Let There Be Luce

The controversial anime-inspired ‘Luce’ is the official mascot for the 2025 Jubilee and was launched at a press conference on October 28 by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. Luce’s name is of course derived from the Latin lux, lucis, meaning ‘light’. From this comes such English words as ‘illuminate’, ‘luminous’, and ‘Lucifer’, as well as the Italian, illuminati. (This article from LifeSite gives a very thorough analysis of the name ‘Luce’ and its link with Enlightenment philosophy.)

The artist who created Luce was immediately exposed as being a promoter of LGBTI rights and a purveyor of fine sex-toys, leading to a collective sigh from controversy-fatigued traditional Catholics.

The first thing one notices when first looking at Luce – when one recovers from the visceral response to the sheer insult being given to God and to the Church’s tradition of exceptionally fine art – is the staff in the figure’s left hand. Although being promoted as a pilgrim’s staff, this is very reminiscent of a witch’s stang. The stang is a two-pronged tool made of wood, used by witches for spells and (apparently), for flight.

A stang was famously presented to Pope Francis during the 2018 Synod by a young woman wearing a red string around her wrist. The Pope later carried this stang instead of the usual crozier during Mass.

From the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, Cornwall

The Stang, pictured at left with crossed arrows, is the relatively modern name given to a witch’s staff. The word was first used by a male witch in the 1960’s but the tool itself is far older and can be found in ancient artwork as well as in various cultures.

Luce also features a Rosary without a corpus (so as not to offend the Protestants?) worn around its neck and shells in its eyes. Eyes are highly symbolic for occultists, and represent the gateway to inner knowledge. In the esoteric world, shells are said to represent new birth or transformation. At first glance, the eyes of Luce seem to be extremely sad and filled with tears – not a great look in these days of industrial-scale child abuse.

But Luce is only part of a collection of mysterious esoteric-themed artwork being promoted by the Vatican. Vatican News also announced that a bizarre painting will be displayed during the Jublilee. From artist Marc Chagall, the painting will be on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. The artwork is called, “white Crucifixion’ and shows Jesus on the cross, wearing a Jewish prayer shawl called a tallit.

Chagall, a Jew, was apparently obsessed by Christ’s crucifixion and painted many works around this theme. Some of those showed Chagall’s own face in the figure on the cross. This is said to represent the persecution of Jews, especially during the Holocaust.

But there may be a more sinister interpretation of this: high-level satanists pursue something known as apotheosis, which is the state of ‘becoming a god’. I’ve previously mentioned a book by Kerth Barker, in which he mentions some satanists he knew who displayed statues and artwork which featured their own faces. This was because they wanted to be worshipped as gods. Chagall was perhaps attempting to do the same thing by replacing Christ’s face with his own. Chagall’s work was also featured in an occult art exhibition in Spain in 2023. So while none of this is conclusive evidence of Chagall’s ties to the occult, it is nevertheless interesting in light of the Vatican’s continued use of artwork from Rupnik and its ties to the very strange artist, Jago.

Vatican officials are also planning to use ‘Luce’ as a mascot at the 2025 World Expo to be held in Japan. Along with Luce, the Holy See’s pavilion will exhibit Caravaggio’s Deposition of Christ, shown at left. This may be another clue to the existence of Luce: Caravaggio is known as the ‘Master of Light‘ because of his use of the technique known as tenebrism – the dramatic contrast between dark and light areas – in his works. Caravaggio must be a favourite in the Curia, as he was most likely a bisexual who died at an early age, possibly from either syphilis or murder.

So with Luce, Chagall and Caravaggio, it’s just a case of ‘another day, another immoral role model’ as the Ape of the Church continues its slow grind towards total apostasy.

Synarchy: the Religion of the Technocrats

PART I

When someone uses the term, ‘Synarchy’ he or she is generally referring to one of two things. It may be that they mean the general concept of a technology-based rule by a minority, which is also synonymous with technocracy. Or they may mean something more specific: a group of high-level occultists who seek to manipulate the world using Luciferian powers, and who infiltrate governments, institutions and religious organisations in order to create their own totalitarian, globalist World Order. It is this second meaning, a specific secret society with their specific goal of world governance, to which this article refers.

