This past weekend I spoke at the sold out 5th annual Restore Tradition Women’s Conference in Littleton, Colorado. The sellout was not surprising considering the speaker lineup which included Fr. Chad Ripperger, Abby Johnson, Matt Fradd, and keynote speaker Michael Matt. Not only were they tremendous speakers but I found them to be warm, delightful individuals, a far cry from the ‘rigid’ stuffy caricature that is often applied to devout, traditional Catholic types. In fact one of the more enjoyable aspects of these personalities seemed to be their great and spontaneous senses of humor. Joyful people love to laugh and these indeed were a very joyful bunch along with the many women attendees, some of whom hailed from distant Maine to California and from British Columbia to North Carolina. The conference was a rousing success, and I understand that it will be available online if you would like to view any or all of those marvelous talks.
My own contribution was to speak on Freemasonry as a Luciferian Revolution, and what amazed me was the unexpected interest shown by these ladies in such a rather heavy topic. After each presentation numerous women came up and expressed that they had fathers, grandfathers, or various family members who had been or were still involved in Masonry, something I did not expect to hear at a Catholic women’s conference. Most were concerned about generational curses and other effects being passed down through the family tree, even to their own sons and daughters. The problem is that Masonry is so secretive that very often the wives of Freemasons have no idea what is being said or done behind the Lodge doors even after decades of their spouse’s involvement. Not being a cleric or and exorcist the best I could do is to recommend Fr. Ripperger’s little black book, “Deliverance Prayers for the Laity.”
Primarily I see my own role as that of making others aware of the diabolical nature and agenda of a firmly entrenched Masonic network which I fear is controlling the modern world. Their war for the past 300 years has always been against the Throne and Altar, that is any kind of Christian monarch, president, etc., and the Catholic Church. Freemasonry is essentially an outgrowth of the Protestant revolution of the 16th century, seizing upon that fundamental Protestant tenet, “Private Judgment.” As I explained in my talk, Private Judgment undermines objective truth by affording every opinion, good, bad, or indifferent, a kind of parity with divinely revealed Truths as taught over the centuries by the perennial Magisterium of Christ’s Church.
What Freemasonry did was to substitute its own Gnostic ideals for Magisterial teaching. As the former Supreme Pontiff of Freemasonry, Albert Pike, freely admitted in Morals and Dogma, still considered the Bible of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Gnosticism is the soul and marrow of Freemasonry. In fact Gnosticism, the first century heresy teaching that salvation comes not from Christ but from the attainment of a secret esoteric knowledge (Gnosis), is in fact the root of all heresies. It goes back to the Garden of Eden where the devil enticed Eve with the words, “You too will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” (Gen 3:5) The lie is that knowledge doesn’t purchase one’s salvation. True, God gave man natural reason but the fact is, YOU CAN’T THINK YOUR WAY INTO HEAVEN. It is God’s free gift of sanctifying grace, not some secret knowledge, that alone admits one’s soul into heaven.
Another distinction, divine grace is available to every person but the Gnostics are far more particular and exclusive. For them, such valuable knowledge (Gnosis) is not to be shared with just anybody but only a few, highly select ‘Adepts.’ Even fellow Masons from the lower three ‘Blue Degrees’ are excluded from the “real secrets” as Albert Pike himself condescendingly asserts. “The symbols of the wise always become the idols of the ignorant multitude… The Blue Degrees are but the outer portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.” (Morals and Dogma p. 819) So at its very core Freemasonry is intended to serve the elites, not the ordinary Joe.
According to author of the Father Elijah novels, Michael D. O’Brien, “They (Gnostics) believed that orthodox Christianity was only a myth… The real meaning of the Gospels was to be learned only within the inner sanctums of the elect, the ‘knowers’ who were the elite of Gnosticism, who believed themselves to be a superior class of beings.” But what are those clandestine ‘secrets,’ reserved to the elect, really about? Pike let the cat out of the bag in an 1889 speech to fellow Masons of the three higher degrees, 30th thru 32nd. “The Masonic religion should be, by all us initiates in the highest degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine… Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonai (the God of the Christians) is also God… The true and philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonai; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonai, the God of Darkness and Evil.”
