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Illustration - Hidden History

HIDDEN HISTORY

An Artist's critical inspection of Humanity’s sordid past.

An Illustration by Stephen F. Bornstein
 
 
"An epic caption for an artwork with epic scope".

This illustration embodied much of my personal historical research at the time of its creation in 2008.

During my life, much of my art has focused on different aspects of my study of history.
 

"Arguably, I uncovered a compelling discovery, of a subtle yet pervasive connection that weaves through the fabric of Western History. A continuous thread revealing a persistent legacy of ancient thought and power structures, tracing a path from prehistoric times to the present day".

  
Stephen Bornstein, 2024
 

Sculpture by Stephen Bornstein of the Pharoah Ramses II's symbol for his newly created God, 
 
AMEN-RA
 
The "Horns" of Amen and the
 "Disk" of the Sun God Ra.
 
 
 Sculpture by Stephen Bornstein of Moses's Symbol for his newly modified religon.
 
The MENORAH 
 
The oldest, Western religious symbol still in continuous use.

 
The Artist's equally extensive studies Eastern Cultures, Indian and Chinese, has afforded him the ability to use a more critical eye when analyzing Western Culture.

This particular illustration was intended as an amalgam of the Artist's discoveries. A kind of shorthand. The Artist had, always intended to create many different spin-off “Micro” art pieces, all referencing to this one “Macro” epic piece.

It is only natural that the explanation of this artwork, should be an epic piece of art, in of itself.

 AND NOW!

 Exploring the new Generative Ai image capabilities.

 

 
Meet the Ai Artist

Most the attached imagery, has been accomplished using Ai, and explicitly created for use in this site. The surprising creativity derived from the aggregate of so much information is quite unexpectedly fresh. It is important to remember when viewing these images, that they are brand new composites, made up of having “learned” to connect billions of images to key words.

 
The Assistant Ai Artist
 
Hidden History's
Journey into Our Past.

From the beginning of humanity’s journey into the imperfect, tortured, barely civilized society that we observe today, humankind’s history is intertwined with pivotal events that had societal repercussions far beyond their direct impact.


These are Humankind’s hidden, intertwined and interconnected histories.


Our western societies’ earliest civilized beginnings appear, chronologically at the very bottom of this epic illustration.

Our tortured historical journey of 10,000 years from domestication of wild grasses and the bovine to modern civilization.
 

From prehistoric villages, to modern cities.
 
 
 

How the  domestication of wild grasses and the ancient Aurochs took humankind from humble beginnings in virgin forests to today’s inhuman behavior towards man and destruction of nature and habitat. 


 

The Illustration:

From our Beginnings (bottom of illustration)
to the Present (top). 
 
 
At the bottom of the illustration, the all encompassing and enduring cult of AMEN, is represented by the sacred “Cow” (the Red Heifer) and “Ox” (Bullock) that appear on either side of the ancient Egyptian, papyrus shaped, temple column.
 

The Enduring 
Cult of 
AMEN
Egypt–Hebrews–Greeks–Roman Catholic–Islam
 
Hebrew: אָמֵן, Greek: ἀμήν,
Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, Arabic: آمين,
  

 
 
in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
 
Amen is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. It is used in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim practices as a concluding word, or as a response to a prayer.
 
In Ancient Egypt
 
The Bull God Amen, worshiped for millennia as one of many, gods, he eventually acquired the ascendancy to King of the Gods. Finally, under Ramses II, Amen underwent his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, and became Amen-Ra
 
In Ancient Greece
 
 
Temple of Zeus in Greece
 
As the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire, Amen-Ra also came to be worshipped outside Egypt as Zeus Amen and Jupiter Amen , he came to be identified with Zeus in Greece and Jupiter in Rome.
 

As Amen Ra in Egypt


Sculpture by Stephen Bornstein of AMEN as an Anciet Aurochs

 
Alexander the Great as Zeus-Amen,
wearing the "Horns of Amen".
 
Sculpture by Stephen Bornstein of a 320 BCE, Alexander Drachma. Alexander the Great is shown wearing the Horns of AMEN.
 
Alexander the Great, famously, embarked on strategic detour to Egypt to specifically acquire the honorific title of Zeus-Amen from the renown Oracle at Siwa, that would cement Alexander’s leadership of Greece as well as Egypt. It also elevated him to being a God, from being a mere mortal. 
 
The Aurochs was AMEN.
 
Geographic Range of Extinct Aurochs
 
of the
The prehistoric Geographialc range of the Extinct Aurochs
 
 
The Extinct Aurochs,
ancestor of all modern cattle
 
 
 
 


 

 
The Extinct Aurochs, ancestor of all modern cattle confronting prehistoroic man.
 

Ai generated image of  
Modern Cattle and Extinct Aurochs.
  
 
 
 Graphic image of 
Extinct Aurochs, and Modern Cattle.
 
 
 
35,000 year old prehistoric Cave Paintings iof Extinct Aurochs.
 


6,000 year Indus Valley Culture clay seal of Domesticated Aurochs, with the first Writing of the Modern HiSTORICAL ERA.

 

And Finally the Egyptian Temple of AMEN, God of the Domesticated Aurochs Bullock.
 
How could this ancient mythology become a powerful religion that would shape Europe and the continuing history of the modern world?

All advanced, ancient civilization hinges on their domestication of the bovine Aurochs.

 
The Wild Aurochs Bullock.
 
 The Domesticated Aurochs Bullock.
 
The Ancient Bullock
 


The Pivotal Historic Domestication of the Bovine 
(the Extinct Aurochs Bullock).
 
 

Arguably, the entire Egyptian civilization can be attributed to benefits they acquired by their early domestication and selective breeding of the now extinct, enormous Aurochs Bovine.
 
The Ancient Ritual of Circumcision
A Rite of Membership.
Hebrew: מילה  Arabic: ختان  


Also, in the illustration, next to the bullock is shown a trail of blood leading to the knife used in the ancient Ritual of Circumcision. The Hebrew and Arabic script demonstrate to the commonality of religious rituals. 
 
 
The Ancient Abrahamic-Hebrew-Islamic Rite of Membership.
 
 
The Ancient Egyptian, Rite of Membership

This ritual of membership was practiced by the ancient Egyptians. It was passed on to the Hebrews through Abraham's own circumcision. This occurred during his sojourn in Egypt with his wife Sarah. This happened before meeting Hagar, mother of Ismael. Several millennium later, through Ismael, circumcision was passed on to Islam.   .
 
A very strange ritual indeed.  
 
Arguably, Circumcision  represents a symbolic form of Castration of the bull.

Castration 
turns a wild animal into a vital servant of society.

Circumcision
  turns a young male into an vital member of society.

10,500-9,500 BCE

The Egyptian Domestication of the Bovine, the marvelous wild Aurochs.


Within a critical thousand years, the Domesticated Aurochs Bullock fostered pivotal developments, from improved Prehistoric Cultivation of grasses, to the establishment of great empires with towering cities gleaming in gold. 

 
Wild Aurochs


Wild Aurochs
 
  
Domesticated Aurochs
 
 

 


 
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Communities to Powerful Empires. 



 

 

There’s Archeological evidence that people started to eat Wild grains 105,000 years ago. And perhaps even before that.

12,000 BCE
Domestication of Wild Grains
 
 Humanity's Cultivation of Wild Grains
 

However, Cultivation of wheat and other modern crops date from 9500 BC, which saw “founder crops” appear. Founder crops were the main types of grain domesticated in the Near East which became the foundation of agriculture worldwide. The founder crops included barley, bitter vetch, chickpea, einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, flax, lentil, and pea.

 
11,000 BCE
 
Early Animal Husbandry and its impact on civilization.

 
Domestication of Grains and Beginnings of Animal Husbandry. 


Around 12,000 BCE is the "beginning of the end" of the “Hunter-Gatherer” societies.

These groups were constantly on the move and contributed greatly to the Migration of Homo Sapiens around the Globe. 
 



 Humanity starts Global Migration Patterns
 
As these groups begin to congregate and settle in one place they began gathering wild grains. 
 
