Just science-fiction LXV : farewell from Mercury !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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In this new article of "Just science-fiction", we are going to talk again about our interplanetary music stars XBZ38 (Erk) and ZBEL27 (Lika) !  

We introduced them almost four years ago, on Global Politics and Economics, on June 1st, 2020 under the title : "Just science-fiction XLIII : the biopic of XBZ38 and ZBEL27, singers of "Zag", on tour on Earth" !

Of course, our narration of the day involving planet Mercury has to be taken as "Just science-fiction", printed with fantastic realism. Then, relax and have a fun !

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In this very heavy period for Earth, under the spectrum of another World War, a nuclear War this time, we think it's time to look for fun. We really want to lighten the atmosphere. Just as a recall, XBZ38 and ZBEL27 have taken the look of human beings, but they are from Andromeda. As a matter of fact, Andromeda is very important for art in all its expressions, so obviously for music !

But this time, we situate our heroes on Mercury, instead of Orlando in Florida (USA), on Earth. They have left Earth a bit in catastrophe, more certain than human beings the Third World War might happen presently. Normally in Orlando they didn't risk much as it is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. But they are worried that the war in Europe will spread in the whole world, including the USA, if it is becoming a Nuclear War. Perhaps are they too sensitive to the human exxagerations ?

Andromedans are usually considered as the Wise People of the Cosmos by other ETs. They have a strong sense of events well before they are happening. And being singers doesn't prevent our heroes of the day to behave as typical Andromedans. In their search for calm, they have left our unsettled planet, for another one. They want to create their funny music safe from bombs and nuclear missiles. They were given a spacious apartment in an underground complex inside Mercury. And they were also provided with a nice recording studio. The advantage of Mercury is that there is not much competition over there, because the record industry is just at its beginnings !

Normally, as no human being is present on Mercury there should be no risk of nuclear war over there. With - 180°C or even - 200° C at night and + 430°C during the day, there is no risk either to make bad encounters ! One Mercurian day is representing 59 days on Earth. Mercury is reputed for not having any atmosphere on Earth... which doesn't mean it is the same elsewhere. In the Galaxy of Andromeda from where XBZ38 and ZBEL27 are originally coming, things are seen differently. But their civilization is far older than the one of Earth ! 

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. And our two ET singers are seeing it as the planet of anomalies. Its orbit is illogical, and its gravitational variations are completely inexplicable for Earthling astronomers. According to our two interplanetary music stars, that's even why they usually prefer not to talk about this mistifying and weird planet. And over there, our two heroes appreciate dancing together "Zag", an original dance mixing charleston, swing, and disco, with funny rounds and loving pecks. On Mercury, they spin around like the God of their new temporary planet, Hermes !

The fact strange vessels have been seen over its surface in the past is a mystery that Earthlings usually don't want to address. And why this small planet is behaving sometimes as a "megastructure" or a huge vessel in movement ? Is life possible underground like on Mars or the Moon ? The best for the Earthling astrophysicists is to consider it as a dead planet, without spreading further. About XBZ38 and ZBEL 27, they are lodging not far from the mysterious "Square" of Mercury. After some hesitation they preferred this place to another smaller location near the weird "Rectangle" of Mercury (discovered in 2012). And they are going to use it for the promotion of their record. Sh, sh... ! 

About the impossibility of life on Mercury, there are strange contradictions. Is it considered by ETs as "a solar system gas station" to refuel energy for spaceships on the move ? For instance, if Procyonians wanted to meddle in the war in Europe, they would use this relay. The crazier one is the more one laughs. But XBZ38 and ZBEL 27 don't care much about it, as they are now far from Earthling agitation !

We say Procyonians, because them don't respect any rule of non-interference on Earth, if the interest of the Galaxy is at stake. They think on the opposite, that Earthlings musn't interfere with the safety of the Cosmos. That's why they might have desintegrated the Challenger Shuttle on January 28th, 1986 on take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA), as it was going to be used to transport and reject nuclear waste in the space. They warned before striking of course. But they were not listened, so they stroke in a flash - according to an alternative explanation !

Procyonians are not poker players, they are poker games exploders ! And patience is not at all their strong. One year and several months after this dramatic explosion, on September 21st, 1987, the US President Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) made a weird declaration in the United Nations in New York. In this stunning and strange address, he was warning Earth of a worrying Alien threat which should push the nations of the world to unite, by resolving their differences - which was implying to put an end to the Cold War. And in a way, this happened after the fall of the Wall of Berlin, on November 9th, 1989, only two years after !

On Earth, Procyonians are allies with Pleiadians, who look physically like them. The latters often represent them on Earth. But it has to be noticed that even an angry Pleiadian can be more diplomat than a calm Procyonian habitually. Yet, our chance is Procyonians dislike being on Earth, which they usually consider as backward, not peaceful, and primitive. Our only problem is Procyon has become the leader of the Galactic Federation of the Milky Way since a decade roughly : they are presently annoyed by the human gesticulations which are dangerously involving nuclear weapons or nuclear leakings. So our heroes think they might intervene to stop Earthlings playing with harmful toys, which could also affect normal life in the Cosmos - following the law of Resonance !

On their side XBZ38 and ZBEL27 are enjoying being on Mercury, which is offering more entertainment than expected. And most of all, they have gained a new audience since the release of their new song of "Zag" ("I declare you my love, by flying like God Hermes !"), on sale everywhere on Mercury. At the same time our heroes are enjoying living joyously their romantic life together. Love and romance are more important for Andromedans, than suicidal wars with only losers at the end. Sometimes they wonder why we don't imitate our potential far ancestors, the Neandertalians, by giving buttercups instead of using bludgeons ? 

Uchronic history XXIII : the stupefying counter-decision of Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1830), founder of the "Illuminati of Bavaria" !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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This article is trying to clarify things about the famous "Illuminati of Bavaria", simply called "The Illuminati" by most people worldwide nowadays in a confused way. In the mind of people at least, they would have survived. The thrilling "Angels and demons" of Dan Brown (born in 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA), published in 2000, and the movie of 2009 are certainly for something in this renewed fame !

Our angle of presentation is different. It is based upon the own defense of Adam Weishaupt, founder of "the Circle of Perfectibilists" on May 1st, 1776 (renamed "Illuminati of Bavaria" afterwards), in front of the authorities of Bavaria, in Munich (now Germany) from 1784. Those Illuminati became clearly a movement of "Awakening" and "Enlightenment", as suggested in their name. And they were initially famous for their fight against any form of Despotism, and that's certainly why they were feared !

Nowadays, the "Illuminati" have become a generic and globalizing name. And they are considered by many as the most powerful Secret Society of our planet, ranking even above the legendary "Committee of 300". Thus a certain confusion is reigning with this word, which covers presently a concept or a pattern more than an Order. Between fantasy and reality, it's not so simple to have a realistic and objective opinion about the original model. Hence, we have to study the way the "Illuminati of Bavaria" were created in Ingolstadt (nicknamed "Eleusis") in the XVIII th century - the century of "Enlightenment"-, and which was specific to them in their own right !

Johann Adam Weishaupt was born on February 6th, 1748 in Ingolstadt (Bavaria), and he died peacefully in Gotha (Thuringia, presently Germany too) on November 18th, 1830. He was known at the beginning as a theologian and a professor of Canonical Law in the University of Ingolstadt (1775 - 1785). And actually he started his Secret Society with only four of his pupils the year after, with teachings based upon Zarathustra, the Egyptian culture, the Greek-Roman wisdom, the Kabbalah, and Saint John the Evangelist...but not the Templar teachings !

The stupefying counter-decision we are going to talk about was taken in the summer 1782, six years later after the success had come. It is concerning the promotion of revolutions and regicide, a bit too quickly attributed to the Secret Society he had created in 1776 : it is involving the planned French Revolution and King Louis XVI, as well as his wife Queen Marie-Antoinette !

