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BCE was invented by a Freemason

‘BCE’ was invented by a Freemason

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There has been much criticism of a decision by the Vatican to issue a document which included the dating system ‘BCE’ rather than the customary ‘BC.’ The document in question was a letter from the Pope about the usefulness of literature; he included two dates to exemplify St. Paul’s ‘evangelical discernment of culture’ (whatever that is.).

Although some historians believe that BCE (before the common era) is not meant to be an insult to Jesus Christ (BC of course refers to ‘before Christ’), a look into the origin of the term shows that this is unlikely to be the case. That is because the inventor of BCE was a Mason and as such was influenced by anti-Christian ideology.

The origins of the Christian dating system of BC and AD can be traced back at least as far as the 6th century, when a monk tabled the dates of Easter in reference to anni Domini nostri Jesu Christi, that is, “years of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 

The system was popularised by the Venerable Bede, who was active in the 7th century. Bede’s works included the phrase, ante incarnationis dominicae tempus, meaning ‘before the time of the incarnation of the Lord’ as well as anno ab incarnatione Domini, meaning ‘in the year from the incarnation of the Lord’ and anno incarnationis Dominicae, meaning ‘in the year of the incarnation of the Lord.’ Bede’s dating system became standard by the time of Charlemagne and was abbreviated over time to the two letters now in use.

BCE, however, was brought into use much later by the scientist, Johannes Kepler. Kepler, a German, lived from 1571 to 1630 and was ostensibly a Lutheran. He is known for his contributions to the study of planetary motion and celestial mechanics; his three laws governing planetary motion are still used today by astronomers.

As well as studying astronomy, Kepler was also an adept in astrology – something omitted from modern school textbooks!

Kepler is said to have been initiated into Freemasonry in 1620 at Prague’s Bohemian Union Lodge.

Kepler, left, shown with a compass.


SOURCE: Ludwig Günther, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In his book, Eclogae Chronicae, published in 1615, Kepler used the terminology anno aerae nostrae vulgaris (in our common era.) Kepler offered no explanation for the change, and it was repeated here and there over the next couple of hundred years, in several non-English-speaking parts of Europe.

1708 marked the first time the phrase ‘common era’ was used in an English book, The History of the Works of the Learned. By the mid 19th century, CE and BCE had come into common use, popularised by Jews who did not want to honour the salvific birth of Christ. Nowadays, BCE and CE continue to be promoted by atheists who refuse to ‘privilege Christianity,’ as well as by those who do not wish to offend non-Christians.

Thus when a Pope decides to use BCE instead of BC, he reveals a Masonic preference for religious indifferentism or worse: that the Incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ were not the pivotal events in the history of mankind.

SOURCES: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/12/05/a-history-of-the-common-era-bce-ce-dating-system/

https://www.learnreligions.com/bc-vs-bce-which-should-we-use-250186

https://esotericfreemasons.com/most-famous-modern-day-freemasons

Olympic Blasphemy on Martyr Priest’s Anniversary

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By now, almost the entire world knows of France’s most recent national shame: the Olympic Opening ceremony. It lauded vice and intentionally insulted Catholics under the guise of being the “creme de la creme” of modern culture. Although somewhat sour to our tastes, transvestites, gluttonous lesbians, pagans and hedonists mocked Scripture and even the person of Jesus Christ.

The event also derided Marie Antoinette, the Catholic Queen of France who was beheaded at the height of the French Revolution. The inclusion of Marie Antoinette is an interesting one, as the Opening Ceremony was held on July 26th, which is the anniversary of the violent murder of a French Catholic priest. In 2016, the elderly Fr. Jacques Hamel was killed while offering Mass in his small parish in northern France. The perpetrators were two 19 year-old members of the Islamic State to whom Fr. Hamel cried, “Begone, Satan!” before having his throat slit.

A blasphemous parody of the Last Supper, featuring sexual deviants in place of the holy Apostles.

As if that wasn’t enough, the Ceremony, televised across the world to families with little children, included a segment featuring a threesome, reminding viewers that it was France who legitimised these groupings under the term ménage à trois. [Don’t forget it was also the French who immortalised prophylactic contraception under the title French Letters. The Olympic Committee distributed 200,000 of these to competitors as the Games began.]

