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Continuing our study, France was not the only country to fall victim to the poisonous influence of secret societies using Freemasonry for its own ends: a conspiratorial order with its own initiation rites called the Carbonari or ‘Charcoal Burners’ formed in Italy to complete the great reformation left undone by the Illuminati. According to Rev. Dillon, a series of documents dating from the 1820s revealing the secret plans of the ‘Alta Vendita’, the Unknown Superiors of the Carbonari, came into the possession of the Roman police detectives. One of the supposed Superiors using his code name ‘Piccolo Tigre’ penned a chilling set of instructions to their Piedmontese branches on how to topple the current order by inciting uprisings demanding republican constitutions and infiltrating the Church from within in order to bring it down, especially through the destruction of the family unit:
In all, for those interested in Catholic mysticism and history, there is considerable controversial evidence that many of the modern republics and democracies formed in the last two centuries began as deliberate attempts by Masonic and other secret sects to destroy both monarchies and the Church. According to the prophecies, several mystics warned that before the appearance of the Great Monarch and the Angelic Pontiff, evil would flood the world due to the rapid expansion of republics, suggesting it is the lack of absolute monarchies caused by the rise of liberal democracies declaring the equality of all religions, plus the abuse of liberty as a way to promote licentiousness, that will cause heresies and amorality to spread. Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres (1635) in Quito Ecuador revealed, “... at the end of the 19th century and for a large part of the 20th, various heresies will flourish on this earth which will have become a free republic. The precious light of the Faith will go out in souls because of the almost total moral corruption.”91 If Tolkien’s Steward Denethor loosely represents the rise of republics usurping the power of kingship, we see his character falls under this prophecy to a certain degree: Denethor is touched by the Evil Eye and believes its lies. Falling into despair, he abandons the true faith of Númenor and wishes to die as the heathens of old by sacrificing himself and his son on a burning funeral pyre, no doubt a hideous scandal to the faithful people of Middle Earth.⊕
90 Alta Vendita, Ch. XII.
* It was during this bloody persecution that Pope Pius XI first instituted the feast of Christ the King on December 11, 1925.
91 We Are Warned, p. 533.
⊕ In Lord of the Rings, the faithful peoples of Middle Earth reverently bury their deceased. The Kings of Gondor have dignified ‘houses of the dead’ where their people are laid to rest, the Kings of Rohan bury their dead in sacred mounds, and the Dwarves lay their dead in tombs hewn from stone. The Dwarves in particular abhor cremation and resort to it only when necessity requires it, such as after the grievous Battle of Azanulbizar when the number of their dead was so great it would have taken years to carve their tombs and so they had no other option but cremation to ensure the bodies of their war-heroes were not desecrated by beasts or carrion-eating orcs. (Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, p. 1113, n. 1.) Hence, we discover that the condemnation of suicide, (unless the suicide victim is mentally afflicted), and the abhorrence of cremation are two other instances where traditional Catholic doctrine and devotional practises are alluded to in Lord of the Rings. Traditional doctrine maintains that it is an abominable abuse to cremate the dead as the body had housed the immortal soul and had been the temple of the Holy Spirit. Theologians cite examples in which even pagan nations such as the Romans and Egyptians once used to bury or embalm their dead, their graves were considered sacred until their culture and manners became corrupt. A Christian should imitate Christ, whose Body was laid reverently in a tomb, hence burial is considered the most dignified treatment of laying the dead to rest. Unless cremation is necessary due to pestilence, it is regarded as an uncivilized manner of burial for the worldly and the unbeliever to practise, a convenient way to dispose of all reminders of death that would eventually bring an end to all earthly amusements. Furthermore, it is taught that to cremate a body is also reprehensible in the interests of justice, for a body may be exhumed if a crime needs to be investigated, but all evidence of a crime is destroyed after cremation. “Those therefore who speak in favour of cremation befriend criminals, inasmuch as they aid in the removal of all traces of their crime.” Rev. Francis Spirago, The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Catholic Religion (1899), (Reprint: Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1993), pp. 701-702.
Rev. Spirago also writes: “Christianity did, in fact, abolish cremation. But in these days, when Christian faith is on the decrease, cremation is once more becoming the fashion. (...) No true Christian can fail to shrink from the horrors of cremation; only those who are lost to all sense of the dignity of human nature, to all belief in the truths of religion, can desire it for themselves.” Ibid. p. 702.
“ (...) All Italy is covered with religious confraternities, and
with penitents of divers colours. Do not fear to slip in some of
your people into the very midst of these flocks, led as they are by a
stupid devotion. Let out agents study with care the personnel of
these confraternity men, and they will see that little by little they
will not be wanting a harvest. (...) The essential thing is to isolate
a man from his family, to cause him to lose his morals. He is
sufficiently disposed by the bent of his character to flee from
household cares, and to run after easy pleasures and forbidden
joys. (...) Lead him along, sustain him, give him an importance of
some kind or other; discreetly teach him to grow weary of his daily
labours, and by this management, after having separated him from
his wife and children, and after having shown him how painful are
all his duties, you will then excite in him the desire of another
existence. Man is a born rebel. Stir up the desire of rebellion until
it becomes a conflagration, but in such a manner the threat of
conflagration may not break out. (...) When you shall have
insinuated into a few souls disgust for family and for religion (one
nearly always follows in the wake of the other,) let fall some words
which will provoke the desire of being affiliated to the nearest
(Masonic) lodge. (...) You divine his inclinations, his affections,
and his tendencies; then, when he is ripe for us, we direct him to
the secret society (i.e. of the Carbonari) of which freemasonry can
be no more than the antechamber. (...) In the present
circumstances never lift the mask. Content yourselves to prowl
about the Catholic sheepfold, but as good wolves seize in the
passage the first lamb who offers himself in the desired conditions.
