How The Venetians Took Over England and

Created Freemasonry
Conference Address by Gerald Rose, Schiller Institute Conference, September, 1993

Gerry Rose is a member of the editorial board of Executive Intelligence Review magazine and the International
Caucus of Labor Committees' executive committee. He spoke on September 5, 1993.

I had become increasingly interested for many years, beginning with my research into the American
Revolution, as to why England seemed to be the source of such evil. This is not only on the level of
geopolitics and the unbelievable savagery that the British Empire carried out in its usury and slavery,
but also on the level of culture. The British creation of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, leading to
the outright Satanism of Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley, etc. underscores the
motivation that created the British Empire. As you look deeper, there is no doubt that the New Age
issued from England. This includes emphatically the creation of the Jacobins at the hands of Lord
Shelburne and the creation of communism--with its twin evil, fascism--at the British Foreign Office
by Lord Palmerston and in his collaboration with Giuseppe Mazzini.

The stated goal of the New Age is the destruction of monotheistic religion and a return to outright
paganism. Freemasonry is the instrument created to carry out this return to paganism. It is the
Venetian takeover of England and its creation of Freemasonry that is our subject today.

I think it is important here, to reference the prime satanic evil that Venice really is. There are two
works of art which deal most effectively with the methods of Venice. They are The Jew of Malta by
Christopher Marlowe and The Ghostseer by Friedrich Schiller.

In both masterpieces, we see a portrait of pure evil, where there is no right or wrong, just corruption.
The key to this is Aristotle, and it should not come as any surprise that it was the University of
Padua, run by Venice, that trained the elite of Venice explicitly in Aristotle. Aristotle rejects Plato's
method of successive approximations of perfection, which bring one closer to the Creator. For
Aristotle, the Creator has nothing to do with the unfolding of the universe and the continuing
creation. For Aristotle, man's progress is a mere illusion and we are always infinitely far from the
Creator. For Aristotle, there is no right or wrong, because there is no knowable truth. For Aristotle,
there is only ethics but no morality, and ethics is only a matter of convention. In The Ghostseer
Schiller captures this in the most profound way. He shows that the essence of Venice is that it is
always on both sides of every issue--but the essence of its method is corruption: Find the adversary's
weakness, and then corrupt him. This is Satanic. It is evil for evil's sake. Its method is to degrade
humanity and take delight in that. We will recount how this Venetian evil took over England and
created the New Age.
 Cultural Warfare

How did the “New Age'' come into existence? This story will be told today. Further, we will achieve a most startling
result: We will learn that what we call modern scientific method is basically occult belief created by Freemasonry to
destroy the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa. It was the Venetian creation of Freemasonry that imposed upon
science a radical split between the science of the Spirit which is theology and the science of matter. As you will learn,
this is literally gnostic. This is not an epithet; it is quite literally true. Our major problem looking at this period is that
we are trying to track two secret societies, both the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons. If you were Sherlock Holmes
you would never find them. If they were careful, they would leave contradictory clues and you would never be able
to reach a conclusion as to who they are, using traditional empiricist methods.

How do you proceed? you must use the method of the Necessary Existent.

What do I mean by that? We must proceed from what we know to be the case.

What do we know about all warfare? Ninety percent is cultural and only 10 percent is physical.

And the key is culture. Analyze the culture and no matter what name a thing is given, you will never
be fooled.

It is on the level of culture that our enemy must drop his guard. He is not that bright and when Satan
is forced out on the level of culture, he is scared. As we can document, after the initial debates with
Lyndon LaRouche on the question of economics, these cultists never dared debate him again. They
are, as Satan is, primarily frauds.

We will focus intensively on the Venetian takeover of England, for it was England that had the
misfortune of becoming the new Venice and where Freemasonry was to establish itself.

At our conference a year ago, Webster Tarpley presented the documentation showing how Venice
created the Reformation and the Counterreformation in order to implement the New Age [published
in a longer version in New Federalist in three installments, March 22, April 5, April 12, 1992]. It is
important to state this, because any competent approach must focus on the cultural climate as the
basis on which any intelligence operation can be run. It is prima facie imcompetent to believe that
history is run by assassinations and gossip, without first accounting for what are the cultural
paradigms which are being fought out.

Now to our story.

The Venetian Reformers

After the League of Cambrai almost destroyed Venice in 1509-13, Gasparo Contarini, from one of the leading noble
families in Venice created a grouping, later known as “I Spirituali,'' that decided that the hedonism that had overcome
the Venetian ruling families would have to change. Contarini was able to create a a group of “reformers'' that created
all the essentials of protestantism while remaining nominally within the Catholic Church. Gasparo Contarini was
trained by Pietro Pomponazzi, the leading Aristotelian at the University of Padua. Under the guise of Christian piety,
Contarini led a dramatic return to Aristotle within the Catholic Church. It was Contarini who set up the commission
that led to the Council of Trent, which was to prosecute the war against the Reformation, while on the other side, as
Webster documents, Contarini and his associates created Luther. What was the purpose of this?

From a limited standpoint it was clear that the very existence of the Catholic Church and a powerful
Spain would always threaten a Venice whose naval power was formidable, but whose ability to
defend itself on land was very limited because of its size. As the Venetians saw in the League of
Cambrai, the very existence of these institutions was a threat to Venice.

Yet, on a deeper level, something much more devastating was going on. As LaRouche pointed out in
his paper “On the Subject of God,'' the abiding commitment to Aristotelianism stemmed from an
oligarchical outlook of tremendous contempt for humankind as imago viva Dei. Aristotelianism is an
oligarchical disease. It was Christianity that asserted that all men were in the image of God, which
represented a mortal threat to the Venetian oligarchy. They believed themeselves to be the “Gods of
Olympus'' and who thought themselves above God's law. Indeed they considered themselves the
creators of the law. They hated Christianity and the Renaissance's reassertion of this idea, in a
profoundly personal way.

We could develop this more if there were more time. I wanted to reference it because freemasonry
and the New Age are a Venetian attempt to wipe Christianity from the face of the earth.

Venice Invades England

It is not an accident that Venice focused much of its attention on England.

The Venetians said it themselves. In the Venetian ambassadors' reports to the Venetian Senate,
which are now public, England was the key to the destruction of Spain. One report outlines that
Flanders and the Netherlands were the workshop of the Spanish Empire. If you could control the
English Channel, then you could break the Spanish sea route to the Netherlands and weaken Spain
irrevocably. It is uncanny how accurate the Venetian report on this is. It is in fact exactly what
happens during the Thirty Years' War.

I believe this story begins with the break of Henry VIII from continental Europe with his setting up
of the Anglican Church. This cataclysm in English history set up the basis for religious warfare that
was to rip England apart for centuries.

It was the hope of the Renaissance men such as Erasmus and Colet and emphatically Sir Thomas
More that England would become an island of great learning and a benefit to all mankind. Erasmus
dedicated his Enchiridion of the Militant Christian to England's Henry VIII, just as he dedicated his
Education of a Christian Prince to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

The Venetians were not to allow this. Venice's big concern ever since the League of Cambrai almost
wiped them out was to assure that Spain was never to have a league with France and England again.
The papacy had some interest in this, because the contest between France and Spain tended to be
fought out on Italian soil. I state this because the papacy was among the first to form the League of
Cambrai and declare a war on Venice. The league came within an inch of crushing them forever, yet
the papacy was the first to break ranks and conclude a peace with Venice. If we look at English
diplomacy during the League of Cambrai, when Spain went into the league, so too, did England join.
When the alliance broke down, and Spain had a quarrel with France, Henry immediately declared
war on France. The obvious point is that, as long as Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon,
the daughter of the Spanish king, the ability to manipulate Henry against Spain was greatly
diminished. This came to a head after the Sack of Rome. At the Battle of Pavia in 1525, the French
troops were so badly defeated by Charles V, that the French king was seized and held for ransom.

Venice panicked. Besides the fact that a victorious Spanish army was on Italian soil, the French, who
were critical to the Venetian balance of power against Spain, had just fallen apart. This was the year
1525. From the Venetian standpoint, England had to break with Spain.

There was only one way to do that: Henry had to be induced to divorce Catherine. The pretext for
divorce was to be Catherine's failure to produce a male heir. Clearly Henry was driven mad by this
adventure if he were not mad already. There were ways that Henry could have resolved this matter
peaceably without a divorce or a break with Rome. One way--it was suggested even by Henry--was
to legitimize his bastard son so that this offspring could have been his rightful heir. This, by the way,
had been sanctioned by the papacy in a previous case. Another way was to marry his lover Anne
Boleyn while remaining married to Catherine, in order to produce male offspring for the succession.
Such arrangements had been made before for reasons of state with papal sanction.