Screenshot from the pre-recorded ‘threesome’ segment

Much of the pageantry was centred around death and destruction, with bloody displays, a decaying Statue of Liberty and a figure representing an Apocalyptic horseman. Included was strange a segment showing singers “dying suddenly” on a blood-red dance-floor. This apparent reference to the destructive Gene Serum brings to mind the 2012 London Olympics which predicted the pandemic using images of sick children and the Grim Reaper holding something resembling a syringe.

From the 2012 London Olympics ceremony.
From the 2012 London Olympics ceremony.

Now blasphemy is a matter that needs serious reparation. According to Thomas Aquinas, it is worse than murder, even worse than killing a poor old priest during Mass (although if that was intended as an insult to God then it is blasphemy AND murder.)

In France, the SSPX announced that its parishes would pray the penitential Psalm, De Profundis and chant the sorrowful Parce Domine at the conclusion of every Mass on Sunday July 28th. God bless them for that and may many more parishes follow suit.

And the Pope? What did the leader of 2.6 billion Catholics have to say about this disgrace? Well, during his Sunday Angelus address, the Pope did mention the Ceremony – only to condemn the “scandal” of war. [Wars are bad and some athletes are from countries at war, so that’s the connection. Obviously. Talk about drawing a long bow and then failing to hit the bullseye.]

Yet, all is not lost for France, eldest daughter of the Church. While humans were struggling with a sabotaged subway system and torrential rain, God Himself chose to intervene in this highly chaotic situation. During a blackout across the 18th arrondissement, one building remained illuminated. That building? Sacré Coeur basilica.

Yes, lights continued to shine from the Basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, while a significant section of Paris went dark. Readers should note that the Church traditionally dedicates a whole month to the Sacred Heart. In recent times, that same month, June, has been dedicated by secular authorities to a sin which cries to heaven for vengeance and has become known as PRIDE month.

The gracious Lord, instead of smiting Paris with fire and brimstone, drew attention to Himself in a manner more like the gentle breeze He used to catch the attention of Elijah. A good lesson for we impatient mortal beings.

Q Anon and the Trump Cult

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Online, there have been more than a few comments by Never-Trumpers and conservative “but he’s not really pro-life” Christians voicing their new-found admiration for Trump, who after he was shot rose up like a phoenix, blood streaming across his face, triumphantly shouting “Fight! Fight!” with his clenched fist raised in the air.

Trump’s triumphant Hero Shot

The assassination attempt yielded the Hero Shot par excellence and it appears that this is the moment his Q Anon devotees have been waiting for: tangible evidence that these long years of waiting and cryptic messages have not been a hoax. Now they “know” for sure that they have not been misled or manipulated, that it must all be true: the White Hats, the ‘Dumbs”, the SRA. All of it.

However factual the heinous activities of the Deep State might be, though – and there is certainly plenty of evidence – the whole concept of an anonymous commentator ‘dropping’ mysterious clues for Trumpian insiders is very troubling. For the idea of an ‘insider’ revealing ‘secret knowledge’ to adoring devotees is the very essence of Gnosticism. And if Trump has a cult-like following, then the name of that cult really is Gnosticism.

His Q-Anon cult thrives on the promise of secret knowledge: the messages, and Trump’s tweets and speeches are treated as codes and are said to full of gematria. Gematria is a cipher which assigns a numerical value to a word or letter of the alphabet. One very famous reference to this can be found in the Bible, where St. John tells us that the number of the Beast of the Apocalypse is six hundred and sixty-six. The importance of dates and numbers, which often are highly significant anyway, becomes elevated in a gematria system.

Gematria is thought to have been first developed by the ancient Greeks and has popped up throughout history in occult circles, with many variations. Magicians throughout the ages have referred to it and gematria is part of the system of Kabbalah. Gematria was once taught to members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley apparently used it to code his 1904 The Book of the Law.

Ciphers aside, Catholics are not immune from Trump Gnosticism. Already, some are claiming that Trump’s life was saved by the Virgin Mary, a theory suggested by the date of his assassination attempt: July 13. This is one of the “Fatima Days”: the 13th day of each of six consecutive months from May to October which mark the most famous apparitions made by the Mother of God to the children at Fatima.

Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine, king of the Glad Trads.

Now, don’t misunderstand, I wholeheartedly believe that the apparitions and messages from Fatima are true. What I baulk at is attributing Trump’s “miraculous” escape to the intervention of Our Lady. For if one actor in the Deep State can play at the Psy-op game, then so can two.

Trump’s Q-Anon followers have been “trusting the plan” for years. They have an enormous amount of blind faith in Q’s claims that even as we speak, Trump’s secret militia is liberating children from the bowels of the earth. If a prediction fails spectacularly, as happened with the very first one in 2017 when it was foretold by Q that Hillary Clinton would be arrested, the faith of these hillbilly Gnostics is not shaken. A perceived failure simply becomes subject to a new level of revealed truth: Clinton was actually arrested but was subsequently replaced by a body-double.

And so was Biden … and Pope Francis … and on it goes. Throw in the theory that viruses are a product of the imagination and there you have Q Anon-sense.

Meme from Trump’s account on Truth Social

From the very advent of Q, Trump himself played the game, telling reporters that this was the calm before the storm and with sage-like restraint explaining that all would soon be revealed. Perhaps it was more than coincidence that his recent legal battle was over his relationship with a woman known as “Stormy”.

In 2022, he began referencing Q-Anon in his tweets and on his social media platform, Truth Social. He likes to pepper his rally speeches with insider references, the kind of jokes his only his Q-Anon followers would appreciate.

Screengrab from the Republican National Conference: note the background, Novus Ordo Seclorum or “New World of the Ages” AKA “New World Order.”

In the wake of his assassination attempt, it has been fascinating to watch people falling onto one of two camps: the freedom-loving Trump supporters (roughly aligned with the Republican party) and the evil left-leaners (the Democrats.) Those undecideds in the middle grey area, who once constituted the majority, seem to have all but disappeared.

And maybe that was just the point of the whole exercise.

Early Australian Freemasonry

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NOT ECCLESIASTICAL, BUT OF INTEREST NONETHELESS!

SOURCE: THE WEBSITE OF FIRST FLEET FELLOWSHIP VICTORIA INC  BY CHERYL TIMBURY

Freemasonry has been associated with the British discovery and settlement of Australia from the very beginning. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the naturalist who sailed into Botany Bay with James Cook in 1770 became a Freemason prior to 1768 and was a member of the Old Horn Lodge No. 4 in England.

Thomas Lucas (1759-1815), a Private in the 23rd Company Marine Corps and a member of Lodge of Temperance No 225 in England, arrived with the First Fleet. Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), who arrived in 1795, was initiated into Friendly Cultivator Lodge while held in Mauritius.

The following men were all freemasons and convicts:

Thomas Prior (1756-1836),

Robert William Felton Lathrop Murray (1777-1850) – editor of the Colonial Times,

Richard Fitzgerald (1772-1860) – early proprietor of the Bank of New South Wales,

James Alexander Thomson (1805-1860) – architect, engineer and builder,

Dr William Bland (1789-1868) – Sydney’s first full-time private practitioner,

Samuel Clayton (1783-1853) – transported for forgery and engraved the banknotes for Bank New South Wales when it opened its doors in 1817,

Francis Greenway (1777-1837) – colonial architect who appeared on the old $10 note.

In 1797, the Grand Lodge of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, received a petition from Privates George Kerr, Peter Farrell and George Black requesting a warrant to form a Masonic Lodge in the New South Wales Corps serving at Port Jackson. The matter was deferred and no warrant was issued.

In September 1802, two French naval vessels, Le Geographe and Le Naturaliste, were anchored in Port Jackson and whilst there held a lodge meeting at which a Captain Anthony Fenn Kemp of the New South Wales Corps was initiated. It is interesting to note that Anthony Kemp was a Captain attached to the New South Wales Corps stationed at Port Jackson and therefore a senior officer of the Port Jackson battery.

The war between France and England had ended only months before with the signing of the Treaty of Amiens on 21 March 1802 but these two French ships, on a scientific expedition under the control of Commodore Nicholas Baudin of the Le Geographe, had been sailing in Australian waters for nearly a year before they came into Sydney in June for replenishment of their stores. They did not sail again until November, so the crews had five months to fraternise with the settlers and the military personnel ashore.

