> the first crusade was not a war between christians and muslims. but between french and egyptians, and the italian knights from the republics of venice and genoa who supported it were paid by merchants > throughout the first crusade, saracen muslims from syria and lebanon fought on the side of christians > the germans and french, who tried to go to palestine to fight in the third crusade, took the wrong way and were killed by the turks > the catholic church, in the middle ages, was controlled by two political parties: the ghibellines and the guelphs: one supporting france and the other germany > the king of italy in the middle ages was the germanic emperor > during the fourth crusade and fall of constantinople, the crusaders pillaged constantinople (including its library, which was the largest at the time) and greek scholars fled to italy bringing with them the knowledge and documents of the greco-roman tradition (which included esoteric neo-neoplatonic stuff) and boosted the renaissance) > the catholic church (successor of rome) was taken over by a neoplatonic-hermetic-kabbalist/zoha ric neopagan syncretic theology during the renaissance (rediscovery of hellenism). a good book on this is "the occult renaissance church of rome" of michael hoffman. this is the theology of the so called western elite. it's a weird kind of zoharic-hermeticism which involves turning humanity into a race-mixed transhuman/sexual people with hive mind. this began with the severan dynasty of rome
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