<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221</id><updated>2012-03-03T12:27:49.936-08:00</updated><category term='Second Coming of Jesus Christ'/><category term='Rosh Hashanah'/><category term='Patriarch Alexei II - Drozdov by his KGB name'/><category term='China'/><category term='the Muslim Brotherhood'/><category term='Chaste bride'/><category term='Constitutionality'/><category term='Zionist'/><category term='false prophets'/><category term='Holy Spirit'/><category term='beast'/><category term='Tijaniyah Order'/><category term='Yom Kippur'/><category term='Israel'/><category term='Jew'/><category term='Church Fathers'/><category term='1958 conclave'/><category term='Prior to Christ&apos;s Return'/><category term='Antipopes'/><category term='Syriac Church'/><category term='Mahdi'/><category term='Sex'/><category term='Abortion is Murder'/><category term='Bible'/><category term='Good Shepherd'/><category term='Jews'/><category term='Parousia'/><category term='Rumi'/><category term='virgin goddess of black magic'/><category term='Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ'/><category term='Cabala'/><category term='Black Mass'/><category term='Nuh'/><category term='Balkans'/><category term='Mary'/><category term='Son of God'/><category term='Resurrection'/><category term='Cretan double eagles'/><category term='Al Qaeda'/><category term='pharmakeia'/><category term='peace'/><category term='conscience'/><category term='St. Ignatius to the Ephesians'/><category term='Dies Irae'/><category term='modernist'/><category term='Qabalah'/><category term='God'/><category term='freemasonry'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='Likkud'/><category term='Holy Trinity'/><category term='Judaist Talmudists'/><category term='Donmeh'/><category term='The Ultimate Heresy'/><category term='ecclesial hierarchy'/><category term='Illuminati'/><category term='Paradise'/><category term='Jesus Christ'/><category term='Lord Jesus Christ'/><category term='Glory'/><category term='History of the Money Changers'/><category term='international relations'/><category term='Mason'/><category term='Word'/><category term='One God'/><category term='Prayer'/><category term='Vatican'/><category term='Day of Resurrection'/><category term='early resurrection of Mary goddess'/><category term='Evolution'/><category term='antichrists'/><category term='Our Father'/><category term='Messias'/><category term='Russia'/><category term='Easter'/><category term='Kapparot'/><category term='Gog and Magog'/><category term='synagogue of Satan'/><category term='Siri'/><category term='Moses Hess'/><category term='Lubavitcher Rebbe'/><category term='New Jerusalem'/><category term='Mary goddess'/><category term='Early Church Fathers'/><category term='Allah (SWT)'/><category term='Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior'/><category term='Eastern Europe'/><category term='Eucharist'/><category term='Antitheotokos'/><category term='Faithful'/><category term='international diplomatic relations'/><category term='&quot;Jesus Christ in the Dura-Europos&quot;'/><category term='Great Apostasy'/><category term='Socialist International'/><category term='Al Qiyamah'/><category term='The Day of Wrath'/><category term='Sabatae Zvi Frankists'/><category term='Druze'/><category term='Gnostic'/><category term='mammon'/><category term='Nineteen crime families of Israel'/><category term='Apostle'/><category term='gnosticism'/><category term='Trinity'/><category term='All Holy Messiah Jesus Christ'/><category term='Gnostic O.T.O.'/><category term='Judaism'/><category term='Hammelek l Yisrael'/><category term='Babel'/><category term='Banksterism'/><category term='modern popes'/><category term='Sufism'/><category term='μοίρα'/><category term='anti-Christ'/><category term='Right to Life'/><category term='St. Papias'/><category term='&apos;Isa al-Maseeh'/><category term='Christian God'/><category term='Abortion'/><category term='The Sermon on the Mount'/><category term='Great Tribulation'/><category term='Zionist Vatican'/><category term='St. Aphrahat'/><category term='Esau'/><category term='Heaven'/><category term='snuff films'/><category term='Tikun Olam'/><category term='apartheid'/><category term='Kurdish Peshmergas'/><category term='Resurrection of Christ'/><category term='Judeo Mason'/><category term='Kabbala'/><category term='Islam'/><category term='Opus Dei'/><category term='Vaticanism - Apostasy from God'/><category term='Sayyidah'/><category term='Mother Teresa'/><category term='Vatican Ecumenism'/><category term='Spirit'/><category term='Socialism'/><category term='John Chrysostom'/><category term='Noahide'/><category term='Psalms'/><category term='diplomacy'/><category term='St. Irenaeus'/><category term='Antichrist'/><category term='Communist'/><category term='high level international diplomacy'/><category term='false Christs'/><category term='Dome of the Rock'/><category term='Gospel'/><category term='anti-Semitism'/><category term='Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus'/><category term='Babylon'/><category term='Book of the Revelation - Apocalypse'/><category term='Judeo-Christians'/><category term='Ashkenazim'/><category term='Return of Jesus Christ'/><category term='Noah'/><category term='&apos;Isa al Maseeh'/><category term='Talmud'/><category term='Slave Trade'/><category term='Communism'/><category term='exhortations to faith'/><category term='Creed'/><category term='Anti-Pope John Paul and Patriarch Bartholomew'/><category term='Holy Qur&apos;an'/><category term='Abomination of Assisi'/><category term='Buddha'/><category term='Zabin'/><category term='PALESTINE'/><category term='Gaza'/><category term='popes'/><category term='Vladimir Moss'/><category term='Nuzul-i-Isa'/><category term='Abomination of Desolation'/><category term='false religion'/><category term='Zionism'/><category term='Dilling'/><category term='Christian Zionism'/><category term='harlot'/><category term='Europe'/><category term='drugs'/><category term='The Seven Churches'/><category term='Qur&apos;an'/><category term='Dajjal'/><title type='text'>Look up, your redemption is at hand</title><subtitle type='html'>The magnificent Saviour, Jesus Christ, Himself said: "But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand."</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Miko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10835536121754696984</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BYh-gZY9R70/SaBq0Aoi9xI/AAAAAAAAAAU/gtINHoUO1hw/S220/scan0001.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>183</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-4261325979789633361</id><published>2012-02-06T08:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T08:07:00.287-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dies Irae'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Day of Wrath'/><title type='text'>Music of faith: Verdi - Requiem - Dies Irae - The Day of Wrath - of God</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://musesgarten.blogspot.com/2011/09/verdi-requiem-dies-irae-day-of-wrath-of.html"&gt;Music of faith: Verdi - Requiem - Dies Irae - The Day of Wrath - of God&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGYl-Em3sJQ/TnZXDbNzaQI/AAAAAAAACuo/llDK3jqsEWE/s1600/giotto.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGYl-Em3sJQ/TnZXDbNzaQI/AAAAAAAACuo/llDK3jqsEWE/s400/giotto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653802098567112962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://steveinvista.wordpress.com/the-testimony-of-the-lord-jesus-christ/"&gt;The Lamb and the Virgins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Rv:14:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1 ¶ And I beheld: and lo a Lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an  hundred forty-four thousand, [1] having his name and the name of his  Father written on their foreheads. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 3:12;  22:4&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters and as  the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as the voice  of harpers, harping on their harps. … Scripture reference – Rev.:  1:15!; 19:6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3 And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne and before  the four living creatures and the ancients: and no man could say the  canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand who were purchased from  the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 5:9!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins.  These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from  among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. … Scripture reference  – Rev.: 5:9!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5 And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without spot  before the throne of God. [2] … Scripture reference – Zeph.: 3:13!&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TVjDP0vlem4?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TVjDP0vlem4?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="315"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-4261325979789633361?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://musesgarten.blogspot.com/2011/09/verdi-requiem-dies-irae-day-of-wrath-of.html' title='Music of faith: Verdi - Requiem - Dies Irae - The Day of Wrath - of God'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/4261325979789633361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/music-of-faith-verdi-requiem-dies-irae.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/4261325979789633361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/4261325979789633361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/music-of-faith-verdi-requiem-dies-irae.html' title='Music of faith: Verdi - Requiem - Dies Irae - The Day of Wrath - of God'/><author><name>صفيّة Safiyah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11207608154162548969</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ixdPlF-ycCA/Tm0HZ5qNC9I/AAAAAAAAAMo/jl7XzpTH_kg/s220/egypt_lg%2Bflight%2Binto%2BEgypt.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGYl-Em3sJQ/TnZXDbNzaQI/AAAAAAAACuo/llDK3jqsEWE/s72-c/giotto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-3986366401046163976</id><published>2012-02-05T09:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T09:24:00.346-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hammelek l Yisrael'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Druze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mahdi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dome of the Rock'/><title type='text'>No to all Terrorists including a false ' Mahommot ', the false Mahdi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HREfJ7Rwm0g/Txe4IiQaJYI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Lv08zk0YZgw/s1600/DOME%2BOF%2BTHE%2BROCK.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HREfJ7Rwm0g/Txe4IiQaJYI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Lv08zk0YZgw/s320/DOME%2BOF%2BTHE%2BROCK.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699226310234744194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(204, 102, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-489341084437275935" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;The Dome of the Rock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fanatics' target for attack to begin WWIII? Or actually the location for the false peace pact to be built around. See below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ warned of false prophets who come in His name. This warning must be applied to any who preach themselves rather than God. If someone claimed to be the Twelfth Imam in an esoteric false-Sufi sense and pointed to a figure like al-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;kim bi-Amr All&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;h of the Druze as the Mahdi he would be a false prophet and an antichrist (dajjal) by definition. When he pointed to this person (most likely a freemason ecumenist "hawk") as the Mahdi who then, instead of witnessing to Muhammed (PBUH) and especially Jesus Christ (PBUH) and morality, unifies both Sunni and Shia and all of an apostasy from Islam around himself and strikes a peace agreement with the Antichrist (ad-Dajjal) in Jerusalem then this person claiming to be the Mahdi would be one of the ten horns (see Rev. 17:3, 7, 12, 16) that follow after the Beast (the Antichrist) and do his will and then there is the false peace St. Paul warned about. See: 1Thes:5:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;“For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.” (DRV) Many Muslims are named after Muhammed (PBUH). In this sense if we rearrange the name Muhammed (PBUH) to a different spelling that does not in any sense apply to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) but would only apply to a false prophet who is an apostate from Islam - a kafir, we arrive at -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;In Hebrew Gematria:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://freemasonrywatch.org/sufi.html" style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Mohammot = 40 + 70 + 5 + 1 + 40 + 40 + 70 + 400 = 666&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;M mem = 40, O ayin = 70, H he = 5, A aleph = 1, M mem = 40, M mem = 40, O ayin = 70, T tau = 400&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Below: Father Sloet of Holland’s solution to the final name of the Antichrist (who will be a Jew) with medial kaph so the reign of this false “ ‘king’ of Israel” will be temporary, i.e. short.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;(Note: in the below that the Hebrew characters normally read in reverse order than the English letters. Numerical equivalents are beneath the English letters.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Hammelek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Yisrael&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;מ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;כ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;י&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ש&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ר&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;א&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;ל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;5+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;40+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;30+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;20+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;30+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;10+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;300+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;200+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;1+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;30 = 666&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;The swastika is one of the so-called birth symbols of the buddha; in actuality it is an ancient sun symbol of paganism and black magic --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;The heresy of the Naasseni (literally “Naas” is the word for serpent, Jewish Gnostic serpent worshippers) is adverted to by the other leading writers on heresy in the early age of the Church. See St. Irenaeus, i, 34: Origen, Contr. Cels., vi 28 (p. 291 et seq. ed. Spenc.); Tertullian, Proeser., c. 47 Theodoret, Haeretic. Fabul, i. 14; Epiphanius, Advers. Haereses., xxv. and xxxvii.: St. Augustine, De Haeres., xvii.; Jerome, Comment. Epist. ad Galat., lib. ii. The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that the Naasseni carried their doctrines into India, and refers to the Asiatic Researches (vol. x. p. 39).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Abbe Cruice mentions the following works as of authority among the Gnostic Naasseni, and from whence they derived their system: The Gospel of Perfection, Gospel of Eve, The Questions of Mary, Concerning the Offspring of Mary, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel according to (1)Thomas, (2) the Egyptians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;'The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that the Naasseni carried their doctrines into India, and refers to the Asiatic Researches (vol. x. p. 39).' It was from this that the main composers of Buddhist teachings, Nagarjuna (literally “wise snake”) and Ashvaghosha, got their ideas (early second century A.D.) which are at the real historical beginning of Buddhism and not the mythic beginning around 500 B.C. concurrent with Mahavira and Goshala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew word is nachash. Hebrew for serpent and black magic and from whence comes the Indian word naga (serpent) and which is the same as nag in Nag Hammadi where the Gnostic writings were found a few decades ago and totally backed up everything that the Church Fathers said about the Gnostics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;paraton autoon logon. Bernaysius suggests for these words, patera too autoo logoo. Schneidewin regards the emendation as an error, and Bunsen partly so. The latter would read, patera ton autoon Logon, i.e., "The Naasseni honour the Father of all existent things, the Logos, as man and the Son of Man."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;From St. Hippolytus THE REFUTATION OF ALL HERESIES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;BOOK V.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;CHAP. I.- RECAPITULATION; CHARACTERISTICS OF HERESY; ORIGIN OF THE NAME NAASSENI; THE SYSTEM OF THE NAASSENI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;These (Naasseni), then, according to the system(1) advanced by them, magnify, (as the originating cause) of all things else, a man and a son of man. And this man is a hermaphrodite, and is denominated among them Adam; and hymns many and various are made to him. The hymns? however--to be brief--are couched among them in some such form as this: "From thee (comes) father, and through thee (comes) mother, two names immortal, progenitors of Aeons, O denizen of heaven, thou illustrious man." … All these qualities, however--rational, and psychical, and earthly--have, (the Naassene) says, retired and descended into one man simultaneously--Jesus,(5) who was born of Mary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(1, 1, 0); font-family: Arial, serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, serif; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; color: rgb(1, 1, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;That is they honor:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Adam as Father and Mother, and Jesus Christ as only man and only one example of the Logos and born of Mary and Joseph and not by the virgin birth, which is absolute apostasy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;IN SHORT IT WAS THE GNOSTICS THAT CREATED BUDDHISM BY THEIR EXPORT OF THE BLACK MAGIC OF THE APOSTATE GNOSTIC JEWS WHO DATED FROM TWO CENTURIES BEFORE CHRIST (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CHRISTIAN JEWS NOR ORTHODOX JEWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT) TO INDIA. IT IS TRUE THAT THE ALREADY PAGAN BASE OF HINDUISM WAS THE PAN HELLENIC – INDIAN PAGANISM THAT IT WAS GRAFTED ONTO. Actual notable Jewish presence (merchants) in India dated from about 500 B.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;IT WAS IN THE EARLY THIRD CENTURY A.D. THAT ANOTHER CONNECTION TO THE PAGANISM OF INDIA WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE NEO-GNOSTIC DIDASCALIA (SOPHIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;__________________________________________________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'TimesNew Roman', serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'TimesNew Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;It was Zionism and Communism, both radical Jewish far left abominations that were and are supported by the entire body of Judaism, that created the climate for for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Holocaust against the Slavic gentiles by the Black Mariah (Jewish secret police in Russia) at the beginning of the Russian Communist state in the first place&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; and lead to the greater abominations of Stalin and Mao et al.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;_________________________________________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;With the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Gestapo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt; and the name Guttmacher include Irgun, IDF, Stern Gang, Haganah, Palmach, Lehi, Yishuv, Rekhesh, Mossad, Shin Bet, Communist Insurgents, CIA -- they are all terrorists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 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Mahommot &apos;, the false Mahdi'/><author><name>صفيّة Safiyah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11207608154162548969</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ixdPlF-ycCA/Tm0HZ5qNC9I/AAAAAAAAAMo/jl7XzpTH_kg/s220/egypt_lg%2Bflight%2Binto%2BEgypt.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HREfJ7Rwm0g/Txe4IiQaJYI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Lv08zk0YZgw/s72-c/DOME%2BOF%2BTHE%2BROCK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-959733990287132723</id><published>2012-02-04T07:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T12:28:30.557-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abomination of Assisi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patriarch Alexei II - Drozdov by his KGB name'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Pope John Paul and Patriarch Bartholomew'/><title type='text'>Марк, имя, номер зверя и башня Babel = Ecumenism: The Abomination of Assisi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://babelecumenism.blogspot.com/2009/01/pictures-above-are-not-from-same-source.html"&gt;Марк, имя, номер зверя и башня Babel = Ecumenism: The Abomination of Assisi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13nbVerdI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/OzX6EiZFvjs/s1600-h/assisi_oneb%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291016656466652626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13nbVerdI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/OzX6EiZFvjs/s320/assisi_oneb%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13hgmdYyI/AAAAAAAAAQw/5zLLfdNiJ1g/s1600-h/assisi2_church_prayer%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291016554800833314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13hgmdYyI/AAAAAAAAAQw/5zLLfdNiJ1g/s320/assisi2_church_prayer%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13aNNWf2I/AAAAAAAAAQo/Q9G-moRn-yc/s1600-h/assisi2_chapel%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291016429336166242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13aNNWf2I/AAAAAAAAAQo/Q9G-moRn-yc/s320/assisi2_chapel%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13PrhNcsI/AAAAAAAAAQg/8h5vXBV80hQ/s1600-h/_wsb_391x484_asissiII%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291016248493961922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13PrhNcsI/AAAAAAAAAQg/8h5vXBV80hQ/s320/_wsb_391x484_asissiII%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13BenzOGI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ER3rK4Wynr8/s1600-h/1351200968_d1b6457e0a%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291016004513773666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13BenzOGI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ER3rK4Wynr8/s320/1351200968_d1b6457e0a%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW124UltDyI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/aEyJFjpZQic/s1600-h/assisi2_tibet%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291015847201804066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 227px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW124UltDyI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/aEyJFjpZQic/s320/assisi2_tibet%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW12BmJyZxI/AAAAAAAAAQA/7ayxztQXpg4/s1600-h/_wsb_391x484_asissiII%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[the pictures above are not from the same source as the Photo Gallery below but are of the same event]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OFFICE OF PAPAL LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PHOTO GALLERY&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD ASSISI, 24 January 2002&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="top"&gt;foto: &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi1.html"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi2.html"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi3.html"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi4.html"&gt;4&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi5.html"&gt;5&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi6.html"&gt;6&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi7.html"&gt;7&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi8.html"&gt;8&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi9.html"&gt;9&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi10.html"&gt;10&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi11.html"&gt;11&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi12.html"&gt;12&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi13.html"&gt;13&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi14.html"&gt;14&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/assisi15.html"&gt;15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/index_photo_assisi_en.html"&gt;http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/travels/index_photo_assisi_en.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;_______________________________________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Rv:18:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(DRV)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1Thes:5:3:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. (DRV)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2Cor:6:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;18 And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(DRV)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/assisi_letter.aspx"&gt;http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/assisi_letter.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On January 24th [2002], Buddhist chants and Christian hymns resounded inside a huge plastic tent decorated with an olive tree. Representatives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, Confucianism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and followers of Tenrikyo and African tribal religions including (Voodoo) joined their prayers so that, with one voice, they could ask their respective deities to grant peace to the world. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Crosses and other religious objects were removed by Vatican officials so that non-Christian religious leaders would be free to pray in the manner in which they are accustomed. One by one, religious leaders holding small, glass oil lamps lined up at the podium and read each of the 10 points of a communal commitment. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was the first of 11 religious leaders to speak. Chief Amadou Gasseto, who described himself as the high priest of followers of Avelekete Vodoo in Benin, echoed the patriarch's point about personal behavior and its decisive role in creating peace or conflict. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After sharing their "testimonies for peace," Pope John Paul and Patriarch Bartholomew led the Christians from 17 Orthodox churches and 14 Anglican and Protestant communities into the lower basilica for an ecumenical prayer service. There were 3 Orthodox Patriarchs taking part. Not to be outdone by Constantinople, the Russian Patriarch Alexy [ Ed. note: Moscow Patriarch Alexei II - Drozdov by his KGB name, he was their special agent] led a delegation from Russia. It is noteworthy that the largest delegation to respond to the Pope's invitation was made up of Orthodox clergy, who apparently no longer believe that our Saviour is the only hope for the "peace of the world." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-959733990287132723?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://babelecumenism.blogspot.com/2009/01/pictures-above-are-not-from-same-source.html' title='Марк, имя, номер зверя и башня Babel = Ecumenism: The Abomination of Assisi'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/959733990287132723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/babel-ecumenism-abomination-of-assisi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/959733990287132723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/959733990287132723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/babel-ecumenism-abomination-of-assisi.html' title='Марк, имя, номер зверя и башня Babel = Ecumenism: The Abomination of Assisi'/><author><name>Miko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10835536121754696984</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BYh-gZY9R70/SaBq0Aoi9xI/AAAAAAAAAAU/gtINHoUO1hw/S220/scan0001.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OlQe9RdyyiU/SW13nbVerdI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/OzX6EiZFvjs/s72-c/assisi_oneb%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-6554000898669796983</id><published>2012-02-03T09:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T09:41:00.171-08:00</updated><title type='text'>God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: The New Age - Satanic Occult Trap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" trbidi="on" style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Revelation 17:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;1 And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials, and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will show thee the condemnation of the &lt;b&gt;great harlot&lt;/b&gt;, who sitteth upon many waters, 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they who inhabit the earth, have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom. 3 And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a &lt;b&gt;scarlet coloured beast&lt;/b&gt;, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: &lt;b&gt;A mystery; &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Babylon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; the great,&lt;/b&gt; the mother of the fornications, and the abominations of the earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Harlot is the Apostate Jews and the Beast is the Apostate Gentiles.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Go here for the rest of the article.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1amendmentcont.blogspot.com/2012/01/parousia-of-jesus-christ-our-lord-new.html"&gt;God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: The New Age - Satanic Occult Trap&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-6554000898669796983?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://1amendmentcont.blogspot.com/2012/01/parousia-of-jesus-christ-our-lord-new.html' title='God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: The New Age - Satanic Occult Trap'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/6554000898669796983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/god-and-his-messiah-jesus-christ-our.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/6554000898669796983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/6554000898669796983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/god-and-his-messiah-jesus-christ-our.html' title='God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Parousia of Jesus Christ Our Lord: The New Age - Satanic Occult Trap'/><author><name>صفيّة Safiyah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11207608154162548969</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ixdPlF-ycCA/Tm0HZ5qNC9I/AAAAAAAAAMo/jl7XzpTH_kg/s220/egypt_lg%2Bflight%2Binto%2BEgypt.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-794550809508916021</id><published>2012-02-02T04:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T04:30:00.943-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><title type='text'>Communist Russia-China-Israel</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Russia and Israel to deepen military ties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dpa German Press Agency&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Published: Thursday October 19, 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Russia_and_Israel_to_deepen_militar_10192006.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Russia_and_Israel_to_deepen_militar_10192006.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;DATE=5/28/98&lt;br /&gt;TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT&lt;br /&gt;NUMBER=5-40517&lt;br /&gt;TITLE=CHINA / ISRAEL / MILITARY&lt;br /&gt;BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON&lt;br /&gt;DATELINE=BEIJING&lt;br /&gt;CONTENT=&lt;br /&gt;VOICED AT:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fas.org/news/china/1998/980528-prc2.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;http://www.fas.org/news/china/1998/980528-prc2.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px; "&gt;The above two articles make it clear that there is a Communist Russian-Chinese-Israeli alliance waiting to waylay the United States of America. See below for how far back it goes. The whole purpose in Israel involving the United States in the Middle East is to destroy the Arabs and then have Communist Russia and Red China destroy the United States. It is a trap the United States must not be caught in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;The Point&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;December, 1955&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;A. Much, three samples of which follow:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;1) The official report on immigration to Israel, published by the U. S. Department of Commerce, reveals that most Israelis come from (and necessarily with the blessings of) Soviet Russia and her satellites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;2) As a result of the August elections, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) is composed of the following elements. Of the Knesset’s 120 seats, forty belong to the Socialist Labor Party (Mapai), an affiliate of the Second International; fifteen belong to the Freedom Party (Herut), political arm of those reportedly-outlawed terrorist gangs whose atrocities shocked the civilized world; ten belong to the Unity of Labor (Ahdut Avoda), an avowedly Marxist group; nine belong to the United Workers Party (Mapam), whichadvocates “the revolutionary class struggle” and “a firm bond between the workers ofthe world and the Soviet Union”; and six belong to the Communist Party of Israel — making a total of eighty seats for these extremist factions, or two-thirds of the parliament’s membership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;3) In June of 1950, an American journalist was told by an official at the Vatican’s Department for Extraordinary Affairs, that the state of Israel is “obviously an outpost of the Soviet Union in the Middle East.” When the journalist objected that the major Israeli party is Socialist and not Communist, he was told, “It is all camouflage. These people are of one mind when it comes to the Christian religion. They are out to de-Christianize the Levant as part of a world-wide plot to destroy what is left of Christian morality.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;Q. If Zionism and Communism are, then, so closely akin why is Israel presently scorning Russia and turning to the U. S. for help?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;A. This is a move not of necessity, but of prudence. The large quantities of planes, tanks, and guns Israel has already amassed have come to her mainly from behind the Iron Curtain, and Russia is still willing to keep Israel fortified, as she made clear immediately upon announcement of her arms-deal with Egypt. The Jews, however, are genuinely alarmed about the Arab nations, whose lands they have usurped, whose villages they have ravaged and destroyed, whose people they have slaughtered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;Fearful lest the pent-up rage of the Arab world should finally burst upon them, the Jews want to see the Arabs knocked out once and for all, leaving Israel undisputed mistress of the Middle East. If Russia were to take on the assignment, there would be a danger of the U. S. stepping in on the side of the Arabs. Consequently, the Jews are creating the illusion that Israel is herself a victim of Communist aggression — hopeful that the U. S. can thereby be induced to come to her “defense.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px; "&gt;[end of quote from: Fr. Feeney, The Point]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-794550809508916021?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/794550809508916021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/communist-russia-china-israel.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/794550809508916021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/794550809508916021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/communist-russia-china-israel.html' title='Communist Russia-China-Israel'/><author><name>Patron St. Stephen Protomartyr  ستيف في فيستا</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LogQpaPDvio/Tt6N056LJAI/AAAAAAAADek/Z_t8I41uxTY/s220/123.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-5639201184330183616</id><published>2012-02-01T07:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T07:29:00.668-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Faithful'/><title type='text'>Faithful</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;Rv:3:&lt;br /&gt;7 ¶ And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:&lt;br /&gt;8  I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.&lt;br /&gt;9  Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.