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EPSTEIN, Nicole Junkermann, the Red Cross and the VATICAN connections (pizzagate)
submitted 5 days ago by letsdothis3

This post is a continuation of : The Epstein Associate Nobody’s Talking About: The IDF-Linked Bond Girl Infiltrating the UK NHS….Nicole Junkermann

Nicole Junkermann with husband Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti at the Vatican: www.leggo.it/gossip/news/ferdinando_brachetti_peretti_nicole_jungermann_battesimo_piccola_vita-4369976.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Brachetti_Peretti

Ferdinando Maria Brachetti Peretti (born in Rome on January 13 1960), from the wealthy Brachetti Peretti family, is Chairman and CEO of an Italian energy company, API Group.
Brachetti Peretti’s father, Count Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, was for thirty years, until September 2007, head of the family Group “API” (Anonima Petroli Italiana), founded by his maternal grandfather Cav. Del Lavoro Ferdinando Peretti.[citation needed] His mother, Mila, worked for more than 30 years in the Red Cross and is the only woman in Italy to carry the military grade of General.
Mila Peretti imgur.com/a/uhI8k1Z

Through social media one can see the deep ties to the Vatican… I’m archiving those connections.. Anyhoo..

Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape – www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/nazis-escaped-on-red-cross-documents

Her son Ugo and brother-in-law of Junkermann: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Brachetti_Peretti

Ugo Maria Brachetti Peretti (born July 8, 1965, Rome) is an Italian oil executive. ..His father, Count Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, Cavaliere Del Lavoro was the head of the family group, Anonima Petroli Italiana (API) for thirty years, until his retirement in September 2007. The company was founded by his maternal grandfather Cavaliere Del Lavoro Ferdinando Peretti. His mother, Mila Peretti,[1] is the National Inspectress of the Italian Red Cross, which she has served for over 30 years. She is the only woman in Italy to carry the military grade of General. In 2005 Peretti married the Countess Isabella Borromeo Arese Taverna.
He was educated at the American Community School in London where he graduated in 1983 with an international Baccalaureate degree and then qualified for a degree in Business Administration at the American University of Rome in 1987. He subsequently obtained his specialization at Boston University. He completed his military service as an officer of the Carabinieri.
After 1990 he started working as a manager in the family business of which he and his brothers are 100% shareholders. During his time with API he has held many positions, at first operating the “downstream cycle” (a combination of activities such as deliveries, transportation, refining, sale and marketing of oil). In 2007, after a series of promotions, he became Chairman of the company.[2] In this capacity, he focused the Group’s activities back to the oil sector, with the strengthening of the distribution network and the improvement of the Falconara refinery.[3] He holds several other chairs, vice-chairs and advisory positions within API as well as being a member of the boards at UniCredit, the Executive Council of the “Rome Industrial Union” and Unione Petrolifera.

Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_of_Gendarmerie_of_Vatican_City

The Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State (Italian: Corpo della Gendarmeria dello Stato della Città del Vaticano) is the gendarmerie, or police and security force, of Vatican City and the extraterritorial properties of the Holy See.
In 1816, after the dissolution of the Napoleonic empire, Pope Pius VII founded the Papal Carabinieri Corps for the service of the Papal States.

Ugo is married to Isabella Borromeo Arese Taverna ..her half-sister is Beatrice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Borromeo

Beatrice dei Principi Borromeo Arese Taverna (born 18 August 1985 in San Candido)[5] is a member of the ancient aristocratic House of Borromeo, and she is well known in the Italian news media as a television personality. She is the wife of Pierre Casiraghi, younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover…
Through her father she is related to Carlo Borromeo (1538–1584), who became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan, and a canonized saint. The family currently owns most of the Borromean Islands in the Lago Maggiore, Milan city, and many other estates in the Lombardy and Piedmont countryside .

House of Borromeo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borromeo

The best-known members of the family were the cardinals and Archbishops of Milan; Carlo (1538–1584), who was canonized by Pope Paul V in 1610, and Federico (1564–1631), who founded the Ambrosian Library. The figure of the Borromean rings, which forms part of the family’s coat of arms, is well known in the diverse fields of topology, psychoanalysis and theology.