After the preventive condemnation to death of King Louis XVI during the summer 1782, in the Convent of Wilhelmsbad (near Hanau in Hesse), Weishaupt who totally disagreed with the decision of the Count of Saint Germain (1691 or 1710 - 1784)  decided to counter-attack : that's why we are talking about his counter-decision, which was stupefying !

As a lawyer himself, Adam Weishaupt always considered that the rights of the defence should have been respected : to him, the French King didn't do anything wrong. And he thought that the "despotic" judgement of a dark adventurer, seeming to come from nowhere and pretending to be an "immortal Rose-Cross", had strictly no value. Weishaupt who had also studied Alchemy, had both big doubts about the concepts of Time and Space of Saint Germain, and no doubt about his duplicity towards King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette ! 

Curiously, the Saint Germain glimpsed by Weishaupt was quite close to the tyrannical and megalomaniac being recently described in the "Trilogy of gems" written in 2009 and 2010 by Kerstin Gier (born in Bergish Gladbach, Germany, in 1966). Three fantastic romantic stories about him, Gwendolyn, Gideon, and other characters have been adapted to the cinema by the Directors Felix Fuchssteiner (born in Paderborn, Germany, in 1975) and Katharina Schöde (born in Cologne, Germany, in 1974) : "Ruby red" (2013), "Sapphire blue" (2014) and "Emerald Green"(2016) !

Your reading of this new article of Uchronic history may shake a lot of preconceived ideas you had about the Illuminati of Bavaria, who were often accused of what they didn't really do. So sit down, take a breathe, and get ready to rediscover them, through their past history and their quite paradoxical role in the French Revolution of 1789. Of course, you can make a pause after each part, and continue to read after. Anyhow, enjoy your reading !

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Johann Adam Weishaupt has certainly created one of the most famous Secret Societies on Earth. In 1784, he was badly criticized and even slandered by the Rose-Cross of Innsbrück, presenting itself as the real heiress of the Templars, near the Prince Elector of Bavaria. The fact Weishaupt had opposed the defunct Count of Saint Germain was more determining than the beliefs, which were not so different in reality. But the result was not good for it either : all societies not previously approved were prohibited on his territory, by an Edict of  June 22nd, 1784 ! So the "the Order of The Illuminati of Bavaria" ("Der Illuminatenorden von Bayern" in German) was not the only one to be touched, in this fear of any potentially revolutionary movement. Surprisingly, a second Edict was necessary to dissolve the latter officially, on March 2nd,  1785. Yet, his Order still survived in Bavaria till mid-1787, and elsewhere without precision of dates. So it's entirely true that the Order didn't disappear at all in 1785 ! That's why Charles Theodore of Bavaria (1724 - 1799) had to take a third Edict in August 1787, to confirm the prohibition of the Order of Illuminati in Bavaria and sentence to death all his members, who had already fled away. Johann Joachim Bode (1731 - 1793), called "Aemilius" who had represented Weishaupt in Wilhelmsbad, then replaced him in appearance, as second Grand Master. Bode was the editor of Goethe ("Abaris", 1749 - 1832) and Herder ("Damasus pontifex", 1744 -1803), equally members. He was thereafter sent to France in 1787 to meet the "Philalethes" in Strasbourg and Paris, and establish links with them. And he never encouraged any Revolution in France against the King. It is important to notice Weishaupt ruled under the form of "Areopagus" (the Council of Nine), so then in case of necessity or emergency, a member chosen in advance could replace him easily. Just at the end of the troubled period of the French Revolution, the Jesuit Abbot Augustin de Barruel (1741 - 1820) thought that Weishaupt (a previous Jesuit theologian himself) had been able to maintain his leadership, by infiltrating the blue grades of Free Masonry if not the red ones, and other initiation Orders [cf. "Memoirs illustrating the history of Jacobinism", 1797-1799]. And nowadays, his famous Order seems to be surviving in the mind of people at least, like a "ghost organization", through the world reputation it has acquired. Weirdly, even it is said to be extinct, it could well be that the Owl (its symbol) holding an open book between its wings or its legs, is taking off at certain nights !

The Order of Illuminati is part of the philosophy of lights ("Aufklärung"), and aims at promoting the improvement and social progress of humanity. There are two versions concerning this replacement name. In the first version, the change of name of the "Circle of Perfectibilists" for the "Order of Illuminati of Bavaria", came after Weishaupt had listened a speech of Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen (1750 - 1790), founder of "the Order of the knights and brothers of Saint John the Evangelist of Asia in Europe", in 1778. And in the second version, he did it in 1780, with the arrival of a new important member who helped him to reorganize the rituals, the Baron Adolph von Knigge (1752 - 1796). Anyhow, the Illuminati seemed to run faster than time. As a matter of fact, they have quickly been associated with the success of the American Revolution, which started on July 4th, 1776 (only two months after the creation of the first "Circle" in Bavaria, so before it had changed its name). But according to Weishaupt, the Anglo-Saxons in America rapidly came back to their old habits. So you can see the influence of the Order went further than the Rhineland countries, Austria and Switzerland. And about the spread of Revolution everywhere else supposedly sought by his Order to conquer the world, he has always denied such an accusation. To him, his influence worldwide has been completely exaggerated or at least misinterpreted : others, who had denounced or abandoned him, were clearly more revolutionary than him. Above that it was wrong, as it wasn't true he wanted to unsettle the whole world with sudden Revolutions, but just to improve his adepts morally, and to elevate them in a better world and environment. As a first precision, Adolph von Knigge left him in 1784, because him was a real revolutionary ; and he was discontent that Weishaupt was too peaceful and not wanting to spread Revolutions !

1784 was definitively a bad year for Weishaupt, but less than for the defunct Count of Saint Germain. As a matter of fact, the Illuminati had also been accused by a member who was feeling rejected (the public auditor Joseph von Utzschneider renamed "Hellenicus Lesbius" - 1763 - 1840), to be secretly in favor of the Empire of Austria, to admit suicide, to prefer passion to reason, to consider religion as an absurdity...and to eliminate their opponents (except him strangely). The accusation was taken seriously only concerning Austria, because in 1779 the Emperor Joseph II (1741 - 1790), brother of  Queen Marie-Antoinette of France had already annexed a part of Bavaria. No wonder Weishaupt had problems with the Prince Elector of Bavaria and the authorities of Munich, and had to leave Ingolstadt in 1785 and to exile to Gotha ! In Gotha justly, he was welcome by the Prince Elector Ernst II von Saxe-Gotha-Altenbourg (1745 - 1804), a new member of his Order since 1783 (under the Order name of "Walter Fürst"). So the Illuminati survived at least in Saxony for an undetermined period. Some say they even expanded to Italy and Russia, which is incredible for an organization presumed to be dead since 1785. And nowadays paradoxally, his Order is presented as definitely materialistic, deist and "republicanist". About Materialism, it is certainly associated with the cult of reason, and then down-to-earth. Concerning "Deism", it doesn't mean at all atheism in reality, but the opposite : the Owl is clearly recalling the Greek Goddess of Wiseness, Athena (Minerva for the Romans). Again, the supreme secret grade of the Illuminati was not "Man-President" but "Man-King" (the personal rank of Weishaupt, with Grand Master). And oddly enough, in the "Exercitia Spiritualia" ("Spiritual Exercises") of Saint Ignatius Lopez of Loyola (1491 - 1556)  - founder of the Company of Jesus -, published in Roma in 1548, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ was presented in parallel with the one of a King of Earth, chosen by the Lord, that everybody, Princes and Peoples should follow ! 

