Brussels Mapping Report by Mark Roberts

This piece of research follows from a prayer trip to Brussels that was led by Martha Lucia. I thank Martha and the rest of the team, Richard Fleming, Lynn Alvey and Francesca Fleming, for sharing key insights that have directed this research, a trip report of which has been written and is available [Brussels Prayer Trip 27-29 February 2004, complied by Francesca C. Fleming]. Special are thanks also due to Francesca for her help, encouragement and comments with this present piece. I am responsible for any important omissions, factual errors and misinterpretations. As for all things: “..we know in part..” [1]and need to “test everything..” [2] So, may the Spirit of Truth guide the reader!

Two themes stand out from the research on Brussels: deception and warfare. The Crusades and the Leopold’s movement in the nineteenth century to obtain a colony in the Congo were both initiated in Belgium. In the first case, European armies ventured out as pilgrims to the Middle East to claim Jerusalem for Christendom. In the second case, a colonial army was sent out to Central Africa to promote European civilization. In both cases, ventures that may have seen being motivated by noble ideals, ended in ignominy, the massacre of defenceless peoples. Deception is often the greater part of warfare.[3] The Crusades also show that religious spirits are murderous ones.

Even after the event, there has been subterfuge. There has been a peculiar unwillingness of those in authority in Belgium even to acknowledge the “sins of the fathers.” It is still regarded as a slur on the nation to admit what actually happened in the Congo. This does not augur well for the spiritual health of the nation.

Much of what is planned in Brussels goes underground. For example, researchers on the history of the Brussels-led European Union have entitled their book, The Great Deception.[4] Freemasonry, which essentially thrives on its covert activities, is particularly strong in Brussels. A strong metaphor for this is the hidden but polluted Brussels River Senne. It used be clean, but became an open sewer in the course of time. Rather than cleaning it up, the authorities decided on “covering the river up completely within the Brussels pentagon” [my italics][5]

The Pentagon is a five-sided area of land within Brussels that hosts the governmental centres.

The same article says that the Senne has contributed to the pollution of the River Scheldt (or Escaut in French). It is from the Scheldt that evil was exported into African Congo through the covert machinations of the Leopold II, who was based in Brussels.

Governmental cover-up is also what the people of Belgium have suspected of the long drawn-out and recently prosecuted paedophile scandal. An article quoted below claims that today the Belgian government is complicit with Islamic terrorism through a covert deal that has been made to spare Belgium from attack.

Belgium has also been the place of war. Total warfare first began in Belgium. When Germany invaded in 1914, the rest of Europe was swept away by war fever. On the part of the allies, this was fired by the ideal to fight for “poor little Belgium” – a country which was recently culpable for an estimated ten million African deaths in the Congo. In this light, the invasion of Belgium and the atrocities committed by the Germans can be seen as a reaping at home of what had been sowed abroad. It was also the whirlwind of total warfare. For the first time in Europe millions were killed over a period of years - rather than thousands in a single day as before.

The spirit of revenge behind the Versailles peace treaty, which concluded WW1, was almost certainly contributed to the start of WW2 some twenty years later, which lead to even greater European destruction. The legacy of two world wars in a Europe that had rejected the message of the cross has been the guilt of war and the fear of war. This legacy was the motivating factor bringing the warring nations together in a European Union, since Western Europe had lost its faith in a war to end all wars. The capital of the European Union is Brussels, where the headquarters of the Western military alliance, NATO, is also situated.

The sources of the evil have been the demonic principalities that have become entrenched in the land over time. A main stronghold is the Queen of Heaven, which I believe has held Belgium captive to Mariology, when other European regions were once released to some extent by the Protestant Reformation that emphasised the all-sufficiency of Christ.[6]

Another principality is Janus, the god with the two faces, a metaphor for deception, is also associated with war. The figure of the Flanders Lion on the Flemish flag or the Lion of Belgium that fills the land on the sixteenth century map, I believe, is a depiction of another warring demon. In addition, the blinding strongman of Freemasonry has been brought into the country through the armies of various invading forces, since Freemasonry has always been particularly prevalent within the military.

Most of these issues pertain generally to Europe and not just to Belgium. Its history shows that it Brussels has been overtaken by a succession of foreign rulers. She has been singled out because of her historic role as a European capital, as a hub that connects the various spokes. The European Union appears to be a spiritual child of the Holy Roman Empire, especially because of the Brussels-centred, Franco-German dynamic, which in turn followed the example of Imperial Rome. We also know that in the twentieth century Brussels also became the main centre for the occult organisations of Europe.

The purpose of the remaining part of the report is to give some more detail concerning the recurrent themes of deception and warfare. It has reminded me that the enemy “transforms himself [or “masquerades” in the NIV] into an angel of light””[7] in order to “to steal, to kill and to destroy”[8]. As a final reminder: all these demons – big or small - tremble at the knowledge of the One True God![9]

The following brief account covers the main episodes in the history of the land called Belgium. I will use the word “Belgium” for the land, even though this name first came into being with the newly formed state in 1831.

The southern part of the country, Wallonia, is generally hilly and as a consequence was populated, while the flatter northern part, Flanders, was still under water. There was megalithic settlement in the South and the evidence of standing stones and dolmens still remain.[10] The Ardennes forest of the South is named after Arduinna, the Celtic goddess of the moon, hunting and forests, which is clearly another name for the Roman Diana[11] or the Queen of Heaven.

Although there was Neolithic settlement in Belgium[12], more is known about the Celts who arrived later in the second century BC and settled mainly in the South. Pieter Bos states that at this time there was a centre of pagan worship outside Brussels “with dependences in a circle around this centre, connected to this centre with what could be called ley lines.”[13]

The Celts were in actual contact with the Greeks and also worshipped similar gods. Celtic mythology, like the Greek mythology, is full of stories of giants. Belgian folklore festivals still displays of models of these legendary giants.[14]

The Celtic tribes in this part of Western Europe were collectively known as the Belgae.[15] Etymologically, Belgium is the domain of the Belgae. There are two possible origins of Belgae. One is because they worshipped the sun-god, Bolg[16] or Bel, originating from the Babylonian Bel-Marduk that became the Canaanite Baal. Francesca Fleming pointed this out to me along with the clear Celtic connexion with Bel through their festivity of Beltane. The other possibility is that it comes from an old Celtic word for swollen.[17] The Celtic tribes were generally warlike, while Julius Caesar described the Belgae, in particular, as the “bravest of all.”

In AD57 the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, seized the area of Belgium after various campaigns. They established a road network which helped to establish the trading system and also left a strong cultural inheritance, since the Celtic language of the Walloons switched to the Latin dialect that became French.

The next major folk migration was of the Franks[18] who were Germanic tribesmen. They were employed by the Roman Empire as mercenaries and were generally loyal to Rome, used Roman forms of political organisation and even adopted their style of dress. Rome was sufficiently weak by the fourth century to cede the area of Belgium to the Franks.[19] The Franks were the forebears of the present day Flemings.

There were two significant Frankish dynasties, the Merovingian and the Carolingian, each renowned for conquest and imperial expansion. The Merovingian dynasty [481-751] one is named after Merovech, the grandfather of the more famous Clovis. Clovis is said to have converted to Christianity, although the Franks were generally pagans. Like Constantine before him, Clovis used the Church as a means of political control.

The Carolingian dynasty [750-843] after Charlemagne (768-843) flourished and expanded to most of Western Europe through conquest, only excluding Scandinavia, parts of Spain and the British Isles. Organised trade along the Belgian rivers was started during his reign. In 800 he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. He died in 843 and the Treaty of Verdun stipulated that the land be given to his grandsons, divided into West Francia, Lotharingia and East Francia. These three areas corresponded very broadly with present-day France, Belgium and Germany.

The ninth and tenth centuries saw continuing attacks from the pagan Vikings. It is claimed that these were also motivated by religious revenge, because their kin, the heathen Saxons had been converted to Christianity. The attacks led to the displacement of the population to present day Germany and France. After the assaults ended, there was a return to the land and a resettlement behind in walled cities for protection. This is seen as the beginning of city life.

Earlier in 695 the French bishop, Géry, established a chapel on an island in the river Senne, which is regarded as the first settlement in Brussels. Brussels means either brug (bridge) or broek (marsh) with sele (dwelling). The official founding of the city is said to have been around 977 when a Carolingian lord, Charles of France, built a castle on St Géry’s Isle. It was on the present site of the Stock Exchange and the Place de Brouckère and was protected by four moats.[20]

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries city life based on craft production and trade developed and led to the guild system. There were rivalries between the various provincial cities, which vied for the favours of more imperially-minded rulers. There was also conflict between the Flemish-speaking guildsmen and the local nobles who remained feudal vassals of the French king.

The conflict was exacerbated by the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) between the English and French. The Flemish weavers were dependent on English wool and later came to choose sides accordingly. A famous battle is of that of the Golden Spurs at Courtrai in 1302 where Flemish foot-soldiers defeated the French cavalry.

First and foremost, before the European nations were fighting each other, they were united in the Crusades to capture Jerusalem. These ended up in massacres of the Jews, Muslims and even Orthodox Christians as well as for the crusading Roman Christians. Belgium is the place where they originated.

