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Conspiracies -
Secret Societies
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AN AUSTRALIAN SECRET SOCIETY IN THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
While documentation of the widespread existence of Satanic human
sacrifice cults is lacking, evidence of other forms of systematic
human sacrifice is available. Two examples in modern history are the
Catholic Inquisition, a human sacrifice cult of a religious-
theological nature, and the Third Reich, a human sacrifice cult of a
military-political nature (an organized group driven by a well-
elaborated theological doctrine, which for the Nazis was Aryan racial
mysticism). The fact that the Catholic Inquisition and the Third
Reich were both run by middle-class, Caucasion, educated individuals
from Judaeo-christian cultures suggests that it is psychologically
possible for ordinary middle-class citizens to be perpetrating such
crimes in North America today, especially given the high level of
violence in contemporary Western societies. (Ross 1995) A fuller
treatment of this perspective is provided by Ross 1995 at the end of
this paper.
While Ross (1995) asserts that documentation of the widespread
existence of Satanic human sacrifice cults is lacking, the basis of
this article is written from the viewpoint of a ` participant
observer' of a nation's systemic activity in the lives of otherwise
normal, unremarkable people, and emphasises evidence of other forms
of systematic human abuse and control.
First, by way of summary, attention will be paid to what is common
amongst secret societies, then the question will be asked `What is
secret to their existence.' In the course of doing this, a profile
will be built, having its basis in the lives of numerous citizens,
many effected by the secret organization Global Technology World
Alliance (GTWA).
What is common amongst Secret Societies?
It is known that the Cult of the Assassins existed at the end of the
11th Century. Quite apart from any activity of a terrorist nature,
the Assassins lead the way in current recruitment training and
practise with degrees of initiation, emulated more latterly by the
Masons. In addition, The Great White Brotherhood was founded in
1118. It is asserted that the Masonic Movement appears to have
practised and carried forward the ritual and spiritual activity of
The Great White Brotherhood.
(Ross 1995)
A link group formed in Afghanistan in the 16 th century practised
nine degrees of initiation. They, too, exist to this day in two
factions: military and religious.
A movement which still exists in the Balkans, Lebanon and Turkey
originated in Russia in 1757 and was known as Skoptsi. The group is
of hierarchical structure with a charismatic/prophetic leader.
*It has a mystical doctrine, and *Concerns itself with the
accumulation of wealth and political influence by infiltrating
business and governments at high level.
One could ask `Has the newly-elected Mr. Putin been swept to power
through the fundamental influence of Skoptic political influence and
wealth? In particular, one must reacquaint with the Illuminati�the
movement which originated under Professor Weishaupt in Germany, and
quickly spread west to Switzerland and France, east to Hungary, and
south to Italy.
Today, it is apparent that the Illuminati operate at high levels of
academe, politics, commerce and government with its major appeal
toward globalization ie. one world government; or the reform of the
social structure through power. One remembers that ex Australian
Prime Minister Hawke was intensely interested in the Swedish system
of social reform. One questions what has been absorbed through
osmosis since that time.
The Whitlam years of social reform have, in many ways, been an
obstruction to getting balance in the Australian political economy
structure. Ex Prime Minister Keating brought his own brand of
individuality to policy and politics and is currently involved in
influencing power politic in S. E. Asia.
Two developments post World War I are important: --.
The Thule Society was formed in Munich in 1918, and around that time
also, Aleiester Crowley established his headquarters in Cefalu,
Sicily. His rituals became known as a `Gnostic Mass.' His vision
harked back to the Great White Brotherhood and gave instructions
about a new world order based on occultism.
Nature worship and New Age rituals are a current manifestation of
earlier occultic practices.
The Nazis had an aversion to Ordo Templii Orientalis from which the
Sicilian sect was derived. Also, in addition, their aversion
included the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Order of New
Templars, as well as Theosophy, and in 1937 they, the Nazis banned
them all.
At an earlier period, after the First World War, the Thule Society
emerged due to pressure on the Masons by Communists. Communism and
Freemasonry are an antithesis. In 1919, one of the early people to
join the newly-formed (Thulist) German Workers Party was young
Adolf. Adolf Hitler became leader of the fledgling Workers Party,
rose to power, and in 1920 renamed it the National Socialist Party.
