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The Laissez Faire City Times
February 08, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 6
Editor & Chief: Emile Zola
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The Occult Origins of the Bank of England
by The Magician
Much of the history of the last several hundred years can be interpreted
as the competition for power between the British Monarchy, or
"Perfidious Albion," and its allies, on one hand; and the Vatican and
its allies, on the other.
Of course, like any overriding theory, this one should not be pushed to
an extreme, and it doesn’t explain everything. But it explains a great
deal.
A key role in the course events initally took was played by John Dee,
the Neoplatonic Christian Cabalist and Scientific Advisor to Queen
Elisabeth. He introduced the idea that the inhabitants of Britain were
descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. It was all part of the British
propaganda barrage directed against the Vatican and the European Counter
Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.
Henry VIII Wants an Heir
Let’s start with Henry VIII. The king of England had not been able to
conceive a male heir with with his wife Catherine. So he wanted a
divorce, which he doubted the Pope would allow. Henry VIII sent his
secret agent Richard Croke to Venice in 1529 to consult with the
Christian Cabalist theologian Georgi, as well as Jewish Rabbis, on the
right way to biblically justify divorce and remarriage to the Pope.
There was a conflict between Leviticus and Deuteronomy whether a man
could marry his brother's widow, the grounds on which Henry VIII was
questioning the legality of his own marriage to Catherine.
This represented the beginnings of an alliance between the British
Monarchy and various Jewish groups. The divorce arguments, however, went
nowhere. No compromise was ever reached with the Pope. (The British
historian, Dame Francis Yates, tells the story in her book, The Occult
Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.) So Henry VIII finally solved his
dilemma by wresting the Church of England out from under the Pope, and
proclaimed himself Head of the Church. Henry was now supreme leader,
both politically and spiritually, and did what he wanted with respect to
divorce and remarriage. (As for the heir, we now know that the
underlying infertility was Henry VIII’s own. But from such trivialities
do the major events of world history proceed.)
The Vatican was staggered. And it was furious. Not only had the head of
a leading nation defied the Pope’s authority in spiritual matters, but
this same king had set himself up as a rival Pope, so to speak. King
Henry VIII was an Anti-Pope. Or that’s how the Vatican saw it. The
Vatican and the Monarchy were now at war. The war of spiritual ideas and
spiritual concepts quickly became part and parcel of the geopolitical
war with the chief Catholic power, Spain.
Henry VIII’s seizure of the Church of England had to be justified to
English-speaking people in a spiritual sense. And so it was. The British
had a spiritual destiny, it was declared.
Information Warfare and John Dee
John Dee, the son of one of Henry VIII's court officials, grew up
surrounded by this controversy and the mystical currents concerning the
notion of British Empire. The latter involved a spiritual as well as a
geopolitical aspect: the British were to inherit the earth, and in the
process foster the spread of True Christianity. That is, not
Catholicism.
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the kings of Britain were descended
from Brut, of Trojan origin. King Arthur, one of Brut's descendants, was
considered the chief exemplar of sacred British Imperial Christianity.
John Dee identified with this Arthurian notion of Empire, as he believed
himself to be descended from the ancient kings of Britain, and was thus
himself a distant cousin of the Tudor Queen Elisabeth I.
The Tudor monarchy of Dee's time was glorified as the culmination of the
Arthurian tradition, because Henry VIII's break with the Vatican had
eliminated the Pope and made the British Monarch supreme in both church
and state.
Another line of thought led to the doctrine of British-Israelism, which
held that the British were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
The doctrine of British-Israelism and the Lost Ten Tribes was intended
to forge a political alliance between the British monarchy and the Jews
of Amsterdam, through a merger of the Arthurian Imperial tradition with
Cabalistic interpretations of the Hebrew scriptures.
What had happened was that after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in
1492, some of them went East to the Ottoman Empire—the Islamic world
being at the time more religiously tolerant than Christendom. Within
Europe itself many of the Jews moved to Italy, particularly Venice,
while other Jews and marranos migrated from Spain and Portugal to
Amsterdam.
The Jewish merchants and bankers of Amsterdam were seen by the British
Monarchy as desirable allies in the financial and political war with
Spain, as well as in the spiritual war with the Vatican. Amsterdam thus
became the springboard for the return of the Jews to England, from which
they had been expelled in 1290.
To forge ties between Jewish merchants and British Imperialists, John
Dee created the concept of British-Israel, which gave the British and
the Jews a common racial identity, and invoked biblical prophecy to show
the inevitable triumph of British Imperialism: the British, as Abraham's
seed, were to inherit the earth. Dee also introduced the Jewish Cabala
to the British ruling class and its interlocking network of European
royal dynasties. All this set the stage for the later absorption of
European Jewish merchants and bankers into British society.
In essence, the dissemination of the British-Israel doctrine was an
intelligence coup carried out by the British Monarchy.
It wasn't the only such propaganda effort, of course. Dee also
introduced Rosicrucianism to Germany, and afterward the British Monarchy
continued to use secret societies for intelligence gathering and for the
spread of propaganda under the guise of Cabalism and occultism.
