Carlo Maria Viganò Archbishop: Credo quia absurdum
Address at the Conference for the Presentation of the Essay
“Crimine di Stato” by Umberto Mendola
Firenze – October 24, 2025
for the rules of the universe dictate
that those who are deceived
acquiesce to their own deception.
Aleister Crowley
Dear friends,
I am pleased to speak at this event organized by Dr. Umberto Mendola for the presentation of his essay “Crimine di Stato” [State Crime] for which I wrote the preface. This book will leave an authoritative and comprehensive written testimony, condemning the shameful complicity of all those who have shown themselves willing to prostitute themselves to a subversive and tyrannical regime that is still in power. I hope that Dr. Mendola’s courage and professional expertise will inspire others, each in their own sphere of social and professional commitment, to raise their voices and denounce one of the most horrific crimes against humanity.
Without wishing to repeat what I wrote in the Preface, allow me to add to those words of mine and to Dr. Mendola’s essay something that I believe can make sense of what we have witnessed in the past few years.
We have all understood that the pandemic marked the beginning of an unconventional war waged by the globalist elite against humanity and against God. Satan’s hatred of humanity is motivated by the fact that we are created in the image and likeness of God, and that only humanity—not angels—has been granted the unimaginable privilege of Divine Redemption, which restores, through the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the disorder caused by the original sin committed by our first parents, Adam and Eve. Satan cannot bear that we humans are given the opportunity to become children of God (Jn 1:12) and to participate in the eternal bliss that the ancient Serpent irremediably lost. Unable to prevent Redemption, Satan seeks to diminish its fruits by dragging as many souls as possible to hell. Therefore, everything Satan proposes is intrinsically and necessarily aimed at killing us in body and soul, in order to tear souls away from God through deception and lies. And by means of money, which not by chance is called the Devil’s dung. Money is dung when it becomes the measure of all human actions, or the means to corrupt men and make them his servants. The work of the globalist elite demonstrates the mark of the Beast (Rev 13:16) precisely in considering as commodity, as something tradable, not only material goods, but also immaterial ones that in a traditional, Catholic society were inspired by charity toward others: I think, for example, of the education of children or care for the elderly and the sick, possible within the traditional family. The business of day care for children and nursing homes for the elderly is the result of social engineering that extends to many other aspects of our daily lives, not least the so-called “welcoming” of irregular migrants, designed to Islamize Europe and create instability and civil unrest.
The pandemic coup was able to be implemented and enjoyed such widespread collaboration precisely because it favored an economic approach. Rivers of money were used to tame politicians, magistrates, journalists, doctors, entrepreneurs, actors, singers, athletes, and—not surprisingly—the Vatican, Bergoglio, the Italian Episcopal Conference, the Bishops… All ready to sell out and side with the elite, with “science,” with the experts. Dr. Mendola is right: this was a state crime, carried out simultaneously and in a coordinated manner in all Western nations. It was the first step in a war that already has new fronts ready, such as the famine caused by the systematic destruction of small farms in the name of the climate emergency, centralizing food production in the hands of multinational corporations, and the resulting exponential increase in food prices. This reality is accompanied by the imposition of digital IDs and electronic currency in an effort to force us to consume only what the elite has decided to produce and sell us.
While we are well aware of the crime perpetrated against humanity and the theological reasons for this aversion to man as God’s creature, we still fail to grasp why too often—especially during the psychopandemic—we have been provided with contradictory information by the very people who should have concealed it. Think of the “safe and effective” serum, defined by Bergoglio as “an act of love to save us together,” for which, however, the state granted criminal immunity to the inoculating doctors. Or the need to reduce the CO2 footprint supported by billionaires who travel on private jets or yachts that cause pollution. If these are criminals—and we know they are—why do they tell us what they intend to do, running the risk that we will organize to prevent them? Why do they expose the contradictions in their narrative, almost as if they wanted to give us a chance to denounce them?
The answer I would like to share with you comes from two apparently unrelated sources: Aleyster Crowley (1875-1947), a Luciferian esotericist, and Michael A. Hoffman II (1957- ), a historian and expert on secret sects and psychological manipulation.