This Masonic revolution then is no ordinary rebellion but a carefully crafted, orchestrated, and executed revolution against God himself as recorded in the Book of Revelation, chapter 12. The ‘Brotherhood of Man’ that Masonry harps about incessantly is in reality a Satanic brotherhood based not on the Christian “love of neighbor, including one’s enemy” but rather an exclusivist and highly stratified brotherhood where the elites get to lord it over the supposedly inferior classes of humanity. It is a hierarchy of hatred and contempt for God and those fellow creatures made in His own image. And so Our Blessed Lady revealed the true nature of Freemasonry to Fr. Stefano Gobbi in the 1990s saying, “the purpose of Freemasonry is not to deny God but to blaspheme Him.”
This is the same Freemasonry into which the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, was recently inducted even as he was introducing legislation to legalize euthanasia. Macron praised Freemasonry as “the workshop of the Republic,” a relationship he described as “forged by centuries of struggle, a shared understanding, and a complicity that is anything but a conspiracy,” a very strange choice of words considering that he immediately and openly acknowledged “the role played by the Lodges in the earlier stages of the moral revolution,” meaning the systematic destruction of Christian values.
But Macron is only parroting what the agnostic Jewish radical Saul Alinsky wrote in the dedication to his 1979 manual for social revolution called Rules for Radicals. “Lest we forget,,, the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom, Lucifer.” Alinsky’s advice was to use ‘intentional miscommunication’ to hide the true objective under high sounding phrases. “Advance your goals by camouflaging them: change your style to appear to be working within the system.” Perhaps that helps explain why today we have so many governments and institutions cloaked in opacity, and terrified of any sort of public transparency.
Fifty years after Alinsky we observe LGBTQ+ activists such as Fr. James Martin, the German ‘Synodal’ bishops, or Fr. Marco Rupnik who all appear to be “working within the system,” or more accurately “working the system,” not to defend the Faith of 2,000 years, but to advance their pet agendas. These and many other Modernists clergy are openly walking in lockstep Freemasons according to a nefarious Masonic manifesto called the Permanent Instructions of the Alta Vendita which had boasted, “Our ultimate end is that of Voltaire and the French Revolution – the final destruction of Catholicism and even of the Christian idea… let the clergy march under your standard, always believing they are marching under the banner of the Apostolic Keys.. You will have preached a revolution in tiara and cope, marching with cope and banner, a revolution that will need only to be a little urged on to set fire to the far corners of the world.”
But it is not just the Church under attack but Western culture at large. While Gnosticism and its Masonic variants are essentially corrosive religious heresies, what modern society has lately devolved into is what I would describe as ‘Cultural Gnosticism,’ a secularized, materialist Gnostic worldview which currently pervades our institutions, particularly education. In this view humanity can only be saved through economics, politics, science, high technology, A.I., even trans-humanism. Indifferent to the needs or even the existence of man’s immortal soul, saving the planet becomes the goal of Cultural Gnosticism. After a century of religious indifferentism where every religious opinion is paraded out as but one among equals, people soon tire of religion altogether and retreat into a secular humanist mindset. The Vatican Council II actually encouraged this process, whether wittingly or no, alleging, “Buddhism… proposes a way of life by which men can, with confidence and trust, attain a state of perfect liberation and reach supreme illumination.” (Nostra Aetate, #2) Sanctifying Grace is thus rendered ‘optional’ for the attainment of “supreme illumination,” i.e., heaven and the Beatific Vision.
Statements such as this indicate that the Masonic revolution has been able to successfully infiltrate and control the narrative even within the highest ranks of the Church. Consider this statement from Gaudium et Spes, #55, which reads, “We place before our eyes the unification of the world and the duty imposed upon us to build up a better world in truth and justice. We are witnessing then the birth of a new humanism, where man is defined before all else by his responsibility to his brothers in the course of history.” It would appear from Gaudium that the ‘Brotherhood of Man’ (a favorite Masonic phrase) had eclipsed the ‘Fatherhood of God’ revealed by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount.
