The history and dangers of celibacy in the priesthood

The history and dangers of celibacy in the priesthood

“It is better to marry than to burn. It is better to marry than to be the occasion of death” Pope Gregory the Great had said in the 7th Century.

The first Great Schism in A.D. 1054. between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox was due to a disagreement on priestly celibacy, and the RCC mandates of priestly celibacy have been widely protested by Orthodox Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean world for the last 1500 years.

The first ecumenical council condemned homosexuality, Lateran III of 1179, stated “Whoever shall be found to have committed that incontinence which is against nature” shall be punished, the severity of which depended upon whether the transgressor was a cleric or layperson (quoted in Boswell, 1980, 277).

Church Fathers, Origen, like his teacher St. Clement of Alexandria, had defended the lawfulness of marriage against celibacy in what they had feared were the teachings of demons was a departure from the historic faith as said by Saint Paul in “attaching themselves to demonic doctrines (Timothy 4:1-3).” St. John warns us against such deceiving spirits (John 4:1-6) and them πνεύμα τῆς πλάνης, “the spirit of error.”

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.…

Today, we may observe a result of these doctrines in the West with the Roman Catholic Church’s pedophile church scandals, unmarked children’s graves, and fewer people identifying with their religion. A 2021 Gallup poll found that Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline in 2020, decreasing below 50% for the first time. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.

Many people and priests in the Western world praise celibacy as an exemplary demonstration of one’s faith in God only and the Church. But there are also many people, scientists, and even Church officials over the last 1500 years who have strongly disagreed with mandatory celibacy and in fact, many believed that it would cause great evils.

The quote I listed above, “It is better to marry than to burn. It is better to marry than to be the occasion of death,” was made by Pope Gregory the Great in the 7th Century shortly after under his authority Rome had issued a decree depriving Catholic Priests of their wives.

Meaning, priestly celibacy, was now officially enforced by Roman Law, which meant that it was illegal to have sex with anyone before. Many of these same said priests were married or had serious relationships, mainly with women.

It was said that sometime after this decree was ordered, Pope Gregory had commanded that some fish should be caught from the local fish ponds, but instead of finding fish, the fishermen reportedly found the heads of six thousand infants who had been drowned in the ponds in order to conceal the priest’s fornications and adulteries.

Upon learning of the horrors of the murders committed by his priests as a result of his Unholy new law, Pope Gregory recalled his decree, and purged the sin with worthy fruits of repentance, extolling the apostolic command:

“It is better to marry than to burn. It is better to marry than to be the occasion of death.”

It appears that Pope Gregory’s prediction was spot on because now 1300 years later, in America and many parts of the world, gay priests and child rape within Church walls have not only become an open secret, they have become a plague infecting our culture at all levels.

Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church is in crisis.

Priests all over the world are being arrested and convicted for pedophilia.

There is a shortage of men willing to join the RCC as Church attendance is at its lowest ever. For the last several years, Pope Francis has been hinting that they are considering allowing married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage.

Today, the Roman Catholic Church requires it for those who are called to be priests and bishops, while the Orthodox Church requires it, for pastoral reasons, only for bishops and priests can marry if they choose to.

However, there were many early Church Fathers, Popes, Christian Philosophers, and commentators who were adamantly against celibacy in the not-so-distant past!

In fact, they believed that it was unnatural, therefore, it was against God’s hierarchy and Natural Law and the end result would be Great Evil.

Since we are at another junction in this 6th Age when the Roman Catholic Church is again debating whether to allow their priests to marry and have children or to remain celibate as American Catholic Priests are openly coming out of the closet cage to the New York Times as homosexuals, I thought it would be enlightening to publish some quotes from history showing us exactly what many imminent Christain authors and philosophers had said about celibacy, effeminism, and homosexuality.

Especially since in our modern era of Sodom and Gomorrah on Steroids 2.0, there is massive disinformation and gay propaganda campaign in the media to falsely claim that the Bible does not speak against homosexuality and these so-called authors are conveniently not revealing what both history and science has already proven this causes.