I’ll stop there for now. But y’all have heard about the thousands of bones found buried in the Vatican City, right? Wonder what that’s all about. Story here:

Thousands of bones found in Vatican search for missing teen

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[–] Vindicator 2 points (+2|-0) 5 days ago
@letsdothis3, I notice the Borromeo coat of arms has a snake eating a child in the upper left. That is apparently the emblem of the House of Visconti of Milan which supposedly died out.
Sketchy.

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[–] Piscina 2 points (+2|-0) 5 days ago
This is Peretti being interviewed about his ‘art’, which features dead animals, butchered carcasses, horns and a final shot of him showing only one eye.

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[–] letsdothis3 [S] 2 points (+2|-0) 5 days ago
Good find. Grim ‘art’.

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[–] letsdothis3 [S] 1 point (+1|-0) 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)
Borromean Rings – The Holy Trinity www.holytrinityamblecote.org.uk/symbols.html

Borromean Rings According to the Athanasian Creed we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity and so Borromean rings have been used to represent this idea. An association can be traced back to Saint Augustin of Hippo (354-430). He described how three gold rings could be three rings but of one substance. A now lost 13th century French manuscript described the word “unitas” at the intersection of all rings and the three syllables of “tri-ni-tas” distributed in the outer sectors.

im-possible.info/english/articles/borromeo/index.html

In mathematics, the Borromean rings consist of three topological circles which are linked and form a Brunnian link, i.e., removing any ring results in two unlinked rings…
Borromean link was known long before Vitaliano Borromeo by vikings of Scandinavia. The symbol known as ‘Odin’s triangle’ or the ‘Walknot’ (meaning knot of the slain) has two variants. One is a set of Borromean triangles, the other is a unicursal curve that forms a trefoil knot. The two designs are clearly closely related…
Today Borromean rings can be met many logotypes. The most known is logo of Ballantine beer. In North America, the Borromean rings is known as the Ballantine rings after the New Jersey Brewing company P. Ballantine and Sons.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Ballantine_and_Sons_Brewing_Company

Writer/journalist Hunter S. Thompson mentions drinking Ballantine Ale twice in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. At the beginning of Chapter 12, Thompson writes “Into the Ballantine Ale now, zombie drunk and nervous.” Later in Chapter 12, Thompson writes “‘Ballantine Ale,’ I said … a very mystic long shot, unknown between Newark and San Francisco. He served it up, ice-cold. I relaxed. Suddenly everything was going right; I was finally getting the breaks.”[18] It is worth noting that Thompson’s book was based on a trip he took with his attorney in March and April 1971, approximately one year before Ballantine sold to Falstaff.
The iconic American writer Ernest Hemingway endorsed Ballantine Ale in a print advertisement.[19][20] This ad was part of a larger campaign featuring authors and novelists, asking them “How would you put a glass of Ballantine Ale into words?” Hemingway was the most prominent writer to participate followed by John Steinbeck. Other writers who were in the campaign include:

James A. Michener, author of over 40 books, who is best known for Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948.

C.S. Forester, who is best known for writing the Horatio Hornblower series, which was later turned into a TV series. Erle Stanley Gardner, who is best known for his Perry Mason detective novels, which were also turned into a TV series.
Anita Loos, who wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which was adapted into a popular movie starring Marilyn Monroe. Lesser known writers who participated include: J.B. Priestley, A.J. Cronin, Paul Gallico, James Hilton, and Clarence Budington Kelland. Ballantine’s Beer is referred to as “expensive imported beer” in Sara Sheridan’s Brighton Belle, a mystery set on the South Coast in England in the 1950s.[21]

In politics – In 1983, President Ronald Reagan famously held up a pint of Ballantine Ale draft at a local bar in Boston.[26][27][28][29] President Harry S. Truman was the recipient of a bottle of the prestigious and highly regarded Burton Ale..

Jay-Z also mentions Ballantine Ale in his 2010 interview with Charlie Rose….n the album art for Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, each band member chose a symbol to represent himself. It is rumored that drummer John Bonham’s choice to use the Borromean rings was inspired by Ballantine’s logo.[9] Bonham’s symbol was of course “upside down” in comparison.