The Literary War Continues
By the next century, the British Crown had supplanted the Vatican as the
world's pre-eminent manipulator of power, having established British
naval supremacy through the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But
the spiritual struggle continued, and British cultural history is strewn
with its remnants.
Edmund Spenser, for example, wrote The Faerie Queene, with the express
purpose of making a Neoplatonic heroine out of Queen Elisabeth I. This
happened at the same time the Jesuits on the European continent were
spearheading an attempt to stamp out Neoplatonic influences, which were
seen as undermining the authority of the Church.
The Catholics quickly counterattacked. The Catholic Marlowe wrote Faust
in order to defame John Dee as a Satanic magician. Marlowe similarly
penned The Jew of Malta as a propaganda work intended to generate public
rage over the growing encroachment of Jewish merchants. And Marlowe's
Tamburlaine was an attempt to discredit British ideals of Empire.
Francis Bacon, by contrast, carried on the traditions of John Dee. On
the secular front, Bacon emphasized inductive science and proposed the
Royal Society. On the religious side, Bacon espoused Masonry and
discussed the British-Jewish alliance in his book New Atlantis.
Even the Monarchy had a divided loyalty. Queen Elisabeth's successor
James I leaned again toward the Catholics. But his translation and
publication of the King James Bible made possible the anti-Catholic
practice of individual Bible reading and interpretation.
By and large, the British Oligarchy became simultaneously humanist and
occultist, pro-Jewish and anti-Catholic. Finally, Mennaseh ben Israel,
the Dutch Cabalist Rabbi, petitioned Cromwell for the return of Jews to
England. Mennaseh ben Israel argued that the Messiah and the Millennium
could not come until the Jews had spread to every corner of the globe,
which included England. To be sure, Menasseh ben Israel was not himself
a British Israelite. Instead, he discovered the Lost Ten Tribes of
Israel among American Indians, an idea that would later be revived by
the Mormons. But Cromwell's Puritan advisors said he should let Jews
settle in England (which Cromwell agreed to do), believing they would
convert to pure biblical Christianity (which they didn't). The Jews were
actually admitted in 1664, a few years after the deaths of both Cromwell
and Menasseh ben Israel.
Following that event, the Catholic strain in the Monarchy was gradually
weeded out. When William of Orange took over from the Catholic Stuart
King James II in 1688, the domination of the Empire by the
Protestant/Anglican branch of the Royal Family became permanent. The
Monarchy, along with its allies the Noble and Jewish banking families,
then immediately proceeded to consolidate its political control through
the establishment of the Bank of England and the National Debt six years
later in 1694. These instruments provided the financial muscle needed to
exercise worldwide power: to make loans and to finance enterprises,
including the raising of armies and the fostering of revolutions.
Manifest Destiny Yields to Balance of Power
The manifest destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race continued to be important
in Crown-supported propaganda. But the Monarchy's actual policy evolved
into one based on the balance of power.
For example, in the 1890s, as Britain began to fear a militarist
Germany, Cecil Rhodes and William Stead founded a secret society to
revive support for British Imperialism. Members included Alfred (later
Lord) Milner and Arthur (Lord) Balfour. As governor-general of South
Africa, Milner recruited a youthful group of administrators from Oxford
and elsewhere. These were known as Milner's Kindergarten. To promote
their geopolitical ideals, they established Round Table Groups in the
British dependencies and the U.S., as well as think tanks like the Royal
Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations.
The stated intention of the society was to spread British upper class
ideals to the world's masses. In practice, however, the Round Table Gro
ups were principally used as an outlet for anti-German propaganda. In
this case—to counter the growing power of Germany—appeal was made to
Britain's former colony in the New World: namely, to America.
It was the Round Table connections of "Colonel" E. M. House, the
principal advisor to President Wilson, that lead in 1913 to the
establishment of the Federal Reserve and the graduated Income Tax in the
U.S. You needed both of these, of course, to provide the financial basis
to create an American war machine. World War I broke out the following
year. But prior to the outbreak, House wrote to Wilson: "Whenever
England consents, France and Russia will close in on Germany and
Austria."
As another example of the balance of power policy, the Balfour
Declaration in 1917—of British support for a Jewish homeland in
Palestine—served the immediate purpose of increasing Jewish support for
the British war effort. But it also followed Crown policy in eventually
creating a balance of power in the Middle East.
It is easy to see what was going on if you look at the history of The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The first edition was published
in Russian in 1901. Afterward it was translated into English by George
Shanks and issued through the Eyre and Spottiswoode Publishing House,
the printer of all official releases by the British Royal Family.
Coming from such a prestigious printer, the book quickly sold 30,000
copies before being withdrawn under pressure from the Rothschilds. But a
few years later Henry H. Beamish founded "The Britons," a "Society to
protect the Birthright of Britons, and to eradicate Alien influence from
our politics and industries." The Britons proceeded to distribute The
Protocols worldwide.
In short—the battle with the Vatican long since won—the Monarchy kept
the Jews on a short leash, through a carrot and stick policy.
Assimilation into society and support for a homeland was the carrot,
while The Protocols was the stick.
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The Magician is the author of the on-going Laissez Faire City Times
serialized novel, Jack Parsons and the Curious Origins of the American
Space Program, for which he has promised to send more episodes when he
returns from his journey to Kashmir.
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