So, the four angels that are let loose are ready to pounce the moment they get their power. They’re like devils on a leash, and they’re let loose to kill the third part of men: all those who are impenitent—neither those who are innocent, nor those who are guilty but repented, but those who are guilty and will not repent.

About what percentage lead? I think Lenin has a quote about that. He says, „Give me… [a small number] and I will take over the country.‟ Tennyson Francis, there’s one thing he said. Tennyson Francis could have done it, but he wasn’t thinking of working with Sir Francis. I remember a figure of 1%. It all depends. If they’re just convinced enough, it all depends on the grade of conviction. If they’re convinced enough, the greater the conviction, the fewer you need. And today, the Catholic Church, the situation of the Church could be thrown into reverse by quite a small number of really, really convinced individuals, but they have to be really convinced. No half-and-half romance will do.

So, in this case, the bureaucrats, they’re numberless. And they are numberless too. Why does the government have so many people working for it? Why do the governments, not just in the United States, have so many people working for them? Various reasons. One is they don’t want to disagree with government policy. If they take a paycheck from the government, you’re not going to stand up and fight the government. That’s quite a bit of it. What’s another major reason? It’s the old story, Dona Securitas. If men won’t govern themselves from inside, they’ll have to be governed from outside. So the wilder men become, the more uncontrolled men become, the less religion they have, the more government they must have. And then people react and say, „Oh, you’ve got to deregulate.‟ So you deregulate, and then what happens if you do deregulate? Naughty men pick up the ball and run with it, and then you have to regulate again to stop them.

In other words, it goes back to what the founding fathers said: „You can’t have a free society unless the people are self-controlled.‟ If the people are not self-controlled, they’ll have to be government-controlled. It’s as simple as that. And Madison and Washington and Franklin all said it in one way or another: the American style of government presupposes self-controlled and virtuous citizens. And if you haven’t got self-controlled and virtuous citizens, there’s no way that this form of government will work. And it’s now breaking down. The admiration for Clinton, who’s completely un-self-controlled, shows that’s why you’ve got the police state and the prisons and the rest of it, and it’s inevitable. And that’s what it’s going to be like under the Antichrist.

The horses are the damned masses on which the elite ride. All of your televidiots who go to the sports stadiums and do the wave. Poor things. Misereor super turbam. Schmidt? Not misery is upon the masses. No, misereor. It’s the verb misereor, from which we get the second person singular present imperative, miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri. So misereor is what’s known as a deponent verb, passive in form and active in meaning, and it means… Weber? „I pity.‟ Yes. Therefore, Misereor super turbam is „I have pity on the crowd.‟ Our Lord says it. Matthew 9:36. „I have pity on the crowd.‟ There we are. Walk through an airport and think of those words. Misereor super turbam. These poor people.

Back to the horsemen for a moment. Breastplates: hearts hardened against grace. The breastplate was a metal covering of the whole chest with straps to hold it on behind. Not much use against bullets, but against daggers and lances it would help. So, hearts hardened against grace. Breastplates of fire: fire with the desire to set the whole universe aflame. Crash and burn. I think it’s from rappers or heavy metal. Fiery with the desire to set the whole world on fire. Not the fire of Our Lord, obviously, but the fire of the devil. In the ghettos in the United States, „Burn, baby, burn,‟ inhabited by people who have not light skins, a politically incorrect name to use. „Burn, baby, burn.‟

Hyacinth blue, that’s the Latin word, hyacinthinus. Hyacinth blue from the illusion of their heavenly nature. They take themselves to be saints. And that’s still true today. People baptize their own sins. Who’s one of the first and greatest modern baptizers of sin? Rousseau. Absolutely. That’s his hallmark: enable you to sin while thinking you’re still Christian. That’s the size of it. Hyacinth blue from the illusion of their heavenly nature. Sulfurous from the stink of their unnatural lust. Brimstone is sulfur.

The heads of the horses were as the heads of lions. The heads of the horses are the leaders of heresies and leaders of persecutions. They’re like the heads of lions. They are lionish because of their proud and cruel readiness to devour everybody and everything.

„And from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.‟ Fire represents words of anger, hatred, and agitation. Smoke, again—you may remember Ignatius picked up on fire and smoke—is blinding passion without substance. Passions which blind you, get in your eyes. You can’t see anything. And you choke. You can’t breathe and you can’t see. I sat through many fires. People die of the smoke rather than of the flames. Blinding without substance. The sulfur, again, or brimstone, is full of impurity.