Weishaupt was taught the teachings of the Templar Strict Observance Order, when he became a member in 1777, as free mason. He wanted to complete his learning. But he was disappointed in his expectations. That's why he finally decided not to be influenced by it, but on the contrary to influence it. And at the same time he chose to rename the "Circle of the Perfectibilists" initially created, the "Order of the Illuminati of Bavaria" : he wanted to show his offensive reorientation. About the expansion of the Order and the rituals, he was also influenced from 1780 by a new member, the baron Adolph von Knigge already mentioned, who was a free mason : the latter became rapidly a prominent member and the right arm of Weishaupt under the name of "Philo". Simultaneously, he continued to oppose what he called the "Rosicrucian fever", which had been the very reason of his creation in 1776. As a matter of fact, Weishaupt was not a supporter of  Alchemy, that he didn't consider as a real science. Unexpectedly the Grand Master of the Templar Strict Observance Order, the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick (1721 - 1792) became a member of the Illuminati of Bavaria in 1783, under the name of Aaron. And this was showing the power they had acquired in Prussia too. Don't forget Weishaupt was originally formed by the Jesuits, and had created his Order by inspiring himself from the structures and the philosophy of the Jesuit Order ! The fact he criticized it after, just a few years after the Company of  Jesus had been dissolved by the Vatican, couldn't erase wholly this strong influence on his thinking and on his choices. Above that, von Knigge who had entered his Order in 1780, left it in April 1784, by accusing Weishaupt of "Jesuitism" justly, and to be in reality "a Jesuit in disguise". So, for him Weishaupt was in truth too Catholic, which was an height for a an Order supposed to be of radical rationalism ! 

Weishaupt had chosen the Order name of "Spartacus" by humility, and to show his personal fight against despotic organizations falsely presenting themselves as in favor of the People. And on the "republican" question, he wanted to clear things in 1787 in his "Introduction to my apology". He very strongly denied to be pro-regicide, by reminding the followers of his powerful Order had to respect the social order of the time. And it's true Bavaria was led by a Prince Elector, not by a President. And he was also echoing to the condemnation to death of Louis XVI decided in advance in 1782 by the controversial Count of Saint Germain, in the Convent of Wilhelmsbad. Weishaupt was certainly happy to see the entry of his followers in the masonic lodges ratified at the end of this Convent, but he hadn't yet subdued completely the Templar Strict Observance Order. Then, he couldn't feel fully satisfied. Above that, as previously said he totally disagreed with the planned regicide of the Count of Saint Germain : he was seeing it as a very unfair decision, totally contradictory with the fact the Lodges were abandoning the Templar reference at the same time. Moreover, he was shocked by his attitude towards the French Crown, him who had served Louis XV (1710 - 1774). That's why he took the counter-decision to make it aborted. The famous Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725 - 1798), who was himself free-mason, disliked totally Saint Germain that he was finally holding for a conjurer and a skilled impostor. And even Cagliostro (1743 - 1795), Saint Germain's disciple was often doubting of him : he was finding him too authoritarian, manipulative, and theatrical. But it's true that Cagliostro about him, dreamed to be able to reconcile the Rose-Cross with the Catholic Church !

Again in his "Introduction to my apology", Adam Weishaupt is showing he doesn't accept that the documents of his order found after a great storm, as well as other documents in the hands of Bavarian authorities could be used by some people to create an harmful confusion. He even rebels strongly. All what was attributed in bad to the Illuminati thereafter, was malevolently used against him and his creation, by causing even problems to his wife and his children. So the bad things attributed to his famous Order, were in fact the ones of liars and manipulators including the encouragement to "regicide". And from Gotha where he had taken refuge till his death, under the protection of his Prince - not a President then -, he did the impossible as "Man-King" to disarm them ! On the point of the symbolic "beheading of the King and Queen" in the "Chymical Marriage" dear to the Count of Saint Germain, the Alchemist, he might have prevented it in extremis with the conjunction of the quite questionable executions of Louis XVI (1754 - 1793 ?) and Marie-Antoinette (1755 - 1793 or 1834 ?)...and the two utterly stunning rescue operations of the Baron Jean de Batz (1754- 1822) with Doubles. And it is not a great secret that Jean de Batz had connections with the Jesuits, hiding the way they could after their dissolution by the Pope in 1773. The latters were notably welcome in Mohilev - presently in Belarus -, by the Great Catherine (1729 - 1796)...before their quite surprising Resurrection in 1814 ! 

In his writing of 1787, Weishaupt shows he is fighting so that the work of his life, the Order of Illuminati of Bavaria is not stripped of its essence, nor misguided by manipulators or provocative agents. To prevent such infiltration, there was the filter of a long list of questions to ask the candidates, throughout their initiatory journey. And the Illuminati struggles against ignorance and prejudice were traits common with most initiatory movements. "In our case, it is not the condition, the reputation, etc. that decides. It is the wisest and the best who is reigning, but without anybody knowing he is reigning", did he write !

And in 1788,  Johann Heinrich Faber (1742 - 1791), jurist, writer and translator, completed the apology of Weishaupt to himself, with the publication of "The true primitive Iluminati rituals" : Novice, Minerval (after the name of Minerva), Illuminatus minor and Illuminatus major. He wrote that he was neither member of this Order, nor of any initiatory movement. He just did it to give an honest description of the Illuminati philosophy, out of a desire for transparency and fair play. Concerning the nine following grades divided into two other classes, he didn't give any detail. Then, there were 13 grades in total !

"P.M.C.V." was the Order's motto, written on the book kept open by the Owl : "Per Me Caeci Vident (Through me the blind see)" : this was reminiscent of the Chapter 9 of the Gospel according to Saint John, and showed the Order was respecting Religion...so not only the Olympian religion of Minerva (Goddess Athena, also called Pallas in the rituals). And 5 was the sacred number of Weishaupt, perhaps because he had started his "Circle of Perfectibilists" ("Bund der Perfektibilisten" in German) with only four of his pupils ? 

About the Count of Saint Germain, he wasn't so immortal as he died gnawed by rheumatism officially, on February 27th, 1784 in Eckernförde (Schleswig-Holstein, presently Germany) : had he misplaced his drinking gold ? In this respect, it has to be noticed that Queen Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI had realized, that he was using a lot of theatrical makeup. And when he was removing a part of his makeup, his face was appearing far younger : that was the secret of his "Immortality", and it explains why the year 1710 was more likely his year of birth, after a serious inquiry. Above that, the theory of metempsychosis which was dear to him could make anyone an immortal. Hence, Saint Germain hated Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI for those reasons : them too, like Weishaupt, had pierced his secret, and this must be known !

In a way, the Revolution of 1789 could break out because of the decisive role of the famous Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757 - 1834), the Man of another Grand Master, Philippe d'Orléans (1747 - 1793), Head of the Great Orient of France. Nicknamed "the Eldest Son of the American Revolution", it seems La Fayette also wanted to be "the Eldest Son of the French Revolution" ! About the Duke of Orleans, he sought to use his obedience for his personal interests. As a matter of fact, he was the own cousin of the King and he absolutely wanted his throne. And he was ready to use any mean to succeed in his plan, even he had to vote the death of his relative, Louis XVI, on January 17th, 1793...by failing against all odds in getting the throne of France ! 

It has to be quoted that the Duke of Orleans wasn't followed by all the Free Masons of the Great Orient, far from it. The disorders France knew from the Assembly of Notables (1787-1788) were due to the insistance of La Fayette for "the convocation of a National Assembly". This was finally accomplished on June 20th, 1789, after the beginning of the Estates General which had started on May 5th, 1789 in Versailles ! And on July 15th, 1789, the day after the Storming of La Bastille, he became Commander of the newly created National Guard. And this allowed him to behave like an unofficial "Prime Minister". During the events of 5 and 6 October 1789, it's him who took the fateful decision to bring back the King and his family from Versailles to Paris. Did he really propose the Royal Family to escape from Paris to Compiègne with him on June 28th, 1792 ? And is it true that Marie-Antoinette refused ? The fact is that on August 20th 1792, one day after having been declared "traitor" to the Nation, La Fayette emigrated from France with a squad of fifteen of his men !

