Tuesday, August 16, 2016

THE DECREE OF THE GOLDEN BULL, 1356.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by the general assembly (Diet) of the various estates of the Roman realm that emerged from the earlier informal and irregular assemblies, known as 'Hoft-Age,' convened by the one of the Princes of the Empire with selected chief princes within the empire.
More precisely, it was the convention of the legal entities of the realm that, according to Feudal Law, had not authority above them besides the Prince or King of the Romans himself. The deputied convened occasionally at different cities, until in 1663 the Perpetual Diet was established at the Regens-Burg city hall.
Regens-Burg, one of the oldest Celtic settlements in South-East Germany, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab, and Regen Rivers, was the seat of a powerful ruling family known as the Agilol-Fings.
They ruled the Duchy of Bavaria on behalf of their Mero-Ving-Ian suzerians from about 550 until 788 CE. Gari-Bald I of Bavaria, stood at head of the Agilol-Fings and the Bavar-Ian Dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of the Lombards. He married Waldrada, the widow of Mero-Ving-Ian king Theude-Bald, in 555 CE, after her marriage to Lotha-Ir was annulled on grounds of consaguinity. As they had their fate intertwined with Mero-Ving-Ian dynasty, they opposed the rise of the Caro-Ling-Ian majordomes, the managers of the Frank-Ish king, the power behind the throne, in the North-Eastern kingdom of Austr-Asia, who finally deprived the Agilol-Fings of their power. The major of the palace held and wielded the real and effective power to make decisions affecting the kingdoms, while the kings had been reduced to performing merely ceremonial functions, which made them little more than figureheads (do-nothing kings). The office may be compared to that of the prime minister, all of which have similarly been the real powers behind a ceremonial monarch.
Regens-Burg remained as an important place during the reign of Charle-Magne. After the partition of the Caro-Ling-Ians in 843 CE, the city became the seat of the Eastern Frank-Ish ruler, Louis II the German. Two years later, 14 Bohem-Ian princes came to the city to receive 'baptism.' This was the starting point of 'Christianization of the Czechs,' and the diocese of Regens-Burg became the 'mother' diocese of Prague. These events had a wide impact on the history of the Czech lands, as they were now part of the Roman Catholic hand and not the Slavic-Orthodox world. A memorial plate located at the alleged place of the 'baptism,' St. John's Church, was unveiled a few years ago, commemorating the incident in the Czech and German languages.
The Decree of the Golden Bull of 1356 cemented the concept of 'territorial rule,' the largely and independent rule of the 'dukes' over their respective territories, and also limited the number of electors to seven. The Decree prescribed that 4 out of seven would always be suffice to elect a new king; as a result 3 electors could no longer block the election.
The Decree was the milestone in the establishment of largely independent states, a process to be concluded only centuries later, notably with the Peace of West-Phalia of 1648.
The Pope was never involved in the electoral process but only in the process of ratification and coronation of whomever the 'Prince-Electors' chose.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

THE EVIL HAND BEHIND THE WORLD'S POLITICS.

The financial crisis of 1873 that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries, had its first  symptoms in the Austro-Hungarian capital, Vienna, the largest city in Austria.
The unification of Germany as a nation state occurred on January 18, 1871, at the Versailles Palace in the Hall of Mirrors in France. Versailles was the 'seat of political power' in the Kingdom of France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved the royal court from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to Paris in October 1789, within 3 months after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancient Regime.
The Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Versailles and the principal and most remarkable feature of Louis XIV's third building campaign of the Palace (1678-1684). The principal feature is the 17 mirror-clad arches that reflect the 17 arcaded windows to overlook the gardens. Each arch contains 21 mirrors with a total complement of 357 used in the decoration of the gallery. The arches themselves are fixed between marble pilasters whose gilded bronze capitals depict the symbols of France, the fleur-de-lys and the Gallic cockerel or rooster.
Princes of the German states gathered there to proclaim William I of Prussia as German Emperor after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War. The transition had been planned for some time before the capitulation through alliances formal and informal between princely rulers. William was known for his anti-Catholicism and tough handling of subordinates, disguised in his polite, gentlemanly conservative, and more open to certain liberal ideas.