On the one hand, the papacy under Spanish control could not allow any of this, but more
significantly it seems that Henry was induced to take the most violent path possible. His chief
adviser for the initial phase was Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey was perfectly happy to get some kind of
dispensation from the papacy for Henry. Wolsey did not want anything too precipitous to happen
because he had pretensions to be elected pope with French help.

Then something dramatic happened. Henry dumped Wolsey and the Howard family became Henry's
top advisers. In their midst was the top Venetian agent Thomas Cromwell--I mean literally trained in
Venice. One can speculate on the exact way this was done, but there can be no doubt of Venetian
control of the split.

In the middle of this, in 1529, the Venetian friar and cabalist Francesco Giorgi (Zorzi) comes on the
scene. He is sought out by Thomas Cranmer, who is soon to become the first archbishop of
Canterbury agreeable to the break with Rome. The pretext for bringing in Giorgi was that he could
read the original Hebrew of the Old Testament to discern whether Henry's marriage to Catherine had
been valid in the first place. The background is that Catherine had originally been married to Henry's
elder brother, the crown Prince Arthur, who then died within a few months. There is one passage in
the Old Testament recognizing a man's obligation to marry his deceased brother's wife, and one
passage forbidding the same. To cover all possibilities, a papal dispensation had been issued
permitting Henry's marriage to Catherine. Giorgi was now brought in to persuade Henry that the
biblical passage prohibiting such a marriage was authoritative, and that the opposing passage was not
applicable. The dispensation on which Henry's marriage rested, by virtue of having contravened
scripture, was null and void. The pope had exceeded his authority by issuing it, according to Giorgi.
Catherine's credible testimony that her first marriage had never been consummated was simply
ignored.

According to Giorgi, therefore, Henry had never been legally married to Catherine. Giorgi, with the
full power of Venice behind him, assured Henry that he would be supported in his break. Henry was
by now inflamed with passion for Anne Boleyn, the granddaughter of Thomas Howard, second Duke
of Norfolk, and eagerly grasped for Giorgi's conclusions.

Once Cranmer was named archbishop of Canterbury, he officially rendered a new decision using
Giorgi's reasoning. Appeals to Rome had now been made high treason.

Giorgi and the Occult

Giorgi was no minor figure. His family was one of the ten top ruling families of Venice and he became one of Venice's
ambassadors during critical years after the sack of Rome in 1527.

Yet, more significant than his interpretation of scripture relating to the divorce, as critical as that
was, was that he was the transmission belt for a counterculture movement which was to culminate in
the occult takeover of England and eventually lead to the creation of Speculative Freemasonry. It is
striking that Giorgi was aware of who his major enemy was. In his major work, Harmonice Mundi,
Giorgi attacks Nicholas of Cusa. In what should become known as the very founding statement of
Speculative Freemasonry, Giorgi states: “The seeker after the Monas (the one) may retreat into
negative theology and the Docta Ignorantia, or he may seek to follow the divine Monas in its
expansion into the three Worlds.''

Harmonice Mundi is one of the first systematic works of the Neoplatonic so-called Christian Cabala.
Giorgi makes a deadly cultural assault on England. He introduces two critical notions which set
England up for Freemasonry. First, the Neoplatonic idea that the “One'' is directly knowable. In
Plato's Parmenides dialogue, he proves that there is only one way human beings can have knowledge
of the One. He proves it by a method later called by Cusa “docta ignorantia,'' by the method of
proving exhaustively that any approach that attempts to resolve the paradox of the one and the many
leads to hopeless contradiction. Therefore, he leaves the reader of the dialogue with the necessity to
hypothesize another solution. The idea that the one is directly knowable is a direct distortion of Plato.
The idea that God is directly knowable is a mystical notion. Here we get directly to the point of
Venetian epistemology. As Lyn elaborates in his paper on “History As Science,'' the face of evil is
empiricism, or the belief that the only thing you can know is what is verified directly by your senses.
It would seem that mysticism and empiricism are directly polar opposites. This is the exact opposite
of empiricism. The logic of the mystic Giorgi, is that indeed we can only know through our senses;
therefore the only way to truly know God is to directly experience him through our senses. This is
the essence of mysticism. It is also empiricism.

Attack on the Renaissance

It is here I want to develop what might seem like a diversion--but there is no way you can understand what happens
next without such a discussion. Frances Yates, an enemy of ours at the Warburg Institute, has done, from an enemy
standpoint, some useful work on the creation of a pagan revival around the Platonic Academy of Florence. I must
add a cautionary point here which is indicative of how our enemies create myths. The Warburg Institute is the major
research institute into the Renaissance. It is Yates at Warburg who attempts to prove that the Renaissance came from
an occult return to pre-Christian religions and a revival of Neoplatonism.

So in her typical fashion, she goes much too far, but her identification of the tendency is irrefutable.
The attack on the Aristotelian Schoolmen issuing from the Renaissance is useful and has a spinoff
effect, particularly in England, of creating a highly literate grouping around John Colet and others,
who travel to Florence and learn ancient Greek. They group around Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.
They create a flowering of real Christianity and culture which leads to Shakespeare.

It should also be noted that Erasmus came out of the great teaching movement called the Brethren of
the Common Life and not predominantly from Ficino's Platonic Academy.

One has to understand what insanity it was for Aristotle to be allowed to remain the predominant
force in universities, to understand what a relief it was to reintroduce Plato in the original. This
useful work was translated by Ficino and funded by Cosimo De Medici.

Yet, alongside of this came a Neoplatonic fraud and the translation of an ancient mystic by the name
of Hermes Trismegistus. According to the legend believed in the fifteenth century, which had come
from Lactantius, a father of the Church, Hermes Trismegistus was supposed to have foretold the
coming of Christ. Hermes Trismegistus, in the book titled The Perfect Word, made use of these
words: “The Lord and Creator of all things, whom we have thought right to call God, since He made
the second God visible and sensible.... Since, therefore, He made Him first, and alone, and one only,
He appeared to Him beautiful, and most full of all good things; and He hallowed Him, and altogether
loved Him as His own Son.'' The fraud perpetrated by Neoplatonics of the second century was that
Hermes was supposed to have been living at the time of Moses and his creation story and the quote
which I read you was all about 1,500 years before Christ. In reality it was dated about the second
century A.D. Ficino did not know that. Therefore, the reverence for Hermes was based on the belief
that he foretold by 1,500 years the coming of Christ.
In the hermetic works that Ficino translated, he personally was very struck by some of the Natural
Magic elements that were in the writings. He meant no heresy and was later defended by the Pope,
but it opened the door to legitimizing what turned out to be a Neoplatonic fraud. The danger here is
the same danger that was always inherent in the Neoplatonics as opposed to the real Plato. The
Neoplatonics belived in a world spirit, and that one could coax the spirit into matter through the use
of the soul, which was located midway between spirit and matter. This use of the soul is what is
known as magic. Augustine was revulsed by this practice and strongly admonished Hermes for
practicing such magic.

The Cabala

The worst aspect of this came in through Pico della Mirandola. He went back to an idea of the world soul, asserting
that man participated only as a receptacle of the world soul. Presumably, the body died but the world soul lived on.
This denied the individual soul and the uniqueness of the individual. Pico, in his “Oration on The Dignity Of Man,''
gives his most dramatic formulation of this idea:

"... Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they
be vegetative, he will be like a plant. If sensitive, he will become brutish. If rational, he will grow
into heavenly being. If intellectual, he will be an angel and the son of God. And if, happy in the lot of
no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the
solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. Who would not admire
this our chameleon? Or who could more greatly admire aught else whatever? It is man who
Asclepius of Athens, arguing from his mutability of character and from his self-transforming nature,
on just grounds says was symbolized by Proteus in the mysteries. Hence those metamorphoses
renowned among the Hebrews and the Pythagoreans.''

Pico also went futher into mysticism, as he insisted that the Cabala was the fount of ancient wisdom
that Moses passed down to elite disciples, an esoteric doctrine that only an elect can interpret. This is
the idea that through the manipulation of symbols you could directly acess God and His universe. It
is a rejection of scientific method in favor of the manipulation of symbols.

Pico wrote: “35. In exactly the same way, when the true interpretation of the Law according to the
command of God, divinely handed down to Moses, was revealed, it was called the Cabala, a word
which is the same among the Hebrews as `reception' among ourselves; for this reason, of course, that
one man from another, by a sort of hereditary right, received that doctrine not through written
records but through a regular succession of revelations.... In these books principally resides, as
Esdras with a clear voice justly declared, the spring of understanding, that is, the ineffable theology
of the supersubstantial deity; the fountain of wisdom, that is, the exact metaphysic of the intellectual
and angelic forms; and the stream of knowledge, that is, the most steadfast philosophy of natural
things.''
It is this movement that Giorgi is a part of and this branch of Venetian philosophy founds
Freemasonry and the New Age.

