Cardinal Rampolla

According to Masonic records, Pius IX (1792 – 1878) was initiated into Freemasonry in the Lodge Eterna Catena of Palermo on August 15, 1839.[1] Pius IX was the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church, serving for over 31 years. During his pontificate, he convened the First Vatican Council (1869–70), which decreed papal infallibility, but the council was cut short owing to the loss of the Papal States. Like Pope Pius IX before him, Leo XIII (1810 – 1903) requested the publication of the Alta Vendita, a text purportedly produced by the highest lodge of the Italian Carbonari and written by Mazzini. It was first published by Jacques Crétineau-Joly in The Church and the Revolution. The pamphlet was popularized in the English-speaking world by Monsignor George F. Dillon in 1885 with his book The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization.

Astoundingly, the document exposes the details a Masonic plot to infiltrate the Catholic Church and ultimately install a Masonic pope.[2] According to the document:

Our ultimate end is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution—the final destruction of Catholicism, and even of the Christian idea…

The Pope, whoever he is, will never come to the secret societies; it is up to the secret societies to take the first step toward the Church, with the aim of conquering both of them.

The task that we are going to undertake is not the work of a day, or of a month, or of a year; it may last several years, perhaps a century; but in our ranks the solider dies and the struggle goes on.[3]

The Carbonari were the leaders of the Risorgimento, that led to the Unification of Italy and the end to more than a thousand years of the reign of the Papal States by the papacy. In response, in 1884, Pope Leo XIII published his condemnation of Freemasonry, the encyclical Humanum genus. Leo Taxil, who feigned a conversion to Christianity and published his notorious hoax, Le Diable au XIXe siècle (“The Devil in the 19th Century”) in 1892, succeeded in gaining the Leo XIII’s endorsement for his anti-Masonic writings. Taxil, though, was also a friend of Mazzini’s associate, Guiseppe Garibaldi, a fellow member of the Carbonari and leader of the Risorgimento, as well as Grand Hierophant from Rite of Memphis-Misraim.[4] Taxil was also a member of L’Institut d’études Cabalistiques (“Institute for Kabbalistic Studies”), with Jules Doinel, the founder of the l'Église Catholique Gnostique, which became the official church of Papus’ Martinist Order.[5] After undergoing a temporary conversion back to Catholicism as well, Doinel collaborated with Taxil on a book called Lucifer Unmasked, denouncing the organizations he had formerly been a part of.

After having made his conversion, Taxil had gone to Rome where he was received by Leo XIII’s secretary of state Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1843 – 1913).[6] Suspiciously, the OTO claimed Cardinal Rampolla as one of its leading members.[7] When Leo XIII died in 1903, it was widely expected that Rampolla would be elected pope. His candidacy gained momentum until the last moment when the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece, imposed the veto Jus exclusivae during the Conclave. Craig Heimbichner, writing in the August 2003 Catholic Family News, states that Monsignor Ernest Jouin is said to have intervened personally with Emperor Franz Joseph to ask for the Jus exclusivae to be invoked, having procured some evidence that Cardinal Rampolla had at least a close affinity with the Freemasons.[8]

A clue to their possible occult associations is suggested by their devotion to the worship of the Virgin Mary. Pius IX was a Marian pope, who used the doctrine of papal infallibility in defining as dogma the Immaculate Conception of Mary in 1854. In his encyclical Ubi primum Pius IX described Mary as a Mediatrix of salvation, a concept which was first fully embraced by Pius IX’s successor, Leo XIII. In 1864, Pius IX declared Margaret Mary of Alacoque “Blessed.” In his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pius XI stated that Jesus Christ had “manifested Himself” to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque in the seventeenth century and referred to the conversation between Jesus and Saint Margaret several times. St. Margaret was initially rebuffed by her mother superior and was unable to convince theologians of the validity of her visions. A noted exception was the Jesuit Saint Claude de la Colombière, who supported her. The devotion to the Sacred Heart was officially recognized 75 years after her death.

