Whenever a people overthrow an anointed king, they are mingling with evil powers, whether they realize it or not. This holds true for the American Revolution as well. The Englishman Dr Vladimir Moss elaborates:
Although
Freemasonry is best-known for its catastrophic influence on the French and
Russian revolutions, its influence was hardly less profound on the American
revolution and on the whole political and cultural development of America,
where the great majority of Masonic lodges are to be found today.
Now there
were essentially two kinds of American religion in the eighteenth century: on
the one hand, the Masonry of the cultured leaders of the Revolution, who usually
belonged to some institutional church but whose real temple was the lodge, and
who, as Karen Armstrong writes, “experienced the revolution as a secular event”[36], and on the other, the Protestantism of
the lower classes.
The first
Masonic lodges were established in Boston and Philadelphia by 1730.[37] As we have seen, St. Andrew’s lodge
in Boston became “a hotbed of sedition” at the time of the American revolution.[38] And several of the leaders of the
American revolution were Masons, including Benjamin Franklin (master of his
lodge in Philadelphia), George Washington (master of Alexandria lodge No. 22),
John Hancock, James Madison, James Monrose, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones and La
Fayette. . . .
“The evidence
suggests that [Freemasonry] was at least as important as secular political
rhetoric or religious doctrines in animating the men who made the revolution…”[40]
. .
.
Masonry’s
organization was decentralised and diffuse, and it had very broad criteria of
membership. This meant that a very wide range of people could enter its ranks.
But this precluded the degree of control and discipline that was essential for
the attainment and, still more important, the retention of supreme political
power.
Masonry was
therefore the ideal kind of organization for the first stage in the
revolutionary process, the dissemination of revolutionary ideas as quickly as
possible through as large a proportion of the population as possible.
But if “the
mystery of iniquity” was to achieve real political power, this first stage had
to be succeeded by a second in which a more highly disciplined and ruthless,
Communist-style party took over the leadership. Such a take-over took place in
both the French and the Russian revolutions. Thus in France the Masonic
constitutionalists, such as Mirabeau and Lafayette, were pushed aside by the
anti-democratic, anti-constitutionalist Jacobins or “Illuminati”; while in the
Russian revolution, the Masonic constitutionalists, such as Guchkov and Lvov,
were pushed aside by the anti-constitutionalist Lenin and Stalin (the Mason
Kerensky was a link between the two).
The American
Revolution was unique in that the first stage has not been succeeded by the
second – until today… And we may speculate that this fact is owing in part to
the continuing influence of lower-class Revivalism on American political
culture. For Revivalism is highly emotional, even anarchical; it is not
conducive to the secretive, disciplined, hierarchical discipline of
Illuminati-like movements. Moreover, the American colonies, however much they
might complain about the British, were not subject to any severe kind of
hierarchical control, whether in Church or State.
Indeed, the
United States may be called the world’s first Masonic state. And this dark
beginning hangs over it still. Thus in 1976 Fr. Seraphim Rose
wrote: "In America this is the ‘bicentennial’ year—and we feel it as
especially dark and ominous. Each nation has its guardian angel—thus also each
pagan or masonic festival must have its special demon! We in America are
grateful for our freedom, but we know the dark masonic origins of our American
ideology and tremble for the future when the meaning of the occult symbols of
our government (visible in our currency, for example—the unfinished pyramid,
the all-seeing eye, the number 13 everywhere, the novus ordo seclorum)
will begin to be fulfilled. Even without a Communist coup, our future is dark;
‘democracy,’ after all, only prepared the way for Communism, and spiritually
they come from the same source and prepare for the same future…"
But now, in
2020, it looks as if the Masonic experiment of American statehood is finally
unravelling as the first phase of the revolution gives way to the second.
Anarchy rules, and as in the Russian revolution, even the police, the last
guardians of law and order, are being eliminated – that is, either killed
outright, or neutered by timid, liberal-minded state governors, or forced to
bow the knee – literally – to the Black Lives Matter movement, which is led by
trained Marxists.[43] . . .
. .
. we do not have to wait for the enthronement of the Antichrist: the western
world, and America at its head, is now falling to the second, communist phase
of the revolution, the reign of the collective Antichrist that has already
devastated Holy Russia. “So you also, when you see all these things, know that
it is near – at the doors!” (Matthew 24.33).
--http://orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/1014/freemasonry,-ecumenism-2020-american-revolution/
As
with Dr Moss, such things also bring to our mind the prophecy of Elder Ignatius
of Harbin (+1958): ‘What began in Russia
will end in America.’
