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cantatedomino · « **Reply #210 on:** February 26, 2014, 03:29:15 PM »

EARTHMOVERS:

Chapter Eleven: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

Copernicus’s theory, by correctly [sic] placing the sun rather than the earth at the centre of our own planetary system, was understood by Bruno as evidence of divine harmony and universal unity, in which all the planets were governed by a central authority. Seen through the complex and symbolically inclined mind of Bruno, the heliocentric system, brought down to earth by the power of astral magic, provided the model for the ideal society. Such a society would of course be ruled by a great ‘solar monarch,’ advised by philosopher-priests, whose reign would usher in the magical Hermetic religion around which all the nations of the world would unite. (Hancock & Bauval: Talisman, p.230.)

The spirit of Assisi.

No mention of the name Giordano Bruno can be made today without acknowledging Dame Francis Yates’s Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Sourced and quoted extensively in all modern scholarship on Bruno, her grasp of this man and his quest is far more revealing than she or those who used her work ever meant to convey.

Then there is Father Stanley L. Jaki’s (1924-2009) introduction to an English translation of Bruno’s book The Ash Wednesday Supper. Fr Jaki was a Benedictine priest and distinguished Professor of Physics at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, since 1975, writing books and teaching his students modern heliocentric cosmology and evolution no doubt. For his work in synthesising Catholic faith with modern science Fr Jaki was awarded The Templeton Prize in 1987, ‘for furthering understanding of science and religion’ they say; a prize now valued at £1,000,000 per annum, winnable only by one who asserts heliocentrism and evolutionism is a fact, of course.

Apart from translating Bruno’s book into English, Fr. Jaki provides a 30-page introduction that is fascinating and revealing, especially in the light of the fraud that [claims that ] heliocentrism has been proven a fact by science. Here is how Fr. Jaki described how Dame Francis Yates came to understand the real Giordano Bruno.

Yates also disclosed that her own view of Bruno had undergone, over the span of several decades of intensive study, a change which has all the characteristics of a Copernican turn. It was prompted, interestingly enough, by her delving into the contents of the Cena. Its author originally loomed large on her mental horizon as the embodiment of an enlightened and heroic stand in defence of a reason unfettered by traditionalist obscurantism. As she gained an increasingly deeper grasp of the message of the work, the man usually celebrated as the hero of reason began to appear a grave puzzle.

From one side there beckoned almost irresistibly the popular image of Bruno, the bold challenger of Aristotle and of his medieval admirers, the fearless champion of the truth of science in general and of Copernicanism in particular, and, last but not least, the man ready to suffer martyrdom on behalf of the rational world view. From the other side there emerged a formidable array of evidence suggesting a mental physiognomy of Bruno wholly at variance with the accepted one. According to that evidence, Bruno was an out-and-out magician, an “Egyptian” and Hermeticist of the deepest dye, for whom the Copernican heliocentricity heralded the return of magical religion . . . who defended earth-movement with Hermetic arguments concerning the magical life in all nature, whose aim was to achieve Hermetic gnosis, to reflect the world in the mens by magical means, including the stamping of magic images of the stars on memory, and so become a great Magnus and miracle-working religious leader. (Fr Stanley Jaki: introduction to his book by Bruno, quoting Francis A. Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1964, p.ix.)

cantatedomino · « **Reply #211 on:** February 26, 2014, 03:52:13 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Felipe Bruno was born in 1548 in Nola, a town near Naples Italy, a place from which he coined his nickname ‘the Nolan.’ In 1565, at the age of sixteen, taking the name Giordano, he entered the Dominicans in Naples, a very strict and orthodox order, some of whom then served on the panel of papal Inquisitors. During this time Bruno started to study Marsilio Ficino’s translated works of Hermēs, devouring the gnosis within, all the while becoming profoundly influenced by it. It was only a matter of time then before Bruno’s Hermetic philosophy became noticeable and for which he came under suspicion within his order. During this time Bruno acquired the art of mnemotechnics, the ars memoriae, the ability to remember things, for which he was to become famous. Indeed in 1571, the year before he was ordained, Pope Pius V called him to Rome to teach him how to improve his memory.

At the same time, Bruno has acquired a copy of De revolutionibus, not for the astronomical calculations mind you, for Bruno had little interest in mathematics and geometry, but because of the secret religion it again offered the world in the form of science.

This statement is of the utmost importance. When we speak of copernicanism cuм darwinism cuм neo-newtonian relativity, WE DO NOT SPEAK OF MATERIAL SCIENCE, PROPERLY SO CALLED. By metaphysical necessity, by the impulsion of true knowledge, by definition, we must call it a false religion, a false worldview, a false origins narrative, absolutely malicious, absolutely vicious, absolutely diabolical. The scientism establishment is an occult priesthood, which has for its raison d'etre the contradiction of Truth, both natural and revealed. Copernicanism cuм darwinism cuм neo-newtonian relativity is a religion that is not only anti-Christian but anti-natural, because its first principle is contradiction. It is a religion that shreds the intellect and renders it inoperable, by causing it to disregard the first principles of natural knowledge, which are themselves the Preambles and bulwark of Faith.

