Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
November 18, 2020
Secret forces exist and operate in history. The simple dynamism of human
passions and errors is not sufficient in fact to explain the revolutionary
process that has been attacking for centuries the Church and the Christian civilization
She created. This process is driven by agents – often hidden – but real. Catholic thought of the 19th and
20th centuries has always investigated and documented rigorously the
existence of this actuality, which can be defined as a “plot” or a
“conspiracy”, if with these terms we mean the existence of forces that achieve
their ends in secret and often by illicit and immoral methods.
Monsignor Henri Delassus (1836-1921), dedicated an important book to La conjuration
antichrétienne: le temple maçonnique voulant s’élever sur les ruines de
l’Eglise catholique (Paris 1910, 3
volume, with a preface written by Rafael Merry del Val). The secret societies
that led the Revolution, explains Plinio
Corrêa de Oliveira, have as their aim, the establishing of a utopian “Universal
Republic”, in which all legitimate differences among populations, families and
social classes would be dissolved in an egalitarian, confused and bubbling
amalgamation. (Rivoluzione e
Contro-Rivoluzione, Sugarco, Milano 2009, p. 117).
The existence of this “plot” is confirmed in papal documents and
especially in Leo XIII’s encyclical Humanum
genus of April 20th 1884, wherein the Pope denounces the
diabolical plot of Freemasonry, which has as “[its]
ultimate purpose the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political
order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the
substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which
the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.” (Enc.
Humanum genus del 20 aprile 1884,
ASS, vol. 16 (1883-1884), pp. 417-48).
The identity of the conspirators can vary, but the permanent director of
the revolutionary process is Satan, the fallen angel, eternally rebellious and eternally
crushed. The Popes and the counter-revolutionaries do not fail to throw light
on the satanic essence of the Revolution, which seemingly “builds “ but in
reality destroys. It aims at undoing the
work of creation and Redemption, to build the social Reign of the demon, a hell
on earth prefiguring that of eternity, just as the social Reign of Christ –
Christian civilization – prefigures the heavenly Reign of Paradise. In this
sense the Revolution has its essence in disorder, whereas Christian
civilization is order par excellence.
Also the story of the Coronavirus should be analyzed in the perspective
of the theology of history, but subject to following the lesson of the great
masters of Catholic thought who never renounced the good use of reason. Thought
has some fixed rules by a discipline known as logic. The object of logic is, as
St. Thomas explains, the activity of reason (Commento agli analitici posteriori di Aristotele vol. I, I lect
1). Logic is an analysis of the
processes of thought in order to grasp its structure and laws at different
times.
Nonetheless,
it isn’t possible to maintain logic without the help of grace. There is then
the need for divine grace which illuminates the intelligence of man and
strengthens his will, whereby he, with the help of the supernatural, ultimately
achieves what his nature is not capable of.
In fact, again Corrêa de Oliveira notes: “even if the
intelligence is logical by nature, man can never be completely logical without
the help of divine grace, For two reasons: in the first place, because human
intelligence is not infallible, (…); in the second place, because man finds a
thousand obstacles that oppose logic”. What are these interior obstacles? It
often occurs that logic reveals uncomfortable truths, or arduous
responsibilities, and in that case, the person seeks to avoid logic. There is
nothing more natural in the world. People
try to escape and close their eyes when faced with logic”. (R. de Mattei, Plinio Correa
de Oliveira, Apostolo di Fatima. Profeta del Regno di Maria, Fiducia, Roma 2017, pp. 30-31).
Renouncing
the use of logic brings about the
atrophy of reason and the triumph of the imagination, a form of thought which
doesn’t follow fixed rules nor logical connections, but is often determined by
an emotional state. The imagination is an internal sense, the most noble of the
internal senses, but also that which leads us more easily into error.
In order to understand fully an event as complex as the explosion of the
Coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to use attentively the instrument of
logic, illuminated by the Faith. We need to be wary of false teachers, coming
from the ranks of the Revolution, who claim to explain what is happening,
without the light of faith, misusing reason.
In Italy, one of these bad teachers, is the
aspiring philosopher, Diego Fusaro, who, from the very start, purported to
explain the Coronavirus away as a Western plot against Communist China. On February 26, 2020, on RadioRadio, Fusaro stated that the hypothesis “presenting
the most consistent points, is that, there is the longa manus of the United States in some way in all of this. This hypothesis is based on the fact that the
virus came from Chinese laboratories, but enables us to understand that this
virus could have been leaked in various ways. But above all this scenario
enables us to respond to a question which otherwise remains unanswered: who benefits
from all of this? China, at present in the worst crisis, certainly doesn’t
benefit, as it finds itself on its knees
while it had been triumphing on the economic level and even outpacing the U.S.A.”*
On March 8, on the
same station, RadioRadio, Fusaro states that “Italy over the last two years
has been the country more than others
that has moved closer to China on the economic level; keep in mind the Silk
Route and Di Maio’s signature on that project. This aroused the wrath of
Washington, which immediately expressed its dissatisfaction with Italy’s closeness
to China. Lo and behold, what countries are the most hit? China, Iran and
Italy. There’s no escaping the fact that these are countries not aligned with
Washington, rather, for some time they have been in the cross hairs of the
monarchy of the dollar.” **
Fusaro insinuates
then that the United States created the pandemic to weaken China and the
countries close to it like Italy and some in the Third World. This pseudo-logic
is fallacious not only because it has been blatantly proven wrong by the facts,
but because it has in itself the nature of sophism.
