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COSMIC REALITY - 5
THE VATICAN CONNECTION

My birth in 1948 marked me as part of the post World War II Baby Boom generation. My adolescence in the fifties had evolved into teenage life of the sixties, when all hell started breaking loose. It began in June of 1963. Pope John XXIII died. Within five months, President Kennedy was assassinated. I was fifteen. Those five months have dominated my life.

The Assassination's impact upon individuals, as well as nations, can be readily rationalized. But the effect the Pope's death has had upon my life was harder to explain. John XXIII was really the only Pope I had known, but I do not remember ever thinking much about him, other than in the context as his being the leader of my church. It was likely it was the fact death itself was a rather new concept for me (Mom and Dad hid the deaths of pets and no relative or friend had ever died). And no one could really explain this death thing. But everyone seemed sad, and everywhere you looked people were talking about the event.

Whatever, for some reason, the death of Pope John XXIII made a massive impact on my fifteen-year-old mind: I cut out and kept the local newspaper's accounting of the three days between the Pope's death and his burial. Somewhere down the line, Mom found this research and placed it with other childhood treasures she was keeping from me, unbeknown to me. Then, fifteen years later, while the family was together for a wedding, Mom took out the various childhood treasures and gave each adult child his or her personal collection.

I found those pages of newspaper folded up and stuck in the back of a teenager's photo album. When I realized their content, I clearly felt the hand of destiny leading me to some ultimate conclusion. For the previous year I had been researching the life of John XXIII, and still I had innumerable questions that were not answered. This fifteen year old newspaper treasure made a connection linking the Pope with the President and tied both to the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

This papal research did not simply evolve out of my investigation into John Kennedy's death. Remember the voice I heard in my head that caused me to read Glenn Wood's article on Freemasonry? And remember I said certain information was also transmitted? Well part of that additional data was to look for a connection between Kennedy and Pope John XXIII. Somehow the Pope's involvement with Kennedy was crucial to the puzzle that the voice-in-my-head had presented.

Angelo Roncalli - Pope John XXIII

On October 9, 1958, Eugenio Pacelli, better known as Pope Pius XII, died. Nineteen days later his successor was named: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli ascended the throne of Saint Peter as John XXIII. The new Pope was seventy-five years old and destined to rule for five years. The announcement of Roncalli's selection was made the evening of October 28, 1958. The next morning, Roncalli addressed the world in a twelve-minute radio message.
In understanding Angelo Roncalli, this twelve minutes becomes critical. The radio message was a forecast of those subjects which were to become the new Pope's greatest concern: the threat of war and the economic well being of humanity.

Pope John XXIII reminded "the rulers of all nations in whose hands are placed the fate, the prosperity and hopes of the individual peoples" that the people had not asked for "those monstrous means of war discovered in our time, which can cause fraternal massacre and universal slaughter". According to the Pope, instead of nuclear weapons, the people had asked for "peace in virtue which the human family can live freely, flourish and prosper - tranquility and concord from which alone can rise a true prosperity."

Roncalli was born into an environment that must have nurtured his understanding of what the poor face. The Roncallis had lived for hundreds of years, struggling as sharecroppers in the shadow of the Alps of northern Italy. Angelo was born in the stone house which had been the Roncalli homestead for generations. As the oldest son of twelve children, Angelo escaped the life style of his father by entering a seminary at the age of eleven. The seminary was located in Bergamo where he became a priest in 1904.

In Bergamo, Roncalli became involved with Catholic clergy convinced the Church had to be concerned with the physical environment of the people as well as their spiritual well-being. There was a clear demand by those centered in Bergamo that the Catholic Church had to develop a social conscience and fight for the rights of peasants and laborers. The various actions initiated by the clergy during this timeframe came under the umbrella term "Catholic Action".

Thus the future Pope, with his peasant roots, matured in an environment where Catholic clergy felt a responsibility for their congregation's economic well-being. Throughout his life, Roncalli remained an ardent supporter of Catholic Action. In 1961 the Pope claimed, "Probably the most difficult problem of the modern world concerns the relationship between political communities that are economically advanced and those in the process of development." To Roncalli, technical and financial aid had to be given by advanced nations "in sincere political disinterestedness" to developing nations still in the throes of hunger and misery.

In addition to admonishing advanced nations to care for less developed nations, Roncalli pointed out that only employers had the means to "prevent the recurrence of massive unemployment", and he urged them to restrict profits while assuring adequate wages. Apparently, the Pope felt any individual - whether politician, employer, or priest - had a responsibility to alleviate the problems of the people.

Except for serving in World War I as a chaplain with the Italian Army's medical corps, Roncalli stayed in Bergamo until 1921 when he went to work on the Vatican missionary program. Four years later, Roncalli became a bishop and was assigned to the Vatican's diplomatic corps. His first diplomatic post left him in Bulgaria until 1934 when he became Apostolic Delegate for Turkey and Greece. He remained headquartered in Turkey throughout World War II, which saw him actively assisting the fleeing Jews and others escaping Fascist Europe. In 1945, Roncalli too the post as Nuncio to France where he had to confront a war-torn nation where Vichy Catholics had supported the Nazis. He remained in France until 1953 when Pius XII appointed him a cardinal and named him Patriarch of Venice. Roncalli's next post was that of Pope.

In France, Roncalli had faced economic and social realities of postwar Europe. And, again, Catholic clergy strove to align themselves with workers needs against Vatican policy. The French workers tended to associate the Catholic Church with social order, the rich, and the middle-class employers. Thus Catholic clergy found themselves working in a nation where 80% of the population were Catholics but only one in four regularly attended mass. To offset this trend, the priests began working and living among the workers. This growing unity among Catholic clergy and workers resulted in the Vatican's 1949 decree that anyone collaborating with Communists would be excommunicated.

