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The Roots of Rebellion by Ellen G. White

The Roots of Rebellion erupts from the fertile soil of profound discontent, self-determination and insatiable striving for liberty and power. Originating from the clash of two ancient kingdoms and unfurling at the world's spiritual epicentres, this book declares the virulent and intractable enmity to truth; resulting in embattled sequels of tyranny and revolution and outbreaks of hostility and persecution, all yielding the bitter fruit of anarchy. The mystery of rebellion dominates the seats of government and rages in the hearts of humankind. Flourishing into mature, passionate and intrepid subversion, the instruments of rebellion construct and establish an order of chaos and coercion; commanding universal compliance and cooperation. As it effectively enlightens on the secret underpinnings of one world government and hegemonic imperialism, the reader is armed to encounter and counter the greatest deception of all time.

The Roots of Rebellion erupts from the fertile soil of profound discontent, self-determination and insatiable striving for liberty and power. Originating from the clash of two ancient kingdoms and unfurling at the world's spiritual epicentres, this book declares the virulent and intractable enmity to truth; resulting in embattled sequels of tyranny and revolution and outbreaks of hostility and persecution, all yielding the bitter fruit of anarchy. The mystery of rebellion dominates the seats of government and rages in the hearts of humankind. Flourishing into mature, passionate and intrepid subversion, the instruments of rebellion construct and establish an order of chaos and coercion; commanding universal compliance and cooperation. As it effectively enlightens on the secret underpinnings of one world government and hegemonic imperialism, the reader is armed to encounter and counter the greatest deception of all time.

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Roots</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Rebellion</strong><br />

It is deemed established that the "donation" is (1) a forgery, (2) the work <strong>of</strong> one<br />

man or period, (3) the forger has made use <strong>of</strong> older documents, (4) the forgery<br />

originated around 752 and 778. As for the Catholics, they abandoned the defense <strong>of</strong><br />

the authenticity <strong>of</strong> the document with Baronius, Ecclesiastical Annals, in 1592.<br />

Consult for the best text, K. Zeumer, in the Festgabe fur Rudolf von Gneist (Berlin,<br />

1888). Translat- ed in Coleman's Treatise, referred to above, and in Ernest F.<br />

Henderson, Select Historical Documents <strong>of</strong> the Middle Ages (New York, 1892), p. 319;<br />

Briefwechsel (Weimar ed.), pp. 141, 161. See also <strong>The</strong> New Schaff-Herzog<br />

Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> Religious Knowledge (1950), vol. 3, p. 484; F. Gregorovius, Rome in<br />

the Middle Ages, vol. 2, p. 329; and Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger, Fables<br />

Respecting the Popes <strong>of</strong> the Middle Ages (London, 1871).<br />

<strong>The</strong> "false writings" referred to in the text include also the Pseudo-Isidorian<br />

Decretals, together with other forgeries. <strong>The</strong> Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals are certain<br />

fictitious letters ascribed to early popes from Clement (A.D. 100) to Gregory the Great<br />

(A.D. 600), incorporated in a ninth century collection purporting to have been made<br />

<strong>by</strong> "Isidore Mercator." <strong>The</strong> name "Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals" has been in use since<br />

the advent <strong>of</strong> criticism in the fifteenth century.<br />

Pseudo-Isidore took as the basis <strong>of</strong> his forgeries a collection <strong>of</strong> valid canons called<br />

the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis, thus lessening the danger <strong>of</strong> detection, since<br />

collections <strong>of</strong> canons were commonly made <strong>by</strong> adding new matter to old. Thus his<br />

forgeries were less apparent when incorporated with genuine material. <strong>The</strong> falsity <strong>of</strong><br />

the Pseudo-Isidorian fabrications is now incontestably admitted, being proved <strong>by</strong><br />

internal evidence, investigation <strong>of</strong> the sources, the methods used, and the fact that<br />

this material was unknown before 852. Historians agree that 850 or 851 is the most<br />

probable date for the completion <strong>of</strong> the collection, since the document is first cited in<br />

the Admonitio <strong>of</strong> the capitulary <strong>of</strong> Quiercy, in 857.<br />

<strong>The</strong> author <strong>of</strong> these forgeries is not known. It is probable that they emanated<br />

from the aggressive new church party which formed in the ninth century at Rheims,<br />

France. It is agreed that Bishop Hincmar <strong>of</strong> Rheims used these decretals in his<br />

deposition <strong>of</strong> Rothad <strong>of</strong> Soissons, who brought the decretals to Rome in 864 and laid<br />

them before Pope Nicholas I.<br />

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