HIGHWAY 18: THE 30 YEAR WESTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL WAR – THE TWO HEADS OF CHRIST OUT OF CONTROL
The War of 1618–1648:
Written history will tell you almost without exception how complicated the origins of this war was. How no single conflict could accurately be described is the reason this conflict took place. I, however, disagree. If you follow the currency of control, then you will understand that all this war was about was who and how a few men could control all the men and women and their families/communities of that time till today and the coming tomorrows of Europe.
The 17th century had one growing thought process, and that was material gain. It is a natural development for man to want what man sees that others have and he has not. It is called greed. This is Man’s ruling emotion when society does not keep in check this brain and animalistic process; there is no heart in greed. Think about it.
At this stage in our development, Man had discovered weapons that could equalize the numbers in a battle. The gun and the bullet made physical sport a game of toys, toys that could kill. It could go through armor, and man could now move quicker, as armor was a slow process to move in. War had become mobile.
Kings and Queens and Princes and other hereditary rulers needed the father above, called Christ, to perpetuate their claim to the throne of their land by having the previous king say, yes, this descendant came from my seed. They needed the flock of their local community to believe that Christ chose them to have absolute rule over the people who happened to live on the land. These frauds, called Kings, and their family courts ruled the land, and the peasants came with the land, as they claimed that was God’s design. Once upon a time, in a non-European Christian world, Kings were the leader of the people, but as we have learned, that concept went out the window when the Catholic Church figured out how to have a land King work hand in hand with their Church. They had their God authorize the rule.
I will now share with you a world wind view of what our ancestors did to figure out whose version of Christ, the only Sky God, would rule the territory we now call Europe. Hear this: if it was to have an absolute king rule the land, it must be Catholic, as that is where the absolute power is vested. If not, a congregation was created and a government of equals, providing their shared God the boss, was put into effect, and a new way of life would emerge – business and industrialization using the new inventions of man.
The actual Thirty-Year War began in the area we know today as Germany. But it began in the prior century in the German-speaking lands, where the peasants began to protest. Germany then, in both the 16th and 17th centuries, was a series of small states and city-states that had federations with other small states to unite to protect each other from land invasions, example being the Ottoman Turks, who were on the move. They called themselves the Holy Roman Empire. Hitler and the Nazi scholars called them the First Reich. But in reality, these little states had nothing to worry about in the past in regarding invading forces stealing and taking their possessions and property. The topography aided in the protection, as the terrain was quite rough.
But with the advance of new weaponry, this changed the game. Why? The states were in valleys protected by hills, and knights in shining armor were now needed to go down the hill to fetch someone’s water that was not theirs to grab. This was a suicide march. With the new weapons of murder and the ability to strike quick and easy, the area was opened up for a new land grab. The local land did have regiments as part of a force, but these regiments were by themselves not enough to win. Mercenaries were needed to join the fight.
The payment to join the battle, as a gun for hire, was to keep what personal property you could take away with you after the battle. You actually had men fighting on both sides, maybe the same day, if not the same week. There was no loyalty, just theft and death. Villages entered into a new hell, and famine and disease stepped in to destroy the people of the land.
If God existed, then God must have been on a holiday to let this, and in fact all wars, carry on. Or maybe there is no God, just us, and we better get with the real plot and stop this useless form of control.
No one benefits other than the illusion that wealth is created for the Banksters who finance the hate and the war for both sides of the conflict. Karma may not be instant, but some generation will get even. That is what we do; we get even for wrongs done to the generations that lived before us, even though you can hear the dead consciousness’s pleas to stop this insanity and learn to live together as a community and not under the illusions that war is just. It is not. Never will be and surely never has been. Wrong behavior on both sides cause conflict.
The Players & Their Exits:
Spain & the Netherlands –
The Spanish, through marriage, had acquired their rights to control the lands that we know as Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. An eighty-year war was happening to get the Spanish rule out of these Northern European lands. The Spanish were the Catholic Church’s best killers, and they thought it was their God-granted right to rule, and so they went into these Western German territories, yes, German territories, as these lands for the most part were part of that First Reich, the Holy Roman Empire. This is how the Nazis justified invading these lowland territories – they claimed it was theirs to begin with, four hundred years ago, if not more.
