Jesuit missionaries were vital to rebuilding cordial relations between Ireland and England

Book I of the Faerie Queene features St. George and the Dragon

The Viking invasion of the 8^th Century devastated England, but left Ireland unscathed

The goal of Faerie Queene is to fashion a noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline

Cromwell unequivocally denounced Spenser’s genocidal recommendations for Ireland.

The classical synthesis mixes Moses and classical conjecture for the Christian statesman.

Missionary conversion is more effective than military conquest for long-term cultural dominion

Top priority of the Puritan Revolution was reformation of curriculum at Oxford and Cambridge.

Spenser was a thorough-going courtier, who rarely frequented the back roads of Britain

Edmund Spenser was the leading poet of the Elizabethan era

Freemasonry is essentially gnostic in nature

William Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford Upon Avon

Francis Bacon laid out his vision for the New Atlantis in his novella, Utopia.

More than anything else, the works of Shakespeare made English the world’s leading language.

Martin Luther was adamantly opposed to a man having more than one wife.

The purpose of Jesus’s parables was to reveal Biblical truth to all the world.

Queen Elizabeth was one in a long line of Stuart monarchs.

For purposes of plausible deniability, Queen Elizabeth was ignorant of the Rosecrucian influence.

Plays like The Tempest reveal the Christian nature of the Shakespeare portfolio.

Despite repeated attempts to depose him, the bard of Stratford Upon Avon remains as always the real William Shakespeare.

Predestination is the eternal decree of God what should befall all men, to salvation, or damnation

More powerful than weapons that control the body, are words that control the mind.

Noting the bloody 30-Years War over religion, America’s founders wisely set up a secular republic.

Elizabeth represented a moderate, “middle-way” between zealous Protestants and Catholics

Persecution of Puritans under Bloody Mary was unexpected given all the good they did for Britain

Wycliffe was persecuted for translating the Bible into the language of the people

There were 5 Roman persecutions, ironically one for each of the 5 “Good Emperors.”

In the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, British Huguenots betrayed their Catholic benefactors

Lady Jane Grey tragically adopted Caesar’s clementia and like Caesar paid with her life.

Henry VIII was finally rewarded with a male heir, Edward VI, who reigned for many years

As a student of Aristotle, Leonardo sought to arrive at the universal through his painting.

Leonardo died with a frustrating suspicion that man without God is merely a useless eater.

Like the poet, the Renaissance painter assumed the aura of a humanist prophet.

Leonardo needed his military day job to support his art habit at night.

Leonardo’s hectic lifestyle led to his invention of the Franklin Planner.

The fall of Byzantium triggered the rise of Neo-Platonism

The effect of humanism on the human soul leads inevitably to human happiness.

Leonardo had so much to do he couldn’t get it all done.

Leonardo studied art in order to improve his science

Leonardo Da Vinci was so influential that the Renaissance was named after him

According to Scripture, civil rulers have no authority over church government or practice

Though he could not sign the Oath of Supremacy, More had no objection to the king’s divorce

Having rejected the Bible, Socialist systems are of necessity grounded in natural law.

Needs of the poor are simply too great for private charity, requiring state intervention.

Thomas More was executed for insisting on independence of the church from the state.

More died in good humor, making himself a martyr for humanistic freedom of conscious

Socialism is theft by majority vote.

The names “Utopia” and “Hythloday” are clues to More’s positive assessment of socialism.

More’s Utopia is a subtle defense of socialism, mistaken for an attack on socialism.

Thomas More defended freedom of conscience for Protestant and Catholic alike.

The Jesuits were the missionary arm of the Papacy’s efforts to reform Catholic morals

The Imitation of Christ was a reaction against the 14^th Century Neo-Platonic revival.

The Imitation is antinomian, replacing God’s Word with an inward subjective voice.

The popularity of Imitation of Christ lies in its doctrine of the Priesthood of the Believer.

Mysticism is seeking by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with God.

The Imitation of Christ repudiates the doctrinal aberrations of the Medieval church.

The Brethren of the Common Life movement grew out of the piety of the 14^th Century

The piety of Loyola’s Jesuits’ was derived from Brethren of the Common Life.

A Kempis presents the believer clothed in the righteousness of Christ at the judgment.

Thomas a Kempis presents a doctrine of works salvation

Occam’s emphasis on particulars brought Christianity down into the real world.

To sum it up, William of Occam laid bare the conflict between theology and rational thought.

The disintegration of Western civilization rests on the shoulders of William of Occam

Marsiglio of Padua applied nominalism to politics, resulting in a state divorced from theology.

Edward I built a perimeter of massive castles in Wales to ward off Scottish aggression. (

Simon de Monforte was the Father of the English Parliament.

In the political realm, Occam’s Razor leads to specific applications of God’s Law.

Occam’s philosophy is empirical, as opposed to hypothetical

Assembling a system from its component parts to grasp its functionality is Reductionism

Occam’s Razor requires that entities are not to be multiplied without necessity