This anti-Communist fervor exhibited by the postwar Vatican did not match Roncalli's style. During his tenure in France, Roncalli was outwardly friendly toward the Soviet Ambassador to France. As Pope, he met with Khrushchev's daughter Rada and her husband Aleksei Adzhubei in the Vatican. Adzhubei was not only Khrushchev's son-in-law, but he was also a member of the Supreme Soviet and editor of his nation's second most popular publication "Izvestia".

This meeting between the Catholic Pope and a high-ranking Soviet official in early 1963 sent world speculating that John would act to bring Khrushchev and Kennedy together. Yet evidence indicates that secretly such a union had already transpired. Even in November 1961, Khrushchev thought enough of the Pope to send his personal good wishes to Roncalli on his eightieth birthday. John promptly sent a thankful note which ended, "I will pray for the people of Russia."

Perhaps it was those prayers that helped the world survive the Cuban Missile Crisis less than a year later. More likely, it was the active participation of the Pope, the U.S. President, and the Soviet leader who tipped the scales although the prayers could not have hurt. With Norman Cousins (then editor of "Saturday Review") acting as liaison, Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed that a Papal appeal for peace would help alleviate the hostile environment threatening to escalate into nuclear war.

Through the night of October 25, 1962, Pope John XXIII wrote an address he and two other world leaders hoped would help prevent war. That message can be summed up in his emotional plea, "Hear the anguished cry which rises to heaven from every corner of the earth, from innocent children to old men, from the people in the cities and villages: Peace! Peace!" And the world's mass media - including that of the Soviets - took up the cry. The response was a marked easing of tension that allowed Khrushchev to announced his willingness to withdraw the missiles two days later and allowed Kennedy to praise the Soviet leader for his act of statesmanship.

Norman Cousins continued acting as intermediary between three world leaders. He spoke to Khrushchev of Kennedy's ardent desire for a nuclear test ban and the Pope's intent in establishing tentative contacts with the Soviets and his concerns for the religious liberty of the Soviet people. Khrushchev sent a personal message to the Pope through Cousins; the Soviet leader wished the Pope good health during the Christmas season using unmistakable religious allusions. Cousins also carried to Khrushchev the papal medallion from the Pope, that the Soviet Premier kept on his desk at all times.

While Norman Cousins was identified as one intermediary between the three world leaders, there were others at many levels. There were technicians putting in communication links between Moscow and Washington that came to be called the "Hot Line". Contacts were also made on social, economic, and cultural levels in a move to "thaw" relationships between the Super Powers.

The Pope, meanwhile, continued to push for world cooperation through his concept of United Christianity. Within three months of becoming Pope, John XXIII was planning his Ecumenical Council which he envisioned as a beginning stage toward unifying the Christian world. The Pope prepared his church first with Vatican Council II, but the council was automatically terminated upon the Pope's death. Yet, while only in session from October 11 - December 8, 1962, one well known Catholic theologian Father Hans Kung believed the council had changed the atmosphere of the whole Catholic Church. To Father Kung and others, the council's evolving concept of a "theology of union" was far more important than the promulgation of any formal changes.

In its brief session, the Vatican Council indicated to its almost half-billion followers that the Church was actively working for reform and renewal. To non-Catholics, the image of a monolithic, authoritarian Vatican bureaucracy began to crumble. One intimate advisor to the Pope, Cardinal Augustin Bea, went so far as to say, "both individuals and society should leave each one free to accept and to fulfill his obligations and duties exclusively by the use of his own free will." Cardinal Bea told an American audience that the Church could accept the teaching that a man had the right to choose his own particular brand of religion or even to reject religion.

Through his Vatican Council, Pope John was paving the way for major reforms in Catholic liturgy and ritual while extending a Catholic hand to all Christians. Through his active participation in the concerns of the world's poor, Roncalli was moving down the road that had begun in Bergamo, Italy as Catholic Action and had been fortified in war-torn, impoverished French cities. Through his "Peace on Earth" encyclical issued just before Easter 1963, Pope John again pleaded for world disarmament - demonstrating his firm belief that the Church had to be concerned with the affairs of Earth as well as those of Heaven. Through his open-minded actions the Pope was facilitating the warming of relationships between the two Super Powers.

The January 1963 meeting with Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, which sent the world wondering if something more would be forthcoming was to be followed by a visit by President Kennedy about June 20, 1963. But the Pope was dead on June 3, 1963 and five months later the President joined the Pope.

There is, of course, the possibility the deaths of John Kennedy and the Pope in the same time frame were simply coincidence. Then again we know about the connection between coincidences and thoughts (Cosmic Rule #5). And it had to be Cosmic Rule #5 kicking in when I happened to see a television talk show with a guest named David A. Yallop.

In God's Name

Yallop's book IN GOD'S NAME relates his investigation of the murder of Pope John Paul I, predecessor of only a month to the current Pope John Paul II. Yallop provides substantial evidence indicating Pope John Paul I was murdered by members of the Italian Masonic Lodge known as the P2. To understand the reason for the Papal assassination, we must look again to the time just before and during World War II.

Mussolini signed a concordat making Roman Catholicism the only religion allowed in Italy and its territories. Adolf Hitler and his immediate associates were all Roman Catholics. In 1933, the Nazis signed a concordat with Cardinal Pacelli, Vatican Secretary of State, who became Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) after the rather mysterious death of his predecessor.

Also present at the 1933 Vatican-Nazi signing was Vatican Prelate Montini later to be Pope Paul VI (1963-1978), successor to Pope John XXIII (1958-1963). And in Spain where the republic's presidents fought encroachment by the Vatican, the Vatican-backed Freemason Franco became dictator and was recognized as such by the Vatican twenty months before the Spanish Civil War ended. There are accusations by such men as Charles R. Allen Jr. an expert on escaped war criminals ("Reform Judaism" magazine) that the Vatican aided and abetted escaping Nazis including the infamous Klaus Barbie.

