Reviving the Violet Flame: The New Age conspiratorial journey of Canada's Queen Romana Didulo

Romano Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, gained notoriety as an influencer online within the QAnon conspiracy movement. Taking advantage of both the pandemic and the silence of Q (the anonymous online persona behind what became the QAnon movement), Didulo has created a movement of her own. Didulo relies on a religious movement from the theosophical traditions of the 1930s and 1940s: the I AM movement, which was started by Guy Ballard and his wife Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard after Guy Ballard had a mystical encounter with Saint Germain on Mount Shasta in California. The movement's title comes from God's words to Moses in Exodus 3:14 - 'I am who I am' - and encompasses Christian dogma, occultism, eastern religions and New Age mysticism. While there is much to examine about Queen Didulo - her conspiracism, her anti-government agitation, and so on - the authors argue here that there is something at the core of all of this that has yet to be fully articulated: Didulo's religious pedigree. Romano Didulo, l'autoproclamee reine du Canada, s'est fait connaitre en tant qu'influenceuse en ligne au sein du mouvement conspirationniste QAnon. Profitant a la fois de la pandemie et du silence de Q (le personnage anonyme en ligne a l'origine de ce qui est devenu le mouvement QAnon), Didulo a cree son propre mouvement. Didulo s'appuie sur un mouvement religieux issu des traditions theosophiques des annees 1930 et 1940 : le mouvement I AM, lance par Guy Ballard et sa femme Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard apres que Guy Ballard a eu une rencontre mystique avec Saint Germain sur le mont Shasta en Californie. Le nom du mouvement provient des paroles de Dieu a Moise dans l'Exode 3,14 - Je suis qui je suis - et englobe le dogme chretien, l'occultisme, les religions orientales et le mysticisme du Nouvel age. Bien qu'il y ait beaucoup a examiner au sujet de la reine Didulo - son conspirationnisme, son agitation antigouvernementale, etc. - les auteurs soutiennent ici qu'il y a quelque chose au c oe ur de tout cela qui n'a pas encore ete pleinement articule : le pedigree religieux de Didulo.

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Romano Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, is an online influencer within the QAnon conspiracy movement, and she has created her own movement by taking advantage of the pandemic and the silence of Q. Her movement is based on the I AM movement from theosophical traditions, which combines Christian dogma, occultism, eastern religions, and New Age mysticism. While there are many aspects to examine about Queen Didulo, the authors argue that her religious background is a core aspect that has not been fully articulated.