Here is a point of enormous importance. One of the main confusions that the present-day Catholic
Church has on the question of the Renaissance is that Aristotelians in the Church used the
identification of this Neoplatonic problem to attack the Renaissance as pagan and humanistic, when
in fact this was launched as an operation by Paduan Aristotelians in the guise of Platonism to destroy
Cusa and Christianity.

This occult Neoplatonism and Cabalism came pouring into England. No less than Christopher
Marlowe took up the attack against it.

In his play on Faustus, Marlowe identifies the problem of the whole Elizabethan elite. Marlowe
himself was an intelligence operative and was on the inside of major decisions being made by
Walsingham, who was in a sense CIA chief under Elizabeth.

Marlowe sums up the problem of the age and exposes the mysticism and necromancy around the
court of Elizabeth. The whole of Faust was that he was fed up with all knowledge. Presumably this
was an attack on Aristotelian Schoolmen, but Faust, in the end, makes a deal with the devil. In this,
Marlowe identifies the truth about the relationship between Arisotelianism and mysticism.

Marlowe's play caused complete pandemonium in the Venetian networks around Elizabeth. In a coup
de grace, Marlowe directly references Giorgi. When Mephistopheles appears to Faust and he is too
ugly, Faust says, “Go and return an old Franciscian friar, that holy shape becomes a devil best.''

It was shortly after this play was written that Marlowe was assassinated.

The Creation of Freemasonry

Now we pick up the story of the 1580s and how the Venetians created Freemasonry in England.

As I said, occultism was pouring into England. With the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a Venetian
grouping around Fra Paolo Sarpi, called the Giovani, decided to become more aggressive.

Venice gets into a war with the papacy in 1606. It is a jurisdictional dispute over money and the right
to try criminals who happen to be under papal jurisdiction. The pope puts Venice under the interdict.
Sarpi is chosen by Venice to defend the city-state and is excommunicated. He successfully writes
several pamphlets against Rome which are immediately translated into English and widely
distributed. After Venice wins this battle, Sarpi is nearly assassinated, and despite several wounds to
the neck and head, he survives. The assassination attempt is put correctly at Rome's doorstep. At that
point, Sarpi becomes the most celebrated man in Venice and England. Henry Wotton, the English
diplomat, was in touch with Sarpi the whole time, through go-betweens.
The next escalation occurred in 1616, when a royal marriage was arranged. This marriage was the
talk of England and was called the Marriage of the Thames and the Rhine. James I's daughter was to
marry the Elector of Palatine. This Protestant-Anglican marriage was, in the view of Venice, a
significant counterweight to the Habsburgs.

Then the strangest thing occurs. The year of the marriage the first Rosicrucian tract is written. It is
called the “Fama.'' It calls for the formation of a Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross and for the
reformation of all knowledge. It is not too distant from what Francis Bacon, a friend of Sarpi, is
calling for. Shortly thereafter, another document, the “Confession,'' again explicitly Rosicrucian, is
written. It calls the pope the anti-Christ. Both are written in German and circulated in the territory of
the Elector of Palatine.

This stuff is straight Neoplatonic Cabalism. Here is a description of the grave of Christian
Rosenkreutz from the first pamphlet, “Fama'':

“In the morning following, we opened the door, and there appeared to our sight a vault of seven sides
and corners, every side five foot broad, and the height of eight foot. Although the sun never shined in
this vault, nevertheless it was enlightened with another sun, which had learned this from the sun, and
was situated in the upper part in the center of the ceiling. In the midst, instead of a tombstone, was a
round altar covered over with a plate of brass, and thereon this engraven: ... “This is all clear and
bright, as also the seven sides and the two Heptagoni: so we kneeled altogether down and gave
thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty and sole eternal God, who hath taught us more than all men's
wits could have found out, praised be his holy name. This vault we parted in three parts, the upper
part or ceiling, the wall or side, the ground or floor. “Of the upper part you shall understand no more
of it at this time, but that it was divided according to the seven sides in the triangle, which was in the
bright center; but what therein is contained, you shall God willing (that are desirous of our society)
behold the same with your own eyes; but every side or wall is parted into ten figures, every one with
their several figures and sentences, as they are truly shown and set forth Concentratum here in our
book.''

Several other documents on the Rosicrucian thesis were written, all confessing to have solved the
riddle of the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. This was also the name of a
book written by Robert Fludd. Fludd is attacked by Kepler as a mystic who uses numbers as a form
of cabalistic symbolism, and engages in a wild defense of his writings. Almost immediately, several
Rosicrucian documents are written and circulated, all published by the same publisher in the
Palatinate.

The political, Venetian side to this was totally obvious. The military adviser to the elector was
Christian Anhalt, a friend of Henry Wotton and Paolo Sarpi. Their hopes were that a Protestant
League would form around the prince in his effort to take the Bohemian Crown and defeat the
Habsburgs. The elector is massively defeated. This incident touched off the Thirty Years' War. It is
reported that the reason he was so defeated was that James of England refused to go along with the
plan. We would not be far off the mark if we said that from Venice's standpoint James was not
adequate, and Venice had to bring a more radical government into power. It was they who supported
Oliver Cromwell. Venice always wanted parliamentary sovereignty as a form of government to
control any king.

What were the Venetians up to? Now it becomes interesting. Consider two quotes, one by Sarpi and
the other by Paruta, you have a fundamental attack on scientific method. Paruta had been an
empiricist:

“Although our intellect may be divine from its birth, nevertheless here below it lives among these
earthly members and cannot perform its operations without the help of bodily sensation. By their
means, drawing into the mind the images of material things, it represents these things to itself and in
this way forms its concepts of them. By the same token it customarily rises to spiritual
contemplations not by itself but awakened by sense objects.''

Sarpi was also an empiricist: “There are four modes of philosophizing: the first with reason alone,
the second with sense alone, the third with reason and then sense, and the fourth beginning with
sense and ending with reason. The first is the worst, because from it we know what we would like to
be, not what is. The third is bad because we many times distort what is into what we would like,
rather than adjusting what we would like to what is. The second is true but crude, permitting us to
know little and that rather of things than of their causes. The fourth is the best we can have in this
miserable life.''

This is Francis Bacon's inductive method. Bacon's ideas about inductive method were taken from the
“Arte di ben pensare'' and other of Sarpi's writings.

Here I would like to quote from Webster Tarpley's series in The New Federalist: “Sarpi sounds very
much like Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume. This is no surprise, since Sarpi and Micanzio were in
close contact with Hobbes and Bacon, sometimes directly, and sometimes through William
Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, a friend of Francis Bacon and the employer of Thomas Hobbes.
Bacon was of course a raving irrationalist, a Venetian-style Rosicrucian, and a bugger. Cavendish
may have introduced Bacon to Hobbes, who soon became a couple. In Chatsworth House in
Cornwall there is a manuscript entitled `Hobbes' Translations of Italian Letters,' containing 77
missives from Micanzio to the Earl (called `Candiscio'). According to Dudley Carleton, Cavendish
visited Venice and Padua in September 1614, accompanied by Hobbes. At that time meetings with
Sarpi and Micanzio would have been on the agenda.

“This is clearly the inspiration for Francis Bacon's ramblings on method.'' Now the most startling
result.

Bacon, Fludd, and Descartes, all claim to be Rosicrucians or searching for the Rosicrucians. The
coincidence is overwhelming.

What was this movement? It becomes the British Royal Society and Freemasonry. This Venetian cult
actually runs the science establishment of Western Europe! Our scientists today are the most
buggered epistemologically of any group in society!
 The Royal Society

Now to the creation of the British Royal Society. We date the formation earlier than was previously thought. There
was a series of meetings in England in 1640. This is an important year because it was the beginning of the Long
Parliament. Comenius and Samuel Hartlib were involved. Comenius was originally from Bohemia, and was in the
Palatinate during the fateful Rosicrucian years, along with the Englishman Samuel Hartlib, with whom he was in
close contact. With the defeat of the Palatinate they both, through different routes, end up in England. When the Long
Parliament started, there was another outburst of ecstatic literature. One piece written by Hartlib in 1640, “A
Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria,'' is a utopian work addressed to the attention of the Long Parliament.
A year later, Comenius wrote “The Way of Light.'' They call for an “Invisible College,'' which is a Rosicrucian code
name.

Now the plot thickens. In 1645, a meeting takes place for a discussion of the natural sciences. Present
at the meeting are Mr. Theodore Haak from the Palatinate and Dr. John Wilkins, who at the time was
the chaplain to the elector of Palatine. Wilkins was the man behind the Oxford meetings which
become, in 1660, the British Royal Society. Another founder of the Royal Society was Robert Boyle,
who in letters in 1646, refers to, again, an invisible college. John Wilkins writes a book in 1648
called Mathematical Magic, in which he explicitly mentions the Rosy Cross and pays homage to
occultists Robert Fludd and John Dee.