 


 Development of Permanent Villages with new found luxuries
 

They developed cooking and baking capabilities, that freed them from some of The tyranny of Hunter-Gatherer food insecurity. 
 


Learning to Bake Breads
 
Prehistoric people began to breed and cultivate grains. This increases yields and provided a bit more predictably to the food supply. It was extremely labor intensive, and required a majority of the community to labor in agriculture.
 
Selective breeding of wild grains
 
  
 
 
Significantly increased harvests



Eventually We Find Our Place in the Universe.


“Domestication of Grains” lead to directly to seasonal cultivation and The Concept of Time. Awareness of seasons and understanding of the heavenly movements.

Development of Individuals’ Power.
 
 
 
Predictive knowledge of seasonal arrivals granted extraordinary power to those with astronomical knowledge.
 

Birth of Royalty 


 
The beginnings of organized religion and the first royalty began at this period. Ceremonies investing kingly powers were always connected to the heavens.

The Dog, Goat,
Sheep and Chicken.
 

Humankind’s Evolutionary Advantage and Our fortuitous mastery of Animal Husbandry.
 
 
The Dog
 
 
 Mankind's first attempts to domesticate Dogs.
 
It is commonly assumed that the dog was the first animal to be domesticated. This symbiotic relationship assisted greatly in hunting wild game. 
 
Humans alone have limited physical Powers.
 
Before dogs human relied entirely on their own capabilities. With dogs, human gained tremendous assistance in pursuing wild game.
  
Humans Hunting Alone,  Without Dogs.
 

 
Humans Hunting with Dogs.




 
Hunting with Dogs in the Desert.
 
 
Hunting with Dogs in the Jungle.
 
 
Hunting with Dogs in the Mountains.
 
 
With Dog assisted greater Food Security, Hunter–Gatherers could form larger groups. 
 



 
More permanent communities could form, offering simple comforts. Like a "Fur upholstered, communal fire pit".
 


Once humans begin to settle in fixed communities, the Dog takes on vitality important "Village Security Tasks
"

 
The acquired knowledge of Selective Breeding, assisted greatly in domestication of other animals. 


 Humans acquire knowledge of selective breeding.
 
Herding Herbivores
 
 
Studies have shown that societies that survive off herds of herbivores with constant supply of milk and cheese and occasionally meat, are healthier and more sustainable through difficult environmental conditions.
 

Global Cattle Herding Societies
 
 Yak herders of the Tibetian Plains:
(Milk, Butter, Cheese, Weavings, Leather, Meat, Dung)
 
 Sami Reindeer herders of Laplands:
(Milk, Butter, Cheese, Leather, Meat,)
 
Arab Cattle herders of North Africa
(Milk, Butter, Cheese, leather, Meat)

Maasai Cattle herders of Southern Africa
(Milk, Butter, Cheese, Blood, leather, Meat)

However, Early animal, husbandry, 1,000 years before the Bovine, involved, the goat, sheep and chickens.
 
Once humans began to cultivate grains and settle in one place and were less dependent on hunting, domesticated animals provided important sources of protein not to mention the incredible power of the male bovine.

11,000 BCE
Domestication of the Goat & Sheep.


 
The Sheep and Goat have been known to Man for 1,000s of years.

 


The goat and sheep were both almost simultaneously, domesticated around 11,000  to 10,000 BCE.

 
Archaeological evidence shows some of the early domestication took place in central Asia and Mesopotamia. Both animals were domesticated from wild animals that humans had been in contact with for thousands of years.
 
 

Each animal, for its own distinctive advantages, proved vital in the development of early human societies.

Human Control of the Male Goat and Sheep.
.
 
 
Most advantageous, the males of both species can be physically controlled by humans.


In all cases, domestication involves the control of the male of the species. In most cases, herding herbivores are very male oriented and hierarchically structured. Control of the bull, usually renders the female more malleable.
 

 
 
 
 Nutritious Goat Milk
 
 
The Goat provided milk, cheese, meat and waterproof goat skin, a necessity for carrying water long distances. 

Unique Waterproof Goat Skin for carrying water.
 
 Wool from Sheep.
 
 
 
 
The sheep provided wool, a substance capable of providing for all the necessities for an entire nomadic lifestyle. Tent’s furnishing, clothes, leather and meat for protein. 

 The very Difficult Nomadic Lifestyle
 
 
The Sheep, with it's Wool and the Goat can provide the Nomad lifestyle everything.
 
 With Domesticated Sheep & Goats.
 


 Even Collecting Yak Dung for Fuel in Tibet.
 
 
 
Cheese and Ghee
 
 
 Ghee in India
 
Yak Butter in Tibet.
 
Both the ability to create cheese and ghee, greatly extended the advantages of highly fragile milk.

Once a herding society was able to store protein in a stable form, it greatly fortified that society’s ability to withstand adverse conditions. 

 
Ghee makes the Hindu lifestyle possible.
 

 
The incredible longevity and Incredible Nutritional Value of Ghee permits the development of the entire Hindu-Vedic philosophy based on reincarnation and transmigration of the eternal soul and the sacredness of the “Mother” cow in the Indian subcontinent.

The Two vital Animals for the Bedouin Lifestyle


Together the Goat and Sheep were instrumental for mankind’s survival in harsh desert and dry conditions. However, because of their “down to the base” foraging habits, they constantly required new pastureland. Perfect for the Bedouin, not exactly compatible with the newly emerging societies in the cities.

Arguably, The very foundation of our civilization is due to
Animal Husbandry.

The Ubiquitous Aurochs

It took another 1,000 years for domestication of the Bovine-Aurochs.
 
 
The wide ranging “Aurochs” were the enormous ancestors of modern cattle. They roamed much of the three continents for millions of years. They were the largest herbivores of the current Holocene era. They were one third larger than current cattle. Luckily, for Mankind, the Aurochs, like a few other select animal species, had demonstrated an inherent affinity for humans.

 Wild aurochs
 
 Domesticated Aurochs

 Domesticated Aurochs 


Castration of the young Male Aurochs.


 
However, Domestication of the Bovine required castration of the male. The Aurochs Bull is physically beyond control of mere humans. How humans learned that particular technology, is lost in our pre-written history.
 
 

Once the Aurochs is castrated, and deprived of testosterone, the Bull, now an Ox, (Bullock) becomes docile, and a veritable “Servant to Mankind”. 


 
The multiple benefits from the domestication of the bovine became revolutionary in the development of society

The Power of the ox:

   
Transportation
 
 
Irrgation
Lifting water from the Nile, to irrigation channels crisscrossing the dry fields, through an ox driven waterwheel. 


 
Building
The ox could haul extraordinary heavy loads, and was docile enough to accept the most demanding instructions and rigorous tasks.
 

 
 Plowing & Crop Cultivation
Plowing was probably one of the most socially impacting capability that the ox could provide.
 
Now, One man and an Ox could plow an entire field.


This not only greatly increased yields, it freed up large amounts of man power. This allowed society to specialize trades. By using the abundant grain to create a variety of highly trained occupations.
 
 
 
Society can now develop into highly specialized trades.
 
 
Agricultural Workers

 Food Preperation
 
Bakery and Bread
 
Library and Scribes
 
Pottery Workshops  
 
  Furniture Factories
 
 
Merchants
 
 
 Cotton Cultivation
 
 Cotton Processing
 
Cotton Fiber
 
 
Cotton Cloth Production
 
Weavers and Tailors
 
 
Leather Tanning Workshops
 
 
Leather Garment Workers

 
Teachers and Classes
 
 
Sporting Events

  
Camel Racing
 
Religious Ceremonies
 
 
Leisure Time 
 
 
Milking and Lactate
 
 
Cheese Production
 
Beef and Butchers.


Religion
 
 
Military Power.


Amen worship at his cult’s temple
 

National Celebrations

With all this socioeconomic dependence on the domesticated bullock, it is only logical, that worship of a “bull deity” would  emerge.
 

That deity, with the head of a bull, 
the Chief of All Gods, 
is called  
Amen also known as Amun. 
 
 
Amen moves from
Egypt to Jerusalem.
 