Although these days, there are very few who acknowledge that the shadowy figures behind the New World Order are Synarchists, there were, in the past, a number of writer and investigators who exposed Synarchy in all its brutal reality. One of these was the Catholic author, Pierre Virion, who wrote extensively on Synarchy and the New World Order during the 1970’s.

In his book, Mysterium Iniquitas, Virion wrote that Synarchy is defined as:

a set of occult powers of all orders and of all schools united to contribute to the formation of an invisible world government. Politically, it is the desired integration of all the social and especially financial powers, forming this government in a generalized, technicalized socialist regime, extending to the world divided into geo-political zones.”

Virion continues,

Catholicism would be like all religions reputed to be equal, absorbed in a universal syncretism.

Looking at Virion’s definition, it becomes immediately obvious that the goals of Synarchy coincide precisely with the goals of Freemasonry: a universalist world religion in which the Catholic Church is no longer seen as the One, True Faith. This is the end goal of the false ecumenism which is so prevalent in the Church today, and indeed, the ecumenical movement grew out the false ideas of the Synarchists.

The religion of Synarchy itself sprang from the Lodges and, as we will eventually see, influenced the Masons to work with the Catholic Church, rather than trying to annihilate Her, as had previously been their plan.

Another early writer on Synarchy was Fr Gruber, who described it as: “a centralized world state with a centralized government planned as an anti-church.” (Athanasius and the Church of our Time p 31)

Thus, is can be seen that Synarchy is a form of Freemasonic totalitarian government, the religion of the Technocrats. Rather than being a purely spiritual movement, Synarchy seeks to employ financiers, industrialists, technocrats as well as spiritual leaders to force compliance on the populace. This is the dark and sinister end-game of globalist entities such as the World Economic Forum, the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations and the United Nations for which the hysterical COVID ‘pandemic’ was a trial run.

[Note: In Europe, the media sometimes uses the term “synarchy” to describe any kind of conspiracy or cartel.]

The Goal of Synarchy

It is important to realise that within the dark and shadowy world of the the secret societies, there are not always bright lines delineating particular philosophies and denominations. There is a great deal of overlap, with shifting loyalties, degrees of understanding by adherents, a constant splintering and restructuring within groups with everything veiled in the utmost secrecy.

Individual initiates join the various groups for a variety of reasons – none of which may be related to world domination or even to the occult. This is particularly true of the lower levels of Freemasonry, when members may be interested purely in fostering business relationships. Even though they necessarily become involved in occult rituals, these men and women may not even realise the fact.

There are certain groups, however, whose membership is limited to those specifically pursuing esoteric knowledge. These include the Rosicrucians, the Martinists, members of the Order of the Golden Dawn and the OTO, Theosophists and so on and they are under no illusions about the true source of any power they may acquire. The Synarchists are part of this latter group, and its leaders are part of the highest level of occultists: those in direct communication with satan.

The common thread in all these brotherhoods is the source of the anti-Christic inspiration behind them. Although each adherent may perform a different series of rituals and be influenced by a completely different set of philosophies and personalities, the end goal of the demonic intelligence behind all of them is the same: the total enslavement of the human race to satan using technology and every other lever of power in society.

This is the diabolical inversion of the reign of Christ the King: the reign of satan as lord of the world. Every secret society is in some way contributing to that goal, whether or not the individuals within those groups understand it.

The History of Synarchy

Given the secretive nature of Synarchy, there will always remain some aspects and personalities that are unknown to us – especially those at the ‘top’ for whom their involvement would compromise their ability to work behind the scenes.

There are many men from the past, however, whose involvement is documented; they are the founders of Synarchy and their disciples. These include the defrocked Abbé Roca, Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves Alveydre, and Raoul Husson. (Each of these has a separate page which can be accessed by clicking on their name.)

Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre was an occultist who was active at the turn of the 19th Century. He is credited as being the founder of Synarchy because he was the first to record its doctrines. According to Saint-Yves, the principle tenet of Synarchy was to pursue a world government with a world religion which was a mixture of the major spiritualities, including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam. This world religion would be based on superstition and esotericism, rather than on any true supernatural belief.

Out of Saint-Alveydre’s teachings came the Martinist Order, founded by another occultist named Gerard Encausse, also known as Papus. One of the chief aims of this order was to form a “United States of Europe.” Saint-Yves had this idea as did his friend, Victor Hugo. Some say the Martinists also wanted to unite all occultists into a reformed Rosicrucianism, making Russia a link between East and West. Martinists initiated only master Masons into their brotherhood.

Synarchy then became linked with the rise of Fascism, especially in Italy and with the Pan-European movement.  An International Synarchist Movement was founded in 1919 to counter the rise of Communism after the Russian Revolution. There also seems to have been some influence by Synarchists on the ideology of Nazism.

The death of Encausse in 1916 led to a rupture among the Martinists due to the aversion of some to be involved in politics. The political Martinists went on to form the Martinist and Synarchic Order in 1921, headed by Victor Blanchard, who was another friend of Saint-Yves.

Blanchard was the secretary to the French government’s Council of Ministers and was also a member of the Polaire Brotherhood, a mysterious group which apparently received its orders via the Ouija Board.

Blanchard went on to form the Synarchic Central Committee in 1922, followed by the Synarchic Revolutionary Convention, in order to enlist fresh young blood from the business and bureaucratic worlds.

United Europe – the Synarchist Pact

From the 1930’s, the explicit idea of a United Europe became a theme among the Synarchists. A document known as the Synarchist Pact was written (possibly) by the occultist, Vivien Postel du Mas, in 1930 and this became a platform for the various Synarchist groups. The Pact was kept so secret that its existence remained unknown until 1941.

The Pact described the Synarchists’ plan to infiltrate governments and first take over France then form a “European Union.” Postel du Mas held soirees in his apartment where information from the “secret master” was delivered through a medium. It is said that the meetings were attended by “men of science, company directors and bankers.”

The Synarchist Empire Movement was formed in 1932 by Postel du Mas and another occultist, Jeanne Canudo. Their own secret society had the stated aim of influencing politics and the economy using spiritism. This group was responsible for much of France’s right-wing terrorism initiated by groups such as CSAR, the Secret Committee for Revolutionary Action, during the 1930’s

The movement to unite Europe continued unabated and from 1932 was spearheaded by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi of Austria under the banner of the Pan-European movement. Coudenhove-Kalergi became extremely influential: Otto von Hapsburg referred to him as “guide and prophet” of a United Europe while even Winston Churchill was influenced by him and in 1953, wrote the foreword to the Count’s book.

Churchill also began to promote the idea of a united Europe. One of Coudenhove-Kalergi’s ideas, that of dividing the world into “five Imperial federations” was found in the Synarchic Pact document. 

IMAGE CREDIT: Luca Signorelli: Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist – Wikimedia

Saint-Yves Alveydre

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, there was a resurgence of interest in Rosicrucianism, Kabbalism and Spiritualism among Freemasons. You may recall that demons have revealed to exorcists that that this time period was marked by a great increase in demonic activity. Various groups, including the Kabbalist Order of the Rose-Cross, the Martinists and the Symbolists, splintered off from Masonry. These groups were particularly active in France.

One member who had connections with several of these groups was Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves Alveydre (1842-1909). Saint-Yves was a member of the occult, moving in circles with Victor Hugo and Lord Bulwer-Lytton.

who is credited with being the founder of Synarchy because he was the first to write down its doctrines. Saint-Yves believed that he was in contact with a superior race of beings who communicated with him telepathically. He claimed that the principles of Synarchy were given to him by these beings as a way of countering the spread of anarchy which was prevalent at that time.

Whereas anarchy holds that there should be no governing authority, Synarchy imposes control over every facet of life. More specifically, Saint Yves believed that the superior beings who gave him this secret knowledge would help a ruling elite to govern society.

