Showing posts with label Catholic Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic Church. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Was the "Black Sun" actually the German shadow government of Fraternitas Saturni? - Part 1


 

Was the "Black Sun" actually the German shadow government of Fraternitas Saturni?

Above: The black sun mosaic in the Obergruppenführersaal, or General's Hall at Wewelsburg Castle, often dubbed "the Nazi Camelot" or "the real Castle Wolfenstein". Wewelsburg is a 17th century castle that was heavily remodelled by Heinrich Himmler during the Nazi era.

I believe that the Black Sun was quite likely a Saturnian symbol, and that includes other "black suns." The National Socialists came right out've the dark occult, including the Thule Society, and some believe that even the Thule Society itself was a Brotherhood of Saturn (Fraternitas Saturni) front group. It's a time honored method; create a group designed to merely act as an organizing principle... a springboard to a larger group(s) to attain power, while always conveniently leaving your own leaders or group out of the ensuing political melee. Bring in a front guy, and everyone (for or against) says "He's the guy!." hmmm.... no.... IT'S YOU!! The public falls for it every time. However, like is so often the case with dark occult groups, they placed a new exoteric symbol in the background; stating in the esoteric "Yes, it is really us." Saturn was the Black Sun!

Certain Odinists love the Black Sun symbol, and associate it with their tradition. There's some grain of truth to that, as some of the symbolism went back to Teutonic sky gods, lightening, life symbols, death symbols, etc. While not specifically part of the Odinic pantheon, the exoteric National Socialists (esoteric Brotherhood of Saturn) actually were promoting a revival of the traditions of the Teutonic people when they lived in the vast territory north the the Himalayas thousands of years ago; a Saturnian tradition! There were swastikas, triskelions, and other symbols of National Socialism found up there in places like Tibet. Arkaim was a highly complex ancient city which was absolutely leveled at some point. There's evidence of certain areas which were destroyed by nuclear-like explosions. That most Germans were probably more Proto-European in ancestry than Teutonic, didn't deter them. They felt certain that they could return themselves to that essence from deep back into the ancient world.

I often post videos even if I'm not in total agreement with the message. However, the recent video below--although I watched and considered it--is simply taken from elements of the mainstream cover story. As Saturn fizzled out thousands of years ago and became a dwarf star, it then became "the black sun." I think that is the first level of the actual answer, and it goes much deeper.

The Black Sun Historical Truth

 

 

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The official seal of the Jesuit Order

The Jesuits started in the sixteenth century, but these Saturnian secret societies go back much further. Over the course of history, these secret societies dissolve themselves and come back under a different name with a whole new look. Just as when the Templars went on the run from persecution, and went up and hid out in Scotland. They dissolved themselves, and came back as the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Catholicism uses Sun symbolism in the exoteric, and Saturnian symbolism as the esoteric.

 

 

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Black Sun club

At top, the official symbol of the Brotherhood of Saturn. In middle, the official symbol of the Jesuit Order. Below, the Black Sun. Since the actual relationship between the Jesuits and the Nazis has been scrubbed and cleverly rewritten, facts are hard to come by. Somehow National Socialist Germany went from being on their knees to having the most powerful army in the world in a mere blip of history. How? Where did the money come from? The Vatican is a bank; almost unrivaled in terms of wealth.

 


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Saturn: Our Northern Sun

Saturn when it was a star, during "The Golden Age," was to have been visible in the northern sky. It is said to have emitted a purplish light. I suppose that someone could intellectually say that they were "Black Sun," but that would tend to disclude the Odinist pantheon as the two are different. It probably should be stated again, as I've covered a lot of this prior, that the vast territories north of the Himalayas was temperate when the North Pole was approximately where the Great Lakes are located today. The Great Lakes were formed from the mile or more high mountains of ice! However, after the pole shift, the land of the Teutons became more and more inhospitable. They migrated west and intermingled with the Proto-Europeans which created the Celtic cultures, and they migrated south and intermingled with the pure Mediterraneans of that time period which created the Aryan civilization. Lastly, a whole massive number migrated into Europe and created the Germanic cultures. Saturn was gone; new traditions were formed.



