Saturday, October 12, 2024

They're Everywhere!! (Sort Out All Such Filth!!)


(Connect all of the following to see the real big picture on the filth that has been killing humanity for so long  ... as depicted & revealed [in the totality] in the following writings ...)

 


Karma/ Purge || Sort Out This Ugly/ Crass Problem || SSatanic/ Misopedic Criminality: Gangstalking, Narcissistic Abuse, Covert Murder!! (2)


(by David Livingstone, Author)



CRYPTO JUDAISM

The Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion from Spain in 1492, were some of the most pivotal events in modern times. Jewish converts penetrated to Christianity, where they could exact their revenge. Jewish Kabbalists became Christian Kabbalists. When they entered Italy, they fostered the Renaissance, and in Amsterdam, the Northern Renaissance. Luther established Protestantism, creating a schism that permanently removed large sections of Christian Europe from Catholic Control. Rosicrucians cultivated the career of the foremost false prophet and Jewish apostate: Sabbatai Zevi. Leaving from the Netherlands, these secret Rosicrucians, known to American history as the “Pilgrims”, set sail for the New World via England, where they hoped to found a new Masonic experiment, known as The New Atlantis.

In 1290, King Edward issued a decree to have all Jews expelled from England. All the crowned heads of Europe then followed his example. France expelled the Jews in 1306. In 1348 Saxony followed suit. In 1360 Hungary, in 1370 Belgium, in 1380 Slovakia, in 1420 Austria, in 1444 the Netherlands. As in other parts of Europe, violent persecution had been growing in Spain and Portugal, where in 1391, hundreds of thousands of Jews had been forced to convert to Catholicism. Publicly, the Jewish converts known as Marranos, and also as Conversos, were Christians but secretly they continued to practice Judaism.

While secret conversion of Jews to another religion during the Spanish inquisition is the most known example, as Rabbi Joachim Prinz explained in The Secret Jews, “Jewish existence in disguise predates the Inquisition by more than a thousand years.”[1] There were also the examples of the first Gnostic sects, which comprised of Merkabah mystics who entered Christianity. Likewise, in the seventh century, the Quran advised the early Muslim community, “And a faction of the People of the Scripture say [to each other], "Believe in that which was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day and reject it at its end that perhaps they will abandon their religion."[2]

As demonstrated by Louis I. Newman in Jewish Influences on Christian Reform Movements, a similar tendency can be attributed to the advent of Catharism and eventually to Protestantism and other Christian heresies. The Cathars, also known as the Albigensians, were a Gnostic sect of the thirteenth century who worshipped Lucifer. Their influence extended to the legends of the Holy Grail, by way of the Templars, and thereby to Rosicrucianism and Freemasonsy. In his denunciation the heresy, Adversus Albigenses, Lucas of Tuy, a Spanish monk, noted:

The secular heads and judges of the cities hear the doctrines of heresy from Jews whom they number among their familiars and friends… They teach other Jews to propose their blasphemies against Christians, in order that they can thus pervert the Catholic faith. All the synagogues of the malignant Jews have patrons, and they placate the leaders with innumerable gifts, and seduce by gold the judges to their own culture…”[3]

Marranos joined orders like the Franciscans, Dominicans and Discalced Carmelites, where their prophetic eschatology was often branded as heresy.[4] The Discalced Carmelites were established in 1593 by two Spanish saints, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross. John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, into a Marrano family.[5] John’s mystical theology is influenced by the Neoplatonic tradition of pseudo-Dionysus, a Christian theologian and philosopher of the late fifth to early sixth century.[6] The author pseudonymously identifies himself as the figure of Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian convert of the apostle Paul. The Dionysian mystical teachings were universally accepted throughout the East, amongst both Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians, and also had a strong impact in later medieval western mysticism, most notably Meister Eckhart.

Based upon preliminary reports made by members of the Discalced Carmelite mission in Basra during the sixteenth century, the Mandaeans of Iraq are called “Christians of Saint John.”[7] Often identified with the Sabians, the source of the occult teachings of the Ismailis, which were reportedly transmitted to the Templars. For this reason, the Mandeans were the “Eastern Mystics” of Rosicrucian legend, who later became the basis of the Sabbatean sect of the Asiatic Brethren.

Teresa of Avila’s paternal grandfather, Juan Sánchez de Toledo, was a Marrano.[8] During a bout of severe illness, Teresa experienced periods of religious ecstasy. Around 1556, when various friends suggested these were diabolical, her confessor, the Jesuit Saint Francis Borgia, reassured her of their divine inspiration. The House of Borgia, an Italo-Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance, was widely rumored to be of Marrano origin.[9] The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, producing two popes: Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458, and Pope Alexander VI, during 1492–1503. Especially during the reign of Alexander VI, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, bribery, and murder, especially by arsenic poisoning.[10]

Marranos were also involved in the creation of the order of the Jesuits. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuits in 1534, had been a member of a heretical sect known as the Alumbrados, meaning “Illuminated,” which was composed mainly of Conversos.[11] Although there is no direct evidence that Loyola himself was a Marrano, according to “Lo Judeo Conversos en Espna Y America” (Jewish Conversos in Spain and America), Loyola is a typical Converso name.[12] As revealed by Robert Maryks, in The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews, Loyola’s successor Diego Laynez was a Marrano, as were many Jesuit leaders who came after him.[13] In fact, Marranos increased in numbers within Christian orders to the point where the papacy imposed “purity of blood” laws, placing restrictions on the entrance of New Christians to institutions like the Jesuits.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS


According to historian Cecil Roth’s History of the Marranos, “The connection between the Jews and the discovery of America was not, however, merely a question of fortuitous coincidence. The epoch-making expedition of 1492 was as a matter of fact very largely a Jewish, or rather a Marrano, enterprise.”[14] The Alhambra Decree, also known as the Edict of Expulsion, was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, ordering the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by July 31. Four days later, on the evening of August 3, 1492, Columbus departed from Spain with three ships: the Santa María, the Pinta and the Niña, an adventure that culminated in the European discovery of the New World. The coincidence of these dates has long suggested that Columbus may have headed a mission intended to find a new haven for the persecuted Jews.

Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, argues that Columbus was a Catalan who tried to conceal a Jewish heritage. Irizarry notes that Columbus always wrote in Spanish, occasionally included Hebrew in his writing, and referenced the Jewish High Holidays in his journal during the first voyage. Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano.[15] Columbus didn’t speak Italian, signed his last will and testament on May 19, 1506, whose wishes conformed to Jewish customs. He also decreed to give money to a Jew who lived in the Lisbon Jewish Quarter. Columbus used a triangular signature of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. According to British historian Cecil Roth’s The History of the Marranos, the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative.

Lastly, Columbus left money to support a crusade he hoped his successors would undertake up to liberate the Holy Land. Simon Wiesenthal in Sails of Hope argues that, in light of the Jews’ expulsion from Spain, Columbus’ voyage was motivated by a desire to find a safe haven. Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem.[16]

Columbus was the son-in-law of a Knight of Christ. After the Templars were abolished on in 1312 by the papal bull, issued by Pope Clement V, the former Knights Templar order as it was reconstituted in Portugal as the Military Order of Christ. The Order was founded in 1319, with the protection of the Portuguese king, Denis I, who refused to pursue and persecute the former knights as had occurred in all the other sovereign states under the political influence of the Catholic Church. The order was devoted specifically to sailing, and sponsored a number of history’s most well-known explorers. Vasco de Gama was a member of the order, and Prince Henry the Navigator, speculated as having been among the few to explore the New World prior to Christopher Columbus, was a Grand Master. Columbus may have used his relative’s maps to navigate his way to America, where his ships sailed under flags bearing the order’s insignia, the red cross of the Templars.

Contrary to common assumptions, Columbus’ voyage to the New World was not funded by Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos, Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez, and another prominent a Portuguese Jewish statesman and Kabbalist philosopher, Don Isaac Abrabanel.[17] Abarbanel’s philosophy dealt with the sciences and how the general field relates to the Jewish religion and traditions, and his apologetics defends the Jewish idea of the coming of the Messiah. It is often implied that Abarbanel’s exegesis was written with the purpose of giving hope to the Jews of Spain that the arrival of the Messiah was imminent in their days.


CONQUISTADORS


Pere Bonnin, after studying a list of 3,500 names resulting from a census of Jewish communities of Spain by the Catholic Church and as found in Inquisition records, cited the Jewish origin of historically prominent figures Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and many others.[18] The two most famous conquistadors were Cortes who conquered the Aztec Empire, and Francisco Pizarro who led the conquest of the Incan Empire. They were second cousins born in Extremadura, where many of the Spanish conquerors were born. When Cortes first conquered Mexico for Spain in 1521, he did so with a number of secret Jews amongst his men. Catholic religious orders that participated and supported the exploration, evangelizing and pacifying, were mostly Dominicans, Carmelites, Franciscans and Jesuits.

After the expulsion, many Sephardic Jews migrated to the Netherlands, France and eventually Italy, from where they joined other expeditions to the Americas. By the late sixteenth century, organized Jewish communities were founded in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, the Dutch Suriname and Curaçao, Spanish Santo Domingo, and the English colonies of Jamaica and Barbados. In addition, there were unorganized communities of Jews in Spanish and Portuguese territories where the Inquisition was active, including Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Peru.

The Jews were far more significant in the earliest exploration, settlement and development of the Caribbean and South America than has previously been acknowledged. Several Jewish communities in the Caribbean, Central and South America flourished, particularly in those areas under Dutch and English control, which were more tolerant. Jewish ships plying the Atlantic carried such names as the Mazel Tov or Bekeerde Jood (converted Jew), according to Dr. Wim Klooster, a Dutch historian.[19] Ed Kritzler's best-seller Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, recounts the tales of Jewish pioneers like the pirate Moses Cohen Henriques, who was the scourge of the Spanish treasure fleet, and his brother Abraham.

By the mid-seventeenth century, the largest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere were located in Suriname and Brazil. By the early eighteenth century, half the European population of Suriname, then a territory of the Netherlands, was Jewish.[20] Dr. Anita Novinsky, a professor of history at the University of San Paulo, estimated that in the region around Rio de Janeiro and the state of Bahia, Marranos constituted 20 percent of the European population by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. That number rose to 50 percent in the Paraiba region near Recife, the heart of the lucrative sugar trade.[21]

Archaeologist Hugo Ludeña raised the possibility that the conquistador Francisco Pizarro was actually of Marrano origin, from a peculiar Hebrew symbol found in the ossuary of Pizarro. For almost a century, the mummified remains of Pizarro were on display in a glass casket in the Cathedral of Lima, Peru. However, in the 1970s, an ossuary was found which the scientific community determined to contain the bones of Pizarro. Ludeña determined that the engraved on the lid of the ossuary, which featured three crossed ellipses locked in a circle, was a Jewish symbol, following the funeral rites of the family.[22]


PROTESTANT REFORMATION


At first, Martin Luther’s challenge to Roman Catholicism was welcomed by Jews who had been victimized by the Inquisition, and who hoped that breaking the power of the Church would lead to greater tolerance of other forms of worship. There were even some, like Abraham Farissol, who regarded Luther as a Crypto-Jew, a reformer bent on upholding religious truth and justice, and whose iconoclastic reforms were directed toward a return to Judaism.[23] Some scholars, particularly of the Sephardi diaspora, such as Joseph ha-Kohen (1496-c. 1575), were strongly pro-Reformation.[24]

Luther himself, related Louis I. Newman, was interested for a time in the Kabbalah, perhaps under the influence of works of Johann Reuchlin, the great-uncle of Luther’s collaborator and primary founder of Lutheranism after Luther himself, Philipp Melanchthon. Melanchthon wrote in 1520, “I would rather die than be separated from Luther,” whom he afterward compared to Elijah, and called “the man full of the Holy Ghost.” Melanchthon exclaimed at Luther’s death, “Dead is the horseman and chariot of Israel who ruled the church in this last age of the world!”[25]

Melanchthon was like a son to Reuchlin until the Reformation estranged them. In 1490 he was again in Italy. During his second visit to Rome in 1490, Reuchlin became acquainted with Pico di Mirandola at Florence, and, learning from him about the Kabbalah, he became interested in Hebrew.[26] Following Pico, he believed to have found in the Kabbalah a theosophy which might be employed in the defense of Christianity and the reconciliation of science with the mysteries of faith. Reuchlin’s Kabbalistic ideas were expounded in the De Verbo Mirifico, and finally in the De Arte Cabbalistica, in which he shared with Pope Leo X, the Medici pope who had been tutored by Pico, how he had met with Pico and his circle of philosophers who were reviving the ancient wisdom.

Heinrich Graetz and Francis Yates contended that this affair helped spark the Protestant Reformation.[27] Luther himself supported Reuchlin in a controversy known as “The Battle of the Books,” which became a debate which involved the leading thinkers and rulers of Europe. Many of Reuchlin’s contemporaries thought that the first step to the conversion of the Jews was to take away their books. This view was advocated by Johannes Pfefferkorn, a Jewish convert to Catholicism and a follower of the Dominicans, who preached against the Jews and attempted to destroy copies of the Talmud, and engaged in a pamphleteering battle with Reuchlin.

The Pfefferkorn controversy caused a wide rift in the church and eventually the case came before the papal court in Rome. When, in 1517, Reuchlin received the theses propounded by Luther, he exclaimed, “Thanks be to God, at last they have found a man who will give them so much to do that they will be compelled to let my old age end in peace.”[28] “It was thus a Jewish issue,” explains Louis I. Newman, “which helped ignite the fires of the Reformation; a conflict over a Jewish question created the milieu in which Luther's movement emerged and developed, just as the Judaizing heresies of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were in part stimulated by the debate over the Talmud.”[29]

The several Jewish converts to Lutheranism whom Luther knew influenced him in many directions. These included Matthew Adrian, a Spanish Jew, the teacher of Conrad Pellican, the grammarian, of Fabritius Capito, a friend of Erasmus. Luther sought the advice of Jewish students and Rabbis on numerous occasions. Jews paid visits at his home to discuss with him difficult passages of the Bible, especially for the revision of his translation. On one occasion, three Jews, Shmaryah, Shlomoh and Leo visited him in Wittenberg, and expressed their joy that Christians were now busying themselves with Jewish literature and mentioned the hope among many Jews that the Christians would enter Judaism en masse as a result of the Reformation.

