Usury: The Crime of the Ages
Originally published May 21, 2024
Many historians believe, as do I, that the happiest period of history in the Christian West was during the High Middle Ages within the towns that had grown up most notably within Germany, Italy, France, and England. Probably the most accessible chronicle of what life was like then may be found in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." At the centers of these towns were the Gothic cathedrals which were both spiritual and technological hubs. Characteristic of the economic life of the era was the fact that the Church had outlawed usury. This was the key to personal freedom.
The dividing line between that era and our own came into being around 1500, when the German Fugger family persuaded the Pope to begin to allow usury, a practice which quickly spread. This practice assured that, gradually, all the wealth of society would inevitably accrue to the bankers, especially when they gained the privilege of creating paper money or book-entry credits "out of thin air" and then lending it at interest.
This was the greatest crime of the ages. We need to remember that the Christian era began when Jesus made his last visit to Jerusalem by going to the Temple and throwing out the money lenders who had desecrated it. The Temple symbolizes, of course, all human God-given life.
When usury became widespread after 1500, citizens gradually lost all their rights and their human sanctity when they became debtors to the money lenders and were legally mere chattel whose entire well-being, and even their lives (debtors prisons), were sacrificed to the bankers' greed.
This was understood at the time. It's what Shakespeare depicted in the "Merchant of Venice." It's what the Faust legends were about, with people now selling their souls to the devil as they ruined their fellow humans.
Now, 500 years later, the process is complete. The average person is a debt-slave, subject to regimes of endless war, subject at any time to being imprisoned for the most trivial offenses, and now worthy only of being killed off by the latest "plandemic."
But humans would be free, so a handful of nations, led by the BRICS, are breaking away from the paradigm of slavery. These nations are all marked by strong government-owned central banks that see their role as promoting societal welfare, not as prison-guards and propagandists who work for the bankers and other elites.
It now appears that the nations of the West controlled by the regime of usury have given up on world control and are trying merely to "secure the realm" by the ever-more perfect enslavement of their increasingly unhealthy and oppressed subject populations. Meanwhile, they push and probe around the perimeters looking for weaknesses among those nations who have said "no."
There are indeed people in the West who seek to escape, but any organized movement is immediately crushed. Still, some few individuals may find a way.....Blessings to them.
It was not just the ban on usury that made this period so special. The high Middle Ages was an extraordinarily prosperous time for people, a time when the first universities were founded teaching abstract sciences such as mathematics. It was a time when the working class enjoyed favorable working conditions and a remarkable level of economic independence. it was a more egalitarian time when women enjoyed greater freedom and position in society and the people worshiped the divine feminine, the Great Mother archetype, represented by the Black Madonna. Innovations in agriculture allowed the small landowners as a group to be much more productive than the Seignorial holdings for the first time. It was a time when hydro-powered manufacturing took off and production skyrocketed. There were more than 200,000 hydro-powered mills at the beginning of the 12th century in France alone. It was a time when the average caloric intake was 3500-4000 per day, more than the average of 3000 in today's developed countries. Workers ate 3-4 meals per day with 3-4 courses and enjoyed 90-150 official holidays every year. The population of Europe doubled, and the average height was nearly 8 inches taller than today by the end of this 300-year period. Workers enjoyed 6-hour workdays and rebelled when the Dukes of Saxony tried to extend it to 8. It was a time when a thousand small towns across Europe built a thousand Great Cathedrals for themselves and their posterity, along with 300,000 churches, using the money issued to them by their feudal lords for an exchange medium which functioned as a demurrage currency, like the Wörgl currency during the Great Depression, due to its slow reduction in value that was restored annually. This all covered thoroughly in New Money for a New World by Bernhard Lietaer.
Yes, Usury, (Interest), is a bad thing. Martin Luther wrote a book. "The Jews and their lies". In it he condemned the Jews in his time in Germany for charging Usury and he went on that it ruined a nation.
As today, many say that we are in debt and that the debt is not just in America, but world-wide. But in all that I have read about the debt, no one mentions, who do we owe? The International Bankers, of course. When Colonel James Bo Gritz ran for United States President in 1992. He said that the debt to the Bankers is by farad, therefore we owe them nothing. He also said, that when he becomes President he will have a very large nickel made of wood and roll it up to the Federal Reserves door with a note. stating, Debt Paid.
Myself, I, as the Bible commands to owe no man anything. I have no credit because I have never used the credit system. When I shopped and found something I wanted or needed. I checked the price to see if I had enough, if I didn't, I went on my way. And the Bible commands not to charge or use Usury. Not many people especially Christians that should know, know that Usury is Interest.
I might as well go on about the Great American Dream. That keeps getting used a lot. But most of making America Great again are not going back far enough. It seems that they are looking to the 1970s. But there were greater times than that.
The reason there was so much migration from Europe to America is because of the American Dream. Farmer in Europe dreamed about owning their own land. In those nations, the Kings that were all related, By the way, own the land. Some that were elites, shall I say, managed the land in their fancy palaces, but the king still owned the land. And the poor tenet farmer worked the land and had to produce more than what they could eat themselves. If they couldn't grow large crops, they were kicked off the land and another took their place. So, when they found out that in America anyone could own land, it was a dream come true to tenet farmers.
So, here we are now in this land and due to Property Tax, if one can't pay the tax for 3 years, they are kicked off the land and another takes their place. Also, to make sure this happens, All the money printed is only the principle, nothing printed to be able to pay the interest. Unless you get yours before your brother gets his. Ah yes, "The land of the free and the brave". No more dreams, just nightmares.
Actually, we own nothing. How can a slave own anything. The master supplies all. No you don't even own your vehicles. The ownership papers that come with the vehicles and you buy the vehicle, the dealer sends the ownership paper from the manufactures to the State. Then the State sends you a title. Ah, a title. The title is a contract between the buyer and the State. In that contract The State is now the owner of the vehicle that you paid for, or are paying for with Usury, and the State is not responsible for any damages in the moving of the vehicle, but you are. And as the owner, they may take the vehicle away at anytime they choose.
As long as people do not obey GOD'S Laws, which are for our own good, then the people will live a life of lies and no liberty. The only freedom in this America is, You are allowed to do only what you are told.
Happy Days,