Verse 19: „For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they hurt.‟ The power in their mouth is their flattering and seductive words. „And in their tails‟—well, the tails cover over dishonorable parts. So these prophets, these corrupters, disguise their corruption. Today, look at it. Just look at it today. So their flattering and seductive words, and the disguising of their corruption. Their tails are like serpents. They’re as cunning as Satan. Satan, you remember, took the form of a snake. „And have heads, and with them they hurt.‟ De Morien says, following doubted medieval commentators, „Having heads means that they, the horses, have at their disposal the secular powers.‟ It’s certainly absolutely true today. The horses have at their disposal the secular powers by which they can do so much harm, by which they hurt. „The tails are like serpents, and the tails have heads, and by their heads they harm.‟ The enemies of God have at their disposal secular power, and that’s how they do so much damage.

The rest of mankind that was not persecuted by the Antichrist did not do penance. The Antichrist directly hits a certain number of men. That’s why we said, of those that are persecuted, some hide, some stand up to the persecution, confess their faith, and undoubtedly get martyred, and then the third part denies Christ and perishes. But then there’s another mass of mankind which is not directly persecuted, which goes with the flow. And they, though they see what’s going on, though they may well suspect that it’s anti-Christian and against Christ, they don’t do penance. It doesn’t faze them. They just go with the flow. Undoubtedly, the Antichrist keeps the television sets going, so they just go on watching television. They did not do penance from their works so as to stop adoring devils or idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood—images which can neither see nor hear nor walk. Idols, in other words. They did not do penance from their homicides, their sorceries, their fornication, nor from their theft. Murder, fornication, theft. Look at it today: Clinton, all three in spades. Sorcery, Mrs. Clinton gets into that. It looks as though he leaves that to her. She dabbles in all kinds of occult things, as far as I know. She’s interested in that kind of thing, at least interested. Whether she’s involved, she certainly wouldn’t yet let people know.

People are, for the moment, still disguising it if they’re involved in black magic, but it’s more and more coming out into the open. You go into an average bookstore today, and you will often find a section on black magic books, which is terrible. Ignorant people can pick up these books out of curiosity and start dabbling and getting involved. God will often set up roadblocks if somebody starts getting involved in black magic. He will set up warnings and blocks which you have to jump over. But if people insist, He will let them. And once you get into black magic, it’s very bad news, once you get into it deeply.

I heard an interesting tape recently by Father Brian Harrison about exorcisms. He was in Rome by accident and got in touch with Father Gabriele Amorth. I think somebody asked him if he wanted to attend an exorcism. Father Amorth is Rome’s sort of full-time exorcist, and he has a kind of hangar in the suburbs of Rome, with a few heavyset guys, where he can make all the noise and commotion they like, because an exorcism does involve commotion. Apparently, he performs quite a lot of exorcisms. Father Harrison was able to watch. Father Harrison is a conservative. He’s a smart man, Australian, but he’s not honest. He got into a scrap with Michael Davies over religious liberty. Michael Davies was on the right side of the debate. Father Harrison more or less admitted that a certain book he had written to please the authorities in Rome, to get his doctorate… well, that’s my best recollection. But I think he’s a convert, and he may well have the faith. Not that he didn’t believe in the devil before attending these exorcisms, but he certainly believed in the devil after attending them, and he learned a lot.

He gave four reasons why people get possessed. One, they positively want to be taken over by the devil. Two, somebody puts a hex on them—that’s for real. Three and four, I can’t remember the other two ways. It’d be interesting to remember. Too bad. But he certainly believed in the devil after attending these exorcisms. It’s very clear, so nobody in his right mind will deny the existence of the devil and the existence of many, many devils.

Any questions on chapter nine?

Are the plagues in verse 20… (indistinct audience question). Sulfur, smoke, and fire, yes. That’s what I think they are. It’s not the three woes. The three woes are the fifth, sixth, and seventh trumpets. So it’s sulfur, fire, smoke, and sulfur. Yes.

Notice today, the incredible, crusading passion with which Liberals fight to destroy the rest of Christendom. It’s unbelievable. It’s a bogus Christianity. It’s an imitation of Christianity; it’s Christianity turned against itself. It’s the fruits of Christianity turned against the roots of Christianity. It’s the manner and mode of Christianity turned against the substance. It’s terrible. But the crusading righteousness with which these journalists and politicians get up and get all psyched up, and get everybody else psyched up on these completely bogus and false campaigns.