There was also a period of rule by four dukes of Burgundy that started through marriage. It was during this period that the Order of the Golden Fleece was initiated, as an equivalent form of the English Order of the Garter. The Burgundian era was one of prosperity until it ended in warfare through the ambitions of the fourth duke.

Mary, his daughter, married into the Austrian Hapsburgs. Her son, Phillip, in turn married a Spanish Hapsburg, Jeanne of Aragon and Castile. Phillip and Jeanne then produced a son, Charles V, who in 1519 was crowned King of Germany and the Holy Roman Emperor.[21] He ruled from Brussels, so this city effectively became the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

This time was the beginning of the Protestant Reformation to which Charles V and especially his son, Phillip II, were hostile. In 1536, William Tyndale, the English bible translator in exile from England, was betrayed by opponents from home and executed by Charles V at Vilvoorde, just North of Brussels. In 1550 Charles signed the Edict of Blood which stipulated the death penalty for heresy and in 1555 Phillip carried it out with the Council of Blood by which thousands died for their faith. The more zealous Phillip was based in Spain, was associated with the Inquisition and also attempted to invade Protestant England.

The present day Netherlands broke away from Spanish dominion and became the Dutch Republic, leaving the remaining areas of Belgium and Luxembourg as the Spanish Netherlands with Brussels as its capital.

Protestants were persecuted and fled north to the Calvinist Dutch Republic. This hurt the Belgian economy, as they engaged in the more enterprising of the occupations. Further damage was done by the closing of the River Scheldt, by which the Belgians had access to the sea, to non-Dutch shipping by the Treaty of Westphalia, following the Catholic-Protestant Thirty Years War [1618-1648]. And even more damage was done by the Jesuit led counter-reformation. General life was stifled by religious orthodoxy, as baroque churches were built and stocked with newly commissioned statues, paintings and pulpits.

Following the death of a childless king, the War of the Spanish Succession fought off the French claims and installed the Austrian Hapsburgs as rulers. This war also involved England under her general, the Duke of Marlborough.

The period of Austrian rule was a time of urban development for Brussels. The Place Royale was constructed and the royal palace at Laeken was completed. A notable monarch was Joseph II, who was progressively minded and wanted to bring reform in many areas. Although a Catholic, he tried to weaken the power of Rome and to grant religious freedom and political rights to Protestants. As a consequence he met opposition from the Belgian people and the Austrian troops were expelled from Brussels in 1790 - only to return, because of the state of anarchy caused by infighting between the rebels.

Following the French Revolution in 1789, the French defeated the Austrians in 1794 and took Belgium. They incorporated the land into France and introduced French laws and, being anti-clerical, they also suppressed the Catholic Church. There was Belgian opposition, culminating in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1798 which was suppressed. Later on, the Belgians had a brief honeymoon with Napoleon until he tried to assert his authority over the domestic Catholic Church.

The Napoleonic French were in turn defeated by an alliance of British, Dutch and Prussians at the Battle of Waterloo. The new regime was to combine the Dutch and the Belgians in one state, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, under the Calvinist and kingship of the Prince of Orange, who was a Calvinist and a freemason.

The Prince of Orange, now King William I, then alienated the Belgian people by attempting to introduce the Protestant Reformation and to impose Dutch as a common language. This latter was opposed also by the Flemish people, who regarded their own language as distinct. Common opposition to the Dutch led to the revolution Belgian Revolution of 1830.

Belgium became a self-governing constitutional monarchy in 1831 with a constitution that is said to be a written version of the “unwritten British constitution.” The new monarch, the German Protestant Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was also a British subject, as he had previously been married to the daughter of George IV (the Prince Regent of Brighton fame). He was also uncle to both Queen Victoria of England and to her husband, Prince Albert.

The kings of the Belgians refrained from domestic politics, which in the nineteenth century was characterised by opposition between the religious Catholic and the secular Masonic parties. The form of Freemasonry was of the irregular anti-clerical kind practised in France and Italy, to which the Roman Catholic Church was opposed, rather than the deist form that was accommodated by the churches of Protestant countries. The Flemings were more staunchly Catholic, while the Walloons were more drawn to Freemasonry.

The constitutional nature of the monarchy gave the second king Leopold free reign outside Belgium to obtain a personal colony in the Congo. This became a vast labour camp where the local inhabitants were coerced into virtual slavery by kidnappings, beatings and mutilations. It is estimated that ten million Africans were killed in the Belgian Congo. The large revenues from the harvests of ivory and rubber went via the king’s coffers into various building projects in Brussels and Belgium.

Belgium was invaded in by Imperial Germany in 1914 as the start of the First World War and her civilians were subjected to atrocities by the occupying forces. Belgium or, more precisely, Flanders, including French Flanders, became the main European fields of battle, which saw the attrition of trench warfare and prolonged slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Following the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to guarantee a lasting peace, Belgium was invaded again in 1940 by Nazi Germany.

After the second of the two devastating world wars, serious attempts were made to ensure the peace of Europe. It was believed on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a need to create supranational institutions to bind France and Germany into a common cause. There was also a need for Western European unity as a bulwark against further Soviet westward expansion. Belgium figured significantly in this, as a state without a strong national identity and as one containing two national groups. It became the capital of the institutions of the newly emerging institutions of the European Union and of NATO.

The people of Belgium have been divided by language and culture and this has made it difficult for them to become united in spirit even today. The next most important factors were probably the failure of the Protestant Reformation to take root and the strength of the Catholic counter-Reformation that followed. While the people have been divided by language, they have also been united by religion. Various foreign rulers, including the Austrian Hapburgs, the Revolutionary French and the French under Napoleon and the Dutch under the Prince of Orange, have tried to dismantle the power of the Roman Catholic Church, while the French-speaking Walloons and the Dutch-speaking Flemings have been united in their resistance. The last resistance, against the Dutch, culminated in the formation of the Belgian state in 1831.

The bi-national nature of the country has made the country conducive to being an international centre and Brussels is the regarded as the main capital of the European Union as well as the base for NATO. It is paradoxical and unsettling that Brussels, as the state capital of two disunited Belgian nations, sees its role as a state capital of wider group of united European nations.

Deception is often the greater part of warfare. The theme of this section is that the spirits of war camouflage themselves as saints. One possible view is that these spirits have even furthered the deception by entering as apparitions on the battlefield – whether in actuality or merely as supposed appearances – that has feed an appetite for unrighteous war and engendering a false belief that “God is on our side.” These wars, notably the Crusades and the First World War, brought the shedding of blood on a vast scale and to no good end. This has ultimately led others in the twentieth century to a place of disillusionment, doubting even the existence of God, on the false premise basis that He would frustrate demonically-inspired human free-will.

St Michael is the acknowledged patron saint of Brussels and, as the Archangel Michael, is connected with spiritual warfare. I believe the reality is that the idol is actually a “christianized” version of a warring demon, because

“..Satan transforms himself into an angel of light.” [2 Corinthians 11: 14]

Scripture also states that and idolatrous sacrifice translates into sacrificing to demons.[22]

The national cathedral in Brussels is named jointly after St Michael and St Gudula. It was St Gudula’s and was built on St Michael’s Hill, which is of occult significance, and came to be known under both names. I have not been able to directly find out the meaning of the Flemish name Gudula, except that, in German, Gundula is sometimes used for the same.[23] The root of the latter, gund, means war[24] and almost coincides with the English word, gun, which is also of Scandinavian origin[25]. So although historically there may have been a woman, called Gudula[26], I believe the entity actually being revered as a “saint” is a cover for another warring demon. This implies that the cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula honours two warring demons, one male and one female. This suggests an even greater stronghold, both because of the existence of two and because of a unity of the sexes with regard to war.

The figure of Michael, fighting a dragon, appears on the arms of the city[27], on the spire of the town hall and on various lamp posts. A prominent statue of Michael slaying the dragon also appears in the town of Ghent[28], which suggests that this being is influential outside Brussels.

I was struck by the similarity in the depictions of St Michael and of St George, the patron saint of England, since both are depicted as killing dragons. The main difference is that while St Michael is depicted as a winged angel brandishing a sword, St George is shown to be a man on horseback with a spear. Another subtle difference is that while St Michael is naturally associated with spiritual warfare, St George is a patron saint of soldiers[29] - and, particularly, crusaders.

In another context, I discovered that there is a West African god of war, called Ogun, who is regarded as the equivalent form of St George. Note the appearance again of the root word gun, which probably is no coincidence, since all languages are derived from a common tongue prior to Babel.

A good exposition of the connexions between these two “saints” and dragons is given in the article, Dragons and Dragon-killers[30], from which I quote:

“The power or energy of the lung-mei, or dragon current .. has been represented visually by the image of the dragon. .. Frequently, these legends tell of the killing of the dragon, which is a vital part of a cycle of birth and death and the re-animation and fertilization of the earth.

.. Some [of] these dragon-killers, at an early date, were 'Christianised' and made into saints, the best known being St. Michael, St. George, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. [my insert]

Places associated with the dragon legend are often also sites of ancient sanctity. And, because of this sanctity, many of them were 'Christianised', which sometimes included building a church on that spot. The site is often on top of a mound or flat-topped hill, and the church is usually dedicated either to St. Michael or to St. George.”