In the nineteenth century, another Roman Catholic nun in Portugal, Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart, a congregationist of the Good Shepherd, reported several messages from Jesus Christ in which she was asked to contact Leo XIII. St. Mary was born Maria Droste zu Vischering, the daughter of one of the most wealthy and noblest German families who distinguished themselves by their fidelity to the Catholic Church. She finally influenced Leo XIII to follow the command of her vision and consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Leo XIII himself called this solemn consecration “the greatest act of my pontificate.”[9] In 1856, Pius IX proclaimed the Feast of the Sacred Heart for the entire Church and exhorted the faithful to consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart.

The history of Marian devotion seems to stem from the Frankists’ worship of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, who was believed to represent the Lilith and the Shekinah of the Kabbalah. Some of the world-renowned Marian images were granted a Canonical Coronation during the papacy of Leo XIII’s successor, Pope Pius X (1835 – 1914), who according to one researcher was of Frankist origin. Pius X’s great-great grandfather was Giovanni Sarto, a Polish Frankist whose real name was Jan Krawiec (Yehuda Kravitz), who was born in Wielkopolska Poland in 1687. Krawiec joined the Frankist movement in the 1750’s with his family. The family came to Godero near Treviso in 1760 after the arrest of Jacob Frank where they took Italian names. They chose Sarto, which means “tailor” as does Krawiec (Polish) and Kravitz (Yiddish), as a name common in the area. Pope Pius X’s maternal grandfather was also from a Frankist family originally and he was called Mordechai Samson (Melchior Szalwinski or Schwienke) but changed to Melchiorre Sanson in Italy. His maternal grandmother’s surname was Antonini (originally the Polish Antonik).[10]

Hiéron du Val d’Or

Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII were close friends of Baron de Sarachaga (1840 – 1918), who with Jesuit Victor Drevon, founded the Hiéron du Val d’Or in 1873, at Paray-le-Monial, a small town in the Bourgogne region of eastern France, and the site where the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” appeared to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque in the seventeenth century. De Sarachaga’s father, don Jorge de Sarachaga was related to the Marrano mystic Saint Teresa of Avila, and through his mother, Catherine Lobanov-Rostovskaya, he was related to the imperial court in Russia.[11] The works of Alexis de Sarachaga were similar to the thought of the Jesuit scholar and Christian Kabbalist Athanasius Kircher, which is rooted in the belief that Egypt was the oldest civilization known to be closest to a primordial Tradition, interpreting the hieroglyphs and pyramids as concealing the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.[12]

The Hiéron’s goal was to create a synthesis of Christianity with Eastern philosophy and Western occultism. The Hiéron’s aims and philosophy can be discerned from the writings of two contributors to its in-house publications Regnabit and Rayonnement Intellectuel: Louis Charbonneau-Lassay and René Guénon.[13] The first issue of Regnabit, revue universelle du Sacre-Coeur (“International Journal of the Sacred Heart”), appeared in 1921, and was supported by a committee whose chairman was the cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, and by fifteen other prelates from all over the continent. On March 10, 1924, it obtained special apostolic benediction sent from the Pope by the State Cardinal Pietro Gasparri. At Charbonneau-Lassay’s suggestion, Guénon began to contribute articles to Regnabit in 1925, writing on the legend of the Holy Grail and attempting to demonstrate the essential unity of various traditional forms, comparing the Sacred Heart to the third eye of Shiva.[14]

In his 1979 book Le Tresor du Triangle d’Or (The Treasure of the Golden Triangle), Jean-Luc Chaumeil states that the Hiéron practiced a version of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and the upper degrees of the order constituted the lower degrees of the Priory of Sion itself. They believed Christianity was the flowering of the Primordial Tradition transmitted by the Atlanteans. They held an emphasis on sacred geometry and Gnostic truth underlying mythological motifs. There was a preoccupation with the origins of men, races, languages and symbols, such as occurs in Theosophy. As did the legendary Ormus of Rosicrucian mythology, it sought to reconcile the Christian and pagan mysteries. And it ascribed special significance to Druidism, which it regarded correctly as partially Pythagorean.[15]

The Hieron regarded themselves as Templars and Knights of the Grail, and proclaimed themselves as “Apostles of the Final Times,” those who were called for by the Virgin of la Salette, a Marian apparition reported by two French children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846.[16] In 1851, the local bishop formally approved the public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette. In 1879, Pope Leo XIII granted a canonical coronation to the image, now located within the Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette. A Russian-style tiara was granted to the image, instead of the solar-type tiara used in the traditional depictions of Our Lady during her apparitions.

