Letter from a reader of the book,
New Year’s greetings,
Michael,
We wish you and your family a happy and prosperous 2018.
I am writing basically to inform you that we did receive
your latest book in the mail, and want to thank you again for sending a
personal copy. So fascinated by its contents was I, that I managed to consume
the entire 600+ pages in about four days.
It is, I must confess, a monumental
work, but one which will probably not be read by the majority of so-called
‘trads.’ It’s message is too uncomfortable. The major premises of the work
challenge some of our most cherished notions, I’m afraid. It is a veritable
game changer, demanding of the average traditional Catholic intellect a kind of
revisionist thinking which might be too disruptive to closely guarded
prejudices, and far too revolutionary in its scope.
After all, your book does closely link
the Roman Church to ancient pagan magic and philosophy, not to mention the
Jewish Talmud and Caballa, over a period of at least 500 years. Not a linkage
which promises to warm the hearts of most traditional Catholic coreligionists.
Shockingly, it implicates iconic and venerated Catholic church figures in
breathtaking moral failures and crimes, blame for which, earlier, many of us
could easily lay off on Protestants and Jews.
I doubt that Archbishop Lefebvre, were
he alive today, would have received the book gladly. I think you might have
experienced at least some push back, even from him. Why? Because, if I
understand his basic mindset at all, Lefebvre viewed the genesis of the church
crisis stemming in great part from Vatican II, as an almost totally
unanticipated and unexpected event. Pius XII was the last of the “good” popes.
But immediately after his death, while The new springtime’ John XXII held the
door, the church marched out suddenly into the night and fell off the edge of
the earth into total apostasy.
One has to believe that ABL saw it all
as an unfortunate, but temporary, glitch in the history of the church, which,
with an amount of emergency intervention, would eventually be corrected. So
when the post-conciliar apostates and anti-Christs finally died off, or were
otherwise swept away, the real Church could once again re-emerge to assume Her
proper role. Things would go on as they more or less always had. In
anticipation of inevitable restoration, he was motivated, perhaps, to establish
seminaries and train a corp of traditional priests in semi-exile, ready to drop
back in once the crisis was over, and things were normalized.
Your book, though, seems to destroy any such ideas. The
sickness was too deep and of too long duration. V2 was an inevitable eruption,
the final bursting forth of a foul and diseased infection, festering, mostly
subliminally, for centuries, though occasional outbursts had always occurred
historically.
Organizations like the SSPX, by failing
to understand the true dimensions of the crisis, can do little to arrest it.
And believe me, they haven’t.
Michael, we would like to visit with you
in the new year, and let you explain some of the book’s more intriguing and
difficult passages. For example, your lengthy treatment of the Egyptian
obelisk, moved and reset near the front of St Peter’s, at great expense, with
an inordinate number of workers participating (900?). You expended many pages
on this one engineering feat alone. I guess you want to impress upon the reader
the extent to which a caballistic, occult-oriented pope would go (Sixtus V?),
and the energy and effort he would expend in moving and re-planting this
ancient, pagan symbol to the phallus. Is that it?
I’m happy that you give Savonarola his
due. In a half-way healthy church he should easily be considered for sainthood.
I have only one book on this intrepid man of God, a book which I’ve read twice.
It is entitled “Life and Times of Savonarola” by Prof. Pasquale Villari, Scribner’s, 1898. I don’t find it in your
bibliography. Maybe you number Villari among
the Neoplatonists and Hermeticists. I trust that that is not the case. It may
just be a title which is hard to lay one’s hands on.
Name and Address withheld by request
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