In 1942, the Vatican took an 80 million dollar payment for Vatican land purchased by Mussolini and put it in the hands of an association of trusted men made responsible for investing these funds. By 1971, this organization, the Institute for Religious Work, was headed by the American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. Marcinkus involved the Vatican with Roberto Calvi a major Italian banker, who had taken a modest, local Italian bank of the 1940 vintage and evolved it into the largest private financial institution in Italy. Marcinkus and Calvi had an agreement which moved Italian funds to Switzerland, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Panama, and the Bahamas where the Nassau Bank had Archbishop Marcinkus listed as a director.

Calvi was also implicated as having dealings with Gilli - Grand Master of the Italian Freemason lodge known as P2 and considered a fascist organization. Grand Master Gilli was considered a critical contact for Calvi's South and Central American financial transactions. Gilli was so highly regarded that Argentina's President Peron was seen to kneel before Gilli.

Gilli's P2 Masonic lodge was illegal due to its activities in the 1970s which saw 1000 Italian leaders brought together to create a "state within a state". This radical Masonic lodge leveled dramatic penalties to renegade members including tongues being torn out and throats cut. Yet, in spite of its violence, these Mason believed that a violent coup was not required to control the most important positions within Italy. P2 believed it could take over the country by placing its Masonic members in places of power.

Calvi came to public attention after his June 18, 1982 death which was originally listed as a suicide. However after evidence was uncovered supporting the contention that Calvi was murdered, further investigations led to the connection between Calvi's bank, the Vatican, the P2, and the Mafia whose money was probably being laundered through the Calvi-Vatican scheme.

David Yallop's IN GOD'S NAME takes the investigation even further and claims there were over one hundred members of the Freemasons within Vatican City and the P2 had formed links with priests, bishops, and cardinals. Yallop concluded Pope John Paul I was assassinated before he could destroy the P2's control of the Vatican and the Vatican finances under Calvi's control. Assuming Yallop was correct, the possibility Masonic power had also been a reality in the days of John Kennedy and Pope John XXIII had to be considered.

And the probable Mafia connection to the Vatican was very interesting. In researching the Kennedy Assassination I had concluded the probable shooters were Mafia connected. The possibility the Mafia actually planned and ordered the Assassination had been considered, but in the end I concluded they were probably involved in the actual execution but not in the planning and cover-up. It was to the benefit of the Mafia to have Kennedy dead because the President's brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy was leading a powerful fight against the Mafia. However, the degree of organization and cover-up appears to go beyond the scope of Mafia power. This Mafia connection to Masonic and Vatican power centers is a book in itself and beyond our current purpose.

As already discussed, one possible connection between those implicated in the complex assassination scenario and ensuing cover-up was their common membership in Freemasonry. The various cover stories involving Oswald were probably sufficient to convince the Warren Commission of a direct Soviet involvement in the Assassination which caused the Commission to disregard evidence countering the conclusion that Oswald acted alone to kill Kennedy. However, it is interesting to note that at least one of the Warren Commission members was a Mason and future U.S. President Gerald Ford. Well, perhaps Ford's Masonry was just coincidence, after all Masons are found everywhere. Perhaps the Masonic connection to the Kennedy murder was nothing more than the result of an overly creative mind. Yet, as a professional intelligence analyst, I had to admit there was a pattern emerging.

I had identified the following groups as being connected with one another: Nazis with Oswald, Nazis and Masonry, Freemason and the Vatican, Pope John XXIII with Khrushchev and John Kennedy. So in addition to the strange U.S. Navy connection with the Assassination there were the various connections between Kennedy, Nazis, Masons and the Vatican. I had started out looking for the common ingredient in those individuals implicated in the Assassination, which led to uncovering connections between diverse groups. I began wondering what possible common ingredient could link the Vatican, Masons, and the Nazis. There was the Mafia connection, but that did not seem to go far enough. As for Kennedy, I assumed his connection was that he had uncovered some secret threatening one or more of these groups. If Kennedy had investigated the Masons using the vast investigative powers at his disposal, any Nazi shadow group could have been put into jeopardy. If the President had identified or threatened to identify Nazis in Masonic ranks, Kennedy's death may have become necessary.

However, the most critical aspect to all this is that until Pope John XXIII changed Vatican policy John Kennedy would have been excommunicated from the Church had he become a Freemason. Since Pope Clement XII's 1738 Papal Bull pronounced Masons as "enemies of the Roman Church", the Vatican had prohibited Catholics from being masons under penalty of excommunication. Just before Kennedy's election, Pope John XXIII pronounced a Catholic could also be a Mason.

Perhaps the Pope's change of policy allowed Freemasons to approach the President and ask him to become a member. Perhaps Kennedy chose to investigate the Freemason organization and its adherence to Ancient Mysteries and Secret Sciences. Perhaps the tradition of Masonic military lodges had resulted in existence of a Masonic organization of U.S. Navy officers. If such a naval lodge existed, perhaps its members had approached Kennedy, a former Naval officer, which started him investigating the Freemasons. Could the Navy connection have been through existence of a Naval Masonic organization? And what would a federal level investigation of Freemasonry have uncovered?

And again Cosmic Rule #5 kicked in (chance and thought): a friend handed me a book saying, "You have to read this. It proves Jesus Christ did not die on the cross. It was all a hoax."

The French Connection

HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL discussed discrepancies in the Crucifixion contrary to Christian tradition, Roman law, or Jewish custom. The authors expand upon these points of confusion by focusing on various groups directly involved in the life and death of Jesus. They conclude the Crucifixion was planned as a massive hoax perpetrated against the Jewish people and ultimately Christianity.

Unlike historical tradition, the Crucifixion was only a small, private gathering surrounding three crosses, with a crowd kept at a distance. Among the mourners were the politically radical Zealots desiring a Jewish revolution against the occupying Roman Empire. Also among those present were a number of Essenes representing the mystical occult side of the Jews.

Because the Jewish Sabbath was upon them, the Crucifixion was ordered rushed. A crucifixion took at least twenty-four hours and some men lasted a full week. The order to hurry the death would force the soldiers into assisting nature. Normally the outstretched position of the crucifixion victim and resulting pressure on the chest caused the victim to fight for every breath. To hurry a death, the traditional way was to break the victim's legs, where the body weight preventing the expansion of the chest could not be countered by stiffening the legs, and suffocation would come quickly.