The Hiéron looked to a future Age of Aquarius for bringing the return of Christ the King, the fulfillment of Nostrodamus’ prophecies.[17] Chaumeil describes the aims of the Hiéron as the creation of:

…a theocracy in the eyes of which nations will be only provinces, their leaders only proconsuls in the service of an occult world government made up of an “elite.” For Europe, this reign of the “Great King” implies the double hegemony of the Papacy and the Empire, of the Vatican and the Habsburgs who are its right arm.[18]

The Hiéron’s agenda was the creation of a new Habsburg and Catholic Holy Roman Empire with a French temporal and spiritual head in the manner of the Grand Monarch, an association of Europeans bound by common law and dedicated to advancing the mission of Christ the King. The aims are reflected in allegations found in the research of Jean Robin, author of Rennes-le-chateau: La Colline Envoutee, and Operation Orth, and other writers, including Charbonneau-Lassay, who was in correspondence with Guénon. They claim the existence of a secret parallel Catholic tradition called l’Eglise d’Avignon (Church of Avignon), which they trace to the medieval Papacy installed in Avignon from 1309 to 1378. The claim is that it continued in secret with a Pope who represents the esoteric aspects of the Catholic Church. L’Eglise d’Avignon is said to serve as an intermediary between the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox tradition. A full account is available in Montmartre by Phillipe Julien. Among the supporters of the Avignon tradition are Péladan’s societies and many other individuals and groups involved in the esoteric world of the Sacred Heart.[19]

Our Lady of Fátima

A further agenda of the Hiéron du Val d’Or included working towards reconciliation of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches of Russia and Eastern Europe, later confirmed by the Marian apparition at Fatima, when three shepherd children claimed to have witnessed a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917, during the pontificate of Pius X’s successor, Cardinal Rampolla’s closest friend and collaborator, Pope Benedict XV (1854 – 1922). Fatima is a Portuguese village named after a twelfth century Moorish princess, who converted to Christianity. She was named after the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, who receives special veneration among Shia Muslims. According to J. B. Trend, in The Legacy of Islam, the goddess worship of the Sufis was reinterpreted within Christianity as the veneration of the Virgin Mary.[20] Esoterically, the Shekinah of the Kabbalah, like the Virgin Mary and Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad of Islam, is a stand-in for the ancient pagan goddess, usually referred to as Sophia, Greek for “wisdom.” Fatima was given the title al-Zahra, “shining one,” and Mohammed once said about her, “Thou shalt be the most blessed of all the women in Paradise, after Mary.” Surprisingly, besides attracting Christian pilgrims, the shrine at Fatima, Portugal, has also attracted Muslims in great numbers.[21]

The Three Secrets of Fatima consist of a series of apocalyptic visions and prophecies which were allegedly given to three young Portuguese shepherds, Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, by an apparition claiming to be the Virgin Mary, starting in 1917. Lucia was the youngest child of Antonio dos Santos and Maria Rosa Ferreira—“Ferreira” being a name common among Conversos and crypto-Jews.[22] To emphasize the importance and urgency of the message and the authenticity of the apparitions, the Holy Virgin worked the Miracle of the Sun in the presence of 70,000 witnesses who had gathered in Fátima, on October 13 of the same year, in response to a prophecy made by the three shepherd children. Newspapers published testimony from reporters and other people who claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity, such as the sun appearing to “dance” or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the earth, or emit multicolored light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes. Bishop José da Silva declared the miracle “worthy of belief” on 13 October 1930, permitting “officially the cult of Our Lady of Fatima” within the Catholic Church.

