, so that they are no longer read or said so quietly. Perhaps not everyone
in the parish flock hears his chanting clearly. That’s not the primary
point; the fact that he chants them aloud is. And, just to make it a little
plainer (with no intention of confusing the poor reader any further…), a
Chanted or ‘Sung’ Mass becomes a High or ‘Solemn’ Mass
when the presiding priest has assistance from sacred ministers, who, amongst
other tasks, do responding prayers at the correct times as the priest leads the
Mass. (In Latin, Chanted Mass is ‘Missa cantata’, while for High Mass it’s ‘Missa solemnis’.) You understand?
My
poor, poor reader.
Don’t feel bad if you’re confused. It’ll make sense
eventually.
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So why are we telling
you all this? Where is it headed and why is it important?
Pope Leo XIII’s
‘Leonine Prayers’ in 1884 were really just prayers --- mostly, if
not totally --- already put into place by his predecessor, Pope Pius IX. Pius
IX is the pope we’ve been talking about when we explained Our Lady of La Salette. The Apparition of La Salette
occurred in the very first year of Pius IX’s
papacy, 1846, and in 1859 (a mere year after the secret that
Our Lady gave to Melanie urged Pius IX to stay put in Rome, never
leaving again, by the way) Pope Pius IX ordered certain public prayers be
said immediately following Mass in every Catholic sanctuary within the Papal
Estates (territory stretching across
the midriff of Italy’s peninsula), ruled by the popes for a
millennium or more, as a civil authority, in order to give the Papacy
means to support itself without having to rely on, sometimes, rather
‘unreliable’ Catholics elsewhere in the world to support the
Papacy & It’s Curia (the
officials who do a legitimate bishop of Rome’s duties, with a
pope’s delegated authority, since one man can’t do it all).
And why did Pius IX do this? Because Freemasonic-inspired
revolutionaries were breathing down his neck, threatening to take over the
Papal Estates and make them part of a new
nation of Italy, but a nation founded not,
primarily, upon Catholic principles or authority, but on anti-Catholic, Freemasonic & Endarkenment
[Enlightenment] ideas not wholly compatible
with… if at all… the infallible
dogmas of God’s Singularly Roman Catholic Religion. This was Pope
Pius IX’s way of invoking Heaven’s help.
The revolutionaries won by
21 September 1870. They had overrun the Papal Estates, occupied Rome, and even
that part of Rome where the Vatican Curia did their work, on the ancient hill
of Vaticanus (or ‘hill of prophecy’ as both an ancient pagan
writer and an early Church father, St. Augustine of Hippo, tell us), site
of St. Peter’s Martyrdom & his relics, underneath the high altar of
St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. True, they had enough sense not to
sack the
He had also, the day before
on 20 September 1870, issued a papal bull (read: official papal document), Postquam Dei munere,
adjourning the Vatican Council without sure plans to reconvene it at some
definite point in the future. Hence why I remarked earlier
that, surprisingly, this Council was never formally closed and could be ---
technically --- continued in time to come. Likely?
I don’t know. God alone knows. The revolutionaries, though, won their
victory just 65 days (66, if you count inclusively…) after the Council
approved the formal definition of Papal Infallibility on 18 July 1870, and,
presumably, promulgated by Pope Pius IX that very same day. The Modernist revolutionaries had triumphed temporally;
the Catholic pope had triumphed spiritually. But
just barely.
Without the Papal Estates,
popes were ‘prisoners’ of the
Ergo, scholars calling
themselves Catholic… and whether they really are or not… promote
the notion that Pope Leo XIII’s extension of
Pius IX’s wishes to the entire Catholic Church,
under the term ‘Leonine Prayers’, was simply a way to invoke
God’s Aid in resolving the conflict, between Modernist authorities and
the Papacy, in favor of His Singularly Saving Roman Catholic Church. There is
probably much truth in this assertion, in my scholarly opinion. Notwithstanding, such academics overlook another truth that is
obvious. And that would be? That the scope of the Church, and Her
Infallible Papacy, goes beyond mere earthly politics. The loss of the
Papal Estates was a sore blow to the Church & Her Papacy, to be sure.
Politics were involved, inarguably. All the same, the battle was not just
‘political’. The
revolutionaries were vehemently
anti-Catholic, to some degree or another. It’s possible many
of them may have painted themselves as ‘catholic’ in spite of their
grievous sin of, literally, attacking the Papacy, in so far as
conquering Pope Pius IX’s Papal Estates against
his stark will in the matter does, undeniably, constitute grave disobedience
toward the pope. In reality, these revolutionaries were already NOT Catholic due to their
Modernist teachings.