This is why the cathedral in Brussels is of St Gudule and St Michael. The author states that the “dragon current” is also known as the ley-line. Are there any documented ley-lines in Belgium that also connect churches of the same name? There are, in fact, two: one connecting four St Martin(us) churches in East Flanders and another straight-line line joining five St Lambert(us) churches in North Brabant. St Martin (of Tours) is another “patron saint of warriors”[31], suggesting that “saints” Michael, George and Martin may be regional representations of the same underlying entity. No similar connexion has been found for a St Lambert

The Black Madonna shrine in Halle, outside Brussels, is situated in a St Martin’s Church. The link between this particular shrine and warfare - with England (documented below) – gives further support to out hypothesis regarding the idol of St Martin.

Mons, meaning mountains in French, was a military camp in Roman times[32]. It is strongly associated both with a cult of St George and with warfare. Every year in Mons the battle of Lumecon between St George and the dragon is played out as an open-air spectacle with public involvement. The performing fraternity of St George in Mons goes back to 1380. [33] Belgium is generally renowned for processions of patron saints and local giants.

St George is associated with warfare and persistent claims have been made of this entity’s appearance on battlefields. Mons is also famous as the place of the first battle between the Germans and the British in the WW1 in 1914. Francesca Fleming alerted me to the fact that the halting of the German advance caused their army to turn southwards, which led to the trench warfare that was characteristic of this war. Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to reach a conclusive outcome, prolonging the slaughter for four long years.

It is also said that the German advance was halted by the apparition of an Angel of Mons.[34] The account of what happened is convoluted, because of different kinds of sighting and because doubt as to whether the sightings were actual or based on a story that got out of hand.

Francesca Fleming has also indicated to me the connexion of so-called Angel with “St George” came after the event and may have been a propaganda ploy by British army intelligence. This would suggest that the deception came through the agency of man rather than through a supernatural “lying wonder.”

It is useful to consider a wider historical context of many claims of St George making an appearance:

St George became a patron saint of England quite early on, following the earlier saints of Edmund and Edward.[36] The Normans took over England following the invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066. His soldiers of his son, Robert, are said to have adopted St George as their patron saint according to William of Malmesbury writing in 1120.[37]

Francesca Fleming has also pointed out to me to an article[38] stating that a bloc of EU countries, Germany, France and Britain, are going to set up a planning cell, which is to be autonomous of NATO, at Shape near Mons.

“Despite repeated slaughter of the participants and completely innocent ‘infidels’, the crusades, which all started in Belgium, received a mix of sincere and fanatical support” [my emphasis] [39]

One of the leaders of the First Crusade, 1095-1099, was Godfrey of Bouillon[40] . An equestrian statue of him is elevated on a plinth in the centre of the Place Royale. We emphasise that the monument to this crusader is given a place of prominence in Brussels. Peter Bos also says that the statue is strategically placed, indicating a masonic control of town planning aimed at influencing the Palace of Justice, the Royal Palace, the House of Parliament and the Town Hall.[41]

Godfrey of Bouillon is named as the “first king of Jerusalem.”[42] This indicates that a usurping and anti-Christ spirit is being honoured, since Jesus is the true king of Israel and Jerusalem. It is akin to claiming the archangel Michael as a patron saint or protector of Brussels instead of Israel.[43]

The historical record concerning Godfrey of Bouillon is even worse. I quote from Rick Joyner’s The Gates of hell and the doors of heaven [44]concerning the First Crusade.

"Needing more money for their venture, the Crusaders determined to force the Jews to support the mission, as they were the primary bankers of that time. Many of the knights financed their participation in the Crusades by mortgaging their estates to the banks. Then the Crusaders decided that they did not want to pay the banks back, so they declared that it was a divine mandate to turn against the Jews because "they killed Jesus on the cross". Gottfried of Bouillon was the sovereign of Lower-Lothringen, which also included the Ardennes, present-day Holland, and the Rhine-Provinces of Cologne. He issued a decree that all the remaining Jews living in Lower-Lothringen should be killed in order to atone for Christ´s death. As a result, the Jews of Cologne and Mainz gave Gottfried 500 silver coins in order to buy their protection, which was used to pay for and arm his forces. This method of raising financial support quickly became popular throughout Europe. In this way the Jews found themselves not only loaning money to the Crusaders through their banks, but paying ransom money to bishops and knights as well."

The Gentile kings forced the Jews to finance a war against their own people. The piece continues,

“The muslim mayor had been relatively tolerant with all of his citizens, including the Christians and Jews. He allowed them their own places of worship and freedom to come and go as they pleased. He even allowed the Christians in Jerusalem to go over the side of the Crusaders during the siege. When prevail in the siege, the mayor and his subjects likewise expected a high degree of chivalry from their conquerors. They were terrible mistaken. Many had gathered under a Christian banner where they had been promised amnesty. The Crusaders surrounded them and slaughtered them all. The Jews of the city fled into the Synagogue. Having them trapped inside, the Crusaders torched the building, killing everyone in a gruesome spectacle. This was a deliberate strategy to eradicate all non-Christians so that Jerusalem could become a Christian city. The triumphant Crusaders, many completely covered in the blood of their victims, gathered at the Holy Sepulchre; weeping with joy, they offered thanksgiving for their great "victory". Over 50,000 Saracens alone were killed in this terrible massacre. Gottfried of Bouillon, the first Christian sovereign and primary instigator of the massacre, died one year later on July 18th, 1100 A.D. King Balduin I became his successor."

There are two points I would like to emphasise. First, I believe that the Godfrey of Bouillon statue[45] is evidence of an anti-Semitic and usurping spirit as well as spirits of extortion and murder in Brussels. I should also mention that inside the St Michael and Gudule Cathedral there are images of the “blood libel,” that the Jews sacrificed Gentile children in order to make unleavened bread.[46] These lies have generally stirred up pogroms under which category the Crusades surely fall.

Secondly, there is a similarity between the crusades and King Leopold II’s Congo venture. Both started with ostensibly high ideals but ended with massacres.

The area today known as Belgium was for most of its history subject to various foreign kings and princes. The sovereign country of Belgium was only established in 1831 when it broke away from the rest of the United Netherlands, which itself was only set-up in 1815 following the first complete defeat of Napoleon prior to Waterloo. Both the Dutch-speaking Flemings and the French-speaking Walloons were united in their rebellion against William of Orange, a Calvinistic who had endeavoured to impose a Protestant reformation from above on Roman Catholic Belgium.

The first appointed king of Belgium was foreign born - a German prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - and a freemason. His first wife, who was the daughter of King William IV of England, died in childbirth along with the child. His second wife gave both to his son, Leopold II, who succeed him as king in 1865.

Two important facts about Leopold II are that he was emotionally separated from his natural family but felt a personal attachment to the nation of Belgium. As a child, he suffered a lack of parenting.[47] Adam Hochschild says in his book King Leopold’s Ghost.

“If Leopold wanted to see his father, he had to apply for an audience. When the father had something to tell the son, he communicated it through one of his secretaries.” (p.34)

The pattern persisted with his own family when he became a father. He had one son and three daughters by his wife and two sons by his mistress. His wife’s son died young, but his three daughters outlived him. He would have nothing to do with his daughters. Hochschild says,

“ ‘The king has but two dreams,’ a former Cabernet minister reportedly said during Leopold’s last years; ‘to die a billionaire and to disinherit his daughters.’ ” (p.275)

The money he obtained from plundering the Congo was left as an inheritance for the nation in museums and monuments like the Cinquantenaire arch. On his death in 1909, the Belgian nation inherited the Congo.

His personality was one of extreme secretiveness. He acquired the Congo colony by a long drawn out deception as neither his own people nor the international powers would have gone along with this. Tellingly, Hochschild quotes the king’s young mistress, Caroline:

“Every evening, she writes, a steam launch took the king …to a pier leading to my villa through a subterranean passage. Speaking about this, I can’t help remarking on the extraordinary taste of the king for everything which …had a secret and mysterious character. Anyone could sell him any house so long as built on the side of an abandoned quarry or if had secret staircases.” (p. 255)

Leopold’s colonial venture leading to the creation of the Congo Free State turned into an African holocaust. A system of kidnapping, rape, torture, mutilation and casual murder was instituted in order to intimidate the local populations into compliance with a regime of forced labour, which was also cruel and unrelenting. The scale of things became genocidal[48] with an estimated ten million deaths, possibly constituting a halving of the Congo population.

“Unlike the Congo’s Protestant missionaries, who were foreigners and beyond Leopold’s control, the Catholics were mostly Belgian and loyal supporters of the king and his regime. (One Belgian order, the Scheut fathers, even named a mission station after a director of one of the big concession companies.) Leopold subsidized the Catholics lavishly and sometimes used his financial power to deploy priests, almost as if they were soldiers, to areas where he wanted to strengthen his influence.” [49]

“For each cartridge issued to their soldiers [of the Belgian Force Publique[50]] they demanded proof that the bullet had been used to kill someone, not ‘wasted’ in hunting or, worse yet, saved for a possible mutiny. The standard proof was the right hand from a corpse. Or occasionally not from a corpse. ‘Sometimes,’ said one officer to a missionary, soldiers ‘shot a cartridge at an animal in hunting; they then cut off a hand from a living man.’ In some military units there was even a keeper of the hands.’ ” [51]

Apart from mutilation as a cost accounting measure to save bullets, there was another incentive.