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[–] letsdothis3 [S] 1 point (+1|-0) 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)
www.specchioeconomico.com/200712/brachetti.html (translated from Italian)

Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti is managing director of api holding, president of api energia and api nòva energia spa. api is written with the initials strictly in lowercase and with the horse logo, operating for about 80 years in the oil and energy sector and family safe. One day before this affirmation Jim Rogers, founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, a fund famous in the world of finance for double-digit returns, had predicted a rising price up to $ 150 a barrel for oil; and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of ENI, had assessed the world reserves sufficient for another 70 years. Meanwhile, between the stock exchanges of London and New York there was a surge in prices for companies operating in the photovoltaic sector, along with an unmotivated loss for those operating in the wind farm. An energy world, therefore, in full turbulence. At the Rome Fair, where the World Energy Congress was taking place, Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti looked to the future of the companies entrusted to him and planned new developments. Representatives of Iberdrola, a Spanish company operating in all energy sectors, awaited him.
…Great commitment to work, confidentiality, mutual respect of people and roles in the company and in the parental group are in the family tradition. The founder of today, the knight of Labor Aldo Brachetti, at the time of his marriage with Mila Peretti wanted to unite, to his own, the surname of his father-in-law, founder of the company, starting the lineage of Brachetti Peretti. No interviews, very few public appearances, no gossip, despite being related to important names of Italian high society. Ferdinando is married to SAR Mafalda d’Assia, nephew of the princess Mafalda di Savoia, second child of Vittorio Emanuele III and wife of Filippo d’Assia.
Ferdinando’s brother, Ugo, who heads the oil sector, refining, marketing and distribution, married Isabella Borromeo of the princes of Angera, elder sister of Lavinia Borromeo, wife of John Elkann, heir of Fiat. 47 years old, tall, thin, Ferdinando starts the day early in the morning. Exercise bikes in the home gym, at 7.00 race in the avenues of Villa Borghese, then at work to take care of the oil holding and the two electricity companies entrusted to his particular care. After the classical high school, enrollment in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, the move to London for two years, the start of the oil trading office. Then to Paris, to follow administration and finance at the Paribas Bank.
At the same time he practiced various sports, he was an Italian helicopter pilot champion, he participated in motorbike competitions, he was an officer of the Carabinieri in the 1980s and 1981, earning the solemn commendation from the Head of State Sandro Pertini on the occasion of the earthquake of the ‘Irpinia. This has been the case for 25 years, during which he first followed all the sectors of the Group managing the “downstream” cycle which he considers one of the most alive and interesting, that is the set of activities from the supply of crude oil to transport on ships, to refining, marketing, selling oil and its derivatives, as well as green gasoline, diesel, lubricants, LPG in cylinders, turpentine, sulfur soap, up to the asphalt with the latest product of the non-stick bitumen from the Alma refinery of Ravenna,..

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[–] derram 1 point (+1|-0) 5 days ago
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Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape | World news | The Guardian

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holytrinityamblecote – archive.is/Y2us9
im-possible – archive.is/kupOC

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[–] carmencita 4 days ago
Not good at copying links from my phone but I did a couple of posts on the bones of a girl being found on the grounds of the Vatican. Jodi my personal opinion but the pope is covering up for crimes committed by priests and other holy officials that have murdered children there. Her brother is tirelessly pursuing truth and justice still.

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[–] Vindicator 5 days ago

I’ll stop there for now. But y’all have heard about the thousands of bones found buried in the Vatican City, right? Wonder what that’s all about.

It’s somewhat suspect that the media is reporting bones under the Vatican as some strange and suspicious discovery. In Roman times, Vatican Hill was the site of a necropolis outside the walls of Rome (an above ground cemetery). Peter, the first pope, was interred there after his crucifixion by Nero in AD 67. It was not originally the site of a church, though Christians did gather there and at the graves of other early matyrs like Saint Sebastian to pray for their martyred heroes.
Vatican Hill didn’t become the site of a church until over two centuries later, when Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Catholicism and made it the religion of the Roman Empire. He decided to build the first St. Peter’s Basilica over the grave of the original Keeper of the Keys, which involved partially leveling Vatican Hill to fill the necropolis so the church could be built on top. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the topic, which includes diagrams showing the construction. Their entry on the Tomb of St. Peter says