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The Color Purple

I can't see where National Socialist Germany ever used purple symbolism. They used black and grey for uniforms, and the common German colors of black, white, and red. I would think they would have mixed in a bit of purple somewhere. Maybe that's not for exoteric groups? However the Brotherhood of Saturn apparently was known for using purple, which is not at all surprising. Black and purple are the common Saturnian colors. Of course, the Jesuits aren't the least bit shy about Saturnian symbolism; see image to the left, taken from a Jesuit website.



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Apparently, the Cassini-Huygens Mission confirmed that the north pole of Saturn is purple. If so, like so many other things, that would further confirm the old legends However, mainstream "Masonic science" is not prepared to divulge that Saturn is a dwarf star.

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Monday, September 19, 2022

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Mystic, Free Thinker, & Martyr - Part II

 
 
"Perchance you who pronounce my
sentence are in greater fear than I am."
-- Giordano Bruno


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Giordano Bruno and the Poem Worth Dying For

Seekers of Unity

Presenting Giordano Bruno, the enigmatic mystic who bet his soul against the Catholic Church. Who was he, and why was he killed? The famous Renaissance martyr, but a martyr for what?
Watch the Full Video here: The Real Story of Giordano Bruno https://youtu.be/wy_OTBVvfKA

00:00 Who was Giordano Bruno?
00:41 Martyr for what?
01:13 Missing Documents
01:50 What was Bruno’s Heresy?
02:32 False Dichotomy?
03:22 Two New Questions
05:17 Master of Memory
06:18 Memory Games
07:48 The Gamble Pays off  
08:46 Silencing the Eternal Poem
10:13 Invitation

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"I've been fascinated with Bruno since I was a girl and read  a quote of his  about the nature of the stars and possibility of other worlds.  I don't think he returned to Italy for just one reason.  He hinted many times that he thought the fire was his fate.  Perhaps, he wanted to challenge a church that had hounded his footsteps for far too long. Perhaps,  he had grown tired of running. I do not agree he was arrogant as some think. I think it was just the opposite. I have wondered, at times, if he wasn't a wounded soul trying to find union within himself.   Mystics live by a different set of rules than most people and Bruno definitely was  a mystic. I agree, he was looking for a holistic worldview."

-- Kathleen Hensley


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Philosophy and Magick of Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno - Philosopher / Heretic

The Real Story of Giordano Bruno | Why Was He Burnt Alive?

 

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Mystic, Free Thinker, & Martyr - Part I

The Life of Giordano Bruno

42,282 views - February 7, 2021

Let's Talk Philosophy

Vacillating, intriguing, and tragic; if I were to ascribe three words to the life of Giordano Bruno it would undoubtedly be these. I suspect many know of this stories fiery denouement, but if you are interesting in discovering how Giordano Bruno, searching and wondering, transformed from priest to philosophical martyr for free speech and tolerance of differences then give me 10 minutes of your time.

If you enjoyed this video and are interesting in learning more about history’s greatest philosophic minds and ideas consider subscribing to the channel. Here my goal is to bring philosophy to whoever may be seeking it by illuminating the individuals who, by the prestidigitation of their thought, changed the world.

 

Music:
"Solstice" - Scott Buckley
"Breathing Planet" - Doug Maxwell

 

Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giordano-Bruno
The Story of Civilization VII – The Age of Reason Begins (Will and Ariel Durant)

 

CC Attributions:

Head of inquisition - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Antonio_Santori#/media/File:Giuliano_finelli,_monumento_al_cardinale_giuliano_antonio_santori,_1637_ca._03.jpg

Sorbonne - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_sup%C3%A9rieure_des_arts_d%C3%A9coratifs#/media/File:Facade_5_rue_de_lecole_de_medecine_paris.jpg

Martin Luther University - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_University_of_Halle-Wittenberg#/media/File:Wittenberg_University,_Collegianstrasse,_Wittenberg.jpg

Aviceena  - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blondinrikard/14310226742

Bruno Monument - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#/media/File:Monument_to_Giordano_Bruno_at_Potsdamer_Platz_in_Berlin._Germany.jpg

Bruno Monument 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#/media/File:Monument_to_Giordano_Bruno_in_Campo_de'_Fiori_square_Rome,_Italy-_6_June_2014_rectified.jpg

Bruno Monument 3 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Pietrasanta-monumento_Giordano_Bruno.jpg

Bruno Monument 4 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Klagenfurt_Kreuzbergl_Bruno_Giordano_Weg_1_Volkssternwarte_Gedenktafel_Giordano_Bruno_02052009_47.jpg

Dominican Monastery - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Domi0nican_Monastery_Dubrovnik.JPG

 

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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center".