The Israelites now also pray
"Homage to AMEN"
 


In the center of the bottom half of the “Hidden History“ illustration, rising vertically, is the linear connection from Egypt to The Roman Catholic Empire. 
 
 
Egypt meets Mesopotamia
 

 DISCLAIMER

There is no Historical Proof that any of these events actually happened.
 
However,
55% of the world's population believe it Occurred.
(Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Druze, Baha'i)
 
 
The Patriarch Abraham
3rd Millennium BCE 
 
אַבְרָהָם Abraham
 ابراهيم, Ibrāhīm
 
The Night that Changed History!
 

 
 
 THE BIRTH OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT
 
The Time and Place
 
In 2100 BCE, Mesopotamia like Egypt, was the other Great Ancient Civilization

 
 The Sumerian City-State of Ur

In the third millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, the land between the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers, was the other great center of civilization west of India.
 
 
 
They, like the Egyptians, had also domesticated the mighty Aurochs Bullock.
 
They were very talented engineers and built enormous stepped structures, called "Ziggurats" that still exist to this day. 
 
 Ur of the Chaldees
 
The Sumerian period, City-State of Ur, was the home of Abram (the future Abraham) and his wife Sarai (the future Sarah), and was a very sophisticated city. His father had a thriving clay idol factory.
 
 
Life must have been both comfortable and predictable for Abraham and Sarah. Abraham must have taken a tremendous risk to venture out, alone, into the unknown Western Arabian Desert.

 
 
 
 
A well established and beloved royalty. 


The People worshipped Clay Idols in public.
 
 

The People worshipped Clay Idols in their homes.



 
WHY WINE?
 
How did Wine become the 
Holy Sacrament
for both 
Judaism and all of Christianity?



Winemaking began in Mesopotamia in 4000 BCE. By 2100 BCE, the period in which the patriarch Abraham lived there, it was already in established and respected part of the community, royalty, and the priesthood. 

 
They even had a special God for wine. 
Siduri.
A name still synonymous with hedonist pleasures. Here she is shown, in typical Mesopotamian goddess style, with enlarged eyes, obviously, holding a glass of wine. Represented by an exuberant wave pattern.
 
 
Abraham with his 
New Abstract God.
YHWH 
 
 
The Patriarch Abraham with a
Burnt Offering, 
worshiping an 
Abstract YHWH at an
alter of UNHEWN stone.
 
We know from the story with his own son, that Human Sacrifice was also specifically prohibited.
 
The Hebrews all descended from Abraham, (born Abram) and his wife, Sarah (born Sarai). They were both from Ur, in ancient Mesopotamia, just off the Euphrates River. He left his father's home, because he refused to worship his father’s clay idols, which, the night before, (probably in a drunken rage) he had all just broken. He realized that the "King of the Universe" could not be contained in a clay idol.
 
 
YHWH
The unspeakable name of Abraham's Abstract God. 
 
 
The Tetragram
is the four-letter Hebrew theonym 
יהוה 
 (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), 
the unpronounceable Name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
 
 
The Patriarch Abraham's Story
 
 
Terah, Father of Abraham
 
Terah, Father of Abraham, crafting clay idols, in his factory,  in the city of Ur of the Chaldees, in ancient Mesopotamia, 2166 BCE. 
 
 
Abraham, has a comfortable life, living in one of the most sophisticated city of the times, helping his Father, Terah's craft valuable clay Idols.
 
 
One of Mankind’s most 
Historic Events.
 

 

 Then one starry, 
Momentous Night....
 
The Birth of the
Abstract Concept.

It begain very ordinarily...

 
Abram, the future Abraham, is drinking wine with close friends late into one historic night.
 
 
 
Abram goes outside, in a slight wine induced stupor, perhaps to relieve himself, and falls backwards. Flat on his back.
 
 
 
In a few moments, his eyes become accustomed to the night light , and he sees that what we call the “Milky Way” our own galaxy, is really billions of separate stars. 

 
Looking up at the infinite heavens,
Abraham has a realization, that 
"God" cannot be contained in a Clay Idol!
 


Abram also witnessed the marvels of the night sky, and the power of the one abstract God that created the Universe was suddenly revealed. Creating both the heavens and mankind as well!
 
Abraham realizes that the
" King of the Universe" is
an Abstract Concept.

A completely New 
"Way of Thinking",
born from a 
 "Single Momentary Act of Defiance".
 
 
 
Abraham, in an "Act of Defiance", probably wine induced, starts destroying his Father, Terah's clay Idols that same night.
 
 
Abraham, encouraged by the lack of inhibitions from WINE, continues in his "Act of Defiance", until he destroys all his Father's clay Idols.
 
Without The Wine, Would Abraham have had the Courage?

 
The next morning, Abraham, awakens, still hung over, when he slowly remembers, while in a wine induced rage, destroying the clay idols, in his father’s pottery workshop the night before.


 
Abram also remembers what awareness induced him to do it. How he had also witnessed the marvels of the night sky, and the power of the One abstract God that created the universe and man!

 
As soon as his father, Terah shows up, a heated argument ensues. Abraham explains what he saw the night before, and How he realized the foolishness of worshiping clay idols.
 
 
I myself saw the same thing once. It was in Central Texas, at about 800 feet altitude above sea level. On an extremely dry, November evening. You have to be completely prone and motionless, in order to see it. The slight movement from standing and breathing is what makes it look milky. 
 
What appears Milky, is actually made up of Billions of separate Points of Light. It is truly a humbling experience. If your are not intellectually equipped, with the "concept of abstract thought", as was Abram, it could be a very unnerving experience.

 
 
Video Journey to the 
Center of our Galaxy, 
The Milky Way.
 
I was even able to record some of my subsequent scientific observations, using a Sony infrared video camera as a telescope with zoom lens. I focused on the center of our own galaxy, Sagittarius, A. Scientists now know that there is a giant black hole at the center of our galaxy, and probably all of the other galaxies as well..
 
 

That night, this unnamed God, speaks to Abram. God gives him a new name, Abraham and his wife Sarai, a new name, Sarah. Meaning “The father and Mother”.  God tells him not to worry, “That his descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky”, and that he is not to accept the Worship of idols and other gods before him. 

 

The next morning, The newly named ABRAHAM, convinces his father Terah, the correctness of his vision and his need to leave Ur.
 
 "To Live in the Land that God has promised him"


 
Abraham leaves his father and Ur behind!


Abraham, his wife Sarah, his Nephew Lot (his deceased brother Haran's son) and his extended family, flock and herdsmen depart Ur, Mesopotamia
for Haran, on his trip to Caanan, 2166 BCE.
 
Abraham, following his new God's spoken instructions, took his new Abstract Concept, his new name, his wife with all his sheep and left heading west into the unknown western desert. Eventually settling in Southern Canaan in the modern day Be’er Sheva Oasis, in Israel.
 
 
 
Abraham's journey from Ur in Mesopotamia to Be'er Sheva in Caanan (today's Israel).
 
 


Abraham Arrives Canaan (Israel)
2166 BCE


 Abraham peacefully settles at an isolated Oasis in the South Canaan Desert.
 
Living in peace with the local Canaanites, Abraham's extended family prospers, but he and Sarah are childless. Abraham is without an Heir.
 
  
 
Then.....

Abraham Goes to Egypt.
Asia Meets Africa
 
 
Abraham sojourns in Egypt during a great drought.
  
During an intense drought, he travels to Egypt and sojourns there. Abraham learns about circumcision while there. 
 

Abraham and Sarah acquire an Egyptian Handmaiden named  Hagar, mother of his future son, Ishmael, The Patriarch of Islam
 
 
Abraham and Sarah (she then 90 years old) miraculously conceive a son with the name ISAAC (Yitzhak) and thus begins God Promise of a  “Great Nation"..
 
 
 
 
Abraham teaches Isaac about the God, YHWH, and the importance of performing the burnt offering ceremony.
 

 
After consulting with God, Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away from his camp. After receiving Divine instructions in the desert, Hagar returns home to Egypt.  
 
Ishmael goes on to Father a Great Nation.
 
Abraham Returns to Canaan with his new family.
 