&lt;br /&gt;10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;11  Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.&lt;br /&gt;12  He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.&lt;br /&gt;13  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.&lt;br /&gt;(DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-5639201184330183616?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/5639201184330183616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/faithful.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/5639201184330183616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/5639201184330183616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/02/faithful.html' title='Faithful'/><author><name>Maritza</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c76zsIVhlys/Se9p6ovZAtI/AAAAAAAAABY/NozXL_5-loE/S220/Sisters.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-171667836787722308</id><published>2012-01-31T08:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T08:27:00.742-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='μοίρα'/><title type='text'>Ο μοίρα</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; 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margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;a title="Mossad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad"&gt;&lt;span &gt;ha-Mossad le-Modiin u-le-Tafkidim Myukhadim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Mossad) (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bloomfield"&gt;&lt;span &gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bloomfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; 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font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; "&gt;Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour in Your true Gospel alone Holy God, the Only Author of Covenant of Salvation, of:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Adam’s covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a lion prefiguring the Gospel of John showing forth the royal power and authority of Christ the Immortal Son Word Wisdom and Power of God through whom God the Father by the Holy Spirit created all of creation Who became Incarnate for our redemption in the flesh as Adam had sinned in the flesh&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Noah’s covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a calf prefiguring the Gospel of Luke showing forth the sacrifice of Christ who is our Holy Only Priest Victim Sacrifice Altar Temple Tabernacle Redeemer Salvation Immortal Immaculate Golden Ark of the covenant showing himself forth as the only begotten Redeemer in his Epiphany of fiery glory at his baptism in the Jordan&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Abraham’s covenant shown forth by an Epiphany of the Lord and two angels prefiguring the Transfiguration of Christ with: Moses, a type of the faithful departed at the future resurrection, and Elijah, a type of the faithful living at the future resurrection, Christ condemning for all time the darkness of idolatry which has no communion with light - the grace of the Gospel of Christ&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Moses’ covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of a man prefiguring the Gospel of Matthew showing forth the God - man prophet, the Christ, who Moses and David and Isaiah and Habakkuk and Ezra foretold Israel would either heed or be destroyed by rejecting, he who is our only Lord and Saviour by his most Holy Cross by which he tread down Satan and cast him out of creation&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;David’s covenant shown forth by the gift of prophecy, especially of the resurrection of Christ&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Daniel’s covenant shown forth by his vision of the ancient of days prefiguring the Gospel of Christ especially his Ascension&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Christ Jesus Immortal Son most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel, Captain of the hosts of the Lord, the giver of all covenants with God shown forth by his promise of the keys of Himself the Messiah to Peter and to all who believe in Him - Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour, the final covenant shown forth by the face seen by Ezechiel of an eagle and through him to the Father does all glory redound in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit, he given at Pentecost, especially proclaimed by the Gospel of Mark of the preaching of the salvation of Christ Jesus throughout the world, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour who descended from the third heaven from the Father's right hand and became flesh by the Holy Spirit, the immaculate conception and was truly born of the blessed virgin Mary on earth, 70 generations from Adam and your creation of all of creation, thus subsuming flesh of Adam and of all men to yourself to restore your Image and Likeness to all the saints from the first Adam to the last saint, by you Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only Immaculate Lamb of God who alone takes away the sin of the whole world of those who are saved, by your most Holy Cross and Holy Blood, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour and Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, covering the whole earth and cleansing the whole universe, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only first born from the dead in the flesh, the only one resurrected, ascended, assumed bodily in the flesh, seated at the right hand of God, Baruch Adonai Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 14.25pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: green; "&gt;and Who, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, shall return from the Father’s right hand in the same flesh with all the elect angels and raise, first, the saints in the flesh, our same spirits souls and bodies reunited and then all other men in the flesh, their same souls and bodies reunited, from throughout the whole world and all of time from the beginning of your creation until that time - known to you alone Holy Immortal undivided trinity, in the future at your Parousia Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, your saints to inherit paradise recreated then with all the elect angels worshipping you face to face in the glory of the Father and the union of the Holy Spirit unto the endless ages of ages - and the rest to be cast into the lake of fire forevermore unto the same endless ages of ages to come.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: Georgia; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth He Creator and Artificer of all our only Teacher He Spirit Absolute Intelligence Holy Unique&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Manifold Subtle Agile&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Clear Unstained Certain&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Not baneful Loving the Good Keen&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Unhampered Beneficent Kindly&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Firm Secure Tranquil&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;All-Powerful All-Seeing and Pervading all spirits though they be intelligent pure and very subtle seven holy elect blessed orders&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;of mighty Doxas holy Serafim Cherubim Kuriotetes Arches especially Saint Michael and Saint Gabriel holy Archangelos&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Exousias Dunameis Angelos&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Uncreated Wisdom mobile beyond all motion He penetrates and pervades all things by reason of His purity for He is an Aura of the Might of&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOD&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;and a pure Effusion of the glory of the Almighty therefore nought that is sullied enters into Him for&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;He is the Refulgence of Eternal Light the&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Spotless Mirror of the Energy of&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOD&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;the Image of His Goodness He Who is One can do all things and renews everything while Himself perduing by His Breath passing into holy souls from&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;age to age He produces friends of&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOD&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;and prophets for there is not&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOD&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;loves be it not one who dwells with Wisdom for He is Fairer than the sun and surpasses every constellation of the stars compared to light He takes precedence for that indeed night might supplant but wickedness prevails not over Wisdom&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;Indeed He reaches from end to end mightily and governs all things well.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 16.05pt; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;We arise today through Your Almighty Sovereignty in supplication of You Blessed Trinity Holy Unity Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh echad&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;through belief in Threeness through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth Who Baruch Adonai Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father of Lights is the Lord God of heaven's might Light of Your Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour lift up our hearts Who bestows on us in Your Threefold light of One undivided glory radiant fire of Your love Your Holy Spirit Your ministering spirits of fire sent&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;minister&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;to&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;those to receive salvation in speed of lightning with might of rushing wind heavens above&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Baruch&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Addonai Yahweh Elohim eth Who bestows upon us depth of sea stability of earth growth of buds and flowers radiance of sun and moon and star great sea creatures in the waters birds above flying in the swiftness of wind of the firmament of the heavens creeping things upon and beasts of the earth burning bush Baruch Ahiyah asher Ahiyah Most Holy Angelic Son Almighty Counselor uncreated Light of Your Shekinah glory Pillar of Cloud Pillar of Fire firmness of the Rock the Lion of Juda the Root and the Offspring of David the Bright and the Morning Star Only Begotten Lamb of God First Born from the dead in the flesh Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour the only head over Your body Whom each of us holds directly seated at the Father's right hand in the Unity and Power and Bond of Love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.55pt; "&gt;I ARISE TODAY IN A HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE LORD OF CREATION&lt;br /&gt;IN ALL HOLY&lt;br /&gt;Blessing and brightness,&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom, thanksgiving,&lt;br /&gt;Great power and might&lt;br /&gt;To the King who rules over all.&lt;br /&gt;Glory and honor and goodwill,&lt;br /&gt;Praise and the sublime song of minstrels,&lt;br /&gt;Exceeding love from every heart&lt;br /&gt;To the King of heaven and earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the chosen Trinity has been joined&lt;br /&gt;Before all, after all, universal&lt;br /&gt;Blessing and everlasting blessing,&lt;br /&gt;Blessing everlasting and blessing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us adore the Lord,&lt;br /&gt;Maker of marvelous works,&lt;br /&gt;Bright heaven with its angels,&lt;br /&gt;And on earth the white-waved sea.&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation of You Blessed Trinity,&lt;br /&gt;Believing in Threeness,&lt;br /&gt;Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour&lt;br /&gt;Of You the Only Creator of creation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;In the power of Christ Jesus’ birth and baptism in the flesh,&lt;br /&gt;In the power of His crucifixion and burial in the same flesh,&lt;br /&gt;In the power of His resurrection and ascension, assumption into the third heaven seated at the Father’s Right Hand in the same flesh in the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete&lt;br /&gt;In the power of His descending in the same flesh for the saving of the saved and the judging of the judged of doom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;In the power and the love of the holy seraphim, cherubim, kuriotetes, arches especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel, holy archangelos, exousias, dunameis, angelos&lt;br /&gt;In obedience and service In the hope of the resurrection to receive the reward,&lt;br /&gt;In the prayers of patriarchs,&lt;br /&gt;In the predictions of prophets,&lt;br /&gt;In the preachings of apostles,&lt;br /&gt;In the faith of confessors,&lt;br /&gt;In the innocence of holy virgins,&lt;br /&gt;In the deeds of the righteous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;In heaven’s might;&lt;br /&gt;In sun’s brightness,&lt;br /&gt;In moon’s radiance,&lt;br /&gt;In fire’s glory,&lt;br /&gt;In lightning’s quickness,&lt;br /&gt;In wind’s swiftness,&lt;br /&gt;In sea’s depth,&lt;br /&gt;In earth’s stability,&lt;br /&gt;In rock’s fixity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;with the power of God to pilot us,&lt;br /&gt;God's strength to uphold us,&lt;br /&gt;God’s energy to shield us,&lt;br /&gt;God's wisdom to guide us,&lt;br /&gt;God's eye to look ahead for us,&lt;br /&gt;God's ear to hear us,&lt;br /&gt;God's word to speak for us,&lt;br /&gt;God's hand to guard us,&lt;br /&gt;God's way to lie before us,&lt;br /&gt;God's shield to defend us, &lt;span style="color: red; "&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God's holy hosts and whole cloud of witnesses to deliver us,&lt;br /&gt;From all snares of the devil, all devils and demons,&lt;br /&gt;From all evil temptations, From all who would try to make nature fail,&lt;br /&gt;From every one who desires us ill,&lt;br /&gt;Afar and anear,&lt;br /&gt;Alone or in a multitude. Around us today Holy Lord God Almighty gather all Your powers: between us and all evil,&lt;br /&gt;Against every cruel and merciless force that would attack my spirit, soul and body,&lt;br /&gt;Against charms of false prophets,&lt;br /&gt;Against black laws of pagandom,&lt;br /&gt;Against false laws of heretics,&lt;br /&gt;Against crafty deceptions of idolatry,&lt;br /&gt;Against spells of women and smiths and wizards and all infidels,&lt;br /&gt;Against all unlawful knowledge that would otherwise harm spirit, soul and body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christ Jesus protect us today&lt;br /&gt;Against poison, against burning,&lt;br /&gt;Against drowning, against wounding,&lt;br /&gt;And all harm&lt;br /&gt;So that I may have abundant reward.&lt;br /&gt;Christ with us, Christ before us, Christ behind us,&lt;br /&gt;Christ within us, Christ beneath us, Christ above us,&lt;br /&gt;Christ on my right, Christ on my left,&lt;br /&gt;Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,&lt;br /&gt;Christ when I arise,&lt;br /&gt;Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of us,&lt;br /&gt;Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to and of us,&lt;br /&gt;Christ in the eye that sees us,&lt;br /&gt;Christ in the ear that hears us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arise today&lt;br /&gt;In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation of You Blessed Trinity,&lt;br /&gt;Believing in Threeness,&lt;br /&gt;Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour&lt;br /&gt;Of You the Only Creator of creation&lt;br /&gt;With and by the prayer and company of all Your&lt;br /&gt;Elect angels and saints for and with us unceasingly, have mercy on us, Our Only&lt;br /&gt;Holy Lord God Who Created and Redeemed us&lt;br /&gt;Our only Righteousness&lt;br /&gt;Only Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world&lt;br /&gt;Our Only Sacrifice&lt;br /&gt;Our Only Priest King&lt;br /&gt;Our Only Peace from above&lt;br /&gt;Our Only Good Shepherd and Overseer of our souls&lt;br /&gt;Our Only Healer and Miracle Worker&lt;br /&gt;Our Sanctifier&lt;br /&gt;By Your Most Holy Cross Jesus Christ &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; "&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR&lt;br /&gt;Father Son Holy Spirit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-5383366016746251488?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/5383366016746251488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/son-of-god-jesus-christ-our-lord-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/5383366016746251488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/5383366016746251488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/son-of-god-jesus-christ-our-lord-and.html' title='The Son of God Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior'/><author><name>Maritza</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c76zsIVhlys/Se9p6ovZAtI/AAAAAAAAABY/NozXL_5-loE/S220/Sisters.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-1736813105974842339</id><published>2012-01-29T06:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T06:02:00.301-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antichrist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutionality'/><title type='text'>When Constitutionality is a thing of the past</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NARA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Say goodbye to Constitutionality and all rule of law the day the courts rule it illegal by European Dialectical Juridical NONSENSE. Law is to be replaced by legalism according to this plan. The Ecumenical movement is the false theological counterpart of this. The basis for the Ecumenical Movement is Tubingen based dialectical pantheism. The base for the European overthrow of traditional law is the counterpart of Ecumenism, which is existential nihilistic pseudo philosophy. This is nothing other than rejection of God's law in both cases. False government is nothing other than the arm of oppression employed by the false religionists. See the Antichrist by the Rev. Paschal Huchede at:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-1736813105974842339?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/1736813105974842339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/when-constitutionality-is-thing-of-past.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/1736813105974842339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/1736813105974842339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/when-constitutionality-is-thing-of-past.html' title='When Constitutionality is a thing of the past'/><author><name>Maritza</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c76zsIVhlys/Se9p6ovZAtI/AAAAAAAAABY/NozXL_5-loE/S220/Sisters.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-6846950927678514458</id><published>2012-01-28T10:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T10:52:00.368-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PALESTINE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nineteen crime families of Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apartheid'/><title type='text'>PALESTINE - Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://peoplesgeography.com/2008/05/20/nineteen-families-poverty-inequality-and-who-rules-the-roost-in-israel/"&gt;Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Roni Ben Efrat illuminates inequality in today’s Israel in the current edition of &lt;a href="http://www.challenge-mag.com/en/article__211" target="_blank" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Challenge Magazine&lt;/a&gt; (Issue 109). The following is an excerpt in which boldface emphasis is editorial:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Zionists claim that Israel arose in order to provide the Jewish people with a national home. But decade by decade, it has become ever clearer that &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Israel is not a state of, by and for the Jewish people. It is rather a state of, by and for a sprinkling of families, 19 in all, whose income amounts to $70 billion—88% of the national budget.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;This budget is a stumbling block to the poor. All levels of education have been devastated. On the books there is universal health care, but many can’t afford to buy medicines. Israel’s socio-economic inequality, as measured by the UN Development Program’s Gini Index (0.0 = perfect equality), has worsened steadily from 0.222 in 1982 to 0.392 in 2005, making it the &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;most unequal of Western democracies with one exception: the United States&lt;/strong&gt; (Gini = 0.408).&lt;span id="more-4720" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Poverty is no longer confined to the jobless. The government has lowered the unemployment rate, indeed, to 7.6%, but there is a trade-off: &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;working people make up 37% of the nation’s poor.&lt;/strong&gt; The country’s much vaunted economic growth is way off kilter. It is high in high-tech, which supports very few, but scarce in traditional industries and services, where most people work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;This steady impoverishment of the population has not just “happened.” It has happened because of laws and decisions that &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;sold the country’s assets to the 19 families at bargain-basement prices, all in the name of the free market.&lt;/strong&gt; As Weinroth said to Weitz: “Power is no longer a separate entity. Money is power. Money rules all, it flows through every hidden vein of the society.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;But that’s not all. For Marx also taught us that capital has no sense of obligation. When the state gets a bit too small for it, it seeks foreign outlets. The 19 families used the state to get rich, buying up its privatized firms, and now they go cosmopolitan. &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Between 2001 and 2006, foreign investment in Israel grew by a factor of six, but Israeli investments abroad increased by a factor of eight&lt;/strong&gt;. The Adva Center—whose reports are the source for all figures here unless stated otherwise—cites Nohi Dankner, whose family is among the favored 19: “I believe very much in Israel, and I believe greatly in the Israeli economy. Notwithstanding, it is clear that our development must be overseas.” Who is the “our” in “our development”? Not the unemployed, the poor, the people on the dole. What does the “our” care about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or the rockets of Hamas? The “our” are invested elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;For 60 years, the 19 families stayed beneath the camouflage of Zionism, but now it’s launch time. True, in 1993 they tried to bind the Oslo Accords to a narrative about peace called the “New Middle East.” Ten years ago, in an article called “The Hidden Economic Logic of Oslo” (Challenges 51-52)&lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;we explained the Oslo initiative this way: Israel understood that unless it normalized relations with the Arab world, it would not fit into the global economy. But the 19 families no longer need a thriving Israel. Reality faced the Oslo process with difficulties. It isn’t their task to solve them. Their task is to make profits, fast and big.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;… The leadership that sold itself to the 19 families—always the same leadership, whether it goes by the name of Likud or Labor or Kadima—is as deceitful as it is cruel. With one hand it impoverishes its citizens, with the other it squeezes the Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Last June Israel celebrated 40 years of conquest. &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;For two-thirds of its lifetime, it has occupied 3.5 million Palestinians.&lt;/strong&gt; (Gaza must still be included: Israel hems it in by land, sea and air.) Its leaders hesitate to travel abroad, fearing arrest for war crimes. There have been innumerable opportunities to reach a fair peace with the Palestinian people, but there is neither the wisdom nor the largeness of spirit to make the needed concessions. Israel prides itself ad nauseam on the “Zionist vision,” but the moment it glimpses a chance for peace, &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;that vision gives way to spins and gimmicks aimed at maintaining the general fraud.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;The day is not far off, therefore, when the Palestinians will say, “Why, after all, should we part from you? In any case there’s not enough left to build a viable state. Forget about that, just give us our civil rights.” Then the conflict will enter a new phase. The citizens of Israel will be forced to decide: &lt;strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;apartheid or democracy. If the Jewish population opts for apartheid, the leadership will continue to defraud, exploit and impoverish at the service of the millionaires—until catastrophe comes. The only other option would be democracy—a single democracy west of the Jordan, including reconciliation with the Palestinians.&lt;/strong&gt; That would exorcize Mammon, along with his Zionist camouflage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-6846950927678514458?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://peoplesgeography.com/2008/05/20/nineteen-families-poverty-inequality-and-who-rules-the-roost-in-israel/' title='PALESTINE - Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/6846950927678514458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/palestine-nineteen-families-poverty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/6846950927678514458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/6846950927678514458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/palestine-nineteen-families-poverty.html' title='PALESTINE - Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space'/><author><name>Miko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10835536121754696984</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BYh-gZY9R70/SaBq0Aoi9xI/AAAAAAAAAAU/gtINHoUO1hw/S220/scan0001.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-3626856085803415225</id><published>2012-01-27T21:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T13:02:29.772-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jew'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nineteen crime families of Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pharmakeia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drugs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snuff films'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Slave Trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sex'/><title type='text'>Syria: Rense: Jews And White Slavery - and further articles</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;See this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="widget Image" id="Image1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="widget-content"&gt;click on picture &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/p/high-tech-drugs-intelligence-networks.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="98" id="Image1_img" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8F1sw85ULs/Tx-bSQa3TiI/AAAAAAAADy8/F376RgBCiCM/s250/1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; visibility: visible;" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="widget Image" id="Image2" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 30px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="widget-content" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/p/high-tech-drugs-intelligence-networks.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="37" id="Image2_img" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hc83-bm49x0/Tx-grmMHYVI/AAAAAAAADzI/XI2V5_oWhGk/s150/r-PRIVATE-SPIES-large570.jpg%2B-%2BNONE%2Bwebsite.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; visibility: visible;" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="widget-content"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Or go here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/p/high-tech-drugs-intelligence-networks.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Justice of God: High tech, drugs, Intelligence networks and lying politicians.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Zionist Occupied Government of the United States of Amerika is sending massive troops and materiel and money to supply the war of terrorism that Zionist IsraHell conducts on the Middle East, and soon the entire world, to defend the Zionist purveyors of snuff films. That is beyond depraved disgusting and unspeakably vile. In the link on Jew Mafia Snuff Kingpin Marc Dutroux, notice the corruption of Officials and Judges and Government Officials - question, how many in the United States and Canada have they got in their filthy pockets in the same way???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice also how the drug and slave trade are linked.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the explanation is clear that IsraHell is just a crime syndicate run by child murdering paedophiles, see this for 19 families who rule IsraHell: &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://peacepalestinecry.blogspot.com/2012/01/palestine-nineteen-families-poverty.html"&gt;Palestine Cry: PALESTINE - Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Israel is not a state of, by and for the Jewish people. It is rather a state of, by and for a sprinkling of families, 19 in all, whose income amounts to $70 billion—88% of the national budget.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;See rest of 19 families here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://peacepalestinecry.blogspot.com/2012/01/palestine-nineteen-families-poverty.html"&gt;Palestine Cry: PALESTINE - Nineteen families: poverty, inequality and who rules the roost in Israel | Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Most especially see this link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dutroux was a Jewish Mafia kingpin, who was believed to be in charge of Israeli organized crime's child trafficking in western Europe, who also made snuff/porno movies in Belgium. He was known to own at least seven country estates, where he made the movies and then disposed of the bodies.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/marc-dutroux-ran-international_27.html"&gt;Jew Mafia Snuff Kingpin Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #000040;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d2.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;He was protected by Belgian police and politicians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Read rest here:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/marc-dutroux-ran-international_27.html"&gt;Jew Mafia Snuff Kingpin Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Global Reach of the Judeo-Russian Mafia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RusJournal / The Orthodox Medievalist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Its been about 10 years since the Jerusalem Post admitted that the Israeli underworld had been taken over by Russian-Jewish mob bosses. But it remains the case despite official Mossad condemnations, that little has been done to interfere with the drug and slave trade the Russian-Jewish bosses have brought to Israel.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://syrianblogspot.blogspot.com/2011/12/rense-jews-and-white-slavery-and.html" "&gt;Syria: Rense: Jews And White Slavery - and further articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-atrocities-blood-libel.html" "&gt;Jew Watch - Jewish Atrocities - Blood Libel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;Jewish Gangsters Raped, Killed Children As Young As 2 On Film&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;JEWISH CHILD PORN / SNUFF FILM RING DISCOVERED&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Subject: Jew Kiddie Snuff Porn&lt;br /&gt;Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000, 12:24 am&lt;br /&gt;Italian and Russian Police Brake Up Child Snuff Porn Ring&lt;br /&gt;Mon Oct 9 17:39:53 2000&lt;br /&gt;LSN Staff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 305px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg="" width="300"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to the Talmudic En-cyclopedia: 'He who has carnal knowledge of the wife of a Gentile is not liable to the death penalty, for it is written: "thy fellow's wife" rather than the alien's wife; and even the precept that a man "shall cleave unto his wife" which is addressed to the Gentiles does not apply to a Jew, just there is no matrimony for a heathen; and al-though a married Gentile woman is forbidden to the Gentiles, in any case a Jew is exemp-ted.' &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;This does not imply that sexual inter-course between a Jewish man and a Gentile woman is permitted - quite the contrary. But the main punishment is inflicted on the Gentile woman; she must be executed, even if she was raped by the Jew: 'If a Jew has coitus with a Gentile woman, whether she be a child of three or an adult, whether married or unmar-ried, and even if he is a minor aged only nine years and one day - because he had willful coitus with her, she must be killed, as is the case with a beast, because through her a Jew got into trouble. The Jew, however, must be flogged, and if he is a Kohen (member of the priestly tribe) he must receive double the number of lashes, because he has committed a double offense: a Kohen must not have inter-course with a prostitute, and all Gentile wo-men are presumed to be prostitutes.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#e6e6e6" width="300"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Pluto Press, London 1994, page 87&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Rome, Italy -- Italian and Russian police, working together, broke up a ring of Jewish gangsters who had been involved in the manufacture of child rape and snuff pornography.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested after police discovered they had been kidnapping non-Jewish children between the ages of two and five years old from Russian orphanges, raping the children, and then murdering them on film. Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and and unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch little children being raped and murdered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Jewish officials in a major Italian news agency tried to cover the story up, but were circumvented by Italisn news reporters, who broadcasts scenes from the films live at prime time on Italisn television to more than 11 million Italian viewers. Jewish officials then fired the executives responsible, claiming they were spreading "blood libel."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Throughout history, various groups have accused sects of Jews of ritually murdering small children. One such account, that of Hugh of Lincoln, led to the expulsion of all Jews from Britain in the 13th Century. Such accounts have generally been discounted, but are so wide spread that Jewish organizations have developed a name for them -- "blood libel".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;The American group the ADL was founded to defend a Jew, Leo Frank, accused of raping and murdering a five year old girl, Mary Fagan, in his Atlanta pencil factory in 1913. The ADL claims he was innocent. A mob lynched him after the governor commuted his death sentence to life in prison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Though AP and Reuters both ran stories on the episode, US media conglomerates refused to carry the story on television news, again saying the story would prejudice Americans against Jews.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Jewish gangsters in Russia have become increasingly linked to traffic in "white slaves" and prostitutes through Israel, according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post. Israel turns an official blind eye to forced prostitution, and does not punish Israeli citizens who choose to own "sex slaves", as long as the slaves are foreign and non-Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg="" border=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="67" src="http://www.ety.com/HRP/immages/guardlogo.gif" width="524" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;London, Sunday, 01.10.2000&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;http: archive="" article="" html="" uk=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg="" border=""&gt;Special Investigation&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;British link to 'snuff' videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jason Burke in London, Amelia Gentleman in Moscow, Philip Willan in Rome&lt;br /&gt;Observer - Sunday October 1, 2000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Britain is a key link in the biggest ever international investigation into the production and supply of paedophile&lt;b&gt; 'snuff' movies - in which children are murdered on film&lt;/b&gt; - an Observer investigation can reveal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The key suspect in the inquiry, a Russian who was arrested last week in Moscow for distribution of thousands of sadistic child porn videos and pictures&lt;/b&gt;, was traced following the seizure of his products from British paedophiles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dmitri Vladimirovich Kuznetsov, a 30-year-old former car mechanic in Moscow, was identified after British Customs and police traced the origin of violent child porn videos found in the UK back to Russia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last week Italian police seized 3,000 of Kuznetsov's videos on their way to clients in Italy&lt;/b&gt;, sparking an international hunt for paedophiles who have bought his products. &lt;b&gt;The Italian investigators say the material includes footage of children dying during abuse. Prosecutors in Naples are considering charging those who have bought the videos with complicity in murder. They say some may have specifically requested films of killings.