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"Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art.
If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart.
If stranger, such no longer be.
If foe, our love shall conquer thee."

Traditional Welsh Greeting.                                                

St Malachy's famous prophecies listed in their correct order all the Roman pontiffs from Celestine II, who became Pope in 1143, until "the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church" when "there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people". Malachy mentions only one Pope between the death of John-Paul II and the time of Peter the Roman, identifying him as Gloria Olivæ, "the Glory of the Olive"… Cf. Peter Bander, The prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille (4th edition, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1979); also relevant and still up-to-date: Jim Cantwell, The Election of a Pope (London: St Paul's Publishing, 2002).

   

"History is witness that some popes take years to settle into the exacting job of running the vast and complex machinery of the Church and of the Vatican State. Some popes, indeed, never succeed, but only give their blessing, as it were, in passing. Others, at first sanguine in their plans, find they can change a washer, turn a knob here and there, even budged a minor lever, but that the great machine keeps grinding and roaring on its ponderous way. A very few men of whiplash willpower roll up their sleeves and set about running the entire works. When they succeed, they create an era. When they fail, the legacy they leave behind is darkness and the scream of clashing gears." (Malachy Martin, Vatican, Secker & Warburg, 1986, p. 308.)

Ancient prophecy alleges:

"When Our Lady lies in Our Lord's lap
(and 25 March, ordinarily Feast of the Annunciation, was in 2005 Good Friday)
then England shall suffer a strange mishap."

"You will be right to depend on prophecy and take it as a lamp for lighting a way through the dark until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds."

^{2 Peter 1:19.}

Interestingly different references to conspiracy theory feature in Daniel Blair Stewart's Akhunaton - The Extraterrestrial King (Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, CA, 1995), David Icke's Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster (Bridge of Love Publications, 2002), Stephen Knight's Jack The Ripper - The Final Solution (Grafton Books, 1997), Malachi Martin's The Keys of This Blood - The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West (Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, 1990) and Martin Palmer's Coming of Age (Aquarian Press, 1993). See, too, our treasury of books.

"Senator John Kerry added that it would be 'legitimate' for the United States to invade Iraq outright if Saddam 'remains obdurate and in violation of the United Nations resolutions, and in a position of threat to the world community,' whether the Security Council so determines or not. Such unilateral U.S. action would be 'within the framework of international law,' as Kerry conceives it." (Noam Chomsky, Acts of Aggression - Policing "Rogue States", New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999, p. 19.)

R E M E M B E R

As a code of laws, "the Rule of St. Benedict has undoubtedly influenced Europe… The monastic plan was similar to the old Roman plan of civilizing by means of 'colonies' planted among the conquered races of the empire. The colonists brought with them the arts, and to some extent the culture, of Imperial Rome, and their mere life lived among the subjugated peoples induced these latter of their own accord to adopt the manners, the language and the law of their conquerors. There was probably no programme, or pretence, but the influence of the life followed by the trained Roman colonist worked its charm without noise or compulsion."

The Rule of Saint Benedict, translated with an Introduction by Cardinal Gasquet
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1936, pp. x-xi).

All politics are based on myth. Professor Andrew Welburn's The Book with Fourteen Seals - The Prophet Zarathustra and the Christ-Revelation (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1991; ISBN 1 85584 150 9) is a well nigh indispensable resource for those ready to read it - a sustained commentary on the Apocalype of Adam from the Nag Hammadi library, it offers an in-depth key to many already available yet still insufficiently appreciated valid solutions to most of our present difficulties.

"I have been all over America, and I have a great faith in the American people - they have so much energy. The main things holding them back in my view are conservatism, lack of knowledge of the outside world and political gullibility. But economic difficulties and social problems will galvanize people into action…"STUART WILDE, Whispering Winds of Change - Perceptions of a New World (Carlsbad, CA.: Hay House, Inc., 1993, p. 285).

"In both the physical and social worlds differences must meet and be integrated if they are to lead to new creative reality"

D. ZOHAR & I. MARSHALL, The Quantum Society, p.278.    

Had the North American soldiers who on 13-14 December 2003 captured the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein and, with less than transparent honesty, conveyed to him President George Bush junior's "regards" in response to that President's spontaneous offer to negotiate, immediately placed him in the hands of Iraq's interim Ruling Council instead of, as has happened, permitting him to be subjected, no matter howsoever willingly, to interrogation by United States' citizens who are unlikely to have shared any of the Arab leader's religious beliefs, cultural values or historical perspectives, hopes for a true and lasting peace this century might have been brighter. The well constructed hiding-place in which the Iraqi leader was eventually found, possibly as a result of bribery and betrayal, will have reminded many of the so called priests' hiding-holes that were common in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I …

Despite its title, Keith Laidler's The Divine Deception - The Church, the Shroud and the Creation of a Holy Fraud, possibly the best currently available discussion of the historical status of the famous Turin Shroud, arrives at fascinating conclusions which, to my mind, rule out rather than warrant claims that this part-1st-century-A.D., part-mediæval relic is the result of either deception or fraud. Laidler's most obvious mistake (and none of us is perfect) is his having confused the common French adjective "feu", meaning "late" as in "the late" or "deceased", with the even more common French noun "feu", meaning "fire" - and then having quite needlessly tried to make much of the word's having been used at all.