Abraham makes the Be'er Sheva Oasis his home
 
 
Abraham digs a well. 
 
 
 
The well becomes part of a dispute with Abimelech of Gerar, the Philistine king
 
 
After negotiations and abinding agreement with Abimelech, Abraham is given possession of the Well and the surrounding Land. Thus begins Abraham's claim on the land.



Abraham Buys the Cave of Machpelah outside Hebron.


After Sarah dies, Abraham purchases the Cave of Machpelah (Cave of the Partriachs) from Ephron the Hittite. This cave near Hebron, and was intended to be the Family's Sepulchre (tomb) for all eternity.


Abraham Buries Sarah in the Cave of Machpelah.
 

YHWH on Sacrifice!
 
Child Sacrifice to Baal (Molech)
The God of the Canaanites.
 
 
Molech
The Canaanites practiced Child Sacrifice (infanticide) to their God Baal,
 
The Sacrifice of Isaac

For Jews, this story is  
The Binding of  Yitzhak 
יִצְחָק”
  
For Mohammedans, this story is 
The Binding of  Ishmael 
إِسْمَاعِيْل

 
Child sacrifice (infanticide) to Baal (Molech), was well known and routinely practiced by the Canaanites. 
 
When God, YHWH, asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, it was considered nothing unusual.
 

 
 
Abraham is stopped by an angel.
 

 
And a Ram is sacrificed instead. 
 
 
 
The Real Message of this story:
 
The God of Abraham
YHWH
PROHIBITS 
HUMAN SACRIFICE!

"Not to burn your children in a sacrificial fire to Molech."
(Leviticus 18:21)
  
 
Three Generations Later......
 The Hebrew Tribes move to Egypt.
 
l
 
Abraham's great grandson, Joseph astutely interpreting the Pharaoh of Egypt's disturbing dreams.
 


Joseph becomes second only to the Pharaoh.

His great grandson, Joseph, son of Jacob, is left for dead in a deep hole by his jealous brothers. He is rescued by an Egyptian bound asphalt caravan. He is brought to Egypt and sold into slavery. After he correctly interprets the Pharaoh's dreams, he  becomes the second most powerful person in Egypt. Seven years later, during a great drought, that Joseph had correctly predicted from the Pharaoh's dreams, all of his brothers', The twelve Israelite tribes, follow him there. 
 
The Hebrews, all live very well and amass great wealth, until, they become enslaved by a Pharaoh "That did not know of Joseph". Eventually they gain their freedom through a charismatic leader of questionable ancestry, called Moses, (means "The Child" in ancient Egyptian).
 
 Who was Moses?
 
 
Moses, a charismatic leader of questionable ancestry, 
Was he Hebrew or Egyptian.?
 Sculpture by Stephen Bornstein
 

 
Moses and the Hebrews make a hastily retreat from Egypt.
 
Moses sees the Israelities worshiping AMEN, The Golden Calf, in the Sinai.
 

 
As described in the Israelite's Scared Torah, The Bible's Old Testament, that while camped in the Sinai Desert, and after Moses descended Mount Sinai with God's hand written Torah, Moses witnesses, the Israelites worshiping the Golden Calf, also known as the Egyptian God Amen. Moses then supposedly rewrites what “God” (YHWH) had already written. with his own hands. Moses, after he sees the Hebrews involved in specifically prohibited idol worship, obviously incorporates the Egyptian God’s name, “Amen” into the liturgy of his newly modified, existing Hebrew faith.
  

He offers the Israelites to incorporate AMEN into the new rules.
 
Moses creates a Sacred, God given scroll, containing a set of 613 demanding Laws called COMMANDMENTS, to help weave a group of 12 separate tribes into a unified nation. A  new Future Temple would serve as a Permanent Retepository for this Holy Sacramental Scroll. The Entire National life would center around an elaborate schedule of Temple events, obviously based on Egyptian Temple practices. 
 
All Israelities could absolve themselves of their own religious transgressions through both communal and private animal sacrifices, called "Burnt Offerings". A portable tent structure called "The Tabernacle", would substitute until, a suitable location is found and a stone structure will be constructed.
 
 
 
 
The Israelite Priests preparing an 
AMEN "Burnt Offering" 
in front of their portable Tabinacle, the tent containing the 
"Ark of the Convenant".
 
Moses creates a Priesthood!
 
The High Priest
Kohen Gadol
 
 
Moses makes his brother, Aaron the High Priest, with elaborate uniform, and incredibly complex jewel encrusted Breast Plate.
 
The Priesthood
 
 
Moses creates an incredably powerful and priviliged  Hereditary Preisthood, solely restricted to Aaron's male desendents for all eternity.
 
The Menorah
 
 
Moses creates The Menorah, as the main religous orniment for the future Temple.
 
From Wool Tent to Marble floors
 
 
First Temple Period
900 BCE – 587 BCE
Israelite Kingdom
 
The Israelites incorporate "Cult of AMEN" into Solomon's New Temple in Jerusalem.
 
 
Hebrew's First Temple in Jerusalem, with the "Burnt Offerings"
 

and
The Large, Bronze AMEN Urn.
  
The Bronze Sea or the Molten Sea, a large bronze vessel described in the Hebrew Bible as being located in the courtyard of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. It was used by the priests for ritual washing and purification. It was a symbol of God's presence and power, and its size and material emphasized its importance. It also represented the chaos and order of creation, as its shape evoked the primordial sea.
 
The Sacrificial,
Sacred Red Heifer 
 
 
The priests breed a special, unblemished Red Heifer specifically for the opening dedication of Solomon's New Temple.
   
Then....
 
The Babylon Empire Conquers Jerusalem, 587 BCE
 
First Temple
Destroyed by Babylon,
587 BCE
 
 
50 years later
 
Second Temple Period
516 BCE – 70 CE
Becomes Roman Colony

"Herodian's' Second Temple.
 

 Herod's, addition to the Second Temple was much larger then the First on the same spot and used Roman building methods.
 
 
 
The Hebrew “YHWH Amen” Second Temple in Jerusalem was fashioned with Roman expertise in stone construction.
 

"Herodian Cut" stones.
 

The Israelites actually invite the Romans into Palestine. The Israelite's Second Temple is constructed using the Roman influenced “Herodian Cut” stones (as shown in the illustration) with their unique border treatment.
 
 Jerusalem's revered Wailing Wall

 
Jerusalem's revered Wailing Wall, the only remaining section of Herod's, Roman influenced, Second Temple's retaining wall.
 
A Jewish Revolt against Rome is crushed in 70 CE. Jerusalem is destroyed.
 

Second Temple
Destroyed by Rome,
70 CE
 
 
Amen then goes to Rome!


The Rise Of the 
Roman Empire.
27 BCE - 476 CE
 
The power of the Roman Empire maintained for hundreds of years the peace of “Pax Romana”.

Rome is built on infrastructure. Roads, Aqueducts bridges, fortresses, cities, Even completely new harbors were quickly built with newly developed Roman Marine concrete.
 
 
Roman Concrete with its still secret formula.
 
 
Constructing rapidly anywhere using Concrete.
 

Using Barrel Arches for structure.

Constructing new harbors with Marine Concrete.
 
 Constructing the world's most beautiful poured concrete building, The Pantheon.

 
Romans were able to build; roads, bridges, aqueducts, harbors, infrastructure, fortresses and cities throughout their entire empire. This permitted The Roman Emperor to send his Legions anywhere very quickly.



 
 
 




The Roman Emperor could quickly dispatch his Legions.
 
Rome’s critical military might, relied completely on a complex infrastructure built and maintained by a professionally trained and fully compliant social order.
 
 
Directly from Rome to everywhere in the Empire.





 
From mastering the existing technology of pouring their own secret concrete mixtures, to extensive use of the newly perfected “Barrel Arch”, the Romans excelled in large multi-generational, multi use projects.The Emperor and his military legions, made up both Romans and "Barbarian" Mercenaries ended up controlling a third of the Earth's population.
 