Abbot
Tryphon Parsons of the Orthodox Monastery of the All-Merciful Savior, located
near Seattle, where some of the most violent of the revolutionary acts has been
happening, has had similar thoughts:
. .
. I think that people who are behind the protesters
on the streets are trying to spark a revolution. I see in what is happening in
the US now many signs similar to what took place in Russia before the overthrow
of the Tsar. Many of the first revolutionaries who aimed to force Nicholas II
to abdicate later found themselves in the gulags, since Marxists came to power.
They simply exploited these people for their own goals. Now in the USA I see a
similar situation which very much reminds me of the early stages of the
revolution in Russia, and I’m alarmed. Particularly that Christianity is
excluded from social life, and believers are subjected to persecution. This
especially applies to Orthodox clergymen.
—Do you have proof, or is this your personal sense?
—I have an idea
of what’s going on, since in the 1970’s, before my tonsure to monasticism, I
was a Trotskyite and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist
Workers’ Party of the USA (CCSWP). So you see I have something to repent for.
Many things happening today with young activists mirror that which I and my
fellow Trotskyites did four decades ago, and this disturbs me.
Today in
American society the anti-Russian sentiments are strong, which in my opinion
stems from an ignorance of history. I think that all these protests are being
guided by people who are fundamentally Marxists and don’t simply want to
overthrow the American government but the shake the very core of the nation. In
my opinion, the demonstrators simply don’t understand that if they succeed,
what happened in Russia when Stalin took power will happen in the USA. These
people will be thrown in prison.
—That is, you think that the US is now entering a pre-revolutionary
period? How do we escape this?
—The US was
never so divided as today—only during the Civil War of 1861-1865. But then
there was a clear border between the North and the South, while today’s
divisions cross state borders. This is in the area of consciousness and ways of
thinking. Unfortunately, society today ignores Christianity’s position, most of
all Orthodox Christianity, which really scares me. I know many clergymen who
express fear at the direction this country is taking.
Maybe if I were
not an old person and if I spoke Russian, I would move to Russia so as not to
witness what is happening here. But I am staying in the US, I am 74, and I
don’t speak Russian. I feel that God’s Providence leaves me here so that I can
try to help those who are suffering from today’s events.
—Do you see the development of any psychological problems in the
period after the end of the quarantine, or later on?
—Many so-called
“medical officials” warn that this pandemic will last a very long time, maybe
for several years. This could completely destroy the economy and the social
structure of the nation, which opens the path to revolution. This also worries
me. Also, I fear for our youth, because the educational system in the US is
achieving what the Soviets strove to do—destroy all the positive symbols which
existed in the Orthodox Church and Tsarist Russia. All this was part of a plan
with the aim of taking control of the souls and hearts of people. I think the
same is happening in America today. I also think that most people have no idea
who really runs our country. It is an oligarchy which has enormous resources at
its disposal and does not seek publicity. They want to remain in the shadows,
to force civilization to satisfy its needs. I understand that this sounds conspiratorial,
but I was a Trotskyite and I know how this all works.
It is important to immerse
yourself in the life of prayer
—What is the spiritual advice you would offer—what are we Orthodox
Christians to do to prevent this and come out of this situation properly?
—The most
important thing for us now is to immerse ourselves deeply into prayer and the
spiritual life. It is important to read religious books and partake of Holy
Communion as often as possible. . . . We must pray for our bishops, for our
priests and for each other. We must also concentrate on supporting spiritual
sobriety in this difficult time. This demands prayer, fasting, spiritual
reading and love—for our neighbors, children, families and everyone who needs
help
--https://orthochristian.com/133252.html
Even
some secular sources agree that the States are in the midst of an atheist/Communist
revolution:
Via
drudgereport.com: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/abe-greenwald/yes-this-is-a-revolution/
But
the ‘American Experiment’ was a demonic proposition from the start (all men are
equal; because of this, their opinions and votes must all be given equal
weight; treating religious pluralism, which begets moral relativism, as a
virtue; being forced to acknowledge the Masonic, ecumenistic idol of Americanism
as the greatest nation that the world has ever known and will ever know, just as
the Babylonians were forced to bow to the golden idol set up by King
Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel ch. 3); etc., etc.), and no amount of tinkering with
constitutional clauses and the like is going to heal the deep spiritual wounds
the peoples of the States carry about on their souls. Americanism is a grave sin that must be
repented of with much contrition. Yet
the Orthodox Church is here; she can apply the healing medicines that are
necessary, if the ethno-regions of New England, the Pacific Northwest, Dixie,
the Great Plains, and the rest will let her, that is.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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