Fritz Springmeier

Likewise, the Protestants Reformers felt most threatened by suchpeople too, not out of racial prejudice, but because they were sodestructive to all morals. Calvin and those who ruled Geneva burnedServetus at the stake because he was against what the Church stoodfor--they weren't burning Catholics, because in the eyes of theProtestants the Catholics weren't challenging the basic tenets ofthe Scripture. 50 Surely there were times that racial prejudice cameinto affairs, but the mythical image that the Jews were persecuteddown through history because of their race, doesn't hold uphistorically.Christians are ignorant that the Talmud advises "Even the bestof Goim (gentiles) should be killed." (Abhodah Zarah --26b,Tosephoth). The Jewish controlled Media is not going to expose suchterrible Jewish racism, but they have put out shows on TV blamingChristians for the Holocaust.From the beginning the Rosicrucians and Freemasons employedJewish symbolism and Jewish Kabalistic magic. The theme of theMasons from the beginning was the Rebuilding of Solomon's Temple.The temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed according to Christ'sprophecy. The rebuilding of the Jewish Temple was a Jewish hope--that slowly over the years has been adopted by the Christians.Clement XII in 1738 condemned Freemasonry and asked Catholics toleave it and not join. Ignoring the Pope's edicts, the CatholicDuke of Norfolk served as Grand Master of the English Masons, andthe Catholic Viscount Montagu (who was a key player for the Power),and who was head of the English Catholics also served as the GrandMaster of England's Masonic Lodges from 1772-77. 51The Masonic Lodges became hot houses for every anti-religioussentiment. Within a few years of the public appearance of theMasonic Lodges, the governments of Europe were teeming with Masons.The Marquis de Pombal, royal adviser in Portugal; the Count deAranda, royal adviser in Spain; Minister de Tillot and the Due deChoiseul in France, Prince von Kaunitz and Gerard von Swieten atthe Habsburg court in Vienna, Austria were some of these prominentMasons in high government positions. They addressed each other as"Brothers of the Pyramid and advocated the overthrow of Christianorganizations. " 52On July 21, 1773, the Pope abolished the Order of Jesuits.Interestingly, Frederick the Great of Prussia, one of the mostimportant and dedicated Masons that has lived and a homosexual,protected the Jesuits in order to use their services against thePope, and the Bourbons. Is it strange then, that soon afterwards,the Illuminati arose in Jesuit areas, yet appeared not to beconnected with the Jesuits? Heckethorn and other writers have notedthe close connection between Masonic rituals and Jesuit initiationsand rites. 53Within a few years the French Revolution, a product of IlluminedMasonry, broke the Papacy's control over France. Napoleon, a greatFreemason, continued the Revolution in the name of "Liberte,egalite, fraternie" that is "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity."Napoleon proceeded to completely break the Papacy. He arrested PopePius VI. Contrary to the advice of other Masons he allowed him tolive, but was slow to replace him with another Pope when he died.