Tea at Trianon: The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard: Prophetic Symbols of Modern Society

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, July 27, 2015

The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard: Prophetic Symbols of Modern Society

The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard by Reid J. Turner is a concise, highly readable work which applies a prophecy of St. Hildegard to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. St. Hildegard's five beasts, representing five periods which would precede the Anti-Christ, first appeared in her great work Scivias, and are among many of her prophecies. St. Hildegard, the thirteenth century Abbess of Bingen, combined mystic and prophetic gifts with a love of science, philosophy, horticulture, medicine, poetry, and music. She was a polymath as well as being a saint. Mr. Turner skillfully demonstrates how each of the beasts represent a stage towards the growing mystery of iniquity and the coming of the son of perdition. One is able to view the past on a grand scale and see the progression of events. At the same time, hope is offered for a future revitalization of the Church, armed with new strength to do battle with evil. The book is a must-read for all those interested in prophetic literature and anyone who is worried about the future, for all is in God's hands and He is the ultimate victor.

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