COPERNICANISM IS A RELIGION.

COPERNICANISM IS NOT MATERIAL, SCIENTIFIC FACT.

EVOLUTION IS A RELIGION.

EVOLUTION IS NOT A MATERIAL, SCIENTIFIC FACT.

Thereafter, needless to say, he became one of Copernicus’s most ardent admirers. Giordano’s cosmic vision however, went much further than a single solar system among a universe of stars. To Bruno, the universe was infinite in size with endless numbers of stars, each a sun with its own solar system, its own planets and earths, also supporting life, even intelligent life.

Here, Hancock and Bauval cannot resist in adding:

And thus Bruno, through his remarkable intuition, can be said to have anticipated by nearly four centuries our modern ideas of the cosmos. - - - Talisman, p.230

Indeed this very belief endures in the modern scientism canon.

But Bruno didn't ‘anticipate’ our modern ideas of the cosmos; he resurrected them from the grave of Egyptian religion. The same false religion we may call the wellspring of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #212 on:** February 26, 2014, 03:54:26 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Essential to this mission of course was for the secret societies to first install Copernicanism into the minds of man as a fact and then Hermes’s philosophical, ideological and theological ideas would follow as a consequent.

Bruno believed that Hermeticism repre¬sented the true religion, the wisdom of ancient Egypt that had been corrupted, first by the Jews and then the Christians. But the Hermetic books themselves prophesied that the world’s ‘true religion’ would be restored one day, and Bruno believed this applied to his own time. This would, he firmly believed, entail at least a radical reform of the Catholic Church – if not its total replacement. (L. Picknett & C. Prince: Google’s Galileo and the secrets of Hermeticism, July, 2011.)

In the meanwhile, Bruno was also getting quite a reputation for his extraordinary memory. This ability, which Bruno was to use to fascinate and gain influence in high places, was no natural talent but an acquired one, one similar to that known to be used in ancient Egypt. We learn that in the Hermetic texts of Asclepius and Picatrix there are depicted all the symbols of astral magic and it is these stars, planets and zodiac positions that are used as talismans which assisted the magus’s ability to memorise and recall things seen, read and heard.

In time, Bruno’s heretical leanings became known for certain, heresies such as his belief in a kind of transmigration of souls and animistic pantheism, which ‘he wanted to live as a form of gnosis with the intensity of a mystic.’ Pantheism is the belief that there is no other eternal being but the universe. This cult was quite common among ancient pagans from Greece to the Far East. Given it denies a personal God, it was seen by Christians as a serious heresy. Once Christianity became established as the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, like the Hermetic books, pantheism went underground in that few professed it openly. But here it re-appears alongside the re-emergence of other Hermetic influences.

Pantheism relies on nature to explain all the great questions asked by man. For credibility then, it needs the backing of what was called natural philosophy, the precursor to science. Copernicus’s De revolutionibus was crucial to Bruno’s pantheism. Establishing a nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr above - heliocentrism, he knew, would create a nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr below (as above, so below). How right he was. Such was this movement, that even without any empirical proof for a fixed sun or moving earth, the magic of it convinced most in Church and State that there is a natural history to the universe by way of a Big Bang, then many billions of nebular-made solar-systems, and finally the evolution of all life on earth. History records a long line of pantheists emerged with the Copernican revolution, from Bruno to Spinoza, from Goethe to Hegel, From Einstein to Hawking.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #213 on:** February 26, 2014, 03:55:58 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: It is no wonder then that Bruno came under investigation by the local Inquisition who eventually preferred 130 charges of heresy against him. In response, after defrocking himself in public in 1576, the complete heretic fled to other towns in Italy, continually avoiding the Inquisitors while promoting the full teaching of Hermēs for the next two years.

History records that Bruno and the man Galileo to come were two of a kind with connections to Padua. Both were very intelligent but full of themselves, conceited, arrogant, obstinate, argumentative and insulting to those who differed in their belief or opinion to them. Both poured scorn on Aristotle’s thinking at every opportunity. Accordingly, wherever Bruno went, as soon as the public knew his ideas, he was hounded out of the place. This is why, in 1578, he fled to Geneva, a refuge, he thought, that would be safe for dissenters and heretics. Once there however, some Calvinists were equally offended by his pantheistic beliefs and only an abjuration saved him from a Protestant burning.

In 1581, after a spell in Toulouse, Bruno travelled to Paris where he resumed lecturing on ‘thirty divine attributes.’ Again his ability for recollection was observed, but this time it was King Henri III of France who wanted to learn the art of memory, and any other magic Bruno might be able to show him. Henri III, it seems, suspected Bruno’s art was associated with some magical knowledge. Encouraged by this request, Bruno wrote two books, On the Shadows of Ideas, and The Circaean Song, supposedly on mnemotechnics, but really on magic.