The Jewish Revolt Against Rome 
66 -70 CE 


After several decades of very public acts of defiance against Rome. The rebellous Jewish "Zelots" finally decalare open revolt in 66 CE during the oppressive rule of the Roman Emperor Nero.
  

.
Rome's Response is immediate and Overwhelming.
 
The Roman Legions arrive to the recently built, Port of Caesarea in Roman Palestine.
 

For Rome, the war was a minor "Campaign", it was however, 
 
The Largest Revolt of any Nation against Rome.
 

In a strange twist of Fate, a rebellion in a obscure and relatively unimportant region, by a troublesome, highly independent people, would end up, in converting the entire Roman Empire to Christianity, an offshoot of the Hebrew's Egyptian influenced faith (AMEN).
 
 
 
The Roman Legions wage a relentless war against the Jewish "Zelots", from 66-70 CE. First under General Vespasian, and then under Titus, Jerusalem is put under siege, stormed, looted and finally the Second Temple is destroyed.
 
 
 Jerusalem's outer walls are breached.

 
The Legions loot Jerusalem.
 
 
Jerusalem's Fortress is breached.
 
 
Jerusalem is put to torch.
 

Jerusalem's Second Temple is destroyed.
 
 
The (Amen) Menorah is looted and taken to Rome.
 
  
The Legions destroy the Jewish "Zelots" last desert mountain redoubt at MASADA.
 
 
 
Now the Emperor, Titus builds an Arch in Rome commemorating his "War against the Jews".
 
 
Actual sculpture from Titus' Commemorative Arch in Rome. 
 
 
The Jews are forced out of Palestine, and flee with their New Religon.
 


 
Jews and their new and existing religions are dispersed throughout the Roman Empire.
 

Christianity is now spread across the Mediterranean Basin.

Map of Jews dispersal after Roman destruction of Jewish Palestine in 70 CE.


The Roman Empire enjoys an unprecedented period of Peace.   
 
Pax Romana
27 BCE–180 CE
 
 
200 Years of Peace and Prosperity under Roman Military Rule.
 
 

  
Military security accompanies great abundance.
  
 

Ominously,
Rome becomes decadent and dependent on slaves.

 
However, The imperial city of Rome and its power structure had become corrupt, and weakened from centuries of depending on slavery. Eventually, in 313 CE, Emperor Constantine realizes the irreparably decadent Roman Empire needed a different religion that would be capable of maintaining a new official  "Morally Conservative Narrative".
 

 
The Big Change, 
Rome embraces Christianity
 
Emperor Constantine I
 272 - 337 CE
 
After an historic battle, during a civil war, Constantine I (the great) suddenly converts to Christianity in 312 CE. After the battle of Milvian Bridge (still standing in Rome), Constantine gains sole authority of the Roman empire.
 
The Emperor Constantine at the 312 CE battle of  Milvian Bridge.
 
 
 He attributes his success to the sign of the "Holy Cross"
 

In 313 CE, Constantine declares Christinanity the Offical Religon of the Roman Empire.
 
 
In 313 CE Constantine signs Edict of Milan, making Christianity the Offical Roman State Religon.

The 313 CE, transition from the ancient Greco-Roman religion to Roman is seamless .
 
Constantine adopts Christianity in 313 CE and the Pantheon goes from....

 
From holding wild Pagan Celebrations.....
 
 
 
 
....To the Solemnity of a Roman Catholic Cathedral..
 
 
 
 
After the The Edict of Milan in 313 CE, the entire Roman Empire adopts Christianity as the official faith. More importantly, under Constantine, the young religion, and the state are merged into one.
 
 The Birth of a New Religiopolitical Ideology   
 
"Constantinianism”
 
Officially Combining Church and State.
 
 
“Constantinianism” is a religiopolitical ideology in Christian politics that epitomizes the unity of church and state.   

Now the Emperor Constantine could apply the Conservative Catholic Morality of the church to control the existential immoral decay of Rome. The power of Church, and its promised eternal life, would help enforce state edicts.

As Rome Declines, the Vatican gains power.

The Crown of the Papacy.
From Emperor to Pope.
 



Constantine organizes several critical Ecumenical Councils in order to regulate Christianity throughout the Empire, vast powers were officially imbued to The Official Bishop of Rome, The New Pope


The Emperor Constantine leaves the Newly empowered Pope to watch over Rome, and moves his Imperial Court to the highly protected ancient walled city of Byzantium, now renamed Constantinople


Constantine begins to build Saint Peter’s Basilica,  in Rome. Intended to be the seat of the Bishop of Rome. He however moves his court to the walled, protected ancient city of Byzantium which he renames it Constantinople
 
 
In Constantinople, Constantine Builds the Basilica Hagar Sophia, named after his mother, to be the seat of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire. 


 
 
 
 In Rome, Constantine orders that Saint Peter's Basilica is to be built on the site of Peter's Crucifixion.


 
 

The Roman Empire had been split into East and West in 286 CE (before Constantine) for operational efficiencies. The security conditions in the Western Roman Empire continue to deteriorate. Internal problems inherent in the slave driven economy. Moral and ethical decay run rampant, weakening society from invasions from the north. After many invasions, finally in 476 CE the German barbarian King Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus Augustulus.
 
The Fall Of the 
Western Roman Empire.
476 CE
 
 
The Visigoths sack Rome in 410 CE
 
Meanwhile, Constantine in Constantinople prospers. He starts construction on The Hagia Sophia Basilica, one the most beautiful building in the history of man. The Western Roman Empire under the control of The Bishop of Rome continues to deteriorate. Eventually sixty years after Constantine’s death, in 395 AD, the Roman Empire splits in two.

The power that was Rome now becomes The Vatican.

A Seamless Transition:
No Upheaval, Same Players, New Playbook.
 
In the illustration, the fall of Rome is represented by the ruins of life Roman column. Directly Above it is the Papal Crown. Symbol of the continuing power of the Pope.

Directly above is Saint Peter’s Basilica, site of the death and entombment of Peter, the first pope. and the seat of the Bishop of Rome.

From the signing of the Edict of Milan in 320 CE, the existing Roman power base quickly migrated to positions of power in the new official state religion. Constantine, had successfully given the fraying Roman Empire, a new lease on life.

Constantine, realizing that the city of Rome is indefensible to invasions from the Gothic and Frankish tribes from the north, decides to move his new capital to the geographically protected ancient city of Byzantium, now renamed Constantinople.

 
 
Saint Peter’s basilica at the Vatican
 
He builds two marvelous and architecturally, innovative, basilicas as the power centers of his new religion. One in Rome, the Saint Peter’s basilica at the Vatican, the other, in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

 
The Hagia Sophia Basilica in Constantinople.
 
The Roman and Byzantine, centers develop their own power base, faith and liturgy, and soon split.
  
The split of the Roman Empire into East and West in 286 CE.
 

The Roman Catholic Vatican is now free on its own to control all of Europe.
 
The Vatican From the fall of Rome.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, in 480 CE (the Eastern Roman Empire, continued for practically 1000 years more) the Vatican went about consolidating and transferring the powers that had been the Roman Empire.

 
 
Charlemagne first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
 
 
Between acknowledging enormous new nations like the Holy Roman Empire, and organizing, several European-wide military campaigns known as the Crusades, the Vatican’s “iron grip”, exerts total control over Europe and the world for more than two millennium. 
 
The Latin Crusades, The Vatican promoted European-wide military campaigns. 
 

The Vatican's Latin Crusades arrive from all over Europe
 
 
The Vatican's Latin Crusades arrive in the holy land
  
 
 The Vatican's Crusades lay seige to Jerusalem


The Vatican's Latin Crusades conquer Jerusalem
  
 
The Vatican's Latin Crusades sack Jerusalem
 

Eventually defeated, the Latin Crusades retreat to their impenetrable coastal fortress in Acre.
 
 Crusaders sack and plunder Constantinople,
Capital of the surviving 
Eastern Roman Empire.
 
Upon their return from defeat in the Holy Land, the Vatican’s Crusaders sack and plunder the Eastern Roman Empire capital of Constantinople.
 

In April of 1204, the Vatican’s 4th Latin Crusaders, up return from the Holy Land, sack, plunder and destroy parts Constantinople, leaving it vulnerable to a later Ottoman-Turk conquest.
 