It was Thulist philosophy which enunciated *Racial superiority *World
domination *Anti-Semitism/Aryan destiny *Secret rituals.
Although the esoteric knowledge of the banned cults was eschewed by
the Nazis, the Nazi movement retained widespread interest in the
occult as a major driving force behind the Third Reich. Ross (1995)
alerted the reader to being in denial about the elements of social
reform and One World Government driven by occultism on a global
scale. The Illuminati being people of position, power, influence and
wealth were uniquely the complement of the Workers Party, and still
are, to this very day.
What is common amongst the secret societies of the last 1,000 years
is a credo of *World domination by a ruling elite; with *Ends
justifying the means; and *Driven by a mystical doctrine of `playing
at God.' Today, Science and Technology, though good in itself, is
elevated above the more aesthetically-pleasing and creative
expressions of life. A generation of young I.T.graduates are the
nouveau-riche. After a period of being exported to sites overseas,
some are returning with the rewarding credential of `overseas
experience.' Others who are successful hold faculty appointments in
biomedical and I.T. fields in the United States. Science and
Technology is the `new' God and there is a subtle pull to worship at
the new shrine of discipline-specific purists who are getting a hook
into ruling the world with superiority and power.
`Australia is positioned at the absolute forefront of countries
capable of grasping this opportunity. We have the base in a strong
education and a culture of creativity.' `Also, Australia is a nation
of renowned early adopters. Australia today is already the second-
most-connected country in the world. That means our next generation
of young Australians is right at home with the new era and a
fantastic source of talent' (Z. Switkowski, 1999). Being called `a
new testbed market for software applications' is one area but simply
deleting the word `software' brings the reality home, that Australia
is well-resourced and well-placed for anything in the nature of an
experiment or research.
Hitler's obsession with the `Spear of Longinus' (alleged to have been
the spear which pierced Christ's side) was the symbol, for him, of
ultimate Aryan power�his hatred of the Jews and anti-Semeticism as
like a spear in the Creator's side.
Amongst those similarly obsessed, the God of Science and Technology
has displaced the Creator, God, and humanity can be deluded that it
is not happening.
What is secret about Secret Societies?
What is secret about the developments of Globalization is `the wolf
dressed up in sheep's clothing' nature of the progress of humanity.
It is asserted that what looks so much like the advancement and
betterment of civilization in genetics, heart-lung and brain
applications, reproductive technology, and the promise of gene
therapy to defeat a class of chronic inherited diseases, is the
woolley sheep's coat, but the bark of the global wolf inside is
likely to be vicious.
Again, take the mergers of the communications industry. The
technology which made CNN great has teamed up with Time-Warner. As
citizens of the global village, visual and audio transmission
carriers bring the world before our eyes nightly. With skill and
subtlety, our minds are being manipulated to accept `the Secret.' The
Turner-Murdoch-Packers, as Communication moguls, have covered (or
smothered) the earth.
Speaking about mass communication to the `global village,' it is with
a sense of privilege that the name McLuhan can inform the reader in
connection with a 20th Century Secret Society. The Society is the
Bilderbergers who, although replete with its own members, have an eye
for inviting guests who are in the ascendancy in their chosen
fields. Having attended Bilderberg 1969,a Canadian media expert went
on record as saying he `was nearly suffocated at the banality and
irrelevance' of it all.
But just what is Bilderberg? Formed in the 1950s, the wealthy and
the elite on both sides of the Atlantic commenced meeting by
invitation annually at a different secret location every year.
Bilderberger Conferences, as well as the complimentary Trilateral
Commission are held with the tightest security. Robert Eringer, a
distinguished journalist went to Bonn, W. Germany in October, 1977
to cover the fourth Trilateral Commission conference. He found
himself to be the only foreign journalist present. In addition, one
of the organizers said `We can tell you nothing�this is very
private.' `The Bilderbergers have always insisted upon clothing their
comings and goings in the closest secrecy. Until a few years back,
this was carried to such lengths that their annual conclave went
entirely unmarked in the world's Press' (Eringer, 1980).