In fact they were thinly disguised proclamations of a salvation to be gained through Hermetic magic. Giordano Bruno was not, of course the first to couple mnemotechnics and magical knowledge. From the time of Ficino, it had been customary to present mnemotechnics as the logical way of imprinting on the mind a world picture expressed in this or that kind of symbolism. Though the symbols could be Christian, secular or simply pagan, the procedure itself smacked of Platonic apriorism and often enough of an effort to achieve identification with a deity no different from the cosmos itself. In the case of Briuno, the symbolism came, and in exceedingly heavy doses, from the pseudo-Egyptian lore of Hermes trismegistus, a third century Neoplatonic corpus of mystical vagaries presented as divine revelations given to Hermes, the three-times-great priest of ancient Egypt. (Fr Stanley Jaki: The Ash Wednesday Supper, New York, 1975, p.12.)

cantatedomino · « **Reply #214 on:** February 26, 2014, 03:58:56 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: For over a year Bruno served this royal acquaintance, a relationship that was to put him in good stead as he headed off to England, the land destined to play a vital role in achieving his mission.

To Bruno’s way of thinking the French, or perhaps even the English in the person of their illustrious Queen Elizabeth I, might prove to be the source of such a benign and charismatic ruler. - - - Talisman, p.230.

In England, the works of Hermes had a profound affect on Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of King Henry VIII, and those who surrounded her; Sir Phillip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Sir Frances Bacon (aka William Shakespeare), Christopher Marlowe, George Chapmen, John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, all of whom studied the Hermetica. Protestant England, free from Roman rule and influence, to where many religious and political refugees had fled, proved fruitful ground for Bruno. It was here he wrote most of his books. Above all however, was Bruno’s quest to spread the Hermetic thinking throughout academia in England by promoting Copernicus’s book De Revolutionibus. By mixing the two, Bruno met with both success and failure.

Bruno was among the very first to speak openly at Oxford on the heliocentric theory of Copernicus. But with a major difference. Unlike other scholars, the Nolan insisted on placing the theory within “the context of the astral magic and sun-worship” that was evident in the Hermetic texts. - - - Talisman, p.231.

In 1583 Bruno visited Oxford, where George Abbot, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury, described him thus: “He undertook among very many other matters to set on foot the opinion of Copernicus that the earth did go round, and the heavens stand still; whereas in truth it was his own head which rather did run round, and his brains did not stand still.” (Francis A. Yates: Giordano Bruno, pp.39-40.)

Bruno, who could give as good as he got, saw such ‘Aristotelians’ as ignorant men with no intellectual depth to them, having no love for truth as he saw it and so more to be pitied than scorned. But Bruno would not be deterred. In 1584 he published La Cena, a tome devoted entirely to a defence of Copernicus’s heliocentricism followed soon thereafter by the book De I’nfinito universe e mondi.

Most of these traits appear in the Cena, which is also the most expressive docuмent of the curious ways in which Copernicus’ doctrine began to prevail . . . a stepping stone towards the cosmos of Hermēs Trismegistus, a mystical sun-kingdom of infinite extension, with a cyclic process of birth, growth, decay and rebirth throbbing through it for eternity . . .

Bruno’s next work On the Infinite Universe and Worlds was a work presented by Bruno’s modern admirers as the bold, programmatic proclamation of the infinity of the universe and the anticipation of the world view on which Newton’s physics and astronomy put the hallowed seal. (Stanley Jaki: Introduction to The Ash Wednesday Supper, Mouton, Paris, 1975, p.14.)

An infinite universe posed serious theological problems . . . If the universe was infinite, God must be by definition be part of it, since it includes everything. Where could order, harmony and purpose reside in an infinite, and therefore formless, universe? The entire Aristotelian-Thomist cosmology that had served Christianity well since its birth would collapse, and with it the thousand-year-old hierarchy of interdependent existence that linked in an unbroken chain the inanimate to plant and animal life, to man, to angels, to God. And if that happened, what would become of the painstakingly crafted systems of morals and values built on those assumptions. (Wade Rowland: The Myth of Galileo, published in Burstein’s Secrets.)

cantatedomino · « **Reply #215 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:07:43 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Present at the Oxford debate was an acquaintance of Bruno’s, Sir Philip Sidney, nephew of the Earl of Leicester, ‘once Queen Elizabeth’s favourite and, according to some, even her secret lover,’ a relationship, according to others, that produced a son known later as Lord Francis Bacon. Sir Philip Sidney would of course have been well acquainted with the infamous occult black magician John Dee (1527-1608), a brilliant mathematician, scientist, secret agent and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I. [Like most occultists, Dee believed all things subject themselves to numbers. He wrote that: ‘Everything is veiled in numbers. By number a way is had to the searching and understanding of everything able to be known.’ His own number was, interestingly, 007. Again, there is little new under the sun.]

