
Originally Posted by
yanni
The term "counter reformation" you have been using is ambiguous, a protestant designed term to confuse the issue of Henry VIII's separation of the Church of England from Rome.
Roman Catholics don't use it , their term for the Council of Trent onwards period is "Catholic Reformation" or "Catholic Revival"!
Anyhow, your "British Empire" came to existence during Henry VIII's reign, if not before, and you have yet to produce evidence of an "alliance between Venice and the newly founded Jesuit order" existing at the time and/or having anything to do with heavily indebted Henry.Rome and their Jesuits were in fact his enemies (promoting the Stuarts for the next two and a half centuries).
The birth (or rebirth if you like) of Freemasonry follows the Medici collapse(1700's)* and "liberal" Florence's takeover by "Holy" Austria, develops then in parallel to the strengthening of Florence's british colony** and matures with the appointment of Samuel Cocceji-Koch as Prussia's chancellor in 1732 (his obvious relative, Antonio Cocchi, an earlier friend of Isaac Newton, initiated in Fl. 1734). Then comes "french enlightment",1745's (Saint Germain/Rousseau/A.H.Cochin's London&Paris arrival)
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"enlightment" came via Prussia &"colonised" Florence to Paris, the process covered up eversince through relative "research" institutes and societies all over!
So, no, I don't agree with what you write and my conclusions on the "Illuminati" and their "french Enlightment" remain firm!
Malta only became part of the British Empire at the turn of the 18th-19th century(it was Bourbon controlled for the better part of the 18th) and we (I at least) trace the roots of "globalism" in the pre 1750's.
Indeed I have been attributing "it" to french diplomacy and I was wrong:
(Gioachino) Cocchi-Koch's major diplomatic achievements were the liberation of "West Indies" and the creation of a greater Germany at the expense of France, Poland and the Holy Empire, he was propably financed by the Salomons and the Mendelsohns and assisted by Britain's first ever "reformist" regent.
An ideal "fiddler on the roof", he succeeded in all his goals and more but....
...it's his music that I don't like.
And that's final***!
Regards
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*Heinrich und Samuel von Cocceji: "Dissertatio de principio Juris naturae unico, vero et adequato", Frankfurt/O 1699. Wiki: Heinrich Freiherr von Cocceji (March 25, 1644 – August 18, 1719) was a German jurist from Bremen. He studied in Leiden and Oxford and was appointed professor of law at Heidelberg (1672) and in Utrecht (1688). Named Geheimrat and marquis, he became ordinary professor in the faculty of law at Frankfurt (Oder), where he later died.
**For earlier links see "Sir Robert Dudley, (7 August 1574 – 6 September 1649), engineer, sailor and cartographer" and his relations to the Medicis and their "Cocchini printers" in Florence.
***"Final" until the little matter of the identities mix-up between the two "Labordes" is settled:
Laborde, qui l'avait rencontré en 1781 à Strasbourg, fait de l'illustre fumiste Cagliostro un éloge enthousiaste en 1783 dans ses Lettres sur la Suisse.Pendant son séjour à Paris (raccourci par l'affaire du Collier), en 1785, Cagliostro y installa son Rite Egyptien auquel adhérèrent notamment, selon Chevallier dans son Histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie française (Fayard, 1974), le duc de Luxembourg et "le fermier général Laborde" qui en formèrent un Suprême Conseil. Selon le Dictionnaire de la Franc-maçonnerie (PUF) de Ligou, à l'article Cagliostro, le poste de Grand Inspecteur y aurait été occupé par Jean-Bernard de Laborde, mais il s'agit probablement d'un lapsus, le seul homonyme quelque peu connu de Jean-Benjamin à l'époque ayant été Jean-Joseph de la Borde, également financier, également guillotiné, mais sans lien de parenté (et dont rien n'indique à notre connaissance qu'il ait été maçon).