The Spaniards, as the Pope’s killing representative of the West, wished to keep these lands and to keep them from becoming Protestant. If Protestant, then there was no requirement that the Vatican-appointed King shall rule the land for Christ.
Spain would lose the Netherlands. The Netherlands got their freedom and became a Protestant/Pharisee religion that only cared about the Sadducees lifestyle of the merchants and the sea. They would create the moving international bankers and stock market. In fact, they had the first scandals of our modern banking world in 1621 with the disease of corporations and distant ownership. However, please note that the Dutch and their rulers still allowed the new Church, the Protestant church, to set the moral tone of those who the Sadducee material rulers now ruled. Case in point was the painter Rembrandt.
Painters were now free to paint what they felt and saw in their heads, so not only what the Catholic Church mandated for them to paint. However, morals were still in control of the land. You see, in 1654, as told in Eduardo Galeano’s book Mirrors, a pregnant lady was judged and found guilty by the council of the Reformed Church in Amsterdam. She was guilty of fornicating with the painter Rembrandt, as she was not married. Her offense was committing whoredom. She was told to repent and do penance and was forbidden forever from the table of our Lord Jesus Christ (Greek for king).
Rembrandt was found not guilty, as men were not the object of the religious law. The purpose of the religious laws regarding women was to keep them in a set home to raise the children or grandchildren, not to part take in the outside world. But, catch this: the scandal caused the price of Rembrandt’s art to tumble, and he was forced into bankruptcy. He lost his house and paintings and had to be buried in a rented grave.
The world has really not changed. This was the pop scandal back then, before TV and magazines. A scandal because behavior of the caught was not what the rulers preached the masses to follow; therefore, order & control would be adhered and followed to death.
Next, Spain lost control of Portugal, which they had been in control of for sixty years. The House of Braganza became the new rulers of this territory. However, Portugal stayed with the Church, as the Churched justified the taking of the property that now made up the Empire of Portugal. I must add, with a new appointed King of absolute Christ-Vatican authority.
The Holy Roman Empire, the German States & the Austrian-Hungarian Empire –
This was a joke protection force to stop the new invading armies. At best, the position of Emperor was in name only. It had no power and no duties. Part of the empire was made up of the Austrian empire, so ruled by the Hapsburgs. It had an army and was capable of defending itself, as was Bavaria, which was also part of the empire. But the other territories in Germany, such as Saxony, Brandenburg, the Palatinate, Hesse, Trier and Wurttemberg, and the smaller cities and states, had to make deals for protection, and deals were so made with other rulers.
Also, there was not even unity in the Protestant German state world, as the Lutherans were now fighting with the Calvinist as well as the Catholics for control of thoughts in these territories.
This Thirty-Year War would destroy the power of the Holy Roman Empire and create the power of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This was to be a Catholic empire but controlled by the Kings. This area was where the Europeans and the Ottoman Muslim Turks had their face-off for many future centuries, which is still going on today. It did not end with the end of World War One, as we were taught.
In the rest of the central area, the German-speaking provinces got to pick what each territory wished to join up with to be protected from future land grabs. Meaning, the strongest local ruler was in control. The local community was divided between Protestant ways or Catholic Vatican control. If they wished to build cities and industrialize, they became Protestant.
The French –
This war was the rebirth of the French and their control of European affairs. They left this war as Europe’s number one thugs. They played the game of chess with human lives as the pawns for the ultimate control of the lands by the Sadducee’s son, living human God, absolute King Louis XIV, as well as his dad, Louis VIII. They fought as both a Catholic nation and then fought the Catholics as a protector of the Protestants who were in control of lands the French so wished to control. This war made the Catholic Church subordinate to the King. Louis and his successors would be absolute monarchs.
Louis XIV became King when he was five. He was the longest-reigning ruler of Europe. He was the boss for seventy-two years, although he did not get control until 1661 after the death of his prime minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarin was well educated in the duplicity and death for those who disagreed; he was taught by one of the best, Cardinal Richelieu, who set the tone for the Catholic/Protestant divisions and subsequent control of France.
