The Serpent in the Garden: Why is the Pope Sitting on a Satanic Throne!?!?

This is a short interruption from the usual Band posts. A regular post continuing our architectural investigation into the English Enlightenment and roots of globalism will be up tomorrow. But symbolism and the dark impulses of human vanity are not limited to the past, and occasionally something can come up that demands attention. In general, this blog is limited to lengthy  posts on large historical and philosophical subjects. The Band shares memes, items of interest, and shorter thoughts on two social media platforms that are linked here if you are interested in checking them out: (The Band on Gab; The Band on Oneway). The problem here is that this subject is too big for a social media post, but too small and off topic for a regular blog post. The blog does have the multi-media flexibility, so a special one-off short post seems the best way to share.

Edit: For a more recent look at the satanic throne in particular, click here

Pier Luigi Nervi, Paul VI Audience Hall, completed 1971, Vatican City

Does anything strike you as off about this papal audience hall?



















Over the last few months, the Band has grown increasingly aware of the Q anon phenomenon and, more importantly, the information that is being assembled as a result. The Band has no official position on the identity of Q itself, but finds the things that internet researchers are uncovering disturbing. The possibility of a massive Satanic conspiracy seems impossibly far fetched, but if anything should be apparent by now, the Band is relentlessly empirical and follows evidence and logic wherever it points. Enough has been revealed to give this nightmare serious consideration rather than waving it off unexamined. 

If you are interested in this rabbit hole, Neon Revolt is the best site for presenting the information and breaking it down clearly. But fair warning: it is a load to handle.
















Since the Band is already involved in constructing empirical histories with images, these revelations prompted a look at some of the symbolism around the modern papacy. The Church has been embroiled in endless pedophilia scandals with obvious complicity from the hierarchy, and we know that the abuse and trafficking of children is a major connective thread in cabal activity. The smell of brimstone was strong around the Vatican before looking at the pictures. Afterwards? You be the judge.

Andreas Adamek, Hell, 2007, photoshop


First, the background. Vatican II (1962-65) is a watershed in modern Church history. It was at this Council that the Church abandoned both its founding theology and a weight of tradition that had purportedly been guided by the Holy Spirit since the Incarnation in favor of tepid, post-Christian cultural Marxism. That is weird enough, but it  always just seemed part of the way in which the West hollowed out its institutions during that period.

There is a strong argument to be made that Vatican II was literally heretical. Here are some theological errors. If true, there is no current legitimate pope.





The timing is odd though. 1962 is too early to be responding to public counterculture pressure. Vatican II PREDATES the social degradation associated with “the ‘60’s”. Lets look at some architecture:

The Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican was completed by Modernist Pier Luigi Nervi in 1971, and is disturbing. It is vaguely snake-like on the outside… 

…but the reptilian appearance of the interior is unmistakable. 

And the pope’s-eye view.



They could have chosen anything. Why this?






Before answering, remember that the Church have been absolute masters of visual rhetoric for centuries, and have the means to bring off any design they want. This is a papal audience hall – where the pope sits in his official capacity. Where is the Christian iconography? What isn’t there is as significant as what is. Now:

They could have chosen anything. Why this?

Vatican II ended in 1965. The hall was finished in 1971. Who was Paul VI (1963-78) other than the pope that presided over the dissolution of the magisterium of the Church? 

Uh oh, this isn't good. It looks like he might have been a pedophile enabler! Hewas alerted to the clerical abuse of boys in a letter by Rev. Gerald M.C. Fitzgerald (right) in August 1963 and did nothing. Fitzgerald’s records are a valuable source of information of the history of institutional abuse and pedophilia.  

So the man who built a serpent throne room after “liberalizing” the Church sat silently as countless children were fed to an institutional culture of depravity and predation.

And where was he sitting?

The 20 m bronze sculpture called “The Resurrection” backs the papal throne. It was completed by artist Pericle Fazzini in 1977, but this is deceiving, since the actual execution took a long time. The date that it was commissioned is interesting: 1965, the year Vatican II wrapped. 

The symbolism is impossible to interpret from a Christian perspective. It is unsettling to visitors who are ignorant of the symbolism, but to someone who can read religious iconography, it is actually difficult to look at.

The artist supposedly said: "Christ rises from this crater torn open by a nuclear bomb; an atrocious explosion, a vortex of violence and energy." This is the Vatican line as well – a few non-sequiturs about the anguish of century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war and Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in Gethsemane, without further explanation. 

But this is theological and devotional nonsense.

The iconography of the Resurrection of Christ is one of the most established –sometimes joyous, sometimes serious, but always triumphant, not a hellish explosion of monstrous forms.

How does nuclear Armageddon relate to Jesus’ sacrifice? What kind of devotion does this inspire? Remember that the Church have been absolute masters of visual rhetoric for centuries. They could have chosen anything. Why this?

The sculpture is not actually called the “Resurrection of Christ”, just “The Resurrection”. Look at the pictures above one more time, then look at this imagery. What is actually being resurrected?

Look at this monstrosity from the sides, and in the correct light. 

Pay close attention the the head of "Christ" and you can see what is born from nuclear fire.

Why does the “Christ” have a serpent head?!?!?!?! 

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This is the same symbolism that we the throne room itself.

What could be born out of nuclear mass extinction? Or, more specifically to this throne,  from a Satanic head?

Look at it! It is right there! Any wonder that the Vatican doesn't call attention to this "iconography"?

Serpent iconography is not obscure in the history of the Church.

In pagan antiquity the snake symbolized different things. With Asclepius, God of Healing, it was a sign of wisdom. On a Roman altar or lararium, it was a minor diety known as a genius loci or spirit of a place. 

Taken together, earthly wisdom is not that different from the Christian interpretation, since that is what the snake peddles in Eden. 

That same idolatrous image turns up again when the Israelites turn away from God. 

And is crushed by the coming of Christ. 

Where is the Christian message?

Why does the Vatican offer NO explanation?

WHAT IS THE POPE SITTING ON?

The statue was commissioned Count Enrico Galeazzi aka. Galeazzi-Lisi a layman, architect, and close confidant of the pope. 

He is not an easy guy to find a quick biographical sketch of, despite being so well connected as a layperson he was known as the “laypope” (surprise surprise). No wikipedia page. 

The bits and pieces that are public record are telling. Along his involvement in Vatican building, he was a major figure in the Knights of Columbus, with a particular interest in children.

That isn’t at all troubling, given what we know now about institutionalized pedophilia...

He was well connected politically as well (From: The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings)

But this is where it gets really interesting:

Vatican owned General Immobiliare was of the “world’s largest construction companies which dealt in land speculation, built motorways and the Pan Am offices… and also controlled a major part of the Watergate complex in Washington. It was thereby enabled to build, and own, the series of luxury buildings on the banks of the River Potomac that became the headquarters of the Democratic electoral campaign in 1972... The management of the Generale Immobiliare was in the hands of Count Enrico Galeazzi”

One more thing. The Count’s half-brother was  Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the physician to Pope Pius XII who was embroiled in scandal around that Pope’s death.

There is a symbolic throne of St. Peter in St. Peter’s. Light pours in from outside, illuminating the symbols of the Church and the faithful. 

The difference from the abomination on the right is breathtaking. Literally a symbolic inversion.

What does this all mean? The answer depends on the symbolism of the papal throne. Remember, the Church are age-old masters of visual rhetoric. They produce and explain images of incredible power and theological complexity. Why is there no explanation for the papal throne? 

What is the pope sitting on?!?!