Science has now found evidence to indicate that an effeminate boy or man is a product of our society forced into the pattern, in part, by the rigid sex-typing of personality required by our society.

For example, one of America’s most influential figures in American sexology, Alfred Kinsey had stated that sexual liberation, as opposed to sexual abstinence, was the key to both a strong marriage and a happy life. Kinsey strongly believed that abstinence was a sexual dysfunction:

“The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinencecelibacy, and delayed marriage.

With that said, I wanted to show you what some of the most imminent and well respected Christain authors had said and written about the act of sodomy that we now call homosexuality.

HISTORY OF CELIBACY AND HOMOSEXUALITY

In Ancient Assyria (1450–1250 BCE),  sodomy was punished with castration: “If a man has lain with his male friend and a charge is brought and proved against him, the same thing shall be done to him and he shall be made a eunuch.”

Under Augustus Caesar, to be accused of being effeminate was one of the worst insults that could be said to a man. Augusts had punished male effeminacy in his law treating adultery. To be an effeminate man is the dichotomy created between masculinity and femininity when a man generally chooses to engage outside the traditionally normal roles for males in sports and in their career choices

Under the Vendidad (c. 250–650), the Zoroastrian collection of laws, male homosexuality was understood as an effect of demons: “The man that lies with mankind as man lies with womankind, or as woman lies with mankind, is the man that is a Daeva [demon]; this one is the man that is a worshipper of the Daevas, that is a male paramour of the Daevas.”

PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA

Writing in the first century A.D., philosopher, Philo of Alexandria had equated Sodom’s sin with same-sex sexuality that he believed caused a man to be “unmasculine and effeminate,” a transgression of the gender hierarchy that he called the “greatest of all evils.”

Writing in the first century A.D., philosopher, Philo of Alexandria had equated Sodom’s sin with same-sex sexuality that he believed caused a man to be “unmasculine and effeminate,” a transgression of the gender hierarchy that he called the “greatest of all evils.”

SAINT CLEMENT

Clement of Alexandria’s treatment of marriage is a bond of man and woman based on a free and rational choice, whose greatness lies in the opportunity to bear children which assimilates man to God, the Creator. He believed that the primary purpose of marriage is to produce children by which, according to Plato, one secures for himself a kind of immortality.

uthorities in his treatise on marriage (Strom. II, 23, 137, 1 – III, 18, 110, 3). It shows that Clement widely quotes not only biblical authorities, but also classical authors; in his practical theology he puts great emphasis primarily on Paul the Apostle, Plato, and Aristotle.

St. Clement speaks of marriage as co-operation among the couple, and leads to a kind of harmony; Origen, his disciple, sees in marriage a mutual giving.

ORIGIN OF ALEXANDRIA

Origen defends Christian marriage, as a type of unity of the Church with Christ.

Since God has joined them together (a man and a woman in marriage), for this reason there is a gift for those joined together by God.

To support the institution of marriage as a union blessed and sanctified by God, Clement states an argument from
the gospel, namely the Jesus’ word: “For where two or three gather in my name, there
am I with them.”

Paul knowing this declares that equally with the purity of the holy celibacy is marriage according to the Word of God a gift, saying, “But I would that all men were like myself; howbeit, each man has his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that” (1 Cor. 7:7). Those who are joined together by God obey in thought and deed the command “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also the Church” Eph 5:25.

Using Seneca’s argument from the conduct of animals, he says, “Some women serve lust without any restraint.” indeed I would not compare them to dumb beasts; for beasts, when they conceive, know not to indulge their mates further with their plenty. Intercourse must be suspended until the woman can conceive again.”

The First or Second Century Didache, also known as The Lord’s Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations, an early Christian treatise written in Koine Greek, had said;

“You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill one that has been born.” (Didache 2:2 A.D. 70).

Cicero says, “There exist certain precepts, even laws, that prohibit a man from being effeminate in pain,”[12] and Seneca adds, “If I must suffer illness, it will be my wish to do nothing out of control, nothing effeminately.”