In 1804, in "The lamp of Diogene", Weishaupt wrote : "I considered the supreme power and religion as essential needs of man, but at a time the game and abuses of secret societies didn't know any limit, I wanted those human weaknesses to become profitable for noble purposes". As much he had liked the American Revolution of 1776, as much he had been annoyed with the French Revolution of 1789, with its roars and its greedy "Grand Master" and Prince, "Philip Equality". The latter chose to be called this way in 1792. He seemed weirdly to distance himself from the Great Orient of France in a curious letter of January, 5th, 1793, and was finally guillotined for betrayal of the Revolution on November 6th, 1793... with the best memories of Maximilien de Robespierre (1758 - 1794), the opportunist Dictator ! 

But it's true that now, as we live in a society without tail or head, these historical flashbacks may seem distant and superfluous. Oddly, many young people in France (46% of the 16-24 years old, according to a recent poll of January 2024) don't know when the French Revolution broke out. It's puzzling, especially for the level in history. Is there a pedagogical problem, a difficulty to remember dates, a disinterest for this yet breathtaking period, or a certain confusion towards an epoch which could appear complicated and contradictory sometimes ? 

In "the true primitive Illuminati rituals" of Faber (1788), already quoted, it appears that the Illuminati were defending efficiently the Weakened against the Strong, what is rather Christian and even Johannic. Them too shared the noble ideals of Liberty, Equality (called sometimes Equity), and Fraternity. Some even think the Great Orient of France had borrowed this motto from the Illuminati of Bavaria, originally. Anyhow, the latters were quite demanding concerning their concrete application in everyday life, to improve the human beings' future. And this could explain why they could still puzzle us today !

Nowadays, with Fantasy prevailing on reality, is it really true the Illuminati of Bavaria would be quite the opposite of their fundamental principles ? The fact is that nobody knows, even it's doubtful. Normally, the question should be completely irrelevant, for an Order which is said to have officially disappeared in 1785. However,  just anecdotally, the succession of the substitute of Weishaupt since 1785, Johann Joachim Bode the fife player, was assured by the Austrian philosopher Karl Leonhard Rheinhold ("Decius", 1757 - 1823), from the end of 1793. This tolerant man of humble origin, became in his turn Grand Master of the Illuminati of Bavaria, to represent Weishaupt. His paradoxical links with the Knights of Faith (equally led by a Council of Nine) on the occasion of French Restoration in 1814, are no longer known. After the death of Rheinhold (1823), and especially the one of Weishaupt in 1830, Clarity disappeared and the Order became a ghost organization. That's why the mystery is remaining !

Just science-fiction LXIII : Postface to the Apocalypse of Saint John !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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Today, we are going to introduce our Postface - or brief explanatory comment -  to the Apocalypse ("Revelation") of Saint John ! 

Of course, our interpretation has to be taken as "Just science-fiction" as usually, after the name of one of our mascot series !

So sit down comfortably in your armchair or your sofa, and enjoy our reading. Just take it as usually as a masterpiece of imagination, and nothing more !

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Nowadays, the Apocalypse of Saint John is mainly studied as a long process to come, and never as a process already almost entirely accomplished. What Saint John himself has effectively written is a subject of questions. He should normally have died as a martyr in front of the Porta Latina in Roma under the Emperor Domitian (81 - 96 AD). But after having been plunged into a cauldron of boiling water or oil, he was rejuvenated and regenerated instead ! Respected and feared for his thaumaturgical and seer powers, he was then exiled on the island of Patmos from 94 to 96 AD, where he wrote the Apocalypse : he was even nicknamed "the Eagle of Patmos", in reference to the prophet Ezekiel, for his hallucinating quasi-Messianic dimension. The key of his writing is that he disliked particularly human meanness, that he didn't consider at all as a venial and very discrete sin, or as a simple "mental dust". There is certainly a huge and fundamental misunderstanding about that, which will be illuminated on the Doomsday and its tomorrows. In 96 after the death of Domitian, he was allowed to come back to Ephesus where he died at the age of 90. His personal writing of the Gospel carrying his name is very largely denied, because he was already dead since a certain time when it was finally achieved ! Thus, this last canonical Gospel appears nowadays to most exegetes as a collective writing of scholars, just using his name for prestige. That's why it's called the "Gospel according to Saint John" and not of Saint John, "Saint John" being then only a generic and collective name, like a brand ! 

However, to stay open despite everything, a little doubt is still possible about the short Prolog ("In the beginning was the Verb, and the Verb was God...") and what is now the chapter III of this Gospel concerning Jesus' personality and family or marital life : they might have been a written basis left for posterity by Saint John. The ways of the Lord being impenetrable, who knows after all ? Anyhow, this last canonical Gospel was clearly finished not before, but after the Apocalypse of Saint John about it, around 110 AD or even 125 AD. And in spite of his thaumaturgical powers, nobody thinks he could have come back after his death. Saint John of Zebedee, celebrated every 27 December, was the youngest apostle of Jesus Christ : he wasn't quite an adult at that memorable time (as born around 11 AD, with a Jesus Christ's death and resurrection circa 29 AD). Saint John is remarkable among all the apostles, because he was the preferred one of Jesus, after Maria-Magdalena of course. Both were those who best understood and admired Jesus : they were always his most faithful supporters. They never denied him as Peter, nor betrayed him like Judah !

The Apocalypse is counting 22 chapters, like the number of letters in the Aramaic Consonantal Alphabet (and posterior Hebrew). This alphabet starting with "Alaph" is ending by "Tau" (which importance has been underlined in several of our previous articles of "Just science-fiction") ; and it is said to have been given by the Pleiadians. This detail must be recalled in connection with "the Tau-IX Treaty for the Preservation of Humanity" of 1958, between several groups of ETs and the USA. However the Pleiadians have refused to sign it, both to respect their divine mission and not to transfer a part of their highly advanced technology to America, unlike the various Greys for instance. "Tau" is standing for the World, and "IX" for Completion, as every 9 years this Treaty is achieved and has to be renegociated. We are quoting the Pleiadians because a very important role is attributed to them by the Apocalypse, even they are not directly named so in. They are called "Angels" like Aldebarans, their counterparts playing also a determining interaction and a key-role in the whole process. If you have read our previous articles of "Just science-fiction", you know already some common characteristics about both of them !

On the Doomsday, the Dead will be revived and judged with the Living by Jesus Christ during the Parousia. It means that they will be reborn through the same body after their resurrection (not reincarnation then). And this curious process, seemingly impossible at the moment, is called "Meteomsomatosis". It is thus different from the Metempsychosis of the famous Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 - c. 495 BC) !

The mecanism of Meteomsomatosis is involved with the fundamental and natural element that is Carbon on our Earth. That's why the present world war against CO2 (Carbonic Gas) could be seen as a simplistic, empirical, and may be vain attempt to escape the Apocalypse. This must be quoted, beside the unsaid world war to the Zeta Reticulian and Rigelian expansion on Earth. As a matter of fact, small Greys and tall Greys (their controllers), like plants, need CO2 to breathe well on Earth, still more than the descendants of Martian survivors - in much smaller numbers - in Antarctica and in Tierra del Fuego (South America). The secret of Uranides has been well kept ! 

After the Doosmday inadvertently provoked by the uncontrollable agressivity of human beings, the Pleiadian Angels have to proceed to "the Great Rapture" of the elected ones (144 000 people only). 666 is the number of human beings, and not uniquely of a single individual or even the two Beasts of the Apocalypse (Chapter 13). The Doomsday might finally happen, because the Pleiadians and the Aldebarans are tired of spending their time disabling the ICBMs or nuclear tactical missiles created by human beings, sometimes with the unexpected support of the various Greys ! 