The role of Jewish converts in the spread of the doctrines behind the Reformation has been pointed out on several occasions. During the Middle Ages, Jewish converts who attacked their former faith included Nicholas Donin, Paul Christian, Abner-Alphonso of Burgos (c. 1270 – c. 1347), John of Valladolid (b. 1335), Paul of Burgos (c. 1351 – 1435) and Geronimo de Santa Fe (fl. 1400–1430). Impelled by his hatred of Talmudic Judaism, Paul of Burgos, an erudite scholar of Talmudic and rabbinical literature, composed the Dialogus Pauli et Sauli Contra Judæos, sive Scrutinium Scripturarum, which as a source for Luther’s On the Jews and their Lies. Victor von Carben, was involved in the Pfefferkorn controversy, Emmanuel Tremellius, who published a Latin version of the Hebrew Bible, Jochanan Isaac, the author of two Hebrew grammars, and his son Stephen, all became Protestants and wrote polemics against Catholicism.

About 1524, Jews coming from Europe described with joy to the Kabbalist Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi in Jerusalem the anti-clerical tendencies of the Protestant reformers. On the basis of this report, the Kabbalists regarded Luther as a kind of crypto-Jew who would educate Christians away from the bad elements of their faith.[30] Abraham ben Eliezer related that a great astrologer in Spain, named R. Joseph, wrote in a forecast on the significance of the sun's eclipse in the year 1478, as prophesying a man who would reform religion and rebuild Jerusalem. Abraham b. Eliezer adds that "at first glance we believed that the man foreshadowed by the stars was Messiah b. Joseph [Messiah]. But now it is evident that he is none other than the man mentioned [by all; i.e., Luther], who is exceedingly noble in all his undertakings and all these forecasts are realized in his person.”[31]


OCCULT COURT OF ELIZABETH I


In England, the most significant consequence of the Protestant Reformation had been the establishment of the independent church by King Henry the VIII, followed in due course by the establishment of the Church of England under Queen Elizabeth I. There is little evidence for the existence of Marranos in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. However, as elsewhere, their surreptitious presence felt through the influence of the Christian Kabbalah.

Queen Elizabeth I’s court was steeped in esoteric thought. Edmund Spenser’s magical poem The Faerie Queene and his Neoplatonic hymns in Elizabeth’s honor, published in the 1590’s, were a direct challenge to the Counter-Reformation and their attitude to heretical nature of Renaissance philosophy. The poem, inspired by the Order of the Garter, follows several knights, like the Redcrosse Knight, the hero of Book One who bears the emblem of Saint George. Additionally, Christopher Marlowe wrote Doctor Faustus, a play developed from the Faust legend, in which a sorcerer sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.

Like Spenser’s Faerie Queene, the British accepted the prophecy of Merlin, which proclaimed that the Saxons would rule over the Britons until King Arthur again restored them to their rightful place as rulers. The prophecy was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100 – 1155), a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. He is best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, which relates the purported history of Britain from its first settlement by Brutus, a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas. The prophecy was adopted by the British people and eventually used by the Tudors who claimed to be descendants of Arthur and rightful rulers of Britain.[32]

North America attracted particular attention in England, as the idea grew that a north-west passage to the East could be discovered. John Bale, writing in the 1540s, had identified the Protestant Church of England as an actor in the historical struggle with the “false church” of Catholicism, supported by his interpretations of the Book of Revelation. The views of John Foxe, author of what is popularly known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, became widely accepted within the Church of England for a generation and more. According to Foxe, a war against the Antichrist was being waged by the English people, but led by the Christian Emperor (echoing Constantine I) who was identified with Elizabeth I. Foxe, referring to it as “this my-country church of England,” characterized England’s destiny as the elect nation” of God.[33]

The imperial ambitions of Elizabeth’s reign were also coupled with the esotericism represented by John Dee and others. John Dee (1527 – 1608 or 1609) was royal astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, who believed that he found the secret of conjuring angels by numerical configurations in the tradition of the Kabbalah. It is John Dee who has been credited with the coining of the term “British Empire.” Believing himself to be of ancient British royal descent as well, Dee identified completely with the British imperial myth around Elizabeth I.[34] According to Donald Tyson, “It was Dee’s plan to use the complex system of magic communicated by the angels to advance the expansionist policies of his sovereign, Elizabeth the First.”[35] In his 1576 General and rare memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, Dee advocated a policy of political and economic strengthening of England and imperial expansion through colonization and maritime supremacy into the New World.

Dee laid the foundations for British imperialism by claiming that conquests by King Arthur had given Elizabeth I title to foreign lands such as Greenland, Iceland, Friesland, the northern islands towards Russia and the North Pole. Dee claimed that the New World was appointed by Providence for the British to influence and rule. He further asserted that Brutus of Britain and King Arthur as well as Madog had conquered lands in the Americas and therefore their heir Elizabeth I of England had a priority claim there.[36]

One of Dee’s staunchest supporters at court was Sir Christopher Hatton who was the main backer for Sir Francis Drake’s world voyage. Drake’s exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English, but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draco, “the Dragon.” Drake also carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580. Drake was Vice-Admiral of the English fleet in 1588 against the Spanish Armada, whose defeat was supposedly caused through Dee’s sorcery. When Elizabeth had consulted Dee on how to best counter the advancing Spanish ships, he advised her and Drake to refrain from pursuit because the Spanish fleet would be broken up by storm. When a storm did destroy the Armada and aided the English victory many courtiers were convinced that Dee had conjured it.

Thus, Dee became the model for the character of the sorcerer Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But it was also believed Drake was a wizard and sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for success over the Spanish. It is claimed that he also organized several covens of witches to work magically to raise the storm and prevent the invasion.[37]

Dee was a close friend of the spy and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618). Instrumental in the English colonization of North America, Raleigh was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, which paved the way for future English settlements. Raleigh as well was interested in magic. In his History of the World, Raleigh explains that for the most part the reputation of magic was unfairly maligned, and that in former times magicians were known as wisemen: the Persians as Magi, the Babylonians as Chaldeans, Greeks as philosophers, and Jews as Kabbalists, “who better understood the power of nature, and how to apply things that work to things that suffer.”[38]

Raleigh’s half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 1583) tried to establish a permanent colony in North America and Newfoundland, without much success. Gilbert then took a more southerly route across the Atlantic. In 1584, he sent out an exploratory expedition which located Roanoke Island, now in North Carolina, and returned to England that autumn. The following year he sent out a military expedition under Sir Richard Grenville, which built a fort there and remained until spring 1586.


THE ROSICRUCIANS


According to Frances Yates, the Rosicrucian movement was the result of the visit of John Dee to Prague in Bohemia, then part of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the Catholic Habsburgs. Through conversations with angels, Dee believed himself to be invested with special responsibilities of communication he shared with the great biblical prophets Elijah, Enoch, and St. John, the author of the Book of Revelation.[39] The angels also promised that Dee would serve to restore religious unity through reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. According to Peter French, Dee believed in a “Hermetic religion of love” that would heal the divisions between Protestants and Catholics.[40]

But Dee also believed that the prophecies were “to be published ... all the World over.”[41] The angels told Dee that he would help lead the establishment of a new, angelically-revealed universal religion that would also include the Jews and Muslims.[42] The conversion of the Jews was crucial to the apocalyptic expectations of Dee’s time. According to Deborah Harkness, “Many of Dee’s remarks about conversion in the angel conversations concerned them and combined a paradoxical though fairly common early modern blend of anti-Semitism with an intense interest in secret, mystical Hebrew knowledge.”[43]

To gain support for his political ambitions, Dee continued to search for a sponsor though neither Elizabeth nor Philip II of Spain expressed any interest in his plans. In 1583, when Dee was in Prague he tried to interest the mystically-inclined Rudolph II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, in his imperialist agenda and angelic communications. The angels commanded Dee to tell the emperor he was possessed by demons, and command him to heed the angelic message. “If you will hear me, and believe me, you shall Triumph,” Dee told Rudolf, but “If you will not hear me, The Lord, the God that made Heaven and Hell… will throw you headlong down from your seat.”[44] The objective of Dee’s mission was referred to by a contemporary observer:

A learned and renowned Englishman whose name was Doctor Dee came to Prague to see the Emperor Rudolf II and was at first well received by him; he predicted that a miraculous reformation would presently come about in the Christian world and would prove the ruin not only of the city of Constantinople but of Rome also. These predictions he did not cease to spread among the populace.[45]

However, Rudolf nevertheless rejected Dee’s invitation as well. Dee’s fortunes back in England were not much better. Elizabeth did not marry, and as she had no direct heir she was therefore succeeded by King James IV of Scotland, who became King James I of England. James did not share Elizabeth’s sympathies for Dee, and when he appealed to the king for help in clearing his reputation from charges of conjuring devils, the King ignored him. Dee finally died disgraced and in abject poverty in 1608. Nevertheless, Dee’s influence in Bohemia resulted in a subversive movement for universal religious reform which rallied the Protestant cause against the Habsburg rulers.

In 1618 the largely Protestant estates of Bohemia rebelled against their Catholic King Ferdinand, triggering the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Expecting that King James would come to their aid, in 1619, the Rosicrucians granted the throne of Bohemia to Frederick in direct opposition to the Catholic Habsburg rulers. The Rosicrucians had announced themselves to the world with the publication of the notorious Rosicrucian Manifestos. The first of these, purportedly written by Johann Valentin Andreae (1586 – 1654), was the Fama Frateritatis, an allegorical history of the Rosicrucians, which appeared in 1614, and followed by a second tract a year later. The Fama was part of a larger Protestant treatise titled, The Universal and General Reformation of the Whole Wide World; together with the Fama Fraternatis of the Laudable Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, Written to All the Learned and the Rulers of Europe.

The Manifestos appeared around the same time that the German prince Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine, began to be seen as the ideal incumbent to take the place of leader of the Protestant resistance against the Catholic Hapsburgs. While Frederick had powerful connections with French Protestants, most importantly, in 1613, he had married Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James of England. The marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth represented an important dynastic alliance, in order to bolster the Protestant movement. The perceived importance of their marriage was enshrined in occult and alchemical symbolism in a Rosicrucian tract called The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.

Frederick accepted the offer and was crowned on 4 November of that year. However, James opposed the takeover of Bohemia from the Habsburgs, and Frederick’s allies in the Protestant Union failed to support him militarily by signing the Treaty of Ulm in 1620. Frederick’s brief reign as King of Bohemia ended with his defeat at the Battle of White Mountain in the same year. Imperial forces invaded the Palatinate and Frederick had to flee to Holland in 1622, where he lived the rest of his life in exile with Elizabeth and their children, mostly at The Hague, and died in Mainz in 1632. For his short reign of a single winter, Frederick is often nicknamed the “Winter King.”

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE

After fleeing to England, the Rosicrucians were responsible for fanning the Kabbalistic millenarian expectations among the English Puritans about the approach of the Messianic time that became popular in the seventeenth century. A close friend of Oliver Cromwell, Dury was among a number of Puritans who held millenarians expectations, framed by a belief in the imminent conversion of the Jews. As noted by Richard Popkin, the leading scholar of millenarianism, “Since the 1640s in various Jewish and Christian circles, a deep hope had sprung up that great events would occur in the near future. It was believed that the final redemption was at hand. The hope for tikkun, restoration, was widespread.”[46] Ultimately, explains Popkin:

[The millenarians] took seriously the injunction in Daniel that, as the end approaches, knowledge and understanding will increase, the wise will understand, while the wicked will not. They also took seriously the need to prepare, through reform, for the glorious days ahead. Their efforts to gain and encourage scientific knowledge, to build a new educational system, to transform political society, were all part of their Millenarian reason of events. They needed to understand, to construct a new theory of knowledge, a new metaphysics, for the new situation, the Thousand Year reign of Christ on earth, which was to be followed by a new heaven and a new earth. Efforts to accomplish this great end are part of the making of the modern world and of the making of the modern mind.[47]

As Christopher Hill has indicated, in Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800, calculations of the precise date of the end of the world based on the Book of Daniel and Revelation occupied some of the best mathematicians, from Napier in the late sixteenth century, to Sir Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth. Consensus agreed that 1260 years should be added to the date the Antichrist established his power, which Protestants took to be the Pope. Various calculations therefore settled on the years 1650-1656 for his destruction, the gathering of the Gentiles, the conversion of the Jews and their return to Palestine. Other estimates offered the year 1666.[48]

Paul Nagel, the close friend of Jacob Boehme’s mentor Baltazar Walther, had been making similar predictions. According to Nagel, “for [the book of] Revelation is our true astronomy, and our astronomy is the true Revelation.”[49] After a brilliant comet had burned in the night skies above Europe in November and December of 1618, Nagel issued the Stellae Prodigiosae, in which he outlined a complex astrological-prophetic system. Based on biblical astronomical evidence, Nagel argued that this confluence of ideas demonstrated that the millennium, a time of future felicity for the church, led in spirit by Christ himself, would dawn in 1624. Following would be the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the trigon of Leo, Aries and Sagittarius in 1623. This “millennium” would endure just 42 years, until the Last Judgment in 1666.[50]

This belief was so prevalent that Manasseh ben Israel, in his letter to Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament, appealed to it as a reason to readmit Jews into England, saying, “[T]he opinions of many Christians and mine do concur herein, that we both believe that the restoring time of our Nation into their native country is very near at hand.”[51]

A desire to better comprehend prophesies of the end times resulted in widespread interest in Jewish ideas on the subject. Most sought after was the knowledge of Menasseh Ben Israel, the son of a Marrano of Lisbon, who had suffered at the hands of the Inquisition, and had taken refuge in Amsterdam. Menasseh’s alliance with a scion of the Abarbanel family, in whose tradition of Davidic descent he was a firm believer, inspired him with the idea that he was destined to promote the coming of the Messiah. Menasseh’s marriage to his wife Rachel, a granddaughter of the Abarbanel, inspired him with the idea that he was destined to promote the coming of the Messiah. According to family legend, Menasseh's wife was a descendant of King David, and he was proud of his children's Davidic ancestry.[52]

Manasseh entered into correspondence with several of the more mystically-minded of the Puritans in England who had become interested in the question of Jewish immigration. Together with millenarians John Dury, Comenius and Samuel Hartlib, they formed the nucleus of a network called the Hartlib Circle, which was modeled on the lines of the “Invisible College” advocated in Rosicrucian writings, the precursor of the Royal Society. Hartlib had come to England in 1628, after the Catholic conquest of Elbing in Polish Prussia, as part of the disruptions of the Thirty Years War. When he arrived in England, he collected around him refugees from Poland, Bohemia and the Palatinate. Elizabeth Stuart, widow of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, was the chief patron of Hartlib, John Dury and John Comenius. Hartlib reported that Descartes, who has long been suspected of Rosicrucian sympathies, spent some time during the winter of 1634/35 at the house of Elizabeth Stuart. Descartes would develop a close relationship with her daughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia.[53]

Comenius was a Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren, heirs of the Hussite movement, a pre-Protestant movement that followed the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus, who became the best known representative of the Bohemian Reformation of the early fifteenth century. Not only was Huss stigmatized as a “Judaizer,” but when he was about to be burned at the stake for heresy in 1415, he was denounced with the words: “Oh thou accursed Judas, who breaking away from the counsels of peace, hast consulted with the Jews.”[54] Within fifty years of Huss’ death, a contingent of his followers, who had become independently organised as the “Bohemian Brethren,” received episcopal ordination through the Waldensians in 1467.[55] A note in the Book of Acts of the Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, January 10, 1419, mentions a conspiracy between the Hussites, Waldensians and Jews.[56]

The plan for Andreae’s Societas Christiana was already set forth in two works that were believed to have been lost until they were discovered recently among the Hartlib papers. Comenius named Andreae as one of those who inspired him towards the reform of education. Considered the father of modern education, Comenius was one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna.[57] Andreae recognized Comenius as his heir and encouraged him to carry on his reforming Rosicrucian ideas.