The Bilderbergers certainly fit C. Wright Mill's definition of a
Power Elite being `a group of men, similar in interest and outlook,
shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes.' The
Trilateral Commission, the brainchild of Zbigniew Brzezinski and
David Rockefellar and begun in 1971, is the money-manipultation arm
between the nations of Europe, America and Japan.
Considering Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (the first Chairman of
Bilderberg between 1954 � 1976) disrepute over bribe allegations to
influence the aircraft industry to the Netherlands, the reader can
come to grasp that huge amounts of money are used to put weight
behind influence and position. An example of a more recent scandal
by influential people of many countries is the wheeler-dealering by
members of the Olympic Organizing Committee in choosing Olympic
sites. Prince Bernhard's forced removal from leadership of the
Bilderbergers coincided with the years between mid to the end of the
1970s�another very significant period in foreign relations, also.
Is there any further proof needed of how secret this Secret Society
is?
There is, however, a further point needing to be made for the reader
to pick up another strand being followed earlier. A forerunner to
the Bilderberg foundation in the 50s was an era of Round Table Groups
meeting in Britain and the United States.
In Paris in 1919 the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations and the
British Royal Institute for International Affairs emerged out from
under a cloak of secrecy (Eringer, 1980). Concurrently with the
forming of the German Nationalist Socialist Party in 1919-20, Thulist
philosophy was carried forward by the Nazi movement, and the
Illuminati in the pre-Bilderberger era. Today, world domination by
the giant octopus of networks, driven by fanatical anti-God
religiosity is present in every democracy of the present day. The
newly-elected leaders of Russia, Japan and New Zealand, as well as
whoever will succeed President Clinton in the U.S.
and John Howard in Australia, are just an example of influential
leaders being placed in critical positions to influence One World
Government and Globalization. It was the Trilateral Commission that
provided the support and power to have Jimmy Carter and George Bush
elected to President of the USA. What is happening behind the open
campaigning to get George Bush Jr. elected as President in 2000?
With the emergence of a new pope at The Vatican, individual citizens
are merely spectators as the perceived sheep changes into a wolf of
Trojan horse dimensions.
The secret is out and enlightened readers may make their own
connections to this state of affairs. While the Nazis ruptured from
Thule Society connections due to Communist tensions, Communism as an
entity has retracted. Capitalism, which we no longer hear much about
has lost its teeth, because the old Proletariat of Communism has been
given a cosmetic face-life with the new technology of the
Illuminati. It is salient, also, to question how much the Masonic
movement has affected all of the hitherto developments.
The powerbloc of the Bilderbergers, assisted by the Trilateral
Commission are the entities of the Trojan horse of the future.
By linking what is common amongst Secret Societies�a philosophy of
Global domination and the exploitation of secret advanced technology
for controlling the masses, the reality of one world-wide network has
been identified as the Global and Technological World Alliance
(GTWA). The emergent Trojan horse ofBilderberger membership and
Trilateral influence manipulators houses the research and development
of G.T.W.A. within. It is there for all to see�the eyes of the
masses in the global village are the spectators.
Case Studies: (Gillin 2000)
(a) The year is 1985. Mother, daughter and step-father had returned
from the mission field. The father's anger outbursts and compulsive
acts began to coil around the body and mind of the then vibrant and
intelligent daughter. Years afterward, after strenuously combining
an Arts/Sociology degree with admissions to psychiatric hospitals and
later extending the degree to become LL.B., this young woman has
learned to tame her reactions to her chaotic life, from insights
about the step-father's dominance.This male predator who was her step-
father has been identified as a leader in a paedophile ring out from
Melbourne. Another adult female from the same area identified a
State politician with similar carnality and linked at a broad level
with the same ring, thought to be abusing minors.
Paedophilia is generally associated with secret society activity.
(b) Post 1986 after a number of years in marital counselling and
Family Court proceedings, the custodial parent of two primary school-
age children became a displaced person. She moved to a country town
and took further rehabilitation under a senior socialworker/therapist
in a Community Health Centre. Significant memories emerged of having
been in a child trafficking racquet out to the Phillipines and back.
The preferred means of transport was by private jet�courtesy of a
major newspaper magnate.