Saint-Yves believed that the world had once been ruled by such an elite and that their civilization was destroyed by natural disaster. His hypothesis is reflected in the legend of Atlantis and he believed that the Atlantians constructed the Sphinx.. Throughout history, the cosmic powers continued to send prophets such as Jesus, Moses, and of course, Saint-Yves, using secret societies to pass on the philosophy of synarchy. One example of this is the Knights Templar, whom he regarded as the perfect model of Synarchists because of their level of control over the three levers of power: socio-political, religious and economic.

Saint-Yves believed these three areas should be controlled by an elite who took their orders from the “wise ones”. This would be done without the general population realising that they were being governed by elite puppets. Once the elites gained control of the three levers of power, it would not matter whether a government was on the “left” or on the “right” – the outcome would be the same.

Saint-Yves also called for a united state of Europe – something that will become important later in our inquiry. Apart from his interest in geo-politics, His Synarchy adopted elements from popular occult movements of his time, melding them with his principle of taking orders directly from the “enlightened beings.”

Saint-Yves wrote many books in which he described plans for a Universal Synarchist Church, which is nothing other than Masonic syncretism. A blend of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, the church of the Synarchists would be cultural as well as spiritual.

Saint-Alveydre’s Universal Synarchic Church did not attempt to eliminate the Catholic Church, but to subsume Her into its ranks. For this two occur, Catholicism would firstly need to agree that all religions are equal and then to come to terms with Freemasonry. One can see how closely the post-Conciliar Popes have followed this programme through their promotion of ecumenism.

And while they may have officially upheld the Church’s teaching on Freemasonry, in their words and actions, they have been quite tolerant of Masonry within the hierarchy. Saint-Alveydre promoted the idea that Masonry was based in Christianity, writing that:

“If Masonry admits men without distinction of race, worship, creed, to fraternal assistance from the Prince of Wales to the pariahs of India, then it is more Christian, more Orthodox in the eyes of Jesus than you who anathematize it.” (Mission des Souverains, p 446, as quoted in Mystère d’iniquité)

Saint-Alveydre’s comment is reminiscent of Stefano Bisi, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. At a recent event to promote rapprochement between Masonry and Catholicism, he said:

“The starry sky is the same for the Buddhist, for the Catholic, for the Waldensian, for the Muslim, for all those who believe in a supreme being,” he continued, adding: “We set our brothers free to adhere to any religion and to practice. Absolute truths and walls of the mind do not belong to us, and for us they must be torn down.” 

His 1877 book, Keys to the East, introduced Synarchy to a popular audience. In1886,   Saint-Yves created the Syndicate of the Professional and Economic Press which introduced business and political leaders to synarchy. Enthusiasts included French minister François Césaire Demahy and Paul Deschanel who later became President of France.

There seems little doubt that Saint-Yves was in direct communication with demons and that the principles of Synarchy were directly inspired by hell. Certainly the consequences of a totalitarian state ruled by an unworthy elite seem consistent with their origin. Anything that lacked evidence, such as his ideas about race or the origins of the world were for Saint-Yves a product of the secret knowledge from the “wise ones.”

Roncalli and the ‘Aliens’.

This is an extract from the book I’m working on: The unofficial title is “Synarychy: How John XXIII opened the door to Freemasonry and the New World Order.”

Finally, and perhaps the most bizarre story of all, John is said to have spoken with an alien at Castelgandalfo in 1961. His longtime secretary, Cardinal Loris Capovilla, also claimed to have witnessed the meeting.

The story was first published in an Argentinian online news service in 2014, (and later shared at Tradition in Action here) and the author was a ‘psychic’ named Luis Sartori.

Sartori was related to Capovilla, who was the first cousin of his maternal grandmother. Sartori claimed he had a written testimony from his relative who wrote that the incident took place when he and Pope John were walking in the gardens of Castelgondolfo, the papal holiday residence, in July 1961.