According to Lucia (now Sister María Lúcia das Dores), on July 13, 1917, around noon, the Virgin Mary entrusted the children with three secrets. Two of the secrets were revealed in 1941 in a document written by Lúcia, at the request of Bishop da Silva. Lúcia said that the first secret, a vision of Hell, was disclosed to the children on July 13, 1917. The second secret was a statement that World War I would end, along with a prediction of another war during the reign of Benedict XV’s successor, Pope Pius XI, should men continue offending God and should Russia not convert. According to Lucia, the prophecy warned, “When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.” On January 25, 1938, The New York Times reported “Aurora Borealis Startles Europe; People Flee in Fear, Call Firemen.” The celestial phenomenon was seen from Canada to Bermuda to Austria to Scotland. Hitler invaded Poland the following year, setting off World War II.[23]

The second half of the prophecy requests that Russia be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia, considered to be the Third Rome, is to be encouraged to return to the Church.[24] The significance of the revelations gained controversy due partly to elements allegedly related to the World War II and possibly more global wars in the future, particularly the Virgin’s alleged request for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The apparition tells the children that the war will end, but that if the world does not stop offending God, he will punish the world by war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. She added:

To prevent this I come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If they listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.

A related prophecy was shared Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe (1894 – 1941), a Polish Franciscan friar who was active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. While Kolbe was in Rome in 1917, the year of the beginning of the Russian Communist Revolution, the Freemasons were supposedly celebrating their second centenary. They made Rome the center of their sacrilegious demonstrations. They marched to St. Peter’s where they displayed their blasphemous banners. One said, “Satan must reign in the Vatican. The Pope will be his slave.” This inspired Kolbe to found the Knights of the Immaculata, to counteract Freemasonry and other slaves of Lucifer.[25] Kolbe prophesied, “One day, you will see the statue of the Immaculata in the center of Moscow atop the Kremlin!”[26] Kolbe died in 1941 when he volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz. On 10 October 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Father Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. Similarly, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa revealed to Jacob Frank that when the Jewish people collectively honor her, then the Russian people would also honor her by entering a renewed Marian Catholic Church. Frank said about Czestochowa, “We are running after an icon…Czestochowa was called from ancient times the Matronita (Maiden/ Virgin). When we (the Jewish people) will come here so then will the Muscovites (Russians) enter her.”[27]

Of the hundreds of alleged apparitions the Catholic Church has investigated, only twelve have received ecclesiastical approval, and nine of them occurred between 1830 and 1933. In 1930, during the papacy of Benedict XV’s successor Pius XI (1857 – 1939), the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima would be declared “worthy of belief.” Pius XI’s successor, Pope Pius XII (1876 – 1958), showed high regard for Benedict XV, who had consecrated him a bishop in 1917, the very day of the first reported apparitions at Fatima. In 1946, Pius XII, “the most Marian Pope in Church history,” granted a canonical coronation to the venerated image enshrined at the Chapel of the Apparitions of Fatima.[28] The formal study of Mariology within the circles of the Holy See took a major step forward between the Holy Year 1950 and 1958, based on the actions of Pius XII, who authorized institutions for increased academic research into the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1950, Pius XII invoked the authority of “papal infallibility,” referred to as speaking ex cathedra, when he defined the Assumption of Mary as an article of faith.[29] It was the first ex cathedra infallible statement since the official ruling on papal infallibility was made at the First Vatican Council. On November 11, 1954, he later raised the Sanctuary of Fatima to the status of Minor Basilica by his Papal brief Lucer Superna.

Opus Dei

Several researchers have suggested that the Hiéron du Val d’Or was the precursor of the Opus Dei, the group made infamous by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.[30] Among them is Jean-Pierre Bayard, a recognized scholar of Rosicrucianism, who regards Opus Dei among the organizations that “could claim to belong [to Rosicrucianism] but which however do not seem to take advantage of this.”[31] Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Catholic saint and priest Josemaria Escriva, (1902 – 1975) a staunch defender of Marian devotion. Escriva performed pilgrimages to several Marian shrines, including Lourdes, Fatima and Guadalupe. He also proclaimed Mary as the “Queen of Opus Dei,” and the “Mother of Opus Dei.”

