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The Venetian Takeover of England - And Its Creation of Freemasonry
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{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.}

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.}

--
         John Covici
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