Capovilla wrote that they saw “a craft above our heads. It was oval and had flashing blue and amber lights.” The craft set down “on the grass on the south side of the garden. A strange being emerged from it: it looked like a human except that it was surrounded by a golden light and had elongated ears. His Holiness and I knelt down. We didn’t know what we were seeing, but we knew it was not of this world, so it must have been a heavenly event.

“We prayed and when we raised our heads, the being was still there. That was proof that we had not had a vision. The Holy Father stood up and walked toward the being. The two of them talked for about 20 minutes. They did not call me, so I stayed where I was and could not hear anything they said. Finally the being turned around, walked toward the ship and left.”

“His Holiness returned and told me that the children of God are everywhere; sometimes we have difficulty recognizing our own brothers.”

Sartori concluded by writing that “…. the Church accepts the existence of extraterrestrials and has even set up, together with NASA, in some very secret place, some kind of secret research center to follow the movements of these beings and their ships night and day.”

Sartori adds some interesting commentary; namely that, Pope Roncalli had regular communications with Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary and that this has been common knowledge since 1959. According to Sartori, the heavenly apparitions gave John prophecies about the future. Curiously, this lines up with the statements made by Carpi in his book, although it is always possible that this claim originated with Carpi himself.

The entire incident including Capovilla’s testimony is exceedingly strange and its veracity is let down by several weak links in the chain of information. Yet, it is significant that so many equally bizarre stories swirl around the figure of Pope John. Also significant is the theory that alien communications are in fact manifestations of the demonic. If it is true that John was involved in the occult, then direct communication with demons is hardly surprising. That a demon would disguise itself as an alien when meeting with men who fully believed in extra-terrestrial creatures is also unsurprising.

It brings to mind comments made by Constance Cumbey, an evangelical Protestant lawyer, in her 1983 book, Hidden Dancers of the Rainbow. In it, she wrote:

“If there has been a single Catholic Pope who permitted the New Ager’s plan to take root within the Roman Catholic Church, it was Pope John XXIII, who is spoken of reverentially by New Agers and ‘Catholic’ modernists.” (p. 160.)

Bergoglio’s Visitor Flashes Occult Credentials

The meeting itself was scandalous enough: a semi-naked man in the Vatican’s official reception room, ostensibly to promote the Pope’s upcoming trip to Papua New Guinea. The topless man is Mundiya Kepanga, an environmental activist and Papuan tribal chief who was in Rome last May.

But worse than his state of undress was the message he sent through Vatican channels: Kepanga overtly flashed this hand gesture, used by occultists such as the Illuminati and by practitioners of magical yoga, in full view of the video cameras of media outlet Rome Reports. It could not have been more obvious.

Screenshot: the entire video may be accessed here.

Despite his traditional clothing, Kepanga is a man of the world: he travels, appears in documentary films and attends UNESCO and COP events. (Take a look here at his selfie in front of the Statue of Liberty.)

Kepanga told the Pope that the main concern of his nation is deforestation, but omitted to mention the actual problems confronting the people of New Guinea: Chinese interests undermining the nation’s sovereignty, anti-life organisations Like Marie Stopes international working with the Catholic Church to inflict contraception and abortion on the people; systemic government corruption and of course, high levels of superstition and paganism, including such practices as cannibalism and headhunting.

Kepanga with his clothes on. Note the plastic water bottle and disposable cups: standard issue hypocrisy for the modern environmentalist.

SOURCE: Totocach, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Kepanga’s Huli tribe, while not known to be cannibals, believe in a number of pagan gods, performing rituals and sacrifices they believe enable them to harness divine powers; they are particularly fond of sacrificing pigs in order to gain protection or some other benefit from their gods. These ‘gods’ are, of course, demons, thus it seems that Kepanga is accessing demons to gain power. Indeed, sorcery and witchcraft are the part of everyday life for the Huli people. Yet Kepanga is clearly into more than that: his gesture reveals that he part of a contemporary occult society – one he felt compelled to acknowledge and promote from the very centre of Catholicism.