The Slavonic translation of the star "Absinthe" ("Wormwood") in the Apocalypse of Saint John is clearly the star "Chernobyl" ! However, many people who are considering themselves as already "chosen" on Earth, might have an enormous final surprise. Anyhow, the ultimately chosen ones will be taken in the Pleiadians' (and finally may be too the Aldebarans') huge vessels from Earth to another similar planet : possibly the still unknown "Herna". And on this new planet, they will have to start a new life like Adam and Eve did on Earth. Whatever it will be like a new Eden is just suggested !

So a very small number of people would be saved on a highly populated planet now (8 billion inhabitants). As a matter of fact, Earth is officialy affected by an apparently irremediable climatic change : the secret of the Meadow, able to absorb Carbon and to regenerate itself up to 50 times more quickly than the Forest with an equivalent effect on the level of Oxygen produced, is remaining rather ignored. It is marked also by various natural cataclysms, world crisis, pestilence, and finally by the suicidal option of another World War, the most terrible of all !

Then various explanations to this limited number of saved people are presently possible. First, there is human meanness, which claims to be Antichristian and natural, animals being often more "humanitarian" than human beings in that case : it would be Darwinist by nature, beyond what Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) himself wrote far after Saint John. Second, at the time of Saint John the world population was far smaller (around 250 million people). Third, the Third World War to come probably very soon, should kill a huge number of people on Earth in different ways, including with the terrible nuclear winter that would follow : what is striking today is the lightness with which this subject is treated, in an atmosphere of bluff of the warmonger "pacifists", and the unpreparedness in which their civilian population is kept in this crazy "poker game". And fourth, the capacity of the Pleiadian spaceships will most likely have a certain limit !

The warnings of Our Lady of Fatima (Portugal, 1917), as well as the more precise ones of Our Lady of all Nations also called Our Lady of Akita (North of Japan, from 1973, with important and repeated cryings from 1975 to 1981), haven't been listened at all. The gigantic submarine earthquake (magnitude 9, this number again), and the ensuing tsunami and nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima, in Northern Japan too - Honshu - on March 11th, 2011, might not have been a simple coincidence. The Apocalypse of Saint John has never been restricted to the Christian orb only, but to whole Earth indistinctly, even it remains a great mystery for human beings !

Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, descendant of Princess Pocahontas !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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Edith Bolling Galt (1872 - 1961) married President Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) in 1915. She was a direct descendant of Princess Pocahontas (c. 1596 - 1617), daughter of the King of Powhatans (Algonquin Redskins), Wahunsunacock. As some people know, Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith (1579-1580 - 1631), the handsome Captain of the British Expedition to the New World. And this love made possible the establishment of Jamestown in the newly called Virginia (1607) and the famous Virginia Company of London. The latter which merged with the Plymouth Company, under the simplified name of Virginia Company has officially been dissolved in 1624. Yet nowadays, some people think it's still existing in Bermuda (UK) !

With the Virginia company and after 1624, America was submitted to the rules of British Admiralty. Normally, this should have ceased after the Declaration of independence of America on July 4th, 1776. And it effectively ceased...till the Jay Treaty of  November 19th,1794, when British Maritime Law was anew enforced. It was ratified by the Senate on June 24th, 1795. It's called the Jay Treaty, because it has been negotiated by the American diplomat John Jay (1745 - 1829) between the British Crown and the USA, to solve unresolved issues since the Treaty of 1783. It allows between other things the indigenous people of Canada to live and work freely in the USA. And nowadays, this interconnection with Canada is remaining as a background agreement of the past ! 

There was also at that time a terrible fear that the most extremist ideas of the French Revolution could spread in the nascent USA, like a plague. French Great Louisiana was extending from Bâton Rouge to the border of Canada : it was roughly as big as the USA of the time - concentrated on the Eastern side of the country as for them. George Washington (1732 - 1799) had a terribly bad opinion of the French Revolutionaries that he considered as "Apaches" : he wrote it to La Fayette (1757 - 1834), by reproaching his friend to have associated with such brigands, without faith nor law. Thus, to prevent Terror to succeed in America with the emergence of a dictatorship as it had happened in the Kingdom of France, the British Admiralty was given by the Jay Treaty the right to visit American ships in search of French revolutionaries of the Colonists' party. This treaty written by Alexander Hamilton (1757 - 1804) and supported by George Washington, was criticized by Jeffersonians. And it is at the origin of bipartisme in the USA, with the pro-British Federalist Hamiltonian Party (replaced by Democrats) opposed to the Jeffersonian Republican party, which was initially pro-French !

In October 1919, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was victim of a vascular cerebral accident. It left him paralyzed of the left side of his body (hemiplegia). So normally he was inapt to go on his duty of President. But this was hidden from the American public for long. And in agreement with his doctor and his cabinet, his wife became the woman- in-between to transmit the will of the President. Nowadays, a lot of people think that she had sometimes acted on her own, even she had always been very modest on her exact role. Everybody is admitting yet, that she was a caring and devoted wife to her ill husband, a model for America then. But it remains that till his retirement on March 4th, 1921, this descendant of Princess Pocahontas is the one who might have lead secretly the USA !

Woodrow Wilson had become President on March 4th, 1913. He is known for having created the famous Federal Reserve Bank in 1913, the income tax in the USA, the Federal Commission Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Act to defend the less favoured classes. He is also the one who put an end to the American isolationism which had lasted roughly one century, by entering the Ist World War in 1917. And he is too the one who suggested the creation of the League of Nations in 1918, even if his country didn't become a member at the end. Then, historically, his presidency had a pivotal role, including during his long illness !

Edith Bolling Galt had met for the first time Woodrow Wilson, when visiting one cousin of the president in the White House : Helen Woodrow Bones, on March 18th, 1915. He had been widower of Ellen Louise Axson (1860 - 1914) since 1914, and he fell in love with Edith at the first glance. At the beginning, she didn't accept his proposal of marriage in May 1915. As a matter of fact, Wilson as a Virginian equally was a Southerner. But he was able to demonstrate her he didn't despise Indians and their rights. And finally she accepted his proposal : they became engaged in September 1915, and married on December 18th,1915. Mrs Edith Wilson has been nicknamed by some historians "the secret President" for her role beside Woodrow Wilson at the head of the USA !

For many people, especially in Europe (and singularly in France), the Story of Pocahontas - "The Playful One" or "The Young Untamed One" - is just a very successful musical animated movie of Walt Disney productions. The first one is ending on the departure for London of Captain John Smith, badly injured by Governor Ratcliffe. As it was released under the title "Pocahontas, an Indian legend" (1995), a lot of parents have mainly taken it as a simple Christmas tale for children. And it is mostly the children who consider this quite charming and beautiful animated movie as a true story - what it is with some adaptations - , and the explanation of the Anglo-Saxon predominance in America in front of other European powers !

Similarly, when Edith Wilson accompanied her husband to Europe to visit troops in 1918, and to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 after the end of the Ist World War, nobody made any connection with the travel of Pocahontas to Europe (England). And yet the story of "Pocahontas II : Journey to a new world" ( the second musical animated movie of Walt Disney productions about her, 1998) really happened too ! The difference is the film is just ending on the beginning of her return to America with the beloved Captain John Rolfe (c. 1585 - 1622). It doesn't talk of the boy she had from John Rolfe after her baptism and her marriage under the name of Rebecca Rolfe : Thomas Rolfe (1615 - 1675) and his later descendance through the settler John Bolling (1676 - 1729) !

It is important to notice that it was at the end of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the Executive power appeared particularly predominant on the Legislative power of the Congress. A remarkable shift of power happened then, with a total rebalancing. And since Woodrow Wilson (and his wife Edith, the descendant of the Indian Princess Pocahontas), things didn't change much  ! 