Opus Dei has been influenced by the political movement of Carlism, which is connected with the Order of the Golden Fleece, and which was part of the coalition of Francisco Franco (1892 – 1975) during the Spanish Civil War. The Carlist or Bourbon contenders for the Spanish throne had their own Grand Master and appointed their members from 1845 to 1900. The Carlists were a Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty on the throne of Spain. In 1700, Philip V, a French Bourbon prince, acceded to the Spanish throne, and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) broke out to prevent Spain and France from uniting the two realms under the same king. The traditional Spanish order of succession had to give way Salic law of the French royal house, which did not permit female succession. In 1830, Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784 – 1833) decided to promulgate a decree securing the crown for his unborn child, even if female. The law placed the child, Princess Isabel II, ahead of Ferdinand’s brother Don Carlos, Count of Molina (1788 – 1855), knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Carlos was the second surviving son of King Charles IV of Spain and of his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. Carlos was a reactionary known for his firm belief in the divine right of kings who stridently opposed liberalism in Spain and the assaults on the Catholic Church.[32] Carlos’ claim to the throne was contested by liberal forces loyal to Isabel II, resulting in the bloody First Carlist War (1833 – 1840). Carlism would remain a significant force in Spanish politics from 1833 until the end of the Francoist regime in 1975.

Researchers, historians and writers on Opus Dei have said that the order has a novel approach to political matters whereby Christians are free and personally responsible in temporal affairs. However, there were accusations that the Catholic personal prelature of Opus Dei has had links with far-right governments worldwide, including Franco’s and Hitler’s regimes. Months after the start of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, Franco emerged as the dominant rebel military leader and was proclaimed Head of State on October 1, 1936, ruling as dictator over the territory controlled by the Nationalist faction. Franco was formally recognized as Caudillo of Spain—the Spanish equivalent of the Italian Duce and the German Führer.[33]

The Francoists took control of Spain through a war of attrition (guerra de desgaste) which involved methodically imprisoning and executing opponents of the regime. The right-wing considered these “enemy elements” to comprise an “anti-Spain” that was the product of Bolsheviks and a “Judeo-Masonic conspiracy,” which had evolved after the Reconquista.[34] It has been estimated that more than 200,000 Spaniards died in the first years of the dictatorship from 1940 to 1942 as a result of political persecution, hunger and disease related to the conflict.[35] During World War II, Spain did not join the Axis powers—its supporters from the civil war, Italy and Germany—but nevertheless, supported them in various ways.

In Spain, Opus Dei was very active in the government of Franco, collaborating with the country’s premier, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.[36] Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized from many quarters, prompting journalists to describe the order as “the most controversial force in the Catholic Church” and founder Escriva as a “polarizing” figure.[37] Criticism of Opus Dei has centered on allegations of secretiveness,[38] controversial recruiting methods, strict rules governing members, elitism and misogyny, and support of or participation in authoritarian or right-wing governments—especially the Franco fascist Government of Spain.[39] As Franco’s spiritual advisor and thanks to the organization he founded, Escriva chose and trained the elite members of the Franco dictatorship until he controlled the essence of its powers.[40] The Falangists, the main political organization supporting Franco, suspected Escriva of “internationalism, anti-Spanish sentiment, and freemasonry,” according to Berglar. Escriva was even reported to the Tribunal for the Fight against Freemasonry.[41]

[1] Bollettino Officiale del Grande Oriente Nazionale Egiziano; Dudley Wright. Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry (London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1922), pp. 172-175.

[2] George F. Dillon. War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization (M.H. Gill & Son, 1885).

[3] John Vennari. The Permanent Instructions of the Alta Vendita (Rockford, Ill: Tan Books, 1999), p. 6.

[4] Massimo Introvigne. Satanism: A Social History (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 185–186.

[5] Peter F. Anson. Bishops at Large (London: Faber & Faber, 1965).

[6] Massimo Introvigne. Satanism: A Social History (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 205.

[7] Alexis Bugnolo. “‘Team Bergoglio’ and the legacy of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro” From Rome (January 10, 2015).

[8] “Pope Saint Pius X.” From the Housetops, No. 13, (Fall, 1976, St. Benedict Center, Richmond, New Hampshire).

[9] Jean Bainvel. “Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910).

