"But no, Grand Duke Henri’s Catholic conscience was too well formed for these deceits."
"But no, Grand Duke Henri’s Catholic conscience was too well formed for these deceits."
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Change the names and you’ve got the same thing here. The Constitution and the rights of the States and the People are slowly being stripped away. I only hope our outcome is better than his.
He needs to update his calendar; this is 2009.
Thank you for this post.
Well, I am glad the Grand Duke has decided that ‘it is better to serve in heaven, than rule in Luxembourg.’
Did they mean proscribed?
Who gave the various European Monarchs their authority? What a load of dung. The founding fathers of American got many of their ideas from the French revolution and understood that wisdom was not hereditary.
Thomas Paine wrote while reviewing several sources of governments:
First, Superstition. Secondly, Power, Thirdly, The common interest of society, and the common rights of man.
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
When a set of artful men pretended, through the medium of oracles, to hold intercourse with the Deity, as familiarly as they now march up the back-stairs in European courts, the world was completely under the government of superstition. The oracles were consulted, and whatever they were made to say, became the law; and this sort of government lasted as long as this sort of superstition lasted.
After these a race of conquerors arose, whose government, like that of William the Conqueror, was founded in power, and the sword assumed the name of a scepter. Governments thus established, last as long as the power to support them lasts; but that they might avail themselves of every engine in their favour, they united fraud to force, and set up an idol which they called Divine Right, and which, in imitation of the Pope, who affects to be spiritual and temporal, and in contradiction to the Founder of the Christian religion, twisted itself afterwards into an idol of another shape, called Church and State. The key of St. Peter, and the key of the Treasury, became quartered on one another, and the wondering cheated multitude worshiped the invention.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
A brave and honorable man who deserves our admiration.
There are several prophecies of the Great Catholic Monarch who will win the coming Civil War in Europe and rule 30-40 years until the coming of antichrist. Most all the saints say his name is Henri. He will be a military man of French and Belgium heritage although not necessarily a citizen of either country. He is estimated to be around 40 years old and may walk with a slight limp.
The Grand Duke fits the criteria except for the last two items. He is 53 y.o. and I don’t know about the limp. It may indicate a future injury if this is him. He is of the House of Bourbon-Parma which, IIRC, is one of two contesting for the rightful throne of France. Not sure about the last part. I will have to go back and read again.
Just an interesting thought that occurred to me now. He is one to watch for the future.
http://www.luxembourg.com.ua/en/grandduke.html
http://www.gouvernement.lu/dossiers/famille_grand_ducale/chregneuk/infobase/cvhenri.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri,_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg
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Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
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I stopped reading when the author wrote “prescribed” instead of “proscribed”...
If he was a good Monarch, he’d call out the armed forces and disband “Parliment,” by force if necessary.
Oh, well.