Among the extensive network of the Hartlib Circle was John Milton, author of Paradise Lost. Lucifer’s statement in Milton’s Paradise Lost, “Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav’n,” became an inspiration for those who embraced the rebellion against God. According to Matthew in Modern Satanism, “Shorn of all theistic implications, modern Satanism’s use of Satan is firmly in the tradition that John Milton inadvertently engendered—a representation of the noble rebel, the principled challenger of illegitimate power.”[58]


RESETTLEMENT OF JEWS IN ENGLAND


In 1954, Menasseh Ben Israel met in Belgium with millenarian Isaac La Peyrère and Queen Christina of Sweden, an avid student of the occult. La Peyrère (1596–1676) was a Kabbalistic messianist born into a Huguenot family in Bordeaux, and possibly of Marrano Jewish descent. After reading La Peyrère’s Du Rappel des Juifs (1643), Menasseh rushed back to Amsterdam where he excitedly told a gathering of millenarians at the home of John Dury’s schoolmate and friend, Peter Serrarius, that the coming of the Jewish Messiah was imminent. La Peyrère, who is sometimes regarded as the father of Zionism, argued that the Jews were about to be recalled, that the Messiah was coming for them, that they should join the Christians, and with the king of France rebuild Zion.[59]

La Peyrère also served as secretary to the Prince of Condé. It has since emerged that, in fact: “Condé, Cromwell and Christina were negotiating to create a theological-political world state, involving overthrowing the Catholic king of France, among other things.”[60] La Peyrère also argued that the Messiah would join with the king of France, meaning the Prince of Condé, not Louis XIV, to liberate the Holy Land, rebuild the Temple and set up a world government of the Messiah with the king of France acting as regent. Then the Jews will rule the world from Jerusalem.

John Dury introduced Manasseh to the views of Antonio de Montesinos, who came to Amsterdam to inform the Jews, testifying under oath before Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel of his discovery of a remnant of the Lost Ten Tribes in South America.[61] Simultaneously other reports about the appearance of the Ten Tribes reached Jews and Christians, all this creating an atmosphere of excitement. According to Daniel 12:7, claimed Menasseh, this general dispersion was a necessary precondition for the final deliverance of the Jews. Manasseh therefore wrote a treatise on the Lost Tribes, Esperança de Israel (“Hope of Israel”), in support of the readmission of the Jews into England, and which proved, in his own words, “that the day of the promised Messiah unto us doth draw near.”[62] The tract was immediately successful, being very influential not only during the readmission campaign, but also a decade later when rumors circulated about the return of the Ten Tribes.[63]

Menasseh believed that the Messianic age needed as its precondition the settlement of Jews in all parts of the known world. Fired by this idea, he turned his attention to England where the Jews had been expelled since 1290. Lord Alfred Douglas, who edited Plain English, in an article of September 3, 1921, explained how records of the Synagogue of Muljeim revealed a plot between Menasseh and Oliver Cromwell which culminated in the execution of King Charles—the brother of Elizabeth Stuart—in 1649.[64] Parliament established an interim period of Commonwealth. In 1653, Cromwell terminated both his Parliament and the Commonwealth and, appointed himself Lord Protector.

The Cromwellian government was commonly regarded as a Rosicrucian circle. Samuel Butler (1612 – 1680), in his satire of the Restoration, Characters, tells of “the Brethren of the Rosy-Cross” as having attempted a misguided reformation of “their government.” A character in Butler’s other work Hudibras explains: “The Fraternity of the Rosy-Crucians is very like the Sect of the antient Gnostici who called themselves so, from the excellent Learning they pretend to, although they were really the most ridiculous Sots of all Mankind.”[65] According to Paul Benbridge, Cromwellians also referred to themselves as Rosicrucians, such as Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678), a metaphysical poet and friend of Milton who sat in the House of Commons.[66]

Menasseh came to England in September 1655 with three other local rabbis, where they were lodged as guests of Cromwell. Cromwell summoned the most notable statesmen, lawyers, and theologians of the day to the Whitehall Conference in December. The chief result was the declaration that "there was no law which forbade the Jews' return to England." Though nothing was done to regularize the position of the Jews, the door was opened to their gradual return.

Cromwell was also closely acquainted with the Marrano merchants settled in London, who formed there a secret congregation, at the head of which was Antonio Fernandez Carvajal. When their group at Rouen had been denounced to the authorities as secret Jews many of them eventually fled to London. All were living nominally as Catholics, attending mass regularly in the Chapel of the French or Savoy Ambassador. They conducted extensive business with the Levant, East and West Indies, Canary Islands, and Brazil, but particularly with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. By forming an important link in the network of trade spread throughout the Spanish and Portuguese territories by the Marranos, their position enabled them to provide Cromwell important information as to the plans both of Charles Stuart in Holland and of the Spanish in the New World.

Cromwell had been moved to sympathy with the Jewish cause chiefly because he foresaw the importance for English commerce of the presence of the Jewish merchant princes, some of whom had already found their way to London. As Richard Christopher Hill explained:


The Jews’ potential usefulness to the development of a forward colonial and commercial foreign policy was an additional reason for English interest in them. As early as 1643 Jews in the Netherlands were said to be financing Parliament. Their command of bullion was enormous; they controlled the Spanish and Portuguese trades; the Levant trade was largely in their hands; they were interested in developing commerce with the East and West Indies. To governments they were useful as contractors and as spies. If the ambitious scheme for Anglo-Dutch union put forward by the Commonwealth in 1661 had come off, then the Jews in the Netherlands would have been taken together with the Dutch colonial empire and its trade. When the Dutch refused to be incorporated into the British Empire, Dutch merchants were to totally excluded from all British possessions by the Navigation Act of 1651. This development made many Jews in the Netherlands—especially those trading with the West Indies—anxious to transfer to London: and it redoubled the interest of the English government in attracting them there. The policy paid off: Jewish intelligence helped the preparations for Cromwell's Western Design of 1655.[67]

The Western Design was a part of the Anglo-Spanish War, a conflict between the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and Spain, between 1654 and 1660. It involved an attack on the Spanish West Indies that was intended to secure a base of operations in the Caribbean from which to threaten trade and treasure routes in the Spanish Main, thus weakening Catholic influence in the New World. In 1655, Cromwell sent an expedition led by Sir William Penn, and General Robert Venables, who invaded Spanish territory in the West Indies with the objective of capturing Hispaniola. However, the assault failed because the Spanish had improved their defenses in the face of Dutch attacks earlier in the century. Despite various subsequent successes, such as an established presence in Jamaica, Cromwell saw the operation as a general failure, and Venables and Penn were imprisoned therefore in the Tower of London on their arrival on England.

SABBATAI ZEVI


When Cromwell died in 1658, his despotic legacy fell to his son Richard who did not possess his father’s ruthlessness, with the result that it was not long before Charles II the late king’s son was invited back to rule as King of England in 1660. In that same year, the Royal Society was established and Charles II became its patron. It consisted of a number of natural philosophers around Robert Boyle and the Hartlib Circle. Theodore Haak, who was Comenius’ agent in England and also a refugee of the Palatinate,[68] is credited with having started the meetings which led to its foundation. Another founding member was John Dury’s son-in-law Henry Oldenburg, who met with Menasseh on his visit to London.

As Christopher Hill has indicated, in Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800, calculations of the precise date of the end of the world based on the Book of Daniel and Revelation occupied some of the best mathematicians, from Napier in the late sixteenth century, to Sir Isaac Newton, a member of the Royal Society, at the end of the seventeenth. Newton was committed to interpretations of the “Restoration” of the Jews to their own land of Palestine and spent the remaining years of his intellectual life exploring the Book of Daniel. Consensus agreed that 1260 years should be added to the date the Antichrist established his power, which Protestants took to be the Pope. Various calculations therefore settled on the years 1650-1656 for his destruction, the gathering of the Gentiles, the conversion of the Jews and their return to Palestine. Other estimates offered the year 1666, the same year that Sabbatai Zevi announced himself as the Jewish messiah, duping an estimate half of the world’s Jewish population.[69]

As Jacob Barnai has shown, among the more avid readers of Menasseh ben Israel’s Hope of Israel were none other than Sabbatai Zevi and his followers.[70] The Jewish community of Amsterdam had been kept informed of the progress of Sabbatai’s mission through Peter Serrarius, at whose home Menasseh ben Israel first shared his conviction in the immanent advent of the messiah. As soon as news reached Amsterdam about Sabbatai Zevi, Serrarius was publishing pamphlets in English and Dutch telling everyone about the signs of the messianic era and that the King of the Jews had arrived.[71]

Almost the entire Jewish community of Amsterdam had become followers of Sabbatai Zevi, having been kept informed of the progress of Sabbatai’s mission through a friend of John Dury, Peter Serrarius, at whose home Menasseh ben Israel first shared his conviction in the imminent advent of the messiah. In 1664, Serrarius rushed into a synagogue after the appearance of a comet and he birth of a two-headed cow, and he and the rabbis performed gematria and concluded that the Messiah would arrive in 1666.[72] As soon as news reached Amsterdam about Zevi, Serrarius was publishing pamphlets in English and Dutch telling everyone about the signs of the messianic era and that the King of the Jews had arrived.[73] Menasseh and La Peyrère’s co-conspirator, Queen Christina, became so fascinated with the claims of Sabbatai Zevi that she nearly became a disciple. She reportedly danced in the streets of Hamburg with Jewish friends in anticipation of the apocalyptic event.[74]

Among Serrarius’ intimate friends were John Dury and Comenius, both of whom he was able to convince of Zevi’s messiahship.[75] Dury, who had been working for twenty-five years for the conversion of the Jews as a precondition for the Second Coming, spent much time trying to figure out where Zevi fit in the expected Christian scenario about the “end of days.” He offered the interpretation that God was rewarding the Jews by having their messianic moment occur, and punishing Christians because they were not “pure” enough.[76]

Serrarius was also in contact with the alchemist Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, author of the Alphabetum Naturale Hebraicum (1667), and the Christian Kabbalist Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, famous for his Kabbala Denudata. Van Helmont had served on a diplomatic mission on behalf of Elisabeth of Bohemia, the daughter of Elizabeth Stuart and Frederich V of the Palatinate who was living in Herford, Germany, when he met with Henry More and Robert Boyle. Serrarius died in 1669 on his way to Turkey to meet with Zevi.

NEW ATLANTIS

According to Rosicrucian legend, the founding of America was based on Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, that tells the story of a country ruled by philosopher-scientists in their great college called Solomon’s House, which had provided inspiration for the Invisible College, and the Hartlib Circle, which became the Royal Society.[77] Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) was chancellor of England in the reign of King James, and supervised the translation of the King James Bible. Bacon was also suspected of being the true author of Shakespeare’s plays. Likewise, explains Dame Frances Yates, in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, “Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the occult, with ghosts, witches, fairies, is understood as deriving less from popular tradition than from deep-rooted affinity with the learned occult philosophy and its religious implications.”[78] fHe is considered the father of modern science, having emphasized the importance of experimentation in his landmark work, The Advancement of Learning.

However, recent scholarship has shown that he was committed to the Renaissance occult tradition, and his survey of science included a review of magic, astrology, and a reformed version of alchemy.[79] On 22 January 1621, in honor of his sixtieth birthday, a select group of men assembled in the large banquet hall at Bacon’s York House for what has been described as a Masonic banquet.[80] Only those of the Rosicrosse (Rosicrucians) and the Masons who were already aware of Bacon’s leadership role were invited.[81] On that day, a long-time friend of Bacon, the poet Ben Jonson, best known for his satirical plays, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, gave a Masonic ode to Bacon.

Long popular in occult circles, the Atlantis myth was first mentioned by Plato, referring to a lost continent that had existed in the Atlantic Ocean. Mediaeval European writers, who received the tale from Arab geographers, believed the mythical island to have actually existed, and later writers tried to identify it with an actual country. When America was discovered, the Spanish historian Francesco Lopez de Gomara, in his General History of the Indes, suggested that Plato’s Atlantis and the new continents were the same, a theory repeated by Bacon. To understand the Masonic perspective of this history, Manly P. Hall in The Secret Destiny of America explained:

Bacon quickly realized that here in the new world was the proper environment for the accomplishment of his great dream, the establishment of the philosophic empire. It must be remembered that Bacon did not play a lone hand; he was the head of a secret society including in its membership the most brilliant intellectuals of his day. All these men were bound together by a common oath to labor in the cause of a world democracy. Bacon’s society of the unknown philosophers included men of high rank and broad influence. Together with Bacon, they devised the colonization scheme.[82]

Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland in northeastern Canada. In New Atlantis, Bacon suggests that the continent of America was the former Atlantis where there existed an advanced race during the Golden Age of civilization. Bacon tells the story of a country ruled by philosopher-scientists in their great college called Solomon’s House. They described the purpose of their brotherhood: “The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.” Having gained superior knowledge imparted to them by heavenly beings, they possessed flying machines and ships with which they travel under the sea.

