The 5th of November in History and the Occult
Exploring the synchronicity of the presidential election falling on the date of England’s most notorious conspiracy
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According to Elon Musk, the entrepreneurial engineer and putative world’s richest man, the presidential election on November 5 will decide the fate of the nation for decades to come. He has gone so far as to opine that if Mr. Trump loses it will be “the last election.”
Apocalyptic language in hyperbolic overdrive in association with events of November 5th are not new. In Great Britain that date was imprinted on the national psyche.
“Remember, remember the Fifth of November” was a refrain that rang through England for centuries in what became known as Bonfire Night. The festival has been in serious decline since “the American Halloween” (as my English friends describe it), has begun to usurp it.
Adult Protestants and merry children made a national pastime of burning effigies of a Catholic conspirator (some would say scapegoat), named Guy Fawkes. Bonfire Night was a custom as English as a pint of bitters or a game of cricket. “A penny for the guy” was the refrain of children carrying sacks or pulling wagons seeking to purchase straw and old clothes with which to make their very own “Guy” to toss on the neighborhood fire.
In what has become known to history as “the Gunpowder Plot,” more than four hundred years ago on November 5, 1605, “searchers” discovered a “desperate fellow” armed with explosives in the basement of the Parliament in London, intent on assassinating King James I (he of the eponymous Bible which would be published six years hence) and blasting lawmakers.
The accused plotters were Jesuits and their associates. Fr. Henry Garnet was said to be their leader, at least in terms of lending theological inspiration and guidance. He was arrested after the apprehension, torture and execution of some of the main defendants, including Fawkes.
The objective of kindling the fires of animosity and distrust along the Protestant/Catholic divide has long since faded in priority in the ideological warfare of the Cryptocracy. With the exception of ceremonial pomp related to the monarchy — which is mostly a show without substance — the majority of the English people nowadays are not Christian in any sense other than nominal—their presence at christenings, church weddings, funerals and Christmas chorister programs is generally the extent of it. Anglican churches are more than ever deserted across the land, and the state religion, the Church of England, is a woke parody of an institution once led by Biblicists of the caliber of Lancelot Andrewes and championed by cultural paragons such as T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis.
Apart from the faith dimension, the English in the past 20 years have taken a deeper dive into the history and legends surrounding the Gunpowder Plot. There has been a drive to investigate the possibility that what allegedly transpired on 11/5/05 was an inside job akin to the 9/11/01 terror attacks in the U.S. However, the case is complicated by the fact that there had indeed been papal conspiracies launched against Protestant Britain.
The Plot Thickens
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