Cardinal Richelieu was a bishop who entered politics. He was given the power to create order for King Louis XIII’s rule when the King made the Church-ordained Bishop the Chief of State in 1622. In effect, he was the first Prime Minister of the European world. His goal was to lessen the power of the Austrian-Hungarian empires, and he did this by making alliances with both Catholic and Protestant lands. He had no loyalty to his church, but his loyalty was to the king, and this relationship was all that mattered to the Sadducee Richelieu.
Richelieu was also responsible for France keeping control of the Canadian lands called Quebec, as by now the French and the British were all over North America making their land grabs and bringing back riches to sell and, in essence, the creation of the material world from the alchemy of the coming industrial age, part two. The first part was the material you could not use except to hoard, called metals. This was the power of gold. Something you could look at, but try to really survive hoarding that metal. You still need to eat and to sleep in and with peace to survive. The North American empire were products from the land that, with the coming industrial age, could and were transformed into food, clothes, housing or other necessities fro man and his home.
This cardinal, Mazarin, set the tone for the French lands. He believed that to keep the power of a ruling order, a theory had to be formulated that confirmed that power, and as a member of the Church, the people in the land heard his voice, especially since he was in control of the army of the King. His theory that just rationalizes what the Church had done since the creation of the forged document called the conveyance of Constantine was the divine right of kings to rule the land.
This theory, and now rule of law to keep the control, advocated the divine origin of the King and the subsequent lack of temporal restraint on the monarch who was divinely given the rule. Mazarin, as the Prime Minister, and Louis himself centralized France, as it was now governed from the capital, Paris. Centralization of rule is necessary for a controlling ruling order of politics, religion and the third coming disorder of Man, the Banks. The King of France effectively eliminated the feudalism past of the lands by requiring the landowners, the noble elite of this Sadducees paradise for the few and the hell for the rest.
France was not immune to their Protestant disorder. Their local order was called the Huguenots. The Huguenots where not the first group to challenge the Church in France, but they were they capture the momentum needed to keep their movement alive. Remember the Cathars? This now the 16th century, there was no need for the Church to get involved in the domestic affairs of France. The King knew how to deal with this mess. Who are or were the Huguenots? They are thought originally to be of a branch from John Calvin. They grew and became their own succinct branch by the 1560s.
The big problems this branch of reform had with the Catholic Church were the sacramental rituals and the obsession they had with the dead and Jesus’ death. They believed the rituals of the Catholics, the saints, the pilgrimages, the prayers and the hierarchy of the church had absolutely nothing to do with redemption. The Huguenots believed that a Christian was one who had a simple faith in God, that faith gave the practitioner the ability to rely upon God for salvation. There was no need to follow any law, let alone a biblical law of rules for the pawns of society or the church’s dogma, which created the order & rule of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
At first, France let this religion peacefully exist in their lands. This was before Louis of any title. In the 1500s, the French were figuring out their game of rules and order to control. The 100-year English war, which was really 131 years, had just ended. The Protestant Huguenots were centered in the southern region of what is France. The fact that it was centered in the south, where the government of the king did not yet have absolute rule, helped. But as France became one central ruled nation and the Catholic Church was still the sword of the Kings, the Huguenots had to go. The Church was now able to kill the Protestant’s French branch.
The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of August 24th through October 3rd, 1572, in a French Parisian pogrom that started in Paris and then spread to surrounding areas, was where the Church really started to strike back. Apparently tens of thousands of Huguenots were killed.
Then, in 1573, the French King actually pardoned the perpetuators of the Huguenots Pogroms of France. Meaning, the killing was now authorized by the King.
For the next forty years in France, peace came about and then war and then peace, and it was enough to push people to ask, what are we fighting for? What are we dying for? And with these questions, the French finally came up with the Edict of Nantes. Henry IV succeeded to the Crown and became a Catholic, as he was believed to be a Huguenot. When he converted to get the throne, he issued the Edict of Nantes. The Edict made Catholicism the state religion but granted the Huguenots equality with Catholics under the throne in the areas under the Huguenots’ control.
