Roman Catholic Church

In order to create a big Navy, Henry VIII of England needed money which he got by confiscating the properties of Roman Catholic Churches and Monasteries. This money permitted him to create a Navy, which at the time of Henry s death (1547) amounted to 53 ships, all equipped with bronze cannons. With the... 

Some Indians in Mexico have used peyote since before recorded history, making long pilgrimages to the desert to collect it, then eating it in elaborate ceremonies. When the Spanish conquered Mexico, the Roman Catholic Church tried to stamp out peyote use, calling it sinful and diabolic, but to no avail. In the late 1800s the use of peyote spread northward to Indians in the United States, who invented new rituals around it. As it moved north, peyote became even more popular Indians of the midwest-... 

During my first year at Emory, I went to a different place of worship almost every Sunday and read about different Protestant Sects, the Roman Catholic Church, the Muslim religion. Buddhism, and the religions of... 

J.C. Do young Czechs still appreciate the religious heritage of the Roman Catholic Church ... 

Herein lies another parallel between the situation of the homosexual in contemporary America and that of the Jew in fifteenth-century Spain. As the man with Jewish religion was considered not fully human, because he was not Christian—so the homosexual is considered not fully human because he is not heterosexual. In both cases, the individual is denied recognition as a human being in his authentic identity and selfhood—and for the same reasons each undermines the beliefs and values of the dominant group. The Jew, by virtue of his Jewishness, refuses to authenticate Jesus as the Son of God, and the Roman Catholic Church as the unquestionable representative of God on Earth. The male homosexual, by virtue of his homosexuality, refuses to authenticate woman as the desirable sex object, and the heterosexual as the unquestionable embodiment of sexual normality. This is why the homosexual is not recognized as having the same rights as the heterosexual—... 

Alchemy has fundamentally influenced Western society, particularly in medicine and religion. In religion, for example, the Eucharist ceremony symbolizes alchemy. We find the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church, involving the congregation as the living church... 

The Roman Catholic Church adopted the principals of female beauty and procreation, incorporating them into the great Lady cathedrals of Europe. The East lancet window is typically high and narrow corresponding to the male principle of Spirit while the rose window of the West is circular and primeval, symbolizing the womb. °°... 

Indeed, in 1964, the Roman Catholic Church finally succumbed to popular pressure for Virgin Worship. Pope Paul VI elevated the Virgin Mary to Mater Ecclesiae, the Mother of the Church From that moment, those of the Roman Catholic faith could only speak to God the Father through Mary the Redemptress. 

The French Merovingian Royalty maintained that it was of a royal Trojan lineage that antedated the Roman Catholic Church. They rejected Church sponsored coronation. They also claimed to derive from the tribe of Judah through Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. 

George Gemistos, known as Plethon, ran a Neoplatonist School in Mistra in the Peloponnese. In 1438CE, with the encouragement of Cosimo de Medici, Plethon relocated his Platonic studies to Florence. There he was outside the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and he established a humanist movement with a belief in universal Platonic religion. 

Roman Catholic Church, this was as alarming as the worst of the Gnostic heresies, radical Manichaeanism/ ... 

In all this confusion of dualism, the Roman Catholic Church was unable to differentiate between the various sects and eventually condemned the Bogomils and Cathars alike as Persian Manichaeists. The Cistercian papal legate Amald-Almaric, General of Qteaux, encapsulated this at Beziers in 1209CE with his infamous order ... 

In the next chapter, we shall see how Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism prospered, while the Knights Templar apparently lost touch with the fine line between esotericism and heresy. The Roman Catholic Church accepted the former. It even incorporated it into its living church rituals. The latter included the notorious Arabic grimoire magia, necromancy and a melange of Gnostic sexual practices. 

From the profusion of these images in pre-Reformation churches, there is little doubt that the Roman Catholic Church understood and... 

The Knights Templar could not have rebelled against a restructure or liquidation. Each knight was a monk of the Roman Catholic Church and had taken a vow of material poverty. Furthermore, if the Order had rebelled it would have had limited options for shelter. Envious monarchs continually eyed its productive land and were prepared to expropriate the assets of the Order at the first sign of any weakness in its legitimacy. 

Before turning our attention to the unsavory aspects of necromancy, it is helpful to understand a little more of the poem called the Descent of the Inanna. This poem appears in both the Creation Epic of the Mesopotamians and the Dread Book. Surprisingly, it allows us to outline the acceptable limit of magic in mysteries by reference to the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. 

The Cistercians were a monastic order founded in 1098CE at Citeaux by Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Molesme. St Bernard, who lived from 1090 to 1153, joined the monastery of Qteaux in 1113. Two years later, he became the founding abbot of Clairvaux. The Cistercians then became the most influential order within the Roman Catholic Church. Over the next fifteen years, they established more than three hundred monasteries. St Bernard built sixty-eight of these. The... 

The position of the letter M as an end word is also likely because tracing the inscription yields a St Andrew s cross. As we have seen, this was a very important symbol in Lord Anson s day. A St Andrew s cross is the symbol used in old initiation and sacrificial rites to represent resurrection. It is a symbol of Archangel Michael and the lineage of Melchizedek Priests. Within the Roman Catholic Church, it is the Signaculum Dei or Seal of God. 

The inherent flaw in the Knights Templar was the Melchizedekian heresy they harbored, which the Roman Catholic Church had been desperate to eliminate for almost a millennium. This seems to have included a rejection of Church mysteries in favor of a direct experience of the ancient mysteries. As priests of the Order of Melchizedek, they believed themselves to be immortal through rebirth. 

The most fundamental societal change remained however reserved to the discovery of the pill . In times of economic awakening, student upheaval, women s emancipation movement, hippie culture, liberalisation in the Roman Catholic Church (in the wake of the 2nd Vatican Council, 1962-1965) and sexual laxity, the first hormonal oral contraceptives came on the market. In 1964, 2% of the women of child-bearing age took ovulation inhibitors by 1968, this number had already increased to 12 %, and by 1986, to more than 35 %. Nowadays, the pill is ranked as one ofthe safest contraceptives. Not only the active ingredients were improved, but also their dosages and dosing schedules. Through the experience over the last 30 years with many millions of women on the pill , the associated risks and side-effects are now well-known. 

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