The very fact the Crucifixion was to be hurried was contrary to Roman Law, which stipulated the victim's body would hang until the physical remains were eaten by carrion birds or otherwise naturally disposed of. Jesus should have been denied the right to burial, never mind the right to have the crucifixion hurried so he could be buried by sundown. Yet, the Roman soldier in charge of the proceedings, Centurion Longinus, had orders to release Jesus' body to Joseph of Arimathea, for burial in the nearby tomb, by the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath.

Jesus was of the Tribe of Judah and had a claim to the throne of King David, making Jesus truly "King of the Jews". The politically active Zealots became interested in Jesus because of his purported birthright. Jesus along with his mother Mary and father Joseph were members of the Essenes - a mystically oriented Jewish tribe that periodically joined with the Zealots in the past over mutually advantageous causes.

The Zealots conspired with the Essenes to orchestrate a fulfillment of Biblical prophesy, concerning a messiah who would deliver the Jews. A plan was contrived to simulate a crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of one Jesus which required the assistance of Roman authorities - Roman leader Pontius Pilate may have been bribed to assist in the planned illusion of death and resurrection.

The plan was simple enough. By bribing Pontius Pilate to release Jesus' body for burial before the beginning of Sabbath, the Romans would be forced to break Jesus' legs to hurry the death. Yet, if Jesus was already dead, there would be no need to break his legs. To create the illusion of death, the Zealots took advantage of the custom of putting a sponge soaked in vinegar to the victim's lips, in order to revive the condemned so their agony could continue. Instead of a vinegar soaked sponge, the Zealots used stratagem - a drug that brought on the semblance of death. With Jesus dead, the soldiers would have no need to accomplish the distasteful process of leg breaking. Jesus would be taken down from the cross, brought to the tomb, and revived by Essene doctors.

All was going according to the Zealot plan: the sponge was lifted to Jesus' lips; instead of vinegar acting as a stimulant there was an opposite effect. Almost immediately after the sponge had touched his mouth, Jesus said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head in apparent death. Thinking Jesus was dead, it was no longer necessary for the Roman soldiers to break his legs. The illusion of death would be followed by the Essene revival and the Zealots would have their martyr and hero who could conquer Rome as easily as death.

The Zealots had conspired to create the illusion of fulfilling ancient prophecy to acquire a man who could claim a bloodright to the throne of Jerusalem and a man who also had the power over death. Jesus would become the perfect leader: a promised secular messiah with divine powers who could lead a massive Jewish uprising against the Romans.

The Essenes, on the other hand, had another reason for conspiring with the Zealots; the Essenes needed to orchestrate the Crucifixion of Jesus to give their divine inspiration a world stage upon which to play. According to evidence, the Essene prophecy concerning the death of Jesus was brought to pass, when the Roman Centurion Gaius Cassius Longinus thrust a spear into the suffering Jesus. Longinus may have simply been moved to compassion to end Jesus suffering and been unaware of the seeming death that had overtaken the victim - as tradition holds. On the other hand, Longinus may have been part of the Essene conspiracy and knowingly ended the Zealot hopes of a secular messiah.

The authors of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL believed the conspiracy actually succeeded. For unspecified reasons, the authors did not consider the legend of Longinus and the Spear and did not even mention it. So, the basic concept of a successful Crucifixion conspiracy is just not valid if the legends of Longinus and the Spear of Destiny are true.

However, there is a string of evidence which definitely indicates Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife who fled Palestine after the Crucifixion (either alone or with Jesus). This marriage resulted in at least one child who grew up in the Septimania region of what is now called France. The authors of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL provide diverse evidence concerning the Magdalene's existence in Septimania, primarily through detailing the entrenched and powerful tradition of honoring the Magdalene found throughout the region. The fact Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife, hinges on Jewish law of that time which stipulated that a "Rabbi" had to be married and Jesus was often referred to by the title. The only woman continually associated with Jesus is Mary Magdalene; and, that Magdalene-Jesus connection would seem to have survived the Crucifixion.

The authors of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL interpret the evidence as indicating Jesus survived the Crucifixion but was forced to leave Palestine. Why he did not continue as the secular ruler envisioned by the Zealots was not explained; nor were reasons given as to why Jesus would have to flee. Again, while the evidence presented by the authors of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL has proved invaluable, their conclusion that Jesus did not die is not supportable - in my opinion.

However, the important consideration in tracking the Magdalene connection is not in whether Jesus was alive and well with her in Septimania. The critical factor is whether or not Jesus was of royal blood who passed on the family birthright to children who grew up in Septimania. And the crucial evidence in this regard involves the Throne of David, King of Jerusalem.

Evidence indicates that in the period immediately following the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene, and other associates of Jesus fled to Septemania - an area now known as southern France and northern Spain. Septemania had a large and powerful Jewish community and the Magdalene and her children were held in highest esteem. Her husband and their father carried the birthright to the Throne of Jerusalem; if Jesus also actually resurrected from the dead then his children were probably even more revered.

As the great Roman Empire rotted from within, nomadic tribes pushed from without; and one of those tribes was the Sicambrian Franks, coming out of Germany to settle in what was to become France. One of the Franks was Merovee whose son was proclaimed King of the Franks in 448. This proclamation of French kingship could have logically resulted from a marriage between Merovee's family and the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. This was the beginning of the Merovingian dynasty.

The reason for this assumption of marriage is based upon two legends. First was the Spear of Destiny story that had the Spear travel from Jerusalem to the Merovingian Court. If Jesus had actually died from Longinus' spear thrust, the Essenes would likely have considered the spearhead a sacred object - as it was already traditionally considered, by way of being the official ceremonial spear of the Jews. The spear in Longinus' hands was, after all, key to Jesus' death and purported resurrection. Perhaps the Essenes were able to acquire the spear which they took to Septimania, where it eventually became the symbol of the Merovingian kings.