Therefore, when Pope Leo
XIII obligated Catholic priests throughout the world to perform Pope Pius IX’s prayers immediately after every Low Mass ---
with, perchance, slight changes or additions (I really don’t know for certain, not having had time or access
to hard data, relying, instead, on the dependable research of mostly decent
scholars) --- it was for more than earthly or political assistance. That is
to say, these popes weren’t just asking Heaven to solve an earthly or
political dilemma, they were also very aware that this terrible battle was a
war --- a hideous & diabolical war --- against HELL itself.
There can be little doubt that Leo XIII acquainted himself with Maximin & Melanie’s secrets, just as Pius IX had
read them in 1851. Why wouldn’t he? He had to have been
knowledgeable about them; it’s ridiculous to think that he wouldn’t
take the time to peruse them as a pope himself, if not already familiar with
them via Pius IX. And, regardless, didn’t Melanie release her secret publicly in 1879? This is but a
year following Leo XIII’s
elevation to St. Peter’s Throne. If not in 1878, wouldn’t a
sagaciously endowed man (and Leo was
wise!) go over her secret by 1880?
Of course he would.
It’s only sensible. Skepticism at this point is foolish.
Yet Pope Leo XIII
didn’t add the St. Michael Prayer to his Leonine Prayers until AD 1886,
two years after he ordered the Leonine Prayers said by every priest throughout
the world, upon the completion of a Low Mass, in 1884. Why did he wait, and
what’s the significance? Here’s where it gets tricky.
Epistemologically, we can’t be fully sure.
But we do know, from
Scripture, St. Michael fights for God against Lucifer.
Is a shrewd suspicion
beginning to form in your mind, my beloved soul? The clue is apocalyptic. Literally, in the Apocalypse, last book of the
Bible, where, in Chapter 12, we read
about St. Michael the
Plainly… this is
simple & basic logic applied to Catholic Truth.
And I establish this firm
basis of logical thinking, together with lots of unassailable historical facts,
so as to handle the kneejerk skepticism that self-styled
‘catholics’ may have (and even real Catholics, too!) toward what
we’ll discuss in the next chapter of this book, Inter Regnum, concerning Leo XIII’s
Leonine Prayers and closely related topics. Meanwhile, it’s clear. Leo
XIII did have temporal matters in mind. Nonetheless, he thought of spiritual
matters as well… even more
crucial than the Papal Estates.
Did you know, dearest soul,
that high ranking Freemasons considered AD
1881 an extremely important year? For instance, their eccentric yet
legendary learned Mason, Albert Pike, who lived from 1809 to 1891, was well aware
of the significance of 1881, as were many other occultists & esoterics of the time, whether directly Freemasonic or not.
For such people it represented, astrologically & astronomically, the end of
one ‘aeon’, heralding the birth of a
‘new aeon’, or New Age, wherein humanity will transform entirely into an
‘enlightened’ people, living in a New & Golden Age of the Sun.
Satan
masquerading as “an angel of
light” anyone? (2 Corinthians 11:14 DRC)
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Here’s where it gets
fascinating, confusing & tricky. You have to be very careful,
epistemologically sorting through the historical testimony with a discerning
& keen eye. Most people don’t have this patience or training, so
that, even if inclined to investigate such an arcane subject (as most people
see it), they don’t do their homework properly. And, to be fair,
it’s a tough nut to crack. Scholars themselves can run aground!
Luckily, historical
testimony & documentation give us a few solid facts:
First, Pope Leo XIII did another
curious thing in AD 1888. On September 25th he officially
approved yet another St. Michael Prayer --- but this one, in
contrast, very long. Secondly, he granted an indulgence of 300 days
for its recitation, an indulgence which, as far as I am aware, is applicable to
everyone in the Catholic Church… not just the clergy. And third,
he completed these apocalyptically-oriented decisions with a final act
of the same nature on 18 May 1890. He approved a new ritual for the clergy,
entitled Exorcism Against Satan &
Apostate Angels, that included the previously issued long St. Michael
Prayer, along with other prayers, and put everything into the appendix
of The Roman Ritual, urging
bishops all over earth to pray it often, not to mention allowing bishops, where
appropriate, to give permission amongst their priests to officially recite this
general exorcism rite, too. But what does the text of the long prayer reveal?