This was a smart move as a politician, as it stopped the civil war and allowed France to operate as an external navy and military army power. This edict allowed France to set sail to the New World of North America and South America, where they could land and fight the Spanish as one nation, not as one nation divided by two religions. It also allowed France to go and get territory on the continent, such as Luxembourg and Brussels. It allowed France to consolidate its Earthly power. Then, when the power was at hand and centralized in those hands of the living King, the new card game was to remove those who the Crown could not control with the help of the Catholic dogma.
This would happen under the watch of Louis the 14th. Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau. But before doing so, Louis figured everyone was a Sadducee at heart, and sent missionaries to convert the Huguenots with cash and other incentives. The Huguenots were not seduced with these Earthly possessions. Louis then started imposing penalties that the Nazis would use against the Jews and the other undesirables of Germany, the Third Reich; he forbade the Huguenots work and living quarters for their refusal to join the ruling order of the land. He even authorized the armies to invade the homes of the Huguenots and gave the armies permission to steal what they could carry away from the homes.
Then finally, another edict was issued, and Protestantism in 1685 was outlawed. The Huguenots fled and joined surrounding Protestant countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Prussia and even England. They did stay alive in a region of France not yet under the central control of the Sun King. The mountainous region of Cevennes. The French Sun King had copied a play from the book of absolute rule of Fernando and Isabella before, and wished to have all his subjects loyal to him and his Church, which his army controlled as the watchdogs of the Vatican. This behavior happens repeatedly by rulers when they seek to own & control the subjects and their minds. They want to just kill the opposing thought, but this will never work.
The Huguenots had one new play copied from the Jewish culture up their sleeves. That play was that they, the Huguenots, claimed they were the chosen people, and they believed they were superior to all. This allowed them to remain indifferent to the group persecutions of words and taunts directed at them by neighbors and others of the French culture. They were convinced that their Huguenot language and culture was superior to all others. This is again was a play from the Hebrew playbook of their Sky God. Be God’s favorite child and God would give you and no other of God’s children anything of substance.
To make their play for the minds of those in their group, they believed and taught their flock that they, the Huguenots, were superior in this world as well as the next. This helped the group survive and not give in and give up by converting. Why go down when the others sooner or later would have to come up.
Switzerland –
Switzerland – the land of the Banksters of our world today. This country became the nation of theft that it is today back then in the era of the Catholic and Protestant wars for control of human minds. Switzerland became the neutral land that took the bank deposits that leaders of the people stole from their people.
The cantons where authorized to leave the Holy Roman Empire. They were allowed to create the federation of Cantons that they still are today. They did become the army for the Vatican. They have seven Catholic cantons and sixteen Protestant cantons. Their Huldrych Zwingli founded the alternative Church religion. He really started it in Zurich, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire but soon to join the confederation of Swiss cantons.
Zwingli, who was a contemporary of Luther, agreed with Luther on most items of the wrongs of the Catholic Church. They had this major disagreement with the German priest on the Eucharist. However, Luther maintained that through sacramental union, the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper truly became the flesh and blood of Christ. These men killed warlocks and witches for the same belief. It is crazy. Zwingli disagreed and thought the bread and wine were only symbols. They had their war over this voodoo practice, and Zwingli died in battle, and his brand of Protestantism survived only in the Swiss mountain range.
Calvinism started in Geneva, and the other non-Luther Protestant divisions became part of the world of religious practices in Switzerland, which the ruling Sadducee banking order tolerated, as both divisions and the Catholics themselves said the behavior of the thieves of this order living in the protected mountain range of Switzerland could be forgiven, and they would move on and upward to sky heaven with or without St. Pete at the gate. This country really needs to be looked at for what they really do, not to be looked at for what they do to divert the truth. This nation was and still is run by and for thieves.
The Geneva Convention of war behavior is absolute insanity. It is wrong no matter how it is spun on Propaganda. Again his was the Swiss and their neutrality lies. These stories over only salvation to the thieves running from their home community with the stolen goods, just like Moses and his people did back who really knows when. It also allows Switzerland to keep the coins and insures they will not be attacked, that is until the world realizes we have no secrets and this society based on stolen property will go bye-bye for good. Then and only then will this land and its hills become alive again with the sound of music.
