inzet iii

The City of God...

is the Church in its three states: militant, suffering and triumphant.

A spiritual bond brings together, in a single Mystical Body, the faithful who fight on earth, the souls who suffer in purgatory, and the blessed who rejoice in Heaven.  Man is in fact a social being not only in the natural, but also in the supernatural order.

The vital communication of supernatural blessings among members of the three churches is the Communion of Saints.

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An intimate solidarity also exists among the children of darkness.

The link which binds them is hatred. They hate and detest one another, yet come together in the struggle against Good, as stated in the Psalm: “convenerunt in unum adversus Dominum et adversus Christum eius” [Psalm 2:2].

Father Sebastian Tromp, a Jesuit theologian who collaborated in drafting the Encyclical Mystici Corporis of Pius XII, and in the II Vatican Council was adviser to Cardinal Ottaviani, added an appendix to his treatise Corpus Christi quod est ecclesia to De corpore diabolic, demonstrating, on the basis of scriptural and patristic citations, that the City of Satan assumes the guise of a mystical body of the devil.

In his books entitled Moralia, St Gregory the Great speaks frequently of the corpus diabuli, which is the devil and his followers. “Just as the saints are members of Christ, so the ungodly without faith are members of the devil” and “The devil is the father of all the iniquitous, and all the ungodly are members of this leader.”

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Civitas diabuli...

is not merely a whole made up of errors and moral perversions, but an organised structure. It has dogmas, rights and hierarchies, representing as it does an imitation of the true Church. It is a counter-church, defined in the Apocalypse as the “synagogue of Satan” [Ap.2:9; 3:9].

Tertullian describes the rituals used in the second century, revealing that, even at that time, a diabolical parody of Christian mysteries was in existence. St Irenaeus speaks of the Cainites, who heralded as liberators the great rebels against God, Cain, Esau and Judas. The seven medieval Gnostics, like the Cathars, considered Cain, and those who built the tower of Babel, the inhabitants of the city of Sodom, to be their precursors.

Freemasonry, which inherits the faith and customs of Gnosticism, formed the visible driving force of the civitas diabuli from the 18th century onwards. No other sect has been the subject of such condemnation from the Church during the last three centuries, of which the Encyclical Humanum Genus of Leo XIII is, to some extent, a compendium.

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The Mystical Body of Christ and Corpus diabuli are two kingdoms which oppose one another in history, as life and death, good and evil, light and darkness. Their aim is to annihilate one another. The struggle between the two armies is perpetual and implacable [onverbiddelijk], as summarised in these words:

“And I tell you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” [Mt 16:18].

On one side, the Church, which is the Kingdom of Christ.

And on the other an enemy described as “the gates of hell”,

Which will - in vain - make every effort to prevail over the Church.


~bron~