Following in the steps of John Dee, Bacon lent his group’s support behind the English plan to colonize America. An attempt to colonize the New World was made under the initial leadership in 1602 of Bartholomew Gosnold (1571 –1607), a cousin twice over of Francis Bacon and four times over of the 17th Earl of Oxford, whom Oxfordians believe was Shakespeare. Gosnold was an English lawyer, explorer, and privateer and a friend of Richard Hakluyt and sailed with Walter Raleigh. Gosnold was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and Jamestown in colonial America. Gosnold’s voyage was funded by the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare’s patron. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. He is considered by Preservation Virginia to be the “prime mover of the colonization of Virginia.” Following the coastline for several days, he discovered Martha’s Vineyard and named it after his daughter, Martha, and established a small post on Cuttyhunk Island, one of the Elizabeth Islands, near Gosnold, now in Massachusetts.

Bacon claimed that the New Kingdom on Earth which was Virginia exemplified the Kingdom of Heaven. Bacon’s involvement in American colonization is demonstrated by William Strachey, who in 1618 dedicated a manuscript copy of his Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britania to Bacon:

Your Lordship ever approving yourself a most noble fautor [favourer] of the Virginia plantation, being from the beginning (with other lords and earls) of the principal counsell applied to propagate and guide it.[83]

Bacon is listed in the 1609 charter as a shareholder of the Virginia Company of London and one of the 52 members of the Virginia Council. The Virginia Company refers collectively to a joint stock company chartered by James I in 1606, with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America. The two companies, called the “Virginia Company of London” (or the London Company) and the “Virginia Company of Plymouth” (or Plymouth Company) operated with identical charters but with differing territories. An area of overlapping territory was created within which the two companies were not permitted to establish colonies within one hundred miles of each other. The Plymouth Company never fulfilled its charter, and its territory that later became New England was at that time also claimed by England.

THE MAYFLOWER

The Plymouth Company was permitted to establish settlements roughly between the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay and the current US-Canada border. In 1607, the Plymouth Company established the Popham Colony along the Kennebec River in present day Maine. However, it was abandoned after about a year, and the Plymouth Company became inactive. With the religious Pilgrims who arrived aboard the iconic Mayflower, whose leaders were Rosicrucians, a successor company to the Plymouth Company eventually established a permanent settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 in what is now New England.

According to Nicholas Hagger in The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World, “Indeed, so close were Puritanism and Rosicrucianism in essence that it can be said that the Puritan philosophy was actually Rosicrucian.”[84]

The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who sought to “purify” the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had only been partially reformed. However, when James I took the throne in 1603, he declared he would put an end to church reform movements, and deal harshly with radical critics of the Church of England. A group dissatisfied with the efforts of the Puritans, decided they would sever all ties, and became known as Separatists led by John Robinson and William Brewster. However, in 1608, shortly after James I declared the Separatist Church illegal, the congregation emigrated Leiden where they were joined by Rosicrucian circles. It was here that Brewster set up a new printing company in order to publish leaflets promoting the Separatist aims and pamphlets supporting the Rosicrucian cause.[85]

Puritanism, especially Dutch Puritanism, was strongly linked to Rosicrucianism. For example, John Wilkins, Frederick V’s chaplain, was closely linked to Rosicrucianism in the Palatinate and tutored Frederick and Elizabeth’s son when he was sent to England. Wilkins co-founded the Royal Society when the Invisible College met in his rooms at Wadham College, Oxford, from 1648 to 1659, and he had a deep connection with Puritanism.[86]

In November 1620, following the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, which erupted after the Habsburgs set out to crush the Rosicrucian movement, Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart fled into exile in The Hague in the Netherlands, and numerous Rosicrucianism migrated with them. The reason Frederick and Elizabeth sought refuge in the Netherlands was not only because of the liberal principles adopted by the republic, but also because of the hospitality offered by Maurice, the prince of Orange. Maurice had been educated at Heidelberg University in the Palatinate, where he had met Simon Studion and other founding members of the Rosicrucian movement. It was Maurice, in fact, who had offered the English Separatists a safe haven in Leiden in 1608. After their flight from Bohemia in 1619, Maurice granted Elizabeth and Frederick asylum in Holland. He let them use his home in The Hague and gave them another residence in Leiden.[87]

It was to Brewster’s home in Leiden in 1615 that fled Pierre Du Gua de Monts (c. 1558 – 1628), a French merchant, explorer and colonizer with Rosicrucian connections.[88] Du Gua, a Calvinist founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He travelled to northeastern North America for the first time in 1599 with Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit. He sent Samuel de Champlain to open a colony at Quebec in 1608, thus playing a major role in the foundation of the first permanent French colony in North America.

Du Gua was also a member of the School of Night, a modern name for a group of men centered on Sir Walter Raleigh that was once referred to in 1592 as the “School of Atheism.” The group supposedly included poets and scientists Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman and Thomas Harriot. Marlowe was the author of Doctor Faustus, which is the most controversial Elizabethan play outside of Shakespeare. It is based on the German story of Faust, a highly successful scholar who is dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, and exchange his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. There is no firm evidence that all of these men were known to each other, but speculation about their connections features prominently in some writing about the Elizabethan era.

When the Fama Fraternitatis publicly announced the existence of the Rosicrucian fraternity in 1610, the document was circulated in Paris, and one of the first to publicly respond to it was Du Gua.[89] In 1615 the Queen Mother discovered Du Gua’s authorship of anti-government pamphlets and ordered his arrest. With a price on his head, Du Gua fled to the Netherlands where he stayed with Brewster. Brewster had been a student of Greek and Latin at Cambridge University in the mid-1580s, at the same time as William Shakespeare’s colleague Christopher Marlowe, through whom he had met Walter Raleigh and began to attend the meetings of the School of Night, and subsequently struck up a close friendship with Du Gua. The last known Rosicrucian document, published in Latin by Brewster in Leiden in 1615, was called the Confessio Fraternitatis, or “Confession of the Fraternity,” and was written under a pseudonym, Philip A Gabella (Philip the Cabalist), while some scholars have proposed that its true author was Pierre Du Gua.[90]

Other Rosicrucians also congregated in Leiden at precisely the same time, in February 1620, just prior to the Mayflower’s voyage, suggesting that they beyond England, they were also looking for refuge in the New World following their escape from the Palatinate. Johann Valentin Andreae, the author of the Fama Fraternitatis, was already there, having left Germany when war broke out. Fulke Greville, whose London house was used for the early meetings of the School of Night and who had been present at Elizabeth’s “Alchemical Wedding,” was there. Francis Bacon was visiting Maurice of Orange in his official position as English lord chancellor to discuss the legality of a trade treaty with the Netherlands. The playwright Ben Jonson was present in Leiden, performing a play at a new theater. And the architect Inigo Jones, although not staying in Leiden itself, was in nearby Amsterdam working on plans for a church he had been commissioned to build in the city.

At the very time, the English Separatists in the city decided the only hope for religious freedom lay in North America. In 1620, a large part of the Separatist congregation sailed for the New World aboard a ship named the Mayflower, with 102 passengers, Brewster, and all the Pilgrim Fathers, the name later given to the original nine elders of the church. On November 9, 1620, they sighted land, which was present-day Cape Cod.

NEW ENGLAND

According to American Rosicrucian legend, the order was brought to America in 1694 under the leadership of Grand Master Johannes Kelpius. Born in Transylvania, Kelpius was a follower of Johann Jacob Zimmerman, an avid disciple of Jacob Böhme, who was also “intimately acquainted” with Rotterdam merchant Benjamin Furly.[91] Furly was the leader of the Lantern, a circle around Benjamin Furly, which included alchemists van Helmont, Lady Conway, Henry More and John Locke. Furly and van Helmont were also connected with a group of students of Jacob Boehme which included Serrarius and who also knew and associated with Baruch Spinoza.

Zimmerman was referred to by German authorities as “most learned astrologer, magician and cabbalist.”[92] With his followers in the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness, Kelpius came to believe that the end of the world would occur in 1694. This belief, based on an elaborate interpretation of a passage from the Book of Revelation, anticipated the advent of a heavenly kingdom somewhere in the wilderness during that year. Answering Sir William Penn’s call to establish a godly country in his newly acquired American lands, Kelpius felt that Pennsylvania, given its reputation for religious toleration at the edge of a barely settled wilderness, was the best place to be.

Pennsylvania was founded by the son of Sir William Penn, William Penn. Penn became close friends with Elisabeth Stuart, celebrating her in the second edition of his book No Cross, No Crown. Penn, a friend of John Dury, was also a member of the Lantern, a circle around Rotterdam merchant Benjamin Furly, which included alchemists van Helmont, Lady Conway, Henry More and John Locke. Furly and van Helmont were also connected with a group of students of Jacob Boehme which included Serrarius and who also knew and associated with Baruch Spinoza. Furly, like Penn, was a Quaker and a close supporter of George Fox, the founder of the movement, which provided the guiding principles of the new state of Pennsylvania.

At some time, Penn came into contact with German Rosicrucian Jacob Boehme’s teachings and the Rosicrucians who introduced him into the deeper mystical and metaphysical studies. In New World Mystics, Dr. Palo writes:

Penn had a more than passing interest in mysticism and the Rosae Crucis. He referred to Jacob Boehme as his master in the art and law of divine wisdom.[93]

Palo includes a footnote indicating that William Penn visited Pietist conventicles in Europe. They were initiatic collegiums for Rosicrucians:

…he visited Pietist conventicles which were held in an air of great secrecy and danger of exposure. He invited the Rosae Crucis to settle on his land [in America]… These Pietists or Rosicrucians were thought unorthodox and hence undesirable in the eye of the politico-religious powers of Europe. They were accused of mixing Christian tenets with the practices of Ancient Egypt and some of the doctrines of Zoroaster.”

As further explained by Palo, after Penn’s first trip to America in 1681, on several trips he made back to Europe, he had come into contact with individuals in England, Holland and Germany, who were playing an important role in executing a plan to establish a Rosicrucian colony in America by 1694. Notable among them were William Markham of The Philadelphic Society in London, who would serve later as Penn’s Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, and Jacob Isaac Van Bebber, a German Rosicrucian, who later purchased a thousand acres of land from Penn for the purpose of establishing a colony in America. [94]

In 1682, William Penn founded the city of Philadelphia, named after one of the “Seven Churches of Asia” mentioned in the Book of Revelation 3:10, as “the church steadfast in faith, that had kept God’s word and endured patiently.” Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation’s capitals during the Revolutionary War, and served as temporary US capital while Washington DC was under construction.

John Winthrop (1587 –1649) a wealthy English Puritan lawyer, also a member of the Hartlib Circle, as well as an alchemist and follower of John Dee, sailed across the Atlantic on the Arbella, leading to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[95] On 12 June 1630, the Arbella led the small fleet bearing the next 700 settlers into Salem harbor. Salem may have inspired the city of Bensalem in Bacon’s New Atlantis, which was published in 1627. The settlement of Salem by Rosicrucians would explain the existence of witchcraft in the city, which would have given cause to the famous witch trails of 1692. Frances Yates notes that Dee’s influence later spread to Puritanism in the New World through John Winthrop’s son, John Winthrop, Jr., an alchemist and a follower of Dee. Winthrop used Dee’s esoteric symbol, the Monas Hieroglyphica, as his personal mark.[96]

Winthrop’s arrival signaled the beginning of the Great Migration. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies, especially the sugar rich island of Barbados, 1630–40. From 1630 through 1640 approximately 20,000 colonists came to New England. They came in family groups (rather than as isolated individuals) and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion. Winthrop’s noted words, a “City upon a Hill,” refer to a vision of a new society, not just economic opportunity.

Rev. George Phillips, the founder of the Congregational Church in America, arrived on the Arbella in 1630 with Governor Winthrop. In 1781, Phillips’s great-grandson, banker Dr. John Phillips, established Exeter Academy, a prestigious American private prep school in New Hampshire, and is one of the oldest secondary schools in the US. The Economist described the school as belonging to “an elite tier of private schools” in Britain and America that counts Eton and Harrow in its ranks. Exeter has a long list of famous former students, including Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Gore Vidal, Stewart Brand, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, novelist John Irving, and Dan Brown the author of The Da Vinci Code and the Masonic-inspired The Lost Symbol.



Full list of Marrano “hand claw” examples archived here.


[1] Joachin Prinz, The Secret Jews (New York: Random House, 1973) p. 5.

[2] Al Imran 3: 72.

[3] Lucas Tudensis: De Altera vita jideigue controversiis adversus Albigensium errores; ed. Mariana, Ingolstadt, 1612, pp. 189-190; cited in Louis I. Newman. Jewish Influences on Christian Reform Movements, p. 140

[4] Ezer Kahanoff, “On Marranos and Sabbateans: A Reexamination of Charismatic Religiosity – Its Roots, Its Place and Its Significance in the Life of the Western Sephardi Diaspora.”

[5] C.P. Thompson. St. John of the Cross: Songs in the Night (London: SPCK, 2002), p. 27.

[6] John mentions Dionysius explicitly four times—S2.8.6; N2.5.3; CB14-15.16; Ll3-3.49. Luis Girón-Negrón, “Dionysian thought in sixteenth-century Spanish mystical theology,” Modern Theology, 24(4), (2008), p. 699.

[7] Lupieri Edmondo. “Friar of Ignatius of Jesus (Carlo Leonelli) and the First ‘Scholarly’ Book on Mandaeaism (1652).” ARAM Periodical, 2004, 16 (Mandaeans and Manichaeans): pp. 25–46.

[8] Anna Foa. “Teresa’s ‘marrano’ grandfather.” Osservatore Romano (March 2, 2015).

[9] The Menorah, Volumes 20-23, (Intercollegiate Menorah Association, 1932), p. 163; Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The Borgias: or, At the feet of Venus. (P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1930), p. 242, 313; Sarah Bradford. Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.

[10] Arsenic: A Murderous History. (Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program, 2009).

[11] Ezer Kahanoff, “On Marranos and Sabbateans: A Reexamination of Charismatic Religiosity – Its Roots, Its Place and Its Significance in the Life of the Western Sephardi Diaspora”

[12] Antonio Domingues Ortiz (Ediciones ISTMOS: Madrid) [http://www.amijewish.info/crypto-names2.html]

[13] The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews, (Leiden: Brill, 2009)

[14] Cecil Roth. History of the Marranos (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1932), p. 271.

[15] Charles Garcia. “Was Columbus secretly a Jew?” CNN (May 24, 2012).

[16] Charles Garcia. “Was Columbus secretly a Jew?” CNN (May 24, 2012).

[17] Charles Garcia. “Was Columbus secretly a Jew?” CNN (May 24, 2012).

[18] Pere Bonnin. Sangre Judia. (Flor de Viento, Barcelona, 2006).

