Upon the Roman Hill, Cae­sar announced “Veni, vidi, vici.”. This inter­preted means ” I came, I saw, I con­quered.” Today, we have many such announce­ments from vic­tors. The one such speak­ing would be unut­ter­able if it were com­ing from a secret soci­ety known as the “Opus Dei”.
This orga­ni­za­tion also is known as the “Holy Mafia” for its “allegedly secre­tive prac­tices, aggres­sive recruit­ing tac­tics, and its abil­ity to seem­ingly “…exert undue influ­ence on the Vatican

Opus Dei or “the work of God”, today is an orga­ni­za­tion that was started in 1902 by a priest named Jose­maria Escriva Babas­tros, Spain. Quot­ing this priest we find such state­ments as “Blessed be pain. Loved be pain. Sanc­ti­fied be pain… Glo­ri­fied be pain!” (The Way, 208) or “What has been lost through the flesh, the flesh should pay back: be gen­er­ous in your penance”. (The Forge 207). It is within the frame­work I believe of good inten­tions this started with Jose­maria. The orga­ni­za­tion started mainly as a way for lay peo­ple to do the “work of God” within the Catholic church. Today, how­ever, this small orga­ni­za­tion remem­bers its piv­otal thrust into power by Pope John Paul II. For it was this Pope who helped it to receive more atten­tion and influ­ence within the Vat­i­can. For in 1982, the Pope made Opus Dei a per­sonal prela­ture sta­tus within the church. This means an orga­ni­za­tion with struc­ture, money, means, and a motive has no one to answer to, except the Pope, once every five years. Plenty of time to hide what you are doing. For those want­ing infor­ma­tion, there are no finan­cial state­ments, no mem­ber­ship lists, a con­ceal­ment of the num­ber of actual mem­bers, keep­ing quiet about names of mem­bers, and mem­bers also are not to tell any­one they belong to Opus Dei. Affil­i­ate orga­ni­za­tions even keep their close con­nec­tions to Opus Dei a secret.
The nature of this orga­ni­za­tion was brought to the fore­front by Dan Brown of the DaVinci code fame. Although, this work has also been debated around the world as to its authen­tic­ity, it did bring Opus Dei to the front. Another book, how­ever also notes this orga­ni­za­tion. The Popes Holy Mafia by Robert Hutchi­son in 1961 tar­gets the secre­tive nature as did Dan Brown. The book by Robert Hutchi­son says it is a ” mighty net­work of priest­hood, busi­ness­man, bankers, engi­neers and many other pro­fes­sions work­ing together to cre­ate a world­wide intel­li­gence and busi­ness appa­ra­tus which can influ­ence any sphere of reli­gion, pol­i­tics or busi­ness.” The book coin­cides with Dan Browns in that it shows a dark sin­is­ter agency with the “work of God” attached to it. It is another ” another inqui­si­tion army which declared itself as being cho­sen by God him­self to rule the world.”

More­over, the agency can be seen on var­i­ous web sites por­tray­ing the front ad-hoc view. Reveal­ing the com­pas­sion dri­ven, soci­ety car­ing, and sym­pa­thetic nature of this true work of God. The truth, though, is some­where in the murky depths of this world of men and power. It is expected the orga­ni­za­tion has 85,000 mem­bers, even though no one really knows for sure. It is also know to have bil­lions of dol­lars worth of money, prop­erty, and influ­ence. Among its sup­port­ers, seen in the U.S.A. are some of the country’s best– known con­ser­v­a­tives. They are pegged as Opus Dei sym­pa­thiz­ers or friends: Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, Repub­li­can sen­a­tors Rick San­to­rum and Sam Brown­back, form Infor­ma­tion Aware­ness Office direc­tor John M. Poindex­ter and TV pun­dits Lawrence Kud­low and Robert Novak.

This secre­tive move­ment has had mem­bers removed from its cen­ter. Many times these are peo­ple that want out. This was true of Sharon Clausen. She was first approached in 1981, while a fresh­man at Boston Col­lege. The term Opus Dei, “work of God” has a roman­tic pull to it. On the sur­face orga­ni­za­tions like this use friend­li­ness and decep­tive means to lure the unaware into it. As Sharon says “Yeah, look­ing back, I was prob­a­bly a lit­tle gullible, a lit­tle earnest, look­ing for direc­tion. Opus Dei offered me a room at Bayridge, their lav­ish sin­gle– sex res­i­dence designed by Louis Com­fort Tiffany, on leafy Com­mon­wealth Avenue. Rent was rea­son­able, reli­gious super­vi­sion free.” She decided to try it. From these inno­cent begin­nings the trap had been laid. As is such for many secret orga­ni­za­tions. They bring you in with such ease. Then over time coax you to join. After while they lay the foun­da­tions for your becom­ing one of them. This includes solid indoc­tri­na­tion, over­sight, rigid dis­ci­pline, remov­ing you from friends and fam­ily, and iso­lat­ing you. Then they add the threat of harm, ridicule, fail­ure, and being an apos­tate from God.