While Bruno began as a Dominican friar, during his time in Geneva he embraced Calvinism. Bruno was later tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation. Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, nor was his teaching of the transmigration of the soul (reincarnation). The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science, although most historians agree that his heresy trial was not a response to his cosmological views but rather a response to his religious and afterlife views. However, some historians do contend that the main reason for Bruno's death was indeed his cosmological views. Bruno's case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.

In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by the Empedocles, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and Genesis-like legends surrounding the Hellenistic conception of the Egyptian god Hermes Tresmigestus. Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part III

So who made up this revolutionary coalition? They were a small segment of dissidents from all of the victimized groups, including: Templars, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Luciferians, Hermeticists, and Alchemists who were driven underground…. persecuted Jews, Catholics who were thrown under the carriage due to politics or some other alternate reason, and even a few forcefully converted crypto-Muslims…. Protestants in hiding, such as Cathars, Waldensians, Spiritual Franciscans, Hussites, and Beguines…. Druids, Odinists, Witches, and many other pagan polytheists living in the shadows…. overthrown Monarchs, Gnostic heretics, and miscellaneous others who were destroyed by the ruling order for reasons that were political and economic, or those who ended up on the wrong side of personal vendettas from the ruling class…. or simply the kith and kin of innocent people who were tortured and murdered!

All of these dissidents made up a relatively small number of people who began to network together. They wouldn’t represent the typical person from their own communities, but as individuals they were traumatized, angry, and damaged. Everything above is based on fact, and now for the speculation. Knowing now the clear pattern of their behavior over time, I believe there must have been one night that the general leadership of this revolutionary coalition were all in one place at one time to be counted, to lay out their goals, and to permanently cement their new accord. The one conclave where they could commence their movement; where they swore revenge, and vowed to someday destroy the Church forever.

Over the coming centuries, this hidden hand would operate via proxy under the guise of many revolutionary movements where only they would be the victors. Each step seemingly unconnected to the next, and the next, and the next. History has known them as Jacobins, Illuminati, British-Israel World Federation, Hellfire Club, League of the Just, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Communism, Monopoly Capitalism, war profiteers, frackers, Big Pharma, Secret Intelligence Service (compartmentalized black operations cells), Black Rock, Zionism, Globalism, Process Church, Bohemian Club, Skull and Bones, Société Générale de Belgique, Fabian Socialism, Business Roundtable, Carlyle Group, Project for the New American Century, International Bank of Settlements, Frankfurt School, Hand of Death, Hollywood, Lucis Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, Neo-Conservatives, Neo-Liberals, Silicon Valley, Bohemian Club, Wall Street, Central Intelligence Agency (compartmentalized black operations cells), Club of Rome, World Economic Forum, United Nations, and more than could ever be listed here.

They can destroy any opposing movement through infiltration and slander, they can create artificial revolutions through controlled opposition, create wars and arm both sides, make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, conduct weather wars, and a hundred other vicious tactics to permanently run roughshod over society. They’ve either taken over from the inside or created alliances with their former enemies. They’re white leather loafers on a marble floor in an ivory tower on Wall Street manipulating a few blips on a computer screen to steal the wealth from a Midwest farmer, while at the same time they’re black boots on a concrete street a few miles away setting a hard working immigrant's business on fire. They’re more than evil; there may not be an appropriate word for them in the English language.

So lets just speculate that at midnight, on Saturday, May 1, 1509, this revolutionary coalition secretly met in a remote wooded location in the Sonian Forrest south of Brussels, then the capitol of a small regional state within the Holy Roman Empire, to finally set their plans in stone. The abused will become the abuser, and much worse than that abuser. Saturday literally means “Saturn’s Day.” “May 1” is their admitted date for “Revolution.” I’m aware that May 1st had a different pagan spiritual meaning, but they've co-opted it like so many other things. May 1, 1509 = 5-1-1509 = 5+1. 1+5, and 9 = 669 = 666, the numerical dimensions of Saturn’s north pole. Of course, this is probably not the date or the place, but I’m sure that there is some deep occult tie-in to whatever name, date, place, and time that it actually was. Perhaps July 15, 1506, Midsummer, such as with the ‘Cremation of Care” ritual at Bohemian Grove. I’m 99% certain that there was a DATE involved. Even if somehow there wasn't a definitive date, then they must have later installed one! It's probably some date that they've symbolically foisted upon us as part of their incessant fetish ever since. The founding of the Illuminati was in 1776 (I guess putting the exact date on the back of the dollar bill would have been too overt even for them), and that date is the exoteric, while this unknown earlier starting date is the esoteric.