“.. Sjöblom [a Swedish Baptist missionary] told how African Force Publique soldiers were rewarded for the number of hands they collected.” [52]

This cutting off of hands became the byword for Congo barbarity, as it was reported back by the European opponents’ of the regime.[53]

It was from Antwerp, the port on the river Scheldt, from which the ships left and to which they returned. Antwerp had much earlier been connected to Brussels by the digging of the Willebroeck canal. Belgian independence from the Netherlands in 1831 had freed the use of Antwerp, because a deal was struck which ended the Dutch closing of the Scheldt.

The Liverpool shipping line[54], the Elder Dempster, had been specifically commissioned to carry the Belgium-Congo trade. One of their clerks, E.D. Morel, who later became a Congo reformer, first noticed that the nature of the Congo “trade” by observing the traffic in Antwerp. He discovered that prodigious stocks of arms and ammunition were being sent out, with little in the way of traded goods, but vast quantities of ivory and runner were being shipped back into Antwerp. On the basis of this discrepancy he concluded correctly that the Congo Free State was based on slave labour.

In following up a lead for something else, I was amazed to find the following with reference to Antwerp:

The operation of this spirit goes back at least 2000 years. Although the hero of the legend, Brabo, is said to be a Roman, it was the Romans who subdued the native Gauls by this same kind of mutilation.

“..in spite of crushing defeats the Gauls rose again and again, until Caesar punished the rebels by chopping off their right hands. This ended the Gallic wars.”[56]

I now turn to the twentieth century experience of the Congo - now Zaire - and of Sierra Leone, which also has a connexion with Antwerp through the diamond trade.

Following political independence from Belgian rule, the new Congo leader, Patrice Lumumba, also wanted economic independence from Western Europe and was turning to wards the Soviet Union. Lumumba was assassinated and the anti-Communist Joseph Mobuto staged a successful coup in 1965 to rule until he too was overthrown in 1997.[57]

“Aside from the colour of his skin, there were few ways in which he did not resemble the monarch who governed the same territory a hundred years earlier. His one man rule. His great wealth taken from the land. His naming a lake after himself. His yacht. His appropriation of state possessions as his own. His huge shareholdings in private doing business in his terrirtory. Just as Leopold, using his privately controlled state, shared most of his rubber profits with no one, so Mobutu acquired his personal group of gold mines – and a rubber plantation. Mobutu’s habit of printing more money when he needed it resembled nothing so much as Leopold’s printing of Congo bonds.” [58]

The Rwandan genocide was mainly of the Tutsis by the Hutus. Brian Mills and Roger Mitchell claim.

“The notorious division between the Hutus and the Tutsis as servant and ruling classes was actually designed as a means of control by the Belgian authorities.”[59]

During the period 1991-2002 there was another civil war but in Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa. The war was fought by the Revolutionary United Front against the government over rights to the land over where diamonds were found. The profits are then used to buy weapons.[60] The following is given in a review of Greg Campbell’s book, Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones.

The war was noted for its extraordinary barbarity, especially towards innocent victims – including the mutilation of young children. The cutting off of hands again emerges as a systematic act of terror, this time, also as an attempt to stop people from voting in the 1996 election.[62]

“There were special units devoted to cutting off hands, and there was this particularly perverse practice of rewarding rebels when they came back with bags of hands. I didn't believe this when I first heard it, but then I kept hearing it again and again and again. They would put the hands of the victims into a rice bag and carry it back to their commanders. I have interviewed members of 'cut hands' gangs within the rebels, and one of them actually told me that he got a promotion when he brought back a bag of hands.” [63]

Some of the blame for the dirty trade has also been attributed to the world diamond industry, because of its readiness to buy the diamonds which fuelled the civil war. Is it any coincidence that Antwerp is the centre diamond industry – the city with the particular signature of the cutting off of hands?

Leopold II financed the building of the Cinquantenaire, a triumphal arch in Brussels, from the profits he obtained by plundering the Congo, because the Belgian government were unhappy to finance an “unnecessary monument.”[65]

It is estimated that in the process about 10 million Congoese Africans were killed – not by evenly-matched regular warfare but by a casual genocide committed by better-armed Europeans. The Cinquentenaire is not only an altar of human sacrifice, like other war memorials, but also something of a fraud, because of the nature of the sacrifice. The Cinquantenaire consists of a triumphal arch topped by a quadriga, a four-horse drawn chariot.

In 1 Corinthians 4:9 and 2 Corinthians 2:14, Paul alludes to the established Roman practice of a triumphal procession following a victory. The procession would go through an arch carrying captives and plunder. One may have been especially built for the occasion, like the notorious of Arch of Titus, which celebrates the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70.[66] [67] More recently, triumphal arches have also been built in the other European capitals and the Cinquantenaire in Brusssels is one of these. The significance of the triumphal arch is as a gateway through which the spoils of war were carried.

The following information comes from the article, The Origins of the Roman Arch, As Shown on Coins.[68] Martin Tameanko, the author conjectures that the architecture of the triumphal arch was modelled on the Temple of Janus, the two-faced Roman god, for the following reasons. The Romans pioneered sophisticated arch construction and this was first put to religious uses. Triumphal arches were originally gates, which in themselves had the religious significance of protection. Janus was once considered the greatest of the Roman gods and also became the god of gates. The respective Latin words for Janus, door and archway are differentiated only by the last letter: Ianus, ianua and ianus.

Janus is also strongly associated with war. The two doors of his temple[69] were open during times of war and closed the doors was synonymous with peace. It is recorded that the Roman army marched through the front and back doors of the Temple of Janus at the beginning of the war; this additional attribute suggests that the army also marched back through it again at the end of the war – after which the doors would be closed. The two-faced statue of Janus was placed inside the temple in such a position that when the doors were open in times of war, one face looked east and the other west, indicating yet another connexion between sun-worship and the glorification of war.[70]

I am only including this information on Janus, which I feel is relevant to the prayer initiative. The two-facedness of this god serves as a metaphor for the deception of the enemy, who despite the soulish mask of classical mythology, really purposes “to steal and kill and destroy.”[71] It also reflects the bi-polar nature and duplicitous spirit of Brussels that members of the team discerned.

To summarise, the spirit that is mythologized as Janus can be regarded as a demonic watchman associated with war. In light of the connexion between Janus and the triumphal arch, the Cinquantenaire can be seen as a demonic watchtower and stronghold for demons of war. I think the openness of the gateway through triumphal arch also has occult significance.[72]

It is claimed that the quadriga on the top of the triumphal arch represents Brabant, the province of which Brussels was a part. The remaining eight were represented by allegorical statues at the base of the columns.[73] [74]

The connexion between sun-worship and the honouring of war is already known in the obelisk. There is another link concerning the chariot. The Greek sun-god, Helios, was believed to have daily driven a chariot in the sky from east to west. There are at least two variations on this legend and one of them was that Erichthonius (a supposed grandson of Helios) developed the four-horse chariot.[75] Later, Apollo was seen more as a sun-god. Ultimately, the Romans came to worship the sun as the “Unconquered sun” or Sol:

“The worship of Sol as special protector of the emperors and of the empire remained the chief imperial cult until it was replaced by Christianity.” [76] [77]

As for the quadriga, it was regarded as one of the “sacred features” of Rome and was used as the “triumphal car of generals or emperors”[78] which was driven during the triumphal procession.[79] This may suggest why the personification of Brabant is elevated above the other eight provinces by being carried in the quadriga on the top of the arch: Leopold was titled the Duke of Brabant before he became king and was ambitious to be an emperor.

The Atomium is an architectural, engineering structure that was built for the 1958 world fair. It depicts a crystallized structure of iron, magnified 165 billion times. It is a network of nine connected spheres which represent the nine molecules of iron in an atom.

2. The structure of nine spheres represents the unity of the nine provinces of Belgium.
This can no longer apply, because there are now ten provinces, since Brabant was split into Vlaams (Flemish) Brabant, containing Brussels, and Waals (Walloon) Brabant.[81]

Note the same endings in the words, Atomium and plutonium. The Oxford Modern English Dictionary defines the latter as “a metallic element ..used in some nuclear reactors and weapons.”

We believe the fourth of these interpretations is the real intended significance of the Atomium. A year earlier in 1957 the Euratom treaty was passed as a part of the Treaty of Rome. A leading proponent was Paul Henri Spaak, who was also a main driving force behind Expo58. The purpose of the Euratom was to develop and regulate a nuclear power industry for the European signatories to the Treaty of Rome. We quote from the treaty itself,

“It shall be the task of the Community to contribute to the raising of the standard of living in the Member States and to the development of relations with the other countries by creating the conditions necessary for the speedy establishment and growth of nuclear industries.”[84]

About fifty years later the Euratom treaty has become something of an anachronism, because nuclear power has not lived up to its earlier expectations. A Greenpeace Report states that

Strangely though, the new proposed European Constitution, produced by Giscard d’Estaing, intends to replace all the pre-existing European treaties with the sole exception of Euratom. The obvious conclusion is that the momentum towards a United States of Europe is also one towards Europe as a nuclear power.[86]

This raises the question of what kind of nuclear power? We now consider three or four possible spiritual interpretations of the Atomium, which parallel those above.