Between 320 and 327, Constantine built a five-aisled basilica atop the early Christian necropolis that was purported to be Peter’s resting place.[17] Much of the Vatican Hill was leveled to provide a firm foundation for the first St. Peter’s Basilica. The altar of the Basilica was planned to be located directly over the tomb. The matter was complicated by the upper chamber or memoria above the vault. This upper chamber had become endeared to the Romans during the ages of persecution, and they were unwilling that it should be destroyed.[16] The memoria was turned into the Chapel of the Confession. Above that was the main floor of the Basilica, with the raised altar directly over the Chapel of the Confession.
Following the discovery of bones that had been transferred from a second tomb under the monument, on June 26, 1968, Pope Paul VI claimed that the relics of Saint Peter had been identified in a manner considered convincing.[3]
The grave claimed by the Church to be that of Saint Peter lies at the foot of the aedicula beneath the floor. The remains of four individuals and several farm animals were found in this grave.[4] In 1953, after the initial archeological efforts had been completed, another set of bones were found that were said to have been removed without the archeologists’ knowledge from a niche (loculus) in the north side of a wall (the graffiti wall) that abuts the red wall on the right of the aedicula. Subsequent testing indicated that these were the bones of a 60- to 70-year-old man.[5] Margherita Guarducci argued that these were the remains of Saint Peter and that they had been moved into a niche in the graffiti wall from the grave under the aedicula “at the time of Constantine, after the peace of the church” (313).[6]

There are literally thousands of bones under the Vatican from Roman times. More are uncovered every time any major construction is undertaken.

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www.timesofisrael.com/florida-man-may-have-falsely-identified-as-holocaust-survivor

“We’re going to make sure pro-Israel students take over the student government . . . this is how AIPAC operates in our nation’s capital.”

www.invidio.us/watch?v=4tz9JE_SneY

Someone swears this is legit. Two right turns followed by two left turns. Line segments a fixed length.

archive.fo/5oBGx#selection-1289.0-1242.10

Below is a video of the behind-the-scenes work CNN did to stage the photo-op with Muslims holding up signs that read, ‘ISIS WILL LOSE’.

www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/shock-video-cnn-creates-fakenews-london-following-terror-attacks-stages-anti-isis-muslim-protesters/

fair.org/home/five-top-papers-run-18-opinion-pieces-praising-syria-strikes-zero-are-critical/

Five major US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News—offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Donald Trump’s Thursday night airstrikes. By contrast, the five papers ran a total of 18 op-eds, columns or “news analysis” articles (dressed-up opinion pieces) that either praised the strikes or criticized them for not being harsh enough:

New York Times

After the Missiles, We Need Smart Diplomacy on Syria (4/7/17)
Acting on Instinct, Trump Upends His Own Foreign Policy (4/7/17) (originally headlined “On Syria Attack, Trump’s Heart Came First”—presumably changed due to social media mockery)
Trump Raises the Stakes for Russia and Iran (4/7/17)
Syria’s ‘Conundrum’: Limited Strikes Risk Entrenching Assad’s Strategy (4/7/17)

Washington Post

Editorial: Trump’s Chance to Step Into the Global Leadership Vacuum (4/7/17)
Trump Enforces the ‘Red Line’ on Chemical Weapons (4/6/17)
Trump Has an Opportunity to Right Obama’s Wrongs in Syria (4/6/17)
Syrian Opposition Leader: Trump Has a Chance to Save Syria (4/7/17)
Was Trump’s Syria Strike a Moral Impulse or a Policy Change? (4/7/17)
Will Trump’s Decision to Strike Syria Reset His Presidency? (4/7/17)
Trump Might Be Going to War. But He Has No Plans for Establishing Peace (4/7/17) (Though the piece has criticism of Trump, it starts by declaring that the missile strikes were “an appropriate response to an act of unspeakable horror.”)