[19] Andrew Brooks. “Jewish Voyagers to the New World Emerging From History's Mists.” New York Times (July 29, 1997).

[20] Andrew Brooks. “Jewish Voyagers to the New World Emerging From History's Mists.” New York Times (July 29, 1997).

[21] Andrew Brooks. “Jewish Voyagers to the New World Emerging From History's Mists.” New York Times (July 29, 1997).

[22] “Arqueólogo sugiere que conquistador Francisco Pizarro fue de origen judío.” Historia De Lima Virreinal (January 21, 2008).

[23] “Luther, Martin.” In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2nd Edition, Volume 13, (Detroit, New York and others, 2007.

[24] "Martin Luther (1483-1546).” Jewish Response to Anti-Semitism [http://www.jewishresponse.com/blog/client/page.cfm/Martin-Luther]

[25] Otto Kirn. “Melanchthon, Philipp.” Jackson, Samuel Macauley. New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. 7 (3rd ed.). (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1910). pp. 282.

[26] Gotthard Deutsch & Frederick T. Haneman. “Reuchlin, Johann von.” (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906).

[27] Franes Yates. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 32; Erika Rummel. The case against Johann Reuchlin. (University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. iv–xv.

[28] George Edwin Rines, ed.. "Reuchlin, Johann." Encyclopedia Americana (1920).

[29] Louis I. Newman. Jewish Influences on Christian Reform Movements (Columbia University Press, 1925) p. 626.

[30] H. H. Ben-Sasson, "The Reformation in Contemporary Jewish Eyes," in: PIASH, 4 (1970); S.W. Baron, in: Diogenes, 16, no. 61 (1968), 32–51; “Reformation,” Jewish Virtual Library.

[31] Ibid.

[32] Charles Bowie Millican, Spenser and the Table Round, (New York: Octagon, 1932).

[33] Patrick Collinson, “Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography.” The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800. ed. Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks. (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

[34] Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, (London: Routledge, 1979) p. 90.

[35] “The Enochian Apocalypse,” in Richard Metzger. Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult (second ed.). (Newburyport, Massachusetts: Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, 2008),

[36] Ken MacMillan. "Discourse on history, geography, and law: John Dee and the limits of the British empire, 1576–80.” Canadian Journal of History (April 2001).

[37] Michael Howard. “The British Occult Secret Service.” New Dawn, (May 10, 2008).

[38] The History of the World. (New YorK: B. Franklin, 1829) Chap. XI, p. 385.

[39] Deboarah E. Harkness. John Dee’s Conversations with Angels Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 136.

[40] Peter French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 123-125.

[41] John Dee, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, edited with an introduction by Christopher Whitby. 2 vols. Vol. II: 376-377.

[42] Deboarah E. Harkness. John Dee’s Conversations with Angels Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 149.

[43] Deboarah E. Harkness. John Dee’s Conversations with Angels Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 150.

[44] John Dee and Edward Kelly, A True and Faithful Relation of what happened for many years…, edited by Meric Casaubon, pp. 230-231; cited in Deborah E. Harkness. John Dee’s Conversations with Angels (Cambridge University Press, 1999) p. 55.

[45] quoted by R. J. W. Evans, Rudolf II and his World, (Oxford, 1973), p. 224.

[46] Richard H. Popkin, “Introduction” in Yosef Kaplan, Henry Mechoulan and Richard H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and His World. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989) p. 173.

[47] Richard H. Popkin (ed.) Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988) p 6.

[48] Christopher Hill, “Till the Conversion of the Jews.” Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800, Clark Library Lectures 1981-1982. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988) p. 13.

[49] Paul Nagel. Tabula Aurea M. Pauli Nagelii Lips. Mathematici, Darinnen Er den Andern Theil seiner Philosophiae Novae proponiren vnd fürstellenthut (n.p., 1624)., sig. D1v.

[50] Leigh T. I. Penman. “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Crisis, Chiliasm, and Transcendence in the Thought of Paul Nagel (†1624), a Lutheran Dissident during the Time of the Thirty Years’ War,” Intellectual History Review, 20: 2 (2010), pp. 201-226.

[51] Kaufmann Kohler and Henry Malter. “Shabbethai Zebi B. Mordecai,” Jewish Encyclopedia (refers to Grätz, “Gesch.” x., note 3, pp. xxix. et seq.

[52] Albert Montefiore Hyamson, A History of the Jews in England (1908), p. 182.

[53] Stephen Gaukroger. Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. (Clarendon Press, 1995) p. 294.

[54] E. H.,Gillett. The Life and Times of John Huss, or the Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century. (Boston, 1864), ii, 64; cited in Louis I. Newman. Jewish Influences on Christian Reform Movements (Columbia University Press, 1925), p. 437.

[55] Rudolf Rican. The History of the Unity of Brethren (Interprovincial Board of Communication, 1992).

[56] Louis I. Newman. Jewish Influences on Christian Reform Movements (Columbia University Press, 1925), p. 437.

[57] Clare Goodrick-Clarke, "The Rosicrucian Afterglow.” The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited, (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1999) p. 209.

[58] Chris Mathews. Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture. (Wesport: Praeger, 2009) p. 54.

[59] “La Peyrère, Issac,” Jewish Virtual Library. [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_118...

[60] Garber & Ayers, Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, p. 407.

[61] Moses Rosen, “The Recipe” (published as epilogue to The Face of Survival, 1987); Nathan Ausubel, Pictorial History of the Jewish People, (Crown, 1953).

[62] Menasseh to Dury, 23 December 1649, in Wolf, Menasseh ben Israel’s Mission, p. Ixxviii.

[63] Richard H. Popkin, “Introduction” in Yosef Kaplan, Henry Mechoulan and Richard H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and His World. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989), p. 174.

[64] Lord Alfred Douglas, Plain English, North British Publishing Co. (Sept. 3rd 1921).

[65] Samuel Butler, Hudibras, op. cit., Butler's note to pt. 1, canto I, 527-544.

[66] Paul Benbridge, "The Rosicrucian Resurgence at the Court of Cromwell.” The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited, (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1999) p. 225.

[67] Popkin, Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800, p. 29.

[68] Yates. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, pp. 175-6.

[69] Christopher Hill, “Till the Conversion of the Jews.” Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800, Clark Library Lectures 1981-1982. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988) p. 13.

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[78] Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.(London: Routledge, 1979) p. 90.

[79] Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, p. 119. See also Henry. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science.

[80] Helene H. Armstrong, Francis Bacon - The Spear Shaker, (San Francisco, California: Golden Gate Press, 1985).

[81] Alfred Dodd, Francis Bacon’s Personal Life Story, Volume 2 - The Age of James, (England: Rider & Co., 1949, 1986). Pp. 157 - 158, 425, 502 - 503, 518 – 532.

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[83] Quoted in Manly P. Hall, America’s Assignment with Destiny, (The Philosophical Research Society, 1951), p. 69– 70.

[84] Nicholas Hagger, The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World (Watkins, 2009).

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[86] Hagger, op. cit., p. 122– 4

[87] C. Oman, The Winter Queen (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938), ch. 50.

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[96] Frances Yates. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. (London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1972). p. 226.


Tactics and Defense Mechanisms of Evil

Violence

Always pretending to be in control.

Psychotic and delusional lying.

Childishly saying "no you" to ever person and thing that exposes them and then acting arrogant which includes everything exposing them here.

Constant slander and lying accusations.

Constant denial of their crimes.

Raging faggotry.

Raging blasphemy.

Arrogant grinning to appear confident when they are really scared.

Blood drunken induced psychopathy.

Violence, torture, and murder.

Declaring themselves brilliant for acting like demented and violent liars.

Using sadistic, murderous, and cannibalistic women as a weapon.

Blood drunken praising of themselves.
Financial persecution and paying people off to target people through employment.

Financing liars and slanderers.

Financing propagandists to dominate the internet.

Control the perception of "public opinion" through paid propagandists.

Claiming gang stalking is a democratic process. Organizing and ganging up on individuals in larger numbers and calling it democracy.

Gang stalkers acting like their victims are in a court room where the gang stalkers operate as the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and jury. 

Dictating lies with covert violence.

Calling the use of self defense against them "dictating lies with covert violence."

Psychotic insolence and terrorism.

Vandalism.

Electronic vandalism like hacking vehicles and electronics to cause them to break.

Electronic harassment.

Recruiting local gang stalkers who use electronic weapons.

Insolent and demented mockeries.

Censorship.

Framing people.

Stealing other peoples writings, claiming them as their own, and using them as bait to target people in a controlled environment.

Poisoning people.

Stalking.

Electronic spying.

Violently attacking people and then running away and calling the people who expose them false accusers. That is them violently attacking people and calling their victims false accusers. That is a form of gaslighting.

Using more violence to dictate their lies and false accusations.


Claiming that exposing a criminal or criminal group while that criminal group is taking a break from their criminal activity is a false accusation. 

Claiming that a person can only expose criminals who are currently being criminal. 

Reverse psychology like the media pretending to be against Trump or Trump pretending to be against the media. The entire Trump psyop is using reverse psychology.

Political theater. Democratic and Republican shills covertly working together to spread division.

Divide and Conquer.

Republican cult members falsely accusing people of being liberal shills for exposing corrupt republican politicians

Democratic cult members falsely accusing people of being conservative shills for exposing corrupt democratic politicians.

Criminals arrogantly pretending they are in control. Fake omnipotence.

The weaker and more fearful they are the more they finance shills to defend them with boldness and arrogance. Fake omnipotence.

When they are scared they murder children.

Claiming they are gods or  claiming god does not exist because they really do murder children and if "god" existed then he would stop them and this is all because the Creator expects good people to do something about it.

When these criminals get killed they retaliate by killing innocent people or children.


Charlie Sheen's tactic of saying the word "winning" over and over again which is what Trump and his QAnon cult members do.

Always pretending to be in control even if they have to contradict themselves constantly to do it.

When members of these criminal families get killed they pretend that they are in control.

Using the placebo effect to induce mindless arrogance when they are scared.

Violently attacking people for exposing them and then also claiming that they controlled the person that exposes them. They are this blasphemous, insane, and childish. 

Pathological lying which includes contradicting lies and stupid lies built onto other stupid lies.

Attacking someone and claiming before they attack that person that their victim will react by exposing the ones attacking them and then the attackers claim to be all knowing. Part of their fake omnipotence and fake precognition.

Falsely accusing people of crimes they believe people are going to do in the future.

Pretending to "know what's going to happen."

Claiming that psychotic behaviors and insanity is genius.

Claiming that deep stupidity is genius.

Claiming that using violence and gang stalking is genius.

Making bold false claims. Bold lying.

Radiating vague one word spells at people.

Vague denial. Denial of information without debating any of the facts.

Them saying "NO YOU" to everything you say about them. "I know you are but what am I"

Evil people claiming that their evil associates are innocent. Defending each other.

Evil people trying to hijack opposition against evil like the Freemasons of 1776 or the alternative media that claims to oppose the NWO and then completely ignores those running the NWO.

Making lying accusations against people who really expose criminals.

Child murderers and pedophiles calling people that expose them false accusers.

Falsely accusing the victims usually of their crimes and usually only after they get called out first.

Claiming that if you are aware of evil then you are in on it. It is like saying if a woman was raped and then she exposed her rapist that because she had information on her rapist that she must have been in on it. They are really that insane and do claim this.

Calling people greedy for exposing their financial persecutors.

Calling people violent for using self defense.

Claiming that violence cannot be used against war criminals, gang stalkers, poisoners, pedophiles, child traffickers.

Promoting "Peaceful Protests" against murderers, war criminals, and lawless tyrants.

Claiming that pacifism against tyrants solves tyranny.

Claiming that exposing evil people is an act of violence.

Falsely accusing people of being trolls for calling out shills.

Shills spreading fear and threatening the destruction of society when they get exposed.
Radiating the spell they call "deceivableness" at people who become aware of them. Vaguely calling someone deceived and then acting arrogant without ever naming the so called "deception."

Gang stalkers making up the most insane lies like claiming they control the royals and nobles they work for. 

Inverted witchcraft or engineered lies.

Reflective witchcraft or engineered lies.

Radiating doom spells on society and individuals.

Sabotaging a persons life through covert methods like poison, financial persecution, violating rights, violating privacy, electronic vandalism, slander, and also bribing or corrupting people and turning people around the victim into gang stalkers.

Christians threatening destruction on society and saying its because the Bible says so.

Christians claiming to own "belief in a creator."

Gang stalkers calling their victims "sinners."

Gang stalkers claiming that their gang stalking is "punishment from god."

Christians calling people Satanists for exposing Satanism in the Bible and Christianity.

Christians threatening society and telling people they will burn in hell if they don't bow down to Jesus.

Christians who are also gang stalkers and murderous cannibals calling themselves "sinners" and saying things like "only god can judge" for a false piety and fake humbleness. 
Forcibly imposing compassion onto others for themselves.

Denial of self defense.

Demanding that people "love their enemies."

Claiming that killing an attacker in self defense is a sacrifice.

Claiming that defending your life is the same as the initial attacker. Someone assaults you so you fight back and then they claim both are equally guilty.

Ignoring context.

Distortion of context.

Ignoring motives.
Total denial of facts.

Claiming that calling a fascist male bisexual rapist a "faggot" is homophobia and offensive. The correct definition of a faggot is a male bisexual rapist who rapes other men for control and most male members of the NWO are faggots.

Claiming that exposing racist cults of supremacists who target individuals of different races is racism.

Using gang stalkers and shills to attack people as distractions and as a defense for high level criminals.

Claiming that ignoring the annoying low level shills and gang stalkers means the low level gang stalkers control a person because they are not focusing on them.

Child murderers and murderous cannibals claiming that naming and exposing them is the most evil thing there is. 

Attempting to hijack facts and truth by agreeing with it and then mix the truth with lies and completely made up information.

Trolls latching onto people who expose evil as an attempt to make the legitimate person seem like they are associated with trolls.

Known liars agreeing with truth to make the truth seem like a lie as a form of reverse psychology through a fake association.

Demanding proof while completely ignoring existing evidence and proof.
Deflecting onto other subjects.
Arrogant and bold lying.
Playing dumb.
Claiming that evil people are dead when they are not.

Claiming that evil people are in prison when they are not.

Falsely accusing people of being false accusers for exposing criminals that other criminals claim are dead and or in prison when they are not. They are this insane.

Dictating their fantasy world and delusions onto others.

Acting demented, childish, and insolent to annoy or enrage people.
Claiming that exposing evil enables evil and therefore attempting to put the blame on the victims who expose their attackers.