Such was Bruno’s friendship with Sidney that he dedicated his new book Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante (The expulsion of the Triumphant Beast) to him.

By the beast he meant the power of any and all kinds of error, which were to be overcome by the only true religion, the one revealed through Hermes Trismegistus. The pages of the Spaccio are filled with lengthy portrayals of the age-old Egyptian religion, of which Judaism, Platonism and Christianity were but degenerate distillations; so at least Bruno contended. (Fr Stanley Jaki: Introduction to The Ash Wednesday Supper, p.16)

Bruno said the figurative name for the book had two meanings, the driving out of human vices to create the pure Hermetic soul, and the second allegory, the removal of papal supremacy along with every remnant of Christianity on earth. And how was this to be done?

In Bruno’s eyes, “the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present darkness was the Copernican sun.” Accordingly he looked on the Copernican diagram on the concentric orbits of the planets encircling the sun as a sort of hieroglyph or talisman. It functioned as a magical Hermetic seal that he, Bruno, thought he understood at its deepest level. He became in consequence acutely aware of the huge ‘revolution’ which it was about to unleash and of its potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church. Bruno’s strategy, simple really, was to integrate this inevitable Copernican truth that was about to revolutionize science and religion into his own Hermetic revolution. He believed that Copernicus had vindicated the sun-centred system of the ancient Egyptians, and that it was up to the Nolan to revive and restore that loss of faith in order to reform the world. (Hancock & Bauval: Talisman, p.233-4.)

We see then that Bruno and friends ‘became acutely aware of the huge ‘revolution’ that Copernicanism was about to unleash and of its potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church.’ To those sceptics who raised their eyebrows when in the preface of this book they read of a deliberate mission to impose the new heliocentric Hermetic order on the world at the expense of Catholicism, we ask that they note this is now the observation of many other scholars, most totally unaware that the heliocentric theory they take for granted has no claim to truth or reality because it has never had any verification or proof in science.

This really needs to be unpacked. First, "the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present darkness" perfectly qualifies Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ's self-identification. If, in a parody of the question the Good Jesus posed to His Disciples when they came back from their apostolic journeys, Lucifer asked the men of organized Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: Who do you say that I am? They would respond: Thou art the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present [Catholic] darkness; thou art the Copernican sun.

Secondly, the idea of the "copernican diagram of the concentric orbits of the planets encircling the sun as a sort of hieroglyph or talisman, and functioning as a magical Hermetic seal" is a motion directed to the suppression of the report of the senses and the rational apprehension of the celestial spheres as revolving around the Earth. God formed the Earth to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18) and He created the Heavens for contemplation of Him (Psalm 18). We are supposed to gaze upon the night sky and think of God, in His Creation, His Revelation, and His Redemption.

In its nascence, copernicanism was spread throughout the Earth as an alternate or anti-Gospel message, supposedly stored up for us in the heavens, and awaiting only the deciphering of adepts. This contradicts the truth of the primary deposit given to Adam and his descendants, which they read correctly in the sky. Man has always known that his Redeemer lives and that in the last day he shall rise out of the earth, and shall be clothed again with his skin, and in his flesh he will see his God, Whom he himself shall see, and his eyes shall behold, and not another. This is man's hope, laid up in his bosom. (Job 19)

Adam was given the primordial Deposit of Faith before he was banished from the Paradise of Pleasure - at the very beginning: I will put enmities between thee and the Woman, and thy seed and Her Seed: She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for Her Heel.

Mankind has never been left wanting with respect to the knowledge necessary for salvation. God never left Man in total darkness, but rather: The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. The true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world, was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in His Name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

God never left Man in total darkness, but rather: Error and darkness are created with sinners. (Eccl. 11:16)

God never left Man in darkness, but rather: The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen. (Isaiah 9:2)

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: Darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isaiah 60:2)

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: The light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness.

God never left man in total darkness. Therefore esotericism in any of its forms, but especially in this age in the form of scientism, cannot bring light into the world. It can only bring darkness.

Thirdly, we must take note of the fact that copernicanism is qualified by its adherents as a "huge revolution" that "unleashes" its "potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church." They know right well what it is. WHY DON'T CATHOLICS KNOW WHAT IT IS?

cantatedomino · « **Reply #216 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:12:45 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: The Fourth dialogue [of the Cena] opens the next day with a straightforward reference to the Scriptures, the “true cause” of opposition to the Copernican doctrine. Bruno’s answer, as reported by Theophil, is that the biblical revelation aims at improving peoples’ morals and not at giving them philosophical demonstrations. Furthermore, since the instruction of people had to be tailored to their commonsense perception. Moses had to speak of two big and many small luminaries in the sky. (Fr. S. L. Jaki: Introduction to The Ash Wednesday Supper, p.30.)

First we had Rheticus the Protestant’s hermeneutics of the geocentric passages, then Bruno the heretic’s hermeneutics, and from 1741 the exegesis and hermeneutics of the Catholic Church.