Wall Street Journal

Editorial: Trump’s Syria Opportunity (4/7/17)
With Strike on Syria, Trump Sends a Global Message (4/7/17)

USA Today

Editorial: Trump Pulls the Trigger in Syria (4/7/17)
Syria Missile Strike Could Lead to Political Solution (4/7/17)

Daily News

Praise Trump’s Syria Action, but Question His Explanation (4/7/17)
Trump’s Syria Response Raises Urgent Questions (4/7/17)
Trump’s Syria Action: A Limited Strike for a Specific Purpose (4/7/17)

Some, such as “The Riddle of Trump’s Syria Attack” (New York Times, 4/7/17) and “Was That Syria Attack Legal? Only Congress Can Say” (USA Today, 4/7/17) were value neutral—neither expressly in support of the attacks nor opposing them.

Cable news coverage was equally fawning. In the hours immediately following the attack, MSNBC had on a seemingly never-ending string of military brass and reporters who uncritically repeated the assertion the strikes were “proportional” and “limited.” MSNBC didn’t give a platform to a single dissenting voice until four hours after the attacks began, when host Chris Hayes, according to his own account, had on two guests opposed to the airstrikes in the midnight slot. MSNBC host Brian Williams got into a bit of hot water when he lovingly admired a slick video sent over by the Pentagon showing tomahawk missiles being fired from US navy vessels (FAIR.org, 4/7/17).

CNN’s resident Serious Military Person Lt. Gen Mark Hertling repeated over and over—seemingly on script—that the strikes were “bold, tactical.” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria gushed praise on Trump Friday morning (4/7/17; FAIR.org, 4/7/17), telling host Alisyn Camerota, “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States…. This was a big moment.”

Due to the mostly bipartisan support for the airstrikes, it’s somewhat predictable that corporate media would follow suit. No need to debate the morality or utility of the strikes, because the scene played out per usual: Dictator commits an alleged human rights violation, the media calls on those in power to “do something” and the ticking time bomb compels immediate action, lest we look “weak” on the “global stage.” Anything that deviates from this narrative is given token attention at best.

“the wretched are alone the good; the poor, the weak, the lowly, are alone the good; the suffering, the needy, the sick, the loathsome, are the only ones who are pious, the only ones who are blessed, for them alone is salvation—but you, on the other hand, you aristocrats, you men of power, you are to all eternity the evil, the horrible, the covetous, the insatiate, the godless; eternally also shall you be the unblessed, the cursed, the damned!”

NIETZSCHE ON JEWS, CHRISTIANITY, AND “FREETHINKERS”

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“The reader will have already surmised with what ease the priestly mode of valuation can branch off from the knightly aristocratic mode, and then develop into the very antithesis of the latter: special impetus is given to this opposition, by every occasion when the castes of the priests and warriors confront each other with mutual jealousy and cannot agree over the prize. The knightly-aristocratic “values” are based on a careful cult of the physical, on a flowering, rich, and even effervescing healthiness, that goes considerably beyond what is necessary for maintaining life, on war, adventure, the chase, the dance, the tourney—on everything, in fact, which is contained in strong, free, and joyous action. The priestly-aristocratic mode of valuation is—we have seen—based on other hypotheses: it is bad enough for this class when it is a question of war! Yet the priests are, as is notorious, the worst enemies—why? Because they are the weakest. Their weakness causes their hate to expand into a monstrous and sinister shape, a shape which is most crafty and most poisonous. The really great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters—in comparison with the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece of cleverness is practically negligible. Human history would be too fatuous for anything were it not for the cleverness imported into it by the weak—take at once the most important instance. All the world’s efforts against the “aristocrats,” the “mighty,” the “masters,” the “holders of power,” are negligible by comparison with what has been accomplished against those classes by the Jews—the Jews, that priestly nation which eventually realised that the one method of effecting satisfaction on its enemies and tyrants was by means of a radical transvaluation of values, which was at the same time an act of the cleverest revenge. Yet the method was only appropriate to a nation of priests, to a nation of the most jealously nursed priestly revengefulness. It was the Jews who, in opposition to the aristocratic equation (good = aristocratic = beautiful = happy = loved by the gods), dared with a terrifying logic to suggest the contrary equation, and indeed to maintain with the teeth of the most profound hatred (the hatred of weakness) this contrary equation, namely, “the wretched are alone the good; the poor, the weak, the lowly, are alone the good; the suffering, the needy, the sick, the loathsome, are the only ones who are pious, the only ones who are blessed, for them alone is salvation—but you, on the other hand, you aristocrats, you men of power, you are to all eternity the evil, the horrible, the covetous, the insatiate, the godless; eternally also shall you be the unblessed, the cursed, the damned!” We know who it was who reaped the heritage of this Jewish transvaluation. In the context of the monstrous and inordinately fateful initiative which the Jews have exhibited in connection with this most fundamental of all declarations of war, I remember the passage which came to my pen on another occasion (Beyond Good and Evil, Aph. 195)—that it was, in fact, with the Jews that the revolt of the slaves begins in the sphere of morals; that revolt which has behind it a history of two millennia, and which at the present day has only moved out of our sight, because it—has achieved victory.