Claiming that exposing gang stalkers is gang stalking.

Claiming individuals who expose gang stalkers is gang stalking and completely ignoring the meaning of the words "gang" and "individual"

Claiming that exposing the murderous gang stalkers is a "murderous plot against them"
Pretending they are mind controlled.

Pretending they are brainwashed.
Pretending to be victims.

Claiming that women cannot be evil.

Gang stalkers claiming that only wealthy or famous people can be evil.
Claiming they are insane. "Criminal Insanity" defense.
Claiming they are demonically possessed.

Calling a person a false accuser and basing it on their claim that they are "possessed" and therefore innocent of their evil actions.

Claiming they don't have to pay back for damage and thefts they caused or did while they are "demonically possessed" and then saying they have "repented."

Claiming that taking a vacation from gang stalking is "repentance."
Claiming they are slaves to others. They are not.
Deflections, distractions, and false accusations.
Calling their victims "drug addicts" for exposing them.
Calling their victims "mentally ill" for exposing them.
Claiming its "aliens" or "interdimensional entities" and then also totally ignoring the high level criminals running society

Blaming evil technologies for gang stalking. 
Blaming all Jews for all evils and never really naming actual criminal Jews.

Falsely accusing people of being Jews for not generalizing and blaming all Jews.

Blaming "Satan" for everything evil.

Blaming "Sorcerers" for gang stalking.

Claiming its "supernatural" and claiming there is nothing that can be done to combat it.

Christians saying that their god and Jesus will take care of the evil. Spreading apathy.

The moment the Black Nobility get scared they finance thousands of YouTube shills that blame all Jews for all evils and if you don't agree they claim you work for Jews.
Claiming that evil is normal.
Claiming that their criminal actions and that evil is the will of god.
Using confusion.
Claiming that there is no such thing as truth.

Claiming "life is an illusion."
Threatening to torture and murder children if you go after them.
Claiming they are blackmailed into attacking innocent people which seems to be the primary reason to what makes them feel justified for their crimes.
Claiming that they are controlled by others while disregarding the fact they directly attack people. They take no responsibility for their own actions.

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Children like me, abused under the guise of ‘liberation’, have been left out of narratives about spiritual communes – until now



In 1978, when I was nine years old, I unexpectedly moved to India with my free-spirited mother, who had recently become a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho). Like others of her generation, she was swept up in the allure of Rajneesh’s promises: enlightenment, freedom and belonging. Osho denounced traditional religion, offering a new path to self-liberation through cathartic meditations and therapy groups, communal living and free love. In the west, they called Osho the “sex guru”.

Shortly after our arrival at Rajneesh’s ashram, I was initiated into the community and the guru gave me a new name: Ma Prem Sarito. I felt as if I now belonged, and being in the ashram was an exhilarating adventure, a portal to a world where normal boundaries dissolved. School became a distant memory. The lush gardens and nooks and crannies of the ashram were transformed into a playground where my friends and I roamed freely, liberated from structure and rules. My mother, like many other parents, embraced Rajneesh’s philosophy that children belonged not to their biological parents but to the collective. Before long, I moved into the ashram and rarely interacted with my mother.

Though I was loved by many sannyasins (Rajneesh’s devotees) and some looked out for me, there was no formal structure to ensure my emotional or physical wellbeing. Over time, the facade of love and celebration began to crack, revealing darker undercurrents that quietly enveloped me. It began innocently enough – a guard teaching my friends and me how to french kiss. But soon I began to sense the inappropriate attention of certain men.

One day, a man coaxed me and another girl into giving him a hand job. We were both only 10 years old. Though I tried to convince myself it was just a game, a reflection of the open sexuality around us, it felt grossly wrong. Deep down, I knew that unless I remained vigilant, situations like this would continue to occur.

These darker undercurrents entangled me more fully when, in 1981, the commune moved to the US. I was among the first to arrive at the ranch the commune had bought in central Oregon. It was during those early days that I was lured into what I thought was a love affair with a much older man. I was only 12 years old; he was 29. However, what I believed to be love was no such thing.

At the time I suffered silently as he repeatedly drew me in with affection and took me to bed only to ignore me for days as I watched him pursue adult women and, in time, my peers. At the same time, other men circled, and eventually I gave in, as sleeping around and being “liberated” was the norm that was modelled to me. As time passed, I felt increasingly worthless and angst ridden, and took my bad feelings to mean I was flawed. We were to be positive, not negative, so I didn’t speak of my pain and confusion.

When the commune collapsed in 1985, we were all flung back into the world unprepared. I was 16, disoriented, broke and unsure of who I was. The trauma of my upbringing haunted me, but I couldn’t yet name it. As the years passed, I came to see it for what it was and came to see how Osho’s teachings tilled the soil for abuse – under the guise of spiritual freedom to boot. It sickened me. I distanced myself from the movement, from the teachings, and forged a life of my own.

Then in 2018 Netflix released Wild Wild Country, a docuseries about the community at the Rajneeshpuram complex. Watching it stirred my heartache and my fury. The series brought Rajneesh back into the public eye – but it only scratched the surface, focusing on the political and criminal scandals in Oregon. What about us children?


I gathered my courage and shared about my abuse in a Rajneesh Facebook group. At that time I was too scared to name my perpetrators. I found some support on the group, but many of the responses were the same old things I’d heard before, such as: “The kids seemed so mature”, or, “It’s not like all the kids were abused – it’s just how you choose to see it.” I left that discussion feeling enraged and determined to break my silence outside the insular Rajneesh community. I reached out to several peers I knew had also experienced abuse, hoping they would join me in speaking out.

They all initially declined, but three years later, in 2021, I received an unexpected call from one of them telling me she was finally ready. We began to share our stories, igniting a reckoning in which many other commune youth, and even adults, came forward and shared their own stories of abuse. Each new revelation was heart-wrenching. One of my peers from Rajneeshpuram said she had slept with 70 men, another said 150. This was before either of them had turned 16.

Children from the Rajneesh communes in Europe also spoke up. This is how I came to know Maroesja Perizonius, director of the documentary Children of the Cult. In her post, Maroesja recounted her own abuse in the Rajneesh commune in Amsterdam. For her, it began at the age of 13. Maroesja and I connected and quickly realised we shared the same determination to expose the systemic abuse that had been suppressed for too long. We each embarked on our creative paths: I began writing my memoir, and she set out to make a film that unveils the pervasive abuse carried out in the name of love and light. Though it has taken me decades to find my voice, I stand here today proud to join Maroesja and others to ensure that our stories are finally heard.


Sarito Carroll is featured in the film Children of the Cult which screens Sunday 13 October on ITV and ITVX at 10.20pm. She is the author of In the Shadows of Enlightenment: A Girl’s Journey Through the Osho Rajneesh Cult, due out this autumn

In the UK, the NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In the US, call or text the Childhelp abuse hotline on 800-422-4453. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, or Bravehearts on 1800 272 831, and adult survivors can contact Blue Knot Foundation on 1300 657 380. Other sources of help can be found at Child Helplines International









Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now



I increasingly wonder why Elon Musk is bothering trying to establish himself on Mars, and not just because it looks like a complete dump up there. (Seriously, if you think that’s beautiful, I have around a hundred thousand disused quarries I’d love to show you right here on Earth.) Watching Hurricane Milton play out on Musk’s platform and elsewhere cemented the notion that the goal of being on another planet along with millions of people had already occurred. The only problem is that this whole other planet is here, sharing meatspace with what we used to call “reality”.

Once upon a time, relatively recently in the scheme of things, a looming natural disaster would have felt like a fairly ineluctable fact. You couldn’t “debate” a natural disaster any more than you could disagree with gravity. There is a point, we used to say, where you really can’t argue with reality. There is a point where shit gets real. But is there, any more? Certainly that point has receded much further over a still-darkening horizon than we might even have imagined back in, say, 2016, when people were warning of attempts to destroy the very notion of shared reality. In fact, it was already receding back in 2004, when a Bush administration official (widely believed to be Karl Rove) spoke disparagingly of what they called “the reality-based community”.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last month, and in the days leading up to Hurricane Milton’s landfall, it was possible to see the truly grim extent of the slippage in recent years. It wasn’t just in senior politicians using phrases such as “politicising the storm”, a way of talking about a terrifyingly destructive natural phenomenon that would once have seemed like a quote from a satire, but now seems a long-unremarkable part of daily discourse. Nor was it in the widespread questioning that the storm was even a natural phenomenon at all, with huge numbers out there on the platforms declaring it to have been literally “created” and “engineered” by the other side. It was the sense that whatever happened, people had a version of reality they would be sticking to. Their views are battened down and not even a hurricane is going to shift them.

“Yes they can control the weather,” explained the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (on X, of course). “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” One customary reaction to Marjorie is to remark that it’s as if she’s on another planet. I so wish she was. The problem is that she and her fellow settlers are here, walking among all the agency officials and disaster experts and emergency workers who have to deal with reality as it presents itself – and not reality as whatever rubbish advances your cause that day.

But on she sails, because the civilisation of Another Planet is considerably advanced. You no longer ask if life is sustainable on this planet. It is not just sustainable – it is sustained. Not only does it have well-established communications systems, but also a rapidly spawning language where words can mean their opposites. Another Planet has a thriving media, and a social media presence actively boosted and financially incentivised by the likes of Musk – which arguably had its coming-of-age party over these past weeks. Musk himself shared what he said was a note from a SpaceX engineer falsely claiming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) was “actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping … ” Don’t worry, only 41m people have viewed the post.

In addition to oligarchs such as Musk, Another Planet has its own politicians who advance its interests, most notably Donald Trump, who has had what the polls suggest was a good storm. And don’t forget the foot soldiers. On TikTok, you could scroll through miles of fake videos of flooded Florida cities before Milton had even hit the areas purporting to be shown. After Helene last month, Fema launched a dedicated “rumour response” page. Barely two weeks on, the scale of the task has already overwhelmed defences. Rumour response pages were instantly rebranded as government cover-ups (the Jews were behind this one too, would you believe). According to an urgent dispatch from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, just 33 posts containing claims debunked by Fema, the White House and the US government had already been viewed more than 160m times before Helene hit.

Meanwhile, Another Planet has harnessed sophisticated technology in the form of AI. When told an AI image she’d shared of a sobbing child in a canoe with a puppy was entirely fake, RNC committee member Amy Kremer said she didn’t care and was leaving it up because it was “emblematic”. We’re now in an era when Another Planet feels confident enough to let you behind the curtain, because you’ll still believe it anyway. Kremer butching it out is just the latest version of JD Vance’s insouciant declaration last month that, of course, he creates false stories such as pets being eaten by Haitian immigrants. He does it, he says, so that the media “actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.

Maybe most worryingly, Another Planet constantly suggests it will defend itself by force if necessary. One way to fight a “weather weapon” is by making a death threat against a meteorologist. Or, indeed, multiple death threats against multiple meteorologists. Another way is call for militias to attack Fema for “withholding aid”. Another way is to threaten to shoot first responders. Again, honestly the only problem with this community is that it’s right here on Earth. I’m sure they’d say that we in the world’s reality-based community are occupying them – but it’s pretty finely balanced. Ask me again in a month, by which time it might feel as if they are occupying us.



If the 1% follow through on their threats, an ‘exit tax’ could raise £500m a year – by plucking golden feathers as they take flight

‘Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers left with a noisy flourish last month to Spain and Dubai. (Does he know that, unlike the UK, Spain has an annual wealth tax?)‘. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

They’re off! The millionaires are taking flight in droves, chased away by Labour’s budget plans. Day after day, rightwing thinktanks and media grow more demented in their attempt to frighten the wits out of the chancellor. “Number of millionaires in the UK to fall by a fifth,” warns the Times, echoing the Telegraph’s “Britain to suffer biggest exodus of millionaires in the world”, reporting the rightwing Adam Smith Institute’s “millionaire tracker” scare.

Day after day, the old enemy pounds away: “Labour’s plan to punish the rich is about to drive Britain into the ground,” as one Telegraph commentator put it. The pile-on is joined by wealth management companies offering self-interested evidence. The Times front-page splash, which warned the rich were “ready to quit UK over budget tax threat”, cited a company offering relocation services to high-net-worth individuals that has experienced a 69% jump in inquiries. Well, they would. My inbox is full of wealth managers’ warnings about Labour’s inheritance “tax grab”.

Would they really flee? History is the best guide. This same old threat is always levelled over any check on the soaring wealth of the richest in Britain, but research shows that rich people rarely follow through. An LSE report published in January, Tax Flight? Britain’s Wealthiest and Their Attachment to Place, strongly suggests they are going nowhere. On surveying those in the top 1%, it found none actually planning to migrate. After all, the top 1% have no reason to complain after doing astoundingly well since 2010. Liam Byrne’s book The Inequality of Wealth shows they have made 31 times more wealth than the other 99% during the Tory years. While the rich got richer, real-terms wages flatlined.

Why are so few of the super-rich likely to leave? The LSE research finds them deterred by career risks, the administrative burden of moving, family upheaval, attachment to the places they call home (predominantly London’s zone 1). They value London’s unparalleled cultural life, and “expressed a snobbery about tax-advantageous destinations as boring and culturally barren”. The Cayman Islands just can’t match Chelsea or Mayfair.

Devere Group wealth management is one of many commenters in my inbox, with 100,000 clients around the world, mostly British expats. I interviewed its high-net-worth owner and chief executive, Nigel Green, about his lifestyle for my book with David Walker, The Lost Decade. Based in Dubai, he said: “I have a nice house but I’m not there often.” He lived, he said, “mainly on planes”. What were his pleasures? He sometimes flew to football matches or Formula One races, but had no hobbies. What about philanthropy, often a justification for high earners? “Not really. I have run marathons for charity in the past.” There is an odd aura of the extreme miser about many whose tax avoidance turns them into exiles from home.

Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers left with a noisy flourish last month to Spain and Dubai. (Does he know that, unlike the UK, Spain has an annual wealth tax?) We should be grateful to Guy Hands, founder of the private equity firm Terra Firma, for his honesty in admitting publicly that tax flight had been a bad mistake. He bolted to Guernsey, with its 20% flat tax rate, in 2009, when Labour raised the top rate to 50%. “For me it was a disaster,” he wrote last year. Without close proximity to the world of high finance, he said: “I lost the flow of the market.”