(c) Across the years 1995 and 1997 a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
sufferer sought to recover her psychological health. In the process
it became apparent that she had been the patient of a circle of five
medical advisors who were actively keeping her at a sub-normal level
of healthy functioning.The young woman in particular was in the Royal
Childrens Hospital at age fifteen for corrective heart surgery which
had not been totally successful. Although she went to university and
qualified as a health professional, she had been unable to practise.
During this time she had been advised to see a psychiatrist who acted
as a coach while preparing for school and university exams.
The psychiatrist is alleged to have said `Can't you see I am the only
one doing you good?' You won't function without me.' No one will
employ you�but I will get you a job!' I've been sending you messages
all week�You're a walking disaster.' The young woman felt on a merry-
go-round�never going forward. She had lost much in the social
transition into adulthood but embarked on her own get-well crusade.
A move interstate to Queensland lead her to a bizarre set of
circumstances, initially as a patient of the Psychiatry ward of a
major hospital, and later in a semi-private outpatient setting but
still subject to mind control activity. On another front, this
process also revealed that connections through her local parochial
church were active in supervising the regional (as far as Singapore)
implementation of a likely secret entity of an ecclesiastical
organization of a world-wide structure.
(d) What else would bring a career missionary all the way back from
Ethiopia if it were not her mental health? Because a responsible
approach is taken in the selection of mission representatives, and
other networks have to be completely satisfied also, the
circumstances for someone to return from the field have to be
unusual. This was the case with this 32 year old female. Amnesia
about traumatic childhood events had begun to break. Her minister
father and other religious were replete with using church buildings
and personnel to sustain their ritualistic involvement in cult
practices in both country Victoria and Sydney, N.S.W.
(e) Consider, also, the experience of a mature-age woman who
telephoned Triple Zero [Australian Equivalent to 911] for the Police
on account of property damage. When the Police came it was said `You
need the Crisis Assessment Team.' Once in action, the regulatory
psychiatrist's assessment and nightly home-visits to administer drugs
was followed; a Community Treatment Order was filed, a date set down
for a Mental Health Review Board hearing, and subsequent detention at
a regional hospital psychiatric locked ward. There appeared to be
many inconsistencies prior to this person's discharge from hospital,
one of which was the false information given to the patient's ageing
mother and siblings�further confounding the confusion whipped up
since the emergency telephone call. Upon reflection, the person
above could recall strenuous harassment in the workplace some ten
years earlier. Other events across that period would suggest that
the woman had been a prime target for cultist colleagues. This was
an attempt to cause her to become `a missing person.' Many character
sketches could be written about individuals in both the fields of
Politics and Psychiatry and much fiction and films has been produced
around the dark side of such interactions.
In the fields of banking and finance major Organizational players are
bolstering up the infiltration of personnel and funding.
Law enforcement and policing cannot be excluded, either. There have
been Royal Commissions and allegations of widespread corruption in
Australia at the National Crime Authority and at State Police
levels. It is a fact that Victoria Police expended many tax-payer
dollars using helicopter bombardment of another target person, a
defector from G.T.W.A., consistently across two to three years.
Because of air turbulence and rotor noise in a suburban
neighbourhood, other residents noticed the intrusion on private
life. When an enquirer telephoned the Police, he was told that a
perpetrator of theft was hiding in the area under surveillance!
Strange this was happening on such a regular basis! Australia's own
Intelligence organization A.S.I.O. [Australian Security Inteligence
Organisation] seems linked to other acts of bullying and thuggery,
also.
Within the Justice system critical documents or whole files go
missing which bring into question due process through the system of
court hearings.
To the majority of Australians who remember the siting and
implementing of the Joint Research Facility, Pine Gap, there was a
blip of media attention when its purpose was questioned by the
Whitlam government. At the time there was public disquiet about its
existence, and resistance by individuals was raised for quite some
time. But after the moon-walks and space tracking at
Tidbinbilla `Why shouldn't we as a nation help the Americans who had
launched the world into a new era of science and technology?' And so
its media presence faded. Then, also, there is the restricted base
at Geraldton. Who could know the real purpose of an Over-The-Horizon
radar pointed at the north-west oceans and centred in Central
Australia?