This weaken the defenses, leaving it vulnerable for its eventual fall years later to the Ottoman-Turks in 1453.
 
  1453 CE
Final Fall of the 
Byzantine Roman Empire

 
Ottoman Turks employed their superior knowledge of fire power with combined Naval and land forces.
 

 
 
After a 53 day siege and centuries of attempts, the Ottorman Turks finally capture Constantinople on 29th of May in 1453.

 
 
The Ottoman Turks, Led by Sultan Mehmed II, conquered Constantinople in 1453, Killing the Last Roman Emperor  Constantine XI, marking the end of the Medieval Period.
 

The once powerful Byzantine Empire, successor to the Imperial Roman Empire, suffers a definitive defeat, literally disappears.
 
End of The Medieval Period, 
The Beginning of
Early Modern Period. 
 
The Center of Greek Orthodoxy moves to the Czar's Russia.


The power base of Eastern Orthodoxy moves to isolated Russia.
 

 
The Russian Czar is the new Head of Eastern Orthodoxy
 

The Vatican, now in a tenuous alliance, with the Ottomans Turks, only grows in the strength.

In 1492, Forty years after the fall of Constantinople, the Europeans fortuitously discover the American continents and Roman Catholicism is rapidly spread throughout the New World
 
 
1492 CE
Spain and Portugal 
discover the New World

 
 
The Vatican divides the American Continent to accomadate the claims of discovery by both The Spanish and Portugese Empires with the requirement that they baptize all the natives to Roman Catholicism.
 
 
 
The Spanish first discover rthe Caribbean Islands in 1492
 

The Spanish arrive with ruthless gold seeking Conquistatores
 

 They fight several brutal wars against the local inhabitants.

 
Thee fight their way all the way to the Aztec capital, capturing  their Emperor Moctezuma.


The Vatican quickly imposes strict Catholic doctrine.
 
 

 


1478 CE
The Vatican implements the brutal
Spanish Inquisition
 

Fearful of change, The Catholic Church inaugurates, a global Inquisition, to consolidate power by routing out and annihilating Jews and other dissident elements. The Inquisition continues unsuccessfully for hundreds of years, negatively affecting the vitality of the church itself.
 

And consequently, a diminished and militarily powerless, Roman Catholic Church enters the 20th century,

To make matters worse, all the major Royal Empires lie outside the domain of the Catholic Church. Humiliatingly, even its own power in Italy severely diminished.
   
The Vatican mantains a 400 year old agreement with the Ottoman Muslim Empire.

 
 
Interestingly The Roman Catholic Vatican is still in a tenuous 400 year old agreement with the Ottoman Muslim Empire and also practically at war with Eastern Orthodoxy. 
 
The 20th Century
WWI, The Stage is set.

  
The NEW Secret Life of The Vatican.
 

The middle of the "Hidden History" illustration deals with events during the beginning to mid-20th century, which the Vatican played crucial role. 
  
1914 CE
World War I begins among the Great Royal Houses of Europe.
 
 
 
The German Keiser, The British King and the Czar of Russia are all First Cousins.
None of these Royal Houses are Roman Catholic.
 

 
After years of aggressive behavior, the great European powers, declare war in 1914. Almost all of the belligerents’ royal families are first cousins. However, the Vatican is left out. Only France and Italy are stauchly Roman Catholic. 


WWI is a horrible modern war taking millions of lives



 Russian soldiers begin to mutiny and abandon their positions on the eastern front in WWI.
 
1917 CE
The Russian Czar Falls.
An entirely New Existential Threat 
to the Vatican emerges.
 
   
 
During WWI, The Czar of Russia is suddenly overthrown. Communism, a potential new, menace appears on the Eastern European horizon.
 

The November 1917 Communist Bolshevik Revolution.
    
 
 
The Rise of International Communism.
 
 
The Face of the New Threat:
Trotsky and Marxx.
 
 

Towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, newly industrialized nations start to experience socially destabilizing labor unrest.

 


In 1848, Carl Marx  German-born Jewish, philosopher and political theorist, wrote “The Communist Manifesto”. It offered a comprehensive, equitable alternative to ancient and inequitable capitalism. He was severely criticized and persecuted because of it. However, It wasn’t until 1905 that a political movement in imperial Russia attempted a revolution based on communist principles. The failure of that revolution and the resulting communist diaspora, created tensions, throughout Europe, and even the United States.
 


This Revolutionary philosophy would continue to threaten the existing power structure, (all the way to 1989) especially Czarist Russia. The unsuccessful Marxist revolution by the “Mensheviks” in 1905, was blamed on Jews due to their majority participation. The successor organization would then became widely known as “Jewish Bolshevism”.
 
 
WWI ends on the Eastern Front with the Bolsheviks signing a Separate Peace


As WWI draws to a close in 1917, Soviet Bolshevism takes control in Russia.
 

 
The Communists kill the Russian Czar, the titular head of Eastern Orthodoxy, and systematically go about destroying all the churches and annihilate its clergy.

Many of the Central European countries are threatened by their own internal communist movements.
 
The formation of The Red Army

 
The Red Army, a highly motivated, ideologically driven Military.
 

Worse, the newly formed Red Army, a highly motivated, ideologically driven, military force begins a campaign of conquest to create the Soviet Union, (1917-1989). 
 
 
 Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940)

 
 
 

The Red Army became synonymous with it’s leader, Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940). After conquering the Ukraine, the Red Army attacks Poland, Europe’s most observant Catholics country.
 


The Vatican now focuses on Communism as their most serious existential threat since the rise of The Protestants.

Antisemitism has been around for two millennia. This was different. This was the conflagration by the Vatican of the Jews as an existential threat.

After a military defeat in Poland, and a transfer of power in the Soviet Union, “Trotsky and his World Revolutionary”fraction are purged. The new Soviet leader, Stalin, focuses on consolidating his own vast power, while vigorously empowering Communist Political parties abroad. 
 
 
Pope Pius XII and his Henchman.
 
The Main Players:
The Vatican's Pope Pius XII, the International Oil-Money Interests and the Grand Mufti al-Husseini
 
Pope Pius XII
 

Born, Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli.
 
To the right of illustration is a deteriorating stage and Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli). 1939-1958. He is portrayed as a bust of himself. Not unlike a literal chess piece being played by the Axis Nations.
 
 The future Pope Pius XII signs Contraversial pact with Nazi Germany 1936.
 
 
This was a very worldly Pope, having served as Vatican Secretary of State and Papal Nuncio to Germany, during which time, the controversial Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany was officiated. He openly displayed an affinity for all things German. Since 1920, he openly referred to Communism as “Jewish Bolshevism, and took every opportunity on the world stage to openly promote hostility to it. 
 
Pope Pius XII's 1936, highly controversial trip to USA hosted by Joesph Kenndy.


A heated debate with President Roosevelt.
While still Vatican Secretary of State, during a visit to the United States in 1936, he even had a heated debate with President Roosevelt.
 
He defiantly told the President that Communism is the most serious threat in the world today. To which Roosevelt responded indignantly, No it isn’t, fascism is! Imagine The Pope’s  reaction? Demonizing his own handpicked dictatorships.
 
Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II are still very much, subjects of intense and continued controversy.

Whitout a doubt, if this Pope had created an papal edict, making it a “mortal sin” to denounce a Jew to the Germans, Poland, arguably would not have been where the Nazis would have chosen to put all their secret death camps.

in the Hidden History illustration, 
 
 
Next to the Pope is the
  
Wall Street Bankers – Texas Oil Man in one character



After over drilling in Oklahoma and Texas, being thrown out of Mexico, and militarily subverting Venezuela, they now set their sights on the Saudi tribal leader and redrawing the map of Arabia. 
 
 
 
Shown as a “Skull and Bones” member, he represents the infamous 200+ year, highly secret organization located on the Yale campus, which wields tremendous power in creating vast benefits from among other ventures, war profiteering. 
 

Also they represent the Texas oil men who created the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 by supporting King Abdulaziz of the Saudi tribe against the country’s 1300 year old traditional Hashemites rulers. 

