There is a remarkable unfriendly takeover in Britain's history:
How The Venetian Virus Infected and Took Over England
Article by H. Graham Lowry, Printed in The Executive Intelligence Review, April 15, 1994.
The Venetian oligarchy sent Francesco Zorzi, a cabbalist and Rosicrucian, as a sex adviser to Henry VIII. In 1529, Zorzi came to London to deliver his opinion, and he remained at the court for the rest of his life, building up an important party of followers–the nucleus of the modern Venetian Party in England. In 1525, Zorzi had published the treatise De Harmonia Mundi, which uses the cabbalistic Sephiroth to expound a mystical, irrationalist outlook and to undercut the influence of Nicolaus of Cusa. …
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