The key to the actual Rosicrucian tradition in the British Royal Society is Elias Ashmole. He was
unabashedly a Rosicrucian and in 1654 wrote a letter to ask the “Rosicrucians to allow him to join
their fraternity.'' His scientific works were a defense of John Dee's work, in particular Dee's Monas
Hieroglyphicas, and the Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum of 1652. This is a compilation of all the
alchemical writings by English authors. In the opening of this work he praises a mythical event in
which a brother of the Rosy Cross cures the Earl of Norfolk of leprosy.

Ashmole was one of the official founding members of the British Royal Society. The other major,
explicitly Rosicrucian figure was Isaac Newton. He had copies of both the Fama and the Confessio
in his possession, and the book compiled by Ashmole, The Theatrum, was Newton's bible. Also, as
we uncovered earlier, Newton had a series of papers on the book of Daniel calculating the end times.

Historian Frances Yates, in her book The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, in a chapter entitled
“Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry,'' quotes one De Quincey, who states, “Freemasonry is neither
more nor less than Rosicrucianism as modified by those who transplanted it in England, whence it
was re-exported to the other countries of Europe.'' De Quincey states that Robert Fludd was the
person most responsible for bringing Rosicrucianism to England and giving it its new name. What is
fascinating is that Elias Ashmole was one of the first recorded inductees into the Freemasons, but the
actual first recorded induction was Dr. Robert Moray in Edinburgh in 1641. Both Ashmole and
Moray were founding members of the British Royal Society. While there are many stories about the
ancient origins of the Freemasons, here is an announcement for one of their meetings in 1676: “To
give notice that the Modern Green-ribboned Cabal, together with the ancient brotherhood of the
Rosy Cross: the Hermetic Adepti and the company of Accepted Masons....'' It is interesting to note
how clear the tradition is.

In conclusion, we have demonstrated that Venice created the Rosicrucian movement that dominates
England and creates Freemasonry. Freemasonry in turn creates the British Royal Society, which
engages in total war with Cusa's influence upon Kepler and Leibniz. We have also accomplished a
surprising result in understanding the war over what is called modern scientific method.

This speech was prepared with the collaboration of Webster Tarpley and David Cherry.

Captions

“What we call modern scientific method is occult belief, created by freemasonry to destroy the work of Nicolaus of
Cusa. It was the Venetian creation of freemasonry that imposed upon science a radical split between the science of
the spirit, theology, and the science of matter.''

(Bacon, Ashmole, Newton monument):

National Portrait Gallery

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), from 1618, Baron Verulam and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon,
who corresponded with Venetian superagent Paolo Sarpi, is falsely credited with contributing to the
founding of scientific method.

Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), alchemist, one of the founders of the Royal Society. Ashmole was
deeply interested in Rosicrucianism, and wrote in defense of the Elizabethan astrologer John Dee.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

A monument to scientific fraud Isaac Newton, the other major Rosicrucian figure in the early Royal
Society. Titled Allegorical Monument to Isaac Newton, it was painted by the Venetian artist
Giovanni Battista Pittoni.

“This story begins with the break of Henry the VIII from continental Europe with his setting up of
the Anglican Church. This cataclysm in English history set the basis for religious warfare that was to
rip England apart for centuries.''

“As long as Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of the Spanish king,
Venice's ability to manipulate Henry against Spain was greatly diminished. This came to a head after
the Sack of Rome.''

British Museum

Henry VIII (1491-1547) toward the end of his life, in a drawing by Cornslys Matsys.
National Portrait Gallery

Henry VIII's queen, Catherine of Aragon, was a powerful living embodiment of the traditional
alliance between England and Spain. Artist unknown.

The Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, led the Venetian party among the English nobility until
his death in 1524.

National Portrait Gallery

Anne Boleyn, granddaughter of the second Duke of Norfolk, was set up as sexual bait to detach
Henry from Catherine. Venetian friar and cabalist Francesco Giorgi counseled Henry that his
marriage to Catherine had never been valid.

Frick Collection, New York

Thomas Cromwell (1485?-1540) became Henry's first minister with the ascendancy of the Venetian
party. Cromwell had a clear vision of an amoral state as a law unto itself, as delineated by Aristotle
in his Nichomachean Ethics.

“Giorgi's work was the transmission belt for a counterculture movement which was to culminate in
the occult takeover of England and eventually led to the creation of speculative freemasonry.''

“Venice created the Rosicrucian movement that dominates England and created freemasonry.
Freemasonry in turn created the British Royal Society, which engaged in total war against Cusa's
influence upon Kepler and Leibniz.''

The alchemical, occult, and mystical writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus from about the third
century A.D. were insinuated into the Judeo-Christian tradition by its enemies. Robert Fludd
continued this tradition in Elizabethan England, as did Newton (1642-1727), from his post as
president of the Royal Society. Clockwise from top left, two woodcuts of Hermes Trismegistus; an
illustration from the title page of Fludd's Summum Bonum, which defends Rosicrucianism.
 November 29. 1993 THE NEW FEDERALIST 7

AME R I CAN Jrlmanac

"What we call modem
scientific method is
occult belief, created by
How the Venetians freemasonry to destroy
the work of Nicolaus of
Cusa. It was the Venetian
Took Over England creation of freemasonry
that imposed upon
science a radical split
And Created Sir Francis Bacon 0561-1626),
from 1618, Baron Verulam and
between the science of
the spirit, theology, and
the science of maUer."
Freemasonry Lord Chancellor of England .
Bacon. who corresponded with
Venetian superagent Paolo Sarpi,
is falsely crecitec with contribut-
French help.
ing to the founding of scientific
"- method. Then something dramatic happened. Henry
Gerald Rose Addresses the Schiller Institute dumped Wolsey and the Howard family became
Elias Ashmole 0617-1692), Henry's top advisers. In their midst was the top
Labor Day 1993 Conference alchemist, one of the founders Venetian agent Thomas Cromwell-1 mean liter-
of the Royal Society. Ashmole ally trained in Venice. One can speculate on the
was deeply interested in Rosi- exact way this was done, but there can be no
crucianism. and wrote in doubt of Venetian control of the splil
defense of the Elizabethan In the middle of this, in 1529, the Venetian fri-
astrologer John Dee. ar and cabalist Francesco Giorgi (Zorzi) comes on
Gerry Rose is a member of the editorial board of operation can be run. It is prima facie imcompe- the scene. He is sought out by Thomas Cranmer,
Executive Intelligence Review magazine and the tent to believe that history is run by assassina- wh o is soon to become the first archbishop of
International Caucus oflAbor Committees' executive tions and gossip, without first accounting for what Canterbury agreeable to the break with Rome.
committee. He spoke on September 5. are th e cultural paradigms which are being The pretext for bringing in Giorgi was that he
fought oul could read the original Hebrew of the Old Testa-