But today these whores of Bankster and precise time land try to act so proper and yet encourage the game that most of their discreet clients engage in, making and selling weapons and starting and perpetuating wars. War is not just, and no war is ever fought with justice. It is wrong behavior.
A Personal Rock ’n’ Roll Story:
I have had my moments in the mountains of Switzerland. Some joyful as I mixed with the ruled, and some really upsetting when I mixed with the rulers. One episode that I will share was in 1986. I was running an entertainment company, and we had hit records as well as hit artists, most of them this year were black. They had been created from the stock of slaves that the Africans sold to the slave-trading British, Portuguese and other seafaring nations. These blacks, probably the oldest Americans outside the American Indians, as they were unwanted by their genetic African families who sold them to the traders for the most part, are today known as African Americans. Why? Because the Rulers of our corporate banking world want something from both the Africans and the Americans who happen to be black, but neither party respects or accepts the other. I discuss this later in the book.
I had two groups playing the Montreux pop festival. They were black acts from the USA. The first act was a band of six from Flint, Michigan, called READY FOR THE WORLD, and they had a number-one worldwide hit called Oh Sheila. They were working-class children with normal ambitions to become rich and famous but were scared their day would not come, and if it did, the white ruling class would take it back. They lived and acted in fear my whole time with them. They even hired the Muslim muscle from Chicago to intimidate us white folks. It did not work with me but did work with the white corporate types at the record label Universal, who took a dumped and fled. In essence, it was the beginning of the end of their career. Their fear played the part that the whites thought they were anyway.
I, being different than others, looked and still look at music as an emotion that unleashes others’ emotions, and I promoted the emotion that the music could release, not the color of the musician. Meaning, I had a hit for Europe and promoted it as such, and it worked, and the Festival wanted the group in Montreux. I agreed, but this group would have to stay in a generic hotel made for the ruled that were lucky enough to share air with the rulers of the land. Being six in the group and their first trip to Europe, they were scared, especially since the Russians had a nuclear bomb go off and were denying that the reactor had exploded in Chernobyl. So I figured they should stay in that Hotel.
This was a hotel that the whites that ran the affair thought ex-American slaves deserved, a Holiday Inn. You see, Africans have the gold and jewels as well as the cash that they steal, so these African Blacks were more than welcomed in the Swiss ruling order.
The other artist was Colonel Abrams, and no one in the festival thought that he too might be black. They thought he was a white boy and gave him the suite in-between me and my partner at the famous and “wealthy only” hotel, the Montreux Palace. I insisted that we get put up in this hotel and that I got three suites plus a performance fee if they were going to have Colonel participate in the affair. At this time, the Swiss were actually making comments through their charitable societies, funded with stolen monies from tax cheats and other thieves residing in Switzerland, saying how racial the USA was and how crazy that we were the States.
This was hypocritical, as the Swiss did not have US Blacks living and participating in this order called theft in other lands of our world. As our blacks were not in the position to rob the material from our land and have a need to deposit or fence our stolen goods in a society saying they were neutral. The Swiss had Africans, even dictators from the Caribbean like Baby Doc from Haiti. We had Blacks, the descendants of African trade that were the beast of burden for the white Euro man of the 17th and 18th as well as the 19th century. This made a huge difference.
Colonel showed up at the Hotel, and all of a sudden the suite that was empty became full, as did the Hotel, and all of a sudden the Black American had no room in the Hotel. Staff did not wish the African royalty to see one of the discarded Negros of their past. The Hotel had an African ruler and his 20 wives staying in the Hotel. He had a Swiss bank account. When I was told the room was no longer available when the clerk realized Colonel Abrams was Black, I went to the brink of war.
I told the management that if Colonel was not checked in as promised and agreed, I would have him sleep in the lobby with his shoes off, and I would get the press that was not owned by the Swiss attending the festival, and I would make a stink they would never forget.
The truth is, I really wished to do just that, but the Swiss backed down, and my acts were never invited to the festival again. Too bad the Internet and YouTube did not exist then. If so, this episode would have been filmed and placed on-air. Today is a new world, and a new order is coming. This book is explaining how we as a society live with rules and order and how to date those rules have not changed because the same Sadducee and Pharisee, ying and yang, take control sooner or later. Today, though, with information at hand, I believe this nonsense can change, and that is my goal in this life. The systems we set up out of ignorance and fear to keep the common man down believing that others are better than he or she.
