He is a top Free Mason , all the Windsor's are Free Masons. What do you expect from a duck but a quack? https://www.ugle.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/press-statement Published: 9 September 2022 PRESS STATEMENT It was with the greatest sadness that the United Grand Lodge of England learned of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, our longest serving British Sovereign. Queen Elizabeth’s father, His late Majesty King George VI and her consort, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, were both Freemasons. Her cousin, HRH The Duke of Kent, has been Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England since 1967, and will be sending a message of condolence on behalf of all English Freemasons to His Majesty The King. Another of her cousins, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, has been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales since 1982, and an announcement is being made from Mark Masons’ Hall. God Save The King. King Edward vii
The Oxford University Lodge is called the Apollo Lodge, currently having some 300 members.. There are 200,000 Masons in England and Wales and an estimated 6 million world wide. They do better in some professions than others. For instance in England to be in the police and get ahead you pretty well have to be a Mason. https://shopatfmh.com/oxford-freemasons-a-social-history-of-apollo-university-lodge/ Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole, Cecil Rhodes, Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Leopold, Charles Canning, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Godfrey Elton and Roger Makins. Drawing on archives held in the Bodleian Library, this book is the first serious attempt to set the story of Apollo in the context of Oxford life and learning as well as its wider social and political diaspora. From the devastating numbers lost in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those decorated for bravery, to the significant number of Olympians who were members of the lodge, it also charts the lodge’s charitable work, its changes of location, social events and adaptation to twenty-first-century life in Oxford. Illustrated with archival material, portraits and Masonic treasures, this is history in a minor key, but a minor narrative with major implications, documenting the remarkable numbers of Oxford freemasons with distinguished careers in government, law, the army and the Church.
padraig, Do you have an idea if the late King George V was a Freemason? Because there is a story that Padre Pio prayed fervently on the night King George V died. Padre Pio then revealed that the King's soul has been saved. http://thepathlesstaken7.blogspot.com/2011/04/padre-pio-and-british-royal-family.html https://twitter.com/PadrepioSaint/status/1661073469608718336/photo/2
I already posted in another thread but an "interesting coincidence" is that the Latin messianic titles " rex regum " and " rex Israel " result in the number 666 in English gematria so maybe there is an occult alphabet created to blaspheme the name of jesus; another coincidence is that if we join the Latin word " britanni" (ancestral people of great britain) with the title "rex" we arrive at the number 666 in hebrew gematria. https://www.gematrix.org/?word=Rex+britanni BRITANNI This name means “land of the Britons.” Britannia derives from the Greek Πρεταννικαὶ Νῆσοι (Pretannikai Nesoi) used by Pytheas of Marseilles, a Greek geographer and explorer, who had circumnavigated Britain between 330 and 320 BC and described various islands in the North Atlantic to the extreme Thule (probably Iceland or the Shetland Islands). Pytheas described Thule as the northernmost part of Prettanikḗ (Πρεττανική) or Pretannikaí (Πρεταννικαὶ), his term for the entire group of islands in the far north-west. There is a possibility that the term may derive from the Celtic “*Pritani, “meaning “Picts.” In AD 43, the Roman Empire began its conquest of the island, establishing a province called Britannia, which came to encompass the parts of the island south of Caledonia (Scotland). The native Celtic inhabitants of the region are known as the Britons. In the 2nd century, Roman Britannia came to be personified as a goddess, armed with a trident and shield and wearing a centurion’s helmet. Britanni (-orum, m.pl.), Medio Aevo Brittones (-onum) appellati, fuerunt natio Celtica, quae in Britannia vixerunt, multis in tribubus constantes, e quibus Cambri (sive Wallenses), Caledones hodierni (e Caledoniis antiquis cum Scotis Hibernigenis commixtis), Angli hodierni (e Britanniae propriae pristinis incolis cum Anglis-Saxonibus commixti) nati sunt. E Britannorum sermone linguae Britannicae ortae sunt, scilicet Cambrica, Scotica, Hibernica. https://la.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britanni
The announcement by the lodge does not claim that C3 is a mason. The fact that his father was does not enrol him too. And that photo isn’t Edward VII but his successor E8, the one who abdicated. The second picture shows E8 being greeted by a senior Freemason and following him is the future George VI. I recently read a biography of George V which didn’t mention masonry. Maybe he was. I’m still trying to find out the truth of the rumour that he prayed the rosary. I do know he refused to recite the part of the coronation oath that insulted the Mass and the Eucharist. I think a law had to be passed to make this possible because no monarch since has had to say it. Edward VII (his father) didn’t want to say it either but was told there was no time to change the law so he caved in. He was a libertine but converted to the Faith on his deathbed. I’m glad that Padre Pio saw G5 being saved. Until I read about that king I thought he was a stuffed shirt from a long-gone era. He could be stuffy but he was deeply concerned about the welfare of the poor. Prince Philip a mason? Weird. After the C of E started ordaining women he privately went back to the Greek Orthodox Church which he had been born into, so theoretically at the end of his life he was in communion with Rome!