Bruno left England in 1585 and returned to France. But things had changed there too and war between Catholics and Protestants had broken out. In spite of the dangers, Bruno continued with his mission until his beliefs caught up with him again and he was chased out of the country. In 1586 Bruno went to Germany, making contact with fellow Hermeticists, all conspiring together to re-establish their idea of a utopian Egyptian religion long passed away. Nascence of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, methinks.

It was in the 1580s, Francis Yates tells us, that Bruno founded the Giordanisti, a secret society that would continue his mission for religious reforms in Europe, a sect especially appealing to German Lutherans. He himself however, decided it was time to flee again.

Bruno had to depart [for fear of the Calvinists] in early 1588, but, before doing so, he delivered a celebrated address at the university on wisdom and light in an infinite universe of an infinite number of worlds. Pre-dating Einstein and Sagan by centuries, which proves that they teach religion (or anti-religion) rather than new discoveries of physical science. His syncretistic associations of Christian and pagan notions of wisdom were as expressive as was his list and panegyrics of Germans who played a notable part in building the temple of universal, that is, Hermetic wisdom. (Fr S. L. Jaki: Introduction to The Ash Wednesday Supper, p.18.)

From Wittenburg, Bruno went to Prague, the capital of Bohemia at the time, a refuge for Aristotelian philosophers, Jєωιѕн Kaballists, Hermetic intellectuals and scientists from every nation. This was due to the benevolent attitude of Rudolph II, who ‘surrounded himself with a plethora of alchemists and astrologers,’ all seeking ‘the Philosophers Stone’ of course. Again Bruno published more books, among them De Monade numero et figura, ‘permeated among other things by necromancy and by the art of conjuring demons.’

On hearing that Pope Clement VIII had received a book dedicated to the Pontiff by Francisco Patrizi containing translations of parts of the Hermetic corpus, Bruno thought it opportune for him to return to Italy. Patrizi, who was renowned for his belief that the Hermetic doctrine should be taught in Church institutions, ‘even in the Jesuit schools,’ had been called to Rome where a chair of philosophy was assigned to him.

Bruno’s first stop was Padua in the Republic of Venice, the only completely independent state in Italy, one free from Roman rule. Padua was considered a safe haven for Protestants and other dissidents, just the place for Bruno to meet and discuss his ideas with others. Here he contacted an old friend, Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, a scholar who was to be Galileo’s advisor. Then there was the Padua University, a place that enjoyed a freedom not found anywhere else in Italy at the time. Bruno even applied for its chair of mathematics during his three month stay in Padua. However, after a predictable dispute with his host, a Venetian nobleman, Bruno was exposed and handed over to the Venetian Inquisition. The charges made here against Bruno mainly concerned his heretical opinions on the Trinity, Christ, and the human soul.

At first Bruno seemed to want to repent and abjure his heresies but instead choose to return to Rome to face the Roman Inquisition. On Feb. 27, 1593, he was put on trial (that lasted 7 years) while detained in prison. In the meanwhile, the successful applicant for that chair in mathematics at Padua University was none other than Galileo Galilei.

Unfortunately for history, the ‘Processus,’ the docuмents recording the full charges, interrogations and cross-examinations of Bruno in Rome, including the important sentence, were lost. In 1940 however, a summary of the trial was found, showing Cardinal Bellarmine was involved in finding him guilty of heresy, but with no mention of heliocentrism, as is often claimed. ‘He kept to the end his hope that the Catholic Church, as the most universal body, might one day be gained over to his Hermetic dispensation.’ Unrepentant to the end, Bruno was handed over to the secular authorities who burned him at the stake at Campo de’ Fiori on Ash Wednesday, after his last supper, 17th Feb, 1600. In 1603 all of Bruno’s books were put on the Index.

Fr Stanley Jaki ends his account with the following summary:

Bruno’s efforts were doomed to failure from the start . . . He was tragically mistaken about science. For him science was the wave of the future only inasmuch as it served the cause of Hermeticism, a synthesis of occultism, magic, cabbala, necromancy and weird mysticism. (Fr. S. L. Jaki: The Ash Wednesday Supper, p.24.)

Incorrect, for Bruno was not mistaken about ‘science,’ as this synthesis will demonstrate, and his dream did come true. The false science that claimed proof for heliocentrism did become the wave of the future inasmuch as it did serve the cause of Hermeticism. At the end their chapter on Bruno in Talisman, Hancock and Bauval conclude with the following.