The Atomium is a model of an atom of iron and iron symbolizes war. In Belgium, the significance of St Michael and St George - as covers for warring demons - has already been noted. There are two significant connexions that can be made with regard to iron. First, the African god of iron, Ogun, is associated with St George. Ogun is also counterpart of the Greek Hephaistos, the Roman Vulcan. Hephasitos/Vulcan, the Graeco-Roman “iron/blacksmith god” was married to Aphrodite, who had an affair with Ares/Mars, the Graeco-Roman god of war.[88] Secondly, in alchemy the base metal of iron is linked with the planet, Mars[89], the also the name of the Roman the god of war. It is ominous that the model of an iron atom symbolises both nuclear power and warfare.

There was a group a composite of nine Egyptian gods called the Ennead. Although the number nine frequently occurs in the occult[90], the evidence that the Atomium specifically relates to the Ennead is that the supreme god of the nine had a name that is transliterated variously as Atum or Atem or Atom.[91]

“Atum (Atom), the Sun God, i.e., Fire God created eight other Gods, by naming four pairs of parts his own body, from which they came forth. Here are the names of the Gods created Shu and Tefnut (Air and Moisture), Geb and Nut (Earth and Sky) and two other pairs of opposites, Osiris and Isis, Seth and Nephthys, who are supposed to be the first creatures of this world (Frankfort's Intellectual Adventures of Man, p. 54).”[93]

Etymologically, the word Atom-ium is the (spiritual) domain of Atom in the same way that Belg-ium is the (physical) domain of the Belgae.[94]

The religion of the Ennead came from Helipolis, “the city of the sun” - or On in the Bible. Heliopolis as a place of sun-worship was also associated with the obelisk. In fact, there was even a standing obelisk on the Heysel plain at the time of Expo58[95].

Normal reproduction, of course, requires the unity of the male and the female. Accordingly, Atom was also regarded as a bisexual god and was sometimes called the “great he-she”.[96] Janus was sometimes depicted as having one-bearded and one-unbearded face, which may have the interpretation that it combines the male and female, if not youth and age.[97] Although this is a minority opinion, some sources claim that Janus - like Atom - was also “the god of gods and benevolent creator.”[98] Finally, one view is that the nine gods of the Ennead were really nine attributes of the same being rather than separate entities.[99] I am drawing this comparison because the number nine occurs both with respect to the Cinquantenaire and to the Atomium.

The Atomium was also said to be “a celebration of scientific progress”, which takes us back to its interpretation as the Ennead. I now return to the article, Memphite Theology is the Source of Modern Scientific Knowledge[100], and quote extensively:

“If we compare this Egyptian cosmology with the Nebular hypothesis of Laplace, we would find striking similarities in the two contexts. According to the Nebular hypothesis our present solar system was once a molten gaseous nebula. This nebula rotated at an enormous speed, and as the mass cooled down it also contracted and developed greater speed. The result was a bulging at the equator and a gradual breaking off of gaseous rings, which formed themselves into planets.

These planets in turn threw off gaseous rings, which formed themselves into smaller bodies, until it was just the sun that was left, as the remnant of the original parent Nebula. From this context it is clear that the original parent nebula was fire or the Sun, and that by throwing off parts of itself, it created some planets, which in turn threw off parts of themselves and created others. According to the context of the Memphite Theology, the creator God was the Sun God or fire God Atum (Atom), who named four pairs of parts of his own body, from which Gods came.

But Atum (Atom) plus the eight other Gods created consisted of the Ennead or Godhead of nine. It bears a striking similarity to modern science, which teaches that there are nine major planets. We can now summarise these similarities the creator God in both the Egyptian and Modern Cosmologies is the Sun or Fire. The creator God in both cosmologies creates Gods from parts of Himself. The numbers of Gods are nine, and correspond to the nine major planets. These similarities make it evident thatLaplace inspired by the Nebula hypothesis from the Memphite Theology or other Egyptian sources.”

Another Egyptian belief was Atom emerged from the “primordial waters of sea of Nun”, which were a “dark, chaotic. And infinite watery abyss in which there was no‘up’ nor ‘down’ not direction of any kind.” Then Atom became the source of everything else in creation.[101]

The conclusion drawn is that some recent scientific hypotheses are really hypotheses rooted in Egyptian mythology and that the Atomium honours both of these.[102]

There is a striking resemblance between the appearance of the Atomium and visual depictions of the “tree of life” from the Jewish Kabbalah. This is very clear in the picture on the website, www.simegen.com/.../artists/ hashape/kabbalah.html, which shows the “tree of life” three-dimensionally within an abstract landscape. The correspondence is not exact because the latter comprises ten spheres not nine. However, at times the god Horus was added to the Ennead, making up the number ten of the “tree of life”. [103]

The occult symbolism of the Atomium has already been picked up by current day practitioners of the Kabbalah, notably by the pop-singer, Madonna. The image of the Atomium was uses as the symbol for her album, Drowned World Tour[104] and its situation where they held the Belgian preview of her album, American Life of life.” [105]

Soon after WW2, Paul-Henri Spaak, the Mayor of Brussels, put forward the proposal to make Brussels the site of the next world exposition of 1958, Expo58.[106] Paul-Henri Spaak was one of the key founder members of the European Economic Community and had been a Belgian prime minister, a secretary-general of Nato and the first president of the United Nations general assembly.[107] It was Spaak who made the statement with regard to the intended European Union,

“We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all the people and to lift us up out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and whether he be God or the devil, we will receive him.”[108]

The land for the Exp58, the Heysel/Bruparck complex, had been purchased earlier by King Leopold II for a different purpose.[109] A plan shows that the Bruparck is roughly shaped like a pentagram.[110]

The symbol for Expo58 was an irregular five-pointed star. Each point represents one of the five continents; the city hall of Brussels was set in the middle of this “Expo-star.”[111]

At Expo58 there were temporary pavilions for each of the main world trading nations and international organisations.[112] The plan of the whole lay-out of all buildings actually resembles a four-legged animal.[113]

A special location was set out called the Place de la Coopération Mondiale (ie. the World Cooperation Square). It contained a large obelisk that was intentionally placed equi-distantly between four pavilions. These were for (i) the United Nations, (ii) the CECA (an acronym for the French expression for the European Coal and Steel Community[114] ) - the embryonic form of the European Economic Community, (iii) the Council of Europe and (iv) World Cooperation.

The structure of the Atomium was the main attraction. Although it was originally also intended to be temporary, its popularity has led to it to being maintained even to this day.

This is a large and permanent exhibition hall, which was built for the earlier 1935 Expo[115] on the same site and which still stands today. I quote,

These four figures pertain to transportation by water, railway, horsepower and air.

I have not been able to discover more about the statuary than what is said above, except that the Grand Palais does contain a grotesquely, demonic figure called the howling beast of which facsimiles are sold by firms dealing with the occult.[116]

The second most spectacular construction at Expo58 was a giant concrete “arrow” - really an angular spike – which was 80 meters long and at its point raised 36 meters above the ground. The arrow appears to have been an indicating arrow rather than one that is fired. A plan of the site shows that, significantly, it is pointing at the Atomium.

The arrow also supported a walk-way which was suspended over the ground into which was engraved a huge map of Belgium. There seems to be a related significance between the arrow over Belgium and the Atomium overshadowing Mini-Europe, which came later. So, by physically supporting the walk-way, it is lifting people
above (an engraved map of) Belgium and pointing them towards the Atomium.

Mini-Europe started in 1989 as a theme park presenting scale models of buildings and structures of cultural-historical significance that were to be found only within the nations of the European Union. These include the Brussels Grand Place, the Eiffel Tower, the Seville Arena, the Berlin Wall, the Acropolis, the San Marco Square in Venice, Big Ben, the (European) Ariane Rocket, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the P&O Superferry, the Arc de Triomphe, the Chateau de Chenonceau, a North Sea Oil drilling platform and the Brandenburg gate. New models are progressively being added.

There is also an information center called the Spirit of Europe. It is really is directed towards children and shows the European Union in a positive light. Its purpose is to give the

“the history of the EU, its place in the world, why it is necessary, and its challenges for every citizen of Europe.” [my italics]

Someone pointed out that Mini-Europe is an exercise in miniaturization, where colossal public monuments are reduced to a twenty-fifth of their actual size, while the Atomium is an exercise in magnification, where the smallest known particle is increased in scale by a factor of 165 billion. The big is made small and the small big.

In thinking of the surrounding area north of and surrounding Brussels, Flanders, I thought of the “killing fields”. In the history section of the Lonely Planet Guide to Belgium, it starts by saying,

1. The Duke of Marlborough’s campaign during the War of Spanish Succession. One of these battles was at Oudenaarde (near Brussels).

2. The 1815 Waterloo campaign where, with the help of the Prussians, the Duke of Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch army defeated Napoleon just south of Brussels.

3. The battles of the “Great War” in 1914-18 were mostly fought in Flanders - Belgian Flanders and the adjoining French Flanders.

The flatness of Flanders has lent served to make it a place of battlefields. The emblem of the Flanders is a black lion rampant (standing on its hind legs)[119] against a gold background. It is called “Flanders, the lion”[120] and sometimes for the whole of the low countries as “leo Belgica” or the Belgian lion. There is even an early map that shows the shape of the land being exactly filled by the form of this lion.[121] This degree of personification suggests that this area has been controlled by a devouring beast, because the devil is as “a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”[122]

This particular map is significant because it shows the Belgian lion facing east with its tail hooked into the South Eastern part of England and with the tip of its tail pointing at the heartland. Throughout history, first England and then Britain has become hooked into various wars fought on Belgian soil.

The battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815 just 20km south of Brussels over the mastery of Europe. It was fought by an alliance of the British and the Dutch, together under the command of the Duke of Wellington, with the Prussians under Prince Bluecher against Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army.[123] There are two key facts about this battle: it need not have happened and it enabled Nathan Rothschild effectively buy up the London stock exchange.

Napoleon had already been defeated in 1813 by the allies and forced into exile on the isle of Elba. When he was there, the British sent a commissioner “to guarantee his safety from Royalist mobs and Maltese pirates.”[124] [125] He escaped from exile in 1815 to mobilise the French army, which culminated in the Battle of Waterloo.[126]

The Rothschilds had earlier financed both sides of the Napoleonic wars. They had an efficient messenger service, so that the news of the result of the Battle of Waterloo first reached Nathan Rothschild before the other traders on the London stock exchange. On hearing news of the victory, he heavily sold consuls in order to give an indication of defeat. Others followed suit in the understanding that news reached him fast, causing consuls to be sold at rock bottom prices, whereupon he signalled his agents to buy up everything, making an enormous profit. It is said that this enabled him to take control of financial side of the British economy.[127]

There is a war memorial at the site of the Battle of the Waterloo, where the Prince of Orange was wounded. It is an artificial cone-shaped 100 meter mound of earth, topped with a plinth on which stands a sculptured lion with its paw on a cannonball. This type of lion sculpture is probably based on the one in Florence[128] and is called a Marzocco lion and

“..derives its name from the fact that the lion is said to have once stood at the plinth of a column of Mars”[129]

The mound was made by women carrying baskets of soil for two years, indicating an idolatrous sacrifice of labour.[130]

I was alerted to this aspect of the research by Francesca Fleming and Marjie Sutton in connexion with a project concerning London.

In St Martin’s Church, Halle, which is about ten miles south east of Brussels, there is a statue of a black Madonna shrine to the Queen of Heaven.[131] It has been a place of pilgrimage since the early middle ages. It was honoured by Henry VIII who gave it a monstrance.[132]

In 1588 Catholic Spain was planning to invade Protestant England, which was under the reign of Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth I. One of their main military commanders, the Duke of Parma, chose to make a diversion was away his forces to make a pilgrimage to that shrine to make intercession for victory. I quote from the History of the United Netherlands:

"He [Dale, the English ambassador] was informed that the Duke [of Parma] was making a foot pilgrimage from Brussels to our Lady of Halle to implore victory for his banners, and had daily evidence of the soldier's expectation to invade and to "devour England." [133]

This is the more significant because the intention of invasion was to reverse the English reformation which had prohibited the worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as the Queen of Heaven. The Spanish invasion then failed as their armada of ships was blown off course and wrecked by a storm.

Halle occurs again with reference to Britain at war. During WW1 over 300 years later some Belgian refugees came to London and established a new Catholic church in Camden. A black madonna shrine was established there and the church is called Our Lady of Hal. My interpretation is that the spirit behind that Belgian shrine to was originally frustrated in its intention to “devour England” through warfare, but was later given through the trojan horse of the unrighteous warfare of WW1.

It is also significant that the Duke of Wellington was given land south of Waterloo (not too far from Halle) as a reward for his part in defeating Napoleon.[134] It is now held by his descendant, the present Duke. It is if the granting of land in Belgium as a spoil of war was reciprocated by another land promoting the Queen of Heaven.

The battlefields of the WW1 were largely fought in Flanders. This comprises French Flanders as well Belgian Flanders. There are some key points that are brought out alongside some quotations from the book, Chosen People, by Clifford Longley.

“I think the Church can best help the nation first of all by making it realise that it is engaged in a Holy War, and not be afraid of saying so. Christ died on Good Friday for Freedom, Honour and Chivalry, and our boys are dying for the same thing.” (p.205)

“Those who led the church in the First World War were all in sorts of ways similar to – and often personally known to – those who led the British army.” (p.205)

“Haig had not lost his conviction of eventual British victory, but came to regard the enormous losses as the necessary blood sacrifice.” (p. 209)

“Alan Wilkinson [an historian] sees the period of the Great War not only as the point from which the statistical decline of the Church of England can be measured: it was the point beyond which ‘whatever the church did, it could never re-establish its old type of authority in the nation’.” (p.211)

“In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jews were later to ask themselves: ‘Where was our God at Auschwitz?’ Years before, the British had coined the same question – ‘Where was our God at the Somme?’ “(p.211)

The unification of Germany in the nineteenth century under Bismarck was wrought by the agency of war. Dark spiritual forces in Germany have since promoted the two “total wars” of the twentieth century. The aftermath of these has been a fear of war which has been the main human impetus behind the unification of Europe. I believe there is a connection between the killing-fields of Belgium and Brussels as a centre promulgating European unification been based on the fear of war.

This following excerpt is taken from a Sunday Times article Peter Conradi entitled “Satanic Links to Belgian Murder Trial”[135] which was published on 29 December 1996.

Is there a root in Belgium to this sin? Adam Hochschild[136] indicates that Leopold II had been a paedophile. I quote,

This refers also to an international trafficking in young girls. In a more recent Belgian paedophile scandal, an informant claimed that Dutroux, was that he

The Belgian people have suspected that there has been an official cover-up of the true extent of the scandal in order to protect people in high places who are also implicated. The other explanation is extraordinary inefficiency on the part of the investigating authorities.

The following is taken from the article, “Perfidious Belgium”, by Paul Belien which appeared in The Spectator. The original source can also be found on the website, www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=12904 The main points are that Belgium is becoming a safe haven for Islamic terrorists and a base for their operations which have already taken effect. Even more seriously, there is complicity involving the Belgian government and Islam has been forming a state within a state.

The Walloon authorities are freely giving citizenship to the people coming in on the basis of being able to speak French, opening the door to North African Muslim terrorists. Apart from this 19 050 blank passports have gone missing, either stolen or sold by corrupt officials to the mafia.

These operations have already taken effect. The anti-Taleban general Ahman Shah Massoud was killed by Belgian citizen and an accomplice with Belgian papers. This had been planned by Tarek Maaroufi, another Belgian citizen and a leading al-Qa’eda agent, who had been protected by Belgium from extradition to his native Tunisia for being a member of a terrorist group.

“The Belgian government had made a deal with the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian soil in exchange for immunity from attack.”

“..fundamentalist Muslims are creating a religious state within the Belgian state. The biggest mosque in Belgium, the Great Mosque of Brussels, built in the Cinquantenaire Park with Saudi money on a piece of land donated by the late King Baudouin to Saudi King Faisal in 1967, operates its own ‘Islamic police’, supervising certain Brussels neighbourhoods with a large concentration of Muslims. It even organises paramilitary training.”

Throughout its history, the area of Belgium has repeatedly hosted various foreign armies of occupation following European wars. Freemasonry in the military has always been strong and occupying armies have introduced various forms of freemasonry into the country. The first speculative lodge in Belgium at Hainault, east of Mons, was introduced by French and Dutch soldiers in 1721 following the war of Spanish Succession.[138] Later the Grand Orient de France was introduced by the Napoleonic French. This form of freemasonry was anti-monarchist and anti-clerical, and provoked the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Waterloo settlement brought the area of Belgium within the United Netherlands under the reign of the Calvinist King, William of Orange, who appointed his son as the grandmaster of the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. In 1831 Belgium broke away from the United Netherlands and its parliament invited a German protestant prince, Leopold, to be the first King of the Belgians. Leopold I is generally listed as one of the “famous masons,”[139] but he had little interest in being the grandmaster. [140] As a member of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he was closely related to the British royal family which was heavily into freemasonry. He actually became a British subject[141] by first marrying Charlotte, the only child of George IV (of Brighton fame), while his first cousins were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Leopold I started The Order of Leopold.

His son, Leopold II, of Congo notoriety, initiated a further six orders, The Order for Civil Merit, The Order for Military Merit, The Order of the African Star, The Royal Order of the Lion, The Order of the Crown of Belgium and The Order of Leopold II.[142] In a photo, it also appears that Leopold was also a member of the Golden Fleece[143], an ancient order and a continental equivalent of the Order of the Garter.

The Nazi occupation saw the destruction of freemasonry in Belgium and the persecution of its members.[144] Freemasonry was re-established in Belgium after the Allied defeat of the Nazis by British and American freemasons in the armies of occupation.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Grand Orient freemasonry of Belgium, France and Italy has been at odds with the “regular” freemasonry, which requires an acknowledgement of God and is found in Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and other European countries.[145] Grand Orient freemasonry has been a politically active opponent of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium.[146] It started Brussels University in order to oppose the influence of the Catholic University of Louvain.[147] Today, freemasonry is rife throughout Belgian politics and the lodge plays a key role, especially for political advancement, with “regular” lodges for the Liberals (who are akin to the British Conservatives) and “irregular” lodges for the Socialists.[148]

During the reign of Leopold II in the late nineteenth century various structures were erected in Brussels with masonic signatures.

(a) The Parc de Bruxelles is laid out with pathways laid out like a Masonic compass.