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;British authorities yesterday confirmed that scores of Kuznetsov's videos, produced in his small flat in Moscow's rundown Vykhino district, have been found in the UK. They are concerned that 'snuff' movies in which children are killed may have also been imported.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Around a dozen British men have already been arrested and charged with offences alleged to be connected to the Russian tapes. A second Russian child porn ring, which allegedly had a British distributor, was broken up earlier this year. The investigation into the importing of violent Russian child porn which led to the identification and subsequent imprisonment of Kuznetsov started about 15 months ago after Customs seized material coming into the country. Since then there have been dozens of other finds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;'We have seen some very, very nasty stuff involving sadistic abuse of very young children, but actual deaths on film takes it a whole step further. That is very worrying,' said one senior customs officer this weekend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;British paedophiles were paying between £50 and £100 for Kuznetsov's tapes, the officer said. Further fees were paid for access to a website that features pictures of extremely violent abuse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Though two men arrested with Kuznetsov have also been imprisoned by Moscow authorities, only one of the three remains behind bars. Dmitri Ivanov was sentenced to 11 years for actually participating in the abuse that was being filmed. The others were released under an amnesty aimed at clearing Russia's overcrowded prisons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When officers from the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department raided Kuznetsov's flat they found two boys in a makeshift studio. They seized a huge quantity of films and other pornographic material as well as lists of clients in Italy, Germany, America and Britain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last week Italian detectives moved in, following months of inquiries, and arrested eight people. The police searched more than 600 homes and say they now have evidence against about 500 people. Among the suspects were businessmen, public employees and a university student. Several of them were married, with children of their own. Hundreds of people are also under investigation in Germany.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The Russian videos, which had been ordered over the internet, were intercepted when they came into Italy by post, repackaged and then delivered by undercover police officers. They cost between £300 and £4,000, depending on what type of film was ordered.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Covert film of young children naked or undressing was known as a 'SNIPE' video. &lt;b&gt;The most appalling category was code-named 'Necros Pedo' in which children were raped and tortured until they died.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Police in Russia and the UK believe that Kuznetsov and his associates have been in business for more than two years in which time they are believed to have recruited around 100 boys - aged between nine and 15 - to be filmed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;'Most of the children were rounded up from railway stations. A lot of them came from the suburbs, or surrounding regions and were from deprived, problem families,' said Kiril Mazurin, a police spokesman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;'Usually when children like this arrive in the capital, they've got no idea where to go and hang around in the station. It's very easy to entice this kind of teenager - with a promise of a warm bed or a trip to the cinema.'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Many were lured away from orphanages. 'Children are not locked in,' said Mazurin. 'Anyone can come along and promise them a meal at McDonalds. It doesn't take any more than that."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Some children were paid a commission to find other boys willing to be filmed, according to reports in the Russian press, for a fee of between 100 and 300 roubles (£2.50 - £7).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Kuznetsov had given up his job in 1998 to devote himself to the lucrative pornography industry. A self-taught computer expert, he was in the process of upgrading his equipment to allow him to e-mail videos directly to clients when police raided him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Many customers repeatedly ordered videos from him. The Naples newspaper Il Mattino published a transcript of an alleged email exchange between a prospective client and the Russian vendors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Promise me you're not ripping me off,' says the Italian.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Relax, I can assure you this one really dies,' the Russian responds.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'The last time I paid and I didn't get what I wanted.'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'What do you want?'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;'To see them die.'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr width="600" /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg="" border="" width="116"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="60" src="http://www.ety.com/HRP/immages/jpostlogo.gif" width="106" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bg="" border="" width="484"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Friday, May 19 2000 (14 Iyar 5760)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg="" border="" colspan="2" width="600"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Amnesty: Israel failing to deal with white-slave trade&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;By Dan Izenberg and Heidi J. Gleit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;JERUSALEM (May 19) - &lt;b&gt;Israel has failed to take adequate measures against human rights abuses of women who have been brought here and forced to provide sexual services, Amnesty International charged.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"This is so,"&lt;/b&gt; a special Amnesty report on the trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union said, &lt;b&gt;"even though many of them have been subjected to human rights abuses such as enslavement or torture, including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, by traffickers, pimps, or others involved in Israel's sex industry."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Amnesty International also criticized Israel for not providing a procedure to grant asylum to women who have been smuggled into the country often on the basis of false promises of work having nothing to do with sex.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fighting the trade in women and bringing foreign women here to work as prostitutes is a priority for the Israel Police, but it is a very difficult phenomenon to fight, police investigations head Cmdr. Yossi Sedbon said yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;One of the main problems is that there is not a law against selling women&lt;/b&gt;, he explained, adding that he is aware of the initiatives to pass such a law and hopes they are successful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Justice Minister Yossi Beilin told Amnesty International representatives yesterday that Deputy Attorney-General Yehudit Karp is preparing an amendment to the Penal Law which would address the trafficking phenomenon and provide immunity for trafficked women. He predicted that the legislation would be presented to the Knesset at its winter session.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According to Amnesty International, hundreds of women are brought to Israel from the former Soviet Union every year.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;According to Amnesty International, Israel is bound by international law and by international covenants that it has signed to stamp out the sex trafficking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Police are arresting suspects on related charges such as kidnapping, pimping, raping, and assaulting the women, Sedbon said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The other major problem is that the women are scared to file police complaints and testify against the pimps, he said. Since most of them are in the country illegally, they are scared to approach police. Fear of reprisal by the pimps further paralyzes them. Police try to get around this both by promising to protect complainants and by initiating operations to collect evidence against and raid brothels, he said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;An additional complication is that prosecutors need the women who complain to testify in the court cases against the pimps, which can be months after the initial complaint is filed. Since the women are here illegally and there is a chance that the pimps will harm them if they are left to their own devices here, they have often ended up sitting in jail until the trial is completed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sedbon said that they now try to send the women home and bring them back here for the trial.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sedbon declined to comment on the complaints filed against Afula police chief Ch.-Supt. Shlomo Marmelstein and Tel Aviv police chief Cmdr. Shlomo Aharonishky for not acting against the problem, saying he could not comment on specific cases.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sedbon emphasized that the issue is a priority for police and that each police district's serious crimes division is dealing with the problem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Statistics police released earlier this year show an increase in the number of cases opened against pimps: 279 in 1997; 370 in 1998; and 506 in 1999.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sedbon also said that only a minority of the foreign women working here as prostitutes are kidnapped and forced into prostitution.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;_______________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/the_pornography_business.html" "&gt;Jews and the pornography industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pornography, sex slaves, prostitution...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why are these businesses dominated by Jews?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;The US Department of Justice describes &lt;b&gt;Reuben Sturman&lt;/b&gt; as an "&lt;a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/dag/"&gt;international porn-czar&lt;/a&gt;". His son, &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1890911/"&gt;David&lt;/a&gt;, is owner of &lt;i&gt;Sin City Video&lt;/i&gt;, a pornography production company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img height="139" src="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/img/ReubenSturman.JPG" width="96" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Some Jews claim that &lt;b&gt;Hugh Hefner&lt;/b&gt; is also a Jew:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A22115" "&gt;charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A22115&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judicial-inc suspects this, also: &lt;a href="http://judicial-inc.biz/hu.gh_hefner.htm"&gt;judicial-inc.biz/hu.gh_hefner.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img height="145" src="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/img/Hugh-Hefner-small.JPG" width="130" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Most organizations that investigate sex slaves, child pornography, and pedophilia are full of &lt;b&gt;Jews&lt;/b&gt;, so we should assume they are trying to manipulate us and identify witnesses, as I describe in such files as:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• &lt;a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/Pedophile-trick.html"&gt;Pedophile-trick.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• &lt;a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/Hufschmid-11Feb2008.html"&gt;Hufschmid-11Feb2008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="200" src="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/img/James-Randi.JPG" width="158" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;The sex slave trade does affect you!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;The sex slave trade doesn't affect most of us &lt;b&gt;directly&lt;/b&gt; because the victims tend to be orphans, uneducated, stupid, and/or retarded. However, the sex slave trade affects us &lt;b&gt;indirectly&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;Racial problems&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;The sex slave trade transfers young and uneducated (and usually dumb) people to a foreign nation where they are out of place and helpless. Even if they escape, or are released, they are not likely to fit into their new society.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;Blackmailed officials&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;The criminals in the sex slave trade (many or most of these criminals in the US and Europe are Jews) can help their customers get elected to positions in our government and the police agencies, thereby giving those particular criminals the ability to blackmail our government officials and police. They can also help their customers become university chancellors, professors, and military officials, thereby giving them control over those industries, also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img align="RIGHT" height="115" hspace="11" src="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/img/GriggsTiny.JPG" width="119" /&gt;If you think this is a crazy conspiracy theory, listen to &lt;b&gt;Kay Griggs&lt;/b&gt; as she describes how the Zionist Jews look for mentally defective people and promote them to &lt;b&gt;top military positions&lt;/b&gt; so that they have control over the US military. I have excerpts of her video interview at my site; watch the "Desperate Wives" videos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hugequestions.com/"&gt;HugeQuestions.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Have you ever taken a serious look at our sheriffs, government officials, professors, and university chancellors? It's not a coincidence that our leaders seem to be &lt;b&gt;bordering on the mentally ill&lt;/b&gt;. For example, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who released Paris Hilton from jail early, is a promoter of &lt;b&gt;Scientology&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?p=2020"&gt;cultnews.com/?p=2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b "&gt;Some news articles about the sex slave trade&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;If you think this is an insignificant issue, take a look at it:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• San Francisco is a major center for Asian sex slavery&lt;br /&gt;Part 1: &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/06/MNGR1LGUQ41.DTL"&gt;sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/06/MNGR1LGUQ41.DTL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All 4 parts on &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/sextrafficking/"&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• Ghana: Sex Trade Gang is Live And Kicking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200710291766.html"&gt;allafrica.com/stories/200710291766.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Israel seems to have a lot of influence in Ghana:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/ghana2.htm"&gt;The House of Israel Community of Ghana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=727910"&gt;Ghana soccer player waves Israeli flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• British police once again claim to be cracking down on sex life trade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7_pUx89pk0rN69wnnOHZP9-ZBhw"&gt;afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7_pUx89pk0rN69wnnOHZP9-ZBhw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• Chinese and East European gangs join together to create new underworld force&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2697577.ece"&gt;timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2697577.ece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• 19 members of sex slave ring arrested by Dutch police for selling African sex slaves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008944434"&gt;allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008944434&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• African sex slaves refuse to identify the criminals who were selling them in Europe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?id=VFZSUk1rMUVhekk9"&gt;modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?id=VFZSUk1rMUVhekk9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• Nigerian women sold to Denmark were tricked with voodoo into remaining silent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/10/26/voodoo_used_to_intimidate_sex_slaves/5781/"&gt;upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/10/26/voodoo_used_to_intimidate_sex_slaves/5781/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;• Argentina has sex slave problems, also&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DDA85A7A-2067-4D0E-B2E1-6E828084113F.htm"&gt;english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DDA85A7A-2067-4D0E-B2E1-6E828084113F.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why are the pornography and sex slave businesses dominated by Jews?&lt;/b&gt;Jews are a very small proportion of the world's population, but they seem to dominate certain businesses, such as banking, the media, pornography, and other sex-related businesses. Since many of these Jews have shown supporter for Zionism, we ought to consider the possibility that they are part of the Zionist criminal network, and that they are deliberately involved with pornography and sex slaves in order to destroy our societies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="194" src="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/img/Naomi-Wolf.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="22"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Zionist Jews also seem to dominate the &lt;b&gt;feminist&lt;/b&gt; movement. &lt;b&gt;Naomi Wolf&lt;/b&gt; is one of many Jewish feminists.&lt;br /&gt;If you don't know who she is, &lt;a href="http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6517/edition_id/122/format/html/displaystory.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is one article, and &lt;a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/author/naomi_wolf/index.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is her New Year's fantasy.&lt;br /&gt;It's easy to argue that the feminist movement is &lt;b&gt;harming&lt;/b&gt; relationships between men and women, not improving life, as I mention in my "Dumbing Down" articles: &lt;a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/philosophy.html#Dumb"&gt;philosophy.html#Dumb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Many people justify pornography as &lt;b&gt;free speech&lt;/b&gt;, and they claim that Jews have always been a strong supporter of free speech. However, it is easy to argue that the constant sexual titillation of both adults and children is &lt;b&gt;causing problems for human relationships&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;A lot of the people who are attracted to pornography, prostitution, and sex slaves are unhappy and/or psychotic, and they are hoping that sex will bring some pleasure to their miserable, pathetic lives. If you look at the &lt;b&gt;customers&lt;/b&gt;, you will likely assume that these industries don't affect us because they only attract miserable people. However, don't look at the customers. Instead, look at the people controlling the industry, and at the government officials and policemen &lt;b&gt;who are protecting it&lt;/b&gt;. It appears to be a worldwide, Zionist operation. And they seem to be using this industry as another way to find psychotic people to promote into leadership positions.&lt;br /&gt;The same is true with feminism. It attracts a lot of very unhappy, angry, and psychotic women. However, don't look at the women who are attracted to it. Look at the &lt;b&gt;leaders&lt;/b&gt; of the feminist movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Snuff" films&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a news report that claims Jews were arrested for raping and killing Russian orphans: &lt;b&gt;(fixed this link)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.religion.islam/2005-11/msg01495.html"&gt;newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.religion.islam/2005-11/msg01495.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small company named &lt;b&gt;Toetag Pictures&lt;/b&gt; produces videos with such extreme and psychotic violence that they make the Hollywood horror movies look pleasant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.toetagpictures.com/"&gt;toetagpictures.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an interview with Michael Schneider, who helped Fred Vogel and others get Toetag Pictures started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bushmado.com/maggot.html"&gt;bushmado.com/maggot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the people producing these videos may simply be unhappy, psychotic people who enjoy fantasies of torture and murder, but we should consider that the Zionist crime network is encouraging or funding this type of behavior in order to help ruin society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;Below are five articles about the rarely discussed, &lt;br /&gt;Jewish and Israeli involvement in Pornography and Sex Slaves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;See:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/the_pornography_business.html"&gt;Jews and the pornography industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://rhondasnando.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20of%20terror"&gt;WAR OF TERROR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-3626856085803415225?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://syrianblogspot.blogspot.com/2011/12/rense-jews-and-white-slavery-and.html' title='Syria: Rense: Jews And White Slavery - and further articles'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/3626856085803415225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/syria-rense-jews-and-white-slavery-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/3626856085803415225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/3626856085803415225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/syria-rense-jews-and-white-slavery-and.html' title='Syria: Rense: Jews And White Slavery - and further articles'/><author><name>صفيّة Safiyah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11207608154162548969</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ixdPlF-ycCA/Tm0HZ5qNC9I/AAAAAAAAAMo/jl7XzpTH_kg/s220/egypt_lg%2Bflight%2Binto%2BEgypt.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8F1sw85ULs/Tx-bSQa3TiI/AAAAAAAADy8/F376RgBCiCM/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-457539104664943763</id><published>2012-01-27T20:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T22:28:55.161-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jew'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snuff films'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Slave Trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sex'/><title type='text'>Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #000040;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d2.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;He was protected by Belgian police and politicians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Belgium is Israeli Organized Crime's European Headquarters For Human Sex Trafficking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="292" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d13.jpg" width="416" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Belgium has a population of about 10,000,000, of which only 40,000 are Jewish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="358" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d4.jpg" width="277" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"&gt;These Two 8 Year Olds Were Used In A Snuff Video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;350,000 Belgians Protested Governmental Corruption&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="258" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/g2cp9rmcyahk5z.jpg" width="402" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;The government removed a key judge and halted Dutroux's trial.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dutroux Had Seven Houses Throughout Belgium&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="249" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d38.jpg" width="484" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;His ring kidnapped kids all over Europe and brought them to his houses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"&gt;Dutroux's Organization Held Weekend Orgies For Politicians And Police Officials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFEBD7" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d11.jpg" width="353" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Russia's mob is called the Organatzia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;Detroux Was Finally Brought To Trial After 20 Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/0600_proces.jpg" width="475" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Marc Dutroux, a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Duroux Ati Semitism"&gt;Jewish Belgian&lt;/a&gt;, ran a pedophile ring and made porno/snuff movies. In 1986, Dutroux, and his wife Michele, were arrested, sentenced to 13 years in 1989 on five charges of rape, and paroled in 3 years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Police re-arrest him in 1996 for kidnapping, child pornography, murder, and child prostitution. He finally went to trial in 2004.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="27%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="73%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="27%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d12.jpg" width="178" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="73%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who Was Marc Dutroux?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="78%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dutroux was a Jewish Mafia kingpin, who was believed to be in charge of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#White slavery"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;Israeli organized crime's child trafficking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in western Europe, who also made snuff/porno movies in Belgium. He was known to own at least seven country estates, where he made the movies and then disposed of the bodies.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="22%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="202" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d5.jpg" width="135" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="27%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="73%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="31%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="69%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="31%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="151" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d29.jpg" width="253" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="69%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;His Accomplishes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="153" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" height="95" width="100%"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Benjamin Stein ---- The money man who traveled To Tel Aviv and Moscow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Michelle Martin ---&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Wife who traveled through Europe abducting children.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="storytextstyle"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Michel Nihoul ------Nightclub owner who handled police and politicians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Michel Lelievre-----His specialty was drugging and psychologically preparing children&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="58" width="50%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td height="58" width="50%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" width="100%"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="238" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="40" width="33%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Micheal Nihoul"&gt;Nihoul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="40" width="33%"&gt;Martin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="40" width="34%"&gt;Lelievre&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="179" width="33%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d1.jpg" width="169" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="179" width="33%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="170" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/9-4-Michelle-Martin.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="179" width="34%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="177" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/2_6_Michel_Lelievre_headshot.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="19" width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="19" width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" height="19" width="34%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Timeline&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1980:&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Dutroux is arrested on drug trafficking.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1986&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Dutroux and Michelle Martin were arrested for kidnapping and raping five young girls.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1989&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Dutroux is tried and sentenced to three years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1992&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;He is released and buys seven estates.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1993&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Search Villa"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;Police claim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;the searched Dutroux's villa.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1992-1996&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;His wife travels to Israel, and all over Europe. She selected children, and the Russian/Israeli Organatzia (organized crime syndicate) helped her kidnap them and transport them to Belgium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1996&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Sabine Dardenne, 12, and Laetitia Delhez, 14, found alive in basement of house.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1996&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Bodies of four children found at Dutroux's villa.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Dutrox and accomplishes go to trial.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="18%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;2005&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="78%"&gt;Dutroux is suspected in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#20 deaths"&gt;20 other deaths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="86%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="27%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="73%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="43" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#FFEBD7" height="43" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Victims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#000040" width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#000040" width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d34.jpg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="67%"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="188" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="128" valign="top" width="70%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Two 8 Year-Old Girls Starved To Death&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children were&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Sex_Ring"&gt;kidnapped from all over Europe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and brought to the estates, where they were psychologically prepared, and introduced to drugs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td height="147" rowspan="2" width="30%"&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #454545;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Underground Cages&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="128" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d30.jpg" width="171" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="19" width="70%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" height="41" valign="bottom" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #454545;"&gt;Some of the Children Whose Bodies Were Found On Just One Estate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" width="100%"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="26%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="16%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="121" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/mweqarc_d11.jpg" width="111" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="16%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="119" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/an1.jpg" width="93" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="16%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="118" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d6.jpg" width="91" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="16%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="119" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d7.jpg" width="107" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="16%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="119" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d8.jpg" width="94" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="23%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="194" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/maerrc_d7.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="67%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Politicians and police"&gt;Charelio Police&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In September of 1996, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were police officers - were detained and questioned about their possible complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the case.&lt;br /&gt;Belgian state investigators were brought in, and they raided homes of 23 magistrates, politicians and police. Some were entertained at a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Chateau"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;chateau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="33%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="166" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d10.jpg" width="246" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="34%"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="182" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d3.jpg" width="243" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="172" src="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_d35.jpg" width="210" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="67%"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4191590325654016221&amp;amp;postID=457539104664943763" name="MarcDutroux"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;Jean-Marc Connerotte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A judge, and the driving force behind the investigation. He was threatened by the Organatzia, and the Police. Belgium's political influence organs finally pressured the Judiciary to have him removed. He was under 24-hour protection, and he is a marked man who INTERPOL insiders say will be assassinated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="33%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="67%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This Is The Russian/Israeli Organatzia Everyone Fears&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The media tried to portray this as four people that corrupted a few police and politicians. The truth here, is that Belgium is the Organzatzia's western&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Russian Jews Italy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;European headquarters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for drugs and pornography videos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;There were multiple houses, international contacts, and Belgian state police and politicians involved. INTERPOL, and private investigators worldwide, suspected Dutroux of being involved with the disappearances of&amp;nbsp; hundreds of children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4191590325654016221-457539104664943763?l=lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/feeds/457539104664943763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/marc-dutroux-ran-international_27.