Bruno’s dream of a great universal Hermetic reform or revival – whether within the Christian framework or outside it – nosedived and burrowed deep underground . . . Not surprisingly, perhaps, it was after the death of Bruno that Europe was to see the resurgence of secret societies and fraternities. It was as if from the ashes of Bruno’s funeral pyre arose an invisible phoenix that flew out to nurture universal reform elsewhere in Europe. Frances Yates buries in her excellent book on Bruno and the Hermetic tradition a devastating hint as to the identity of this invisible, nurturing and revolutionary ‘phoenix’: “Where is there such a combination of this religious toleration, emotional linkage with its medieval past, emphasis on good works for others, and imaginative attachment to the religion and symbolism of the Egyptians? The only answer to this question that I can think of is – in Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, with its mythical link with the medieval Masons, its toleration, its philanthropy, and its Egyptian symbolisms.” - - - Talisman, pp.238-9

cantatedomino · « **Reply #217 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:16:01 PM »

Here is, I think, a nice place to segueway over to the doxology of the copernicans, chanted by the high priest of teleliturgy, Carl Sagan:

The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be . . .

Our contemplations of the Cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as of a distant memory of falling from a great height . . .

We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries . . .

The size and the age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity, is our tiny planetary home, the earth . . .

Lost somewhere is the earth . . .

Kumbayah . . .

Intro to Cosmos series:

cantatedomino · « **Reply #218 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:17:55 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Present at the Oxford debate was an acquaintance of Bruno’s, Sir Philip Sidney, nephew of the Earl of Leicester, ‘once Queen Elizabeth’s favourite and, according to some, even her secret lover,’ a relationship, according to others, that produced a son known later as Lord Francis Bacon. Sir Philip Sidney would of course have been well acquainted with the infamous occult black magician John Dee (1527-1608), a brilliant mathematician, scientist, secret agent and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I. [Like most occultists, Dee believed all things subject themselves to numbers. He wrote that: ‘Everything is veiled in numbers. By number a way is had to the searching and understanding of everything able to be known.’ His own number was, interestingly, 007. Again, there is little new under the sun.]

Such was Bruno’s friendship with Sidney that he dedicated his new book Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante (The expulsion of the Triumphant Beast) to him.

By the beast he meant the power of any and all kinds of error, which were to be overcome by the only true religion, the one revealed through Hermes Trismegistus. The pages of the Spaccio are filled with lengthy portrayals of the age-old Egyptian religion, of which Judaism, Platonism and Christianity were but degenerate distillations; so at least Bruno contended. (Fr Stanley Jaki: Introduction to The Ash Wednesday Supper, p.16)

Bruno said the figurative name for the book had two meanings, the driving out of human vices to create the pure Hermetic soul, and the second allegory, the removal of papal supremacy along with every remnant of Christianity on earth. And how was this to be done?

In Bruno’s eyes, “the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present darkness was the Copernican sun.” Accordingly he looked on the Copernican diagram on the concentric orbits of the planets encircling the sun as a sort of hieroglyph or talisman. It functioned as a magical Hermetic seal that he, Bruno, thought he understood at its deepest level. He became in consequence acutely aware of the huge ‘revolution’ which it was about to unleash and of its potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church. Bruno’s strategy, simple really, was to integrate this inevitable Copernican truth that was about to revolutionize science and religion into his own Hermetic revolution. He believed that Copernicus had vindicated the sun-centred system of the ancient Egyptians, and that it was up to the Nolan to revive and restore that loss of faith in order to reform the world. (Hancock & Bauval: Talisman, p.233-4.)

We see then that Bruno and friends ‘became acutely aware of the huge ‘revolution’ that Copernicanism was about to unleash and of its potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church.’ To those sceptics who raised their eyebrows when in the preface of this book they read of a deliberate mission to impose the new heliocentric Hermetic order on the world at the expense of Catholicism, we ask that they note this is now the observation of many other scholars, most totally unaware that the heliocentric theory they take for granted has no claim to truth or reality because it has never had any verification or proof in science.

This really needs to be unpacked. First, "the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present darkness" perfectly qualifies Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ's self-identification. If, in a parody of the question the Good Jesus posed to His Disciples when they came back from their apostolic journeys, Lucifer asked the men of organized Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: Who do you say that I am? They would respond: Thou art the sign in heaven proclaiming the return of Egyptian light to dispel the present [Catholic] darkness; thou art the Copernican sun.

Secondly, the idea of the "copernican diagram of the concentric orbits of the planets encircling the sun as a sort of hieroglyph or talisman, and functioning as a magical Hermetic seal" is a motion directed to the suppression of the report of the senses and the rational apprehension of the celestial spheres as revolving around the Earth. God formed the Earth to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18) and He created the Heavens for contemplation of Him (Psalm 18). We are supposed to gaze upon the night sky and think of God, in His Creation, His Revelation, and His Redemption.)

In its nascence, copernicanism was spread throughout the Earth as an alternate or anti-Gospel message, supposedly stored up for us in the heavens, and awaiting only the deciphering of adepts. This contradicts the truth of the primary deposit given to Adam and his descendants, which they read correctly in the sky. Man has always known that his Redeemer lives and that in the last day he shall rise out of the earth, and shall be clothed again with his skin, and in his flesh he will see his God, Whom he himself shall see, and his eyes shall behold, and not another. This is man's hope, laid up in his bosom. (Job 19)

Adam was given the primordial Deposit of Faith before he was banished from the Paradise of Pleasure - at the very beginning: I will put enmities between thee and the Woman, and thy seed and Her Seed: She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for Her Heel.