The Merovingians gave way to the ancestors of Charlemagne whose descendants became the kings and queens of virtually every major European nation. From the Merovingians, the Spear came into possession of Charlemagne and the following forty-four emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, before being placed in the Hofburg Treasure House in Vienna, Austria, where Adolf Hitler claimed ownership in the name of the Third Roman Empire of the Aryan race.

The purported connection between a bloodline of Jesus and the Franks merging into the Merovingian dynasty could not be ignored. During my studies of the Nazi movement, the following was determined: Adolf Hitler had a preoccupation with the Merovingian period; he apparently believed there was nothing mystical concerning the life and death of Jesus; and he maintained Christianity had been the consequence of some Jewish action. Within context of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL's evidence, Hitler's perceptions could be explained: he had somehow become privy to the conspiracy behind the Crucifixion as well as the importance of the Spear of Destiny in that event.

The second batch of evidence actually involves a number of legends ranging from the Holy Grail to the Vatican. The following discussion is rather complicated, but important. To provide the whole picture and scope of the conspiracy perpetuated against us concerning our real history, we have to go back again to the Crucifixion. Bear with me on this - I'll try to make it a concise rendering of truer history.

The Templars and the Vatican

There is a Jewish tradition that the bloodline runs through the mother not the father. Thus, it is Jesus' mother Mary who gave her son the birthright title "King of Jerusalem". After the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the earliest Christian Community leaders only accept as their leaders those who were blood relatives of Jesus. These early Christian communities were comprised of Jews and their leaders were called "desposyni" - Greek for "belonging to the Lord". The desposyni traced their blood relationship to Jesus through three sources: Jesus maternal grandparents, his mother Mary's first cousin Elizbeth, and Mary's other female cousin Cleophas' wife.

In the initial beginning of Christianity there was a well-founded tradition that leadership depended upon one's ancestry. Christianity, as it grew into a worldwide organization, acknowledged the desposyni's church in Jerusalem as the Mother Church and cash contributions were made to this most important church. Then in 135 AD Roman Emperor Hadrian reconquered Jerusalem and banned all Jews from the city under penalty of death - including Christian Jews. The desposyni power was broken by 318 AD, when they were informed by Pope Silvester I that Rome was to be considered the Mother Church and all further contributions should be rendered to the Pope of the Roman Church. In the following two hundred years, Jewish Christian communities were eradicated one by one through sword, starvation, and attrition until they ceased to exist by the first of the fifth century. Somewhere during this period, the desposyni apparently ceased existing along with their Jewish Christian communities.

Pope Silvester I marks the point at which the Vatican was born as a secular entity. The Vatican's power base was based upon the Christian world believing the teachings of Jesus and that the Pope of Rome was Simon Peter's successor, and Peter was the rock upon which Jesus said he would build his church. Thus, Peter's successors not a Jewish bloodline would be the ultimate leaders of Christianity.

But Silvester I took the Vatican even further, by aligning himself with the Byzantine Empire. The Vatican organized the Christian Church into a structure that conformed to the Roman government bureaucracy and the Byzantine Emperor gave the Pope in Rome jurisdiction over Western Europe. With the erosion of Roman Empire borders to the continual attacks of barbarians in the fifth century, destruction of the Roman Empire as a cohesive entity provided the Vatican with no competitors. The Church had the organization which could provide spiritual hope for all those hopeless humans attempting to find sanctuary in the dark days marking the end to the Roman Empire. By the reign of the sixty-fourth Pope, Gregory the Great (590-604 AD), the Pope was considered Jesus' representative among men and the Church in Rome had usurped the Roman Empire.

And then the erosion that had been eating like a cancer at Roman civilization and its successor the Roman Christian world, finally consumed them all. Vandals, Goths, Lombards, Franks and other nomadic barbaric tribes drove Western Europe into the Dark Ages. It would take five hundred years for Christianity to rise from the rubble of the Dark Ages and it did so with a vengeance: from out of Western Europe came the Crusaders.

At the time of the First Crusade in 1095, the Vatican had a firm grip over Western Europe, based upon the doctrine that Jesus Christ had died for the sins of man and then resurrected. Proof of the Crucifixion conspiracy - whether successful or failed - would destroy the doctrinal foundations of the Roman Church and the massive temporal power base upon which the Vatican had grown. If documentation of the Zealot plan existed, Jesus would appear not to have died on the cross, never mind been resurrected three days later. If documentation of an ancestry flowing from Mary Magdalene and Jesus existed, descendants of this bloodline could jeopardize Rome's claim to power by invoking the desposyni tradition.

The First Crusade of 1095 was called by Pope Urban II to resecure the Holy Land from the Moslems. Peter the Hermit took up the call and led 500,000 peasants to their virtual annihilation (only 25,000 survived). An army of noblemen had better luck, and in 1099 Jerusalem was taken.

When Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders, the city was offered to one of them, a certain Godfroi de Bouillon claiming to have a birthright to the Throne of Jerusalem. Godfroi was descendant from Theodoric - the Merovingian who ruled Septimania after the Carolingians had gained the throne of France. By 742 Septimania was an independent, fully autonomous state and in 768 Theodoric was officially recognized as "King of the Jews" as "the seed of the royal house of David" by both the Carolingians and the Caliph of Baghdad. By the First Crusade Theodoric's bloodline flowed in the veins of Godfroi de Bouillon - the man offered the throne of Jerusalem.

It would appear that while the Merovingians had lost secular control over France to the Charlemagne family, the Merovingian offspring retained a birthright to the Throne of Jerusalem and Godfroi was offered that throne after the First Crusade had given French knights control over the city. Yet, Godfroi declined the throne. Instead, Godfroi appears to have been instrumental in the creation of two organizations: the Ordre de Sion and the Knights Templars.

