A Presidential Candidate Who Dares, Speaks:
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RELIGION & NATIONAL
SECURITY: by Lyndon H.
LaRouche, Jr.
During the 1511-1648 interval, religious warfare in Europe had been led chiefly by the Venetian faction represented by the Habsburg dynasty of Vienna and Spain. Since the rise of the Anglo-Dutch and French "Enlightenment" of the Eighteenth Century, the detonator of deadly internal threats to the security of European civilization has often been the provocative roles assigned to relatively small religious cults, such as millenarian, freemasonic, or other nominally Christian or Jewish denominations. These dangerous sects have often included elements of the sexual freakishness of the quasi-Judeo-Christian varieties of Manichean, Cathar and Grail cults. Since July 14, 1789, until today, the greatest overt internal threat to European civilization has came from the recurring public eruptions of a hybrid, quasi-phrygian-dionysian freemasonic religious association known as the Martinists. These Martinists, together with the network of family merchant banks which uses them as instruments of political power, are the inner aspect of that recurring threat to civilization known to history books and newspaper headlines by such names as Jacobinism, Bonapartism, Synarchy, and names of the fascist regimes which proliferated in post-Versailles Europe of the 1920s through 1945. Although the terrorism motivated by today's Synarchists, is presently the leading subversive form of security threat to U.S. interests, I am, so far, virtually the only candidate for the 2004 Presidential nomination who has exhibited both the will and knowledge to address in a systematic way, the explicitly religious character of this specific quality of present threat to our nation. There are admittedly potential political risks for any candidate, risks which would tend to frighten most of them away from bringing up this matter of weird religions, such as Tom Delay's, as I do; but any one who lacks the courage to do that, would not be competent to become the next President. The Synarchist threat from the continuing Martinist tradition, is a leading issue of the present and coming time. This is a cult which originally emerged, during the closing decades of the Eighteenth Century, to be used by knowledgeable banking circles, to create the great internal, systemic threat to France, and the world, of 1789-1815. Since long before the the modern threat by the Martinists, the most notable forms of earlier intellectual resistance to the influence of such pro-terrorist cults, had come from theologians such as Philo (Judaeus) of Alexandria, Augustine, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal Mazarin's role in the crafting of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, and Moses Mendelssohn. Like Cusa and Moses Mendelssohn, the best insight into the problem from inside modern European civilization, has been expressed by certain devoutly religious figures who argued for an ecumenical peace of religions, as opposed to the alternative of ultramontane syncretism typified by a Roman pantheon or Olympus cult. However, the most efficient practical defense of the institution of the modern nation-state from corruption by such terrorist cults as the modern Martinists, has been that mode of separation of church from state which was instituted within the context of the U.S. Federal Constitution. The most efficient way to bring the citizen to the point of understanding the terrorist, fascist, and related threats today, is by exposing the fraudulent character of certain exemplary, paradigmatic types of pseudo-Christian bodies of teaching and practice. Presently, there are two such right-wing cults of Synarchist pedigree prominently placed under my counterintelligence sights. The first is a fascist Israeli group of the neo-conservative type associated with the wanted fugitive Rafi Eytan. The second, is a network of pro-Nazi pedigrees, from France, Italy, and Spain, but deployed throughout the Americas, associated with the cover provided by keystone Spanish fascist Blas Pinar. The first, that fascist Israeli ring, is a mixture of quasi-religious and other professed Zionists. The second, is composed, partially, of typically Synarchist, extreme right-wing, often frankly gnostic Catholics ("integrists"). The nominally Catholic associates of the cult are co-deployed with Protestants in the wild-eyed tradition of Jonathan Edwards and the stereotypical "Elmer Gantry." For the purpose of this report, keep those two types in view, but only as actual cases used here as models of reference. Both of these types of gnostics differ only in degree, as different brand-label packagings of their common mother, the same Synarchist cult. To simplify the initial phase of the presentation, focus upon the common features of the systemic opposition of these types of pro-terrorist cults to Christianity. 