When one's fingerprint touches these out of the way, all but
forgotten bases, one has identified the submerged presence of the
organic heart of the country's defence!
The people who work there or go there or are linked in a myriad of
support ways are the heart-beat of this great Australian heart-
organ. Like the human heart, it requires a scalpel to cut down
through the structural breast of the country to ascertain the life of
the organization�a Secret Society Organization.
One affidavit claims Canberra is the brain and nerve-centre of these
secret operations, and senior members of Defence and the Defence
Science and Technology Organization are involved. They monitor and
support active research using advanced technology at laboratories in
Melbourne, Salisbury S.A., Pine Gap and at major medical facilities
in capital cities around Australia.
From the case studies already presented and extant affidavits, It
appears medical academics and Defence Science personnel were active
in the 60s and 70s visiting State psychiatric centres on `hidden
projects.' Senior Australian representatives in Washington D.C. were
active in many programs with the USA Defence Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), amongst others.
Indeed research personnel on rotation have the means to advance the
ideology of the secret organization.
On 16 th August, 1999 (Hughes and Ryle), the Age newspaper carried
the feature article under headlines `Australia Recruited Nazis.'
Investigative journalists Hughes and Ryle wrote `Nazi scientists,
including S.S. members and Hitler's stormtroopers were secretly
brought to Australia under the employment of Scientific and
Technological Enemy Aliens scheme.' `More than half the 127
scientists and technicians worked directly for Commonwealth
Government Departments or Agencies.' A memo, (Hughes 1999), written
on 1 st March, 1951 by Dr. W. A. Butement, Chief Defence
Scientist, serves to show the advice-giving between the Defence arm
and the then Australian Prime Minister under whose name these key
Germans came. Butement himself mentored his GTWA successor with his
own personal ideology. A recent affidavit claims Butement was
associated with the occult and Nazi R & D before coming to Australia
to establish a Defence research organization. He used his position
and international networks to create and develop the Global
Technology World Alliance (GTWA).
It is claimed a number of these Nazi scientists and technicians
domiciled in Adelaide have been known mind control/manipulator
experts at Salisbury Defence Laboratories and at Pine Gap. The
current stalling by senior politicians brings into question what
vested interests are in Australia seeking to keep secret the
existence of G.T.W.A.
It is alleged that the Department of Immigration had been a `safe
haven' for Konrad Kaleijs to operate out of when he was employed
at `points-of-entry'into Australia and reviewed documentation
particularly associated with incoming migrants. [Konrad Kaleijs, who
was deported back to Australia from Britian after it was discovered
that he was as a Nazi War Criminal. Keleijs is also under
investigation by the Australian Federal Police after a photograph
surfaced here in Australia showing a young Kaliejs in full Nazi dress
uniform. There is also an extradition request from Latvia still
pending, for the deportation of Kaliejs for Nazi war crimes.] It is
also stated that he was given access to a number of Institutions,
mainly in South Australia and Victoria, containing `wards of the
state' and particularly those who were orphans from England and
Europe�
A newspaper review across the year, 1999, reveals that the
fields of biomedicine and genetics have dominated product
enhancement. In addition to a gene to defeat inherited congenital
abnormalities, and development by a Sydney research team which has
discovered a gene which provides the naturally-occurring insulin-
growth factor 1 for heart muscle growth, another group in the U.S.A.
is attempting to build a simple organism from synthetic genes (The
Age, 26 Jan. 1999). Reports about cloning animals sensitize the
reader to the prospect of humans being cloned notwithstanding.
Pacemakers and ready-to-wear microchips (Barker 1999) bring the age
of convergance between computers and human beings very close. News
of the Icelandic genes pool snaffled by a pharmaceutical company for
its experimental purposes appeared, also (Maiver 1999). In addition
artificial intelligence is a big frontier. Like so many of these
technologies this is not new, but its time to bloom has arrived.
Computing is also pervasive. A ride to the airport, or systems of
payment via credit card make the user aware of a giant electronic
system assisting and controlling the user in this 'brave new world.'