Captain Kemp was heavily involved in a trade bringing spirits into the colony, much to Governor King’s disgust. When the Atlas arrived with a cargo of brandy in September 1802, King forbade it being landed ashore but he did allow eight hundred gallons of the shipment to be sold to Baudin to replenish his ships. Kemp was furious and accused some of the French officers of on-selling the brandy to settlers. King ordered an investigation and, finding the complaint unfounded, directed Kemp to officially apologise to the French officers concerned. 

It is also recorded that Lodge Rameau d’Or d’Eleus (The Legend of the Golden Acacia) was formed by French gold miners at Ballarat (Victoria) in 1856 and that it had applied for recognition by the English Constitution lodge already in existence in the same town. Recently (1992) a French language lodge was constituted in Sydney.

Sir Henry Browne Hayes (1762-1832), an Irish convict, attempted to form a Lodge in 1803 in defiance of an order from Governor King, however, his meeting held on 14th May 1803 is regarded as the foundation day of Freemasonry in Australia. He did not try again even though he later formed a friendship with Lachlan Macquarie, the first of many Governors to be members of the Masonic fraternity.

It was common practice at this time for Masonic Lodges to be formed on board naval vessels and within regiments of the British Army and for Freemasonry to be practiced wherever the ship or regiment was stationed. The 46th Regiment of Foot, which arrived in 1814, had attached to it the Lodge of Social and Military Virtues No. 227, Irish Constitution. The 48th Regiment with Lodge No. 218, Irish Constitution, replaced this regiment in 1817.

It was this Lodge that granted dispensation to form the first Lodge in Sydney in 1820 at a time when the total population of the colony was only 30,000. This Lodge, with just twelve foundation members, was called the Australian Social Lodge and was issued with warrant No. 260 by the Grand Lodge of Ireland. The Lodge still meets in Sydney as Lodge Antiquity No. 1 on the register of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

Four years later, The Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia No. 266, Irish Constitution, was formed in Sydney and, in due course, other Lodges were warranted, not only by the Grand Lodge of Ireland but also by the United Grand Lodge of England, in Sydney, in 1828 and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, in Melbourne, in 1844.

From the early years of the nineteenth century, the free settlers had sought some measure of political self-determination, which resulted in the establishment of a Legislative Council in New South Wales in 1824, due largely to the work of Bro. William Charles Wentworth.

This, in turn, led the Freemasons to seek local control of their Masonic affairs, which resulted in a number of attempts to form local Grand Lodges independent from the parent bodies in Britain. The Grand Lodges of England, Ireland and Scotland in particular, strenuously opposed such a move and it was not until 1877 that mainly the Irish Lodges in the colony formed the Grand Lodge of New South Wales.

The first Grand Master was the Hon. James Squire Farnell, at the time the Premier of New South Wales, who had previously been Provincial Grand Master for New South Wales of the Irish Constitution. There was a similar line of Masonic development in Victoria, which resulted in the establishment of the Grand Lodge of Victoria in 1883 with the Hon. George Selth Coppin, a Member of the Legislative Assembly, as the first Grand Master.

Eventually, the other colonies each formed a Grand Lodge with South Australia leading in 1884, Tasmania in 1890, Western Australia in 1900 and Queensland in 1904. United Grand Lodges were established in New South Wales in 1888, Victoria in 1889 and Queensland in 1921.

Vatican continues to use Rupnik’s art!

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Have they no shame?

Evil. That is the only way to describe it. The folks at Vatican News apparently think it appropriate to continue using the art of disgraced sex-abuser-priest, Marko Rupnik, to promote some of the liturgical year’s most sacred days. Is this a not-so-subtle message of business as usual at the Vatican?

That the Age of Aquarius is steaming ahead in Francis’ Rome? How dare they? How DARE THEY?

This artwork is so disorienting, some would say, demonic.

And if you have the stomach for something even more bizarre – here is Rupnik explaining his mosaic about St Pio – only he spends the bulk of the time spouting nonsense about Pope Francis and his similarities with our dear Padre.