This is EXHIBIT NO. 13
as well and we focus on two things. One, what Leo has the longer prayer say about the world at large; and, two, what it says about
“
This is one of at least two
English translations. Certain archaic words (viz., ‘thou’ or
‘thee’) have been changed to a contemporary form. Again, the point
is not to get stuck on precise terms, but to stay true to the original meaning.
That said, what may we surmise?
Note how Pope Leo XIII’s text, in reference to the world in general,
speaks of Lucifer (from ancient Greek, meaning ‘light bearer’,
you’ll recall) as
“Transformed into an angel of light,” the
very thing the Holy Ghost, via St. Paul, tells us about this fallen angel in 2
Corinthians 11:14. And what does the fallen angel --- the devil --- do? He
invades the earth with “…all
the multitude of wicked spirits…” This is extraordinary and
amounts to all-out war, as
opposed to significant-yet-more-limited battles or skirmishes. It also echoes
the text of Melanie’s secret from Our Lady of La Salette,
wherein we’re told that, as of 1864, Lucifer and a large number of his
demons would be “unloosed from hell” and, no longer restrained, put
an end to the Catholic Faith on the earth, little by little. Which, in turn, is
just what Leo XIII warns us, that this diabolic horde, unleashed on us, seeks “…to blot out the name
of God and of his Christ…” The parallelism is perfect.
And what is God &
Christ’s “NAME” being blotted out? ROMAN
CATHOLIC.
This is why Roman Catholicism has been in retreat for the past
century and a half. Christ’s
But do you doubt this is a
Battle Royale, with everlasting consequences?
Then note how Pope Leo XIII’s text, in reference to Rome in specific, speaks
of the Church’s foes, who, going to “…where
has been set up the See of the most
holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have
raised the throne of their abominable
impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.”
In other words, satan &
his minions strike at the very head of Catholicity, in
A TNO priest like Anthony Cekada would have us believe this part of Leo’s long
Michael Prayer merely references the Italian’s new nation with the
overthrow of the Papal Estates, and their excommunicated ‘king’,
Victor Emmanuel, whose monarchy officially ruled Italy (though, really, Italy’s parliament increasingly did), until
it became a full fledged ‘democracy’ after World War II. Now Mr. Cekada is a smart man. I don’t enjoy disagreeing
simply for the supposed ‘fun’ of looking like you’re
‘right’ at the expense of someone else being ‘wrong’.
If that were my goal, then, as a fallible man of limited knowledge, I could not
have true moral certainty. Only
when you’re prepared to be proven wrong can one ever discover a
real moral certainty. I therefore praise Mr. Cekada
for doing some nice legwork in the matter of the St. Michael Prayers, clearing
up unscholarly messes. Still, I must oppose his purely political interpretation
of the prayers.
Because it’s not an either/or situation ---
that is to say, it’s not
necessarily ‘either his
interpretation is accurate or mine is’. I think his political
interpretation bears merit. It seems clear to me that both Pope Pius IX and
Pope Leo XIII, in facing the foes they dealt with and the loss of the Papal
Estates, were galvanized into realizing how hideous it was, their foe not
merely human and wanting only earthly power. But it’s even bigger than that, and Mr. Cekada’s opinion is an interpretation of coincident historical events…
without any plain, explicit &
inarguable evidence for it (to my knowledge) from these popes.
Whereas, if you take the text of the long St. Michael Prayer in its plain & explicit sense, what
do you see? Correct --- a final &
enormous spiritual battle played out on the earth. Human souls the
prize, but one thing stands between us and our enemy, the devil, in achieving
his goal. An
Infallible Church. And where is the
Ergo, take
Satan is “…a murderer from the beginning, and
he stood not in the truth;
because truth is not in him.”
(John 8:44c-e DRC) Yet Leo XIII, in his long St. Michael Prayer, reminds us how
the “Chair of Truth” --- i.e., the Throne of Truth --- is in the Diocese of St. Peter, which is
Rome’s Diocese in Italy.
Consequently, what do you think the devil
has been hating more than anything else for the
past two millennia, his murderous mind constantly pondering upon how to
overthrow it? Right again, my shrewd reader. Satan has been wanting, very badly, to conquer
Do you think the devil
craves vengeance? Of course he does. He’s a killer.
By the middle of the
nineteenth century, the Papacy came into the possession of
‘instructions’ to the Carbonari. Remember
them? They were a Freemasonic-style organization, and, in
The
full title of the documents? The
Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita.