The conditions, resources, influence and established international
networks for a secret society in Australia are all present. In
reality it is the GTWA. A Theoretical Postscript: Human beings are
at heart, optimistic, so that contradictory information and beliefs
create doubt and uncertainty. It is precisely at this point that
conjurers of falsehood and secrecy cry 'conspiracy.' For too long
people in senior appointments have dismissed things as 'conspiracy
theory,' The fact is that there is a foundation of truth at the basis
of conspiracy about hidden, covert activity. On the basis of case
study material associated with secret society abuse and which strikes
a cord with Ross, Van der Kolk, Freisen, Still and others working in
the field of trauma, much more material could be corroborated.
During the years preceding the Second World War, 1930s, the Frankfurt
School of Thinkers was active in disseminating their brand of
Critical Theory. Communism was active and the rise of the Nazi
machine was prevalent. These key figures dared to assert that
the 'good life' (which people in the 21 st Century aspire to), is
illusory: that widespread repression prevails, which prevents
participants seeing through the multiple contradictions which exist.
A Critical Theory aims at producing enlightenment on the cultural
crises-since the 1930s-with a view to people becoming freed both
consciousley and unconsciously-emancipated. Marcuse (1955) and
Adorno (1944) claimed that 'modern industrial societies exercise such
extensive control over even the inner life of human beings as to
prevent them from becoming fully aware of the fact that they are
frustrated and miserable. Marcuse claimed that a state of
anaesthesia occurs when the machines of education and entertainment
unite the individual together with other human beings.' It is a
commentary of the Age to reflect upon the restriction of
consciousness which occurs in the individual due to a lack of
cognitive structure. The 'social' emphasis is very strong in schools
and the socializing factor is an important part of the law-
enforcement and law and order of the wider society The evolutionary
demise of 'christian' values has been replaced by a preoccupation
with the humanistic Self and/or occultish practices (Weimann, 1985).
The advance towards Post Modernity in philosophy and theology in the
80s has become permeated with an ideology which has acted like a drug
on the consciences of participants in the society and called by
Switkowski as 'an ideal test-bed market' in the 90s. The ideology
which has ushered in 'the way things are' in academe, industry, &c is
one of false consciousness of bad faith. People are lulled into a
state of false consciousness through mass culture, and then exploited
(dominated). What better bedfellow could there be between false
consciousness and secrecy in high places? Every time 'natural'
assumptions are challenged the challenger will discover absences and
silences within the framework-gaps that ideologies cannot fill
without contradicting themselves (Hall, 1983). That this paper has
been written and presented to the reader is with the hope that a
lively debate will spring forth to further expose the domination and
bring a groundswell tide from people of goodwill to emancipate and
set-free minds and lives of this and future generations. Within
earshot of Nazi oppression the Frankfurt philosophers talked about
domination occurring in an illusory way. Subtle electronic forms of
control, a genetic register and a range of technology threaten to
undermine the citizens of the global village worldwide, today.
Repressive forms of Government appear before us nightly on the world
stage of television as represented by politicians and knowledgable
persons of all kinds. Only those who disbelieve this is happening or
that it cannot happen are deluded. The deception of G.T.W.A. is
real. The call of this paper is to all upright men, women and youth
to become emancipated from the tyranny of the master who threatens to
rule the world-Globalization, Science and Technology are a Godless
reality!
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Secret Societies Throughout History
Extracts from Ross 1995
The Skoptsi:
The Castrators of Russia 1757, known as the Sect of the Skoptsi are
just one example of the way in which a cult may perpetuate even after
a leader has been sanctioned. Apparently the idea of flogging and
abusing oneself physically in order to attain an ecstatic mystical
state appealed to cult followers. The Skoptsi infiltrated high-level
business and government. The cult still has an active membership in
the Balkans, Lebanon and Turkey.
The sect had many of the structural features of contemporary
destructive cults, including a hierarchical leadership, with a
charismatic prophet at the top; elaborate mystical doctrine
identifying the leader as Jesus returned; accumulation of wealth and
political influence; stages of initiation; and special costumes,
buildings, terminology and rituals.
The existence of such a bizarre and deviant cult still known in the
second half of the 19 th century should temper our skeptisism about
the possibility of Satanic ritual abuse in the 1990s.