In early Rome, legislators and the Roman Elite had a problem with older males raping their children so they instituted what is called the Lex Scantinia. This law protected minor males of noble families (ingenui) from being raped by older males. It was said to have been enacted around 149 B.C.E.

Justin Martyr writing in 151 A.D. said;

“We have been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of wicked men, and this we have been taught lest we should do anyone harm and lest we should sin against God, first, because we see that almost all so exposed (not only the girls but also the males) are brought up to prostitution.

And for this pollution, a multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable iniquities, are found in every nation. And you receive the hire of these, and duty and taxes from them, whom you ought to exterminate from your realm. . . . And there are some who prostitute even their own children and wives, and some who are openly mutilated for the purpose of sodomy; and they refer these mysteries to the mother of the gods” (First Apology 27 A.D. 151).

At one of the first worldwide meetings of the Churches at the Council of Nicea, called by Emperor Constantine in A.D. 325 to address the problem of heresies, the Chruch voted against celibacy at the conclusion of the council.

The late Roman Empire finally promulgated the first European law openly prohibiting sodomy in 390. The law was part of a code of laws set forth by Emperor Theodosius (c. 345–395), who was under the influence of the Christian Church.

The church’s policy was defined by Augustine (354–430), who, following the apostle Paul, determined that sexual pleasure was permissible only as procreation within marriage. Because homosexuality, as with adultery, was a sin, its punishment was penance imposed by the church rather than by secular authority.

The Byzantine emperor Justinian (c. 482–565) outlawed homosexuality in 533 in the Justinian Code, persons who engaged in homosexual sex were to be executed, although those who were repentant could be spared.

In 693, the Visigoths in Spain, Egica, monarch of “Spain” pleads with the 16th Council of bishops at Toledo to deal more firmly with “that obscene crime committed by those (clergymen) who lie with males.” The Council sets punishment as removal from office, castration, ex-communication, 100 lashes, exile. Egica decrees similar punishments on non-clergy as a matter of civil law, increasing the harshness of prior law.

Saint Thomas Aquinas ( ? – d. 1274) theorizes that all human sexual activity was intended by God to be solely for the purpose of producing children. Therefore any other sort of sexual doing was sinful and “unnatural.”

Several saint-bishops, including Thomas Becket, were apparently advised by their doctors that they should abandon celibacy for the sake of their health – although they always refused to do so. Non-clerics were also at risk, especially if they went on prolonged military campaigns. Louis VII of France became ill after spending two months besieging a Burgundian town, and his doctors agreed that ‘prolonged abstinence from sexual intercourse had cause his indisposition.’ One account of the Third Crusade claimed that ‘A hundred thousand men died there/ Because from women they abstained.’

In the 19th century, there was a significant reduction in the legal penalties for sodomy. After the French Revolution in 1789, the Napoleonic code decriminalized sodomy, and with Napoleon’s conquests that Code spread.

Sodomy was omitted from the penal code, and again from the code adopted in France in 1810. The basic concepts of the 1810 code also became the basis for much of the law in Spanish South America.

The Napoleonic code decriminalized sodomy, and with Napoleon’s liberal conquests, Code spread, and so did sodomy and sexual perversions.

Human Magnetoreception: The Hierarchy of Bad Ideas and Humans Creating Hell on Earth

Human Magnetoreception: The Hierarchy of Bad Ideas and Humans Creating Hell on Earth

I believe we each live in a multipolar world that is ruled by magnetism. These worlds act just like magnets attracting and repulsing people based on the quality of their DNA, thoughts, ideas, and actions or inactions.

These thoughts, lack thereof, and action processes are also magnetic.

We know that magnetism is the result of an object or energy that is either spinning up, down, or not at all.

Science has proven that humans are also part of this magnetic process. We can now measure and quantify a person’s thoughts via their magnetic field with special magnetic resonance machines.

Like magnets, humans are either spinning up, down, or not at all.

