Beware The Phrygian Cap
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(Conspiracy Nation, 05/12/05)
-- Three sorcerers from Anatolia (Turkey, image left) wearing phrygian
caps entered Judea and warned King Herod a future King of the Jews had
just been born. After conveying this information, they paid their
respects to the infant Jesus then slipped back into Turkey by a secret
route. Herod sent soldiers to murder all male children aged 2 years or
less. Luckily for Jesus, his father was warned in a dream and escaped
with his family.
The Jewish historian Josephus reportedly traces the Phrygians
to
Japheth, son of Gomer. [1] They resided in what is now Turkey and
worshipped the goddess Cybele, who wore a headdress from which comes
the Phrygian cap. The Cult of Cybele, juxtaposed with the Cult of Isis,
spread like a
contagion throughout the Roman empire.
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To the west, adjacent to Anatolia, was the Bulgar Khanate. There
arose Bogomilism, named after its founder Bogomil. Cosmas, a Christian
monk, writes that "In the days of the Orthodox Tsar Peter [927 - 969
AD] there lived... a priest called Bogomil (Loved of God), who in
reality was not loved of God (Bogu ne
mil), who was the first to sow heresy in the land of Bulgaria."
Cosmas was horrified that followers of Bogomil "scorn the rich, hate
the Tsars, ridicule their superiors, reproach the boyars, and advise
every serf not to work for his master." [2]
From the Bulgar Khanate, Bogomilism headed west, into Serbia and
Bosnia, then to France where it transformed into Catharism. When
Catharism was ruthlessly suppressed by the Albigensian Crusade, the
religion did not die but just hid itself. Cathar knights who survived
the Albigensian slaughter "were received into the Military Order of the
Temple of Solomon [Knights Templar], which was itself permeated with
oriental influences." [2] Upon the violent dissolution of the Knights
Templar in 1307 AD, escaping "heretics" hid themselves within what
later emerged as Freemasonry.
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Giuseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, established
Egyptian Rite Freemasonry and claimed to have been first inducted by
remnant Knights Templar on the Isle of Malta. In Paris, the City of
Isis (Par Isis), Cagliostro allied with Philippe d'Orleans, Duke of
Orleans and cousin of the French king. The Duc d'Orleans, Grand Master
of Grand Orient Freemasonry, despised Marie Antoinette, formerly of
Germanic Austria. Cagliostro and Philippe d'Orleans, along with various
wealthy idlers, plotted the "glorious" French Revolution of 1789.
Incorporated into the plot were women who flocked in droves toward
Cagliostro. Prominently worn by thousands in the mob which, on June 20,
1792, stormed the Tuileries and confronted the king, were red Phrygian
caps. This type of cap is also worn by "Liberty" (Isis) in a famous
painting of the time (image, left).
Following the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800s, there arose
a
movement called Pan-Germanism. Many centuries earlier, on Feb. 2, 961
AD, the so-called Holy Roman Empire had been born. Otto of Saxony,
crowned emperor by Pope John XII, ruled a union between Germany and
Italy which lasted hundreds of years. A German, Hildebrand, was also
made Pope (Gregory VII, 1073-1085).
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But the Protestant Reformation had shattered the Holy Roman Empire
and the Germans had become a disunited people until a nationalist
fervour sought to re-unite all German-speaking and ethnic-German (Volksdeutschen) people. A great
German leader, Count Otto von Bismarck, unified the disparate Volk in 1871. After World War I,
the Germans were again briefly split apart until re-joined by Adolph
Hitler and the National Socialists (Nazis). After the horror of World
War II, Pan-Germanism again went into decline until the reunification
of Germany in 1990 vivified the cause. A further impetus to
Pan-Germanism and the revival of the Holy Roman Empire came with the
recent elevation to the papacy of Bavarian Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
As in the days of Pope Gregory VII, a unified Germany has placed one of
its own upon the Throne of St. Peter.
Pope Gregory VII is noted for having claimed papal primacy in
secular affairs. His boldness augmented papal authority. This is the
masculine, German way, which says, "Sir, I will meet you at dawn upon
the field of honor." Contrast this with the feminine, French method of
propaganda which persuades others to do the job. Does Father Thomas
Reese, recently ousted by the Vatican from his position at the weekly
magazine "America," wear a phrygian cap in his innermost sanctum? Does
J.C. Ratzinger cherish a portrait of
Count Otto von Bismarck in the unknown depths of his soul?
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[1] "Phrygia." Wikipedia online encyclopedia. For more on Gomer, see Bible: Book of Hosea
[2] Hancock, Graham & Bauval, Robert. Talisman. London: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN: 0-00-719036-0
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