Michael October - November

“Wake up mankind, refuse usury, and you will have a future”

Reflections of Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan of Gabon

of a pen (or by entering digits into a computer), is a

great modern invention. Considering that the pro-

duction of useful goods is made easy by today’s

modern technology, it is a wonderful thing that the

production of money is also made easy. This mod-

ern accountancy should make it possible to have as

much money as necessary in circulation in order to

buy and sell all the production.

And yet, this is not the case. The money in circu-

lation does not reflect the production. Either there

is not enough money to buy the products that exist

in abundance, or, money abounds while the store

shelves remain empty. Why? It is because of the

whimsical power of him who holds the pen, and be-

cause of the conditions he imposes along with the

creation of this money. Any creation of money cre-

ates, at the same time, a debt either a private debt

or a public debt. In order to reimburse these debts,

money must be removed from society.

Money is essentially, doomed to

scarcity,

since

it is created with a condition that a greater quantity

of it be destroyed (taken out of circulation) than be

created. If there still remains some money left in so-

ciety, it is simply because there has been an increase

of debt.

When the national debt increases, the total

amount of interest increases. When the annual in-

terest increases, taxes increase. When the taxes

increase, the money in circulation decreases, even

as prices go up. When the money in circulation de-

creases, we

“tighten our belts”

… When this hap-

pens, and then unemployment sets in…we know

the rest…

This seems easy enough to understand once

we’ve stripped away all the confusing apparatus

surrounding and disguising it. But when people are

kept in ignorance of the facts, the blame is oftentimes

attributed to the government of the day. Instead of

uniting ourselves against the common enemy, we

end up waging political battles against each other.

A disortion

It is a complete distortion that money, which has

been created by man, has now become the Mas-

ter of man. Money was instituted in order to serve

man; today, it is made to control man. Money now

comes into being in the profiteer’s ledger books by

the creation of debts mathematically impossible to

repay. Robbing society of its credit is at the very

core of this operation which thus indebts society:

individuals, corporations, governments.

For money to begin in such a way, how are we

ever to expect it to play a beneficial role in society?

From the moment of its creation it begins to take

command, and continues to command…it comes

into being for the sole purpose of profiting a few

exploiters; and goes on benefiting these exploiters.

Money comes into being controlling the govern-

ments; placing the governments at its feet.

And the human being, the child, comes into

the world a slave to the debt. At his birth he takes

on the burden of his share in his country’s debt,

a burden that he will carry throughout his entire

life. Large families especially suffer from such a

regime: the more children born, the more slaves

to the system. And the system assumes the re-

sponsibility of ensuring that this debt will keep on

growing. Money then becomes the master; and

man becomes the slave. This is truly a distortion

of reality !

A distortion – money is scarce in a world abun-

dant with production ! A distortion – money dis-

appears just when production is at its peak ! A dis-

tortion – money is regulated for the mere profit of

the banker, instead of being regulated according to

the urgent needs of society ! A distortion – money

comes into being owned by only a privileged few,

but it is done by converting into money all of soci-

ety’s assets ! As long as nothing is being done to

correct this problem, it is useless to even begin try-

ing to establish order in social relations.

For this reason the MICHAEL Magazine persists

in making known this problem, in order to bring

about the cure. The application of the Social Credit

monetary proposals, or Economic Democracy, from

the Scottish engineer, Clifford Hugh Douglas, would

put money in its proper place, as a servant, and an

instrument to distribute to man, the abundance that

was made for man. Whether this abundance comes

directly from God or was the result of man’s work or

applied science, each man, all men, each and every

human being, must have their share of it.

Louis Even

Three books on Social Credit

To study the cause of the present financial

crisis, we offer these books on Social Credit at a

special price (shipping included):

Social Credit in 10 lessons:

$12.00

In this Age of Plenty:

$25.00

From Debt to Proserity:

$10.00

Most Rev. Bishop Ma-

thieu Madega Lebouakehan ,

Bishop of Mouila and Apos-

tolic Administrator of the Dio-

cese of Port-Gentil, in Gabon,

came for the second time to

Rougemont to participate in

our study session on econom-

ic democracy (also known as

Social Credit) . Enthusiastic

as ever, this time he even be-

came the professor for a few

lessons, and demonstrated

that he mastered the subject

very well. Here is what he

said on August 30, 2013 , at

the end of the study session

. (Please note that the next

study sessions in Rougemont

on economic democracy will

take place May 7-17, 2014,

and August 20-28, 2014.)

A widespread opinion

blames the lack of money for

poverty, lack of purchasing

power, the economic crisis, and

so on. To this lack of money,

one may also add corruption,

mismanagement, and other ail-

ments of the same order .

This lack of money forces so-called “solvent”

individuals or nations to borrow loans from banks,

which creates in most cases unpayable debts. Large

developed nations are also the victims of this system.

How much money do all nations owe? The numbers

make us feel dizzy. And for a significant amount of in-

dividuals the situation is no less worrying.

Let us stop and think for a moment. Physically

where is this money owed by nations or people? No-

where ! Can the total amount of cash in circulation in

the world and present in bank vaults be enough to pay

back all the debts in the world and allow people to live

decentl y?

From what we have learned here, the answer is

NO! So where will this money demanded by the bank-

ers from nations and individuals come from? Go fig-

ure! National governments cannot answer this ques-

tion, so they will put on a theatrical performance to

mislead their respective populations. However, when

decision-makers and political authorities have to be-

come magicians and offer illusory solutions in mat-

ters of life and death for the population, they are really

blindfolded to reality .

Why is it that Govern-

ments of wealthy countries

that claim to be the cham-

pions of democracy and in

a position to teach lessons

to other nations, are also

crushed under the burden of

debts that are mathematically

impossible to pay back? Yet,

these wealthy nations pos-

sess faculties of economics,

great schools of manage-

ment, centers of strategic re-

search, etc. If they really know

what they are doing, they

therefore knowingly support

the present debt-money sys-

tem and are its accomplices.

Dear friends, since we already

know this is unjust, let us

break the chains of this sys-

tem of slavery through debts

and interest.

We have seen (in Lesson

2) that monkeys in the jungle

can seem to be more intelli-

gent than we humans — even

though they have no universi-

ties and know nothing about

our various political and eco-

nomic systems, do not deal

with money or bank loans, and never experience infla-

tion nor deflation — since when they are hungry, they

simply go and get bananas in the trees, without using

any paper money.

Dear monkeys, please come and teach human be-

ings who are destroying the environment and their

fellow citizens that the truth is simple, that God-given

wisdom and common sense, the order wished by God

in nature, is more profitable than all the false man-

made theories that justify the present debt-money

system.

To abandon freedom and create our own jail (as

we humans do by accepting the chains of the present

debt-money system) is the logical conclusion of a

mental perversion or muddled brain. This perversion

cannot be simply human, it is diabolical. It is more

than a structure of sin, it is even the perversion of a

structure of sin or, in other words, a double perver-

sion. Wake up, mankind, refuse usury, and you will

have a brighter future !

Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan

On this photograph, Bishop Mathieu explains

Lesson 5 )taken from the book “Social Credit

explained in 10 lessons”), which deals with

the lack of purchasing power and how

automation replaces human labor.

MICHAEL October/November/December 2013