Christianity ruined Europe economically through the Crusades. It has always been the policy of Rome to destroy the strong through whatever means seems handy. At the present time, she is working to ferment disorder of every kind in every non-Catholic country in order to establish the syllogism whose conclusion is "Peace on earth, good will to all men depends on complete submission to Papal domination." It is never merely a question of heresy, the repulse of the direct attack. Rome follows the principle of Lao Tze in trying to nip in the bud any efforts of humanity to progress in any way, seeing only too clearly that if the race should in any direction from universal ignorance, servility and superstition, the Church is in danger. For this reason, it is not sufficient to muzzle the hyena. Huxley was absolutely right in saying that Rome would reestablish the Inquisition in its worst form if it could destroy every form of secular strength. She realizes the power of money and therefore against the Jews as such. Pretending to stand for social order, she encourages Kaiserism and Bolshevism impartially, seeing in their success a triumph of anarchy so intolerable that her disciples will be invited to come to the rescue. The Italian political situation at the moment illustrates this with singular lucidity. (See Belloc.) The Vatican tried to crush Mussolini, fearing his apparent strength. When he fell into the trap of accepting the symbols of power without constitutional support, Rome immediately shifted her ground and made him do what she wanted as the price of escaping immediate destruction. Having got him entirely into her power, she disowned her own party, forbidding Ben Sforda to proceed with his program for restoring the temporal power. She knows that she is not strong enough to accept that power, in her own name. She prefers to govern in the name of bourgeois resistance to Bolshevism. When the moment arrives, she will abandon Mussolini, Italy will be plunged into anarchy and the pope will point out that social security is a function of ultramontanism. I have no doubt that the Vatican is preparing a social revolution in Italy, hoping to escape destruction by posing as a political innocent, and alternatively acquiescing in the martyrdom of her priests as a means of regaining the sympathy of humanitarians. There is only one means of counteracting this policy, which is to destroy the organization of the Romish Church, root and branch. Unless Christianity is wiped out once and for all and the next generation brought up in freedom from its intrigues, the Church will survive the social chaos as being the sole body armed with a single intelligible principle of action. Provided that we can destroy her at her headquarters, she will transfer them to America, which is already almost wholly in her power. She can flourish in the U.S.A. because of the ignorance and disorder which have resulted from the immigration of the scouring's of the slums of Europe and the consequent unwieldiness of government. The American Constitution contemplated a semi-Taoistic regime, of independent States composed of homogeneous units. This explains why the principle of Jefferson has become impracticable; when the crisis arose it was necessary to appoint a megalomaniac dictator. The disintegration of the Protestant Churches in America left America with no effective defense against Rome but Freemasonry. The Craft, powerful in Europe because of its devotion to a definite spiritual and ethical ideal, has become corrupt in America by its prostitution to business ambitions. Nevertheless, the ultimate struggle in the United States must be between Jesus Christ and Hiram Abiff. Freemasonry, having lost its moral sublimity, will disintegrate, and the entire political and social system will be involved in the crash. Rome will then be able to point to the catastrophe as an additional evidence that its own system of demanding that man should abdicate every form of independence is the only alternative to collapse. Rome's argument has always been that the French Revolution was a direct result of Voltaire, etc.. They already quote not only the French Revolution but the social disorganization of England which was the logical consequence of Henry VIII's breach with Rome. They even quote the Russian revolution as an indirect argument pointing to the same conclusion. Once the principle of despotic authority was given up, even when that authority is alien to themselves, communism must ensue. The principle of compromise represented by Kerensky and Liberalism generally breaks down in one direction or the other, either by the dissolution of all decency, or the rise of an arbitrary autocrat like Cromwell or Napoleon, whose power (being based on individual genius limited by the span of human life and not on a moral principle independent of periodic change) vanishes at the touch of time. They even claim that the scrimmage of 1914 was the logical consequence of Luther's heresy. They brand the reformation as a sexual and intellectual rebellion in the sphere of morals and intellect. These arguments are formally irrefutable and therefore since their claim is an anachronism, the conclusion of the matter is that the sole way of escape for humanity is that it should accept a spiritual and moral principle adequate to the Zeitgeist. This principle is evidently the Law of Thelema, since it satisfies the conditions of political necessity and is, at the same time, not repugnant to the present stage of human understanding.

This quote is from the Mudd papers, whose author is O.M., and gives you a clearer perspective on history around the time of the following article, than Christian and Jewish and Muslim historians.

The Beginning of the New World

Unrest is the sign of the moment. No man, however rich or safely placed, feels sure of next week. No man knows where he is going. This is because no man knows where he ought go.

The bases of society have been so shaken that it has become impossible for anyone to make a plan, just as the banker or a surveyor could not work if he were no longer sure of the multiplication table.

Now, this state of things is not wholly due to the actual condition of material existence, to political unrest, or to economic confusion. Circumstances have not the power to wreck the soul of man as long as he has in himself adequate driving-power and wit and skill to steer.

When men have a definite aim to pursue, they instinctively find means of overriding mutual interference, and may even work together (unselfishly, as it is polishedly called) to obtain their separate ends with the minimum of friction.

But when they are aimless they become distracted and witless; they push each other aside in their desperation; even the simplest tasks become impossible. Today the mass of mankind has no longer any law by which to live, any unchallenged principles of right action. The one deep cause of the present universal anarchy is the loss of all man's moral sanction.

The many religions of the world have all lost their power to guide chiefly because the development of mean of transport and of international commerce have convinced the educated that any one religion is about as good or as bad as another for the purposes of social discipline, and that none has any validity from the standpoint of actual fact, or historical or philosophical truth.

The remedy is evidently to found only in one way. There must be found a formula based upon absolute common sense, without one trammel of theological theory or dogma, a formula to which no man of intelligence can refuse assent, and which at the same time affords an absolute sanction for all laws of conduct, social and political no less than individual, so that the right or wrong of any isolated or concerted action can be determined with mathematical accuracy by any trained observer, entirely irrespective of his personal idiosyncrasies.

This formula must be scientific, not religious.
This formula is:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"

This formula does not, as ignorant or malicious people pretend, mean "Do anything you like." On the contrary, it is a most severe self-control of every individual or social unit to concentrate its whole energy performing his true proper function; and this function is to be determined by a profound, accurate calculation of the potentialities inherent in its constitution.

The first practical step towards this end is the formation of a strong central organization to direct coherently the activities of the numerous adherents already established in many countries.

It will then be necessary to convene conferences of experts in all the sciences, which treat mankind in his social and individual character, in order to draw up a comprehensive international programme.