I
had become increasingly interested for many Now to our story. ment to discern whether Henry's marriage to
years, beginning with my research into the Catherine had been valid in the first place. The
American Revolution, as to why England background is that Catherine had originally been
seemed to be the source of such evil. This is not
only on the level of geopolitics and the unbeliev-
The Venetian Reformers married to Henry's elder brother, the crown
Prince Arthur, who th e n died within a few
able savagery that the British Empire carried out After the League of Cambrai almost destroyed months. There is one passage in the Old Testa-
in its usury and slavery, but also on the level of Venice in 1509-13, Gasparo Contarini, from one of ment recogoizing a man's obligation to marry his
culture. The Briti~h creation of Bacon, Hobbes, the leading noble families in Venice created a A monument to scientific fraud Isaac Newton, the other deceased brother's wife, and one passage forbid-
Locke, and Hume, leading to the outright grouping, later known as "I Spirituali," that major Rosicrucian figure in the early Royal Society. ding the same. To cover all possibilities, a papal
Satanism of Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, decided that the hedonism that had overcome the Titled Allegorical Monument to Isaac Newton, it was dispensation had been issued permitting Henry's
Aleister Crowley, etc. underscores the motivation Venetian ruling families would have to change. painted by the Ven etian artist Giovanni Battista Pittoni. marriage to Catherine. Giorgi was now brought in
that created the British Empire. As you look Contarini was able to create a a group of "reform- to persuade Henry that the biblical passage pro-
deeper, there is no doubt that the New Age issued ers" that created all the essentials of protes- too, did England join. When the alliance broke hibiting such a marriage was authoritative, and
from England. This includes emphatically the
creation of the Jacobins at the hands of Lord
tantism while remaining nominally within the Venice Invades England down, and Spain had a quarrel \vith France, Hen- that the opposing passage was not applicable.
Catholic Church. Gasparo Contarini was trained ry imm ediately declared war on France. The The dispensation on which Henry's marriage
Shelburne and the creation of communism-with by Pietro Pomponazzi, the leading Aristotelian at It is not an accident that Venice focused much obvious point is that, as long as Henry VIII was rested, by virtue of having contravened scripture,
its twin evil, fascism-at the British Foreign the University of Padua. Under the guise of Chris- of its attention on England. married to Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of was null and void. The pope had exceeded his
Omce by Lord Palmerston and in his collabora- tian piety. Contarini led a dramatic return to The Venetians said it themselves. In the Vene- the Spanish king, the ability to manipulate Hemy authority by issuing it, according to Giorgi.
lion with Giuseppe Mazzini. Aristotle within the Catholic Church. It was Con- tian ambassadors' reports to the Venetian Senate. agai~st ~pa!n w ~s ~~t1y diminished . Thi ~ came r.Rth"'rin""!=' I"1"p,Hhl,.. t" .. t\ ..... " ... · tl, .... t 1.." .. " -,, ' _ ._ -
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in its usury and slavery, but also on the level of Venice in 1509-13, Gasparo Contarini, from one of ment recognizing a man's obligation to marry his
culture. The Briti~h creation of Bacon, Hobbes, the leading noble families in Venice created a
A monument to sc ientific fraud Isaac Newton, the other deceased brother's wife, and one passage forbid-
Locke, and Hume, leading to the outright grouping, later known as "I Spirituali," that
major Rosic rucian figure in the early Royal Society. ding the same. To cover all possibilities, a papal •
Satan ism of Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, decided that the hedonism that had overcome the Titled Allegorical Monument to Isaac Newton, it was dispensation had been issued permitting Henry's "
Aleister Crowley, etc. underscores the motivation Venetian ruling families would have to change. painted by the Venetian ~ rtist Giovanni Battista Pittoni. marriage to Catherine. Giorgi was now brought in
that created the British Empire. As you look Contarini was able to create a a group of "reform- to persuade Henry that the biblical passage pro-
deeper, there is no doubt that the New Age issued ers" that created all the essentials of protes- . too, did England join. When the alliance broke hibiting such a marriage was authoritative, and
from England. This includes emphatically the tantism while remaining nominally within the Venice Invades England
down, and Spain had a quarrel with France, Hen- that the opposing passage was not applicable.
creation of the Jacpbins at the hands of Lord Catholic Church. Gasparo Contarini was trained ry immediately declared war on France. The The dispensation on whicb Henry's marriage
Shelburne and the ¢reation of communism-with by Pietro Pomponazzi, the leading Aristotelian at It is not an accident that Venice focused much obvious point is that, as long as Henry VIII was rested, by virtue of having contravened scripture,
its twin evil, fascism-at the British Foreign the University ofPadna Under the guise ofCbris- of its attention on England. married to Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of was null and void. The pope had exceeded his
Office by Lord Paimerston and in his collabora- tian piety, Contarini led a dramatic return to The Venetians said iUhemselves. In the Vene- the Spanish king, the ability to manipulate Henry authority by issuing it, according to Giorgi.
tion with Giuseppe Mazzini. Aristotle within the Catholic Church. It was Con- tian ambassadors' reports to the Venetian Senate, against Spain was greatly diminished. This came Catherine's credible testimony that her first mar-
The stated goal of the New Age is the destruc- tarini who set up the commission that led to the which are now public, England was the key to the to a head after the Sack of Rome. At the Battle of riage had never been consummated was simply'
tion of monotheistic religion and a return to out- Council ofTren~ which was to prosecute the war destruction of Spain. One report outlines that Pavia in 1525, the French troops were so badly ignored.
right paganism. Freemasonry is the instrument against the Reformation, while on the other side, Flanders and the Netherlands were the workshop defeated by Charles V, that the French king was According to Giorgi, therefore, Henry had nev-
created to carry out this return to paganism. It is as Webster documents, Contarini and his associ- of the Spanish Empire. If you could control the seized and held for ransom. er been legally married to Catherine. Giorgi, with
the Venetian takeover of England and its creation ates created Luther. What was the purpose of English Channel, then you could break the Span- Venice panicked. Besides the fact that a victo- the full power of Venice behind him, assured
of Freemasonry that is our subiect today. this? ish sea route to the Netherlands and weaken rious Spanish army was on Italian soil, the Henry that he would be supported in his break.
I think it is important here, to reference the From a limited standpoint it was clear that the Spain irrevocably. It is uncanny how accurate the French, wbo were critical to the Venetian bal- Henry was by now inflamed with passion for
prime satanic evil that Venice really is. There are very existence of the Catholic Church and a pow- Venetian report on this is. It is in fact exactly ance of power against Spain, had just fallen apart. Anne Boleyn, the granddaughter of Thomas
two works of art which deal most effectively with erful Spain would always threaten a Venice what happens during the Thirty Years' War. This was the year 1525. From the Venetian stand- Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, and eagerly
the methods of Venice. They are The Jew of Malta whose naval power was formidable, but whose I believe this story begins with the break of poin~ England had to break with Spain. grasped for Giorgi's conclusions.
by Christopher Marlowe and The Ghostseor by ability to defend itself on land was very lil!lited Henry VIII from continental Europe witb his set- There was only one way to do that Henry had Once Cranmer was named archbishop of Can-
Friedricb Schiller. because ofits size. Ali the Venetians saw in the ling up of the Anglican Church. This cataclysm in to be induced to divorce Catherine. Tbe pretext terbury, he officially rendered a new decision
In both masterpieces, we see a portrait of League of Cambrai, the very existence of these English history set up the basis for religious war- for divorce was to be Catherine's failure to pro- using Giorgi's reasoning. Appeals to Rome had
pure evil. wJ:lere: there is no right or wrong, just .' institutions was a threat to Venice. fare that was to rip England apart for centuries. duce a male heir. Clearly Henry was driven mad now been made high treason.
corruption. The key to this is Aristotle, and it Ye~ on a deeper level, something much more It was the hope of the Renaissance men such _ by this adventure if he were not mad already.
should not come as any surprise that it was the devastating was going on. As LaRouche pointed as Erasmus and Colet and emphatically Sir ' There were·ways thill Henry could bave resolved
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University of Padua, run by Venice, that trained out in his paper "On the Subject of God," the Thomas More that E,gland would become an this matter peaceably witbout a divorce or a
the elite of Venice explicitly in Aristotle. Aristo- abiding commitment to Aristotelianism stemmed island of great learning and a benefit to all break with Rome. One way-it was suggested
Giorgi and the ·Occult
tle rejects Plato's method of successive approxi- from an oligarchical outlook of tremendous con- mankind. Erasmus dedicated his Enchiridion of even by Henry-was to legitimize his bastard son Giorgi was no minor figure. His family was one
mations of perfection, which bring one closer to tempt for hum ankind as imago viva Dei. Aris- the Militant Christian to England's Henry VIII, just so that this offspring could have been his rightful of the ten top ruling families of Venice and he
the Creator. For Aristotle, the Creator has noth- tote!ianism is an oligarchical disease. It was as he dedicated his Education of a Christian Prince beir. This, by the way, bad been sanctioned by the became one of Venice IS ambassadors during criti-
ing to do with the unfolding of the universe and Christianity that asserted that all men were in the to the Holy Roman Empcror Charles V. papacy in a previous case. Another way was to cal years after the sack ofRome in 15Z7.