I can give you an example. Two or three years ago, Clinton began screaming all over the media because a few churches got burned in the South. The media immediately whipped up a whole campaign about how whites were burning Black churches. Within a few days, Clinton was promising eight million federal dollars to pay for these Black churches, and it was all over the newspapers. The whole thing was completely false. There was no campaign. The FBI went into it and found no campaign. It was just, you know, a mouse had eaten into some wiring somewhere, a church got burned down here, and another one, just a few accidents, and they made it into a campaign.

Gardner? Officially, several cases of actual arson by the Blacks. Oh, arson by the Black community, sorry. What’s known as Jewish lightning. Do all of you know what Jewish lightning means? They are past masters at destroying their own property to collect insurance. If they have a business that is going badly and they want to start over, they set fire to their own. So, „It was lightning from the sky that hit my business.‟ Completely bogus fire, arson, yeah, that figures.

An audience member commented that the worst part was seeing huge front-page headlines of hate crime with whites burning Black churches, and then when white ministers were caught having committed arson, it was relegated to page four. That’s it. There you are. You see, the Apocalypse is talking about this corruption, these vile words to stir up the smoke so that people can’t see where they are. The agitation, passion, and confusion. People all psyched up and blinded, so they have no idea what they’re doing. People don’t know their right hands from their left hands today; they’re so dumb. It’s very, very grave.

Don’t take me to be saying that it’s threatened and cracking and breaking up, and we’ll soon all be swimming, so put on your life jackets. I don’t think we’ll need life jackets today or tomorrow. The Society’s got more endurance in it than that. But it hasn’t got, of its nature, humanly speaking, there’s no proportion between the strength of the Society and the strength of this storm. The strength of the storm is still building. I don’t think you can say that the strength of the Society is building. It is in a way, insofar as every day the priests of this Society are getting one day older. Many young priests are no longer in their 20s; some are in their 30s, quite a lot now in their 40s. So they’re approaching their best priestly years, in a sense. Many are now moving into their best priestly years, when they have the best combination of strength and wisdom. They’ve still got some strength of youth but are getting a bit of the wisdom of age. Of course, the real wisdom of age only comes somewhat later, sort of mid-50s. That’s when you really start to understand what it’s all about. You can’t expect youngsters to believe that. They think they know it all. So, that’s okay. Don’t worry about it.

Any other questions on chapter nine?

„And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was on his head, and his face was as the sun and his feet as pillars of fire. And he had in his hand a little book open and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the earth. And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth, and when he had cried seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, ‚Seal up the things which the seven thunders have spoken and write them not.’‟

„And there was a rainbow around his head.‟ A rainbow was on his head, his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. The rainbow around his head is peace with God. That’s what the rainbow signified from the time of Noah. God said the rainbow is the pledge that I will not again flood mankind. So the rainbow is a sign of peace between man and God. The rainbow around this angel’s head is the peace with God, not the peace of God, but peace with God filling the thoughts of Christ.

The sun, S-U-N, is the splendor of Christ’s divinity, His godhood. And his feet were like columns of fire. What are His feet? Vera? Preachers. Yes, the preachers. Blessed are the feet of those who announce the gospel. The feet are the preachers of Christ carrying His gospel to all the world. Isaiah 52:7. These feet are columns of fire, columns of firmness and endurance in taking the weight. Uprightness, firmness, endurance in taking weight, W-E-I-G-H-T. Columns of fire, like the column of fire which led the Israelites in the desert, the Shekhinah, I think it was called. The pillar of fire.

The fire here is charity. It’s not destructive passion and confusion. Here, it’s the fire of charity which enlightens men’s minds. How can charity enlighten a mind? Because charity is in the will, and the will follows the intellect. Causae ad invicem sunt causae. Causes cause one another, sed aliter et aliter, but in two different ways. The intellect informs the will, but it’s the will that moves or applies the intellect. Noluit intelligere ut bene ageret. He did not want to understand. He didn’t want to know and therefore he blinded himself, made himself not know. He wanted to know or he wanted not to know. That’s the will moving the intellect. So if the will is full of charity, then it moves the intellect in the right direction. The direction in which the intellect looks is determined by the will. What the intellect sees when it looks is determined by the intellect. It’s the intellect that picks up what’s out there, but it’s the will that makes the intellect move in this direction or that direction. So, charity will make the intellect look in the direction of the truth and pick up the truth by moving it in the right direction.