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/457539104664943763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4191590325654016221/posts/default/457539104664943763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lookupyourredemptionisathand.blogspot.com/2012/01/marc-dutroux-ran-international_27.html' title='Marc Dutroux Ran An International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring'/><author><name>صفيّة Safiyah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11207608154162548969</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ixdPlF-ycCA/Tm0HZ5qNC9I/AAAAAAAAAMo/jl7XzpTH_kg/s220/egypt_lg%2Bflight%2Binto%2BEgypt.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191590325654016221.post-891537412159642019</id><published>2012-01-27T17:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T21:03:19.275-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virgin goddess of black magic'/><title type='text'>The virgin goddess of black magic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The virgin goddess of black magic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The Orthodox Church is correct and Roman Catholicism is wrong about the blessed virgin Mary who is the Theotokos and the mother of Jesus Christ Who is God in the flesh. The virgin Mary is not the immaculate conception, she immaculately conceived by the Holy Spirit the only true God in the flesh Who is Jesus Christ and is therefore the mother of God (not of His divine nature but His human nature which is divinized by His divine nature in the enhypostasia of the communion of idioms or hypostatic union of His two natures of God and of man, in theological terms) for He is One Person – of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity One God. Mary is of course totally loyal to Jesus Christ and has nothing to do with the virgin goddess (Isis and others) of black magic, which was used by the ancient Gnostic apostates as a substitute for the real virgin Mary mother of the God-Man Jesus Christ. He, Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Holy Trinity and therefore is God. Mary is therefore in this sense the mother of God. It is in this sense that she always has been confessed by the Church to be the mother of God. She is not a goddess.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Meet the virgin goddess of black magic -- she is the “immaculate one” (A LIE) who is Satan and false god and temptress and the rehashed pagan mother goddess that the early Gnostics (who claimed they were the knowers of the unknown god) worshipped.See this short excerpt, to illustrate, from:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;"Thunder, Perfect Mind" from the Nag Hammadi Library&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1b5cb0; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="ftp://d.armory.com/pub/user/leavitt/gnosis/thunder.html"&gt;ftp://d.armory.com/pub/user/leavitt/gnosis/thunder.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b5cb0; font-family: Verdana, serif; font-size: 29px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am ... within.I am ...of the natures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the creation of the spirits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am control and the uncontrollable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the union and the dissolution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the abiding and I am the dissolving.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the one below, and they come up to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the judgement and the acquittal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I, I am sinless, and the root of sin derives from me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I am a mute who does not speak, and great is my multitude of words. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;( this is Sarasvati)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The Mother Goddess was the beginning (the mother) of all the gods and goddesses and all sorcery /magic in connection with them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;In India the mother goddess is Durga and takes the form of Kali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The yogis, ajivika or sramana or sadhu, of India, worshipped the fire god Agni (the god called “The Knower” whose tongue is the goddess Kali the goddess of destruction, a hermaphrodite god-goddess) imported from ancient Assyria/Persia, and engaged in the practice of the magical incantations of the kashshaph (sorcery) and nachash (serpent black magic) practices, amongst others, of ancient Mesopotamia, which made their way there through ancient Assyria/Persia as well. This strange fire (Hebrew: esh) with the sorcery and magic and rest of the occult practices listed together therein are condemned by God in Deuteronomy 18:10, 11. The final abomination of this is listed first in Dt:18:10: Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire…. (DRV) That final abomination is human sacrifice by fire sacrifice (as in Agni) to false gods/goddesses in the hope of gaining preternatural power from fallen spirits; the apostate angel, Satan - the devil, is the chief fallen spirit of the rest and who Jesus Christ said was a murderer and a liar from the beginning. Jn:8:44: You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, andthe father thereof. (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Sorcery/magic and astrology began, in the post flood world, in Chaldaea Sumeria Assyro-Babylonian Mesopotamia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;For the Astral (known as Omina) connection to sorcery/magic (Hebrew Ashshaph/Kashshaph) see this excerpt from:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The doctoral dissertation of Lester Ness, Accepted by MiamiUniversity, 1990&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1b5cb0; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss1.html"&gt;http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1b5cb0; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 29px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Chapter One &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Astrology In Mesopotamia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;The Cult Of The Planet-Gods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Having introduced the chief gods, we shall now examine literary evidence demonstrating the cult of the planet-gods. We shall look at the Creation Epic (Enuma Elish) and at a variety of prayers and magical texts. I shall use simple and common definitions for prayer and magic here. In prayer, one makes a request of a god. The magician tries to coerce or even command a god. In practice, however, the distinction may break down. For example, knowing the habits of a god, his likes and dislikes, one might make a request in such a way that it would be unlikely, even impossible to reject. Certainly, there was no clear distinction between prayer and magic in Mesopotamia./35/ It is the modern scholars who have drawn it, and in many cases they have been force to "fudge," coining the term "Gebetsbeschwrungen," or"Prayer-spells"….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Magical ceremonies in Mesopotamia were private, small-scale,versions of the rituals performed publicly in the temples. Magical practitioners of different sorts were usually priests. References to the astral aspects of the various gods are common, although they do not crowd out other aspects./38/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;[end of excerpt]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;This commanding of gods even extended to making them speak (the statues and other images) by occult means. The magicians who engaged in such things generally did it for money. In Jesus Christ's time on earth before His Ascension into heaven (from whence He will come again to judge the quick and the dead), He warned about these fakirs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;From Jesus Christ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Mk:13:22:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;22 For there will rise upfalse Christs and false prophets: and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect. (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Mt:7:15:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;From St. Paul:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times NewRoman'; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times NewRoman'; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Gal:1:8:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;From St. Peter:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;2Pt:1:20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;20 Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;From St. John:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Rv:13:15, 16:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;15 And it was given him (the Antichrist) to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;16 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads: (DRV)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Rather than take the Mark then, the early saints were martyred for their faith. Something that we must not hesitate to do when confronted with that choice. One of the early martyrs was St. Irenaeus of Lyons author of Against Heresies. For the creed of the early church which he recorded for posterity (which is also the original Apostles creed) see:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;For the true Christian confession of faith see:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 21px;"&gt;Eternal Faith and Beliefs Page 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1b5cb0; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/eternal-faith-beliefs/"&gt;http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/eternal-faith-beliefs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; 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"&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5527828918087295949"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;Extracts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;(all are loose translations of a cross-section of this book)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The book: &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Opus Judei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;José María Escriba, Orion Publications, Santa fé Bogotá, &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Columbia&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, 1994, 246pp&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Distributor: Editorial Solar Ltda., Carrera 9a, No.19-59, Of.402, Santa fé &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bogotá&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;D.C.&lt;/st1:state&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Colombia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;This book is in Castellana Spanish. Author using pen name to focus attention on the late José María Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The book contains &lt;b&gt;several hundred &lt;/b&gt;footnoted references &amp;amp; a bibliography of &lt;b&gt;25 &lt;/b&gt;books by 24 authors&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The &lt;u&gt;Prologue &lt;/u&gt;of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;appears also to be by an anonymous person using the name, Alfonso Carlos de Borbón, a member of a Spanish monarchy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;Three Chapter titles &amp;amp; their Subheadings, along with the &lt;u&gt;Prologue&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;Chapter I : The Secret Societies &amp;amp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;A Suspicion Is Confirmed&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;What Is a Secret Society?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The Hidden Secret &amp;amp; the Revealed Mystery&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The Charismatic Leader&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The Community of the Elect: Fellow Travelers &amp;amp; Initiates&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The Ambition of Wealth &amp;amp; Power: Avarice Without Limit&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Reception &amp;amp; Training of Members&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Abuse &amp;amp; Coercion&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Human (Psychological) Damage&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;10 Secret Societies &amp;amp; Religion: Defrauders of God&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;11 A Scandalous Usurpation&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;12 Totalitarianism &amp;amp; Fanaticism&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;13 Sex &amp;amp; Risk (Blackmail?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;14 Judas in Action&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;15 Quitting &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;: Pursuit, Ruination, Civil Death&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;Chapter II : The Hidden Life of Escrivá de Balaguer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;The Lie Without Pity&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Family Environment&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Seminary &amp;amp; Adolescence&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;A Seer With a Great Vision: Divine Revelation&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Infamous Tendencies&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Escriva &amp;amp; Women&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Escriva &amp;amp; the Seven Deadly Sins&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Man With No Name. Delusions of Grandeur&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;Freemasonry&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;10 Death &amp;amp; Resurrection&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;11 Saint &amp;amp; Sign&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;12 The Scandal of a Beatification&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1 2&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Chapter III : The Hidden Judaism of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Problem of Underground Judaism in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Secular Infiltration of Underground Judaism in the Clergy&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Jewish Roots of Escrivá de Balaguer&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Kabalistic Symbolism of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Jewish Ghettos As Model for &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&amp;amp; the Jewish Question&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Finances of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;&amp;amp; International Judaism&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Identity Between the Spirit of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;&amp;amp; the Jewish Soul&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Jesuit Influences in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;10 World Government, &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;New World&lt;/st1:place&gt; Order &amp;amp; &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Prologue (Foreword)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In order to decipher the enigma of the most notorious false movement of our current times and to discover the secret of its surprisingly labyrinthine structure, it has been necessary for me to untangle, as it were, a knot enmeshed in a miswoven fabric. Appearances can be deceiving. Things are not what they seem to be. Ambiguity and confusion are the symptoms of the times in which we live.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Humanum Genus &lt;/i&gt;Leo XIII said (referring to Freemasonry) that to expose it was to conquer it. Let us shine a beam of light on the real &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, exploring its roots, examining its doctrines, and delving into the underground waters that irrigate the structure of this organization embedded in the very marrow of the Catholic Church. This is the objective of this book, to uncover the background and inner workings of an organization that enjoys a personal prelature of its own, approved by the Holy See (which is in the process of elevating its controversial founder to sainthood.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;History generally is narrated either in a superficial or an anecdotal way for any given event, usually not revealing the underlying reality. To gain a meaningful understanding requires a sense of order about background information. It is vital that all shroud of secrecy be removed and that we learn about the forces behind the scenes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;When &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is unmasked, we find the history of a conspiracy where reality and fiction seem to combine into a perfect partnership. The author of this book attempts to probe and reveal generally concealed information about this powerful multinational organization.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is not a scandalous or sensational book. Controversial, perhaps. You may or may not be in agreement with its content. Indifference, neutrality and aloofness will not be possible once the book is read. It begins the work of opening a new and essentially unpublished field of investigation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The reading of this book is a must if one does not wish to remain unaware of a threat to the very salvation of souls. Ignorance cannot exempt from ravaging spiritual consequences.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Alfonso Carlos de Borbón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;A Suspicion Confirmed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 1, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;No cult considers itself to be such.(1) Nevertheless, we are of a mind to make a definitive and categorical statement in connection with&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. It is one of the most powerful and mysterious cults in the history of the 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt; "&gt;th &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;century.(2) Its Raimundo Panikkar, one of the pioneers at the establishment of the initial nucleus and an important member of its founding fathers, and who assisted in writing the documents setting forth the mission of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, says “what begun as a small charismatic group&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2 3&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;slowly changed, by force of circumstances and by the spirit of its founder, into what could be called, in sociological terms, a cult.”(3)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;We live immersed in a process of social crisis that has created a marketplace of strange beliefs. Cults proliferate, expand, infiltrate, mature, and execute their secret purposes, passing like smoke throughout the fabric of society, destroying and annihilating many for the lucrative benefit of a few.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The warning was on the first page. The chapter headings did not leave any allowance for uncertainty. The publication that spread the information was a national one. The headline of the newspaper announced: “Members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are treated by cult deprogramming specialists in a &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Barcelona&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; clinic.”(4) The content of that surprising news story was confirmed: an indeterminate number of young applicants and active members had been treated in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Barcelona&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; during the last few months by specialists in the mental deprogramming of cult members. The clinical treatments were applied at the request of their relatives who tried in this way to correct emotional disorders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The story added that the assisting specialists were provided by the Association for Youth and that the technical equipment was from the Center for Recovery, Re-Orientation and Assistance to Cult Victims (CROAS), both of which are commonly known to be deprogramming organizations that follow a process of informing the cult victims of the true beliefs and actions of the organizations to which they have belonged. The first clinical treatments by deprogrammers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;members and followers were made in November, 1987. Approximately 20 families of members or followers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, from different parts of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, had gone to the Association for Youth, requesting information and assistance in order to “recover their children” or to obtain clinical treatment for them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Officials of the Association of Youth (to conclude the news story) said that the dogmatic attitudes of some of the members and followers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;were similar to those belonging to harmful cults. The secrecy and the recruiting activities, or “apostolic activities,” were, in the opinion o f the Association for Youth, some of the most negative and harmful characteristics of the “personal prelature” of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. The story noted that “at the First International Congress on the Harmful Effects of Cult Activity, held the previous November at Saint Cugat of the Valleys (&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Barcelona&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;), some presumably harmful and negative aspects of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;were examined and discussed.”(5)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The sensation of being labeled as a pernicious sect is soaking into Spanish public opinion to the extent that, in a survey of college students, the statistical results of which were broadcast o Channel1 of Spanish Television on 23 July 1990, during the second presentation of the news show &lt;i&gt;Telediario&lt;/i&gt;, most of the interviewees said that they considered &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;to be a “destructive cult.”(6) Two years earlier, the writer Vázquez Montalbán, in an article titled “The &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;that Never Rests,” also said that “it should be enough that a television news program revealed some of the internal contradictions of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, for example, the necessity that some of its members be deprogrammed as if they were members of cults outside of established Christianity, the news of which has disturbed the Catholic hierarchy.”(7)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Now we can explain better that recommendation from the 1983 pamphlet, &lt;i&gt;Be Safe with Opus Dei, &lt;/i&gt;which referred to the initiatives and precautions that should be taken by North American high schools organizing trips by their students to Spanish universities, and which provided for them, before leaving for Spain, some rules and instructions on what they should eat or the foods from which they should abstain, the places of tourist or cultural interest they should visit, the locales they should avoid to prevent being robbed or attacked . . . but among those recommendations there were none warning them to be cautious of an organization called &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.(8)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ivon Le Vaillant, in his nonfiction book titled &lt;i&gt;The Holy Mafia&lt;/i&gt;, published in México in 1985, tells us that when a celebrated Italian doctor, well-known in international psychoanalytical circles, was informed that the son of one of his patients had joined &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, he revealed that among his patients&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3 4&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;he had several that had obtained permission to leave &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;and that these were all neurotics, commenting that "This is a crime. They were bewitched."(9)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Concerning these people, the picture that this book paints for us is that "when they look straight ahead, with their eyes, you are surprised to notice they are not truly themselves, thaat they seem to live besides themselves, as if deprived of their own personalities. It is as if they were empty in body and soul, mere appendages of an all-absorbing organization: &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;: (&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, the &lt;i&gt;Work of God&lt;/i&gt;).(10) It is the archtypical picture presented by people who are caught in the web of such a cult. The German magazine &lt;i&gt;Der Spiegel &lt;/i&gt;calls it a “mousetrap”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In an in-depth report that was published with the title of “The &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, the True Power in Spain,” in the magazine &lt;i&gt;Tiempo, &lt;/i&gt;a well-established sober journal still published today, and which covers a wide range of general topics, it was said that “there are more and more parents who do not give up, in spite of a lack of legal recourse, in trying to remove their children from what they consider to be a brain washing operation.” The report(11) continued: “In &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Valencia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; there is a psychiatrist that has specialized in deprogramming young people captured by &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;,” for the majority of whose full members the first commandment and daily activity is precisely the recruitment of new proselytes. According to John Roche, Professor of the History of Science in the University of Oxford and who was a member of the &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;for 14 years, “Today they try to capture the children from 8 to 9 years old . . . a dossier is prepared in which, little by little, significant information is recorded; age, studies, tastes, social environment, family environment, attitude toward religion and contacts with people associated with &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. …”(12)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The report(13) concluded that the power of the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; was so secretive that 38% of all Spaniards were convinced that the Institute founded by Monsignor Escrivá de Balaguer was either a cult, a special interest group, an economic mafia, or a political cabal. The editor of &lt;i&gt;Tiempo&lt;/i&gt;, José Oneto, noted in an editorial published in connection with the report, that “The Opus nowadays is so embedded in mystery in our country that we wanted to clarify part of that mystery, the part concerning its hidden power.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The survey taken by OTR and Emopublica is based on 1200 interviews made throughout the whole national territory, and is certainly significant: there are more than enough Spaniards who think that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is an 'economic mafia' or a 'special interest group'. Additionally there are many Spaniards (35%) who are convinced that the fundamental ends of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;are to influence politics as a special interest group or to achieve certain economic ends.(14) With difficulties, with a lot of effort and work, with arduous investigation, one begins to see the light at the end of the shadowy and dark tunnel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;This present book, published after several years of exhaustive dedication to the collection and examination of data and verified sources, could result in the author's untimely death.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;What Is A Sect?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 2, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: -21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Julián García Hernando, in an article published in the magazine of the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Institute&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Applied Sociology&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, points out that there are two possible etymological derivations for the word “sect”. The first can be derived from the Latin &lt;i&gt;sequi&lt;/i&gt;, to continue. In this sense a sect would be a religious movement that follows a leader and accepts his message. the word may also be connected to the root word "secare" or “secedre” – to cut, or to separate. In his case it would mean a group that has separated from a church or from another sect, with an obvious tendency to keep to itself.(15)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4 5&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;From a sociological point of view, and in a wide sense, a sect could be called an ordinary group or people that participates in the same religious practices.(16) A sect, in a global sense, is nothing more than a group of people joined together by the fact that they believe in a certain doctrine and/or leader.(17) In any context, a secret is a group of people united by a particular doctrine, and the word “sect” by itself being rather uninformative, it must for that reason be further qualified as “cults or destructive sects”, “youth movements”, or “pseudo-religious totalitarian movements”.(18)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A sect is a voluntary association of converts, limited only to adults, with sinners excluded; that is, the sect is reserved only for those that follow the law of God after having been converted to it, if we agree with the definition given by Benoit-Lavaud. In the sect, therefore, the faithful ones adhere to the revelations made to a founder. A sect is distinguished from the Church (in the theological sense) in that it recognizes a new revelation, different from the one affirmed in the Sacred Scripture, which must be followed. In addition to this, the sect limits salvation to its own members.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;According to P. Caballero, the elements that characterize modern sects are the following: a sense of security and a sense of certainty. The members of the sect have feeling of belonging to a group that has a monopoly on the truth and salvation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A related factor is that the group considers itself to be self-sufficient. It does not have contacts with other groups and does not seek to convert them and to integrate them into itself. There is no place for ecumenical dialogue, only for proselytism. It shows no charity to anything that is outside the group, and finally ends up by turning itself into a genuine “ghetto”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Another characteristic of a sect is the rigor of its doctrine, both disciplinary and moral. A total primacy is granted to its principles and to its doctrine, and the interpretation of these is superior to the rights of its members. The “sect” always comes first and is identified with the will of God.(19)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The full Spanish Congress of Deputies, after deciding to investigate the groups considered to be sects in Spain, listed the characteristics that justified defining these groups as being negative or anti-social. According to the socialist deputy Carlos Navarrete, the characteristics of a cult are as follows:(20)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 45pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;1 Doctrinal integrity, religious or socio-religious, demagogic, as typical of these organizations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;2 The presence of a charismatic leader who is considered to be an incarnation of God or to be His prophet.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;3 The existence of a vertical and totalitarian theocratic organizational structure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;4 Establishment of limits on the employment of rational criticism to examine the tenets of the sect by virtue of the dogmatic precedence of certain beliefs.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;5 The formation of either enclosed communities or those with great group cohesiveness.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;6 The suppression of individual freedoms, private conversations, communications, etc.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;7 The recourse to specific neurophysioloical manifestations of meditation, spiritual rebirth, enlightenment, etc.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;8 The total rejection of all social organizations and secular institutions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 14pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;9 The recruitment, collection of money, and economic spoliation of their members.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To the characteristics listed above, the journalist Pepe Rodriguez, who has specialized in the study of sects, in his recently printed book on the question titled &lt;i&gt;The Power of the Sects&lt;/i&gt;, corrects and expands upon those already pointed out in his previous work, &lt;i&gt;The Sects: Here and Now, and Slaves of a Messiah&lt;/i&gt;. He adds, among others:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;1 The control of all incoming communications to the members, manipulating it for the convenience of the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5 6&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;2 The use of sophisticated psychological or neurophysiological techniques (disguised under the term of “meditation”) that serve to deaden the will and the reasoning of the followers, causing them to suffer, in many cases, serious psychic disturbances.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;3 A proposal of the total rejection of society and its institutions. Outside of the group, everyone is an enemy (polarization between the good (the sect) and the evil (society). The society is so much garbage and the people that live in it are only of value for the financial contributions that they can make to the sect.(21)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The two primary activities are the recruitment of new followers, accomplished in a surreptitious and illegitimate way, and the collection of money by soliciting for funds on the streets, prize contests, commercial and industrial activities and, in some groups, clearly criminal activities. In the case of the multinational sects, the money collected is sent, for the most part, to the headquarters of each group.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To obtain, under psychological coercion, the surrender of the personal estates of the new followers to the sect or large sums of money for educational programs or audits, the members that work on the fringes of the group have to give everything, or a great part of their wages to the sect. And those that work for companies belonging to the group do not receive wages (the payrolls of the companies owned by the sect are only a legal fiction so that a profit never seems to be made – or the workers return the money they are paid for their work).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;There are two observation upon which Pepe Rodriquez insists and places special emphasis when discussing the characteristics of the sects. On the one hand, the neophyte is isolated from the external world, all the better to depersonalize him; his environment is manipulated; his family ties are severed; his social activities and relationships are subjected to meticulous control; any prior information he may have had about the sect is suppressed and replaced with the sect's own propaganda during orientations; his personal communications are governed by strict rules and censorship; he is taught a language peculiar and characteristic of the sect, which gives to words a meaning different from the common or profane use; he learns secret signs of identification; he is imbued with a feeling of hostility and rejection toward the things of the outside world;(22) and the confiscation of his finances and means of survival, under the pretext of his own “spiritual evolution”, make him have a submissive and humiliating dependence on the sect.(23)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The second aspect that is stressed and underlined by Pepe Rodriguez is the one that refers to the suppression and elimination of the personality, the destruction of individuality by means of deliberate methods and techniques that, when perfectly executed upon the recruit, end up by leading him to believe the paradox that man – taken as an isolate individual – is a fragile and weak being. For this reason, he looks for help in the embrace of the group or community. There he feels strong and powerful when, in fact – and this is the cruel paradox – he has passed to a state in which he is completely vulnerable and manipulable. While the isolated individual acts under rational rules, the community acts under emotion and irrational imperatives.