In them are revealed a plot
of diabolic proportions. Their ‘instruction’ was to be
‘permanent’ because their enemy --- the Papacy --- was of such a
permanent and unassailable nature. In Italian, ‘vendita’
means ‘sale’, and ‘alta’
means ‘high’. To wit, ‘high sale’.
This goal would cost a lot, and, to achieve it, anyone in allegiance to them
would have to be willing to give everything for the cause… the
destruction of the Papacy. Or should we say --- it is strongly hinted at in one
of the texts of these documents, not to mention thought obvious by apparently
pious Catholics --- the Freemasonically-linked Carbonari at first wanted total destruction of the Roman
Catholic Church. Later, upon realizing how unrealistic this was, they then
concocted a plan to infiltrate the Church from the inside and the outside.
Outside, inasmuch as the revolutionaries created a society thoroughly immoral, modernized and anchored on principles belying the
Church’s reason for existence. And inside, inasmuch as the
revolutionaries even purposefully infiltrated their own into the Church, as
priests or teachers.
Thus compromised, as
generations pass, the young priests formed by these teachers become bishops,
selecting yet more of these kinds of teachers to form a newer breed of clergy,
and the bishops themselves, modernized, becoming mentors toward, or patrons of,
such younger priests. In this way, the poison spreads, becomes deeper, and
eventually ‘shapes’ the kind of pope the revolutionaries want: a ‘pope’ who will foment the
‘revolution’ wholly within the Church Herself, under the
guise of ‘updating’.
Anyone who is truly Catholic
and familiar with the Vatican II Pseudo-Council knows how this is exactly what
happened. The revolution of a ‘New World Order’ and a ‘New
Age’ eventually came to roost within, seemingly, the Church Herself. Her
own ‘popes’ were heralds of a ‘New Order Mass’ (in Latin, ‘Novus Ordo
Missa’), changing nearly everything they
could lay their hands on, and the few who retained any piety were properly
aghast at this spectacle, as well as confused as to what they should do.
An understandable confusion… facing what looks like the greatest religious
calamity ever and utterly ‘unforeseen’ or
‘unprecedented’… yet unnecessary ultimately if formed
adequately in the True Faith. Accordingly, if knowing how to identify who is
indeed truly Catholic in the external forum, and who is not. And, in addition,
comprehending Canon Law, knowing that those who expose themselves, notoriously
& pertinaciously, for the rebels that they are, being openly &
repeatedly heretical, schismatic or apostate, are automatically excommunicated, ipso facto, by this very fact, in an act called ‘latae sententiae’. It is this knowledge which would
have allowed any real Catholics remaining to comprehend what happens when even
a ‘pope’ reveals himself to be a notorious & pertinacious
heretic or apostate, as is precisely the case with Vatican II.
The
point?
Whatever the authenticity of
the documents from the Carbonari, known as The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita --- and I do not doubt their authenticity, I
merely make a shrewd suggestion --- I personally suspect an even deeper &
more hellish ruse than the most cautious of real Roman Catholics (or, for that matter, the much more
‘traditional’ or ‘conservative’ of Novus Ordoists) recognize. One should not be given,
foolishly, to irrational & unfounded ‘conspiracy theorizing’.
Yet when a real Catholic knows, with moral certainty, due to papal testimony,
that the Carbonari are condemned as anti-Catholic, then cunning
conjecture cannot be blithely dismissed as either irrational or unfounded.
These documents and their contents are indeed shocking. They are diabolic.
And they are prophetic, the very
thing they portend having occurred. Yet, I wager, it’s also
more ghastly than anyone truly Catholic has guessed. I doubt the documents fell
into Catholic hands totally by ‘accident’ --- or, if by accident,
the accident then deftly woven into an even bolder and more heinous plot --- I
suspect at least some of the documents were purposely planted in
Catholic hands, using the innocent to further their scheme. Wherefore? It’s simple. Count on Roman Catholic trust
in the indestructibility of
the Church to come to one’s aid as an enemy of the Church, this ‘trust’ of theirs turned
into less admirable human ‘pride’ and ‘presumption’
upon their parts. Then brazenly state in one of the documents how
‘unrealistic’ it is to seek the Church’s
‘destruction’. Popes will never come to the ‘secret
societies’; rather, the ‘secret societies’ must come to the them. I.e., ‘secret societies’ must poison Catholic people and infiltrate the Church, creating
a ‘pope’ which is advantageous
to them. The catch? This will alarm a pious
Catholic. Truly, it is in great part the
truth… and hence very believable. Unfortunately, as the
alarmed but presumptuous Catholic fights this threat, thinking it credible, he bothers not to fight the other threat, thinking
it incredible & unbelievable. Forsooth, not thinking it at all,
finding it beyond rational conception. The possibility that, while
preserving His One & Only Church indestructible,
God might, to punish bad
Catholics and test the
good... punishing an apostate & rebellious world, additionally… permit St. Peter’s Throne to become empty for a long while
and for non-Catholic antipopes to
fool the unwary, fooling everyone into believing they are both ‘catholic’ and ‘popes’.
