Now while the Church has never officially interpreted the apparition at Knock, the Freemasons, who know the state of the war of Genesis 3:15 far better than even the most learned Catholic, had their own image of things at that time. As you can see in the masonic illustration above, the three-headed snake, which has as its background one of its symbols of equilibrium, a balanced ladder, two of the serpent’s heads are held high in victory, one with the sword and one with the kingly crowns, depicting their victory over the Christian kingdoms of the world for all to see. The third head however, with its papal tiara, is not yet held high, for it represents the priesthood (and the Mass), which, at the time, as Fr Cavanagh had demonstrated with his 100th Mass, had not yet been undermined and usurped. The battle of Principalities and Powers had been only half won, but the serpent was already wearing the tiara in expectation.
Knock, I believe (my grandfather and his family having been born Catholics in Connacht, making me a descendant Galatian with a right to read Knock’s allegory) is responding to the state of warfare of the time.
It occurred on the very same day that Our Lady of La Salette was crowned by the Bishop of Paris, 21 August 1879.
It warns us of a pending chastisement, far worse than the Flood or anything of a mere temporal nature. St John was warning the faithful what was in store for Christianity and the world. The Melchisedech priesthood and the true Catholic sacrifice of the Mass were in danger of being isolated, removed from the faithful as a whole. Mary, wearing the crown that now depended on her and Portugal (the remnant), pleads with God to spare the world from the greatest of all disasters.
Freemasons knew that attack the priesthood and one attacks the true Sacrifice, the sacraments, and most of the temporal conduits of grace, the very means of sustenance necessary for Christ’s faithful to hold the faith in every way. An attack on the true Mass then is a way to destroy the priesthood. If heaven was trying to put us in touch with the signs of the times, this vision warned of the collapse of the second target of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, the battle of Powers, the priesthood of Melchisedech, and that this would be done by deceit, when the lamb that looks like the Lamb, will in fact be the dragon that is, the Novus Ordo, just as the Protestant ‘mass’ was used to eliminate the last vestige of Catholicity from the Reformers of the sixteenth century. This vision at Knock can be said to be a warning to all the nations of the world, ‘to undeceive those in their ungrounded hopes and expectations’, as the Motu Proprio of 1649 said, that what may be done in the name of God is not always as it seems.
Could any words better describe the situation that emerged at Vatican II and which is now present among Catholics worldwide? Cromwell, it is said, destroyed more beautiful things than any man before him. Here again we can draw an analogy between him and Vatican II, for it surpassed even Cromwell by destroying far more beautiful things throughout all Christendom. Leaving aside the traditional Latin Mass, all the old devotions, the teachings, catechetics and prayers, the vestments, the priestly and nun’s habits and clerical cloths, we had in line with Cromwell a thing called ‘re-ordering’ whereby they destroyed great cathedrals and parish churches, abandoned millions of sacramentals and books, and have not ceased their destruction yet, still selling off countless redundant convents, religious houses, and Church property. Looking back on the vision today we can now get a better understanding of its warning, for it has come to pass, the destruction of the true priesthood en masse.
An allegorical interpretation of Knock can then be taken as a warning that the battle for the priesthood was imminent. Extrapolating backwards; signs of this final battle become manifest in the words of many men. In his book Pio Nono, (Pope Pius IX -1846-1878), E.E.Y Hales quotes the Freemason Mazzoni aspiring to ‘a new consecration of external right; a third world arising upon the ruins of two worlds extinct.’ By this he meant the arising of a nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr in the wake of the other two great Empires, the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Speaking to the priest Lamennais, a would-be reformer whom Mazzini had hoped to recruit, he said: -
‘The condemnation of the Papacy is decreed, not by us, but by God, by God who now calls upon the People to arise and found a new unity, embracing the two spheres of temporal and spiritual power…In our epoch humanity will forsake the Pope, and have recourse to a General Council of the Church – that is to say – of all believers – a council which will be alike Council of the Church and Constituent Assembly…’