Amin-al Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem
 

In the illustration,
peaking out behind the two, stands Amin-al Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem. An early opponent of Zionism, and the major proponent of Palestinian Nationalism, he organized all of the anti-Jewish riots in Palestine during the 20s and early 30s. After falsely collaborating with the British, they finally issued an arrest warrant for him. 
 
Amin-al Husseini with Hitler
 
Hussenini fled to Germany and collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. He even visited Auschwitz to witness the final solution firsthand. 
 
 Amin-al Husseini at Auschwitz
 
Himmler was counting on him to raise a Muslim SS Waffen army, in his newly created, country of Bosnia Herzegovina, to fight against the British in Palestine.
 
Amin-al Husseini with Himmler
 
Amin-al Husseini reviewing SS Waffen troops in Himmler's newly created Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 
 
Between WWI –WWII
(1918-1939)
OIL and Boom & Bust Economies.

 
 
    
 
 
The Oil, petroleum and gasoline become major drivers of International Geopolitics.
 
All the British and French really wanted in the newly liberated Middle East was a pipeline from the Kirkuk to Haifa.

 
At first, The British gleefully occupy their new Palestine mandate.
 

The vital, critically important, Iraq to Haifa oil pipeline ending on the Mediterranean.
 


 
 
 
The English and French, were really only interested in operating their newly constructed, greatly coveted,  jointly owned, fully functional oil pipeline from Iraq to Haifa on the Mediterranean.
 
 
The new pipeline conveniently terminated at Haifa on the Mediterranean.
 
 The Zionist Beginnings of Israel.
 
Starting in 1880, the Jewish Zionists start to settle Isreal, that will disturb local Palestinians and relations with the British.
 
A small, for the first 40 years, insignificant Zionist movement to establish a homeland for the Jews in Ottoman Palestine, became a new reality at the end of World War I. The British declared their affiliation and cooperation for the creation of this homeland in their new Palestine mandate.
  

They create new communal farming communities called a Kibbutz.
 
 
They establish new cities like Tel Aviv, in the sand dunes outside of the ancient port, Jaffe.

 
Eventually, these growing Jewish aspirations and previously thwarted Arab political movements, created serious problems for the English and French.
 
The Vatican and the Holocaust.
 
To the left of illustration is:
 

The Vatican's Loyal Pawns: 
 Mussolini, Hitler, Franco and the Many Pinochets
 
 
Vatican Empowers, Anti-Communist Dictatorships in:
 Italy-Mussolini, Germany-Hitler, 
Spain-Franco, Chile-Pinochet.
 
The Vatican encourages the quick creation of their own fascist military revolutions, in Italy, Germany, Spain and Slovakia.  
 
Hitler and Italy's Mussolini.

Hitler and Spain's Franco.
 
 Franco's Civil War was a deadly dress rehearsal for WWII.
 
 
Franco's Spanish 1936 Civil War with its varied participants, is considered the beginning of World War WII.
 
Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and 30 years later, Pinochet together with all the other Latin American, Catholic endorsed, Fascist dictatorships, the Vatican was able to forge a united and economically self sustaining military campaign against global communism. 
 

 General Augusto Pinochet, the Vatican's empowered Fascist Dictatorship in Chile. A member of the military  campaign against Global Communism.

"Mothers' of the Dissapeared" formed in many Latin American countries during the various  "Dirty Wars" under brutal Vatican-CIA appeoved Fascist dictatorships.

The Vatican was able to forge a United Hemispheric Fascist Front in Latin America that still exists in some countries. This Church approved, CIA installed, Military Junta model, eventually became a profitable, self-sustaining military implemented campaign against Global Communism.

How the Vatican’s battle with International Communism involved the Jews.
 
The Beginning with Karl Marx
 
Karl Marx was an avowed atheist and detested religion, which he believed was the opium of the masses. Communism is at its bases, a utopian philosophy.

It seems only natural, after a millennium, of primarily Christian persecution, that many Jewish intellectuals would embrace communist ideology. Judaism is also a utopian religion, and the secular emphasis of communism seemed welcome to many Jews from years of Christian oppression.
 
 
 
 
Trotsky and the Jews.
 
The Symbiotic Relationship:
Trotsky is demonized by Fascist Dictatorships dependent on Vatican acquiescence.
 
 Trotsky indelibly becomes the face of the 20th century 
"Global Communism Threat".

 

 
 
Both Communism and Trotsky are demonized together.
 

 

Polish poster from the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. Clearly showing the Demonization of Leon Trotsky, symbol of the Red Army.

   
 
1939 CE
WWII Begins:
The Sides are Drawn!
 
 
Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler and the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. 
 
Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler’s instructions, to his roving SS death squads that followed behind the German advance in Russia was:

“Kill all The Commissars and Jews”
 

For the Vatican and the Fascists,
The Jews and Communism had become completely “Conflated”.

The Vatican until this day, professes their role was to protect the Catholics living under dictatorships. They sanctimoniously deny knowing the scale or the scope of Hitler’s final solution. 

Interestingly, all of the Nazi extermination camps were located in Poland, Europe’s most Catholic country. 
 
During World War II

 WWII saw horific batlles betwwen the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Communists in the end, 
Win World War II
 

The Eastern Half of Europe is occupied by The Soviet Union.

The end of World War II saw the fall of the Vatican fascist dictatorships. Franco of Spain and Salazar of Portugal continue the murderous reign well into the mid 1970’s  However, the battle between the Vatican and communism only intensified.

 
After WWII, Germany is left in ruins.
 

And the Soviet Army is in complete control of half of Europe.


1945 CE
With World War II now over, 
the Vatican is in a Full Panic Mode.

Half of Europe was now Communist. Poland, only since 1945 fell under communist control. Poland had been one of the most Catholic countries in Europe.

Even after the murderous, Holocaust, and the highly destructive German war against the Soviets, Communism seemed as strong as ever. 
 
 


 
The Vatican’s arch enemy, had now spread and metastasized globally.
 
 
 
 
Half of Europe is now under communist control with the iron curtain, extending from the North Sea to Trieste on the Adriatic.


Since the end of WWII, The United States is in a constant and dangerous nuclear face off with the Soviet Union, across the iron curtain in Europe and Korea in Asia.
 
Now, a New Focus: 
Latin America! 
 
The Vatican’s infamous “Rat Line”
 
The Vatican’s battle against the communists continued unabated after WWII, as well. They abetted Nazi war criminals escape to South America,
 

The Vatican’s infamous “Rat Line” helps smuggle German war criminals to South America, where they can assist those countries’ relatively weak military, with proven anti-communist tactics. They assist where communism threatened several staunch Roman Catholic countries.


With “Plausible Deniability” for the holocaust universally accepted, the Vatican goes into full alert.

Most importantly.....
 The United States now becomes the Chief Ally in The Vatican’s war against Communism.

 
 The Church's Anti-Communist cursade in Western Europe.
 
In western Europe, the CIA and the Roman Catholic Church, coordinate endorsements and channel funds to any party named “Christian Democrats“.
 
Christian Democrats Parties spring up in every country
 
The Church's Anti-Communist cursade in Latin America.
 
In Latin America, the Vatican and the CIA actively and energetically install military regimes throughout the Americas that are faithfully ultra conservative Catholics and rigidly anti-communist. 
 
They help install brutal fascist dictators throughout Latin America. Only Mexico and Costa Rica escaped the Vatican’s tyranny. The church would even go on to vengefully deny the Mexican faithful all clerical services for several years.

Country after country falls, until the entire continent becomes one vast CIA-Vatican, anti-communist fortress.
 
 
Peru
 
Brazil
 
El Salvador
 
Argentina
 
Colombia
 
 
Guatamala
 
 
Chile
 
From Chile to  Guatemala, with only Costa Rica the exception, the United States with the Vatican, managed to install pseudo-democratic military regimes, or outright military dictatorships.

 
Then in 1958….

The Communists gain a
foothold in Latin American.
 
Fidel Castro and Younger brother Raul Castro
 
In Cuba, only 90 miles from the United States, Fidel Castro leading a politically ambiguous revolution, managed to overthrow the CIA’s and the mafia’s private dictatorship.