There is a group of magnetized humans that I contend participate outside the Forms of Good of the World Soul/Noosphere and our accepted Ancient Traditions.

People who are of like energies or none at all, spin the same way so naturally, they will be magnetized to organizations and people who “speak their language.”

In this sense, we can say they scientifically align their minds with the other weak minds who follow the modern-day cargo cults of atheism and the Left-Hand Path ie Counterclockwise Path – the path of the Individual and Satanism.

There is also research that I believe explains why some humans are naturally magnetized and attracted to the material world, atheism, and Satanism, and why I theorize that they spin down.

Instead of being in rhythm with the world, they become arrhythmic and spin down.

To be an individualistic or Satanic human is a result of spinning down, which is symbolized in the occult by the inverted pentagram and upside-down cross.

To become an energy and people magnet ie a Satanic Individual that absorbs and attracts like energies in a vampish fashion of everyone and everything around you.

To consciously do this is to participate in the noosphere but often ends in destruction and death for most people who chose this path.

The path of the selfish human.

The spinning path that leads to the underworld or what the Greeks had called Acheron makes people beasts who often morph into demons taking everyone around them down to what Christians call hell.

This is why they proudly profess to follow the adversary, Satan or they have no God thus becoming zealous atheists hell-bent on attacking the world’s Traditions on their Twitter accounts.

A New World Order made up of mostly Satanists ie: Liberal atheists and agnostics who seek to usurp God’s natural hierarchy/community to follow their own ideas in disorder to create self-made religions, cults, philosophies, and God forbid, online coaching courses on how you can learn to be just like them.

In a sense, they flip their middle fingers proudly at our Ancient Traditions. Like fallen angels and their Beastly hero, Satan, they labor in the world of Do Thou Wilt is the Whole of the Law as they  pervert and magnetize our nation’s youth into their cults.

These people are often magnetically repelled, opposed, and more often than not, engaged in active attacks against the ideas of our religious and philosophical Traditions i.e Plato’s Forms of Good and God’s communities.

With the advent of the internet, which is just a big magnet in the sky, I believe that these people are creating a Satanic world of individuals who all mimic and copy one another as they magnetize each other into Hell (bowels of the earth).

In researching what biological phenomena may be causing people to become a type of automaton, I found that within our gi tracts is what is called the “myenteric plexus” which plays a major role in controlling our “motor skills.” It is the inner plexus that is located in the submucosal region between the circular muscle and the mucos controlling GI secretions and local blood flow.

You wil find that the myenteric plexus can be electrically depolarized or hyperpolarized depending on the person’s gut health.

This science connects with my spin down theory because Spin polarization is the degree to which the spin, i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of elementary particles, is aligned with a given direction. … Spin polarization of electrons or of nuclei, often called simply magnetization, is also produced by the application of a magnetic field.

In biology, depolarization is a change within a cell, during which the cell undergoes a shift in electric charge distribution, resulting in less negative charge inside the cell.

Depolarization is essential to the function of many cells, communication between cells, and the overall physiology of an organism.

As I have explained, humans are like magnets, and in being so, we are also like a radio with an antenna, i.e. the brain in our skulls and also the second brain in our bowels that can receive outside communication signals and also control various thought processes.

In researching what biological phenomena may be causing people to become a type of automaton, I found that within our gi tracts is what is called the “myenteric plexus” which plays a major role in controlling our “motor skills.” It is the inner plexus that is located in the submucosal region between the circular muscle and the mucus controlling GI secretions and local blood flow.

You will find that the myenteric plexus can be electrically depolarized or hyperpolarized depending on the person’s gut health.

This science connects with my spin down theory because Spin polarization is the degree to which the spin, i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of elementary particles, is aligned with a given direction. … Spin polarization of electrons or of nuclei, often called simply magnetization, is also produced by the application of a magnetic field.

In biology, depolarization is a change within a cell, during which the cell undergoes a shift in electric charge distribution, resulting in less negative charge inside the cell.

Depolarization is essential to the function of many cells, communication between cells, and the overall physiology of an organism.

