What is the Domini Conspiracy?

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Extract 10 (Chapter 11, page 48)
No one knew more about the Domini than Oscar Gatti. He had first come across references to it during study for his doctorate thesis on early Christianity and the Roman State. From its origins it was a highly secretive body. The name ‘Domini’ is a Latin word meaning ‘masters’ or ‘lords’. It was established in the fifth century AD during the reign of the emperor Constantine, at the time when Rome adopted Christianity as its official religion.
The founders were a group of powerful Roman citizens and senior military leaders who recognised the significance of linking religion with the state. They knew that as well as providing a structure for unity, religion could also be used as a means of exerting power and control. Used intelligently, religion could help a state reinforce its authority, help the rich and powerful remain rich and powerful, and keep the masses obedient, poor and fearful.
Gatti knew however that then, as now, there are many who hold their religious beliefs sincerely and see their faith as a means of liberation, justice and equality. But there are some who will falsely affirm these worthy aims, because they know that they can also serve their own more selfish purposes. When a group of such people work together they can be effective and powerful. The Domini was just that, effective and very powerful.
Continuously in existence for over fifteen hundred years, its precepts and rules passed on through generations of members, the Domini was now an international organisation. Its members included, politicians, heads of major global businesses, military leaders, agents of security services, religious leaders, judges and even heads of state. To serve its needs at different times it had promoted conservative models of different faiths as well as secular ideologies such as communism, fascism and capitalism.
Conversely it would encourage the undermining and persecution of any movement or individual that threatened the status quo. During its long history the Domini had been responsible for a variety of clever and often brutal strategies to serve its purposes including undermining the Celtic church when it threatened the authority of Rome, inciting warfare between rival nation-states, ensuring the failure of the Reformation to remove central religious authority, firing up enthusiasm for witch-hunts, planning the execution of radical religious leaders, assisting in the rise to power of tyrants such as Hitler and Stalin, and arranging the assassinations of Martin Luther-King and John F Kennedy. It had helped maintain the system of apartheid in South Africa, fuelled division in Northern Ireland and supported Islamist fundamentalist movements.
The Domini existed to ensure power and control remained with an elite class of wealthy individuals and organisations. It would use almost anything to achieve this.

Extract 11 (Chapter 24, page 85)
Walker never ceased to be amazed at the range of people who attended these congresses. He recognised several major world political figures alongside a number of senior military personnel – at least five of whom were at the rank of General or equivalent. As well as the usual sprinkling of management from global corporations, he also spotted the owners of three well-known media conglomerates and a number of prominent figures from different religious groups.
He used to be surprised at the involvement of leaders from the world’s poorer nations, but no longer. For Walker had learned that everyone in the Domini held the same world-view, whatever cultural or economic context they found themselves in. Quite simply they all wanted to maintain their positions of wealth and authority. To do this meant supporting political, religious and economic structures that allowed the very wealthy few to benefit from the labours of the rest.
The combined power and influence of the Domini members meant that it could manipulate almost any situation to its purpose. International conflict was useful when it increased the profits from arms sales and military industrial growth. Providing economic aid was useful when it resulted in high interest returns on mounting debts. Religious belief was useful when it controlled people’s lives by demanding obedience to authority – but was less desirable when it encouraged ideas of freedom and equality.
Although every member of the Domini rejected a belief in a god or an afterlife, they welcomed and encouraged this belief in others. They knew that their life on earth was their once only opportunity for existence, but for others to believe in reward or punishment to follow was positively helpful in maintaining pliable populations.

Extract 12 (Chapter 24, page 86)
For over fifteen hundred years the Domini had sought to suppress free-thinking and radical ideas. Under its influence the life-affirming teachings of Jesus Christ had been moulded into a theological straightjacket. Conformance to orthodox doctrine rather than consideration for others became the measure of a Christian. The church still outwardly proclaimed a gospel of love but increasingly it became pre-occupied with its own self-perpetuation.
From time to time in its history the church made little attempt to hide its love affair with power and control. The medieval popes fought and negotiated for wealth and territory. Alliances were formed with other powerful individuals for mutual benefit. Rulers of the nations of Europe saw the advantages in embracing the true faith when it resulted in the patronage of the Holy Father, but eventually some European nation states began to resent the ambitions of the Church and grew powerful enough to challenge its authority.
Disputes with a theological veneer often covered much more worldly motives for conflict. The Reformation in the sixteenth century was as much about power and wealth as it was about doctrinal differences. Alliances between secular and church authority became uneasy. The solution in England was breathtaking. The merging of divine and political authority in Henry VIII was a stroke of genius and a great victory for the Domini.
Throughout its long existence the Domini had successfully suppressed individuals, ideas and technological developments that threatened its aims. Courageous free-thinking men and women who proclaimed a philosophy of compassion and justice when faced with the tyranny of secular and ecclesiastical authority were either quietly done away with or ridiculed into obscurity. Ideas that challenged orthodoxy were branded as heresies with sometimes appalling consequences for adherents. Technological developments were turned to making profit and manipulated to maintain the prevailing social hierarchy.