I take this opportunity to introduce the publication of my latest book titled “An Enemy Within, How Freemasonry Shaped the Church and Modern World.” It’s a topic central to the ongoing cultural disintegration witnessed over the past 60 years, and yet surprisingly few Americans and Christians fully understand the connection. What has been hidden from their eyes is the reality that Masonry is essentially a fashionable, modern day reiteration of the oldest Christian heresy of Gnosticism, going back to the 1st century, an ancient heresy that is no mean threat to human society. I propose that the greatest existential threat to the Church and State today is not Communism, Islam, or terrorism but the globalist Gnostic juggernaut which insists that human knowledge and reason alone can defeat the power of evil and create a worldly utopian paradise.

Yet we see this attitude constantly promoted through today’s public education establishment which, for a century or more, has gradually undergone a paradigm shift from its former Christian basis to a fully Gnostic orientation. In fact one could credibly argue that public education, from the university level downward to the elementary, has now become the de facto state religion in this country. Gnosticism worships knowledge as the ultimate good in human existence; knowledge as an end in itself ~ the key to power and fulfillment; the power to create our own ‘reality.’ But in the Christian perspective knowledge is directed to a very specific goal, to know God. It is a means, not an end, whose intended object must be Truth: the absolute Truth Incarnate who is Jesus Christ.

Gnosticism is antithetical to the pathways of salvation laid out by Christ. It proposes a different pathway through so-called ‘enlightenment’ meaning the acquisition of secretive knowledge in order to attain some higher state of being. It is not Christian humility but human pride of accomplishment which leads one to salvation. Knowledge, not faith; action, not grace, is what one needs to attain happiness. Morality and truth become purely subjective values in the scheme of things because after all it is we who ultimately get to determine what is right or wrong.