Antichrist - Bishop Gaume

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It will happen what always happens at the great times of history, a man will come who will personify all these principles. Nero, Constantine, Charlemagne, St. Louis, Henry VIII, Napoleon are the immortal proofs of this social law. Endowed with a great power of assimilation, he will be all the stronger, all the more perverse as the elements of force and evil will be more energetic.

Now, as we have seen, corruption and pride will have reached their last limits ; the man who will summarize them will be the most terrible tyrant that the imagination can conceive. With an immense experimental science of nature, he will do amazing things that will seduce the intelligence;

With immense wealth, he will easily triumph over the resistance of the heart; strong of an immense material power, he will incline the fronts in the dust; he will break, like a worm, those whom he can not corrupt; he will be the greatest enemy of man and God that has ever been seen; for he will be the personification of evil raised to his highest power.

This man whom reason foresees, the faith announces it under these different features, and the Christian language characterizes it in one word: Antichrist. This word says everything.


Bishop Gaume - Where are we going? (1844)