[10] Athol Bloomer. “Frankists and the Catholic Church.” alternativegenhist.blogspot.ca (April 15, 2014).

[11] Patrick Lequet. “Le Hiéron du Val d’Or et l’esoterisme chrétien autour de Paray-le-Monia.” Les contrées secrètes. Politica Hermetica, 2 (1998), p. 85.

[12] “Salle centrale.” Musée du Hiéron (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.musee-Hiéron.fr/salle-centrale/

[13] William Kennedy. “René Guénon and Roman Catholicism,” The Journal of Traditional Studies (Volume 9, Number One).

[14] Mark Sedgwick. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 31.

[15] Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1982).

[16] Dubois Geneviève. Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival: The Man Behind the Mystery of the Cathedrals (Simon and Schuster, 2005).

[17] Ibid.

[18] Jean-Luc Chaumiel. Le trésor du triangle d’or, pp. 139-40.

[19] Guy Patton. Masters of Deception: murder intrigue in the world of occult politics (Amsterdam: Frontier Publishing, 2009), p. 273.

[20] cited in Shah. The Sufis, p. 358.

[21] Philip Kosloski. “The surprising connection between Our Lady of Fatima and Islam.” Aleteia (May 7, 2017).

[22] Mario Javier Saban. Judios Conversos (Jewish Converts) (Buenos Aires: Distal, 1990).

[23] “Aurora Borealis Startles Europe; People Flee in Fear, Call Firemen.” The New York Times (January 25, 1938). p. 25.

[24] Patton. Masters of Deception, p. 273.

[25] “Biographical Data Summary.” Consecration Militia of the Immaculata. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

[26] “24th Anniversary of Crowning Our Lady as Queen of Russia.” Our Lady of Guadalupe. Retrieved from http://www.jkmi.com/24th-anniversary-of-crowning-our-lady-as-queen-of-russia

[27] Zbior Slow Panskich. Words of the Lord. 95 & 106; Harris Lenowitz. The Collection of the Words of the Lord (USA: University of Utah, 2004).

[28] Remigius Bäumer & Leo Scheffczyk (Hrsg.) Marienlexikon Gesamtausgabe (Institutum Marianum Regensburg, 1994).

[29] Frank K. Flinn, J. Gordon Melton. Encyclopedia of Catholicism (2007) p. 267.

[30] Picknett & Prince. The Sion Revelation, p. 355.

[31] Jean-Pierre Bayard. La Symbolique de la Rose-Croix (Paris: Payot, 1975), p. 274.

[32] Hugh Chisholm, ed. “Carlos, Don.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1911).

[33] Paul Preston. Chapter 6 “The Making of a Caudillo,” in Franco: A Biography (1993), pp. 171–198.

[34] Alejandro Quiroga. Making Spaniards (Palgrave, 2007), p. 58.

[35] The Splintering of Spain (Cambridge University Press), pp. 2–3.

[36] Penny Lernoux. People of God (New York: Viking Penguin Publishing Inc.) p. 314.

[37] John Allen. Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church (Doubleday Religion, 2005).

[38] David Van Biema. “The Ways of Opus Dei.” Time (April 19, 2006)/

[39] Alberto Moncada. “Opus Dei Over Time,” ICSA e-Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2006, International Cultic Studies Association.

[40] Thierry Meyssan. “The Opus Dei Sets Out to Conquer the World.” Voltaire Network (January 25, 1996).

[41] P. Berglar. Opus Dei: Life and work of its founder, Josemaria Escriva (Princeton, NJ: Scepter Publishers, 1994), p.180-181.

Volume Three

1. Synarchy

2. Ariosophy

3. Zionism

4. Eugenics & Sexology

5. The Round Table

6. The League of Nations

7. avant-Garde

8. Black Gold

9. Secrets of Fatima

10. Polaires Brotherhood

11. Operation Trust

12. Aryan Christ

13. Aufbau

14. Brotherhood of Death

15. The Cliveden Set

16. Conservative Revolution

17. Eranos Conferences

18. Frankfurt School

19. Vichy Regime

20. Shangri-La

21. The Final Solution

22. Cold War

23. European Union