After declaring himself communist, and permitting the Soviet union to install nuclear missiles, he almost causes WWIII.

The US and the Vatican go into Full Global War Mode.
 
 
 
 
Fighting a losing battle in South Vietnam.
 
 
 
 
 
Starting in 1960, the US, after the French, continued Fighting the anti-communist war together with the predominantly Roman Catholic Government of South Vietnam.
 
   


While simultaneously fighting an anti-communist war together with the predominantly Roman Catholic government of South Vietnam, the US engages in proxy wars throughout Latin America. 
 
 
The U.S. – CIA's new proxy wars throughout Latin America.
 
 


 

 
Military governments commit vast human rights abuses
.
 
 
These CIA installed military dictatorships, begin to engage in harsh, anti-communist, insurgency programs that resulted in vast human rights abuses.
 


  
Regional Anti-communist, insurgency programs that resulted in vast human rights abuses.
 
In Argentina....

 
The dictatorship engaged in a “Dirty War” of kidnapping unspecting viticms off the streets.
  
In Argentina, the dictatorship engaged in a “Dirty War” against all perceived, subversives, many of them, Jewish. Unsuspecting civilians (40,000) were kidnapped off the streets and after torture, would completely disappear by being thrown out of planes over the ocean.
 
 
Agentine Junta Death Flights deposing of victims, still alive, over the open ocean.

 
Weekly demonstrations by "Families of the Victims" still take place, in Buenos Aires, 45 years later demanding answers about Argentina's Dirty War, when over 40,000 untired people Extrajudicialy disappered.

Even the Local Clergy becomes concerned.
 
 
In some cases, it was the local parish priests, became the only ones capable of protecting local civilians against the fascist military.
 


Then....
Nicaruaga falls
and 
"The Gloves Come Off" 
 

The Communists gain additional foothold Latin America
.
 
Communist Forces now threaten all Central America.
 
 
Cuba's Fidel Castro fully assists Nicaraugan Daniel Ortega's  Revolution.
 


 

President Ronald Reagan, literally "Goes Berserk".

 
President Ronald Regan, empowers his Vice President, former Director CIA (and Skull & Bones member) George H. Bush to "Do Anything Needed!"

Beginning in 1979, with the successful Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the United States became actively engaged in the several Third-party “Contra Wars” in Central America.
 
 
The CIA, starts providing money to surreptitiously support several covert wars.
 

 
 
 
The CIA, incredulously, even starts illegally selling weapons and targeting information to the Iranians for money to surreptitiously support the “Contra’s military” campaign against the Nicaraguan Sandinistas.
 
 
  
US Supplied "Contras" fighting in Nicacragua and Coasta Rica
 
 
Then....The "Iran-Contra Scandal" 1981-1986,
 
US secretly sells illegal "Arms and Targeting Information" to the Iran during its war with Iraq. 

 
 
In the End, only one person, Oliver North went to prison, shielding both the President and Vice President.
 


 
Finally, The Central American Wars are fought to a Vatican-CIA accepted stalemate.
 
 
Eventually, the Civil Wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua are fought to a stand still, and supervised elections, allow for Church Approved civilian governments to regain control.
 
President Regan with Salvadorian President Duarte
 

The US installs powerless governments that appear to regain civilian control.
 
Finally....
A Polish Pope assists in destroying Communism. 
 
Finally, in 1978, the selection of a Polish Pope, would result in his prying his still very observant Catholic country away from the Soviet Union and lead to its demise.
 
 
 
 Pope John Paul and President Ronald Regan
 
 
Pope John Paul in Poland
 

 
At the same time, President Ronald Reagan openly meets and negotiates with Pope John Paul, to pry Poland from the Soviet’s Warsaw Pact.


By supplying the CIA’s money for logistics and utilizing Roman Catholic priests as couriers, together, they would support the free labor union, “Solidarity”, at the Gdańsk shipyards. Incredibly, in 1990, the Union leader, Lech Wałęsa is elected president of Poland, which directly causes the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 
 
 
To this day, The Vatican continues their struggle against the resurgence of communism in Europe and Latin America.
 
The best of all, was that the United States was firmly on the side of the Vatican. The United States also viewed communism is an existential threat.

Its only natural then, that President Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul, the first Polish pope, Would combine forces to cause the events that would lead to the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union.
 

 

The CIA and The Vatican combine forces
 
The target was Poland. The hope was to pry Poland out of the Warsaw Pact, and therefore begin to the dissolution of eastern European communism.
 
1989 CE
Communism Is Defeated in Europe! 
 

 
 Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
 
Finally! 
The Vatican admits Direct involvement in the Holocaust!

A suddenly contrite Pope Francis in Slovakia, 2024.



In a public act of contrition, during a Papal Meeting on September 13, 2021 with Slovakian Jews, Pope Francis spoken of Holocaust ‘shame’, in a country where a Catholic Cleric founded a Nazi puppet regime that deported 75,000 Jews to the death camps.

 
 

 


The Roman Fasces:



Directly above Saint Peter’s Basilica is the large “Fasces”, the Classical Roman Symbol for the military might of the Empire.
 
 
The Continuing symbol for the Roman Military Industrial Complex.   


 
United States 10 Cent Coin, Roosevelt Dime
 
The same symbol would be adopted by various cultures, including the young United States of America, where it is still enshrined in Congress in the US House of Representatives.


 
 United States House of Representatives
 

 
In the 1920s the same symbol was adopted by Mussolini and the first of 20th century, Roman Catholic endorsed fascist parties. A Concord between Mussolini and the Vatican, signed in 1929 which served as the basis of all future Catholic church recognition of several anti communist-menace, Fascist governments for the next 70 years. 
 

  
Mussolini's Symbol for his Vatican endorsed Fascist Partiy
 
An Entire Economy Built on War Profiteering.

 
The Military Industrial Complex.
 

The same anti-communist military industrial complex, has controlled the United States of America since at least the end of World War II.
 
 
 
 
 Eisenhower's Farewell Address
 


Listen to Eisenhower's Farewell Address, the most truthful politician's speech ever made.
 
The Skull and Bones.
 
  
 
The Super Secret
Skull & Bones.
Just a Yale Student Club?
 
The Members of the Skull and Bones organization (Boneies) have for over 200 years, consistently influenced events of national importance.
 

A small group of highly connected and influential war profiteers centered around Yale University have consistently influenced events of national importance for more than 200 years.
 

A few of the highly secretive group’s member have been exposed, only because they were campaigning for the presidency. In 2004, both Presidential candidates were “Bonnies”.
 
The Cold War, 
A Hot Money Maker!
 

The cold war, from 1945 to 1990, provided an unprecedented war, profiteers’ opportunity, to create war material, for a war, that has so far not materialized.
 

The eminent threat of a nuclear holocaust continues to cloud the future of humanity.
 
 
Never has an implement of war not been repeatedly used by society. Possibility of smaller nations acquiring nuclear weapons, and using them irresponsibly, is additionally a major global concern.
 
 
The threat of nuclear war, due to nuclear proliferation, is now as great as it was any time in the past. And the world faces new existential challenges in Climate Change. Sadly, due to man’s own negligence and stupidity.
 
 
 
Now,
We need to add Mankind's Degradation of the Planet to our deeds.
 

 
The world faces New Existential Challenges from Climate Change.
 
At the illustration's Very Top!


The Artist's own Self Actualization.
 
At the very top of the illustration, is the artist himself. Always striving for the elusive goal of self actualization. And becoming one with himself and the universe.
  
 
 

 



In Closing

"This illustration represents the idea that our past, though often hidden or forgotten, has a profound impact on our present and continues to shape our lives in meaningful ways. The thread of history, though often invisible, weaves together past and present, reminding us that our experiences today are deeply rooted in the events and decisions of our sordid past."

Stephen Bornstein, 2024


Are we more advanced than ancient societies?

Are we wiser than prehistoric man?

Will Ai make us smarter?

What will humans do now, having pushed their way to the top of the evolutionary ladder?






 
 

 

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