In this video we share The Prophetic Writing of Robert Hugh Benson
On November 18, 150 years ago, Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest authority of the Anglican church, was born.
After graduating from Cambridge, he too embarked on an ecclesiastical career.
However, his spiritual perplexities about the authority of the Anglican church, fueled by the reading of John Henry Newman and the works of Pope Leo XIII, led him to a path of suffering conversion, especially due to the reactions of his family environment.
Accepted into the Catholic Church, he was ordained a priest in 1904 in Rome.
He then returned to England, where he began his ministry as a priest, an intense preaching activity, from one end of Great Britain to the other, alternating with missionary work and spiritual direction, nevertheless not renouncing to express his intellectual vivacity, becoming not only an interesting author of spiritual essays, but above all an exciting novelist.
Benson, who had been an Anglican, decided to draw from oblivion the whole dramatic, moving story of English Catholics after Thomas More that had been carefully removed; with a care worthy of Orwell's dystopia; by the British establishment.
He carefully reckoned with the history of his country, drew on forgotten or censored sources and produced in a few years an impressive number of novels, almost all of which were placed in the terrible Elizabethan period.
The most important and most famous work of Robert Benson is undoubtedly the utopian novel published in 1907, The master of the world, in which the priest writer imagines a future dominated by a single thought, by a dictatorship that passes itself off as humanitarian: a scenario that anticipated those described by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley in their works.
Before them, Benson brought his attention, his analysis, his denunciation, not exclusively to the possible outcomes of science, but also to the possible outcomes of society.
The master of the world sees the author imagine a world to come, in a scenario set at the beginning of the 21st century.
Benson had deepened the history of his country, the dramatic events of the Elizabethan period.
He had historical memory.
He was also well aware of the problematic aspects of his contemporaneity; the international tensions between the great powers, the birth of socialism; which were the object of his attention also for the repercussions they had in his pastoral activity.
But he felt the most serious dangers in the future, in what he feared could happen in a century.
And the greatest fear was the emergence of a single world power.
It was a rather singular hypothesis: the nineteenth century, in fact, had been the century of nationalisms, of armed particularisms against each other.
Benson goes to imagine a future world where instead there is a single world power, a single thought that rages heavily, albeit in a very subtle way, against Christianity.
In particular against the Catholic Church.
The latter seems to have remained the only real enemy: the opposing ideologies have reached a sort of synthesis in the name of humanitarianism, this unique thought has been achieved in which the conflicts between the opposing liberal and socialist ideologies have been overcome, and this model of great world humanitarian government imposes on everyone a single vision of things and of life.
What is not reducible to this project is precisely the Church, which ends up persecuted, reduced to a very small flock, since many begin to turn their backs on the Truth, attracted by the flattery of Giuliano Felsenburgh, the world leader with great personal attraction, a “charismatic” leader who communicates security.
Felsenburgh's shrewdness towards the Church consists in no longer waging an open war on it, as in the past, but in acquiring it, so to speak, to the project of a single thought.
He seems to be the one that all of humanity expected, able to convey towards peace and well-being, and then, instead, he reveals himself openly as the Antichrist.
Robert Hugh Benson, in the scenario of the future world which would come according to his fears, and which he would never see why he died suddenly in 1914, foreshadowed this one world power as a government of clear Masonic inspiration.
As a result, the book cost him some trouble: it was boycotted in England and not translated overseas.
Those who felt struck by this accusation, very precise even if placed in an imaginary world, had realized very clearly that they had been called into question.
A dramatically current scenario.
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