Diabolic? Absolutely. Impossible? Not so fast. It’s exactly what’s
happened. The ‘unthinkable’ has become the real. And in doing so,
in playing out this apocalyptic scenario, the Apocalypse itself is fulfilled.
Viz., the prophecies of the last book in Sacred Scripture, written by the
Beloved Disciple himself at the behest of His Lord Jesus, with all their
seemingly ‘bizarre imagery’ as they tell a final series of
parables. This, by the way, is EXHIBIT NO. 14 and to be
taken as the incredible evidence it is. Specifically:
“And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth,
and he had two horns, LIKE A LAMB,
and he spoke AS A DRAGON. And
he executed all the power of the former beast [the beast from out of the sea] in his sight; and he caused the
earth, and them that dwell therein, to adore the first beast, whose
wound to death was healed.” (Apocalypse [Revelation] 13:11-12 DRC)
Ah, but therein lies the
answer. For who is the representative of Jesus on earth, His Vicar?
Right, the Pope. A true & legitimate Bishop of Rome represents the
Lamb of God on earth in
Antipopes who are anti-Catholic --- like the
devil! --- ‘ruling’ between
popes.
This is what Pope Pius IX
feared and what Pope Leo XIII dreaded. They had the Carbonari
documents in their hands, and Melanie’s secret at their disposal. And
they saw the Great Apostasy begin to erupt as the earth quaked spiritually
under their feet, satan’s
revolutionaries seizing
It’s difficult to know
much for sure, but there is a persistent tale that says Leo XIII experienced a
vision while pope. Mr. Cekada disbelieves this tale,
claiming to find no reliable evidence, yet perhaps he did not search well
enough or the evidence was far too hard to find prior to a widespread
‘internet’ and ‘cloud’. In actuality, at least one
reliable source reports that two different men associated with Leo during his
papacy, serving him, spoke of Leo seeing something like a vision. The one man, Domenico Pechenino, says Leo XIII
wrote the St. Michael Prayer (presumably the longer version) in half an hour
after finishing Mass, having stared, strangely, at what was invisible to his
attendants. Meanwhile, via Cd. di
Corneliano, we learn that Leo’s private
secretary, Rinaldo Angeli,
said Leo had seen a vision of demonic spirits assembling in
Patently
not. Some,
though, have said that a vision Leo XIII saw involved a dialogue between God
& Lucifer. This is where it’s iffy, because there don’t appear
to be reliable sources --- yet --- for such an account. If true, per them, the
devil boasted that he could destroy God’s
What is not debatable is that someone did not want Leo’s prayers to go on.
The thirteenth in a line of
popes bearing the symbolic name, since ancient times, of a lion, it’s
intriguing that this pope, Leo XIII, should so courageously oppose the hordes
of hell with both his short & long versions of the St. Michael Prayer,
being like the Lion of the Tribe of Juda (Jesus
Christ) in the face of such misfortune. It may have been only a ‘clerical
error’ (literally, in the original
sense of the word ‘cleric’!), but the failure, in 1886,
of entering the shorter St. Michael Prayer into an ‘official’
record of papal acts is dubious, at a minimum. The Vatican Curia is very slow
& thorough. To err is human, but when the error is a small but potent
prayer against the devil, it is tempting to attribute the ‘mistake’
to an ‘anti-clerical error’. At any rate, the
Not to mention wicked &
fallen angels gathering in
The two disappeared as the pseudo-council
unfolded.
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Part One of Inter Regnum (Chapters 1-12)
Part Two of Inter Regnum (Chapters 13-27)
Part Three of Inter Regnum (Chapters 28-34)
Part Five of Inter Regnum (Chapters 43-50 & 1-3)
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