the continuing creation. For Aristotle, man's iI!lage of God, which represented a mortal threat The Venetians were not to allow this. Venice's marry his lover Anne Boleyn while r emaining Ye~ more significant than his interpretation of
progress is a mere illusion and we are always to the Venetian oligarchy. They believed theme- big concern ever since th e League of Cambrai married to Catherine, in order to produce male scripture relating to the divorce, as cri tical as
infinitely far from the Creator. For Aristotle, selves to be the "Gods of Olympus" and who almost wiped them OU! was to assure that Spain offspring for the succession. Such arrangements that was, was that he was the transmission belt for
there is no right or wrong, because there is no thought themselves above God's law. Indeed they was never to have a league with France and Eng- had been made before for reasons of state with a counterculture movement which was to culmi-
knowable truth. For Aristotle, there is only ethics considered themselves the creators of the law. land again. The papacy had some interest in this, papal sanction. nate in the occult takeover of England and even-
but no morality, and ethics is only a matter of They hated Christianity and the Renaissance's because the contest between France and Spain On the one hand, the papacy under Spanish tually lead to the creation of Speculative freema-
convention. In The Ghostseor Schiller captures reassertion of this idea, in a profoundly personal tended to be fought out on Italian soil. I state this control could not allow any of this, but more sig- sonry. It is'striking that Giorgi was aware of who
this in the most profound way. He shows that the way. because the papacy WhS among the first to form nificantly it seems that Henry was induced to take his major enemy was. In his major work, HClrnlOIV
essence of Venice is that it is always on both We could develop this more ifthere were the League of Cambrai and declare a war on the most violent path possible. His chief adviser ice Mundi, Giorgi attacks Nicholas ofCusa. In what
sides of every issue-but the essence of its more time. I wanted to reference it because Venice. The league CaIDe within an inch of crush- for the initial phase was Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey should become known as the very founding state-
method is corruption: Find the adversary's weak- freemasonry and the New Age are a Venetian ing them forever, yet the papacy was the fust to was perfectly happy to get some kind of dispensa- ment of Speculative Freemasonry, Giorgi states:
ness, and then corrupt him. This is Satanic. It is attempt to wipe Christianity from the face of the break ranks and conclude a peace with Venice. If tion from the papacy for Henry. Wolsey did not "The seeker after the Monas (the one) may retreat
evil for evil's sake. Its method is to degrade earth. . we look at English diplomacy during the League want anything too precipitous to happen because into negative theology and the Docta Ignorantia, .
humanity and take delight in that. We will of Cambrai, wben Spain went into the league, so he had pretensions to be elected pope with or he may seek to follow the divine Monas in its
recount how this Venetian evil took over England expansion into the three Worlds."
and created the New Age. "This story begins with the break of HaTT1lbrlic< Mundi is one of the fust systematic
works of the Neoplatonic so-called Christian
Henry the VIII from Rome with his Cabala Giorgi makes a deadly cultural assault on
Cultural Warfare setting up of the Anglican Church. England. He introduces two critical notions
which set England up for Freemasonry. Firs~ the
How did the ''New Age" come into existence? This cataclysm in English history set Neoplatonic idea that the "One" is directly know-
This story will be told today. Further, we will able. In Plato's Pannenides dialogue, he proves
achieve a most startling result We will learn that the basis for religious warfare that that there is only one way human beings can have '
what we call modern scientific method is basical- was to rip England apart for knowledge of the One. He proves it by a method
ly occult belief created by Freemasonry to later called by Cusa "dacta ignorantia," by the
destroy the work of cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa. It centuries." method oC proving ex hau s ti ve ly that any
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humanity and take delight in that. We will or h; ~ay seek to fOllow thecUViiIe Monas in itS
recount how this Venetian evil took over England expansion into the three Worlds,"
and created the New Age. "This story begins with the break of Harmonice Mundi is one of the flI'St systematic
works of the Neoplatonic so-called Christian
Henry the VIII from Rome with his Cabala Giorgi makes a deadly cultural assault on
Cultural Warfare setting up of the Anglican Church. England. He introduces two critical notions
which set England up for Freemasonry. Firs~ the
How did the "New Age" come into existence? This cataclysm in English history set Neoplatonic idea that the "One" is directly know-
This story will be told today. Further, we will the basis for religious warfare that able. In Plato's Pannenides dialogue, he proves
achieve a most startling result We will learn that that there is only one way human beings can have
what we call modem scientific method is basical- was to rip England apart for knowledge of the One. He proves it by a method
ly occult belief created by Freemas"Onry to later called by Cusa "docta ignorantia," by the
destroy the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa. It centuries." method of proving exhaustively that any
was the Venetian creation of Freemasonry that approach thatattempts to resolve the paradox of
imposed upon science a radical split between the the one and the many leads to hopeless contradic-
science of the Spirit which is theology and the sci- tion. Therefore, he leaves the reader of the dia-
ence of matter. As you will learn, this is literally logue with the necessity to hypothesize another
gnostic. This is not an epithet; it is quite literally solution. The idea that tl1e one is directly know-
true. Our major problem looking at this period is able is a direct distortion of Plato.
that we are trying to track two secret societies, The idea that God is directly knowable is a
both the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons. If you mystical notion. Here we get directly to the point
were Sherlock Holmes you would never find of Venetian epistemology. As Lyn elaborates in
them. If they were careful, they would leave con- his paper on "History As Science," the face of evil
tradictory clues and you would never be able to is empiricism, or the belief that the only thing you
reach a conclusion as to who they are, using tradi- Henry VIII's Queen, Catherine of Aragon, was a Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, can know is what is verified directly by your sens-
tional empiricist methods. po.verful living embodiment of the tradrtional led the Venetian party among the English es. It would seem that mysticism and empiricism
How do you proceed? you must use the method al liance between England and Spain. Artist nobility until his death in 1524. are directly polar opposites. This is the exact
of the Necessary Existenl unknown. opposite of empiricism. The logic of the mystic
What do I mean by that? We must proceed Giorgi, is that indeed we can only know through
from what we know to be the case. our senses; therefore tl1e only way to truly know
What do we know about all warfare? Ninety God is to directly experience him through our
percent is cultural and only 10 percent is physi- senses, This is the essence of mysticism. It is also
cal. empiricism.
And the key is culture. Analyze the culture
and no matter what name a thing is given, you will
never be fQ()led Attack on the
It is on the level of culture that our enemy
must drop his guard. He is not that bright and Renaissance I
when Satan is forced out on the level of culture,
he is scared. As we can documen~ after the initial It is here I want to develop what might seem
debates with Lyndon LaRoucbe on the question like a diversion-but there is no way you can
of economics, these cultists never dared debate understand what happens next without sucb a
him again. They are, as Satan is, primarily frauds. discussion. Frances Yates, an enemy of ours at
We will focus intensively on the Venetian Henry Viii (1491-1547) toward the end of his life, in a the Warburg Institute, has done, from an enemy
takeover of England, for it was England that had drawing by Cornslys Matsys. standpoin~ some useful work on the creation of a
the misfortune of becoming the new Venice and pagan revival around the Platonic Academy of
where Freemasonry was to establish itself. Florence. I must add a cautionary point here
At our conference a year ago, Webster Tarpley
"As long as Henry VIII was married which is indicative of how our enemies create
presented the documentation showing how to Catherine of Aragon, the daughter myths. The Warburg Institute is the major
Venice created the Reformation and the Counter- research institute into the Renaissance. It is
reformation in order to implemeQt the New Age of the Spanish king, Venice's ability Frick Collection, Nn. York Yates at Warburg who attempts to prove that the
Anne Boleyn, granddaughter of tl1e second Duke Thomas Cromwell (1485?-I54D) became Hen- Renaissance came from an occult return to pre-
[published in a longer version in New Federnlist in to manipulate Henry against Spain of Norfolk, _ set up as sexual bart to detach ry's first minister with the ascendancy of the Christian religions and a revival of Neoplaton-
three installments, March 22, April 5, Apri112,
19921 It is important to state this, because any was greatly diminished. This came to Henry from Catherine. Venetian friar and caba~ Venetian party. Cromwell had .a clear vision of ism.
competent approach must focus on the cultural ist Francesco Giorgi counseled Henry that his an amaal state as a law unto itself, as delineat- So in her typical fashion, she goes much too
climate as the basis on which any intelligence a head after the Sack of Rome." marriage to Catherine had never been valid. ed by Aristotle in his Nichomachean Ethics. far, b~t her identification of the tendency is
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The alchemical, occu lt, and in September 1614, accompanied by Hobbes. At
How the Venetians mystical writings attributed to that time meetings with Sarpi a nd Micanzio
Hermes lrismegistus from would have been on the agenda.
Created Freemasonry about the third century A.D. "This is clearly the inspiration for Francis
