(Melchizedek Communique, MC030710) We know that Saul, a Roman citizen, was a great persecutor of the early Christians. Then he is supposed to have experienced a dramatic conversion, and changed his name to Paul. But what if, in fact, Saul/Paul was a secret agent who infiltrated Christianity and subtly steered it in Belial's and/or Rome's direction?

"The empire never ended", realized Philip K. Dick, in 1974. Dick was a science fiction writer, but there is nothing fictional about a blinding realization which came to him. Dick came to realize we all suffer from "the greatest false memory case in history, imposed on all humanity, from which he had partially awakened." (Background: "Jesus Smuggled From the Tomb?", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/mc030610.html)

Dick concretized his epiphany in the novel, VALIS. ("VALIS" signifies Vast Active Living Intelligence System.) What had happened to Philip K. Dick was, "space opened up around him as if a confining box had been removed. He had felt like a tomcat which had been carried inside a box on a car drive, and then they'd reached their destination and he had been let out of the box, let free." The protagonist, Horselover Fat, "had witnessed a benign power which had invaded this world. No other term fitted it: the benign power, whatever it was, had invaded this world, like a champion ready to do battle."

St. Paul also claimed to have experienced an epiphany. But what if that was only a cover story, invented to let Saul/Paul infiltrate, and turn, the emerging Christianity? Some support for this theory is hinted at in The Brother of Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003), which explores the significance of the find of the apparent ossuary of James the Just (image shown), in 2002. (Background: "Jesus, 'Son of the Widow'?", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/mc030510.html)

Co-author Ben Witherington III, in The Brother of Jesus, mentions (but does not endorse) a possible major split having occurred between James and Paul. This related to "trouble in Antioch" circa 48 A.D. Differences erupted between the Jerusalem church and the Gentile church.

But the epiphany experienced by Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus had no witnesses. What if it was just a cover story? Saul/Paul, a Roman citizen and originally a persecutor of the new faith, suddenly was greeted as a friend. Thereafter, the original Jerusalem church slowly declined in influence and Rome became the new headquarters.

"The empire never ended" means the Roman empire has continued in power to this very day. The "extremists" (zealots) were crushed at Masada, in 73 A.D. The Jerusalem church moved to Rome. When the Roman empire supposedly declined and fell, the leopard merely changed its spots and became Roman Catholicism. The empire moved its headquarters to Washington, DC within the past 200-or-so years. Author F. Tupper Saussy shows how the Roman church by means of her conspiratorial Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) infiltrated and instigated the American Revolutionary War. Patron saint of the state of Maryland is Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Carved out from Maryland is the Federal District, Washington, DC. The Capitol building was erected on Lot 666 of the Federal District. The Roman numerals (excluding M, later tacked on) D (500) C (100) L (50) X (10) V (5) and I (1), when added, total 666. (Rulers Of Evil by F. Tupper Saussy. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. ISBN: 0-06-621083-6)

Millard Fillmore saw what had happened and tried to stem the tide. (He was the "Know Nothing" candidate in 1856.) For this reason Fillmore is ignored and ridiculed. Mary Todd Lincoln favored the Fillmore candidacy, but in those times women could not vote.

Writing from Fredericksburg, Virginia, Kenneth P. Vogel notices an "uptick of extremism" (i.e., the Zealots, i.e., the empire never ended). [1] Fredericksburg is the site of one of the major battles of the American Civil War. "At the end of the day the Army of the Potomac had 10,200 killed and wounded..." [2] The major theater for Civil War battles was in the area between Richmond, Virginia, and the Federal District occupying Maryland. Virginia represents Britain and the so-called virgin queen. [3] Maryland, as already noted, represents the Roman empire.

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[1] "Right resists link to Pentagon incident", by Kenneth P. Vogel. fredericksburg.com, March 6, 2010
[2] The Secret War for the Union, by Edwin C. Fishel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996
[3] "Bard Turned Into Buffoon", Melchizedek Communique, March 4, 2010
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