The Assassins:
The cult of the Assassins illustrates several characteristics of
documented secret societies. It has existed for almost a thousand
years, with a membership estimated at 40,000 to 70,000 at the end of
the 11th century. The cult's ongoing existence was documented in a
British trial held in Bombay in 1866, and derivative organizations
are thought to be active at present.
The Assassins were extremely well organized militarily and
successfully carried out numerous difficult assassinations. They are
described as stemming from the split of Islam into two factions in
the 7 th century, with the orthodox branch following Mohammad, and
the Shiahs regarding Ali as Muhammad's first successor. From early
on, the Shiahs relied on secrecy in the organization and initiation.
They formed a university in Cairo which was heavily endowed from
many sources but although modelled on other Arab universities, the
Abode of Learning was really a cult recruitment and training centre.
Students passed through nine degrees of initiation, each accompanied
by oaths and rituals. The doctrine revealed to ninth level initiates
was that only action mattered, and only the chief of the sect knew
what made certain actions necessary. Hasan who revived the sect
early on used a recruitment technique that contemporary destructive
cults call 'love bombing.' (The new recruit is bombarded with
attention, affection, positive feedback, and the company of
attractive young members of the opposite sex). After certain
affirmations by the initiates the rigorous training would begin
thereafter.
The Illuminati:
A secret society called the Roshaniya, or 'Illuminated Ones' is known
to have flourished in Afghanistan in the 16 th century, and may have
existed for several hundred years before that. The first identified
leader of the cult was Bayezid Ansari, who gathered together a group
of fifty disciples over a period of three years and then moved his
headquarters into the mountains of Afghanistan. From there he
conducted a series of highly successful military actions, which
brought the cult into conflict with the ruling Moguls.
There were eight degrees of initiation in the Roshaniya, the highest
of which was called 'malik,' or king. Initiations involved
meditation, repetition of special phrases, and various mystical,
hedonistic and magico-religious beliefs. Although the history of the
cult is somewhat nebulous, it is known that the cult was widespread,
influential and troublesome to the authorities in Kabul. The Afghani
segment of the cult split into military and religious factions, and
it is believed the religious division survives to this day.
Although its connections with Afghanistan are uncertain, a German
branch of the society was founded on 1 st May, 1776 by Adam
Weishaupt, a Jewish professor at the Bavarian University of
Ingolstadt. The original name of the Illuminati was the Order of
Perfectibilists, and its first meeting was attended by only five
people. The size and influence of the Illuminati spread quickly,
however, with lodges founded in Italy, Hungary, France and
Switzerland. There was extensive infiltration of Masonic lodges by
Illuminati.
The degree of involvement of the Illuminati in the French Revolution
of 1769-99 is uncertain, but could be considerable since prominent
members of the Revolution, including the Comte de Mirabeau, were
Illuminati. The overall philosophy of the Illuminati was one of
social reform and creation of a world government. It has been
suggested that the Illuminati, Masons, Rosicrucians and Knights
Templar are intertwined in history, and that these secret societies
have had an influence on world events up to the present. Henry
Wallace, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture who proposed the
Illuminist-Masonic symbol to President Roosevelt was influenced by a
Russian mystic named Roerich. Roerich travelled widely in Nepal and
Tibet, where he studied with a group of occult adepts known as 'the
secret Chiefs,' 'the Hidden Masters,' or 'the Great White
Brotherhood.' According to occult rumour, the Great White Brotherhood
was the spiritual force behind the Freemasons, Knights Templar
(founded in 1118, which was active for two hundred years),
Rosicrucians, Sufis, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the
Theosophical Society.
The Illuminist-Masonic-Rosicrucian tradition is intertwined with the
history of Western civilization, but we have no conclusive knowledge
about the political influence of this tradition.
The Thule Society:
[The Thule Society] was established at the end of the First World War
by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf. In 1918, it had more than 250
members in Munich, and a further 1,500 throughout the Bavarian
countryside. Von Sebottendorf was initiated into a Masonic Lodge in
1901, but created his own society after the War because of pressure
on the Masons by the Communist Party. The German Workers' Party was
founded by the Thule Society in 1919; Hitler was recruited to the
party, became its leader, and changed its name to the National
Socialist Party in 1920. A leading Thulist named Dr. Frederick Kohn
provided Hitler with the final design for the Nazi flag, and many
leading members of the Third Reich belonged to the Thule Society.