A study of HMRC records by Arun Advani, David Burgherr and Andy Summers following the last cut to non-doms’ tax relief shows that, despite the threats, just 5% left – and the ones who did leave were those paying the least tax in the first place. Non-doms are the most footloose, with close links to other countries: the British rich are even less likely to flee. And even when people leave, there are ways to retrieve capital gains. A report published this week by the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation showed how an “exit tax”, which is imposed by almost all G7 countries, could bring in £500m a year. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to raise capital gains tax significantly. Even if the threat of rich flight turns out to be true, an exit tax would pluck some golden feathers as they go.

For all the daily harangues and scares, Reeves looks as if she’s not for turning. Holding firm on a more rational accounting for debt could allow an extra £50bn for capital investment in green energy, housing projects and repairs to dilapidated NHS infrastructure. For day-to-day spending, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says she needs to find £25bn extra tax to stop austerity cuts to stricken public services left by Jeremy Hunt. When Keir Starmer said there would be tax rises and “those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”, the public agreed. Dangerously disillusioned, people now think the super-rich have more power than government. That ought to worry anyone about the precarious state of democracy.



We expect families on limited incomes to curb spending – yet it’s the rich who should be doing our bit with greater taxation on wealth



The former first lady was rolling out her memoir this week – but the biggest plugs were for her gift range, not her husband


Royal family had pledged to declare all presents received in an annual list, after several controversies


“Entourage” is too wan a word for this motley crew of enforcers, concealers, NDA experts and crisis PRs


Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole, then director of public affairs for Harrods, at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, the high court, London, 2007. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/PA

I’m afraid I shrieked when I read that Michael Cole – longterm publicist for the late former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed – cannot come to the phone these days. If you covered a certain phase of British public life, you would know that Michael Cole could always come to the phone. Coming to the phone was what Michael Cole did, always to emit some hugely pompous shitblast in defence of his master, who is now the subject of multiple rape and sexual assault allegations. Alas, Michael is currently so shocked that no emission has been forthcoming. Instead, his wife was deployed to inform the press that Michael “is not giving any interviews or talking at the moment”. However, she did claim he found the women’s allegations “terribly distressing” and that “of course” he had been unaware of all of it.

From spokesman to sending out your spokeswife … I would say life comes at you fast, but of course it doesn’t. Fayed ran his entire race without his years of alleged sexual crimes catching up with him, and though he is not entombed in a pyramid on the roof of Harrods, as he wished, he certainly got away with it all. When he died, Cole rushed out to inform Radio 4’s Today programme that his former boss was “fascinating … larger than life … full of great humanity”. Yeah – not the third one.

According to the spokeswife, Cole is now in seclusion dealing with the incredible shock of the mounting allegations that Fayed was a prolific sex offender. Since the BBC documentary based on the testimony of 20 women aired, another 100 approaches have been made to the legal team who were already representing 37 women, and it is safe to assume there are many still too traumatised to make that call. I shall leave it to readers to decide whether Michael, a former journalist, has somehow forgotten about all the allegations of sexual impropriety made during Fayed’s lifetime that he personally batted away – or whether he is simply the worst publicist ever for having zero clue about any of his client’s alleged … what is the word? … “vulnerabilities”. Given that Tom Bower’s unauthorised biography, which detailed several allegations of sexual assault, came out while Cole was specifically charged with handling Fayed’s publicity, his lack of curiosity/memory seems sensationally remarkable.

But then, it isn’t remarkable – and it is unfair to single out Michael. The Times yesterday published a useful rundown of Fayed’s people, from the mouthpieces, lawyers and security henchmen to the doctors who performed “purity examinations” on young female PAs. When you see the vast scale of it all, “entourage” sounds too wan a word for this motley crew of enablers, enforcers and concealers, and for all the other motley crews that surrounded “larger than life” men, from Michael Jackson to Harvey Weinstein to Jimmy Savile. I prefer to think of such set-ups as the sex-case industrial complex.

Fayed’s isn’t even the only one in the current news cycle. Much has and will be written about the charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution laid against the music mogul Diddy, real name Sean Combs. But for space constraints I want to focus on a 2016 surveillance video which surfaced back in May, in which a towel-clad Combs is shown throwing his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura to the floor in a hotel corridor, then repeatedly kicking her before dragging her motionless body back towards the room she has just escaped.

I wasn’t surprised that Cassie had long been telling the truth, despite Diddy’s serial denials. What took my breath away was what the location implied – the sheer number of people who must have been involved in justice not being served. What exactly is the process for covering up a filmed incident of serious assault by an international star in the corridor of a hotel owned by a major international chain? Let’s just say I imagine Diddy’s lot are quite familiar with it. But think of the hotel side. There are CCTV images – it is a whole department’s job to monitor CCTV. Were the management informed? Where were the police? Quite the mystery.

In Combs’s camp, you can only guess at how many of the sex-case industrial complex were called upon to do their special designated job to make it go away. Lawyers, NDA experts, crisis PRs – who knows the precise combination of moving parts, but they were presumably all working in perfect symphony to ensure that this ghastly footage never went anywhere until CNN published it in May, a staggering eight years after it occurred. Diddy’s powers were beginning to desert him – but even weeks before, a raid as he was about to board his private jet had resulted in the arrest of only one individual for possession of drugs. Not Diddy, you understand, but a former college basketball star player who was part of his entourage. “How did a college hooper become Diddy’s alleged drug mule?” ran a New York magazine headline.

The sex-case industrial complex is a place where everyone has their job, a whole interconnected corrupt society that regularly comes into contact with actual society – a boring place of rules and boundaries – but only in order to take what it wants and spin off back into the lawless ether again. Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods was also like this, according to multiple allegations. As far back as 1998, Henry Porter wrote in this newspaper of some investigative run-ins with Fayed’s people, stating that he had been “left with the eerie sense that we had been dealing with a foreign power: a fiefdom, which despite its real location in Knightsbridge, operated quite independently from the rest of Britain, with a security service of its own, an armed police force and a tyrant in command”. He was right, as all those shut down by the Diddy machine in recent years were too. We still live in a world of powerful men’s Neverlands.

Mark Zuckerberg is embracing both AI and full-on imperial monomania. As for petty gripes about elections and teen mental health, so what?




The good news is that Mark Zuckerberg has become bored of looking like an answer to the AI prompt “efit of a teen villain”. The bad? While the Meta overlord has grown out the Caesar hairstyle that has sustained him since 2016, he is now leaning in to open imperial monomania. This week’s Meta Connect conference saw Mark take the stage in a T-shirt reading Aut Zuck Aut Nihil. Either Zuck Or Nothing. The original was Aut Caesar Aut Nihil and was enthusiastically adopted as a motto by one of the worst Borgias (tough field) … but look, I’m sure it’s ironic. Mark’s such a gifted ironist.

We’ll get to the magic glasses and AI feedspam he was pushing at this week’s event in a minute – but before we do, let’s recap. Easily the most significant thing Mark Zuckerberg has said this year was that he isn’t sorry any more – in fact, that he wished he’d never said sorry for most of what he’d ever said sorry for. I paraphrase only slightly. A couple of weeks ago, Zuckerberg appeared on stage for a podcast and called Facebook’s willingness to offer stakes-free apologies for things he wasn’t to blame for – like election manipulation or the effect of social media on teen mental health – “a 20-year mistake”.

“And I think it’s going to take another 10 years or so for us to fully work through that cycle,” he reflected, “before our brand is back to the place that it maybe could have been if I hadn’t messed that up in the first place.” Please: imagine the force Meta could be if only it hadn’t been held back by extremely intermittent synthetic contrition.

The upshot is that we might never again hear Mark drone all those Facebook phrases for sorry – “we will learn from this”, “we know we have more work to do”. That said, the counterpoint to his soz-regret is that they’ve played quite well for him. Sure, every now and then he’s had to pitch up to Congress for hearings that are always described as “tense”, heated”, “fiery” and even “stunning”. But these have repeatedly proved themselves nothing more than the theatre of futility. Not one federal law has ever been passed to regulate Meta, or the other big tech firms. So the occasional few hours in Washington for a besuited “my bad” has been the price you pay for being the world’s most powerful oligarch, selling the lives of 3 billion monthly users via a platform that has incentivised hate, then … can you not just pay it? Apparently not any more.

Mark Zuckerberg apologises directly to families of online harm victims in Senate hearing – video

Of course, you may be one of those who feel trepidation at the idea of living in a world where Mark Zuckerberg is no longer minded to take responsibility for things. In which case, he has another world to sell you: the metaverse. Like so many of the tech titans, Mark really does offer an end-to-end service: they make the world worse, then they claim to be leading the escape. Elon Musk with his Mars aspiration, Jeff Bezos with his space programme, Zuckerberg with his virtual knock-off of the real world whose landmark upgrade is that he controls it absolutely.

That would certainly appear to be its sole advantage. For a man seemingly without a cultural hinterland, perhaps it’s no surprise that the fantasy world Zuckerberg’s firm has come up with is a place of such utter conceptual dreariness. We are forever being told that the metaverse is a place where you can shop, have meetings, do real estate deals, attend conferences … I mean, honestly. Just add “answer infinite email” and you really have simulated paradise.

We aren’t quite there yet, Mark admitted this week – honestly, it’s just round the next corner – but in the meantime he’d love to show you some augmented reality glasses and a cheaper VR headset then the one he asked you to buy last time. Also, now people don’t post so much on Facebook and Instagram any more, he is going to start gradually pumping their feeds with personalised AI images that have been created by Meta AI. Mm. Ideally, we will eventually eliminate the need for any human posters at all.

Or as the Meta founder prefers it: “We are trying to build a future that is more open, more accessible, more natural, and more about human connection.” Go on. “Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology.” Historically, of course, there has always been another way to feel truly present with another person, which is to be truly present with another person. But this is not what the emperor would wish for his citizens. He prefers the world atomised, mediated via his machines. One of the most lunatic moments at his event saw Zuckerberg call an affiliated creator on stage, but then proceed to have a conversation with an AI chatbot version of the creator on a giant screen, while the genuine article stood like a lemon on stage just watching.

Watching this eerie spectacle, I was reminded of what Mark once said to a Facebook employee whose job eventually became functioning as his ghostwriter. Kind of a flesh-and-bones AI (very 1.0). She had asked him what he meant by the three-word essay prompt he’d given her – “companies not countries”. “I think we are moving to a world in which we all become cells in a single organism,” Zuckerberg replied, “where we can communicate automatically and can all work together seamlessly.” Oof. Well, there you go. Who could fail to be happy that a guy who thinks this is now only sorry that he was ever sorry.

After fewer than 100 days, it’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital so quickly for so little



‘It seems as if a robot might have made a better fist of stage-managing Starmer’s last few weeks.’ The PM at the Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers match, London, 17 August. Photograph: Paul Marriott/Shutterstock

Day two of Keir Starmer’s reset, and it’s impossible not to get caught up in the thrill of revolution. Running as the change candidate against your own administration, fewer than 100 days into it, is a genuinely exciting place to be. Has it been done before? I’ve got a feeling it will be again – and soon.

The weekend’s big news was the vanquishing of Sue Gray, the breakout star of the Sue Gray report. Starmer’s erstwhile chief of staff has been made an “envoy”, which is an honour on a par with having “special projects” in your job title if you work in the media. As for her vanquisher, the chief of staff role has now been subsumed by Starmer’s political chief, Morgan McSweeney. Visually speaking – the only way to judge a book – McSweeney has the look of a supporting actor in a regional detective show. I see him as the local number two to the guy who’s sent to an unfamiliar place (in this case, government) and forced to do something that its denizens are increasingly hostile towards (in this case, be prime minister).

In the wake of Gray’s neutralising, reports that proven campaign strategist McSweeney is dismayed by the “day-to-day machinery of government” and planning a more “data-led” approach feel familiar in a way you can’t quite put your finger on … certainly not unless you’re wearing hazmat gloves. Ideally, I would like Morgan to expand on them in a 20,000 word blog – it might be that we’re on the point of another Shamhattan Project.

For others, meanwhile, the fear is that it could be the machinery of the personnel that is more faultily wired. Strange, really, that it’s always lowlier jobs that we are told are under existential but reasonable threat from AI, when it does seem as if a robot might have made a better fist of stage-managing Starmer’s last few weeks. Contrary to extensive and vicious briefing over that period, it seems Gray was not actually in charge of the news grid, which probably explains why she didn’t block out a day for her own demotion. Instead, her allies have hotly claimed the grid has been run by the communications team. To which one can only say: was it, though? Certainly not so as you’d notice. Now he has finally acted to deal with dysfunction, much has been made of Starmer’s “ruthlessness”, which I suppose is one take on letting the aggressive leakers and plotters win so decisively. But look, I always tell myself that rewarding bad behaviour is “ruthless” – it makes giving an iPad to a child who is having a tantrum so much more strategically impressive. They won’t be doing that again in a hurry!

Since we’re on the subject of strategic masterstrokes, though, it is worth challenging the prevailing wisdom that Starmer’s hiring of Gray was a coup. Gray was undoubtedly a perfectly well-respected Whitehall fixture, but her chief public cachet as an appointment seemed to come as a result of being a sort of online folk hero. People who were “waiting for the Sue Gray report” were also waiting for another load of deus ex machinas that they were convinced would be the key to all mythologies. Sue Gray stans were the type who made biweekly demands for the last government to “release the Russia report”, even after they already had. Just as various artists are dismissed as music for people who don’t really like music, so “Sue Gray” as an abstract concept always felt like politics for people who don’t really know a lot about politics. Was Starmer himself one of those people? Did he think it looked smart to hire a meme? Part of me suspects he might have.

Westminster’s galaxy brains love a trendy narrative, of course, but the current prevalent take that Starmer is a guy who learns from his mistakes is about three more cock-ups from being seamlessly repurposed into a narrative that he is just a guy who makes too many mistakes. Errors in politics are inevitable, which is why there isn’t a whole lot of capacity for making unforced ones. It’s just possible that this many, this soon, isn’t an asset.

As for the way out of this, that old news grid isn’t throwing up too many potential feelgood days any time soon. Agonising Halloween budget, anyone? This, of course, has been the other piece of odd politics, where Starmer and his chancellor have spent their first weeks and months dropping grim and painful hints that it’s all going to be very grim and painful. According to a variety of reports, the potential targets of the budget have spent those weeks and months making arrangements to protect themselves accordingly. It’s been a bit like the part in a thriller where the bad guy spends so long explaining his clever scheme that there is plenty of time to foil it.