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is, then, a road without return, because "when he has entered into the sectarian community, he will never return to private life." When he was asked the question, “Why do you not belong to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;?” the politician and lawyer, Manual Cantarero del Castillo (from&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;) answered briefly and concisely, “Because I am not willing to join a sect.”(24) In other words, not willing to sell himself.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Already, some years ago, in February of 1984, the journalist Luis Reyes printed an item in the weekly publication, &lt;i&gt;Tiempo&lt;/i&gt;, that slipped by without being widely noticed, in spite of its seriousness. He wrote: “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; is included among the harmful sects, and is also known to the police as &lt;i&gt;The Way&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;6 7&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As compelling testimony we will reproduce the open letter that a father directed to his &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;son. It is like a cry that comes from the depths of his heart:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;My son Pedro:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;I wish that one day you would arrive at the light of the truth and that you would discover the baseness of the sect in which you now are caught, like an impotent fly entangled in the fine meshes of a spider's web. The gigantic spider is the Marquis de Peralta, the web is his work, and the lair where he takes his prey to devour them is the Antichrist's Church. I will enjoy an immense happiness on the day that you are able to escape from the dense nets in which you are now tortured so greatly. In the meanwhile, I will continue praying for you. A hug from your father who suffers and waits . . .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;(25)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;These are the tears of the head of family who fights against a destructive sect that, as such, favors the destruction (destructuralization) of the follower's previous personality and which damages him severely by destroying his family ties.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;The Hidden Secret &amp;amp; the Revealed Mystery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 3, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The &lt;b&gt;1990 &lt;/b&gt;Nobel Prize laureate for literature, Camilo José Cela, stated: “I do not belong to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;because I don't like secret societies.”(26) The secrecy within &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is an obsessive and nightmarish syndrome. Its followers practice hermeticism. As Santiago Aroca wrote: “Another of the myths of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is its secrecy. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;officially refuses to be considered an underground organization.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 28pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;However, Article 193 sanctions: "These Constitutions, the published instructions and those that may be published in the future, as well as other documents, &lt;u&gt;must not be disclosed&lt;/u&gt;. Moreover, without the permission of Father (José María Escrivá), those documents written in Latin must not be translated into vernacular languages."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Article 191 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;proclaims the value of discretion and indicates that the members of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;should keep a wise silence regarding the names of other members and that they will not reveal to anyone that they belong to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.(27)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;One of the most knowledgeable people concerning the inner affairs of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is Alberto Moncada, who belonged to the group for many years, and in which he held important positions and worked on significant projects. He has written various books that tell of “a mania for secrecy and surreptitiousness which is imply unacceptable in a modern society”,(28) and he defines &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;as “an intricate skein of threads”, taking as his own the words of R. S. when he affirmed that “to understand &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is to want to put an end to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;”.(29) In it the conditions imposed by its leaders on those that wish to leave is that they must not tell anyone about their experiences in &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;,(30) but that they only may say that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;hates, by virtue of the profound demands of Christian sincerity, “all hidden power and all pretense”.(31)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;For Ivon Le Vaillant, the most surprising aspect – and the one most often noted by outside observers – is the secret character of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, its nature and its behavior as a “secret society”. For instance, its use of specific watchwords. The Jesuit Jean Beyer explains that “the secrecy involves the members, the property, and the oaths of the organization.”(32)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;There are many maxims in the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;members' handbook, &lt;i&gt;The Way&lt;/i&gt;, that insist upon and reiterate the necessity of the suffocating atmosphere in &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. There are entire chapters dedicated to such topics as “discretion” (tactics) where the principles of secrecy are discussed more or less explicitly. We may read, for example:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;7 8&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;970: It is true that I (José María Escrivá) have called yours discreet apostolate “a silent and clandestine mission” and I do not wish in the least to change this.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Constitutions of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, edited in &lt;b&gt;1947&lt;/b&gt;, also insist on this aspect of discretion. From their Articles we highlight the following:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Article 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;. . . cannot publish magazines and other publications under the name of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, except for the internal use of its members, who will not receive any special payment; they will speak with caution of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;to those that are not members . . .&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Article 190&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;. Belonging to &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;does not require any external show of identity, and a member will conceal from outsiders the number of his associates, and furthermore, we ourselves will never speak of this matter with outsiders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Article 191&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;. . . .A lack of discretion could constitute a serious obstacle for the apostolic work, and also cause some difficulties in the immediate family environment or in the exercise of one's profession. The full members and auxiliary members should be convinced of the necessity of keeping a wise silence about the names of the other members, and must not reveal to anyone their own affiliation with &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, not even with the intention of promoting the Institute, without the local director's special permission. This discretion applies to all the members of the Institute and to the associates that have left it for any reason.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Article 193&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;. These Constitutions, the published instructions, and those that may in the future be published, as well as any other documents, must not be disclosed, or even translated into vernacular languages.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;.It frequently happens that two members living in the same house, or in the same &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;residence, pretend not to know each other when they meet in public. Sometimes members of the same family do not know that another member belongs to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. It may happen that people discover with surprise that a friend, or a co-worker of many years' association has hidden carefully from them his membership. It is not unusual that this experience even happens to bishops who have been surprised to discover that such-and-such a priest belonged to&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.(33)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Lieutenant General Fernando Rodrigo Cifuentes made the following observations when referring to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;: “In my military capacity, I consider any commitments, except for the exalted ones that a soldier has contracted with the Nation, to be in total opposition to his duty, particularly when they undoubtedly are contracted to accept the regulation of a secret association whose purpose is to ensnare and modify the personality.”(35) The writer Evaristo Acevedo commented that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;surrounds its activities with great caution and wariness, almost as if they were official government secrets, “up to the point that I have to ignore my wife, brothers, uncles, cousins and dear friends unless they belong to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. The mystery and suspense that surround the 'Opusites' and the measures they take prevent me from judging with accuracy if its aims are beneficial or harmful.”(37)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;One has to remember that with the sectarian spirit of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, who is and who is not a member is a matter of silence and that only on rare occasions and for their own convenience will their members admit that they belong to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;One could argue that the corporate works of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;do exist and occasionally are acknowledged. This is the only publicity that they make of their activities, but it is significant that activities never appear with the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;name.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the corresponding civil registrations of works under &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, their name never appears, but we do find patrons, real estate brokers, and renowned people from all manner of trade associations or cultural societies. This tactic hinders the government authorities from taxing the corporate works of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;'s secular institutions. Then, not surprisingly, these patrons and real estate brokers commend to&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;the spiritual guidance of these centers.(38)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;8 9&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The University professor of the History of Contemporary Spain, José Cepeda Adán, made the following logical reflection: “I do not understand the mystery and the secrecy that enfolds the deeds of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. If the road is strait and narrow, it will be made clear by the light and it will lead you away from the dangers of a selfish and dark world.”(39)(40)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The inclination for secrecy and surreptitiousness in the sect has led them to adopt passwords and special handshakes of recognition in the image and likeness of Masonry. To some it has seemed a significant fact that among the members of this Work, which has been described as "white Masonry", numerous symbols, countersigns and signs are used. Example: If one is in a meeting and a person that has just arrived says, when being introduced, “Pax”, you might consider that person to be somewhat unstable. What it means is that he belongs to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;and that he displays their "saint and sign", so that, if there is in the group another person belonging to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, he identifies himself by saying: “&lt;i&gt;In aeternum&lt;/i&gt;.”(41) Secret rites. Esoteric practices.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Surely, the adoption of such attitudes is not surprising when one observes the considerable results such practices have produced for Freemasonry. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;copied the technique of secrecy, as a means and system of penetration and control, with the enormous advantage of having the official assistance of priests.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Mexican writer Manuel Magaña in his book, &lt;i&gt;Revelations of the Holy Mafia&lt;/i&gt;, alerts us to the existence of secret meetings of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;members, which occur with more frequency than might be supposed, that have as their object the control of the press, the cinema, radio and TV, so that their plans of political-religious infiltration, of international extension, may be favored with a public image that hides their true purposes. (42)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;An investigator and specialist in topics related to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, the journalist Santiago Aroca, provided more information on the existence of these scheduled secret meetings, when he wrote about “the cryptic internal language of those gathered together, whose high-ranking members and directors refer to themselves by numbers and not by their names when attending the highest level meetings concerning the governance of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei.&lt;/i&gt;” (44)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The scrutiny of this secret society of this secret society has been constant. Daniel Artigues, in his documented book published in France in 1971 entitled &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei in Spain, &lt;/i&gt;wrote on the first page that it was a nearly secret society that aspired, first, to capture the elitists, while simultaneously pursuing concealed ends which were more political than religious, using the good reputation that it enjoys and the pleasure it takes in its own secrecy. He concluded that "this desire for discretion, as the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;call it, or this cult of secrecy, as its opponents describe it, is one of the essential characteristics of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;."(45)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;According to Ivon Le Vaillant, it is impossible to know the exact number of residences or of student's houses. The name of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is not listed in any phone guide, bringing one to the obvious conclusion it does not want to be discovered. By keeping itself under tight control, it brings to mind two observations:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; "&gt;�� &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;reserves to itself its choice of contacts, its adherents, and its spokesmen.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; "&gt;�� &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It retains the possibility of using its houses and residences like 'traps'.(46)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In any case, it is vain to seek for clarification from those responsible for such an enterprise. Jesus Ynfante, author of &lt;i&gt;The Wonderful Adventure of Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, finds in &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;of Escrivá "a terrible distillation system"(47) whose membership is organized in multiple and complicated ways, from wide external networks down to intimate, secret groups operating according to enigmatic methods, with the result that those younger than 18 receive instructions not to say anything to their parents, and to maintain the secret of their involvement with&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;until their parents or guardians have no legal recourse to remove them from it.(48)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;9 10&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Such is the secrecy that reigns in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;that one of its own authorities could write: “I doubt greatly that even one in a thousand of the members knows the Constitutions.”(49) And therefore, it should be added, neither do they 'know' the group to which they belong.(50)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Antonio Pérez,(51) one of the people closest to Escrivá and for some time his personal secretary, reminisced: “Father Josemaria always had a great concern for secrecy. He took it upon himself to apply to these topics the same strategy as that which was used for internal matters, that is to say, that only a few people in the inner circle knew each other and they worked only with those directly responsible, withholding that information from the rest of the members. This took place mainly by controlling the documentation and, more or less, the accessibility to the notes and warnings or &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Rome&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. There was even a secret code for the correspondence, in which each single numeral or combination thereof with vowels had a significance.” María del Carmen Tapia recalled: “The codebook was hidden in a book called &lt;i&gt;San Girolano&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The daily newspaper &lt;i&gt;El Mundo&lt;/i&gt;, in its December 4, 1991 edition, published an interview with the theologian, Hans Küng, who was in Madrid to promote his “Project for an Ethical World”, and who, when asked if &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;had as much power in the Church as it was said to have, responded: “It has a great deal and, apparently the Pope now supports the secret society of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;from top to bottom . . . &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;is worse than a sect: it is a secret and clandestine subversive organization.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;The Charismatic Leader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 4, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The followers of sects are usually the slaves of a messiah, to adhere to the terminology of Pepe Rodriguez, who even used this phrase as a title for one of his books on the sects. According to this author, in a sect we find two doctrinal bodies, perfectly differentiated from each other, but nevertheless intimately bound together. One is the cult of personality and the other is that of a new revelation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The cult of personality consists of an overvaluation of the leader's human qualities, until he is seen as embodying values and abilities that may be characterized as divine. In the sect, Rodriguez continues, a hierarchical range of spiritual maturity is established, whose logic leads to placing the neophytes at the base of a pyramid and the leader of the sect at the peak.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Therefore, a word from a Teacher will have much more value and force the higher is the place in the hierarchy occupied by its speaker. This mechanism gives birth to another fundamental principle: only the leader (the peak of the pyramid) is entitled to the “doctrine of the written personal myth and is to be adored through it.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The doctrine of the personal myth not only deifies the leader's biography, but it also invents a plausible personal history that agrees with his intellectual formation. The objective is to place the leader in such a high position of physical, moral and spiritual qualities that no follower will ever even dream of attaining such a state. The consequence of this, once the leader's position as the perfect one is accepted, causes the cessation of all criticism and the total subjection of the pupil to the will of the “perfect teacher”.(52) In this synoptic summary of the theory of the charismatic leader, exposed by the writer Pepe Rodriguez, he condenses the characteristic typology that is repeated with only minor variant in all the sects.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Another relevant detail that delineates this theory even more is that “leaders of sects make their followers break all contacts with outside society so that they can create and mold a group that will have no other object than to follow and obey them blindly. All sect leaders pretend to have been 'enlightened' by divinity.”(53)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;10 11&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;An ostensible megalomania of the charismatic leader may be seen in all the supposition which form the basis of his all-embracing and absolute authority over his flock.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is curious to note how “at a symbolic level it may be demonstrated that the members of a sect resemble a mother and its leader resembles a father.”(54) This is exactly the title and the nomenclature that the adepts reserve for Escrivá de Balaguer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The cult of the Founder has reached unheard-of-extremes with &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. As Alberto Moncada tells us in his &lt;i&gt;Oral History of Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, the &lt;i&gt;Opusdeistas &lt;/i&gt;see themselves s members of a family in which the Father is the main character. The history of these first fifty years of&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is nothing but the enlarged biography of monsignor Escrivá, of his psychological evolution, of his relationships with his close friends and strangers and of the unconditional obedience of his followers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;This obedience, this devotion to the Father, becomes the reason for living for his children and the key to their religious experiences, and it ultimately overwhelms any other way of understanding the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mission&lt;/st1:place&gt; &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. The cult of the Father's personality, which is the greatest difficulty for psychoanalyst to overcome in deprogramming an &lt;i&gt;Opusdiesta, &lt;/i&gt;was begotten in the spirit of that man (Escrivá) whose faith in his destiny made him say: “&lt;u&gt;I have known seven popes, hundreds of cardinals, and thousands of bishops. But there is only one founder of&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.”(55)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“Father” Escrivá always surrounded himself with his most loyal confidants and most of his appearances took place in group settings, if at all possible, surrounded by young boys and enraptured admirers. The paroxysm of reverence, in relation to the Founder of the sect, is described for us by Luis Carandell(57) when he writes that the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;kneel before the Founder. The Catholic generally only kneels before the Blessed Sacrament. Every morning, in the Roman residence of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, a maiden wearing a white cap entered the presidential office while Escrivá had breakfast and, kneeling, placed on the table a silver tray with the mail. All his children kneel before kissing his hand.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;And here is another item that once more confirms this key feature of his character. Monsignor “tolerated” these manifestations of the veneration professed by his children, but he wanted to institutionalize the custom of kneeling before him so that it could not be thought there was in his acceptance the smallest shade of vanity, arrogance or self-importance. A senior member who, in his time, held positions of great responsibility in &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, told me – Carandell continues – that, in a General Congress of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, which he attended a short time before leaving the organization, the only point that was widely discussed, and the one on which all were in agreement, was that of the obligation that members must kneel before the President General, whoever he might be. This was passed "so that the successor of Father Escrivá would not be humiliated", remembering that the members knelt before the Founder.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“Father” Escrivá, the charismatic leader, was placed on an inaccessible pedestal within the organization, and was mythified while he still lived. Speaking to the members, the insider Carandell gives us a key by revealing that the decisive test(58) to determine if a person belongs to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;or not is to speak to him disparagingly of the “Father”. They react at once. They admit that he is their “father” and that any person would react if ill were spoken of their father.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Pilar Salarrullana, a former senator and former deputy, has written a book, &lt;i&gt;The Sects&lt;/i&gt;, as a living testimony of the terrorist messiahs in&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. It points out that the leader is an essential characteristic of the sects, because he is a messianic, charismatic character, with a great personal charm and a great power of attraction and suggestion – what psychologists call an “expansive paranoiac”; that is, one who makes himself the owner of bodies and minds and, of course, the wallets of his followers. They call themselves, continues Pilar Salarrullana, guru, teacher, prophet, reverend, Swami, shepherd, president, commander, or father.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;11 12&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;For Salarrullana, the “Father” is the one who knows everything, who controls everything and who foresees everything. One cannot doubt his works, neither his writings, neither his commands; he can never be disobeyed. Their own “Father” Escrivá referred to the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;as his “sons and daughters”, and for that reason they had to kneel before him when in his presence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In a lengthy feature published in the women's magazine, Marie Claire, a numeraria (Note: a celibate female member who lives at an&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;residence) who titles her article “The Bitter History of an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;Numeraria”,(59) explains to us that the mythification of the figure of the leader is taken to such extremes of paroxysm that he is endowed with such an exalted state that he has no need to lie or to distort the fact. Another of the characteristics that is manifested in personality of sect members is that they are accustomed to place the writings of the sect's Founder – for an example we have the booklet &lt;i&gt;The Way&lt;/i&gt;, written by the “Father” – on the same level as Sacred Scripture and to interpret the Word of God according to the exegetical whims and the teachings of the leader of the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Consequently, affiliation in &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;requires absolute submission. The Father's rule embraces everything. The children of Escrivá are like treadmill donkeys: one turn, another turn, more turns, tied to the pole that moves the treadmill. they are tied to the Father; they have no power to act, they do not know how to do anything, they cannot think anything that is against the Father's magnetic personality. We can say that they live as if they were drugged.(60) Escrivá de Balaguer is a powerful drug for those that allow themselves to be caught in the strong meshes of his spider's web. So high is the degree of intoxication that you suffer and to which you are subjected that in your thought, in your speech, in your acts, it is not Christ who is there. It is the “Father”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;There is nothing more graphic and representative than the image of the treadmill donkeys, always walking, going in circles, but going nowhere. Father Escrivá urges his "children" to be, in the spiritual realm, just like the treadmill donkeys. And among the partners of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;it is the fashion to have in their houses a statuette of ceramic, straw or wood, that depicts a donkey with a saddle. The presence of the burro in the foyer of a house, or in the reception area of an office, could be an indication that the expert Opus Deiologist should remember when determining if the tenant belongs to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.(61)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Covadonga Carcedo, a former assistant professor from &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Asturias&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, denounced &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;openly, saying: “Opus Dei is a mafia that controls everything. I have become an apostate, thanks to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. I want to inform my fellow citizens of the hypocrisy of those people, all those spiritual daughters of José María Escrivá de Balaguer, a marquis whom they aspire to raise to the altars.”(62)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;When speaking of today's sects, the journalist Pepe Rodriquez also questioned if it would be interesting to study why there are so many Spanish leaders in certain sects with a manifestation of latent homosexuality.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;The Community of the Elect: Adepts and Initiates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 5, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;One of the best studies which has appeared in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; on the topic of the sects is that of Steven Hassan under the title &lt;i&gt;The Techniques of Mental Control Used by Sects and How to Combat Them&lt;/i&gt;. He tells us of the “celestial deceit” in which “God forgives the deceit of the ‘elect’ if by it they gain new ‘spiritual children’,” and that the sects teach their followers to consider the Father to be the representative of God on Earth. The sectarians are inoculated with the idea that by the mere fact of membership, of being part of the group or of the clan, they belong to a special class comprising “the elect”, a community of the privileged, a nucleus of those who have answered a “call”, a circle of the predestined.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;12 13&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The sects, by exploiting religious motivations, stress to the addict the necessity of a personal experience of God and that, consequently, they can justifiably call themselves “the elect”, and they are even inculcated with the belief that they are sacred in comparison to all other people,(63) thus creating in themselves a feeling of superiority that is in reality artificial and vacuous.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Another idea that they transmit to the members of the sect is that of the exclusive and excluding character of their own behavior. This condition of exclusivity betrays itself in the false idea that, by being a member of the sect, you automatically reject those who do not belong to it. From now on you must be concerned only with the interests of the sect and no others.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The most evident illusion is shown in that the sects usually present themselves as the "way to salvation", presenting the most diverse methods of salvation, but all being the same in having a common denominator in the relation of the external world to each sect, which generally holds that the world is evil.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;This feeling of superiority leads to the belief that all the members of the sect will live under the graces of a special divine protection,(64) and this generates that feeling of superiority, that sensation of being one of the elect, a factor that not only contributes to the cohesion of the group, but also changes its morality: those who are not “the elect” are “sinners” and it therefore is just that they be destroyed. There is no pity, neither pardon, for the “sinner”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Another phenomenon that takes place when all of society is made to appear to be hostile is that not only do you isolate the follower, but you also plant in him the seed of the hear, which is conveniently played upon, that he will be punished if the leader orders it.(65)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;the greatest emphasis is placed upon the belief that God, the Absolute, comes to you through the Organization. This idea that your road toward full happiness goes through &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;justifies all the rules that you impose on yourself or that they impose on you.(66) The longings for bliss and eternal life, of immortality, that made Miguel de Unamuno tremble when he felt the agony of his Christianity, are achievable by renouncing everything, if you are convinced that this is the price of their realization.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the opinion of the writer, Evaristo Acevedo, “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;seems to insinuate that only the Spaniards belonging to its organization ‘are with God’. That has the character of a monopoly and exclusivity that does not fit with my religious beliefs.”(67)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;María Angustias Moreno, a member of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;for many years, gives us, with respect to this point, an illuminating and illustrative testimony:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;What does "The Work" say of itself? That it is simple; that it is authentic; that its members are similar to other men; that they are average people amid the world. However, there is more. They ae thoroughly inculcated with the idea that to belong to "The Work" is something wonderful, the best thing in the world, the greatest thing. As a logical consequence of this, the member looks on others as if from a pedestal: he enters into the illumination of the inner mysteries, he is chosen from among thousands to be part of a perfect body; all others are condemned! They continue down below, wrapped in the darkness of err, and exposed to all dangers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;By virtue of the fact of being a member of "The work", he will always have certainty, he himself will give the true doctrine to hose who are unsure, in error, ignorant and poor; simple-minded, because there is nothing else to achieve, one is already endorsed, confirmed and guaranteed by the directors, specially selected people (or so they are thought to be) that possess, by their union with the Father, the gift of infallibility. Because the Father never makes a mistake, and in "The Work" everything is reviewed by the Father: "You must show me everything for review by my head and by my heart", Escrivá repeatedly said to the directors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;(68)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;13 14&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;You cannot even be a good Christian, for &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, if you have some problem, ailment or illness. It does not admit people who fail the meticulous medical examination to which they are subjected. The “club of God” is restricted to the health, as we are told in the bitter history of a numeraria who ran up against this a few days before “whistling” – that is, joining &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;– when they said that she had to take a medical examination. “Why did they have to know my state of health to join &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;? The important thing to them was that you had a vocation, because if they had discovered polyps in my nose, would my vocation become a decision in the hands of the doctor? This young lady has arrhythmias. Forget all that you have been expecting. You cannot join &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. . . . Amusing, isn't it?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The reason for this step is not to become encumbered with a person, seemingly young and healthy, who shortly after joining &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;is discovered to have some type of illness, more or less serious, and has to be taken care of. &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;does not want the prematurely infirm, although two days before the examination she was certain that she had a vocation as strong as a fort. “In my case, they didn't find anything. Even so, they advised me in my (&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;) house not to say anything to the doctor. It was necessary to be discreet.”(69)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the booklet &lt;i&gt;The Way&lt;/i&gt;, written by the charismatic leader himself, contradictory images also appear:(70) two types of man.