were insinu ate d into the Bacon's ramblings on meUhod." Now the most
irrefutable. The attack on the Ari stotelian School- Judeo-Christia n tradition by startling result.
men issuing from the Renaissance is useful and its enemies. Robert Fludd Bacon, Fludd, and Descartes, all claim to be
has a spinoff effect, particularly in England, of continued this tradition in Rosicrucians or searching for the Rosicrucians.
creating a highly literate grouping around John Elizabethan England, as did .~ The coincidence is ovenvhelming.
Colet and others, who travel to Florence and Newton 0642-1727), from What was this movement? It becomes th e
learn ancient Greek. They group around Erasmus his post as president of the British Royal Society and Freemasonry. This
and Sir Thomas More. They create a nowering of Royal Society. Clockwise from Venetian cult actually runs the science establish-
r ea l Christianity and culture whi ch leads to top left, two woodcuts of Her- ment of Western Europe! Our scientists today are
Shakespeare. mes Trismegistus; an illustra- the most buggered epistemologically of any group
It should also be noted that Erasmus came out tion from th e title page of' in society!
of the great tea ching movem e nt called th e Fludd's Summum Bonum,
Brethren of the Common Life and not predomi- which defends Rosicrucian-
nantly from Ficino's Platonic Academy. ism.
f'Woonal ~it Gatlf:ry
The Royal Society
One has to understand what insanity it was for
Aristotle to be allowed to remain the predomi- Now to the creation of the British Royal Soci-
nant force in universities, to understand what a ety. We date the formation earlier than was previ-
relief it was to reintroduce Plato in the original. "Venice created the Rosicrucian ously thought There was a series of meetings in
This useful work was translated by Ficino and England in 1640. This is an important year because
fund ed by Cosimo De Medici. movement that dominated it was the beginning of the Long Parliament. Come-
Yet, a longs id e of th is came a Neop latonic England and created nius and Samuel Hartlib were involved. Comenius
fraud and the translation of an ancient mystic by was originally from Bohemia, and was in th e
the name of Hermes Trismegistus. According to freemasonry. Freemasonry in Palatinate during the fateful Rosicrucian years,
th e lege nd beli eved in the fift ee nth century, "Giorgi's work was the transmission turn created the British Royal along with the Englishman Samuel Hartlib, with
which had come from Lactantius, a father of the whom he was in close contact. With the defeat of
Church. He rmes Trismegistus was supposed to belt for a counterculture movement Society, which engaged in total the Palatinate they both, Uhrough different routes ,
have foretold th e coming of Chri st. Hermes Tris- which was to culminate in the occult war against Cusa's influence en d up in England. When the Long Parliament
megistus, in th e book titled The Perfect Word, started, there was another outburst of ecstatic lit-
made use of these words: "The Lord and Cre ator takeover of England and eventually upon Kepler and Leibniz." erature. One piece written by HarU ib in 1640, "A
of all things, whom we have tilOught right to call led to the creation of speculative Description of the Famous Ki ngdom of Macaria,"
God, since He made the second God visible and is a utopian work addressed to the attention of the
sensible . . . . Since, therefore, He made Him firs~ freemason:ry." Long Parliament A year later. Comenius: wrote
and alone, and one only, He appea r ed to Him ''Tbe Way of Light." They call for an "Invisible Col-
beautiful, and most full of all good things; and He lege," which is a Rosicrucian code name.
hallowed Him, and altogether loved Him as His 'reception ' among ourselves; for this reason, of fully writes several pamphlets against Rome ly, several Ros icrucia n docum ents are written Now the plot thickens. In 1645, a meeting takes
own Son." The fraud perpetrated by Neoplatonics course, that one man from another, by a sort of which are immediately translated into English and circulated, all published by the same pub- place for a discussion of the natural sciences. Pre-
of the second centwy was that Hermes was sup· heredit ary r ight, receiv ed that doctrine not and widely distributed. Mer Venice wins this lisher in the Palatinate. sent at the meeting are Mr. Theodore Haak from
posed to have been living at th e time of Moses Uhrough writte n records but through a regular battle, Sarpi is nearly assassinated, and despite The political, Venetian side to this was totally the Palatinate and Dr. John Wilkins, who at the
and his creation story and the quote which I r ead succ ession of revelations .. . . In these books several wounds to the neck and head, he survives. obvious. The mili tary adviser to th e elector was time was the chaplain to the elector of Palatine.
you was all about 1,500 years before Christ. In principally resides, as Esdras with a clear voice Th e assass ination attempt is put correctly at Christian Anhalt, a fr ie nd of Henry Wotton and Wilkins was the man behind tlje Oxford meetings
reality it was dated about the second century A.D. justly deClared, the spring of understanding, that Rome's doorstep. At that poin~ Sarpi becomes the Paolo Sarpi. Their hopes were that a Protestant which become, in 1660, the British Royal Society.
Ficino did not know that. Therefore, the reve r- is, the ineffable Uheology of the supersubstantial most celebrated m:tn in Venice and England. League would form ar ound the prince in his Another founder of Ibe Royal Society was Robert
ence for Hermes was based on the beli ef that he deity; th e fountain of wisdom, th at is, the exact Henry Wotton, the English diploma~ was in touch effort to take the Bohemian Crown and defeat Uhe Boyle, who in letters in 1646, refers to, again, an
foretoid by 1,500 years the coming of Christ. metaphysic of the intellectual and angelic forms; with Sarpi the whole time, through go-betweens. Habsburgs. Th e elector is massively defeated. invisibl e college. John Wilkins writes a book in
In the hermelic works that Ficino translated, and th e strea m of knowl edge, that is, the most The next escalation occurred in 1616, whe n a This incident touched off the Thirty Years' War. It 1648 called Mathematical Magic, in which he
he personally was very struck by some of the Nat· steadfast philosophy of natural things." royal marriage was arranged. This marriage was is reported that th e reason he was so defeated e xplicitly mentions the Ro sy Cross and pays
ural Magic elements that were in the writings. He . It is this movementlhat Giorgi is a part of and Uhe talk of England and was called the Marriage was th at James of England re fu sed to go along homage to occultists Robert Fludd and John Dee.
meant no heresy and was later defended by th e thi s bran c h of Venetian philosophy founds of the Thames and tile Rhine. James I's daughter with the plan. We would not be far off the mark if The key to the actual Rosicrucian tradition in
Pope, but it opened the door to l ~gi timi z in g what Freemasonry and the New Age. was to marry the Elector of Palatine. This Protes- we said that from Venice's standpoint J ames was the British Royal Society is Elias Ashmole. He
turned out to be a Neoplatonic fraud. The danger Here is a po int of enormous importance. One tant·An glican marriage was, in th e view of not adequate, and Veni ce had to bring a more was unabashedly a Rosicruci an and in 1654 'wrote
here is the same danger that was always inherent of th e main co nfu s ions tha t th e present-day Venice. a significant countern'eight to the Habs- radical government into power. It was they who a letter to ask the "Rosicrucians to allow him to
in the Neoplatonics as opposed to the real Plato. Catholic Church has on the question of the burgs. supported Oliver Cromwell. Venice always want· join their fraternity." His scientific works were a
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ence for Hermes was based-ontiie-b;li'~r"th;ih~ deity; the fountain of wisdom, that is, the exact Henry Wotton, the English diplomat, was in touch effort to take the Bohemian Crown and defeat the Boyle, who in letters in 1646, refers to. again, an
foretold by 1.500 years the coming of Christ metaphysic of the intellectual and angelic forms; with Sarpi the whole time, through go-betweens. Habsburgs. The elector is massively defeated. invisible college. John Wilkins writes a book in
In the hermetic works that Ficino translated, and the stream of knowledge. that is, the most The next escalation occurred in 1616, when a This incident touched otTthe Thirty Years' War. It 1648 called Mathematical Magic, in which he
he personally was very struck by some of the Nat- steadfast philosophy of natural things." royal marriage was arranged This marriage was is reported that the reason he was so defeated explicitly mentions the Rosy Cross and pays
ural Magic elements that were in the writings. He . It is this movement that Giorgi is a part of and the talk of England and was called the Marriage was that James of England refused to go along homage to occultists Robert Fludd and John Dee.
meant no heresy and was later defended by the this branch of Venetian philosophy founds of the Thames and the Rhine. James I's daughter with the plan. We would not be far off the mark if The key to the actual Rosicrucian tradition in
Pope, but it opened the door to l~gitimizing what Freemasonry and the New Age. was to marry the Elector of Palatine. This Protes- we said that from Venice's standpoint James was the British Royal Society is Elias Ashmole. He
turned out to be aN eoplatonic fraud The danger Here is a point of enormous importance. One tant-Anglican marriage was, in the view of not adequate, and Venice had to bring a more was unabashedly a Rosicrucian and in 1654 wrote
here is the same danger that was always inherent of the main confusions tliat the present-day Venice, a significant counterweight to the Habs- radical government into power. It was they who a letter to ask the "Rosicrucians to allow him to
in the Neoplatonics as opposed to the real Plato. Catholic Church has on the question of the burgs. supported Oliver Cromwell. Venice always want- join their fraternity." His scientific works were a
The Neoplatonics belived in a world spirit, and Renaissance is that Aristotelians in the Church Then the strangest thing occurs. The year of ed parliamentary sovereignty as a form of govern- defense of John Dee's work, in particular Dee's
that one could coax the spirit into matter through used the identification of this Neoplatonic prob- the marriage the first Rosicrucian tract is written. ment to control any king. Monas HierogLyphicas, and the Theatrum Chemicum