The Knight Templar were given unprecident position within the Roman Catholic world by a series of Popes. In the two hundred years following the First Crusade, both the Vatican and Templars expanded their power bases. The Templars demonstrated a phenomenal growth in creating an autonomous international empire. At their zenith, the Templars were engaging in high-level diplomacy by having established the fundamentals of modern banking, including issuance of the first checks and by becoming the primary money changers of the age. They owned their own seaports, shipyards, fleets, and hospitals. Based upon the Vatican's initial fervent backing of the Templars which had been founded by Godfroi and others, it is possible Godfroi chose to exercise broad powers through the Templars with the Vatican blessing.

In fact, it is possible Godfroi essentially blackmailed the Vatican to support the Templars, in return for not making an issue of the bloodline publicly. Evidence exists supporting the theory that the Ordre de Sion headed by Godfroi was actually the power behind the Templars. History supports the conclusion that control over Jerusalem was critical to the power of the Ordre de Sion. In 1187 when Jerusalem was lost to the Crusaders, there was an apparent break between the Ordre de Sion and the Templars.

For the time Jerusalem was held by the Crusaders (1099-1187), the Templars and Ordre de Sion shared the same grand master - indicating a close if not inseparable working arrangement. The 1187 loss of Jerusalem appears to have precipitated the 1188 break between the Ordre de Sion and the organization they had created the Knights Templar. The Ordre de Sion changed its name to the Prieure de Sion and from then on had a separate grand master from the Templars. There were now two separate entities in competition with the Vatican.

By 1300 AD the Vatican was absorbed by material wealth and authority, perpetuating its own European bureaucracy, out of touch with public opinion, and fully corrupted. In 1902 Pope Boniface VIII declared that outside the Roman Church there was no salvation and that "every human creature" was subject of the Roman Pontiff. The Templars were viewed as competitors by both the Pope and the growing French royalty. On Friday, October 13, 1307 every Templar in France was seized and placed under arrest. The order was officially dissolved in 1312.

When Pope Clement V and French King Philippe IV conspired to destroy the Templars, a new alliance was forged. The Vatican probably did not know the French monarchy was being backed by the Ordre de Sion under the new name Prieure de Sion. This union survived until the monarchies themselves were threatened by the rising merchant class. Realizing they were again losing their power base, the Prieure de Sion began searching for another way to dominate the world. At first they tried creating the Rosicrucian organization to confront the Vatican. When this was not totally successful, another more subtle avenue was taken.

As the middle class gained power by organizing in craft unions, the Prieure de Sion appreciated the power such organizations could wield. In 1717 at London's Apple Tree Tavern the Grand Lodge of Freemasonry became the new power base for the Prieure de Sion. It was apparent that secret French history of a possible bloodline traced to Jesus was not simply an interesting fact of ancient times. The effect of such a secret had dominated medieval history, severely influencing Vatican policy. But, secret history had also dominated modern history in the form of Freemasonry and its offspring the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.

The following scenario had presented itself: by aligning with the Zealots, the Essenes inadvertently set into motion events that resulted in our present Twentieth Century world. Jesus' offspring gave Godfroi a birthright to Jerusalem which he bartered into a power position within the Ordre de Sion and the Templars by blackmailing the Vatican. A Vatican-French Monarchy conspiracy destroyed the Templars. The growth of trade and European economy eroded the positions of the French monarchy and the Prieure de Sion, the power behind the throne. The Freemason Organization became the new power structure for the Prieure de Sion which would seem to be what Masonic author Wilmshurst referred to as a core organization that he claimed was behind Freemasonry.

But what happened to the Essenes? Were they simply pawns in a conspiracy, or did they really believe in the mystical powers of Jesus. Did the Essenes teach Jesus a secret science through which he was able to heal, cast out demons, and resurrect. Did Jesus really die on the cross?

The Essenes

Twenty-two years after the breakup of the Ordre de Sion and the Templars following the loss of Jerusalem, the Vatican ordered a European Crusade. Thirty thousand men crusaded against the Cathars for a period of forty years (1209-1249). The Cathars lived in the area of Lanquedoc which was the area corresponding to Septimania and Godfroi's ancestral home. The crusade became known as the Albigensian Crusade with the stated primary goal to kill every man, woman, and child of Cathar descent. The Albigensian Crusade is considered the world's first case of national genocide.

At first glance, the Cathars simply represented the major heresy of the day and posed a severe threat to the Vatican. The Cathars essentially rejected much upon which the Catholic Church had built itself. From the Vatican's perspective, the Cathars posed a major doctrinal threat. But, the forty years of fanatical genocide would seem to indicate there was much more to the story than a difference in doctrinal opinion.

Perhaps the true significance of the Vatican's crusade was it was waged against the very area out of which Godfroi's family had issued. The wife and son of the last reigning Merovingian had lived in the town of Rennes-le-Chateau, and the surrounding area of Septimania had been considered an autonomous state whose leader was "King of the Jews" by the French monarchy, the Caliph of Bagdad, and begrudgingly the Vatican. Perhaps the Vatican was less intent upon destroying a heretic society then intent upon destroying a family that many believed had a birthright to the throne of Jerusalem. Perhaps the Vatican feared that a recapturing of Jerusalem would result in another confrontation with someone claiming to be Jesus' descendant. The crusade against the Cathars (1209-1249) was conducted simultaneously with four other crusades being waged against Moslem infidels in the Middle East. By eliminating the Cathar bloodline, the power of the Ordre de Sion would be negated and only the Templars would be in competition with the Vatican. After 1307 the Templars were also no longer a threat to the Vatican.

But, who were the Cathars. A comparison between the Cathars and Essene doctrine indicates a possible connection between the two:

* both the Cathars and Essenes believed in reincarnation;

* in place of Vatican emphasis on "faith", both stressed the necessity of direct, personal knowledge of mystical or religious experiences;

* both recognized a feminine equality in life and there were women serving as both teachers and preachers of Cathar doctrine;

* the Cathars denied any mystical, supernatural, or divine aspect to the Crucifixion, and if the Essenes had access to some Ancient Science providing the secret of resurrection, the two groups have another striking similarity.

