On Thursday March 16th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will review and discuss Joseph P. Farrell's 2014 book "Thrice Greatest

Hermetica and the Janus Age".This is a confusing title for a sometimes

confusing book, but it is still worth our attention. Basically it

outlines an historical conspiracy theory that goes this way: The

Medieval Knights Templar (the first military industrial and

international banking conglomerate) in collusion with the Republic of

Venice launch a Roman Catholic Crusade allegedly aimed at Palestine but

deflected to Constantinople to destroy and loot the Byzantine Greek

Orthodox half of the old Roman Empire. The Templars are okay with this

but when the greedy Pope sicks them on the Gnostic Christians (Cathars)

in their own home turf, Southern France, they back out.

The Cathars are destroyed. The Pope's buddy the King of France asks a

loan from the Templars, they refuse him, so he and the Pope turn on them

and destroy them in France. But they survive in Scotland, England and

elsewhere. and they are still allied with wealthy Venice. They are an

underground network, Meanwhile the Roman Church allies with Genoa,

Florance and Spain. The Venetians and the Templars make it to America

before Columbus (a Genoavian-Spanish agent) but Columbus plants the

Spanish flag. The Templars and Venetians infiltrate England with a

culture war -- infusing the English (Dee, Fludd and Shakespeare) with

Hermeticism and the proxy war for the New World is on. Drake, Morgan et

allia against the Spanish. What a plot! Sounds crazy but Joe has a PhD

from Oxford in Medieval Church history so he is worth reading on

subjects like this. Tune in and we'll check it out.