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1/ Thoughts on Precipices and the Importance of the Favor of the People A king, a leader is only as powerful as the people allow/permit (him) to be. Sure we can fling “consent of the governed” comments and quote the Decl. about overthrowing tyrants. But it’s so much bigger…
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2/ Let’s step back in time. Many people don’t realize Henry VIII deserves heavy credit for initiating the Reformation in England. In short the Roman Catholic Church had been operating for centuries as the premiere power over nations and sovereigns alike, even across continents.
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3/ Henry VIII decides after 24 yrs of marriage to his first wife that he’s ready for wife no. 2 who can hopefully provide a male heir. (Passing on an inheritance to posterity is after all, an innate human value.) The Pope won’t support Henry’s request for annulment and new wife.
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4/ Through the 1530’s Henry VIII and the Vatican argued back and forth about his authority in relation to the Pope’s, resulting in escalating decrees and papal bulls (causing great layman confusion), until ultimately Henry broke with the Church and formed the Church of England.
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5/ Henry VIII permitted an English translation of the Bible, known as the Great Bible to be published in 1539 - but used only by clergy members and IN churches themselves. A step towards faith accessibility but still constrained and managed by the Crown.
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6/ Why does this matter? Because apart from Henry VIII’s subsequent removal of the Catholic Church from England/UK, the freedoms you enjoy today would be different. Sure, give Luther some carpentry credit for hammering up his 95 Theses, but that’s not the true pivotal point.
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7/ Henry VIII was overturning an entire way of LIFE, if not existence that had been “the way” for *centuries*. Imagine how disruptive that would have been for the entire populace of your kingdom, serf and noble alike. The entire system you operated by is uprooted overnight…
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8/ How would you respond? How would you prevent chaos, anarchy, revolt? Chaos not just to return the system, but to remove your leadership and person from power? How do you save the people from knee jerk reactions to resist change, and instead embrace not only new, but better?
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9/ 1) You don’t completely demolish the old system. 2) You grant the people a long standing request. A Bible in their own language. Yes, the printing press has already existed a bit by now - but it was considered *treason* to translate the Latin texts of the Bible into English.
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10/ It still wasn’t a copy in every pair of hands, but it was a start. A particular item of note here, is that the Society of Jesus, better known as “Jesuits” formed in 1540, a year after the Great Bible is first published. We’ll come back to this. Jesuits aren’t the good guys.
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11/ In parallel, a German translation is published known as the Dutch Bible. Many people moved to Holland to escape persecution. It was still dangerous to have personal copies of the Bible, particularly in English. Remember the pilgrims who sailed over on the Mayflower in 1620?
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12/ Fastforward 70 years and James I ascends the English throne in 1603. 2 yrs later, Catholic extremists and Jesuits try to blow up the House of Lords in treasonous protest against Cath. persecution. Remember, remember the 5th of November? Who was *really* the bad guy here?
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13/ How do you wake the people up? You’ve probably asked that question recently yourself. How do you wake them up…from such lies? When lies are life size and transcend “life long” - how do you communicate that? You don’t tell the people. You show them.
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14/ In 1609, James I authorized the King James Version of the Bible - an English copy meant to be commonly available in the hands of anyone w/no legal/religious consequences. Incidentally, the first permanent English settlement colonized as “Jamestown”, in 1607 in the New World.
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15/ Remember people escaping to the Netherlands for religious freedom? Look at this literacy chart and the dates of Bible translations above. See the improvements? Do you see the correlations? https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
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16/ The English Civil War unfolds during the 1640s, primarily over the correct balance of power between the Crown and Parliament. There is further conflict between Protestants and Catholics through this, enflamed still further because the queen is Catholic and the king, a p**sy.
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17/ Once again, we see a king (Charles I) who is attempting to assert his supreme power as leader, but in this case, the people didn’t get a non-Latin Bible or further freedoms. They took the king’s head.
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18/ “Only at the precipice can change or awakening occur.” What benefit does it serve a leader to have an illiterate populace? What benefit does it serve for them to be literate, and have a religious text personally accessible to them, without fear of legal retribution?
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19/ What people fail to realize is that James I was a Freemason. There’s a saying, “All good men are masons. Not all masons are good men.” Henry VIII was a womanizer and while he respected the balance of leadership with the people to a degree, he was not consistently honorable.
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20/ James I however, was a man honor and integrity. He knew how the Church as an org. (Catholic or English) still held great sway + control over the people. So he tried to restore their autonomy, as much as he could given the constraints of the day. And the colonies still grew.
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21/ In 1717 Freemasons publicly announced themselves; the history here is for another thread. But ult. they are good. In 1732, the Freemasons est. their first lodge in the colonies - in Tun Tavern. The very same place the US Marines were birthed in 1775. https://www.tampalodge240.com/education/88-11-10-2017
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22/ Recognizing the blossoming spread of religious liberty, Jesuits begin sending missionaries everywhere - one could argue to introduce Church dogma and rules to further indoctrinate unsuspecting masses. Then in 1759, multiple nations spent DECADES expelling Jesuits. But why?
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23/ Distrusted for their closeness to the popes, Clement XIV issued a papal decree in 1773, suspending the Jesuits. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the colonies. “Consent of the governed” is a ringing cry that joins the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” from Lexington & Concord.
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24/ And so, on the cusp of freedom, nay, an independence movement the likes of which history has forgotten ever seeing…the Illuminati are publicly birthed on May 1, 1776. The Declaration of Independence is signed a mere two months later. And history explodes.
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25/ NOW tell me, how Freemasons are the bad guys. If you read the dots this way, the story of their persistence + courage to wake people up AND CHANGE AT THE PRECIPICE is impossible to miss. History, your very ancestors - have their eyes on you. What flag are you really under?
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26/ Quick interjection here to give massive credit to @Mariecf17 for being my research partner in all of this, and impetus to write up this thread. 😉❤️🔥