Considering that statements such as these indicate where the Church stood over 60 years ago, it is little surprise that by 2019, during the same month (October) in which Pope Francis engaged in the Pachamama scandal whilst issuing the encyclical Fratelli Tutti, leading Freemasons warmly eulogized it as, “Close to the ideals that have constituted the very foundations of Freemasonry from the very beginning.” More recently the president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, Bishop Antonio Stagliano, avowed, “Doctrine does not exhaust membership in the Church. I am interested in the Christian event, not the doctrine.” Would such “Christian events” then include Gay pride Masses in cathedrals or blessings bestowed by the heretical and pro-abort Anglican “Archbishopress of Canterbury,” Sarah Mullaly, in the beaming presence of Pope Leo XIV? After all, warm fuzzy feelings are so much more instructive than true doctrine if you head a Pontifical Academy, I’m sure.
Both the present world and the Catholic Church (which is the effective soul of the world) are in dire straits after 300 years of non-stop hammering by the Gnostic-Masonic juggernaut. The most basic moral truths have either been swept away or so badly compromised as to be almost unrecognizable. Confusion, even among knowledgeable Catholics who can’t even define ‘schism’ yet are certain that they know it when they see it, is running rampant. The dark forces of Gnosticism have spread like a cancer throughout the Mystical Body of Christ on earth. Prelates are opposing prelates and many good priests are being unjustly banished simply for defending 2,000 years of tradition.
The great Pope Leo XIII was shown this Christophobic chaos in a vision whereby he sought the intercession of the mighty archangel from the Book of Revelation, Michael, and so Leo instituted prayers, including a prayer to St. Michael, to be prayed universally at the end of every Mass “for the liberty and exaltation of our Holy Mother the Church.” Unfortunately those powerful Leonine prayers were discarded in 1965 at the very end of the Council, just at a crucial moment when the intercession of the Mother of God and of angels and saints was most needed. This was the very first, and telling, act of Modernist clerical iconoclasm which would eventually strip away most of that timeless liturgical masterpiece, the ancient Mass of Pope St. Gregory the Great.
Around 1898 Pope Leo XIII expanded the original shorter prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, which I find to be most compelling in its longer form. Unfortunately since this prayer’s re-appearance there has arisen a rumor among some Catholics (planted I suspect) that only priests are permitted to pray this prayer, thus excluding the laity. I know this to be a false rumor from the simple fact that this particular prayer is not a direct binding prayer, rather it is a prayer of intercession beseeching heavenly aid, typical of hundreds of other similar intercessory prayers. You can read it for yourself and see that it is definitely not in the form of a ‘command prayer’ but rather a ‘prayer of petition’ to the holy Archangel Michael. Therefore, the only persons I can imagine objecting to the regular recitation of this beautiful prayer promulgated by a saintly Pope would be those Freemasons who rightly fear the power of St. Michael to interfere with and thwart their infernal intrigues. It is the final prayer I pray each night before retiring, and I would strongly recommend it to every devout Christian in these darkest of hours for our Church and world.
Long Form of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
O Glorious Prince of the heavenly host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and the terrible warfare we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against evil spirits. Come to the aid of man whom Almighty God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of Satan.
Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee; nor was there any place for them any longer in heaven. That cruel ancient serpent who is called the devil, or Satan, who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold this primeval enemy and slayer of men has assumed a brazen boldness. Disguised as an angel of light he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, ravaging the earth in order to blot out the name of God and his Christ, to seize upon, slay, and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out as a most impure deluge the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart: the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity and of every vice and iniquity.
These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.
Arise then, O invincible Prince. Bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits upon the People of God and give us the victory. We venerate thee as our protector and patron: in thee Holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious power of hell; to thee God has entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude. O pray to the God of Peace that He may put Satan under our feet, so well conquered that he may no longer be able to hold men in captivity nor harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High so that men may quickly find mercy in the sight of the Lord; and vanquishing the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, confine him again in the abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations. Amen.
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Francis J. Pierson +a.m.d.g.