Crowley – who was introduced to the British circle that included, among others, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley – writes: “Evil must hide in plain sight, for the laws of the universe dictate that those who are deceived consent to their own deception.” Since Crowley was a convinced Satanist, this admission does not surprise us, as it exposes Satan’s true deception: gaining our support for evil not through deception and without our knowledge, but by leading us to accept the lie with which he defines evil as good, and the fiction that presents good as evil. Satan essentially seeks our humiliation – “All this I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me” (Mt 4:9) – and our confirmation that, if we perform that action, it is because we agree to place our faith in him, the liar, rather than in the true God. Because this, dear Friends, is what Satan wants: to make us take the place of God, aware of the madness – the ὕβρις – of this insane gesture of our defiance.
On the other hand, Hoffman approaches the same theme from a different perspective, identifying a hidden elite that uses social engineering techniques to control the masses. It’s not just about gaining economic or political power, but also about waging psychological warfare: an “occult psychodrama” that transforms reality into a magical, alchemical ritual. The media, films, and historical events (such as the JFK assassination, 9/11, or the Epstein scandal) are tools for “alchemizing” the collective mind, rendering it passive and incapable of reacting. In this terminal phase, the elite no longer hides everything, but deliberately reveals parts of its “method” (its manipulation strategies) as an act of humiliation and supremacy. Social psychology studies confirm that this cruel game of subjugating and dominating its victims serves to provoke the cognitive dissonance that inevitably leads to demoralization (in the awareness of being powerless), to implicit consent (a passive “consent,” as if to say: “I’ll show you what I’ll do, and you won’t do anything about it, so you agree”), and to the acceptance of despotic power (the elite mocks the masses, strengthening their psychological control over them).
Hoffman writes: “The alchemical principle of the Revelation of the Method has as its chief component, a clown-like, grinning mockery of the victim(s) as a show of power and macabre arrogance. When this is performed in a veiled manner, accompanied by certain occult signs and symbolic words and elicits no meaningful response of opposition or resistance from the target(s), it is one of the most efficacious techniques of psychological warfare and mind-rape.” [1]
When we watched doctors and nurses bustle about in hospital wards, while the news broadcasts reported “Covid deaths” in intensive care units—with the all-too-familiar fudging of the truth—we were faced with two contrasting realities. This cognitive dissonance served precisely to determine who would highlight the contradictions and who would instead go along with them, pretending they weren’t there, in a gaslighting operation [2]: “What you saw never happened,” like the “paracetamol and watchful waiting” protocol that the “Minister of Health” Speranza, a member of the Fabian Society, denied ever imposing. It was a mass test to test devotion to the religion of healthcare yesterday, and to the religion of environmentalism today. Every accepted absurdity weakened people’s ability to trust their own observations and rational judgment, leading to a form of apathy toward every new provocation. The message becomes: “We can show you the contradiction between our words and our actions, and you will do nothing. You will accept both the lie and the proof of it.” This is a form of ritual humiliation that works not through secrecy, but through blatant exposure, especially when obedience to the authority that issues criminal orders—hence the use of the term “state crime”—is offered as a sacrifice of one’s rationality, as an immolation of the will. And this, dear Friends, constitutes the subversion of the concepts of authority and obedience, both in the civil and religious spheres. For the Enemy is always the same, and he acts on two fronts in order to better strike us.
Satan’s masterstroke consists in this: obtaining from us an irrational assent in the face of the evidence of his deceptions, which we recognize as such but nevertheless accept as true, in an act of mad, suicidal pride. What the Serpent demands is an act of faith, or rather, of superstition, of apostasy. A Credo quia absurdum in which the evidence of the lie makes the abdication of reason and common sense more “meritorious,” so to speak. This is why the collaborators of the psychopandemic farce were so ferociously unleashed against those who refused to comply.
How can we respond to the reversal of truth and falsehood, the inversion of good and evil? How can we confront this Revolution, which is intrinsically satanic because it aims to subvert the divine κόσμος and establish the infernal χάος of the Synagogue of Satan? By recognizing Satan’s fraud, denouncing it, and making people understand the theological coherence and social danger of the criminal plan of those Hoffman calls cryptocrats—occult rulers. Remember: The truth will set you free (Jn 8:32).
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
19 October MMXXV
Dominica XIX Post Pentecosten
NOTE
1 – Cf. Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, 2001.
2 Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person (or group) causes another to doubt their perception of reality, memory, or sanity, with the goal of controlling, weakening, or destabilizing the victim. The term derives from the film Gaslight (1944), in which a husband manipulates his wife into believing she is insane, for example by altering the light of the gas lamps in the house and denying that it is happening.
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Credo quia absurdum