Mankind has never been left wanting with respect to the knowledge necessary for salvation. God never left Man in total darkness, but rather: The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. The true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world, was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in His Name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

God never left Man in total darkness, but rather: Error and darkness are created with sinners. (Eccl. 11:16)

God never left Man in darkness, but rather: The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen. (Isaiah 9:2)

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: Darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isaiah 60:2)

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: The light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not.

God never left man in total darkness, but rather: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness.

God never left man in total darkness. Therefore esotericism in any of its forms, but especially in this age in the form of scientism, cannot bring light into the world. It can only bring darkness.

Thirdly, we must take note of the fact that copernicanism is qualified by its adherents as a "huge revolution" that "unleashes" its "potential for inflicting a total upheaval on the dogmas of the Church." They know right well what it is. WHY DON'T CATHOLICS KNOW WHAT IT IS?

Some years ago, a group of us visited a Freemasonic hall in the centre of Dublin city, not a stone’s throw from Ireland’s seat of parliament. Two rooms inside fascinated us; a room resembling a Catholic chapel, complete with altar but minus any crucifix of course, and another that contained all the paraphernalia, artefacts and symbols of ancient Egypt. We recall being absolutely baffled by these rooms, as we’re sure most visitors are. That was then, but not now.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #219 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:20:03 PM »

Here is, I think, a nice place to segueway over to the doxology of the copernicans, chanted by the high priest of teleliturgy, Carl Sagan:

The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be . . .

Our contemplations of the Cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as of a distant memory of falling from a great height . . .

We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries . . .

The size and the age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity, is our tiny planetary home, the earth . . .

Lost somewhere is the earth . . .

Kumbayah . . .

Intro to Cosmos series:

cantatedomino · « **Reply #220 on:** March 02, 2014, 01:33:31 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS:

Chapter Twelve: Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ And Victorious Heliocentrism

Mason’s G for God: Square and Compass

On January 3rd, 1997, the following report appeared in The Catholic Herald, an English weekly church newspaper:

The Grand Orient of Italy decided to award the Pontiff Pope John Paul II with the Order of Galileo Galilei, the highest form of recognition able to be made by Italy’s Freemasons to a non-member, in recognition for his promotion of universal Masonic values of fraternity, respect for the dignity of man, and the spirit of tolerance . . . Our intention is to pay homage to a man who, unlike his predecessors, showed himself to be extremely open-minded, rehabilitating Galileo, promoting a critical analysis of the Inquisition [etc.].

Let us here recall the ‘Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita. [The secret papers of the Alta Vendita (written in the early 1800s), highest lodge of the Italian secret society, the Carbonari, acquired by Pope Gregory XVI, and, on the orders of Pope Pius IX otherwise known as the ‘Alta Vendita Plan’ discovered in 1820, speak of working for a generation that will rejoice in having a pope ‘according to our wants’ and of a clergy who will ‘march under our banner in the belief always that they march under the banner of the Apostolic Keys.’]

Now consider the above report, wherein we see the masters of Italian Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ - whose ultimate aim is to see in the victory of Antichrist - honour Pope John Paul II with an award named after Galileo. Coming as it does in a Catholic newspaper, openly and without inhibition, probably illustrates the influence Galileo has had, within and without the Church, better than anything we could say.

The Alta Vendita plan tells of an era of infiltration into the Catholic Church by the Carbonari, who had links with Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, so that they could introduce into the Church their liberal and progressive ideals and principles, a revolution ‘outed’ at that pastoral council Vatican II.

Martin Wagner, in one of the most revealing books on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ ever written, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: An Interpretation (1912), summarises this well known society thus:

Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, in its chief and essential features, is a religious institution, and as such has marks and elements that are peculiar to itself but which also differentiate it from Christianity.’

“Masonry is a religion. If it is not why should it have temples, altars, official rituals, with hymns, odes, prayers, consecrations, and benedictions? Why have high priests, chaplains, written and authorised forms for opening and closing its meetings, for corner stone laying, and dedications, for installations, for the burial of its dead and what not? Why the grotesque imitations and caricatures of the Church’s forms, even to its sacraments?” (Professor G. H. Gerberding, D.D., quoted by Martin L, Wagner, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: An Interpretation.)

cantatedomino · « **Reply #221 on:** March 02, 2014, 01:52:01 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS:

Here above [are] Masonic symbols of the two St Johns shown as parallel figures. On the Masonic Traveller website, they describe the Saints thus:

The Saint’s Johns appear to Freemasons in several places in our catechisms. Their proximity and use in our rituals have been questioned for many years as to their use and placement. Looked at together, Saint John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist serve to represent the balance in Masonry between zeal for the fraternity and learned equilibrium. The Saints John stand in perfect parallel harmony representing that balance.