At last, President Wilson (or his wife Edith ?) granted notably the unconditional right to vote to women in 1920, with the suppression of the unfair Poll Tax in all the states of the Union (XIX th amendment to the Constitution, of August 18th, 1920). And few people have noticed at that time, that his wife Edith Wilson was assuming the full charge of her ill husband and of his presidency, as a top and efficient first Lady !

Edith Wilson is remaining in the American history as a fine and amazing wife. Everybody agrees she was totally devoted to her husband, she loved sincerely. Opinions are only varying on her role beside him when he became ill : did she lead secretly the USA, or not so much ? Their tight-knit couple is still nowadays appearing touching and remarkably efficient, in front of adversity ! 

They both succeeded in the biggest challenge or aim of two people simply loving each other : becoming one till the end. And the idea Edith Wilson had of love was very similar to the one of Princess Pocahontas : by following the Powhatan philosophy, this Indian (Amerindian) Princess originally called Amonute ("Little Brave Warrior") and Matoaka or "Flower between two streams", thought life was made to love and to be loved !

Just science-fiction LXII : the disturbing and parodic spectrum of a terrestrial invasion !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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The present period is marked by a persistant worry of Earthlings towards a possible invasion of Earth by ETs. And this apprehension is based upon a diffuse impression something unexpected will happen in a proximate future. In fact this worry is probably exxagerated, as there is a long time it has been done ! 

And at that time, human beings didn't exist really under the present shape. They were more like pre-Neandertalians. In reality, humans have been created by ETs. And they have quickly become extremely difficult to handle and control. This is explaining why our title is not only about an ET invasion of Earth, but could also concern half-jokingly an irreversible expansion of humans on Earth, outnumbering from far the one of ETs who preceded us. The latters are supposed having left Earth between 1500 and 1350 BC, and returning now (or more probably having already returned by now) !

Then the unexpected fact is the ETs' worry about Earthlings, and their huge and uncontrollable growth on Earth. Indeed, most ETs already present on Earth hardly believe in a massive extraterrestrial invasion to come of our planet. Like us and just beside us they are watching at the sky, but they don't see anything coming. So the situation is quite funny and rather comic. And our worry really puzzles them : it is so insistent, that it has become a paradoxical parody. Of course, you can guess our narration has to be taken as a masterpiece of imagination, id est "Just science-fiction" and nothing else, as usually !

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By following us, ETs start to imagine a potential new civilization they would have bypassed or ignored. And they really wonder which one it could be ? Of course, if they were just "Mantis" (like in the Ridley Scott movie "Alien" of 1979), they would know how to handle them. However, with their more advanced system of observation of the sky and the cosmos, they try to detect any other possible intrusion. But they don't find anything. So they end up by questioning themselves about those supposedly frightening aliens Earthlings are so afraid of the arrival soon ? Everyone scratches their head without understanding !

The funniest ETs scrutining the sky are certainly Small Greys, as they can become suddenly so agitated. They often push each other when they become nervous. As they thought all the media fuss made around the world war against Carbon was concerning them directly because of their hidden but vital need for CO2, they feel strange to have to worry about another type of ETs totally unknown to them. At the same time, their consumption of jelly and strawberry ice creams is reaching a peak, as it is the only way to soothe their nerves !

Rigelians (tall Greys), their controllers about them are more concerned about their unpredictable behaviour and their mischievous character, than by an unknown alien threat. And it's the same for their subdivision known from the public under the nickname of "Men in Black". At the contact of Small Greys (Zetas, also called J.Rods A and B, depending on their liking or disliking of human beings), they may often become depressive, and transformed in "Men in beige" - as we already wrote it in the past !

About the dominant Pleiadians (the "Angels" of the Bible) and Aldebarans (the ex-"fallen Angels"), they take this so-callled threat of invasion as a joke. And they don't care much, because they know already the role they have to play on the day of Parousia. As a recall, unlike the previous ones, they didn't sign for various reasons the "Treaty of Preservation of Humanity" (the "Tau-IX" Treaty of 1958) with America. And it's the same for the allies of Pleiadians, the Procyonians...or for the wokist Venusians (even if since recently there is a small doubt about them). The core of remaining Martians in Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego in South America, is on the same position as its Aldebarans associates : they are not afraid of any ET invasion on Earth to come ! 

Neither do the Alpha Centaurians and the Sirians. Those Amphibians are just occupied with improving their control of the Seas and Oceans, the Straights (Formosa, Malacca, Ormuz...), and the riches of Africa's subsoil (oil, gas, rare earths, diamonds, uranium often found with gold, copper...). Meanwhile, Tau-Cetians, equally amphibians, have taken their distance with Earth since the incident of 1962 with the USA and its underestimated consequences on november 1963. A particularly moving film was made by Guillermo del Toro (born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1964) in 2017, centered on the capture from Latin America, and the final escape of a mistreated amphibian creature in a governmental laboratory of Baltimore ("The shape of water"). In the background, there was the exceptional love story between this "god" and a mute cleaning woman, Elisa Esposito...and the extraordinary end of the story ! 

Concerning the sparkling and mysterious YahYels of the Ishuwa extra-solar planet (descendants of the Lyrans, and considered as Pleiadian hybrids), they prefer continuing to play between the fifth, the fourth and the third dimension, than preocupating with this. They adore pronouncing the word or the name (?) "Agatha", without us knowing the magnificent meaning they attribute to it. They are mostly in search of true and romantic love in their world and on Earth, by adopting a style of Geisha for women : usually, they find it and stick to it ! 

To conclude, the worry about a Terrestrial invasion to come is widely misunderstood by most ETs. In fact, they have never planned to destroy or damage badly Earth, which they like too much since the dawn of time. It's even the opposite. The last nuclear accident of the nuclear plant of Zaporijjia in Ukraine has anew been stopped dead in its tracks by a joint Pleiadian-Aldebaran intervention, a few days ago : they have miraculously restablished electricity on the night of December 1 to 2, 2023. Often, they think we don't know how to appreciate either our planet, or our own qualities which they admire so much when it's concerning art or writing. They like our capacity of imagination, which we don't use enough in our everyday life to establish more harmony on Earth, with a less aggressive world !

They are also attracted by our beauty (women as well as men as they are from both genders), and they don't understand at all why so many people nowadays are lowering Beauty in a coward and sneaky manner. For them, it's not a sign of great intelligence. They think we do not respect enough the most beautiful creations of the Supreme Intelligence. They dislike ugliness and organized chaos, and don't share the views of our great deconstructors in any field : the latters appear idiotic and completely suicidal to them. Their common motto is "Ordo ab intelligentia rerum" ("Order from situational intelligence") !

About the Andromedans, who look like us after their reshaping, and can be easily found just about everywhere in the world of music, singing, cinema or theater, they are not worried either of an ET invasion. And they are really enjoying their life on Earth, which is a source of great fun. So finally, the most worried could be in reality the Alpha Dracos in the business and political fields, which brain is only reptilian, and the Intra-terrestrial Reptilians - from Earth about them ! They know that the powerful Pleiadians and Aldebarans (the Angels of  the Apocalypse to come) dislike particularly dishonesty towards them !

At last, a mysterious opening might come from the Vegans (from Vega of the Lyra), who know how to fight, but are paradoxically more peaceful than Earthlings ordinarily : this is true if nobody is stupidly attacking them, of course. It's not certain they are vegetarian unlike the Earthly "Vegans" (Veggies), nor like Cathars in their beliefs, but the encounter to come could be astonishing and illuminating. And at least, they would look like us !