But perhaps the most revealing thing about Starmer, as discussed here previously, is that for the last few years, he decided his persona would be telling people off. Over the other side of the dispatch box, he cycled through a series of Conservative prime ministers who ably assisted him in this task, all the time looking pained, disgusted and superior. It didn’t really matter who it was – Starmer’s comfort zone was sighing, tutting and wincing. This was the very clearly defined persona with which he chose to introduce himself to the British public. And yet, nobody in the world likes being told off. So the thing about someone who’s always telling other people off is that they seem like a bit of a ballache who will eventually be telling you off.

And then there’s that other thing – that almost cast-iron rule that any pedant publicly correcting someone’s grammar or spelling in a public forum will so often make a howler themselves in the course of doing so. You have to be whiter than white yourself if you are going to make a career out of peering judgmentally through your glasses (Oliver Peoples, £294, prescription lenses not included). Starmer hasn’t been.

Which brings us to the other unfortunate conclusion in a week during which a poll places Labour’s lead over the Conservatives at a mere one point – the sense that Labour has expended its political capital for such a tiny quantity of money and fancy things. Don’t get me wrong – 30 or 40 grand is obviously a huge amount of money in terms of clothes and luxury “eyewear” – but it is an absolutely minuscule sum to spaff almost all your electoral goodwill on. At some level, it’s the lack of ambition that bumps most. Not all types of shortsightedness can be fixed with designer glasses.


Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal


Scientific racism misuses science to promote false beliefs, according to the US National Institutes of Health. Composite: Alex Mellon for the Guardian


An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.

Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human Diversity Foundation. Its members have used podcasts, videos, an online magazine and research papers to seed “dangerous ideology” about the supposed genetic superiority of certain ethnic groups.

The anti-racism campaign Hope Not Hate began investigating after encountering the group’s English organiser, a former religious studies teacher, at a far-right conference. Undercover footage was shared with the Guardian, which conducted further research alongside Hope Not Hate and reporting partners in Germany.

HDF received more than $1m from Andrew Conru, a Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites, the recordings reveal. After being approached by the Guardian, Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of “non-partisan academic research”.

Andrew Conru, who founded the website Adult FriendFinder. Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy

While it remains a fringe outfit, HDF is part of a movement to rehabilitate so-called race science as a topic of open debate. Labelled scientific racism by mainstream academics, it seeks to prove biological differences between races such as higher average IQ or a tendency to commit crime. Its supporters claim inequality between groups is largely explained by genetics rather than external factors like discrimination.

Dr Rebecca Sear, the director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University, described it as a “dangerous ideology” with political aims and real-world consequences.

“Scientific racism has been used to argue against any policies that attempt to reduce inequalities between racial groups,” she said. It was also deployed to “argue for more restrictive immigration policies, such as reducing immigration from supposedly ‘low IQ’ populations”.

In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” The term has become a buzzword on the hard right, with Donald Trump using it in September to describe his own policies in a post on X that has been viewed 56m times.

In Germany, protesters took to the streets in February after it emerged politicians had attended a conference on “remigration” in Potsdam. Among the delegates was an activist called Erik Ahrens.

Already notorious in Germany, he has been designated a “rightwing extremist” by authorities, who have concluded he poses an “extremely high” danger, particularly in regard to the radicalisation of young people.

This investigation reveals Ahrens spent months working with members of HDF.

At a sold-out event in London last year, Ahrens was recorded urging his audience to join a secret club dedicated to restoring the power of “white society”. Later, he boasted of spending the next year “travelling around from major city to major city, just setting up these cells”.

‘Do you know the history of the SS?’

One evening last October, 90 paying ticket holders arrived at the Little Ship, a sailing clubhouse on the Thames, for a YouTuber’s lecture on the supposed genetic decline of western civilisation.

First to address the room was a young man with a short crop of light brown hair. “Hello, ladies and gentlemen,” said Ahrens. “I work for the Alternative for Germany party as a consultant.”

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany’s leading far-right party, and support for its hardline policies on migration is surging. After reciting recent polling victories, Ahrens turned to European higher education. “The universities used to be where society – where western European, where white society – used to produce elites capable of exerting power,” he said.

“The organisation which I am working with is taking more concrete steps towards the establishment of such an elite,” he went on to claim. “We’re doing this partly through media outreach, partly through talking to people on the ground, and partly through networking, which is taking place more behind the scenes.”

Ahrens introduces himself using the alias 'Erik Schmitt' – video

An adviser to the AfD’s lead candidate in this year’s European parliament elections, Ahrens, now operates outside its ranks. The party distanced itself from him after a series of controversies.

The Brandenburg state office for the protection of the constitution, part of the region’s interior ministry, has put Ahrens on its watchlist. In a statement to the Guardian’s reporting partners Der Spiegel and Paper Trail Media, the office’s director, Jörg Müller, described him as having made “anti-constitutional” statements. “Due to his high reach in social networks and his considerable self-radicalisation, we estimate the danger he poses – especially with regard to young people – to be extremely high.”

Unknown to Ahrens, his speech at the Little Ship was being recorded. A researcher for Hope Not Hate spent more than a year undercover posing as a would-be donor, covertly filming a wide circle of activists and academics with an interest in race science and eugenics.

Also present at the event was Matthew Frost. A former teacher at a £30,000-a-year private school in London, Frost was until recently editor of the online magazine and podcast Aporia. He publishes under the name Matthew Archer.

Between October and November last year, Frost and Ahrens were filmed pitching plans for what they called a “gentlemen’s club”, with members paying for networking and training courses. While the plan now appears to have been abandoned, Ahrens seemed to suggest that recruits could be transformed into an elite group modelled on the SS, the Nazi party’s paramilitary wing. On his phone screen, he pulled up a video of muscular men punching each other in a field, overseen by a drill instructor. “This is what we want to build as well,” he said.

Ahrens has said he has ambitions to seek political office. Photograph: Patrick Junker/Der Spiegel

“Do you know the history of the SS?” he asked. “They didn’t have IQ tests and stuff like that … they had, like, certain outward characteristics. But the principle is the same. You take the elite.”

Ahrens said he held ambitions to seek political office himself. “My vision is actually to one day run in Germany, in a Trump-like fashion. It hasn’t been done for 100 years. To run a populist movement centred around a person.”




Towards the end of the dinner, Ahrens boasted of his commitment to his cause. “It’s all in. We live for the race now.”

In response to written questions, Ahrens said the men in the training video were engaged in “peaceful and legal activities” and that he had been suggesting “week-long retreats for character development and network formation among highly selected participants”. Instead of the SS, he said he could “just as well have referenced any other ‘select inner circle’ with high entry requirements as a historical example”.

Legitimacy via association

Frost began publishing on Substack in April 2022. Since his first post – titled “The Smartest Nazi”, about IQ tests administered at the Nuremberg trials – his newsletter, Aporia, has become one of the platform’s most popular science publications, with more than 14,000 subscribers and hundreds of posts and podcasts.

“We’d rather be read by a few billionaires than 10,000 new normies,” Frost said. “Judging by our email lists, this is already happening. I can look down, I can see academics, entrepreneurs, journalists … I can see very important people, and that’s what we want to grow further.”

The blog was sold to HDF early in its development, and was the key part of its media arm, Frost said.

Aporia presents its output as impartial exploration of controversial ideas. However, some of its content appears to have gradually become more nakedly political, with headlines such as “What is white identity?” and “America must have race realism”.

Frost described his goal as to influence wider society, saying he wanted to “become something bigger, become that policy, front-facing thinktank, and bleed into the traditional institutions”. Mainstream writers had been commissioned by Aporia for “legitimacy via association”.

Far-right demonstrators hold a banner reading ‘remigration now’ in Solingen, Germany, after three people were killed in a knife attack in August. Photograph: Christopher Neundorf/EPA-EFE

Aporia’s reach is limited, but some of the ideas it publishes are gaining ground.

Trump, who has promised mass deportations should he win a second term as US president, told an interviewer last month: “We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” In June Steve Sailer, credited with rebranding scientific racism as “human biodiversity”, was given a platform by the former Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson on his podcast.

The language of race science is filtering into UK politics. A candidate for Nigel Farage’s Reform party was disavowed this summer after he was discovered to have claimed: “By importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that interbreed the IQ is in severe decline.”

In addition to Aporia, Frost claimed the group controlled output from a YouTuber called Edward Dutton, the keynote speaker at October’s Little Ship event, who has more than 100,000 subscribers to his channel.

Known for diatribes on “dysgenics”, a term for the supposed deterioration of genetic stock, Dutton’s recent videos include one titled: “You’re more related to a random white person than your half-African child.” In another, he toured Clacton-on-Sea wearing a cravat, describing it as “one of the most dysgenic towns in the UK”.

Dutton said he did not support eugenics and had never signed any contract with HDF. He suggested it was using his name to impress others.

Frost told the Guardian he did not hold far-right views. He announced his departure from Aporia in August. The newsletter continues to be published under a new editor.

‘Remigration’

The US National Institutes of Health describes scientific racism “an organised system of misusing science to promote false scientific beliefs in which dominant racial and ethnic groups are perceived as being superior”.

The ideology rests on the false belief that “races” are separate and distinct. “Racial purity is a fantasy concept,” said Dr Adam Rutherford, a lecturer in genetics at University College London. “It does not and has not and never will exist, but it is inherent to the scientific racism programme.”

Prof Alexander Gusev, a quantitative geneticist at Harvard University, said that “broadly speaking there is essentially no scientific evidence” for scientific racism’s core tenets.

The writer Angela Saini, author of a book on the return of race science, has described how it traces its roots to arguments originally used to defend colonialism and later Nazi eugenics, and today can often be deployed to “shore up” political views.

In multiple conversations, HDF’s organisers suggested their interests were also political. Frost appeared to express support for what he called “remigration”, which Ahrens had told him would be the AfD’s key policy should the party win power.

Frost on 'remigration policy' – video

“Imagine: a new German state,” he said. “Imagine if they got this through. It wouldn’t be nice. It’s like you’re a bouncer in a nightclub. It’s your job. You didn’t invite these people in. You’ve just got to pay people to go home, whatever. Take two battleships to the coast of Morocco, and say you’re going to do this. We’re smarter than you, we’re bigger than you, you’re going to do this.”

AfD leaders have denied any plan for mass expulsions, which have been prohibited since the 1960s under protocol 4 of the European convention on human rights. The law requires courts to separately consider each individual case.

In the same conversation, which took place shortly after the start of the Israel-Gaza conflict, Frost said the Israeli political class “understand it instinctively, that the Palestinians are different. That they can’t be reasoned with. You can’t educate them. They have to be contained. They understand that. Likewise the Hamas leadership understand certain things about Ashkenazi Jews, whatever. Like we all do.”

Frost said he rejected any suggestion of extreme beliefs. “Unfortunately, in reality, it is sometimes necessary to engage with undesirable people to secure funding for essential scientific research intended to benefit humanity,” he said. “However, I am not politically aligned with any ‘far-right’ ideology, nor do I hold views that could reasonably be characterised as such.”

He said he was no longer affiliated with HDF and had parted ways with Ahrens in December 2023 after becoming aware “of our divergent political views”.

Underground research wing

HDF’s owner, Emil Kirkegaard, has made similar comments about “remigration”, saying of families settled for two or three generations: “I generally support policies that pay them to leave.”

Kirkegaard, who also appears to use the name William Engman, is an author of more than 40 papers published by Mankind Quarterly, a British race science journal established in the 1960s.

Emil Kirkegaard says HDF ‘is not involved in politics’. Photograph: YouTube

Originally from Denmark and now living in Germany, he heads what Frost described as an “underground research wing” for HDF consisting of about 10 hobby researchers and academics.

Ongoing HDF projects, discussed in a video call between the group last year that was led by Kirkegaard, included studies into “international dysgenics”, whether dating apps alter human breeding, whether people with progressive opinions are mentally ill or whether Wikipedia editors are too leftwing.

Kirkegaard responded by saying: “The HDF is not involved in politics. It’s not affiliated with any political party or group. If one must attribute some company values to the HDF, these are those of the Enlightenment: reason, science, open mindedness, and free speech.”

The principal benefactor

Andrew Conru founded his first internet business while studying mechanical engineering at Stanford. In 2007, he hit the jackpot, selling his dating website Adult FriendFinder to the pornography company Penthouse for $500m.

In recent years, the entrepreneur has turned his attention to giving away his money, declaring on his personal website: “My ultimate goal is not to accumulate wealth or accolades, but to leave a lasting, positive impact on the world.”

His foundation has given millions to a wide and sometimes contrasting range of causes, including a Seattle dramatic society, a climate thinktank and a pet rehoming facility, as well as less progressive recipients: an anti-immigration group called the Center for Immigration Studies, and Turning Point USA, which runs a watchlist of university professors it claims advance leftist propaganda.

Conru’s contribution to HDF has only emerged thanks to the recordings. He is described as HDF’s principal benefactor, having invested $1.3m, exchanged for a 15% stake. “Andrew realised at the tail end of last year [2022] that this needed to be scaled up, systematised, and this was how the HDF was born,” Frost claimed during one filmed encounter.

Approached for comment, a spokesperson for Conru said in a statement he had “helped to fund the HDF project at the beginning” but that it “now appears that it has deviated from its initial objective, and the motivation for his funding, which was to promote free and non-partisan academic research”.

They said Conru rejected racism and discrimination, and he was unaware of Ahrens’s involvement. “In response to the information you’ve provided, he has cut ties with the Human Diversity Foundation, ceased his funding, and ordered an immediate review of governance processes across all of his philanthropic activities to ensure such a situation does not arise again.”




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Spies, informants and new enemies - Today’s intelligence agencies | DW Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6xMrTJRCo

Spy Cables reveal Israel’s Mossad tactics

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Gangstalking/comments/bkutvj/is_this_happening_in_turkey_china_switzerland/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3V8FC3VHs 

https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2024/05/palestinian-refugees.html

https://henrymakow.com/001523.html 

https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/more-on-jewish-gang-stalking/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/saudi-arabia-steps-up-gaza-arrests-as-israel-ties-edge-closer

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/saudi-arabia-human-rights-raif-badawi-king-salman 

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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/02/middleeast/saudi-drug-capital-mime-intl/index.html

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https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/899996

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/170411

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795952989/doj-says-21-saudi-trainees-being-expelled-from-u-s-over-jihadist-child-porn

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-021-09943-4#:~:text=As%20Islam%20is%20associated%20with,expense%20to%20combat%20this%20issue.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33994666/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnJa7wWS74E

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220906-jinns-and-glass-palaces-how-saudis-dystopian-desert-city-borders-on-the-occult/

https://soundcloud.com/mirwais-rahimi-737968388/satanic-ritual-in-saudi-arabia

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