Manley Palmer Hall 33º, in his book The Lost Keys of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, states that Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ has no meaning or real purpose outside its ‘Melchisedech context,’ that is, its part in the great conflict predicted in Genesis 3:15, the war of priests and kings, that war involving Christ the High Priest and His priests and kings of Christendom against the combined army of the Antichrist.

Genesis 3:15: I will put enmities between thee and the Woman, and thy seed and Her seed: She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for Her Heel.

Now, whereas the great battle of the Melchisedech kingships is temporarily lost, all Catholic kings in the world having been exterminated, including the Kingship of Christ by orders at Vatican II wherein Rome asked that the Church be removed from its special place in any remaining constitutions of the world, the battle against the Melchisedech priesthood is still ongoing, with fewer and fewer vocations to a modernist Roman Church that no longer cares about tradition. Currently, it is the scientist-as-priest and not the priest-as-saint, whom men and women look to for wisdom today.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #222 on:** March 02, 2014, 02:05:38 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS:

Masonic depiction of the war on King and Priesthood

Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ then is a church of the Antichrist, just as was the heliocentric paganism of ancient Egypt it imitates in many ways. No wonder then that the heliocentric heretic Galileo is honoured by them. It has taken the form of pseudo-Christianity with its good works, thus luring into its ranks some Catholic as well as anti-Catholic supporters.

The institution is esoteric and ‘the symbolism is the very soul of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ’ (Albert Pike). ‘It least does mean what it most does say and show.’ ‘Its peculiar religious ideas and doctrines have survived from the periods of remotest antiquity until the present time, and continue with a persistence that is marvellous. It has diffused over the whole habitable earth. Like the mysterious force or energy in nature upon which it is based, [Electromagnetism?]the essence or data has been constant, but the forms in which it has found expression have varied in different ages and among different people. The marvel lies in its persistence. So long as there is unregenerate human nature, so long will the root of Masonry find a congenial soil and keep alive the organization in some form. (M. L. Wagner: Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: An Interpretation.)

Domitilla · « **Reply #223 on:** March 02, 2014, 02:08:41 PM »

WOW ! This is fabulous, CD ... thank you.

cantatedomino · « **Reply #224 on:** March 02, 2014, 02:11:31 PM »

THE EARTHMOVERS: Having recalled the ancient Hermetic religion fostered by Bruno and Campanella, surely one can see it resembles very much Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ as described here below?

These vital and essential elements in this religion are not spiritual facts and spiritual mysteries, but carnal and psychical, the facts of life, and the mysteries involved in the generation and reproduction of life, and from their nature appeal most powerfully to man . . . On its theological side, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ is a sort of pantheism, the deity being the generative principle, the reproductive power that pervades all animated nature . . . It is a sex-cult, and like its prototypes and predecessors, will always have a large and influential following.

The ancient ethnic religions were sex-cults, and more or less secret. So long as public sentiment frowns upon indecencies, excesses, and sɛҳuąƖ uncleanness, such cults cannot exist except under esoteric terms . . . The most dangerous antagonists of Christianity in its earliest days were the worshipers of Isis, under various modifications as Demeter, Cybele, Diana, or as the power of fertility, and the Mithraism, the worship of the generative power under the aspect of light. The enemies of Christianity clothed these ideas in the language of the New Testament and of the Church. By skilfully veiling their pagan ideas under the terminology of Christian doctrines many who thought themselves serving the Lord Jesus Christ were led unconsciously into the pagan cults. And this is the method of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. (M. L Wagner: Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ: An Interpretation.)

Now let us return to the symbols of the two St Johns:

The point and the circle carry a sɛҳuąƖ connotation. How can this be, you might ask? If you have to ask that question, you do not have the mind and heart of a pagan. One Masonic author states that this symbol is used in Sun Worship, and then says: "The female principle, symbolized by the moon, assumed the form of a lunette [small circular opening], or crescent, while the male principle, symbolized by the sun, assumed the form of the lingam [Phallus] and placed himself erect in the center of the lunette, like the mast of a ship." (Point Within A Circle", Short Talk Bulletin , August, 1931, Masonic Bulletin designed to read within the Lodges, p. 4)

It is no coincidence that the two Johns had a major role in setting up the greatest mystery of them all, the Church of Christ, and this is why Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, the masters of imitation and symbols, chose them as patrons when building their own temple to the natural son - and why the instigator of their ultimate victory against the Church, the spiritually unprotected pastoral council called Vatican II, had to be a Pope John, and a false prophet to boot. For why else would any elect choose the name of an anti-pope of the past - Pope John XXIII?

[Pope John XXIII prophesied a ‘renewal.’ What we had was the destruction of the visible Church. Jesus told us to beware of false prophets, for they are wolves in sheep’s clothing. (Mat.7:15).]

Recall also many facts already touched on. First we made reference to Lucifer’s inability to generate and his intent to usurp this power to himself by proxy while at the same time seeking to undermine this gift from God in man by tempting us with abominable impurities. What we endeavour to show is the continuous link between all ages of heliolaters.