As I have explained, humans are like magnets, and in being so, we are also like a radio with an antenna, i.e. the brain in our skulls and also the second brain in our bowels that can receive outside communication signals and also control various thought processes.

Hence, I contend that depending upon the human, their health, and the quality of their thinking and reasoning or lack thereof will determine de facto how they spin or more appropriately, where they are magnetizing via their thoughts and lives – up to heaven ie Vitruvian Man, Christ Consciousness and Plato’s realm of Ideas or via the bowels – down to the earthly, material and animal realm – where Hades rules the 666 Beast Men.

The sons and daughters of the Devil who controls the little noos or false noos.

The magnetic path that leads to disorder, destruction, and death i.e. hell!

RESEARCH:

A 2012 study stated;

“The myenteric plexus of the enteric nervous system lies between the circular and longitudinal layers of the muscularis externa and is the main neuronal regulator of intestinal motor function. The rhythmicity of intestinal motor function is tied to the intrinsic oscillating transmembrane potential of the ICCs and is propagated among smooth muscle cells via membrane gap junctions.

Enteric nerves serve to alter smooth muscle membrane potentials to depolarize or hyperpolarize, such that oscillating changes in potential become closer to or further from the threshold at which spike potentials, as well as resultant muscle cell contraction, occur.”

See more @ Science Direct

Matt Walsh Defines Leftism and Woke Culture as Satanism

Matt Walsh Defines Leftism and Woke Culture as Satanism

An author and podcaster who has similar views about how Satanism is an ideology that best explains extreme leftism, neoliberalism, progressivism, and the woke movement is Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire.

He also believes it is a type of religious cult in which members are united by the Satanic ideologies they share regardless of their self-chosen titles or preferred pronouns.

In his 2017 book, The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left’s Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender, Walsh wrote:

“According to the liberal – the secular Satanist, you might call him – each person is a Me, a Mighty Me, and all values and morals are hallowed out and reduced to serve Me. I am currently autonomous and sovereign, and everything is relative to Me. I make my own truth, my own science, my own universe.

This is what Satan set out to do, and the universe he created was a nothingness of Hell, a Hell that the modern liberal wants desperately to join.”

Walsh further said, “The Satanism of the modern liberal is almost always latent and secular, not theological. What I’m trying to establish is the prevailing philosophy of our culture is rooted in an evil that can be traced back to the beginning of everything. This is not new, we should realize.

I use the terms liberal and progressive and liberalism and progressivism simply because these are the names and labels we place on the contemporary manifestations of this ancient evil. But it doesn’t actually matter what name you use.

You could call it “liberal” or “progressive,” a “banana” or an “oogliebooglie” – it is the belief system, not the labels, we’ll be dealing with in this book, ” he wrote. (1)

This is where I somewhat disagree with Matt Walsh. I do believe that people like myself and Walsh who are opposed to these various ideologies that all come from the same source should stick to one label that best defines them all and that would be Satanism, which I agree, predates them all.

In an interview with podcaster Matt Fradd of Pints With Aquinas Host, Walsh said that the simplest answer is that Leftism is the worship of the self. It is the elevation of the self, which is also the definition of Satanism. (2)

He said, “That is the coherent thread that can connect what we call Leftism and wokeism. It is a religious worship because they believe that the self or ego transcends all boundaries and should submit to no control at all including their own biological identities that they should be able to overwrite by the force of their own will.

The worship of the self is also the definition of Satanism, which I would respond I would respond, yes exactly.

Maybe that is an easier way of putting it.”

HOST MATT FRAD:

It is true. They have their own creed that kind of gets placarded outside of their houses. They have their little tokens that symbolize they’re part of the group. Just like I as a Catholic do.

I wear a miraculous medal around my neck. I got to holy mass. Things like this. I suppose having your pronouns displayed on your Instagram is something like that.

You also have these excommunications. I mean the Catholic Chruch is far more merciful to those who have been excommunicated. It seems to me more than the woke mob when they cancel you.