Thulist philosophy was one of racial superiority, world domination
and anti-Semitism, and the society engaged in secret rituals of an
unknown nature.
Von Sebottendorf published a book entitled 'Before Hitler Came,' in
1933. The Nazis confiscated both editions and were likely
responsible for von Sebottendorf's murder. Hitler's propaganda
machine required a different account of the Fuhrer's political
origins than that put forward in the banned book. However, another
source claims Sebottendorf's death was by suicide in 1945 when he
heard of Germany's defeat; so the time and cause of the death of the
Thule Society's founder are uncertain. Rather than being original,
the Nazi doctrines of racial superiority, Aryan destiny, and the
malevolence of the Jews were well established and widely adhered to
before Hitler rose to power.
As did the Nazis, von Sebottendorf hated the Freemasons for two
reasons: he thought that they had lost the original Aryan wisdom and
that they were run by the Jews. Nazi propaganda was vehemently anti-
Masonic as well as anti-Semitic. The structure of the Thule Society,
like that of many other cults, was derived from Masonry, so there may
also have been an element of envy in Nazi hatred of the Masons.
Howard (1989) Sklar (2977) and Ravenscroft (1973) provide the history
of Nazi interest in the occult, which, according to them, was a major
driving force behind the Third Reich. Howard states that this
material was suppressed at the Nuremberg trials for fear that the
Nazis would be found not guilty by reason of insanity. Sklar says it
is rumoured that the inner circle of the Thulists actively practised
Satanism, while Ravenscroft states it as a fact.
According to Ravenscroft, Hitler was intensely interested in the
Spear of Longinus, which had been passed down through a succession of
European rulers, (and was thought to be the spear that pierced
Christ's side). Hitler studied the spear intensively while living in
Vienna before the First World War, and frequently went to view it at
the museum where it was housed. The spear was intertwined with the
legend of the Holy Grail and symbolized the ultimate Aryan power, to
Hitler, who believed that the man who possessed it could rule the
world. When Hitler had the spear transported to Germany from Austria
during the Second World War, many of those who attended the first
viewing were former members of the Thule Society.
It appears that beside their interest in Teutonic mythology,
astrology, and the paranormal, the leading Nazis may have been
involved in secret-society rituals. If this was so, then a
destructive secret society has had an enormous influence on the 20th
century. Given the rise of destructive neo-Nazism in unified Germany
today, it would be prudent not to forget the role of the occult in
the Third Reich, since such denial might foster emergence of a Fourth
Reich, also driven in part by mystical Teutonic racial supremacy.
The Ordo Templi Orientalis:
Crowley established a headquarters called 'the Abbey of Thelema' in
Cefalu, Sicily, at the end of the First World war, where he held
orgies which may have involved blood rituals and human sacrifice. He
called his rituals a 'Gnostic Mass,' and regarded himself as the
Beast of Revelation. At age 28, while in Cairo, Crowley had a vision
of a guardian spirit named Aiwaz: the entity identified himself as a
representative of the Great White Brotherhood and instructed Crowley
in a new world order based on occultism. Crowley was unsuccessful in
establishing a new world order, however, he became addicted to cocain
and died in poverty in 1947.
The OTO was one of several secret societies banned by the Nazis in
1937, others being Theosophy, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
and the Order of New Templars. Crowley was also peripherally
involved in the British intelligence plan to lure Rudolf Hess to
Britain, and at one point it was proposed by British Naval
Intelligence personnel that Crowley interview Hess about Nazi
interest in the occult. The British hired a Swiss astrologer to
infiltrate the occult circles in Germany frequented by Hess, which
was done successfully. Hess was told that 10/5/1941 was an
astrologically significant date, and that the Duke of Hamilton wanted
to meet Hess on that date, leading to the German occultist's
parachuting into Great Britain. Crowley's life illustrates how the
themes of Satanism, secret societies, the Great White Brotherhood and
the Illuminati are intertwined.
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