https://inklesspen.blog/2019/12/17/kgb-cia-and-the-deconstruction-of-orthodoxy/
In this post, two articles
will be primarily highlighted. Both articles illustrate several root
issues that have provided the fertile ground in which the current
actions of the EP have blossomed and manifested fruit.
The first article is – Fr. Kyrill Johnson: the Prestige of the Oecumenical Patriarch. This article was kindly sent to me by a reader, for which I’m very grateful. I encourage everyone to read it in full.
The
above article was written in the 1940s. Evidently, at that time the
particular mindsets that have only grown and become more well-defined
with the passing of time were already existent.
Of course, the Patriarch of whom the author writes is the infamous Meletios, who was a Mason.
From
very early on Meletios was intimately tied to political powers. Two
notable powers mentioned (besides Greek politicians) in the article are
Britain and the United States. The reader also will note that one of the
main concerns for the EP, even at that time, was one of maintaining the
Greek ethnos. The primary matter was that of the preservation of “Greek
nationalism.” Meletios is said to be a “Greek nationalist.”
The
EP has been working with Western powers since the early 1900s, it has
been willing to use the Orthodox Faith itself as a bartering chip for
its own survival, and political issues occupy a place of primary
importance (at times above matters of faith).
The second article is – Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records.
This
article simply confirms that which many have long known – during the
Cold War the EP was developed and supported by the US as an asset to
counter “Soviet influence,” specifically as it was perceived through the
Moscow Patriarchate (MP) at that time.
The EP, who already had a history of deep collaboration with Western powers, became the obvious choice.
The prime candidate was Athenagoras. I have pointed out in previous posts that Athenagoras was a Mason. The author of the article rightly points out that Athenagoras is a very influential figure in 20th-century Orthodoxy.
The
current EP has progressed well beyond the excesses of his predecessors.
He is bringing the Masonic work begun by both Meletios and Athenagoras
to a dark fulfillment
It is worth noting in closing, that the great Saint of the 20th century, John Maximovich, also wrote in a loving manner in 1938 warning of the decline and corruption of the EP.