(b)        The Palace of Justice was designed by the Masonic architect, Joseph Poelaert and
             mixes Greek, Roman and Babylonian styles. It was built at the site of the city’s
            gallows.[149]   Furthermore,

(c) The obelisk at the Place Polaert is topped with a crown[151], which indicates the link
between freemasonry and royalty in Belgium.

The flag of the European Union is a circle of twelve gold five-pointed stars on a blue field. The flag of the Belgian Congo was also of five-pointed yellow stars on a blue field. See www.copcity.com/anthems/ congok.html. Brussels was a government centre both the for Leopold’s Congo colony and for the European Union. The Congo flag differs because it has a left-hand-side border of five smaller stars with a large single star in its center. This was remarkably similar to the Burnet Lone Star flag of Texas, which had just a single yellow five-pointed star in the center on a blue field.[152] It was designed by David Burnett, a freemason and the first president of the earlier Republic of Texas.[153]

I wanted to establish whether there were also any similarities elsewhere to the motif of the EU flag of a circle of twelve five-pointed stars. An early prototype of the American flag was the Betsy Ross flag (named after the seamstress) that had a circle of thirteen five-pointed stars – supposedly, representing the thirteen colonies - in the top left-hand corner.[154] It was designed by Francis Hopkinson who was a freemason[155] and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He also used the pyramid design for the $50 bill in 1778[156] which was later adopted for the great seal.

The Mormon flag also contains a circle of five-pointed stars in the top left-hand corner – and with stripes in the remainder like the United States flag. This time it is a circle of twelve with a larger star in the center.[157] It has also alleged that Mormonism is also rooted in freemasonry.[158]

The main claim for the European flag is that the twelve stars represent the woman of Revelation 12:1 who “on her head has a garland of twelve stars.”[159] Roman Catholics have interpreted this woman as Mary[160], the mother of Jesus, who is worshipped as the Queen of Heaven. The cathedral in Strasbourg, the place of the second European capital, has a stained glass window depicting Mary with a halo of twelve stars. It is significant that this window sponsored by the “The Council of Europe” comparatively recent and was unveiled in 1955.[161]

The conclusions drawn from all this are that, while Queen of Heaven worship remains an important factor in Europe, there has been an element of manipulation and subterfuge and that the real roots of a United States of Europe are not Catholic but Masonic. However, there has also been Masonic infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church.[162]

Robert 'Dougal' Watt is an auditor at the European Court of Auditors. I quote from the article, Olaf poised to investigate Masonic network within EU institutions,[163]

“Watt believes he has evidence of a chilling underground network of Masons with links to the Italian Mafia operating in the EU Court of Auditors, the European Parliament, the European Investment Bank - and even the EU's own fraud investigation unit, OLAF.”

OLAF is the EU’s own fraud investigation unit, which has failed to investigate the claims of Watt, who also went into hiding for fear of his life.

A related and important article, CIA and freemasons among dark forces in Europe[164], considers a number of different covert aspects of Western European politics. One is that the secret nature of European operations is rooted in within c

“Between World War I and World War II the centre of occult and mystical activity was shifted from France to Belgium. Belgium became the main centre for many brotherhoods and secret societies of which many branches still exist today.”[165]

More specifically, Brussels became the headquarters for the European occult societies.[166] The Ravenstein Hotel in Brussels has been a key meeting place for occult practitioners.

There was an underground passage that was dug in the seventeenth century to connect the imperial palace with the St Gudula and St Michael Cathedral.[167] There is also rumoured to be a secret passage under the Palace of Justice.[168]

This is shaped as a broken cross, an occult symbol.[169] The broken cross is also a peace symbol; that is, a symbol of false peace, since real peace comes through the cross of Christ.

Booker, Christopher and Richard North, The Great Deception - The Secret History of the European Union, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003

Chadwick, Henry, The Penguin History of the Church, Volume One, The Early Church. Penguin Books, Revised Edition 1993

De Meeus, Adrien, History of the Belgians, (translated from French by G. Gordon) Thames and Hudson, 1962

Hilton, Adrian, The Principality and Power of Europe, Dorchester House Publications, 1997

Mills, Brian and Roger Mitchell, Sins of the Fathers, Sovereign World Ltd, 1999

[1] 1 Corinthians 13:9

[2] 1 Thessalonians 5:21

[3] The book, Deception in War, by John Latimer shows the key role of deception in the execution of war. This sometimes may even involve the deception of one’s own side.

[4] The Great Deception: a History of the European Union is by Christopher Booker and Richard North.

[5] www.expatica.com/source/ site_article.asp?subchannel

[6] In their book, Target Europe, p.26, Roger and Sue Mitchell claim that the Queen of Heaven has also affected the Protestant Church.

[7] 2 Corinthians 11:14

[8] John 10:10

[9] “You believe there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe – and tremble!” [James 2:9]

[10] www.sitesaver.org/preservation/megalith.html

[11] www.pantheon.org/articles/a/arduinna.html

[12] This was also in the Schaerbeek, Boitsfort and Uccle areas of Brussels around 2250 BC.

[13] Spiritual Aspects of the European Union by Pieter Bos on

www.servingthenations.org/ nationsarticle.asp?ArticleID=82

[14] The research on Belgium documented by Global Harvest Ministries - on www.globalharvest.org/index.asp?action=belgium – also refers to the Maastricht Giant just across the border in the Netherlands.

[15] The Belgae also settled in the South West of England and had a capital in Winchester. Interestingly, Winchester later became the capital of Wessex and then the whole of Anglo-Saxon England.

[16] www.shrule.com/_shrule/_display.php?fid=1&pid=931

[17] de Meeus, p.15

[18] Interestingly, while the Belgae were related to the British Celts, it is also said that the Franks were culturally similar to the Anglo-Saxons.

[19] This replicated what happened across the Channel with the much of Celtic Britain being taken over by the Anglo-Saxon invaders who are said to have been culturally similar to the Franks.

[20] De Meuus, p.53

[21] Charles V was responsible for the events leading up to the political side of the English Reformation. He had the Pope under his control – literally, at one stage with imprisonment – and would not the allow him to slight his aunt, Catherine of Aragon, by allowing Henry VIII to divorce her, although, for kings, there was some theologically precedent for divorce.

[22] 1 Corinthians 10: 19-20

[23] www.belgien-tourismus.de

[24] www.behindthename.com/nmc/ger2.html

[25] The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins

[26] www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintg36.htm

[27] www.ngw.nl/int/bel/b/brussel.htm

[28] www.planetware.com/photos/B/BEGNT8.HTM

[29] www.dioceseoflincoln.org/purple/saints/saints.htm

[30] witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMDragons.html

[31] www.trabel.com/luik/liege-churches.htm

[32] www.trabel.com/mons/mons-history.htm

[33] einscafe.eins.org/einscafe/lumecon.html

[34] www.magonia.demon.co.uk/news/reviews/angels01.htm

[35] www.saga.co.uk/1057fm/pages/article.asp?id=205

[36] www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/stgeoren.htm

[37] www.saga.co.uk/1057fm/pages/article.asp?id=205

[38] www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1095974,00.html

[39] www.expatica.com/ source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=49&story_id=446

[40] Sometimes the French and German versions of his name, Godefroi de and Gottfried von Bouillon, are used in other references.

[41] www.servingthenations.org/article.asp?ArticleID=82

[42] To his credit, he at least refused to wear a royal crown, because Christ had worn the crown of thorns.

[43] The Angel categorically tells Daniel, who was a Jew, in Daniel 12:1 that Michael is

“The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people.” [my italics]

[44] www.cgk-online.de/englisch/01-whoweare/05-joyner1.htm

[45] There is an almost identical statute outside the British Houses of Parliament of the English crusader-king, Richard the Lion-heart, who was also responsible for atrocity.

[46] www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rinn.html

[47] This also explains his relationship with the commoner, Henry Morten Stanley, his explorer for the Congo, who as a child was also abandoned by his family. I believe their friendship was based on a kinship of orphan spirits.

[48] This was not a systematic genocide - as was carried out by the Germans in South West Africa on the basis of an “extermination order.” King Leopold’s Ghost, pp 281-2 by Adam Hochschild. It is of note that Rwanda, which was a German colony, experienced a genocide which was systematic.

[49] op.cit., p135

[50] This army was staffed not just by Belgians but by other Europeans as well.

[51] op. cit., p165.

[52] op. cit, p173

[53] op cit, pp. 191, 203, 305

[54] It was the supporters of the Liverpool football team who were involved in the crazed violence at the Heysel stadium, Brussels, which led to the deaths of fans supporting the rival team, Juventus.

[55] www.trabel.com/antwerp/antwerp-grotemarkt.htm

[56] www.mainlesson.com/ display.php?author=guerber&book=oldfrance&story=romans

[57] Adam Hochschild claims that both the assassination and the coup had US involvement, pp. 302-3.

[58] Op cit, p.304

[59] Sins of the Fathers, p. 55

[60] www.cbc.ca/national/news/dirtydiamonds

[61] www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/ detail/-/0813339391?v=glance

[62] www.maykuth.com/Africa/sier309.htm

[63] www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/amputees.html

[64] There was a brief interlude during the Napoleonic wars.

[65] www.trabel.com/brussel/brussel-cinquantenairepark.htm

[66] This moument depicts the Roman army Roman carrying off the Menorah.