Denmark & Sweden –
The Kingdoms of the Baltic Sea went to war during the Thirty-Year European conflict as Allies and foes. They were both Protestant nations by now and were looking to expand and get territory from the German principalities as well as Italian city-states. The Protestant nations of the newly formed order were the ones who would take the material lifestyle lead and become the rulers of our European world. The Catholic Pharisee nations with Sadducee rulers beneath the Church would soon be in second place. They did not wish to share their booty and use the alchemy of industrialization to make the minerals anything more than they were when taken from the land. Meaning, if it was cotton, cotton is what they sold; they did not use cotton to make clothes. The Church and its King were Pigs; they ate everything while telling you that if you behave and agree to their scams, then you too would get to heaven.
At the time of this Thirty-Year War, King Christian IV headed up Denmark. He was the longest ruler in the history of the monarchy of Denmark, 59-plus years. His reign was their glory. Denmark during this period was a Protestant land, as was all of Scandinavia, and had both Norway and Iceland under their rule. Christian, like all great leaders, got involved in the armaments business. He bought weapons to use, as he was part of the new rulers, who had Protestant beliefs as his security that his killing with these weapons was okay. But in order for this property grab of his dreams to be successful, he had to side with both the Catholics and the Protestants.
As I have shown, for first time the Church was used as collateral to the real purpose, the land grab of the ruling land order that would then use religion to support their position with the people the land rulers would now rule. This was the changing of the guard in the rules and order of the European society. This is key to understand the new coming order of control of currency. The Currency of who we are got married to the currency of material wants and actual needs of life.
The Sadducee rule was now military and weapons. This was all that mattered, and since the days of the Catholic European Crusade, Christ the father, not Jesus the son, was all right with murder and death brought on by a just war. If the ruler said it was just and the ruler gave protection to the religion of the land, guess what, the war was now just. King Christian was an enlightened thug. He built a navy for the Danes and tried his hand at exploration. He opened up a colony in India at Tranquebar, where he established the Danish East India Company. His Empire dreams did not work out in the long run, and Denmark just ended up with their sovereignty in the Baltic area.
Armies were a problem for the King here, as it was for everyone. He hired the killers, similar to what we are now doing in the Middle East with Corporate mercenaries such as Backwater. The theory was simply: pay the killers to kill and then acknowledge that you have no control over the behavior if the war was fought by these hired hands not in conformance with the existing rules and regulation of death.
War is death. No rules of when and how to kill excuse or purify the behavior. If you kill, then you are a killer. If you follow orders, you are still a killer. We need to hear that and stop thinking there is anything civil about it.
Sweden was also expanding and doing the same as Denmark. They were looking for a foothold in Europe, and the Thirty-Year War gave them the hope of taking territory on the continent for the country to rule and profit. Germany, as the First Reich (the Holy Roman Empire), was weak. They were confused by the ups and downs of the Catholic Church and the Protestants, as if these people could tell the difference by their eyes between the two. They sure still look the same to me.
Rulers were winning and then losing, or losing and then winning. The soldiers went and fought for both sides depending on the next week’s pay, which of course was funded by the bankers. This was their new gig – financing war. The coming new order of the Banksters of our global war starts here in this religious property land war. The Banksters are the entity that always get, as they sell the weapons and loan you the coins to kill with the weapons you need to buy to carry on fighting these wayward wars with other sons of consciousness.
Sweden, who ruled the land we today call Finland, wished to grab Denmark too. They fought with the Danes and had to settle and remain two separate Kingdoms at the end of the war. However, Sweden did make gains on the Continent, and they would be a force in Europe until the 18th century. This war ended up being the start of the material world we live in today.
Interesting when you see these manmade highways of control. Christ really did not give anyone any peace. The absolute worship of this Roman creation by his faithful followers just destroyed each and every community that the holy Christ soldiers came to visit.
Wonder what Jesus was saying wherever he was as he watched this non-stop murder show for which he was claimed to have created.
This essay is excerpted from Steven Machat’s Highways of Man. Learn more about the book at StevenMachat.com.