A liberalized incorporation law in the New Germany gave impetus to the foundation of new enterprises and the incorporation of already established ones. Euphoria over the military victory against France in 1871 and the influx of capital from the payment by France of war reparations fueled stock market speculation in railways, factories, docks, steamships -the same industrial branches that expanded unsustainable in the United States.
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauen-Burg was a conservative Prussian who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s he engineered a series of wars that unified the German States, significantly and deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership.  He remained as an undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost 20 years after 1871devoted himself conveniently, exclusively  and successfully, in maintaining "peace" between the powers.
Otto was born in Schon-Hausen, west Berlin, Prussian province of Saxony, formed by the merging of territories, which were formerly part of the Kingdom of Saxony and ceded to Prussia in 1815.
The House of Wet-Tin, a dynasty of counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that once ruled Saxony and Thuringia for 1,000 years. The royal house, one of the oldest of Europe, can be traced back in time to the town of Wet-Tin, Saxony-Anhalt. Otto I (23 November 912 - 7 May 973) traditionally known as Otto I the Great, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 until his death in 973, was the older son of Henry I 'the Fowler' and Matilda.
Henry I 'the Fowler' was the first of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors and known to be the founder and 1st king of the medieval German state known as East Francia. An avid hunter, with the epithet 'the Fowler.' He was fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king. He was the son of Otto the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga. Hedwiga's father was Henry of Franconia, the ancestral lord of a castle named Baben-Berg on the River Main, the longest River (527km/327mi) lying entirely in Germany, and the noble class ruling the House of Austria from 976 to 1246.
Henry of Franconia,  was the most important East Frankish general during the reign of Charles the Fat. East Francia was formed out of the division of the Carolingian Empire after the death of Emperor Louis the Pious, at the same time as West Francia and Middle Francia. The East-West division gradually hardened into the establishment of separate kingdoms, with East Francia becoming the Kingdom of Germany and West Francia the Kingdom of France.
Charles the Fat was the youngest of 3 sons of Louis the German, 1st King of East Francia, and Emma, a Welf. The Elder House of Welf or Wolf was a Frankish noble dynasty documented since the 9th century and closely related to the Carolingian dynasty. The ancestry of the Welf can be traced back to the Skirian prince Edeko (d.469), a confidant of King Attila the Hun, and to his son Odoacer, King of Italy from 476. They are known a the Scirri in the writings of Pliny the Elder, stating that the territory extending from the Vistula River, as far as Eningia, probably Finland, was inhabited by the Wends, the Scirri, and the Hirri. An incident of demonic possession is recorded in Charles the Fat's youth, in which he was said to have been foaming from his mouth before he was taken to the church's altar. This greatly affected his father and himself. Charles' father, Louis II was Charlesmagne's grandson, from whom he won special affection since his early years were spent at his grandfather court.
Otto Von Bismarck, using his ancestral background, started his political and financial control over Europe using as a starting point a career in law (1832-1833)at the University of Gottingen, founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain, as a public comprehensive research university, in Germany. George II was born outside Britain in Northern Germany. His grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, became 2nd in line to the British throne after about 50 Catholics higher in line were excluded by the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707, which restricted the succession to Protestants. After the deaths of Sophia and Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in 1774, his father George I, Elector of Hanover, inherited the British throne. Both of George's parents committed adultery, and in 1694 their marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia had abandoned her husband. George spoke only French, the language of diplomacy and the court, then he learned German, English and Italian, and studied genealogy, military ancient history and battle tactics with particular diligence. This is the reason why the University of Gottingen was founded by him. He left the place putting his law studies in jeopardy in the pursuing of 2 English girls, none of whom he married.
At Gottingen, Otto befriended an American student John Lothrop Motley, who later became an eminent historian and diplomat. He remained close to Otto and in his novel Morton's Hope about life in a German university, he described Otto as a reckless and dashing eccentric, extremely gifted in his pursuing of power disguised as a charming and noble in spirit.
Then Otto Von Bismarck enrolled at the University of Berlin (1833-1835), founded in 1810 anchoring traditional subjects such as science, law, philosophy, history, theology, and medicine. In 1838, while he stationed as an army reservist in Greifswald, he studied agriculture .