See www.bible-light.com/BLON/V10-1_2003-01/A6.htm

[67] The Menorah is still held by the Vatican despite Israel requesting its return.

[68] www.ancientcoinmarket.com/mt/mtarticle2/1.html

[69] There were two other temples to Janus, one of which had four doors. www.leadingtonearts.com/Outreach/ Outreach_info/DWm.html

[70] Obelisks also are both associated with sun-worship and are also used as war memorials.

[71] John 10:10

[72] The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - also topped with a quadriga - is another triumphal arch, which has spectacularly been used for military processions. As a gateway it was closed after WWII by the building of the Berlin Wall just a few meters away, leading to a period of effective peace in Europe. The Wall came down at the end of 1989 and the Brandenburg Gate was reopened. Then, just over two years later, genocidal war returned to Europe with the start of the Balkan conflict.

[73] www.trabel.com/brussel/brussel-cinquantenairepark.htm

[74] Note the same explanation of representing nine provinces was given for the nine spheres of the Atomium.

[75] www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/ myth/auriga.html

www.ufrsd.net/staffwww/stefanl/myths/auriga.htm

[76] www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/ 2398/oocinfo/primer/sun.html

[77] However, despite his conversion, “..Constantine was not aware of any mutual exclusveness between Christianity and his faith in the Unconquered Sun”, The Early Church, p.126, by Owen Chadwick

[78] 1.1911encyclopedia.org/Q/QU/QUADRIGA.htm

[79] www.usask.ca/antiquities/coins/republic_thirdcent.html

[80] www.trabel.com/brussel/Brussel-HeyselAtomium.htm

[81] thechoice.online.fr/be.html

[82] www.worldtouristattractions.travel-guides.com/ attractions/ato/ato.asp

[83] www.expo2000.de/ expo2000/geschichte/detail.php?wa_id=15&lang=1&s_typ=8

[84] europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entr39a.htm

[85] www.greenpeace.org/ international_en/news/details?campaign_id=3940&item_id=292034

[86] Britain and France, of course, are already nuclear powers as nation states.

[87] Iron is also associated with invincible warfare in Scripture.

[88] www.angelfire.com/fl3/OGUN

[89] www.levity.com/alchemy/kollerstrom_mars.html

[90] www.mountainartcenter.org/number9.htm

[91] The leading god of the Ennead sometimes is named differently in other sources. It is suffices that Atom, variously spelt, is one of them to which an allusion has been made. Later on Atom was combined with the sun god Ra to give the composite Atum-Ra.

[92] www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1299/ 11_46/67328965/p1/article.jhtml

[93] www.nok-benin.co.uk/history_philosophy1.htm

[94] Although Belgium is a specifically English word for that country, it uses the Latin suffix –ium.

[95] www.atomium.be/HTMLsite/EN/Welcome/Welcome.html

[96] www.starsandseas.com/SAS_Mythology/Ecreate.htm

[97] www.canonbury.ac.uk/ library/pubs/some_thoughts_about_the_roman_go.htm

[98] One source is www.plotinus.com/janus.htm . This is something of a minority view, but it has to be said that the status and attributes of various gods did change over time.

[99] www.melissaapplegate.com/BookofLife/bookintro.htm

[100] www.nok-benin.co.uk/history_philosophy1.htm

[101] www.melissaapplegate.com/BookofLife/bookintro.htm

[102] The Egyptian creation myth in particular seems to be a drastic distortion of the truth rather than an outright invention. Note the similarity between the words Adam and Atom and the mention of the “watery abyss”. The distortion would have emerged as a blinding of understanding from the effect of the pagan idolatry after the Flood.

[103] www.aiwaz.net/kabbalah/sephiroth/ egyptianattribution.htm

[104] www.madonnaonline.com.br/.../ _img/logo_dwt.jpg

[105] www.mad-eyes.net/news/2003/03_04b.htm

[106] www.expo2000.de/ expo2000/geschichte/detail.php?wa_id=15&lang=1&s_typ=16

[107] www.angelfire.com/realm/ofstardust/RISE_AC.html

[108] The Principality and Power of Europe by Adrian Hilton

[109] www.trabel.com/brussel/Brussel-HeyselAtomium.htm

[110] The centre of Brussels is also shaped like a rough pentagram and is called the “Pentagram.”

[111] users.skynet.be/rentfarm/expo58/exhibition/

[112] www.atomium.be/HTMLsite/EN/Welcome/Welcome.html

[113] www.atomium.be/HTMLsite/EN/AlbumPhoto/Carte.html

[114] www.luxcentral.com/stamps/LuxStamps1956-1959.html

[115] arch.rug.ac.be/expo35/topics/general/011.html

[116] store.enchantedcafe.com/dwarfmoven.html

[117] www.minieurope.com/Pdf/pers2003gb.pdf

[118] www.afemjoclm.com/AspBe/historyBI.htm

[119] The image of the lion rampant is remarkably similar to the vision of the first beast in Daniel 7:4: “The first was like a lion. And had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man’s heart was given to it” (my italics)

[120] www.flags-by-swi.com/fotw/flags/be-vl.html

[121] noosphere.cc/flandersHistory.html

[122] 1 Peter 5:8

[123] These three military commanders are said to have been freemasons, which was the norm for high ranking military officers at this time and has been ever since.

[124] Napoleon and Wellington, p.117 by Andrew Roberts

[125] During the Napoleon’s exile on Elba, Wellington was made the British ambassador in Paris and slept with two of Napoleon’s mistresses. [op. cit. p.124]

[126] After this second defeat, the Duke of Wellington refused to hand Napoleon over to the Prussians who wanted to execute him. [op. cit. p.189]

[127] See Descent into Slavery by Des Griffin on www.biblebelievers.org.au/slavery.htm

[128] 130.238.50.3/ilmh/Ren/ civic-empire.htm

[129] www.europeanvacationguide.com/ PiazzadellaSignoria1306_Overview.html

[130] Quoting from Martha Lucia in the Watchman Network, Trafalgar Square:

“The lions, which are built on plinths (false foundations of idolatry) are watchers representing WAR and are guarding the spoils of war.”

[131] www.ourladyofhal.net/hal2.htm

[132] home.pi.be/~par4298/basiliek_van_Halle_welcome.html

[133] www.gutenberg.net/etext04/jm55v10.txt

[134] The Duke of Wellington also stationed 17 000 men at Halle in order to protect his right flank during the Waterloo campaign.

[135] www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/ MarcDutrouxmurders.htm

[136] King Leopold’s Ghost, p. 88, by Adam Hochschild

[137] The Belgian Disease: Dutroux, Scandal and “System Failure in Belgium” by Maurice Punch on www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/StaffPages/ RickSarre/Poland%20papers/Punch.pdf

[138] www.glb.be/English/historiek%20en.htm

[139] www.coloradomasons.org/mosaic184/famous.html

[140] www.hrwf.net/html/belgium1999.html

[141] www.famousbelgians.net/leopold1.htm

[142] www.antiquesatoz.com/orders/belord.htm

[143] I am grateful to Pieter Bos for this information.

[144] The Nazi hostility to freemasonry was fired by anti-Semitism. In Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short says that there were Prussian military lodges for high ranking officers, over which Hitler would have had little control, but they disallowed Jewish membership.

[145] glrb.org/efaq.htm

[146] As regards so-called “regular” freemasonry, in Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short documents the fact that there have been Masonic clergy in both the Church of England and the Methodist church.

[147] www.trosch.org/bks/freemasonry.html

[148] www.hrwf.net/html/belgium1999.html

[149] www.passports.com/trips/cityfact/cityfact. asp?city=Brussels:%20In%20and%20Around%20the%20Grand%20Place

[150] www.platfrom.net/eurostar/steve.html

[151] www.sonnenleiter.com/brussels/ Pages/26.html

[152] flagspot.net/flags/us-txhs2.html

[153] www.hoffmanlodge412.org/famous.htm

[154] www.koscoflags.com/ Hist.Betsy_Ross.jpg

[155] www.americanmason.com/articlemain.ihtml?ID=110

[156] www.greatseal.com/symbols/pyramid.html

[157] flagspot.net/flags/rel-morm.html

[158] www.irr.org/mit/masonry.html

[159] The Principality and Power of Europe by Adrian Hilton

[160] The woman is surely Israel and the stars are the twelve tribes. This interpretation is based on the similarity of Joseph’s vision and its interpretation in Genesis 37:9-10 along with the statement of Proverbs 17:6 that “Children’s children are the crown of old men”.

[161] www.thekeffs.freeserve.co.uk/EU_Flag_Page_1.htm

[162] “The evidence the pope had acquired indicated that within the Vatican City State there were over one hundred masons, ranging from cardinals to priests.” The pope in question was John Paul I, the “smiling pope”, whom, David Yallop, the author of “In God’s Name”, claims, was murdered for attempting to root the masonic infiltration of the Vatican by the group P2.www.justresponse.net/DougalWatt20Aug02.html

[163] www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Number=361454

[164] www.justresponse.net/DougalWatt20Aug02.html

[165] www.wordiq.com/definition/Belgium

[166] kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/ OM.GB/Dantine/DantinneBio.html

[167] passages.ebbs.net/fiches/isabelleen.htm

[168] passages.ebbs.net/fiches/paljusen.htm

[169] www.christwatch.com/DemonicSymbols/ecu_building.htm