It has to be added about the name of "Vega", that it is also the way the YahYels are calling Earth : "Terra Vega" more precisely, with a certain touch of admiration. Those beautiful beings looking like cute Earthlings from both genders are usually blond, reddish-blond or light brown with Emerald or Sapphire eyes (so green or blue). More rarely, they can also have brown eyes. And their skin can be slightly bluish or coppery. They are charming and like obviously to seduce, which they can do without any difficulty habitually. And they like to establish lasting and dreamy bonds with the human beings pleasing to them...if they deserve it of course. Our species are totally compatible to produce beautiful babies and adults then, with the best qualities of their parents !

Uchronic history XXII : the forgotten inheritage of Ann of Kiev, also called Ann of Russia, Queen of France !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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Nowadays, a lot of people have heard somewhere the name of Ann of Kiev, also called Ann of Russia (the Kievan Russia). But they don't know much about her life, and how important is the inheritage she has left for France, and her homeland as well !

What you will discover or rediscover may surprise you completely, as you thought she was just a Queen of France out of numerous others. In fact, she was far more than that...from the right beginning !

So sit down comfortably in your armchair, and listen to what she wants to tell you from the other world : try to hear at her legendary beautiful voice, as if she was a fairy from the land of the snow appearing suddenly to you !

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Nobody knows exactly when Ann of Kiev or of Russia was born in Kiev. There is even a difference of 12 years between the two possible years of birth (between 1024 and 1036). Strangely this was possible because she looked very young due to her very high cheekbones. Her physical appearance and her great beauty, as well as her strong but charming character, had a tremendous importance on her extraordinary destiny. Before meeting her for his marriage in Reims (May 19th, 1051), the King Henri I of France didn't really find any woman attractive in Paris. So some bad tongues even said he was not attracted by the beautiful sex. Of course, if he was surrounded by ugly women who had no taste mostly, anyone can understand his choosiness and his selective character. However, people easily forget he had been married already once with Mathilda of Frisia (1025 - 1044). And when the grandson of Hugues Capet (c. 936-941 - 996), the elected King - in Senlis on June 1st, 987 -, became a widower, he ordered to find a woman as beautiful and wise as the first one for him !

And this happened with Ann of Kiev or Russia, daughter of Iaroslav I the Wise (978 - 1054), King of the Rus' of Kiev, Prince of Novgorod, and Prince of Rostov notably. When he discovered Princess Ann for the first time at her arrival in Reims, he was deliciously shocked : he had never seen such a beautiful woman, with long blond-red hair, blue-green eyes, and a flexible and slender body. And cherry on the cake, she had to become his wife that very day. He was so thrilled that after having made get her off her cart by holding her delicate hand, he had a virile urge : he kissed her on the mouth (Russian way) with passion in front of all the people assembled before the cathedral for her marriage and crowning. The People liked it, and applauded the royal couple. She was going to stay one of the most popular Queen France ever had. At that moment, Ann said to Henri I that she had never met before : "I suppose you are my husband, the King ?" And he answered "yes" while smiling with delightfulness !

Henri I (1008 - 1060) who thought he was suddenly the happiest and the luckiest man in the world, always carried his conjugal duty with eagerness and ardour. He had four children with her : Philippe, Robert (a strong boy who died early), Emma (who didn't survive) and Hugues (a very weak boy who became stronger). And the stupid tongues saying he didn't like women became more silent. On her side, the new Queen Ann of France never showed any sign of shyness, which he appreciated. In fact, she wasn't shy because deep down she was a strong woman, sure of herself and her power of fascination on men. In her country called the "Rus' of Kiev", the Kievan Russia (mother of present Russia), Queen Ann had learnt how to fight men with a kind of "pre-Samoz" - an impressive Slav wrestling resembling coincidentaly to a sort of pre-Aïkido - from orthodox monks ; and she had equally been taught how to fence efficiently and swiftly with a sword. For that matter, she sometimes liked to carry the sword at her side like a man...and she wasn't stingy with demonstration. Astonishingly, she was at same time an excellent musician of "guzli" (an Ukrainian type of guitar), and quite an enchantress singer !

Henri I and Ann could marry without any religious obstacle, because the wedding happened three years before the Great Schism of July 16th, 1054, between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. It was the unique time in history an Ukrainian or Russian Princess could marry a French King. Queen Ann was a full Queen, so not just the wife of the King. She could subtly decide in certain matters, from free education of Royal serfs with a new livery offered (her new "mujiks") to some points of the organization of the Kingdom with nascent communes - on the more efficient Slav model. He was quite attracted by his wife. In return, she taught him how to be a stronger and more strictly obeyed King in front of the Grands of the Kingdom : in the Kievan way towards the subserving boyars. She therefore played a decisive role in the strengthenting of the very young Capetian dynasty and the Royal Power in France, for the centuries to come ! And don't forget she had had an excellent formation to horse riding, hunting, swimming and water fighting, the handling of weapons (spear and dagger included), and the siege of castles in the Rus' of Kiev. She had been educated like a boy with her three brothers in her youth, and she never liked much spinning - even she accepted to do it to behave like a Dame !

So when her husband died in 1060, she strongly held her position of reigning Queen of France. And things didn't happen at all the way the Grands of the Kingdom of France had planned. With her nothing never went on the classical way : lilies ran soft with her. And the saying "the lilies do not spin in the Kingdom of France" was never relevant in her case ! She had accepted to spin and embroider to please her surrounding since her arrival in France. This way she had satisfied fully the requirements of her time. And she had been able to become a great friend of her famous cousin Mathilda (c. 1031 -1083), the daughter of the Count of Flanders, and now the loving wife of William the Conqueror (c. 1028 - 1087). Normally, she should have educated her son, Philippe I, who was too young the way she had initiated, but under the tutelage of her brother-in-law, the Count Beaudoin V of Flanders (c. 1012 - 1067) precisely, as Regent of France. But, it didn't happen exactly this way. She decided she didn't need any tutelage, as the Queen of France and the mother of the King. She was a reigning Queen under Henri I, and she would stay this way ! 

The People was accustomed to see her really reigning with her husband, and didn't wish this to change as she was an excellent Queen. So sure of the popular support and the one of her personal "Drujina" (personal guard of devoted boyars, which included also quickly French knights ready to die for her), she decided by herself she would be the co-Regent of France till the majority of her son Philippe I (1052 - 1108). In that way, she behaved rather in the manner of the Autocrats of Ukraine or Byzantium - her great-grand-father was Emperor of Byzantium, under the name of Roman II. As an aside, this last genealogical detail is explaining why Pierre II de Courtenay (c. 1165 - 1219), grandson of Louis VI the Fat (1081 - 1137), himself grandson of Ann of Kiev, could be crowned Emperor of Constantinople (Byzantium) on April 9th, 1217 !

Coming back to Queen Ann, it was therefore not advisable to oppose her because of her followers, and no one dared to do it. So the other "co-Regent", the Count Baudoin V of Flanders, uncle of Philippe I, couldn't do much in fact. He couldn't even prevent her to remarry in 1063 with the man of her choice, Raoul de Crépy, Count of Valois (c. 1020 - 1074), who she found manly enough to fill the affective void of her life ! This remarriage nevertheless caused her problems, as the new couple was excommunicated the year after. As a matter of fact, Raoul of Valois had to repudiate his second wife Alienor to marry Ann. But Ann was an Orthodox depending on the patriarchate of Constantinople and not anymore of Roma, since the Great Schism of 1054. Normally as a Queen, she was expected to remain widow till the end of her days. But, among all the Queens of France, Queen Ann was unique. And she did totally differently by following her good star, and by forging her exceptional and imperious destiny !