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The first type bears the resplendent image of the superman, fierce, arrogant, willful, immovable in his devotion to the ideology of his leaders and with an iron scorn for everyone else; a pistolero of God, effective and pitiless, disciplined to the point of absurdity, intolerant, inquring , in search of the Absolute.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The second type is the tender image of the humble servant, a little vulnerable, modest, the least among the least, with a downcast look, as if hunted and pursued, annoyed by the general hostility of life, a masochist on occasion, a hypocrite in others, a little delicate, lukewarm in everything, audacious to a point, but mainly, never rash. He goes in search of a good bed in which to die of love sickness.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The two images are superimposed and mixed to form the prototype of the Man of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, just as he is found in life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The inner circle and general membership of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;show that they have lost, in certain respects, their powers of discernment when they show that they blindly believe that any attacks against &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;are merely “slanders”(71) when they come from other members of the Catholic Church.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;The Love of Wealth &amp;amp; Power: Or, Boundless Avarice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;: Subheading 6, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are a synthesis of the Merchants of God and the Moneychangers of the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Temple&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. Father Pique (France) said that a clan that was able to earn so many millions a year and that could absorb entire companies, when Jesus Christ displayed and preached poverty to the whole world, makes one stop and think. Furthermore, it was founded by a man who aspired to be a Marquis and who was raised to a personal prelature by the contentious Polish Pope,(72) whom we urge now to shine a light on the shadows of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Institute&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Applied Sociology&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; indicated, through their specialized publication, sects do not usually spend too much time on works of charity outside of their own circle, since all their material resources are dedicated to their own ends. What these sectarian groups mainly look tor is “cheap manpower to employ in the service of their own business.” The instructions that a member of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;receives cause him to use his time and his money for the benefit of the association. In &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, if a man gave to the organization all his earnings during his life and could prove that the sect spent less&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;14 15&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;than it received from him, is he entitled to some restitution or even to a pension? The leaders of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;maintain that he is &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt;.(74)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The members and associates (inner circle members) of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are subjected to economic regimentation, especially the numerarios (celibate members who live in OD residences), who usually live in common or, using the terminology of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, in “families” generally composed of eight to ten members, on their own designated floors of the residence, which requires them to surrender their salaries and earnings to the secretary at the end of each month. When one of them needs a suit or a pair of shoes, he must consult with the director who alone can authorize him to make such an extraordinary purchase.(75) Although the director does not decide what sort of suit should be purchased, there is no doubt that his advice weighs decisively in this respect. According to long-time members, there was a time when there was a person who was in charge of guiding the associates in each city when they need to refurbish their wardrobes, directing them to certain businesses that were more or less bound to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;This story, with slight differences, is also told by Alberto Moncada, who confirms that all the earnings of the members are placed in the treasury of the residence and that later they had to request and to ask for necessities, in accordance with their superiors, and always within a scheme of priorities that were imposed upon them. They were not allowed to have individual bank accounts, nor private goods. At the end of the month, they had to surrender to the director, like part of a secret, an account of the expenses that they had made. A. L. M. N., whose&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;identification number was 1,489,253, informs us of the following:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 31pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;From the time you enter "The Work", they make a general accounting of your revenues and expenses. The revenues are usually greater than the expenses, and therefore a surplus exists. But if you leave, you will never get them to return your money to you. You might begin to believe that "The Work" is otherworldly! All the things that you have to your name are to be put in the name of "The Work", because it is necessary to live in "poverty" and God has requested everything from us -- these are the arguments that are used. Your personal property and belongings are placed in the name of a fiduciary. Also, when one makes the transfer, it is required to make a Will in favor of "The Work". When you leave Opus Dei, you might as well forget the Will and all that you surrendered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;(76)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;They justify such an abuse of trust by the idea that when you enter &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;it is spiritually desirable – they insinuate to you – that you sign whatever they put before you without even glancing at it, because &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is of God and has a sacred founder – so they tell you – and that it is a mother to its children and, would a mother ever try to deceive you? You sign what they toss in front of you.(77)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In fact, as they aver, if you are a member of a purely and exclusively secular association, why do they want to control how you spend your income: If it pleases them to cackle about freedom so much, the money that you earn should be yours to save or spend as you wish. But it is not this way: You will never know how much money you have, neither will you be able to use it. They will never give you a receipt for the money that you have surrendered to them.(78)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The magazine &lt;i&gt;Interview &lt;/i&gt;published, for the first time in April of 1988, an exceptionally revealing and very convincing document: the photocopy of the Will of an assistant professor of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei, &lt;/i&gt;Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Pinto, naming &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;as her heir. The Will was made before the notary of Oviedo, José Antonio Caicoya, and it designates, in its second clause, as the sole heir of all her goods, rights and effects, the college known as “The Maples” of Valladolid, with the condition that, when the Will is executed, the spiritual care of this college will be confided to and placed under &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. It is a zealously kept secret that Wills, as well as certificates of sale for undesignated properties, are always to remain under the control of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;15 16&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Covadonga Carcedo, a former assistant professor and active &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;member for several years, and from whom we have previously quoted, decided to apostatize from the Catholic church after many years of doubt and disillusionment over the progress of the sect, and has declared publicly: “Once I overcame the pressures, difficulties and even threats of death, I left. I want to cease my membership in an economic-financial sect, a mafia run by rich demagogues who exploit the simple-minded poor and, starting from now, I want to live under principles of honesty and to forget that world of hypocrisy forever.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The sects are motivated by considerations of pure economic profitability.(79) When an adept takes ill and becomes a chronic expense, and is no longer able to bring in any revenue, he is given a pat on the back and is sent home to his family, to a charitable institution, or thrown out on the street. This is valid for all the destructive sects. Nobody has to convince them of the necessity of amassing fortunes for their god or idea.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The legal abuses of those who serve these organizations are extremely varied. For the exploitation of their followers, they apply the technique of the "voluntary donation". In general, the charismatic leader or "the father" lives in opulence, mansions and palaces, surrounded by luxuries and comforts, but paradoxically, he possesses nothing legally, because the goods and properties he enjoys are nominally owned under the name of a legal entity or by trustees who are in his complete confidence, and the keys to the expense ledgers are carefully guarded. The "fathers" and charismatic leaders in this way avoid any type of civil or criminal responsibility.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The relationship of the leaders to the followers is as gods to slaves. And from that very favorable position, they not only take possession of and control the minds and the souls of their blind followers, but also – and this is the most important thing – they exploit the capacity for work and the earning ability of the members to pay for their own lavish personal goods and expenses.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the Constitutions of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, its strategy, although implicit, is camouflaged. This is the way in which Article l, Number 9, instructs that “ . . .the associates of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;act, either individually or by means of associations that ought to be highly cultural or artistic, charitable, etc. and that these be called auxiliary societies. These societies are, equally, in their activity, subject to the obedience of the hierarchical authority of the Institute.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Or, look at the notorious Article 202 that prays that “…half of the special apostolate of the Institution be devoted to positions of public trust, especially those that include tenured directorships.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Armando Segura Naya, a licenciate in Philosophy and Letters, made the following logical reflection:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 28pt; text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei is an unbelievable association. In the first place, it is inconceivable that "faithful followers" (i.e., mere people of either high or low political and economic categories) do not have the ownership, management or responsibility of their own goods, not even for the free residence. Undoubtedly, the level of incredibility increases with the follower's social level . . . no associate, numerario or oblate administers his own goods, nor does he hold title to the same, which is signed over to the Father. It is inconceivable that they should try to excuse the inconceivable by a "supernatural vision". As is well known, he who is not well in the natural order, is not well in the supernatural either."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;(80)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The justification that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;gives to inquisitive people is that private property is selfish, and is an obstacle that prevents the member from arriving at happiness. For it is absolutely indispensable that its followers donate all their properties to the sect, which will then put them to a good end; and the, wearing an altruistic expression, the sect's leaders avow to be imbued in the spirit of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;which,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;16 17&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;misleadingly, and in a pompous way, they ascribe to God. What we don't know is to which god they refer – the God of the Christians or the calf of gold, the god of Mammon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As is well known, they seek to recruit the best individuals, but they do not make them preachers, priests or missionaries to the infidels, but directors of banks, editors of publications, or cabinet ministers, in their obsession of managing exclusively, if need be, the levers of power. Specialists in the phenomenon of the sects have coined the term, “Multinationals of the Spirit, Inc” for groups similar to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;because, for their spiritual foundations, they display multimillion dollar financial firms,(81) demonstrating that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;hardly lives up to its name. It is not they who specifically control the properties since, whether of the manufacturing or of any other type, control of the management is made through bonds of loyalty (to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;) first and through contractual terms only secondarily. If one possesses the Will of a person, he will also control all their acts and possessions, but avoiding, with such deceit, possible fiscal responsibilities in particular, and juridical responsibilities in general.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A book has recently appeared in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; with the title &lt;i&gt;The Power of the Sects&lt;/i&gt;,(82) in which a tour is made through the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iberian Peninsula&lt;/st1:place&gt;, visiting all these organizations that are established and operating legally. Concerning &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;it provides the following information:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei is a secret to no one. It has always exercised its power and influence through its discreet, faithful servants over those that have risen so high in their careers as to become professionals. Although the time of the technocrats in which men of "The Work" held directly some of the power in the Franco government has already passed into history, today the hidden political activity of Opus Dei continues to be as much or more powerful than in the past.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Their faithful ones control a good part of the Spanish financial structure; they are seated by the hundreds in the key positions of the Administration; they have politicians that they control -- or rather who ought to be called the flunkies of the Work of God -- in many parties, especially in those like the Popular Party and the Democractic Union of Catalonia. It controls, in great measure, the apparatus of the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Vatican&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and the Spanish Episcopal Conference, which is another body not less important for intervening in political processes, etc. In other countries, notably in Latin America, their influence is a bit more modest than in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;If the faithful of "The Work" were simply “good Christians”, just as they prefer to define themselves, their mention in a book on sects would have no point. But the influence that the headquarters of Opus Dei wields over its flock goes far beyond the defined, allowable ideology that is common to all religious or political systems. The trend inside "The Work", and which will not be impeded by any possible exceptions, is to control the psyches of its adepts, under the excuse of ministering to their souls. Dispensing with poetic phraseology: They seek to control the commonplace actions of today for the ends of a hypothetical one further away in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, &lt;i&gt;with its undeniable sense of the practical and the intelligent, is devoted to accumulating temporal power, through its believes, in the here and now, perhaps because, with its intuition for the otherworldly, it foresees that, in the celestial paradise, when it arrives, there will not be any place for its ambitions of dominion, whether these be material or spiritual. The Kingdom of the Work of God, certainly, is of this world.&lt;/i&gt;(83)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;From the pages of a weekly publication of national scope,(84) Fernando Jiménez Loitegui, of Almeria, wrote that he “could not understand why the Spanish authorities did not make an investigation of the behavior of these bankers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;who control banks and safety deposit boxes and who have an uncontrolled influence on society.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;17 18&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The answer to this question, both cynical and infantile, came from an authorized voice of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, Salvador Bernal, author of a laudatory and panegyric book about the life of the Founder of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, entitled &lt;i&gt;Monsignor Escrivá de Balaguer&lt;/i&gt;, published by the official press of the sect, Rialp, in 1986. Bernal's attempted rationalization: “Children don't have anything of their own; everything belongs to their parents . . . and your Father always knows very well how to use your inheritance.”(85)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;The Recruitment &amp;amp; Indoctrination of Members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 7, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Recruitment of new members is one of the first duties for any sect. To achieve that fundamental objective, which from an artistic and creative point of view could be represented by the Goya painting “Saturn Devouring His Children,” these organizations use any means to reach their end, deceit and the lie being the weapons that they use to try to sell their program, in which there is always no connection between the propaganda that they present to the public and the reality that you find once you are inside.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Experts in the subject explain that the lies used in recruiting cover all the possible variants, from explicitly verbalized lies to lies of omission, but all of these are to conceal the identity and purposes of the sect. (86)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Concerning recruitment into one of these pernicious sects, nobody is immune to from the danger, nobody can be sure of not falling into the temptation, nobody can boast of being immune to the fishing nets of these groups, since the necessity to believe in something transcendent is a part of every human being. The socializing tendencies of man have psychological components that, in certain low-spirited moments, can make anyone easy prey for this type of group.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Any person has moments of crisis, of low spirits, of a feeling of being lost. These are precisely those moments, the states of depression accompanying any problem or difficulty of whatever kind or nature, that are the most propitious and suitable times for the adepts of the sect to make their approach. They look for and exploit, among young people, examination times at school, when stress is greater and can cause certain personality imbalances, or cases where the youth is not strongly involved with the family environment or has an inclination to solitude.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The same picture is almost always repeated, the identical scenario is put into action by the sect to enhance the recruitment that began with a trivial, motivational, pleasant conversation that will conclude with an invitation (87) to attend a free conference on such and such a topic, an invitation to a meeting with a group of friends, to go eat or to have dinner where one can speak with more freedom, or for a splendid weekend at a beautiful country house to make a spiritual retreat or to carry out some other pleasing activity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;If you consent to the generous friendly invitation, you will be immersed in a prepared, artificial, illusory and fantastic environment, where you will be shown a world of make-believe and illusion, where you will meet smiling and happy people, in a casual atmosphere of great camaraderie where they will affect to show concern and interest for the new “friend” who accepted their invitation, and they will afford a welcome of great cordiality to you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In a friendly spirit, they will be interested in your problems, your tastes, your concerns, your fears, your questions and doubts. The candidate will be entertained and evaluated. They will express their concerns and their hopes, and some of those present will say that they understand you perfectly,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;18 19&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;because they were this way in the past until they found the way to recovery. All that the incautious candidate says will be registered and recorded in a file that will be opened on the potential member. Later, some director of the sect will make use of this knowledge to show him how to avoid his fears and to achieve his expectations thanks to the discovery of a new spiritual dimension [provided by the sect].&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The recruitment of new followers is always in a personal way, by direct contact, by face-to-face meeting with some member or follower of the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In a valuable report about the psychology used in the recruitment process of certain pernicious sects, made by Dr. John G. Clark and a team of specialists from &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Massachusetts General&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Hospital&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, the methodology that they use to recruit young people is thoroughly described as follows:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Youths who, whatever their natural human ties, are suffering the psychological transformations characteristic of the step to maturity. The members of the sects in charge of winning proselytes frequent libraries, meeting places in the universities, etc.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Persuasion: the future member is invited to attend a course about how to eliminate his problems. During these initial contacts and in the first meetings inside the environment of the sect, the recruiters make the religious community as attractive as possible to the recently arrived recruit. They move him deeply, expressing the greatest interest in his well-being, even treating with him with love and paying a calculated attention to his ideas, longings and hopes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;3. Conversion: trusted members, trained previously for this duty, do not leave the applicant for a single moment, even accompanying him as far as the washroom door.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Indoctrination: one of the consequences of this reeducation is the polarization of the mental activity of the recruit, inducing him to believe that the sect represents all that is good and beneficial that he needs, and that all other associations are pernicious, even perverse, so that either they must be avoided at any cost or must be manipulated to put them at the service of the new member.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;5. While the indoctrination continues, the leaders and spiritual directors lose no occasion to evoke the full spectrum of supernatural punishments that will punish disobedience. Redemption, sanctity and salvation are reserved for the believers and convinced practitioners.(88) In this way, little by little, he is transformed into another man different from the one that he previously was.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As for the reasons why, in the present day, someone would enter a sect, there are several: the human necessity for inter-relational contact may prevail and he desires a shared community life; the desire to experience the transcendent; as a remedy for the troubles that we all suffer; a common belief; the inherent desire for mysticism and religious experience; the desire to find a remedy to our frustrations or help and mutual aids to our needs; the aspiration to a better social position, etc.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the book &lt;i&gt;The Secret World of Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, by Michael Walsh, he explains, in an itemized list, the phenomenon of indoctrination which is at the heart of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.(89) When a person doesn't have zeal to gain converts, it is because his heart doesn't beat. He is dead. And we can apply to him those words of the Scriptures, “now he stinketh, for he is now of four days [dead]” (&lt;i&gt;John 11:39&lt;/i&gt;). Those souls, even though they were in &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, would be dead, rotting, stinking. “And as for me,” the Father (Escriva of Balaguer) says, “I don't associate with cadavers. I bury cadavers.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;19 20&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Recruiting followers is a primary obligation, it is something that is reviewed every week in the group meetings: how well an individual has completed his “fishing” task – the word &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;uses – for new members. “It is the moment of reckoning. How many recruits have you brought?” “Our personal apostolate comes first, to prepare our friends in the work of San Rafael” San Rafael's apostolate is the term that Opus Dei uses for the search for young members (“I don't say” – the Father concludes – “that you cannot find vocations among older people, but that ... it is somewhat difficult.”), explaining that they would “rot” later if they are not recruited while still young. The recruitment of older celibate members is called the apostolate of Saint Michael, and the recruitment of the parents of families is the apostolate of Saint Gabriel. “That you may do well, you are counseled to put the years of your youth under Saint Raphael's protection so that he may guide you, as he did the young Tobias, to a sacred marriage with a girl who is good, beautiful and rich.” (Escriva)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Those that have friends among the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;may be annoyed to know that their friendship is considered as a means of recruiting them as new followers. Once recruited, the friendship is over, according to the procedures of the organization.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Separating children from their families goes along with the creation of an ever greater dependence upon &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. (90)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The following testimony is a personal testimony from a man, now a priest in Catalonia.(91) He said: “They came to us, they came to our house, to our neighborhood. We had chats and talks with other boys that had the same problems that we had. There they found an atmosphere in which they were well received. ‘Even if you are rotting, you may still progress in the spiritual order.’ Some friends they were: they pursued me, they bothered me for several months. And I was not wise that they belonged to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. Suddenly, I realized it. And it was very difficult to escape their pressure, their perseverance, you understand.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“I joined &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;because of all this, as did others. And until later I didn't realize that this was a trap, a snare. It is necessary to be around them a while to realize this. They led me down a path. I was with them. I listened to their talk, etc. Immediately a spiritual director was designated for me, a lay person, who plans your life, that is to say, what you should do from the time you get up until the time you go to bed, what you should do or not do. Every week they wanted a summary of our activities, which was passed on to their superiors. It was not necessary to be responsible for anything. When one had an interior problem, it should be told to the spiritual director who then explained it and provided a solution. He provided a conscience for you. This was comfortable. This has contributed greatly to the success of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. I left when I realized that it was a progressive imprisonment.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In general, public opinion ignores the methods which &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;uses on Spanish youth.(92) Its system of recruitment is similar to those employed by the Eastern religious sects that have proliferated in the West and there are numerous conflicts with parents whose younger children have been recruited by &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, like other sects, is devoted to using the profession of teaching as a favorable activity for the reception of new followers. It uses the educational system and classrooms like laboratories where it begins the selection process and reception of future members. There are many well-founded accusations weighing upon &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;concerning the sectarian manipulation that they exercise on the pupils who attend their educational centers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;There are countless examples of the infiltration of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;into the secondary schools. The best students are the object of unceasing and diverse invitations. Among the bourgeois classes, this method has a certain success. The most valuable students they look for are those who will sustain &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;and all its paraphernalia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;20 21&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Scenes like the following one occur with great frequency. “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;has kidnapped our daughter.” The police of the town of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;San Vicente&lt;/st1:city&gt; (&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Alicante&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;) could not believe their ears when the wife of one of the prominent local merchants went to the town police station, in January of 1988, with so unusual an accusation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The accusations of these parents, good Catholics for the most part, against &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, is mainly that they kidnapped their younger children, brain washed them and destroyed their wills, turning them against their own families, from whom they were prevented from having any contact, while at the same time they were exploited economically.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;What happened to Mr. Mosquera, a chiropodist of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Barcelona&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, is significant.(93) He went to the headquarters of the police on Via Layetana to report the case of his daughter María Pilar. The young girl had left for &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Vienna&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; to study music. While there she worked as an au pair at the home of an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;family. She had been subjected to a real pursuit by members of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;such that, according to her, they followed her around, even as far as where she lived, and they boycotted her school exams as a form of pressure. “A very kind sergeant of the national police assisted me” – Mosquera explains – “and imagine my surprise when, after explaining to him my story, he told me: ‘You don't say! I also have a 19 year-old daughter that almost became crazy as a result of those &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;tactics.’ ”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In Oviedo, the Director of Club Montealegre, one of more than 100 that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;maintains throughout Spain, received a notarized demand through which the parents of a 17 year-old girl who frequented the club demanded of him that he abstain from making any contact with their daughter, at the same time denying the validity of any agreement that the minor might have made, and they noted that they would not provide financial support to the girl if she left them to live with &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. (94) This whole twisted array of tactics is known as “apostolic action,” but more properly and exclusively it ought to be called “proselytism,” (95) and in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;it receives the name of “sacred coercion.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“We don't care about numbers,” Escriva assures us. But it does care, and a great deal, about the numbers of those who request admission into &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;every year. They even break down the figures by &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;residence or city, and they are exhorted vehemently not to stop until they achieve their numerical goals.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;On the topic of the recruitment of the young, Juan de Cozar Martin, of the Sons of the [Immaculate] Conception, in the province of Cádiz, reveals (96) that this religious sect, by means of some very well developed techniques (brain washing, periodic interviews, coercion of conscience) deforms their young recruits in such a way that they lose their primary affection for their families, and are disconnected from their parents and siblings. They depersonalize and convert them by programmed schemes solely for their own purposes, like squeezing a lemon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Eva Jardiel Poncela, the famous Spanish novelist's daughter, tells us of her personal experience: (97) “My first experience with &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, frankly, disgusted me. That is the truth. I could not believe it. I found them to be impossible. I thought of all the people who, like me, would come to a bad moment in their life and who, in a moment of despair, would join &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. I gave thanks to God for not having been born a coward.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The main means of formation in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are the courses and retreats that usually take place at specially prepared houses, located far from the important urban centers. There are houses for numerarios, diocesan clergy, and girls. In these houses, the recruits are sorted by social class and status. In this way, in a course for numerarias, girls from the lower classes will never be present, except as maids to clean the house.(98) In a similar way, at a retreat for businessmen, there will never be working men. There are courses and conferences, retreats, seminars, etc. all arranged by length and psychological intent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;21 22&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Such is the manipulation to which the students are subjected, that there sometimes pops up in the press the news that the officials have been forced to investigate irregularities in the education centers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, based upon accusations of the families of the students.(99) The Department of Teaching of the Government of Catalonia investigated supposed irregularities in the Institute of Professional Formation, the “Center of Studies of the Valleys,” a women's boarding school and property of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, located in San Cugat of the Valleys, a suburb of Barcelona. The investigations were initiated by an accusation presented by the family of the student Gema Saiz Broch.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;According to the student's mother, María Broch, “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;uses its schools to capture minors.” (100) “My daughter's future is to be a maid in the houses of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, which are beautiful and as clean as golden fountains, thanks to this branch of auxiliary numerarios who work for free. If they had not messed up my daughter's mind, why would she want to be a maid when she is only 16 years old?