All of this secret history is recorded and is a major fetish for them, that I suppose they will come out in the open with at some future point. For example, when they created the Project for the New American Century. They absolutely did not need to create that group, and with a website, with plans no less! They love to fetishize their actions. They could have created a secret temporary group with all of the same individuals to meet their goal, and it would have been much more practical; but the fetish, always the fetish! They just love to create yet another secret group! The Trilateral Commission was created by longtime Democrat hander Zbigniew Brzezinski, and has NO practical function! They merely did it for the fetish of it! So for whatever it’s worth, I’m sure they had a specific date and time for their first ritual. I’ll just speculate that it may have been called ‘Ritus Sulphurium’ (The Rite of Sulphur), as they've been such a corrosive force in the world.

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part II

To jump ahead to clarify one point, there are different types of Satanists today; from a simple harmless theology, to something somewhat like benevolent Paganism, to ritual mass murderers. One size doesn’t fit all. Anton Levey was either a legitimate philosopher so to speak, and simply tried to make money to fund his organization, or he was a fraud who was in it for the money, or he was an agent of the higher ups who were trying to create like a "minor league Satanism" for maybe recruitment or some other purpose. I would guess the latter. I don't know, but Leveyan Satanism is not big league Satanism. It’s like grammar school Satanism. Maybe they thought they need that. Real Satanism is the “Cult of Saturn,” which is massive. If a person just doesn’t care about anything, has no principles, is of average intelligence, and wants to be successful… just seek them out and join! I don’t suggest it, if for no other reason than they’re dishonest!

How can you follow their motto, “Do what thou wilt,” when you’re completely controlled by highly advanced mechanisms that plug you into a technocratic system? It’s impossible, so "do what thou wilt" isn't worth a damn. I’ve looked closely at their plans, and it’s nothing short of suffocating. According to the Bible, Satan is a liar, and they’ve adopted that personality! It doesn’t matter what you believe; that’s their system! Personally, I like the old Saturnian tradition, as long as it doesn't have anything to do with men in high places or the projected “bad guy from the Bible.” One size doesn't fit all. The more malevolent type, as stated previously, got started in the Middle Ages; likely initially when Christian heretics were caught numerous times in various places, having orgies with animals, and conducting rituals involving numerous bodily fluids that I won’t name. The Church felt that it had to respond to this, and perhaps also used it as a pretext to establish a stronger socio-religious-political bond, so they created the "boogey man" from the Bible... Satan! It was all blamed on "Satanism," and that was a legitimately false "Satanic panic."

The genuine ancient Saturnian traditions had long disappeared by that time, only surviving in co-opted symbolism within Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism. Saturn was once a light-purple shining northern star in what was once our binary solar system, during what the ancients referred to as “The Golden Age.” In this age, thousands of years ago, there existed a rivalry between the solar cults and the Saturn cults. As Saturn slowly fizzled out and became a dwarf star, apparently a different process than a supernova which would have killed us all, the Saturn cults faded away. The solar cults took over in a succession of traditions, leading to the Egyptian Sun cult, which became Christianity. There were other Indo-European planetary cults as well; Lunar, Martian, Venusian, and others. Later it became so convoluted that some later religions have symbolism from more than one. For example, Islam has both Saturnian and Venusian symbolism. The lower crescent symbol is actually a Venusian symbol, as it was much more prominent in the sky in past centuries.

As has occurred throughout human history, the new revolutionary coalition adapted the ancient Saturnian tradition as their organizing principle for waging war. However, they predominantly adopted the Biblical version; not the genuine Saturnian tradition! In their self-serving manner, returning to “The Golden Age” simply meant that they would begin their quest to bend the entire world to their will. Now it is true that the ancient Saturnian Priesthood, such as existed in Phoenicia-Canaan, did engage in human sacrifices… including sacrificing children. However, the early Christians did the very same thing, and it continued right through the Middle Ages! The Eucharist wasn’t always merely wine and crackers. Also, every major church and cathedral constructed during the Middle Ages has a dark secret; a small child was kidnapped and cemented alive in one of the front pillars.