The thing about Communists, Masons, Jesuits or any well organised secret or semi secret group with an agenda is that they are influential far, far about about their actual size. So a group of say, five or ten people that are working together might have far, far more influence at,say a meeting holding elections for office than a thousand people who are acting as individuals. In addition they can help each other up the greasy ladder. I think Catholics in general tend to be innocent of this. I attended a Communist Party meeting one time when I was young out of curiousity. I was amazed to see how many of these people turned up in the Media over the next few months as Union Leaders, University Lecturers, Writers, Artists, you name it. It gave me some idea of the huge secret power to influence in society. They did not need to get elected, they had power anyway. It is the same thing with the Masons. The Jesuits have known this, of course, for centuries. Music by: Pierre Degeyter, 1889; Written by: Eugène Pottier, Paris, June 1871; Eugène Pottier, was a refugee from the Paris Commune, who wrote the poem while in hiding in the aftermath of the massacre of the Communards. Pottier’s poem was only set to music in 1889, two years after his death, and published in 1894, and was virtually unknown until then, so it is very unlikely that he wrote an English version. He only lived briefly in England, spending most of his post-Commune exile in New York, Philadelphia, and Newark. He did a lot of work for the various socialist parties of the time in America, all of it in French and ran a French-language school. The International Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. Refrain: So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. No more deluded by reaction On tyrants only we’ll make war The soldiers too will take strike action They’ll break ranks and fight no more And if those cannibals keep trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We’ll shoot the generals on our own side. No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver Chains of hatred, greed and fear E’er the thieves will out with their booty And give to all a happier lot. Each at the forge must do their duty And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.
No, Clare. The Greek Orthodox Church is NOT in communion with Rome. No Orthodox churches are in communion with Rome. They do not recognize the Pope.
While Ms Partridge seems a very much more thoughtful and knowledgeable writer than one is used to, concerning articles about British royals, I can't for the life of me perceive the difference between syncretism and perenialism. While it is reassuring to have philosophers who reject enlightenmentism and atheism, it is better to read ones like Marcel, Unamuno and Del Noce who lived and died as orthodox Catholics. If I recall correctly, Guenon, a cradle Catholic, embraced Islam, so he obviously rejected 'Perenialism' in his apostasy. I'd recommend 'googling' Naomi Wolfe's description of the Coronation. I thought it quite chilling.
Might just have been a joke. Was known to have been a bit of a winder-up. Given his mother's experience with the Germans in Greece, he might have taken delight in shocking them.
I think it is important to study René Guenon because it seems to me possible that the Antichrist uses a bit of his oratory to convince that the way to fight the secularism of the West is to seek syncretism between the Abrahamic religions; this is an easier way for him to deceive God's elect and also Muslims who detest the liberal culture of the West.
Still, it should be possible to see Islam as an ally against secular liberalism, while still maintaining that Catholicism is the only True Faith. Part of the truth is not enough, but ought it not be better regarded than a secular religion that is opposed to all truth?
Having Islam as an ally strikes me rather like having an Alligator as a pet. Things might go very well until it got a little peekish.
I seem to recall Fr. Ripperger talking about masons in one of his videos... if someone from your lineage was a Freemason, a curse could affect future generations and a priest must read a deliverance pray over you.