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The center lacked permission to give classes at the house and the investigation has proposed to turn it into a boarding school and among the alternatives that could be adopted are terminating the economic support, closing the retreat center, or canceling the license of academic operation. The priest Don Luis Hernandez, Mayor of the town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, has sent a letter to the President of the [Spanish] Episcopal Conference, Angel Suquía, (101) in which he accuses &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;of “serious violations against the personal freedoms of people in its desire to capturing followers.” He affirms that “the formation that is imparted in the centers under the control of the Prelature [personal prelature granted to Escriva de Balaguer] – that is, &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;– is not professional, but is guided especially to transform them into blind followers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The selection is made from the elementary schoolboys, the high schools, the college students. These have been chosen from the age of thirteen (102) and, starting from this moment, they become the object of a focused effort on the part of the agents of recruitment of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;who spread around them their ever-tightening nets. They are invited to discussion groups, to meetings, to trips. Soon after a spiritual director is assigned to the candidate. Then, around the age of fifteen years, if he is mature and has taken to the molding process well, he will write a letter to “the Father,” requesting to become member of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. This adhesion to “the Father” is a key phenomenon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Susana Crespi Boixador, eighteen years old, was able to leave, as she says, “from that Hell.” Her father, Jaime Crespi, says: “Children don't belong to us forever. But if my daughter is thrown into the river to drown, I will rush to save her. And this is what I experienced with&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. She entered into a descending spiral that destroyed her will.” Now, from Susana Crespi's position of true freedom, when she thinks of the girls that even now are tormented by &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, she is sad and wants to send her friends a message full of love and sincerity, because she affirms categorically (103) that “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is worse than a sect. They recruit you as a young girl before you realize what is going on, and over the course of time you become a robot without the capacity to discern between good and bad. The only ‘good’ thing is what they inculcate in you.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;At the university level, (104) the University of Navarra, a property of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, has become an immense nursery of apostles for them, being the biggest recruitment base that &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;has in the world.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;After the proselytism and the induction come the vows that at the beginning are made for one year and which are renewed every five – the specified period of servitude; the next step is juridical incorporation into &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, what is called the “Fidelity” – that is the culmination of the depersonalization process.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;22 23&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;Abuse &amp;amp; Coercion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 8, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“My daughter is working for free as a kitchen-maid” (105) – the mother assures us. “They make her work from ten in the morning to eleven at night, without stopping, so that she can't even think. I have told the young ladies that the time of the black slaves was over, but their answer is that they work for heaven's sake. But, my daughter, God doesn't need His floors scrubbed for free, it's all for &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Covadonga Carcedo also relates his experience of the severe practices imposed by &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei: &lt;/i&gt;(106) “I arose at six in the morning, kissed the floor exclaiming ‘Serviam,’ and took a shower with cold water. After work, I wore the cilice [studded leather belt worn around the thigh for corporal mortification] for two hours a day and gave all my wages to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, as in all sects, they have a great capacity for brain washing, but the one certain thing is that they are a true cohort of scribes and Pharisees. They preach that there should be no luxuries; however, the rich numerarios are attended by auxiliaries adorned with white coifs during the spiritual retreats. Now, many people believe this, mainly the youths, who do not know that once they enter &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;they will become authentic slaves.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The daily rules that a member who lives in an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;house must observe are very meticulous.(107) A person who was a numerario for most of ten years has assured me that during the first seven years of his service in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, he lived in constant tension and had been unable to fulfill all the designated rules. However, he believed that none of those with whom he had lived or whom he had known in the ranks of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;had ever achieved this.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Another important observation is that all those series of rules are an integral part of the “spirit of the Work.” When getting up, they kiss the floor and they make an offering of all the day's actions to God, but the fruit of that offer is collected by the leaders of the sect. They take a shower with cold water and they have their entire day so filled with activity that they collapse in fatigue and don't have time to think of the miserable state into which they have converted their existence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The coercive dynamic is an essential characteristic of all sectarian structures and we should not be surprised at finding it in groups so seemingly honorable as the familiar &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. (108)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A well-known architect, Miguel Fisac – who was one of the first twelve members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;– a member of the old guard who was a member of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;for years, affirms truly that:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“During the time that I was in &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;they coerced me to ridiculous extremes. So much so that when, finally, I received permission to leave, Alvaro del Portillo (the great guru and successor of Escrivá de Balaguer) asked my forgiveness for those coercions and justified them, saying to me that as I had shown a great generous nature, they had interpreted it as a vocation.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;This ill-termed excess of zeal or “sacred coercion,” in the terminology of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, which is so characteristic of sectarian exploitation, equates a vocation (for example, as a nun, a humanitarian, etc.) with an irrational submission and literal slavery, and it is not justifiable either with earthly arguments or divine allegations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To seek to hide these inexcusable coercions, of whatever type and in whatever group that they are found, with the excuse of a “disinterested progress toward the ideal” is as incredible as to seek to justify the activity of a band of thieves under the mantle of soliciting funds for a humanitarian campaign against selfish materialism and sin.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The torture is not only physical, but also, and in this case most subtly, psychological. As proven by the testimony of María del Pilar Domínguez Martínez, of Tuy (Pontevedra),(109) whose testimony informs us that when she no longer wished to be affiliated with &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, she was escorted by a&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;23 24&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;numeraria and taken to an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;physician so that he might determine that she had no physical problems. Later on the mortifications deformed her body and the interviews and chats acquired a true interrogatory character when she began to show her dissatisfaction. When she announced that she wanted to leave &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, her superior decided to take her to an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;psychiatrist.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In 1965, a Señorita Tapia was called to the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;headquarters in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Rome&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, where they put her virtually under house arrest for eight months. They didn't allow her to communicate with the outside world, neither by telephone, nor by letter. She was informed that anyone who asked for her would be told that she was sick or absent. In three months, her hair turned white. When she asked if she could return with her family to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, they refused permission to her. Tapia had been director of the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;Venezuelan women's section. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;seized her passport and all her personal documents. When leaving, finally, after the nightmare, &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;was forced to admit what had happened.(110) A priest of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;said that they were not sorry for any of these diverse “misdeeds,” and that it was not very likely that she could be saved. In her story in the &lt;i&gt;National Catholic Reporter&lt;/i&gt;, she describes the bad-mannered and insulting treatment that she received at the hands of the Founder. She concluded: “My astonishment is infinite when I hear now that monsignor Escrivá is in the process of being beatified.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The coercion also is produced by the documents that the followers are forced to sign and which prevent them from taking up critical attitudes for fear of reprisals.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The numerarias sleep on a board without a mattress. This is set up at a certain height such that, when it is covered by a quilt, it appears to be a normal bed, just in case somebody from outside &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;happens by and sees it.(110) The Father says that women need to put their bodies on the straight and narrow path and that it is not necessary to give them certain comforts because they are a source of temptation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The numerarias use the cilice [studded leather belt] two hours every day, less on Sundays and designated feast days. The “discipline” is another mortification of the corporal type to which they are subjected: it is a whip of strings that ends in several tips. It is used on Saturdays and only on Saturdays. To use it, they enter the bathroom, lower their underwear to their knees, and whip their buttocks during the whole time that it takes to pray one Salve Regina (Hail Mary). If they don't do it, they must confess this, although it is not considered a sin or a serious shortcoming.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As for the men, Alberto Moncada tells us,(112) the youths are accustomed to take the discipline, once or twice per week, and they wear the cilice very tightly on the thigh for two hours a day, during the hours of study. Once a week they have to sleep on the floor, as in the day of watchfulness when each one has been designated to redouble the observance of his brothers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The cilice is a mortification that is completely necessary, according to what the followers of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;say, although in the opinion of an ex-member of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;(113) “it is an object that produces sleeplessness and unnecessary suffering.” The use of the cilice (a belt with sharp points), as a practice, it is the norm in the sect. On one occasion a young girl was hurt by it and a cut was made in her thigh, (114) and when her mother asked about it she lied to her. Afterwards the mother realized that her 15 year-old daughter's wound had been produced by the cilice. These lies are designated as “secrets of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To understand the voluntary acceptance of the harsh treatments by the pseudo-religious sects it is necessary to note once again the process of depersonalization that they have suffered and the guilt complex that has been instilled into them. The mentality that accepts the physical pain produced by the self-inflicted lesions is the road of spiritual evolution for the atonement of their sins and for the redemption of their faults. The toleration of the abuse and bad treatment that they receive from the Work is due to an irrational fervor. No matter how the cilice is worn, it hurts and it leaves marks, but&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;24 25&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;the quieter the suffering, the better the follower was considered to be. If the walls of the toilet are spotted with blood after applying the weekly discipline, this is accounted to be meritorious and to indicate unequivocally that the mark and the seal of the sect have been impressed on the follower in an indelible way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;Psychological Destruction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 9, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Saralegui writes: (115) “It is because of that sense of authority that the young socios [&lt;i&gt;socio &lt;/i&gt;= male member of full standing?] leave their families, that they are prohibited from telling their parents the true situation of their relationship to the Institution; that their reading materials, their time, and their social relationships are tightly controlled; that they are denied attendance at the theater; and finally the internal effect on them is what a professional would say is an inability to make a serious and calm critical reflection. This display of psychological pressure on hearts and immature minds is never acceptable. There are other features of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;that, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;for anyone at all, are a burden and a cross; this, for me, has been my single cross for many years.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;If &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is of God, as they say, if its ends are good, then why has there been so much damage to so many?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;some become wealthy, but at the expense of much damage to others, through heartless actions, with many people destroyed psychologically.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;is a monstrous phenomenon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The stories follow quite similar patterns, and the accusations are directed with regularity. “I saw that her behavior changed,” said a mother of her daughter who had gone to Lakefield, the &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;prep school&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;in Hampstead, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;London&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. “She was a marvelous daughter and now she has become reserved and introverted.” (116)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The restrictions on the girls seem to be based on the fear that, if they are exposed to family events, the ties of affection would recover rapidly. Attendance at baptisms or weddings is considered especially dangerous. At least two older members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;England&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; have explained that their decision to leave it was because it refused to allow them to be maids of honor at the weddings of their sisters. Visits home are very infrequent and they are strictly regulated: a couple of nights a year is all that is allowed. On one occasion, a father, who was a truck driver, met with his daughter in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;London&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;; she decided unexpectedly to return home with him for a visit. A superior of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;called the house and accused the father of having kidnapped his own daughter.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The relationships of the youths with their families are practically non-existent. &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;foments a clear division between the spiritual family and the natural family. Even at Christmas they try to impress upon the numerarios that they should be with their real family: &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;If centers for deprogramming members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;exist, it is because, previously, someone was programmed. That is obvious. Brain washing, as in the case that occupies us presently, can only be treated by means of an appropriate clinical treatment that returns reason and free will to the person who was subjected to the dictates of the sect. Through the manipulation of the individual's religious sentiments, his psyche is broken and his natural feelings and convictions are altered, as he is dragged toward an abyss of irrationality and fanaticism.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is the effect that is known as “atypical dissociative disorder,”(117) following the name given to it by the American Association of Psychiatry, or “cult conversion syndrome” as Dr. Clark calls it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;25 26&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is a demeaning and immoral fact that, by means of perfectly developed techniques, they abuse the fragility of the human mind, reducing people by fears and coercions of a religious and spiritual nature to states of servility and slavery in their own subconscious minds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Among the methods and means to destroy the will power of the members and to achieve the goals of the sect is an insufficient diet. Weakened subjects are more fragile than healthy and robust ones. It is very normal that sects establish special diets that, by and large, produce malnutrition or that prohibit, for religious reasons, a series of foods that are basic for good nutrition.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Also, sleep should be insufficient. It is necessary that the follower sleeps little and badly and that he is not regenerated by a deep, sound rest. The night vigil, the watch, and wakefulness are recommended. The adept interrupts a sound sleep at inopportune hours for the purpose of making certain prayers or ejaculations that, according to the leaders, are good for the spirit, when what they actually do is undermine his resistance. The bed should be annoying, uncomfortable, and hard. It is necessary to offer this new sacrifice to God so that He will thank us for not sleeping or for sleeping fitfully.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Exhaustive and excessive activity is planned for the individual to fatigue him and to occupy his time. It is necessary to keep him always active, even if the activities are useless, such as carrying out domestic tasks of all kinds, recruiting and proselytizing, taking professional development courses, religious practices, the penitential belts, studying, the cilices, seminars, and discussion groups. It is necessary to keep up a frantic rhythm without stopping, so that there is no time to think. It is necessary to create a sensation of anguish that he cannot finish his daily tasks and duties, and to make him feel annoyed and guilty, useless, not very holy, because sanctity is achieved only when he is able to do impossible things, when the unreachable goal is surpassed. With such stressful and exhausting activity, with little time for rest and a frugal and inadequate diet, the body deteriorates and the personality degrades.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;All information that is received should come only from the Sect. The adept's communication with the exterior world is interdicted, all his movements, his hobbies, his feelings, his ideas, preferably should be supervised.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The senses are attacked by blocking them. The attack on the senses is made under the pretext that they permanently and constantly lead to sin. It is necessary to mortify the senses, subduing them, although this causes psychometric atrophy and serious organic alterations. To repress the senses it will always be necessary to embrace the sword of Damocles of punishment and penance for nonexistent, imagined, artificial sins, paranoias, but which are effective for producing a feeling of misery and interior guilt in the human person that causes him vital anguishes, polarizing and dissociating his personality. It is the sect that establishes the rules of what is pure or impure, what is preferred and what is abominable, what is right and what is unjust, and the other members exert so much pressure on transgressors that everything is generally well ordered, and deviations are punished selectively for their exemplary value by humiliations, the scorn of the other members, and the silent treatment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Nervous exhaustion and terror; here are two keys that sap the rational capacity and push the emotions to unheard-of extremes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Regressive behavioral tendencies and infantilism are betrayed by the peculiar and simplified language, with its ambiguities and shades of meaning, that is used inside the sect. Infantile words are used by adolescents and mature members alike.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;When everyone is properly “dosed,” a “group drug dependency” is realized, and affection for the sect is unhindered. And, what is worse, the adept has been totally and absolutely destroyed and reduced to the status of a tool, an effective instrument of obedience and blind faith for the designs that the Father imposes on him, accepting every one of his whims or caprices as unquestionable truths, as&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;26 27&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;dogmas, and ends up by drowning in the belief that his will and that of the sect are one, and that the fanatics are the other ones, the rest of humanity. The cohesion consolidates the adepts, crowding them around the Father, and making them treat as serious slanders any criticism that comes from outside the sect. This also prevents them from making any sort of criticisms of the Father or of the behavior of the leaders of the sect. They are the slaves of our time, right here on the threshold of the 21st century. Programmed and directed robots.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To this, we may add the confiscation of the adept's personal wealth so that he is left insolvent and unable to survive on his own except for one remedy: a steely dependence upon the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Once the adept's individuality is suppressed, the objective of depersonalization has been achieved.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The important thing is not sometimes what he believes, but that he just believes. (118)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;They are like flies caught in a plate of honey. (119)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To be chained to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is to lose all of your volitional, spiritual, and intellectual abilities and to become a robot, a marionette, at the service of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;and of the Father. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is a comedy of hypocrisy. Miguel Fisac recognized (120) that the only thing that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;provided him was to suffer an “authentic spiritual martyrdom up to the time I left” and that “it has been only after my exit from &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;that I have carried out any work of major significance.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Deprogramming the followers is a task of slow re-education. It is necessary to snap them out of their conditioning to begin a recovery phase and to readjust them so that they make contact with reality again and extirpate the hallucinations with which they has been imbued by &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Secret Societies Defraud God: Subheading 10, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Church has suffered from the problem of sects from its beginnings.(121) &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Saint Paul&lt;/st1:city&gt; already met with a similar problem in one of the communities that he had founded, that of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Corinth&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. Four or five years after having established it in the Faith by means of his preaching, he condemned the existence of “divisions” and factions, that is to say, of sectarian tendencies, that he recriminated and flayed pungently.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;We must not forget that the religious spirit is consubstantial with being human and one of the identifying signs that separates man from the animals. Nevertheless, there is a danger of the speculating with sacred things, with beliefs, with the Faith.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Religious sentiment is never able to turn itself into a means of defrauding men, yet the “religion” has been able to be seen, as in the case of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, as “the type of business that any manager dreams about: he sells goods that cost him nothing to produce or ship, which are always adaptible to any new markets, the manpower of the sect's members are a sales force that works for free, and their are no costs of capitalization. It's Heaven on Earth!” (122)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;We cannot forget that collecting money is the great religious objective, the spiritual goal, the mystic end of this type of sect. Their “marketing strategy” makes the follower believe that money corrupts and is something dirty that should be taken away from others (for their own good) and dedicated to the service of God and His work, that is to say, to the sect. The same money that is a source of perdition source for the ones outside the sect is a source of sanctification for the Work, which transforms the accumulation of money into a sacramental activity; for this reason the member has to make money and to give it to the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;They exploit the supernatural, the transcendent, the religious, and the sacred, convincing the members that they are being sanctified through the profane, daily, professional work by which they are&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;27 28&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;able to earn their means of subsistence and to amass fortunes which, however, don't remain in their hands, but instead go to &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. Appealing to the anticipated heavenly glory and to the most sensitive feelings of the human being, the sect is divinized to the extent that it takes for its name the supreme denomination, nothing more nor less than the “Work of God.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A Scandalous Usurpation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;: Subheading 11, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The name &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;implies, in its second noun, “of God,” a genitive case word, so that it is necessary to translate “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;” as “the Work of God,” that is, work produced or done for the sake of God. The Founder and the sect's members interpret it this way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As Moses met with God to learn His will, Escrivá heard in his heart, on October 2, &lt;b&gt;1928 &lt;/b&gt;the desire of God that he found “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.” Its basic concepts, its organization, its interior life, its ends, in everything but the minor details, it corresponds, in the same way, to the will of God: it is divine. It is not merely the product of human effort or of rational thought, but it is something singular and supernatural.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Moses heard the voice of God that communicated to him His commandments, clearly defined. Escrivá received something more, however, a kind of general power of authority. All that his mind conceives has the divine guarantee, that it is undoubtedly for the sake of God Himself.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Thus, we are assured that any hostile act toward his work means a confrontation with God. Never in the history of the Church, neither from Pope, saint, nor heretic, have such pretenses been asserted.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;We may say, in passing, that it seems only natural that in these circumstances of the semi-divine, Escriva should demand that you remain on your knees in his presence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In our world it was Jesus Christ Himself who said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” (&lt;b&gt;John 14:6&lt;/b&gt;). Now we are presented with a Jew who says, in effect, the same thing of his own wretched self, impudently copying and usurping the venerable figure of Christ, as if through his pretensions he were the way, the truth and the life. He says it and his followers believe it of him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Is it necessary to imagine a worse blasphemy or – in other words – a more impertinent deceit?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Is this not, also, a sample of the ferocious and eternal fight of Judaism against Christ's Church?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;And it is, in fact, toward the young that they direct their efforts because they know that youth has religious longings, a sense of altruism, and spiritual desires. They have a wide-open field to exploit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is in this theological laboratory, this distillation plant of religious fervor, in which the desire for the transcendent swells, that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;finds its philosopher's stone, transforming the thriving longings, and generating some “complicated and altogether morbid” relationships among its members. (123)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The popular imagination has circulated a joke that compares the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;to flying saucers: “Do you know what they call those who belong to &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;?” “No.” “They are called UROs: Unidentified Religious Objects.” (124)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Dr. Alfonso Alvarez Vilar, professor at Madrid University and head of the department of the Institute of Public Opinion, an expert in psychiatry, offers the following explanation for &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei: &lt;/i&gt;(125) “On an unconscious level, we have all had at some time in our lives the desire to ‘immerse’ ourselves in a powerful organization that makes certain things easier for us, that encourages us culturally and professionally and defends us against that Spanish envy that transforms Celtiberia into a fight of all against all. But, later, doubts arise and, above all else, we wonder if, after all, we gave up part of our freedom in exchange for this protection. I have spoken on many occasions about false religions. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, without a doubt, is a false religious organization, although, clearly, they affirm&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;28 29&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;emphatically their orthodoxy. Their very name also links them to those underground sects since, as we know, &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;means &lt;i&gt;the Work of God&lt;/i&gt;; it is worth repeating that the members of this organization are considered to be the representatives of God on Earth, as the Brothers of Perfection were known in Languedoc before and after the crusades of Simón de Montfort. &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;concentrates, in itself, all the forces of man's eternal dimension that may be defined by the term &lt;b&gt;illuminism&lt;/b&gt;, except that in this case the illuminism has been derived from one of the two forms that I noted: that of clandestine propagation. And here it is necessary to point out that a merely religious group has become a powerful pressure group on the political, social, and economic planes. But this is not the pure internal dialectic: the covert illuminism has to bring about what I have called ‘the myth of the paradise.’ Their model can be, for example, the New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse.” The journalist Mario Rodriguez &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Aragon&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; has written that “in Torreciudad a cryptocult intends to settle down with the concurrence of the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Vatican&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is symptomatic to see how these sects thrive in Christian environments and how they never devote themselves to the conversion of unbelievers or infidels. They are like a climbing vine twisted around a tree.(126) By themselves they proliferate in Christian environments to the extent that the Christian sentiment is ingrained in a specific community or society, but the actual tendencies of these sects is, in reality, an antithesis to the Christian spirit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;You cannot serve two masters at the same time and it is not possible to pretend that the ideals of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are compatible with the Gospels. Lucy Jones wrote that “As a Catholic I hate &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;for the simple reason that I find it to be a prostitution of Christianity and a focal point for scandals.” (127)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The writer Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui, a member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, observes that “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, to the simple-minded souls of our consumer society, promises them not only the salvation of their souls, but what is more attractive and immediate, the salvation of the body in the form of economic advantages, good jobs, sinecures, and substantial earnings. How delightful! The insatiability of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;for money makes one tremble.” (128)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Bryan Wilson, in his book &lt;i&gt;The Sociology of Sects&lt;/i&gt;, in the chapter “Religion in a Sociological Perspective,” published in 1982 by the University of Oxford Press, analyzes a type of sect that presents the following characteristics.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Exclusivity&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Maintains that it has a complete monopoly on religious truth&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Is non-clerical, although it may develop a group of professional organizers&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;4 Denial of any special religious virtue to anyone except, perhaps, their&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;own founders and their leaders&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;5 Volunteerism – the individual chooses to be a member&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;6 Concern about maintaining the rules, punishing the incompetent and the&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;disobedient&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;7 A demand for total loyalty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In most of the categories described above, &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;fits well. It is exclusive (129) (1) on several levels, in their selective recruitment and in the secrecy that surrounds them. It is uncertain that maintain that they have a monopoly on religious truth (2), but their members are totally convinced that the interpretation of the Catholic faith to which they adhere is the only orthodox version, as it confirms the exhortation of Escrivá de Balaguer to his faithful ones after Vatican II. It is a lay organization, and that is one of their proudest boasts (3), although technically it is without a doubt a prelature and is dominated by the Clergy. It is also one of their characteristics that they are almost entirely dependent on their founder's writings. Therefore, they fit well with characteristic (4) just as Dr. Wilson describes&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;29 30&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;it. The recruitment procedures, the internal discipline of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;and the total commitment demanded of its members coincide with points (5) and (7). [NOTE: Point (6) was illustrated by the discussions in Subheading 9 of Chapter I]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;For the members of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei, &lt;/i&gt;their “salvation” is guaranteed by the Padre/founder when he promises to his followers: “When the years have passed, you won't believe what you have lived. You will find that you can't believe it. How many good and great and wonderful things you will see! You will be saved if you will be faithful, although you will sometimes have to suffer. Also, I PROMISE YOU HEAVEN.” (130)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;According to the teachings of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei, &lt;/i&gt;the Church can err; but the Father, never.