1. What Is Christianity? Jesus Christ was born during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and was judicially murdered, on the order of Pontius Pilate, the son-in-law of that Emperor Tiberius who was then based on the Isle of Capri sacred to the cult of Mithra. Despite the imperial reign of the Latin Caesars of that time, the prevalent culture of the eastern Mediterranean's region was still the legacy of the Classical Greek language and tradition, as the Gospel of the Apostle John and the Epistles of the Apostle Paul reflect this choice of culture for their presentation of what the poet Shelley would term "profound and impassioned conceptions of man and nature." Hebrew did not exist as a spoken language; Aramaic, or a vulgar, slum quality of Greek, were relatively commonplace in Palestine of that time. The view of the Roman Empire was that it was, as the Apostle John reported his dream, the hateful "Whore of Babylon," an echo of all that had been hated as persecution incarnate, by Jews and Christians alike, from among the political-social systems of earlier Mesopotamia. The culture through which Christianity spread from the Middle East was, principally, the medium of Greek culture, as that culture's impact was also radiated, through slaves and other ways, within the reaches of the Roman Empire. The model expression of this Christian missionary's work, is found in the Gospel of John and Epistles of Paul, in which the heritage of Plato serves as the cultural vehicle employed for the transmission of specifically Christian conceptions. The case of Philo of Alexandria's argument against the theological implications of Aristotle, is a comparable reflection of the use of that existing language-culture, the heritage of Thales, Pythagoras, Solon, Plato, and the pre-Euclidean constructive geometry which they employed, was the medium best suited to transmission of conceptions of universal physical and related principle. It is by reading the writings of John and Paul, most notably, against the backdrop of the dialogues of Plato, that the intent of Christ's and the Apostles' communication must be adduced. That is to say, by Socratic modes of cognitive replication. This Platonic view of what has come to be described as "the New Testament," if replicated in the cognitive processes of the reader, rather than as a chimpanzee might be conditioned to respond obediently to mere text, affords the thinker a living sense of the immediate, immortal presence of Christ and His Apostles, even across the distance of more than 2,000 years, a sense of a reality which no bare literal text could convey. The sense of such presence is experienced, as brought to life among those assembled for a participation in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, or Wolfgang Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. It is through the methods of Classical irony, as typified by the best of all forms of Classical artistic composition, that the human mind rises above the relative cognitive sterility of mere text, to insight into the efficient presence of meanings which lie beyond the bounds of ether bare sense-perception, or bare text. From those standpoints of reference, the sheer evil of what has become known as Synarchy, can be felt and smelled as it were the presence of something Satanically evil in the atmosphere. That these are the enemies of Jesus Christ, can be sensed by th witting as a presence in the room. The Jacobin Terror, Napoleon Bonaparte, G.W. F. Hegel, the terrorist bomber Richard Wagner, and the avowedly satanic Friedrich Nietzsche, evoke such a sense of a hovering evil more disgusting than Judas, fit forerunners of Adolf Hitler. The point of recognizing that comparison is not as if to prepare a legal case for a mortal court. The point is to adduce, to define more clearly for oneself, the location and nature of the passion which inspires the contemporary Synarchist, from inside himself, to create the kind of evil typified by the professed satanic Nietzsche, his follower Martin Heidegger, Mussolini, Hitler, the pro-satanic Theodor Adorno, General Franco, Laval, and so on. The practical point is to understand why, how, and when this depraved association is likely to strike, how it spreads his influence, and sometimes turns your once-dear-and-trusted friends into a semblance of panicked Gadarene swine, or the like. The sum-total of such considerations can be pointed out by reference to a single principle, but the hearer's comprehension is not so easily secured. The principle, expressed in the form of a corresponding question, is: What is the difference between man and beast? It is the principled question I have presented to my international youth-movement, a question I have situated in a study of Carl Gauss's attack on the fraud by Euler and Lagrange, in Gauss's 1799 original published report of the discovery of The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. (incomplete) |