Chapter 9 The Eighth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD
She commands the Church’s armies
Continuing our translation of the 1845 reprint of Fr François Poiré's Triple Crown of the Mother of God (1643 French edition).
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§ 5. The third Legion of the enemies of God and the Holy Virgin : Heretics
1 If I place the heretics immediately after the sorcerers, they can have no reason to object because even some fourteen hundred years ago Tertullian wrote that they were intimate friends. Sorcerers and occultists have in fact been the fathers of heretics. This was true in his time and has been totally borne out by history which has revealed that all these purveyors of novelties studied and learned the dark arts in the caves of necromancy[1]. Simon is considered the first patriarch of the heretics and he has always been known in the Church as Simon Magus[2], a title he thoroughly deserves. Menander, his disciple and compatriot, was just as accomplished as his master and used his powers to bring great harm to the city of Antioch, according to St Justin Martyr[3]. Nicephorus[4] is a faithful witness showing how Castor Agrippa revealed to the world the satanic imposture of Basilides. Valentinus, according to Philastrius[5] (Bishop of Brescia in Italy) was more a student and devotee of Pythagoras than he was a disciple of Jesus Christ, which says everything. The Gnostics who came later made little attempt to conceal their activities. Their schools of the occult were public knowledge, according to what we learn from Nicephorus[6], and the crimes and outrages they committed in the light of day caused revulsion. Sulpicius Severus[7] records how Priscillian carried their heresy into Spain and was twice charged and convicted of malefice. He had been the disciple of Marcus the Egyptian, one of the most notorious Sorcerers in the world, as is shown by his vile crimes[8]. Carpocrates, according to St Irenaeus[9], was just as strongly suspected of heresy as his predecessors. Hermogenes fell into the same category, according to St Jerome[10] and St Sulpicius Severus[11]. Cassian[12] reports having heard an evil spirit boasting through the mouth of a possessed person that it was he himself who was responsible for the wicked heresies proclaimed through Arius and Eunomius.
Footnotes
[1] necromancy : The art of predicting the future by supposed communication with or through the dead; (more generally) divination, sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment.
[2] Magus : one skilled in occult learning; magician, sorcerer, wizard; see Act. viii. 24.
[3] Apolog. I.
[4] Lib. IV Eccles. hist., c. 2.
[5] Lib. de Hæresib.
[6] Lib. IV Hist., c. 7.
[7] In Vita parag. Martini.
[8] Lib. IV, c. 3.
[9] Lib. IV contra Hæreses.
[10] Epist. ad Clesiphontem contra Pelagium.
[11] Lib. II Hist.
[12] Collat. VII, c. 32.
2 If this were the place to speak at length concerning their successors, I would easily be able to show who and what they were. I shall say nothing, for example, about Berengarius – inviting those who are interested to read the history written by Nangis. The Waldenses gained such a reputation for sorcery that in several parts of the world a sorcerer and a Waldensian are one and the same thing. The history of the Albigensians shows clearly the sources of their inspiration and where they learned the practice of their iniquities. Finally, lest those whom hell has spawned in our own day complain that they have been forgotten or not recognised, does not Luther himself admit in his Treatise on the private Mass that he and the devil were companions in study and shared a measure of salt together? Elsewhere[1] he writes that his mind was so filled with the devil that he could neither write nor read and that on several occasions he entered into discussions and dealings with him? Did not Karlstad[2] reveal that it was a tall man in black who showed him how to fight against transubstantiation? Zwingli[3] finally resolved to deny the reality of the Blessed Sacrament in the presence of a spirit but he could not remember whether it was white or black. As for John Calvin, William Lindanus (the learned Bishop of Roermond), is quite unequivocal when he states that:
Considering the inconstancy of this man, his malignity, his iniquities, his blasphemies and his way of life – it is impossible to conclude that he was not governed by the devil.
This is confirmed[4] by a dispute he had with Servetus, his colleague and minister, who reproached him that his public actions would show that he was a murderer and a disciple of Simon Magus, unless he could disprove this; to this allegation, he gave no response, and what will be said about his death in paragraph 9 below[5] will remove any doubt whatsoever about this matter. It is quite astonishing to see Magicians and Sorcerers appearing like dense swarms of wasps and gnats wherever a heresy appears, demonstrating clearly to the world that just as heresy is conceived and nourished in the womb of sorcery, so too that is the direction it normallytakes. A writer[6] of our own day has said that the devil makes use of heresy like a courtesan while she enjoys the bloom of youth and is attractive; but as soon as these leave her, he turns her into a bawd and changes the Heretic into a Sorcerer and finally an Atheist so that the curse in Joel may be fully accomplished in him: The locust hath eaten what the caterpillar hath left, and vermin hath consumed all that was left by the locust[7].
Footnotes
[1] Epist. ad ducem Sax.
[2] Lutherus, t. III, p. 68.
[3] Lib. qui inscribitur Subsidium, de Eucharistia.
[4] Dubitantii, dial. 3.
[5] § 9.15.
[6] Joann. Maldonatus
[7] That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed. Joel i. 4.
3 I have covered these issues at the outset so that once we recognise who the ancestors of the Heretics were, it becomes easy to judge by what spirit they are lead. Let no one be surprised if they become imitators of their forebears and if, having sorcerers for fathers, they inherit from them their animosity and their fury against God and His Mother. I would be entirely justified in bringing forth evidence here of the indignities, the outrages and the sacrileges that they have committed against the Saviour of our souls; the blasphemies spewed from their mouths against Him; the damage they have inflicted upon His vine, which is the Church, cultivated by His labour and watered with His precious Blood, since these outrageous crimes are irrefutable proof of the intense hatred towards Him which inspires them and the good reasons they have given to the MOTHER OF GOD to counteract and fight against them. Such a discussion would, however, be very time consuming and I am happy to leave readers to study the details elsewhere. Here I shall touch only briefly on some examples of their hatred towards the Holy Virgin. I say briefly because any attempt to empty their cesspit would infect the very air itself and spread a terrible stench in the world. To avoid confusion, I will divide this third legion into four cohorts who, whilst they each have their own colours, all remain driven by the same passion : to blot out the glory and to erase the very name of the MOTHER OF GOD.
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SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.
The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.
Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
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