MATT WALSH:

“My only hesitation, although I say it is a religious cult because it is. Sometimes I worry about putting it that way because when you’re using religion as a pejorative. That is my only hesitation. It is not like there is anything wrong in itself with being religious but there are plenty of religions that are wrong.

The religion of Leftism is the wrongest of them all. I think calling it a religious cult is important. It helps us exactly understand what we are dealing with here,” Walsh said.

SOURCES:

The Unoly Trinity: Blocking the Left’s Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender By Matt Walsh

Pints with Aquinas

The Symbology of the Triangle △ and Number 3 in Freemasonry

The Symbology of the Triangle △ and Number 3 in Freemasonry

Throughout the symbology of Freemasonry, you will find the most prominent of all numbers is 3 (three), and one of the most esteemed symbols is the triangle △, which is also represented by the structure of a pyramid.

3 degrees of Masonry, the 3 pillar officers, and the 3 tenants of Freemasonry.  

 

The 3 different levels of initiation or degrees represent a Mason’s journey toward enlightenment, with the number 3 being significant at various levels of advancement such as the 3rd, and 33rd degrees.

It’s not that you become perfect after reaching the higher levels of Freemasonry. But rather that you are closer to being balanced between your physical self and spiritual self while demonstrating mastery over the world in which the Mason lives.

At its essence, the triangle and number 3 represent the balance and stability between the three worlds of human existence – earth, heaven, and hell. As such, we can it symbolizes the union of body, mind, and spirit, or heaven, earth, and water, and its mastery over these elements.

In Freemasonry, and other mystery schools like Rosicrucianism, the triangle is also a representation of the metaphysical representation of joining together your physical self with your spiritual self to create harmony and balance within yourself and the world.

This is often represented by the square and compass and the number three or the upright triangle interlaced with an inverted triangle such as the Seal of Solomon or Star of David.

According to Manly P. Hall:

“Man’s threefold lower nature—consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties—reflects the light of his threefold Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world.

Man’s three bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by an inverted triangle.

These two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews “the Star of David,” “the Signet of Solomon,” and are more commonly known today as “the Star of Zion.”

These triangles symbolize the spiritual and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature and Divinity.

Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator.” (The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

Albert Pike said;

The ingenious and mystical idea which caused the Triangle to be venerated, was applied to the figure 4 (4). It was said that it expressed a living being, I, bearer of the Triangle △, the emblem of God; i.e., man bearing with himself a Divine principle (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 1871, 632-633).

Freemason, Albert Mackey had written in his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry that there is no symbol as significant as the triangle and was adopted by all nations in early antiquity as a symbol of deity. For Freemasons, he says it represents the Grand Architect of the Universe and the animated principle.

Mackey wrote;

“There is no symbol more important in its significance, more various in its application, or more generally diffused throughout the whole system of Freemasonry, than the triangle. An examination of it, therefore, cannot fail to be interesting to the Masonic student.

The equilateral triangle appears to have been adopted by nearly all the nations of antiquity as a symbol of the Deity, in some of his forms or emanations, and hence, probably, the prevailing influence of this symbol was carried into the Jewish system, where the Yod within the triangle was made to represent the Tetragrammaton, or sacred name of God.

The equilateral triangle, says Brother D. W. Nash (Freemasons Magazine iv, page 294), “viewed in the light of the doctrines of those who gave it currency as a divine symbol, represents the Great First Cause, the Creator and Container of all things, as one and indivisible, manifesting Himself in an infinity of forms and attributes in this visible universe.”

Among the Egyptians, the darkness through which the candidate for initiation was made to pass was symbolized by the trowel, an important Masonic implement, which, in their system of hieroglyphics, has the form of a triangle.

The equilateral triangle they considered the most perfect of figures, and a representative of the great principle of animated existence, each of its sides referring to one of the three departments of creation, the animal, vegetable, and mineral.

The equilateral triangle is to be found scattered throughout the Masonic system. It forms in the Royal Arch the figure within which the jewels of the officers are suspended.