So when a Christian zealot complains about Halloween, and how the Druids conducted human sacrifices; or about Easter, and how the Canaanites sacrificed people; or even Christmas, and perhaps how the ancient Teutons held brutal rites… they did the same. The various inquisitions shouldn’t be any surprise. The Medieval Church caused, by their own actions over a long period of time, a reaction; an “underground Satanic church” that has now existed for centuries. This oppression, despotism, torture, and murder caused their victims so much trauma, that a small number of very angry people got together and created SATANISM!! Now it always has, and it always will, be conflated with the ancient Saturnian Priesthood. Of course, they’ve also plagiarized from the ancient European pagan traditions, such as with the seasonal Sabbats. However, the new Satanism is still a perversion of them; a system founded and designed specifically for revenge. A terrifying legacy from damaged people of centuries past; a program intended to poison everything they touch.

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part I

World history changed in one night
During the second half of the Middle Ages, long after the Dark Ages supposedly were to have ended, something sinister came across the land. Political and religious upheaval, the inquisitions, witch hunts, the Burning Times. In March of 1314, as the Grand Master of the Knights Templar was literally burning to death, he was said to have cursed the Monarchy and Church. Jacques de Molay swore vengeance! Somehow after the Templars were finished with their business in Jerusalem, they returned, massively expanded their membership, and became an incredible maritime/business/banking empire; a veritable breakaway international state! Many powerful people, including the King himself, were soon up to their eyeballs in debt to them. The Church, in particular it's own banking empire, apparently felt threatened. It's as though they found some type of lost secrets from the ancient world during their travels in the near east. The secrets of money?

de Molay swearing vengeance
Some of the revolutionary coalition mentioned throughout this whole piece were probably guilty of a whole lot of things! There are always two sides to a story, even though it's not popular today to say so. For example, written history charges the pagan Vikings with engaging in endless violent raids on Christian monasteries, forgetting that the Christians had first deliberately blocked most of their trade routes. Lets try to set aside most of the speculation of who may have been justified in their actions, or not, for now. This story is to answer the question of why the world is the way that it is today. This is the ultimate tale of the abused becoming the abuser. This is about how a small coalition of thoroughly defeated groups of people coalesced to conquer the world. There have always been those who will say that it's this group or that group; saying that it's "them" or it all goes back to "this group." Often, over the course of history, most of these are just small temporary coteries designed to fulfill one particular goal, and then disbanded.  However, in the bigger picture, it was only a very tiny segment of each victimized concern which participated from the beginning, and form the ruling families of today.


Satanism: From imagination to reality
The brutal oppression, show trials, tortures, and executions of people based on their imaginary allegiance to Satan took place between the years 1450 and 1750. The vast majority of these people had no connection to any sort've pagan tradition at all. Probably exactly ZERO of them were actually "Satanists," at least in the beginning of this. Many of those charged were done so based on economic, political, or some personal reason if truth be known. Up to 50,000 people were executed during this time, and countless others tortured. This is aside from other religious persecutions, such as the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) or the destruction of the Cathars and other protestant sects. The emerging revolutionary coalition must have been made up of an almost boundless number of religious, political, or economic concerns.... or even just the families of innocent people who were murdered by the symbiotic state-church structure! It may have been an old lady merely collecting herbs for some type of simple folk medicine!

The high point of the witch trials occurred between 1580 and 1630. The torture was immense! I suppose that I don't really need to delve into all of that, except to ponder that this occurred over fifteen generations! If they had started in 1722, then they would just be ending now. There were private entrepreneurs and opportunists who got into the act. When a government promotes something stupid, there will never be a lack of willing participants! One such group was the Vehmic Court in Westphalia, who hunted down and executed pagans. They could have just operated as paid assassins! They could murder someone and just say that the person was a witch or Devil worshiper, and it would then be okay. Another example, in approximately the year 1473, German Domincan Churchman Heinrich Kramer was appointed as the official inquisitor by the Archbishop of Salzburg. Henricus Inquisitor, as he was known, was responsible for the Tyrol, Salzburg, Bohemia, and Moravia. In other words, he was a paid thug put in charge of stopping the rise of the imaginary Satanic sects in those areas. He was going to "find them" whether they existed or not. He was just one of the many leaders of the inquisition across Europe for centuries! In 1487 he authored 'Malleus Maleficarum' ("Hammer of Witches"), a guide to witchcraft and how to interrogate people in order to get a confession out of them. The methods were so extreme that even some authorities of the day condemned it.

