To Cass, on Exposing Frauds
May 14, 2006 08:05 AM
by carlosaveline
Dear Friends,
Cass says, with regard to my text on "The Da Vinci Code and HPB" (see further below):
"Dan Brown has probably done more than anyone since HPB in exposing these frauds."
I agree -- Dan Brown and also several historians and researchers.
Take a look at my text immediately below.
Regards, Carlos.
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OPUS DEI , A MASONRY IN THE VATICAN?
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Dear Friends in Theos-talk,
The Opus Dei, a Catholic secret organization founded in 1928, is a living proof of the close links between Nazi-Fascism and the Vatican.
The story of Opus Dei shows that this Vatican-sponsored enemy of Theosophy has much in common with authoritarian views of politics, with the stimulation of disrespect for democratic values, and with the cult for war and violence. Numerous peace-loving and democratic Catholics around the world are opposed to Opus Dei.
I translate from “Le Monde Diplomatique” (1):
“On October 6 [2002], pope John Paul II canonized José Maria Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a sort of Catholic Masonry obsessed by the conquest of power. This quick canonization, the fastest in the church’s History, provokes strong emotions among the numerous Catholics who know about the support given by the Opus Dei to ultra-conservative political regimes, particularly in Latin America, and the historical links between José Maria Escrivá and General Franco, the Fascist dictator of Spain.”
“Le Monde Diplomatique” then says that during the recent government of Mr. José Maria Aznar as Spanish Prime-Minister, the militants of Opus Dei were comfortably sharing political power.
The author of the article adds:
“The masterpiece of the Opus Dei founder, the book “Path”, was written during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and consists of a praise of the fascist spirit and of Franco as a dictator.”
“Le Monde” says the book reflects the “franquist” enthusiasm of those times. Escrivá wrote:
“The war is the greatest obstacle to the easy way. Therefore we need to love it.”
Escrivá wanted Spain to recover the ancient grandeur of its old Saints and heros, as he wrote in the Introduction of “Path”, a text dated 19 March 1939. It was in 1939 that Francisco Franco won his Civil War in Spain. The same year, Hitler started the Second World War. The Spanish civil war is seen by Historians as the “general rehearsal” for the second world war. In Spain in those years, new weapons, strategies and tactics were being tested, while industries prepared for war.
According to Mr. Goytisolo, who in his text develops a Rabelasian approach to Escrivá’s “philosophy”, the founder of Opus Dei had strong “sexual inspirations” for his Fascist mysticism. That, besides the love for a Masonic-inspired power structure, was something Mr. Escrivá seemed to have in common with Mr. Charles Leadbeater, a sort of clairvoyant Bishop who thought he had visited different planets like Mars and Mercury, and who created a Christian, pseudo-theosophical Church and a Masonic Order. Both Leadbeaterian organizations still feed in the theosophical movement and are used as mechanisms to control it, while the Opus Dei feeds in -- and helps to control -- the Catholic Church.
On women, José Maria Escrivá had a revealing, yet not entirely surprising, opinion:
“Women do not need to be wise, it is enough that they be restrained”, he wrote.
José Maria Escrivá died in 1975, was beatified in 1982 and made a Catholic Saint in 2002.
The “Le Monde” article I quoted from is significantly entitled -- “The Founder of the Opus Dei Canonized: A FASCIST AND LICENTIOUS SAINT”.
Although the Opus Dei is still considered to be the “Pope’s secret weapon”, the growing controversy about it, stimulated by the book and the motion picture “The Da Vinci Code”, is certainly making such a weapon less and less secret these days.
Interestingly enough, the “Blavatsky Archives On Line”, under the direction of Daniel Caldwell, seems to have a position with regard to “The Da Vinci Code” which is similar to the one taken by the Opus Dei, according to which “this is purely fiction” -- and, therefore, we should not pay attention to it.
In 2002, the Opus Dei was said to have some 80,000 followers around the world. (2)
Best regards, Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
NOTES:
(1) “Le Monde Diplomatique”, Paris. A monthly version of “Le Monde”, this publication is dedicated to international subjects. See the October 2002 edition, p. 30. The article was written by Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo.
(2) “Correio Braziliense”, a daily newspaper in Brasília, Brazil, October 7th, 2002.
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Data:Sat, 13 May 2006 18:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
Assunto:Re: Theos-World ART CHANGES THE WORLD
> Dan Brown has probably done more than anyone since HPB in exposing these frauds.
> Cass
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> carlosaveline wrote:
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> THE 'DA VINCI CODE' AND H.P.B.
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> Dear Friends,
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> Art changes the world.
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> Fiction often reveals deeper facts than the conventional descriptions of reality, because these are normally controlled by centralized power-mechanisms, be them �scholarly�, �political� or �religious�.
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> Thus, the �Da Vinci Code� controversy has been a tool by which the reality of Jesuitism/OpusDeism gets better known by the wide public.
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> Cass: As the mongrels they are
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> H. P. Blavatsky wrote that the �political� and �occult� scheme organized by Jesuits is of no small proportions. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church is even now a worldwide cultural and religious institution of great power to control people�s minds, though it was much more so in the 19th century.
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> H.P.B. wrote:
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> �....... It would be well perhaps, if the Jesuits contented themselves with making dupes of Freemasons and opposing the Theosophists and Occultists using for it the Protestant clergy as �cat�s paw�.�
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> Here, HPB is saying that the Protestant Rev. George Patterson, of the Christian College in Madras, was used by the Jesuits in his campaign against Theosophy. There are wide sections of the Protestant world that do play the Vatican game. For instance, in the 1930s and 1940s Germany, Catholics and Protestants both gave their suppor to A. Hitler. In India, in the 1880s, both agreed to fight Theosophy by all means.
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> Describing the Jesuitical plans, HPB proceeds:
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> �But their plottings have a much wider scope, and embraced a minuteness of detail and care of which the world in general has no idea. Everything is done by them to bring the mass of mankind again to the state of passive ignorance which they well know is the only one which can help them to the consummation of their purpose of Universal Despotism.� (1)
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> An investigation on present-day Opus Day -- an organization which imitates Masonry (2) -- might give us some more light on the subjetc, and help us clear our vision regarding the future.
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> Best regards, Carlos Cardoso Aveline
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> (1) �The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett�, T.U. P. , Pasadena, CA, USA, 1973, see p. 230.
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> (2) According to an October 2002 article by Juan Goytisolo in �Le Monde Diplomatique�, Paris, p. 30.
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