the use of the soul, which was located midway lem to attack the Renaissance as pagan and It is called the "Fama~' It calls for the formation What were the Venetians up to? Now it Britanicum of 1652. This is a compilation oC all the
between spirit and matter. This use of the soul is humanistic, when in fact this was launched as an of a Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross and for the becomes interesting. Consider two quotes, one by alchemical writings by English authors. In the
what is known as magic. Augustine was revulsed operation by Paduan Aristotelians in the guise of reformation of all knowledge. It is not too distant Sarpi and the other by Paruta, you have a funda- opening of this work he praises a mythical event
by this practice and strongly admonished Hennes Platonism to destroy CUsa and Christianity. from what Francis Bacon, a friend of Sarpi, is mental attack on scientific method Paruta had in which a brother of the Rosy Cross cures the
for practicing such magic. This occult Neoplatonism and Cabalism came calling for. Shortly thereafter, another document, been an empiricist: Earl of Norfolk ofleprosy.
pouring into England. No less than Christopher the "Confession," again explicitly Rosicrucian, is "Although our intellect may be divine from its Ashmole was one of the official founding mem-
Marlowe took up the attack against it written. It calls the pope the anti-Christ Both are birth, nevertheless here below it lives among bers of the British Royal Society. The other
The Cabala In his play on Faustus, Marlowe identifies the
problem of the· whole Elizabethan elite. Marlowe
written in German and circulated in the territory
of the Elector of Palatine.
these earthly members and cannot perform its
operations without the help of bodily sensation.
major. explicitly Rosicrucian figure was Isaac
Newton. He had copies of both the Fama and the
The worst aspect of this came in through Pico himselfwas an intelligence operative and was on This stuff is straight Neoplatonic Cabalism. By their means, drawing into the mind the images Corifessio in his possession, and the book compiled
della Mirandola He went back to an idea of the the inside of major decisions being made by Wals- Here is a description of the grave of Christian of material things, it represents these things to by Ashmole, The TheatnL~ was Newton's bible.
world soul, asserting that man participated only ingbam. who was in a sense CIA chief under Eliz- Rosenkreutz from the first pamphlet, "Fama": itself and in this way forms its concepts of-them. Also, as we uncovered earlier, Newton had a
as a receptacle of the world soul. PresumablY, the abeth. ·i~ • '~In the morning Cbllowing, we open·ed the.. By the same token it CustOmarily rises to spiritual series of pape1s on the book of Daniel calculating
body died but the world soul lived on. This Marlowe sums up the problem of the age and door, and there appeared to our. sight a vault of contemplations not by itself but awakened by the end times. . .
denied the individual soul and the uniqueness of exposes the mysticism and necromancy around seven sides and corners, every side five foot sense objects." Historian Frances Yates, in her book The Rosi-
the individual. Pico; in his "Oration on The Digni- the court of Elizabeth. The whole of Faust was broad, and the height of eight foot Although the Sarpi was also an empiricist ''There are four crucian Enlightenment, in a chapter entitled
ty Of Man," gives his most dramatic fonnulation of that he was fed up with all knowledge. Presum- sun never shined in this vault, nevertheless it was modes of philosophizing: the first with reason "Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry," quotes one
this idea: ably this was an attack on Aristotelian School- enlightened with another sun, which had learned alone, the second with sense alone, the third with De Quincey, who states, "Freemasonry is neither
"... Whatever seeds each man cultivates will men, but Faust, in the end, makes a deal with the this from the sun, and was situated in the upper reason and then sense, and the fourth beginning more nor less than Rosicrucianism as modified by
grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit devil. In this, Marlowe identifies the truth about part in the center of the ceiling. In the midst, with sense and ending with reason. The flfSt is those who transplanted it in England, whence it
If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. If the relationship between Arisotelianism and instead of a tombstone, was a round altar covered the worst, because from it we know what we was re-exported to the other countries of
sensitive, he will become brutish. If rational, he mysticism. over with a plate of brass, and thereon this would like to be, not what is. The third is bad Europe." De Quincey states that Robert Fludd
will grow into heavenlY being. If intellectual, he Marlowe's play caused complete pandemoni- engraven: ... because we many tiuies distort what is into what was the person most responsible Cor bringing
will be an angel and the son of God. And if, happy um in the Venetian networks around Elizabeth. "This is all.clear and bright, as also the 'seven we would like, rather than adjusting what we Rosicrucianism to England and giving it its new
in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into In a coup de grace, Marlowe directly references sides and the two Heptagoni: so we kneeled alto- would like to what. is. The second is true but name. What is fascinating is that Elias Ashmole
the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one Giorgi. When Mephistopheles appears to Faust gether down and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole crude, permitting us to know little and that rather was one of the first recorded inductees into the
with· God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is and he is too ugly, Faust says, "Go and return an mighty and sole eternal God, who hath taught us of things than of their causes. The Courth is the Freemasons, but the actual fmt recorded induc-
set above all things, shall surpass them all. Who old Franciscian friar, that holy shape becomes a more than all men's wits could.have found out, best we can have in this miserable life." tion was Dr. Robert Moray in Edinburgh in 1641.
would not admire this our chameleon? Or who devil best" praised be his holy name. This vault we parted iJi This is Francis Bacon's inductive method. Both Ashmole and Moray were founding mem-
could more greatly admire aught else whatever? It was shortly after this play was written that three parts, the upper part or ceiling, the wall or Bacon's ideas about inductive method were taken bers of the British Royal Society. While there are
It is man who Asclepius of Athens, arguing from Marlowe was assassinated. . side, the ground or floor. from the "Arte di ben pensare" and other of many stories about the ancient origins of the
. his mutability of character and from his self- "Of the upper part you shall understand no Sarpi's writings. Freemasons, here is an announcement for one of
transforming nature, on just grounds says was more of it at this time, but that it was divided Here I would like to quote from Webster Tarp- their meetings in 1676: "To give notice that the
symbolized by Proteus in the mysteries. Hence The Creation of ...
according to the seven sides in the triangle, which
was in the bright center; but what therein is con-
ley's series in The New Federalist:
. "Sarpi sounds very much like Bacon, Hobbes,
Modem Green-ribboned Cabal, together with the
ancient brotherhood of the Rosy Cross: the Her-
those metamorphoses renowned among the
Hebrews and the Pythagoreans.Jt Freemasonry· tained, you shall God willing (that are desirous of Locke, and Hume. This is no surprise, since Sarpi metic Adepti and the. company oC Accepted
Pico also went futher into mysticism, as he our society) behold the same with your own eyes; and Micanzio were in close contact with Hobbes Masons. . . ." It is interesting to note how clear
insisted that the Cabala was the fount of ancient Now we pick up the story of the 1580s and how but every side or wall is parted into ten fIgUreS, and Bacon, sometimes directly, and sometimes the tradition is.
wisdom that Moses passed down to elite disciples, the Venetians created Freemasonry in England: . every one with their several figures and sen- through William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, a In conclusion, we have demonstrated that
an esoteric doctrine that only an elect can inter- As I said, occultism was pouring into England. tences, as they are truly shown and set forth Con- friend of Francis Bacon and the employer of Venice created the Rosicrucian movement that
pret This is the idea that through the manipula- With the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a Vene- centratum here in our book." . Thomas Hobbes. Bacon was of course a raving dominates England and creates Freemasonry.
tion of symbols you could directly acess God and tian grouping around Fra Paolo Sarpi, called the Several other documents on the Rosicrucian irrationalist, a Venetian-style Rosicrucian, and a Freemasonry in tum creates the British Royal
His universe. It is a rejection of scientific method Giovani, df.!cided to become more aggressive. thesis were written, all confessing to have solved bugger. Cavendish may have introduced Bacon to Society, which engages in total war with Cusa's
in favor of the manipulation of symbols. Venice gets into a war with the papacy in 1606. the riddle of the relationship between the micro- Hobbes, who sOQn became a couple_ In influence upon Kepler and Leibniz. We have also
. Pico wrote: "35. In exactly the same way, when It is a jurisdictional dispute over money and the cosm and the macrocosm. This was also the name Chatsworth House in Cornwall there is a accomplished a surprising result in understand-
the true interpretation of the Law according to right to try criminals who happen to be under of a book written by Robert Fludd. Fludd is manuscript entitled 'Hobbes' Translations oCltal- ing the waf over what is called modem scientific
the command ot God, divinely handed down to papal jurisdiction. The pope puts Venice under attacked by Kepler as a mystic who uses numbers ian Letters: containing 77 missives from Micanzio method
Moses, was revealed, it was called the Cabala, a the interdict Sarpi is chosen by Venice to defend as a fGrm of cabalistic symbolism, and engages in to the Earl (called 'Candiscio'). According to Dud- This speech was prepared with the collaboration
wo~d which is the same among the Hebrews as the city-state and is excommunicated. He success- a wild defense of his writings. Almost immediate- ley Carleton, Cavendish visited Venice and Padua of Webster Tmpley and DmJid Chi'TTy.