With the existence of the Spear of Destiny in the Cathar region, the Pope's fanatical desire to eliminate the Cathars, and the acknowledgment of the King of Septimania as "King of the Jews", the Essene-Cathar connection is fortified. A case can be made for the Essenes evolving into the Cathars while descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus married into the Franks - a union eventuating in the Merovingian Kings. Numerous indicators of the many Jews associated with the Merovingians and the entrenched mysticism of the kings further point to Essene involvement.

And, somewhere along the line the Merovingians acquired the spear used by Centurion Longinus. And thus the Spear of Destiny became an historical catalyst in the founding of the Nazi Party and all that entails - whether or not the Spear actually was used in Jesus' death. The legend alone of the mystical powers of the Spear may have been enough for Hitler. In believing the legends concerning the Spear of Destiny Hitler would have made the Spear a mystical tool (in accordance with Cosmic Rule #1: Reality is what we think it is).

The Nazis believed the Spear of Destiny had been the instrument of Jesus' death. But did the Nazis believe he had somehow beaten death and been resurrected?

If Jesus did die and resurrect, the Essenes must have access to some mystical knowledge that allowed them to nurture Jesus into a superman. If the Essenes evolved into the Cathars, such ancient knowledge may have been placed in a safe place. The Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947 in caves near Israel's Dead Sea, were an attempt by ancient scholars to save knowledge and the Essenes may have been their authors. If the Essenes had a tradition of creating repositories of knowledge, such a treasure of wisdom may have been buried somewhere in Septimania. Perhaps the Nazis were after such ancient wisdom when the dug massive excavations throughout Septimania and environs. Could the Nazis have found some hidden treasure giving them access to a powerful ancient science?

Did such a science exist; and if it did, was it in the hands of the core group at the root of Freemasonry, the Prieure de Sion? After all, the Nazi excavations were also made throughout the ancient home of Godfroi - King of Jerusalem had he wanted the crown. Maybe the ancient knowledge had been found at the time of the First Crusade and documentation of the Jesus connection was part of that treasure. Maybe the very reason for the First Crusade had something to do with European nobility believing they had a blood right to the city of the Jews .

And, is the Prieure de Sion actually comprised of people believing that the royal blood of Israel's King David, had been passed through Jesus, to the originators of the Prieure De Sion, the Ordre de Sion. In other worlds, are there people walking around who think they are descendants of Jesus, whose family right is to rule Jerusalem and who have taken that secret family history and parlayed it into becoming the powerful Prieure de Sion - the core organization behind Freemasonry?

And where does the Vatican stand in all this? What is the Vatican's history regarding Freemasonry?

Men Named John

In 1738 Pope Clement XII issued a Papal Bull pronouncing Freemasons as "enemies of the Roman Church". The penalty for a Catholic becoming a Mason was excommunication from the Church.

Freemasonry was established through the efforts of members of the Prieure de Sion, such as Robert Flood and Johann Valentin Andrea. Both Flood and Andrea were Grand Masters of the Preiure de Sion. Since 1188 and the break with the Templars, the Grand Masters of the Prieure de Sion all took the name of John - either as Jean or Jeanne (for Joan). Like the Cathars and Essenes the acceptance of female leadership has allowed four women to be Grand Masters of the Preiure de Sion; although this may be more a result of bloodlineage than respect for the female. Whatever, at the time of Cardinal Roncalli's ascension to the Papal throne in 1958, the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion was Jean Cocteau who had been known as Jean XXIII since 1918.

This use of identical names by the new Pope and Jean Cocteau may have been coincidence; however, there had already been a Pope John XXIII. The first Pope John XXIII had been forced in 1415 to resign the papacy, he was simultaneously claiming with two others. As tradition holds a Pope's chosen name indicates the course he wishes to set, it seems preposterous that Roncalli would choose the name of a man who confessed to a total of fifty-five crimes including adultery, fornication, murder, perjury, sacrilege, and gluttony.

There is another piece of data indicating Roncalli's choice of name was extremely significant. Pope John XXIII was voted his post in the fall of 1958. Yet, as early as 1954 Roncalli wrote his sister Maria that, "In France...some crazy Frenchmen, who rejoice in revelations and second sight, have even announced the name I shall assume when they make me Pope. Crazy, crazy, the whole lot of them."

One may wonder if those crazy Frenchmen belonged to the Prieure de Sion. If the Prieure de Sion had befriended Roncalli, perhaps the Pope changed Vatican policy against Freemasonry in consideration for the Masonry's core group - the Prieure de Sion.

One confusing aspect to this story is, that unlike the well-known secret organizations of Freemasons and Rosicrucians, until the 1950's the Prieure de Sion had no public life. However, beginning in 1956, data concerning the Prieure de Sion and other connected subjects began to be publicly released in bits and pieces. At the time of John Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Jean Cocteau was Jean (John) XXIII, Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion. During his reign which began in 1956 data began being released in bits and pieces concerning the existence of the Prieure de Sion. By 1982 the authors of HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL had knit together this data and written their book about the secret organization.

In light of Pope John XXIII's common name with the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion (Jean Cocteau - Jean XXIII), the Pope's statements to his sister Maria Roncalli, his history of involvement with France, it is conceivable the Pope could have been working in concert with Jean Cocteau toward some common end. Regardless of what that end might have been, the Pope's attitude toward Masonry may have set the stage for American Masons to approach the Catholic President Kennedy to join their ranks.

If John Kennedy used the vast powers of his office to investigated the Freemasons, he may also have discovered the crazy connections that I have uncovered. Perhaps there is a Nazi group within the Masonic ranks still intent upon world conquest. Kennedy may have contacted Pope John XXIII to further the President's understanding of the Pope's involvement. Perhaps there is a worldwide organization of immense power, believing as the Italian P2 Masonic Fascist organization of the 1970's, that you could conquer governments by putting your people in the positions of power. If such an organization existed, Kennedy's best bet for a government still free from the influence of such a world organization would be the Soviet Union. Kennedy may have found a need to circumvent his own government channels to talk directly to Khrushchev by way of Norman Cousins.