Queen Ann left Paris she found noisy and dirty, and the Parisians sometimes punished for their insolence. She always preferred Senlis where she had often stayed. And she established also nearby in Crépy-en-Valois (presently in the department of Oise too). Over there, she created a kind of court around her. And before they arrived in Paris, the foreign sovereigns made a detour of respect through her home. William the Conqueror, the new King of England descending from Prince Rollo or Hrolfr (c. 846 - c. 932) that she appreciated a lot, and whose wife Mathilda - who made the famous "Tapestry of Bayeux" - was her best friend, visited her. Both of them were from Viking origin. It is also said that the first trouveres started in her castles to paint and chant her striking beauty. She was worshipped as "the Lady" by excellence. Then she was an inspirer for the first Court of Courtly Love in France and Europe, before trouveres with the language of Oïl (and troubadours with the language of Oc in the South) expanded throughout the Kingdom of France...and in Europe ! 

To conclude, it has to be stressed that after the death of her second husband, Queen Ann felt terribly alone. Her son Philippe I had already attained majority since several years. And she wasn't anymore co-Regent of France. She thought she wasn't needed anymore. Then, it was time to think anew about her future life !

She had a terrible nostalgia of the Rus' of Kiev, and she wanted to come back to her homeland before dying. That's why she desired to return to Novgorod that she had left a long time ago for her marriage with the King of France, Henri I. And it's what she finally did with the permission of her son, the new King Philippe I. It was a long and tiring journey from Rouen and the mouth of the Seine River. She had to navigate in the Channel in direction of Riga (Baltic Sea) first. And the rest of the travel was made essentially by boat too by using the various rivers of her homeland, till Novgorod !

The happiness of returning to her homeland was there, despite her very poor health. She is said to have died when arriving by boat in Novgorod, like a Viking Varangian Princess (what she was effectively by ancestry and her family connection with Sweden notably). Her life had been full and adventurous. Unhappily, death prevented her to go back to Kiev thereafter, as she had planned. All the historians don't agree on the year of her death. But nowadays, she is thought to have died most likely around September 1089 (perhaps on the 5th) !

The strong mark of Ann of Kiev or Russia concerning the Sovereign's authority abruptly ceased seven hundred years after her death, in 1789. At that time, the authority of the King of France over suddenly weakened after the difficult beginnings of the Estates General in Versailles from May 5th ; and it was never recovered by King Louis XVI (1754 - 1793 ?). Another borrowed sovereignty appeared, the one of the People as our books of history are teaching us !

So the new France initiated at that time was very different. It's recalled almost everyday on TV or elsewhere, when so many people often omit its very name. It's just called for convenience "The Republic", as if there was only one in the world. Yet in truth, America with its own declaration of rights was a republic before France (1776). In fact, nowadays there are 152 republics of various types (democracies of course, but also democratorships, and dictatorships) registered in the UNO, but only one France as a Western democracy officially. And Ann of Kiev or Russia about her always called her new country, after her marriage with Henri I from its real name, France !

Of course, without us being aware, a return to the original meaning of "Res Publica" ("the public thing" or more simply "The State"), the transitional way it was applied to France under the last King Valois, Henri III (1551 - 1589), and under the new King Bourbon, Henri IV (1553 - 1610) by the jurisconsult Jean Bodin (1529 or 1530 - 1596), might have been subtly operated !

Anyhow, nowadays it's no longer a great secret for many that present France is in reality anew a Monarchy since the Constitution of October 4th, 1958 -  but an hybrid one as Republican Monarchy. It was the will of General Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970), in order to reconciliate French people with the rich, glorious, and powerful past of Eternal France. Don't forget the preparatory works about this new constitution were untitled in French "Du Principat" ("Of the Principate") : to be precise, it just meant that the President of the new French Republic had to be considered as a kind of elected Prince...a bit like Hugues Capet in 987 in Senlis !

Rediscovering famous characters XI : the best kept secret of one of the last Priestesses of Artemis, M !

 by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D

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The character we are going to talk about is very famous worlwide. But you totally ignore she was a Priestess of Artemis, one of the last, at a moment a new religion was going to appear. Her role in this new religion, which is also universally known was determining. She was a rich woman, even she was seen by some people as an hairdresser and a perfumer : she would even be at some extend the most famous Earth ever had, with her worshipped mother-in-law carrying the same first name. We guess you don't understand at all whom we are speaking about !

She was from Phenician-Syriac origin, and most likely a Princess due to her rank of Priestess of the Goddess Artemis in the Near East. Does this help you ? Probably not ! The new religion she was going to give birth with an extremely famous character, equally from a renowned Royal House, was then hybrid. Of course, few scholars know or acknowledge such a detail. And paradoxically, the people who know the less who she was exactly are the present followers of this new world religion !

The name of her husband was starting with a Y (or a J), depending on the language you are using. He himself was a hidden Prince. Some people call him the Prince of Orion, to show his father was in the Skies. Is it clearer for you ? Not yet,  we think ! Her husband and her had a different religion. And this also is totally ignored by most people nowadays. In their mind, she had obviously the same religion of origin as her husband when they met... especially when you consider it a very long time after, like now !

This question is very important to understand, as till nowadays her name has been associated with a certain confusion on her real status and identity : perhaps the composite being created from three different women, was intended not to openly say she was a sacred Priestess of the Artemis cult initially ? It has been pretended during a long time she wasn't married with her man, which is not true. And in her case, marriage is strangely taken wrongly : it would be allowed for almost everybody, but not for her and her quite famous husband !

To conclude about our exceptional character of the day, something must be added : in her case and the one of her husband, it has dogmatically been decided by Paulinist opponents that their couple shouldn't be recognized and accepted by all. This may even look ridiculous when you read carefully the very canonic Gospel according to Saint John, which is saying Jesus was married and called the "husband" by his cousin Saint John the Baptist : "the one who belongs the bride is the husband ; but the husband's friend stands near him and listens to him" (Saint John, III-29). This detail seems to be an allusion to the sacrament of the nuptial room, which is giving back its primary harmony to the Cosmos, Jesus being considered as the Prince of Orion !

As a lot of people believe in Maria-Magdalena and Jesus, it doesn't appear fair to have denied dogmatically to them the natural and historical right of marriage. And the two children they had (Sarah and Yeshuah) can hardly be considered to have never existed. About that, there is a long tradition making the Merovingian dynasty which once reigned on France, as descending from Jesus Christ and Maria-Magdalena ! The "Sang Real" (Royal Blood) of the original Priory of Sion - dating from 1116 - would have become the "Saint Graal" (Holy Grail) in French !

At this stage, you most likely started to guess whom we are talking about ? And you may be right. A strange destiny made her becoming friend with two other famous characters connected to the public death of her husband. If we give you their names, you will understand with certitude whom we are speaking. Those names are Pontius Pilatus, Prefect of Judea, and his wife, the Roman Princess Claudia Procula : see our article untitled "Rediscovering famous characters VII : Maria and Claudia, or the happy end of a marital drama !", published on Global Politics and Economics on September 18th, 2019 !

So now, you have progressively discovered with a certain amazement that our character of the day is Maria Magdalena (Maria of Magdala) ! Without her, there would have been any recognized divinity for Jesus Christ, as it's her who saw him first after his resurrection. And everybody knows that resurrection is impossible for a human being. Without her, no Universal ("Catholic") Religion either so, even her true role and origin are always hidden without the great respect she is deserving with her husband !

Don't forget the idea of Jesus being the son of God is not coming from his male disciples at all, but from Maria Magdalena...and Jesus himself ! When he was a teenager, his legal father, Joseph, scolded him because he was playing on a saturday, and Jesus took him back by saying : how dare you speak so to the Son of God ! Anyhow, the fact remains that M (Maria-Magdalena) and J (Jesus) are beloved and worshipped in the whole world, in spite of all obstacles since a bit more than two thousand years...with another Maria, Maria the Virgin, mother of Jesus-Christ ! And about Saint John who is said to have written the Gospel carrying his name, he musn't be confused with Saint John of Patmos who wrote the Apocalypse dedicated to the tribulations of present times with the final Armageddon (for the battle of Meggido in Israel) !