(131)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Subheading 12, Chapter I: not yet translated, as of this writing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Danger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 13, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The sexual problem in &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, as in other organizations of celibates, is converted into a mechanism of authoritarian manipulation, a formula of self-contempt,(147) and a source of countless pangs of conscience by which they maintain their hold on many people for a long time in a self-destructive dialectic.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;As the psychiatrist Alvarez Vilar diagnoses it, the same emphasis on chastity that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;supports is a measure of its desire to expand. When the libido is controlled, its kinetic energy passes to other functions of the psyche.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The consequences of the danger that it is the subject of their preaching are usually neuroses. The sexual repression engenders in the member a permanent state of guilt between temptation and prohibition, between the power of desire and what &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;abominates, between his instinct and the notion if sin, so that it gags him. Everything is done to mold obedient and submissive people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;All the psychoanalytical theories, much in vogue at the moment, recognize that repression and sexual inhibition, which in the language of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are termed “sacrificing the selfishness of the flesh,” are the basis of their authoritarian and overbearing attitude.(148) Sexuality and the capacity to love naturally have been, in this way – a psychologist would say – sublimated in a dangerous way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;discrimination is exercised by reason of gender, and the women suffer the consequences for the worst part, since the numerarias and auxiliaries are valued less than their male counterparts and are much more frequently relegated to roles of domestic service.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A. G. C.,(149) a numeraria of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;for 15 years, relates her experience: “I entered &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;when I was 17 years old, but at no moment did I end up saying ‘Opus is for me’. The only thing that they sell you is the idea of sanctification in the world. The rest you discover later ...”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The women housekeepers in the men's houses have to maintain a proper decorum. The men's houses and women's houses are adjacent to each other, but separated by two doors with two keys that are kept, respectively, by the director of the men and the directress of the women. The director of the males usually calls on an intercom to the head housekeeper the first thing in the morning to tell her “we have so many meals to prepare today.” During two hours, in the mornings, the men cannot enter their rooms in order to avoid encountering the cleaning women. Neither may they speak with the domestics that serve them at table.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;30 31&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The difference between the lives led by the men and the women of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is definitive. While the men enjoy freedom to practice their professions, within guidelines, the women are totally tied to their directress. They cannot spend one night in their parents' house, except that they have special permission. Some permits to do this are only granted when the parents live in a population center where &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;does not have a house.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The women have to sleep on boards to “put their body on the straight and narrow path” as already mentioned. Also, they cannot travel alone at night and in most &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;establishments they must request permission to go to the hairdresser or to buy clothes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;When out in public, they “guard their eyes” to avoid temptations from the glances that men give to them. They keep their hands in their pockets, clutching a crucifix tightly when temptations occur.(150) If the temptation is very great, instead of gripping the crucifix tightly, it is possible to speak of crushing it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Dr. Mynareck accuses these sectarian groups and condemns them for repressing sexuality given that there is a direct relationship between the level of mental damage in the group and the neurotics who promote the repression. The greatest repressors are usually those who are the most repressed themselves, with problems, sexual hang-ups and certain morbid conditions of their sexually pathological state. The danger of repression and culpability create enfeebled beings fluctuating between schizophrenia and the impenitent sinner's complex.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Subheading 14, Chapter I: not yet translated, as of this writing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;Quitting Opus Dei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 15, Chapter I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The biblical curse, uttered by the Father, falls upon any members who leave the sect. Escrivá pronounced sentence, thus: “One who leaves &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;abandons ship and goes into the darkness.” (166)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The dissidents of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are pursued, calumniated, and isolated so that they cannot prove what they have seen, or, if they prove it in spite of everything, nobody will pay attention to them.(167) The media, largely managed by or dependent upon banks entangled with &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;or who fear the influence of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, have paid almost no attention to their testimonies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, Alberto Moncada says, employs its best resources to retain the rebel. It is also the moment to open the box of threats and to suggest that such a lack of perseverance can lead to eternal damnation,(168) threatening the dissident's accomplices or even neutral parties with the idea that they are committing a serious sin.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Leaving &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is a curious phenomenon because, suddenly, you see how little you are cared about by some people who have been witnesses for years of your greatest exertions. You are a file that has been sent to the archive. You are finished. And the fewer signs of life that you show, the better, because you are a burning reminder of their failure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In every way, the divine anger has a genuine avenue of expression in the persecution which many sects employ against their former members. There are already many published accusations, endorsed by the credibility and/or proofs of their authors, that place &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;and its top men at the head of campaigns of persecution against their ex-affiliates of a certain importance.(169) In this way, from the infinite number of positions that the obedient men of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;control in society at large, they can ruin the lives and professional careers of some of the fugitives from The Work who have shown an&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;31 32&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;excessive loquacity. Anyone who investigates the fringes of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;always finds a constant characteristic: a fear to speak out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;María Angustias Moreno has written that to leave &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is not easy.(170) If you leave, you become a member of the group of those who are absolutely excluded from further contact with &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;. You become worthless. Overnight, all your relationships are finished, all personal attachments left behind. The same ones who said that they loved you so much that they were willing to give their lives for you, now say that you took advantage of the best opportunities they gave you, and they ignore you, they forget you completely. They no longer care what you need, they do not care how you will live your life. You count for nothing, they don't want to know any more about you, they would prefer that you don't even meet them in the street. It is a palpable demonstration of how little they care for the individual person!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The same ones who, some time before, had been involved – interestingly – with you because of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, later ignore you and they avoid you because you are no longer in it. “Those that leave are as if they had died.”(171)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;For those of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, leaving The Work is a desertion without extenuating circumstances, a betrayal. It is an agreement and a pact with a diabolic temptation, concerning which it is logical to deduce that those who leave go to the abyss and are lost without hope of recovery. Their efforts serve to no avail. I believe – María Angustias continues – that somehow it is deliberate policy that those who leave are obliged to be condemned.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Simply, to leave &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is to lose sanctity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;According to another numeraria, they pressed upon her the following advice to try to remove from her head the idea of leaving: “One who leaves The Work betrays and sells Jesus,” “Nobody that has left &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;has been happy,” and “You will go to Hell.”(172)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;People find it difficult to leave. A Colombian Jesuit even informs us of suicides.(173) And John Roche also says that he knows in a direct way of a suicide in the &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Kenya&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, and that he has heard of two suicides of women in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;London&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, one of whom jumped from the fourth floor of an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;house.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“When you leave, you are transformed into a non-person, and no member is allowed to help you,” says María del Carmen Tapia. “When a person leaves &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, he is thrown out on the street, financially, spiritually and psychologically.” (174)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The father of Susana Crespi hugged his daughter and kissed her on the forehead. “I am at peace, now that you are free,” he reflected. “I am, Papa, but they are not,” the girl answered him, referring to those who remained even then in the darkness of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, in the blindness of the sect. The father added: (175) “We, fortunately, have recovered Susana, but we feel the necessity to explain that it is the people inside &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;that make it so difficult to leave the organization. My daughter was hounded for months after she returned. And the reality is that in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;there are three categories of members: the masters, the waiters, and the dogs.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;During their stay in &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, the members are instilled with fear and guilt for their own spiritual survival in the bleakness of the world. The sect’s purpose in this is to remove from the members the temptation to abandon the closed quarters of the organization, the enclosed precincts of the sect. For that reason they are made to depend economically upon the members of the group, placing themselves in personal indigence, to avoid the temptation to return to normality.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;For many followers, it is also necessary that they discard their own fear, inspired by the sect itself, of even thinking about leaving.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In The Work you are assured that everybody who leaves does so to pursue some pious practice – what they call “norms of the plan of life” – or because they have become tangled up in personal, selfish&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;32 33&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;problems. Other causes that they also adduce are insincerity, lust, or arrogance. With these arguments they calm and mollify those who remain inside, so that they do not fall into the weakness of leaving.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To Covi Carcedo G. Roces when he left &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;they said “You will disappear,” and “We will water the streets of Oviedo with your blood,” but it was revealed to be all bluff, having none of the courage that is born of honesty and of truth, but only the cowardice that is born of a fear of jeopardizing their profitable positions. Upon leaving, he sued &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;for financial restitution. (176)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;They try to instill fear from within, MRS explains: “They repeat to you that you condemned yourself, that they are the true path, and that the other ones are traitors.” (177) “These are the classic arguments of moral blackmail.” (178)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In general, those that do leave are traumatized by the experience.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Some examples are provided to us by Alberto Moncada. Miguel Fisac, the well-known architect who joined &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;when it was first organized, left it because of the moral conflicts that they tried to raise when he married Ana María Badell, and today he doesn't care to know anything at all about the Work of God, nor of its leaders. Antonio Pérez, a rising star of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, suffered one of the most tenacious persecutions when he left The Work to pursue a painful trip of self-discovery. María del Carmen Tapia went from director of an &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;house to a prisoner in the same institution, in a bizarre incident. Raimundo Panikkar was the other star, the intellectual, of that first group of opusdeistas of the postwar [Spanish Civil War 1936-39] era who left dramatically. Francisco José de Saralegui, an old Christian, had an important position in the economic activity of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;almost up to the time of his departure.(179) Jesús Ynfante tells us that Antonio Pérez Hernández of los Granales, who was the leader of the opposition to Letrado in the Council of State, was a partner of Amadeo Fuenmayor and a brilliant man in the sight of all those who knew him; and who had been ordained a priest in the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross in 1948. He held, also, the position of rector of the chapter house of Saint Just in &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. One day he abandoned everything and disappeared with only what he was wearing. Settling in Méjico, he tried to tell people the truth, but had negative results. Later, on account of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, he changed his name and resolved never to return to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; for the rest of his days. (180)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In general, when a follower leaves a sect like &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;he usually presents the following psychological picture:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;1) depression&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;2) a sensation of solitude&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;3) negative self-esteem&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;4) a guilt complex&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;5) a low level of competence in everyday tasks&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;6) dulling of mental acuity&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;7) a tendency to fall into altered states of consciousness&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;8) a rejection of the belief that he is one of the elect&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;9) ill will toward the sect for the traumas experienced while living with them&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;10) fear of reprisal by the sect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;To rehabilitate some members so that they may return to reality and freedom, it is necessary, in many cases, to de-program them so that they may be regenerated and forget the bitter nightmare.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;The Unconscionable Lie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;: Subheading 1, Chapter II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;33 34&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The biographies of the “Father” suffer from a fundamental question regarding the story of the mundane facts and travels of the charismatic leader of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;. Falsehood and lies are the norm, dates and essential references for his life and true personality are concealed if they are disturbing. We have been presented a portrait of Escrivá that departs substantially from reality; it is a false and deceiving picture, retouched and sweetened.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It is impressive, certainly, “monsignor's” capacity for all type of assemblies. Assemblies that, undoubtedly, have made him prominent. And the Father is the man and his assembly. (1)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;A great part of the propaganda and publicity apparatus that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;has installed at great expense is entrusted with diffusing and promoting some manipulated images of Escriva, full of emotion and not without certain extreme touches, a personal history made to order for the gullible and simple-minded, where they put on of relief and they are stood out, enlarging them to unimaginable limits, some supposed details of prestige, while in the meantime “they hide important data of his biography and pieces of information of great significance are whisked away at the behest of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;that he founded.” (2) Characteristics that are positive signs in the eyes of any human being are mentioned exhaustively, with grandiloquent pomposity, even as they lie brazenly and unconscionably.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;In the laudatory biographies that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;circulates and that are written to extol Escriva's character, his academic background is outstanding, and a whole series of studies and degrees are attributed to him without any justification. Thus, for example, among the most far-fetched lies we meet are those that maintain that he “was the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Superior&lt;/st1:city&gt; of the Seminary of St. Francis of Paola in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Zaragoza&lt;/st1:place&gt;,” – a lie. That he was “Professor of Canon Law and of Roman Law in Zaragoza and in &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;,” – a lie. That “I attained a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Papal University of Zaragoza,” – a lie. That “I taught classes in General and Moral Ethics (Deontología) in the &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;School&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Journalism&lt;/st1:placename&gt; of &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;,” – a lie. The curious and thought-provoking fact is that he became a Doctor of Law of the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;University&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;i&gt;without ever having stepped onto a university campus in his entire life, (3) apparently thanks to a doctoral thesis that was written solely for Franco's confessor, Father Bugar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;But the lies and the farce around Escrivá are not limited solely to the realm of the studies that he never made: they try to provide him a with an ancestry, ending up by writing that “it was of the oldest and purest stock on both branches of the genealogical tree,” – a lie, fraud and fiction. That when “he was 15 years old he had already discovered his divine election to found &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;,” this is an invention. That “the Virgin appeared to him with a rose in her hand, requesting him to found &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei,&lt;/i&gt;” – a lie. That “&lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;was founded in 1928 by divine edict,” – a lie. That “he performed intense pastoral work in rural parishes,” they lie, or that “from 1927 he undertook an intense pastoral work among the poor and sick of the poorest quarters and the hospitals of &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;,” they lie and invent a genuinely artificial sham, when they know that the reality was very different. These lies have been fabricated and repeated constantly to give them the stamp of verisimilitude, on the principle that a lie repeated a thousand times can come to be considered as unquestionable truth.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;It remains to discover the motive for these misrepresentations and the false biographical data that consist, principally, in wanting to demonstrate that Escrivá has been everything: seminary superior, village parish priest, lawyer, curate, etc. (4) And thus, all the efforts of these pseudo-historians of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;are focused on presenting, for the internal consumption of the Work of God and other careless people, the priestly figure, the university student, and the worldly-wise founder of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, all of whom are this same Escrivá de Balaguer who was the first one that was firmly interested in maintaining the lie of his own life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;34 35&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;If, on the one hand, questionable facts, stories and hoaxes have been spread about the “Father's” life, there are others – authentic, genuine and true – that have been maintained in the greatest secrecy, guarded zealously under the shield of silence, concerning important and crucial questions about his existence, such as the Jewish origin of Escrivá de Balaguer, the crypto-judaic roots of his doctrine, his peculiar and shortened intellectual development up to his idea of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, his hidden inspirations, the homosexual tendencies of Escrivá, their connections to certain subversive ramifications and, of course, the real and ultimate objective of the foundation whose fire he started.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Who was the inventor of this fictitious biography that &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;has used to confound us? It was Escrivá himself, the expert of sectarian tactics, who gave to himself an image and a stature that are not within the realm of crude reality. His followers picked up on his suggestion and after being spread by them the result has been the fraudulent mythification of a vulgar figure who was, in many respects, worthless.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;There is a duplicity, a concealment, a sense that something does not fit in the personality of Escrivá. He is authentic and false, real and mythic, artificial and natural, friendly and bitter; a bundle of contradictions, the one that they want to sell us with bombast and publicity and the one that was the reality, open and hidden, public and behind the scenes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The creation of the myth, the “divinization” of the figure of the charismatic leader is one of the techniques employed in all sects. He is transformed into the object of a cult of adoration and is placed beyond reach, a standard of perfection for his devotees and followers who, with a little appropriate brain washing, will fix themselves so obsessively around his thought and his feelings that they can be manipulated with the object of exploiting them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The “father's” biography mixes reality with fiction, confusing facts deliberately with tendentiousness and, above all, saying, in many cases, exactly the opposite of what is true.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Many times the deceit is achieved by a mere semantic change of concepts, emptying the words of their original sense and filling them with another content, as it has been in the case of Escriva, who has used Christian terminology in the beginning of his work to introduce, surreptitiously, a selfish and judeo-talmudic sensibility into our society.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;His biography is so artificial that it hides and even renounces his true name of &lt;i&gt;Escriba&lt;/i&gt;, that was given to him at birth, and which is listed in the Civil Register as the name of his father and which etymologically means “a doctor and interpreter of the Law of the Hebrews.” (5) Escrivá de Balaguer was not his name then, neither is it now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The only explanation from &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is the Father-figure, which presupposes that to understand him it is necessary to understand the founder's spiritual basis.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;José Ortega, professor of Penal Law, is correct when he responded this way to a journalistic interview on June 26 1975: “I have read a biography of D. Josemaria Escrivá. Then, I thought about the man; and I have reached the conclusion that it is impossible to write a biography of D. Josemaria.” (6)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The Father's abstruse personality is inaccessible to a normal understanding unless you take into account his specific role of falsifier. An analysis presupposes studies and knowledge of an anthropological-historical and characterological type that require a significant intellectual effort.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;The authentic biography of the Father is one of the taboo questions that are hidden and exaggerated. The accessible literature on the matter is silent or it conceals the important facts that are incontrovertible: that the essence of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is a single person; &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is the Father and his personality is the corner stone on which the whole building of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;is sustained. As a result, we have imposed upon ourselves, following Pope Leo XIII's guidelines in his encyclical “Humanum Genus,” (1884) the task of demythifying the false myths and of exposing the deceits, taking the&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;35 36&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;encyclical as an appropriate watchword to penetrate into in the personal and hidden life of this paper-máché personage, a pretender and an enigma, who is the instigator of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Florentine Pérez Embid, the official biographer of Escrivá de Balaguer, repeats with suspicious insistence that “the development of &lt;i&gt;The Work &lt;/i&gt;in all the aspects is the same as the biography of its founder,” or also “the history of &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei &lt;/i&gt;is the same as that of its founder's biography.” (7)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Even at this most transcendental level it is not known how to investigate dispassionately the reality of Escrivá and his &lt;i&gt;Work&lt;/i&gt;. (8)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Yvon le Vaillant writes that “frequently one wonders if the leaders of &lt;i&gt;The Work&lt;/i&gt;, beginning with the founder, have decided once and for all to laugh at the world.” (9) And it is the sneer of this pharisaical smile that we will try to figure out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;A list of the book's &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Footnotes &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;which are here translated as &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Endnotes&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 27pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; "&gt;After the &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Endnotes &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;there follows the author's &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Recommended Bibliography&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial Black'; "&gt;Chapter 1: &lt;u&gt;The Sects and &lt;i&gt;Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Subheading 1: &lt;u&gt;A Suspicion is Confirmed&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Hernando, Julián García, “El fenómeno de las sectas,” in &lt;i&gt;Cuadernos de realidades sociales&lt;/i&gt;, Nos. 35/36, p 27 (Madrid: Instituto de Sociología, January &lt;b&gt;1990&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“El Opus por dentro,” p 33, in &lt;i&gt;Area crítica&lt;/i&gt;, No. 2 (July &lt;b&gt;1983&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Moncada, Alberto, &lt;i&gt;Historía oral del Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, p 131 (Barcelona: Plaza &amp;amp; Janés, &lt;b&gt;1987&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;El País&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 4 (11 July &lt;b&gt;1988&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Idem.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;6.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;El País&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 50 (25 July &lt;b&gt;1990&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;7.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Montalbán, Manuel Vázquez, “El Opus que no cesa,” &lt;i&gt;Interviu &lt;/i&gt;(14 January &lt;b&gt;1988&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.3pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;8.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Diario 16 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;(03 October 1983).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;9.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Vaillant, Yvan le, &lt;i&gt;La Santa Mafia: El expediente secreto del Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, pp 69-70 (Méjico: Edimex, &lt;b&gt;1985&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid, p 213.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;“El Opus Dei, El verdadero poder en España,” &lt;i&gt;Tiempo &lt;/i&gt;(11 April &lt;b&gt;1988&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 15.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 10.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Oneto, José, &lt;i&gt;Tiempo &lt;/i&gt;(11 April &lt;b&gt;1988&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Subheading 2: &lt;u&gt;What is a Sect?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Hernando, p 28.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 28.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Rodríguez, Pepe, &lt;i&gt;El poder de las sectas&lt;/i&gt;, p 31 (Barcelona: Editorial B Grupo 2, &lt;b&gt;1989&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Rodríguez, Pepe, “Sectas y lavado de cerebro,” in &lt;i&gt;Esclavos de un Mesías &lt;/i&gt;, p 25 (Barcelona: Elfos, &lt;b&gt;1984&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Hernando, p 29.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;36 37&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; page-break-before: always; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;El Independiente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 32 (03 June &lt;b&gt;1988&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Rodríguez, Pepe, &lt;i&gt;El poder de las sectas&lt;/i&gt;, p 33; &lt;i&gt;Las sectas hoy y aquí&lt;/i&gt;, pp 59-60; &lt;i&gt;Esclavos de un Mesías&lt;/i&gt;, p 26.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Rodríguez, Pepe, &lt;i&gt;Esclavos de un Mesías&lt;/i&gt;, op. cit., p 76.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 78.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Poncela, Eva Jardiel, in &lt;i&gt;¿Por qué no es Ud. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Del Opus Dei?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 58.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;6.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Martínez, Nicolás Cobo, &lt;i&gt;Faro inconfundible&lt;/i&gt;, No. 31, p 6 (February &lt;b&gt;1989&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="LTR" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond; "&gt;Subheading 3: &lt;u&gt;Occult Secrecy and Mystery&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Poncela, op cit, p 64.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Aroca, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Santiago&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Tiempo &lt;/i&gt;(11 August &lt;b&gt;1986&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;3.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Moncada, Alberto, &lt;i&gt;El Opus Dei: Una interpretación&lt;/i&gt;, p 21 (Madrid: &lt;b&gt;1974&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 38.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 143.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;6.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Vaillant, p 242.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;7.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 242.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;8.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, p 248.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;9.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Wast, Oscar H., &lt;i&gt;Jesuítas, Opus Dei y Cursillos de Cristianidad&lt;/i&gt;, pp 62-63 (Méjico: &lt;b&gt;1971&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;10.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Poncela, p 173.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;11.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;., pp 188-189.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;12.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;., p 38.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;13.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Romanillos, Fernando García, “La cara oculta del Opus,” &lt;i&gt;Historía&lt;/i&gt;, No. 6 (September, &lt;b&gt;1975&lt;/b&gt;), p 57.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;14.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Poncela, p 67.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;15.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Ibid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;, pp 74-75.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;16.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Carandell, Luís, &lt;i&gt;Vida y milagros de monseñor Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;del&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; Opus Dei&lt;/i&gt;, (Barcelona: Editorial Laia, &lt;b&gt;1975&lt;/b&gt;), p 160.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;17.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Magaña, Manuel C., &lt;i&gt;Revelaciones sobre la Santa Mafia &lt;/i&gt;(Méjico: Self-published, 1974), p 228.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;18.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Poncela, p 200.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;19.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "&gt;Aroca, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Santiago&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Tiempo &lt;/i&gt;(07 July &lt;b&gt;1986&lt;/b&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unico