It is in the Ineffable Degrees the sacred Delta, everywhere presenting itself as the symbol of the Grand Architect of the Universe.

In Ancient Craft Masonry, it is constantly exhibited as the element of important ceremonies.

The seats of the principal officers are arranged in a triangular form – the three Lesser Lights have the same situation, and the Square and Compasses form, by their union on the greater light, two triangles meeting at their bases. In short, the equilateral triangle may be considered as one of the most constant forms of Masonic symbolism.

The right-angled triangle is another form of this figure which is deserving of attention. Among the Egyptians, it was the symbol of universal nature; the base representing Osiris, or the male principle; the perpendicular, Isis, or the female principle; and the hypotenuse, Horus, their son, or the product of the male and female principle.

This symbol was received by Pythagoras from the Egyptians during his long sojourn in that country, and with it he also learned the peculiar property it possessed, namely, that the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides is equal to the square of the longest side-symbolically expressed by the formula, that the product of Osiris and Isis is Horus.

This figure has been adopted in the Third Degree of Freemasonry, and will be there recognized as the Forty-seventh Problem of Euclid (see Forty-seventh Problem).” (Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

German Police Arrest 25 Members of Reichsbürger for Attempted Government Coup

German Police Arrest 25 Members of Reichsbürger for Attempted Government Coup

Twenty-five members of a right-wing political group called “Reichsbürger” were arrested by the German police yesterday for allegedly attempting a government coup and planning a civil war.

Reichsbürger is a German term meaning “citizens of the Reich” or “Reich Citizens,” while ‘reich’ itself refers to a ‘realm’ or ’empire’ in English.

Investigators claim members were plotting to storm the German parliament building called the Reichstag, and other targets in a wave of attacks that included the national power grid in order to depose the current federal government and take power by force.

The prosecutors stated that the group believed that Germany is ruled by a so-called “deep state,” similar to claims in the U.S. by QANON and former President Donald Trump.

According to German officials, the suspects “belong to a terrorist organization founded by the end of November 2021 at the latest, which has set itself the goal of overcoming the existing state order in Germany and replacing it with its own form of state, which has already been worked out in outline.”

Many members are alleged to be former soldiers of Germany’s armed forces, including special forces, who were said to be in possession of various weapons. The Reichsbürger had planned the coup to completion from the moment of the “takeover” by assigning government positions to some of its members.

A soldier from the Bundeswehr’s Special Forces Command (KSK) as well as several Bundeswehr reservists are also among the suspects arrested, a spokesperson for Germany’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) told the DPA news agency.

Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said in a statement:

“Since this morning a large anti-terror operation is taking place. The Federal Public Prosecutor General is investigating a suspected terror network from the Reichsbürger scene,” Buschmann wrote. “The suspicion exists that an armed attack on constitutional organs was planned.”

Approximately 2,100 Reichsbürger are prepared to use violence to reach their goals, according to the 2021 annual report of the agency.

The group’s leader is 71 year old Heinrich Reuss, who calls himself Prince Heinrich XIII. Reuss hails from a long-established but minor German royal household in eastern Germany and has publicly advocated his “Reichsbürger” in order to restore the old royal lineage from the 19th century.

Reichsbürger is a term was first used in 1980 by Otto Ernst Remer to describe those who rejected the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany as not legitimate.

It refers to Germany before World War II, when it was known as the Second Reich. The first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 962 to 1806.

Some Reichsbuerger demand the enthronement of the great-great grandson of Emperor Wilhelm II, forced to abdicate in 1918 as a consequence of World War One, as a new German emperor.

They are described as a right-wing extremist group that believes that the Federal Republic of Germany is not a real state, but only a corporation under international law. They assert that the 1937 borders of Germany are still in effect and claim that their country is the Deutsches Reich (German Empire), which existed under a different legal system.

Approximately 3,000 security forces from the Federal Police’s antiterrorism unit GSG 9, and officers from several special forces (SEK) of the German states were also deployed to carry out the raids.

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