Three centuries of torture
The Spanish Inquisition was part of the larger Catholic Inquisition (or known simply as "The Inquisition"), as was the Roman, Portuguese, and other Inquisitions. These inquisitions very much included Protestant sects! Cathars, Waldensians, Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites, and the Beguines were terrorized by the inquisitors. Any institution which could be thought of as competition to the Catholic Church, and later other dominant Protestant sects, had the screw put to them. It wasn't just the death toll, 50,000 over three centuries, as there were battles in World War II where 100,000 soldiers died in a single day. It was the aura of fear that existed over that time period, a dark cloud that just wouldn't go away. As is human nature, the fear eventually turns to anger. When the vast majority of history's conquerors finally defeated the targeted population, such as with the Roman Empire, the next step was to allow them to partake in its system and bring them into the fold. These religious zealots did not offer that at all! They just kept putting the screw to them! Even a bully in school, who wants smaller students' lunch money, is at least satiated if they hand it over to him. They're backed into a corner, but they're at least allowed a chance to get out of that corner if they cooperate. However, as stated, there was no end to the violent oppression, and anyone could be a victim if they weren't careful.

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Monday, August 16, 2021

The Tarot: The name originally came from the Brescian "Tarocho" - Part III

Cards from the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo deck

Final thoughts

Apparently the Tarot came into Europe via Marduk, Egypt (Egypt, the Levant, and Hejaz), and the first European records of them were in Milan, Ferrara, Florence, and Bologna. With such an obscure origin, they may be a remnant of the old mystery schools which stretched from ancient western Europe (Druids?) to Greece to Egypt to India to China at one point. Also, it was very dicey with the Medieval power of the Church, and the Islamic world looming so large. The old knowledge and teachings of Hermeticism and similar ancient traditions were already present when Christian and Muslim despots arrived on the world stage as societies transitioned from native paganism to Abrahamic systems (the Middle East had been largely Indo-European with spiritual systems such as Zoroastrianism).

Queen Theodelinda fresco at Monza

Where the Tarot may have fit in within the ancient wisdom... I'm sure someone from some level of initiation knows. It's very curious that the modern incarnation of Tarot got its name from Brescia. The artisans of Brescia--whether producing fine clothing, luxurious silk accessories, leather products, brilliant weaponry, the finest textiles, etc--were second to none. They exported their crafts to the Near East during that time period, and perhaps that's how the Tarot came in. Brescia was then part of the Venetian Republic, and Venetian ships exported the goods overseas.

The middle card in the image above looks much like depictions of the Lombard Queen Theodelinda, and perhaps the figure on horseback as well. Compare those images to the example of the art depiction of Theodelinda on the left, from the Cathedral she had constructed at Monza, Lombardia. What other monarchical figure in Lombardia appeared like that... blonde.. monarchical.. so grand? Clearly someone important, a queen. I can't think of too many others. Was there a Queen Theodelinda card(s) on the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo deck? She ruled some seven centuries earlier.

Milanese tarocchi, c. 1500

A terrific head of state, Theodelinda could very well have been declared a Catholic saint. The Pierpont Morgan Bergamo card image would be very consistent with her artistic portrayals, downplaying her beauty, and depicting her as merely stately. Early historians had clearly described her as tall and beautiful, and she was later depicted as somewhat shorter as well. I guess it wasn't acceptable to show a woman as beautiful and physically imposing, especially if she was such a great head of state. Things were very touch-and-go when she took over alone as Queen of the Langobards. She was extremely loved by her people, and proceeded to patch things up with the Vatican and other surrounding states, pragmatically codified laws, defined the culture, and was a great patron of the arts. One of the great underappreciated female rulers in world history; one of the great underappreciated heads of state, period!

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