As we know, paganism and occultism pose no obstacle for this Pope. In fact, they are openly welcomed and are the only form of traditionalism being promoted currently in the Vatican. The ‘backwardism’ of the traditional liturgy is condemned but what could be more ‘backwardist’ than a twenty-first century environmental activist wearing indigenous fancy-dress?

Bergoglio has entertained a steady stream of occultists, sodomites and witches, flaunting their meetings via his official media outlets. So the question remains: why would a Pope applaud these practices – unless they are part of his religion?

Summary of Occult Principles

Taken from The Way Down and Out by John Senior.

Occultists tend to believe and act upon the following related notions:

  1. The universe is one, single, eternal, ineffable substance.
  2. This substance manifests itself as spirit, fire or light.
  3. It further manifests itself Demiurge of Logos which orders the created light into the visible world by means of numerous intermediaries likewise emanations from the One.
  4. All things progress be dialectical oppositions. The created universe is composed of paired ‘opposites’ – male-female, light-dark – which generated their own equilibrium or harmony. The creative triad thus formed is then considered as contained in the One, uncreated, ineffable, and thus the universe is seen as a four-fold unity.
  5. Things above are as they are below because, since mind and matter are one, the imagination is real, and any analogy it conceives is as good as ‘scientific’ proof of correspondence.
  6. Since all things are one, a ‘science’ of interference can be established whereby knowledge of the spiritual can be gained by study of the material, and vice versa, as in contemplation of the created universe in mysticism, manipulation of the created universe in alchemy.
  7. The human body is especially taken to be the image of creation. The universe is taken to be, in fact, a living man.
  8. Since men are created by sexual means, sex is an attribute of the divine. The original source is said to separate into male and female parts and, by cohabiting with itself, creates.
  9. Since man is the prototype, man is capable of realising in himself all things. He is capable of becoming God because he is God without ‘realising’ it. In the sex act, man realises his own female nature and becomes symbolically androgynous – becomes one flesh – and therefore whole.
  10. The task of man is therefore self-realisation. To know thyself is everything.
  11. Self-realisation is the progressive discovery of the layers of the psyche which is not mere ego but at least seven separate things including the universal substance.
  12. Certain supermen, having achieved self-realisation, turn back to their unrealised fellows. These are the bodhisattvas, the masters, the guardians, the founders of religions who veil the ultimate in terms suitable to time and place.
  13. Thus all religions are variations on a single transcendent unity.
  14. Ordinary men can become supermen by arduous practice, by grace and/or by virtue of their past experience.
  15. The superman is appraised of his possibilities for illumination, accidental or induces state in which heat, fire or a light surround him and he sees ineffable and profoundly moving truth of the oneness of the universe.
  16. The supermen, according to principal nine, is often sexually androgynous as symbolised by tonsure, circumcision, peculiar dress.
  17. Since the self-realised bodhisattva wants to communicate something of the higher truths to those not able to understand it, he uses symbols in his teaching and in this way affects the less-developed mind on its unconscious levels. He thus not only turns the ego inward so that it may explore as much of the self as possible, but fosters the growth of the soul itself. Symbols are efficacious even when you do not understand them. Ot rather, in the discursive sense, the symbol can never be understood. The symbol is the meeting ground between the ego and the ineffable.
  18. Ziggurats, pyramids, mysteries, myths, alchemical processes, astrological creams – these are symbolic systems of yantras.
  19. To facilitate the work of self-realisation, adepts have often organised brotherhoods, such as Rosicrucians, Pythagoreans and so on. Initiation into these orders is often considered a prerequisite of the necessary extraconsciousness and is usually a ceremony in itself efficacious in producing such states of mind.
  20. All things live according to pulse, or breath, or rhythm, which expresses itself in time as cycles of birth, growth, and decay, as Magnus Annas in the life of worlds, as birth, death and resurrection in men.
  21. In the cycles, both collectively and in history and individually in men, all souls must eventually be all things. The task of the individual man as we know him, of the times as we live them, is to leave things as they seem in order to discover the unknown, which is often symbolised as a descent into hell.

IMAGE SOURCE – ‘WITCH BURNING” – Wikimedia Commons