The landscape of hostility and violence against the Christian faith, detailed with alarming data (Maresca, 2024), should not be interpreted as an isolated or recent political phenomenon. On the contrary, it represents the visible and acute manifestation of a spiritual and historical war that spans centuries: the conflict between the two cities, the City of God and the City of Man (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 11). Persecution, whether physical and brutal or cultural and subversive, is a logical consequence of the advance of a tradition antagonistic to the Catholic order, which today manifests itself in the form of secularist and revolutionary ideologies.
📜The Nature of the Enemy: The Gnostic-Cabalistic Tradition
What is described as the "Radical Left" (Maresca, 2024) is, in its essence, the contemporary vehicle of a much older and deeper current of thought: the Gnostic-Cabalistic tradition. This tradition, in its perverted form, constitutes a fundamental inversion of the revealed order. While the Catholic tradition is based on a personal and transcendent God who creates the world ex nihilo, the Gnostic tradition proposes an impersonal and immanent "god," a kind of Ein-Sof or "Nothingness" that evolves and realizes itself in the world and in man (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 75, 235).
This worldview denies the ontological distinction between Creator and creature, between the sacred and the profane, between nature and grace. Consequently, the goal is not the salvation of the soul through the grace of Christ, but the "self-salvation" of man through the knowledge (gnosis) of his own immanent divinity (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 141, 240). The hostility to truth and to the "biblical foundations" mentioned in the original article is, therefore, a metaphysical necessity for this tradition, as the Catholic order, with its transcendent God and objective morality, is the primary obstacle to the divinization of man and the construction of a purely terrestrial city.
🏛️The Mechanism of Subversion: Secularization as a Gnostic Project
The "gradual erosion" of religious freedom in America through legal and cultural changes (Maresca, 2024) is the primary tactic of this tradition in modern times. This process, known as secularization, is not a neutral development but an active project of "redivinization" of the world and of man (Voegelin, 2024 as cited in Meinvielle, 1970, p. 281). The objective is to create a one-dimensional society where the sacred is absorbed by the profane, the Church by the world, and grace by nature.
In this context, the pressure for Catholic hospitals to offer abortions or the removal of religious symbols from public spaces are not mere political disputes. They are strategic moves to erase the presence of the transcendent order from public life, establishing man and his constructs (the state, mass culture, the revolution) as the sole normative reality. It is the construction of a "lay Christendom" or, more precisely, an "Anti-Christendom," where the Church is tolerated only insofar as it becomes a servant to the objectives of the secularized world (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 388-390).
👁️The Historical Agents of the Anti-Christian Revolution
This Gnostic-Cabalistic tradition is not an abstraction but a historical force with concrete agents. Its origin, in its perverted form, can be traced back to the corruption of the original revelation by pagan and esoteric influences, culminating in the post-Christian Jewish Kabbalah, which became an instrument of opposition to the Church (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 110, 165). Throughout history, this current has manifested through various heresies (Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Catharism) and secret societies, such as the Knights Templar in their decadent phase and, later, Freemasonry, which became the great vehicle for the destruction of Christian civilization (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 29, 109).
Modern ideologies, from German Idealism to Communism and contemporary progressivism, are the direct heirs of this project. They represent the transposition to the philosophical, political, and social planes of the same Gnostic theogony: a "god" who makes himself in history, a man who divinizes himself through revolution, and an earthly city that replaces the Kingdom of Heaven. The struggle, therefore, is not just against a political ideology, but against an organized counter-church that seeks world government (Meinvielle, 1970, p. 286).
🔥The Final Battle: The Choice Between Two Cities
The analysis of the facts presented (Maresca, 2024) confirms that we are indeed in the midst of a decisive spiritual battle. However, the conflict is deeper than a simple fight for "American values." It is the contemporary manifestation of the eschatological struggle between the City of God, represented by the faithful Catholic Church, and the City of Man, animated by the Gnostic-Cabalistic tradition. The choice is not between right and left, but between submission to the transcendent God of Christ and the self-worship of the divinized man.
In this scenario, apathy and silence are indeed forms of complicity. The defense of faith, family, and freedom requires more than political action on election day; it requires an understanding of the theological and historical nature of the enemy and an integral adherence to the only tradition that offers true salvation: the Catholic tradition. The foundation that is cracking is not just that of a nation, but that of Christendom itself, and the response must rise to the level of the challenge.
📚References
MARESCA, Greg. Faith under fire. The Remnant, 2024. Available at: https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/headline-news-around-the-world/item/7909-faith-under-fire
MEINVIELLE, Julio. De la Cábala al progresismo. Salta: Editora Calchaquí, 1970.