That said - and its many and serious implications taken into consideration, all that President George Bush junior said on BBC-1 on the morning of Sunday, 16 November 2003, when his recent interview with David Frost was first televised (and, of course, everything else that he has said since) also needs to be given due weight. As regards the United Kingdom, perhaps what we now need is an all parties Government of National Unity - as during World War II. For the main sources of my own recent considerations, see, for example, sections 1. and 2. of the highlights in our Treasury of Books.

"… We credit the sincerity of Blair's beliefs, but are troubled by the unworthy, and ultimately counterproductive ways he advances them…"

Editorial: "Tony Blair's Troubles", in International Herald Tribune, volume two (Friday, 8 August, 2003, p. 6).

In Exeter Cathedral, on the morning of Friday, 14 February, 2003, Colin James Hamer was privileged to take part in a magnificent, ecumenical Celebration of Teaching and Learning - neither as a fool nor as a clown but rather as a simpleton. Then, on Saturday, 15 February, he went up, as part of Exeter's "Don't attack Iraq!" coalition, to London where, after a courtesy visit to both Lambeth Palace and Westminster Cathedral, he explained to inquirers that

War may at times be waged peacefully, and also that,
since at least two conflicting parties are needed for any war to occur,
no "waging of war" against G-d is ever possible without the Almighty's at least implicit permission

"A kind of passive tranqillity is not the aim of Benedictine life", Joan writes. "The call of this spirituality is to be gentle ourselves and to bring non-violence in our wake. It is an amazing position for a sixth-century document to take in a violent world. There is no Armageddon theology here, no call to a pitched battle between good and evil in a world that subscribed to dualism and divided life into things of the spirit and things of the flesh.

In this rule of life, violence is simply discounted. Violence doesn't work. Not political violence, not social violence, not physical violence, not even the violence that we do to ourselves in the name of religion. Wars haven't worked. Classism hasn't worked. Fanaticism hasn't worked. Benedictinism, on the other hand, simply does not have as its goal either to beat the body down or to vanquish the world. Benedictinism simply sets out to gentle a universe riddled with violence by being a peaceful voice for peace in a world that thinks that everything - international relations, child rearing, economic development, even everything in the spiritual life - is accomplished by force. Benedictinism is a call to live in the world not only without weapons raised against the other but by doing good." (op.cit., pp.24-5.)

It is a great pity that Harley-Davidson's centenary year celebration has been marred by an American President's lack of imaginative foresight and geopolitical vision.

On Saturday, 6 September 2003, The Guardian's comment editor, Seumas Milne, published Michæl Meacher, MP's "This war on terrorism is bogus", in which the former environment minister (May 1997 to June 2003) claimed that the 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination:

"If there was ever need to justify a more objective British stance, driven by our own independent goals, this whole depressing saga surely provides all the evidence needed for a radical change of course."

"Many dark actors playing games …"

If Britain invades Iraq… I'll probably be found dead in the woods."

- Dr. David Kelly                                          

Can we trust politicians? They aren't necessarily all "bad men" - indeed, political correctness forbids all such gender discrimination.

"Reptiles" then? Although, for David Icke, not all humans are reptiles and not all reptiles are bad, both Tony Blair and George Bush are definitely among the many individually identified and named and ruthlessly wicked reptiles that all of us are now called upon to "love"... David Icke's well-known books (such as The Truth Vibrations, Aquarian Press, 1991; The Robot's Rebellion, Gateway, 1994; … and the truth shall set you free, Bridge of Love c/o Papworth Press, 1995; The Biggest Secret; Children of the Matrix and Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster, Wildwood: Bridge of Love, 1999, 2001 & 2002) and website are full of fascinating details but, surely, Zecharia Sitchin is right, when he insists that evidence of somebody's wearing a naval uniform never by itself signifies that such a person is a "fish"!

David Icke used to represent the Green Party but, long before that, a far more distinguished politician, the Earl of Clancarty, writing under his pen-name as Brinsley le Poer Trench, argued in The Sky People (London: Neville Spearman, 1960), that the creation of Adam One in Genesis (1:26-27) isn't about flesh-and-blood humans like us, and that the Bible's first mention of the Adam who knew Eve, and from whom we are said to descend, is its reference to the creation of Adam Two in Genesis (2:7). The Earl believed that by Adam One was signified not an Earthbound and embodied human race, but a galactic race known from time immemorial as the "Serpent People"... Does this mean that Blair, Bush, Clancarty and Icke are all conspirators together, "dark actors playing games"?

On 28 July 2003, Independence Day in Peru, Greek officials formally accused Tony Blair and several other ministers of genocide and other war-crimes in Iraq. Others, no doubt, may still believe MI7 somehow brought about David Kelly's tragically unnecessary death, possibly because David secretly knew that Saddam Hussein actually had no weapons of mass destruction at all … Perhaps Cherie Blair would have been a better choice as Prime Minister?

In any case, if Stella Rimington, a former Director-General of MI5, is to be believed, government ministers are "chronically exhausted", something which shows more and more as the parliamentary term wears on, and so they are unlikely to play well.

"I frequently found myself talking to a zombie-like figure, slumped in his chair, with drooping eyelids and a whey-coloured face." (Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.266.)

In view of recent events, the entire United Kingdom now deserves and perhaps also urgently requires an all parties' Government of National Unity…

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