The facts are that
the pandemic constituted one of the principal causes of Trump’s electoral
defeat, and if today there are some countries on their knees after ten months
of the Coronavirus, they are precisely the United States and Europe, while
China seems to have emerged from the health crisis not only unscathed, but
flourishing economically.
The sophism is in
the substituting of the causal link which must characterize every operation of
reason, with a link of a purely temporal nature, which is summed up in the
well-known sophism Post hoc, ergo
propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this). A sophism that substitutes
the logical order with the chronological one, presuming that if an event is followed by
another, then the first must be the cause of the second. In reality, a temporal
succession is necessary for there to be a relational cause, seeing that every
effect must be preceded by a cause, but this temporal connection is not
sufficient to demonstrate anything.
Fusaro, a
disciple of Costanzo Preve (1943-2013), theorist of the Rifondazione
Communista, is a Neo-Communist and claims to leave behind the
social-economic analysis of Marx, but doesn’t renounce his dialectic vision,
founded on the denial of the principal of non-contradiction. What is worrying
are not his weak theses, but the success they seem to be having in conservative
and traditionalist circles, who, even without referring explicitly to him, mix
in effect his anti-American theories with that anti-Catholic sect QAnon, which
affirms the existence of a criminal plan, architected by a globalist elite, to
subjugate the whole of mankind by way of a health dictatorship. The Coronavirus
(according to them) is but a simple influenza and the measures recommended by
the progressive or conservative
governments of the entire world, like the lockdown, the mask-wearing and
social distancing would be instruments and symbols of this plot to annul
individual freedom, and in the end exterminate all of humanity.
We must say firmly that these hypotheses have nothing at all to do with
the great tradition of Catholic Thought, which, when it addresses the existence
of an anti-Christian conspiracy, substantiates every affirmation with precise
documentation and above all doesn’t ever substitute faith and reason with the
imagination. The impression at times one has is that of being faced with the
phenomenon of cognitive dissonance ***, where reality is deformed by an
emotional condition or apofenia ****,
a psychic state that that pushes to establish
significant connections between events devoid of any causal
relationship.
Would we need to abolish every form of protection
and social distancing to combat the “plot”? Gennaro Malgieri, who recorded a
lucid, historical diary of the Coronavirus invasion, notes correctly: “those
who contest the only protective system we have at our disposition are frankly
ridiculous, but they avoid indicating an alternative” (Sotto il segno del
pipistrello. Dentro la pandemia. Un diario, Fergen, Roma 2020, p. 14). The
conservation of life is the founding principal of every community and those who
have to safeguard this principle are the ones who decide the “state of
exception”. Questioning this principle is all too easy; it opens up the path to
social dissolution” and consigns us to “ permanent chaos, to the ferocious
igniting of rejecting legality and legitimacy (ivi, pp. 147-148).
There is no doubt that secret forces acting and
operating are seeking to exploit to their advantage the emergency situation humanity finds itself in - certainly willed by God - as St. Alphonus de Liguori teaches: “all that
happens, happens by the will of God” (Dell’uniformità alla volontà di Dio,[Uniformity
with the Will of God] Roma 1874, p. 12). However, Divine Providence, ever
guiding history, turns evil to good and today this particular emergency
situation may favour the battle for the defenders of Christian order. Never has
there been a more propitious moment to carry out a severe critique of the
revolutionary process so as to
demonstrate there is no other solution possible but a return to the natural and
Christian order. The eras of health quarantines, which humanity has experienced
many times in history, are eras in which souls must not fall under the dominion
of the imagination, but must affirm the primacy of reason and will, with their
eyes raised to God, as St. Paul of the Cross teaches: “Be as solitary as you
can even with your body, so that creatures do not rob you of your recollection”
(Lettere,
Roma 1924, vol. II, p. 509); “God wants you in the desert of the deepest solitude,
to speak the words of life to you, and teach you the science of the saints.” (ivi, vol. III,
p. 515).
**https://www.radioradio.it/2020/03/coronavirus-paziente-0-washington-fusaro/?cn-reloaded=1
***https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissonanza_cognitiva
****https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apofenia
Translation: Contributor
Francesca Romana