Around the age of 30, Otto met a woman, Marie Von Thadden, married to one of his friends, with whom he formed an intense relationship. Under her influence, Otto became a Pietist Lutheran. At Marie's deathbed from typhoid he prayed for the first time since his childhood. He married Marie's cousin, a devout Pietist Lutheran with whom he produced 3 children.  In 1847, at 32 he was chosen to be a representative to the newly created Prussian legislature. From that specific time and until his death
he was just behind the curtains directing the course of Europe power and when he himself in his lasts years tried to write his autobiography he often increased the drama and presented himself in a favorable light. He was diagnosed with gangrene in his foot, but refused to accept treatment for it; as a result he had difficulty walking and was often confined to a wheelchair. After a painful stage due to his illness, he died on July 30, 1898, at the age of 83. He managed a posthumous snub by having his own sarcophagus inscribed with the words: "A loyal German of Emperor Wilhelm I."
Following unification, Germany became one of the most powerful nations in Europe. Otto's astute, cautious, and pragmatic foreign policies allowed Germany to 'peacefully' retain power, maintaining 'amiable' diplomacy with almost all European nations. France was the exception because of the consequences of the Franco-Prussian War over its monarchy and became one of Germany's most bitter enemies in Europe. Austria, too, was weakened by the unification of Germany, though to a much lesser extent than France. Otto believed that as long as Britain, Russia, and Italy, were assured of the 'peaceful nature' of the German unification, French belligerency could be contained. His diplomatic feats were undone, however, by Kaisser Wilhelm II, whose policies unified other European powers against Germany in time for World War I.
Otto was a demonic and genius who was deeply vengeful, even toward his closest friends and family members. His disguise and various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a methodical determination to control and ruin them. His easy chat combined with blunt truths, partial revelations, and outright deceptions, was part of his charade in pursue of the greedy feeling of being in control.  He just enjoyed his extraordinary ability to see how groups react and the willingness to use violence to make them obey, the capacity to read group behavior and the supernatural force to make them move to his will. Altogether gave him the chance to feel the evil force that control world power and to exercise it in his sovereign-self.
Otto's spirit was intimidating and unscrupulous, playing to others, frailties, not their strengths. An ambivalent figure, a man of great and evil skills who was not able to leave on records a lasting system in place to guide successors less skilled than himself, being a committed monarchist himself.
Otto, an extraordinary fellow with a gifted sense of directness and lucidity,  allowed no effective constitutional check over the power invested in the Emperor, thus placing a time bomb in the foundation of the Germany that he himself created. During most of his nearly 30 years long tenure, Otto held undisputed control over government's policies. He was well supported by the war minister and personal friend, Albrecht Von Roon as well as the leader of the Prussian army, Helmuth Von Moltke, in facilitated the power he needed in his personal decisions over the steps taken to silence or restrain political opposition. This is evidently proved by the laws restricting the freedom of press, and the anti-socialist laws. He crafted a culture war against the Catholic Church until he realized that Catholic's conservatism could be used to make them natural allies against the Socialists.
Otto's ambition was to be assimilated into the mediatized houses of Germany. The mediatization was the major territorial restructuring that took place between 1802 and 1814 by means of mediatization and secularization of large number of imperial states. They were ecclesiastical principalities, free imperial cities, secular principalities and other minor self-ruling entities that lost their independent status and were absorbed into the remaining states. It came under relentless military and diplomatic pressure from revolutionary France and Napoleon. It constituted the most extensive redistribution of property and territories in German history prior to 1945. Germany before the 19th century did not coalesce into a relatively centralized nation like most of its neighbors did. Instead, the Holy Roman empire ended up a polyglot congeries of literally hundreds of nearly sovereign states and territories raging in size from considerable to minuscule. The traditional explanation for this fragmentation (ecclesiastical [136], secular lords [173], free imperial cities [85]) has focused on the gradual usurpation by the princes of the powers. Otto attempted to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm I that he should be endowed with the sovereign duchy of Lauen-Burg, in reward for his service to the imperial family and the German empire. This was on the understanding that Otto would immediately restore the duchy to Prussia; all he wanted was the status and privileges of a mediatized family for himself and his descendants. He was rejected by Kaiser Wilhelm II since he was informed about Otto's ambition. After being forced to resign at his position as a  Chancellor, he received the purely honorific title of "Duke of Lauen-Burg,"without the duchy itself and the sovereignty that would have transformed his family into a mediatized House. Otto regarded it as a mockery of his ambition, and he considered nothing more cruel than this action of the emperor.
