In Chapter 13.5, I hopefully demonstrated that the foundation stone of the new St. Peter’s Basilica was placed using ritual astrology and the exaltations, with an eye on the (believed-to-be) foundation chart for Rome itself. Nothing should seem too surprising about all of that.

The hero in this bit of papal history, Julius II, perhaps the fiercest pope of the Second Millennium, was also blamed, perhaps rightly so, for the ultimate schism of the Reformation, and thus one of the world’s major axial power shifts of all time. The New World may have been “discovered” and conquered by the Catholics, but Protestant empires dominate the hemisphere.

All of that was hardly in the wildest imaginations of Romans in the early 16th Century, but they did understand the need for the Counter-Reformation, and which was championed by the Jesuits, who would not only take higher learning to new plateaus, but also the craft of ritual astrology.

Let’s return to both Mary Quinlan-McGrath and Luca Guarico, who have been helpful in the last chapter.

We are a mere 15 years away from the 500th anniversary of the Prima, but as any Catholic will tell you, the Jesuits of today are not like the Jesuits of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The current Jesuit order regained papal recognition on August 7, 1814, after much reform. That presents us with this next ball of wax, which will have to wait until some future time:

-Ed

• astrology
• Fagan zodiac
• Fixed Stars
• Jesuits
• Pope Francis
• Pope Leo XIV
• Shekinah
• Vatican