This atti­tude is revealed in the secret con­sti­tu­tion of 1950, Num­ber 103, Sec­tion 1: which states ” “A mem­ber who, after tak­ing the Fidelity, ille­git­i­mately sep­a­rates him­self from the Cen­ter to which he per­tains with the inten­tion to remove him­self from obe­di­ence is said to be an apos­tate from the Insti­tute. This mali­cious inten­tion may be law­fully pre­sumed if the mem­ber does not demon­strate his will to the Direc­tor, within one month, of return­ing or sur­ren­der­ing him­self.” This state­ment sim­ply put, means they can do any­thing under Gods law to get the offender back to God. Remem­ber the inqui­si­tion by the Roman Catholic Church. It was charged with the erad­i­ca­tion of heresy within the church. By means of tor­ture and death many Chris­tians died at their hands. All of this was done in the name of God.

Why would such devo­tees leave the “work of God”? The com­mon thread that is appar­ent is the secret nature and over­sight attached to it. No one really knows today what goes on with mem­bers in these orga­ni­za­tions. These are trav­el­ing dio­ce­ses’ with their own gov­ern­ment and not one per­son to answer too, except those within their imme­di­ate orga­ni­za­tion. Another part of the puz­zle is the macabre nature of han­dling the dis­ci­ples. From those who have left the orga­ni­za­tion and live to tell about it comes the fol­low­ing. They have to wear a barbed thigh chain called a cil­ice for two hours a day. If you for­got you had it on, it would draw blood when you sat down. Sleep­ing on floors, sleep­ing with­out pil­lows, dis­ci­pline which meant being whipped with a long macrame rope. Along with all this came cold show­ers and sleep­ing on bed boards. You can­not see your fam­ily, no out­side friend­ships (except to woo in oth­ers), no photo’s except that of the founder Jose­maria Escriva. If you wanted to leave, you sim­ply were headed for damna­tion and although all this is totally unbib­li­cal, fol­low­ers were again con­sid­ered an apostate.

In cavda venenvm is Latin for “in the tail is the poi­son”. In other words, watch out for what you don’t see. Even if the head doesn’t bite, it doesn’t mean it won’t hurt you some­how. There are many such orga­ni­za­tions like this one. Is this one a legit god-fearing orga­ni­za­tion? Is it a secret power of the Pope cre­ated for the “one world reli­gion” and “new world order”? The many char­ac­ter­is­tics that peo­ple say it has when they get out of it, sug­gest it is a ser­pent with poi­son in the tail. It doesn’t bite with its mouth. Watch out for its back part, that which is hid­den behind the head. This is the place where you can get bit­ten. In the dark shad­ows where real­ity is what men want them to be. In Latin you can say “Homines liben­ter quod vol­unt cre­dunt” or ” Men believe what they want to”. (Ter­en­tius) Those rul­ing this ‘Opus Dei” or “work of God” see them­selves as cre­at­ing a world for the Catholic idea of one world reli­gion. This they intend to do, no mat­ter who gets hurt. After all, what is pain?

In con­clu­sion, I want you to think about this state­ment. “Why do the Angels speak in Latin”? From the early con­fines of the Catholic hier­ar­chy, all was done in Latin. It took a lay­man to print the first bible in a lan­guage that all peo­ple and lay­men could read. From these begin­nings we have been able to put what men say against the bible, the Word of God. Here is where evil is seen in the light of the Word of the Lord. We see what men say is truth with the Bible which is Truth. From this com­par­i­son we see the True light. When a per­son con­fronts such secret orga­ni­za­tions, know this. They seek power, influ­ence, and the rise of the pro­pa­ganda they belong too. The New World Order is here now. It has not reached its level of promi­nence it is des­tined for. When it does, there shall stand the “man of perdi­tion” and all those secret orga­ni­za­tions like “Opus Dei” who made it pos­si­ble. For this Man of Sin, The Antichrist will reveal him­self to be God in the tem­ple of God. Thus, a one world order, a one world reli­gion, and a God on earth who will rule and reign. Even if he isn’t God, many will think he is. Thus, “Homines liben­ter quod vol­unt cre­dunt” or ” Men believe what they want to”.

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