In the history of ideas, sometimes the most lucid diagnoses of a revolutionary process come not from its apologists, but from its detractors. In 1939, amidst Francoist propaganda, the writer Francisco Ferrari Billoch published the work Entre maçons e marxistas: Confissões de um Rosa-Cruz (Between Masons and Marxists: Confessions of a Rosicrucian). In this book, he outlined what he presented as a secret Masonic plan for the subversion of Western civilization, synthesized in six fundamental points inspired by the Kabbalistic star.
Regardless of the factual veracity of such a "conspiracy," Billoch's document transcends its propagandistic intent and reveals itself to be an astonishingly prescient blueprint. The six points describe, with surgical precision, the vectors of a single historical force that unfolded throughout the 20th century and reached its hegemony in the 21st: the inversion of the traditional spiritual order and its replacement by a materialistic civil religion (Carvalho, 1998). We will now analyze these points, not as a deliberate plan, but as the description of the internal logic of a revolutionary mentality that operates like a cultural virus.
The six points, according to Billoch (1939), are:
RELIGION: "To discredit and destroy the Christian faith through philosophy, mysticism, or empirical science."
MORALITY: "To corrupt the morality of the Western races by infiltrating the sap of Eastern morality; to weaken the bonds of matrimony; to destroy family life and abolish the right of succession and even family names."
AESTHETICS: "The cult of the ugly and extravagant in art, literature, music, and theater. Modernism, crossbred orientalism, and degeneration."
SOCIAL: "Abolition of the aristocracy and creation of the plutocracy; wealth as the sole social distinction; igniting the class struggle, reaching the proletariat through vulgarity, corruption, and envy, from which hatred of the employer is born."
INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC: "Industrially, the vulgarization of trash products, centralization, 'cartels' and 'trusts', leading to the abolition of private property and to State socialism."
POLITICAL: "To kill patriotism and pride of race, and, in the name of progress and evolution, to establish internationalism as the ideal of human fraternity."
Let us analyze them with a philosophical and historical perspective.
✡️ Religion: The Immanentist Gnosis
The exponential growth of secularism in the West, with a significant increase in the "nones" (unaffiliated), and the proliferation of eclectic "new age" spiritualities are merely the surface of the phenomenon. The attack on the Christian faith is not simply aimed at its replacement by atheism, but at the emptying of its transcendent content to fill it with an immanentist gnosis. The "philosophy" mentioned is materialism; the "mysticism" is gnosis disguised as alternative spirituality; and the "empirical science" is scientism, which transforms a tool of knowledge into a dogma that denies any supra-sensible reality. The ultimate goal is not the absence of religion, but the establishment of a new disguised religion, where humanity saves itself through technical knowledge and political power, establishing paradise on Earth (Carvalho, 1998).
💍 Morality: The Dissolution of Organic Bonds
Today, we observe the corrosion of traditional norms, reflected in high divorce rates, the rise of single-parent households, and the celebration of concepts like polyamory and gender fluidity. However, this goes beyond mere "individualism." It is about the systematic dissolution of organic bonds—family, community, homeland—that serve as a buffer between the individual and the centralized power of the State. The destruction of the family is not a byproduct of social dynamics but a precondition for the atomization of the individual, making them completely dependent on and malleable by political and ideological power. The weakening of marriage and the symbolic abolition of family inheritance aim to erase historical continuity and the transmission of values that escape state control.
🎨 Aesthetics: The Metaphysical Inversion
Contemporary art celebrates the disruptive and the extravagant, from Dadaism to trap music, questioning canons of beauty. This phenomenon, however, transcends the mere evolution of tastes. It is a metaphysical inversion. Classical art sought beauty as a reflection of a transcendent and harmonious order. The "cult of the ugly," in turn, is the aesthetic expression of a worldview that denies this order, celebrating chaos, fragmentation, and deformity as the true nature of reality. Art then becomes a tool for the desacralization of the world, an attack on the very possibility of harmony and meaning. What was "extravagant" in 1939 did not just become mainstream; it became the official canon of a culture that has lost its anchor in the transcendent.
👑 Social: From Aristocracy to Plutocracy
We live in the age of tech oligarchs who eclipse the traditional nobility, while populism fuels class hatred on social media. The key here is the nature of this transition. The abolition of the aristocracy (based on honor and duty) was not aimed at equality, but at its replacement by an elite whose sole criterion of value is material power: the plutocracy. Devoid of any sense of transcendent duty (noblesse oblige), this new elite uses the "class struggle" as a tool of social engineering. By stirring base feelings like envy and resentment, it channels the frustration of the masses to destroy the remnants of the old order, consolidating its own absolute power under the pretext of social justice (Carvalho, 1998).
🏭 Industrial and Economic: Centralized Servitude
Multinationals like Amazon and the tech monopolies (GAFA) centralize the global economy with "fast" products and planned obsolescence. This economic centralization is the material substrate for the centralization of political power. The abolition of private property, whether explicitly in socialism or implicitly through regulatory control in surveillance capitalism, aims at the same end: the elimination of individual autonomy. The individual without property is an individual without power, entirely subject to the will of the central planner. The "vulgarization of trash products" distracts the masses and destroys the standards of quality that characterized an economy based on property and inheritance.
🌍 Political: The Universal Empire
Globalism, promoted by entities like the EU and the UN, advocates for a transnational "fraternity," though it faces nationalist backlash. This is the apex of the gnostic project: the creation of a world government, a universal Empire that nullifies national sovereignties. Patriotism and cultural identities are the last major obstacles to centralized global power. The slogans of "progress" and "human fraternity" function as the moral justification for dismantling nations, seen as "primitive" remnants. Internationalism, in this context, is not cooperation between peoples, but the dissolution of their identities into a homogeneous mass, administered by a bureaucratic elite that answers to no one but itself. It is the resurrection of the imperial ideal under a new guise (Carvalho, 1998).
📚 References
Billoch, Francisco Ferrari. Entre maçons e marxistas: Confissões de um Rosa-Cruz. 1939.
Carvalho, O. O Jardim das Aflições: De Epicuro à Ressurreição de César. 2nd ed. rev. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 1998.
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