Upon Otto's death in 1898 his dukedom, held only for his lifetime, became extinct.


Monday, August 8, 2016

THE QUEST OF THE OCCULT AND THE DOMINION OF THE WORLD.

The belief that all things have a spirit or soul, including animals, plants, rivers, mountains, stars, the moon, and the sun, concerned and dominated the human affairs around the globe since the prehistory era. This entities had their counterpart in spirit world and were capable of helping or harming human interests if the law that govern their nature and their functions were not followed with care and respect.
The today religions of the world evolved from the prehistoric"doctrine of souls"that arose from spontaneous reflection of the afterlife and the order in which Nature works and how its laws applied to us. We are free to choose between the laws that respect the order of things or our own laws that bring chaos and destruction of our own world.
The Thule Society was a German occultist group founded in Munich in 1912. It was named after a mythical spirit that the Greek explorer Pyth-Eas defined as the spirit of the land of the north. The description says that it was no longer a proper land nor sea, no air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk, nor sail, holding everything together.
The idea that the lost civilization of the Teutons had possessed psychic abilities that were far beyond the technical achievements of the 20th century and the belief that their race, the Aryans, were superior than any other race, linked all of them with the same spirit that moved them to go deep in the magical arts of the occultism with the aim of rediscover the secrets at any costs of this legendary civilization.
The Order was much more than an innocent study group. It was a secret brotherhood of prominent occultists. The different groups of believers were influenced variously by the Pythagorists, the Neoplatonics, the British mystic Madame Blavatsky, the Rosicrucians, Jacob Bohme, Paracelcus, etc.
One of its members founded a journal in 1902. In it they argued that the Jewish influences had contaminated Germany. Their aim was to coordinate the activities of the many small organizations active at that time and to bring as many as these as possible under its banner, the swastika facing counter-clockwise and the dagger, preaching racial purity and anti-semitism from mid-19th century.
Members were affluent and influential leading figures in Munich society: Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosen-Berg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehman, Gott-Fried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Harrer.
Before Hitler came into contact with the Thule society in 1919, the group had already been organizing public talks on various Celtic and Teutonic cultural topics for some time. However, the public was not aware of the real purpose of the group and what really took place at the secret meetings, to which only Thule members were invited.
In the rituals, light, color, rhythms, symbols, aromas, et., were used to focus mental powers and channels in a specific directions in order to find the portals formed in the magnetic field and use them as a means of communication with the underworld.
Women were scarcely represented in the Order, the higher level of initiation being reserved exclusively for men. Those wishing to join had to complete a questionnaire and submit a photograph, which was examined for purity of race.
The Order was not content merely with influencing material wealth through organizations covered up as Social and Non-profitable, the order was also politically active. When the Bavarian King was deposed and the communists took power in November 1918, the opulent meeting place of the Order, the luxury Four Seasons Hotel, became a centre of counter-revolutionary activities. The Order also set up a fighting division that took an active part in the power struggle during the revolution in Munich.
In April 1919, it enlisted volunteers, who were smuggled by train to participate in the attack against the communist regime from there. After the overthrown of the communist government in May 1919, the Order shifted its political activities to the field of propaganda. In October 1918, when German defeat was imminent, the Order established a Political Workers' Union, from which the German Workers' Party arose. Individual members of the Order then appeared as speakers in the Workers' Party.
Hitler came across the small, insignificant party during a lecture in September 1919. Soon afterwards, he became the 55th member of the Party. Hitler certainly knew how to use the power of this Order to his advantage. Their patronage and financial support was of decisive importance during the initial period of his race.
The Order was significant to the Nazi movement not just because Hitler assumed control of the German Workers' Party from it. The Grand Master of the Order sold to Hitler to Hitler the Eher publishing house in 1920. Hitler turned the newspaper into the National Observer, which quickly became the most important weapon in the Nazi propaganda arsenal. Hitler also appropriated the Thule Society's emblem, the swastika, as well as the 'Sieg Heil' form of greeting.
The Grand Master claimed that it was his suit of armor that helped Hitler to gain power in a period of time that would otherwise seem unnaturally short.