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“But you understand this not? You have no eyes for a force which has taken two thousand years to achieve victory?—There is nothing wonderful in this: all lengthy processes are hard to see and to realise. But this is what took place: from the trunk of that tree of revenge and hate, Jewish hate,—that most profound and sublime hate, which creates ideals and changes old values to new creations, the like of which has never been on earth,—there grew a phenomenon which was equally incomparable, a new love, the most profound and sublime of all kinds of love;—and from what other trunk could it have grown? But beware of supposing that this love has soared on its upward growth, as in any way a real negation of that thirst for revenge, as an antithesis to the Jewish hate! No, the contrary is the truth! This love grew out of that hate, as its crown, as its triumphant crown, circling wider and wider amid the clarity and fulness of the sun, and pursuing in the very kingdom of light and height its goal of hatred, its victory, its spoil, its strategy, with the same intensity with which the roots of that tree of hate sank into everything which was deep and evil with increasing stability and increasing desire. This Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate gospel of love, this “Redeemer” bringing salvation and victory to the poor, the sick, the sinful—was he not really temptation in its most sinister and irresistible form, temptation to take the tortuous path to those very Jewish values and those very Jewish ideals? Has not Israel really obtained the final goal of its sublime revenge, by the tortuous paths of this “Redeemer,” for all that he might pose as Israel’s adversary and Israel’s destroyer? Is it not due to the black magic of a really great policy of revenge, of a far-seeing, burrowing revenge, both acting and calculating with slowness, that Israel himself must repudiate before all the world the actual instrument of his own revenge and nail it to the cross, so that all the world—that is, all the enemies of Israel—could nibble without suspicion at this very bait? Could, moreover, any human mind with all its elaborate ingenuity invent a bait that was more truly dangerous? Anything that was even equivalent in the power of its seductive, intoxicating, defiling, and corrupting influence to that symbol of the holy cross, to that awful paradox of a “god on the cross,” to that mystery of the unthinkable, supreme, and utter horror of the self-crucifixion of a god for the salvation of man? It is at least certain that sub hoc signo Israel, with its revenge and transvaluation of all values, has up to the present always triumphed again over all other ideals, over all more aristocratic ideals.

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“But why do you talk of nobler ideals? Let us submit to the facts; that the people have triumphed—or the slaves, or the populace, or the herd, or whatever name you care to give them—if this has happened through the Jews, so be it! In that case no nation ever had a greater mission in the world’s history. The ‘masters’ have been done away with; the morality of the vulgar man has triumphed. This triumph may also be called a blood-poisoning (it has mutually fused the races)—I do not dispute it; but there is no doubt but that this intoxication has succeeded. The ‘redemption’ of the human race (that is, from the masters) is progressing; swimmingly; everything is obviously becoming Judaised, or Christianised, or vulgarised (what is there in the words?). It seems impossible to stop the course of this poisoning through the whole body politic of mankind— but its tempo and pace may from the present time be slower, more delicate, quieter, more discreet—there is time enough. In view of this context has the Church nowadays any necessary purpose? Has it, in fact, a right to live? Or could man get on without it? Quaeritur. It seems that it fetters and retards this tendency, instead of accelerating it. Well, even that might be its utility. The Church certainly is a crude and boorish institution, that is repugnant to an intelligence with any pretence at delicacy, to a really modern taste. Should it not at any rate learn to be somewhat more subtle? It alienates nowadays, more than it allures. Which of us would, forsooth, be a freethinker if there were no Church? It is the Church which repels us, not its poison—apart from the Church we like the poison.”