According to Robert Kennedy (ROBERT KENNEDY IN HIS OWN WORDS page 258),

Most of the major matters dealing with the Soviet Union and the United States were discussed and arrangements were made between Georgi Bolshakov and myself. He was Khrushchev's representative, so we used to meet maybe once every two weeks....Any time that he had some message to give to the President (or Khrushchev had) or when the President had some message to give to Khrushchev, we went through Georgi Bolshakov.

As Bolshakov was attached to the Russian embassy in a minor position, this communication avenue is considered a "back channel". Thus, the concept of back channel communications was an established practice between the two super powers. Robert Kennedy gives examples of how his back channel with Bolshakov effected world affairs. While this particular communication avenue was ended when Bolshakov's position became publicized, it goes to show a willingness on the part of the Kennedy Administration to circumvent State Department channels in favor of less formal communications.

If Norman Cousins was being used as an envoy between Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Pope, I found myself wondering what the subject of the messages were. In addition to my already well developed suspicions concerning the Freemasons and Prieure de Sion, the fact that John Kennedy, Pope John XXIII, and Jean Cocteau all died in 1963 made me suspect there could have been the existence of a worldwide fascist organization.

And again there was an acquaintance who provided further data to fuel my paranoia. Another Army friend told me that he had read an article in a John Birch Society publication that claimed David Rockerfeller went to Russia days before the Warren Commission released their report.

Rockerfeller supposedly met with the USSR's Politburo which actually governed the Soviets. Rockerfeller had with him two versions of the same Life Magazine edition where the only difference was a set of photographs taken from Zapruder's film of the Assassination. In one version, the frame showing Kennedy's head flying backward was captioned indicating that the photo demonstrated Kennedy was killed from a bullet fired from in front of the limousine. The second version replaced this photograph with another which was captioned indicating Kennedy was hit from behind. Rockerfeller supposedly told the Politburo that if they did not get rid of Khrushchev, the Warren Commission would conclude there was a KGB conspiracy ordered by Khrushchev that killed the President and war could likely be the outcome. If Khrushchev was forced to step down, the Warren Commission would conclude Oswald acted alone.

Khrushchev resigned his office in October 1964. David Lifton found the October 2, 1964 Life magazine issue which carried 10 Zapruder frames, each a full half page. The official issue showed frame 313 with a caption indicating the forward exploding head demonstrated a rear shot. Lifton also found the second version where frame 313 was replaced by 323 showing the President's head and shoulder's touching the rear seat of the car published with a caption concerning the head "snapping to one side".

Of course, I did not actually see the John Birch article, and even if I had there was no way I could prove its accusations concerning Rockerfeller's role. However, the very existence of the two versions of the Life edition and the fact Khrushchev did resign makes me begrudgingly admire the entire scheme.

Not only did they kill the President, they setup Oswald to make it look like a Soviet hit. This Soviet connection could be used to persuade the Warren Commission to overlook bothersome evidence; it also was used to blackmail the Politburo into getting rid of Kennedy's possible ally against a worldwide fascist organization.

The other ally was Pope John XXIII who died of cancer, as did Jack Ruby. This cancer connection I found interesting because during Nixon's Administration, John Mitchell's wife Martha claimed she was being injected with cancer cells to keep her from talking about what she knew. Martha died of cancer after being labeled a bit crazy.

Well it would not be difficult to label me a bit crazy either. Kennedy killed by a Nazi conspiracy involving Freemasons, the Vatican, the U.S. Navy, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Sheriff's Department. Crazy talk, except an enormous amount of evidence was pointing to that conclusion.

Even crazier was the whole concept of secret societies ruling the world. Except that one of those secret societies - the Thule Society of Germany - had taken the world through the nightmare of World War II by way of the Nazi Party. And another secret society - the P-2 of Italy - had nearly succeeded in taking over Italy during the 1970's. And the Freemasons had been successful in leading revolutions in America, France, and a dozen other nations. And in the United States we would seem to have a number of secret organizations ranging from the Bohemian Club to the Freemasons, and my research indicated there were other groups even more powerful than those identified.

The fact powerful men of politics, industry, finance, society and the military could conspire to work within secret groups to control the world was something that I could accept after reconsidering history and a seeming need for men to come together through some herding instinct. "Herding instinct" is the way I think about this need for men to come together in various groupings. The prehistoric family grew into prehistoric tribes. The tribes eventually evolved into cultures where various tribes were bonded by common elements. Somewhere along the line, someone decided to unite the common cultures under a common government and a nation is born. But being part of a nation is not enough.

Within the nation there is a tendency to still maintain separate group identities. Sometimes it is a geographic designation, such as New England, the Southern States, the Heartland, the West Coast. The groupings take many forms: always cultural, always religious, often political and sometimes economic. And then you have the even more special and limited sorority and fraternities of the colleges and universities, as well as the Freemasons, the Rainbow Girls, the Demolay Society, the Knights of Columbus, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls and others.

While understanding groupings are a way of addressing the needs of the many by lumping common goals together, the herding instinct goes beyond this. There is some innate need in men to come together with those who see the same limited reality. We have not nurtured the power of the individual. We have instead nurtured group power.

But this may be a necessity based upon rules #1 and #2 of Cosmic Reality. We would certainly have a mess, if every individual began believing in separate realities. If physical reality conforms to what the majority believes, any individual proposing an alternative reality could threaten the very fiber of physical reality itself. And so we feel much safer and more secure with reality itself, by joining together in groups and, thus, limiting exposure to alternative realities.

But then there is that third rule concerning those in power wanting to keep rules #1 and #2 from everyone else. It may be a natural, even desirable, tendency to empower the group to stabilize physical reality. But who controls what the group thinks? In the case of many identified secret societies, what is believed is that the group must protect the Secret Sciences and Ancient Knowledge, at all cost.

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