(...) It is of absolute necessity to de-Catholicize the world. (...)
The Revolution in the Church is the revolution en permanence. It
is the necessary overthrowing of thrones and dynasties. (...) Let us
not conspire except against Rome.”90
The fires of revolution flamed from that time on, anticlerical and antimonarchical movements influenced by this political society continued to spread. For example, a Carbonari faction was formed in Portugal in 1822 but disbanded not long after. However, a new organization of the same name and claiming to be its continuation was founded by Artur Augusto Duarte da Luz de Almeida in 1896. Similar to the original Carbonari movement, the new Carbonari of Portugal were hostile to the Church and contributed to the republic’s anticlerical formation. In fact, Carbonari members were active in the assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luís Filipe, Duke of Bragança in 1908. Carbonari members were also involved in the Republican revolution of October 5, 1910.
Other revolutions around the same period were brutally anti-clerical, we turn to Mexico for another example, the Revolution of 1910-1920. An anticlerical Constitution was ratified in 1917, resulting in the counter-revolutionary Cristero War 1926-1929 in which thousands of Catholics were persecuted and martyred, many of those put to death cried out with their last breaths the rallying cry ‘Viva Cristo Rey’~ “Long Live Christ the King”.* Although a peace was eventually reached in 1929 allowing Catholic churches to reopen in Mexico, many of the anticlerical laws were not repealed until 1992.In all, for those interested in Catholic mysticism and history, there is considerable controversial evidence that many of the modern republics and democracies formed in the last two centuries began as deliberate attempts by Masonic and other secret sects to destroy both monarchies and the Church. According to the prophecies, several mystics warned that before the appearance of the Great Monarch and the Angelic Pontiff, evil would flood the world due to the rapid expansion of republics, suggesting it is the lack of absolute monarchies caused by the rise of liberal democracies declaring the equality of all religions, plus the abuse of liberty as a way to promote licentiousness, that will cause heresies and amorality to spread. Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres (1635) in Quito Ecuador revealed, “... at the end of the 19th century and for a large part of the 20th, various heresies will flourish on this earth which will have become a free republic. The precious light of the Faith will go out in souls because of the almost total moral corruption.”91 If Tolkien’s Steward Denethor loosely represents the rise of republics usurping the power of kingship, we see his character falls under this prophecy to a certain degree: Denethor is touched by the Evil Eye and believes its lies. Falling into despair, he abandons the true faith of Númenor and wishes to die as the heathens of old by sacrificing himself and his son on a burning funeral pyre, no doubt a hideous scandal to the faithful people of Middle Earth.⊕
90 Alta Vendita, Ch. XII.
* It was during this bloody persecution that Pope Pius XI first instituted the feast of Christ the King on December 11, 1925.
91 We Are Warned, p. 533.
⊕ In Lord of the Rings, the faithful peoples of Middle Earth reverently bury their deceased. The Kings of Gondor have dignified ‘houses of the dead’ where their people are laid to rest, the Kings of Rohan bury their dead in sacred mounds, and the Dwarves lay their dead in tombs hewn from stone. The Dwarves in particular abhor cremation and resort to it only when necessity requires it, such as after the grievous Battle of Azanulbizar when the number of their dead was so great it would have taken years to carve their tombs and so they had no other option but cremation to ensure the bodies of their war-heroes were not desecrated by beasts or carrion-eating orcs. (Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, p. 1113, n. 1.) Hence, we discover that the condemnation of suicide, (unless the suicide victim is mentally afflicted), and the abhorrence of cremation are two other instances where traditional Catholic doctrine and devotional practises are alluded to in Lord of the Rings. Traditional doctrine maintains that it is an abominable abuse to cremate the dead as the body had housed the immortal soul and had been the temple of the Holy Spirit. Theologians cite examples in which even pagan nations such as the Romans and Egyptians once used to bury or embalm their dead, their graves were considered sacred until their culture and manners became corrupt. A Christian should imitate Christ, whose Body was laid reverently in a tomb, hence burial is considered the most dignified treatment of laying the dead to rest. Unless cremation is necessary due to pestilence, it is regarded as an uncivilized manner of burial for the worldly and the unbeliever to practise, a convenient way to dispose of all reminders of death that would eventually bring an end to all earthly amusements. Furthermore, it is taught that to cremate a body is also reprehensible in the interests of justice, for a body may be exhumed if a crime needs to be investigated, but all evidence of a crime is destroyed after cremation. “Those therefore who speak in favour of cremation befriend criminals, inasmuch as they aid in the removal of all traces of their crime.” Rev. Francis Spirago, The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Catholic Religion (1899), (Reprint: Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1993), pp. 701-702.
Rev. Spirago also writes: “Christianity did, in fact, abolish cremation. But in these days, when Christian faith is on the decrease, cremation is once more becoming the fashion. (...) No true Christian can fail to shrink from the horrors of cremation; only those who are lost to all sense of the dignity of human nature, to all belief in the truths of religion, can desire it for themselves.” Ibid. p. 702.